Echo chambers are platform-agnostic I think, so it wouldn't change much going back to forums. I've seen forum-based communities fight about homemade CPU waterblocks.. yeah I don't think they would help much.
That said, I preferred forums to the recent "Get Discord or get fucnothing!" trend.
Obviously, this isn't anything super new, but I just found this shot of Jupiter (from this video) really cool. It makes the planet feel very grand, chaotic, and kinda realistic while still fitting with the Kurzgesagt style.
Something I noticed while watching this video is that it remixes one of my favorite Kurzgesagt tracks: the Universal Journey track. I think it fits extremely well here.
Awesome to see another biology video! I absolutely love it when they delve into these topics, especially in such creative ways like with a video about tattoos of all things.
The central point of this video was a surprise to me, since I’ve come to question if long-term global polarisation is actually happening at all, from watching the research over the past few years. However, from what I can tell the sources for this video don’t really settle the matter.
It’s well supported for the US case, but the first source on the international aspect actually argues at length the US situation is unique. There’s other reasons to think it’s not actually happening the same way everywhere; European and American populism has entirely different demographic dynamics, for example. This might be a case of Kurzgesagt editorialising a bit.
If they’re right, that sucks, because there’s no way people are going to stop engaging with each other on big platforms.
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