This is akin all those hot takes about the 2k bug being an hoax:
“Remember when they told us every computer was going to crash on 1/1/01 and there would be chaos and then nothing happened?”
Yeah, I remember. And I’m sure every programmer and sysadmin that contributed the billion person/hour global effort to prevent it also remembers.
No one talks about acid rain anymore, either. And that’s a very good thing.
see also START and START II, which significantly reduced nuclear stockpiles
International cooperation is actually so effective that most people don’t even notice it happening, and then erroneously believe it can’t solve anything.
Elon Musk tried to correct Bernie Sanders about insulin, and ended up getting fact checked by his own platform 🤣🤣
(Oh and… note that Bernie says the patent for insulin was sold in 1923, which is true, and Elon “corrects” him by saying insulin was discovered in 1921… that’s also true, but shows that Elon Musk lacks basic reading comprehension lmao)
Oh! And, the reason the patent for insulin was originally sold for $1 had nothing to do with the price of insulin… it was because Sir Frederick Banting, the scientist who discovered insulin, intended for it to be free. He famously said that insulin does not belong to him, it belongs to the world.
He sold the patents to the University of Toronto for $1 because under Canadian law, $1 is the minimum anything can be sold for, when legal ownership changes hands. If you want to gift a car to someone, you have to sell it to them for $1 in order to legally transfer ownership. Same rule applies to patents.
Here’s the whole video. It’s called “Don’t Be A Sucker” and it’s 17 minutes long.
don’t just scroll past this actually watch it, it’s only 2 minutes long. If you re-recorded this today word for word with modern actors and places, it wouldn’t even look out of place as a PSA
300,000 notes and i can’t find a transcript
Transcript: (sorry for the language!)
Speaker: “I see negroes holding jobs that
belong to me! And you! I’ll ask you, if we allow this thing to go on,
what’s gonna become of us real Americans!”
Hungarian man with clear foreign accent: “I’ve heard this kind of talk before, but I never expected to hear it in America.”
Young man: “This man seems to know what he’s talking about.“
Speaker:
“What are us real Americans gonna do about it? You’ll find it right
here in this little pamphlet—the truth about negroes and foreigners! The
truth about the Catholic Church! You’ll find…” [audio grows quieter
as camera shifts to the onlookers]
Hungarian man: “You believe in that kind of talk?“
Young man: “I dunno, it makes pretty good sense to me.“
Speaker:
“And I tell you, friends, we’ll never be able to call this country our
own until it’s a country without… without what?“
Other man: “Yeah? Without what?“
Speaker:
“Without negroes, without alien foreigners,”—the young man is nodding,
following along—“without Catholics, without Freemasons! You know
these…“
Young man: “What’s wrong with the Masons, I’m a Mason.” Looks to European man worriedly, “hey, that fellow’s talking about me!“
Huungarian man: “And that makes a difference, doesn’t it.“
Speaker:
“These are your enemies! These are the people who are trying to take
over our country! Now you know them, you know what they stand for. And
it’s up to you and me to fight them!” A bunch of the onlookers in the
vicinity wave him off like he’s crazy and turn away, “fight them and
destroy them before they destroy us!”
Speaker: “Thank you.“
One man in the now somewhat awkward crowd: “claps“
Young man: *is visibly uncomfortable*
Hungarian man: “Before he said Mason, you were ready to agree with him.”
Young man: “Well yes but, he was talking about… what about those other people?“ *the pair sit down on a park bench*
Hungarian man: “In this country, we have no ‘other people.’ We are American people, of course.“
Young man: “What about you? You aren’t American, are you?“
Hungarian
man: “I was born in Hungary. But now, I am an American citizen. And I
have seen what this kind of talk can do. I saw it in Berlin.”
Young man: “What were you doing there?“
Hungarian
man: “I was a professor at the university. I heard the same words we
have heard today. But I was a fool, then. I thought Nazis were crazy
people, stupid fanatics. But unfortunately it was not so. You see, they
knew that they were not strong enough to conquer a unified country, so
they split Germany into small groups. They used prejudice as a practical
weapon to cripple the nation.”
A film created for folks in case
Martin Niemöller
was too subtle.
I haven’t shared the video store shelf, Brundle Video, since I moved it into its own corner. I’ve added a lot to it, too. Just a pure shot of nostalgia every single time I look at it.
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