Comments by "Eli Nope" (@elinope4745) on "TED" channel.

  1.  thecouchtripper  I think you are a troll and deliberately attempting to incite anger or hostility. Free speech is the first amendment for a reason. When people can't settle their differences with speech, they settle them with violence. Encouraging censorship is encouraging murder.
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  2. Khan Academy search for it. You can learn, but no paper to prove it.
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  3.  @OrganicMint87  I don't have an answer for your question. I just wish they wouldn't have cut him off.
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  4. Lincoln Strong - Equality of opportunity or equality of outcome? I support the former and oppose the latter.
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  5. No reasons as to WHY we should prevent it. Its the missing question in all of this crap. Sure the end of the world may come, and maybe that's a good thing.
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  6. I have a cool idea. What if we make an international law that says that if you build an artificial island, that you immediately become financially responsible for cleaning up the oceans in the area that you are allowed to fish from? I think we all know a big offender here that is also the worlds number 1 country for causing man made climate change.
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  7. That was supposed to be what the internet did. Go to the deep web if you want to see what humans did with that when they are not being censored.
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  8.  @franticranter  I don't know the game plan. She mentions the handmaiden to authoritarianism. I will point out that it is the far left that is the most authoritarian in the US now. In fact, the left and the right got flipped on the x,y axis political compass. It is now the up and the down, the authoritarians vs the libertarians. Antifa and socialists who preach anti-fascism and diversity are authoritarian, and they oppose anyone who supports liberty.
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  9. The abusive parent who hits their child hard to teach them a lesson also has good intentions, and it is still abuse. She is no different.
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  10. Violence against women and girls very much is pervasive. Violence against men and boys is so damned ubiquitous that people don't even try to stop it. You won't be protected in developed nations either. Male genital mutilation is still a custom that people defend here.
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  11. You won't often hear how methane reduces ozone production and how the ozone layer is weakened as compared to the past or how the sun gets brighter over time. Sunlight is much more dangerous and damaging than it used to be.
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  12. Game of Thrones is still by FAR the best television series I have ever seen. There are some people out there who do not like Game of Thrones, but I have never met one in real life.
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  13. FINAL_B I am confusing legit social justice with political social justice as seen in national comitties and colleges across the US, Canada, the UK and many other western nations. Specifically those who support "hate speech" laws and other censorship laws as well as laws supporting compelled speech.
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  14. I think we should allow genetic modification for prettier children. The thing is, that people care more about pretty people. That isn't a very nice thing to talk about, but it is true. If we want the future societies to care about each other and to have a vested interest in each other's welfare, a huge thing we could do, is to make the people in those societies more attractive so that they care about each other more. It is easy to ignore the plight of an invisible or an ugly person, it is much harder to do the same for an attractive person. Making society prettier is making it better.
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  15. there are good countries in africa and bad ones. you have to be more specific than saying just "africa". for instance i don't want to save children in nigeria. in fact, i really want to see fewer children from nigeria. nigeria is the fastest growing population in the world, it is the number 1 driver of overpopulation. overpopulation is the number 1 driver of humankind's impact on the environment. i would much rather send them options for birth control than send them food. every child that is never born, is a child that never starves to death. an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure, or even a ton of cure when it comes to food over condoms/vasectomies/birth control pills.
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  16. 3rd world countries don't have western values and western laws. they often have MUCH more freedom than americans have.
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  17. yeah, but can't we admit that it is a bit misandrist that society only feels like women should be able to get cat called? why don't women cat call men? i think there is a lot of sexism at play there. they don't think men are good enough to get cat called.
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  18. Xanxei i think cat calling is an issue. you see men extend this courtesy all the time, but disrespectful women don't extend the courtesy back to men. to think it is a negative thing is to take it out of context. cat calls are compliments.
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  19. xEvanRocks when women cat call men (even unattractive women) it makes the men smile. because we know that a cat call is a communication of saying that we are attractive. it is a compliment.
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  20. Xanxei i actually stick by my stances. you can call me a troll, i think trolling is a art. i troll with logic, and support things that are reasonable, especially if it is reasonable yet unpopular. cat calling really isn't a bad thing. some women don't want to be cat called, others do. but censorship isn't equality. trying to make people equal slaves is not a good stance for human rights. we should liberate those who are oppressed instead of equally oppressing everyone. being cat called is not being oppressed, it is being annoyed. it is not being harassed unless it persists after the person doing the cat calling has been informed of the desire of the person who is being called to not be called. the norm is not to be protected from unwanted solicitation, rather the norm is to be exposed to solicitation (either wanted or unwanted) unless specifically communicating the desire not to be. solicitation of those who have communicated the desire not be solicited is a form of harassment but to limit this just to cat calling and not to other forms of unwanted solicitation is to focus on issues to specific groups of women over everyone else. it communicates a hidden message that this specific group is more important than other groups, and that is not equality. imagine a scenario in which a woman walks down the street wearing a shirt that openly and clearly states that they do not wish to be cat called, and someone ignores the message and still cat calls them. now imagine a person is on the internet and they are running an adblocker program that clearly states their desire to not be advertised towards. they run the program and yet some company finds a way to advertise to them anyway. these two situations have an equal amount of harassment. both are being exposed to unwanted solicitation despite their effort to communicate their desire not to be exposed to such communications. now imagine a guy wearing a shirt that openly states "don't expose me to your feminist propaganda". despite the shirt, a feminist tells him that cat calling is harassment. she is now just as guilty as the above mentioned guy who cat called the woman who had a shirt saying that she did not wish to be exposed to cat calls. the core debate is about solicited and unsolicited communication and the desirability of having such communications aimed at you. yes it is annoying to be exposed to unwanted unsolicited communication. but the line for harassment can't be drawn there as it would infringe upon free communication. the line to harassment must be drawn after a communication is made that informs the soliciting party that the person does not wish to be exposed to such communication. only after such a communication is made and ignored is it harassment. until that point it is simply unsolicited communication. (which may be annoying and unwanted, but still not harassment). to attempt to silence or control men as a whole in order to protect some women (not all women are opposed to cat calling), is a clear sign of placing the wants and desires of women over and above the liberty of men. currently both have the right to cat call each other and so currently on the issue of cat calling there is equality. to ask for men to be censored to ask for inequality and female superiority. neither men nor women have the right to be protected from unwanted unsolicited communication. laws to stop such communication will always attack the right of free speech for others. the line between free speech and harassment is drawn only after communication of intent not to be contacted (this can be a shirt, a restraining order, a sign, or an adblocking program). but even then some forms of harassment are still legal (especially true of commercial interests such as phone based advertising to people on a "no call" list or advertising to people running ad blocking programs). i do think that we should shine light upon the plight of attractive women. they gain a massive amount of unwanted solicitation. this is one of the many down sides of being very attractive. the public narrative is that being attractive is always a good thing. this is not true. there are many ups and downs to being attractive just like there is to being unattractive. pretty girls do not always have it better than ugly girls, like all things in life these things are circumstantial. and privilege is circumstantial as well. anyhow, i hope you understand what i am trying to say, and why i would oppose opposition to cat calling. i stand on this on the right to free speech. everyone has the right to free speech. nobody has the right to not be offended.
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  21. We need movements that ensure that people's data, belongs to them. Those companies that are tracking you are effectively stealing from you.
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  22. Have children when you are young and healthy. Stroke and hemorrhage and kidney failures a direct result of preventable complications that arise from waiting too long to have kids. Have kids when you are young and healthy, its not rocket science no matter how much the propagandists want to make it seem that way.
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  23. Gotta get away from that fiat. It puts other people in control of your purchasing power. The reality of the situation is that raw materials are in short supply, many naturally and others artificially in order to maintain stability in the remaining market.
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  24. The military is the work that makes all other work possible. Without the military you can't hold land. Imagine you have no place to stay, you are a group of nomads and it is normal for other nomads to attack you. That is life without military.
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  25. No, that was the last before the one that was before the last. Same old story, you need to give up more for them
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  26. It used to be a single income family from a high school graduate could maintain a family of 4. I am sure that if that was the case now that the birthrate would have a dramatic rise.
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  27. I don't support equity, I support equality. In the big picture, if we do not select for better humans, than we will all die. We gotta make it off this rock (earth) before we destroy the entire environment and make it unlivable. We can't do that with equity. Equity means we all die, we need to select for survival.
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  28. I am pretty sure that Israel has some solid jobs for these immigrants.
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  29. I fear that many industries will overlook the value of various tissues and not replicate them in the lab meat. I hope to keep my current nutrient consumption, and I am willing to work or fight to keep it.
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  30. He needs to catch the authoritarians and the hidden dictators in that snap if he is going to make the world a place where it is moral to have children.
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  31. Nobody likes to talk about the elephants in the room.
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  32. Wage slavery is a form of slavery. We should end widescale slavery in our own societies before we start addressing the problems of others. You can't help others if you don't help yourself.
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  33. Genes come before behavior. I'll believe otherwise once someone teaches a banana how to read. Bananas can't read you might complain? Yeah, its because they are genetically bananas.
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  34.  @martinbiza3943  That is you either being lied too and believing it or simply lying yourself. Most countries the girl very much does get to choose if she will have babies or not. It is a small minority of mostly African and Islamic countries where that is not true, and they are by no means the majority.
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  35.  @greggeverman5578  Absolutely not true. Over the last several decades more and more and more food gets sent to Africa to feed an evergrowing population. How many great things have you seen come from there? How many African innovations are in your home right now?
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  36. I saw the title, I saw the presenter and immediately thought this was going to be another SJW trying to tell me what to think. Instead I was pleasantly surprised. Good job TED, more like this that builds people up please instead of stuff that attacks or tries to control.
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  37.  @jamesburgess2k  To be fair, that is racist against white people.
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  38. Did we lose our memory of how to use parabolic mirrors to focus light on parabolic mirrors? How much heat can it make? I am not saying the production can be very fast, but it can be done with sunlight and mirrors.
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  39. The lowest of copper people was still above the highest slave. Women often were the slave masters, along with their eldest son. Women inherited the land of their dead husband and were expected to pass it to their eldest son, who in turn is expected to take care of the entire family with that land. Can't be a gold person without land and a status given to family clans for special activities granted by that same democracy.
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  40. Men's rights are human rights.
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  41. Yes, and the latter part is very important too. If you just get with other people that you don't really care about, it doesn't help.
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  42.  Martyr4JesusTheChrist  me
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  43.  @aquasky1138  People have to ask themselves, is it worth it to work in today's climate of high expense daycare and the like. Maybe it isn't a good idea to live in an expensive city. People think they can have it all with no sacrifice, that is simply not true.
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  44. Little known fact. The rapture has already occurred. Ends up not so many people made it. The rest of us are damned now. If you are still alive on Earth than god has rejected you.
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  45. I expect to be paid for my labor pursuing someone else's happiness in advance this time around.
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  46. Like I said earlier Cas9 can be used to create a WMD. The potential lethality of Cas9 is greater than that of nuclear bombs. Yet it can also be used to cure diseases. It all depends on how the technology and discovery is used. It can be used in a benign of useful fashion or it can be weaponized and used to destroy. Another good example would be artificial intelligence. It can be used for many good purposes or for many bad purposes.
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  47.  @voxlz  The US is currently experiencing invasion from South and Central Americans.
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  48.  @AvgJane19  So we don't have a bunch of people from the south trying to illegally enter into our country? Good to know, I was under the impression that we lived in a world were truth mattered but apparently feelings matter more.
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  49.  @whhe11  international law, you mean globalist law? Countries have laws, international laws are countries agreeing to impliment laws but in no way are above what the country chooses to enforce. But no I mean the invaders who were offerred asylum but rejected it from Mexico. The ones trying to illegally cross borders in order to exploit the US citizens.
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  50. Just like every other form of currency.
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