FIRST TIME REACTING TO | GEORGE CARLIN -ENTROPY FAN- REACTION

[@ticnatz]

We are an 'evolutionary cul-de-sac'....one of my favorite Carlin lines...

[@donaldwilliams4019]

He had a unique way of putting a mirror on the face of our society, forcing us to see ourselves differently

[@BelfastManUtdTherapy]

i love that phrase you've just said. so true.

[@SuperChaoticus]

Once again, George predicted the future. I don't think anyone can argue that society and civilization aren't crumbling.

[@koalabrownie]

People who think civilization is going to come crashing down are just one stepped removed from people who think Jesus will return in their lifetimes, just another form of self-importance. History is cyclical, there are crests and troughs, upturns and downturns, but overall things keep moving forward.

[@tubeyou222100]

I am old enough to remember when bottled water was new. Athletes and hikers had water bottles or canteens but the thought of paying for a bottle of water was a joke like paying for bottled air 😂

[@Muz040769]

And these days you can buy bottled air.

[@tubeyou222100]

@@Muz040769 people have been buying bottled air since SCUBA diving became popular.

[@mbg4681]

13:16 1) Some species just die off because they aren't equipped to survive the changes to their environment, man-made or otherwise (wooly mammoth, passenger pigeon) ; 2) others survive basically unchanged for hundreds of millions of years (alligator, cœlocanth) ; 3) others disappear and beget newer species (australopithecine to human) ; 4) others survive and beget newer species (brown bear to polar bear)

[@patrickcorliss8878]

As an Australian I never heard about the passenger pigeon (an extinct species of pigeon endemic to North America) but it seems like a beautiful bird. Apparently the bird was so bountiful that there were millions in huge flocks. How could they have been driven to extinction? A similar thing happened with the bison. And compare that to the 12,000 square kilometres of seabed called the Dogger Bank off the coast of England where all the fish were almost completely wiped out. Look up "rewild our seas" for more.

[@matthewgilbert9881]

Yeah, George was grossly oversimplifying. What we’ve done is increase the species in category one. And we won’t destroy the planet, we will cause the planet to be inhospitable to humans. I would like humans to last longer than a few generations past me.

[@larrysbrain1627]

Britt's a pleasure to watch, and seeing her watch Carlin help her to escape the darkness.

[@Mac-ix4qp]

It is great to see someone younger recognizing George's insights. Ever since my dad played me both sides of AM/FM at too young of an age I have been hooked.

[@Steve-hq4fm]

Crocodiles and sharks were here millions of years before the 1st dinosaurs appeared, and they've been here millions of years after the last dinosaurs died out!!! Their ability to adapt to catastrophes is what determines if they live or die!

[@yougotmossed3592]

True, the planet will be here after we are all long gone.

[@MrSilkySweat]

Britt is my favorite Carlin reactor, cuz she's so honest and humble about things she doesn't know about...

[@moni13000]

The species disappearing thing is just the cycle of evolution. Some of them have evolved to the point that they can no longer be classified as the same species they used to be. Some failed to adapt to their environment and simply died out. I’m sure many of those species be referred to went extinct due to the ice ages and other catastrophic events, like how the dinosaurs went extinct due to the meteors. The few species that still exist today have done so by evolving and adapting to their new environments. Like how birds are descendants of dinosaurs. Horseshoe crabs are a good example- they have existed since before the dinosaurs making them one of the most resilient species.

[@ydenneki]

As for your question at 13:25, SOME of the species in the oceans have been around, essentially unchanged, for hundreds of millions of years. The Nautilus has been here for 500 million years, the Coelacanth and Horseshoe Crab for 400 million years plus each, and living speciment are almost identical to their fossilised ancestors. Just because a species is OLD doesn't mean it's going to go extinct, especially in the deep ocean, where conditions rarely change. It's only on LAND where conditions are CONSTANTLY changing that species are disappearing ... and extinction is NOT always due to dieing off as people assume. If a species evolves far enough from it's previous state it becomes a NEW SPECIES, and the old one is now extinct. Homo erectus is an extinct species not because they died out but because they evolved into Homo Heidelbergensis, then THEY went extinct when they evolved to Homo Sapiens (along with at least one other dead-end evolutionary line)

[@SuperChaoticus]

I love that you have reacted to so many of George's videos. I've been listening to him since 'Toledo Window Box'. His truth bombs opened my eyes and changed the way I look at our modern 'civilization'.

[@DavidClark-es1ww]

Hey Ms. Britt,....where have you been for the last year? I can't believe that your wholesome beautifulness ended so quickly! What's up with that?

[@kinjiru731]

Even before humans existed, many species went extinct. Sometimes because competing species were able to crowd them out. Sometimes because they could not adapt to changing conditions like droughts, cold periods, changes in the salinity / ph of water and so on. Humans dramatically impact animals and we do cause extinctions by our actions, but it's also true that extinctions have and will always occur so long as life exists.

[@chocopuddingcup83]

The perfect follow-up to this video is Carlin's 'trillion uncle Daves' sketch.

[@acerpro101]

I love that uncle dave bit

[@TheGamingCathedral]

That one is so underrated imo

[@Ironlantern723]

15:00 This is one of my top 5 favorite lines from George Carlin. It's why, while I don't go out of my way to litter or anything like that, I don't go out of my way to not litter either. If you don't want me to not just throw everything in the garbage it's up to you to make it as simple for everyone involved as possible.

[@BelfastManUtdTherapy]

"The planet is gonna planet" what a great term, i will be using that someday!!

[@glennclarke4239]

The word is "evolution".

[@Frostrazor]

Entropy isn't specifically the presence "chaos and mayhem" It's a scientific philosophy that purposes all systems will eventually break down into chaos and unpredictability. To answer your question about species disappearing - they evolve into new species as the environment and/or ecology of their habitat changes - their diet, the presences of too many predators, too few prey, etc. Many factors play a role - and yes our presence is one of those. But creatures have evolved since the first microorganisms appeared on planet from the earlies primordial days, and continue to evolve today.

[@ironthornkoncepts]

The planet will be just fine... We're not killing it... We're killing ourselves! Thanx humans! ✌️😎👍

[@SighDontWantAHandle]

The way he's uusing Entropy, it just means that everything rots.

[@ItApproaches]

Everything comes to an end, EVERYTHING. That's why species go away when they do. All species will get their turn eventually.

[@alvinteo4490]

Entropy is a statistical effect where disorder is always the case over time. For example, if you drop an ink into water, it will spread out eventually. A broken egg cannot be unbroken. Or you can just take entropy as disorderliness of a system over time.

[@patrickcorliss8878]

Exactly. Order becomes disorder.

[@philipshannon3521]

Awesome comedian with knowledge!!!

[@russellboynton9153]

You need to finish that whole set this is from. The next bits he was getting to will really make you say wow.

[@ancientjediwarrior]

What's it called

[@TheLynx1984]

It's called saving the planet and Brit already reacted to this bit. She should have ended by saying that so people would be less confused

[@The1painkiller]

Under the surface everything is chaos. Hands on a wall clock moving looks to be in order, however the atoms are moving and shaking at enormous rates.

[@kenanderson2002]

Britt, I gotta say, I only subscribe to a couple of reaction people but today I finally subscribed to your channel. I really love how you do your thing differently than most others. Especially here, when you admit you don't know what entropy is. I love that you looked it up so you'd know. PLEASE keep doing that!!!

[@brucestamm5920]

You are awesome! Thanks

[@kirktown2046]

Entropy is the tendency for all things to fall apart over time. Living cells on Earth all seem to have 3 big tools: Self replication(copy yourself), entropy extraction(pull resources out of your surroundings and use them for yourself, usually by metabolism or photosynthysis), and a Turing machine (an algorithm implementer, decision making computer/brain). We humans seem to be much fancier than what goes on in our Sun, Sol, but in a way, we're both doing the same thing. The sun is extracting entropy in the form of combustion and nuclear fission, burning away its energy into the cosmos as an ever-churning superhot plasma, and we're like little bubbling effervescence on Earth, also extracting entropy but much more slowly through metabolism and photosynthesis etc. In terms of entropy extraction, we are literally competing with yeast and every other living thing on Earth, but also competing against forest fires and other combustion... There is finite negentropy to extract on Earth, it's going to run out one day. An entropy gradient allows both of those things to happen, and it's posited that existence as we know it is very slowly approaching an "entropic abyss" where everything is exhausted and stretched out to an absolute limit and physics break down.

[@billtaylor3382]

I'm 65 and growing up we drank from the hose and tap water. But have had a water cooler with 5 gallon jugs so I guess I like it better then tap water.

[@PaulDA2000]

Biological cul-de-sac.

[@nelsonsavage4635]

I swear Heath Ledger got his whole steelo for the Joker from this guys stand up.

[@bobdavis4848]

Hi Britt! I’m enjoying your reaction to George Carlin videos! My father’s mother was called Nana, too! I never drink Coca Cola anymore. In terms of soda, only Nitro Pepsi.

[@G--qq2bo]

Mr. Carlin's extinction percentage for all life was an old underestimation. It's more like 99.99% of all life that has ever existed on Earth that's been catalogued and studied, is now extinct. Rates of extinction vary depending on if its background extinction like he was alluding to, 25 species a day, or the truly gigantic mass extinction events like the Permian Synapsid or K-T Boundary Dinosaur ones, and there were plenty of mass extinction events prior to those too, and many more after those. We're just a living mass extinction event; how much and how far we are is still unknown, but me things Mr. Carlin would be doing backflips off a 100 foot high dive seeing how far we've gone, especially since we now pumped as much CO2 in the atmosphere in ppb (parts per billion) that hasn't been seen based on ice core samples in over a hundred thousand years. Maybe he'd shoot off fire crackers in an ammonium fertilizer plant in celebration if he was alive today when finding out that, we're still really incapable of deterring massive asteroids and comets, or that by midway-three quarters into the 2000's the Middle East will be pretty much uninhabitable due to the temps being over 120F 2/3rd's of the year causing massive migrations of hundreds of millions of refugees into the surrounding countries all over Europe and Asia. I'm dead certain he'd be sitting back in a recliner with cup holders eating sugar-packed off brand non-vegan ice cream birthday cake knowing our political history since 2016, with extra orange sprinkles.

[@krisfrederick5001]

George Carlin saw the Matrix before it was a movie...

[@UmbraFulgur]

Unsurprisingly. Too many deja vu. At some point you start to get the point ... and the pattern.

[@revengeofthenerd5261]

Over the last few days I've been binging George Carlin reactions and your playlist from a year ago has been prominent in that binge. But this is the first one I saw where you had the 'water droplets' filter over the reference footage, which the only other reactor I know on You Tube who does that is Mr. LBoyd, one of my favorite YT reactors. Then I learned that you two are cousins. That's awesome. The two of you should collab one day. Or you should continue following his example and do movie and TV show reactions. I'd be here for it

[@scottbaldwin7133]

another way to show how smart george was.

[@Valhalrik]

A man Preach, Rev. George Carlin

[@uraniumcranium2613]

George didn't say evolutionary mistake, he said evolutionary cul de sac - a dead end. Kind of like a family tree ending.

[@Songfugel]

No, he literally said "a biological mistake, an evolutionary cul de sac"

[@timometsanoja9666]

Everything on Earth is slowly evolving with the best individuals for surviving in the current conditions are considered the best to make the next generation... At some point with enough evolution, you can barely tell the ancestry as the original and the current one bare little resemblance to each other. This is where "new species" comes in... It is an ongoing process and it will never stop. Species come and go basically based on their ability to adapt to the ever changing conditions here... In general the bigger the animal and the longer the life the longer it takes to evolve and adapt on a genetic level. Us humans and some other animals as well, are ingenious and can adapt on the fly without our genetics changing much. This is why we are still here... A lot of the species are tied to each other, meaning things eat other things and if the prey become extinct the hunters are going to have a rough time too. And some species are really picky about their food and cannot survive if their food had a bad year. This is why us omnivores are quite good at adjusting. Us humans and bears are alike in this regard. We can eat pretty much anything... But it is a whole lot of biology that a KZbin comment is not going to solve and I'm no expert on this either.

[@donaldleider7382]

I’m 66 years old born and raised in Brooklyn NY and I have to say New York has about the best water water anywhere. Straight out of the reservoirs in the beautiful Catskill Mountains

[@jimcoogan1529]

The tap water in New York is just fine. Straight from the mountains. Its the age of the plumbing that causes water issues in some houses and buildings.

[@BrunoidGames]

You're so chill.. Love your reacts.

[@DavidClark-es1ww]

Chilled out,.....have to say, you personify cool

[@BrandomShadow]

Species most of the time go out because the planet goes through phases. It switches between ice ages and tropical ages, species so adapted to their situation while are pros at what they do are the first to go if the environment changes. These can be caused by the phases of the planet or from natural disasters or even cosmic ones like meteoroids. For those curious... we have been through 9 ice ages before this one that we are coming out of.

[@TheMaximusKane]

In his 1999 stand-up comedy special "You Are All Diseased," George Carlin asked, "What are we going to do when a super virus comes along and kills our immune system?" Many people believed that he inadvertently predicted covid.

[@Chaka2225]

The only problem with the tap water in my town is Lime, lots of folks get a water softener then just drink up. Change filters every 6 months-2 years

[@paudeenlee]

I really respect you for wanting to understand a word you don't know. The fact that you would do that on social media show you to be an intelligent and curious woman with healthy self esteem. Did you know that he didn't graduate from H.S.?

[@monarch-black]

I run the water company for 3 towns. I drink the water with no filter because I know how much we test it and it's fine. I still log all the complaints from people who think there's something wrong with it. The water filter industry has everyone so paranoid. There are anomalies like Flint, MI, but if you look at the country as a whole we have the best water quality we've had since the industrial revolution started and cites got big. (There have always been and still are some rural areas with amazing quality springs and such.) It's not like you hear about cholera outbreaks and stuff like back in the day in cities.

[@1983sergev]

Nice to see you like learning and enjoyed Carlin again! May I suggest some Bad Religion songs? The singer (Greg Graffin) is an Evolutionary biologist and despite the band popularity, he wrote several books and has even taught some classe in UCLA, another great unconventional educator like Carlin. One of my favorite song from Bad Religion is called "Entropy" from the album "Against the Grain" 😉 Tap water is fine 99% of the time, everybody loves a good explosion, deep down everybody is the same and yet in any group with more than 1 person, there's always at least a point on which they have opposite views... So much truth in his comedy! The extinction events in Earth history is something that happens often, the largest one killed over 80% of all marine life at the time. Biomes always recovered, with the survivors evolving into new species. Life: the eternal cycle.

[@TigerHogan]

What he’s describing is tiny species like insects and even plants. It makes the stat less unbelievable when understood that way.

[@davidagnew1753]

Don't forget single celled organisms like amoeba, bacteria, viruses, etc. These species alone number in the billions.

[@mikebuck2225]

George was awesome. My favorite. My friends call me George,for my rants. He saw the future& made comity out of it. Love your vids britt

[@gregoryams]

Hello from The Netherlands, thank you for the vid,

[@RJ-oy7cq]

Species being gone--this is done over millions and millions of years. Over long periods of time almost everything goes.

[@dcaseng]

I live in NYC, and grew up drinking nothing but tap water. I'm 53 now, and there is nothing wrong with it.

[@TolonusCZ]

The Reasons known to me, why species go extinct are many. For example: change of climate the animal cant adapt to or maybe the change of climate, lets say by a big volcano or one of the earth cycles that repeat periodically like ice age or little Ice age cause some plants to die off that makes the herbivores eating it die off unless they are able to adapt, that then means the predators regulating the herbivore population have nothing to eat and die unless they adapt or new species appears in the local ecosystem and it steamrolls the competition also when there is a lot of nutrition and less competition animals get bigger or smaller in the opposite case. In the time before Dinosaurs there were huge insects living here thanks to bigger percentage of oxygen in atmosphere related to how insects breath through something like pores but when some conditions changed they went extinct. In the times of big switches it was because there was a huge extinction event like the one that allowed Dinosaurs to take over and same for the Meteorite that didnt itself wipe out all the dinosaurs but it changed the enviroment and thus the dinosaurs eventually died off, that was the cue for mammals who were small and barely a competition for any dinosaurs to our knowledge, hiding underground in burrows also protected them from the asteroid and its effects, also when you are small you need much less nutrition than a huge reptile that was bullying you until now. The disappearence of many species also left many niches unoccupied (imagine it like professions or specializations) and so the mammals evolved to fill those vacant niches and some became huge themselves, now not all the reptiles died off some branched off a bit before into birds and smaller reptiles probably did survive too, crocodilians also survived their huge versions went extinct but the smaller ones perservered as crocodilians are very effective species.

[@scottbaldwin7133]

its called Evolution

[@rickpallas2001]

He always made me laugh, then made me think.

[@mattdeves1900]

G'day there sweetheart! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE can you try some Aussie stuff! The Divynals for a start, they're magic. Johnny Farnham, classic. Midnight Oil, INXS, The Seekers, the list goes on and on. We made some great music too you know! PLEASE! I PROMISE, YOU WONT REGRET IT!

[@michaelluciano7774]

LOVE your sweetie!! Your beautiful and open minded 💕 ❤️

[@JKM395]

Entropy isn't hard to understand. We see it every day. No matter what, everything gets worse over time. Energy is lost or corruption sneaks into the code. It's really just a fancy way of saying that nothing lasts forever.

[@danmadrid8227]

There are some things that do not.. some creatures in the Hydrozoa class, for example. I've heard that some whales do not age either.

[@AutomaticDuck300]

@@danmadrid8227 Lobsters too

[@brandonhargis4104]

I love this skit and I like how you look at these reactions and think about them You did have one question during the video that you asked for an answer to so I will take a shot. Why do some species die off and others are still here? The answer is pretty straightforward, really. Imagine a polar bear today, in Australia. I mean. Take a family of polar bears and put them in the outback and see if they are able to successfully reproduce and populate the area. They won't. Because Polar bears are not suited to living in those conditions. The environment of the Earth constantly changes over time due to a myriad of circumstances far exceeding anything humans have ever managed to create. The Earth during the time of the dinosaurs was much hotter on average and had way much more Co2 and other "greenhouse" gases in the atmosphere than it does today. The animals alive today could not survive, generally, in those conditions. The animals that were alive then could not survive today. Species go extinct because they are not able to adapt to their environment and changes that occur in it over time. Mammoths didn't go extinct because humans hunted them to death, they went extinct because the Ice age ended and the Earth got warmer and Mammoths couldn't deal with it. Simple as that. Species go extinct because the Earth changes over time and they can't adapt. Just like the Earth is changing now, and more species are going extinct. Maybe even people. But even if that happens, the planet will be here. It recovered from a 10 km asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs which had lived on the Earth for 150 million years. It can handle whatever we throw at it.

[@johnhorchler667]

I had never thought of it that way.😮 & I am not being toxic I don't like toxic people.

[@DarthKilaj85]

Brit some of the issues of endangered species is humans but many are the fact that in nature and Darwin's laws is survival of the most adaptable.

[@thejackal367]

Magnetic Reversal of the Poles...if you are looking for a rabbit hole to dive down, look it up. It's absolutely wild

[@geraldspencer8679]

9:18 Uh-oh! There you go with that pinky and thumb, Britt. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣

[@janbarriault4494]

George would be great Prof for a philosophy lecture!

[@sheilastutz6436]

He would say, in several skits, people worry too much, and you can't just go out there and stop what's going to happen!

[@TheCastellan]

2:30 Some places put fluoride, which is the waste product of aluminum manufacturing, in water, and that stuff's been designated as a neurotoxin by Harvard.

[@phdonme1]

New York's water is great. I had to go three or four times a year up to Manhattan and Brooklyn for shows, order me clients. And many times I've woken up in the middle of the night after getting a little rowdy with clients or reps, and just drinking right from the faucet and it always tasted sweet.

[@christhornycroft3686]

George is describing what it’s like to be Canadian and watching American news. 😂

[@Chetloore]

I bet.

[@Chetloore]

@@mikegriffin3388 Hold my beer! Florida is here!

[@Chetloore]

@@mikegriffin3388 Florida is scary yet comedic but fully has no power. Trump makes me believe in Satan. It's like we elected the state of Florida, but we understand as a country that Florida is psychotic so wtf.

[@sleigh4019]

Like watching Canada crush workers and truckers and take all guns? Sure.. Think America still has a constitution .. Back st ya

[@buuam7555]

This season of America is really going off 😂

[@kinjiru731]

Very few of the species alive today have been around for an exceptionally long time, but there are some, especially among aquatic species. For example, alligator gar, horseshoe crab or coelacanth. Others may not have existed for extreme periods of time, but their ancestors were very similar to today's species. Sharks have not changed a ton over time, because they simply didn't need to. As time goes on, many of these species that have been around a long time are likely to avoid extinction because they have qualities that make them adaptable. However, humans are capable of presenting new dangers that they've never seen before in history, especially in destruction of habitat.

[@christianokolski9701]

Native NYer here... tap water is the best of anywhere I've lived/been.

[@janetbaker645]

Our tap water is from a spring….we drink, shower and wash clothes with spring water…my grandmas house my family couldn’t drink the water..it would make us 🤢 sick…

[@davidedwards1705]

1:45 I live in a tiny place called Carl's Corner, Tx and the "water" is so bad it gives you Diarrhea. I literally bought a Water Cooler (bottom loader) like in an office building and 5 refillable 5 gallon water barrels.

[@robertgarza1109]

Hi Brittany,👋 i grew up drinking tap water especially as a kid playing outside all the time in the late 60's and early 70's drinking water from the water hose, nothing wrong with it.

[@johnking1896]

You have learned the ' PHONE CALL ' hand sign LOL.

[@sf0tacticalguy]

Adaptability. That's what separates extinct species from surviving species.

[@lucyFV]

That reminds me of the one when he was was talking about germs

[@planetpjr]

the McDonalds shooting massacre was in 1984,California

[@bradsullivan2495]

A 20-minute Carlin rant, "People Who Should be Killed" is hilarious and worth a reaction.

[@alino61]

love your hair like that ..:)💓

[@SPOCK_TALK]

When the C02 was 2000ppm the entire earth was subtropical. No Polar Caps at all. Lush vegetation covered the earth with Asparagus stocks 30' high. And life was abundant. Today at 421ppm life is dying out. And people and animals are starving and freezing to death.

[@mikmaqwoman]

Evolution and the Survival of the Fittest. Charles Darwin, This explains exactly what GC was talking about. He was a brilliant word genius - Wish he was still with us

[@chinaskidotgov]

All our tap water comes from bubbling springs..ive got like ten that i can just think of.

[@neildarealdeal7129]

Right on honey! Darealdeal

[@juliagrant3299]

Entropy is also Delta S. What is order will naturally become disordered. Think of your clean room and how in days it can become a mess in days.

[@gaalanonim4503]

I've been drinking tap water my entire life - might be why I was always unable to get sick, even when I really tried - but I've lived in kinda of rural area of my country. 4 years now since I've started living in our capital city and it turns out that the tap water in my home was actually really disgusting shit. Never realized it until I've started drinking capital's tap water xD And still a lot of ppl I know say "yo, this water is ass and a half, you will die by drinking it" - I guess the actual "pure and good water" is some mythical panaceum with ambrosia written all over it.

[@09spidy]

To put it simply: Entropy is a scientific concept, as well as a measurable physical property, that is most commonly associated with a state of disorder, randomness.

[@johnfarnham7288]

And as a scary theoretical concept, Entropy is associated with the heat death of the universe.

[@dizoce9069]

1st answer on google copy pasta guaranteed

[@patrickcorliss8878]

It's not so much a state of disorder but that any state of order "becomes" disordered. So when you die your well-ordered body eventually deteriorates to disordered molecules. In the same way the sun will eventually burn out. In fact the whole universe will end up as a random mass of - I don't know what to call it - goo maybe. The heat death.

[@whattheplucked9576]

In the absence of external forces, all things get worse, not better. If you leave your house for six months, it won't magically get cleaner.

[@KimmaParish]

Christ, anyone can copy paste the first line of the wiki. Do people have their own thoughts anymore? It's basically complex things becoming less complex, or breaking apart. Complex stuff becomes less complex, naturally, over time. Typically that means organic things dying and decaying. Big to small, complex to simple, hot to cold, etc. Entropy also usually applies to closed systems, which is why society becomes more complex, but people still die, and the universe will still suffer heat death. Open systems have somewhat different rules.

[@---Tre---]

Louisville, KY has the best tap water!!!

[@Durahan82]

The Water is fine in Canada 🇨🇦

[@desertfroggo2502]

New species will come around due to thousands of generations of drift in genetic differences. That can be caused if two or more populations of the same species end up separated for a long enough time with different pressures on how they live and reproduce.

[@michaelmisanthrope]

Well you gave it a shot. That is a pretty good summation of evolution/natural selection. It worries me that young people don;t seem to know the basics--things that I learned before puberty such as the reason for the days in a month or a year. Good on you.

[@dougca7086]

Survival of the fittest and acclimation!😎✌️ That's how some survive and some don't!👀👍

[@cashbyrd781]

most of thetime they dont go extinct they evolve they come back stronger and more equipped to deal with their habitat

[@thomasgriffiths6758]

I remember as a kid visiting my cousins in upstate New York they're well or the water system had sulfur in the water so it smelled and tasted like eggs.

[@skunkmonster1]

There is A LOT going on in the world... fascism is rampant, and he had a premonition of society breaking down. I would love to hear his mind today. #voteblue 2024!!!

[@cmirtschin]

Your Nana cares. This is a good thing 🥰

[@bobbyquinting3918]

I live in Blackford County, IN and I do not drink the local water!

[@jdtwk123]

If you're really interested in how species go extinct or disappear, you need to seriously start learning about evolution, historical climate change (as opposed to industrial driven), the big Extinction Events we have had. Species can go extinct from climate changes, like much of the megafauna did, they can go extinct from direct aggression and competition from other species, such as the grinding out of the Terror Birds of South America once canids arrived from contact with the North american continent. They can gradually evolve into new variants, leaving the older ones out competed or subsumed by the more successful varieties. Natural selection. Once something evolves an ability to penetrate your defenses, unless you can adapt, you don't last long. Environmental catastrophes have wiped out most life on this planet 5 times over, each time what remained sprang back to a whole new array of species not seen before to fill the gaps.

[@nrgao]

As someone who is from SC and has traveled around the country, I'd say that St. Louis, Charleston, SC and Detroit are top of the "don't drink" list. The water in St. Louis legitimately changed the texture of my BMs hair during a 2 month work trip. It was brackish as hell.

[@Mazlem]

If you haven't already seen it, there's a whole series by Julie Nolke I think you'd like called 'Explaining the pandemic to my past self'

[@angelabordack]

Adapting.

[@seasickviking]

NYC tap water is actually one of the safest to drink in the country. The water filtration system in New York is absolutely insanely effective. It may occasionally have the questionable taste, but its fine to drink.