Oh, hello! The awesome socks club is LIVE now ONLY FOR A FEW DAYS. Get awesome socks that also make the world more awesome, because 100% of the profits go to support efforts to reduce maternal and child mortality in impoverished communities. awesomesocks.club -John

@Rufflesandrage

2 жыл бұрын

I was super excited to be part of year 1 of awesome sock club, but i really dislike ankle socks and am hoping you will be able to offer knee-high versions one day!

I just said to myself, aloud, "HANK? ON A TUESDAY??" So, you know, this week is clearly going well for me.

@IrisGlowingBlue

2 жыл бұрын

Solidarity

@DontRobMe13

2 жыл бұрын

You must have had a loooong tuesday - i feel sorry for you

@Darkwiccawillow

2 жыл бұрын

I can’t tell if you thought its already Tuesday or still Tuesday…

@Roll587

2 жыл бұрын

@@Darkwiccawillow Both?

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

2 жыл бұрын

I've had a lot of Tuesdays just like that.

"A problem created by a solution" "wanting tools with no blood on them" are phrases that are gonna stick in my head forever

@jsos9434

2 жыл бұрын

Solveblems? Problutions? I like both, but choosing one will inevitably create a solvoblem

@ArtamisBot

2 жыл бұрын

This...

@Raya-xw5ud

2 жыл бұрын

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@IrisGlowingBlue

2 жыл бұрын

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@risxra

2 жыл бұрын

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orin has exclelent taste in cat names, he'll go far in the cat naming industry.

@witmoreluke

2 жыл бұрын

He didn't get it from his dad! Well, he actually had some slammin' names up until Manhole, but we always focus on the mistakes.

@TheRGBlind

2 жыл бұрын

@@witmoreluke Eh, I think Guburgur (or guburker or whatever he's saying) is better than Gummybear, since gummy bear is already a name for something else.

@AxxLAfriku

2 жыл бұрын

Why is Donald Trump pretty and I am not? But why does he only have a wife but I have TWO HANDSOME GIRLFRIENDS who I show off in my masterpiece YT videos? Do you know the answer, dear p3

@seanrshivers

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheRGBlind nah. best cat names are the names of food. i''m partial to tuna and sushi. Gaburker is good too tho.

@Rosalie_Jansen

2 жыл бұрын

@@seanrshivers Tuna is good, but I feel like Sushi is too broad - how about Maki? Gunkan? Sashimi? Edamame? Tempura? The possibilities are endless. Also Gaburker is the best cat name of all time.

Considering the centrality of agriculture (and the rodent problem the solution that is agriculture created) to the domestication of cats, I think that a cat name is a perfectly relevant ending to this video. We solved the rodent problem by taming African wildcats, and several thousand years later, Orin has solved the problem of what to name its teeny adorable descendant.

@vlogbrothers

2 жыл бұрын

Boom...linked!

@lyreparadox

2 жыл бұрын

Cats: definitely *not* a tool with no blood on it... 🐦🐁😸

@asingleshot7

2 жыл бұрын

@@lyreparadox Our mini murder machines are somehow still adorable while bloody.

@Mach1048

2 жыл бұрын

Did we though? My understanding was that Cats just sort of came to where we were for the Rodents (Their food), and that it was less of a Domestication thing and more of a Co-Habitation thing.

@cbecht

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mach1048 Accidental domestication. Just like false flax.

When you said that agriculture solved "the biggest problem a human can have," I assumed you were going to follow up with "I don't want to starve," but then you said "I don't want to watch my child starve" and I realized I am young and know nothing.

@tegan6554

2 жыл бұрын

same

@CarrotConsumer

2 жыл бұрын

You can't have children if you starve.

@Noah-yj9uu

2 жыл бұрын

you perfectly put into words what i felt in that moment.

@yourbellboy

2 жыл бұрын

same

@fernandossmm

2 жыл бұрын

Animals that sacrifice themselves to give a better chance to their descendants are not unheard of. As a thing with genetic code, your overall goal is to extend that code, not just preserve it. Having your child(ren) starve is a worse evolutionary option than starving yourself

"Solving problems creates new problems." That’s motivational to me, because I often get in the mindset of "oh no there are mistakes, I mustve made the wrong choice" but that is NOT the case, that's just life

@littlestbroccoli

2 жыл бұрын

It also means we'll always have problems no matter what we do to try to make things "a little bit better than before", which is KINDA maddening, but 🤷‍♀️ I didn't design Earth I guess

@rafaelah1492

2 жыл бұрын

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@javi7636

2 жыл бұрын

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@RainaRamsay

2 жыл бұрын

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"The human experience is varied and we celebrate that." So is that just like the tagline for this channel now or.......

@Katelyn3666

2 жыл бұрын

The very definition of living complexly.

@cubeofcheese5574

2 жыл бұрын

I think that IS vlogbrothers

@Narnendil

2 жыл бұрын

+++

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

2 жыл бұрын

That's the tagline for everything.

@ThatllShowEm

2 жыл бұрын

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I was really confused by the title right up until Hank dropped the line and suddenly it not only made sense, it became food for thought. And then KITTY!! This kind of video is (one of the reasons) why we love Vlogbrothers.

"A tool with no blood on it." This reminded me of a moment from the Ghibli film The Wind Rises, during a dream sequence Jiro Horikoshi talks with Giovanni Caproni about wanting to build beautiful airplanes but that they both know their creations are "destined to become tools for slaughter" Caproni then asks Jiro a crucial question, "Do you want a world with pyramids or without?" Caproni chooses pyramids knowing the many people who died to make them, to him the act of creation is worth the price. There has never been a tool that doesn't have blood on it either from it's moment of creation or from the misuse of the tool down the line. I have no idea why I'm writing this.

@NAJALU

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for writing this down :)

@cbpd89

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you wrote it! One of the Wright brothers lived long enough to see the devastation of aerial bombardment in war. Though I can't quote him directly, he never anticipated their work on flight to lead to that. Of course he didn't love being linked to that level of destruction, but he did not regret the work he and his brother did and still felt they had done more good that harm. I think that's the most we can hope for really. We can't do no harm, but maybe we can do slightly less harm, or different harm, and bring a little more good into the world than the bad

@AaronDanarajF

2 жыл бұрын

Well because of this extremely well written comment, you're officially the reason I'm going to finally go watch The Wind Rises. So I thank you for that 😅

This was the right amount of everything for a Friday

Honestly the false flax thing just makes me in awe of just how much nature desperately resists monoculture and how many problems we create trying to insist on it.

@emzz987

2 жыл бұрын

Permaculture (or other forms of regenerative agriculture) are where we need to head for sure!

@DrZedDrZedDrZed

2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't call it desperation. I'd call it inevitability. Takes the human sentiment of fear out of it, and somehow makes natural selection feel all the more unyielding. Nature doesn't abhor a vacuum. Nature abhors disequilibrium. There's a difference. There's this amazing view of energy from author Terrence Deacon that turns just about everything you've learned in High School physics class on its head: "any differences that tend to eliminate themselves can said to be be a source of energy". This was pulled from a section on the second law, but the evolution of false flax into a field of monoculture feels just as apt a description of energy and entropy as the mixing of a spot of milk into tea.

“Global warming is not a problem that was created by evil.” - Hank 2021 “Crime is not actually caused by evil.” - John 2015 👏 clap 👏 clap 👏 - Schmoyoho

@carlos_hb

2 жыл бұрын

Global warming is just a rich guy with an affinity for bats, who's playing out his insane fantasy

@annakeet

2 жыл бұрын

We are not the heroes earth needs. (Earth needs!) ...but the heroes earth just happened to get.

@Elspm

2 жыл бұрын

Does global warming understand how difficult it is for an underfunded world like earth to replace roads and bridges?

@clairezalla

2 жыл бұрын

You got-- Batman-- entirely wrong

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

2 жыл бұрын

[four dancing Hanks]

Honestly hearing that story about the flax seeds I cheered for the false flax for evolving to beat us.

@hughcaldwell1034

2 жыл бұрын

I'm just waiting for it to become such a good mimic that it's actually something we want to farm, not get rid of, thus securing its genetic legacy.

@KalebPeters99

2 жыл бұрын

@@hughcaldwell1034 Yes! False flax redemption arc! 😄

@weirdlyweirdwebber

2 жыл бұрын

Well apprently it is used to make oils and food as well.. so it did kind of find its use for humans

@cloud_appreciation_society

2 жыл бұрын

@@hughcaldwell1034 This was my first thought!

@Dragrath1

2 жыл бұрын

@@hughcaldwell1034 Apparently like @WeirdlyWeirdWebber said we already do this though I'm not sure the use has any connection to its mimicry of flax, I was used as a source of oil in particular it is rich in omega 3 fatty acids. Also it apparently has an almond like flavor and is rich in antioxidants which make it resistant to going rancid. Really since it is edible I'm not sure why they were so picky with trying to get rid of it... it sounds like it might be a improvement, at least for food or oil based applications of flax. I would guess it might be something related to using it for linens maybe? Does anyone know more about this?

“The human experience is varied and we celebrate that” might be one of my new favorite Vlogbrothers quotes

@rebekahosgoodadventures7435

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed!!

@EarlGreyCrochet

2 жыл бұрын

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@agerardi125

2 жыл бұрын

I want it on a t shirt!

@TheRGBlind

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed - He ended on that and I just sat with it rather than clicking to the next vid. Then came here to comment on it. Not often a short sentence that's kinda an afterthought catches like that.

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

2 жыл бұрын

Hank doesn't get nearly as many profound quotes as John, but when he does it's wonderful.

The best vavilovian mimicry is rye. It evolved to look like wheat, and it did so well at that you can actually bake with it.

@emilysmith2965

Жыл бұрын

Younger sibling energy

I think Geberker[sp?] would be a great name for a Viking. Then he could be Geberker the Berserker.

@dominictemple

2 жыл бұрын

Dude, that actually made me snort in laughter. Nicely done 👍

@DiamondDogVenomSnake1984

2 жыл бұрын

oh now this one made me giggle

@dominictemple

2 жыл бұрын

@@DiamondDogVenomSnake1984 I’m more of a snorter than a giggler but I know exactly what you mean

@kay8010

2 жыл бұрын

I think I found my next D&D character

@tegan6554

2 жыл бұрын

+++++++++

I like the idea that farmers try to play reverse Pokemon, doing what they can to *prevent* evolution, since it makes everything harder when weeds evolve like this

@Hannah_Em

2 жыл бұрын

In the distance, a farmer frantically mashes "B" on a weed

@MarkThePage

2 жыл бұрын

I have done everything in my power to prevent Rowlet from evolving.

@Raya-xw5ud

2 жыл бұрын

Gotta get those farmers some Everstones for their weeds lol

@OhMyGoshItsALeg

2 жыл бұрын

@@Raya-xw5ud That's just how you accidentally select for a weed that evolves with an Everstone

@tomrogue13

2 жыл бұрын

I mean Bellsprout is a stupid weed

I'll always love the way these brothers can take a fun and weird idea that grabs our attention and then turns it into a meaningful lesson.

"Solving problems creates problems." I'm going to use this line in a story one day.

@crcons

2 жыл бұрын

I'm going to use it daily, with my clients, while they complain about the bugs in the software

I absolutely love this perspective, imperfect solutions are how humans have got to where we are and in a society full of perfectionists (myself included) we need to accept that as much as we may struggle to

Every so often a vlogbros video just hits. I've been a part of this community since 2008 when my class read An Abundance of Katherines and I have always loved the way this community thinks. We strive to understand how we exist and move as humans and as individuals in our personal and global presents and futures.

Still doesn't hurt to try to use tools with less blood on them than others & to reduce the amount of blood any tool is capable of spilling! I get the assertion, just hope it's taken in context instead of like "nothing is perfect therefore everything is equally imperfect and I can do whatever I want"

@hughcaldwell1034

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it really frustrates me when people try to argue for fossil fuels by playing "but what about the problems with the alternatives?" and when you point out that those problems are not nearly as bad or hard to mitigate in most cases, they just resort to "Well, no matter what you do, there'll be negative consequences. Better the devil I know, thanks." Which is just lazy thinking, and pretty disingenuous.

@starscream319

2 жыл бұрын

@@hughcaldwell1034 I had that happening to me after I bought my electric car (which I love and I highly recommend to anyone who can get one). "BuT wHeRe Do YoU tHiNk ThE eLeCtRiCiTy CoMeS fRoM tHaT's RiGhT fOsSiL fUeLs" which I mean, yeah, but it's still better than gasoline emissions. And also a solution to that problem exists! It's why I advocate for alternative energy sources!

@IrisGlowingBlue

2 жыл бұрын

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@AngadSingh-bv7vn

2 жыл бұрын

@@starscream319 my dad said the exact same shortsighted thing to me once (not that I can buy an electric car) we were just discussing climate change

@NAJALU

2 жыл бұрын

I took it as "If all tools have blood on them then the ONLY important distinction is which one have less current and will accumulate less over time." I agree the stance you outlined is radically unhelpful

While I agree it might be impossible to find a tool with not blood on it, I hate that enough people take this to mean: "Well, if the tool is or gets bloody anyway, what do I care if I use it already to draw blood as long as the tool works for ME?" To keep with the coal and oil: We know for decades what it does. We've sworn to reduce usage and yet we subsidize and dig for more, even if our experts say: "No! No more, we don't even need that stuff, we have alternatives!" And yes, I classify greed in this case as evil. Because it's upheld with intentional blood on our tools.

"A tool with no blood on it" is exactly the right phrase for the situation. Thank you for introducing me to language to help describe my dilemma

Gummy bear is the perfect cat name.

After seeing some upsetting things on the internet just now... Yet again. I came over here and saw this just at the right time.

I wanted to see a comparison between the real flax and the imposter flax.

I just want to address and bring to everyone's attention that there's apparently a nasty rumor going around, laughably claiming that when Hank refers to "John", he's talking about his "brother", whose name is also conveniently "John" too, I guess? This is patently false, he's clearly talking to me. So, please do not fall victim or contribute to the vast conspiracy currently infecting the Tube of You at an alarming rate. That is all. I really appreciate these conversations, Hank. I'll see you Tuesday.

@iwontliveinfear

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry. I have "accidently" propagated this myth.

@Up10tionslay

2 жыл бұрын

John vs John: a fight to decide who is the only true John

@AccidentalNinja

2 жыл бұрын

I suppose I'm fortunate to never have this problem.

@ajchapeliere

2 жыл бұрын

@@Up10tionslay my sister knows so many guys named Sam that they had a tournament to decide who the one, true Sam was. I support these meme tournaments fully!

@itisdevonly

2 жыл бұрын

@@ajchapeliere reminds me of that Josh party that happened, basically like that.

Not very revelatory for the vlogbrothers regular audience, but what I appreciate the most from you two are how you present a concept and learn any number of things from it that you learned that are not necessarily directly related to it. John's Ted talk on Paper Towns (the concept of, not specifically the story of the book) is an incredible perspective on learning how to learn that I wish I had when I was in middle school or high school. This idea is something I wish the adaptations of his stories emphasized more rather than just the teen drama element.

You'd swear that the false flax was consciously making the choice to mimic true flax. Sounds like a false flax operation #dadjoke

Gummy bear is perfect. As the famous New York Bodega cat evaluator once said "That's a great cat right there".

@tegan6554

2 жыл бұрын

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I think it's important to remember this when we look at political solutions for our problems. A lot of solutions are dismissed or discredited because they'll inevitably cause problems down the line. It becomes an excuse to keep from solving the problem, especially from people who benefit from the current problem. I also think we need to forgive our ancestors for choosing solutions that led to our problems, so long as they were genuinely trying to solve their own.

I was feeling very thoughtful after the video but now all I can think about is how Gummy Bear is a great name

We adopted this tiny kitten. My kids named it Skittles. Had it for about a month when out of nowhere, our dog developed a sweet tooth. Rip Skittles.

The question is, have those false flax plants evolved to be similar enough to flax that they can be used as if it was flax?

@vlogbrothers

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! It is grown as an oil seed crop in Europe! But they still can't be mixed with flax or the product becomes hard to process and sell.

@kirstenpaulson4112

2 жыл бұрын

This is going to eventually lead to false False Flax, isn’t it? Endless solutions and endless problems.

@urvashibalasubramaniam6785

2 жыл бұрын

++++

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

2 жыл бұрын

I guess things end up working out.

@climbtreez

2 жыл бұрын

Additionally, rye was a vavilovian mimic to wheat that got so good we started eating it too :)

I always think back to the old Night Vale quote "Are we living a life that is safe from harm? Of course not. We never are. But that’s not the right question. The question is are we living a life that is worth the harm?" Life sometimes looks like an endless flow of trolley problems where we're not always allowed to see who's tied to the tracks until we've made our choices, and we just have to do our best with that

My mom actually works on creating different kinds of peppers through artificial selection and it's absolutely fascinating but also really cool to literally be able to buy the pepper she put so much work into!

@osmia

2 жыл бұрын

Give a pepper name that she helped in the selection of and I'll look for it in the grocery store :-)

@maritdukker

2 жыл бұрын

@@osmia Well, I live in the Netherlands, so I don't know if you'll be able to get it where you live, but the most common one she selected is probably the Sweet Palermo, which is available in most grocery stores here.

@osmia

2 жыл бұрын

@@maritdukker okay, thanks. I'll keep my eye out for it here in Canadian grocery stores :)

Possible nicknames for Gummybear include: Gummy, Gum Gum, Beary, Baebae, Gumdrop, Guburkr and Gums. An excellent name, this is!

This was just lovely. Thank you, Hank.

Gummy Bear is the most amazing cat name EVER! There are so many potential nicknames and shortened versions of that. I love Gummy Bear! He is SOOO cute and fluffy and looks like what I imagined my now-gone beloved Greystone might have looked like as a kitten!!!

“Artificial” just means “created intentionally by intelligence”.

@andrewmorrison7074

2 жыл бұрын

Ya... But he explained why he doesn't like the term, because we've done it accidently, alot. i.e. , not intentionally

@vlogbrothers

2 жыл бұрын

I worry that the average person learning about artificial selection doesn't think "human selection" they think "un-genuine selection." You're right that I wasn't clear with my thoughts on that though.

@ObjectsInMotion

2 жыл бұрын

@@vlogbrothers Since humans are natural, and the criteria which we use to select for things are no different than natural selections (mainly fitness), artificial selection is really just natural selection but with the self-importance that humans often give to things they do themselves!

@FairMiles

2 жыл бұрын

@@vlogbrothers Oh, another problem created by our solutions! With increasing control and quality of life/welfare state, at some point (some of) we stopped associating "natural" with bad things happening to us and "artifact/artificial" as its solution, and started turning the other way round (e.g., "going back to Nature"). It happens (it seems)

@lyreparadox

2 жыл бұрын

@@ObjectsInMotion But in the case of human selection we're (mostly) doing it intentionally, while *natural selection has no end goal in mind.* I think that's a difference worth keeping somewhere in the language.

It's people that make tools, and people to whom tools are useful, and people who bloody the tools they've made, and people who wish that their tools were clean. We all want back in to the Garden of Eden, but there never was such a place. All we can do, as Voltaire put it, is "tend our gardens," do the work as best we can, and try to reconcile that work with the impossibility of a perfect world.

For a moment when I saw the title I thought Orin named his cat “a tool with no blood on it”

@rawanthebookworm1536

2 жыл бұрын

That would have been iconic

Omg, I'm so happy I found your and your brothers channel! I started watching crash course videos when I got intrested in psychology last year and I'm watching the philosophy videos now. I really love your videos and they have taught me so much more than school and made me realize that learning doesn't have to be boring. I hope you read this comment and it will make you feel a little better, you're the best teacher I've ever had. Thank you for all the videos you made

Hank, you'll hopefully be delighted to know that an animal on the Wild Kratts shares a name with Gummy Bear: a tardigrade. - signed, one father of a kid Orin's age

My first thought was "well I sure hope so!"

False flax is the underdog I didn't know I rooted for.

@SpeakShibboleth

2 жыл бұрын

I want it to get so good at mimicking flax that it becomes as good as flax at being flax. Problem solved.

@rugvedkulkarni1593

2 жыл бұрын

@@SpeakShibboleth False flax becomes a better flax then flax and now farmers want to prevent flax from overtaking their flase flax fields.

@SpeakShibboleth

2 жыл бұрын

@@rugvedkulkarni1593 competitive artificial selection. The race to the flaxiest plant. I like it.

Hank you really lifted my mood this morning. Wonderful video. I learned something new and it impacted the way I view the world. Its why I love being a nerdfighter.

My grandfather was a wheat farmer. When we visited him at certain times of the year, we would go into the field to pull rye. Unfortunately, ~8 year old me couldn't tell the difference between the wheat and the rye. I pulled up quite a few wheat plants before my mom corrected me, at which point I just pretended to help, ha. Thanks for bringing that memory back to me.

This video is exactly why I’m so passionate about harm reduction strategies in healthcare. Things like Narcan and drug assisted therapies for addicted people cause some problems, yes, but they are also beautiful solutions.

Solving a problem creates more problems. As an engineer I completely agree with you. Rarely do we get the easy solution with no down sides. Anyone telling you their product will solve all your problems is probably lying.

I think that is a very good way of thinking about big problems and big solutions, without despairing at their sheer immensity. No matter what solution you're gonna come up with, it will cause some problems, but that's ok, so long as the new problems aren't worse than the old ones.

Good points, I've been self-destructing in search of tools with no blood on them in every facet of my life, but I'd like to call out one thing: While global warming wasn't INITIALLY created by evil, by the 70s oil executives figured out what was going to happen and ensured it would happen anyway, even though they could stop it, because this way they made more money. That is where it went from a 'problem of a solution' to a 'problem of evil'.

It really shouldn't matter to me and yet...I a delighted that you listen to the Ezra Klein show...1 of my favorite people found another one of my favorite people and that makes my heart happy.

I keep listening to you and John and I keep saying, "Yes, yes, yes!!" This time, it's the idea that solutions create their own problems and that life is messy and it would be great if we could accept that.

I am constantly amazed at the talent of Hank and John. This was so beautifully written and wonderfully executed. Also love the new cat’s name, especially the nickname

You’re amazing hank!!! Thank you :) this resonates with my own worldview, and it helps to calm my mind. Thank you 💙

I had never heard of vavilovian mimics before today. That's really cool about the rye and the oats that you told about in the description.

I’m so glad I saw this, I saw a photo of the cat on Facebook and was like WHAT DID ORIN CHOOSE? So I’m really happy to know the answer. Good job, Orin.

So glad y'all are still doing this after all these years.

The idea that there is probably not “a tool no blood on it” (what a great phrase) is something I only recently started to understand and it has been so valuable to me. Of course one should always try to cause no harm but knowing that even with the best intentions you cannot live your life without creating suffering had given me a lot of despair before.

Small increments, gradual improvement, selection and upgrades over time, adding layer after layer of paint onto the world's largest ball. That's how it's done

“Solving problems creates new problems.” That’s the core story arc present in the entire Avengers series.

Hank helps me feel inspired and hopeful, and John helps me feel valued and seen.

This is your best ever video Hank!

Creating a tool with no blood on it seems an almost pretentious goal. We humans are fallible. How are we supposed to create something perfect?

@David-qr5sq

2 жыл бұрын

Anything living is fallible and creation is an action done by something with agency, in other words living. To create, then, means to create something fallible. I don’t think the search for perfection is pretentious but instead natural. Oft do we desire that which cannot be obtained.

@cloud_appreciation_society

2 жыл бұрын

The goal isn't perfect systems. It's better systems. But it's hard to improve a system if you don't have some sort of goal to work towards. I feel like the act of imagining a perfect world has value as a way to combat complacency and the "well it's always been that way" excuse.

gummybear is such a great cat name

Man this is such a great way to look at this problem. amazing view, hank

Oh my glob! Gummy bear! 😻 So cute. One of my cats that has passed away a few years ago nickname was gummy bear. He had a couple of teeth and was so so cuddly. I hope your gummy bear is just as cuddly as mine was. 😊

The "I don't want to watch my child starve" problem is the king of problems, methinks. I couldn't think of a better descriptor or the quest to end hunger.

'I just want a tool without blood on it' - Serial Killer Hank, yet to discover water and dish soap.

@jessicasnow9007

2 жыл бұрын

There’s some real Lady Macbeth energy here

That is an amazing cat name! I also liked this video a lot. Very thoughtful and thought-provoking, as your videos usually are.

Computer: *1 Error Detected* Programmer: *(fixes error)* Computer: *128 Errors Detected*

Thank you Hank, I needed this today

Recently I've been stuck on a passage in John's video from May 27, 2011, more than 10 years ago, where he says "There's nothing quaint about living amid history, grappling with the gifts and insufficiencies of your ancestors." Apparently you have too, Hank.

Very good point very eloquently said.

Wow thank you! It's just one of those points that you need to able to see if we're getting things done on the world

Such a cute kitty!!

gummybear "gerburger" green is an excellent cat name

John himself said how life is nothing but a series of trade-offs. That has since done my head in because I see that throughout my whole life and I now worry about the good days, thinking about the trade-offs. As Morten Harket sung, "every perfect moment is a hidden warning".

From the corn breeding to focusing on the negative and realizing it comes out of good often or with good.... I just had this exact convo with my 11 year old a few hours before this upload. Guess it's collective thought (edited for spelling)

“A Tool With No Blood On it” is an A+ book name.

@jessicasnow9007

2 жыл бұрын

In your pants

@BaileyWhite

2 жыл бұрын

@@jessicasnow9007 😂. A throwback and high quality joke in one.

i thought this was gonna be a vid about rye and oats. i love that scishow tangents with vavilovian mimicry

This might be my favorite vlogbros video in a long time. Other videos arent bad, this one just feels exceptional

What you describe about false flax with mechanized agriculture is probably almost exactly what happened with traditional winnowing to create modern rye from a weed that used to grow in wheat fields in the mediterranean basin.

I have been feeling so helpless these past few days. I just got out of a bout of deep depression, and spent a lot of time thinking and cleaning up the messes that caused in terms of missed assignments and exams and all that. Now I'm back at the point where I can fix myself and do my work, or I can fall right back into that depression, and I feel like I'm peering right over the edge. Whenever it comes to better myself, I always resort to "self-help," planning, and trying to become the "perfect" version of myself overnight. Of course that's impossible, and we need to strive to just be better versions of ourselves today than we were yesterday. I know this, but when you applied this concept to the entire "human experiment," I felt so stupid and happy at the same time. Here I am trying to do something that not even us as a species on a whole can do. Together we can accomplish so much, but even then we can't be "perfect," and the thought of that is relaxing, because I don't need to try to be perfect. I just need to be better.

The reason problems arise from solutions is because in many cases we fail to recognize the systemic nature of the problems. Things are interconnected and interdependent and therefore you cannot just chose one problem and try to fix it on its own (you just end up getting different problems). Fritjof Capra's video called "The Heart of the Matter" really shifted by understanding of things and I'm currently taking his course called the Capra Course. Fantastic physicist, ecologist, and systems theorist talking about how we can tackle the many global problems we face by adopting a systemic perspective.

This is why I like the Awesome Coffee club. It feels as close to a tool with no blood on it as I've found this year.

Thank you for the update on your kitty's name. I absolutely love their name (and nickname)! I named my long-haired black kitty Gomez. He showed up last October and I wanted to give him a spooky but loveable name. I think it suits him well. ❤

I think one of the other issues (related to the problems that the internet has caused) is that people are misusing their understanding of science, or lack thereof, to claims scientific solutions are themselves problems. And, yes, that's obviously in part in reference to the whole vaccination kerfuffle we find ourselves in, but also in regards to things like biotechnology and bioremediation, two amazing solutions to agricultural problems and climate change problems. But both of which are also things that have been fearmongered about by anti-science groups across the political spectrum to claim that they are actually problems thanks to made up anti-science statements about them.

symbiosis, mimicry and co-evolution do not care about how abusive or exploitative or suspicious any relationship is, as long as if keeps working well enough.

I was definitely surprised by the way this message and title fit here. A problem caused BY a solution applies to a lot of other topics too. I really appreciate you sharing this

@johngreen1630

2 жыл бұрын

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This was your best video subject to date. So, of course it included a kitten.

Problems making more problems is a beautiful idea because a new problem calls for new solutions.

Beautifully encapsulated

I love the little fact about rye and oats in the doobly doo. Here's to more problems becoming resources instead. (Also, I would 100% buy a t-shirt with "The human experience is varied and we celebrate that" on it...)

This was a very John-esque video. I think we can see John's unending love for philosophy and poetry has seeped into Hank's side of the channel. All kidding aside, this might be one of the best videos on this channel ever. Educational, existential, and cat. We've peaked.

Orin made a great choice. Gummy bear is an incredibly cute name for an incredibly cute cat

Vavilov mention! I love to see it