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[@pjschmid2251]

Giving small infants water can be far more dangerous than just simply “not good for them“. It can actually be fatal since infants are very susceptible to hyponatremia / water intoxication. It’s a condition where the presence of too much water throws off the electrolyte balance, and can cause their heart to stop.

[@carolinemcgovern4488]

Oh! this makes sense to me now! Thank you so much!

[@Uarehere]

My complete ignorance of this as a middle-aged man makes me extra glad that I don't have children!

[@jamez6398]

Imagine any other species having babies so weak that water, the most abundant substance on the planet, is lethally toxic to them.

[@Tees4Real]

If given too much water, this can be the case. However babies fed solely with formula (even if mixed correctly) do need a little water from time to time as they can get very constipated. Babies fed on breast milk do not need any water.

[@derekskelton4187]

@@jamez6398 You are massively over estimating the babies of other species

[@Jambler257]

Oxen doesn't just mean work cattle. They are specifically castrated bulls, which means that while they are strong, they are much more docile than an ordinary bull, so are better equipped to do farm work.

[@cpmahon]

I always thought that the only plural of fish is fish. However, I only realised recently that it is acceptable to say fishes if you are describing multiple species of fish.

[@adriannahowell2359]

Same thing with peoples!

[@bomoose]

no it is fishees!

[@petermaardananders6803]

Don't shoot the messenger please, but supposedly biologically seen there aren't fish/fishes as a specific species or subsection of animals.

[@Paul-zk2tn]

@@petermaardananders6803 Correct in that it doesnt have much formal evolutionally basis (for lack of better phrase), but the word still exists in English and describes multiple species of animal. Therefore OP is still correct.

[@KristopherBel]

I agree with @bomoose fishees, (alternate spelling fishies)

[@pfalzgraf7527]

Living alone, heck, I often just have an "external" monologue 😅 Oxen are actually bulls whose male parts have been removed, thus they are strong but not aggressive. btw, it actually IS possible that a woman who sleeps with two partners within the same day and just happens to have two egg cells ovulated (which does occur) has one egg fertilized by the one man and the other by the other man. Thus, she could have twins from two fathers. It would not be superfetation since both eggs would "nest" into the uterus at the same time. Much like in a normal case of two-egg twins.

[@madhatterline]

If you get a pet you can just say that you are talking to your pet rather than going crazy talking to yourself lol ;)

[@gromit9322]

My only problem with an external monologue is that I’m forever getting in an argument with myself!

[@gailstevens6831]

Slightly different, but a friend's daughter was born with two wombs. She fell pregnant and then 2 months later fell pregnant in the second womb! A very rare event..

[@Liliththelizard]

There's also uterus didelphus, where a woman might have 2 fully formed uteruses, and fall pregnant with 1 baby in each uterus

[@ProgressiveRoxx]

Not all twins share a birthday. While the average gap between births is around 20 minutes, it can be up to an hour (for non cesarian births), which depending on the timing, could result in 2 different birth dates. The longest gap between births is a staggering 90 days, although this required medical intervention to suspend the delivery of the 2nd baby over health concerns.

[@petermaardananders6803]

Yep born before midnight and after midnight, happens quite often with twins or more.

[@frankmitchell3594]

@@petermaardananders6803 Yes, happened to my neighbour. Twins born on 31st Aug & 1st Sept, two birthdays two parties!

[@Yetaxa]

There was at least one pair of twins who were born in different millenia.

[@ProgressiveRoxx]

@@frankmitchell3594 Two different months! Makes me wonder how many twins are born on and after a leap-day and end up technically years apart in age!

[@TheBusyJane]

@@ProgressiveRoxx You don't stop counting your age just because you were born on a leap day, lol.

[@usucktoo]

with the internal monologue, i believe the same rules would probably apply to one's mind's eye. some people literally could not imagine a picture in their heads. it would make sense that there would be people who could not imagine a conversation in their heads too.

[@GoodMorning-b2w]

Wait a minute I don't have an internal monologue And I discovered I have aphantasia 4 months ago Was my life always a lie I thought the monologue thing was just in art

[@JP_TaVeryMuch]

​@@GoodMorning-b2wYou're not alone. It's one in a hundred with the difference.

[@custos3249]

Still inaccurate. Everyone has the ability. Not everyone is consciously aware of it. Same brain regions activate in both people.

[@merrygoblin]

@@custos3249 If you're talking about aphantasia (and similar inability to "see" or experience sensory things in the minds eye/ear/etc.), there have been scientific studies confirming it to be a real thing. In the case of aphantasia, for example, studies show most normal people's eyes physically react by dilating when asked to picture darkness in their minds. In aphants, that doesn't happen - the eyes don't physically respond. Also, just to add, _I_ have aphantasia - both visual and for most of my other senses - found out about it last year. I'll grant that some similar structures associated with visual processing probably do light up in the brain when aphants think about things compared to regular people picturing things in their mind, but that doesn't mean all the same pathways in the brain are there to allow that to be "seen" by the conscious mind. One analogy I've heard is that our brains are like computers with a broken monitor. We can access the information, it's all still there, but the parts of the brain that allow us to "see" it as an image in our minds is broken.

[@kwowo]

It's not necessarily like that. I don't have an inner voice at all, I think in images/connections/abstract shit, but I can still imagine someone saying something. It's just not the default, and I have to make a conscious effort to do it.

[@P0nyl0ve]

Internal monologue is "thinking in audio/text". There are also people who think more in visuals or feelings

[@ser132]

and then there are the people who do both/all.

[@jujutrini8412]

I do both.

[@carrie5490]

Visual is more common among autistic people than the general allistic population

[@christopherleyshon5906]

I don't think in audio, text, visuals, or feelings unless I choose to. They're all different tools for different modes of thought. Like if I'm thinking about something requiring spatial planning, visuals and maybe text get engaged. My default is abstract and absent of audio, text, visuals, and feelings, to the point where I can't describe it, because how could I?

[@friedrichbrockmann8141]

The Zeus gets around joke was reference to Heracles and his twin brother. Zeus disguised himself as the mother's husband and impregnated her and then she was impregnated by her actual husband when Zeus left. So Heracles was the son of Zeus but his twin brother was not.

[@clsisman]

Not a brand, but a few years ago in the before times I used to work in an office off Warren Street and after work on Thursdays I used to go to The Carpenter’s Arms (great pub) and drink a few pints and eat their side dish of prawns for dinner. One Thursday I ordered it as usual without checking the menu and was a few bites in when I realised my throat was swelling up. I checked the menu and it listed the ingredients which included peanuts. They changed the recipe. Thankfully we were just a few minutes away from Kings College Hospital and an ambulance arrived in time to save my life. I think that when restaurants add an allergen to a recipe that didn’t contain one before, there should be a big ol’ sign!

[@kit6024]

Ow! Old post, but glad to hear you were okay!

[@user-xi1gm6de7c]

For me thoughts and internal monologue are two very separate things. Like for the majority of day to day I don't have one (doing work, skim reading etc), but if I'm writing or replaying a conversation I do. I really can't imagine someone having an internal dialogue when doing something like maths, which requires focus.

[@TheBezLoginu]

Same

[@ausername9190]

its the other way round for me, i cant imagine someone not having an internal monolouge when doing maths or focusing on something, thats when the monolouge is at its strongest

[@petermaardananders6803]

It does not require to be happening constantly, sometimes you do sometimes you don't, and sometimes you do but are unaware of it. ""Paflov"" never sleeps ;)

[@RitinhaGE]

So you don’t think 2+2=4 in your head? Like my inner monologue reads the numbers out loud for me and does the math out loud for me in my head

[@silver6071]

@@RitinhaGEsame

[@luisamatos8131]

This week I decided to look for the youtubers I used to watch as a teenager, between 2010-2014, just to check if they are OK. I'm so glad you still make videos. I liked this one. :)

[@dropview7013]

You’re right about Cadbury’s Cream Eggs, i thought it was just me being an adult with changing tastes as I had a cream egg a couple of years ago and couldn’t believe that I used to eat these yearly as a kid (leading up to Easter) and love them so much only to eat one as an adult and be really disappointed how bad they now taste.

[@GrungeGalactica]

I’m glad they’ve switched up the mini eggs recipe, I had an unhealthy obsession for them one year and the next they were noticeably unappealing!

[@GCOSBenbow]

The problem is most people don't seem to associate % with multiplication i.e. 78% is the same as 78/100. I'm sure everyone knows that 32 x 78 is the same thing as 78 x 32 and similarly 32/100 x 78 is equal to 78/100 x 32 but the connection between the latter equality and % is just missing from most peoples brains.

[@notllikethat]

As soon as he said "that's a multiplication thing" I was like "oh, yeah, now it's obvious", but it didn't seem obvious at first glance 😅

[@altsadhara]

I have aphantasia, which means I'm also not able to visualise things in my mind, both sights and sounds. I cannot see the apple, I thought "counting sheep to fall asleep" was just a weird saying, and I genuinely didn't know people could actually hear running water just by thinking about it. Something cool about it that I've read in some medical journals is how the part of the mind that handles all of that is actually separate from the part that dreams, which is why I am actually still able to see/hear dreams.

[@SarahJay55]

I also have aphantasia, and I don’t remember dreams. I assume I have them, but I’ve only very rarely been able to vaguely recall that I did, and never any actual details, beyond maybe just a feeling.

[@Vargol]

Same here I was in my mid 40's before I learnt 'picture x in your minds eye' wasn't meant metaphorically and that people really could conjure memories visually.

[@hansc8433]

And I thought until recently that the voiceover in movies (you know, when they say a person’s thoughts out loud) was only there for the audience, to make very clear that this person was currently thinking that thought. I didn’t realise people actually do that or have that.

[@irdairda514]

I also have aphantasia, the memory problems that often come with it are a problem for me. On the other hand, there are jobs (including mine) where having aphantasia can be helpful in that you do not replay difficult moments in your mind.

[@danazed90]

I am the same, I have aphantasia but I have regular vivid dreams. I also have an internal conversation-style monologue but it's silent lol.

[@Sincyn241]

The no water for babies thing is actually about the newborn’s kidneys, if I understand it correctly.

[@AdrianMayers]

I agree about the changing ingredients issue - especially fizzy drinks, which have switched from sugar to horrible artificial sweeteners, even regular Pepsi in the UK is tainted with poison now :( As someone is sensitive to artificial sweeteners, it is frustrating that there are now few fizzy drinks I can actually drink!

[@P0nyl0ve]

I agree!! I know most people don't taste the difference, but for me artificial sweeteners add a bitter aftertaste :(

[@katharalytefoot]

I had a recent close call with something in the UK that changed the receipe and even how you made it drastically. There was one small bit that said "changed allergens" but it was only on one face and otherwise the packaging looked exactly the same as the product normally did. If it hadn't been for the change in how it was prepared, I might not have noticed any difference and when I noticed the complete taste change, I had a close look at the packaging and realised what had changed. Now, I can't eat them at all and the rest of the family say they taste horrible. I found so many complaints online after that purchase. Company saved a few pence in manufacturing a product, only to lose hundreds (maybe thousands) of sales... good going.

[@MareSerenitis]

I've had a similar experience a long while ago, when a popular supermarket decided to add paprika to tomato soup but keep the labels identical, except for the tinytext ingredients list. Crohn's doesn't like pepper related things very much. So a product that you've had before safely is suddenly a literal agonising poison. And the only way you find out conclusively what caused it was bin-diving while cramped up with internal bleeding, and checking the ingredients on something you thought was safe because it didn't look any different. Fuck you Sainsbury's

[@TheBellsandwhistles]

I had the same with a product which added lactose to the ingredients fo no good reason and put NOTHING on the packaging to warn you. I'm only lactose intollerant so was ill for a couple of days, if I'd had a real allergy...

[@rooboo013]

I have an internal monologue, and my daughter does not. She asked me why I am so quiet sometimes, and I told her that I talk to myself, as in "Ok, we have to get this done, so make sure to pick up the correct paper at the store this time!" and she was flabbergasted. (It's helpful for writing books) I also see in vivid pictures, which can overlay with what I see normally. My daughter then did research and used me as a subject for a presentation in one of her classes, and now all the other students think I'm cool....weird...but cool. Yay, I think?

[@ser132]

I'm the same as you. I don't know if I envy, or feel sorry for, people who don't have an inner monologue nor see vivid pictures. If feel like their mind must be far less chaotic and that must be nice, but I have no idea how that can even work. The variations of how humans function is both fascinating, and mindboggling Also, I know someone who says they can clear their mind completely whenever they want, and I'm just like, 'how?'.

[@jujutrini8412]

I thought most people have an internal monologue. How is it weird if most people have it?

[@vikkispence]

​@@ser132 I can't imagine what it would be like to "see" and "hear" things that aren't from an external source, it must be very distracting. However, I have a very poor working memory and recall because my thoughts are so amorphous, so that's definitely a disadvantage

[@coin5207]

​@@vikkispence So when you are reading a book you don't imagine the fictional conversations and sceneries in your head?

[@maskedmallard537]

​@@coin5207Sometimes I imagine books I read so vividly that I could have sworn I saw it in a movie. But only when I'm in the zone (hyperfocus mode).

[@Superbokka]

Yes I like these Reddit videos a lot Evan. I have both an internal monologue and an internal soundtrack that kicks in especially when I'm doing my daily walk to get my 5K steps in.

[@fayesouthall6604]

An internal monologue? I thought it was everyone?

[@vikkispence]

​@@fayesouthall6604I have no internal sounds other than constant tinnitus. I have no inner voice, I can't hear music in my head etc. I also have no ability to visualise anything. I have total aphantasia

[@fayesouthall6604]

@@vikkispence that’s awful 😢

[@vikkispence]

@@fayesouthall6604 it's not awful, it's all I've known. I can't imagine how overwhelming it must be to have sounds and images inside your head at the same time as things you can see and hear that actually exist. That sounds awful to me

[@maskedmallard537]

​@@vikkispenceIt can be overwhelming at times, especially earworms: snippets of songs you half remember, and half the hell is it won't get out of your head and the other is not remembering the other damn lyrics! I remember as a child getting specific earworms or quotes stuck in my head when I was on the verge of getting sick. Dunno why. Or you have an argument with somebody and their words keep repeating your head with the same nasty expression they had on their face when they said them. Or your mind goes over and over the things you could have said and runs through scenarios for hours. Except mine is like a skipping record: it would never let me complete the scene and find resolution and peace.

[@mariemilycraig]

About salts for the dishwasher: Not everywhere in the UK has hard water 😊 In the part of Scotland where I am the water is lovely and soft - no dishwasher salts, Calgon or other anti-limescale products needed!

[@carrie5490]

Same in the sw of England, so different for your hair, soap usage etc. not great for bones and teeth though

[@danstratyt]

Despite being about to take Further Maths A Level this year, I have never actively realised that percentage fact! As soon as I wrote it out algebraically I could see it was true by commutativity but it's insane that I have never come across that idea

[@rosemarybarron4256]

I had no idea that dishwashers even had filters until maybe 5 or 6 years ago-when the dishwasher started to smell. My kids are both in their 30s, and I had no idea babies were not supposed to drink water. I don’t remember giving them water, though, and they are both still alive, so I guess it’s okay. Nobody ever told me *not* to give them water when they were babies.

[@fayesouthall6604]

I’m old enough to remember both my parents smoked in front of me as a child. Never smoked myself.

[@beatles9880]

it is ok to give babies water, but only if they need it, like if they are getting dehydrated but only very small amounts, like 30ml a day along with normal feeding if bottle feeding. its only none if you are breast feeding.

[@tomleonard830]

I had no Idea that dishwashers even had filters until I saw this video.

[@imaginekudryavka9485]

I disagree on internal monologues, we aren't just using different words to describe the same thing - it's not just "thinking". I have a monologue, but I can imagine not having one too. It's literally like talking in your head, it's a constant string of words. There are other ways of more abstract thinking, ideas and images floating around your head in a more subconscious way, as well as logical trains of thought. I will usually have abstract thinking in the background while I'm actively monologueing. The latter is a way less efficient way of thinking and it can actually be very tiring (I know it is for me sometimes - it's like I wanna tell myself to SHUT UP, I wanna relax). It's useful to exercise shutting the voice out through meditation.

[@SmokiWonKenobi]

I always thought of internal monologue as talking to yourself to organize your thoughts. Like weighing out risk or deciding if you like something to yourself.

[@carolbrookes5748]

To me, thoughts and internal monologues are different - I do talk things through in my head or rehearse a conversation I need to have at some future date. Whereas a thought generally comes out of the blue ... and can then become an internal monologue but initially thought is triggered by something that leaps from my unconscious mind to my conscious mind

[@emilwandel]

Wouldn't this be called and internal dialog. question and answering. weighing pros and cons

[@absolutecomedian6609]

@@emilwandel no it would not because a dialogue needs 2 people or voices ("di" = two)

[@kaciefenner8437]

I would love a video about the Breyers and Cadbury companies, etc. I used to love cream eggs at Easter and didn't know why they taste horrible now. Thanx!

[@kit6024]

You'll be delighted to check out his recent videos on ice cream in the UK then :D It's not about Breyers and Cadbury's specifically but it is about the phenomena

[@Scotter4536]

In Breyers defense, while most of their flavors are labeled as "frozen dairy dessert", they still do offer some of their classic flavors that meet the criteria of "ice cream". The Strawberry, Vanilla and Chocolate flavors for instance are still considered ice cream. It is sad though how much these food conglomerates have altered food to lower margins and increase palatability. Food should be made to satisfy you, not make you crave more immediately.

[@evan]

Food should be made to satisfy not to make profits

[@mkcatrona]

5:00 I have an internal monologue, but I've also spent a lot of my life dissecting how I think. Not all of my thoughts are translated into language, especially if I have to think on my feet rather than contemplate something. Most of my thoughts are based on emotional impression or visuals, but I still have a running monologue in English in my head. Despite visualization being a major part of how I think, my family has been studied due to a significant number of my relatives (including my mom) having prosopagnosia, the inability to visualize or recognize faces. While there's different levels to this, they have to rely on other ways of thinking to recognize people because they simply cannot visualize faces.

[@riverAmazonNZ]

This is how I think and I also have prosopagnosia 🤔

[@mkcatrona]

Interesting. If you do think with visualization, what happens when you try to visualize someone you know? My mom cannot visualize faces; maybe there's some memory of what hair or eye color someone has or whether they have beard, but there's no full image. @@riverAmazonNZ

[@ravenwulfe357]

I'm happy the reddit videos are back! I also loved watching the comparison videos of the UK vs America. Especially the old advert episodes!

[@brooks177]

In regards to the Bryer's thing.... if you buy their regular Chocolate, Strawberry, or vanilla flavors it is still ice cream. However once you start getting into unique specialty flavors then it becomes "frozen dessert" which is generally the case for a lot of ice cream brands. Something that goes along with this is that Dairy Queen doesn't have any ice cream either cause all their products don't meet the fat percentage quantity to qualify as actual ice cream.

[@Icabod66]

The percentage swapping "trick" works for any multiple. People seem to have particular trouble with using this with fractions, particularly natural language fractions. For instance, most people find it difficult to find two thirds of a half, but easy to find half of two thirds, despite these being the same.

[@charlie.cummings]

14:50 Even the Dairy Milk tastes wrong these days. Kraft ruined Cadburys when they removed it's Bournville heart.

[@PilotFlight2Mars]

I had always thought that ‘Mexican jumping beans’ were beans. Yesterday I learned that they are a moth larvae that spins a cocoon. I’m Aussie, my own experience with Mexican jumping beans was a toy I had 40 years ago as a kid.

[@annaburch3200]

My son was totally grossed out when the "Mexican Jumping Beans" his uncle bought for him, HATCHED! 🤢

[@coasternut3091]

The "using a passing street light to see the Pikachu" was FAAARRR to relatable lol

[@WhichDoctor1]

on internal monologues im actually in the position of having experienced both. like 99% of the time i have an internal monologue, often kind of an intrusive one tbh. But due to various factors like meditation, and other altered states of consciousness, there have also been times where that has entirely gone away. Im still able to think, it's just the thoughts aren't mediated through language. The thoughts just skip words and go directly to the understanding of the thing. So instead of thinking to myself "im running out of bread, i should head to the shops" i become aware of the imminent lack of bread and the idea of going to the shops to get more flows on from that. Sometimes in the form of mental images, or just like abstract understanding. Like you don't have to think to yourself "i am a human and i am currently awake" you just know those things, i would hope. So it's that kind of automatic understanding just extended to everything. It is really hard to explain because we use language to explain things, so trying to explain a thing that operates without language is hard. And its not a common thing for me either, so i'm having to work off memories. But yeah, it's totally a thing. You can think about things without a monologue. In fact some things are easier to think about, if they are things that are hard to describe with words, or sometimes just being able to skip the words and go straight to the understanding just saves time. I've also found it very peaceful/oppressively quiet, depending on my mood at the time. But yeah, can confirm both ways of thinking are real and very different from each other. But also both totally functional ways of operating a brain

[@drzander3378]

It’s not hard for most people with an internal monologue to imagine what it would be like not to have one. They probably do it already with symbols such as stop signs or emojis, or with sensations like loud or cold. Even if you ordinarily have an internal monologue, you don’t imagine the sound ‘stop’ when you see a stop sign, or imagine the sound ‘cold’ when you grasp a drink straight from the fridge. To put it differently, you’re able to think thoughts that bypass the imagined audio.

[@adventuresofboris]

Not having an internal monolog for me is having the ability to think "I really like that charger over there" only the thought itself is not composed of words, or similar speech in my head. When I express thoughts verbally I need to translate them from my brain images and impressions to words that best match it

[@jwhittinghamphotography]

The reason behind babies not being able to drink water is due to their kidneys being so small and being slow to process the amount of water can desalinate the blood to dangerous levels causing hyponatremia

[@unpronouncable2442]

12:50: Fully agree with your rant Tradmark holder has (or at least should have) the responsibility to maintain quality and formulation of a product that was trademarked. Trademarks exists to inform public about quality and originality of the product not just their source.

[@Tarry_Plaguer]

6:30 Babies NOT drinking water. A good fact to know, and you are correct that it has to do with their ability to process it and the need for nutritional things in their stomach instead. Another similar fact is that babies younger than 1 year old should not be given honey. That's because a type of bacteria (called Clostridium) that causes infant botulism can be found in honey. Infant botulism can cause muscle weakness, with signs like poor sucking, a weak cry, constipation, and decreased muscle tone (floppiness). 10:10 While on the Philippines. Spain controlled them until the Spanish American War. They were then ceded to the United States in December of 1898 becoming a US Territory. Filipinos weren't overly happy with how the US treated them as a new acquisition so there was then the Philippine-American War, known alternatively as the Philippine Insurrection, Filipino-American War, or Tagalog Insurgency, which was fought between the First Philippine Republic and the United States from February 4, 1899, until July 2, 1902. The war resulted in the deaths of 250,000 to 1 million civilians, primarily due to famine and disease. Note: these are US citizens. Then Pearl Harbor happened and the Japanese attacked the Philippines ON THE SAME DAY, then they occupied and controlled them during WWII while they were a US Territory. It is estimated another 1.6 million people died during that period. 1.2 million of those were Filipino civilians and US citizens, the rest were American and Japanese soldiers fighting in the Philippines, mainly in Manila. 12:26 I agree about Breyers, I also think that this holds true for Coca-Cola although maybe they are rebranded as Coke now. I know that Sriracha changed recently when they got a new supplier for their chilies. The consistency and taste is A LOT different now. I would also argue that soft drinks from a dispenser are a lot different than the ones you get from a can or bottle, yet they are still called the same drink. 🙄

[@elysianemily]

You being surprised byt the Ore-Ida fact was hilarious to me because I'm an Oregonian with family in Idaho. When we would drive to visit them, we would always pass the Ore-Ida factory at the border haha

[@kathryntyley2957]

If you can't tell whether your laundry is wet or cold, the skin on your lips is more sensitive and it's easier to work out by pressing your sheets to your lips

[@BurningApple]

You just want us to kiss our bedsheets 😳

[@cedonuli]

Re: Breyers It’s still ice cream in Canada, we also have heavy restrictions on the import of any American made dairy products

[@thekitschsidekick]

Found out only a few years ago my dad has no inner monologue. I was trying to explain why it took me a long time to read books as a kid as my inner voice would read it at the pace you read out loud and he was shook. Evidently no one had ever explained that to him

[@mccollmeevie3190]

I remember having an argument with a teacher when I was 12 about the possibility of twins having different fathers. He would not accept I was right. Id never been told it was possible but if you're aware that ejaculated sperm can last in the vagina (and beyond) for up to 5 days - Something I was taught in 'health class.' All that needs to happen is for a woman to have sex with two men within 0 - 5 days, whilst ovulating, and hey presto, possibility for twins with different dads.

[@eimere]

True! The Greeks knew. Check out how Hercules was concieved and born😅

[@Forevermacer21]

Completely agree with food names. I refuse to buy Cadbury's any more and instead look for locally made with all natural ingredients. It's so inconvenient having to read the packet evertime I buy a product. If the ingredients list is really long it usually indicates it's unhealthy and lower quality.

[@carolbrookes5748]

Cadbury's changed when it was bought be Kraft/Mondelez - no surprise there; the great god 'profit' screwed a British icon. The fact that John Cadbury started his business in 1824 and his products have been loved by a nation for 200 years has no bearing when it comes to profit. What about "if it's not broken, don't fix it" - and the fact that Hershey banned the import of Cadbury's in the US because it had the Cadbury's licence for the States but used different ingredients (i.e. milk is the main ingredient in the UK version, but it's sugar in the US version). Is there no respect 🤔

[@petermaardananders6803]

I totally agree, but snacks got changed by EU rules not long ago some additives got banned, the salt content is restricted. It would be a massive change to change all their brand/ type names, and the costs alone would be massive LOL The taste wow, its not even close to how it used to taste. But the ""can't stop eating it until the bag is empty"" problem is no longer a problem because it tastes like ""ahum"" beep....LOL ;) I'm from the Netherlands, and we eat a lot of French fries with mayonnaise (""pattatje met"") but i.g it is not mayonnaise you get, you get a cheap knockoff called fries-sauce(""frietsauce"") instead, which is fraud, but who cares !? LOL

[@bostjan-sj]

I think this should be solved along with a related problem - selling a (slightly) different product under the same name in multiple countries. You want to create a slightly different Mars bar and sell it in UK only? Fine, but name it Mars-UK or something, not just Mars.

[@ser132]

@@bostjan-sj there's a lot of products like that in Canada and the USA: same product, at least in name, different taste. sometimes it's because of different food laws between the two countries (as is the case with Kraft Dinner mac & cheese), or different companies have manufacturing/distribution rights (like KitKat).

[@maskedmallard537]

Like Mexican coke. I.e., coke not made of corn syrup, but uses sugar instead.

[@dutchy1121]

Regarding internal thought.... One way you can tell your getting good at speaking a foreign language is when you find yourself thinking in that language. It also happens that while learning a new one sometimes you throw a word from a totally different language in the middle of a sentence (hopefully only in your head) because you are not sure what the word is so your mind just says, "here's a foreign word you can use"... Ik weet niet waar mijn pluma is. As a simple example. Pluma is ONE of the words in Spanish for a pen, while the Dutch word for pen is pen. LOL

[@Immudzen]

An internal monologue is like a voice in your head that goes with your thoughts. Some people don't have this and just have the thoughts.

[@wingofafly]

Agreed. I can think in words, but most of my thoughts are conceptual rather than verbal.

[@robertwilloughby8050]

I have an internal monologue, but if I am on my own, and not likely to be disturbed, I have a habit of SPEAKING my internal monologue to myself!

[@flemmingpedersen567]

I'm a little unclear about this: I always thought that the people without an internal dialogue couldn't think in voices, but I asked GPT and it said that people with an internal dialogue has something akin to a narrator in their head... Are there actual people who are lying on their couch and hear "I should get up and go get a snack" instead of just feeling peckish and then getting a snack? 😮

[@hattiecattie]

​@@flemmingpedersen567 What is it like when you silently read a book

[@flemmingpedersen567]

@@hattiecattie Silent. I mean I can add voices and sound effects in my head if I like, but that requires an effort so unless it is somewhat boring I just read. Do you hear the words by default?

[@lilianneweinhandl8493]

I do have thoughts and I do sometimes have a session of them where I debate with myself about what I'm thinking, but never did I actually hear my thoughts. I have a similar experience with trying to see something while having my eyes closed and thinking about it, at best I get a faint shape, but if someone tells a story I can still imagine what it would look like even though the real mental picture is hard to see (if there at all).

[@briannam3140]

Some people in my college freshmen year friend group didn’t know vegetable and fruit plants flowered, and that the vegetables and fruits grow from the flowers

[@D1vu5]

I can certainly understand how some people don’t have an internal monologue, as whilst I usually use words to simulate conversation, for a lot of other things I have no need for it, it’s just the concepts themselves that I’m examining and using to construct meaning with to myself. If I’m thinking about my To Do list for the day for example, I don’t need to use any words at all, I imagine each task and weigh them against each other and prioritise them, all without any need for any words or internal discussion.

[@tallylol-bd1yk]

People reading Reddit threads usually annoy me, but you make it fun. I hope you do more of these.

[@ukmaxi]

Appreciate the mid-video rant on branding and food. I completely agree and I feeel like a consumer expert (Which? or maybe Martin Lewis) needs to start a petition on regulating this.

[@evan]

Yes defo in need of regs

[@faithfuljohn]

theoretically a woman could get pregnant by two different men at the same time if she releases two eggs (one from each ovary -- the same way that fraternal twins are made) and sperm from each man fertilizes one eggs each. The biggest issue with this is even finding out that this happened (cause you'd only know if either it was super obvious or genetic testing).

[@madhatterline]

I guess the lady in question would have some suspicions as she knows what she did. But yeah if she doesn't know it's possible.

[@RealMKproductions]

Internal monologue refers to linguistic thoughts. Some folks don’t think in words, it’s like feelings, concepts, images and have to purposefully make an effort to “translate” their thoughts into words. Those of us with an internal monologue basically think primarily in words naturally.

[@emilwandel]

Having one type of thoughts doesn't negate the existence of different form of thoughts. like words and pictures still exists in world at the same time. Anyway it is impressive to not think in words at all in a world filled with words.

[@jiggyprawn]

I think both ways, including having a soundtrack to many dreams, waking with music in my head or songs playing in my mind during the day. I watch scenarios in my mind, talk to myself in my head and out loud. I'm sure most people have some sort of blend and it's unlikely to be truly a binary thing.

[@PIXELGamerzXvlogs]

4:37 I am pretty sure I do have an internal monologue but people say they literally hear sound when they think, which I do not. (I am aphantasic)

[@Christopher_Gibbons]

Important facts about dishwashers: while they are more efficient than hand washing the most people do it, no dishwasher can match the efficiency of a human actually trying to use less water. Much more importantly, the total water used in washing a plate daily over it's expected lifespan is miniscule in comparison to the environmental impact of producing that same plate, and that is to say nothing of the cost of producing the dishwasher itself. My point is, if you live alone and already make economical use of about 4 place settings, buying a dishwasher will not be a net gain in environmental impact.

[@rockbandny]

I learnt a few years ago that people actually liked salt. I always hated it and thought everyone did, I thought people put salt on their food so they didn't get sodium deficiency or something

[@helloitskatiex]

these kinds of videos are my favourite! been watching you for over 10 years now that’s crazy!!

[@threeleggedcat]

okay so internal monologue is specifically people talking to themselves inside their own head, as far as I understand it as someone who has only partially that, it’s basically like having personal narration, while for me, thoughts are kinda scattered and a mix of images, words and memories. If I want to form sentences like as if I was monologuing I can only do that for a short time while focusing on it, otherwise my thoughts don’t really follow a direct stream, but just kinda scatter about if that makes any sense. So that’s what I believe is meant with “no internal monologue” not that you don’t have thoughts in the form of words, but that you don’t “speak to yourself inside your own head”. And people presumably have varied levels the way I have the ability to do that, but it’s not my default thing that happens automatically.

[@vikkispence]

I have what I describe as total aphantasia - I have no mental images or sounds (apart from constant tinnitus). I can't picture anything, I have no internal voice, the inside of my head is just a black space. It's also behind me, I don't feel like any part of me exists inside my head. I have synesthesia though, and my thoughts exist as the feeling of physical shapes outside of my body in front of my chest that I can manipulate with a second pair of arms/hand that I feel like I have

[@thatotherted3555]

An ox is a castrated bull, not just any cow/bull. But "ox" is also used as part of the names of other species, like the muskox and in German, the Aurochs (Aur + Ochs, literally "aurochs ox," probably made because "Au(e)r" by itself is too easy to confuse with other words). Also, the inability to just imagine an apple is probably aphantasia, a type of neurodivergence that seems to co-occur with autistic or ADHD traits a lot. But I've also learned that a lot of other autistic people share my inability specifically to _close my eyes and_ picture things-we have to keep our eyes open, and just unfocused, to do it.

[@dajogb3330]

Ox, oxen & bullock are terms for a draft bovine used for towing or ploughing. Ox does not mean they are castrated but they probably are to control their temperament. The three subspecies of auroch are believed to be the ancestors of all cattle. Both "aur" and "ur" are Germanic words meaning "wild ox". In Old High German this word was compounded with ohso ('ox') to ūrohso, which became the early modern Aurochs.

[@myrskykeiju]

I can't believe some people actually can imagine the apple in their minds. Sometimes I wonder if people are just making it up or exaggerating the things they actually see bc all I see is a void. It feels like everyone's just pulling an eloborate prank on me or perhaps I'm somehow misunderstanding the entire concept, but nah, I just have aphantasia.

[@hesky10]

I read about the twins with different fathers and what I read explained it as a woman having conceived twice within a week with different partners, but never heard of the terms you saw.

[@jujutrini8412]

You must have read the same article that I did. I remember it vividly and that was basically how it was explained! Sperm can hang around for quite a while before fertilising the egg and some men have more speedy sperm than others.😂

[@frankhooper7871]

Technically not twins though.

[@ShinTriAce]

​@@frankhooper7871, they are fraternal twins. Being a twin just means that they both shared a uterus (or at least a stomach, considering ectopic pregnancies) at the same time.

[@joepiekl]

On the geography one, I was shocked when I found out that Toronto was on roughly the same latitude as northern Spain/southern France. Imagine it being -15C in Monaco.

[@film9491]

The weather is so different because of the effects of ocean currents

[@drzander3378]

I knew that but only discovered it years after having been to both Toronto and Nice/Monaco. I picture Toronto as snowy and therefore northern, and the south of France as a beach holiday destination and therefore southern which is probably why I didn’t realise for the longest time that they’re equally north.

[@Inucroft]

05:00 Oxen, are not simply working "cows".... they are um, how to put this... bulls that are neutered

[@StephSunshineArtistry]

An internal monologue is not just "thought." It's translating a thought into words inside your head. I believe all of us start out without an internal monologue, because babies can't speak, but they have thoughts, like I'm hungry, or I'm uncomfortable, or I want that. I didn't naturally develop an internal monologue because for me, words were only for communicating to others. If I only need to communicate with myself, why would I need to translate my thought into words? In fact, I remember watching movies where there would be a voice speaking the character's thoughts, and I just assumed it was only done for the movie; no one actually thinks this way, but if they didn't put it into words, then of course we couldn't understand the character's thoughts. The weird thing is I did develop an internal monologue around age 11 or 12 quite intentionally, because my life was quite crazy and I was convinced that one day I'd write a book about all the insanity I went through, and somehow I thought that if I just SAID the words inside my head, they'd magically be recorded for me to access later when I want to write my book. 🤣 But, this habit kind of stuck and now I tend to think in words more than I think in the abstract.

[@doppelganger1997]

I found out that I had aphantasia (inability to visualise) when I watched a video about those who don't have an inner monologue. It is indeed sad to not be able to visualise, I'm quite disappointed that I don't have this ability. It seems so cool and useful for writing fiction.

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

Yeah I recently used a dishwasher on a Christmas trip to western Australia this year, It was handy but the house I live in is a rental. The kitchen area is so small a dishwasher is not even an option, so only wash the dishes once a day in the evening.

[@krose6451]

Im one of those who has an extremely limited internal monologue and can't visualize much in my head. It takes a lot of effort for the later and the former mostly appears if Im thinking of songs, reading or writing. In day to day life thoughts and observations just exist in my head as a formless thing.

[@connoredwards7000]

I was watching clarksons farm and something i didn't know was that if a cow is infected with tuberculosis they have to slaughter every single cow in the herd. so if you're a farmer and a cow gets infected thats your way of making money out because you have to pay the authorities to properly slaughter them. And even though the TB that infects the cow can come from a badger, because of environmental regulations you can't kill the badger. Also i do like the reddit videos

[@charlestaylor9424]

So that mass badger cull a few years ago was mass law-breaking.

[@danielintheantipodes6741]

Not only is Cadbury reducing quality of ingredients, they are dropping the size to charge even more. Disgusting.

[@Anopano3000]

ah yes, the ever-hated shrinkflation. we have bought at least one tin of quality street for christmas every year for a number of years now and every year it was a lighter container for the same price (also we live in spain so it's an import and bloody expensive). yet another reason i hate capitalism

[@carolbrookes5748]

For over 185 years Cadbury was owned by the same family (although it did merge with Schweppes in 1969) - it was run on Quaker values and the quality of both it's products and employment practices helped build it's reputation at home in the UK and abroad. Then in 2009 the big boys came along with a hostile takeover from the US-based Kraft / Mondelez company which lead to the end the Cadbury family values and focused on profit instead. Hence the change in product quality. What is disgusting how big businesses acquire the iconic reputation of smaller, well established businesses to reap the kudos of the brand without respecting the centuries of company values that consolidated that reputation in the first place

[@danielintheantipodes6741]

@@carolbrookes5748 Agreed. I am aware of the admirable Quaker values of the company founders. I now buy other brands, such as the Australian brand Haigh’s which remains high quality.

[@hansc8433]

If prices in your production environment (from rent to the price of labour and raw materials) go up all the time, and you also would like to earn a decent (5 to10%) profit, something’s got to give. You either reduce the quantity, while keeping the quality the same, or you reduce the quality, while keeping the same quantity. Companies are as much part of society as you and me, they experience exactly the same price increases. Obviously there are bad apples, but the majority of companies choose (the continuation of) their existence over your annoyance.

[@danielintheantipodes6741]

@@hansc8433 Of course, increased costs need to be covered. Zero choice there. But ‘bad apples’ are more abundant than they used to be. Or perhaps I am now more aware of them. Thank you for your input.

[@pink_nicola]

I appreciate when brands do actually advertise that they’ve changed a recipe. I swear about 7/8 years ago Robinsons changed the recipe for their apple and blackcurrant squash with no notice. I used to drink it daily and then it suddenly started tasting really drying so I switched to mostly drinking one of their other flavours or some specific own brand apple and blackcurrant squashes I found to be ok after having avoided them generically for years for similar flavour/feeling reasons.

[@jmurray1110]

The actual name for when a company either decreases ingredient quality or rips them out is scimpflation not shrinkflation as that requires the overall size to decrease

[@qynoi42]

Learned all the mathematical properties mentioned, but not the specific fact that percentages are reversible. It just didn't come up as a thing. We did learn how to do mathematical proofs, which made a lot of later stuff click more solidly, as you could create the logic of why a formula works and not just that it works.

[@AngryShuckie]

I usually view internal monologues as thoughts processed through language, and with that view it is obvious how someone might not have it: language is not inherently present, and nor would a mind necessarily work with it that way. Similarly, I have some degree of aphantasia, where I have well-defined thoughts of scenes and geometry, but my mind doesn't actually construct images in any sense. I make lots of art so it would be natural to assume I see vivid images in my mind, but I really don't. I liken it to having image files but don't open them in image-viewing software: the information is there and I know what to do with it, but not in the form of images.

[@vikkispence]

I have aphantasia and find creating art very difficult without source images to look at constantly (mostly I paint watercolours of photos I've taken)

[@nriamond8010]

I was never allowed to have a gameboy because I was a girl (yes, my parents were pretty strict about that) but a few years ago, I had a car breakdown out of town in the dark but there was a traffic light. I had to wait a long time for the recovery vehicle and my phone's battery was nearly empty, but I had a book with me - and the traffic light was the only illumination source I had, but I only could read if there was a green light, the red one was too dark 😄 I think it was quite a similar feeling except that there really was no alternative to entertain me because I was alone, no radio or anything else ...

[@colleenmarin8907]

I love that Technology Connections video on dishwashers! To make it shorter, you could watch it at 1.25 speed

[@evan]

2x speed or nothing

[@vikkispence]

All the Technology Connections videos are excellent, and Alec has such a soothing voice

[@m.h.6470]

5:02 not strictly true. Oxen are *castrated* bulls. This is done, so they are not as wild and *can* be used for work.

[@Cyraneth]

I don't have an internal monologue, and I've often been fascinated why you would have one. It's not like I need to discuss with myself if I think what I think. I just do what I do because it makes sense to me. If I need to plan - in my head - something more comprehensive, I visualize it instead, like a schedule or a piece of paper where I write down what I need to remember. There's no speech - no monologue.

[@behindzerosp]

About the internal monologue, apparently some people think just in pictures, monologue in first or 3rd person or don`t have any internal world so to speak active all the time at all. As you said, the same way not all people can imagine things vividly and there are different levels or how vivid one person can imagine something. From not being able to imagine stuff at all to the full 3d experience of the vivid image with sound and even smell of the thing they imagine. I can barely imagine objects they are kind of half transparent and for me I have internal monologue the same way you would speak walking around thinking out loud but in my head, Fun fact I sometimes find it easier to imagine stuff with open eyes

[@aidanmac2002]

Totally agree re the food naming, never thought of that, will have to evangelise this idea now

[@kirstygunn9149]

Babies can drink water but not up until to a certain age. Its ok to give a drink of cooled boiled water at around 6 months as this is the earliest time you can introduce them to "solid foods "( adding water to pureed fruits and vegetables is a good start) and as your Babies go on to eat more varied foods,then cooled boiled water is a must to help keep the baby regular and hydrated. I followed these guidelines with both my fussy babies, and they were and still are ok. they are now both in their late teens .

[@dom_worth]

On the food topic, if you do make a video about it, I highly recommend Chris Van Tulleken's book about UPFs and Henry Dimbleby's book about the food system more generally, both will get you even angrier than you are already

[@swiftietay99]

I love reddit content they’re my fav type of content from you ❤

[@nealjroberts4050]

Food thing yes!!!! My thoughts actually vary between full monologue and mere sensation. It depends what senses I'm prioritising. Songs are obviously audio but books could be visual text or the words as said. I have vivid involved dreams too so that's probably related.

[@Omaricon]

Slight correction. Hard water doesn't increase corrosion, but it can affect the effectiveness of the detergent. It also adds ugly white stains to your dishes, especially noticeable on glass. The salt just helps dissolve the minerals, making the detergent more effective and the dishes look cleaner.

[@Bumi-90]

About the internal Monologue, I myself have an internal Dialogue, but I have friends saying they have monologue or neither, and when we have gone into depth what that means we came to our definitions as follows. monologue (Finished sentences when thinking) "Oh, that apple looks good, I don't have hunger, .. but it won't hurt" dialogue (Finished sentences with own answers) "Oh, that apple looks good!" "Yeah, but do I even have Hunger?" "No, but let's eat it anyways!" "yeah~" neither (incomplete structure) "Oh, an apple. I'm not hungry. huhh~" *eats apple* At least in my small sample, noone had no inner voice thinking, just some had it so minimalistic, that they didn't think it would qualify for an actual monologue.

[@frankcooke1692]

I just learnt that if you mix vinegar and bleach, you create mustard gas. As both are just common household cleaning products, it's totally possible you could end up using both at the same time.

[@SomeGuyCalledJ]

Updoot purely for the Technology Connections plug. I love that channel. Also, as an aphantasist, no internal monologue either

[@workmad3]

I have aphantasia but do have an internal monologue 😅

[@vikkispence]

I have neither, so I describe it as total aphantasia (And another yay for Technology Connections)

[@shadowcat4529]

I really enjoy the reddit videos so please keep making them!

[@SketchingPandaRen]

3:18 That makes sense! I will sometimes say something feels wet when it's just a colder then normal but warmer then freezing temp. I thought it was just me being overly sensitive cause I hate wet feeling things. (Ex. I touch something that has been sitting out of the freezer for a min) Also I am one of those people that can't see squat when I close my eyes. But I do have a very vivid inner monologue, and somehow is is enough to draw.

[@TKswitchblade]

Reddit videos are my fav, also probably a great way to atract new viewers and then turn them into viewers who watch ur more thought out content? idk anyway ur reddit vids are great!

[@pythonprojectsforwindows6795]

Didn't know about percentages. "Looks like fish, moves like a fish, steers like a cow." Douglas Adams.

[@suecox2308]

That feeling water thing--omg. And the reverse percentage thing--why didn't I know that? Also, about the names of food products--I was startled to learn that perfume brands reuse the names of their older, expensive, popular scents on newer perfumes. So the "Joy" perfume of two decades ago has a completely different formulation now. So I'm with you on the updated ingredients and Cadbury's is now a sore disappointment.

[@gta4everrr]

The fact that percentages are reversible is a consequence of the commutative property 38 * 72 / 100 (The same as 38 * 72%) = 72 * 38 / 100 (the same as 72 * 38%)

[@Irishharper]

Oh I loved this video!!! Reddit is my dirty little secret..lol and yes make a video of what is going on with ingredients being changed in our food. I am totally organic cause I love eating real food, but I had no idea about Breyers no longer considered ice cream... damn

[@krisyndaaustin1043]

One interpretation of having no internal monologue could simply be that the supposed inner voice consists of no particular language since language itself is a invention from human no matter how ingrained so rather than being unable to think they experience feelings and internal emotions but no actual words

[@lewistrundell]

I don’t have an internal monologue. No voices in my head, just a lot of silence. Thoughts are separate in my experience as they’re vague ideas, with no words, mostly just a visual concept I can imagine. Most of what people have told me about internal monologues I say out loud (in reality I saw it quietly and to myself, but sometimes those words are heard by others)

[@Taleri]

6:14 I can tell you that they definitely do NOT teach reversible percentages in every elementary school in the states. They don't even teach grammar. My first grammar lesson was in college and reversible percentages was a fact I found out about even later.

[@NicholasJH96]

What you mentioned Cadbury did that when Kraft came said they wouldn’t charge but now I can tell driffeance cream eggs was one. An American company hotel chocolat, I brought some of the chocolate there before American company changes it to suit American palette.