This really hurts to watch.

I think it would do more to age restrict energy drinks with crazy high amounts of caffeine.

If kids want the taste of beer without the alcohol, I say let 'em

I love that this is our ruling class’s takeaway from the end of the first cold war. They were all completely blindsided by the collapse of the USSR. And yet now they’ve convinced themselves that they were integral to it and that China is destined for the same fate.

It’s not as though democrats were leaping at the chance to roll back the PATRIOT act or close Gitmo. When Trump was president, they moan about how “insane and backward” his tariffs were, only to double down once in office. It’s like how congress members behave one way when the cameras are in the room, and another when they’re off; the difference is slight and exaggerated for our viewing pleasure.

Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden

All of these administrations have more policies in common than in difference. We choose between differently wallpapered liberals.

Astrophysicists saw a funny shaped rock moving fast and got excited because they could study the funny shaped rock moving fast.

People who write and report on things saw the excitement but don’t share, or even recognize, the astrophysicists’ love of high-velocity geology. So they began inventing more ‘reasonable’ reasons for the excitement.

10 minuets into a 15min vid in before he even brings up the titular signal. I was nearly about to stop listening.

then… it’s not really a good name for it. I just don’t really see how this isn’t still capitalism.

Feudalism is a rigid class structure determined by blood inheritance. That’s not really what we have. A noble who looses their money would still have the privileges and rights granted by their title - they would still be part of the ruling class. If a member of our ruling class were to loose their money, loose their source of passive income, they’d very quickly no longer be part of the ruling class.

The video mentions this as a solution to the problems presented by Arrow’s theorems.

the pivotal voter is therefore a complete dictator

you heard it here first, folks; Mr. Veritasium wants to exterminate the swing states

Good assumption, it is about that

lol wow

it’s one thing to know that people love to construct a narrative without any real historical context, and another thing entirely to see just how blatantly absurd it is compared to the real thing.

I took him to mean that he was more interested in the discussion of policy and practice, not that he was discounting racism as a role in its virality.

Ugh, that poor lady. She asks a guy to stop filming and his first response is to go “The law doesn’t forbid it so actually I’m cool and good” and oh Jesus it just gets worse

Just got told a rumor that Xi is gone, that there was a coup or something. The justification was that there was a tsunami and “the Chinese people use natural disasters as a signal for The Mandate of Hevan”. Most bemusing thing i’v heard in a while.

Easily the wildest application of the term “manufactured consent” I have ever seen however

What, you mean how the publishers decide what books to publish?

call them a Cold Warrior

nice vintage insult with appropriate historical baggage. yankees are allergic to historical context

I think I like the middle left one best. You get all the different perspectives and ideologies screaming out their personal reasons for why “You can’t you can’t stop stop!” and Stalin on the other side going, “I already did and it worked.”