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Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by ben_w »

cruffle_duffle wrote: post #45
ravetcofx wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to like AvE till COVID. Then he became an anti-masker conspiratorial nutjob.

I mean he was 100% right about all of that; history will not look fondly upon societys hysterical reaction to Covid, so… I think he took a lot of shit for “coming out of the closet” in that regard and he’s never been the same. There was (and apparently still are) a lot of incredibly sanctimonious busy body’s out there who absolutely loved the power trip Covid gave them and they were more than happy to harass, threate…

> Multiple people I knew and respected wished me a horrific death for expressing my opinions

Someone here took exception to me saying that I have never had any trouble with wearing masks, went and left a generically threatening comment on my blog.

> I mean god forbid anybody express any disagreement with perhaps the most authoritarian, unscientific power grab in human history. The shit that went down was pure evil.

Are you still talking about the wearing masks during a global pandemic that lowered global life expectancy by about 2 years, or to put it differently "killed between 1 and 3 times as many as the literal Holocaust"?

Because that's way out of touch if so.

https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by ben_w »

cruffle_duffle wrote: post #48
steve_adams_86 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disagreement is healthy. What was unhealthy is that it was dangerous to disagree. People who thought we should just ride covid out were, more often than not, simply unaware of the nuances of covid vs a cold or something similar. People who thought we should hide in our homes until it was eradicated were similarly unaware of the implicit harms of that choice. A healthy discourse with people willing to concede and comp…

We were all told to shut the fuck up and listen to a handful of cherry picked “doomsday experts” who refused to follow their own data, didn’t follow their own science and refused to acknowledge that society has millions of problems beyond one very single, very specific thing. And if we didn’t follow their edict’s or if we were to express any doubt of any kind, we were evil alt-right grandma killers who deserved horri…

> What the Covid “side” did was abhorrent and history will not look fondly on them at all.

History will look on this the same way as it did on Spanish Flu:

Barely at all, even when it has valuable lessons for the next pandemic.

The former told me that people would stop wearing masks very very quickly.

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

#53

Post by lc9er »

ben_w wrote: post #52
cruffle_duffle wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We were all told to shut the fuck up and listen to a handful of cherry picked “doomsday experts” who refused to follow their own data, didn’t follow their own science and refused to acknowledge that society has millions of problems beyond one very single, very specific thing. And if we didn’t follow their edict’s or if we were to express any doubt of any kind, we were evil alt-right grandma killers who deserved horri…

> What the Covid “side” did was abhorrent and history will not look fondly on them at all. History will look on this the same way as it did on Spanish Flu: Barely at all, even when it has valuable lessons for the next pandemic. The former told me that people would stop wearing masks very very quickly.

I’ll never understand the people that want their offense at being labeled a “Typhoid Mary” to be taken as seriously as their anti-social, Typhoid Mary behavior.

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by jemmyw »

cruffle_duffle wrote: post #45
ravetcofx wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to like AvE till COVID. Then he became an anti-masker conspiratorial nutjob.

I mean he was 100% right about all of that; history will not look fondly upon societys hysterical reaction to Covid, so… I think he took a lot of shit for “coming out of the closet” in that regard and he’s never been the same. There was (and apparently still are) a lot of incredibly sanctimonious busy body’s out there who absolutely loved the power trip Covid gave them and they were more than happy to harass, threate…

> I’m sure if we continued this conversation and it was allowed on this forum you too would verbally wish at my death

Do you think it might be personal rather than anything to do with your opinions?

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by simianparrot »

cruffle_duffle wrote: post #45
ravetcofx wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to like AvE till COVID. Then he became an anti-masker conspiratorial nutjob.

I mean he was 100% right about all of that; history will not look fondly upon societys hysterical reaction to Covid, so… I think he took a lot of shit for “coming out of the closet” in that regard and he’s never been the same. There was (and apparently still are) a lot of incredibly sanctimonious busy body’s out there who absolutely loved the power trip Covid gave them and they were more than happy to harass, threate…

What scares me so much about the Covid debacle is that despite all the information that's been coming out about how most of the restrictions placed on people -- like hindering people from gathering _outside in the sun_ -- and effectiveness of both pharmaceuticals and PPE's -- of which I won't name any because then I'll be booted out of here quite quickly I imagine -- despite all of this data, government hearings around the world, and respected studies.

Despite all that, people still cling to the fantasy that it was comply or be complicit in the death of anyone who died from covid.

You're absolutely right. It was and remains scary as all hell.

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by b59831 »

ravetcofx wrote: post #29
cruffle_duffle wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like quite a few of the content creators I watch are starting to “show their face”, though the big one that comes to mind is the Real Engineering guy. A few of his newest videos have had him acting a bit like a host, interviewer and narrator. It’s also weird when some of these creators swap with somebody else, like veratasium has had his producer do some of the videos instead. The big reveal would be AvE.

I used to like AvE till COVID. Then he became an anti-masker conspiratorial nutjob.

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Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by Buttons840 »

cruffle_duffle wrote: post #45
ravetcofx wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to like AvE till COVID. Then he became an anti-masker conspiratorial nutjob.

I mean he was 100% right about all of that; history will not look fondly upon societys hysterical reaction to Covid, so… I think he took a lot of shit for “coming out of the closet” in that regard and he’s never been the same. There was (and apparently still are) a lot of incredibly sanctimonious busy body’s out there who absolutely loved the power trip Covid gave them and they were more than happy to harass, threate…

Wasn't a lot of the authoritarian concern around COVID based on the idea that "this is just the beginning, today they require masks, tomorrow they'll require implanted tracking devices"?

I think history will look at the COVID years and see a remarkable and worldwide pandemic, and society made some rules to try to deal with it, some of the rules may have been a bit much, or poorly informed, but after a few years things were back to normal.

I don't see COVID being more than a blip on any radar. If future historians analyze the history of authoritarianism, there will be lots of things more significant than the COVID years I think.

Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by [deleted] »

cruffle_duffle wrote: post #45
ravetcofx wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to like AvE till COVID. Then he became an anti-masker conspiratorial nutjob.

I mean he was 100% right about all of that; history will not look fondly upon societys hysterical reaction to Covid, so… I think he took a lot of shit for “coming out of the closet” in that regard and he’s never been the same. There was (and apparently still are) a lot of incredibly sanctimonious busy body’s out there who absolutely loved the power trip Covid gave them and they were more than happy to harass, threate…

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Re: How I animate 3Blue1Brown [video]

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Post by jweir »

Could having students create their own videos using A Manim explaining aspects of maths be a good way to teach maths?

Or would it be more cumbersome and the tools be a distraction or impediment to understanding?

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