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@Adam_Brice
March 9, 2026 at 11:33 am
I didn’t realize JD Vance was so funny and articulate
@Randomcliff01
March 9, 2026 at 12:13 pm
Don’t insult the speaker
@brandeekayleen5882
March 9, 2026 at 1:53 pm
😂 stahp rn
@LongGame2.0
March 10, 2026 at 2:04 pm
Big difference….no eye liner!
@katmtr3071
March 10, 2026 at 2:17 pm
@Randomcliff01I’m pretty sure he makes the joke himself in the video! 😅
@vrittamroini
March 9, 2026 at 11:36 am
I need this. Thanks
@stanconya4393
March 9, 2026 at 11:53 am
Perfect timing ❤
@Hydrosized
March 9, 2026 at 10:21 pm
Maybe even a bit late😢
@themightykabool
March 10, 2026 at 4:53 pm
About 5yrs too late.
Wait
About 12yrs too late.
@Hydrosized
March 10, 2026 at 7:19 pm
@themightykaboolIt’s bad. Even worse is that thoughts and prayers are all anyone has in defiance.😢
@joeldheath
March 9, 2026 at 12:12 pm
Ironically, the claims about the train movie and the War of the Worlds broadcast are apocryphal
@MrCubehead1
March 9, 2026 at 12:28 pm
Exactly what I was thinking😂
@Aeonhem
March 9, 2026 at 1:41 pm
Double layered message I guess 😂
@daniellaszlo1930
March 9, 2026 at 8:19 pm
Yep…
@RayRayLivinLife
March 9, 2026 at 12:13 pm
Wow this is great
@homewall744
March 9, 2026 at 1:24 pm
The real way to know: if money or power is involved, they are lying to you; true of government propaganda that operates entirely on extortion/bribery/violence/debt; true of corporations giving you marketing messages (like all the silly people who believe in buying “experiences over stuff” or think Santa/Ruldolf/Frosty were not created to sell you more. A fool and his money are soon parted by such misinformation. All other misinformation is just noise and is mostly ineffective because the reach is too small and the case too weak to do much but change a few minds. No, if money/power is involved, you are being lied to with only partial truths hiding lots of truths they don’t want you to consider. Buy more, go into debt, hate others, demand more government socialism to fix the problems of government socialism. Slavery is indeed a choice.
@arthurramos2698
March 9, 2026 at 1:29 pm
Great!
@jamesengland7461
March 9, 2026 at 1:52 pm
He left out the part in the Bible verse where “caught up” IS the word for rapture.
@TamNguyen-hm2lj
March 9, 2026 at 2:46 pm
Omg that’s JD Vance
@LongGame2.0
March 10, 2026 at 2:03 pm
Minus the eye liner.
@Bluefrac17
March 9, 2026 at 3:36 pm
A complete waste of time, give me back these 12:35 minutes of my life. For the ones who didn’t watch it yet, save yourself!
@stormthrush37
March 9, 2026 at 5:05 pm
What didn’t you like about it?
@maxinedowns8013
March 9, 2026 at 6:14 pm
I watched this at 2x speed, so I only wasted 6:18 minutes of my life.
@stormthrush37
March 9, 2026 at 6:35 pm
@maxinedowns8013 What didn’t you like about it/didn’t track with you?
@daniellaszlo1930
March 9, 2026 at 8:27 pm
@stormthrush37 the guy is cringe and not funny, and his tidbits of the train film and war of the worlds are over-circulated myths that aren’t actually true
@999shasta
March 11, 2026 at 4:22 am
Thanks
@wachinpntdry.
March 9, 2026 at 5:35 pm
basic, sensible education throughout primary and secondary school would help too…. that and, with all the bs ideas being floated (and some actually enacted) in terms of voter eligibility, one rule that should be instituted nationwide is, don’t let the stupid people vote… anyone that below say 10% points of average, or anyone that’s fallen victim to ridiculous e-mail or spam call scams or schemes, is disqualified…
that should pretty much rule out at least 25-30% of the staunchly gop voters, and nearly 100% of those that still proudly cling to, and proclaim themselves maga…. and all but maybe a scant few red states would remain
there’s plenty of shady, hypocritical and criminal Dems as well…. but at least they’re considerably closer to sane, and not nearly as determined as gop/maga to bring about the p-2025 fever dream of completely controlling every aspect of everyones lives and forcing the beliefs and morals they pretend to hold, down everyones throats
@reidakted4416
March 9, 2026 at 7:20 pm
“If you’re going to tell people the truth, make them laugh. Otherwise they’ll kill you.” -Oscar Wilde
@AbsolutelyJason
March 11, 2026 at 8:04 pm
lol
@daniellaszlo1930
March 9, 2026 at 8:21 pm
The key to misinformation is humor, too bad this guy is a try-hard that is more cringe then funny.
@Altalunezenith
March 9, 2026 at 10:54 pm
Im so glad he got to do a ted talk! I adore this guy
@Radharanivlog871
March 10, 2026 at 2:47 am
I am from India, so I would prefer a Hindi dubbed version. If possible, please provide it in Hindi. 0:04
@aerodylluk2543
March 10, 2026 at 9:33 am
What was the point of this? He didn’t really say anything?
@nassimsabba8922
March 10, 2026 at 10:17 am
Thanks for this eye opening slap. Brain washing / mind control has been studied by those lusting for power since ever. Religions were invented exactly for that reason. They still work as good as ever.
BTW, the weird clock at 10:10 is fantastic, and absolutely rational,. It would make a timely gift for a friend counting the hours to seeing me again. Who is the designer? Getting a buck together, bit by bit and watch go poof.
@ExistentialWolf
March 10, 2026 at 11:01 am
In terms of AI there are two ways to tell if you are dealing with a person or a computer. The first is simple, the second is involved. The first way is to work on the assumption of a mistake. You introduce an error to the computer like pretend you are female when you are male. This is an exercise in detection not equality so bare with me. This bias gives you perspective the recipient assumes. This moves into the more involved point, where you take the responses from the recipient and create a situation where you only act on impressions from the responses and no the facts. The convergence of the recipients responses reveals their trajectories, and a _person_ would (may) cease at any moment to patterns, and rely on their feelings invoked through the conversation (that you would judge as positive or negative to your impressions or physically evolved feelings) to judge motivations from a person or computer. A person tries to satisfy themselves, and computer has instructions to satisfy. The function of possession can’t evolve in a computer because they have no need no matter how elaborate the scenario. There needs to be correlation to satisfying one’s motivations, and if you don’t care, the computer can only give you _the_ past (and not filter through all _your_ potential past scenarios either) so thus never really an interesting outlook – if _you are_ *_interested._*
@zaphodbeeblebrox2817
March 10, 2026 at 11:22 am
Elon Musk is spreading groupthink misinformation about humanoid robots.
Humanoids will never be able to do most jobs because most jobs are doing things that robots (software automation and/or hardware automation) cannot do. Humanoids ARE robots so they will never be able to do most jobs. He can’t see the forest from the trees. Optimus will be ridiculed as a toy.
@Dont-Ho
March 10, 2026 at 1:41 pm
TED Talks are always great but this one is one could save your life.
@Dont-Ho
March 10, 2026 at 1:41 pm
TED Talks are always great but this one could save your life.
@ClaudioIbarra
March 10, 2026 at 2:16 pm
I had no idea Vance was so eloquent or media-literate. Way to go, sir!
@HeathenWanderess
March 10, 2026 at 6:19 pm
What a great teacher! I enjoyed this very much. ❤
@rebeccakaff6803
March 10, 2026 at 10:12 pm
This guy discovered what John Oliver did in 2014, Humor is a good way to disperse news, real or otherwise and get people on the internet to listen.
@Yosatorn.Asavapatr.Naptvik
March 11, 2026 at 3:22 pm
It’s Oscar Wilde if you scroll comments
@SuperRomanHoliday
March 11, 2026 at 3:08 am
The summary seems to be ‘left wing journalist reveals not all media should be taken at face value as it might be fake’
@IELTS_with_Anfisa
March 11, 2026 at 9:57 am
I feel like the entertaniment attempt to information ratio in this talk is bad.
@IELTS_with_Anfisa
March 11, 2026 at 9:59 am
Oh, and since when are we just looking at someone’s tiktoks while listening to a TED talk?
@tarzannie04
March 11, 2026 at 10:37 am
I never thought the most important class i took in college would end up being media literacy. It should be mandatory in earlier education and not just assumed that people will just know.
@nancyaustin9516
March 11, 2026 at 10:41 am
I used to have a relative who believed that if something was in print (e.g., The National Enquirer) it had to be true. People simply weren’t allowed to print anythhing false. Not sure who she thought was enforcing this, but we tried (unsuccessfully) to relieve her of this notion. God almighty…
@elisam.r.9960
March 11, 2026 at 12:13 pm
Hmmm…no one questioned where the rapture prediction came from…except people involved in exvangelical YouTube (among other groups). Maybe Dave’s next talk can be about how to get the more beneficial analyses to go mainstream.
@Pickledsundae
March 11, 2026 at 1:34 pm
Woohoo way to go, Dave!!!!
@riuphane
March 11, 2026 at 3:58 pm
Now I just need to figure out how to use it… Cuz knowing something is wrong and being able to make a joke to convince people they’re being tricked takes a lot of setup and time.
@johnman84
March 11, 2026 at 6:57 pm
Watch out, there’s a train!
Immediately jumps in front of it.
Lol
@AbsolutelyJason
March 11, 2026 at 8:04 pm
This was a great presentation! Thank you so much!