With low birth rates in some countries, biggest example being south korea where the fertility rate is now 0.7 children per woman, I wonder how democracy will fair. Imagine a society where the average voter is elderly living on pension and with no grandchildren. I mean will nations even survive this if the birth rates don't go up?
@GertKlimanschewski Says:
It's anyway a TRAGEDY....... BECAUSE the fooocking BREXIT has shown that there is a HUGE FASCIST MOVEMENT AROUND IN WHOLE EUROPE......
VERY BAD..... this movement wants to destroy until today all progressive development for the NORMAL AVERAGE FAMILIES......
BREXIT was ONLY DESIGNED to KEEP AND MAKE THE RICHEST RICHER and hold them in POWERFUL POSITIONS over their POPULATION......
BREXIT is very WORSE AND SAD too.....
EU wasn't and isn't PERFECT..... BUT..... it's a GREAT DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT and SOCIAL AND ECONOMICAL TOO....!
@ridbanner1407 Says:
We voted to join a trade organisation we voted to leave a federal political block.
@TruthWillOut-hb9vc Says:
Brits were taken to the cleaners by a bunch of crooks and grifters. It was a smash and grab raid. Now they are living with the consequences and they know it. Brexit is as popular as a cup of cold vomit but the politicians can't admit it. Why? Because it empowered and enriched some very dark individuals who now have vast resources and absolutely no scruples.
@heidenburg5445 Says:
My favorite science teacher :)
@spunkychops7484 Says:
Please debate sargon now. He doesn't have a leg to stand on😂😂😂
@j.a.motteux2785 Says:
Just mind-blowing that there was no roadmap, or strategy. Nothing, even, that could have been done, or that was made possible by leaving the EU has been done. What was the point?
@piad2102 Says:
:)
@darthioan Says:
I've been watching you since the days of Anita. I do not know when te years passed by. So anyway, last time I checked, you can vote people to represent you in the EU parliament. So wtf is Sargan even talking about no representation?
@mynameisnobody5295 Says:
You accidentally made a Bob Ross happy little accident by drawing a sausage and veg @12:07
@umbraemilitos Says:
16:58 It's funny because Sargon has actively supported politicians with the strongest authoritarian tendencies.
@Echiewel Says:
I'd be more inclined to compare Russia in Ukraine with France in Vietnam, or the US in Vietnam, or Russia in Afghanistan, or even the US in Afghanistan. The fact that they only conquered such a small strip of land in the initial surprise before running out of steam is embarrassing, but their real problem is that they're in a proxy war. One side should have won on paper, but the other side has both an actual reason to fight and fight hard and has the financial and technological backing from one or more (larger) allies who have little reason to ever pull out, because all the war costs them is some money. The party that is both losing soldiers by staying in the conflict yet is not at risk of losing their home if they give up is probably going to be the side that gives in first.
@guerillagardener2237 Says:
I was so disappointed that this steam wasn't a debunk of the film independence day. Wtf I'm so fed up with Brexit, I didn't even vote on it on account of trying to survive being homeless.
@paske2001 Says:
France is in EU til now.. look how great THEY are
@BandytaCzasu Says:
Yeah, join EU again, to share the joy of the incoming French civil war!
@gehtdianschasau8372 Says:
I was full of Schadenfreude at first, what a stupid decision. But now i just feel pity.
@SillyOrb Says:
Brexit and the Titan have a curious thing in common: the people who initiated them had already decided who they would be compared to (of course favourably) by future historians and what would be said about them. Seems like the wrong motivation to do something / anything, if you asked me. By now I am convinced that this self-elevation to historic importance was in both cases a big part of the motivation. The result is always the same.
@Henkvanpeer Says:
Small molten Thorium salt reactors… could those be kind of a holy grail with regard to our energy problems? And… is DAC not ine Isabel? That the earlier we start with DAC on a largeeven mega scale, thebetter?! Esp since, when all ice is molten, the warming up kind of explodes, because of,, then, the lack of the enormous buffering effect ice has on incoming infrared?! Your explanation that ice to water takes as much heatenergy as warming zero degrees water to 80 degrees, Celcius. Was enormous eye opener for me! So tnx very very much!
@Henkvanpeer Says:
What is this Phil? But OK… Your vids are usually very worth watching,, informative, funny, often a combination of both, next to, of course, relevant for society as a whole. Also, culturally, esp “Why people laugh at Creationists” and all things Musk. what I am still surprised at, confused by si the utter silence over Misk’s Starlink, that a completely useless
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Piles the sky for literally RVERy body! Musk wants Starlink to keep SpaceX af.oat, financially and because of his ego! That everybody can lol up and see Elon Musk, in the string,ines of satellites coming over,,, Musk should have been stopped! Or made de
Paying into a fund for cleaning up the mess he makes of lower orbit! Hé endanger s lot of things, loves to, with those garbage things in lower orbit! If they were serving a need, à la… But Starlinkis completely NOt NEEDED! And the drawbacks are clear and immense…. NO INDOVIDUAL OR COMPANY EVEN SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO POLLUTE LOWER ORBIT IN SUCH A BIG WAY AS starlink does!
@mikedavey1996 Says:
It would be interesting to see the complete working design of the Titan to see what other shortcuts were made. I imagine they will be in discovery when the lawsuits begin.
@agentviktor3297 Says:
The best when people claim that either side is bombing civilians or just winning, whatever, while showing a gameplay of some FPS 😅
@cerealpeer Says:
god save the king, and bless america.
greetings from one unwashed heathen to another!
happy days to come for both of our great nations, should we keep our heads. as we say here in the north east: thanks for all the fish! 🍻
@scotishdude Says:
Always loved your stuff :)
@Name-ot3xw Says:
Let me begin by stating that you do not, in fact, have to hand it to Russia. But there is a lot of wisdom in sitting comfortably behind defensive lines you spent the last year building while your opponent reduces their recruit numbers upon your walls. Given the shit show that started the war, I would personally not be in a huge hurry when slow and steady seems to be winning the race just fine.
@tomasinacovell4293 Says:
The duck has wings etc, though?
@Daneelro Says:
Takes on German energy policy in the Anglosphere are so bereft of real data. The reason Germany decided for a nuclear exit before a coal exit was all political (the CDU, the main backer of nuclear, was out of power, while the SPD, the main backer of coal, was the main coalition partner), but now both exits have been made law. And even while nuclear power plants are shut down, coal power _also_ reduced greatly, even while Germany developed a good export surplus - and that's because wind & solar expanded way beyond the market share nuclear ever had (and could have been much further had the various Merkel governments not undercut the original law on renewables to throttle their development).
Furthermore, nuclear power is not so great, and I say this not for the common environmentalist reasons. Rather, some less obvious reasons like operations. (Like you I am a trained physicist and it has been my impression that most of my pro-nuclear colleagues are just ignorant about how these things work as the general public.)
One less-obvious problem nuclear has is that it can never do without a significant fossil fuel backup because it is not well suited to follow the daily and seasonal variation in demand. People often bring up the high share of nuclear power in France and French electricity exports as if those were two separate things. What is left unsaid is that those exports show diurnal and seasonal variation. In effect, fossil fuel plants in Italy & the Netherlands do the balancing for excessive nuclear power in France. (You may object that yes, but renewables are even worse due to intermittency. That's true for them in separation, but it turns out when you have both wind & solar - and even better if you also have significant hydro - then together on average they will approach the demand curve more closely. You can see this spectacularly just in German electricity stats: traditionally, intermediate or scheduled power is provided by black coal, before the Ukraine war some of it went over to gas, which also provides short-term peak power, but even last year when gas use was wound down, black coal use was less than half of that in 2000.)
Another less obvious issue is mining pollution in case you _expand_ nuclear power. Known uranium deposits which can be mined economically have concentrations spread over three orders of magnitude. Currently, the richest ores are mined. Thus, if there is any significant expansion in nuclear power, the amount of earth to be moved will have to increase a thousand-fold. It has been over a decade when I done calculations on this, but back then, I got a result comparable in volume to the amount of earth moved for coal mining (globally).
There are also issues like, for example, "bigger is beautiful" doesn't apply to how quickly you can get a given amount of power generation capacity on-line, and how easily you can get the funding for it (you can build a single 1800 MW nuclear power plant in ten years after five years of negotiations on the funding structure while you can equip a hundred thousand farms and warehouses and one million homes with rooftop solar with a combined capacity of 16,500 MW - which will provide about the same power a year even in cloudy Germany - in five years.)
I could go on but this comment is over-long already.
@Daneelro Says:
Brexit was when you started to figure out that the whole edgelord community is full of shit. But I see you still haven't come to the realisation that all the outrage about Anita Sarkeesian was the exact same kind of nonsense, too.
@shadowcat314 Says:
Try sticking to subjects you're knowledgeable about.
@stefanocanonica519 Says:
I used to order many of the model kits i build from UK, now that don't even do deliveries outside uk, I had to switch for a shop in Poland
@dogglebird4430 Says:
I will watch your videos on science and technology, Phil, but stay away from political issues, mate because, in these, your analyses are moronic.
@randygault4564 Says:
No, LED lightbulbs are not the best (yet). Is there even one consumer LED bulb that emits infrared light, to mimic the light humans evolved to live in, and which penetrates beneath the skin?
@randygault4564 Says:
Thunderf00t's argument seems to boil down to: UK government is incompetent, therefore be governed by foreigners. So, why not abolish the whole UK governing apparatus, and let the EU run everything?
The appropriate response is to elect competent people to government, but if the UK cannot or will not do that, maybe the UK is just over.
Brexit, if nothing else, revealed to the world the emptiness at the heart of the kingdom.
@jimbob-robob Says:
28:59 Well you COULD put out more content but that would mean paying for help and not doing everything yourself. Something you are reluctant to do I would wager...any why not keep it for yourself...👍🖖✊️
@TremereTT Says:
Sargon of Akkad was to krass for my favourite political clown Farage?
lol poor Sargon
@absentmindedprof Says:
I have two questions about black holes: how much of the stuff of the universe is trapped in black holes? What effect, if any, do black holes have on dark matter or dark energy? Thanks!
@jeffreymorris1752 Says:
Zuckerberg is progressing well in grappling. Very well. Gets his attaboys from no less than Uncle Chael Sonnen. A LOT of people, including me and all but perhaps 1% of the people watching this SHOULD NOT get locked into a cage with Mark Zuckerberg. As you say, Musk won't show. Zuck famously went to sleep rather than tap.
@jeffreymorris1752 Says:
None of them appreciate evidence -- evidence so thick GB is swimming in it. The very people who say "fuck your feelings," are the same ones who have navigated by feelings alone for what... fifteen years?
@undeadbanana9367 Says:
The Most stupid ppl think they can go back in the EU. Who said we want you back?
@StArikAriel Says:
20:35 I agree with the narrative but I don't think there is any other way to not use, say - "the European Union", than to say "they". It is linguistically the shortest correct word, consisting of 1 syllable to pronounce only :).
@jeffreymorris1752 Says:
England's problem was similar to the U.S. That is, half their population basically put owning and triggering the libs (libs in the ideological sense, not any so-named Liberal Party) above absolutely everything else. The U.S. Republican Party has recently changed the wording to "crushing woke ideology" but it's the same damn thing. Republicans are ignoring the thousand-kilo political ball and chain they locked to their own ankles by outlawing abortion. They'll keep losing (overall) federal elections if and until they figure that out -- which means never.
@tomservo5007 Says:
55:43 , Thuderf00t called it. Musk isn't going to do the fight because of his mother
@KaiserMattTygore927 Says:
"This is what THEY say, THEY say it"
Yeah, TF is right when he states that "the more someone says "They" the more likely they're full of shit"
THEY!
@mfmatthew420 Says:
Ahhhh enjoy your can f00t this was very funny to revisit, total gobshitery lol
@unknownname1941 Says:
Do an indepth video of the Titan sub.
@Real_Vikash Says:
Brexit was never about economics, but it was about sovereignty and freedom. If it was only economics it would've been rejected. What a lot of smart people forget is that for a large number of people dangerous freedom is better than peaceful slavery. If you keep this idea in mind it starts to make sense. People want their own country to be able to make its own decisions.
@blindbrick Says:
4:13 Charles de Gaulle was a ungrateful asshole. He could not cope with the fact that GB and USA had to com to Frances aid again to liberate the country.
@stevehead365 Says:
brexit is great, I love being worse off. 'Take back control'. the government gets more control and I get less. All promoted by morons who couldn't think their way out of a paper bag. Am I still angry after 7 years? You bet. I am nearly 71.
@welltell. Says:
Using Occam's Razor the simplest explanation is always the correct explanation. In other words "I want to win the election to be the leader of Britain, what can i say to the masses, I know being in the E.U. is bad!" .... election later.... " oh shit oh shit i won, this is bad, i got to keep my promise to leave the E.U." .... "okay if i resign then someone else can handle this."
And the rest is history as they say in the history books.
@TheFunkadelicFan Says:
Brexit needed Britain to have a socialist government. In fact, a socialist government NEEDED Brexit. But Brexit with a tory government was always going to be a shitstorm.
@BaldurM Says:
On the topic of fallacies: I think brexit is probably a good example for a sunk cost fallacy.
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