Godzilla and King Kong are such great ambassadors for their respective cultures, one is like “what if our atomic hubris called forth an agent of our destruction from the very seas that birthed us” and one is like “what if monsters wanted our white women”
His pronunciation of 'domuuus' is great, he sounds like Hans Landa tormenting someone
Like he's undoubtably correct - and as someone who's been fascinated by the Voynich Manuscript since I was a kid I already knew the main point of the video before I watched it - but there's something so entertaining about the sheer *vitriol* he delivers it with
I'm not sure how to explain it but I think this extremely specific video essay on the Voynich Manuscript has the most intensely hateful vibe I've ever seen
m.youtube.com/watch?v=XSTM...
I really wish there were more science/maths youtubers that didn't uncritically platform crypto, elon or EA bullshit
While I'm feeling grumpy, I find it irritating that people STILL don't understand real wolf behaviour. Somebody on Reddit described a wolf pack as such: "It's all about hierarchy. True love is rare."
That's not what wolf packs are. That's what abusive families and abusive capitalist workplaces are.
Brian Cox remains the best science communicator I know and I have literally paid for college
(I did derive the time dilation and length contraction equations in high school and in college - and they're also derived in that book - but that's more of an explanation of how you would discover the effects of relativity have to be true, not why they actually are true)
To be exact he says that as you move faster through space, you have to move slower through time to balance out and conserve the overall spacetime. I thought that was the only coherent explanation of it I'd ever heard but had a vague suspicion it was just a metaphor until now
When I was in high school I read brian cox's book 'why does e = mc^2?', about special relativity, and always remembered the brief, throwaway explanation of why time dilation happens in layman's terms, but wasn't sure whether it was actually literally true. studying GR math, it is
Mildly embarrassing fact is that the undergraduate astrophysics curriculum at st andrews doesn't include any general relativity so I have basically no grounding in GR. I started watching a youtube tutorial series covering it and I feel religiously enlightened
I know I could be wrong and this could be a Mein Kampf situation of him clearly laying out all his plans and *still* not thinking they'll actually happen, but also his first term was so incompetent and full of flashy policies that straight up didn't work has left me extremely unconvinced
Like, obviously you still shouldn't vote for him but I've seen people dooming on the TL like 'if Trump wins he will deport 1 in 12 Americans, abolish income tax, and invade Mexico' and like. He's not going to do any of that, he literally just says shit
I feel like I'm in the minority on the left when I say this but I am, to be blunt, not remotely convinced Trump will actually do *any* of the more deranged things he has claimed he will do if he wins
When I did my undergrad thesis project on gaia data I was so used to terrible acronyms I kept accidentally writing GAIA and had to correct it lmao
the funniest one is the gaia telescope where after a bit they gave up on the acronym and literally just named it the word gaia
Desantis emotes with his teeth like LRH used to
