Thank you for sharing this video. I am embarrassed to admit that I was not aware that lottery was a primordial part of the athenian democracy, and btw I’m greek. I’m totally getting into this rabbit hole

Try the Archive link

This David Goggin dude sounds like a cult leader from the manosphere

You forgot to include the last segment of this paragraph!

Still, Binello calls the survival rate of trepanations in Peru “astonishing.” “It’s a credit to what these ancient cultures were doing,” she says.

Of course you can choose to believe what you want.

The point I was trying to make is that there is no scientific consensus on the topic about how global the decline was, when it began and why it happened - as well as if it is related to the formation of complex societies, farming, language, dietary changes, temperature, or body size.

Yes, DeSilva published the 2021 paper you linked. In 2022 he got criticism from Villmoare and Grabowski (see: Did the transition to complex societies in the Holocene drive a reduction in brain size? A reassessment of the DeSilva et al. (2021) hypothesis). Then in 2023 DeSilva revised his argument in (link above, in the description), extending the date back, still not giving anwers about the shrinkage observed since 100.000 years ago.

It’s coincidental with the human adoption of farming.

So far it looks like no hypothesis holds water. For example this one about farming is talking about a timeframe of 10.000 years. The shrinkage started 100.000. So there is a 90.000 years gap, that is left unexplained

I see things differently. Maybe (just maybe) industrializing data collection does not affect my way of living, and maybe, as you say, we got better maps out of this.

Still, I do care about other people, those that are directly affected by these technologies. Especially because of their military use. I believe it’s important to care about others as well.

Btw and since you won’t watch this, if you feel like, check out the company called Niantic.

OP, why do you believe this Nick Shirley person? Everything he has done so far has been debunked through fact-checking.

Since you’re reading about this topic, here are some free MIT courses on nuclear science.

I’m sorry but this video is distoring the term epigenetics. Epigenetics is not a something that started happening in our era, it was simply something that was discovered recently.

Epigenetics is the study of changes in gene expression that occur without altering the DNA sequence. […] Epigenetics usually involves changes that persist through cell division, and affect the regulation of gene expression. Such effects on cellular and physiological traits may result from environmental factors, or be part of normal development. [wiki]

Why the fuck would a video be needed for this?

For many reasons! Here are a few :)

• Some of us want more than a tldr
• Some of us, use videos and documentaries as an intro to topics we find interesting
• Some of us like to fact-check what is being said by random people online, and the approach of how this youtuber does it, is a great example of that imo

Hope this anwers your question, and have a great one!

The first red flag for me was the all caps banner thingy “protect this man at all cost”. So idecided to look him up, and I didn’t like what I found.

It’s not only that he is a Ted Cruz guy. Mainly, it’s that his theories, the ones he talks about in this video, are only presented in books, not in peer reviewed journal (if I somehow missed it please share a link). He does have peer reviewed papers on other topics, which is irrelevant to this conversation.

I tried to find the info you talk about in https://www.ecosia.org/ but for some reason I didn’t mange to do so. Could you share a link where they say these things?

It looks like the Cypriot government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said:

“Regarding statements and reports referring to the launching of missiles towards Cyprus, it is clarified that this is not true and there is no indication whatsoever that there was a threat to the country.”

Maybe so, maybe no. It depends on what we do. If we do nothing, sure. If we act towards solution, no.

Doomerism does not leave room for action, like if things are predetermined. So I cannot agree with your point of view.

I found this video very confusing. At the last section, she concludes that we (non-rich people) are sold by capitalists the facade of luxury products with lesser quality. So I really don’t understand why she claims in the title that it’s not related to capitalism?