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Please don't concern yourself with giving some time between a wildly speculative claim being made in the world of "science" (it ain't all boyee) that allows your first take to be TRULY informed. It's what makes all of us truly trust you. I hope that's important enough to quell your envy of the popularity of Roganesque bombastic BS.
DUDE, balance your audio better! You go from barely a whisper, requiring me to turn the volume all the way up, to screaming in my ear the very next moment!
Yeah, I only watched one video about it and was reluctant because I figured that if it wasn't in one of my normal sources, it's probably a nothing burger, or an outright scam. Didn't want to waste my time with b.s., of which the Internet has a bountiful supply. If I watch a channel that turns out to be b.s., I can look forward to UA-cam suggesting more b.s. in the future.
The content-farm "science" channels pumping out BS hype junk and milking any trending topic have become a plague upon YT and called out by several channels. UA-cam needs a telephone-book directory type of thing like back in the early days of curated Internet à la CompuServe to guide people to good channels and then find others through those, à la PageRank.
I think zombies are very popular in games because it lets the player defeat hordes of enemies and there doesn't need to be a plot justification for it. And there really is no grey moral area in ending their (un)lives, the zombies just want to eat/infect you and you kill them or die.
“Flush it out” is a term used in hunting. For example, “There’s a deer in that thicket, I’ll go in and try to flush it out”. It means to make something hidden appear.
The context he provided, though, is suppose to be flesh it out, as that idiom means, "to solve completely". But flesh it out is aggressive and a little serial killer-y, so it switched to flush it out in corporate language, despite to two distinct meanings.
I unironically have massive respect for your 2nd reason (don’t like to talk about topics you feel you don’t sufficiently understand). If everyone would live by this, it would solve a good deal of today’s problems.
@@paulhaynes8045 funny. i only follow people on youtube who have a solid handle on their particular topic of interest. i can't speak for the rest of youtube, i guess
science youtube would be in shambles. certain channels call every 'new invention' (im usin that very generously), the "biggest breakthrough that will change the world" and you find out it's just an expanded upon idea by some random start up that recieved investment money from some huge corporation and the invention works at 20% efficiency but only when the sun is tilted 90 degrees upside down and youre standing on one leg. @@paulhaynes8045
i've always understood it as "flesh it out" to develop something and to "flush it out" to make someone or something in hiding to reveal itself. but i did see someone mix them up before, also
Both are certainly valid phrases, sometimes in the same circumstances! I mean, depending on your view of what it is! I don't think Joe was saying one was wrong, and one was right, but rather 'flush' is used in the wrong place quite often... "Flush" it out is something you hear MORE for 'clearing' something in hiding (birds in a bush while hunting...), I've certainly used it (maybe ironically/sarcastically) for a BAD idea...often my own! lol
Flush it out definitely comes from the hunting term of "flushing out" i.e. to reveal hidden prey. Joe is wrong on that one. Similar to "Shake down" and "Fed up" both are really old terms from Falconry, when you lift a falcon to fly it will often shake itself down before taking off. And Fed Up is when the bird had enough to eat and is at it's target weight it simply will not fly to hunt.
My 2 fave eggcorns. One from my days working at an equipment rental shop is, esscavator. Seems like all 15k people in my town call an excavator an ( ess-ka-vator ). And one of my own that freaked me out when I just recently realized it. While trying to use it in a txt, not for love nor money could I get the spell check to help me spell what I’ve always believed was the word misconscrew. Good lord the irony…of learning the correct pronunciation of misconstrue at the ripe old age of 57.
"which probably explains the slow growth of my channel." your channel might grow slowly but our brains grow quickly off your videos. Between you and Mr. Ballen Idk who's better at telling stories and making my gears spin. Keep it up sir, you're amazing.
Yeah! Seconding that Kryptonite fella! Mr. Ballen spouts off nonsense about giants in Afghanistan getting shot up by US military men and then doesn't have the balls to say "actually these 'reports' are completely unsubstantiated and originated entirely on the internet, nor has anyone ever been able to come up with the SLIGHTEST scrap of supporting evidence for this wild occurance" I liked some of his stuff. He's a good storyteller. But don't kid yourself, the man's in this to entertain and make a nice dollaroo or two, NOT to educate people.
The shuttle boosters built by Morton Thiokol (Now Northrop Grumman) WERE limited in width due to the Railroad tunnels. They were built in Promontory Utah and there was no waterway that could be used in place of the trains. That is also why the new SLS boosters are still limited in width but have added another link to achieve the desired burn time.
But tunnel size still has nothing to do with the rail guage though. I'm a currently in Hungary and was recently in the US, both places that use the same guage as my native UK, but both of which have much bigger trains. Because their LOADING guage is much bigger (how big the train can be - hence how large tunnels and bridges, etc have to be). Whilst loading guages clearly are related to track gauge, the link is pretty flexible - US trains, for instances are wider than UK ones and a LOT higher. This difference in loading guages never really caused us any problems in the UK (although double-decker trains are not a thing at home), until the Chanel Tunnel was built. That was built to Continental loading guage, and so too was the high-speed line from it to London (otherwise Continental trains wouldn't have been able to use it). And now we are (gradually) expanding our high-speed 'system' (one line to London, and one from London to Birmingham - almost as bad as the US!), those new lines also have to be built to the larger loading guage. Which also means we can't adapt any of our existing system to real high-speed (over 150mph) because the really fast high-speed trains simply wouldn't fit through existing stations and tunnels.
Other rockets like Falcon 9 and Atlas etc are also that diameter to be transportable without too much hassle. Shuttle tank and Saturn V stages were sent by barge (3rd stage flown by Super Guppy I think). Similar issues in Russia, individual parts couldn't be bigger than the rail could handle. They also put their shuttle on the back of a plane.
@@zapfanzapfan not disagreeing with your basic point, but I think the F9 is transported entirely by road. Which would suggest that size restrictions based on transportation issues is a more general problem. You might, in theory, be able to transport bigger things by road than by train (at least in the US), but will the public and the authorities put up with the regular closing of roads, and other restrictions, that this entails? In other words, rockets are limited in size by transportation considerations in general, rather than by the specific problems of certain types of transport. The exception, of course, is the use of barges, but this is not only slow and weather dependent, but is only possible in very limited geographical situations. Development of the Starship has highlighted this situation (Musk doing his usual thing of doing something his way, without considering any possible drawbacks). And he has consequently painted himself into a number of corners, one of which being transportation of rockets. And, as far as I can see, he has only two solutions: locate production facilities (and launch sites?) where large barges can be used, or manufacture onsite. Both of these solutions raise serious problems, not just for Musk, but for anyone else following in his 'big rocket' footsteps. Personally, I am still far from convinced of the usefulness/viability of Starship, but it's possible that, even if Musk does get it to fly reliably and resolve the many problems with it (such as human rating), it will be the difficulties relating to it's sheer size that will ultimately make the project unviable (and not just because of transportation issues).
@@paulhaynes8045 Yes, F9 is road transported but the clearance of tunnels and bridges over the roads put roughly the same constraints on the size of loads. And yes, larger loads can be accommodated, provided one can avoid tunnels and not drive under any bridges and traffic signs/lights/power lines are temporarily dismantled along the road. One of the Space Shuttles was towed through LA on the way to some museum. Elon first started building stuff for ITS (now starship) at a port near LA so the parts could be shipped by barge. Then he switched to steel and build where he would launch. Starship is still pretty small compared to ferries/tankers/oil rigs etc and if you want to read about a crazy large rocket, look up Seadragon that was proposed in the 1960s.
I've often wondered why the "zombie apocalypse" appeals to so many people. My first instinct is the "survivor" fantasy. I do wonder though if some of it has to do with guilt-free killing? I know, that's dark.
That ain’t it, It’s the idea of a reset. No matter who you were, what you did, what job you held, a great catastrophe is a chance to start again. It’s an instantly level playing field where your status and prosperity isn’t determined by wealth or education.
@@ecbrown6151I feel like that can be accomplished in many other ways than just specifically zombie apocalypse. Why not nuclear armageddon? Alien invasion? Mass famine? There’s so much too chose from lol
I'm sure someone else has said this, but It seemed to me that video games started using zombies as enemies in first person shooters in part because there wouldn't be so much fuss about shooting "real" people. In addition, video games have post-apocalyptic settings in which zombies show up as mutants, etc.
I had a friend in the 80s who was a PHD in ceramics and had repeatedly said that room temperature superconductors were real and existed but they could not replicate the samples. Very interesting stuff. The “IFs” come together more frequently than we expect. The results are often wonderful. Thanks Joe for your wonderful channel !!!!👍🙏🏽👌🏾♻️
I have a theory as to the rise in popularity of zombie films and fiction. The Universal monster movies starred vampires, werewolfs, mummies etc. in the twenties and thirties. In the nineties and the two thousands those “monsters” started to become more humanized, more sympathetic. They were monsters because of a cruel twist of fate or a curse. It became more difficult to portray them as pure evil as for example the Twilight movies. On the other hand the zombie was something no one would feel bad about destroying. The zombie was just a mindless killing and eating machine that needed to be eradicated. Thus allowing the audience to cheer for their destruction guilt free.
My biggest annoyance with egg-corns is that many of the "incorrect" ones are actually completely valid sayings, but they're just used in the wrong context
Ive always said “play it by ear” instead of “play it by year”, meaning that ill figure it out as I go along rather than off a script. Made perfect sense to me until everyone started correcting me
@@dukegosney6916 ear is the correct version... its a reference to playing music without needing a sheet "playing by ear". So to "play it by ear" is to go into something without a plan.
Years ago, a college instructor of mine used the expression "a hare's breath" in a written tutorial. I had to explain to him that it should be "a hair's breadth".
Here in Oz we still use four main railway gauges. Narrow gauge (QLD, TAS, WA, SA) Standard (every state and territory except TAS), Wide (VIC), and ultra narrow (cane railways in QLD).
I love the zombie question. I had the same one years ago and I got another take from my uncle who served in the military for decades. His interpretation of why the zombie has become such a hugely successful villain in entertainment media is because it's the perfect societal unifier and enemy. No matter how it comes about (virus, fungus, etc.), it affects every race, religion, gender, orientation, what have you in exactly the same way, so it enables all people from drastically different walks of life to come together to survive the most universal common enemy created by human fiction to date. It can't be reasoned with, it can't be bargained with, it can't be bribed, and it can't have prejudice or preference one way or the other towards humans, so you either unite and survive, or you fracture and die as a species. It may be old and overplayed in dozens of different ways at this point, but it's likely here to stay because of those reasons and the ones you also mentioned in the video. Just a thought I thought worth sharing. Love your videos, Joe! ❤✌👍
That's an interesting take, thanks! I lived in Ireland for a good while, after living in six different states in the US, and I remember fondly the vein in societal interactions, especially among strangers, of the crappy weather being this common enemy that unified people and had a way of levelling status and humanising people. That's what your comment made me think of anyway.
The first thing that came to my mind is "Why is this turd being hyped TWENTY FOUR years after its 'discovery'?" i.e. they knew they had a turd when they discovered it, so did zero additional testing in the subsequent 24 years.
I think another reason "flush it out" is used is because when making things, if you make them even it's called making them flush, like sanding or filing a protruding screw until it sits flush with the surface that it's on. Since "flesh it out" means to build up an idea until it has a form, I could see using flush as more of taking a bigger idea and essentially filing it down into a more clear goal. That being said, I still say "flesh it out"
For me it's a couple big ones; the "xyz of" ( could of, should of, etc) and "how many kilograms does it weigh?" Kilograms aren't weight, they are mass. Weight in metric, is in Newtons. Weight is a force, so a Newton is kilograms (mass) times acceleration (9.8 m/s/s) equals 9.8 Newtons of mass per kilogram. Weight in freedom units is pounds (obviously), and the mass in the same system is the slug, which is 1/32 of a pound. (Acceleration in empirical is 32 ft/sec/sec)
To be fair, you could actually use an espresso to "flush things out", though I'm not sure how effective coffee enemas are despite their popularity among woo-enjoyers.
@@jmacd8817well done for providing us with another eggcorn by using "empirical" in place of "imperial". I'm going to assume it was deliberate 😅 Though is that an eggcorn or a malapropism? Maybe it's both.
The fanboy-ism on LK-99 was just incredible. I did a video early on laughing at the promo demo video on the companies website, it was obviously rubbish, but wow did I get hammered for doing that! It was like this sacred cow that must not be questioned.
I've heard it used in a hunting context, but also if you own an RV you periodically need to "flush out" your water system to prevent nasties like Legionella.
The psychology of trends in horror films is interesting because it follows subconscious cues from social behaviours and fears of the time. Right now, there's an air of mindlessness. Mindless consumption, vacant staff on shops, teenagers wandering around gazing into their phones oblivious of their surroundings. These things bubble up and become the basis of creative content.
Flush it out always made me think of a few different things. The toilet one, like you said, to flush out the bad stuff, using water to clean stuff, and using insect repellent to flush out insects. I have no idea if any of then were real uses, but it's just what it made me think of
The original use afaik is hunting. A hunter may take a shot or move in a way that causes their prey to come out of hiding so that same hunter or their partner can get a clear shot. When we flush a toilet we fill the toilet bowl with water to both trigger the flushing action and to wash away the (literal) crap. When we flush out a dear we put pressure on it to leave it's hiding spot. One could also flush out an answer by putting pressure on someone until they break down and say something (though such tactics often elicit false information since people just say what they think one wants them to say or what they feel they must say for their survival).
Buddy, you are such a great content creator, and have such a great heart with a balanced point of view. I think your next growth to your career should be a news channel. I'd actually watch the news if it came from someone like you!
What an absolutely seamless transition into the Henson Shaving promotion! 👌🏽 you had me going for a good minute before I realised it was an advert. Appreciate the great content!
Fear of zombies might be related to general fear of crowds. We hate them, we hate how others seem to lose their crap in the dangerous situations, how one panicking person can make entire crowd panic, and things like stampedes can then become genuinely deadly.
zombie tales already existed before the concept of "hordes" ever came up. Vampires fall into the same fear of the undead category, it's a fear of dead bodies, as they spread diseases, are the embodiment of losing a loved one and they remind us of our own mortality. What's worse than a loved one who doesn't react to you anymore and needs to be buried? It's for that loved one to reanimate and now actively trying to harm you and preying on everyone around them. While hordes might've been incorporated into the modern zeitgeist of zombies, It's a much older and primal fear than the concept of crowds and stampedes.
Growing up, I was really afraid of zombies, and that fear has never completely left me. I was never afraid of a horde of zombies or a crowd of zombies. The thing that scared me so much, and this is weird but I guess fear is weird that way, is ONE zombie, peering at me through the window out in the darkness, with a horribly rotted face, or a corpse suddenly opening its eyes and sitting up. It's never been about what the zombie would do, or might do, or could do, just about the moment when I realized that it was there. It's a SUPER dumb thing to be afraid of, but here's the thing... I've talked about this before, and more than one person has agreed with me that yes, this is what scares them about zombies, too. Stuff like the Walking Dead and Project Zomboid have actually reduced my fear of zombies because they act nothing like they do in my nightmares, and I wonder if a certain number of people don't gravitate towards that sort of content for the same reason, because it's reassuring in a bizarre way.
@@TheLumberjack1987 I do think you're onto something here. I commented below about my fear of zombies being a fear of individual zombies, not groups of them, and not even about what they would do or how they might cause me pain, but just, like... about them existing. It's definitely the same kind of fear as the old vampire stories, and I wonder if this somehow influenced my teenaged goth phase.
Rail guage standardization is still a huge problem. It why everything going to/from Ukraine has to be double handled as Ukraines tracks are on the soviet guage not the western guage.
I subscribed today. That bit about the slow growth of your channel go me. I respect your decision and hate the idea that it's biting you in the bum. Thanks for the content, man.
Have not been a long subscriber but it only took a few shows to find out you have found your calling. I play piano and guitar and looked at music theory but my theory of what makes music sound good is what your relationship with your world and because it does. That's good enough for me. I wish I had some of your brain networking. One thing I don't know is why me and others can dream whole symphonies and hear each instrument. Just crazy...
I've actually heard and used both "flesh it out" and "flush it out." I always understood the latter to be more akin to making something flush with something else; make it jive or sync up, if you will, with an existing process or procedure. Smooth out the rough edges. Make it flush.
One thing that I found odd about the whole lk99 hype was the number of times I heard some variation of "even if it is real it wouldn't really change anything".
That's because ceramic magnets are really not very applicable They are often brittle and really easily degrade with thermal stress This kinda limits the places you could use it to very few Hover transportation, need it to be able to last on impact Nuclear fusion, need it to resist thermal stress Better electrical engines, both of the above + coiling ceramic is not economically feasible This is super oversimplified, Thunderf00t did a really good video on this
Thunderf00t did a good video on this aspect. For things like MRIs, the superconductor needs to be drawn into thin wires without cracking. Meanwhile lk99 is a ceramic and extremely brittle. One small bump, one break anywhere in thousands of small windings, and the whole thing becomes scrap. As just ONE example of problems.
@@PsRohrbaugh I saw Thunderf00t video too, and while I agree with all the points he made, it seems odd to me that such a unique property can be so confidently dismissed as having no applications, particularity when given to a group of humans who already think it's cool.
“Flesh it out” and “Flush it out” are both accurate idioms that are often inaccurately used interchangeably. And yes Joe, that flawed usage irritates me too. But it’s not an eggcorn. Flush it out, origin bird hunting, means to ‘identify a possible solution’ or ‘come up with an idea’. Flesh it out, likely origin in art, means to add meat to bones structurally. As in, take that raw idea you flushed out, and make it more robust. They both can be used in meetings, etc.
Yessssssss! FLESH it out! Also in the advertising field “outta the box” vs “outside the box”. “Outta the box” is a solution that is ready to go as soon as you take it out of the box. “Outside of the box” is novel thinking outside existing, accepted, confines. THANK YOU!!! 😂
It really does throw off the meaning, to use those terms interchangeably, plus it just sounds ignorant. Another I really dislike is "overtime" being used in place of " over time," and when people write that they want to be "apart" of something in which they want to participate. It's sad.
Joe - Regarding your ‘slow growth’ comment, it may be because your channel has maintained a modicum of class and self-respect (by YT standards) and you don’t drop to your knees to whore your channel out to every latest algorithm enticing gimmick that comes along. I appreciate that. Also, 1 out of 4 of your jokes are actually funny. Kidding! It’s 1 out of 3. 😉 Keep up the good work. We love you back.
Coming from IT consulting, we hear "flush it out" often. Its coopted meaning is basically akin to applying a process to a system in order to "flush out" unknowns. Kind of like taking a flame thrower to a gopher hole. It's very contextual in that regard.
When I was a kid (I'm 66), "bust" meant one thing, and if you used it inappropriately, a knowledgeable teacher would promptly correct me and tell me to use "burst" instead. Now, it has been redefined, because of so much misusage and is even in the dictionary as it can also be used in its alternative definition. Decimate is another word that seems to be losing its classical definition, and I imagine there are numerous others.
Dictionaries are fast becoming useless as spelling and definition of words no longer seems to matter to anyone anywhere at all 😕 Probably better get used to the Urban Dictionary 🙄 I'm kidding, because I fully intend to respect language as it's been taught to me. And then when I typed "language" I thought of all the commenters who might "guage" any reaction to this disappointing trend 🙂
I believe the context flushing out is hunting related where you would flush out birds. So to flush out would mean to expose or make known which still kinda conveys the same meaning if still different
The thing about zombie stories is that they are easy. Nearly every horror antagonist needs a lot of thought to make believable. You can't make cookie cutter horror monsters and expect it to work. Unless you use zombies. Here it is not the single monster, but the implacable swarm that provides the horror.
The razor dependency strategy is even called like that in business. "Razor and blade" used as a description for strategies like with those newer razors, but also nespresso coffemachines with the expensive capsules and so on...
On railway gauges: there are two gauges to consider, the gauge as a distance between the rails ( the 4 foot 8 and a half in standard) and the "Loading Gauge" the Loading gauge is what determines the size of tunnels, width of bridges and the height and size of railway station platforms, Loading gauge is what determines how big a commodity can be going through tunnels, and is different in many countries, there is a picture of two locomotives, one main line British and one US both on the Standard Rail Gauge but with different loading gauges at the 1939 World's Fair
I think its interesting that the obsession with liminality became more prominent after lock downs. Like the part of the panda that stuck with us was empty spaces.
I agree with your comments on zombies completely. Especially with humanities desire for a restart. I used to work in the emergency management field and we've seen this desire people have in practice. My main reason for commenting though is, while the concept of zombies goes way back as you mentioned, I would like to add something. Back in 2011 the CDC did a preparedness campaign that used a "zombie apocalypse" as a backdrop for their preparedness month exercises. With that feeling of wanting a reset out there, and no one wanting to talk about it, this campaign gave people from all walks of life an outlet that made prepping an acceptable thing. It's just my opinion, but I believe this is when we really started seeing an increase in zombie related themes. Maybe as a way for us to all acknowledge a connection on a common feeling without actually saying it.
Hey Joe! Always excited to see another upload from you! Anyway, I don't know what's up with your sound lately but I swear your last few videos seem to be quieter than pretty much any others I watch on YT. But it's just your speaking...when your intro sound comes on I'm deafened because I had turned the headphones up to hear you
Music theory is math, but looked at from a different angle. When I was seven, I wanted to learn to play the piano so much. My grandmother was a piano teacher but had retired from that so she recommended a lady she knew who lived near us. This teacher taught me, but what she really taught me was music theory. She wouldn’t start to teach me piano until I had a solid grasp on music theory and could read/write music notation proficiently. I was unhappy with this at the time, but now I’m incredibly grateful for that early foundation in music theory. I minored in music in college but ended up being a professional photographer for the first 15 years of my professional career. When chronic illness and physical disability forced me to give up photography, I transitioned to music. I’ve worked for an opera company for the past 23 years now, and my training in music theory is the main reason I was able to get the job. I’ve had to learn some Italian and French to go along with the German I studied in college, so I feel like I’ve used both the math and the language sides of my brain in this job. I feel like learning music theory helped me with learning math in school, too. I truly believe that every child would benefit from learning basic music theory in school. It can help in so many different ways because it trains the brain to think about things differently, which can help when it comes to learning all subjects.
That seems to be more common in the US than the UK. Weirdly you never hear the opposite "by purpose". I agree though, it does sound wrong and very irritating.
I think it's sad we can't really get away with correcting our youth on little things, since they'll either say "gfy" or report the abuse to school authorities. So it's easier to just rewrite the dictionary or maybe even burn it.
The modern zombie, popularized by Night of the Living Dead, has lots of great reasons to appeal to people. First, it makes for a simple and entertaining ingredient for storytelling. In most good zombie stories they're not the focus, they're the background. (They're a house on fire, and people fighting in the house are the more interesting drama.) They raise the tension and remove room for failure, requiring people to work together to survive. And we see how that goes. And games, which lean into the easier-to-program simple collision physics, treat them like Mario does goombas, providing masses to kill. And a lot of our culture enjoys gore! Love me some good zombie media.
Although LK99 is not what we hoped, it's not a total loss, we are still learning things, especially about assembly of these specific materials. They still may have other uses!
That's like saying that if a bus hits you, but you don't die, but you stay paralyzed for the rest of your life it's not a total loss. This FALSE hype is super bad. There's so many times that "scientists" say that they "discovered" a new tech for a very efficient battery, for a new storage media that's 1.000.000 times better, for a new material that's 1.000.000 times more resistant than steel, bla bla bla. And 99.99999% it's pure bullsh*t.
@@eugenb9017 ok it keeps being deleted. You can find out the latest info about LK-99. The Korean team released the patents today. Most researchers and scientists were wrong They wanted to bury LK-99 as soon as it came out even though it takes at least a few months maybe because they were afraid of revealing their incompetence
@@eugenb9017 The US National lab, pf Awana from India, King’s college London china lab , Swedish university etc they admitted the possibility of superconductor in LK-99
My most-hated eggcorn is "Could of." Because it's "could have", but then abbreviated to "could've", and then sometimes it seems like an entire generation has misheard that to "could of".
@joescott Every time you do a sponsorship from Henson I have to say how great I think they are. I bought one a year ago using your code, and I'm not even half way through the 100 free blades you get with the code. I loved it so much I bought one for my brother and one for my dad. My dad of course used a safety razor when I was a kid, and when he took that first pass he said "Oh God I didn't realize how much I missed this." He went from shaving once a week to 4 times a week and my mom whispered "I hated those whiskers, thank you thank you thank you." So uhh... Thank you for doing a sponsorship through them.
"Flush it out" could be interpreted in the hunting context, where there's a really good whatever you're after out there, and you just have to flush it out of its hiding spot. This probably explains the prevalence (non-detection of the error) of the eggcorn.
Totally agree on the zombie topic. Around the same time that zombies started to get big, so did the idea of AI/robots taking over or destroying mankind.
Humans have been continuously anticipating the imminent end of the world for thousands of years. A zombie apocalypse and AI are just the "fun" ones because you can't fist fight a nuclear holocaust or shoot global warming in the head.
The eggcorn that drives me crazy is when even supposedly professional writers talk about 'diffusing a situation' rather than 'defusing' it, i.e. scattering it widely rather than reducing the harm of it.
My understanding is that standard gauge simply comes from a guy who had to build a whole bunch of railroad track, and had ready access to 5 foot long sections of wood to use as railroad ties. The track gauge is measured from the inside edge of the rails to it ends up being 4' 8.5" due to the thickness of the rails. Enough of this track was built that compatibility with it was economical, and it spread from there.
I had high hopes for LK-99 until the peer reviews started rolling in. 😢 I never once heard anyone use the term "flush it out" unless they were hunting. I just ordered my razor and blades! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Re: Standard Gauge, George Stephenson came up the standard part of it. He said to make all the rails the same size because he believed that in the future, there'd be lines spanning across all of the UK and wanted them to be the same size so that no matter where they're made, they can meet and work together. Also, a lot of early engines were made in and shipped from there and thus the gauge was probably just adopted for ease. (Except for the south, as said) As for why 4ft 8in 1/2 specifically, who knows. It could be mine carts, horses, or just chosen arbitrarily. We'll probably never know.
While it's impossible to name a single cause of the modern zombie craze, IMO it really blew up with 2004's Dawn of the Dead. It led to a lot of popular zombie video games like Dead Rising (2006) and Left 4 Dead (2008). Of course The Walking Dead TV series (2010) shot it directly into the mainstream. You could also argue that the Resident Evil series (1995) incubated the genre for a while before Dawn of the Dead caused it to blow up. The Walking Dead comic started before Dawn of the Dead in 2003, so the genre was certainly growing before then.
Isn't "flush something out" also a term for driving something out of hiding, like flushing a critter out of it's burrow? Also, a while back I found out that the standard gauge thing being based on roman roads was a complete load of bull right from the start. Standard gauge was originally based on a specific railway that used wooden rails, with an outside spacing of 5 feet, because they used 5 food wide wooden sleepers. The resulting inside spacing was 4'8", and when they switched to metal rails, they maintained that inside spacing, so they could reuse the existing wagons. The spacing was then widened by half an inch to reduce binding of the wheel flanges, and then that gauge was adopted as the standard by Stevenson, and was spread internationally with his locomotives. While the width of two horses thing probably has something to do with the rough size range of 4-5 feet than many early railways used, the specific size of 4'8.5" has very little to do with it.
I use to hve a friend that used to crate eggcorns, constantly on the fly.. Between a rock and a hot plate… Out of the frying pan into the kettle… Wearing rose covered glasses… She used to pose questions that made you do double takes… What do they do with the other half of a club sandwich? The sky is blue because it’s water and clouds. They should use concrete in helmets because it doesn’t crack like plastic… She had a masters degree in social science. Loved her thinking…
Interesting point about the Confederacy not standardizing their rail gauges right away. There was a similar problem with their telegraph lines. Many of the telegraph lines running through the South were owned by companies based in the North. So, the Union had thousands of miles of wires already in place they could use at the start of the war, while the Confederacy had to string all-new lines first. That made a big difference in how quickly the militaries could send encrypted messages to their Generals in the field, and the TYPES of encryption they could use.
The one that gets me is “Spittin Image”. As in, he’s the spittin image of his father. Long ago, the idiom was “Spirit and image”; “he’s the spirit and image of his father” Meaning he not only LOOKS like his father, he has his nature or character as well. Children heard this said a lot referring to them, and not hearing it correctly, they grew up to say ‘spittin image’…
Funny thing is I have never, ever at all, heard “flush it out” used in place of “flesh it out,” which makes me wonder how common it is. “Whole nother” use is my personal gripe.
I’ve always thought “Flush it out” was to make something flush (as in flush against something). So you’re trying to get rid of the space between so it lays perfectly
regarding the roman roads and the grooves. there is one misconception: the grooves were actually cut into the stone. they did not appear on their own. that way, the horses had an easier time to just follow the lines and the wagon will stay inside the grooves. they are not a product of wear and tear.
i remember an old ""theory"" that used to float around the internet from time to time about how zombies and vampires seem to switch off dominance in culture and attempted to link it to politics and fear of the masses and consumerism vs elitism, but each version of the theory seemed to shake it out a little differently. There are undeniably political undercurrents to these stories as there are to many others, but horror and its manifestation of abstractions and liminality gets used a lot for these things. Night of the Living Dead is an intensely political movie. Zombies in Malls specifically, has been raised from the dead so many times its essentially a zombie itself. Ideas of the "mindless masses" or the inability to control them. Vampires are pretty self explanatory to the point it becomes pretty thorny to write them in certain kinds of stories and every time a new one comes out there's a lot of 'what metaphors, intentional or otherwise, are created by this.' I would love to see a video on the specific part of that where you said it speaks to not just the fear, but the desire for collapse. The desire for collapse is a fascinating topic, one which I have many thoughts on, and could reach into a million different fields, most of which are not strictly 'science communication', at least as far as I know. It's a near religious eschatological impulse, a twist on the old idea of a 'death drive', a comparative mythological attempt to, as one teacher of mine put it, reconcile the linearity of human life with the cyclical reality of nature. Neuropsychologically if consciousness and identity are both largely narrative constructs emergent from the brain simulating things to try to navigate the world, the idea that the story continues without us may, on some level, feel impossible to fully grasp. Of course part of us thinks the world will end within our lifetimes. Everyone's got a bit of main character syndrome, as the kids might have put it a few years ago, due to seeing the world from inside the only knowable mind to ourselves. Obviously armageddon and ragnarok type myths play a huge role in how pervasive the idea is -- but if so, you'd expect a lack of it in societies where a more cyclical or expansive cosmology is more dominant (buddhist and hindu cosmologies are structured quite differently, and involve many more realities and longer time frames), and that is research i haven't myself been able to fully carry out. Of course, especially cold war, 'the end of the world' is far from a purely religious idea. But there's also the idea that you mentioned of it being a sort of almost optimistic idea. That if only we could start over - it becomes a return to eden/state of nature thing, instead of an apocalyptic one. You can see this impulse in all kinds of things. The term "late stage capitalism" is one of my favorite. It's more than strictly a modernist notion of single, progressive arcs of history, its a certainty that the end of something must be nigh, that things cannot and will not simply. continue. There's an element of dissatisfaction to despair at play - as you mentioned - the fantasy that if only it would all break, we would be able to make it better, rather than change it bit by bit.
Another thing about the whole flush/flesh it out bit. Flushing is something a hunter does to game birds. To flush something is to spook it into flight. So you would go to a bush you had a good idea held grouse or quail or pheasant, which is to say that you'd flush out a thing. Ergo, you flush out how a person thinks.
I think this is exactly what we needed. Talking about the LK-99, it sparked a level of interest in practical science again, and got my mind off the other things you mentioned that are happening. I love all music and it is rare for me to find a collection of noises made on purpose for the purpose of expressing. I love music from all over the world.
Etymology is fascinating. We drive cars because we use to drive a team of horses or cattle. It means urge forward. You can be driven in your task or people with drive accomplish more. Less mechanical and more encourage.
13:40 I'd like to further discredit the horse butt theory. "Standard gauge" was actually 5 foot gauge when it was devised. Back then they measured the gauge from the outside of the rails. When you switch to the modern method of measuring inside the rails you find it's 2 rail widths narrower which comes out to 4ft8.5in. The outside gauge may be different now because the outer gauge isn't really relevant to whether train cars fit the track which is why we switched to inside gauge in the first place.
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Please don't concern yourself with giving some time between a wildly speculative claim being made in the world of "science" (it ain't all boyee) that allows your first take to be TRULY informed. It's what makes all of us truly trust you. I hope that's important enough to quell your envy of the popularity of Roganesque bombastic BS.
DUDE, balance your audio better! You go from barely a whisper, requiring me to turn the volume all the way up, to screaming in my ear the very next moment!
What's up with the audio levels lately? They are all over the place! Love your channel though. :-)
Love your channel but just FYI, the video of the Canadian Fire is in BC specifically the Okanagan Valley but thanks for the thoughts and concerns
Ok, on a Windows 11 laptop with Chrome, I didn't experience any problems with sound levels. JS for those that had an issue.
Thank you for being the guy that waits a few weeks.
It has always amazed me that most people aren't like this.
Right! He doesn't want to end up in a Thunderf00t video...
Yeah, I only watched one video about it and was reluctant because I figured that if it wasn't in one of my normal sources, it's probably a nothing burger, or an outright scam. Didn't want to waste my time with b.s., of which the Internet has a bountiful supply. If I watch a channel that turns out to be b.s., I can look forward to UA-cam suggesting more b.s. in the future.
@TheTiredHorizonshouldn’t lab people be encouraging people like thunder and calling out people like elon?
The content-farm "science" channels pumping out BS hype junk and milking any trending topic have become a plague upon YT and called out by several channels. UA-cam needs a telephone-book directory type of thing like back in the early days of curated Internet à la CompuServe to guide people to good channels and then find others through those, à la PageRank.
I think zombies are very popular in games because it lets the player defeat hordes of enemies and there doesn't need to be a plot justification for it. And there really is no grey moral area in ending their (un)lives, the zombies just want to eat/infect you and you kill them or die.
I feel the same way. You can commit mass-murder, spree-killing without feeling bad about it. It's kind of not very nice to think about too hard.
same for nazis... universally hated, so you can set them on fire or perform other gruesome acts and the audience will only cheer
Also, they're pretty cheap to film. Wide crowd shots of zombies based on 10 minutes of makeup on 50 extras still looks pretty intimidating
That's exactly why I don't like zombie games: I'm not interested in just killing tons of people for a while.
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Never played Project Zomboid huh? No pressure.
“Flush it out” is a term used in hunting. For example, “There’s a deer in that thicket, I’ll go in and try to flush it out”. It means to make something hidden appear.
Exactly
Still has that negative connotation, get it out in the open so we can kill it (and be rid of it if used in a military context).
The context he provided, though, is suppose to be flesh it out, as that idiom means, "to solve completely". But flesh it out is aggressive and a little serial killer-y, so it switched to flush it out in corporate language, despite to two distinct meanings.
It's also something you may or may not have to do to your car's radiator, depending on which mechanic you ask
Just sitting here thinking if I've ever heard flush get used before... 🤔
I unironically have massive respect for your 2nd reason (don’t like to talk about topics you feel you don’t sufficiently understand). If everyone would live by this, it would solve a good deal of today’s problems.
It would utterly destroy UA-cam though...
@@paulhaynes8045 funny. i only follow people on youtube who have a solid handle on their particular topic of interest. i can't speak for the rest of youtube, i guess
science youtube would be in shambles. certain channels call every 'new invention' (im usin that very generously), the "biggest breakthrough that will change the world" and you find out it's just an expanded upon idea by some random start up that recieved investment money from some huge corporation and the invention works at 20% efficiency but only when the sun is tilted 90 degrees upside down and youre standing on one leg. @@paulhaynes8045
I think you are right!
Politicians would cease to exist in such a world
i've always understood it as "flesh it out" to develop something and to "flush it out" to make someone or something in hiding to reveal itself. but i did see someone mix them up before, also
and I thought it was flash it out.
Both are certainly valid phrases, sometimes in the same circumstances! I mean, depending on your view of what it is! I don't think Joe was saying one was wrong, and one was right, but rather 'flush' is used in the wrong place quite often... "Flush" it out is something you hear MORE for 'clearing' something in hiding (birds in a bush while hunting...), I've certainly used it (maybe ironically/sarcastically) for a BAD idea...often my own! lol
Fleshing something out is when you want to make sure something has some meat on its bones.
Lol I always thought it was came from thresh it out. As in separating wheat from chaf
Flush it out definitely comes from the hunting term of "flushing out" i.e. to reveal hidden prey. Joe is wrong on that one. Similar to "Shake down" and "Fed up" both are really old terms from Falconry, when you lift a falcon to fly it will often shake itself down before taking off. And Fed Up is when the bird had enough to eat and is at it's target weight it simply will not fly to hunt.
My 2 fave eggcorns. One from my days working at an equipment rental shop is, esscavator. Seems like all 15k people in my town call an excavator an ( ess-ka-vator ). And one of my own that freaked me out when I just recently realized it. While trying to use it in a txt, not for love nor money could I get the spell check to help me spell what I’ve always believed was the word misconscrew. Good lord the irony…of learning the correct pronunciation of misconstrue at the ripe old age of 57.
That's so endearing 🙂👍
re:LK-99 : I would much rather the slow burn updates on topics over sensationalized click bait. Keep doing what you're doing, how you're doing it!
Oh, you mean like the new toiroidal prop.
The one inverted by Archimedes?
"which probably explains the slow growth of my channel." your channel might grow slowly but our brains grow quickly off your videos. Between you and Mr. Ballen Idk who's better at telling stories and making my gears spin. Keep it up sir, you're amazing.
considering mr ballen mixes fiction with his stories without telling you, it might actually shrink your brain without you realizing it
Yeah! Seconding that Kryptonite fella! Mr. Ballen spouts off nonsense about giants in Afghanistan getting shot up by US military men and then doesn't have the balls to say "actually these 'reports' are completely unsubstantiated and originated entirely on the internet, nor has anyone ever been able to come up with the SLIGHTEST scrap of supporting evidence for this wild occurance"
I liked some of his stuff. He's a good storyteller. But don't kid yourself, the man's in this to entertain and make a nice dollaroo or two, NOT to educate people.
I have family in yellowknife who had to evacuate last week. Thanks for the shout out. Thoughts go out to Kelowna, BC residents as well.
I have family in Kelowna and the Shuswap area that have been evacuated. Really hoping their homes are lost.
@@graham1034 didn't like them very much?
@@crooker2 haha, oops. That's not the best typo. Should be "aren't"
@graham1034 Same, I have some family a bit east of Kelowna but the fires don't seem to have spread there yet. Just hope everything will be fine
@@graham1034 I figured so... But it was too good to pass up. :) Well wishes to your family.
The shuttle boosters built by Morton Thiokol (Now Northrop Grumman) WERE limited in width due to the Railroad tunnels. They were built in Promontory Utah and there was no waterway that could be used in place of the trains. That is also why the new SLS boosters are still limited in width but have added another link to achieve the desired burn time.
But tunnel size still has nothing to do with the rail guage though. I'm a currently in Hungary and was recently in the US, both places that use the same guage as my native UK, but both of which have much bigger trains. Because their LOADING guage is much bigger (how big the train can be - hence how large tunnels and bridges, etc have to be).
Whilst loading guages clearly are related to track gauge, the link is pretty flexible - US trains, for instances are wider than UK ones and a LOT higher.
This difference in loading guages never really caused us any problems in the UK (although double-decker trains are not a thing at home), until the Chanel Tunnel was built. That was built to Continental loading guage, and so too was the high-speed line from it to London (otherwise Continental trains wouldn't have been able to use it). And now we are (gradually) expanding our high-speed 'system' (one line to London, and one from London to Birmingham - almost as bad as the US!), those new lines also have to be built to the larger loading guage. Which also means we can't adapt any of our existing system to real high-speed (over 150mph) because the really fast high-speed trains simply wouldn't fit through existing stations and tunnels.
@@paulhaynes8045 Not to be that guy, but it's spelled "gauge".
Other rockets like Falcon 9 and Atlas etc are also that diameter to be transportable without too much hassle. Shuttle tank and Saturn V stages were sent by barge (3rd stage flown by Super Guppy I think). Similar issues in Russia, individual parts couldn't be bigger than the rail could handle. They also put their shuttle on the back of a plane.
@@zapfanzapfan not disagreeing with your basic point, but I think the F9 is transported entirely by road.
Which would suggest that size restrictions based on transportation issues is a more general problem. You might, in theory, be able to transport bigger things by road than by train (at least in the US), but will the public and the authorities put up with the regular closing of roads, and other restrictions, that this entails?
In other words, rockets are limited in size by transportation considerations in general, rather than by the specific problems of certain types of transport.
The exception, of course, is the use of barges, but this is not only slow and weather dependent, but is only possible in very limited geographical situations.
Development of the Starship has highlighted this situation (Musk doing his usual thing of doing something his way, without considering any possible drawbacks). And he has consequently painted himself into a number of corners, one of which being transportation of rockets.
And, as far as I can see, he has only two solutions: locate production facilities (and launch sites?) where large barges can be used, or manufacture onsite.
Both of these solutions raise serious problems, not just for Musk, but for anyone else following in his 'big rocket' footsteps.
Personally, I am still far from convinced of the usefulness/viability of Starship, but it's possible that, even if Musk does get it to fly reliably and resolve the many problems with it (such as human rating), it will be the difficulties relating to it's sheer size that will ultimately make the project unviable (and not just because of transportation issues).
@@paulhaynes8045 Yes, F9 is road transported but the clearance of tunnels and bridges over the roads put roughly the same constraints on the size of loads.
And yes, larger loads can be accommodated, provided one can avoid tunnels and not drive under any bridges and traffic signs/lights/power lines are temporarily dismantled along the road. One of the Space Shuttles was towed through LA on the way to some museum.
Elon first started building stuff for ITS (now starship) at a port near LA so the parts could be shipped by barge. Then he switched to steel and build where he would launch.
Starship is still pretty small compared to ferries/tankers/oil rigs etc and if you want to read about a crazy large rocket, look up Seadragon that was proposed in the 1960s.
I've often wondered why the "zombie apocalypse" appeals to so many people. My first instinct is the "survivor" fantasy. I do wonder though if some of it has to do with guilt-free killing? I know, that's dark.
That ain’t it, It’s the idea of a reset. No matter who you were, what you did, what job you held, a great catastrophe is a chance to start again. It’s an instantly level playing field where your status and prosperity isn’t determined by wealth or education.
@@ecbrown6151I feel like that can be accomplished in many other ways than just specifically zombie apocalypse. Why not nuclear armageddon? Alien invasion? Mass famine? There’s so much too chose from lol
@@saintlusso2907 there's a lot to choose from.... and some writers do 🤷♂
Freedom from societal norms, social pressures. And seemingly much more managable and less awful to live through than something like a nuclear war.
Plenty of ppl kill guilty free already..
I'm sure someone else has said this, but It seemed to me that video games started using zombies as enemies in first person shooters in part because there wouldn't be so much fuss about shooting "real" people. In addition, video games have post-apocalyptic settings in which zombies show up as mutants, etc.
or plants...
I had a friend in the 80s who was a PHD in ceramics and had repeatedly said that room temperature superconductors were real and existed but they could not replicate the samples. Very interesting stuff. The “IFs” come together more frequently than we expect. The results are often wonderful.
Thanks Joe for your wonderful channel !!!!👍🙏🏽👌🏾♻️
Great comment but when you said PHD in ceramics I cracked up thinking of the old ladies at their ceramics class :)
@@twocyclediesel1280 LOL
the us navy has some room temp super conductors, has had them since 2017.
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I have a theory as to the rise in popularity of zombie films and fiction. The Universal monster movies starred vampires, werewolfs, mummies etc. in the twenties and thirties. In the nineties and the two thousands those “monsters” started to become more humanized, more sympathetic. They were monsters because of a cruel twist of fate or a curse. It became more difficult to portray them as pure evil as for example the Twilight movies. On the other hand the zombie was something no one would feel bad about destroying. The zombie was just a mindless killing and eating machine that needed to be eradicated.
Thus allowing the audience to cheer for their destruction guilt free.
My biggest annoyance with egg-corns is that many of the "incorrect" ones are actually completely valid sayings, but they're just used in the wrong context
Irregardless, they're still annoying.
Ive always said “play it by ear” instead of “play it by year”, meaning that ill figure it out as I go along rather than off a script. Made perfect sense to me until everyone started correcting me
@dukegosney6916 you've been saying/using it correctly, whoever has been telling you otherwise doesn't know what they're talking about.
@@dukegosney6916 ear is the correct version... its a reference to playing music without needing a sheet "playing by ear". So to "play it by ear" is to go into something without a plan.
Years ago, a college instructor of mine used the expression "a hare's breath" in a written tutorial. I had to explain to him that it should be "a hair's breadth".
Here in Oz we still use four main railway gauges.
Narrow gauge (QLD, TAS, WA, SA) Standard (every state and territory except TAS), Wide (VIC), and ultra narrow (cane railways in QLD).
The picture of "Yellowknife" was actually Kelowna which also was evaluated but is in British Columbia.
I love the zombie question. I had the same one years ago and I got another take from my uncle who served in the military for decades. His interpretation of why the zombie has become such a hugely successful villain in entertainment media is because it's the perfect societal unifier and enemy. No matter how it comes about (virus, fungus, etc.), it affects every race, religion, gender, orientation, what have you in exactly the same way, so it enables all people from drastically different walks of life to come together to survive the most universal common enemy created by human fiction to date. It can't be reasoned with, it can't be bargained with, it can't be bribed, and it can't have prejudice or preference one way or the other towards humans, so you either unite and survive, or you fracture and die as a species. It may be old and overplayed in dozens of different ways at this point, but it's likely here to stay because of those reasons and the ones you also mentioned in the video. Just a thought I thought worth sharing. Love your videos, Joe! ❤✌👍
That's an interesting take, thanks! I lived in Ireland for a good while, after living in six different states in the US, and I remember fondly the vein in societal interactions, especially among strangers, of the crappy weather being this common enemy that unified people and had a way of levelling status and humanising people. That's what your comment made me think of anyway.
That would be a real power move. "We should flush this idea out" "Did you mean flesh it out?" "Nope."
@DontReadMyProfilePicture.57>>> TOO LATE...🤭
need a button that plays the toilet flushing sound
Flush it out as in hunting.. flushing out the game, flush it out of cover
@@slync7129 right. similar to smoking something out (with fire, of course)
@@360.TapestryA member of the muscular class?
First thing came to my mind when I heard about LK-99 what I thought was too good to be true
The first thing that came to my mind is "Why is this turd being hyped TWENTY FOUR years after its 'discovery'?"
i.e. they knew they had a turd when they discovered it, so did zero additional testing in the subsequent 24 years.
I once had someone correct me when I said, "flesh it out." It made me question my entire existence for a moment until I looked it up to confirm. 😂
Probably THE smoothest sponsor integration into a UA-cam video I've ever seen! Well done!
Just wanted to say thank you for including Yellowknife in your shoutout. ❤
What I'd like to know is what's going on with Graphene? That was meant to be a wonder material 5+ years ago but nothing seems to have come from it
I think another reason "flush it out" is used is because when making things, if you make them even it's called making them flush, like sanding or filing a protruding screw until it sits flush with the surface that it's on. Since "flesh it out" means to build up an idea until it has a form, I could see using flush as more of taking a bigger idea and essentially filing it down into a more clear goal. That being said, I still say "flesh it out"
For all intensive purposes we need to flush this out over a cup of expresso.😅
For me it's a couple big ones; the "xyz of" ( could of, should of, etc) and "how many kilograms does it weigh?" Kilograms aren't weight, they are mass. Weight in metric, is in Newtons. Weight is a force, so a Newton is kilograms (mass) times acceleration (9.8 m/s/s) equals 9.8 Newtons of mass per kilogram.
Weight in freedom units is pounds (obviously), and the mass in the same system is the slug, which is 1/32 of a pound. (Acceleration in empirical is 32 ft/sec/sec)
To be fair, you could actually use an espresso to "flush things out", though I'm not sure how effective coffee enemas are despite their popularity among woo-enjoyers.
@@jmacd8817well done for providing us with another eggcorn by using "empirical" in place of "imperial". I'm going to assume it was deliberate 😅
Though is that an eggcorn or a malapropism? Maybe it's both.
This week for school, I’ve been learning about peer reviews and the nature of science so I’m glad I watch the first part
That picture of "Yellowknife" is actually a picture of "Kelowna" wildfire.
Yeah that was a face palm. All Canadian cities are basically the same, right?
Makes you wonder what else they get wrong in these videos.
Save the ogopogo
The fanboy-ism on LK-99 was just incredible. I did a video early on laughing at the promo demo video on the companies website, it was obviously rubbish, but wow did I get hammered for doing that! It was like this sacred cow that must not be questioned.
To flush out is a hunting term and it is commonly confused with flesh out, especially in the south
I've heard it used in a hunting context, but also if you own an RV you periodically need to "flush out" your water system to prevent nasties like Legionella.
The psychology of trends in horror films is interesting because it follows subconscious cues from social behaviours and fears of the time. Right now, there's an air of mindlessness. Mindless consumption, vacant staff on shops, teenagers wandering around gazing into their phones oblivious of their surroundings. These things bubble up and become the basis of creative content.
This is a great example of science! 🎉 We will rumble and stumble but still keep moving forward
Flush it out always made me think of a few different things. The toilet one, like you said, to flush out the bad stuff, using water to clean stuff, and using insect repellent to flush out insects. I have no idea if any of then were real uses, but it's just what it made me think of
The original use afaik is hunting. A hunter may take a shot or move in a way that causes their prey to come out of hiding so that same hunter or their partner can get a clear shot. When we flush a toilet we fill the toilet bowl with water to both trigger the flushing action and to wash away the (literal) crap. When we flush out a dear we put pressure on it to leave it's hiding spot. One could also flush out an answer by putting pressure on someone until they break down and say something (though such tactics often elicit false information since people just say what they think one wants them to say or what they feel they must say for their survival).
Buddy, you are such a great content creator, and have such a great heart with a balanced point of view. I think your next growth to your career should be a news channel. I'd actually watch the news if it came from someone like you!
What an absolutely seamless transition into the Henson Shaving promotion! 👌🏽 you had me going for a good minute before I realised it was an advert. Appreciate the great content!
Fear of zombies might be related to general fear of crowds. We hate them, we hate how others seem to lose their crap in the dangerous situations, how one panicking person can make entire crowd panic, and things like stampedes can then become genuinely deadly.
Also being eaten by something we more often than not feel safe around.
zombie tales already existed before the concept of "hordes" ever came up.
Vampires fall into the same fear of the undead category, it's a fear of dead bodies, as they spread diseases, are the embodiment of losing a loved one and they remind us of our own mortality.
What's worse than a loved one who doesn't react to you anymore and needs to be buried?
It's for that loved one to reanimate and now actively trying to harm you and preying on everyone around them.
While hordes might've been incorporated into the modern zeitgeist of zombies, It's a much older and primal fear than the concept of crowds and stampedes.
Zombies also in Romero and others, are a critique of consumerism.
Growing up, I was really afraid of zombies, and that fear has never completely left me. I was never afraid of a horde of zombies or a crowd of zombies. The thing that scared me so much, and this is weird but I guess fear is weird that way, is ONE zombie, peering at me through the window out in the darkness, with a horribly rotted face, or a corpse suddenly opening its eyes and sitting up. It's never been about what the zombie would do, or might do, or could do, just about the moment when I realized that it was there. It's a SUPER dumb thing to be afraid of, but here's the thing... I've talked about this before, and more than one person has agreed with me that yes, this is what scares them about zombies, too.
Stuff like the Walking Dead and Project Zomboid have actually reduced my fear of zombies because they act nothing like they do in my nightmares, and I wonder if a certain number of people don't gravitate towards that sort of content for the same reason, because it's reassuring in a bizarre way.
@@TheLumberjack1987 I do think you're onto something here. I commented below about my fear of zombies being a fear of individual zombies, not groups of them, and not even about what they would do or how they might cause me pain, but just, like... about them existing. It's definitely the same kind of fear as the old vampire stories, and I wonder if this somehow influenced my teenaged goth phase.
As a Yellowknife evacuee and long-time viewer of the channel, it was surreal hearing my home make an appearance. So far it's still there!!!
So happy to hear you address the rail gage differentials in the early 19th century. My thumbs were cocked and ready to say the same thing.
Rail guage standardization is still a huge problem. It why everything going to/from Ukraine has to be double handled as Ukraines tracks are on the soviet guage not the western guage.
Gauge 😉
Heh, Autist.
I subscribed today. That bit about the slow growth of your channel go me. I respect your decision and hate the idea that it's biting you in the bum. Thanks for the content, man.
I don't get it. Man's got 1.7M subscribers. Where does he plan to grow to? Mr Beast levels?
Have not been a long subscriber but it only took a few shows to find out you have found your calling. I play piano and guitar and looked at music theory but my theory of what makes music sound good is what your relationship with your world and because it does. That's good enough for me. I wish I had some of your brain networking. One thing I don't know is why me and others can dream whole symphonies and hear each instrument. Just crazy...
I've actually heard and used both "flesh it out" and "flush it out." I always understood the latter to be more akin to making something flush with something else; make it jive or sync up, if you will, with an existing process or procedure. Smooth out the rough edges. Make it flush.
One thing that I found odd about the whole lk99 hype was the number of times I heard some variation of "even if it is real it wouldn't really change anything".
That's because ceramic magnets are really not very applicable
They are often brittle and really easily degrade with thermal stress
This kinda limits the places you could use it to very few
Hover transportation, need it to be able to last on impact
Nuclear fusion, need it to resist thermal stress
Better electrical engines, both of the above + coiling ceramic is not economically feasible
This is super oversimplified, Thunderf00t did a really good video on this
Thunderf00t did a good video on this aspect. For things like MRIs, the superconductor needs to be drawn into thin wires without cracking. Meanwhile lk99 is a ceramic and extremely brittle. One small bump, one break anywhere in thousands of small windings, and the whole thing becomes scrap. As just ONE example of problems.
@@PsRohrbaugh I saw Thunderf00t video too, and while I agree with all the points he made, it seems odd to me that such a unique property can be so confidently dismissed as having no applications, particularity when given to a group of humans who already think it's cool.
Every Thunderf00t video is like 5% somewhat dubious science followed by 2 hours of rambling.
Not immediately, but probably down the line it would lead to something that was useful.
“Flesh it out” and “Flush it out” are both accurate idioms that are often inaccurately used interchangeably. And yes Joe, that flawed usage irritates me too. But it’s not an eggcorn.
Flush it out, origin bird hunting, means to ‘identify a possible solution’ or ‘come up with an idea’.
Flesh it out, likely origin in art, means to add meat to bones structurally. As in, take that raw idea you flushed out, and make it more robust.
They both can be used in meetings, etc.
Cant tell you how much i needed a joe video today. On a Thursday?? What a treat😁
Cant tell you[...] than don't ^^
@@MusikCassette great input
Yessssssss! FLESH it out! Also in the advertising field “outta the box” vs “outside the box”. “Outta the box” is a solution that is ready to go as soon as you take it out of the box. “Outside of the box” is novel thinking outside existing, accepted, confines.
THANK YOU!!! 😂
It really does throw off the meaning, to use those terms interchangeably, plus it just sounds ignorant. Another I really dislike is "overtime" being used in place of " over time," and when people write that they want to be "apart" of something in which they want to participate. It's sad.
Joe, that was truly impressive. That has to be one of the best ad transition I have ever seen. I started clapping to an ad transition, you legend.
Now you mention it! So smooth. I actually went for it, ngl... went through 3 blades since Christmas. So that's 25 years with the added 100 blades. xD
“I could care less” & “irregardless”
Both drive me nuts as well.
Joe - Regarding your ‘slow growth’ comment, it may be because your channel has maintained a modicum of class and self-respect (by YT standards) and you don’t drop to your knees to whore your channel out to every latest algorithm enticing gimmick that comes along. I appreciate that. Also, 1 out of 4 of your jokes are actually funny. Kidding! It’s 1 out of 3. 😉 Keep up the good work. We love you back.
such is the price one pays for integrity in late web 2.0
Coming from IT consulting, we hear "flush it out" often. Its coopted meaning is basically akin to applying a process to a system in order to "flush out" unknowns. Kind of like taking a flame thrower to a gopher hole. It's very contextual in that regard.
When I was a kid (I'm 66), "bust" meant one thing, and if you used it inappropriately, a knowledgeable teacher would promptly correct me and tell me to use "burst" instead. Now, it has been redefined, because of so much misusage and is even in the dictionary as it can also be used in its alternative definition. Decimate is another word that seems to be losing its classical definition, and I imagine there are numerous others.
Dictionaries are fast becoming useless as spelling and definition of words no longer seems to matter to anyone anywhere at all 😕 Probably better get used to the Urban Dictionary 🙄
I'm kidding, because I fully intend to respect language as it's been taught to me.
And then when I typed "language" I thought of all the commenters who might "guage" any reaction to this disappointing trend 🙂
Dude… I am on of the folks who appreciate a little restraint when it comes to newsfeed sensationalism. Respect.
I believe the context flushing out is hunting related where you would flush out birds. So to flush out would mean to expose or make known which still kinda conveys the same meaning if still different
The thing about zombie stories is that they are easy. Nearly every horror antagonist needs a lot of thought to make believable. You can't make cookie cutter horror monsters and expect it to work.
Unless you use zombies. Here it is not the single monster, but the implacable swarm that provides the horror.
I have never heard of someone saying 'Flush it Out' and I am very thankful for this.
The razor dependency strategy is even called like that in business. "Razor and blade" used as a description for strategies like with those newer razors, but also nespresso coffemachines with the expensive capsules and so on...
Not to mention printers!
On railway gauges: there are two gauges to consider, the gauge as a distance between the rails ( the 4 foot 8 and a half in standard) and the "Loading Gauge" the Loading gauge is what determines the size of tunnels, width of bridges and the height and size of railway station platforms, Loading gauge is what determines how big a commodity can be going through tunnels, and is different in many countries, there is a picture of two locomotives, one main line British and one US both on the Standard Rail Gauge but with different loading gauges at the 1939 World's Fair
once again Joe you make me proud (about the super conductor... and the other stuff... but mainly the super conductor)
Joe Scott - King of transitions. If I was ever clean shaven, you betcha I’d be buying those razors. Love ya Joe & Team 💜
I think its interesting that the obsession with liminality became more prominent after lock downs.
Like the part of the panda that stuck with us was empty spaces.
both our inability to visit spaces, and our inability to get out of them.... 🤯
I agree with your comments on zombies completely. Especially with humanities desire for a restart. I used to work in the emergency management field and we've seen this desire people have in practice. My main reason for commenting though is, while the concept of zombies goes way back as you mentioned, I would like to add something. Back in 2011 the CDC did a preparedness campaign that used a "zombie apocalypse" as a backdrop for their preparedness month exercises. With that feeling of wanting a reset out there, and no one wanting to talk about it, this campaign gave people from all walks of life an outlet that made prepping an acceptable thing. It's just my opinion, but I believe this is when we really started seeing an increase in zombie related themes. Maybe as a way for us to all acknowledge a connection on a common feeling without actually saying it.
Hey Joe! Always excited to see another upload from you! Anyway, I don't know what's up with your sound lately but I swear your last few videos seem to be quieter than pretty much any others I watch on YT. But it's just your speaking...when your intro sound comes on I'm deafened because I had turned the headphones up to hear you
Music theory is math, but looked at from a different angle. When I was seven, I wanted to learn to play the piano so much. My grandmother was a piano teacher but had retired from that so she recommended a lady she knew who lived near us. This teacher taught me, but what she really taught me was music theory. She wouldn’t start to teach me piano until I had a solid grasp on music theory and could read/write music notation proficiently. I was unhappy with this at the time, but now I’m incredibly grateful for that early foundation in music theory.
I minored in music in college but ended up being a professional photographer for the first 15 years of my professional career. When chronic illness and physical disability forced me to give up photography, I transitioned to music. I’ve worked for an opera company for the past 23 years now, and my training in music theory is the main reason I was able to get the job. I’ve had to learn some Italian and French to go along with the German I studied in college, so I feel like I’ve used both the math and the language sides of my brain in this job.
I feel like learning music theory helped me with learning math in school, too. I truly believe that every child would benefit from learning basic music theory in school. It can help in so many different ways because it trains the brain to think about things differently, which can help when it comes to learning all subjects.
My biggest egg-corn right now:
The sudden rise in the last few years of "ON accident."
For pity's sake, it's "BY."
That seems to be more common in the US than the UK. Weirdly you never hear the opposite "by purpose". I agree though, it does sound wrong and very irritating.
@@Eric_Hunt194 drives me freakin nuts...
I think it's sad we can't really get away with correcting our youth on little things, since they'll either say "gfy" or report the abuse to school authorities. So it's easier to just rewrite the dictionary or maybe even burn it.
"Flush it out" refers to using force to remove something. Such as a party of hunters walking through a forest or brush to force prey to flee.
So glad you uploaded a video :) A great start for the weekend! Thanks Joe 🐳
The modern zombie, popularized by Night of the Living Dead, has lots of great reasons to appeal to people. First, it makes for a simple and entertaining ingredient for storytelling. In most good zombie stories they're not the focus, they're the background. (They're a house on fire, and people fighting in the house are the more interesting drama.) They raise the tension and remove room for failure, requiring people to work together to survive. And we see how that goes.
And games, which lean into the easier-to-program simple collision physics, treat them like Mario does goombas, providing masses to kill. And a lot of our culture enjoys gore! Love me some good zombie media.
Although LK99 is not what we hoped, it's not a total loss, we are still learning things, especially about assembly of these specific materials. They still may have other uses!
That's like saying that if a bus hits you, but you don't die, but you stay paralyzed for the rest of your life it's not a total loss. This FALSE hype is super bad. There's so many times that "scientists" say that they "discovered" a new tech for a very efficient battery, for a new storage media that's 1.000.000 times better, for a new material that's 1.000.000 times more resistant than steel, bla bla bla. And 99.99999% it's pure bullsh*t.
Did you see updates on LK99 from Stanford university and others? It’s not finished yet
@@Johnson59484Did you see updated on other 1000 discoveries? Me neither.
@@eugenb9017 ok it keeps being deleted. You can find out the latest info about LK-99. The Korean team released the patents today. Most researchers and scientists were wrong They wanted to bury LK-99 as soon as it came out even though it takes at least a few months maybe because they were afraid of revealing their incompetence
@@eugenb9017 The US National lab, pf Awana from India, King’s college London china lab , Swedish university etc they admitted the possibility of superconductor in LK-99
One of my pet peeves when it comes to 'flush it out' type sayings is, the proof of the pudding is in the eating - the proof isn't the pudding itself.
My most-hated eggcorn is "Could of." Because it's "could have", but then abbreviated to "could've", and then sometimes it seems like an entire generation has misheard that to "could of".
@joescott Every time you do a sponsorship from Henson I have to say how great I think they are. I bought one a year ago using your code, and I'm not even half way through the 100 free blades you get with the code. I loved it so much I bought one for my brother and one for my dad. My dad of course used a safety razor when I was a kid, and when he took that first pass he said "Oh God I didn't realize how much I missed this." He went from shaving once a week to 4 times a week and my mom whispered "I hated those whiskers, thank you thank you thank you." So uhh... Thank you for doing a sponsorship through them.
Shaun of the Dead is the greatest zombie movie of all time. The social commentary hidden in plain sight in the comedy is off the charts.
‘Merica. Eggcorn. 🇺🇸
"Flush it out" could be interpreted in the hunting context, where there's a really good whatever you're after out there, and you just have to flush it out of its hiding spot. This probably explains the prevalence (non-detection of the error) of the eggcorn.
Totally agree on the zombie topic. Around the same time that zombies started to get big, so did the idea of AI/robots taking over or destroying mankind.
Humans have been continuously anticipating the imminent end of the world for thousands of years. A zombie apocalypse and AI are just the "fun" ones because you can't fist fight a nuclear holocaust or shoot global warming in the head.
The eggcorn that drives me crazy is when even supposedly professional writers talk about 'diffusing a situation' rather than 'defusing' it, i.e. scattering it widely rather than reducing the harm of it.
Good one. They also mix up elude and allude as though it's just fine to do that. I'm not fond of the lack of effective proofreading these days.
So what you're saying is........ there's a CHANCE?!
My understanding is that standard gauge simply comes from a guy who had to build a whole bunch of railroad track, and had ready access to 5 foot long sections of wood to use as railroad ties. The track gauge is measured from the inside edge of the rails to it ends up being 4' 8.5" due to the thickness of the rails. Enough of this track was built that compatibility with it was economical, and it spread from there.
I had high hopes for LK-99 until the peer reviews started rolling in. 😢
I never once heard anyone use the term "flush it out" unless they were hunting.
I just ordered my razor and blades! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Re: Standard Gauge, George Stephenson came up the standard part of it. He said to make all the rails the same size because he believed that in the future, there'd be lines spanning across all of the UK and wanted them to be the same size so that no matter where they're made, they can meet and work together. Also, a lot of early engines were made in and shipped from there and thus the gauge was probably just adopted for ease. (Except for the south, as said) As for why 4ft 8in 1/2 specifically, who knows. It could be mine carts, horses, or just chosen arbitrarily. We'll probably never know.
While it's impossible to name a single cause of the modern zombie craze, IMO it really blew up with 2004's Dawn of the Dead. It led to a lot of popular zombie video games like Dead Rising (2006) and Left 4 Dead (2008). Of course The Walking Dead TV series (2010) shot it directly into the mainstream.
You could also argue that the Resident Evil series (1995) incubated the genre for a while before Dawn of the Dead caused it to blow up. The Walking Dead comic started before Dawn of the Dead in 2003, so the genre was certainly growing before then.
Isn't "flush something out" also a term for driving something out of hiding, like flushing a critter out of it's burrow?
Also, a while back I found out that the standard gauge thing being based on roman roads was a complete load of bull right from the start. Standard gauge was originally based on a specific railway that used wooden rails, with an outside spacing of 5 feet, because they used 5 food wide wooden sleepers. The resulting inside spacing was 4'8", and when they switched to metal rails, they maintained that inside spacing, so they could reuse the existing wagons. The spacing was then widened by half an inch to reduce binding of the wheel flanges, and then that gauge was adopted as the standard by Stevenson, and was spread internationally with his locomotives. While the width of two horses thing probably has something to do with the rough size range of 4-5 feet than many early railways used, the specific size of 4'8.5" has very little to do with it.
As a kid I was fooled about those hoverboards, NEVER AGAIN!
I use to hve a friend that used to crate eggcorns, constantly on the fly..
Between a rock and a hot plate…
Out of the frying pan into the kettle…
Wearing rose covered glasses…
She used to pose questions that made you do double takes…
What do they do with the other half of a club sandwich?
The sky is blue because it’s water and clouds.
They should use concrete in helmets because it doesn’t crack like plastic…
She had a masters degree in social science.
Loved her thinking…
Interesting point about the Confederacy not standardizing their rail gauges right away. There was a similar problem with their telegraph lines. Many of the telegraph lines running through the South were owned by companies based in the North. So, the Union had thousands of miles of wires already in place they could use at the start of the war, while the Confederacy had to string all-new lines first. That made a big difference in how quickly the militaries could send encrypted messages to their Generals in the field, and the TYPES of encryption they could use.
The one that gets me is “Spittin Image”. As in, he’s the spittin image of his father. Long ago, the idiom was “Spirit and image”; “he’s the spirit and image of his father” Meaning he not only LOOKS like his father, he has his nature or character as well. Children heard this said a lot referring to them, and not hearing it correctly, they grew up to say ‘spittin image’…
I go nuts every day when I hear "I COULD care less" Oh, really? so you DO care a little at least.....
As for fires in Canada, Kelowna BC also got hit and had a lot of people evacuated along with homes and businesses burned. It's still burning.
Respect. Ty for being the voice of reason in a sea of click bate and fake bs stories
Funny thing is I have never, ever at all, heard “flush it out” used in place of “flesh it out,” which makes me wonder how common it is.
“Whole nother” use is my personal gripe.
“Whole nother” is a deliberate misuse of words. I use it myself sometimes, and am perfectly aware of what I mean.
I’ve always thought “Flush it out” was to make something flush (as in flush against something). So you’re trying to get rid of the space between so it lays perfectly
regarding the roman roads and the grooves. there is one misconception: the grooves were actually cut into the stone. they did not appear on their own. that way, the horses had an easier time to just follow the lines and the wagon will stay inside the grooves. they are not a product of wear and tear.
i remember an old ""theory"" that used to float around the internet from time to time about how zombies and vampires seem to switch off dominance in culture and attempted to link it to politics and fear of the masses and consumerism vs elitism, but each version of the theory seemed to shake it out a little differently.
There are undeniably political undercurrents to these stories as there are to many others, but horror and its manifestation of abstractions and liminality gets used a lot for these things. Night of the Living Dead is an intensely political movie. Zombies in Malls specifically, has been raised from the dead so many times its essentially a zombie itself. Ideas of the "mindless masses" or the inability to control them. Vampires are pretty self explanatory to the point it becomes pretty thorny to write them in certain kinds of stories and every time a new one comes out there's a lot of 'what metaphors, intentional or otherwise, are created by this.'
I would love to see a video on the specific part of that where you said it speaks to not just the fear, but the desire for collapse. The desire for collapse is a fascinating topic, one which I have many thoughts on, and could reach into a million different fields, most of which are not strictly 'science communication', at least as far as I know. It's a near religious eschatological impulse, a twist on the old idea of a 'death drive', a comparative mythological attempt to, as one teacher of mine put it, reconcile the linearity of human life with the cyclical reality of nature.
Neuropsychologically if consciousness and identity are both largely narrative constructs emergent from the brain simulating things to try to navigate the world, the idea that the story continues without us may, on some level, feel impossible to fully grasp. Of course part of us thinks the world will end within our lifetimes. Everyone's got a bit of main character syndrome, as the kids might have put it a few years ago, due to seeing the world from inside the only knowable mind to ourselves.
Obviously armageddon and ragnarok type myths play a huge role in how pervasive the idea is -- but if so, you'd expect a lack of it in societies where a more cyclical or expansive cosmology is more dominant (buddhist and hindu cosmologies are structured quite differently, and involve many more realities and longer time frames), and that is research i haven't myself been able to fully carry out. Of course, especially cold war, 'the end of the world' is far from a purely religious idea.
But there's also the idea that you mentioned of it being a sort of almost optimistic idea. That if only we could start over - it becomes a return to eden/state of nature thing, instead of an apocalyptic one. You can see this impulse in all kinds of things. The term "late stage capitalism" is one of my favorite. It's more than strictly a modernist notion of single, progressive arcs of history, its a certainty that the end of something must be nigh, that things cannot and will not simply. continue. There's an element of dissatisfaction to despair at play - as you mentioned - the fantasy that if only it would all break, we would be able to make it better, rather than change it bit by bit.
You’re becoming such a great science communicator. Very clear and very responsible
Another thing about the whole flush/flesh it out bit. Flushing is something a hunter does to game birds. To flush something is to spook it into flight. So you would go to a bush you had a good idea held grouse or quail or pheasant, which is to say that you'd flush out a thing. Ergo, you flush out how a person thinks.
I think this is exactly what we needed. Talking about the LK-99, it sparked a level of interest in practical science again, and got my mind off the other things you mentioned that are happening. I love all music and it is rare for me to find a collection of noises made on purpose for the purpose of expressing. I love music from all over the world.
I think its great any time people get excited for scientific breakthroughs potential or actual
New intro graphic is great! And the video quality looks FANTASTIC in this video!
Etymology is fascinating. We drive cars because we use to drive a team of horses or cattle. It means urge forward. You can be driven in your task or people with drive accomplish more. Less mechanical and more encourage.
I love etymology and I despise people who think synonyms are interchangeable and have identical meanings.
13:40 I'd like to further discredit the horse butt theory. "Standard gauge" was actually 5 foot gauge when it was devised. Back then they measured the gauge from the outside of the rails. When you switch to the modern method of measuring inside the rails you find it's 2 rail widths narrower which comes out to 4ft8.5in. The outside gauge may be different now because the outer gauge isn't really relevant to whether train cars fit the track which is why we switched to inside gauge in the first place.