How Do We Stop The Spread Of Misinformation? (And Other Questions) 

even decepticons can change

Worked Help Desk for years, keep grinding brother!

Speaking as an ex-help desk worker, I wish I had had your wisdom back in the day. That's such a great outlook.

I love people like you.

That's a great outlook, how long have you been working support?

lamo. The winners get to write the history books.

Some historical accounts are written by third parties. It's being the most literate and persuasive that really matters.

@@wwbit . . . and sell the most books and get into the most libraries and get used as textbooks in history classes. Oh, and in these modern times, get the most distribution on social media. Unfortunately, this means liars and conmen can overwhelm the Truth.

@@boyblue3270Sooooo... how do you feel about Nazis?

​@@boyblue3270 I don't know man, I feel like some of the people who've lost were definitely not the good guys, but I won't name names...

Kids are a blessing, and it's always cute when I'm out and about with my kid and people smile at them. We make a lot of friends on the bus, it's beautiful

Weird flex.

Yes, I’ll need a copy of “How to Win friends and influence people” as well as “Helter Skelter”

Having grown up using a library for all of my projects and papers I appreciate it and the people who work there. Thank you. I hope kids never stop using them and learn to get away from their laptops every now and then.

I'm a retired librarian and helping students was always my favorite part. Watching that light bulb come on was gratifying. By the time they got to university, their library experiences were generally negative so I challenged myself to change their perceptions.

God love y'all for choosing such a helpful profession. There were times you helped so much.

My sister’s a librarian!

Just returned a overdue library book

A little kindness goes a very long way! You never know when someone is having a bad day, and you can instantly turn that around by just being nice, and it takes NO EFFORT WHATSOEVER! I try to never take anything for granted, and I am never offended when I’m being nice and someone is not receptive. No skin off my back, as I know I’m doing the right thing and it’s so much easier to shrug it off if I’m not already frustrated and involved.

This comment makes me deliriously happy. I'm so glad you exist.

I find a kn (edited because RU-vid's censorship doesn't understand humor) ife works well. A spoon will do in a pinch, but some joy and kindness tends to get stuck in the concave portion.

My husband and I do the same thing. We let a lot of ppl into our home to shower, do laundry (basic human stuff), and on Sundays we cook a big dinner and feed as many people as we can. We've gotten burned by people a few times but mostly people are grateful and respectful.

I realized a decade ago that my total love for fusion jazz came from the Sega games I had, which truly enabled me to dive deeper into it and be enveloped with the realms it creates.

Was thinking of something similar. My parents music have a soft spot for me.

@@Nulli_Di I was thinking more like between 1 and 10 years old. That's where I was in the 70's. Life was utterly care-free compared to the teen years and on. I think that's why the music from that era has a renewed appeal to me. My subconscious mind associates the music with those easy days when everything was a wondrous exploration.

Exactly! Why did I want white go-go boots at age 5 if it weren’t for my mom listening to and watching Nancy Sinatra? I absorbed music.

Makes sense to me.

Luckily, they don't get a say in what's true and false. There is a burden of proof. If people understand HOW to ascertain if something is true or not, what evidence is required for a given claim, then they are much harder to manipulate or propagandise to.

True, but I'd much rather the US government feed me bullshit than the Russian or Chinese governments. For all the US's problems, they are far more benign than Russia or China is right now. So there is a lot of motivation to stop false narratives, even if you can't stop all of them.

That's not really a problem with stopping the false information though is it? That seems more of a problem of people not wanting to stop the false information.

@GrimJackal yes, I could have worded it better, but the idea is that the usual suspects who want to tamp down on misinformation are usually the biggest purveyors of lies.

Exactly, the person that decides what is or not misinformation is the one with the power and I definitely don't want the government to be the "arbiter of truth" based on its track record.

This made me smile. I recall after my mother died suddenly I was so lost. I felt like everyone I saw around her age looked like her smelled like her something to remind me of her. I was pregnant with my first child which was a girl and had no mother to call for advice. I wanted to call my mother in law but felt so guilty for some reason. One day a lady at target of all places smiled and told me the baby clothes I was looking at were so cute and I gave her a sad smile. She said “idk what’s wrong but it will be ok” and asked if she could hug me. I cried right there for 30 minutes and I was so happy a stranger cared enough to say something nice about a baby shirt. It changed my life.

I suppose the next questions might be: why do we all know what a "wrong" note sounds like? Why is resolving a melody so psychologically satisfying?

@@floob3rdoob3r because mathematics is the language of the universe

What I find interesting is why certain emotions are associated with certain music. Like _why_ does a minor key evoke a feeling of sadness? Is it purely social conditioning? Part of me feels like even if you took a human raised in a vacuum and played Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 for them, they would think of happy, beautiful things. But maybe that's just because we've been associating that song with that emotion our whole lives due to outside influence. Take for example the song Entrance of the Gladiators by Julius Fučík. It was originally intended to be a serious piece. It's a military march. But today you probably know it as the song you hear at the circus. So for you it's not serious. It's silly. It conjures an image of pratfalling clowns, not marching soldiers.

Please share a link if you can find it!

​@@joescottmusic historians & ethnic musicologists really get into this stuff. It's interesting but WAY ABOVE my music fundamentals class from 45 years ago 😮

Be careful, as a guy complimenting women can come across as creepy. Other than that, good work!

I'm really excited about mRNA cancer vaccines and treatments. A big thanks to your uncle for being a part of that research.

Welp, that hasn’t changed. 😄 Thanks for the kind words man.

I remember when he was worried. Then he made a couple of digs at Trump and the RU-vid employees must have fixed his algorithm. Well played. Speaking of misinformation, I was watching the Why Files this weekend. He finally did an anunnaki episode. I kid you not, RU-vid put one of its disinformation boxes linking to factual information about the anunnaki. 😂😂 🚫 👽

@@bluewaters8960 EZ Lib bait, just down Trump and theyll put you front and center, insanity. I am just happy he is still here, I joined when he had around 80k subs, now hes RU-vid famous lol, so much content now is just my side vs your side its nice to have a normal content creator to watch about normal stuff.

I am on the List but haven't been asked to donate yetmy uncle did to someone we know, and that one has had a full recovery.

​@@i.b.640 I was in the National Marrow Donor Registry for many years, but (like most people) I never got called. When I hit age 61 they apparently automatically deleted me from the database. I trust that's because they have other people in the database who match my HLA type, who are younger.

did you give bone marrow?

@@GiftSparks I wasn't called to do it, yet, but I am still on the list and willing.

@@GiftSparks No, the procedure is called apharesis. Blood is taken through a cannula in the left forearm and separated into its components in a centrifuge. The stem cells are extracted. The rest of the blood is returned to the left forearm via a second cannula. I lay on a comfortable bed and was able to move my right arm and watch RU-vid videos to pass the time. The filtration process is repeated over several hours. All of my blood (about 5 liters) runs through several times. But the device itself contains a maximum of 200 ml of blood. In the end, I collected 442 ml within 5 hours. In preparation for the apharesis, I had to inject a drug into my stomach every morning and evening for 10 days to stimulate the immune system so that it would release the stem cells from the bone marrow into the bloodstream. That was very unpleasant the first time. But after that it was no problem. The side effect of the drug was that I felt like I had a mild case of flu. Not exactly nice either. But nothing compared to what a cancer patient and his family go through. That's why I did it. To give a stranger a second chance at life. It was a wonderful feeling.

I worked for a community action agency and My girl went to work with me daily. She was stress relief for me, my clients, and our staff. My kids were amazed that when Chloe died, I got more sympathy cards and gifts than they did when their dad died. Fur kids are game changers and make like life a more wonderful and magical gift.

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Is that what a slow zoom means!!!???

😂😂😂​@@joescott

​@@joescott *Hey Joe* if we experience a complete collapse of modern society, wouldn't it be practically impossible to bootstrap our way back to industrialisation (nevermind electronics and high-speed logic)? Clearly we would need ferrous ores and high-temperature fuels that are (1) close enough to the surface to be extracted without mechanisation *_and_* (2) within a day's walk of fresh water. If we've long-since depleted such readily-accessible resources, wouldn't the absence of materials amenable to manual extraction make industrialisation impossible?

In terms of things I do in the name of kindness: I make my favorite snack and share it with people in my apartment building. They’re “brownies” but they’re actually relatively healthy, made of hazelnuts, pecans, dates, prunes, & a little dark chocolate. I’m a staunch bike advocate and when I find a good bike I try to find a home for it.

i do this too! sometimes you get the biggest surprised smiles in return!

Thankfully, social distancing seems to have cut back on the number of helpful people. With less trauma, 8 "horror stories" no longer pop into my memory. The worst were those who held the door by standing sideways in the doorway, and we would squeeze past each other. Also, there was the woman who would not let go of the door until I walked through. (As soon as I saw her holding it I tried to pretend I was not going out, but she had already seen me move towards the door.) And after I went through she yelled after me, "You're Welcome!" to point out what a bad person I was for not thanking her for the huge help she had given me. Only three horror stories popped into my head, and I only wrote two! I'm recovering!

In my last years of school when I was right withim myself and had gratitude to give I would come up to teachers at the end of class and thank them too, what a pleasure it was to see them feel so valued! 😊

Construction is always hiring

You probably saved that little snake's life, too. Chickens can & will kill snakes & actually eat them, if given a chance, once they get over their fear. I love Garter snakes. Lovely little guys. Thank you for saving her.

@@DrachenGothik666 Chickens are, indeed, mighty predators of all things smaller than them. I do, however, trust my boys to alert me before taking action, themselves. I spend literally all my time with them, and have then trained to rely on me in scary situations. I'm aware this doesn't mean they'll NEVER attack a perceived threat, but it hasn't happened, yet. I've rescued exclusively roosters for over a decade, and the only thing (other than bugs) that I've seen them attack and eat is mice, which I encourage them to do, but everything else they've alerted me to from snakes, lizards, and salamanders, to a Steller's Jay chick that has fallen out of its nest right into the middle of my yard. I managed to make a fake nest for this little one that lasted for about two days before rehabbers were able to come collect him. The adults were still taking care of the chick, but something attacked him the second night and his injuries were too bad for me to feel confident treating them by myself. He did survive, though, and the rehabbers even called me back to find out where he had been picked up so he could be released in the same area and hopefully reunite with his parents. My boys also, of course, alert me to other threats such as coyotes, raccoons, eagles, owls, etc., but those aren't exactly animals I can just pick up and carry away. Instead, with those animals I'll just make my presence known by puttering around in my yard with my boys until the scary thing goes away. I'll also generally make my chores closer and closer to the predator to try and disturb them away. Crows and Ravens have also been paramount to keeping my flock safe, as over the years I've almost always had a flock or pair nearby that will come in as soon as I start alerting in their language to something threatening nearby. And then there's squirrels. I have no mercy for squirrels. They destroy my stuff, attack my animals, and their populations are more often than not out of control due to humans feeding them and offering many cozy accommodations whether or not intentional. I usually trap squirrels in live traps and move them out to a nearby nature preserve that's not too far from some nice neighbourhoods, so the squirrels have a choice of living wild or amongst people, but I have no scrutiny about keeping them alive if they're causing enough problems and avoiding my traps.

Yea they can't derive pleasure from listening to music, it's called musical anhedonia

On the other side of the spectrum, there are some people, like myself, who can trigger those shivers/frisons, goosebumps, emotional joy and tears on command without any music. It just takes a few seconds and I have goosebumps all over my body.

One such song for me, of the type/genre that gets me every time I hear it, having myself endured the utter gut wrenching deeply emotional lose of pets over the decades of life, having had one of my very favorite of dogs, named Blue, hearing Ramblin’ Jack Elliot’s Ol’ Blue song, truly pulls at my heart-strings.. my Blue was a Husky-Coyote mix, nearly albino white everywhere w/super intense blue eyes.. lived to nearly 20 human years old

My particular genre is anything with choir and symphonics. Me in particular, being a metal head, symphonic rock and what they call "Djent" metal, despite the industry hating the term, comes to mind. The band Mechina has music where most of the songs I listen to send me into Hella shivers. The mix of metal, symphony, and the post-production mixing of the singers' voices makes for an entire experience. If you're interested, reader, particular favorites of mine are: The Grand Hunt Realm Breaker Cryoshock Suffer Godspeed, Vanguards All Mechina songs, all good

I thought we ALL got those shivers upon hearing really good music. Give me music with some thumping and screaming guitar solos and far out lyrics of mystical worlds and I get those shivers. Also, I have only ever cried at 2 songs in my life, and those were REM's "Everybody Hurts", and Francis' "Don't worry about me" - and I absolutely balled my eyes out at both of these lol

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Nice beard. Well done

Agree on concept and beard!

Definitely. My dad used to say that "nice" and "kind" are not always the same thing, and when they diverge one should chose to be kind.

and rewind

All in all its another brick in the wall of text

Couldn’t agree more, and I was born in the 90s

Yacht rock is great … if you’re on a yacht.

The problem with a lot of plastics are that they are still the most environmentally friendly option (far better than say paper in a lot of situations). Overuse(like wrapping fresh produce) and disposal is the real problem, not creation. Sweden is the best example of how to do things in the best way possible for the environment (even though it might not sound that way until you understand it). They recycle 47% of their refuse, including kitchen scraps in compost and they burn 52%, including plastics, they only bury around 1% in landfill. Plastics themselves are not a bad thing, they only become bad when they become a part of the environment. Burning them as fuel in specially designed plants is often by far the most responsible way to deal with them.

Joe mentioned: any measure that may increase cost (ex: CO² pricing) will be past on to the final item purchasing value. But given those tools are actually just so freaking cheep I am still surprised we didn't just do that from the start. Now, with every month we wait it is just going to become more and more expensive once we finally do decide to add the cost of removing everything (CO² out the atmosphere + the most efficient recycling strategy).

@@mirkofernd the problem with recycling many types of plastic is that the process of recycling them is worse for the environment than just creating new plastics. The same goes for a lot of things, it's not simply an economic thing, it's that the products are so difficult to recycle that it's simply a bad idea to do it. Far better using them as fuel or something than trying to make them into usable plastic again.

Same advice Elon Musk has for employees: if you aren't adding to a meeting, you should leave the meeting

I'd say they're synonymous at best. Kinda like the distinction between excuse and reason. Take great care@cathyk9197 ​@@cathyk9197

But why use frogs that change sex ?

@@southcoastinventors6583gay frogs?

nice

Hi, is that the auto parts store? No, IT'S PATRICK!!!

@@Mark_Bridges I have played that line out lol

So everyone then you sir are a saint.

I don't see why not, as long as you can relate the video in question back to EMT-related things. I'm speaking as a dispatcher here, but what counts as "continuing dispatch education" isn't very strictly regulated - I don't know if the requirements for EMT are different, but there is a category that videos fall under for us in dispatch, I just can't remember what it's called right now.

You can use 0% plastic, and the problem will still grow, because there's a country of 1.4 billion that considers pollution a national sport.

So you like to benefit from hydrocarbon energy whilst denegrating its use?

I think what you did is wonderful! Giving food doesn't contribute to the issue, if anything you made someones day a little better 😊

It doesn't keep the issue going. It is helpful to the ones who ate for a brief moment, like a bandaid on an artery. You did something that someone was extremely grateful for, it doesn't alter the problem for good or bad, but it might save a life for a day.

...you think feeding hungry people, causes homelessness?

Could just turn off RU-vid might be easier

​@@southcoastinventors6583 Easier than what? What does turning off youtube even solve?

I'm 50 and also have been both "going back" to fill in the gaps of stuff I couldn't find or couldn't afford as a kid, as well as exploring new stuff. Music is an endless world of awesomeness!

Hell yeah bro! I've started complimenting other men on their clothing choices and whatnot because I realized that women do that for each other, but men really don't... and we should! I mean think about it... we get so few compliments that you probably remember the last stranger that said "cool shoes" or whatever to you, right? And it probably made you feel great for the entire rest of the day! So yeah anyway I figure it costs me nothin', so why not? Makes me feel good too. On rare occasion I get a dude who gets all weirded out at another man complimenting them ("uhh no thanks, I'm not gay"), but that's more of a them-problem than a me-problem so idc lol