That's basically where people are in Star Wars. To a large extent droids do all the skilled and computational work, technology only moves forward at a snail's pace, and I'm pretty sure that most people are only barely literate.

Again, I'm not sure you're quite understanding what I'm saying. When these do overlap, and they do more often than I would like, then these comparisons would be valid. However, many of the examples she uses are not exemplary of an intersection of the different cliques she talks about in her video. Also, she often…

And you're missing my point. I'm saying that there are several different issues at play here—smurfettes, "Ms. Males," gender tags, etc—and they aren't being treated as separate issues. These can overlap, but that's not the case with a good deal of the examples in this video.

I'm also saying that I don't see much…

I think it's a bit much to say that the automatic assumption is that it was male. I, for one, wouldn't make the assumption. I'd also argue that there's nothing wrong with assigning gender to characters, particularly when they are animals. As far as I am aware, nearly all animals on our planet are gendered male or…

Something had been bothering me about her videos for a while now, and it wasn't until watching this one that I figured out what it was: a good deal of her arguments are apples-to-oranges logical fallacies.

Brighter color pallet, not screen brightness. And I'm pretty sure you weren't turning up the brightness much here:

That's a bit of a complicated question. Scholars like Craig Anderson and Brad Bushman have looked at the connection between aggression and violent media for decades, but it's not exactly ethical to create an experimental design where violence is your dependent variable. Because of that, there haven't been any studies…

To be nit-picky, quantum computers are only faster than conventional computers are particular types of operations. Anything that allows you take advantage of the quantum superpositions would be faster, but not because the actual computations are faster. Some problems, like factoring very large numbers, would be faster…

Soldiers, officers, military advisers, military contractors, R&D, logistical personnel and contractors, manufacturers, criminal investigators, forensic psychologists, criminal psychologists, bodyguards and security personnel, self-defense instructors, policemen, federal police, journalists, peacekeeping personnel, NGO…

I think there's a difference between saying "we ought to struggle against our nature for something better, even if we never get there" and "if we just realized ____."

And the fact of the matter is that life wouldn't be better for everyone if all murder suddenly stopped. For one thing, some people would lose their…

At the expense of sounding cynical, do *you* have a solution for the millennia of tears and bloodshed that is human history? We have always killed each other, in every society and every age of history, which to me suggests that violence is not just socially learned, but part of our nature.

We murder each other because…

Videos like this are the product of a society with enough disposable income to have these kind of products available and a level of peace where seeing things being shot is enjoyable. In a poor war-torn nation like, say, Somalia, you'll see weapons like this being used, but on people.

I, for one, am glad that we can…

That's how Herbert wrote almost everything, actually, which is such a shame. Dune is my favorite fiction book, and I also enjoyed his Lazarus trilogy, but my gosh he makes you work to enjoy his writing.

As pulpy and cliche as the book is, I actually really enjoyed Dracula, particularly how Stoker wrote Qincey's character. Then again, I've always enjoyed the way Victorian fiction portrays Americans.

I don't understand what the appeal of these books are. I slogged through the first and gave up within a hundred pages or so of the second.

As I remember it, you could cut out most of the middle of the book—which amounted to about three hundred pages in the printing I read—and not have lost anything important to the…

I liked the first two books quite a bit . . . but didn't make it through book seven. Apparently Robert Jordan is the reason why scifi/fantasy authors are no longer paid by the word.

Really like Brave New World. Very clever

Glad to hear it :)

Really nice work here. I wonder what she used to make it?

I wouldn't go that far, but I was really happy to hear that they were going back to the RTSs' story. I might have to break out the old titles and play through them again. . .