not to detract from this extremely serious topic but my wireless headphones automatically turned off without me realizing and i clicked this video and for just a moment i thought it was just you making a chicken salad in complete silence for 3 minutes.
From now on, I will only watch videos of people's opinions if they are over a video of them making food. In all seriousness, you put a lot of my thoughts into words. Good video.
You're right, body autonomy should be a protected right. Don't let the government tell you that your choices aren't in accordance with the typical culture!
Thank you Vi, I’m turning 18 soon and have been keeping up with your videos since I was about 9. I didn’t understand what you were saying most of the time but I learned and I am so glad you’re with us on this.
Lol, me too. I remember watching a video called doodling in maths class or something like that as a kid, trying to draw it and then getting frustrated when i couldn't draw it XD
Turned 18 yesterday, also been watching since I was 9. The worst part about the Supreme Courts decisions lately? We have to live with it, and there's no way to fight it. I'm moving to Canada, as soon as I finish college.
i turned 18 a couple months ago! in the past few days ive been binging vi's videos and rewatching them now... im realizing so much of what was being said and feeling super relieved that i can kinda trust the kinda stuff vi posts haha
You know things are serious when Vihart gets involved… Anyways, I’m so glad you decided to speak on this subject and I 100% agree, it’s absolutely horrific!
While I agree with everything you've said, the true revelation for me in this video was that I can regrow green onions to use again - that had never occurred to me!
Maybe we should talk about literally just taking the pill instead of putting yourself through a (what should be traumatic) experience and putting another seemingly sentient little creature (who can EXPERIENCE SUFFERING) through death.
You can't force someone to give up an organ to save someone else's life, so why force then to give up their entire body? You can't even take organs from a dead person without consent. It's really a simple matter of bodily autonomy and yet so many people still don't get it
That's exactly it, but conservative politicians need a Big Scary Boogeyman ("they're killing literal babies!!") to scare their voters into supporting them, so they harp on it a lot and really really hope you don't notice the cognitive dissonance. (Source: I used to be exactly like that).
@@ZeljkoMikulec Actually, they Don't have To be Alive, so Long as They were Deceased only Recently. Car accidents Are great places For new Organs. Of course, fresh is always best. Dead bodies are also great for medical research as well. Hell, back in the good ol days, medical schools would hire people to dig up the corpses from graveyards, because no one wanted to donate bodies since the church said autopsies prevent you from going to heaven. I personally, Vocally, and Publicly stated that I was against the government forcing vaccinations as well.
@@ZeljkoMikulec to your first point, I genuinely doubt this as the NHS has a programme that allows you to become an organ donor after death, and I doubt that a healthcare service would do that if it was so useless. To your second point, I personally believe the difference is that there is never a harm to external people if you choose not to give birth. For example, businesses not letting you through the door without a vaccine are doing so because you may be carrying a disease harmful to others. If you choose not to get a vaccine, you accept that response. The issue is, your choice to have an abortion will never impact someone outside of yourself except (on an emotional level) a partner or family, and will never physically endanger someone. So there isn’t really a logic behind stopping someone from getting one in that sense. This is just my opinion and the logic I see behind it, feel free to disagree with me.
I like like to blanch celery if I put it into a salad to make it a bit softer. Otherwise I agree with everything and my heart goes out to everyone affected by this horrible and malicious decision.
I haven't heard that trick! I like to let the entire salad sit in the fridge overnight so the flavors can meld, and the celery softens in that process.
It's good that people across the internet are speaking out about this issue, and I'm hopeful that things can and will get better with concerted effort and time. However, coming from a 19 year old with generally conservative parents, how do I even begin to talk about this issue with them? How can I approach the problem and start discourse without instantly triggering their defense mechanisms? The divide growing between my beliefs and others' I care about is getting bigger and I have no clue how to even start to remedy it.
You're not alone in that difficulty, and maybe others have better advice than I. For me, for some folks I just need to accept that they are probably not going to change, and build my boundaries around that. I can be open and honest about my beliefs without trying to change theirs, and not base any aspect of our relationship on the hope that they will be convinced. It might not be the relationship I hoped to have with that person, but maybe it's the one that works.
For me, it's the fact that you can't force someone to donate an organ to save someone else's life--not even after they're dead. You couldn't force someone to serve as life support for another human being, even if that meant that other person would die. And yet that is essentially what pregnancy is--a mother serving as life support for the baby. In no other circumstance would that even be considered an option, to force someone to be life support for someone else, even family. Moreover, abortion is also the procedure to remove ectopic pregnancies as well as miscarriages; without access to it, mothers will die for a baby that would never have been able to be born. Third: when you criminalize abortion, every miscarriage is a potential crime scene. Mothers who are already morning their lost child could be investigated for malice or reckless behavior that could have led to the miscarriage, and be prosecuted for manslaughter or, as the law might be written, even murder. Lastly, Roe v. Wade was decided based on privacy--a personal health decision between you and your doctor. Not only will women and others not be able to be truthful about their medical history with their doctors, but it also sets a precedent that other medical decisions don't belong to the persons involved either, but rather to the government.
My advice from being dependent on my bitterly conservative father: Wait until you are no longer dependent on your parents (moved out, etc) before you try to say anything that you think might possibly be dangerous for you. That way if they get belligerent, you can just leave. They can't threaten to throw you out of the house, etc. Sometimes they'll admit you have a point. Sometimes they'll just get mad and angry and yell. But your first priority has to be keeping yourself safe. (And if you're not moved out and everything at 19, don't worry, just focus on the next step toward taking care of yourself.) In my case, after I moved out, my dad and I eventually had to establish a cease-fire - no talking about politics or religion when I visited. Our constant disagreements were getting nowhere, he was getting angrier and angrier, and yet I still wanted to talk to my mom. So if/when my dad tried to goad me into a contentious discussion or topic, I made it clear that I'd just leave. And I followed through on that (much to his rage). But more often than not, the cease-fire worked... in the sense that I didn't have to completely cut off contact with him. I never did change many of his conservative opinions. It's great that you want to try to have difficult discussions with your parents. People are more likely to change their minds when it's a loved-one talking to them. Talk about how it makes you feel. How it makes your friends feel. You will want to understand what your parents are scared of to understand where they're coming from (conservatives are often very afraid, which feeds into reactionist anger). Avoid labeling people or making value judgements about people (nobody appreciates being called a fascist or misogynist or bigot or the like). But no matter how civil and gentle you are, people will often feel "attacked" when you firmly disagree with them because the disagreement is what feels threatening to them - to their sense of the world. They're likely having to make a whole worldview change, a paradigm change, if they want to agree with you. It may take a long time and happen in small increments, or not at all. They might just stop saying things that you disagree with when you're around, but at least you've made your point that you disagree with them. The lists and the possibilities go on and on. But also have an idea of what your boundaries need to be. Yours may work differently from mine. At the end of the day, it's not Your Job To Convince Them. It's not even your job to Stick Around Hoping They'll Change. If they change, now or later/eventually, great! But sometimes the best thing you can do for yourself is emotionally distance yourself from people who are committed to angrily disagreeing with you. At whatever distance you can handle.
People's views on a subject can be generally classified as either "core" beliefs -- sometimes called axioms in reference to the term in formal logic -- or the results of combining core beliefs + facts + logic. The good thing about discussing an issue with people close to you like your parents is that they'll probably be patient enough to explain their views in detail, if you ask, such that you can figure out where exactly you disagree with them: on core beliefs, on facts, or on the logic used to turn those facts and axioms into a stance. If the issue is factual, telling somebody "your facts are wrong" is often a difficult matter which can trigger the "defense mechanisms" you mentioned; effective ways of correcting objectively incorrect beliefs will vary somewhat depending on the recipient. I'd usually suggest just demonstrating the differences between your respective information sources, explaining why the other person's isn't as trustworthy as yours in this situation, but then leaving him/her to do more research independently and picking up the conversation some time later. Of course, one of the most common defense mechanisms these days is "any source which disagrees with mine is partisan," but that should hopefully be possible to defeat by directly pointing out how that closed-mindedness is born of a fear of being proven wrong, which isn't an attitude that someone interested in the truth should have. If the issue's logical, that's generally the easiest to resolve between people who respect each other. If you start with the same facts and axioms but end up in different places, just retrace your steps and figure out where you or the other person went wrong logically. But, on an issue like this, disagreements are often axiomatic. And that's not really something you can always resolve. Sometimes people's core beliefs are just irreconcilably different. Arguments from emotion can sometimes work in that situation, but pretty much the only rational way you can attack an axiom is by proving that someone holds contradictory core beliefs, and that line of argument is the *most* likely of all to trigger those "defense mechanisms". All I can suggest in the event that you do find a contradiction to attack is to take it slowly; another advantage of discussing things with people close to you like your parents is that you don't have to finish the discussion in an hour or even in a week. Break down the walls bit by bit, frequently pausing to give the other person time to digest what you've said. Still, as Vi and pluspiping said, if it *is* an axiomatic divide, prepare for the possibility that you may never come to an agreement on the subject. I think it's worth a try if you care about the people in question, but don't force it if it's not happening. And always stay open-minded enough to consider the possibility that you're being just as hard to convince of the truth as the other person is, or that your information source is in fact the biased one. In this particular situation, I doubt that's the case based on what you've said, but discounting that option entirely is never healthy. It's far too easy to fall into the trap of thinking it's your job to "educate" others and to stop taking their viewpoints seriously as a result.
@@sungalaxia the difference between your life support scenario and pregnancy is this. In the life support instance, saving the person is the active action, and letting the person die is the passive action. It’s ok for someone to not decide to take actions to save someone else. After all, you can’t force them to. With pregnancy, however, letting the baby live is the passive action, and abortion is the active action. You have to make the direct decision to kill the baby. People can’t be allowed to make that decision. The wording “forcing people to act as life support for the baby” is a bit misleading.
I myself have always been pro choice even though I never terminated a pregnancy and I never wanted to. That was my choice. Who the heck am I to say what the next woman should do?
That 'next woman' is extremely rare if we really get to the stats and the medical teams usually do these abortions anyways behind curtains. No need for it to be made mainstream as what the pro-choice wants
This honestly reminds me of the time during pre-WW2 where Italy was basically in a pregnancy-incentive-mode to the point where it was almost mandated to secure yourself a decent spot in the post-war situation... except there are no incentives. During that time, abortion was not banned... but contraceptives were. Strange, how the country with the hardest pro-life beliefs under Catholicism was more tolerant to keeping abortion in play under the governance of Mussolini, one of the worst dictators, than our country of "progress and freedom".
@@smiffulon8246 the history of abortion is a pretty strange beast. It actually was preformed by doctors even in the 1700/1800s, and during the ban era in the US (mid 1800s to mid 1900s) it was still preformed by doctors (there was a major loophole in the bans, but it could only be triggered by the husband/father, not the woman.. namely you had to have a psych sign off saying she couldn't mentally handle it. pretty common in the south since honor trumps everything).
Love that you and Mama Doctor Jones distill it down to the same core point. It's a powerful one. Also, curry chicken salad is amazing on croissants. Also also, I am very concerned about those almonds burning before they join the salad!
What's the core point? That corporate sensational and seditious media had efficiently spun you all into hysterically frenzied and outraged children just as intended? Good point.
Thank you for this. Although it doesn't apply to me personally, it applies to people I care about very much, even ones I've never met. It's important for their safety, which is *extremely* important to me.
I really appreciate you taking the angle away from "abortion is wrong" and instead highlight "forcing someone to go through a 9 month pregnancy that may or may not harm them that they do not want is wrong". I am anti abortion but pro choice, as in, I DONT GET TO FUCKING DECIDE FOR ANYONE what to do with their body and the life THEY created and will have to care for or will put another into the 400,000+ number of children in foster care, THIS IS A HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE REGARDLESS OF IF ITS WRONG OR NOT TO GET AN ABORTION. You should not be able to be forced to be pregnant by the government for 9 months and then have to raise a child for at least 18 years; or put it up for adoption in an awful system that more often than not results in abuse, trauma, and NEGLECT for that childs entire period in the system and sometimes out of it.
We decide what people can and can't do with their bodies all the time... think about drug laws, euthanasia laws, even speed limits (how fast you can move in your car). The government never forces anyone to become pregnant, but the state is interested in protecting human life, once formed. I'm not sure why that interest would only kick in After the child is born, but not before. There's nothing fundamental about being outside of the womb v. being inside the womb when it comes to human life. I'm with you that we need a better foster system. But it's hard to argue that being dead would be better than being in a system that's not perfect.
I appreciate you talking about this even though it's not a normal topic for you. Every so often even tho you don't post much, I often find myself rewatching your videos because you make me so comfortable and safe here
I agree! People have absolutely no right to force anything upon someone. I feel like it would be so heart breaking to one day wake up to feeling so sick and rush to the washroom and like throw up and then take a test and find out that way , while the person who made this horrible situation and made you live it, has gone away fed from existing, and some people actually have dealt with this and that is actually heart breaking.
This is the first time I recall being sad on this channel. We are living in a truly a historic moment in US history. Our descendants will look back on us in shame. Assuming civilization last long enough and stays free enough for them to get the chance.
Vihart: "Abortion rights good" Me: "Basically yeah, nothing there that ought to be controversial" Vihart: *puts apples in chicken salad* Me: "What is this outrageous heathen nonsense!? Burn the witch!"
Thank you for sharing this. I find it horrifying that forced births exist when: - The government cannot force you to donate blood, let alone your internal organs, even if would save someone's life; - We respect the autonomy of corpses more than living women and other pregnant people, because if you do not consent to organ donation then the government cannot force you to donate your organs _even after you die_ but they can force a pregnancy to continue; - Even if this were a matter of "religious freedom" for fundamentalist Christians, religious Americans who practice other faiths are now having their religious practices criminalized as abortion is allowed by their religions; - Many on the Supreme Court swore under oath that they would respect Roe v Wade, displaying their deplorable ethics; - Abortion is the most effective treatment of many health conditions, as the removal of this right to healthcare will result in many deaths. ...I'm furious that America has removed such a fundamental human right. May the tides of justice swing back in your favor soon.
@@HappyG1lm0re I have two responses. First please tell me: If you were in a burning building and could either save the Life of a 4 year old living child, or a jar of 100 fertilized eggs, which would you pick? Would you let the child die burning and screaming? Or let the jar of water boil? If you save the child and let the 100 embryos boil, you see why abortion is not murder. If you save the jar and let the child burn - as you must if you believe a fetus deserves the same legal protections as a person - then our morals do not align. Second, do you understand that by forcing pregnant people to donate their bodies to save an unborn fetus, by extension that justifies changing the law to allow the government to force everyone to donate blood or organs to save a Life? Right now if I'm sick and the only thing that could save my Life was your blood, currently the government _cannot_ force you to give it to me. But by saying "no, to save a fetus a pregnant person must donate their uterus" you're legitimizing the government forcing people to donate their bodies to save others. Do you understand that?
Courtesy of Rev Elizabeth Grasham (Tulsa, OK): Ectopic (Extrauterine) Pregnancy [1]: the fertilized egg grows outside of the uterus (belly, fallopian tubes, etc) which almost always is life threatening and needs to be aborted. (I'm not sure exactly what Grashman was referring to in their post; thus provided some supplemental and tangential information): An estimated 25% of pregnancies result in a miscarriage [2]. A smaller subsection of miscarriages may require immediate surgery (due to infection, heavy bleeding, or remaining tissue has not left the uterus in a specific timeframe) [3]. These are not necessarily miscarriages that are induced. Having a septate Uterus: "it is unknown why women with a septate uterus have a higher chance of miscarriage. Not all women with a septate uterus [have] a miscarriage" [4] (the following is my speculation and a guess but PLEASE consult qualified medical professional in the matter. If you have a septate uterus which causes a miscarriage, you may need to have abortion.) It is also notable that a septate uterus may result in preterm births and fetal malpresentation [5] Footnotes: [1] Reviewed 13 january 2020, www.webmd.com/baby/pregnancy-ectopic-pregnancy [2] Under What is a miscarriage section: reviewed on 16 april 2022 www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/miscarriage [3] Surgery section. Reviewed 09 march 2022 www.nhs.uk/conditions/miscarriage/what-happens/ [4] Under Symptoms sections. Reviewed 12 april 2021, www.webmd.com/baby/septate-uterus [5] Dec 2017 paper by R. A. Pilliod and A. B. Caughey, their risk factors include undersized child, fetal anomalies and altered pelvic structure (to name a few). pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29078945/
I think one of the problems is that progressives tend to think nationally and mainly vote nationally. None of my nieces and nephews, all voting age, could name their state congresspeople and some didn't know their governor, much less their city assembly representative. These people have huge effects on the laws around you, more probably than the federal government, but we lefties treat them as bit players. If state houses represented the constituency, roe wouldn't matter nearly as much in many places.
Depending on your state it can be hard to remember your reps. Not everyone has a margarine taylor green or a lindsay graham that makes them shudder in horror at the thought of their existence let alone their position of power.
This country certainly needs more progressives voting in their local primaries and local elections, not just national elections. I don't think issues of human rights should be up for local discussion, but in general, voting locally has to be one of the tools in an effective progressive toolbox.
@@pluspiping sure, I agree we should be setting national policy on these issues. We also shouldn't still have state laws outlawing abortions on the books from the 1800s because progressives can't be asked to pay attention to state elections.
Since the pandemic, many candidates for local positions make it easy to know their platforms from subtle messaging on their campaign signs, up to their statements on their websites and ballotpedia entries. Now we get school board candidates' voter guide blurbs about the evils of diversity and the value of their religious freedom. Now, no matter how small a public office position is, I research the candidates thoroughly before making a decision.
@@MyMusiqueLive Ugh, sure, people can choose to be selfish jerks who don't understand proven science and want to return to a time where children are killed off by easily preventable diseases. But no, they are not allowed to participate in society, being a known threat to everyone, unless they can prove a Medical reason why they couldn't get vaccinated.
@@MyMusiqueLive A vaccine has no impact on a person's life or overall health and is used to protect both the patient and the greater human population from a potentially lethal disease. Pregnancy is an extremely long process that causes severe health effects in a large majority of people. Not only is pregnancy a 9 month ordeal, but truly an 18 year one as you would then be responsible for said child until they become a legal adult.
wow what a collected and rational opinion.. rare to see now a days. I agree with you 100% but I find myself being bombarded by hot takes and very concerning language online and amongst my peers.
Brilliant how Vi, time after time, gets to the core of an issue and describes it with clarity, cutting through the distortion that accompanies any controversial topic. The message in this video needs to be expressed and heard. Thank you Vi.
I'm not American and when I read about this law, I instantly thought that public will be going all out against such an absurd thing. It has blown my mind to see the amount of people in support of this. I honestly cannot imagine a sane person supporting it.
That's one of the most horrible things about it: about two-thirds of the American public opposes this decision. The share of people supporting something like this has never been higher than about 36%. But, here come America's anti-democratic mechanisms yet again to give us a political result that a huge majority of Americans oppose.
America is a land ruled in practice by religion and ignorance, where the rest of us have to do our best not to completely collapse into a void of hopelessness every time we check the news. And it constantly calls itself the "land of the free", the "land of opportunity", etc.
Thank you. I've always found it odd, that people that don't want "big government", are perfectly fine with it in other people's bedrooms and obgyns. Maybe, when it's decided we don't have a constitutional right to have a living will, and they'll be forced to be kept alive on machines, they'll have another change of heart.
There's a chance I might be inhabited by an ultra-conservative imp (my id), but in the overall political sphere, I've never really understood so-called "conservatives" who want to regulate private life but not public entities. I'd go on, but over time I'd out myself as a tired old "neoliberal" (however you define that term) centrist bore and boor.
@@eaterdrinker000 this. Is why I always say Bernie could've won because he was all about deregulation of the pharmaceutical industry and actual competitive capitalism, but they painted him as a big scary socialist like it's a bad word.
I mean the constitution says we have a right to life, not a right to living outside of an oxygenated canister! /s obviously but the 9th amendment is there for a reason.
thank you for this video! i think a lot of people haven't thought about the horror of mandated unwanted pregnancy: that your body is no longer your own until you deliver. that all your muscles and organs change, that your mood and appetite and hair and shoe size can change, that people look at you differently and there's really no getting away from being publicly pregnant except not being in public. it's like something out of a horror story to me, and that's not even taking into account complications or the pain of childbirth. of course a lot of people enjoy pregnancy, and of course we all owe our lives to someone enduring it to bring us into the world, so it's not as if it's always the worst most traumatic thing. but i wish more people acknowledged that it's a lot for a body to handle, even in the best circumstances.
Nice chicken salad, it looks delicious. I've been looking through the comments, and some of them are pretty nasty, uninformed, and blatantly rude. I've seen you reply to quite a few recent comments, so I'm sure you've seen some of them too. Don't let any of them get you down, this is a fantastic video.
fetuses are the only thing with the right to use someone else's body to keep them alive without that person's consent. everyday people die when a vital organ fails and is anyone in this country ever forced to donate an organ to save them? even if it would result in their own death?
yes, exactly! regardless of whether or not fetuses are people, they're given a right that no other people have, and as a direct result of that, pregnant people have fewer rights than actual corpses. that's not even remotely okay!
Such basic human rights should be legally protected in a way that doesn't allow the government to roll them back whenever they please. Governments behave like they need to be supervised 24/7 by an actual human being in touch with reality.
you and your videos were a huge part of my childhood and i still find myself coming back to them regularly. i love so much that youre still a person who i can look up to even into adulthood. obviously you have no obligation to talk about stuff like this especially since its not math related but i really appreciate you talking about it anyway. thank you for always being a person i think id feel comfortable around and someone im inspired by
The video we didn't want, but we needed. Who would have guessed that a salat would make a short conveyance of opinions into an interesting video. Honestly love listening to your statements, all of which I agree with, while also getting hungry.
Your fingers!!! Please tuck your fingers (the ones that are holding onto the food), meaning you want your digits in a similar parallel plane to the blade's cutting plane. Thus as the chopping plane comes close to intersecting your fingers, the blade rides up against your knuckles before it can really cross and violate any of your fingers. This gives you 1 second to 3 to actually react rather than milliseconds. (more by touch and less by visuals, that you can internalise the blade has gone too far vs just chopping too far over).
@@X22GJP hardly. I like seeing people with 10 fingers who cook and kept their 10 fingers because they cooked smartly. Having sloppy knife skills with a tool that can remove your finger(s) suddenly is a worthwhile PSA.
I support everything in this video except for the fact that you appear to have added apples and cinnamon to an otherwise savory dish. Don't get me wrong - I know the current events are a freaking serious deal. I'm not affected by this directly but people I love are and Justice Thomas' opinion sure would directly affect me - these are terrifying. But I'm distracted, if only for a moment, by the culinary events unfolding on screen in front of me. "Could it be some other spice," I wonder. I cannot imagine what. And there is nothing that looks like an apple yet is not. I reel from these conclusions.
@@Vihart I hope you know you've made my night - had to tell my sister and good friend right away that the very person I've followed for a good part of my life, who introduced me to hexaflexagons, has just responded to a comment
I wasn't sure what I was clicking on. All knew for certain was that a chicken salad was involved, that it was in my subscriptions, and less than 4 minutes. I thought it was Hank Green's other channel, "hankschannel." It was good to hear from you Vi.
if the consequences of abortion being illegal are women attempting to make an abortion by themselves, potentionally getting infentions, tumors, cancer and death, is more than reasonable to make it legal and give total freedom of choice.
Thank you for making this video, I am (In too many people's opinions) too young to have an opinion on this, but I wholeheartedly agree with everything that you said and especially appreciate the statistical analysis. I am glad that there are people like you that can, without violent intervention or pushback, get their word across to the public, and I hope that we, as humans, can grow and become more civil in discussion in the future so everyone can get their say. I am heartbroken that the circumstances of pregnancy and the health of a woman are now dominant factors in deciding whether or not a woman should be able to continue the life that she wishes to lead.
3:07 There are certain people in my life who, much as I do love them, really should hear those words and truly ponder them. I appreciate them a lot, and they are truly respectable in many ways... but maybe not respectable at all in some ways which matter a lot. And it's not even so much that I want to tell them, and luckily I don't have to tell them, but just knowing that if they knew me, maybe I wouldn't be safe. Not a fun feeling! (And just to be totally transparent here, I know the topic is abortion, but I've never had an abortion myself. If anyone here is someone who needs, wants or even is considering abortion, I know it can be a difficult decision, and now it's even more unnecessarily difficult. I wish you well! ❤)
After chopping, you should lift and carry with the non-sharp edge. Scraping the blade against any surface, even a wooden cutting board, will make it dull much faster!
I love the landmarks, people will say how long they have been watching you. I have been watching you since before Khan. And before you proved Spongebob wrong. The doodling in math was classic, but it was really those hexaflexagons. And I remember you making some crazy big geometric shape out of straws or something. It was huge. And you playing piano. And Pi, there was always something. And you didn't post that much. So each one was really special. I sound like a stalker lol. I mean not funny, but I am NOT so maybe funny in a way. Keep posting is what I mean. Thanks for all of it. That salad looks delicious. And I agree. If only math made the rules...
look, that part at the end about "consider whether they consider you a safe person to tell" is a really weird rhetoric to me and it rubs me the wrong way just a little because honestly it's none of my business whether those people would tell me in the first place and i think it'd be kind of messed up to put someone in the position of feeling like they need to by asking. i just dont like the idea of someone feeling entitled to that kind of extremely personal information, and the idea that someone might go around asking people whether they have or have not. i would much rather the people in my life- friends, family, enemies, strangers, acquaintances, anyone- feel safe and comfortable around me regardless of whether i know their deepest darkest secrets.
My wife and I are in 100% agreement with you as we were with your lockdown analysis! If only more people were as thoughtful as you. On a lighter note, what were the spices you added to your salad?
It's in the description: "Chicken salad includes: Half mayo, half yogurt (for sandwiches, lean toward mayo. For eating straight, lean toward yogurt.) Celery, green onion, apple (grapes work great too) freshly toasted slivered almonds (this is like the tastiest secret to great chicken salad) seasoned to taste with salt, pepper, mustard, turmeric, cayenne, whatever else you want because it is your salad and you deserve delicious snacks"
@@isarasaurus Holy fucking cringe. 'yass queen slay' has a totally different meaning when we're talking abortion and your transparent soullessness shines right through from not even recognising it.
"You know and love people who have had abortions; if they haven't told you, consider whether you seem like a safe person to tell." This is such a good point. Thank you for sharing your thoughts (and the chicken salad recipe!)
I’ve never rushed to a video so fast. Couldn’t believe that you posted~!! Overall, Ty for the chicken saled recipe & the US is truly going insane. I’m throughly disappointed in the government right now. Here’s hoping people revolt and we start moving forward again but we all know that won’t happen.
it's so annoying, a lot of people (unfortunately, even close friends and family) I have this conversation with... it'll start by them asking me what I think about the decision. Then me explaining my opinion that I think this is a terrible decision from a legal control standpoint + a medical practicality standpoint...and then they immediately accuse me of not having morals, thinking that it's ok to murder unborn children. like hello, that's not what I said?? that's not the point at all??? aaaaaaargh get me OUT of this timeline I love mustard in chicken salad but I've never tried turmeric, must give it a go next time :0
I love your allegories and metaphors, keep up the good work, Vi! Thank you so much Edit: ooh, upon watching there's no real metaphor here. Thank you for taking this straight too.
It demonstrates how much I like your content that I'm watching a video with food preparation. I've mostly been avoiding them since so many have ingredients I can no longer eat. Then again, I have found a way to make something that sorta resembles a chicken salad. But keeping the fat levels down low enough so my stomach doesn't slow down is hard. (Hope that isn't TMI). And uncooked greens are out, too.
This one uses half mayo and half yogurt, not sure what would happen if you used no mayo and maybe a nonfat yogurt but I could see it being super delicious when leaning into a curry-type spicing. One of my go-to's for limiting fat is tuna salad, mixing in just pickle relish and diced apples. Diced apples are my secret ingredient.
Hi!! Ive been watching you since middle school, and you sparked my interest in math which has actually gotten me to where I am now, an architecture student. We are learning about le corbusier's modulor counting system right now, and it is very confusing but also infinitely intriguing. I was wondering if you would ever do a video on that because I think you would be able to explain it in a way that I would understand. Thank you!!
When chopping, you want to use a rocking motion since the knife is curved. If you just bring it straight down once for each chop, you risk not cutting it completely.
What's going on you never out the seeds in the salad and where did that chicken come from? So many questions! None of them to do with abortion because I'm a guy and I shouldn't get to make those choices.
Well, here goes my respect for you. Almonds in a chicken salad? Really? Also, totally agree on the personal freedom stuff. But the almonds are a step too far.
I've always loved your videos, and honestly, I think you're awesome. If I knew you IRL, I'd definitely want to be friends. Since I don't, I'm happy to continue supporting your videos and letting you know how great you are from across the internet! More specific to this video: I really appreciate the way you explained this. I feel the same way, and it baffles me when people feel otherwise.
Ok I've just seen the thumbnail but are we completely sure this isn't a Kenji video Update: Definitely not a Kenji video, but much appreciated nonetheless
pro-birthers love to make the discussion about when live begins and whether or not it can be considered taking a life, but it's just irrelevant. Everyone has a right to bodily autonomy at all times. We don't force people to donate their blood, tissues, or organs, even after their death, even though that could save the lives of people we all agree are definitely alive. You're even allowed to pull the plug on someone if you're the one paying for the machinary that keeps them alive. Consent can also be retracted in other situations, e.g. if people are having consensual $€× but in the middle one of them wants to stop, then they have retracted their consent and if the other continues it then it is r@p€. So really this shouldn't be an issue. Of course, it is still sad if a (potential) person dies or never gets the chance to become a person, and the procedure isn't easy on the pregnant person either so that's another reason to want to reduce them, but if we want to reduce that, then we should focus instead on reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies trough good comprehensive $€×-ed and acesibility to contraceptives, as well as make the choice of keeping it better trough good child support from the government, and a good adoption and foster care system that people dont feel like it could be traumatic for the child.
The only thing that concerned me during this video were your distal and middle phalanges being extended while cutting. Just gave me anxiety 'cause I've snipped my fingie-tips one too many times. Great content, as always.
Some that have had miscarriages have been arrested several times way before. It really isn't what they wanted. On another topic little kids can still be forced into a marriage ( Warren Jeffs style) legally in some states. Thanks for the video
I don't like abortion a lot of the time. I think everything has the right to live, whether it be a grown adult, a child, an animal, or a fetus, so admittedly there are a lot of cases where I feel like abortion just goes against my morals. Despite all of that, I can't imagine what it would feel like to be forced to have a child, knowing you may not be able to support it, knowing it may grow up in an unstable household or broken foster system, knowing that you may die for this child. As horrifying of a moral dilemma that is, it's a moral dilemma that needs to be decided by the victim, the one being directly affected by it, rather than the United States government.
I think we have this popular image of young adolt women aborting babies nilly willy, like taking an alka seltzer after a hard night of partying. Young mothers killing their unborn child just because they don't want to stop their carefree life of parties and fucking around. But even if this thing happens - with 8 billion people anything remotely probable will happen at some point - for the overwhelming majority of women it's not a light decission. And even between the already mentioned carelessness and rape victims forced to carry a child, probably even with life threatening consequences there are a lot of situations where an abortion - as hard as it might be - is the only viable decission. Combine this with the utter lack of sexual education in some areas and the outright banning of counterceptives, it feels like it's less about saving unborn life, but about controlling peoples behaviour. We - from the outside - simply can't fathom what leads to decissions, but everybody likes to presume they do.
besides rape, if you are worried about those things maybe be careful who you have sex with? be stable with a partner and have a home before you do the thing that may produce a child? Its called taking responsibility for your actions which most ppl now refuse to do. they want to have sex with no consequences. just like ppl that drink and drive. no respect for other ppls lives
A lot of people do still have a child even at 18, because their morals tell them they dont want to have an abortion, just like you. But yeah choice is important. After one month of pregnancy, the embryo doesnt even have a brain yet. Feel like if people kill insects or any kind of animal, but find it hard to kill off a bunch of cells with no brain or nerve system, then that's weird to me.
@@lilmamagc who says everyone that is for abortion is for mandatory vacination? That's not true at all. And as already stated, being barred from entry somewhere because you are a danger for someone doesnt seem a far stretched, which being unvaccinated is. Doing an abortion has nothing to do with it. You are just combining 2 things you are against together and think everyone else that doesnt agree with you, also doesnt agree with all those things. We all think different things on different subjects
OH TRIANGLE, PREACH THY TRUTH!! seriously though, I will never understand the motives behind those that are anti-abortion. if they want the baby alive, maybe *they* should care for it themselves. plus, it isn't even that alive yet.
As someone who would probably be shunned by either side of the aisle, it just seems like there's two arguments going on. The answer to each argument is obvious to any stable mind, but unfortunately there are bad actors on either side of the issue conflating things. Politics doesn't exist without conflict.
There's a chance I might be inhabited by an ultra-conservative imp (my id), but in the overall political sphere, I've never really understood so-called "conservatives" who want to regulate private life but not public entities. I'd go on, but over time I'd out myself as a tired old "neoliberal" (however you define that term) cynical centrist bore and boor.
Just about everyone in my house loves to watch the news, but its videos like this that make me feel better about the things I hear. The news does stuff to my brain, it makes me really sad. Thanks Vihart, you are helping me a lot
Thank you Vihart. you're videos always make me happy but instead this one was simply, terrifyingly important. You have a lpatform and you've used it. Gold Star.
Vihart uploads a video on 6.28 Me: it's gonna be about Tau, it's gotta be about Tau Vihart: actually it's about abortion rights and I'm not even going to draw anything, I'm literally just making a chicken salad. Me: *shocked Pikachu* Also me: IT'S AMAZING! Also also me: is it 6.28 when she uploaded this? It is for me but I'm several timezones away the us 🤔
