Truly delightful
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I always liked how religious studies overlaps philosophy and mythology. Whether someone is religious or not, there’s been an awful lot of thinking about ethics, morality, and thinking, that may be generally interesting. Also, seeing trends and commonality across mythologies, seeking understanding across mythologies may apply regardless whether you’re religious
Oh very true, I forgot about it. It's definitely very related to philosophy & mythology a lot. I personally never been so interested with that aspect hence I forgot. But it does pique my interest quite often enough when watching such videos. I often noticed even much later religious communities developed their philosophy based on more ancient philosophy foundation, which neoplatonism is one of such idea that I hear a lot. And so about how a lot of abrahamic religion are adopting/build their system based on or against various ancient mesopotamian myths, culture, and systems.
But I personally have been more interested to the history & evolvement aspect of things, like how the Bible differs in various times in different locations. How early Christian & Muslim had their sort of "figuring out" eras during their early times respectively. Or how does Judaism evolved from Canaanite theology, from a pantheon to henotheism, to eventually become monotheism.
This also overlaps to linguistic as well sometimes, used for example to describe various Indo-European gods appear in various culture are related linguistically. Although, I don't really follow any linguistic channels since they really are (well, obviously) about linguistic, not religious studies or history focused.
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People in this thread who dislike CGP Grey because of one bad traffic video.
Doesn’t he also have a video that’s throating the idea of the British monarchy cuz the tourism?
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Kurzgesagt is cancer
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I use YT daily, heavily.
It’s pretty well known that their feed is optimized for engagement above all else. They will show you videos they think you’ll like and NOT show you a new video from a channel you’re subscribed to.
It’s called an “algorithm.”
It’s so extreme at times that you can even not know that you’re subscribed to a channel, because you never see them.
This is what I mean by not respecting subscriptions. There’s no stronger explicit signal
I can give YT when I want to see more of a creator. But they ignore that and decide for me what I’ll like.You can turn it off you know. I've been using YouTube like that for a while and have had no issues with missing videos from subscribed channels.
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You mean company as in guests or are you the designated baker at your firm?
Nah yeah guests, reading that post again it was like I am an aneurysm
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I want to add NighthawkInLight and Thought Emporium.
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You forgot Technology Connections
Bro I love learning about latent heat of vaporization
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I use YT daily, heavily.
It’s pretty well known that their feed is optimized for engagement above all else. They will show you videos they think you’ll like and NOT show you a new video from a channel you’re subscribed to.
It’s called an “algorithm.”
It’s so extreme at times that you can even not know that you’re subscribed to a channel, because you never see them.
This is what I mean by not respecting subscriptions. There’s no stronger explicit signal
I can give YT when I want to see more of a creator. But they ignore that and decide for me what I’ll like.Isn’t that what the "subscriptions" tab is for?
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I stopped watching kurzgesagt after their copium video on global warming where we all hold hands and sing and magically reverse it.
Here's an existential threat to humanity, and the various ways that it's worse than you think. But don't worry! Capitalism will save the day by inventing solutions to our problems which won't necessitate any restructuring of our society or economy!
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Didn't he also make a video at some point heavily implying he believes in creationism?
The end of ever video includes the name of a bible verse, Destin is not exactly hiding the fact that he's christian lol
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That's fair.
But it's not mainly his views that put me of (just kinda) it's the paid and unpaid sponsorships with the military. It's so obviously a recruitment strategy that it's painful to watch.
I don't live in the USA either.
He lives in Huntsville, Alabama. 95% of his neighbors are defense contractors. It isn't sponsorships, it's "this guy lives 40 feet away from me and does something interesting for a living"
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Sam O'Nella, the most chaotic of the four no doubt
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University course lectures are still the best and you can find tons of them in YouTube in their entirety.
Anything by Robert Sapolsky ftw! Really enjoy his delivery style.
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Shout out to PBS Space Time
For physics enthusiasts, I'd also suggest "floatheadphysics" for his depictions and sometimes cathartic presentation style. I love how he broke down special relativity in an easily understood way.
Then I've also really been enjoying "For The Love of Physics" for his style of showing some of the math. His style is more of a classroom presentation, but in a way that reminds me of my most effective professors that made their lessons as easy to consume as mac and cheese.
I'm inclined to hit some online courses someday, too, but, for now, these have been great for conceptual stuff and my curiosity vs. time balance.
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He lives in Huntsville, Alabama. 95% of his neighbors are defense contractors. It isn't sponsorships, it's "this guy lives 40 feet away from me and does something interesting for a living"
The description in multiple of the videos advertises navy or airforce recruitment.
And in the non paid videos, why do you think he was given access, time, and permission to post the videos?
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I miss Mike Rugnetta's PBS Idea Channel so much, and it absolutely would have belonged on this list, imo.
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+3blue1brown, if you need more pain.
What is pain with nice-looking graphics tho
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I'd add 3blue1brown (3b1b) to that mix! Also xkcd's What If, Minute Physics, and maybe VSauce
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The description in multiple of the videos advertises navy or airforce recruitment.
And in the non paid videos, why do you think he was given access, time, and permission to post the videos?
For recruitment obviously.Not exactly a new tactic. Same thing for Top Gun and probably a bunch of other movies. Part recruitment, part public relations to improve their image.
But the military does have some neat tech that most people won't ever see. Like his series in the submarine, there was a lot of really cool.
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Not exactly a new tactic. Same thing for Top Gun and probably a bunch of other movies. Part recruitment, part public relations to improve their image.
But the military does have some neat tech that most people won't ever see. Like his series in the submarine, there was a lot of really cool.
Absolutely and that puts me off. Especially when they push out multiple ads across multiple youtubers at roughly the same time, like they did at one time with smartereveryday
