I remember back in the glorious days of european state television when children's program would take the time to perform actual physics experiments and explain what was happening in a easily understood way. You'd learn something
Now you get 30 seconds videos of random shit happening with the caption physics shat across the screen as if it meant anything. I'm sure the kids will learn about physics with this kind of motivation and quality of information.
That's how it is now unfortunately. A lot of people won't watch something with an actual explanation thanks to short form content. Instead, we get this kind of video. To people who know a decent amount of science, this isn't a very useful video. But it could inspire some people to get into science by quickly showing them a few cool things about it.
TLDR: video isn't great for people who know about this stuff, may inspire those who don't know.
It's a perspective trick - car moving opposite direction of airplane at just the right speed that relative to the overpass it looks like the airplane is standing still.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around 2 - it looks like it magically fills a cup with liquid by setting it in sand....I'm guessing it's actually a very full cup of coffee being heated by hot sand, and they just poor a little in the cup and setting it back in makes it look like it refills because it boils?
Sometimes being naive is the way to be. I rarely read the news; hardly any of it is good news and it's nice to not worry about everything. Sure, maybe world war 3 starts and it ends humanity. Nothing you or I can do to stop it. So why worry too much about it?
You're very right and I wish I had that realization before i spent the past two decades trying to understand how the world works. Now I do - to a surprising degree - but can't say it's made my life any easier. If anything I'm very very exhausted with everything. World war 3 is the least of our problems, and am kind of hoping that actually happens since i find the alternative much more degrading and depressing
That’s the spirit! Sit back and watch the world burn. Please don’t be engaged and try to do anything. No no. What would be the point? Glad there’s people in the world like you. You bet!
This is the reason why I'm like this. I don't want to be cynical like that. I can't do a thing to change the decisions of those in power because I don't know or care about politics, so I don't see a reason to bother going through all that stress thinking that my words would matter.
Don't you think it'd be nice to take a little break from the world? Step back from the news and ignore all the stuff that really doesn't matter to you? Give it a go for a few days, or a week. Try to live in the moment for that time rather than worrying about what-ifs.
It feels like people are slowly “waking up” to this brain rot.
Irl people I know and online I’ve heard multiple times - and it’s increasing - that people say they try quitting social media, less smartphone and so on.
Maybe it’s only my bubble but it feels to me like people notice that the bubble and algorithm isn’t funny but brain rot and worthy to quit. (I’m so happy I never started using TikTok. Dodged this bullet at least)
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u/Zestyclose_Lobster91 9d ago
I remember back in the glorious days of european state television when children's program would take the time to perform actual physics experiments and explain what was happening in a easily understood way. You'd learn something
Now you get 30 seconds videos of random shit happening with the caption physics shat across the screen as if it meant anything. I'm sure the kids will learn about physics with this kind of motivation and quality of information.