Many teachers have said that one of the biggest reasons they’re leaving en masse is parental apathy. Parents aren’t trying to raise their children anymore. So I’m not surprised that they’re clutching their pearls and suing instead of actually implementing discipline in their kids’ video game consumption.
Ok but this. Not a teacher but an OT with the schools. We literally have this mom who has sued the district because she feels that we are not meeting her kids needs because he doesn't feel like going to school and (yes this actually happened) wanted the school to PAY her child for going because money motivats him. Seriously the audacity of some of these parents is just outrageous.
In the old days kids used to get on their bikes and ride out all day and come home when it was dark. Their parent had no idea when the hell they were doing and they basically raised themselves. Now they sit in front of the computer all day and basically raise themselves. There have always been tied, exhausted, overwhelmed, overworked, depressed and lazy parents it just looks different now.
This~! Used to be 60% parents, 40% schools, but lately its more 90% schools and 10% parents since so many don't even make time to help the kid with homework OR even find people who have the time to do so. :|
@@vields2352 The trade-off is that parents are also less self-aware, since everyone is, these days. Self-reflection is emotionally challenging and people still don't want to do it, even with some of the stigma around therapy gone.
From the perspective of a single father who has been gaming religiously since Commodore 64, I have to say, that Fortnite lawsuit may be one of the most insane things I’ve heard in a while. Also as someone who has been working with children for over 10 years, it just reinforces my belief that parents are refusing to raise their children. They get raised by teachers or professor ipad. Or in the worst cases they get raised by the streets. Tragic!!
taking kids for granted "works" often enough that people just prefer it these days. as a homeschooling parent i gotta say homeschool is not ideal and very limited. the "village" as it were is just so garbage that i chose home as a less-bad option.
There's a lot to this though. I mean, for one games now are a fuckton more addictive with added pressure on IAPs and focus on instant gratification. Long gone are the tough-as-shit games we grew up on. The lawsuit is kinda ridiculous, yeah, but at the same time something needs to be done as far as the gross direction that games are going. The other issue is how fucking stupid other people are when it comes to letting your kids have some freedom outside. Like, look at that one mom who had CPS called on her because she let her kid walk home from school. Society is fucked right now and it seems like there is no winning move.
Honestly though, as a parent, it's not that hard to limit your children's screen time. Just do things WITH THEM. And even if you are using technology it can be regulated and taught how to handle in a healthy way
Real news. US increases defense budget by 45 Billion. Here's a channel that actually does investigative journalism. Jimmy Dore news. th-cam.com/video/aZZ20LJXTeU/w-d-xo.html
the parents are neglectful, full stop. They may have had a good reason at the time (newborn, busy at work, money issues etc.) - but that is what it boils down to. They are happy their child is doing something and perhaps not being super loud and they know where the kid is, but by the time they pay attention enough to see the issues it is too late and they have lost too much authority/confidence in their role as a parent. Which is why they continue to outsource... to lawyers, and the government.
@@MadFlourish I agree for the most part. But I would say negligent, not neglectful. It's definitely not the way anyone should parent. Unfortunately that's good by comparison to what I see from a lot of parents these days.
@@jamiebruner8463 then you should've done a better job to begin with. Or practice patience. I get it might now be the easiest thing in the world. But of you know enough about your kid you should know of something you both enjoy doing together.
As a science nerd, the successful fusion reaction just makes me SO happy, even knowing that it won't produce viable energy sources for a while yet. It's just so amazing to think that we've progressed all the way from telling stories about the stars to having a piece of them right here on Earth
@@n2n8sda The reason this particular breakthrough is exciting is that they were able to actually get more energy out than was put in to create the reaction. This is obviously a pretty important requirement if we’re actually going to be able to use fusion as a power source. It’s still a long way from being an actual viable way to generate electricity, but it’s a major step that no one has been able to manage before.
Anything but parenting your own children... Imagine going through the trouble of suing Epic Games vs turning off your child's internet... Losing hope in humanity
One article said it wasn't an option for some parents as it the children became upset or angry. Parents need to do better. Keep in mind I am a parent of 4 avid gamers and everyone of them knows if I say they are done, then they are done.
this. What your child has is called a gaming addiction. literally anything that releases dopamine can create an addiction if you don't moderate your behavior. Children don't have the mental capacity or responsibility to moderate their behaviors when dealing with addictions, that's why parents exist.
It's why my kids will be playing age appropriate games only. I wouldn't be letting any kid of mine under 15 playing any sort of battle royal game unless it was on roblox or something. The only computer they'd have access to would be in the living area or a public space - no personal computers. Blaming a gaming company is so stupid when theyre your KID, no theirs. Tell them no and parent them, take it away and help them navigate another hoobby that isn't plugged into a screen.
Being a young teen girl during the hey day of tumblr where they were constantly pushing eating disorder and self harm behavior on that platform, it’s hard not to see the continuous cycle. It goes to show no matter what kind of social media it is, at the end of the day view numbers and ad revenue are going to matter more than the health and well being of our youth. It’s very disheartening.
I understand what you mean but how do you propose the companies to solve this problem? If someone wants to find specific content then they will especially if there's other people who want to publish it.
You are shown what you engage with on these platforms, kids aren't responsible for that but the adults who post things like that are. They should be banned because they are actively putting out harmful content to gain a following
Maybe if it can reasonably proven that a person (teen or adult) is actively making harmful content for the purpose of gaining followers then a ban could be appropriate, but I'm also not a fan of the way social media censorship is going. If someone wants to talk about their own struggle with eating disorders or mental health they should be able to. Sure, companies have some responsibility in making sure truly harmful and extreme content isn't being platformed, but users and parents of minors who are users also have a responsibility to not give stuff attention and curate their own experience
@@MinReiSakato I think talking about one's mental health struggles is fine, my problem is when they just play it for laughs. I hear people say like it's their way of coping but i just don't buy it when post after post is about how mentally ill they are and how "ope I had another mental snap in the middle of class today teehee". It's not good for them or the other users to joke about how they haven't taken their meds in a month because of whatever stupid reason they want to give.
And you do not if Epic have psychologists on the pay roll so it is about what Epic is doing to actively make their game addictive. But yes blame parents 🙄
On the Fortnite topic, something people usually miss is that gaming addiction is often a symptom of issues in other areas of their life. If parents just ban games without actually talking to and understanding their child, it can lead to other or worse coping mechanisms. I would have been classified as addicted to games during my teens, but it was to cope with a culmination of bullying, undiagnosed autism and gender identity issues. When my parents tried to limit and take away my gaming and music usage, I turned to self harm and ended up being hosiplised. Once I was able to leave school and follow my special interests, my gaming usage lessened over time. So yes, games are optimized to make the player spend as much time and money on them as possible, but first ask why the person is playing video games and identify if there is a core need that the gaming is fulfilling, then you can work together to have those needs met in other healthy ways.
100% agree. It's not Epic Games' fault - that's like suing alcohol producers for people becoming alcoholic. While I think its completely possible to become addicted to video games, there is definitely something going on outside of that which was completely ignored by these parents until it went too far.
Flashbacks to my teens, my mom telling the teacher that I'm addicted, them advising not letting me play, ending up in me being all alone in my room, with my cat, focused on my parents fighting behind the door all the time. Drunk father, neurotic mother. Mm yes, those games that taught me how to interact with people, helped me learn English and where my social anxiety didn't matter as much, oh and of course friends online who made it possible. Just please, pay attention to your children. They become what you invest in them
@@onceuponamelody Well there is a reason why we don't tend to serve alcohol to children. Games have become more and more addictive. I don't remember being addicted to the first civ games, or railroad tycoon, there was no dopamine/adrenaline hit without achieving something in the game... and even then it was rare. Now, you finish a match and get a random drop or you end up in a 1v1 and you get both of those on a repetitive cycle. Yes some blame goes to the parents, but that doesn't mean that giving a battle royale fps(even cartoony) a PEGI 12 rating is acceptable. We warn parents on television, through PSAs, at school meetings, etc... about the dangers of drugs, alcohol, gambling, yadda yadda, but we (as generations growing up with the internet and gaming) don't realise that not everyone is aware of how gaming has changed and how addictive it has truly become.
The nuclear fusion thing is absolutely insane to me, I remember learning about it in school as some hypothetical but actually hearing it worked is crazy. It may not be what we’ll get in a our homes any time soon but it’s still a huge step knowing we can do it
I know I'm late commenting, but I'm sad this didn't get more attention; I'm amazed to be alive when this happened!! It truly is monumental, I wonder how many people realize just how much of an effect on the world this will have, in the long run?
I’m so glad you covered the Livermore breakthrough on nuclear fusion. This is one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs but I don’t see many people talking about it
I mean to be fair, nuclear fusion has always been in a state of "we're right around the corner to a fusion breakthrough" that it just fizzles out. Same deal with the car-airplanes which were really popular in pop culture films, etc. but when the real deal came out, no one cared anymore b/c of all the hype generated for the countless claims of them being created before and being proven false..
@@jasonz8635 Also, let's be real, I can't barely trust people to drive their cars. If they could also fly them???? No way I'd ever leave my house. One of them would probably crash into me before I had a chance to become a full agoraphobe.
@UCCElcaT2XHpObIPI9gCduxg Current nuclear powerplants are still far better and cleaner than fossil fuels. There are containment methods that limit the amount of radiation that leaks into the environment.
The new about nuclear fusion is just MIND BLOWING. We probably won't live to see all the cool stuff that comes from it, but just seeing this first step is so amazing.
It is also important to note this isn't quite the first fusion reaction that has been done by people, but the first one in which we were able to receive more energy than was initially used. An equally mind-blowing achievement and we very well might see in our lifetime how this could be applied!! :)
If you're interested, Check out Science TH-camr Kyle Hill's latest livestream - he does a really great job at breaking down the experiment, and the result - Addionally, he has a series called "Half-Life Histories" delving into various events in the development of Nuclear Power. Great stuff! :D
@@NotAverageAfro I'm just happy while making a sun in a box they didn't blow up the planet somehow. Always a win when scientists manage to do a thing and not blow up the planet doing it.
I am not a parent, but for the life of me, I will never understand parents who are terrified of having their child say “I hate you” or being mad at them. YOU ARE NOT THEIR FRIEND. Let them hate you in the moment, and when they’ve calmed down, have an actual conversation with them to make sure they understand why they can’t play Fortnite all night or call people names.
I think this is a big thing nowadays. Kids will hate their parents at some point in time. It's almost unavoidable. I know I hated mine at some point! However, I do hope this lawsuit goes somewhere. There are some serious issues with today's software products targeting children's underdeveloped brains and they are fully taking advantage. it's not all on parents, but taking away the game from kids should definitely be done.
Real news. US increases defense budget by 45 Billion. Here's a channel that actually does investigative journalism. Jimmy Dore news. th-cam.com/video/aZZ20LJXTeU/w-d-xo.html
As a teacher, I really enjoy the way Phil discussed the fortnite situation. Identifying what he does, what he noticed going wrong and how he changed path to make it better rather than just saying that those parents are wrong and dumb
Agreed and very well said. I enjoy this channel bc he's consistent, sarcastic, current, and, does a really good job of staying fairly objective by always giving each side a chance and not patronizing things he may or may not agree with.
While I agree that parents ultimately have the power to limit a child's access to video games. I think the lawsuit is necessary because the design of video games have taken a very bad turn these past few years. More and more games are introducing daily quests and time gated events that encourage logging in every day with very stringent tasks to get free items. So yes, a parent should limit their child's gaming, but game companies are getting away with designing games that are more attention demanding and punish kids who don't give that attention with the fear of missing out. Imagine everyone at school talking about how they got the latest skin, but your child feeling left out because they don't. Gaming is more widespread now and part of the child's social life. Game companies should be held accountable for these deliberate design decisions that instill these daily login habits (and by extension mental habitual training) on kids.
The Fortnite lawsuit is just silly *because* anyone can get addicted to *_Anything_*. Video games, movies, explicit content, *going outside*, and being able to sue for that would only lead to chaos.
Tbh when going into legal terms about addiction, id say thats not true. I doubt they can say the kids addicted without demonstrating noticeable withdrawal symptoms, otherwise its just habitual. And similar to what you said, anything can become habitual
Sorry, but the fact is if the lawyers in this case do their research it is an easy win. This is a huge issue with the AAA game industry in general these days especially when they push towards mobile gimmicks like in game store, in game currency and loot boxes. It encourages players, child teen and adult, to grind constantly to earn rewards or to spend a little more to try and get that "winning" loot box. The fact is that EA, Activision both have their own patens for manipulative mechanics like pairing new players with experienced/whales to encourage them to buy the cool shit, or a sliding difficulty scale based on in-game store spending. Yes, they exist. Yes they were legally patented and can be introduced into a game. Sueing Epic will likely fail, but its a good first step because the AAA companies are just getting worse. Bottom line: Its not just fortnite but AAA in general working to monetize and hook people sunk cost fallacy. Its blizzard and not epic, I wont be surprised to see Diablo 4 using a lot of things from Immoral just at lower costs and more "F2P" friendly mechanics to keep people grinding, and eventually buying more shit. Gaming addiction is bullshit, but the methods companies are using are exploitive as fuck.
@@Primal2229 this isnt about the money though this is the parents not being able to say "no you cant play anymore today". the money aspects i agree with any game with micro transactions should be 18+.
I used to throw hissy fits when I didn’t win a board game or things didn’t go my way in a game as a child. My parents would end the game and stopped playing them with me until I could regulate my emotions better. I was the worst as a kid, and I can’t imagine what would have happened if I had had access to video games 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 glad my parents could help me learn not to continue that behavior.
100% it’s the parents responsibility to police their kids. You can’t just give the kids a game it money or phone and not realize how dangerous it can be. Love yo’ face, Phil!
I have a little sister, and I live in a college co-Ed suite with three 20 yo women. Never opened TikTok myself but every time they talk about the app it’s because they have to take a break because of the “sad girl rabbit hole” they walk into. They said that the algorithm follows their feelings and that the more they felt sad, the WORSE the TikTok’s got. For example one of my suitemates got dumped and then her ex shagged her friend, next day my suitemates scrolling and BAM every video is just cry bait, something about suicide or self image issues. Can there be an app that recommends you puppy’s and motivation when your down? Is that such a hard thing? Edit: spelling
I have noticed this in a way. And it means you have to be really good at managing your own feelings. I see a video is turning sad and I don’t have the capacity for it- I scroll past. It usually only makes a few times and then TikTok gets that I’m looking for something else today
But there's plenty of puppies and inspiration on TikTok. The algorithm follows content that you watch, not how you feel. So if you're watching people doing these odd and horrible romanticizing of self harm, that'll flood your feed. My feed is filled with vids with wrestling, cats, dogs, anime and goth stuff.
If you interact with sad videos then yeah the algorithm will feed you more sad videos. The app is what you make it, my feed is literally all comedy sketches and perfectly cut off zoomer humor with the occasional cooking and travel video peppered in. There are plenty of wonderful and enjoyable things on tik tok but if you don't want that content then the app will not show you that content.
Its called a search, and TH-cam. Try it. Once you have them on your search TH-cam will actually recommend them to you. Like I enjoy animal rescue videos and ASMR to fall asleep to, so aside from my news like this, I have plenty of those videos suggested to me in my feed. A very even ratio actually
If your a half decent parent it wont take you two entire years to realize your kid is spending thousand of hours and withdrawing from life playing a game and you would take action. Not wait until the kid is ruined and its gotten so bad you decide to sue. These parents are fully responsible for allowing their kids to go unmonitored. After hearing the excuses the parents cameup with i can guarantee the parents are no better than the kids. The parents probably spent all night watching tv or god knows what allowing the computer to babysit the kids. These games are designed to be addictive, but parents have responsibility and should100% be held accountable for poor parenting.
@@TheHollowBlade Exactly! I don’t know how they would miss their children spending that much time on a video game or on their phones. Smh just careless parenting at its finest.
parents put their kids in front of a screen at such a young age, many times as a way to distract them. then they wonder why their kids crave that constant stimulation 🙄
@@justinhackstadt6677 You can not be a fan of whoever you want. That’s okay. But you have to admit the amount of sexualization of her or other celebrities, many of who are not 18, is sickening.
The Nuclear Fusion news is insane, I'm so happy and weary about it. It has me excited for the future for once, skeptically. The history books this chapter are gonna be even more crazy, amazing.
Well done on the fusion segment, Phil. You're the only person I've seen do it properly, pointing out the laser 1% efficiency and repeat rate issues. This is why I watch you, because you're the most reliable option.
I understand that if you buy the NFT you can then print the image anywhere you want as long as you don't sell it without copy write permission. Just saying
6:10 I have been watching Phil for YEARS … he practically became an “adult” right before my eyes. It is so weird hearing him talk about parenting in such a mature manner! (I’m proud of him though!!)
TikTok study: It has happened to me way too many times now to be coincidence, but me and my friends will be talking about a game or a movie and suddenly without any other explanation (interacting with similar videos) my FYP gets flooded with those games or movies we were talking about. So if those researchers are talking about those topics around the phones they use for the study it could be affecting their study.
The fusion story is big. While it's not at all ready to fix our power issues, it's a massive step towards doing that. I'm very hopeful for this, all we need is time and to work together to keep this FREE.
@@tohro6969 Honestly i was personally wondering if we'd even see fusion reactors in our lifetime and seeing this news and knowing that I'll most likely be alive to see the rise of this new technology makes me really happy. All new technology with the power to fundamentally change the way we live is always so insanely interesting to me.
Unfortunately, there's a big misunderstanding happening with the news on this. The breakthrough was in understanding fusion reactions for nuclear weapons research, not the energy grid. NIF the facility who had the breakthrough was not designed to research self sustaining fusion reactions for commercial energy use. They were funded to study fusion reactions within nuclear warheads. The professor Phil interviewed tried to downplay the news hyberbole over this but even he didn't go far enough. This result does very little to move the needle on commercial fusion energy. ITER in Europe is still our best hope of that future and its first tests aren't for another decade in the 2035 area.
The nuclear fusion story is so exciting!! Even if I’m not around to enjoy it, I’m thrilled that it could change things. Thank you for taking the time to humanize it and make it accessible :)
If you're interested in learning more, Kyle Hill just had a great Office Hours episode (livestream about science while answering chat questions) on his channel explaining the milestones and challenges of this in depth. He's really good at explaining complicated concepts using plain language so that it's much easier to follow. It's really cool stuff!
Life changing science stories get little press. The past few years have seen some monumental discoveries/innovations in science. But on to the next story about pro sports I guess.
I've been a practicing mom for 24 years (kids are 24, 18, 10 & 9). You can never stop learning; I'm STILL learning ALL THE TIME! Be gentle with yourselves other parents ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I’m 24 right now and I wish I could tell you the amount of hours I had spent on video games when I was around 12. Kids cling onto things when they are young. Some kids only want to skateboard, some kids really love playing instruments, etc. I loved playing video games with my friends. It’s not the parents fault particularly because they are seeing their kids enjoy something they don’t completely understand. But I feel like the it’s reaching a bit and that’s coming from someone who had their parents come in at 2am because I was still playing and being disruptive, I got off when they told me is where I’ll leave my take
As a parent it is your job to do your research on what you allow your child to be exposed to, especially new things. You monitor and evaluate the effect it has on them. Then make adjustments accordingly. Sometimes being lenient or strict. These parents sound like the ones that just leave their kid with the Ipad all day. They will do anything to not have to parent their kids themselves.
As a student studying nuclear impact I appreciate how many caveats you put in front of nuclear fission. The amount of energy, resources, and land dedicated to nuclear power is ridiculously beyond the legitimacy of helping the climate crisis.
The weird thing about tiktok being banned from government devices is the fact that other social media aren't. These are work phones, why do you need to have facebook on it if your job isn't with the media relations department Edit: since y’all seem to be ignoring the entire point of my statement… I’m arguing that the rest of the social media apps should not be allowed either. the fact that ANY data harvesting program is allowed on government devices is baffling.
@@blazenfate I think you're* missing their point. Any social media that collects data and personal information shouldn't be on a government phone. So yes, obviously tiktok is a bigger threat because it's owned by a foreign power, but Facebook, Twitter, etc are all data mines as well and present security risk.
Yeah that's just weird. Like a family member in Norway once got reprimanded because someone in a crew used Snapchat for the same reason as it could potentially be used to figure out stuff that shouldn't be leaked, but granted that was more improper use of snapchat rather than snapchat itself. It just baffles me how Tiktok is getting singled out in all of this
My main problem with the whole fortnite thing is the classic bad parent behaviour of shifting responsibility. The whole "If only I was informed about the negatives of this thing I let my children do." is just them admitting they had no idea and didn't even try to understand what their kids were spending so much time doing. Isn't it a part of a parents job to inform themselves about what their kid is doing?! People should know by now that pretty much everything is designed to use your time, just as much as your money, as currency. This includes children, it is the parents responsibility and if they are failing on that front they are neglecting a pretty important part of parenting.
“…them admitting they had no idea and didn’t even try to understand what their kids were spending so much time doing.” This. 100% this. So many parents don’t bother to try and learn about the things their kids are into, and it shows.
@@hobojoe9717 Not just time but money, I have seen parents in my own family let their kids spend $500+ of christmas and birthday money on the game... like really your just gonna let them blow it like that cuz its theirs? Put a cap on loot boxes and microtransactions for christ sake! On top of that had a friend when overwatch came out who never really liked overwatch but every time he got a paycheck he would go spend money on loot boxes for it, dude had well over 20 hours of gameplay in overwatch but the kicker is he had less then 2 of actual playing in matches he just became addicted to the lootboxes, logged on for events to collect holiday skins and everything. When we would ask to play he would say no, so we started poking fun at him for never showing us the skin collection he bought up and he realised yeah I dont like playing wtf am I doing... but because of him a lot of us dont buy into games with loot boxes so that was helpful.
It's the whole my kid gets bad grades? Must be the teacher? He didn't do all, of his homework? Lessons must not be engaging. I've heard this so many times. Some people should not be parents.
I was an administrator for a huge Billie Eilish fangroup on facebook with 300k members, in 2018/2019- around that time. I remember seeing a pron-video that was AI generated with her face on it. It was posted multiple times. The fact that such a video was even allowed on facebook and not caught right away shocked me. But also that websites can allow AI generated stuff like this of people who have never consented to it. I think she had just turned 18 as well when I saw it. It's disgusting.
Just got to say I appreciate you guys doing your due diligence on the fusion story. It feels irresponsible to do as many reports did and just make it seem like we got fusion reactors just around the corner.
Nuclear Fusion being successful is absolutely nuts. I'm so genuinely excited to see how it will affect batteries of all kinds from a game controller to electric vehicles and general city infrastructure
Even magnetic fusion will require a sustained 10000c. We won't see it portable in our lifetime. The need for better, safer, denser and less resource intense batteries will drive battery innovation instead. Once we can charge our batteries from a fusion plant, those batteries are probably organic batteries made from graphene gel, possibly even newer technology.
9:06 I'd like to point out that we've been able to do fusion reactions for ages now, it's just that this is the first time they managed to get more energy out of it than they put in.
My thoughts echo Phil's. I empathize with the parents going through this, but "not knowing the potential consequences" just isn't a sufficient excuse for me. My kids are really young, and there are a million things out there and more that could seriously harm my child, and no one warning me before I use each one. Educating myself and exercising discernment are difficult but vital parts of my job as a parent. With everything I do, I need to consider not just their current health, but their future potential. "This object on the floor is roughly the size and shape of a child's trachea. I should probably move that." "My infant wants to play with a receipt. I should do a 10 second google search on my phone to see if there is any- Whoaa, better keep thermal receipts far away from my kids' mouths." "Making dinner would be a lot easier if I could just pop on a 20 minute tv show for my toddler from time to time, but I don't want to take a shortcut now that could negatively impact my kid's whole future. Let's see what the empirical data has to say about screen effects on brain development and behavior in toddlers. Oh look at that, shows with less saturated colours and fewer cuts are better for development, seating my kid further from the screen is better for attention regulation, Sesame Street and Mr Rogers are associated with better linguistic development and fewer negative externalizing behaviours even years later, and the best way to circumvent the negative effects of screen time is to be intentional about working on developmental tasks when the TV isn't on? Let's do that." With the availability of hordes of information at our fingertips and in our pockets, I think there are fewer excuses than ever before to expose your child to make uninformed parenting decisions. Put a more positive way, we know more about raising healthy children now than ever before, and we don't need to go through parenthood feeling like we are blindly flailing and making it up as we go. My parents used to tell me that parenting is just winging it, because there is no manual or guide for best-practice when raising a kid. That just isn't true now (I also don't think it was true then. Plenty of people sold books on raising kids. It was perhaps just less convenient and less evidence-based.)
It feels like society has become so techy that taking away a child's device or limiting access to certain things like TH-cam or video games can feel like being a terrible parent. It's an odd feeling. I grew up without and with the tech, and feel like I'm doing the right thing by taking it away at times, but also feel terrible because it's causing emotional/mental stress in the now for my child. Technology itself has become addictive without the warning.
I totally understand. Kids nowadays are growing up with technology that's more and more accessible and present in their daily life and it's hard to know where to draw the line. I'd say technology should help and not hinder. It should make things more convenient. A child can use a device to learn, to socialize, but it can't replace a parent. If parents give their kids devices to keep them quiet instead of playing with the child, teaching the child, or giving them meaningful attention, that's where I feel it becomes an issue. Older children should have reasonable content and time restrictions. I also think we should emphasize media literacy in our children's education so they can protect themselves online and learn to be more careful about what "facts" or "news" they see.
"If they had been informed of the dangers of Fortnite they would have refused to download .." this really chafes my a** because anyone with half a brain cell knows this is a lie. Have these parents also deleted FB, Instagram, TikTok etc.. from the their kids phones? We have known for years how apps and games are being created to be as addictive as possible. It's easier to shove a device Infront of your kid than actually do some parenting and say no.
Loving the coverage on science lately and the achievements that are being made! Its refreshing to hear of this success that so many scientists have devoted their career and life to. I especially love that professor Roulstone was interviewed on the topic and got the chance to share his insight.
3:09 remember when that guy shot himself in the head with a shotgun(or rifle) and it took hours for TikTok to actually do something about it and it legitimately left a lot of people traumatized? I do. 5:11 insinuating that she just didn't do any research and blindly bought her kid a game.
I just wish people would take the harms and dangers of facebook or reddit even half as seriously as tiktok. It's absolutely absurd to me that they've been around for longer and haven't been cracked down on in any meaningful manner despite how much harm they've caused.
I think I remember Phil reporting on banning the “fat people hate” subreddit yet scrolling past 100s of NSFW subreddits on screen, exactly to your point.
This so much. I cannot believe the horrendous vile shit people say, on facebook in particular, with their full name and picture next to it. Mind blowing.
This. All these companies are doing the same thing. I think it’s made worse because China wants to see the west fall, BUT, Facebook and Twitter and IG are all doing the exact same thing in the exact same way and pretending they’re dramatically different is... dumb. Lol
It’s because congress is enamored with with local tech billionaires but see TikTok as China so they are willing to do Zuckerberg’s bidding to eliminate competition.
I saw article headlines about the fusion breakthrough and immediately scrolled past since I've been reading those same headlines for decades. I didn't realize they had a net gain of energy. This is monumental.
The put in 2, got 3, but needed 300 to get going from my understanding. So net -297MJoules, if I understood correctly. Although it's progress so I'm still happy about it!
Just a correction on the Fusion story, it’s not fusion that was achieved for the first time, it was the net energy gain (if you discount H-bombs as an energy source, cause you know blowing up nukes to power a city is… problematic)
I used to have social media when I was a teenager but i got rid of everything when I turned 21 except TH-cam after I started noticing how people are just nose deep in their own world. People don't even know how to hold conversation or keep one going because they are distracted and if you do people get annoyed if you even try. People drive while on social media, it sets unrealistic standards and in my opinion a lot of these companies are shady and I don't want any part of it. I noticed when I quit my mental health and concentration increased I'm not on my phone 24/7 and I just feel more content with life.
A lot of the issue with TikTok is actually involving US national security. China has admittedly it can access foreign data TikTok stores. If it affects national security it's going to get the hammer, no stopping that. Make sure to plan accordingly.
Actually parentrd? Parents are vilified from even discouraging their children from changing genders and waiting until they're matured and developed. So they're going to stop them from playing video games? LOL.
I think another type of reactor we should be talking about is an accelerator driven reactor. The first one is being built in Belgium, and if it works, we can have nuclear fission without the danger of reactor meltdowns and with less waste. It was a big topic at a summer work conference I attended, and it was super interesting.
Over the years I've come to realize that gaming and entertainment in general can become addictive, and like drugs and gambling, negatively impact people's lives. Therefore, it's up to us parents to actually be parents and teach our kids about the pitfalls of these vices. Also recognizing the mental health struggles that help to push people into using those mediums to self medicate.
Parents don’t even bother after all the studies showing kids are literally addicted to sugar, let alone media that keeps the kid quiet so less need to parent them. People having kids to check on their “adulting to-do list” is the real issue, they’re nowhere near ready to actually raise a functional human.
There is sadly a lot of parents out there who do not want to parent their children. I know if I was playing games way too much etc my parents would rip me a new one (figuretively) so the fact that they are suing the company instead of doing something like limit the amount of time the kids plays, or even disciplining them is sad/ not a shocker. They can do more things instead of this that actually work. Phil himself gave a great example, and I applaud his decision with his son. Good on you phil. And yes what phil said about parenting is different. every kid is different and there is no guide for you kid. Books and advice helps but at the end of the day, parents can't always be thier friend and have to parent
You hit the nail on the head with the first sentence. Realistically this isnt about the parents caring about their kids, its about the parents seeing potential dollar signs. Im surprised there are so many people saying "well maybe if the parents just did their job blah blah blah..." The parents dont want to do their job, they want money.
You said “when was the last time this senate agreed?!” and I fr thought you’d have a list of any unanimous vote details-which now I’m super curious what sort of things have been unanimous in the past 😮
It's almost the holidays, Phil! I know you've got one more show, but just wanted to say thank you for helping brighten our weekdays! Hope you have a great break soon!
Phil, I think you did a very good job running over the very basic elements of fusion for us. The main things are that it makes the fuel significantly cheaper and the radiation cross section produces stuff that's a lot less toxic. That said, regardless of affordable fusions presence, we still have a lot of upgrades to do both to the grid and to transit infrastructure in general. Even if we can produce the electricity cheap and safe, we still need massive changes to the grids. The primary obstacle isn't cheap fusion, it's -carbon baron lobbying- an unwillingness to commit and pay for the massive changes. We should start getting the grid ready 'now', and just hook up the fusion plants later, then it'll still be ready if it ever plops out, but it's not ever going to be a cheap fix, might as well get started now.
My dad used to work a LLNL, so hearing about this we (his kids) immediately sent the article to him, it was so much fun hearing him geek about what was going on
Simply because even if parents are awful generaly at parenting their kids the lawsuit does have value in what it's trying to go agaisnt, it's not a myth but actual facts that f2p model games (atleast the big one and generaly social platform game or phone games) are using years of research on how to build, moneytize and market games in a way to render them as addicting as possible for people with bad impulse control. Epic does so especialy well toward younger kids due to their big pockets which allow them to gather all the characters kids love from their toys, shows, movies and books, we've often seen lawsuit in the same genre but they alway targeted singular aspect of the whole addicting nature like loot boxes, season pass, launch dlc and so on while this one goes right to the middle of it in a sense.
Phil and his expert testimony segments get me every time. I’ve enjoyed this show for years, and was thrilled when I started to see congress members and other experts start to appear! Keep it up, it lends to your credibility and your message!
Believing that we as parents can't do better only perpetuates this type of activity. We have to take responsibility or risk our children going through life as victims.
I think he did a bad job, I roll my eyes when I see very rich people try to tell poor families what they should do as parents. Work 80s a week and try to parent your kid at the same time.
Goddamn Phil you're too good at the news. You hold off talking about maybe the biggest energy story we're gonna get in a while, and you're like "here's a professor from the University of Cambridge to talk about this." Class act.
@@conormurphy4328 I mean ur stating something like it's fact with zero evidence and then claiming it's smart to assume things all the time about everything
I’m not a parent but I had great ones. The lawsuit is so dumb. No accountability for the parents. My parents didn’t do everything right but they always tried to keep learning as parents. They didn’t grow up with the internet and didn’t know all that much about it in the AIM days. They DID however, know when I was spending to much time on the computer or phone. . . Because they were parenting.
At the same time, these studies are a bit disingenuous. There's also studies about "how quickly TikTok shoves you down the alt-right pipeline" that have the same issue. The algorithm shows you videos you will want to see. It is really good at that- arguably better than any other targeted algorithm on the market. So going onto TikTok and saying "look how quickly I found X content!" when you were only interacting with content promoting or similar to that topic is misleading at best. It'd be one thing if only liking videos with hot women and cars led you to Andrew Tate, and is another thing entirely if only videos and PUAs and Ben Shapiro leads you to Andrew Tate. TikTok's big problem is safety features- too little and you've got ED and Self-Harm content being served to people, too much and creators start complaining about being "shadowbanned" and using words like "unalived." It is far more nuanced than these studies make it out to be, though quite frankly it is unlikely to matter much here in a couple years.
Wonder what about Facebook? Since Facebook “challenge” teenager idea any danger or illegal like “lick ice cream” at store. Not sure “break bone” from Facebook or TikTok both? Fork plug electric.
I have a 2-year-old daughter and a two month old daughter, parenting is not easy. The hardest part is the choices, deciding to do this versus that. It's not easy, especially when in every corner of your life you have people telling you how to do it. A small example is we didn't allow our oldest daughter to watch TV. I saw no benefit in it, and I'm happy with that decision. Finally, at age two we introduced TV. After a while of one show a week I noticed a behavior change in her. That's when I had to make another difficult decision, is it the TV causing this or just her getting older? Well the good thing is since I'm the parent I can and did back down on TV time. It seemed to help a bit, it's exactly like you said. You have the chance to take these things away or limit them. But everyone and every child is different. Idk, it's complicated, kids are complicated and no one knows anything about anything and that's my final thoughts... What was the question again?
For as long as people have been able to transfer information to a medium, people have been blaming it for their own shortcomings as a parent. Any popular trend is an easy target to shift the blame to. If your kid plays too much Fortnite or whatever, as a parent, you have the most power to change that and you don’t even need to leave your couch to do it.
You have to love when parents fail to parent and instead try to sue a company for making a fun game. Next they will try to sue cadbury for making chocolate taste too good
Dear Phil, In regard to your fusion story; you actually have reported on this before. Or at least something extremely similar to it, back around 2011/2012 I think. I remember because I was so very excited about it. It was the National Ignition Facility (also in California) attempting to do the exact same thing with the same amount of lasers. I'm sure I could comb through your old episodes to find it, but who has the time? Anyway, thanks for keeping me informed for all these years and I'm glad that this feat was finally achieved. Game changing!
Phil's wording in the initial statement was a little confusing, but this wasn't the first time we have ever achieved nuclear fusion (we have been doing that for quite a while now), BUT this is the first time we have done so in an energy positive way. Which is technically true fusion, which he expands on later on in the story
I think it's absolutely crazy that parents blame fortnite for their parenting problems. I'm going to be honest, I am not a parent, but I have a nephew who's dad loves gaming. He is aware of how that can be a bad thing he puts restrictions on his son. Ya know like a parent. Curious to see how the cases will go though.
While parents absolutely need to take responsibility for their own children we can't ignore the fact these game companies are deliberately designing their games to be as addictive as possible then marketing them towards the most impressionable and vulnerable demographic.
I never see anything disturbing on TikTok, but I rarely dip into the "For You" side of the app. I spent my first few weeks following creators who post funny, cute, or interesting stuff and clicked "not interested" on anything that was shown to me that was political, had kids in it, religious, or was rage inducing. Now I just hang out on the "Following" side and it's pretty dang safe.
One of the few times I legit emphatically agree with you on something, Phil. Yes- parenting is hard and we have a lot of responsibility in what our kids do and do not do. Yes the games are addictive, but as a parent myself, it is my prerogative, while they are under my household, to lead in what I think is too much media consumption and do my best to explain to them why and own up to when I am wrong or too harsh. Parenting is hard, but keep going Phil. You've got this!
The nuclear fusion news is amazing. Even if there is still a long way to go before nuclear fusion becomes a reliable source of power, the first step is always the hardest. It only took 63 years from getting a man in the air to getting a man on the moon
I can't imagine what (allegedly) makes Fortnite more addictive than any other battle royale game. I put some time into the game at one point and it never felt more alluring to me than any other game that I was hoping to get good at.
The only thing i could see is epic bigger pockets which allow them to take beloved characters from everywhere which might appeal more to kids, outside of that they are just all as addictive and the reason they targeted epic is that they are the largest and most likely to just settle. It however does have merit that it is known fact that such f2p model games use years of research to create the game and implement system to be as addictive as possible and/or make you feel obligated to keep on playing to just get that one limtied time reward or whatnot, you can draw a lot of parallel to the social platform game market and the phone game market which use similar research to create their product.
I know Phil focuses on American news, but Australia has had an insane attack against cops a couple of days ago where 2 cops were killed execution style, one wounded and another who had to hide from the murderers as they set fire to the grass and bush in order to smoke her out to kill her. The also shot and killed their neighbour. The rookie cops had attended the home to investigate a missing persons and were ambushed by the brother and partner duo. It’s an insane story and something we haven’t really ever seen in Australia before.
I would like to believe that a world without TikTok is a better world to live in for everyone. Someone better give Chris a raise for his Chris-mas bonus. #geniuswriter
Many teachers have said that one of the biggest reasons they’re leaving en masse is parental apathy. Parents aren’t trying to raise their children anymore. So I’m not surprised that they’re clutching their pearls and suing instead of actually implementing discipline in their kids’ video game consumption.
Truth. Parents believe teachers are meant to teach them life skills instead of them
Ok but this. Not a teacher but an OT with the schools. We literally have this mom who has sued the district because she feels that we are not meeting her kids needs because he doesn't feel like going to school and (yes this actually happened) wanted the school to PAY her child for going because money motivats him. Seriously the audacity of some of these parents is just outrageous.
In the old days kids used to get on their bikes and ride out all day and come home when it was dark. Their parent had no idea when the hell they were doing and they basically raised themselves. Now they sit in front of the computer all day and basically raise themselves. There have always been tied, exhausted, overwhelmed, overworked, depressed and lazy parents it just looks different now.
This~! Used to be 60% parents, 40% schools, but lately its more 90% schools and 10% parents since so many don't even make time to help the kid with homework OR even find people who have the time to do so. :|
@@vields2352 The trade-off is that parents are also less self-aware, since everyone is, these days. Self-reflection is emotionally challenging and people still don't want to do it, even with some of the stigma around therapy gone.
From the perspective of a single father who has been gaming religiously since Commodore 64, I have to say, that Fortnite lawsuit may be one of the most insane things I’ve heard in a while. Also as someone who has been working with children for over 10 years, it just reinforces my belief that parents are refusing to raise their children. They get raised by teachers or professor ipad. Or in the worst cases they get raised by the streets. Tragic!!
DAMN GRANDPA
If they sued EA i'd understand cause they promote gambling habits but idk Fortnite kinda sketchy imo
taking kids for granted "works" often enough that people just prefer it these days.
as a homeschooling parent i gotta say homeschool is not ideal and very limited. the "village" as it were is just so garbage that i chose home as a less-bad option.
It’s the conservative way
There's a lot to this though. I mean, for one games now are a fuckton more addictive with added pressure on IAPs and focus on instant gratification. Long gone are the tough-as-shit games we grew up on. The lawsuit is kinda ridiculous, yeah, but at the same time something needs to be done as far as the gross direction that games are going.
The other issue is how fucking stupid other people are when it comes to letting your kids have some freedom outside. Like, look at that one mom who had CPS called on her because she let her kid walk home from school.
Society is fucked right now and it seems like there is no winning move.
Honestly though, as a parent, it's not that hard to limit your children's screen time. Just do things WITH THEM. And even if you are using technology it can be regulated and taught how to handle in a healthy way
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the parents are neglectful, full stop. They may have had a good reason at the time (newborn, busy at work, money issues etc.) - but that is what it boils down to.
They are happy their child is doing something and perhaps not being super loud and they know where the kid is, but by the time they pay attention enough to see the issues it is too late and they have lost too much authority/confidence in their role as a parent. Which is why they continue to outsource... to lawyers, and the government.
@@MadFlourish I agree for the most part. But I would say negligent, not neglectful. It's definitely not the way anyone should parent. Unfortunately that's good by comparison to what I see from a lot of parents these days.
Easy for you to say, what if you have insufferable children?
@@jamiebruner8463 then you should've done a better job to begin with. Or practice patience. I get it might now be the easiest thing in the world. But of you know enough about your kid you should know of something you both enjoy doing together.
As a science nerd, the successful fusion reaction just makes me SO happy, even knowing that it won't produce viable energy sources for a while yet. It's just so amazing to think that we've progressed all the way from telling stories about the stars to having a piece of them right here on Earth
We have been able to produce the fusion reaction since the early 1930s using particle accelerators.
@@n2n8sda The reason this particular breakthrough is exciting is that they were able to actually get more energy out than was put in to create the reaction. This is obviously a pretty important requirement if we’re actually going to be able to use fusion as a power source. It’s still a long way from being an actual viable way to generate electricity, but it’s a major step that no one has been able to manage before.
@@n2n8sda 🤦🤦
@@n2n8sda What do you mean? I thought particle accelerators break up atoms (fission)
Damned right it makess me VERY happy to use nuclear for this crisis of full clean energon. Transform and roll out
Anything but parenting your own children... Imagine going through the trouble of suing Epic Games vs turning off your child's internet... Losing hope in humanity
One article said it wasn't an option for some parents as it the children became upset or angry. Parents need to do better. Keep in mind I am a parent of 4 avid gamers and everyone of them knows if I say they are done, then they are done.
See, when i used to be a little asshole i wasn't allowed to play video games or use the internet or do basically anything. The lawsuit is bullshit
this. What your child has is called a gaming addiction. literally anything that releases dopamine can create an addiction if you don't moderate your behavior. Children don't have the mental capacity or responsibility to moderate their behaviors when dealing with addictions, that's why parents exist.
@@cspahn3221 i don't know what is the parent think!, do you think lawsuits solve everything?.
It's why my kids will be playing age appropriate games only. I wouldn't be letting any kid of mine under 15 playing any sort of battle royal game unless it was on roblox or something. The only computer they'd have access to would be in the living area or a public space - no personal computers. Blaming a gaming company is so stupid when theyre your KID, no theirs. Tell them no and parent them, take it away and help them navigate another hoobby that isn't plugged into a screen.
Being a young teen girl during the hey day of tumblr where they were constantly pushing eating disorder and self harm behavior on that platform, it’s hard not to see the continuous cycle. It goes to show no matter what kind of social media it is, at the end of the day view numbers and ad revenue are going to matter more than the health and well being of our youth. It’s very disheartening.
I understand what you mean but how do you propose the companies to solve this problem? If someone wants to find specific content then they will especially if there's other people who want to publish it.
Parents should monitor their teens social media use too
You are shown what you engage with on these platforms, kids aren't responsible for that but the adults who post things like that are. They should be banned because they are actively putting out harmful content to gain a following
Maybe if it can reasonably proven that a person (teen or adult) is actively making harmful content for the purpose of gaining followers then a ban could be appropriate, but I'm also not a fan of the way social media censorship is going. If someone wants to talk about their own struggle with eating disorders or mental health they should be able to. Sure, companies have some responsibility in making sure truly harmful and extreme content isn't being platformed, but users and parents of minors who are users also have a responsibility to not give stuff attention and curate their own experience
@@MinReiSakato I think talking about one's mental health struggles is fine, my problem is when they just play it for laughs. I hear people say like it's their way of coping but i just don't buy it when post after post is about how mentally ill they are and how "ope I had another mental snap in the middle of class today teehee". It's not good for them or the other users to joke about how they haven't taken their meds in a month because of whatever stupid reason they want to give.
I don't play Fortnite. But it's crazy that parents can try to not take any responsibility for it. Like be aware of what your kids are doing.
100% agree
Yup! its called be a parent not your childs friend >_>
"We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!"
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And you do not if Epic have psychologists on the pay roll so it is about what Epic is doing to actively make their game addictive.
But yes blame parents 🙄
On the Fortnite topic, something people usually miss is that gaming addiction is often a symptom of issues in other areas of their life. If parents just ban games without actually talking to and understanding their child, it can lead to other or worse coping mechanisms.
I would have been classified as addicted to games during my teens, but it was to cope with a culmination of bullying, undiagnosed autism and gender identity issues. When my parents tried to limit and take away my gaming and music usage, I turned to self harm and ended up being hosiplised. Once I was able to leave school and follow my special interests, my gaming usage lessened over time.
So yes, games are optimized to make the player spend as much time and money on them as possible, but first ask why the person is playing video games and identify if there is a core need that the gaming is fulfilling, then you can work together to have those needs met in other healthy ways.
Yeah. This topic just screams that there is something more going on under the surface.
100% agree. It's not Epic Games' fault - that's like suing alcohol producers for people becoming alcoholic. While I think its completely possible to become addicted to video games, there is definitely something going on outside of that which was completely ignored by these parents until it went too far.
Flashbacks to my teens, my mom telling the teacher that I'm addicted, them advising not letting me play, ending up in me being all alone in my room, with my cat, focused on my parents fighting behind the door all the time. Drunk father, neurotic mother.
Mm yes, those games that taught me how to interact with people, helped me learn English and where my social anxiety didn't matter as much, oh and of course friends online who made it possible.
Just please, pay attention to your children. They become what you invest in them
@@onceuponamelody Well there is a reason why we don't tend to serve alcohol to children. Games have become more and more addictive. I don't remember being addicted to the first civ games, or railroad tycoon, there was no dopamine/adrenaline hit without achieving something in the game... and even then it was rare. Now, you finish a match and get a random drop or you end up in a 1v1 and you get both of those on a repetitive cycle.
Yes some blame goes to the parents, but that doesn't mean that giving a battle royale fps(even cartoony) a PEGI 12 rating is acceptable.
We warn parents on television, through PSAs, at school meetings, etc... about the dangers of drugs, alcohol, gambling, yadda yadda, but we (as generations growing up with the internet and gaming) don't realise that not everyone is aware of how gaming has changed and how addictive it has truly become.
Fully agreed. Kids "acting out" or becoming addicted to something is usually because they don't have a necessary outlet for their emotions.
The nuclear fusion thing is absolutely insane to me, I remember learning about it in school as some hypothetical but actually hearing it worked is crazy. It may not be what we’ll get in a our homes any time soon but it’s still a huge step knowing we can do it
I know I'm late commenting, but I'm sad this didn't get more attention; I'm amazed to be alive when this happened!!
It truly is monumental, I wonder how many people realize just how much of an effect on the world this will have, in the long run?
I’m so glad you covered the Livermore breakthrough on nuclear fusion. This is one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs but I don’t see many people talking about it
Because China already did it and that spokesperson was lying out of her face about it being the first time ever happening in any country. Google it
I mean to be fair, nuclear fusion has always been in a state of "we're right around the corner to a fusion breakthrough" that it just fizzles out. Same deal with the car-airplanes which were really popular in pop culture films, etc. but when the real deal came out, no one cared anymore b/c of all the hype generated for the countless claims of them being created before and being proven false..
@@jasonz8635 Also, let's be real, I can't barely trust people to drive their cars. If they could also fly them???? No way I'd ever leave my house. One of them would probably crash into me before I had a chance to become a full agoraphobe.
@@Lamentationsofapoory flying cars exist. They're called helicopters. I trust helicopter pilots.
@UCCElcaT2XHpObIPI9gCduxg Current nuclear powerplants are still far better and cleaner than fossil fuels. There are containment methods that limit the amount of radiation that leaks into the environment.
The new about nuclear fusion is just MIND BLOWING. We probably won't live to see all the cool stuff that comes from it, but just seeing this first step is so amazing.
Actual hope for future generations for once instead of complete sympathy
It is also important to note this isn't quite the first fusion reaction that has been done by people, but the first one in which we were able to receive more energy than was initially used. An equally mind-blowing achievement and we very well might see in our lifetime how this could be applied!! :)
If you're interested, Check out Science TH-camr Kyle Hill's latest livestream - he does a really great job at breaking down the experiment, and the result - Addionally, he has a series called "Half-Life Histories" delving into various events in the development of Nuclear Power. Great stuff! :D
I'm very happy to be here at the beginning of the end of energy problems
@@NotAverageAfro I'm just happy while making a sun in a box they didn't blow up the planet somehow. Always a win when scientists manage to do a thing and not blow up the planet doing it.
I am not a parent, but for the life of me, I will never understand parents who are terrified of having their child say “I hate you” or being mad at them. YOU ARE NOT THEIR FRIEND. Let them hate you in the moment, and when they’ve calmed down, have an actual conversation with them to make sure they understand why they can’t play Fortnite all night or call people names.
I think this is a big thing nowadays. Kids will hate their parents at some point in time. It's almost unavoidable. I know I hated mine at some point! However, I do hope this lawsuit goes somewhere. There are some serious issues with today's software products targeting children's underdeveloped brains and they are fully taking advantage. it's not all on parents, but taking away the game from kids should definitely be done.
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I feel like I have to raise my grandma sometimes. She always just yells. Lol
She really likes to hear herself yell tbh.
Parents be like
As a teacher, I really enjoy the way Phil discussed the fortnite situation. Identifying what he does, what he noticed going wrong and how he changed path to make it better rather than just saying that those parents are wrong and dumb
Yes! Very well said.
Agreed and very well said. I enjoy this channel bc he's consistent, sarcastic, current, and, does a really good job of staying fairly objective by always giving each side a chance and not patronizing things he may or may not agree with.
Yes exactly this. Very fair from Phil
I agree wholeheartedly. The posts concerning Fortnite just screams that there is something more going on behind the scenes.
While I agree that parents ultimately have the power to limit a child's access to video games. I think the lawsuit is necessary because the design of video games have taken a very bad turn these past few years.
More and more games are introducing daily quests and time gated events that encourage logging in every day with very stringent tasks to get free items.
So yes, a parent should limit their child's gaming, but game companies are getting away with designing games that are more attention demanding and punish kids who don't give that attention with the fear of missing out.
Imagine everyone at school talking about how they got the latest skin, but your child feeling left out because they don't. Gaming is more widespread now and part of the child's social life.
Game companies should be held accountable for these deliberate design decisions that instill these daily login habits (and by extension mental habitual training) on kids.
The Fortnite lawsuit is just silly *because* anyone can get addicted to *_Anything_*. Video games, movies, explicit content, *going outside*, and being able to sue for that would only lead to chaos.
Yeah same children yell want favorite new same character toys at store. Or song baby shark 🎶🦈 🎶
Tbh when going into legal terms about addiction, id say thats not true. I doubt they can say the kids addicted without demonstrating noticeable withdrawal symptoms, otherwise its just habitual. And similar to what you said, anything can become habitual
they just want the gov to parent their children and its lazy af
Sorry, but the fact is if the lawyers in this case do their research it is an easy win. This is a huge issue with the AAA game industry in general these days especially when they push towards mobile gimmicks like in game store, in game currency and loot boxes. It encourages players, child teen and adult, to grind constantly to earn rewards or to spend a little more to try and get that "winning" loot box. The fact is that EA, Activision both have their own patens for manipulative mechanics like pairing new players with experienced/whales to encourage them to buy the cool shit, or a sliding difficulty scale based on in-game store spending. Yes, they exist. Yes they were legally patented and can be introduced into a game. Sueing Epic will likely fail, but its a good first step because the AAA companies are just getting worse.
Bottom line: Its not just fortnite but AAA in general working to monetize and hook people sunk cost fallacy. Its blizzard and not epic, I wont be surprised to see Diablo 4 using a lot of things from Immoral just at lower costs and more "F2P" friendly mechanics to keep people grinding, and eventually buying more shit. Gaming addiction is bullshit, but the methods companies are using are exploitive as fuck.
@@Primal2229 this isnt about the money though this is the parents not being able to say "no you cant play anymore today". the money aspects i agree with any game with micro transactions should be 18+.
I used to throw hissy fits when I didn’t win a board game or things didn’t go my way in a game as a child. My parents would end the game and stopped playing them with me until I could regulate my emotions better. I was the worst as a kid, and I can’t imagine what would have happened if I had had access to video games 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 glad my parents could help me learn not to continue that behavior.
100% it’s the parents responsibility to police their kids. You can’t just give the kids a game it money or phone and not realize how dangerous it can be. Love yo’ face, Phil!
I have a little sister, and I live in a college co-Ed suite with three 20 yo women. Never opened TikTok myself but every time they talk about the app it’s because they have to take a break because of the “sad girl rabbit hole” they walk into. They said that the algorithm follows their feelings and that the more they felt sad, the WORSE the TikTok’s got. For example one of my suitemates got dumped and then her ex shagged her friend, next day my suitemates scrolling and BAM every video is just cry bait, something about suicide or self image issues.
Can there be an app that recommends you puppy’s and motivation when your down? Is that such a hard thing?
Edit: spelling
I have noticed this in a way. And it means you have to be really good at managing your own feelings. I see a video is turning sad and I don’t have the capacity for it- I scroll past. It usually only makes a few times and then TikTok gets that I’m looking for something else today
But there's plenty of puppies and inspiration on TikTok. The algorithm follows content that you watch, not how you feel. So if you're watching people doing these odd and horrible romanticizing of self harm, that'll flood your feed. My feed is filled with vids with wrestling, cats, dogs, anime and goth stuff.
If you interact with sad videos then yeah the algorithm will feed you more sad videos. The app is what you make it, my feed is literally all comedy sketches and perfectly cut off zoomer humor with the occasional cooking and travel video peppered in. There are plenty of wonderful and enjoyable things on tik tok but if you don't want that content then the app will not show you that content.
Its called a search, and TH-cam. Try it. Once you have them on your search TH-cam will actually recommend them to you. Like I enjoy animal rescue videos and ASMR to fall asleep to, so aside from my news like this, I have plenty of those videos suggested to me in my feed. A very even ratio actually
I really appreciate that you consulted someone who know what he is talking about about the fusion. Kudos to you my friend.
Bringin in experts to talk about their friend and other notable figures to interview has been my favorite part of your show these last couple months!
As a parent as well, I would never tell the world that I’m incapable of being my child’s parent by blaming a video game developer. 😑
If your a half decent parent it wont take you two entire years to realize your kid is spending thousand of hours and withdrawing from life playing a game and you would take action. Not wait until the kid is ruined and its gotten so bad you decide to sue. These parents are fully responsible for allowing their kids to go unmonitored. After hearing the excuses the parents cameup with i can guarantee the parents are no better than the kids. The parents probably spent all night watching tv or god knows what allowing the computer to babysit the kids.
These games are designed to be addictive, but parents have responsibility and should100% be held accountable for poor parenting.
@@TheHollowBlade Exactly! I don’t know how they would miss their children spending that much time on a video game or on their phones. Smh just careless parenting at its finest.
If fusion happens in our lifetime, I'll be so so so incredibly excited and happy.
It *has* happened.
Application of it in our lives will take a bit longer.
I love how he said "You do this thing as a parent, and you don't let him play anymore". If more parents parented, this wouldn't be an issue.
A lawsuit against Epic Games will not reverse years of bad parenting.
Parents:
Won't it, though? 🤣
Won't it? 😅
Suit filed anyway. 😡
parents put their kids in front of a screen at such a young age, many times as a way to distract them. then they wonder why their kids crave that constant stimulation 🙄
You know, I thought we were past the backwards hat Phil era but I’m here for it. It’s like a throwback.
God damn it why do people have to be so disgusting to Billie? People have been creepy about her even before she was 18. People are creepy as hell
I really couldn't give a shit about her. But I'm not a fan of hers though I guess.
@@justinhackstadt6677 good for you?
@@justinhackstadt6677so it’s okay that people make fake porn of someone so long as you’re not a fan of them
@@justinhackstadt6677 You can not be a fan of whoever you want. That’s okay. But you have to admit the amount of sexualization of her or other celebrities, many of who are not 18, is sickening.
Like Billie has literally done nothing to deserve the treatment she gets, it's fucken wild how scummy people can be to teens. and young adults.
The Nuclear Fusion news is insane, I'm so happy and weary about it. It has me excited for the future for once, skeptically. The history books this chapter are gonna be even more crazy, amazing.
Cant wait for the fusion bombs, because realistically that will be the most efficient and easy way to harness the energy produced
@@callanc3925 Fusion’s already used in nuclear bombs and has been since the 50s. Not pursuing fusion energy won’t put that cat back in the bag.
Well done on the fusion segment, Phil. You're the only person I've seen do it properly, pointing out the laser 1% efficiency and repeat rate issues. This is why I watch you, because you're the most reliable option.
The trump NFTs make me laugh so sooo hard. My favorite part was when he admitted 'dinner with trump' isn't a good prize
Well I guess it depends, if you are an extremist or nazi. It could be a great dinner..
I understand that if you buy the NFT you can then print the image anywhere you want as long as you don't sell it without copy write permission. Just saying
I still can't believe it's real and not a parody....oh how i missed this feeling lmao
@@keithnewton5508 oh well if I can only print these images if I buy them....I'll take 3
And you know a normal fan of his isn't going to win anyways. He'll make sure of that.
6:10 I have been watching Phil for YEARS … he practically became an “adult” right before my eyes. It is so weird hearing him talk about parenting in such a mature manner! (I’m proud of him though!!)
Agreed 🎉
Same!
Our Philly D. boy
TikTok study: It has happened to me way too many times now to be coincidence, but me and my friends will be talking about a game or a movie and suddenly without any other explanation (interacting with similar videos) my FYP gets flooded with those games or movies we were talking about.
So if those researchers are talking about those topics around the phones they use for the study it could be affecting their study.
The fusion story is big. While it's not at all ready to fix our power issues, it's a massive step towards doing that. I'm very hopeful for this, all we need is time and to work together to keep this FREE.
Yup its a HUGE step in the right direction and im excited for the future
@@tohro6969 Honestly i was personally wondering if we'd even see fusion reactors in our lifetime and seeing this news and knowing that I'll most likely be alive to see the rise of this new technology makes me really happy.
All new technology with the power to fundamentally change the way we live is always so insanely interesting to me.
Unfortunately, there's a big misunderstanding happening with the news on this. The breakthrough was in understanding fusion reactions for nuclear weapons research, not the energy grid. NIF the facility who had the breakthrough was not designed to research self sustaining fusion reactions for commercial energy use. They were funded to study fusion reactions within nuclear warheads.
The professor Phil interviewed tried to downplay the news hyberbole over this but even he didn't go far enough. This result does very little to move the needle on commercial fusion energy. ITER in Europe is still our best hope of that future and its first tests aren't for another decade in the 2035 area.
@@PacMonster0 WTF WHY IS IT ALWAYS WEAPONS!?!?!?
@@PacMonster0 I'm gonna need a source on this.
The nuclear fusion story is so exciting!! Even if I’m not around to enjoy it, I’m thrilled that it could change things. Thank you for taking the time to humanize it and make it accessible :)
If you're interested in learning more, Kyle Hill just had a great Office Hours episode (livestream about science while answering chat questions) on his channel explaining the milestones and challenges of this in depth. He's really good at explaining complicated concepts using plain language so that it's much easier to follow. It's really cool stuff!
Life changing science stories get little press. The past few years have seen some monumental discoveries/innovations in science. But on to the next story about pro sports I guess.
I've been a practicing mom for 24 years (kids are 24, 18, 10 & 9). You can never stop learning; I'm STILL learning ALL THE TIME! Be gentle with yourselves other parents ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I’m 24 right now and I wish I could tell you the amount of hours I had spent on video games when I was around 12. Kids cling onto things when they are young. Some kids only want to skateboard, some kids really love playing instruments, etc. I loved playing video games with my friends. It’s not the parents fault particularly because they are seeing their kids enjoy something they don’t completely understand. But I feel like the it’s reaching a bit and that’s coming from someone who had their parents come in at 2am because I was still playing and being disruptive, I got off when they told me is where I’ll leave my take
As a parent it is your job to do your research on what you allow your child to be exposed to, especially new things. You monitor and evaluate the effect it has on them. Then make adjustments accordingly. Sometimes being lenient or strict. These parents sound like the ones that just leave their kid with the Ipad all day. They will do anything to not have to parent their kids themselves.
As a student studying nuclear impact I appreciate how many caveats you put in front of nuclear fission. The amount of energy, resources, and land dedicated to nuclear power is ridiculously beyond the legitimacy of helping the climate crisis.
The weird thing about tiktok being banned from government devices is the fact that other social media aren't. These are work phones, why do you need to have facebook on it if your job isn't with the media relations department
Edit: since y’all seem to be ignoring the entire point of my statement… I’m arguing that the rest of the social media apps should not be allowed either.
the fact that ANY data harvesting program is allowed on government devices is baffling.
Simple. They aren't owned by China, and if you think that's irrelevant, your clearly too young (or ignorant)
Tiktok is a backdoor program for Chinese government, it isn't safe for Government employees to have it.
@@blazenfate I think you're* missing their point. Any social media that collects data and personal information shouldn't be on a government phone. So yes, obviously tiktok is a bigger threat because it's owned by a foreign power, but Facebook, Twitter, etc are all data mines as well and present security risk.
Yeah that's just weird. Like a family member in Norway once got reprimanded because someone in a crew used Snapchat for the same reason as it could potentially be used to figure out stuff that shouldn't be leaked, but granted that was more improper use of snapchat rather than snapchat itself. It just baffles me how Tiktok is getting singled out in all of this
The temptation to comment on the ignorance. I resist.
My main problem with the whole fortnite thing is the classic bad parent behaviour of shifting responsibility. The whole "If only I was informed about the negatives of this thing I let my children do." is just them admitting they had no idea and didn't even try to understand what their kids were spending so much time doing. Isn't it a part of a parents job to inform themselves about what their kid is doing?!
People should know by now that pretty much everything is designed to use your time, just as much as your money, as currency. This includes children, it is the parents responsibility and if they are failing on that front they are neglecting a pretty important part of parenting.
“…them admitting they had no idea and didn’t even try to understand what their kids were spending so much time doing.”
This. 100% this. So many parents don’t bother to try and learn about the things their kids are into, and it shows.
@@hobojoe9717 Not just time but money, I have seen parents in my own family let their kids spend $500+ of christmas and birthday money on the game... like really your just gonna let them blow it like that cuz its theirs? Put a cap on loot boxes and microtransactions for christ sake!
On top of that had a friend when overwatch came out who never really liked overwatch but every time he got a paycheck he would go spend money on loot boxes for it, dude had well over 20 hours of gameplay in overwatch but the kicker is he had less then 2 of actual playing in matches he just became addicted to the lootboxes, logged on for events to collect holiday skins and everything. When we would ask to play he would say no, so we started poking fun at him for never showing us the skin collection he bought up and he realised yeah I dont like playing wtf am I doing... but because of him a lot of us dont buy into games with loot boxes so that was helpful.
It's the whole my kid gets bad grades? Must be the teacher? He didn't do all, of his homework? Lessons must not be engaging. I've heard this so many times. Some people should not be parents.
That bedroom joke caught me off guard and I started laughing to hard. 🤣
I was an administrator for a huge Billie Eilish fangroup on facebook with 300k members, in 2018/2019- around that time. I remember seeing a pron-video that was AI generated with her face on it. It was posted multiple times. The fact that such a video was even allowed on facebook and not caught right away shocked me. But also that websites can allow AI generated stuff like this of people who have never consented to it. I think she had just turned 18 as well when I saw it.
It's disgusting.
Wait was it AI generated? All this time I thought it was just a look alike actress.
Maybe instead of suing the company the parents should parent their children. I’m sorry but I just think it’s a ridiculous lawsuit
Just got to say I appreciate you guys doing your due diligence on the fusion story. It feels irresponsible to do as many reports did and just make it seem like we got fusion reactors just around the corner.
Nuclear Fusion being successful is absolutely nuts. I'm so genuinely excited to see how it will affect batteries of all kinds from a game controller to electric vehicles and general city infrastructure
Even magnetic fusion will require a sustained 10000c. We won't see it portable in our lifetime.
The need for better, safer, denser and less resource intense batteries will drive battery innovation instead. Once we can charge our batteries from a fusion plant, those batteries are probably organic batteries made from graphene gel, possibly even newer technology.
9:06 I'd like to point out that we've been able to do fusion reactions for ages now, it's just that this is the first time they managed to get more energy out of it than they put in.
My thoughts echo Phil's. I empathize with the parents going through this, but "not knowing the potential consequences" just isn't a sufficient excuse for me. My kids are really young, and there are a million things out there and more that could seriously harm my child, and no one warning me before I use each one. Educating myself and exercising discernment are difficult but vital parts of my job as a parent. With everything I do, I need to consider not just their current health, but their future potential.
"This object on the floor is roughly the size and shape of a child's trachea. I should probably move that."
"My infant wants to play with a receipt. I should do a 10 second google search on my phone to see if there is any- Whoaa, better keep thermal receipts far away from my kids' mouths."
"Making dinner would be a lot easier if I could just pop on a 20 minute tv show for my toddler from time to time, but I don't want to take a shortcut now that could negatively impact my kid's whole future. Let's see what the empirical data has to say about screen effects on brain development and behavior in toddlers. Oh look at that, shows with less saturated colours and fewer cuts are better for development, seating my kid further from the screen is better for attention regulation, Sesame Street and Mr Rogers are associated with better linguistic development and fewer negative externalizing behaviours even years later, and the best way to circumvent the negative effects of screen time is to be intentional about working on developmental tasks when the TV isn't on? Let's do that."
With the availability of hordes of information at our fingertips and in our pockets, I think there are fewer excuses than ever before to expose your child to make uninformed parenting decisions. Put a more positive way, we know more about raising healthy children now than ever before, and we don't need to go through parenthood feeling like we are blindly flailing and making it up as we go. My parents used to tell me that parenting is just winging it, because there is no manual or guide for best-practice when raising a kid. That just isn't true now (I also don't think it was true then. Plenty of people sold books on raising kids. It was perhaps just less convenient and less evidence-based.)
It feels like society has become so techy that taking away a child's device or limiting access to certain things like TH-cam or video games can feel like being a terrible parent. It's an odd feeling. I grew up without and with the tech, and feel like I'm doing the right thing by taking it away at times, but also feel terrible because it's causing emotional/mental stress in the now for my child. Technology itself has become addictive without the warning.
I totally understand. Kids nowadays are growing up with technology that's more and more accessible and present in their daily life and it's hard to know where to draw the line. I'd say technology should help and not hinder. It should make things more convenient. A child can use a device to learn, to socialize, but it can't replace a parent. If parents give their kids devices to keep them quiet instead of playing with the child, teaching the child, or giving them meaningful attention, that's where I feel it becomes an issue. Older children should have reasonable content and time restrictions. I also think we should emphasize media literacy in our children's education so they can protect themselves online and learn to be more careful about what "facts" or "news" they see.
It used to be watching tv, then playing consoles etc. Things didn't really change but parents have become spineless.
Parents blaming a gaming studio instead of BEING A PARENT is ludicrous.
why learn parental controls when you can yell publicly about it
Or a timer on your phone…..seriously I just set and alarm and when it goes off enough video games or screen time
They blame celebrities all the time, why would they stop there. It’s like the 2000s all over again
"If they had been informed of the dangers of Fortnite they would have refused to download .." this really chafes my a** because anyone with half a brain cell knows this is a lie. Have these parents also deleted FB, Instagram, TikTok etc.. from the their kids phones? We have known for years how apps and games are being created to be as addictive as possible. It's easier to shove a device Infront of your kid than actually do some parenting and say no.
Loving the coverage on science lately and the achievements that are being made! Its refreshing to hear of this success that so many scientists have devoted their career and life to. I especially love that professor Roulstone was interviewed on the topic and got the chance to share his insight.
3:09 remember when that guy shot himself in the head with a shotgun(or rifle) and it took hours for TikTok to actually do something about it and it legitimately left a lot of people traumatized? I do.
5:11 insinuating that she just didn't do any research and blindly bought her kid a game.
I just wish people would take the harms and dangers of facebook or reddit even half as seriously as tiktok. It's absolutely absurd to me that they've been around for longer and haven't been cracked down on in any meaningful manner despite how much harm they've caused.
I think I remember Phil reporting on banning the “fat people hate” subreddit yet scrolling past 100s of NSFW subreddits on screen, exactly to your point.
This so much. I cannot believe the horrendous vile shit people say, on facebook in particular, with their full name and picture next to it. Mind blowing.
This. All these companies are doing the same thing. I think it’s made worse because China wants to see the west fall, BUT, Facebook and Twitter and IG are all doing the exact same thing in the exact same way and pretending they’re dramatically different is... dumb. Lol
@@sketchtastrophe2591humans are weird
It’s because congress is enamored with with local tech billionaires but see TikTok as China so they are willing to do Zuckerberg’s bidding to eliminate competition.
Tiktok's response is pretty much the same as, "I can't be wrong, because I asked my mom."
Parents need to parent their kids better instead of suing epic honestly
Yeah liberals suck
I saw article headlines about the fusion breakthrough and immediately scrolled past since I've been reading those same headlines for decades. I didn't realize they had a net gain of energy. This is monumental.
The put in 2, got 3, but needed 300 to get going from my understanding. So net -297MJoules, if I understood correctly. Although it's progress so I'm still happy about it!
LOL I thought after your Fortnite parenting speech the sponsor sounded like Trojan 😂
Just a correction on the Fusion story, it’s not fusion that was achieved for the first time, it was the net energy gain (if you discount H-bombs as an energy source, cause you know blowing up nukes to power a city is… problematic)
Scrolled for this
I used to have social media when I was a teenager but i got rid of everything when I turned 21 except TH-cam after I started noticing how people are just nose deep in their own world. People don't even know how to hold conversation or keep one going because they are distracted and if you do people get annoyed if you even try. People drive while on social media, it sets unrealistic standards and in my opinion a lot of these companies are shady and I don't want any part of it. I noticed when I quit my mental health and concentration increased I'm not on my phone 24/7 and I just feel more content with life.
It's great to see the fusion breakthrough being covered, great explanation too!
Imagine how little of a problem Tik Tok and Fortnite would be if parents actually parented.
A lot of the issue with TikTok is actually involving US national security. China has admittedly it can access foreign data TikTok stores.
If it affects national security it's going to get the hammer, no stopping that. Make sure to plan accordingly.
Tik tok is a whole dif thing
@@ninjashot37 The security thing is a bunch of BS fear mongering
Tik Tok would STILL be a problem without children though
Actually parentrd? Parents are vilified from even discouraging their children from changing genders and waiting until they're matured and developed. So they're going to stop them from playing video games? LOL.
I think another type of reactor we should be talking about is an accelerator driven reactor. The first one is being built in Belgium, and if it works, we can have nuclear fission without the danger of reactor meltdowns and with less waste. It was a big topic at a summer work conference I attended, and it was super interesting.
Subcritical?
@@chem101studygroup4 no idea, probably not.
The section about the nuclear fusion breakthrough was incredibly well explained, condensed and detailed :) Congrats DeFranco & team!!
"My child stops showering and sleeping and won't stop playing" Parent my child? Nah ill just sue the game company
Over the years I've come to realize that gaming and entertainment in general can become addictive, and like drugs and gambling, negatively impact people's lives. Therefore, it's up to us parents to actually be parents and teach our kids about the pitfalls of these vices. Also recognizing the mental health struggles that help to push people into using those mediums to self medicate.
Parents don’t even bother after all the studies showing kids are literally addicted to sugar, let alone media that keeps the kid quiet so less need to parent them. People having kids to check on their “adulting to-do list” is the real issue, they’re nowhere near ready to actually raise a functional human.
Haven't been watching for a while. Always loved the show, still dig it over network news... Hope you are doing good Phillip and keep pushing
*sees title after just getting off work*
Stand back coffee this is a job for liquor.
You can do both with Irish cream!
@@keystep8669 you make an excellent point. 🤔
Bruh me too, I usually listen to Phil when I cook dinner so it's time to bust out the wine lol
There is sadly a lot of parents out there who do not want to parent their children. I know if I was playing games way too much etc my parents would rip me a new one (figuretively) so the fact that they are suing the company instead of doing something like limit the amount of time the kids plays, or even disciplining them is sad/ not a shocker. They can do more things instead of this that actually work. Phil himself gave a great example, and I applaud his decision with his son. Good on you phil. And yes what phil said about parenting is different. every kid is different and there is no guide for you kid. Books and advice helps but at the end of the day, parents can't always be thier friend and have to parent
money grab, will be surprise if fornite lawyers lose
Yeah my parents would just take my stuff so I couldn't play
You hit the nail on the head with the first sentence. Realistically this isnt about the parents caring about their kids, its about the parents seeing potential dollar signs. Im surprised there are so many people saying "well maybe if the parents just did their job blah blah blah..." The parents dont want to do their job, they want money.
People wants kids as an accessory
My kid plays Fortnite never had an issue with him stopping because I set times for ALL games. If your child is addicted it's because you allowed it.
You said “when was the last time this senate agreed?!” and I fr thought you’d have a list of any unanimous vote details-which now I’m super curious what sort of things have been unanimous in the past 😮
It's almost the holidays, Phil! I know you've got one more show, but just wanted to say thank you for helping brighten our weekdays! Hope you have a great break soon!
Phil, I think you did a very good job running over the very basic elements of fusion for us. The main things are that it makes the fuel significantly cheaper and the radiation cross section produces stuff that's a lot less toxic.
That said, regardless of affordable fusions presence, we still have a lot of upgrades to do both to the grid and to transit infrastructure in general. Even if we can produce the electricity cheap and safe, we still need massive changes to the grids. The primary obstacle isn't cheap fusion, it's -carbon baron lobbying- an unwillingness to commit and pay for the massive changes. We should start getting the grid ready 'now', and just hook up the fusion plants later, then it'll still be ready if it ever plops out, but it's not ever going to be a cheap fix, might as well get started now.
My dad used to work a LLNL, so hearing about this we (his kids) immediately sent the article to him, it was so much fun hearing him geek about what was going on
How these "parents" didn't get laughed out of the room is beyond me.
Simply because even if parents are awful generaly at parenting their kids the lawsuit does have value in what it's trying to go agaisnt, it's not a myth but actual facts that f2p model games (atleast the big one and generaly social platform game or phone games) are using years of research on how to build, moneytize and market games in a way to render them as addicting as possible for people with bad impulse control.
Epic does so especialy well toward younger kids due to their big pockets which allow them to gather all the characters kids love from their toys, shows, movies and books, we've often seen lawsuit in the same genre but they alway targeted singular aspect of the whole addicting nature like loot boxes, season pass, launch dlc and so on while this one goes right to the middle of it in a sense.
Phil and his expert testimony segments get me every time. I’ve enjoyed this show for years, and was thrilled when I started to see congress members
and other experts start to appear! Keep it up, it lends to your credibility and your message!
Loved that parent bit Phil. So so hard to talk about it, without coming off as judgy. We're all doing the best we can.
Believing that we as parents can't do better only perpetuates this type of activity. We have to take responsibility or risk our children going through life as victims.
Oh in this case I say be judgy, it's what Quebecers do the rest of us Canadians...
I think he did a bad job, I roll my eyes when I see very rich people try to tell poor families what they should do as parents. Work 80s a week and try to parent your kid at the same time.
Goddamn Phil you're too good at the news. You hold off talking about maybe the biggest energy story we're gonna get in a while, and you're like "here's a professor from the University of Cambridge to talk about this." Class act.
Lol “hold off” like most of the people watching aren’t way more interested in whatever shit TikTok is doing than any energy news
@@conormurphy4328 u know what they say about assuming
@@benozzy003 that everyone does it multiple times a day and it’s almost completely necessary to be a functional independent being?
@@conormurphy4328 I mean ur stating something like it's fact with zero evidence and then claiming it's smart to assume things all the time about everything
@@benozzy003 you literally do assume things all the time about everything. You wouldn’t be able to act 99 times out of 100 if you didn’t
This is probably one of your best show's yet Phill. Keep it up!
I’m not a parent but I had great ones. The lawsuit is so dumb. No accountability for the parents. My parents didn’t do everything right but they always tried to keep learning as parents. They didn’t grow up with the internet and didn’t know all that much about it in the AIM days. They DID however, know when I was spending to much time on the computer or phone. . . Because they were parenting.
The AIM days were so fucked. lmao
TikTok’s algorithm is horrible, and TikTok seems to know it and not care.
That’s because it’s a CCP weapon aimed at farming information and damaging the CCPs enemies.
I deleted Tiktok and convinced other friends to do it too. Ever since then we’ve felt a lot better. Get rid of that trash app.
It is that way on purpose...in China it is a very different app.
At the same time, these studies are a bit disingenuous. There's also studies about "how quickly TikTok shoves you down the alt-right pipeline" that have the same issue. The algorithm shows you videos you will want to see. It is really good at that- arguably better than any other targeted algorithm on the market. So going onto TikTok and saying "look how quickly I found X content!" when you were only interacting with content promoting or similar to that topic is misleading at best. It'd be one thing if only liking videos with hot women and cars led you to Andrew Tate, and is another thing entirely if only videos and PUAs and Ben Shapiro leads you to Andrew Tate.
TikTok's big problem is safety features- too little and you've got ED and Self-Harm content being served to people, too much and creators start complaining about being "shadowbanned" and using words like "unalived." It is far more nuanced than these studies make it out to be, though quite frankly it is unlikely to matter much here in a couple years.
Wonder what about Facebook? Since Facebook “challenge” teenager idea any danger or illegal like “lick ice cream” at store. Not sure “break bone” from Facebook or TikTok both? Fork plug electric.
Thank you for keeping my mom warm this winter ❤
I have a 2-year-old daughter and a two month old daughter, parenting is not easy. The hardest part is the choices, deciding to do this versus that. It's not easy, especially when in every corner of your life you have people telling you how to do it. A small example is we didn't allow our oldest daughter to watch TV. I saw no benefit in it, and I'm happy with that decision. Finally, at age two we introduced TV. After a while of one show a week I noticed a behavior change in her. That's when I had to make another difficult decision, is it the TV causing this or just her getting older? Well the good thing is since I'm the parent I can and did back down on TV time. It seemed to help a bit, it's exactly like you said. You have the chance to take these things away or limit them. But everyone and every child is different. Idk, it's complicated, kids are complicated and no one knows anything about anything and that's my final thoughts... What was the question again?
This is perhaps the earliest ive been. Notification gang and all that
Regarding the nuclear fusion segment, I would LOVE to see the reaction of the people conducting the test!
For as long as people have been able to transfer information to a medium, people have been blaming it for their own shortcomings as a parent. Any popular trend is an easy target to shift the blame to. If your kid plays too much Fortnite or whatever, as a parent, you have the most power to change that and you don’t even need to leave your couch to do it.
I just hope when they got that fusion thing to work someone there said, "The power of the sun, in the palm of my hand".
Phil, the mom's bedroom joke made me lol. Nice work
You have to love when parents fail to parent and instead try to sue a company for making a fun game. Next they will try to sue cadbury for making chocolate taste too good
I will sue cadbury only to make them pay me in Cadbury eggs 😂
Dear Phil,
In regard to your fusion story; you actually have reported on this before. Or at least something extremely similar to it, back around 2011/2012 I think. I remember because I was so very excited about it. It was the National Ignition Facility (also in California) attempting to do the exact same thing with the same amount of lasers. I'm sure I could comb through your old episodes to find it, but who has the time? Anyway, thanks for keeping me informed for all these years and I'm glad that this feat was finally achieved. Game changing!
Phil's wording in the initial statement was a little confusing, but this wasn't the first time we have ever achieved nuclear fusion (we have been doing that for quite a while now), BUT this is the first time we have done so in an energy positive way. Which is technically true fusion, which he expands on later on in the story
Thank you.
You are the first source I've seen on this talking about the tritium problem and giving the who fusion discussion a solid reality check.
I think it's absolutely crazy that parents blame fortnite for their parenting problems. I'm going to be honest, I am not a parent, but I have a nephew who's dad loves gaming. He is aware of how that can be a bad thing he puts restrictions on his son. Ya know like a parent. Curious to see how the cases will go though.
Exactly you aren't a parent so shhh
@@xbrandon2252 Nice job failing to make an actual counterargument.
While parents absolutely need to take responsibility for their own children we can't ignore the fact these game companies are deliberately designing their games to be as addictive as possible then marketing them towards the most impressionable and vulnerable demographic.
@@thebananas6483 My apologies, I’ve got to live instead of thinking hard about a reply to a random comment on the internet. Touch some grass loser
I never see anything disturbing on TikTok, but I rarely dip into the "For You" side of the app. I spent my first few weeks following creators who post funny, cute, or interesting stuff and clicked "not interested" on anything that was shown to me that was political, had kids in it, religious, or was rage inducing. Now I just hang out on the "Following" side and it's pretty dang safe.
In all fairness I've not seen 1 video on TikTok! Cuz I dont have an account and they wont let you browse without 1 so I was like Nah in cool 🤣
Thank you for including the great news about the nuclear fusion breakthrough. I really needed something like that this week.
Okay so the moment he said NFTs I just bursted into laugher so loud and hard 2 people came and checked on me...
One of the few times I legit emphatically agree with you on something, Phil. Yes- parenting is hard and we have a lot of responsibility in what our kids do and do not do. Yes the games are addictive, but as a parent myself, it is my prerogative, while they are under my household, to lead in what I think is too much media consumption and do my best to explain to them why and own up to when I am wrong or too harsh. Parenting is hard, but keep going Phil. You've got this!
The nuclear fusion news is amazing. Even if there is still a long way to go before nuclear fusion becomes a reliable source of power, the first step is always the hardest. It only took 63 years from getting a man in the air to getting a man on the moon
“Practicing parenting” is so perfect. So true.
I can't imagine what (allegedly) makes Fortnite more addictive than any other battle royale game. I put some time into the game at one point and it never felt more alluring to me than any other game that I was hoping to get good at.
The only thing i could see is epic bigger pockets which allow them to take beloved characters from everywhere which might appeal more to kids, outside of that they are just all as addictive and the reason they targeted epic is that they are the largest and most likely to just settle.
It however does have merit that it is known fact that such f2p model games use years of research to create the game and implement system to be as addictive as possible and/or make you feel obligated to keep on playing to just get that one limtied time reward or whatnot, you can draw a lot of parallel to the social platform game market and the phone game market which use similar research to create their product.
"The power of the sun of the sun...in the palm of my hand.:
Dammit, Chris, you got us again. My mom will never be the same after this.
I know Phil focuses on American news, but Australia has had an insane attack against cops a couple of days ago where 2 cops were killed execution style, one wounded and another who had to hide from the murderers as they set fire to the grass and bush in order to smoke her out to kill her. The also shot and killed their neighbour.
The rookie cops had attended the home to investigate a missing persons and were ambushed by the brother and partner duo.
It’s an insane story and something we haven’t really ever seen in Australia before.
This is the first I'm hearing about this. I'm so sorry this happened, that's horrifying.
Junkrat and roadhog at it again
@@sleepyjoe4529 lmao nah wtf
I would like to believe that a world without TikTok is a better world to live in for everyone.
Someone better give Chris a raise for his Chris-mas bonus. #geniuswriter
With how this world is today I wish we still had the segment Today in Awesome. Always was a bright spot in this bleak world.
I miss it too