Awful Archaeology Ep. 8: Nebraska Man from Miniminuteman - Reaction

[@KaitoGillscale]

Since you've been watching Miniminuteman pretty regularly, I recommend you give his mutli-part series on Filip Zieba. There's two episodes and a third reactionary episode he made, and each is over an hour long! I'd imagine splitting each episode into thirds could make for QUITE a lot of fun content since he packs so much into each episode!

[@DeReAntiqua]

My guy. Human zoos were a thing until the middle of the 20th century. Until 43, Canada just went "Oh look, that's quintuplets. Ain't that weird? Let's put 'em in a ZOO." Not a made-up thing. Actual thing. The 58 World's Fair in Brussels had an exhibit of a "Congolese village". Now if you're thinking "Hm... why have I heard Belgium and Congo mentioned together before...", yeah. Yeah, you have. The reason why nobody should feel sorry for them for getting steamrolled by Germany twice.

[@RickJaeger]

To be maximally fair to the Belgians, the Congo was the _private_ plantation of their King, not a colony under the Belgian government, for a large part of its colonial history. They did eventually get charge of it, once everyone's attention was drawn to how brutally and exploitatively Leopold II was running the place. However, Belgium proper only ran the Congo _marginally_ better than Leopold II did. They deserve responsibility for those decades, and for not insisting on the removal from the colony from their King's possessions sooner. They may have more complicity than that, but I'm not yet aware of it.

[@DeReAntiqua]

@@RickJaeger And I'm sure you extend that exact same differentiation to the Germans of "you know when" because their government, too, wasn't elected. Your "to be fair" sophistry is nothing but apologism.

[@RickJaeger]

@@DeReAntiqua To the Germans? Yeah, I do? I extend that same courtesy to Russians, Cambodians, Spaniards, Mongolians, Arabs, Irishmen, Iranians, et cetera, et cetera. I think the standard for collective guilt (not political responsibility, but "guilt," i.e. moral responsibility) has to be higher than the standard for individual guilt, of necessity, because to do otherwise is to assume necessarily that a single person in a society has _as much control_ (ergo moral responsibility) over the society as they do over themselves. Contrariwise, I think automatically attributing guilt to a nation for the actions of a powerful few is the insane sophistry here; that's the same broken logic as the repulsive "Christ-Killer" libel hurled against innocent Jews in Europe.

[@AlanomalyOfficial]

And we're still awaiting what will be an inevitably long episode on Atlantis; chop chop debunker boy!

[@DeReAntiqua]

I think you meant googledybunker.

[@kenyonmoon3272]

He has released a zoom call with Stefan Milo with Atlantis as a big part of the convo, though not a full cover episode.

[@chrisvickers7928]

Still not happened. I'm looking forward to it.

[@Scottthespy13]

I think one of the funniest videos Milo has is the one where he and a friend make a satirical conspiracy theory video on the Bass Pro Pyramid. It's not just the topic that's so funny, or even the content of the theory, though. They show their 'research' stage, where they were coming up with ideas for what the conspiracy would be, and what's so funny to me is that they're using the scientific process to do it. Instead of saying 'Here is what we want the conspiracy to be' and then looking for numbers to cherry pick, they're looking through statistics and jumping to wild conclusions of what those statistics mean. There's a point in the video where they try to look up just how much water is in the tanks in the Bass Pro Pyramid, and they can't actually find a specific amount...despite having very precise measurements for most other aspects of the pyramid, all they can get about the water is 'over x amount' or 'nearly y amount'. And in absolute glee they realize that they can now claim that this information being absent is proof that its being deliberately hidden, and if that's not conspiracy fodder then what is? The joy on their faces as they mimic the 'They don't want you to know, this information is being kept from us!' rhetoric is so adorable and funny to me. They're having so much fun finding evidence and coming to deliberately wrong conclusions, and it's so amusing how they're so science minded that they can't even conspiracy correctly...can't even say 'I think x, let me find evidence'. Even when trying to create deliberately unscientific ideas, Milo uses scientific methods.

[@themalcontent100]

I just imagine a comic book with a caveman with overalls with a stick of wheat sticking through his teeth.

[@sookendestroy1]

Almond Activation

[@Random_Chiroptera]

How you explained pseudoscience, reminds me of trying to talk sense to the weather control conspiracy theorists. For example they tell me about military aircraft seeding the sky with aluminum particles, and I explain that's an anti-missile countermeasure called Chaff that is sometimes deployed during training exercises. Instead of changing their conclusions, they say the military is seeding the sky with Chaff.

[@bookmaster0306]

I love that you're doing miniminuteman and always post right when I'm thinking about when you'll post the next one.

[@bendysbrother7447]

I was just rewatching your other aweful aercheology yesterday.

[@thexsoar]

Atlantis drives me googledebunkers.

[@DuskSkyWolf]

If you want to learn about Tartaria I highly recommend checking out the videos by The Lore Lodge. They're long, but it's necessary to really get into and go over all of the insane bs that is Tartaria. Aidan also just does a really good job of ripping the whole thing from stem to stern.

[@dracogaming13]

Man next episode is gonna be googledebunkers

[@leritykay8911]

Well, i'm just a geology student so I'm not like an expert, but, does there have to be a reason for Ice age ending? "Ice ages" happen all the times, because over thousands of years, some events happen that change earth's global temperature. The oscillation of earth center of rotation, the flip of the magnetic poles, etc. These all impact the temperature. I mean heck, back in the 60's the global temperature was falling, and now it's rising. (Regardless of if man-made global warming is a thing) And since these things are asymchronous, i figured for the Big Bad Ice age, these things just happened to align for a bit? But i don't know.

[@Gfish17]

There is this Young Earth Creationist who's obsessed with Nebraska man. His Name is Kent Hovind. He's got some history.

[@2l84t]

None of it real.

[@Gfish17]

@@2l84t What's not real exactly? Please be specific.

[@Sarge80]

The thing that drives me up a wall, is that there are actual teachers out there, teaching kids that earth is only 6000 years old and that dinosaurs never lived, crap like that, i mean we had civilizations flourishing for longer then that timeframe, not to mention it takes a very, very long time for oil to be formed thru time and pressure. Teachers like that need to be fired immediatly.

[@ChrissieBear]

31:33 same with camels. Camels also came from America to Asia and then spread from there.

[@Tar-Numendil]

Wasn't the Bone Wars between Marsh and Cope?

[@cerberus0225]

Hope you go on to watch more of his stuff outside the Awful Archaeology series! There's certainly plenty of content to react to.

[@ReinaSaurus]

well, seems like the next episode by miniminuteman will be utterly punishing...probably an excuse to get plastered completely 🤣

[@ChrissieBear]

Do you think God stays in heaven because he too is flabbergasted at our stupidity?

[@Frequencydead]

Oh if you haven't already you so need to watch the miniminuteman series debunking graham Hancock's awful Netflix show ancient apocalypse

[@lizaliza8367]

Hell yeah the one reaction i was waiting for!!)

[@samuel-oi1fx]

we wiil go to mars i hope

[@ZanderBiatch]

New sub! Good reaction 😊

[@susanjones2936]

look what whales did

[@Gfish17]

Hey you should react to Season 4 of Overlord. Phillip... He's....a Genius 😏🤪😵‍💫

[@coulsonintahiti]

To answer your question, Egypt built the pyramids with Hebrew slave labor. Meaning Africa was so civilized they had slave labor before Europe did (Sorry, people are always forgetting that little part of history)

[@JustSomeRandomBot-ox8pi]

That is actually not true. Studies and Archeological digs proved that the Pyramids were built not with slave labour, but rather by a mix of skilled workers and farmers who were working off season. These artisans were being paid with food and cared for by their employers. We even have a record of workers strike from the time of Pharaohs! (Rameses III if I remember correctly.) The notion of slaves is now being dismissed as propaganda. Of course, there were slaves in Egypt ( as was the case with most of the other cultures around that time) but they weren't used to build pyramids, but rather for other tasks, such as house servitude. If I remember correctly, the idea of slaves being used originated with Herodotus. Israelites weren't even mentioned until centuries after the Pyramids were built. It is first mentioned by the Jewish historian Josephus. The consensus among historians is that the story of Jews enslaved in Egypt is more of an "Origin Myth" rather than historical truth.

[@DR_REDACTED]

Old and outdated info please keep up to date if you are going to talk about something :)

[@coulsonintahiti]

@@DR_REDACTED "old and outdated" meaning scientists and historians are trying to delete it for optics in this culture, or old and outdated as in actual old and outdated?

[@DR_REDACTED]

@coulsonintahiti Old and outdated as in we have found evidence that points to it not bring true. Not saying they dien't have slaves or that some werent there to do some of the buiding but what Coul said is the most accepted point of view now.

[@coulsonintahiti]

@@DR_REDACTED Not to be stubborn but "most accepted" is still a bit of a common fallacy. I'll do some research on this but there's a lot of "scientific evidence" nowadays that's basically "oh, we ran a computer simulation" or "oh, if you ignore all this stuff and take this out of context, it makes perfect sense".