22 Problems Solved in 2022
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I feel like NASA is the kid that always does the group work while we as the “Humanity” always gets the credit even though we did nothing
Cringe reddit-style comment 👆
Nasa IS humanity, do you think it's ran by aliens? Lol
I pay taxes
How you think they get all that money honey?
@@chukotka6224 how would you say it then
I wish the news would cover these things a bit more instead of only the negative things.
They do, but negativity sells much more... and they know it.
Misery sells way better than happiness, unfortunately.
Even been in a traffic jam where there's an accident on the other side of the motorway? That's how well misery 'sells'.
@@soundscape26 Sure it sells more, but the whole point of media is to keep you a slave and in fear. Just look at the C0v1d fiasco 😂
The Atlantic and New York Times both had articles about what went right this year and why to be optimistic for 2023. Those articles may not be on the front page but they are often on the next page.
They do. I had heard about half of these news items this year from "mainstream media"
I used to think that the acknowledgment of problems we have solved would blind us from the many problems we still have. This video has changed that. Now, I think that knowing what problems that have been solved motivates us to keep solving others, and lead us to a better future. Thank you for this video. It has definitely given me the hope I needed.
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These are just topics not solutions.
if you only see problems and the sense that everything is getting worse, it can lead to nihilistic attitudes and perspectives that anything would be better then the way things are. People need to understand what has worked and what has improved to show that things are worth doing and showing what has worked and what hasn't.
Nowadays the response to "things have been improving" is often "but they havent been solved, so we need radical solutions." but if things have consistently improved in a specific area, getting rid of the methods that have improved them or thinking they are making people passive about the problem can lead to throwing the baby out with the bathwater, that is, the radical changes people might adviocate might stop progress or reverse it if we dont have a sense of how things have changed over time and why
With all the events in our world that seem to calculate into the negative, it is very refreshing to have content that points to the solutions to those problems, and not done in a preachy manner, but rather thoughtfully and in a genuinely hopeful narration.
Thank you.
A small one to add: Germany introduced Emergency Cell Broadcast. Yes, it's a technology that other countries have used for decades, but Germany was desperately lacking one, with that lack leading to many deaths in last years floods. Finally having the system makes me very happy, especially as a firefighter, and it may save many lives in the future.
It's a small problem on the global scale, but one that has been solved nevertheless!
its a bigger positive then local dams atleast
If only it had worked!
@@davidcomtedeherstal it does
@@davidcomtedeherstal It did, I was in a large supermarket the first test and it was crazy how you could hear phones everywhere
the warnings were fired extremely late in these floods.. this system wouldn't really have helped most of the dead.
Correction: fission scientists have successfully got more energy from fusion than they put into the reaction, but the total energy *used* to achieve this (specially cooling the lasers) was still much higher.
Quit making sense, Hippie! 🤪
@@MustacheMerlin thanks to both you and the original commenter for the added nuances! appreciate it
Yeah I was gonna say. If that was true, then they would have made a source of infinite energy, which makes no sense
@@davidsphere43 Not really. If this technology is going to work someday, it needs to output more energy than we put in. This energy comes from the fact that mass is being turned into energy. Two nuclei go into the reaction, and one nucleus comes out which is heavier than the other two individually, but less cumulatively. The rest of the mass turns into energy, and if it is working, more energy than we put into getting the reaction going.
@@MustacheMerlin What you say about the lasers is true, but the last paragraph is misguided. No one's suggesting that physicists don't know this, it is a matter of communication. Ultimately what was achieved is a milestone, but not good enough for practical energy generation, where you must take the entire cost of generation into account. That can be made smaller with better lasers etc, but it's still not zero. Reporting it without making this clear can give people the wrong impression and make fusion seem much closer than it really is. I'm no armchair expert, I did physics for 11 years (excluding undergrad), so I can recommend without hesitation Sabine Hossenfelder's excellent video "How close is nuclear fusion power?", which is on this very topic.
I live in Canada and this is the first I have heard of nature therapy, that is so good to hear! I love the asteroid redirection as well. With the salmon dam removal, I am under the impression that salmon and dams can coexist as long as fish spawning ladders are part of the dam construction. I would have liked to hear that the dams were improved to allow for spawning rather than removed. Ebike battery swap sounds great! Thanks for sharing
The dams were pretty old, so it might not have been possible (or at least cost-effective) to do so. It was also mentioned they were no longer necessary for power generation due to new wind turbines.
@@megarockman wind energy and hydroelectricity cannot be seriously compared by anyone who knows the first thing about generating electricity. wind turbines only produce electricity when the wind is at a sufficient speed, hydroelectric dams produce electricity 100% of the time (at least when the water levels are sufficient for production, so closer to 95%)
@@gabrieldsouza6541 not to mention that dams hold fresh water back from the ocean for a State in critical water crisis...
@@machupikachu1085 Do you mean for water usage? Oregon is not southern California.
I love that you are talking about the phasing out of HFCs, I am working with a research group that is focusing on the separation of those gasses with the goal of reusing half of it. It is great to see that some of the things I am doing are going to have lasting impacts :D
I'm also so relieved that we identified a 1000 times worse climate killer and decided to act immediately - by phasing it out over the next 30 years 🤦 How dense and stubborn are those dimwits in charge???
No comments? here u go😘
I'm not sold on art museums selling works to private buyers to fund themselves as being good news. Feels pretty messed up.
The fact that the money has to stay in the museums and can not go to salaries is a pretty good compromise though I'd say.
I mean what if the louvre sold the Mona Lisa and it caught fire in a rich asshole's mansion?
One way to look at it is that we will always be generating Art, while the population is no longer increasing, meaning we are at or very close to museum carrying capacity.
Selling off works that can are taking up space for newer works and generating maintenance funds from that is a good idea....... deciding which pieces are to be sold though is an entire video on its own!!
@@clevergirl4457it’s not going to be used for artworks of such importance as the mona lisa. It’s going to be used for works no one knows about. The museum isn’t going to sell off their most popular works if the money can’t flow to the ones in charge.
@@gosseschukken2018 ik ik it was just a stupid Glass Onion joke, lol.
Out of context spoiler, woops
1) 1:48 NASA nails asteroid
2) 3:03 US joins Kigali amendment
3) 4:05 purportedly extinct species make comeback
4) 5:11 malaria vaccine progresses through trials
5) 6:33 lyme disease vaccine nearing market return
6) 8:04 US soccer teams strike monumental deal
7) 8:58 free lunches programs expand
8) 10:04 Europe standardizing charging ports
9) 11:02 US ev tipping point hit this year
10) 12:13 plan created for plugging orphan wells
11) 13:28 Canada pilots prescriptions for outdoors time
12) 14:18 military suicides see decline
13) 15:26 HIV vaccines progressing through trials
14) 16:18 art museums solve funding issue
15) 17:08 battery swap technology spreading
16) 18:22 ethereum achieves major efficiency gain
17) 19:42 MLB figures out authentication
18) 20:54 Klamath river set for return
19) 22:03 Intel launches deepfake detector
20) 22:47 solution for removing pfa's found
21) 24:16 US States ban slavery
22) 25:42 nuclear fusion breakthrough
ty bro
Amazing thx
Oh I wouldnt trust anything Canada prescribes nowadays
Wrong timestamps, the last one is 30-45 seconds into the topic for instance, stupid.
a blow to China and Russia's anti Americanism moment?
I gotta be honest, I preferred the «News You Missed» end-of-year videos. As someone who isn’t from the USA, I found this video to be pretty USA-centric, and I couldn’t even look at many of the USA stories as positive news, because they e.g. abolish something that I didn’t even know was an issue, like the free school meals; of course it’s amazing that some states now offer free school meals to all students, but I wasn’t even aware that there are states where schools don’t off free meals.
I did still like the video, I just preferred the year-end videos from the last 2 years :)
Yeah, I too would've preferred this to be more global.
Yeah man it looked like what usa did apart from vaccine progressing.
Its not just us centric its also liberal/democrat centric
@@originalempa7037 as I would imagine he and the majority of his viewers are...
But the USA stories are positive news, which is important to remember. These are all improvements. That is positive. You not knowing the previous state is ignorance, but it doesn't mean that the current situations are bad.
That said, yeah, it did seem a bit US centric, but that would probably occur with anyone making a video like this. It's easier to find news about your own country and in your language than others.
"I promise 2022 was pretty good"
*proceeds to talk about mlb signature verification
16:18 I'm not sure that museums selling artworks for short term financing is such a good thing. It seems temporary solution at best, and a huge problem for the future at worst.
agreed. just commented on this too. a lot of that art might never be seen again, or when the wealthy decide to cash it in for a tax deduction, it will just exacerbate funding issues.
Yeah, I was waiting for the turnaround to turn that into a positive story, but no, it's really just a sad reality. I get the pragmatism driving it, but being forced to allow the diminishment of the public's cultural wealth in the name of survival must surely be a tragedy rather than a victory. It's like celebrating that climber having to amputate his own arm when it got stuck under a rock (except in this case we don't know how far the amputation will go).
I feel that renting them out would be a better way to go about it. You can still get a lot of money but they aren't gone forever.
Yeah, it keeps the museum opens but there's less in the museum.
Isn't this better than the alternative? If a museum closes, its collection is often sold off, transferred, or otherwise scattered among libraries, private collectors, and other museums. A measure to lose a piece of art or two in order to keep the museum open to the public is better than losing swaths of artwork.
now doctors can actually prescribe "touch grass" as a legitimate treatment
Canada tells people to go outside, which costs nothing, while they offer MAID to euthanize their veterans, which costs less than giving them actual treatment. Why bother spending money from their pathetic universal healthcare system when they can just execute the useless veteran who doesn't work and gets a pension.
That or the more likely "kys" that Canadian doctors do now aswell too.
Finally the world will become based
This should be available globally and the prescription should include checks and balances in the form of scheduled appointments with other people who come along for the outdoor activities
And if that doesn’t work they recommend killing youself. Canada is like a comment section of a country.
Prison labor should be a choice. Forcing someone, even a prisoner to do something for profit isn't right. That said, knowing some former inmates myself, many prisoners enjoy getting out and doing the work just for physical and mental stimulation and to see the outside world. Outright banning it would likely result in some prisoners being unhappy and stuck in cells longer. There is also an argument for penal farms where a large portion of the products prisoners work on goes back into the prison as food which seems more fair than just outright for profit sales.
I disagree. Prisoners that have wronged society should work to undo that.
@@DctorSkillz1 Exactly, there's always a price to pay. As long as they aren't being worked to death or being abused, I don't see why they can't work
@@DctorSkillz1 if your punishment for the crime is "put into jail", then you "undo the wronging done to the society" by going into jail
if you buy a steak and pay 5 dollars for it you would be rather confused if you get charged with 1 dollar per bite after that
...well that and the entire "its fucking slavery, omg how hard is it to understand that this is bad"-point
@@azurblau4144 Your analogy is pretty awful mate.
@@DctorSkillz1 nahhh, could ofc be better but it highlights the absurdity of asking for adding punishment on top of the agreed punishment
I've had a pretty aweful year and this video just made my cry like a baby. Thanks for spreading optimism and hope! ❤ If 2022 brought all these good things, 2023 might turn out better too!
I hope 2023 did turn out better for you! 😊❤
Nuance with the Apple USB-C thing: Apple announced that they will comply with EU policy. That does not necessarily mean they will adopt USB-C, as the policy states any wired charging must be USB-C. They could very well adopt an entirely wireless charging system
I was just about to comment the same thing.
They can't really not comply with it, unless they stop selling phones in the EU
Assuming they use the pre-existing standard for it, I don't see a problem with this. But it's Apple, and so this assumption is likely wrong.
doesnt the legislation also prevent this loophole ?
And they would have switched anyway, given they already put USB-C in ipads. The legislation could speed this up, but I wouldn't get my hopes up
Good to highlight the positives, which sadly don't get as much attention. Too much doomerism around, just because things have slid back a little in a few areas doesn't mean we aren't making progress in a lot of other important areas.
Facts
we a still screwed as a species anyway so none of these matters
@@tt-nm4yj lmao cap
@@tt-nm4yj your comment is only proving his point, you know. 😂
True, tho the achievements are really underwhelming like the nature is good for you is not an achievement but common sense.
I really liked the format you've done in previous years, where you highlight news from every country, but this is also a really nice way to look back on the year. If nothing else, it's good to see good news being presented in a way that isn't overly optimistic or saccharine.
"baseball" is definitely one the most important problems were to be solved
Yeah. Between this and the museums being “allowed” to sell artwork to stay open I was like wtf is happening with this video?
As well as the US Women's soccer team nonsense. Come talk to me when you get viewership in the billions worldwide like the men's World Cup does. I mean, I do a pretty neat card trick, and I am very good at it, but I don't think David Copperfield should be splitting his earnings with me.
Baseball is so boring.
Im just thankful I can sleep through the night again, knowing I wont be busted for all those fake baseball autographs I sold in the 90's.
13:28
so now Canadian doctors can prescribe "touch grass" 💀
I can’t get the idea of not feeding students whenever you can. It’s costly, but it significantly benefits poorer students and those who have poor access to food
Lol yeah. It's ridiculous how there are politicians, typically of one political party, that are against social safety net policies. It seems so immoral to be against supporting the most vulnerable of the general U.S. population but it happens.
It's not even costly. The amount of work saved on administration tasks related to the logistics of food programs in schools and following up on fees saves back almost all of the money used on free student meals. It's (ideally) reallocation of resources, not new spending.
well anything that doesn't benafit the rich is socialism according to conservativies. Thus why its an issue why people keep supporting these high end ppl who only work to exploit the poor for their own agenda instead to fous on the good for everyone and the nation as a whole.
thats one of the things id rather my tax dollars go to rather than someones transitioning surgery
@@nynameisnyan20 id prefer both. but lets not start this here. or at all, actually, why did you have to put that second part in, to make someone react like this to you?...
I would put the soccer deal as a problem, not a resolution. It doesn't increase interest in the sport, but changes the distribution of the already existing pool. This will have longer term repercussions as it could be tougher to acquire talent in the future if some of their pay is not reliant on their own success. It is also not clear that one side's success rises the tide of the other. See the NBA and WNBA.
I can't imagine why anyone would pay attention to women's soccer or basketball. But it's far less cringe than watching male pole dancers.
@@TravisJones812 why pay attention to sports at all? Because it's fun to watch. What a bizarre question.
Their skill level is so sub par it fails to be entertaining to many. But when there are better options that are often even more accessible I can understand his statement.
@@Den-dd5pp I didn't mention pole dancers at all.
@@darkpixel1128 Apologies, i adressed it to the wrong comment😅
Soldier: I'm sad because of all the young people I killed in that air strike
Mental health counselor: have you tried working out and getting some sun?
man that initial 30 seconds felt like it went on forever lmao
The whole first 2 minutes tbh lol
Thank you for positive news. I just watched a similar summary and it was mostly negative things.
Negativity sells, it's the American way
@@MrBcardinal35this comment feels negative 😂
@@seanpruitt6801 It should be
@@MrBcardinal35 Negativity, famously a trait exclusive to American media.
@@MrBcardinal35 negativity sells everywhere, America is just the best at it
FYI - The case for the US Women's Soccer team got thrown out by the judge because the court found that the Women's team got paid more in overall compensation both on a per-game and overall basis due to the agreed base salary and benefits that the men didn't receive. This is despite the prior year's FIFA payouts being drastically in favour of the Men's team.
And that “historic” deal that was made actually favors the US womens team, they have a benefits package that includes health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, paid parental leave of up to 6 months, and short-term disability, and the men’s team gets none of that, how is that fair?
@@PatrickThomasBrady Sounds like a reason to pull up the men's benefits to match, not make everyone's lives equally worse.
@@Talaaya yea I agree, everyone should try to get as much as possible and then some when negotiating contracts/CBAs with their employer, i don’t know how they call this new “historic” contract equal when it’s clearly not, especially after constant misleading interviews and a “documentary” making faulty claims of unequal pay when it was proven in court and by countless others that they actually made more money then the men, I think don lemon was the only reporter from left wing media to call out the bullshit that was going on
This channel really was a comfort place for me this year !!! Amazing way to closeout 2022 !
with all that has gone on this year and the past. This kind of optimistic outlook is very much needed. I hope you continue this for "23 problems solved in 2023" and keep up the great work!
Scientists trying to do 200 things by the end of 2200: 😮💨
One thing you got wrong is apple never actually said they will switch to USB-C. All they said is that they will comply, which could mean they will go port-less, do USB-C only in Europe or other stuff.
Nope. They are fitting USB-C ports to all new phones worldwide. They have to if they want to survive.
@@DimBeam1 Well, they never confirmed that. Just stating facts. The rest is speculation
@@DimBeam1 chances are, they will do away with corded charging ports and force Qi/wireless charging instead with data transfers available only via wifi/bluetooth. Their Argument will likely be, saving the environment by getting rid of cables, reducing plastic and material components being used.
I'm not racing to say this is good news.. yet. Is it a step in the right direction, absolutely! But I think the thing that people forget is that companies can still lock down the cables. Nintendo did that with the switch and their dock, if the cable wasn't okayed by Nintendo, it either didn't charge, or was down to a trickle charge, or worse it bricked the switch. As an iOS user, I wouldn't be surprised whatsoever if Apple took that approach in the transition phase. "Look guys it's a USB-C but it can only be USB-C from these authorized manufacturers"
@@Arch3r666 so so many aspects of our daily lives require wired data transfers (cars without wireless car play is a big one ). It also wouldn’t do away with the charger problem, they’d still have to give you a wired wireless charger.
Thanks as always for making these videos man. Look forward every year : )
I would love to see this become a yearly series. Great job.
Apple never said they would have type c connectors. They just said they would comply. Marques Brownlee hypothesized they would instead use no port and have everything wireless.
Apple has used USB C for years, what are you talking about?
Nope. They are fitting USB-C ports to all new phones worldwide. They have to if they want to survive.
@@DimBeam1 It's mandatory for Europe only.
@@MagicMike_101 yeah, but having a different port in different countries would be a nightmare for manufacturing, software, peripheral design, customer support etc. Not worth it.
@@MagicMike_101 It's called "the Brussels effect".
Basically, since the EU is the world's largest single market, companies will always want to sell there. And if they do they have to adapt to regulations. And if they have to have make adjustments on their products to do that, then it is, as JO Co points out, oftentimes more profitable to just do it on all their products (provided that other market's being larger together do not have differing requirements as well.)
This is why the EU often, in market economics at least, is called a regulatory superpower. What laws are made here, companies around the world adapt to because they want to sell here.
20:53 - The person who caught Judge's 62nd home run was offered $3M for it outright. He decided to take it to auction and the highest bid was $1.5M
A tale as old as time.
Thank you for this I really needed this.
Love the positivity! And using your logo colours as the colour scheme of the plots!
wendy lifting the spirits, thank you dear logistician :)
I have never though of calling wendover wendy, but that is great and should definitely catch on and be used by everyone
Is that Sam's new nickname? 😂
that nickname is cursed
13:28 touch grass as a prescription 😂
If it works it works. Besides just being sent out to a national park will result in some exercise being accomplished which is also healthy. (Also escaping the air polution of cities)
I appreciate the fact that this video shows off the good news of 2022.
It was a hard year. I like good news.
What a fantastic video!! Absolutely amazing summary of important and relevant information
Problem 6: The Women’s team negotiated for more guaranteed money, then sued to get the Men’s deal that holds more risk. This is widely covered and has nothing to do with gender discrimination. In the end, U.S. soccer made a business and PR decision to let the women out of their contract and adopt one similar to the men’s. There is no merit behind the gender discrimination argument.
I thought that the new deal reduced men's soccer compensation, to increase the women's soccer compensation.
@@confederatetearsaredelicious thats exactly what it did
I don't understand why people don't understand simple economics
Women's team bring less revenue, hence less salary. why wont women support it and watch it like men do with men sports? have you ever met a female able to name women female soccer players? or one that has a favorite team?
Shhhh.... You're not helping to push the agenda bro. Women were oppressed because... They got what they originally agreed to...
I know it doesn't make sense but just go with it lol
In my opinion, the remedy to weather this recession and high inflation is short-term trading, as opposed to long-term, most folks using these techniques are netting a ton of gains, sure the risks are higher but yet again isn't the current market equally as risky?
You have to get a financial-advisor/broker to aid you diversify your portfolios to include commodities, inflation-indexed bonds and stocks of companies with solid cash flows, as opposed to growth stocks where valuations were based on future potential earnings.
Having an investment adviser is the best way to go about the market right now, especially for near retirees, I've been in touch with a coach for awhile now mostly cause I lack the depth knowledge and mental fortitude to deal with these recurring market conditions, I nettd over $220K during this dip, that made it clear there's more to the market that we avg joes don't know.
@@Robertgriffinne that's impressive!, I could really use the expertise of this advisors , my portfolio has been down bad....who’s the person guiding you?
@@PhilipMurray251 Credits to Corinne Cecilia Heaney, one of the best portfolio managers out there. she's well known, you should look her up.
@@Robertgriffinne I curiously looked Corinne Cecilia Heaney online and researched her accreditation. She seem very proficient, I wrote her detailing my Fin-market goals
great job! This needs to be #1 trending 2023 lets start a year of NO NEGATIVE NEWS!!!!
Thanks for making this, I needed to hear it happy new year matey 😁
Absolutely excellent. We must pay attention and derive gratitude from the actual progress and incredible effort so many people work passionately for.
Some soccer players getting rich hardly deserves inclusion on this list.
There is a slight caveat worth mentioning - regarding the fusion story. Although technically accurate, that more power was produced than what was introduced, the caveat is that the power introduced was a mere fraction of the power that the laser itself consumed to produce that power. So they're basically kicking the can up the street to achieve that goal.
In fairness, the objective was to make a breakthrough from theory to practice. Now they can go back to the drawing board and start work on the commercial-use prototypes.
@viperblitz11 Oh sure, any progress should absolutely be aplauded. But it's also important to understand what that progress actually is.
A lot of people covering this story are acting like fusion power plants are just around the corner, now that we've successfully got more power out of a fusion reactor than we put in. Like, that's it - science won, game over.
So, I wanted to provide a bit of a reality check - to show how far we still have to go.
This has quickly become one of my favorite channels on UA-cam.
Right now there is a frustrating lack of apolitical, non-angry, high-quality informative content.
That is what this is. Please keep up the good work.
I understand what you mean, but ''apolitical''? A substential part of the video was about policies and their positive effect on people.
@@vanbaguette7368 While that is true, I was more referring to the channel overall.
Great channel, but not even a little apolitical. This video has a very distinct political bias and belittles legitimate concerns around vaccines. The history of vaccines is certainly not a perfect record & the author is clearly uniformed regarding the sordid history of medicine.
@@andrewmoynihan4785 Perhaps apolitical inasmuch as it is possible to be in 2023? Even some decent channels cannot help occasionally deriding one political view or another. This one doesn't. That's pretty awesome.
@@andrewmoynihan4785 Like which concerns?
I'd argue some of these "solutions" are simply political gestures, but lets appreciate that we live in a time of least net human suffering in human history. Times are better than the media would lead you to believe.
True
“solutions” yes, sort-of. Almost all are band-aids while the harms that caused the original problem are getting worse.
School lunches. Food is at most 20-25% of a household’s budget. Poverty continues to be a political choice that could be solved with improved pay and government guaranteed housing. But, hey, actually solving this would undercut obscene profit-taking.
Electric cars. Won’t solve anything. But EVs have been an environmentalist darling. The ultimate solution is restructuring our cities towards walkability. High-density, mixed-use buildings that have commercial & offices on the bottom floors and residential above. Less transportation needed by everyone, less space needed for cars thus still more space for high-density buildings.
Can’t shut up about “politics” (which you all say to despise) when the topic **isn’t** politics
The lithium used by those electric vehicles being rapidly adopted, and indeed all lithium-ion batteries, is produced by African slave labor. There's an entire Wendover video about it. When I hear "rapid adoption of EVs is coming" I think "net human suffering going down isn't the virtue it sounds like when you realize that it's more of a suffering offset tax."
It is very difficult to be happy about some of these stories.
@@CarFreeSegnitz You should look into what government guaranteed housing does to crime rates and what high density urbanization does to birth rates. Some ideas are good on paper and not so good in practice 🙂
22:25 It will catch 90% of the fakes only until the fakers figure out how to defeat the detection device.
This is the classic "arms race" again.
You develop an impenetrable armor, and it is effective only until the enemy figures out how to pernitrate it.
Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are how these are trained. It's not so much an arms race as both the problem and solver always exist.For the deep fake generator to improve a deepfake detector evolves along with it, each trying to beat the other. It's not too much of a problem.
Blood vessel detection will be pretty hard to beat though, at the very least you need high-resolution videos of your target
@@yitzakIr If you do blurry low res videos then it's impossible to detect. But that could be suspicious in itself.
This is true but validation is a much simpler task than generation: both have to understand what fits the right criteria but generation also has to actually create along certain extra parameters. Unlike security for example where I think both sides are similarly hard, here, I think catching deep fakes is a much simpler task so there is a good chance that they will stay ahead in the arms race.
@@yitzakIr I was wondering the same thing, but I think it goes off of, like, overall texture. For example, the skin went from dull to rosier, that kind of transition at a weird spot would be a big red flag.
Totally adore the positivity. Great motivation to look forward to .
Thank you for this video.. makes us all feel better about this year :)
im loving the jetlag series keep em coming
8:07 Was a legal tragedy not something positive. I'm not a neckbeard anti-feminist or anything, but there was nothing unfair about their contract. They essentially had 2 options when they decided on their current contract: Get a % cut of the teams financial earnings or get a steady salary with benefits. The men were offered the exact same deal. The women chose the set salary and benefits, the men chose the % of financial earnings. Again, both teams were offered the exact same terms, and that's why the court sided the way they did. FIFA also pays the men more for participating and winning, but that is also because they receive more revenue from the men's games. Something the US Soccer authorities have absolutely no control over. Once the USWNT started winning they wanted to reneg on their original contract because they saw they gambled and lost. Instead of waiting for the next contract negotiation where they COULD have gotten the exact same terms as the men but they cried, sued, and threw up a media shit storm. Unfortunately it worked.
Women's sports is a waste of time and energy when you look at how much people actually watch women's sports.
@@funveeable The best women soccer players in the world got beat by a random group of 15 year old boys.
This was a major victory for women’s rights. Hoping WNBA players will have equal pay very soon 🙏 🙏
@@LebronCCP NBA already subsidizes the WNBA. WNBA wouldn't even exist if they didn't get money from the NBA. NBA already pays for WNBAs existence, why should they have to give away half their money to the women on top of that? WNBA should be happy for what they get for free instead of trying to demand more.
Women should go watch more womens sport if they want them to earn more money instead of trying to steal from men while claiming EqUaLiTy
I hope this comment gains visibility. There are several interesting details that don't fit the narrative being pushed.
From 2010-2018 the women’s teams averaged $172,222 in earnings per game and the men’s teams averaged $173,684 per game. This doesn't include benefits, such as Healthcare, that the women receive but the men don't.
Can't believe UA-cam waited until now to show this to me. Somehow I felt something was missing on the new year. Thanks for another great production, Sam! I look forward to more sequels in the future!
Just bought a Nebula subscription, definitely not regretting it!
did i ask?
did anyone?
You solved my problem of boring content on youtube. I wish for the same great content in 2023, thanks for all the incredible work, every video is an absolute treat.
Many of these "solved problems" are just band-aid fixes that don't solve or even begin to address the underlying causes.
@@Dimitris_Balf The mRNA is a game changer, and probably the biggest achievement on this list.
Even so, most of this "progress" is based on things we have already long had the means to accomplish. This video shows more that our systems tangibly halt progress, since we are just now getting approved a Lyme disease vaccine that was supposed to come out in the 1990s.
I understand this video was made with having a positive view in mind, but almost all of these issues that were "fixed" are issues that shouldn't have existed in the first place.
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@@Dimitris_Balf I wasn't talking about an mRNA being out in the 90s, we started working on those in the 2010s.
I was referring to the Lyme disease vaccine that was halted and cancelled due to the idiotic protests.
We wouldn't have needed mRNA for that, and we could have prevented a large number of people losing some of their quality of life because of it
Wonderful to have so much good news at the end of the year. Happy new year to all. And thank you ❤️
Thank you so much for this video! I really needed to watch something uplifting after so many bad news. Not everything is lost ☺
he did say that some of these are debatable as wins but i wanted to chime in on the art gallery funding issue. selling artworks to fund salaries and maintenance and stay open is a terrible last ditch effort.
some of that art is likely being sold into private collections, where they may never be seen by the public again. it also gives the wealthy a tax claim to cash in at a later date. while it's great that the galleries are staying open, they are doing so by capitulating to the power of the unregulated art market.
and to my mind they have a finite amount of those artworks, which makes me wonder whether funding will become an issue again.
Thank you for this dose of positivity. This world feels like it is rotting sometimes, it is great to have a reminder everything is not going down.
These reminders are really encouraging.
Thank you!
2022 was truly one of the years of all time.
We always need more good news. It’s easy to forget with all the negativity on the news.
This is always one of my favorite pieces of journalism every year, and it's appreciated more than you know.
Love this video thank you for making it!
Seeing the good that can come out of a year has massaged my heart a little. Thank you.
5:25 I live near a place where they reintroduced the European Bison. Although I haven't seen one this year, we did get warnings a couple of times because these things can cross roads and can probably annihalate a small car if they feel like it. So sometimes we'd get a warning when they move in a way that could disrupt major traffic routes (at least major for this rural part of Germany).
If Canadian moose are anything to go by these animals are a threat to traffic not because they attack traffic but the sometimes fatal results from colliding with them. In Canadian winters moose will often find the easiest path, highways that have been cleared of snow. Moose are large, tall creatures. When a typical sedan or small truck collides with them their legs are cut away and the overwhelming mass of their torso flies straight into the passenger cabin. 1000-1500 pounds of animal crashing into the passenger cabin often ends with fatalities of driver & passengers… and the animal, of course. We Canadians have found it challenging to school our moose on highway safety.
@@CarFreeSegnitz yeah I was exaggerating a bit, obviously colliding with one at 90km/h is the more significant threat
I'm from Lithuania. There's total number of them is 300. Yes, it's really really small, but considering they were completely gone just 100 years ago, it's amazing. Also moose or deers on the road, boars and wolf in farms are by far more dangerous that these huge cows.
Can European bison make fertile hybrids with American bison? Might be a good to cross breed them to introduce genetic variety to both populations.
@@Bacopa68 I don't think that's possible, but I'm not certain
Who wins: an uncaring asteroid vs the human spirit?
Throw a few trillion dollars at it and you might not lose
As of today, Dec 29 2022, I root for the asteroid. Then I will probably change my mind. Or maybe not.
As of today, Dec 30 2022, I also root for the asteroid
@@kenos911 trillion? NASA's or any space programs budget barely reaches billions sometimes people just like to complain about scientific progress wasting money while things like millitary and corporations throw away 100 to 1000 folds of that money to nothing
NASA's entire budget in total for everything not just this recently just reached 20 Billion and that's nothing compared to any other Goverment branchs for US Nasa being less than 0.5%
Elon Musk bought Twitter for 44 Billion that's more than double to buy Twitter
@@kenos911 Also money would be pretty meaningless if this was an actual astroid that heading to earth at that point.
Like what's money without human civilization existing
Thank you very much for this video. Life seems so horrid- this glimpse of light is exactly what I needed. ❤
Correction: USB-C is not up to 100W/3A, but 100W/5A. It's maxed out at 20V.
Unless you also factor in the newest USB PD standard, which allows up to 240W at 48V, given a suitable cable is used (the plugs are exactly the same).
USB C is, in fact, simply the shape and arrangement of the plug. The rest of that stuff is USB 1,2,3,4 etc. (except, of course, the organization in charge of these things keeps changing the naming scheme to be ever more nonsensical and the latest standards is basically a list of 'all the ways the cables and devices should, but will not, be universal or standardized')
@@laurencefraser Sure, but it doesn't invalidate my comment.
Sorry to be that guy, but the predictions for the DART mission wasn't a change of 10-20 minutes, it was 10 - 30 seconds. DART was *orders of magnitude* more successful than anyone could have hoped.
I have to wonder if it scales. There is a limit to how large a rocket payload we can make at the moment. Maybe multiple smaller ones could work.
@@M33f3r Its hard to say, but I'd say thats the wrong way to think about it. There's lots of mass already up there, strictly, we just have to launch the engines, fuel, and guidance system, and put all of that onto a rock already in space. Beyond that, it's just an engineering challenge, either finding a solid enough mass, or finding a way to solidify it enough for energy to transfer to the body, rather than pulling the body apart with tidal forces. This is why one off missions like DART are cool, but really they just show what is possible with massive investment into space infrastructure.
I didn't know how much I needed this.
Please do this every year or more often.
ahh yes, the indomitable human spirit laughing in the face of negativity and reaching further beyond, I truly am mesmerized
the battery swap program is so nice!
It seems so obvious! In a traditional bike, you would also "insert stuff that isn't yours", namely petrol. I don't see why you couldn't do the same with batteries.
It also no longer makes sense to charge the bike, which is probably a good thing in poorer countries, given the sometimes absolutely dreadful power infrastructure to the homes.
@@thany3 what do you mean insert stuff that isnt yours? I paid for the petrol that goes into my vehicle so its my property
The underlying problem persist: What form of energy production is being used to charge these batteries? If its still fossil fuel based, all we are doing is extending the "tail pipe" out to someplace else, and _continuing_ to lie to lie to ourselves.
Too bad it can only work with small and slow scooters and not with full sized motorcycles and certainly not with full sized cars.
@@shotelco That's incorrect. Larger engines are far more efficient than smaller ones, especially comparing them to small two stroke engines. The worst coal power plant is significantly cleaner per KW than the cleanest small two stroke engine.
My head probably would be throbbing less if we all got more good news like this on a regular basis... thank you for this
Happy to see my state (Oregon) involved twice in advancing good in this hell, at least in this video
Hopefully this year brings many more advancements :)
Fusion isn't really waste-free... the neutrons it throws off activate the chamber materials and make them just as radioactive as the low-level waste that comes out of a fission reactor. The amount of high-level waste a fission plant creates is extremely small and its entire lifetime of waste can be safely and permanently stored on-site. So while I'm happy about the steps toward fusion power, the advantage is not in its lack of waste, but in the reduced environmental damage of obtaining its fuel supply compared to uranium mining and processing.
Finally someone who's explained fusion's nuclear waste. All I've heard before this was vague and sounded like the same misunderstanding that's hindering the adoption of nuclear in general (a la "glowing green goop"). Thank you for actually explaining it.
High-level waste from fission plants is a huge detractor. We haven't found a way to reliably store it yet, as no place on Earth can be said to be safe for the hundreds of thousands of years it can take some fission waste to lose its radioactive properties; not even in the short term as we have things like intraplate earthquakes. This is less of a problem with fusion power, the waste of which is less intensely radioactive and takes about 500 years to fully lose its radiotoxicity. Still not ideal, but much better.
Another advantage is no potential meltdowns for fusion plants. That's a huge one, and the reason that many nations don't want fission plants. In the nation where I live, the Netherlands, a meltdown like Chernobyl would make most of the country uninhabitable for centuries. The nation would basically cease to exist. That's a risk we just cannot take, and most nations cannot do it either. The Fukushima disaster has shown that when bad things conspire, fission power plants are still not as safe as they should be.
Aneutronic fusion is a thing.
The "Waste" product is tritium which is recaptured and used as fuel
This is only with the traditional way of doing Nuclear fusion. Real engineering did a great video on a new method that uses the kicked out electrons in a magnetic field to create electricity. This means we are not kicking of neutrons creating more radioactive material.
8:30 I mean yes, but the women's team also has a ton less viewership while having the benefit of being paid even if there are no games played and a lot more benefits in their contracts, meaning that pooling the money without pooling the other advantages of the contracts (which the women refused to switch to the exact same contracts as the men had) just means even more free benefits for the women's team
Please stop making so much sense!
💯. It's amazing that wendover is logical and straight forward for every other topic but when it comes to this he can't rub 2 brain cells together to understand that people do not watch women's soccer hence they bring in less money. It doesn't matter if they won the world cup. No one watched it. No one cared.
It's 2022 he had to come up with 22 solutions to problems. Desn't matter that half of those are made up problems like baseball paraphilia. I guess when we have nuclear conflict on hands next year in Europe at least we might be consoled by the fact that US women's team got their cut of money and baseball memorabilia are fairly traded.
The women choose a contract structure that provided security until it was clear that if they choose one that rewarded performance they would make more.
@@wesleymatthews6356 and then they ended up asking for the benefits of the performance one without giving up any of the benefits of the security one
Good video!
10:50 One quick note….USB-C refers to the form factor of the connector used to connect devices. It has nothing to do with data transfer speeds/throughput (which are designated by numbers, e.g. USB 2.x, 3.x, 4.x, etc.). A manufacturer can make their USB-C cable have the same transfer speeds as a lightning cable (which iirc is USB 2.0).
the wattage also varies...
True, but in the same way the charging speed of a lightning cable is dependent on the power output of the adapter used.
the USB 'standard' is becoming progressively more of a joke as time goes on, unfortunately.
Needed to hear this today!
Thank you so much for the Video. I didnt know how much i needed this.
i really needed this today. thank you sam
History isn't really a linear climb to an improved world, despite our cultural belief that it is. Our actions determine if things get better or worse. Left to itself history has no direction. But it is always a good thing to show that things CAN get better, so I enjoyed the video.
Great. By the time I reached 0:35, the gun was already in my mouth
Thank you. I didn't realize how much I needed this until I watched it.
I love this thank you!
It is so great to see a recap of every year
This is so reliving thank you
this is truly something we need every year, it's just wholesome to me
Please, more videos like that. It really lightens the mood and lets us see that humanity is not lost.
17:03. 😳 What are the odds? I moved to Baltimore 2 yrs ago to an apartment literally right across the street from the W.A. Museum. And I have yet to step foot into this museum. One that (mind you) is free to enter. I guess I had to watch a UA-cam video to remind me not to take my neighborhood and all it has to offer for granted. 🤦🏾♂️
Have you visited the meseum yet?
These are the kind of videos I like to hear. Positive news stories that benefit the world
How do school meals in some states of america benefit the world?
@@goese868 Healthier children means healthier citizens means a healthier country.
Yay love this attitude , thanks for the video!
there’s an inaccuracy in your video, the nuclear fusion segment. while it’s true that the smashing together of the atoms did create more energy than it cost to smash them together, in that closed system, the lasers used to fire those atoms together required 500mj of energy. in total, there was a circa 498 loss in energy.
US Soccer gave the women the option to take the men's deal. The women chose a guaranteed pay approach, instead of per game approach. That got them into trouble when they won the world championship. So they sued US soccer, as Americans do because they had no case. The WOMEN ENTERED INTO AN AGREEMENT, which turned out to be the wrong one. Then they went on the bandwagon of our time and say it is discrimination, which, it is not according to law. So what we are left, is US Women's soccer can change their mind after the fact.
Not the matter far less people watch Woman's soccer league, meaning less interest and revenue from advertisers, less merch etc. How are they expecting to be paid the same, when there's simply far less money going around in their league?
Agreed. That was also my first thought when I heard that as a "problem solved". Wendover is really wrong here
I don't think people don't understand, men sports are usually more fun to watch, they have more skill and ability and if a women's soccer team can get beat by middle and high school kids why the need to watch it. I don't like the notion of complaining of pay when nobody has the interest of watching it
Also did you know that the US women's soccer team get to now take half of the earnings from the US men's team for making through to the world Cup playoffs, for doing absolutely nothing, like wtf is wrong with Americans that they think this is "gender equality"
@@yasinibrahim the women's team lost to a bunch of 15 year old boys if I remembered correctly
Free lunch for all kids! I never got free lunch and I never needed it but I think this is a great idea. Just make it "healthy" at least low processed suger. Also lets give the kids breakfast, something small like a fruit cup or somthing with 200-350 calories.
This was the best video of the year
YES! We need more of this positive outlook on the world. There needs to be more talk about the good that's been happening in the world.