I feel like NASA is the kid that always does the group work while we as the “Humanity” always gets the credit even though we did nothing

@chukotka6224

Жыл бұрын

Cringe reddit-style comment 👆

@Detoxpain

Жыл бұрын

Nasa IS humanity, do you think it's ran by aliens? Lol

@trueordrue

Жыл бұрын

I pay taxes

@richardtaylor6341

Жыл бұрын

How you think they get all that money honey?

@lachaase

Жыл бұрын

@@chukotka6224 how would you say it then

I wish the news would cover these things a bit more instead of only the negative things.

@soundscape26

Жыл бұрын

They do, but negativity sells much more... and they know it.

@thany3

Жыл бұрын

Misery sells way better than happiness, unfortunately. Even been in a traffic jam where there's an accident on the other side of the motorway? That's how well misery 'sells'.

@lukalicina8230

Жыл бұрын

@@soundscape26 Sure it sells more, but the whole point of media is to keep you a slave and in fear. Just look at the C0v1d fiasco 😂

@NadiaSeesIt

Жыл бұрын

The Atlantic and New York Times both had articles about what went right this year and why to be optimistic for 2023. Those articles may not be on the front page but they are often on the next page.

@akamesama

Жыл бұрын

They do. I had heard about half of these news items this year from "mainstream media"

I used to think that the acknowledgment of problems we have solved would blind us from the many problems we still have. This video has changed that. Now, I think that knowing what problems that have been solved motivates us to keep solving others, and lead us to a better future. Thank you for this video. It has definitely given me the hope I needed.

@loltoastt

Жыл бұрын

.... Read more...

@dimitar297

Жыл бұрын

These are just topics not solutions.

@paultardspambot

6 ай бұрын

if you only see problems and the sense that everything is getting worse, it can lead to nihilistic attitudes and perspectives that anything would be better then the way things are. People need to understand what has worked and what has improved to show that things are worth doing and showing what has worked and what hasn't. Nowadays the response to "things have been improving" is often "but they havent been solved, so we need radical solutions." but if things have consistently improved in a specific area, getting rid of the methods that have improved them or thinking they are making people passive about the problem can lead to throwing the baby out with the bathwater, that is, the radical changes people might adviocate might stop progress or reverse it if we dont have a sense of how things have changed over time and why

With all the events in our world that seem to calculate into the negative, it is very refreshing to have content that points to the solutions to those problems, and not done in a preachy manner, but rather thoughtfully and in a genuinely hopeful narration. Thank you.

I'm not sold on art museums selling works to private buyers to fund themselves as being good news. Feels pretty messed up.

@alecpalmer1538

Жыл бұрын

The fact that the money has to stay in the museums and can not go to salaries is a pretty good compromise though I'd say.

@clevergirl4457

Жыл бұрын

I mean what if the louvre sold the Mona Lisa and it caught fire in a rich asshole's mansion?

@mbusontshangase4522

Жыл бұрын

One way to look at it is that we will always be generating Art, while the population is no longer increasing, meaning we are at or very close to museum carrying capacity. Selling off works that can are taking up space for newer works and generating maintenance funds from that is a good idea....... deciding which pieces are to be sold though is an entire video on its own!!

@gosseschukken2018

Жыл бұрын

@@clevergirl4457it’s not going to be used for artworks of such importance as the mona lisa. It’s going to be used for works no one knows about. The museum isn’t going to sell off their most popular works if the money can’t flow to the ones in charge.

@clevergirl4457

Жыл бұрын

@@gosseschukken2018 ik ik it was just a stupid Glass Onion joke, lol. Out of context spoiler, woops

A small one to add: Germany introduced Emergency Cell Broadcast. Yes, it's a technology that other countries have used for decades, but Germany was desperately lacking one, with that lack leading to many deaths in last years floods. Finally having the system makes me very happy, especially as a firefighter, and it may save many lives in the future. It's a small problem on the global scale, but one that has been solved nevertheless!

@jahajesper

Жыл бұрын

its a bigger positive then local dams atleast

@davidcomtedeherstal

Жыл бұрын

If only it had worked!

@MaticTheProto

Жыл бұрын

@@davidcomtedeherstal it does

@gnorbsl4194

Жыл бұрын

@@davidcomtedeherstal It did, I was in a large supermarket the first test and it was crazy how you could hear phones everywhere

@erdelf

Жыл бұрын

the warnings were fired extremely late in these floods.. this system wouldn't really have helped most of the dead.

I live in Canada and this is the first I have heard of nature therapy, that is so good to hear! I love the asteroid redirection as well. With the salmon dam removal, I am under the impression that salmon and dams can coexist as long as fish spawning ladders are part of the dam construction. I would have liked to hear that the dams were improved to allow for spawning rather than removed. Ebike battery swap sounds great! Thanks for sharing

@megarockman

Жыл бұрын

The dams were pretty old, so it might not have been possible (or at least cost-effective) to do so. It was also mentioned they were no longer necessary for power generation due to new wind turbines.

@gabrieldsouza6541

Жыл бұрын

@@megarockman wind energy and hydroelectricity cannot be seriously compared by anyone who knows the first thing about generating electricity. wind turbines only produce electricity when the wind is at a sufficient speed, hydroelectric dams produce electricity 100% of the time (at least when the water levels are sufficient for production, so closer to 95%)

@machupikachu1085

Жыл бұрын

@@gabrieldsouza6541 not to mention that dams hold fresh water back from the ocean for a State in critical water crisis...

@Talaaya

5 ай бұрын

@@machupikachu1085 Do you mean for water usage? Oregon is not southern California.

I love that you are talking about the phasing out of HFCs, I am working with a research group that is focusing on the separation of those gasses with the goal of reusing half of it. It is great to see that some of the things I am doing are going to have lasting impacts :D

@janmuller6546

Жыл бұрын

I'm also so relieved that we identified a 1000 times worse climate killer and decided to act immediately - by phasing it out over the next 30 years 🤦 How dense and stubborn are those dimwits in charge???

@uddhavsaikia739

Жыл бұрын

No comments? here u go😘

Correction: fission scientists have successfully got more energy from fusion than they put into the reaction, but the total energy *used* to achieve this (specially cooling the lasers) was still much higher.

@machupikachu1085

Жыл бұрын

Quit making sense, Hippie! 🤪

@kpacubo.

Жыл бұрын

@@MustacheMerlin thanks to both you and the original commenter for the added nuances! appreciate it

@davidsphere43

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I was gonna say. If that was true, then they would have made a source of infinite energy, which makes no sense

@henrymaccabee7988

Жыл бұрын

@@davidsphere43 Not really. If this technology is going to work someday, it needs to output more energy than we put in. This energy comes from the fact that mass is being turned into energy. Two nuclei go into the reaction, and one nucleus comes out which is heavier than the other two individually, but less cumulatively. The rest of the mass turns into energy, and if it is working, more energy than we put into getting the reaction going.

@mikeflowerdew7877

Жыл бұрын

@@MustacheMerlin What you say about the lasers is true, but the last paragraph is misguided. No one's suggesting that physicists don't know this, it is a matter of communication. Ultimately what was achieved is a milestone, but not good enough for practical energy generation, where you must take the entire cost of generation into account. That can be made smaller with better lasers etc, but it's still not zero. Reporting it without making this clear can give people the wrong impression and make fusion seem much closer than it really is. I'm no armchair expert, I did physics for 11 years (excluding undergrad), so I can recommend without hesitation Sabine Hossenfelder's excellent video "How close is nuclear fusion power?", which is on this very topic.

1) 1:48 NASA nails asteroid 2) 3:03 US joins Kigali amendment 3) 4:05 purportedly extinct species make comeback 4) 5:11 malaria vaccine progresses through trials 5) 6:33 lyme disease vaccine nearing market return 6) 8:04 US soccer teams strike monumental deal 7) 8:58 free lunches programs expand 8) 10:04 Europe standardizing charging ports 9) 11:02 US ev tipping point hit this year 10) 12:13 plan created for plugging orphan wells 11) 13:28 Canada pilots prescriptions for outdoors time 12) 14:18 military suicides see decline 13) 15:26 HIV vaccines progressing through trials 14) 16:18 art museums solve funding issue 15) 17:08 battery swap technology spreading 16) 18:22 ethereum achieves major efficiency gain 17) 19:42 MLB figures out authentication 18) 20:54 Klamath river set for return 19) 22:03 Intel launches deepfake detector 20) 22:47 solution for removing pfa's found 21) 24:16 US States ban slavery 22) 25:42 nuclear fusion breakthrough

@habsrak2859

Жыл бұрын

ty bro

@enderman1338

Жыл бұрын

Amazing thx

@iandavidvillaloboswong5180

Жыл бұрын

Oh I wouldnt trust anything Canada prescribes nowadays

@ncard00

Жыл бұрын

Wrong timestamps, the last one is 30-45 seconds into the topic for instance, stupid.

@alexhouistandwithukraine8885

Жыл бұрын

a blow to China and Russia's anti Americanism moment?

I gotta be honest, I preferred the «News You Missed» end-of-year videos. As someone who isn’t from the USA, I found this video to be pretty USA-centric, and I couldn’t even look at many of the USA stories as positive news, because they e.g. abolish something that I didn’t even know was an issue, like the free school meals; of course it’s amazing that some states now offer free school meals to all students, but I wasn’t even aware that there are states where schools don’t off free meals. I did still like the video, I just preferred the year-end videos from the last 2 years :)

@safe-keeper1042

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I too would've preferred this to be more global.

@ShubhamMishrabro

Жыл бұрын

Yeah man it looked like what usa did apart from vaccine progressing.

@originalempa7037

Жыл бұрын

Its not just us centric its also liberal/democrat centric

@janmuller6546

Жыл бұрын

@@originalempa7037 as I would imagine he and the majority of his viewers are...

@SoullessPolack

Жыл бұрын

But the USA stories are positive news, which is important to remember. These are all improvements. That is positive. You not knowing the previous state is ignorance, but it doesn't mean that the current situations are bad. That said, yeah, it did seem a bit US centric, but that would probably occur with anyone making a video like this. It's easier to find news about your own country and in your language than others.

I really liked the format you've done in previous years, where you highlight news from every country, but this is also a really nice way to look back on the year. If nothing else, it's good to see good news being presented in a way that isn't overly optimistic or saccharine.

16:18 I'm not sure that museums selling artworks for short term financing is such a good thing. It seems temporary solution at best, and a huge problem for the future at worst.

@jane5842

Жыл бұрын

agreed. just commented on this too. a lot of that art might never be seen again, or when the wealthy decide to cash it in for a tax deduction, it will just exacerbate funding issues.

@TheJamesM

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I was waiting for the turnaround to turn that into a positive story, but no, it's really just a sad reality. I get the pragmatism driving it, but being forced to allow the diminishment of the public's cultural wealth in the name of survival must surely be a tragedy rather than a victory. It's like celebrating that climber having to amputate his own arm when it got stuck under a rock (except in this case we don't know how far the amputation will go).

@meneldal

Жыл бұрын

I feel that renting them out would be a better way to go about it. You can still get a lot of money but they aren't gone forever.

@penitent2401

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, it keeps the museum opens but there's less in the museum.

@kasai1575

Жыл бұрын

Isn't this better than the alternative? If a museum closes, its collection is often sold off, transferred, or otherwise scattered among libraries, private collectors, and other museums. A measure to lose a piece of art or two in order to keep the museum open to the public is better than losing swaths of artwork.

Good to highlight the positives, which sadly don't get as much attention. Too much doomerism around, just because things have slid back a little in a few areas doesn't mean we aren't making progress in a lot of other important areas.

@Jordanthecool7

Жыл бұрын

Facts

@tt-nm4yj

Жыл бұрын

we a still screwed as a species anyway so none of these matters

@interspect_

Жыл бұрын

@@tt-nm4yj lmao cap

@verycherrybombr

Жыл бұрын

@@tt-nm4yj your comment is only proving his point, you know. 😂

@joshuamaka876

Жыл бұрын

True, tho the achievements are really underwhelming like the nature is good for you is not an achievement but common sense.

Prison labor should be a choice. Forcing someone, even a prisoner to do something for profit isn't right. That said, knowing some former inmates myself, many prisoners enjoy getting out and doing the work just for physical and mental stimulation and to see the outside world. Outright banning it would likely result in some prisoners being unhappy and stuck in cells longer. There is also an argument for penal farms where a large portion of the products prisoners work on goes back into the prison as food which seems more fair than just outright for profit sales.

@DctorSkillz1

Жыл бұрын

I disagree. Prisoners that have wronged society should work to undo that.

@wolfplayr2137

Жыл бұрын

@@DctorSkillz1 Exactly, there's always a price to pay. As long as they aren't being worked to death or being abused, I don't see why they can't work

@azurblau4144

Жыл бұрын

@@DctorSkillz1 if your punishment for the crime is "put into jail", then you "undo the wronging done to the society" by going into jail if you buy a steak and pay 5 dollars for it you would be rather confused if you get charged with 1 dollar per bite after that ...well that and the entire "its fucking slavery, omg how hard is it to understand that this is bad"-point

@DctorSkillz1

Жыл бұрын

@@azurblau4144 Your analogy is pretty awful mate.

@azurblau4144

Жыл бұрын

@@DctorSkillz1 nahhh, could ofc be better but it highlights the absurdity of asking for adding punishment on top of the agreed punishment

"I promise 2022 was pretty good" *proceeds to talk about mlb signature verification

Nuance with the Apple USB-C thing: Apple announced that they will comply with EU policy. That does not necessarily mean they will adopt USB-C, as the policy states any wired charging must be USB-C. They could very well adopt an entirely wireless charging system

@austinpeterson4898

Жыл бұрын

I was just about to comment the same thing.

@circuit10

Жыл бұрын

They can't really not comply with it, unless they stop selling phones in the EU

@thany3

Жыл бұрын

Assuming they use the pre-existing standard for it, I don't see a problem with this. But it's Apple, and so this assumption is likely wrong.

@Juanguar

Жыл бұрын

doesnt the legislation also prevent this loophole ?

@electricant55

Жыл бұрын

And they would have switched anyway, given they already put USB-C in ipads. The legislation could speed this up, but I wouldn't get my hopes up

now doctors can actually prescribe "touch grass" as a legitimate treatment

@funveeable

Жыл бұрын

Canada tells people to go outside, which costs nothing, while they offer MAID to euthanize their veterans, which costs less than giving them actual treatment. Why bother spending money from their pathetic universal healthcare system when they can just execute the useless veteran who doesn't work and gets a pension.

@Luft3

Жыл бұрын

That or the more likely "kys" that Canadian doctors do now aswell too.

@MaticTheProto

Жыл бұрын

Finally the world will become based

@asuka_the_void_witch

Жыл бұрын

This should be available globally and the prescription should include checks and balances in the form of scheduled appointments with other people who come along for the outdoor activities

@mrb152

Жыл бұрын

And if that doesn’t work they recommend killing youself. Canada is like a comment section of a country.

I would put the soccer deal as a problem, not a resolution. It doesn't increase interest in the sport, but changes the distribution of the already existing pool. This will have longer term repercussions as it could be tougher to acquire talent in the future if some of their pay is not reliant on their own success. It is also not clear that one side's success rises the tide of the other. See the NBA and WNBA.

@TravisJones812

Жыл бұрын

I can't imagine why anyone would pay attention to women's soccer or basketball. But it's far less cringe than watching male pole dancers.

@darkpixel1128

Жыл бұрын

@@TravisJones812 why pay attention to sports at all? Because it's fun to watch. What a bizarre question.

@usg1862

Жыл бұрын

Their skill level is so sub par it fails to be entertaining to many. But when there are better options that are often even more accessible I can understand his statement.

@darkpixel1128

Жыл бұрын

@@Den-dd5pp I didn't mention pole dancers at all.

@Den-dd5pp

Жыл бұрын

@@darkpixel1128 Apologies, i adressed it to the wrong comment😅

I've had a pretty aweful year and this video just made my cry like a baby. Thanks for spreading optimism and hope! ❤ If 2022 brought all these good things, 2023 might turn out better too!

@mariecarie1

5 ай бұрын

I hope 2023 did turn out better for you! 😊❤

with all that has gone on this year and the past. This kind of optimistic outlook is very much needed. I hope you continue this for "23 problems solved in 2023" and keep up the great work!

@yitzakIr

Жыл бұрын

Scientists trying to do 200 things by the end of 2200: 😮‍💨

Apple never said they would have type c connectors. They just said they would comply. Marques Brownlee hypothesized they would instead use no port and have everything wireless.

@poochyenarulez

Жыл бұрын

Apple has used USB C for years, what are you talking about?

@DimBeam1

Жыл бұрын

Nope. They are fitting USB-C ports to all new phones worldwide. They have to if they want to survive.

@MagicMike_101

Жыл бұрын

@@DimBeam1 It's mandatory for Europe only.

@JOCoStudio1

Жыл бұрын

@@MagicMike_101 yeah, but having a different port in different countries would be a nightmare for manufacturing, software, peripheral design, customer support etc. Not worth it.

@ThoriberoCaroli

Жыл бұрын

@@MagicMike_101 It's called "the Brussels effect". Basically, since the EU is the world's largest single market, companies will always want to sell there. And if they do they have to adapt to regulations. And if they have to have make adjustments on their products to do that, then it is, as JO Co points out, oftentimes more profitable to just do it on all their products (provided that other market's being larger together do not have differing requirements as well.) This is why the EU often, in market economics at least, is called a regulatory superpower. What laws are made here, companies around the world adapt to because they want to sell here.

FYI - The case for the US Women's Soccer team got thrown out by the judge because the court found that the Women's team got paid more in overall compensation both on a per-game and overall basis due to the agreed base salary and benefits that the men didn't receive. This is despite the prior year's FIFA payouts being drastically in favour of the Men's team.

@PatrickThomasBrady

7 ай бұрын

And that “historic” deal that was made actually favors the US womens team, they have a benefits package that includes health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, paid parental leave of up to 6 months, and short-term disability, and the men’s team gets none of that, how is that fair?

@Talaaya

5 ай бұрын

@@PatrickThomasBrady Sounds like a reason to pull up the men's benefits to match, not make everyone's lives equally worse.

@PatrickThomasBrady

5 ай бұрын

@@Talaaya yea I agree, everyone should try to get as much as possible and then some when negotiating contracts/CBAs with their employer, i don’t know how they call this new “historic” contract equal when it’s clearly not, especially after constant misleading interviews and a “documentary” making faulty claims of unequal pay when it was proven in court and by countless others that they actually made more money then the men, I think don lemon was the only reporter from left wing media to call out the bullshit that was going on

There is a slight caveat worth mentioning - regarding the fusion story. Although technically accurate, that more power was produced than what was introduced, the caveat is that the power introduced was a mere fraction of the power that the laser itself consumed to produce that power. So they're basically kicking the can up the street to achieve that goal.

@viperblitz11

10 ай бұрын

In fairness, the objective was to make a breakthrough from theory to practice. Now they can go back to the drawing board and start work on the commercial-use prototypes.

@digitalutopia1

10 ай бұрын

@viperblitz11 Oh sure, any progress should absolutely be aplauded. But it's also important to understand what that progress actually is. A lot of people covering this story are acting like fusion power plants are just around the corner, now that we've successfully got more power out of a fusion reactor than we put in. Like, that's it - science won, game over. So, I wanted to provide a bit of a reality check - to show how far we still have to go.

Thank you for positive news. I just watched a similar summary and it was mostly negative things.

@MrBcardinal35

Жыл бұрын

Negativity sells, it's the American way

@seanpruitt6801

Жыл бұрын

@@MrBcardinal35this comment feels negative 😂

@JatPhenshllem

Жыл бұрын

@@seanpruitt6801 It should be

@Crusader-ct1qv

Жыл бұрын

@@MrBcardinal35 Negativity, famously a trait exclusive to American media.

@Thumbsdwn

Жыл бұрын

@@MrBcardinal35 negativity sells everywhere, America is just the best at it

13:28 so now Canadian doctors can prescribe "touch grass" 💀

This has quickly become one of my favorite channels on KZread. Right now there is a frustrating lack of apolitical, non-angry, high-quality informative content. That is what this is. Please keep up the good work.

@vanbaguette7368

Жыл бұрын

I understand what you mean, but ''apolitical''? A substential part of the video was about policies and their positive effect on people.

@DrewBoivie

Жыл бұрын

@@vanbaguette7368 While that is true, I was more referring to the channel overall.

@andrewmoynihan4785

Жыл бұрын

Great channel, but not even a little apolitical. This video has a very distinct political bias and belittles legitimate concerns around vaccines. The history of vaccines is certainly not a perfect record & the author is clearly uniformed regarding the sordid history of medicine.

@DrewBoivie

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewmoynihan4785 Perhaps apolitical inasmuch as it is possible to be in 2023? Even some decent channels cannot help occasionally deriding one political view or another. This one doesn't. That's pretty awesome.

@spacetoast7783

Жыл бұрын

@@andrewmoynihan4785 Like which concerns?

I would love to see this become a yearly series. Great job.

I can’t get the idea of not feeding students whenever you can. It’s costly, but it significantly benefits poorer students and those who have poor access to food

@Shargur

Жыл бұрын

Lol yeah. It's ridiculous how there are politicians, typically of one political party, that are against social safety net policies. It seems so immoral to be against supporting the most vulnerable of the general U.S. population but it happens.

@shamiam9701

Жыл бұрын

It's not even costly. The amount of work saved on administration tasks related to the logistics of food programs in schools and following up on fees saves back almost all of the money used on free student meals. It's (ideally) reallocation of resources, not new spending.

@Arcadiez

Жыл бұрын

well anything that doesn't benafit the rich is socialism according to conservativies. Thus why its an issue why people keep supporting these high end ppl who only work to exploit the poor for their own agenda instead to fous on the good for everyone and the nation as a whole.

@nynameisnyan20

Жыл бұрын

thats one of the things id rather my tax dollars go to rather than someones transitioning surgery

@toasterhavingabath6980

Жыл бұрын

@@nynameisnyan20 id prefer both. but lets not start this here. or at all, actually, why did you have to put that second part in, to make someone react like this to you?...

One thing you got wrong is apple never actually said they will switch to USB-C. All they said is that they will comply, which could mean they will go port-less, do USB-C only in Europe or other stuff.

@DimBeam1

Жыл бұрын

Nope. They are fitting USB-C ports to all new phones worldwide. They have to if they want to survive.

@PB83295

Жыл бұрын

@@DimBeam1 Well, they never confirmed that. Just stating facts. The rest is speculation

@Arch3r666

Жыл бұрын

@@DimBeam1 chances are, they will do away with corded charging ports and force Qi/wireless charging instead with data transfers available only via wifi/bluetooth. Their Argument will likely be, saving the environment by getting rid of cables, reducing plastic and material components being used.

@lightningrodd

Жыл бұрын

I'm not racing to say this is good news.. yet. Is it a step in the right direction, absolutely! But I think the thing that people forget is that companies can still lock down the cables. Nintendo did that with the switch and their dock, if the cable wasn't okayed by Nintendo, it either didn't charge, or was down to a trickle charge, or worse it bricked the switch. As an iOS user, I wouldn't be surprised whatsoever if Apple took that approach in the transition phase. "Look guys it's a USB-C but it can only be USB-C from these authorized manufacturers"

@dannovikoff8454

Жыл бұрын

@@Arch3r666 so so many aspects of our daily lives require wired data transfers (cars without wireless car play is a big one ). It also wouldn’t do away with the charger problem, they’d still have to give you a wired wireless charger.

Soldier: I'm sad because of all the young people I killed in that air strike Mental health counselor: have you tried working out and getting some sun?

This channel really was a comfort place for me this year !!! Amazing way to closeout 2022 !

man that initial 30 seconds felt like it went on forever lmao

@alexandergilles8583

Жыл бұрын

The whole first 2 minutes tbh lol

Absolutely excellent. We must pay attention and derive gratitude from the actual progress and incredible effort so many people work passionately for.

Thank you very much for this video. Life seems so horrid- this glimpse of light is exactly what I needed. ❤

Love the positivity! And using your logo colours as the colour scheme of the plots!

im loving the jetlag series keep em coming

he did say that some of these are debatable as wins but i wanted to chime in on the art gallery funding issue. selling artworks to fund salaries and maintenance and stay open is a terrible last ditch effort. some of that art is likely being sold into private collections, where they may never be seen by the public again. it also gives the wealthy a tax claim to cash in at a later date. while it's great that the galleries are staying open, they are doing so by capitulating to the power of the unregulated art market.

@weq3ei8u42

Жыл бұрын

and to my mind they have a finite amount of those artworks, which makes me wonder whether funding will become an issue again.

Thanks as always for making these videos man. Look forward every year : )

Thanks for making this, I needed to hear it happy new year matey 😁

20:53 - The person who caught Judge's 62nd home run was offered $3M for it outright. He decided to take it to auction and the highest bid was $1.5M

@Game_Hero

Жыл бұрын

A tale as old as time.

Problem 6: The Women’s team negotiated for more guaranteed money, then sued to get the Men’s deal that holds more risk. This is widely covered and has nothing to do with gender discrimination. In the end, U.S. soccer made a business and PR decision to let the women out of their contract and adopt one similar to the men’s. There is no merit behind the gender discrimination argument.

@confederatetearsaredelicious

Жыл бұрын

I thought that the new deal reduced men's soccer compensation, to increase the women's soccer compensation.

@maiq_6821

Жыл бұрын

@@confederatetearsaredelicious thats exactly what it did

@osher7788

Жыл бұрын

I don't understand why people don't understand simple economics Women's team bring less revenue, hence less salary. why wont women support it and watch it like men do with men sports? have you ever met a female able to name women female soccer players? or one that has a favorite team?

@theoneafterthelast

6 ай бұрын

Shhhh.... You're not helping to push the agenda bro. Women were oppressed because... They got what they originally agreed to... I know it doesn't make sense but just go with it lol

Free lunch for all kids! I never got free lunch and I never needed it but I think this is a great idea. Just make it "healthy" at least low processed suger. Also lets give the kids breakfast, something small like a fruit cup or somthing with 200-350 calories.

I thought I was going into a video that would make me smile and ended up sobbing like a little kid because I feel so relieved that SOME THINGS are actually going better. Thank you for this, it's the news I didn't know I needed.

@alfadog1879

Жыл бұрын

oh my god, same, somethings finally going right

@hshx1n

Жыл бұрын

Sobbing? Hang in there it’s all going to be better. Suffering is temporary

@xaviercopeland2789

Жыл бұрын

Soft. The world is nowhere near as bad as any other time in history.

wendy lifting the spirits, thank you dear logistician :)

@Michaelonyoutub

Жыл бұрын

I have never though of calling wendover wendy, but that is great and should definitely catch on and be used by everyone

@top10cars2

Жыл бұрын

Is that Sam's new nickname? 😂

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

Жыл бұрын

that nickname is cursed

Good video! 10:50 One quick note….USB-C refers to the form factor of the connector used to connect devices. It has nothing to do with data transfer speeds/throughput (which are designated by numbers, e.g. USB 2.x, 3.x, 4.x, etc.). A manufacturer can make their USB-C cable have the same transfer speeds as a lightning cable (which iirc is USB 2.0).

@xerr0n

Жыл бұрын

the wattage also varies...

@SweBeach2023

Жыл бұрын

True, but in the same way the charging speed of a lightning cable is dependent on the power output of the adapter used.

@laurencefraser

Жыл бұрын

the USB 'standard' is becoming progressively more of a joke as time goes on, unfortunately.

Thank you for this I really needed this.

I didn't know how much I needed this. Please do this every year or more often.

13:28 touch grass as a prescription 😂

@jasonreed7522

Жыл бұрын

If it works it works. Besides just being sent out to a national park will result in some exercise being accomplished which is also healthy. (Also escaping the air polution of cities)

5:25 I live near a place where they reintroduced the European Bison. Although I haven't seen one this year, we did get warnings a couple of times because these things can cross roads and can probably annihalate a small car if they feel like it. So sometimes we'd get a warning when they move in a way that could disrupt major traffic routes (at least major for this rural part of Germany).

@CarFreeSegnitz

Жыл бұрын

If Canadian moose are anything to go by these animals are a threat to traffic not because they attack traffic but the sometimes fatal results from colliding with them. In Canadian winters moose will often find the easiest path, highways that have been cleared of snow. Moose are large, tall creatures. When a typical sedan or small truck collides with them their legs are cut away and the overwhelming mass of their torso flies straight into the passenger cabin. 1000-1500 pounds of animal crashing into the passenger cabin often ends with fatalities of driver & passengers… and the animal, of course. We Canadians have found it challenging to school our moose on highway safety.

@namenamename390

Жыл бұрын

@@CarFreeSegnitz yeah I was exaggerating a bit, obviously colliding with one at 90km/h is the more significant threat

@UtamagUta

Жыл бұрын

I'm from Lithuania. There's total number of them is 300. Yes, it's really really small, but considering they were completely gone just 100 years ago, it's amazing. Also moose or deers on the road, boars and wolf in farms are by far more dangerous that these huge cows.

@Bacopa68

Жыл бұрын

Can European bison make fertile hybrids with American bison? Might be a good to cross breed them to introduce genetic variety to both populations.

@namenamename390

Жыл бұрын

@@Bacopa68 I don't think that's possible, but I'm not certain

These are the kind of videos I like to hear. Positive news stories that benefit the world

@goese868

Жыл бұрын

How do school meals in some states of america benefit the world?

@General12th

11 ай бұрын

@@goese868 Healthier children means healthier citizens means a healthier country.

Thank you so much for this video! I really needed to watch something uplifting after so many bad news. Not everything is lost ☺

You solved my problem of boring content on youtube. I wish for the same great content in 2023, thanks for all the incredible work, every video is an absolute treat.

Some soccer players getting rich hardly deserves inclusion on this list.

When are you going to release the 2023 version of this video? This is one of my favorite videos of the year

I appreciate the fact that this video shows off the good news of 2022. It was a hard year. I like good news.

I'd argue some of these "solutions" are simply political gestures, but lets appreciate that we live in a time of least net human suffering in human history. Times are better than the media would lead you to believe.

@davisdelp8131

Жыл бұрын

True

@CarFreeSegnitz

Жыл бұрын

“solutions” yes, sort-of. Almost all are band-aids while the harms that caused the original problem are getting worse. School lunches. Food is at most 20-25% of a household’s budget. Poverty continues to be a political choice that could be solved with improved pay and government guaranteed housing. But, hey, actually solving this would undercut obscene profit-taking. Electric cars. Won’t solve anything. But EVs have been an environmentalist darling. The ultimate solution is restructuring our cities towards walkability. High-density, mixed-use buildings that have commercial & offices on the bottom floors and residential above. Less transportation needed by everyone, less space needed for cars thus still more space for high-density buildings.

@gabrieleporru4443

Жыл бұрын

Can’t shut up about “politics” (which you all say to despise) when the topic **isn’t** politics

@SaltpeterTaffy

Жыл бұрын

The lithium used by those electric vehicles being rapidly adopted, and indeed all lithium-ion batteries, is produced by African slave labor. There's an entire Wendover video about it. When I hear "rapid adoption of EVs is coming" I think "net human suffering going down isn't the virtue it sounds like when you realize that it's more of a suffering offset tax." It is very difficult to be happy about some of these stories.

@jasong3972

Жыл бұрын

@@CarFreeSegnitz You should look into what government guaranteed housing does to crime rates and what high density urbanization does to birth rates. Some ideas are good on paper and not so good in practice 🙂

Correction: USB-C is not up to 100W/3A, but 100W/5A. It's maxed out at 20V. Unless you also factor in the newest USB PD standard, which allows up to 240W at 48V, given a suitable cable is used (the plugs are exactly the same).

@laurencefraser

Жыл бұрын

USB C is, in fact, simply the shape and arrangement of the plug. The rest of that stuff is USB 1,2,3,4 etc. (except, of course, the organization in charge of these things keeps changing the naming scheme to be ever more nonsensical and the latest standards is basically a list of 'all the ways the cables and devices should, but will not, be universal or standardized')

@thany3

Жыл бұрын

@@laurencefraser Sure, but it doesn't invalidate my comment.

Seeing the good that can come out of a year has massaged my heart a little. Thank you.

17:03. 😳 What are the odds? I moved to Baltimore 2 yrs ago to an apartment literally right across the street from the W.A. Museum. And I have yet to step foot into this museum. One that (mind you) is free to enter. I guess I had to watch a KZread video to remind me not to take my neighborhood and all it has to offer for granted. 🤦🏾‍♂️

@gabsi_

Жыл бұрын

Have you visited the meseum yet?

there’s an inaccuracy in your video, the nuclear fusion segment. while it’s true that the smashing together of the atoms did create more energy than it cost to smash them together, in that closed system, the lasers used to fire those atoms together required 500mj of energy. in total, there was a circa 498 loss in energy.

Totally adore the positivity. Great motivation to look forward to .

"baseball" is definitely one the most important problems were to be solved

@ErikVeland

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. Between this and the museums being “allowed” to sell artwork to stay open I was like wtf is happening with this video?

@digitalfootballer9032

Жыл бұрын

As well as the US Women's soccer team nonsense. Come talk to me when you get viewership in the billions worldwide like the men's World Cup does. I mean, I do a pretty neat card trick, and I am very good at it, but I don't think David Copperfield should be splitting his earnings with me.

@MagicMike_101

Жыл бұрын

Baseball is so boring.

@garyp3472

Жыл бұрын

Im just thankful I can sleep through the night again, knowing I wont be busted for all those fake baseball autographs I sold in the 90's.

22:25 It will catch 90% of the fakes only until the fakers figure out how to defeat the detection device. This is the classic "arms race" again. You develop an impenetrable armor, and it is effective only until the enemy figures out how to pernitrate it.

@vyax

Жыл бұрын

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are how these are trained. It's not so much an arms race as both the problem and solver always exist.For the deep fake generator to improve a deepfake detector evolves along with it, each trying to beat the other. It's not too much of a problem.

@yitzakIr

Жыл бұрын

Blood vessel detection will be pretty hard to beat though, at the very least you need high-resolution videos of your target

@meneldal

Жыл бұрын

@@yitzakIr If you do blurry low res videos then it's impossible to detect. But that could be suspicious in itself.

@adambalint5121

Жыл бұрын

This is true but validation is a much simpler task than generation: both have to understand what fits the right criteria but generation also has to actually create along certain extra parameters. Unlike security for example where I think both sides are similarly hard, here, I think catching deep fakes is a much simpler task so there is a good chance that they will stay ahead in the arms race.

@kindlin

Жыл бұрын

@@yitzakIr I was wondering the same thing, but I think it goes off of, like, overall texture. For example, the skin went from dull to rosier, that kind of transition at a weird spot would be a big red flag.

Many of these "solved problems" are just band-aid fixes that don't solve or even begin to address the underlying causes.

@Smorehead

Жыл бұрын

@@Dimitris_Balf The mRNA is a game changer, and probably the biggest achievement on this list. Even so, most of this "progress" is based on things we have already long had the means to accomplish. This video shows more that our systems tangibly halt progress, since we are just now getting approved a Lyme disease vaccine that was supposed to come out in the 1990s. I understand this video was made with having a positive view in mind, but almost all of these issues that were "fixed" are issues that shouldn't have existed in the first place. Edited for clarity

@Smorehead

Жыл бұрын

@@Dimitris_Balf I wasn't talking about an mRNA being out in the 90s, we started working on those in the 2010s. I was referring to the Lyme disease vaccine that was halted and cancelled due to the idiotic protests. We wouldn't have needed mRNA for that, and we could have prevented a large number of people losing some of their quality of life because of it

Can't believe KZread waited until now to show this to me. Somehow I felt something was missing on the new year. Thanks for another great production, Sam! I look forward to more sequels in the future!

2022 was truly one of the years of all time.

This is always one of my favorite pieces of journalism every year, and it's appreciated more than you know.

the battery swap program is so nice!

@thany3

Жыл бұрын

It seems so obvious! In a traditional bike, you would also "insert stuff that isn't yours", namely petrol. I don't see why you couldn't do the same with batteries. It also no longer makes sense to charge the bike, which is probably a good thing in poorer countries, given the sometimes absolutely dreadful power infrastructure to the homes.

@user-yr9zs6sr9d

Жыл бұрын

@@thany3 what do you mean insert stuff that isnt yours? I paid for the petrol that goes into my vehicle so its my property

@shotelco

Жыл бұрын

The underlying problem persist: What form of energy production is being used to charge these batteries? If its still fossil fuel based, all we are doing is extending the "tail pipe" out to someplace else, and _continuing_ to lie to lie to ourselves.

@chaseweeks2708

Жыл бұрын

Too bad it can only work with small and slow scooters and not with full sized motorcycles and certainly not with full sized cars.

@rubiconnn

Жыл бұрын

@@shotelco That's incorrect. Larger engines are far more efficient than smaller ones, especially comparing them to small two stroke engines. The worst coal power plant is significantly cleaner per KW than the cleanest small two stroke engine.

These reminders are really encouraging. Thank you!

What a fantastic video!! Absolutely amazing summary of important and relevant information

Thank you for this dose of positivity. This world feels like it is rotting sometimes, it is great to have a reminder everything is not going down.

History isn't really a linear climb to an improved world, despite our cultural belief that it is. Our actions determine if things get better or worse. Left to itself history has no direction. But it is always a good thing to show that things CAN get better, so I enjoyed the video.

Thank you so much for the Video. I didnt know how much i needed this.

Happy to see my state (Oregon) involved twice in advancing good in this hell, at least in this video Hopefully this year brings many more advancements :)

We always need more good news. It’s easy to forget with all the negativity on the news.

Sorry to be that guy, but the predictions for the DART mission wasn't a change of 10-20 minutes, it was 10 - 30 seconds. DART was *orders of magnitude* more successful than anyone could have hoped.

@M33f3r

Жыл бұрын

I have to wonder if it scales. There is a limit to how large a rocket payload we can make at the moment. Maybe multiple smaller ones could work.

@Real_Artician

Жыл бұрын

@@M33f3r Its hard to say, but I'd say thats the wrong way to think about it. There's lots of mass already up there, strictly, we just have to launch the engines, fuel, and guidance system, and put all of that onto a rock already in space. Beyond that, it's just an engineering challenge, either finding a solid enough mass, or finding a way to solidify it enough for energy to transfer to the body, rather than pulling the body apart with tidal forces. This is why one off missions like DART are cool, but really they just show what is possible with massive investment into space infrastructure.

Wonderful to have so much good news at the end of the year. Happy new year to all. And thank you ❤️

Just bought a Nebula subscription, definitely not regretting it!

@goese868

Жыл бұрын

did i ask? did anyone?

My head probably would be throbbing less if we all got more good news like this on a regular basis... thank you for this

It is so great to see a recap of every year

this is so important to restore reality to news reporting. the picture of the world that is currently portrayed in the news is skewed disproportionately to problems and what is going wrong. following up and reporting on those problems, when there are improvements or even solutions, is woefully undervalued. this is more dangerous than not finding out when something is going wrong, because people get the feeling that nothing anyone does is going to change anything. then there's even less people who are motivated to help or invest in things that improve things. or they are driven to drastic measures because they cannot process the value of incremental positive change. the news needs to maintain reporting on problems and crises, so people know where they can become active with solutions. the news just to up its game in reporting on past problems that have improved or been solved, so people know it's worthwhile to work on solving things and so that those who solve things get the credit they deserve. videos like this are a much needed step in the right direction and we need more of this type of reporting. On our part as news consumers, we have to change our understanding and expectations of what news is. It is precisely that the 'whole point of news' is NOT to report only the bad things.

great job! This needs to be #1 trending 2023 lets start a year of NO NEGATIVE NEWS!!!!

8:30 I mean yes, but the women's team also has a ton less viewership while having the benefit of being paid even if there are no games played and a lot more benefits in their contracts, meaning that pooling the money without pooling the other advantages of the contracts (which the women refused to switch to the exact same contracts as the men had) just means even more free benefits for the women's team

@LebronCCP

Жыл бұрын

Please stop making so much sense!

@mcul3474

Жыл бұрын

💯. It's amazing that wendover is logical and straight forward for every other topic but when it comes to this he can't rub 2 brain cells together to understand that people do not watch women's soccer hence they bring in less money. It doesn't matter if they won the world cup. No one watched it. No one cared.

@VViatro

Жыл бұрын

It's 2022 he had to come up with 22 solutions to problems. Desn't matter that half of those are made up problems like baseball paraphilia. I guess when we have nuclear conflict on hands next year in Europe at least we might be consoled by the fact that US women's team got their cut of money and baseball memorabilia are fairly traded.

@wesleymatthews6356

Жыл бұрын

The women choose a contract structure that provided security until it was clear that if they choose one that rewarded performance they would make more.

@jaeger1123

Жыл бұрын

@@wesleymatthews6356 and then they ended up asking for the benefits of the performance one without giving up any of the benefits of the security one

8:07 Was a legal tragedy not something positive. I'm not a neckbeard anti-feminist or anything, but there was nothing unfair about their contract. They essentially had 2 options when they decided on their current contract: Get a % cut of the teams financial earnings or get a steady salary with benefits. The men were offered the exact same deal. The women chose the set salary and benefits, the men chose the % of financial earnings. Again, both teams were offered the exact same terms, and that's why the court sided the way they did. FIFA also pays the men more for participating and winning, but that is also because they receive more revenue from the men's games. Something the US Soccer authorities have absolutely no control over. Once the USWNT started winning they wanted to reneg on their original contract because they saw they gambled and lost. Instead of waiting for the next contract negotiation where they COULD have gotten the exact same terms as the men but they cried, sued, and threw up a media shit storm. Unfortunately it worked.

@funveeable

Жыл бұрын

Women's sports is a waste of time and energy when you look at how much people actually watch women's sports.

@M33f3r

Жыл бұрын

@@funveeable The best women soccer players in the world got beat by a random group of 15 year old boys.

@LebronCCP

Жыл бұрын

This was a major victory for women’s rights. Hoping WNBA players will have equal pay very soon 🙏 🙏

@MarcusH...

Жыл бұрын

@@LebronCCP NBA already subsidizes the WNBA. WNBA wouldn't even exist if they didn't get money from the NBA. NBA already pays for WNBAs existence, why should they have to give away half their money to the women on top of that? WNBA should be happy for what they get for free instead of trying to demand more. Women should go watch more womens sport if they want them to earn more money instead of trying to steal from men while claiming EqUaLiTy

@paytonbiddle6578

Жыл бұрын

I hope this comment gains visibility. There are several interesting details that don't fit the narrative being pushed. From 2010-2018 the women’s teams averaged $172,222 in earnings per game and the men’s teams averaged $173,684 per game. This doesn't include benefits, such as Healthcare, that the women receive but the men don't.

Fusion isn't really waste-free... the neutrons it throws off activate the chamber materials and make them just as radioactive as the low-level waste that comes out of a fission reactor. The amount of high-level waste a fission plant creates is extremely small and its entire lifetime of waste can be safely and permanently stored on-site. So while I'm happy about the steps toward fusion power, the advantage is not in its lack of waste, but in the reduced environmental damage of obtaining its fuel supply compared to uranium mining and processing.

@leandersearle5094

Жыл бұрын

Finally someone who's explained fusion's nuclear waste. All I've heard before this was vague and sounded like the same misunderstanding that's hindering the adoption of nuclear in general (a la "glowing green goop"). Thank you for actually explaining it.

@GreenIsTheWayForward

Жыл бұрын

High-level waste from fission plants is a huge detractor. We haven't found a way to reliably store it yet, as no place on Earth can be said to be safe for the hundreds of thousands of years it can take some fission waste to lose its radioactive properties; not even in the short term as we have things like intraplate earthquakes. This is less of a problem with fusion power, the waste of which is less intensely radioactive and takes about 500 years to fully lose its radiotoxicity. Still not ideal, but much better. Another advantage is no potential meltdowns for fusion plants. That's a huge one, and the reason that many nations don't want fission plants. In the nation where I live, the Netherlands, a meltdown like Chernobyl would make most of the country uninhabitable for centuries. The nation would basically cease to exist. That's a risk we just cannot take, and most nations cannot do it either. The Fukushima disaster has shown that when bad things conspire, fission power plants are still not as safe as they should be.

@SubtleHawk

Жыл бұрын

Aneutronic fusion is a thing.

@ineffecient8243

Жыл бұрын

The "Waste" product is tritium which is recaptured and used as fuel

@georgeloeppky7921

Жыл бұрын

This is only with the traditional way of doing Nuclear fusion. Real engineering did a great video on a new method that uses the kicked out electrons in a magnetic field to create electricity. This means we are not kicking of neutrons creating more radioactive material.

We love you Sam. Thanks for helping us end every year on a positive note. And thank you for being that guy who asks the random yet critical people we’ve always wanted to talk to the questions we’ve always wanted to ask them.

Please, more videos like that. It really lightens the mood and lets us see that humanity is not lost.

"The average 2 stroke engine rickshaw emits the same amount of soot as 10 Jeeps" which implies either that the 2 stroke engine is burning through gas much faster than a jeep (which makes little sense), or that jeeps are just very good as eliminating soot.

Bro talked about the klammath river. I live on the klammath and I was so excited to hear about it

@maverick9708

Жыл бұрын

how fishy

Thanks to Wendover Productions for another high effort video to finish the year! We appreciate the amount of hard work it took to find 22 problems that were solved this year

@marlonwen4549

Жыл бұрын

@@user-nn5sh1yl6z n

i really needed this today. thank you sam

Thank you for this video.. makes us all feel better about this year :)

Yay love this attitude , thanks for the video!

In my opinion, the remedy to weather this recession and high inflation is short-term trading, as opposed to long-term, most folks using these techniques are netting a ton of gains, sure the risks are higher but yet again isn't the current market equally as risky?

@Natalieneptune469

Жыл бұрын

You have to get a financial-advisor/broker to aid you diversify your portfolios to include commodities, inflation-indexed bonds and stocks of companies with solid cash flows, as opposed to growth stocks where valuations were based on future potential earnings.

@Robertgriffinne

Жыл бұрын

Having an investment adviser is the best way to go about the market right now, especially for near retirees, I've been in touch with a coach for awhile now mostly cause I lack the depth knowledge and mental fortitude to deal with these recurring market conditions, I nettd over $220K during this dip, that made it clear there's more to the market that we avg joes don't know.

@PhilipMurray251

Жыл бұрын

@@Robertgriffinne that's impressive!, I could really use the expertise of this advisors , my portfolio has been down bad....who’s the person guiding you?

@Robertgriffinne

Жыл бұрын

@@PhilipMurray251 Credits to Corinne Cecilia Heaney, one of the best portfolio managers out there. she's well known, you should look her up.

@PhilipMurray251

Жыл бұрын

@@Robertgriffinne I curiously looked Corinne Cecilia Heaney online and researched her accreditation. She seem very proficient, I wrote her detailing my Fin-market goals

Thank you for bringing a bit of positivity and keep up the good work!

Glad to hear some positivity! One note: it is debatable whether the US women’s soccer team item deserves consideration in this list. Long story short, there’s a reason why the judge threw their case out. They were actually paid more than the men, yet still sued for supposed gender pay discrimination. Either way, great video!

@nuddin99

Жыл бұрын

Yeah this is what I have a problem with. They are less watched than men’s soccer yet get paid more. It’s not about how good a team is. It’s how much income they generate.

@PastPositive

Жыл бұрын

@@nuddin99nobody in the US watches either soccer team lmao, I didn’t even know we had a team until this year.

@grantcapel9884

Жыл бұрын

exactly. They get paid for viewership/popularity... How is it the mens' fault if people prefer them?

@gilwaa

Жыл бұрын

@@nuddin99 neither team (used to be) paid based on viewership actually, but on one of two collective bargaining agreements both teams had the option of choosing. The women chose more benefits with lower win bonuses, while the men chose fewer benefits with higher win bonuses. Skipping over a bunch of details, the women saw that the men had higher bonuses and got mad, even though the women chose their contract and made more in total compensation than the men.

@theBEATdude

Жыл бұрын

From what I remember of trudging through the weeds of this debacle was that the Women's team initially agreed to a more stable rate of pay that was much less dependent on performance (wins/losses) and had better benefits. After winning the world cup, or whatever big cup i don't remember, they retroactively wanted to change their choice and used gender discrimination as a sword to garner public attention and outcry. I did, and always do my best to diversify my sources, and even legal expertise channels seemed pretty unimpressed with the situation, and essentially it all boiled down them using gender wage gap as a cover for trying to get a retroactively more favorable deal, which imo is scummy, as the male team did nothing wrong and neither did the soccer orgs, but as detailed in the video were still extremely open to listen and compromise. The women's team even rejected the plan that the men had when offered, so sexism should just be removed from the context of the situation. There's plenty of situations where gender discrimination is a serious issue, and this situation devalued all of them.

ahh yes, the indomitable human spirit laughing in the face of negativity and reaching further beyond, I truly am mesmerized

I’d love a video exploring how they will demolish those dams and what’s all expected

@pandemicphilly60

Жыл бұрын

@@chemicalfrankie1030 Hydroelectric isn't that important

@leandersearle5094

Жыл бұрын

@@pandemicphilly60 Except that it's California, and if that power was going to the state grid (very likely), you and I having this conversation is contributing to brown/blackouts across the state. Every plant is a part of the puzzle, every subtraction of generation must be offset with an addition, because a brownout doesn't just turn off high-end PCs and TVs, it turns off lights and refrigeration: medicines can spoil, and traffic accidents will increase. This decision has a cost, and not one California likely cared to avert.

@gabrieldsouza6541

Жыл бұрын

@@leandersearle5094 but hey, some salmon that there isn't a shortage of in the West will benefit, so there's that

@leandersearle5094

Жыл бұрын

@@gabrieldsouza6541 I can't tell if you're joking or not.

@gabrieldsouza6541

Жыл бұрын

@@leandersearle5094 i don't give a shit about salmon. i do, however, like electricity.

Who wins: an uncaring asteroid vs the human spirit?

@kenos911

Жыл бұрын

Throw a few trillion dollars at it and you might not lose

@MrAledro84

Жыл бұрын

As of today, Dec 29 2022, I root for the asteroid. Then I will probably change my mind. Or maybe not.

@Emp31

Жыл бұрын

As of today, Dec 30 2022, I also root for the asteroid

@AliceTheSpider

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@@kenos911 trillion? NASA's or any space programs budget barely reaches billions sometimes people just like to complain about scientific progress wasting money while things like millitary and corporations throw away 100 to 1000 folds of that money to nothing NASA's entire budget in total for everything not just this recently just reached 20 Billion and that's nothing compared to any other Goverment branchs for US Nasa being less than 0.5% Elon Musk bought Twitter for 44 Billion that's more than double to buy Twitter

@AliceTheSpider

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@@kenos911 Also money would be pretty meaningless if this was an actual astroid that heading to earth at that point. Like what's money without human civilization existing