Cool video.
Although there is a way to avoid weighing anything at all!
Using System 3 thinking, any of the pennies could be the same value of money. 
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When I was a radio tech in the USAF, we were taught the half-split method, to isolate problems in circuits; but it’s also very applicable to a range of troubleshooting problems. My system 1 tells me it would be the quickest solution to this problem too.
The method he uses in the video of only weighing twice involved removing a lot of pennies from the rolls … so while you may only have to weigh twice, it’s still a lot more work.
And in reality the video guy is using over 50 (not one) since he has to break apart the rolls and combine.
The easier way is to grab 50 kids and let them take one roll each. The child that cries has the fake pennies. Simple and its one step using parallel processing. Just like Safe
Thinking outside the box of sys 1 & 2 thinking
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His weigh once method is like a a simplified version of some of the pool sample testing they do for diagnostics. Some pretty neat algorithms vastly reduce the number of tests requires.
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Even better just take them the bank and let them find the fake. No crying kids then 
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The Game of Life simulating itself
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People in Xinjiang, western China, have been leaking videos using TikTok (Douyin in China) to tell their story through emojis. It’s heartbreaking, scary, and unfair.
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Good speech, self-explanatory.
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Wasn’t your blog the other day effectively coming from CRT viewpoint?
I wouldn’t call it self explanatory, I have no idea what Critical Race Theory is, and it’s not explained.
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I don’t remember having heard about this term either until a week ago or so, although I guessed correctly what it very roughly entails using context. But yeah: don’t use such fancy terms or explain it better: not everyone knows. Or maybe you and I are not the targeted audience. Edit: apparently a term recently used a lot by Fox News / some republicans (in the USA). Like Antifa.
“Critical race theory” seems to be a USAnian thing. I don’t know what it means either, but I do know they have a lot of racial tension in the US.
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CRT starts from the—correct in my view—premise that racial groups aren’t based in science, but are a social and historical construct. Therefore inequality between these groups isn’t based on biology, but arises from these social constructs, which are often deep routed and systemic in nature.
So it’s a way of analyzing things like the law, and how it might underpin this inequality, and how it might be changed.
But it’s also become another boogeyman style term that can be thrown around so people can get angry at an ill understood abstract noun rather than engage with the issues it points to, thus maintaining the status quo. (Also see woke, antifa, war on drugs, war on terror)
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This should be pretty much common sense. I don’t think anybody except some odd die-hard Nazi mystic would disagree.
Race this and race that. Just be decent to individual people. Problem solved. I’m sure there are genetic clusters that in very isolated conditions can be referred to as “race”. But so what?
Bingo!
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Correct, that is where it STARTS … but it ends by saying that “white” people are to blame for it all … which itself is doing what they claim to be against. CRT proponents are themselves racists by their own definition and they don’t even deny it.
There is also a huge gap in what the mainstream media says about it, and how it’s being pushed and taught in universities and schools. So don’t accept what you hear - go find students being taught this stuff and hear it for yourself.
One decent link I found making an honest attempt to explain some of it.
Also, just because you haven’t heard of it, doesn’t mean it isn’t present in your lives everyday. It’s being taught in “western” universities and has been for some time.
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They distract you with slavery of the past so no one pushes back against the slavery they’re ushering in to the present.
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That’s where it starts… and it ends with a post-modern flavor of Marxist revolution to “reorder society”. The term has taken on a life of it’s own in common parlance. So it’s difficult to discuss it since the commonly understood definition is always changing, perhaps on purpose. It appears to be a flawed, biased, and subjective ideology, like most other ideologies. It would be fine if it relegated itself to the legal sphere to help ensure that all people are treated equally under the law and to minimize the creation of bad laws, but it’s politics now.
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Yeah, it’s been co-opted. And it’s a way of stifling debate in my opinion.
It’s signaling. Just in the same way as the word woke was cooped, distorted, politicized and weaponized.
It’s a sea of grift out there. I mean, the dude in the video in question is a conservative radio host with a youtube channel to promote.
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