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>> No. 21874 Anonymous
30th October 2017
Monday 5:18 pm
21874 Youtube Recommendations
The other thread got me wondering about what youtube channels you lads can recommend. Topic can be anything, just what you find to be good and interesting to watch.

Learning:
>Issac Arthur
I posted one of his videos awhile ago but it's well worth repeating. Every Thursday he does a really interesting and in-depth look at science and futurism concepts and does a really good job of explaining them simply but also covering the unnoticed drawbacks and benefits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7fLNvpl0c8

>ElectroBOOM
He has kind of gone to shit over the past few months but this is still a good channel for basic electrical engineering fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7foDiXX-CcE

>Tom Scott
Mostly for his 'Things You Might Not Know' series. He goes over some pretty interesting things that you might never notice but are all around us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm5khEUIBx0

Music:
>Marcel The Drunkard
Contemporary Jazz albums with influences all over the place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=327WA_s4mhM

>Rare & Unfamiliar Music Hunt
Rare albums from around the world and probably your best sauce for classic Afrobeat and the sounds of the former Eastern Bloc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsnG0P8v_5E

>Du Matin au Soir
Mostly ambient, minimalist and experimental albums. It's good if you're doing a bit of work and don't want to sit in silence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-XbRaRR6jA
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>> No. 21876 Anonymous
30th October 2017
Monday 8:31 pm
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>>21874
That Shitty Robots woman. She is clever and funny.
>> No. 21877 Anonymous
30th October 2017
Monday 9:18 pm
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>exurb1a
Dry, witty videos about philosophy and psychology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mheHbVev1CU

>Wendover Productions
Basically a slightly longer version of Things You Might Not Know, with a mild bias towards transport-related topics. See also the sister channel Half as Interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/user/Wendoverproductions/videos
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuCkxoKLYO_EQ2GeFtbM_bw/videos

>School of Life
Pretentious but useful videos by Alain de Botton about emotional intelligence and applied psychology.
https://www.youtube.com/user/schooloflifechannel/videos

>Nerdwriter1
Mainly deep dives into screenwriting and film directing, occasionally other topics.
https://www.youtube.com/user/Nerdwriter1/videos

>FR Hamilton
A massive archive of old British documentaries and OU programmes.

https://www.youtube.com/user/9santarosa/videos

>Nuclear Vault
Old military training films, newsreels and other ephemera of interest to war nerds.

https://www.youtube.com/user/nuclearvault/videos
>> No. 21878 Anonymous
30th October 2017
Monday 9:22 pm
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>>21877
>Pretentious but useful videos by Alain de Botton about emotional intelligence and applied psychology.
They did an interesting "Porn as therapy" thing which I was going to link here but it seems to have been scrubbed from the Art as therapy website.
>> No. 21879 Anonymous
31st October 2017
Tuesday 10:09 am
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>Binging with Babish
Great for those of you wanting to know how to cook or get the most out of your kitchen equipment for his new "Basics with Babish" series and frequent livestreams. He's self taught and his camerawork makes the whole experience feel a lot clearer and more interactive than most cooking shows.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJHA_jMfCvEnv-3kRjTCQXw

>Big Clive
YouTube's resident Scotch tinkerer. Teardowns of rudimentary electronics that are somehow engaging and informative with just the right amount of funny.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtM5z2gkrGRuWd0JQMx76qA

>Mark Brown
Last of the greats from the heyday of gaming journalism. Mark's busying himself with a great informative series called Game Maker's Toolkit that really gets to grips with the nuanced design choices and player experience in hit titles. Particularly interesting is his rundown of the Legend of Zelda series' dungeon levels. Even if you're not much of a gamer, it's still worth watching for his captivating understanding of the interactive design experience.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqJ-Xo29CKyLTjn6z2XwYAw

>No Small Parts
Fan-made documentary series about C-list / bit-part character actors and their careers. Some interesting guest pieces and just a great insight into the recesses of Hollywood most are quick to brush under the rug. I recommend Brandon Hardesty's old impressions and improv videos too if you're looking for a laugh.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7sg9FpMWMamzWE2lJPY-Dg

>Townsends
17th century cooking channel. The host's a genuinely interesting and humble chap and his videos are great for learning about history while you relax. All there is to it really.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxr2d4As312LulcajAkKJYw
>> No. 21880 Anonymous
31st October 2017
Tuesday 4:23 pm
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>>21879
Isn't Bigclive from the IoMan?
>> No. 21881 Anonymous
31st October 2017
Tuesday 4:52 pm
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>>21880

He's Scottish, but he lives on the island of three-legged gay-birchers.
>> No. 21882 Anonymous
31st October 2017
Tuesday 7:57 pm
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>Lindybeige

British guy mostly talking about history, a lot of WWI, WWII, and medieval, with a focus on tactics. He's also quite funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLtfJ0ekqVE&ab_channel=Lindybeige

>Techmoan
This guy used to do a lot of (very good) reviews of dashcams and action cams. Now he is mostly focused on hi-fi equipment, with a lot of interesting videos about obscure and obsolete formats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4K1QKKPX_g&ab_channel=Techmoan

>AvE
Mad Canadian Engineer.
Destructive tool testing. Swearing. Always something to learn from him if you have any sort of interest in mechanics and engineering (in particular he hates shill reviews of things and will tell you exactly how much something is worth). Always highly entertaining.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ggDQnQN3E&ab_channel=AvE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydwaz2oPWY0&ab_channel=AvE
>> No. 21883 Anonymous
1st November 2017
Wednesday 11:27 am
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>>21882

>Techmoan

That guy is pretty much a blueprint for the regular customers back when I worked at Maplin. I bet he's one of those who traps you in a half hour long conversation about the merits of gold versus nickel plated phono plugs.
>> No. 21884 Anonymous
1st November 2017
Wednesday 11:52 am
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>>21883
Gold plated optical cable, anyone?
>> No. 21885 Anonymous
1st November 2017
Wednesday 2:19 pm
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>>21883

I've seen him wandering around the Arndale centre a couple of times, usually clutching a chinese GoPro knockoff of some sort. I'd have talked to him if I didn't suspect the same as you. I really don't have the time to discuss my home cinema setup, as much as I'd like to.
>> No. 21886 Anonymous
6th November 2017
Monday 6:14 pm
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I posted this here a while ago, but I think he deserves a mention in this thread.

>Apetor
Norweigan guy drinking Vodka and camping. A lot of jumping into frozen water involved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX4gwvw-9eI&ab_channel=apetor
>> No. 21887 Anonymous
6th November 2017
Monday 7:58 pm
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>>21886
I love him.
>> No. 21888 Anonymous
7th November 2017
Tuesday 2:49 pm
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>>21884
The gold plating is stupid, but the cable is less than a tenner on Amazon. Anyone got $7,200 for an audio interconnect cable? They're dead good. You'll hear a soundstage and warmth unlike any other cable you've ever used, I promise. Comes with a free bridge.
http://www.pearcable.com/sub_products_anjou_sc.htm
>> No. 21911 Anonymous
9th November 2017
Thursday 1:31 am
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Just came across these channels

> LockPickingLawyer
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm9K6rby98W8JigLoZOh6FQ

> BosnianBill
https://www.youtube.com/user/bosnianbill

For a nice lock-autist diversion.
>> No. 21920 Anonymous
17th November 2017
Friday 4:48 am
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>>21874
>Tom Scott
I always presumed I liked him I really liked I remember being amused by his welcome to life video years ago, but I keep on finding videos of him explaining that there are exceptions to a rule that he presents really badly.

They all go the exact same way

"This is a thing that is understood by this quite simple concept but there is an exception to the rule, but then there is another exception to the rule, but then there is THIS exception to the rule, but then all that is fine, but there is an exception to the rule, and once you've understood all that there is an exception to the rule, so in conclusion it is this but then there is an exception to the rule."
None of the exceptions seemed that hard to wrap my head around, in fact he has done it for fields I've worked in, but his presentation is as if he were revealing some daunting truth that you should never even bother trying to understand in the first place like niche knowledge were some sort of elder god that must not be disturbed from it's slumber at any cost. This is a prime example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY

I think my problem is I don't like it when authors repeatedly produce video essays that follows the same structure, it feels like he went out of his way to try make the thing sound more complicated and dramatic just because that is the way he puts on a performance. I think his style actually discourages learning, as he makes things sound like these things are too intimidating to even try.
>> No. 21921 Anonymous
17th November 2017
Friday 8:53 am
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>>21920

As a software developer, I can tell you that he understated the difficulty and complexity of handling time zones. They're one of the trickiest problems in distributed database systems and have caused horrendously expensive bugs. The weirdness of how humans keep track of time has some really nasty interactions with the PACELC theorem. Like crypto, it's something that 99.9% of developers should never handle themselves, because it's just too easy to fuck up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PACELC_theorem

Most of Tom Scott's videos on his own channel don't fit the template that you described. He mostly talks about cool research infrastructure (Built for Science) or quirky little bits of trivia (Things You Might Not Know).

I think his overall message is really positive. Science and technology is often presented in a really dry, didactic way, but he shows that it's full of unexpected surprises. He shows that science isn't a body of knowledge guarded by an elite, but a dynamic system of exploration and discovery.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diPiSHxfGyE


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvJzi0BXcGI
>> No. 21922 Anonymous
22nd November 2017
Wednesday 12:11 pm
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>Primitive Technology
Ever wondered how the ancients made tools? Very cathartic with no dialogue/bullshit.

>Computerphile
They explain computing concepts in an accessible way.

>EngineerGuy

Explains how machines work. Similar to Computerphile.

>Gamesack
Retro gaming for adults.

>CPG Grey
I know some of you don't like him because of his mistakes in videos but I think on the whole it's quite informative/interesting.

>Vsauce
Does a lot of videos on phenomena, the earlier stuff was more interesting.

>TeamFourStar

For Dragonball Z Abridged. The rest isn't my thing.

Honorable mentions:

alltime10s. Like a cracked article in video form. I haven't watched these for a while but I used to like them.

Steveo from jackass.

LAHWF - famous for his awkward "prank" videos, he's tried to move away from the persona in recent years and at least he doesn't do fake stuff and act like a douche.
>> No. 21923 Anonymous
24th November 2017
Friday 3:15 am
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>>21922
>CPG Grey
>I know some of you don't like him because of his mistakes in videos but I think on the whole it's quite informative/interesting.

It feels a lot to me like he reads a single book on a subject and then tries giving a lecture on it. Which inevitably leads to pitfalls.
>> No. 21924 Anonymous
25th November 2017
Saturday 2:06 pm
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Vsauce used to be great, but nowadays he's doing this youtube TV series thing that wants you to pay two quid an episode. No thanks. The whole reason his videos were good is that he explored a lot of ideas in a nice condensed, no-filler chunk.
>> No. 21925 Anonymous
25th November 2017
Saturday 5:51 pm
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>>21924
You can get them on TPB but I don't think they're very good.
>> No. 21926 Anonymous
26th November 2017
Sunday 8:41 pm
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>>21923
>It feels a lot to me like he reads a single book on a subject and then tries giving a lecture on it.
That's almost exactly what he does, as he explains in the Hello Internet podcasts.
>> No. 21927 Anonymous
26th November 2017
Sunday 9:57 pm
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>>21926
Indeed. I also think his podcast is shit. Especially when he thought TFA was better than Rogue 1.
>> No. 21975 Anonymous
16th December 2017
Saturday 5:25 pm
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If anyone is interested for some reason; I think I've found BigClives shitty American cousin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAzbxaf3mso&ab_channel=MadElectronEngineering
>> No. 21976 Anonymous
17th December 2017
Sunday 1:09 am
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>>21874
What are the best language learning ones?
>> No. 22016 Anonymous
21st December 2017
Thursday 6:31 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AySqC2kU0e8

I spend a lot of time on the NASA and SpaceX pages. Loved this one from today. I never knew they used large amounts of water to acoustically insulate the rocket from itself - unprotected, the noise is so loud on takeoff that it could destroy the rocket. Amazing.
>> No. 22017 Anonymous
21st December 2017
Thursday 6:51 pm
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If you're in the mood for NASA deluge systems -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKtVpvzUF1Y
is always good.
>> No. 22018 Anonymous
21st December 2017
Thursday 7:18 pm
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>>22017
Incredible, thank you. I always wondered how they stopped the whole tower catching fire on a launch and now I know.
>> No. 22019 Anonymous
21st December 2017
Thursday 8:01 pm
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>>22017
His repetition makes it all sound a bit strange.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDmWYVdN8ug
>> No. 22033 Anonymous
19th January 2018
Friday 12:31 pm
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>>21883
>>21882
What the FUCK is he wearing in this latest video?
>> No. 22034 Anonymous
19th January 2018
Friday 12:35 pm
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>>22033
Now that is one smooth-looking suit. Top marks.

(I can't actually believe anyone would manufacture such a thing.)
>> No. 22035 Anonymous
19th January 2018
Friday 1:36 pm
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>>22033

Does he reference it at any point?

I loved the minor rant he went on about chips Vs fries in the kitchen gadget video he did years ago.

The man is a true inspiration.
>> No. 22036 Anonymous
19th January 2018
Friday 3:15 pm
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>>22033

One of my favourite prostitutes has curtains in that fabric.
>> No. 22037 Anonymous
19th January 2018
Friday 3:24 pm
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>>22036
Get a girlfriend.
>> No. 22038 Anonymous
19th January 2018
Friday 4:08 pm
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>>22037
Maybe he can't afford one, ever consider that?
>> No. 22039 Anonymous
19th January 2018
Friday 4:17 pm
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>>22038

And yet he can afford enough prostitutes to have a favorite?
>> No. 22040 Anonymous
19th January 2018
Friday 4:47 pm
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>>22039

Prostitutes don't make you buy them shoes and that though.
>> No. 22041 Anonymous
19th January 2018
Friday 5:25 pm
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>>22039

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcuijtauGUc
>> No. 22042 Anonymous
19th January 2018
Friday 5:26 pm
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>>22040
>>/b/415075
>> No. 22043 Anonymous
19th January 2018
Friday 5:48 pm
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>>22042

Smart bloke.
>> No. 22044 Anonymous
19th January 2018
Friday 6:14 pm
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>>22041

RIP.
>> No. 22093 Anonymous
17th March 2018
Saturday 9:24 am
22093 Hello Friends!
Do you see this video? I hope some of you will love this guy as much as I do.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gpBdu0XfQU
>> No. 22301 Anonymous
25th April 2018
Wednesday 8:29 pm
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Mike Jeavons?


>> No. 22302 Anonymous
25th April 2018
Wednesday 9:15 pm
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>>22301

I find him very endearing because he's ultimately a bit crap but still manages to be quite entertaining.
>> No. 22303 Anonymous
25th April 2018
Wednesday 10:21 pm
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>>22302

I wonder what fork in the road separates the life stories of Jeavons and Beno. Decent parenting? Two notches on the autism spectrum? Therapy? There but for the grace of god.


>> No. 22304 Anonymous
26th April 2018
Thursday 3:47 am
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>>22303

Jeavons seems to bear the haunted look of a man whose parents had enough money to send him to boarding/private school, but not enough money for him to fit in at all.
>> No. 22305 Anonymous
3rd May 2018
Thursday 2:32 am
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I'm very tired and on my phone so can't quote the post but I vaguely remember people talking about Edd China and car shows in general.

https://youtu.be/IaW9Sg5NPyE
>> No. 22306 Anonymous
3rd May 2018
Thursday 2:34 am
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>>22305
Seems youtu.be links don't get picked up.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaW9Sg5NPyE
>> No. 23935 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 12:30 am
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I just started watching Cool World, an astronomy professor who is uncomfortably handsome talks through new discoveries by his research team and covers some more general concepts - sometimes backed by actual papers he writes.

I liked this one as an intro:


If we live in a Möbius strip universe and you took some FTL spaceships in a circuit you would arrive home to find things would be off. You'd notice everyone's faces look slightly odd, clocks would tick backwards and when doctors examine you your heart will be on the wrong side. Everyone would claim that their left and right are correct and that you must be an alien but really it's because you've mirrored.
>> No. 23936 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 2:34 am
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>>23935
That’s untrue, he’s made that up. If we lived in a universe shaped like a cone full of snakes and you traveled through the tip FTL you’d know this.
>> No. 23937 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 9:28 am
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>>23935

I get some weird vibes from that guy. Not sure what it is about his channel but something about it feels a bit... Inauthentic? I don't know.

I suppose it's not a bad place to turn if you can't tolerate Isaac Arthur's speech impediment though.
>> No. 23938 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 11:24 am
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>>23937
He doesn't seem very professory. I wouldn't have him supervise my thesis because I don't think we could understand each other. The odd thing is he's probably the most qualified person to talk about topics like Exomoons seeing as how he may have discovered our first.

>I suppose it's not a bad place to turn if you can't tolerate Isaac Arthur's speech impediment though.

He's had that fixed by this point, surely?
>> No. 23939 Anonymous
19th August 2021
Thursday 1:15 pm
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>>23938

If anything it's worse, he's gone from Wascally Wabbit Elmer Fudd to something approaching the text-to-speech with a Chinese accent on a knock-off smartphone.
>> No. 23940 Anonymous
20th August 2021
Friday 12:08 am
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>>23935

My favourite science channel is PBS spacetime. Also currently hosted by a professor:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msVuCEs8Ydo

Different focus and more physics than astronomy, but of course there's a lot of crossover in parts.
>> No. 23942 Anonymous
21st August 2021
Saturday 11:41 am
23942 Masaru


This is absolutely brilliant - he is a very knowldgeable spear fisherman who catches and then cuts up fish.

I don't even eat fish, but am hooked on this channel.
>> No. 23943 Anonymous
21st August 2021
Saturday 11:47 am
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>>23942

>slicing up a threatened species

Yeah nice. Fucking prick.
>> No. 23944 Anonymous
21st August 2021
Saturday 2:13 pm
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>>23943
He's a drop in the ocean. Blaming individuals for problems caused by industrial scale operations is just what they want you to do to. Wake up, sheeple.
>> No. 23945 Anonymous
21st August 2021
Saturday 4:44 pm
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>>23944

It's not like we'#re talking about driving to wrok versus getting the bus, or not sorting your recycling thoroughly enough. You have to go to some pretty fucking intentional lengths to get a hold of a whole fucking lemon shark.

I'm not even a vego-cunt or anything, I'll happily eat animals. I just think some things are in poor taste. Like, you really don't have to, do you.
>> No. 23946 Anonymous
21st August 2021
Saturday 4:50 pm
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>>23945

Well, no. Moaning about a global thing is FAR more cathartic than moaning about a local thing. Pat yourself on the back, because you have made SUCH a difference!
>> No. 23947 Anonymous
21st August 2021
Saturday 6:04 pm
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>>23945
How about cutting up and eating an alligator?


>> No. 23948 Anonymous
21st August 2021
Saturday 7:16 pm
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>>23947

They farm alligators in a lot of places, so while it looks weird it's not nicking endagered things out of the wild.
>> No. 23949 Anonymous
21st August 2021
Saturday 7:40 pm
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>>23946

Who said I was bothered about making a difference, I was just calling the guy a prick. Anyone who makes entertainment out of cutting up an endangered species is a bit of a prick in my book.
>> No. 23955 Anonymous
22nd August 2021
Sunday 10:08 pm
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Youtube is a pile of wank. I spent two tedious afternoons going through the youtube bookmarks I'd accrued over the past few months, and 90% of them were pointless. They mostly fell into these categories: 1) things that are momentarily interesting that I'll forget after I've watched the video with the clickbaity title, 2) genuinely interesting topics that are glossed over because of the shallow nature of the medium or because the 'content creator' is trying to sell you something. The 10% of videos that were actually worth watching were from youtubers who weren't really trying to make a living from it.

The old adage of 90% of everything being shit still holds true, but youtube is a particularly sinister pile of wank because it tricks you into thinking that you're spending your most valuable resource wisely. Sinister infotainment!

The internet is only good for complaining about the internet. And porn.
>> No. 23956 Anonymous
22nd August 2021
Sunday 10:23 pm
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>>23955
>The 10% of videos that were actually worth watching were from youtubers who weren't really trying to make a living from it.

I've said it before but it's worth repeating: Patreon was a mistake. Making money from using the internet as a commodity is a sin.
>> No. 23957 Anonymous
23rd August 2021
Monday 10:47 am
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Heard about Soft White Underbelly the other day. Basically a guy interviews people on the other side of the tracks so to speak. It's soft of interesting, but a bit dark and depressing too.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCvcd0FYi58LwyTQP9LITpA
>> No. 24468 Anonymous
13th June 2022
Monday 11:47 am
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I like to have a spooky channel to watch but they all seem to devolve into true crime which I find dull. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Stuff like:


Be. Busta is also okay if you just want reddit larps told in a spooky narration:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-ir6MfYIuyvVJS_DhOhcJw
>> No. 24469 Anonymous
13th June 2022
Monday 1:40 pm
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>>24468

Weird World is kind of spooky, although some of their content is a bit laughable. They focus a lot on reincarnation, ghosts, time travel and hauntings.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQwT19wQm23dVTOHiap-u7w


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qanViwv5Itk
>> No. 24470 Anonymous
13th June 2022
Monday 4:19 pm
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>>24468
Barely Sociable (and his 2nd channel Slightly Sociable) are good for long form documentaries on spooky mystery type stuff.
Nexpo occasionally veers into true crime but it's mainly spooky stuff, ARGs and internet mysteries
blameitonjorge is a mixture of spooky stuff, mysteries and lost media.
>> No. 24473 Anonymous
14th June 2022
Tuesday 8:16 pm
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> Technology Connection
Ridiculously in-depth videos about mostly domestic appliances. If you ever wondered about the history gas lamps, or think you could use a few hours of video about air conditioning and heat pumps, this is for you.
https://www.youtube.com/c/TechnologyConnections

> Practical Engineering
Breaks down large scale infrastructure projects, both how they work and how they sometimes fail. Not a prolific poster but just in depth enough that someone like me who knows nothing about civil engineering can still follow along.
https://www.youtube.com/c/PracticalEngineeringChannel

> Unreported World
Well produced foreign affairs programs (as seen on Channel 4) about often overelooked issues.
https://www.youtube.com/c/unreportedworld

> 12tone
Serious music theory breakdowns of (usually) modern songs, delightfully illustrated. I find it soothing to listen to, even though I have no musical background.
https://www.youtube.com/c/12tonevideos
>> No. 24474 Anonymous
14th June 2022
Tuesday 11:33 pm
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>>24473

> Technology Connection

Bit camp, but he's good fun. Although he tends to lose me on his more elaborate technological explanations. He probably has a solid engineering degree of some description, but he can be hard to follow here and there.


If you're into obsolete technology, especially obscure audio formats and similar things, then Technoman Techmoan is your guy. His is a more hands-on approach, he often likes to take things apart to see how they work and fix them. Usually very entertaining.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5I2hjZYiW9gZPVkvzM8_Cw
>> No. 24690 Anonymous
23rd February 2023
Thursday 4:32 pm
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I've been enjoying Budget Museum, a channel done in the style of old youtube videos of a nerd talking about stuff to a slideshow. It has the humour of a guy you'd meet on an RTS or fantasy MMO in the early 00s:


And then there's Rational Animations which is kind of stupid as you'd expect by the name but it covers things that have fallen into vogue like grabby aliens:

>> No. 24691 Anonymous
24th February 2023
Friday 11:41 pm
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>Tank man
https://www.youtube.com/user/thechieftainwot
>> No. 24692 Anonymous
25th February 2023
Saturday 11:28 am
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I can't stop watching these ones about diving accidents and deadly cave expeditions.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6BotqF2pfM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbdCioTOXHc

There's loads of them and all the channels that do it are much of the same. But for some reason it's a mesmerising subject to me.
>> No. 24693 Anonymous
25th February 2023
Saturday 11:46 am
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>>24690
The Rational Animations thing bugs me; it's full of mathematical shit and calls itself "rational" but they're all based on guessing. The Grabby Alien hypothesis won't hold true if the Dark Forest universe hypothesis is true or all sorts of other possibilities. I don't see it as very rational to be spending hours working out the precise equations of probability relating to "grabby aliens" when we know that we don't have all the relevant information and there can be all sorts of other factors involved. It's putting a huge amount of effort on top of what's basically just a guess, pretending that's rational then patting themselves on the back for being so intelligent. I notice the most recent video is based on something by Yudkowsky which really confirms it; these "Rationalist" types are a sort of pseudointellectual cargo cult.
>> No. 24694 Anonymous
25th February 2023
Saturday 1:23 pm
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>>24692

Have you seen this documentary about David Shaw? Absolutely crazy story.


>> No. 24695 Anonymous
26th February 2023
Sunday 4:07 pm
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>>24694

That was a good watch, cheers. Tucked myself in and watched it before bed last night.

Can't help feeling it was a bit of a case of the guy's own ego getting him killed though. He wasn't retrieving the body for the family, he wanted to be a hero. Good on the other bloke for staying level headed and getting everyone else out safe though, even with decompression sickness, top lad.
>> No. 24696 Anonymous
26th February 2023
Sunday 4:33 pm
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>>24692

I really enjoy the channel Dive Talk, with its two hosts Gus and Woody, who are seasoned experienced diving instructors and certified cave divers. They have great reaction videos as well as videos of their own dives, which they discuss in an always very entertaining way.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tuR5ZkuVT0

I'm only a hobbying diver who has gone on scuba dives on holiday a few times, but they really have loads of great info and advice for anybody who's either a diver or just interested.
>> No. 24697 Anonymous
26th February 2023
Sunday 5:15 pm
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>>24693
>I don't see it as very rational to be spending hours working out the precise equations of probability relating to "grabby aliens" when we know that we don't have all the relevant information and there can be all sorts of other factors involved.

It's fun though. And the idea is that you're using the limited data to rationally draw conclusions on questions that have immense significance.
>> No. 24698 Anonymous
26th February 2023
Sunday 5:23 pm
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>>24697
I'm sure it's fun to think about but it's not rational to make predictions based on information you know to be flawed. Speculate away but dressing it up as serious sensible intellectual work is delusional.
>> No. 24699 Anonymous
26th February 2023
Sunday 5:26 pm
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>>24698

> it's not rational to make predictions based on information you know to be flawed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_inference
>> No. 24700 Anonymous
26th February 2023
Sunday 6:16 pm
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>>24699

I can sit around making Bayesian predictions about all sorts of nonsense, that doesn't make it a rational use of time.
>> No. 24701 Anonymous
26th February 2023
Sunday 7:12 pm
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>>24700

I think you are quite irrationally over-thinking the use of the term "rational", mate.
>> No. 24702 Anonymous
26th February 2023
Sunday 8:05 pm
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>>24701

I'm sure it seems that way if you think I'm talking in the abstract and you've never encountered the diasporas of "Rationalists" from the LessWrong community.
>> No. 24703 Anonymous
26th February 2023
Sunday 8:21 pm
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>>21877
>exurb1a

Fucking hell he does some amazing storytelling.


>>24702
You're barking at shadows, lad.
>> No. 24704 Anonymous
26th February 2023
Sunday 8:34 pm
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>>24703

There's definitely a real community of people who consider themselves "rationalists" and take it all very seriously. If you've never knowingly encountered them I don't know what to tell you.
>> No. 24705 Anonymous
26th February 2023
Sunday 9:09 pm
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>>24703

>exurb1a

Aha, I've been trying to remember what he was called for ages.

Is he still uploading? I thought he was on the run for like, sexual assault via brainwashing.
>> No. 24706 Anonymous
26th February 2023
Sunday 9:11 pm
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>>24704

And? Not every use of the word "rational" is referring to them, you're just starting to sound mental.
>> No. 24707 Anonymous
26th February 2023
Sunday 9:25 pm
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I'd just like to cast my vote in support of the anti-rational poster here. Anyone who actively describes themselves as "rational" is by definition implying that others are not rational; nobody ever describes themselves as having two legs. Obviously it is possible for normal people to be rational, but the look-how-rational-I-am squad are almost universally fedora-tipping atheists of the absolute worst sort.
>> No. 24708 Anonymous
26th February 2023
Sunday 9:36 pm
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>>24704
And are the "rationalists" in the room with us now?

>>24705
I wasn't aware of it but from what I can tell there's been some internet drama where two youtubers did the irresponsible thing and shacked up only for it to inevitably go horribly wrong. Made worse by the Dutch police then being criminally incompetent in 2016 when his ex accused him of being a rapist.

Given it's 2023 and he last did a video a couple months ago I imagine it's fine, I guess?
>> No. 24709 Anonymous
26th February 2023
Sunday 9:38 pm
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>>24706

>And? Not every use of the word "rational" is referring to them
That's right, which is why I was explicitly referring to them from my very first post in this thread of conversation. You're barking at your own shitty reading comprehension.
>> No. 24710 Anonymous
26th February 2023
Sunday 9:47 pm
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>>24709

It's not poor reading comprehension to wonder why the fuck you're going on about some group of fringe loonies just because someone posted something with "rational" in the name.

longstanding rationality issues
>> No. 24711 Anonymous
26th February 2023
Sunday 9:54 pm
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>>24710

The person who made the video is one of those fringe loonies.
>> No. 24712 Anonymous
26th February 2023
Sunday 10:03 pm
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>>24711

Then perhaps you should have said so at first, because nothing about the video itself really suggests that, and I very much doubt the lad who posted it is one of them either.
>> No. 24713 Anonymous
26th February 2023
Sunday 10:06 pm
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>>24712
>I notice the most recent video is based on something by Yudkowsky which really confirms it; these "Rationalist" types are a sort of pseudointellectual cargo cult.
>> No. 24775 Anonymous
31st March 2023
Friday 8:21 pm
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Not heard of this lad before but the sort of sardonic public prank comedy has always tickled me. A little bit Brass Eye except not as high-brow.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4gG40yOOJU
>> No. 24776 Anonymous
31st March 2023
Friday 9:58 pm
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Voices of the Past is great. The concept is simple enough, someone's read the interesting written accounts of people in the past who witnesses events or go on adventures.

The Chinese Perspective on 1950s American Life is pretty funny, especially hearing him discover love, women's fashion and how democracy works:

>> No. 24778 Anonymous
1st April 2023
Saturday 11:14 am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjnmzljtREk
>> No. 24779 Anonymous
4th April 2023
Tuesday 8:41 pm
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>Stefan Milo
Focuses on the evolution of humanity and prehistory. Its a fascinating look at archaeology and anthropology - particularly how he struggles to make videos because there's always a ground-breaking new paper coming out.


>The Rest Is Politics
Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart agree on things such as 'fuck Boris Johnson', 'Brexit = bad' and 'we need to stop populism by bringing in ID cards and compulsory voting'. They put out videos twice a week discussing current events for your commute.
https://www.youtube.com/@therestispolitics7503/

>The Rest is History
Similar premise to the above but Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook. I'm still working my way through their World Cup special and learning a lot.


>Jay Foreman
Infrequent videos that covers things in a silly way. If you'd like to learn about London then you're in for a treat.


>>24468
Bedtime stories is great for spooky tales. It has a nice combination of narration and art that it brings together.

>> No. 24791 Anonymous
24th April 2023
Monday 8:04 pm
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>Moth Light Media
He makes nice videos on the evolution of animals that answer questions I never knew I had. For example why birds don't have teeth:


>Natural World Facts
Covers life in the deep sea - here is a 10 minute multichapter documentary on the decomposition of a whale at the bottom of the ocean over decades:

>> No. 24827 Anonymous
12th June 2023
Monday 2:07 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdxFdubzvjw

I haven't been able to work out whether I like these or not.
>> No. 24828 Anonymous
12th June 2023
Monday 4:32 pm
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>>24778
Simon Bird is getting on a bit.
>> No. 24829 Anonymous
12th June 2023
Monday 6:15 pm
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>>24827
The one he did on Punks is very fun, you can tell everyone he brought in for it are having a good lauggh and struggling to keep a straight face throughout it.
>> No. 24830 Anonymous
17th June 2023
Saturday 2:38 pm
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>>24708
What is going on with that Exurbia thing anyway? I wanted to talk about his latest video on narratives at work but stopped myself when I realised he might still be too controversial. And looking online there's a documentary announcement where all the comments are people 100% behind it all.
>> No. 24835 Anonymous
25th June 2023
Sunday 5:22 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIrRz6uq95c

In all seriousness, Grace Long shows promise. If she hones her craft a bit more, I could absolutely see her on the comedy panel show circuit in two to three years time. She is genuinely funny, in a wry understated way.
>> No. 24836 Anonymous
25th June 2023
Sunday 6:46 pm
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>>24835
She ain't gonna fuck you, ladm8.
>> No. 24837 Anonymous
25th June 2023
Sunday 6:53 pm
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>>24836

We were past that.
>> No. 24838 Anonymous
25th June 2023
Sunday 7:56 pm
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>>24837
Evidently not.
>> No. 24839 Anonymous
25th June 2023
Sunday 8:14 pm
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>>24835

I'd piss in her arse.
>> No. 24840 Anonymous
25th June 2023
Sunday 10:53 pm
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>>24839
Same
>> No. 24841 Anonymous
26th June 2023
Monday 1:20 am
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>>24839

I wouldn't, because I think she'd give me that disappointed look my mum gave me as a teenager when I came home at 2am covered in sick. She's not angry, she's not even disappointed, it's just the sort of thing she has come to expect.

I would take her to a steam rally, or perhaps a National Trust property. Maybe buy her a William Morris notebook in the gift shop. Grace Long that is, not my mum.
>> No. 24842 Anonymous
27th June 2023
Tuesday 12:00 am
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I don't get why people do this. Not at all.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52AuNyBbedE
>> No. 24843 Anonymous
27th June 2023
Tuesday 12:56 am
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>>24842


>> No. 24844 Anonymous
27th June 2023
Tuesday 3:30 am
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>>24779
Related to Bedtime Stories is Wartime Stories


This episode is a headscratcher. Was it drugs?

Perun has also gotten hugely popular from his analysis of the Ukraine war despite running an hour-long slideshows. It's surprising how engaging he is with these, I guess because he can speak freely without the corporate guardrails:

>> No. 24845 Anonymous
27th June 2023
Tuesday 2:53 pm
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>>24844
>This episode is a headscratcher. Was it drugs?
Sounded fictional to me, fam. Was still entertaining though, plus some good music links in the description.
>> No. 24857 Anonymous
11th July 2023
Tuesday 3:51 pm
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First Map Men video in almost two years.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B14Gtm2Z_70
>> No. 24880 Anonymous
5th August 2023
Saturday 8:27 pm
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Horses is a relaxing channel. Here is a video where an evil scientist tries to see how people descend into violence but ends up getting incredibly frustrated with the results.


It makes me think of Conan's line about what's good in life. Only he would instead say it's about having a group of mates around you. There's probably something in that about our nature and how right it once felt to work a shit job made tolerable by the people working with you.
>> No. 24881 Anonymous
5th August 2023
Saturday 10:28 pm
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A friend in Latvia is learning English and he's asked me what I think of this youtube channel.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeFjw6nPD64

I told him I'd smash her back door in and that she seems pretty capable. You'll probably end up sounding like a BBC announcer, but hey.

I tried learning Spanish with youtube a while back, as a supplement to the Spanish classes I am taking. But most youtube Spanish teachers just talk too fast.
>> No. 24883 Anonymous
6th August 2023
Sunday 6:30 am
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>>24881
How many people really observe that 'the/thee' distinction depending on whether the following word starts with a vowel/consonant sound?
>> No. 24884 Anonymous
6th August 2023
Sunday 1:46 pm
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>>24883

I guess grammatically and phonetically correct English are more or less a construct for learners, and it's a given that not everybody will talk that way in real life. Except if you're posh and see it as a mark of social class.

It's a good idea to have a common standard and observe it when you're learning a foreign language, because it'll make it less confusing. The same is true for Spanish. I've been taking lessons for a couple of years, and our teacher puts a lot of emphasis on correct pronunciation. Again, if you travel to Spain and talk to the locals in Spanish, few will have the same regard for correct standard Spanish, but that doesn't mean the Spanish you've learned is wrong. People may even compliment you for your correct pronunciation, and tell you that they're far too lazy for it themselves.
>> No. 24885 Anonymous
6th August 2023
Sunday 5:11 pm
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>>24883

There are all sorts of linguistic rules that we aren't consciously aware of unless someone breaks them. We pick them up by osmosis as native speakers, but second-language speakers often need to learn them explicitly. For example, there's a specific order in which we use adjectives - "small blue teapot" sounds right, but "blue small teapot" sounds completely wrong.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/adjectives-order
>> No. 24886 Anonymous
6th August 2023
Sunday 5:59 pm
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>>24885

Good example, and coincidentally it's what makes adjectives in Spanish a bit confusing. Generally, adjecties follow the noun in Spanish. Few adjectives go in front of the noun, we've talked about this in class but I've forgotten the exact rule. But one example is common adjectives like bueno or mal. It'd be correct to say "Esto es un buen desayuno", this is a good breakfast. You would only say "un desayuno bueno" to put special emphasis on the fact that you are enjoying your breakfast (maybe in contrast to other breakfasts you've had). But if for example you want to say that this is a very short breakfast, you always say "Esto es un desayuno muy corto".

The typical order of distinguishing adjectives is also the inverse of English. If you want to say "This is a horrible blue shirt" then you would say "Esto es una camisa azul horrible".

People will still understand you if you don't follow these rules, but it'll be clear that you haven't yet mastered all the subtleties of the language.
>> No. 24887 Anonymous
6th August 2023
Sunday 10:21 pm
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>>24883
Well, most do, it just flows faster. Thuh goat, thee apple.
I suppose thee goat would be as fast, but that's weird. Thuh apple has a hiccup in the middle.
>> No. 24888 Anonymous
6th August 2023
Sunday 11:03 pm
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>>24886
Does that require a particular enunciation along with the word order? There's a lot that can be achieved with emphasis in English (and no doubt other languages) to move from admiration to sarcasm with the same word order.
>> No. 24889 Anonymous
6th August 2023
Sunday 11:05 pm
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>>24887

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkvPLtHVhOM
>> No. 24890 Anonymous
7th August 2023
Monday 7:29 am
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Unpretentious US-centric slice of life documentaries


>> No. 24891 Anonymous
7th August 2023
Monday 11:06 am
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Caleb Gamman is a New Zealander who does cultural and media critique. That makes it sound awfully dry, but he's actually good at it and very entertaining. He's not an American which is nice, because almost everyone on the internet is an American, and he has on more than one occasion reminded me of Are Stew and Charlie Brooker. Those are comparisons I feel almost guilty for making, because a pastiche of either one of those two would be awful to witness, but it's a very broad reminder, if that makes sense, as in I've sometimes become aware that Gamman's seen some of the same stand-up and TV shows I have. He isn't doing a voice or anything, but neither has he reached the heights of a line like "the pussy loves that Madeley", sadly. It's also nice seeing someone who knows how to make a video look good, it feels like every other video on YouTube is edited by men who think Family Guy-esque cutaway gags are really funny, but a bit slow and if they happened faster and more often, surely that would be better? However, these vidfeos don't come across like they were put together by someone who won an Adobe subscription in a raffle.

Anyway, my bitchiness aside, here's a video in which he highlights the strange case of a man who tried to convince women to be thin, which I think you'll both like:


And another about how noted hairy bastard Peter Jackson fucked New Zealand:

>> No. 24892 Anonymous
7th August 2023
Monday 11:07 am
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Or I could paste the same video twice, like some kind of sub-literate, half-ape, idiot:

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7th August 2023
Monday 11:58 am
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>>24891

>a man who tried to convince women to be thin

Bastard. Still, at least he was promoting cigarettes.
>> No. 24894 Anonymous
7th August 2023
Monday 11:11 pm
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This is great.


>> No. 24895 Anonymous
9th August 2023
Wednesday 2:25 pm
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WatchMojo is often glaringly sketchy with its fact checking, but it's just the right kind of intellectually unchallenging content to kill your post-lunch break boredom.
>> No. 24896 Anonymous
9th August 2023
Wednesday 2:25 pm
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>>24895


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Rpn6ZKtr4
>> No. 24897 Anonymous
9th August 2023
Wednesday 4:29 pm
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>>24896
Your recommendation is offensive and I hope you get splashed by a passing car.
>> No. 24898 Anonymous
10th August 2023
Thursday 2:15 am
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>>24896


Rewatching this gem.
>> No. 24899 Anonymous
10th August 2023
Thursday 8:18 pm
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>>24894
>Compulsive wiping of the counter
I used to work in a lower class kitchen. Mostly pot wash with some cooking. Was great fun when you're on the ball, absolutely awful when you're not.
>> No. 24981 Anonymous
6th October 2023
Friday 1:42 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDHlnqnJn4A


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuCQDmB-m2g

I'm in love.
>> No. 24982 Anonymous
6th October 2023
Friday 1:59 pm
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>>24981

I'd invade her pitch IYKWIM.
>> No. 24983 Anonymous
6th October 2023
Friday 2:10 pm
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>Asianometry
Short talks about semiconductor manufacturing and Asian economics.
https://www.youtube.com/@Asianometry/featured

>Our Own Devices
What if, instead of being trapped in the 1980s, Technology Connections was trapped in the 1940s?
https://www.youtube.com/@CanadianMacGyver

>On Her Majesty's Service
Loads of old British documentaries about trains and military history, plus some random shit off of old VHS tapes.
https://www.youtube.com/@onhms

>Ringway Manchester
Radio oddities.
https://www.youtube.com/@RingwayManchester
>> No. 24984 Anonymous
6th October 2023
Friday 3:09 pm
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PBS Spacetime for physics related news and insights
https://www.youtube.com/@pbsspacetime/videos

And acollierastro for more physics in a very informal talkative kind of way (until she occasionally whips out some maths)
https://www.youtube.com/@acollierastro/videos
>> No. 24985 Anonymous
6th October 2023
Friday 3:46 pm
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>>24984

>until she occasionally whips out some maths

That sentence ended in disappointment.
>> No. 25013 Anonymous
21st October 2023
Saturday 11:00 am
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Travis McEnery
Spider enthusiast. Sadly only posts roughly once per month.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=015PmL5kLhc
>> No. 25014 Anonymous
21st October 2023
Saturday 12:26 pm
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>>21874
>Issac Arthur
>One o my favorit models in life is to live forevor or die trying, as it seems like a win-win philosphy to me. But as technology to truely extend lifespands seems to dwar closor we may find out that wonger wives open the dwor to many new pwoblems and danjors too.

Holy shit I'm so sorry, my nephew has a lisp too but this just caught me off guard.
>> No. 25016 Anonymous
21st October 2023
Saturday 6:48 pm
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>>25013
Don't think you lads would be interested in a short awkward girl who gets really into talking about bugs but there's a channel for it.

>> No. 25017 Anonymous
21st October 2023
Saturday 7:05 pm
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>>25016
Better than the Swell Entertainment ones anyway.
>> No. 25019 Anonymous
21st October 2023
Saturday 8:11 pm
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>>25017
Swell Entertainments laugh became too predictable, got kind of boring listening to her when I realised even her laughs are scripted. She sounds like a knowledgeable person when it comes to conventions though, I wonder why she hasn't stepped into managing or consulting for them.

This new womans humour is pretty fresh. She has a great energy.
>> No. 25020 Anonymous
21st October 2023
Saturday 10:09 pm
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This new James Hoffmann video is just... odd.

I get it, it's a departure from his usual format. It's in front of a live audience. So far, so good.

But the audience are just fucking [i[odd.[/i] The whole thing is shot a bit like a grindhouse cult video too. I dunno, just gives me a strange sense of unease compared to his usual humorous coffee wankery.
>> No. 25021 Anonymous
21st October 2023
Saturday 10:54 pm
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>>25020

His normal persona is very small and intimate, like you're sat in his kitchen and he's talking in a half-whisper because his missus is sleeping off a hangover in the next room. If you put that on stage in front of hundreds of people it's just weird, in the same way that having an opera singer giving it the beans in your front room would be weird.
>> No. 25049 Anonymous
27th October 2023
Friday 4:38 pm
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Oriental Pearl is nice to watch sometimes - Asian language speaking American woman suprising natives with her speaking ability. It's a little shallow sometimes how she engages people for their reaction but I get the sense that she's mostly filming what she usually does, rather than just for the views.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gFG4PtBFDM
>> No. 25050 Anonymous
28th October 2023
Saturday 12:29 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r29slGt6cY

Maxim Bady is quite a character.

I guess if somebody asked you to randomly imagine an African DM reader, it'd be pretty close to him.
>> No. 25051 Anonymous
31st October 2023
Tuesday 2:37 pm
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I'm far too lazy to try and find the original thread where it was mentioned, even though if I bothered to move away from /*/ for a moment it's probably the next thread down or something, but Tim Hunkin of The Secret Life of Machines fame has not only uploaded some of those episodes onto YouTube, remastered and upscaled with commentary, but also made a sort of spiritual successor, The Secret Life of Components, aimed at makers and the like.

https://www.youtube.com/@timhunkin1
>> No. 25054 Anonymous
5th November 2023
Sunday 6:23 pm
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I almost had to message the lass I was with 5 years ago to remember this one so thank god I found it before resorting to that.

https://www.youtube.com/@kiwami-japan/videos

Mental Japanese bloke whose videos are exclusively about making and then whetstone sharpening kitchen knives out of various mundane materials, in the style of those ASMR cookery type videos but with a subtly psychotic vibe. Much more compelling than it sounds.
>> No. 25055 Anonymous
10th November 2023
Friday 12:52 am
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I've been watching too many outdoorsy videos about these Yanks going on epic treks into the Alaskan wilderness and making hearty campfire meals and so on.

So here's a bloke from Hull sitting in the rain all night, and swearing about spilling chocolate sauce in his new tent. Much more relatable.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggO8bzELQYU
>> No. 25056 Anonymous
10th November 2023
Friday 8:32 am
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>>25050

He's funny, don't get me wrong, but there's something bizarre about the side-by-side juxtaposition of someone that makes money by causing a stir by acting obnoxious and spewing nonsense, with another that makes money by making fun of the people acting obnoxious and spewing nonsense.
>> No. 25057 Anonymous
10th November 2023
Friday 2:59 pm
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Lately I've been enjoying a lot of history documentaries. A recent channel is premodernist that provides long-form videos run a guy with a PhD focused on the Medieval Middle East (but he goes into other stuff too) where he manages to pull off just talking into the camera.

His Advice for time traveling to medieval Europe video he posted yesterday was really good and practical:


It turns out that Western Europe in the Middle Ages was okay aside from the crime and poor food hygiene. People would be curious about you but autistically focused on working out where you fit in terms of class and trade so they know how to talk to you. Racism wouldn't really matter and you'd cause a mental 404 if they couldn't categorise you by religion. So it's pretty much like visiting some isolated community today where the locals come out to say hello and have a good long chat to pass the time.

In reflection the bit about being chatty reminds me of how local culture is dying in the Scottish Highlands as its been opened up by road to tourists. Historically the depopulated region has meant that everyone will stop and have a good long chat whenever they see someone, mostly friendly if inarticulate people who want to exchange news and idle chatter. Unfortunately a lot of tourists they now meet have to be antisocial pricks about it so they're becoming more reclusive. I guess the start of a true us v them change that you see in tourist areas all over the place.
>> No. 25058 Anonymous
10th November 2023
Friday 4:48 pm
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>>25057
He reminds me of someone. I think it's Adam Scott.
>> No. 25059 Anonymous
10th November 2023
Friday 5:19 pm
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>>25058
It's the lion mane thing he's trying to pull off combined with what I think is using too much conditioner. He just ends up looking like a teddy bear.

I like his shirt and jacket combination for an autumn colour scheme though. There's something to be said for Americans being willing to wear bold colour shirts while we cling to whites, blacks and pale blue/pink.
>> No. 25060 Anonymous
11th November 2023
Saturday 1:28 pm
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It's not on YouTube (well, it might be, but that's not what Google offered me when I searched for it) but Japanese TV company NHK's worldwide channel, available on Sky, has a series called "Texico" which claims to teach programming concepts without any programming. It's the greatest thing I have seen in months. I just spent over an hour and a half watching every single episode (there are 10 ten-minute episodes). It's like those old BBC school programmes El Nombreeeeeee! but for problem-solving. It repeats a couple of its sequences, but even that is forgivable, especially if you love the dancing paper squid at the start as much as I did.

I have no idea what the target audience is; the website just says "Kids" but I struggled to solve a couple of the problems myself. If you want something that is simultaneously both comfy and stimulating, Texico is where it's at.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/4038001/
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11th November 2023
Saturday 2:15 pm
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>>25057
>Unfortunately a lot of tourists they now meet have to be antisocial pricks about it so they're becoming more reclusive

Tourists yes, but also all the people who move there from elsewhere. I have family in the Highlands, and I've seen this when visiting them, a lot of people move there assuming it must be some sort of wholesome rural paradise, but then carry on acting in their suburban ways. The locals still talk to each other in the way you mentioned, and know pretty much everything about each other all the time. Quite a lot of the 'incomers', however, leave because they find this social life doesn't suit them.
>> No. 25062 Anonymous
11th November 2023
Saturday 3:25 pm
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>>25060

It does look a bit like indoctrination for a cult led by Linus Torvalds.

I'm all for it.
>> No. 25071 Anonymous
20th November 2023
Monday 1:17 pm
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Bobby Fingers. Indescribable, incomparable, inexplicable.


>> No. 25072 Anonymous
20th November 2023
Monday 6:39 pm
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>>25071
Getting strong BlindBoy vibes from this. Are all Irish people nuts?
I enjoyed it until about 8 minutes in where it reminded me of my highschool art class studio and the students who practiced there. They were all cunts - probably going to post about how shit my attitude is soon.
>> No. 25073 Anonymous
20th November 2023
Monday 7:25 pm
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>>25072

>Getting strong BlindBoy vibes from this.

It's the other lad out of the Rubber Bandits.
>> No. 25074 Anonymous
21st November 2023
Tuesday 5:01 pm
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count dankula. If you like crazy stories.
>> No. 25075 Anonymous
21st November 2023
Tuesday 5:01 pm
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count dankula. If you like crazy stories.
>> No. 25127 Anonymous
8th January 2024
Monday 8:49 am
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I've been enjoying Money & Macro. It's run by someone with the qualifications for it.

>> No. 25148 Anonymous
1st February 2024
Thursday 11:46 pm
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A guy has spent the past 4 years developing a mountain ghost town and documenting his journey. He's still going at it.
>> No. 25157 Anonymous
18th February 2024
Sunday 11:55 pm
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I had no idea just how sketchy Better Help was. The world of ads feels especially nuts these days, even the ad for this (up to 1:04) is like an obvious satire of those shitty box companies.


It's beating the usual stuff but what else can you do. Apparently everyone is arguing about Starship Troopers again which is probably something to do with Israel.

>> No. 25158 Anonymous
19th February 2024
Monday 2:17 am
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>>25157
Very true. As somebody who suffers very severe and disabling physical health conditions with unknown causes, we get mostly neglected or unjustly have our symptoms psychologized.

My pet hate is when they say "We're not saying your symptoms aren't real", it's so disingenuous. I hate that they apply an extreme double standard of evidence when deciding whether an illness is physical vs psychogenic and pseudo-skeptics like Ben Goldacre don't speak up about it.

Here's a bit of David Firth for relevance: The Unfixable Thought Machine | David Firth's Health Reminder -

>> No. 25160 Anonymous
2nd March 2024
Saturday 7:18 pm
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I thought I'd watch something made by a young person and found Lindsay Nikole who talks about evolution and cool animals.


The interesting thing about her is she's also a youth advisor for one of those de-extinction companies called Colossal. She revealed that actually bringing extinct animals back to life is just the razzle-dazzle for investors and they're really all about applying the technology to save endangered species.
>> No. 25161 Anonymous
2nd March 2024
Saturday 7:31 pm
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>>25160
>She revealed that actually bringing extinct animals back to life is just the razzle-dazzle for investors and they're really all about applying the technology to save endangered species.
I've heard basically the exact same thing from several people in different science roles. You give a big investor presentation or talk to the media about finding aliens or the secret to eternal life, then spend the money you get on sensible stuff. We probably shouldn't discuss this at length, because if the fatcats find out science funding could dry up overnight.
>> No. 25162 Anonymous
2nd March 2024
Saturday 8:02 pm
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>>25161
I'm told that the dirty secret of space science is that putting people up there has very limited value beyond having warm bodies to interact with experiments, but that's what brings in the attention. NASA has an entire section of their website detailing the science that comes from experiments on the ISS that you pretty much never hear about. It's easy for them to make the case to administrators, but politicians typically need something they can sell to their voters, and that's pretty much the entire purpose of the Artemis programme.
>> No. 25163 Anonymous
3rd March 2024
Sunday 12:12 am
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>>25162
What's your take on the apparent suspension wires that feature in many of NASAs modern astronaut clips? I've never seen them ackowledged outside of the 'space is fake' communities. I suppose you could argue they're guide wires for legitimately aiding movement while in zero-gravity but some of the clips make it looks as though the participants are actively trying to ignore their presence.
>> No. 25164 Anonymous
3rd March 2024
Sunday 12:45 am
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>>25163

I don't follow conspiracy theories, but the ISS is visible on most nights with the naked eye and you can see the shape of the station with a pair of binoculars. With a decent amateur telescope, you can see it in enough detail to identify individual modules and see if a capsule is docked. With a £20 receiver, you can pick up radio signals from the ISS and calculate its speed based on the doppler effect; if you have an amateur radio license and you're very lucky, you can make a two-way contact with the station.

If it is a hoax, then it's a hoax that Russia, the US and Elon Musk have all managed to keep a secret. I can just about believe the idea that Russia and the US are being controlled by a shadowy world government, but I can't believe that Elon Musk would know something and not tweet about it.
>> No. 25165 Anonymous
3rd March 2024
Sunday 1:21 am
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>>25164
Oh I don't doubt humanity hsa reached space and the moon, only curious to hear a reasonable explaination for the strange things the conspiracy theorists point out.
I'm suprised to hear you can actually detect modules on the ISS with only a telescope, though. Sure'y you'd have to track it through the sky? That thing must move at some speed.
>> No. 25166 Anonymous
3rd March 2024
Sunday 1:56 am
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>>25165
>a reasonable explaination for the strange things the conspiracy theorists point out.
The reasonable explanation is that, as usual, they're making shit up.

>I'm suprised to hear you can actually detect modules on the ISS with only a telescope, though.
Occasionally it passes across the path of something bigger and brighter, and when that happens the time-lapse photos like this turn up:
https://science.nasa.gov/resource/space-station-transits-the-sun/
>> No. 25167 Anonymous
7th March 2024
Thursday 9:04 pm
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>> No. 25168 Anonymous
9th March 2024
Saturday 1:52 am
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I really want to buy one of these litle engines.
>> No. 25169 Anonymous
9th March 2024
Saturday 7:52 pm
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An auditor, but unusually for the genre, with charisma.



As far as I remember nobody much cared for Surveillance Camera Man, whose videos are now mostly gone from the internet, but I just found out he started - and has since abandoned - a new channel. I've not watched the videos yet but thought I'd mention it.

https://www.youtube.com/@VagrantHoliday
>> No. 25170 Anonymous
9th March 2024
Saturday 8:33 pm
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>>25169

https://www.tiktok.com/@makethehoodsmile/video/7327463162444516654
>> No. 25171 Anonymous
10th March 2024
Sunday 3:32 am
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Can't stop watching it. Masterpiece of trolling.
>> No. 25172 Anonymous
10th March 2024
Sunday 1:05 pm
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>>25171

Aw, the thumbnail has changed. I was wondering if YouTube's algorithm couldn't detect big 70s muffs.
>> No. 25173 Anonymous
10th March 2024
Sunday 1:11 pm
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>>25172
>> No. 25174 Anonymous
10th March 2024
Sunday 2:02 pm
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>>25173

I've got to admit, those armpits are really doing it for me.
>> No. 25175 Anonymous
10th March 2024
Sunday 3:37 pm
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>>25174
It has truly opened up my eyes to the lengths people go working the YouTube thumbnail algorithm (successfully). From that point of view alone, it is a masterpiece.
>> No. 25176 Anonymous
10th March 2024
Sunday 4:04 pm
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>>25171
>>25173
I wonder how much money he actually made out of that one woman's fanny hair.
>> No. 25177 Anonymous
10th March 2024
Sunday 4:11 pm
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>>25173
Oi oi oi this is a SFW board.
>> No. 25178 Anonymous
10th March 2024
Sunday 4:37 pm
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Lately I am addicted to watching mountain biking videos.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6TQo9f0r80


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-KJz4AFT2U


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOvlsAL1bFw

I'd love to get into this sort of thing, it looks like great fun, and riding a bike is one of very few outdoorsy physical things I've ever actually enjoyed. But I would have no clue where to start, I bet a decent bike costs a fortune, and I bet the only decent parks are in mainland Europe or the US, not here.
>> No. 25179 Anonymous
10th March 2024
Sunday 5:15 pm
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>>25178
Those both are really piss poor excuses and far from accurate. You wouldn't say going to Alton Towers is pointless because you've seen videos of Magic Mountain and Disney World. Be honest, you won't get a MTB because you're a fat bastard in mindset if not waistband.

https://www.mbuk.com/articles/best-uk-bike-parks-with-uplift
(There are many, many more.)

Give Will Greenfield, McTrail Rider and PinnedTV a gander.
>> No. 25180 Anonymous
10th March 2024
Sunday 6:01 pm
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>>25179

Bit needlessly aggressive there m8. I keep in shape actually. I'm just talking myself out of something because of a lack of confidence and familiarity.

If you have any recommendations on where I should start to understand the gear I'd need and costs involved I'd be keen to hear them.

>you wouldn't say going to Alton Towers is pointless

I would actually, fuck theme parks.
>> No. 25181 Anonymous
10th March 2024
Sunday 7:47 pm
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>>25180

A hardcore downhill bike is going to cost you at least £4000 new, but that would be total overkill for a beginner. A more versatile trail or enduro bike would start at about £1000 new, or about half that second-hand. Something like the Boardman MTR 8.6 would be a good choice. If you're on a tight budget, have a sniff around on eBay/Gumtree/Facebook Marketplace and check Google for reviews to see what's worth buying. If you go second-hand, it's worth getting a service at your local bike shop, just so you've got the confidence that everything is bolted on properly.

If you're planning on buying new, check to see if your employer offers a cycle to work scheme. Most big employers do. The scheme allows you to buy a bike on interest-free credit with your repayments coming out of your pre-tax salary, so you can save at least 30%. On paper you're supposed to use the bike to travel to work, but no-one actually checks.

The only bike-specific clothing you really need to get started is a pair of gloves and a helmet. You can pick these up for less than £50 if you shop around. Next on your shopping list would be a pair of cycling shorts or undershorts with a chamois, which is a pad in the crotch to reduce vibration and chafing.

You'll want a pump (preferably with a pressure gauge) and a spare inner tube. I'd highly recommend a basic bike multi-tool with a standard assortment of allen and torx keys. You might want a bike rack for car (you can get a basic one for about £40) but most average-sized hatchbacks can accommodate a bike inside if you take off the front wheel and fold down your back seats - remember to bring a tarp or an old bedsheet unless you want to fill your car with cack.

There are a good number of MTB parks in this country, but again I wouldn't really recommend it as a beginner. Unless you live in Norfolk, you've probably got some footpaths or forest near you with some reasonable hills that you can use to practice your bike handling skills.

I'd highly recommend finding someone to ride with. If you don't know anyone who rides, have a look on Facebook or the bike forums. Mountain bikers are a friendly bunch on the whole and they're usually happy to take someone under their wing. It's very useful to have a more experienced rider to show you the ropes, but it's also just much more fun to ride in company. A bunch of middle-aged blokes on mountain bikes inevitably turn into 10-year-old boys, just larking about for the hell of it.
>> No. 25182 Anonymous
11th March 2024
Monday 11:17 am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqYgAX6D43Q
11.6
>> No. 25183 Anonymous
14th March 2024
Thursday 11:44 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSZFKMoF3iU

I often think I would enjoy woodturning as a hobby. In any case, videos about it are weirdly satisfying to watch.
>> No. 25184 Anonymous
15th March 2024
Friday 10:44 am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVbCY51iz1k

RobWords is a bit of a boffin, but he's fun to watch.
>> No. 25185 Anonymous
15th March 2024
Friday 10:40 pm
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I feel like 2kliksphilip is the most relatable youtuber I've found so far.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-ZrKH_7h2g

He's mostly known for his CounterStrike channel but this channel is a broader mixture of videogames and general tech, and just generally pissing about with stuff in a way I'm sure every .gs user understands.
>> No. 25186 Anonymous
15th March 2024
Friday 10:41 pm
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>>25185
AI thumbnail.
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15th March 2024
Friday 10:51 pm
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>>25186

Perfect usecase for AI. Nobody's ever going to waste the time or money on professional art just for thumbnails, especially if they crank out 2-3 videos a week about relatively mundane shite like this.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nsJasXxXrg

Stop being such a bore.
>> No. 25188 Anonymous
15th March 2024
Friday 10:58 pm
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>>25187
Actually lots of people would and do, you fat sack of shit.
>> No. 25189 Anonymous
15th March 2024
Friday 11:06 pm
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>>25188

Then they've either got much more money and time to spare than a one bloke channel like this, or it's shit art anyway.

I bet you're the type of person who has unironically used a word like "goyslop" on the other place aren't you. You've got enough understanding of the world to perceive when something can be bad, but you're too thoroughly autistic for any nuance.
>> No. 25190 Anonymous
15th March 2024
Friday 11:10 pm
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>>25189
That's right, I have no room for naunce. It's why because I think generative AI is shite, I also hold every other opinion you disdain and I do all those activities you hate. You know, because I'm the one who lacks nuance.
>> No. 25191 Anonymous
15th March 2024
Friday 11:19 pm
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>>25190
You're trying to argue with people about youtube videos on a Friday night. Go and have a word with yourself.
>> No. 25192 Anonymous
15th March 2024
Friday 11:23 pm
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>>25190

You'd probably still like the channel.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDrCC2Uee3k
>> No. 25193 Anonymous
15th March 2024
Friday 11:23 pm
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>>25191
I think I said "AI thumbnail", you're the one who followed up. Also, that's a very MAD-style defense strategy you're running there.
>> No. 25194 Anonymous
16th March 2024
Saturday 4:44 am
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Surely an AI thumbnail is better than a bloke with his mouth open pointing at a red circle?
>> No. 25201 Anonymous
18th March 2024
Monday 11:39 am
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She talks about D&D, GMing and character design, plus her English accent is sexy as fuuuuuck.
>I'm a good girl, I am!
https://youtu.be/7LyvKfWFdMk?t=245
>> No. 25202 Anonymous
18th March 2024
Monday 11:41 am
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>>25201
Oh, my God, how embarrassing.
>> No. 25203 Anonymous
21st March 2024
Thursday 7:36 pm
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They've still got it, baby.
>> No. 25205 Anonymous
1st April 2024
Monday 7:36 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH5F8nI0WjY
Garn is pretty good. Australian culture comedy, most recently focusing on manual labour tropes.
>> No. 25207 Anonymous
2nd April 2024
Tuesday 10:55 pm
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These are two specific examples from The Minute Hour that I absolutely love, particularly the second one. Other clips and skits are also very good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOZULrytT8k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSZZFayo64I
>> No. 25209 Anonymous
5th April 2024
Friday 12:49 pm
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>> No. 25210 Anonymous
5th April 2024
Friday 1:07 pm
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>>25207
I've watched the Shoebody Bop video several times now and I've absolutely no idea why.
>> No. 25211 Anonymous
5th April 2024
Friday 10:25 pm
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>>25210
The a cappella is perfectly paced and orchestrated, enhanced even further by the animation visuals.
I want to talk about how the entire video shows a journey of belief and doubt in both the baptiser and the baptised, but I don't wanna get all pseud in here.

This other clip might help for context if you're interested -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkDOuRAwrYE
>> No. 25212 Anonymous
5th April 2024
Friday 10:44 pm
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The Hat Historian.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M7GP8RSDew


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVox3dhwzfk


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FmohpVO3ec

He does the history of hats.
>> No. 25222 Anonymous
14th April 2024
Sunday 11:08 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br8Hno-uDyk

I've installed some very slightly sketchy electrics here in my house, but this is really on another level.

Artisan Electrics is an informative and entertaining channel about home electrics and all the things you should and shouldn't do.
>> No. 25223 Anonymous
15th April 2024
Monday 9:24 pm
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Henry's Kitchen is a cooking series by professional comedian Henry Phillips, in which tragic loser Henry Phillips (played by successful humourist Henry Phillips, whom you might recognise from TV's Silicon Valley, where he also plays a depressed failure) attempts various exciting recipes.


>> No. 25225 Anonymous
20th April 2024
Saturday 11:02 am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rsErZVml1E

Just another lad whose channel consists of reading reddit and Quora out loud in his videos. But he is entertaining.
>> No. 25226 Anonymous
20th April 2024
Saturday 11:31 am
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>>25225
This is like turning up to a book club and trying to talk about what you read that week in the TVTimes.
>> No. 25227 Anonymous
20th April 2024
Saturday 1:25 pm
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>>25226
It really, really, really isn't.
>> No. 25228 Anonymous
20th April 2024
Saturday 9:08 pm
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>>25225
>>25226

Thick seppos are always an easy target. Until you visit the U.S. and realise that a small but not insignificant minority actually are that way 100 percent.

I once talked to a lad there who was a bit on the uneducated white trash side, wearing a beer stained trucker hat and with a tooth missing here and there. He said something like, "What's that I hear about y'all still being ruled by kings and queens... well this is America. We've got freedom here".

You just don't know where to begin when you are actually face to face with somebody arguing a point like that. So I said something like, yeah, but just think where all the tabloids would be without them. And excused myself out of the conversation.
>> No. 25230 Anonymous
21st April 2024
Sunday 7:49 pm
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>>25228
He is right.
>> No. 25231 Anonymous
23rd April 2024
Tuesday 8:05 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbCPz2OP2ZI
>> No. 25233 Anonymous
29th April 2024
Monday 12:20 am
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I'm still trying to get down with the kids young adults through youtube. This time philosophy. It's actually quite invigorating to go back to a lot of the ideas that hold you in your 20s and I'm debating seeing if I can pick up my old Camus collection from my parents and to reread them now that I'm a different stage of life.


I'm not sure if that's a sign of an impending mid-life crisis and I'll end up spending the security I've built up to become a pound shop Hemingway in Cuba or if I'm just going to spend a lot of the summer reading in the park.

>>25231
This was amazing but I'm not sure what the message was. Give up and just try to cope with your lot?
>> No. 25262 Anonymous
26th July 2024
Friday 11:03 pm
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I recall we were on about this lad a while back. Pretentious YouTube twat's most pretentious video yet, quite possibly. At least one of you should like it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmi_6D6vwBQ
>> No. 25263 Anonymous
27th July 2024
Saturday 11:07 pm
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>> No. 25264 Anonymous
30th July 2024
Tuesday 11:04 pm
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No one has mentiong Fall of Civilizations yet?

https://www.youtube.com/@FallofCivilizations
>> No. 25266 Anonymous
11th August 2024
Sunday 6:05 pm
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I like listening to Swell Entertainment but recently I've been thinking she's a bit of a hack. Not sure I'm using that term correctly, all I mean is she seems to just shit on conventions and shit. Apparnelty a few organisers have refused her entry, which is understandable to be honest. I get the feeling she acts a little more important than she is, in the industry. I don't know, I'm just going off of her content lately.

Same with Timothy Cain - in a few brief instances I get a strong impression of a genuine personality coming through and it seems to be bitchness. Occasionally his facial expressions betray what he's saying in such a way as to dispell my faith in his content. His video on core gameplay loops came across as though he didn't really understand what they are, but he was trying to ride an authority on the subject.
>> No. 25267 Anonymous
12th August 2024
Monday 10:24 am
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>>25233

A fine video, but I also want to add that it's important to maintain a good sense of locus of control while engaging in the will to be happy.

By all means, it is important to learn to love pushing the rock, but I also believe in allocating some energy towards changing circumstances in such a way that makes the rock easier to push; maybe allows a way out of pushing the rock at all.

I understand the argument that all of life is a Sisyphean task of one form or another, and there will always be a need for the will to be happy, but I do believe that if you only focus on the will to happiness then there is a danger in overlooking other opportunities to reduce suffering.

At least, that was my reading of Camus' The Plague, that we must go beyond the will to be happy, and struggle to lessen suffering even in a world where suffering is inevitable. I suppose you could say that, in a way, is a "will to happiness" regardless of circumstances, but it's one which takes into account collective wellbeing and real world problems.
>> No. 25268 Anonymous
15th August 2024
Thursday 5:24 am
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Periscope Film are always digging up the maddest shit from the archives.


>> No. 25274 Anonymous
9th September 2024
Monday 2:15 am
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Lads


So what's the story with crop-circles anyway. Is it a man-made hoax or is that explanation a massive psyop?
>> No. 25275 Anonymous
9th September 2024
Monday 9:40 pm
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>>25274
I'm trying to watch it but the first 4 minutes are weird skits with a talking goldfish. I think it's a HUEL advert but I'm just switching off.
>> No. 25276 Anonymous
9th September 2024
Monday 11:01 pm
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>>25274
That channel is, to me, a picture of Hell. AI shite plastered everywhere, talking pure shite all the time and a grown man behaving and presenting himself with little to no dignity. At the end of it all seemingly all he's doing is making quite mad people properly mental.

I like how whenever there's an image of the host in the thumbnails he looks 15-20 years younger and has a much thicker neck.
>> No. 25277 Anonymous
10th September 2024
Tuesday 1:10 am
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>>25276
Yeah it was pretty shit to be honest. The mi5 connection was interesting but almost the whole video is filler. Atleast it wasn't so bad as those other American shows rehashing the same content for an hour.

To think this guy thought he'd caused britfa.gs to shutdown for posting this. You've been smoking too much grass mate :D
>> No. 25291 Anonymous
2nd October 2024
Wednesday 7:52 pm
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We're fucked. Just in case you're not bored now of hearing how fucked we are. Some of you won't like some of the things he talks about, like the problems with the NHS.
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2nd October 2024
Wednesday 8:26 pm
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>>25291
It feels like he's just spouting received-wisdom on the NHS for the sake of being dour - 95% of what he says could've been said by Wes Streeting. For example: foundation hospitals were a shit idea that failed on their own terms. Maybe they're brilliant in Sweden (and maybe that has something to do with health spending being ~£1000 per head higher over there), but here a bunch of them went bankrupt and wound up more dependent on central control from the treasury than normal NHS hospitals. Most of the ideas to reform the NHS without spending more money have yielded - and will yield - similarly farcical results.
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2nd October 2024
Wednesday 9:52 pm
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>>25291
I got halfway through and immediately stopped caring when he started moaning about banning smoking indoors, albeit I'll probably carry on with it later.

Also he's been at this for years, but his audio is absolute gash. I know I'm a pervert for caring about things like that, and it's co-morbid with my aspect ratio fetish, but for fuck sake the amount of full timers on YouTube who've been at it for years, but still have audio that's shit in like nineteen different ways is very frustrating. If you're going to have shit audio, at least record it all on the same squash court or wherever.
>> No. 25294 Anonymous
2nd October 2024
Wednesday 10:19 pm
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>>25291
Clearly taken a lot of inspiration from Charlie Brooker. Hopefully he won't grow into the cynical aspect too much.
Might watch another few videos.
>> No. 25295 Anonymous
2nd October 2024
Wednesday 10:28 pm
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>>25291

I posted his video about the housing crisis and you all said it was wank. You bunch of charlatans.
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3rd October 2024
Thursday 12:08 am
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>>25294
This made me go back and watch some Screepwipe, because I think you're very wrong. I'm very right for thinking that. Also, the show does feel dated since I last watched any Screenwipe, which makes total sense what with it being two-dacades old. I also don't know if anyone in Generation Zed would comprehend Ken Korda doing a directors commentary for The Mint. Admittedly, I watched two Screenwipe episodes in a room full of fellow media students in 2012 and was the only person laughing through the entire thing, so perhaps nothing has really changed.

Sorry, this was actually a very boring post. I thought it might lead somewhere if I started getting some things down, but it isn't, it's a complete dead end.
>> No. 25297 Anonymous
3rd October 2024
Thursday 2:33 pm
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>>25291

The section about the NHS is utter bollocks, which makes me wonder whether the areas I'm less informed about are also utter bollocks.
>> No. 25298 Anonymous
3rd October 2024
Thursday 4:02 pm
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>>25297

I should correct this, perhaps I was wrong to post my kneejerk reaction. The video is attempting to address a very broad array of issues, so it is unfair to dismiss the entire thing based on disagreement with a single section.

I personally do think that NHS outsourcing is a threat, and there are real world instances of privatisation dramatically lowering the quality of care (indeed entire trusts failing). The problem is that looking only at privatisation is an ideological point; if a private company is capable of providing good care then it becomes a non-issue. It's just that while public funding and regulatory oversight isn't perfect, outsourcing to private companies has a greater potential for outright cronyism, as this guy himself points out about NHS contracts awarded during COVID-19.

His other points about the requirements to vote are valid, his criticism of the modern Conservative party is warranted, and though his psychological profiling of Tory leadership isn't verifiable, it is at least interesting.

He also bothers to give direct citations, which is commendable in YouTube format. Most others just plonk a list of citations in the commentary, rather than relating citations to specific arguments (which is a big part of the purpose of citing a source).

>>25296

I disagree, I can see Brooker's influence. It's probably closest to "How TV Ruined Your Life", particularly in editing, music, comedic timing, reaching an overarching message. I'll give credit to the creator that he's addressing more overtly political topics and still keeping it entertaining, while Brooker stayed within cultural commentary and only tangentially commented on politics.
>> No. 25299 Anonymous
3rd October 2024
Thursday 5:53 pm
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>>25298

Trouble is with the NHS it's not just outsourcing, but the increasing drive for efficiency and streamlining and centralisation, that almost always ends up with a massive waste of money in order to implement, over just keeping things going as they are. I'd almost say it borders on corruption in a lot of cases.

I worked for a trust for nearly a decade and for that entire time they were pissing about talking about building a new facility to centralise the services provided by departments across about five hospitals. They were talking about it when I first started, they were still talking about it by the time I left (only they had made a few powerpoints about it by then), and they are probably still talking about it today. In the meantime, training and recruitment and so on in the affected departments was effectively paralysed, staff turnover was climbing, morale was through the floor, an there was little they could do with this supposed re-organisation that was always just around the corner.

I have no doubt there's a small group of high up executive types who have made a lot of money out of being on the board responsible for managing this process, just getting paid for fuck all to ever happen.
>> No. 25300 Anonymous
4th October 2024
Friday 1:22 am
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>>25299
One of the things we forget is that there's been a controlled trial on NHS reform since 1999 thanks to devolution. NHS Scotland has seen far less reform than NHS England - The 1999-2007 Scottish Labour administration wasn't full of big ideas in the way Blair's UK government was. Scottish Labour passed one NHS reform law in 2004 rolling back some of the Thatcher/Major era reforms and replacing trusts with health boards, and since 2007 the SNP have more or less refrained from touching anything while making warm noises about collaboration and trusting staff alongside very hostile noises about private involvement in the NHS. Contrast that with the situation in England: Major reforming legislation in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2012, 2022 (that one mostly trying to undo 2012!), and the current government is promising that there's more reform to come. More money isn't the answer... but more reform is!
Across the period 1999-2024, the most charitable thing you can say for the reformers in England is that it's been a wash. NHS Scotland has generally outperformed NHS England on delivery, but Scotland has generally worse overall health outcomes than England (drug/alcohol deaths, etc.), NHS Scotland got more money per head than NHS England, but both Labour and SNP quietly squeezed spending - reducing that gap - with the result that NHS Scotland often clocks in with lower per-head spending than regions like the North East of England despite covering a much more dispersed (read: expensive per head) population in areas like the Highlands and Islands. You could spend hours quibbling over the details, but the big picture is: it's a wash.

The kind of radical divergence in performance you'd expect if the reforms were necessary and effective simply does not appear. You've got to wonder where we'd be if NHS England had coasted along the way Scotland has instead of shaking things up every few years. Imagine if all the time, effort and money that were thrown at reform had been redirected towards incremental improvements to a fairly simple model...
>> No. 25302 Anonymous
5th October 2024
Saturday 6:37 pm
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This was really entertaining.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yidwfha8asA

I've not looked at any of the other videos on the channel but I will be giving them a look after this.
>> No. 25304 Anonymous
6th October 2024
Sunday 10:22 pm
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For a long time, I couldn't put my finger on why I dislike Simon Whistler.

But I think it's the way he mostly doesn't have a clue about the subjects of his videos, and just reads everything that his writers have copy and pasted from wikipedia off a teleprompter. He mispronounces or misexplains technical terms that any expert or even somebody more well read has an understanding of, and his scripts are often vague and wishy-washy in places where they would really need a bit more depth. And they contain factual errors.

He's kind of like a blagger who actually isn't very good at blagging.
>> No. 25305 Anonymous
6th October 2024
Sunday 11:20 pm
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>>25304
Part of me wants to see him tricked into publishing a video on absolute bollocks hallucinated by ChatGPT, complete with fake sources (which he almost certainly doesn't check), because fuck me, he's smug cunt.

The worst part is that he's a somewhat successful smug cunt who has managed to make a substantial living out of not being very good at blagging.
>> No. 25306 Anonymous
6th October 2024
Sunday 11:32 pm
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>>25304

The insidious thing about him (he is,as far as I can tell, basically one of the first pioneers of this model) is that he is still pretending to be a down to earth normal person youtuber, when in reality he's just the face of a large company that employs writers and churns this content out on a production line. I saw an advert on Indeed recently to be a content writer for another similar youtube channel, Veritaserum.

If you look in the comments, people still relate with these channels and clearly treat them as thought the person presenting it is the channel, they are "the creator", they're the person responsible for the stuff we are being shown. But they're not. It's no different than watching the normal TV where you assume the person presenting is just reading an autocue and had nothing to do with research or writing it.

People will catch up with this reality eventually, but guys like Whistler aren't exactly going to great lengths to illuminate people are they.
>> No. 25307 Anonymous
6th October 2024
Sunday 11:51 pm
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>>25305
>>25306
It's not really him that's the problem though, it's the braindead people that actually watch whatever rubbish his company puts out. If no one watched his videos, then he would just cease making them, but because people watch him, he carries on and other YouTubers immitate him. There's another YouTuber which has outdone Whistler in how shit and low effort you can make a video though and that's Thoughty2, who appears to use AI for everything from scripts to thumbnails.
>> No. 25308 Anonymous
7th October 2024
Monday 12:17 am
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>>25307

>There's another YouTuber which has outdone Whistler in how shit and low effort you can make a video though and that's Thoughty2, who appears to use AI for everything from scripts to thumbnails.

He's more sufferable though.
>> No. 25346 Anonymous
18th October 2024
Friday 8:17 pm
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Has BlackBeltBarrister always been a gammon, or did he get radicalised by the algorithm?
>> No. 25347 Anonymous
18th October 2024
Friday 8:48 pm
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>>25346

How are you surprised that someone from a very obviously upper middle class background and works in such an establishment profession wouldn't have a completely Torygraph worldview?
>> No. 25348 Anonymous
18th October 2024
Friday 10:32 pm
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>>25346
Up until recently, some of the videos were fairly even-handed if the thumbnails were a bit baity, but he does seem to be at least on his way off the deep end lately.

If you liked Dan's videos from before, you will probably appreciate his once co-conspirator Alan Robertshaw's channel Art of Law.
>> No. 25349 Anonymous
19th October 2024
Saturday 12:03 am
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Asmongold of videogame & 'hot take' commentary streaming notoriety recently uploaded an appology video for comments he made regarding the curent situation in Gaza.

I'd reccomend watching this clip if you're regularly adrift on the net, half-wittedly consuming propoganda and tunneling in that vision night after night, like I am.
If none else, his from 04:00 to 05:00 is touching.

https://youtu.be/RSI-N-QHNTQ
>> No. 25350 Anonymous
19th October 2024
Saturday 3:37 pm
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>>25349
I've slagged him off a few times on here, but I really respect him for how he's handled the situation.

He could very easily have moaned about cancelled and moved to Kick and become even more liked by the internet alt-right and far-right. Instead he has taken accountability for what he said, knows he fucked up, and it's nice how grateful he is towards the eskimos who reached out to him.

When I started watching the apology a couple of days ago, I thought it was going to be a bit, he'd swerve and pwn the left. But he didn't, he was sincere and vulnerable.

Some of the people on the comments are saying he did nothing wrong, that he shouldn't have apologised, which is a shame.

Might unhide him on YouTube. I had to hide his channels because they made me mad.
>> No. 25351 Anonymous
19th October 2024
Saturday 8:16 pm
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>>25349

What did he say in the first place though? And has he cleaned his fucking shit heap of a house yet?
>> No. 25352 Anonymous
19th October 2024
Saturday 8:49 pm
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>>25351
With barely an effort to gather, he said something like "fuck eskimos, their culture is barbaric and incompatible to western ideals, I don't care if innocents die".

Not that I follow him, but he appears not to have posted to YT for 3 days when recent history shows multiple uploads a day for the past week or more. He did mention tidying his house in the appology video - actually doing it himself, not hiring a cleaner - so maybe he's doing that now.

I can imagine he's wandering around confused, absolutely blasted out of his routine and mindset. You can see it every time he looks to his desk, it's like he's seeing it for the first time in years and thinking "what the fuck am I doing?".
>> No. 25353 Anonymous
19th October 2024
Saturday 9:40 pm
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>>25351
He doesn't care about the genocide of Palestinians, as Islam is a genocidal ideology, so fuck em.
>> No. 25354 Anonymous
19th October 2024
Saturday 9:47 pm
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>>25353

Well, fair play, that does sound bad doesn't it.

I tend to give the benefit of the doubt because it's the sort of thing I can imagine myself saying. Not on that particular subject, but along those lines, if I were an edgy internet hot take person who kind of relies on a kind of continuous low simmer of mild controversy to remain relevant.

It's like, he was probably going for a George Carlin, Bill Hicks, South Park kind of "oh it's offensive but he kind of has a point" sort of direction, but he just badly missed the mark.
>> No. 25355 Anonymous
25th October 2024
Friday 2:06 pm
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This is solid gold.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jpbeaOQAlI

I've spent about the last half hour watching these.
>> No. 25360 Anonymous
31st October 2024
Thursday 9:46 pm
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Shady fucking records.

>> No. 25361 Anonymous
2nd November 2024
Saturday 11:57 am
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Happy Genghis Khan Day lads.


It's funny watching a historian come out every year and have to defend Genghis Khan Day like he's trying to whitewash the Third Reich. He's done it for years, trying to point out that Mongolians care less about Genghis Khan's foreign policy compared to his domestic legacy and how internet people are completely ignorant of Mongolians.
>> No. 25362 Anonymous
2nd November 2024
Saturday 11:17 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zYL-XylC74
>> No. 25363 Anonymous
3rd November 2024
Sunday 6:02 am
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>>25362

French filmmakers are a cheery bunch.
>> No. 25365 Anonymous
5th November 2024
Tuesday 10:44 am
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>>25349
Back to shitposting and riling up non-chuds. The redemption arc was shortlived.
>> No. 25366 Anonymous
5th November 2024
Tuesday 7:46 pm
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>>25365
I can barely contain my indifference.
>> No. 25369 Anonymous
7th November 2024
Thursday 11:11 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKT8RI8v93k
>> No. 25370 Anonymous
8th November 2024
Friday 12:05 am
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>>25369

Ah, squandered opportunity there. It could have been real time with 45 minutes of Sunn 0))).
>> No. 25371 Anonymous
8th November 2024
Friday 9:56 am
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>>25370
All you need is a tripod for your phone and a bit of pasta and you could become the master of your own universe.
>> No. 25373 Anonymous
10th November 2024
Sunday 1:13 am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYLxkGz00d0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQs26c1klAU
>> No. 25374 Anonymous
27th November 2024
Wednesday 3:31 pm
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>> No. 25375 Anonymous
27th November 2024
Wednesday 4:54 pm
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she's got packages on the brain
>> No. 25376 Anonymous
27th November 2024
Wednesday 5:55 pm
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>>25375

I'd let her inspect my package IYKWIM.
>> No. 25377 Anonymous
29th November 2024
Friday 12:12 am
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>>25374

It's mind blowing today when you think that there was a time when the average person simply didn't know about these things, and this was brand new knowledge to them which not few would soak up eagerly through BBC programmes like these.

I lived through those times as a younglad. And in their own way, the mid- to late 1990s were an incredibly exciting time to be around with everything that was happening with the just-emerging World Wide Web, and all the optimism about its limitless possibilites. I've talked about it before. There was something about having your own hand-coded Geocities page - probably hopelessly tacky even at its time and with next to zero audience - that will never be outdone by anything that you can do on social media web sites today. Just the whole spirit of it.
>> No. 25378 Anonymous
29th November 2024
Friday 12:30 am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLNna_Tp3IY
>> No. 25379 Anonymous
29th November 2024
Friday 8:38 pm
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Cory Doctorow, the man who coined the term "enshittification", speaks about it for 45 minutes. It's very interesting and educational:


>> No. 25380 Anonymous
1st December 2024
Sunday 4:12 pm
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Does f4mi have a willy? Because I would definitely suck it.


>> No. 25381 Anonymous
2nd December 2024
Monday 1:00 am
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>>25380

No, we've been over this. Sorry to disappoint, but she has a vagina.

And I fancied her fist, gerroff or I'll 'ave yer lad.
>> No. 25382 Anonymous
2nd December 2024
Monday 11:13 am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR_jV1vx1gQ

Jeremy Kyle has found his tribe since joining Talk TV.
>> No. 25383 Anonymous
2nd December 2024
Monday 11:15 am
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>>25382
I wish a tribe of headhunters would find him.
>> No. 25384 Anonymous
2nd December 2024
Monday 9:25 pm
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>>25382
>Once a staple of the office party

The thought of that just sent of a shiver down my spine. Has anyone here been at an office party with mistletoe?
>> No. 25385 Anonymous
2nd December 2024
Monday 9:43 pm
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My [Family Guy season 2,000 full episodes nozoom nocuts #1080p] videos have finally been copyright stricken, now all that's available is awful quality, incontinuous clip collections.
It has been interesting to watch the steadily increase in quality of uploads over the months but it obviously got too good to let slide.
I've been watching Bobs Burgers lately but that show is weird. I haven't yet sunk to watching American Dad which still has numerous full episodes available.

I did find this link recently (https://fmhy.net/) which looks like a decent collection of streaming sites, akin to that unblockit site, but I don't want to go down the full piracy route - feels pretty bad and I don't want to bother with VPNs inorder to avoid letters from my ISP.
>> No. 25386 Anonymous
2nd December 2024
Monday 11:01 pm
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>>25385
I wasn't aware that letters from ISPs were still a thing in the UK. There was a time where they tried it a few years ago, where they did a "six strikes and we're out" policy, where they would send you up to six warning letters, each increasingly sternly worded, and then ... do nothing. I had thought they'd since given up on that.
>> No. 25388 Anonymous
12th December 2024
Thursday 1:17 am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LziNDk4kng

I am very intrigued.
>> No. 25389 Anonymous
12th December 2024
Thursday 1:42 pm
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>>25388
ASMR adjacent, twee, tedium. NEXT!
>> No. 25390 Anonymous
12th December 2024
Thursday 2:29 pm
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>>25389


>> No. 25391 Anonymous
12th December 2024
Thursday 4:08 pm
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I don't know why youtube just recommended this video to me, but I got a kick out of it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VXq1e-u0AA
>> No. 25395 Anonymous
16th December 2024
Monday 10:33 pm
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Have you noticed how Youtube cookie policy splash screen shifts the button layout every now and then? It seems to cycle between these two variations, with the lower being more common, conviniently placing 'accept all' where your muscle memory would click 'reject'.
>> No. 25396 Anonymous
16th December 2024
Monday 10:54 pm
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>>25390
This was alright, but it became actually good when I put on The Prodigy as well.
>> No. 25397 Anonymous
17th December 2024
Tuesday 2:51 pm
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>> No. 25398 Anonymous
18th December 2024
Wednesday 12:41 am
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Is a love of Disney such a red flag?
>> No. 25399 Anonymous
18th December 2024
Wednesday 11:06 am
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>>25398

Yes. I dated one. Please God believe me, yes, it is.
>> No. 25400 Anonymous
19th December 2024
Thursday 7:53 am
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>>25398
I think they should be viewed the same way adults who are super into mainstream anime are viewed. It's not fair that a fat ugly girl wearing a My Hero Academia t-shirt and a Hidden Leaf Village headband, would be treated less favourably than a fat ugly girl wearing a Tangled t-shirt and a headband with little Minnie Mouse ears.

Either society should demonise Disney adults, or it should be kinder to mild to moderate otaku. The severe ones who get bodypillows of loli characters and who hot glue Yui Hirasawa figures probably shouldn't be encouraged.
>> No. 25401 Anonymous
19th December 2024
Thursday 11:14 am
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>>25400
Eeyore. Fat lasses identity with Eeyore.
>> No. 25402 Anonymous
19th December 2024
Thursday 12:29 pm
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>>25398

If I confess to having a thing for morbidly obese Disney women, will I drop below furrylad in the pecking order of perverts?
>> No. 25403 Anonymous
19th December 2024
Thursday 1:26 pm
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>>25398
The whole thing seems a bit mean-spirited but I just came across this "Squirrelgirl" cosplayer whose expression is uncannily like that.
>> No. 25404 Anonymous
19th December 2024
Thursday 2:37 pm
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>>25403
>I just came across

I'll bet you did, you little pervert.
>> No. 25407 Anonymous
19th December 2024
Thursday 7:39 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpZ5STahhPE
>> No. 25408 Anonymous
19th December 2024
Thursday 8:58 pm
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>>25407

In hindsight, none of us were ready for the internet.
>> No. 25409 Anonymous
19th December 2024
Thursday 9:28 pm
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>>25408

Or maybe the Internet is/was just an evolutionary bottleneck. Which then retains the traits of those who are able to adapt to it.
>> No. 25410 Anonymous
19th December 2024
Thursday 10:30 pm
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>>25403
It's really more about the main character staying in a relationship he knows that he doesn't want to be in. Who here hasn't hesitated in pulling the trigger because we don't want to let someone down or don't want to be alone?
>> No. 25414 Anonymous
21st December 2024
Saturday 3:27 pm
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>>25407


The handaxe of the modern world. Do you think AI assistants will lead to the majority of humanity forgetting formulas in the same way most of us can't make tools by flaking off flint?
>> No. 25416 Anonymous
24th December 2024
Tuesday 12:40 am
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>>25407
But what of the Information Super Highway?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrnE57SIfdg
>> No. 25417 Anonymous
27th December 2024
Friday 12:53 pm
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>> No. 25420 Anonymous
3rd January 2025
Friday 10:30 am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CzbG11JLQ0
>> No. 25421 Anonymous
4th January 2025
Saturday 3:41 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hjdhhc27_r0
>> No. 25422 Anonymous
4th January 2025
Saturday 6:32 pm
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>>25420
Cool channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9tjHZR2LXw
>> No. 25423 Anonymous
4th January 2025
Saturday 10:12 pm
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>>25422

The other video was an easier wank.
>> No. 25424 Anonymous
4th January 2025
Saturday 10:38 pm
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>>25420

It's infuriating she goes the entire video without realising it's pronounced "cla-vee-yay"
>> No. 25425 Anonymous
9th January 2025
Thursday 7:44 pm
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>> No. 25426 Anonymous
9th January 2025
Thursday 7:52 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkimDz92INU

Murrikins are always an easy target, but videos like this are usually good fun.
>> No. 25427 Anonymous
10th January 2025
Friday 12:12 am
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>>25426
I'm sorry lad. But watching someone else read Reddit comments in a mild mannered way is absolute brain rot content. And you should be ashamed of yourself for even recommending it.

You are self evidently 2 degrees down on the pecking order of active participant in life from a person who posts on Reddit. I cannot believe I am saying this but you genuinely need to go out and touch grass.

You aren't just a passenger in your own life, at this stage you don't even have a window seat.
>> No. 25429 Anonymous
10th January 2025
Friday 12:44 am
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>>25427

Pah. Conjecture.
>> No. 25430 Anonymous
10th January 2025
Friday 5:57 am
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>>25429

Yes but also an original thought. That wasn't feed through 3 levels of passive observation.
>> No. 25431 Anonymous
10th January 2025
Friday 10:34 am
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>>25427
Ignore him. I think he's trying to be funny again.
>> No. 25432 Anonymous
11th January 2025
Saturday 1:43 pm
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I've been enjoying the essays if Emotional Ecologist. He's a professional ecologist that looks to weave together ecology, psychology, myth, and (in one series) indie bedroom dreampop as a means to understand human wellbeing, our place in nature and what that means for us.

The latter focus on dreampop seems odd but he's specifically talking about the experiences of an artist who suddenly found that she couldn't write music and her journey to work out why along with her reflections on this being caused be her own unconscious. By doing this he looks into modern ecological concepts of ecosystem resilience over preservation, modern psychology taking an incremental approach to care and the universality of flood myths and the medieval traditions of alchemy. It also has a neat section on what that means for our politics where we have an absurd divide in society between pro and anti environmental sentiments with it being routed into modern psychology and the challenge that we're living in an increasingly urbanised world with the associated challenge that poses to our wellbeing.


If you want something shorter he did a takedown on the We Are Nature campaign that is actually headed by a luxury interior designer and lawyer which loops into the universality of a division between human society and the natural world. This along with the fact that the youth in Europe suffering 'climate anxiety' is something more existentially fundamental and that the more holistic outlooks found in Shinto and Buddhist societies haven't achieved more environmental harmony. Yeah you read that right you fucking weeb.

>> No. 25433 Anonymous
11th January 2025
Saturday 1:53 pm
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>> No. 25434 Anonymous
11th January 2025
Saturday 5:55 pm
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>>25433

Fun fact: while Varoufakis completely failed as the Greek minister of finance, he did excellent work in helping Valve to sell more imaginary hats.

https://www.pcgamer.com/buy-low-sell-high-in-team-fortress-2s-peculiarly-sophisticated-barter-economy/
>> No. 25447 Anonymous
15th January 2025
Wednesday 1:29 am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW8DZPTT13M

It certainly cleared up all I ever wanted to know about candles.
>> No. 25448 Anonymous
15th January 2025
Wednesday 9:54 pm
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>>25432
Is your job to write artists' statements by any chance?
>> No. 25449 Anonymous
18th January 2025
Saturday 9:01 am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGSoyxJUSu8
>> No. 25450 Anonymous
18th January 2025
Saturday 9:46 am
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>>25449

I stayed in Bedgelert and i was saying Beggledert the whole time. Just sounded better to me.
>> No. 25451 Anonymous
18th January 2025
Saturday 2:03 pm
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>>25388
Finally got around to watching this in full and it looks like he's built his shelter into a gully. Come the wet season that'll fill with water, surely?

Also, being so noticably below ground level, wouldn't cold air flow down into it heavily?
I suppose you'd be grateful for any shelter if you're in the position of actually needing it, but the location and design would be essential in preserving the little you have in such situations.
From this image it does look like generally elevated land, judging by the background.

Anyone know what they're talking about, here?
>> No. 25452 Anonymous
18th January 2025
Saturday 3:38 pm
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>>25451

I mean he's got a stove in there and plenty of firewood to forage, so I don't think that's the biggest concern. This isn't exactly one of those life or death survival situation shelters, just a bit more of a hands on alternative for people who think camping in a tent is "easy mode"; but if you were properly Ray Mearsing it, you'd just dig one of those cold air channels at the bottom and elevate your sleeping space I assume.
>> No. 25453 Anonymous
18th January 2025
Saturday 5:58 pm
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Mining youtube does sometimes bear fruits. There is a thriving vein of "TCG(x)" judges cards from "TCG(y)". It's light entertainment, a lot of "fner fner", but as long as you stick to pros arguing it's fascinating. No "this deck did X", always the arguing, that is important. Listening to these guys arguing about the relative merits of mechanics in their games is a joy. And educational!
>> No. 25454 Anonymous
18th January 2025
Saturday 7:45 pm
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No idea what on earth I just watched but it gave me a chuckle.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2XHB7ADPUg
>> No. 25458 Anonymous
23rd January 2025
Thursday 7:47 pm
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I don't know why someone would create a fake video when it's so easy to prove they're bullshitting.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUg2cWaUzTY

Comments have been disabled because they were mostly calling out inconsistencies in the video or pointing out how most of the shots were taken close to where you'd be able to park a car.
>> No. 25460 Anonymous
23rd January 2025
Thursday 8:49 pm
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>>25454
The RC caravan in these videos looks great fun to play around with. The way it bounces around looks much more entertaining than regular cars. I wnder if it's specially built with a flexible casing or something?
>> No. 25461 Anonymous
23rd January 2025
Thursday 9:29 pm
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>>25460

There is a van build video somewhere on the channel, it looks like an off the shelf RC car chassis that they built their own van around out of modelling wood and beer cans.
>> No. 25462 Anonymous
23rd January 2025
Thursday 9:36 pm
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>>25460

It looks like an off-road buggy with a campervan bodyshell on top. They've got proper suspension and are built to take knocks. Expect to pay about £100 for a kit with all the gubbins from a brand like MJX or WLtoys via Aliexpress.
>> No. 25464 Anonymous
26th January 2025
Sunday 7:26 pm
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I think is is the kind venn diagram of special interests that suits you lot perfectly.


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>> No. 25465 Anonymous
26th January 2025
Sunday 8:26 pm
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>>25464
I made it about 13 minutes before boredom kicked in. Will check the second half tomorrow.
Reminds me a bit of Any_Austins videos, which have probably been posted somewhere here before - https://www.youtube.com/@any_austin/videos


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>> No. 25466 Anonymous
26th January 2025
Sunday 8:36 pm
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>>25465

That guy is probably my favourite YouTuber of the last couple of years. There's a perfect blend of self-aware silliness but earnest appreciation of the small autistic details that I find washes down a big stodgy meal of pretentious video essays very nicely. I find his videos very relaxing.
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26th January 2025
Sunday 11:31 pm
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26th January 2025
Sunday 11:44 pm
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It's not YouTube, but I've been watching Rocco Botte trapped in a room for what has been, roughly, six days and four hours now. Absolutely nightmarish stuff, kind of a twisted We Live in Public without the sex and a lot more popcorn. I saw the the clip in the link live and it felt like it lasted about ten minutes, not one.

https://www.twitch.tv/mega64podcast/clip/FreezingLazyWalletBuddhaBar-JxwHzjHe5nmLNctX
>> No. 25473 Anonymous
27th January 2025
Monday 9:02 am
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>>25469
>Rocco Botte trapped in a room
He literally just left the room.

I don't get the type of set dressing they use in stuff like this. Not limited to this particular stream, thought I can't recall any others being that I'm keen to forget the sight. Some sort of ironic, low budget kitsch? What troubles me most about it is there appears to be no unifying theme other than neglect. It reminds me of the dreary, absurdist dreams I had as a kid, in which plastic fish coming out of papermache arseholes were a major theme.

Now he's singing a favorite song of mine and it's too much for my brain to comprehend.
>> No. 25474 Anonymous
27th January 2025
Monday 9:11 am
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>>25473
Okay, you got me. He isn't washing, pissing and shitting in that very room.
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30th January 2025
Thursday 11:31 pm
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>> No. 25484 Anonymous
31st January 2025
Friday 4:04 pm
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>>25481

The first part of the video is rather textbook, which is fine but not especially interesting, but for me things picked up from 13:40 onward, in which the host presents some of the political and cultural associations with autism. It portrays a few different points of view, which I appreciate.

I've expressed my opinions about the uptick in autism diagnoses and my subjective take on the cultural impact a few times on .gs, most recently to mention that I think that "autist" has essentially become a dismissive insult, the "retard" of our era, in a long line of succession of nasty epithets like idiot, mong, moron, spaz, etc..

What's also sort of interesting to me is how the goalposts have shifted over time; this type of insult carries some variation of the sentiment "you don't fit in here and there's something inherently wrong with you". We've collectively made some effort to cease this kind of name-calling towards many groups over the last few decades; racial or religious insults are flatly unacceptable (at least in a professional setting), the word "faggot" seems to have declined in use massively since the 2000s, sexist 'blonde' or 'wife' jokes are painfully anachronistic, and mocking disabilities is rightly seen as plainly cruel. What this leaves us with is "ASD", which is essentially a constellation of traits which correlates quite neatly with the section of society it's still perfectly acceptable to dump on, namely (young) men. This is true to the extent that researchers have even seen overlap between autism and "extreme male brain", and have described autistic children as "little scientists" or "little professors", i.e. there is a tendency to focus on rules and patterns rather than social intuition.

On that note, I'm not sure I buy the speculation that girls "just mask better", but rather that girls are treated entirely differently socially, and we have entirely different standards for judging them. It's not just or fair, but I think it's true.
>> No. 25485 Anonymous
31st January 2025
Friday 5:50 pm
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>>25484

What I took from the latter part of the video was that to its own detriment, the autism movement, if you can call it that, has divided itself into entirely predictable, mutually exclusive camps with their own respective orthodoxies just the way you see everywhere else, among obese people same as people with physical disabilities or other traits that make them somehow non-mainstream; you have those who see autism as a disorder and, in the most well-meaning way, want to help autism patients and sufferers live normal lives and overcome the limitations of their condition. And to others, that's blasphemy, and seen as aggression and as implying that autism isn't normal and needs to be fixed.

Which is the same old horseshite all over again as everywhere else in idpol. Why not be able to do whatever you feel is best for you. If you feel that being on the spectrum limits your ability to function and enjoy life the way you want, then why not get help. But if you're happy the way you are and don't see any need to do something about your condition, then that should be fine also. What nobody needs is another idpol tribalisation.
>> No. 25486 Anonymous
31st January 2025
Friday 11:48 pm
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>>25468

This bloke was on Radio 4 tonight and you know what he said? He suggested an idea I had ages ago, and even vaguely remember posting here. He suggested a cap on the length of time you are allowed to hold wealth- Force people to spend their money, essentially.

That's exactly the same thing I suggested, I don't know how long ago, maybe ten years ago now, and I was a fucking idiot 25 year old or something back then. This guy's a millionaire and he knows his shit about economics, and had the same idea as me. So all this time I have been right, in principle.

Every time one of you cunts has disagreed with me, you were wrong, I am officially smarter than you.
>> No. 25487 Anonymous
1st February 2025
Saturday 12:33 am
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>>25486

>a cap on the length of time you are allowed to hold wealth-

And how do you suppose most people come by wealth in the first place?

By holding on to more money than they spend. Shocking realisation, I know.

If everybody was forced to spend their "wealth" at some point, then before long, nobody would have any wealth left to spend or hold on to at all. We'd all be poor.
>> No. 25488 Anonymous
1st February 2025
Saturday 12:43 am
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>>25486
Ten years ago, people expected austerity to end and the economy to prosper again at some point in the future. Forcing people to spend their money then, instead of just waiting out the hard bit, would have been cruel and unwise. Not everyone would have been affected, but whatever retrospective time limit you applied, it would have caught some people who would have been ruined.

Now, a decade later, we've all given up on anything ever being good ever again. There is no happiness on the horizon; everything is just going to be shit forever. So we might as well implement policies based on the idea that there's no time like the present.

You must be a genius; you somehow figured out a way to have an idea that was stupid when you thought of it but really clever when anyone else had the exact same idea. I don't know how you managed that. But you did. You big thick dummy.
>> No. 25489 Anonymous
1st February 2025
Saturday 1:09 am
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>>25486

>a cap on the length of time you are allowed to hold wealth

It's called inheritance tax, but everyone fucking hates it despite the fact that 97% of people will never have to pay it.
>> No. 25490 Anonymous
1st February 2025
Saturday 5:00 am
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>>25468
The problem with Gary is you very quickly realise his entire perception of the world is 'inequality'. That's not saying that it's not a problem but he shies away from saying anything new and ultimately I suspect he's become all image for disaffected Corbyn voters when his breakthrough was ultimately falling into nihilism during the financial crisis.

Which is a shame as there's obviously a massive vacuum for policy ideas.

>>25486
Look up Silvio Gesell's freigeld or Andolfatto's note on hot money. The former ended up falling on it's face as the rich, even today, don't really hold cash (ironically for Gesell it's become property and NPV calculations) while in the latter giving out expiring stimulus cheques during the pandemic would have boosted consumption but fucked over the poor who could otherwise save (something our own benefits system does by refusing payments).

The biggest proponents these days come from China on the back of new options with state-sanctioned digital currency. But that's China so it's really about authoritarianism.
>> No. 25491 Anonymous
1st February 2025
Saturday 6:11 am
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>>25490
>The problem with Gary is you very quickly realise his entire perception of the world is 'inequality'.

That's not a problem with Gary, that's a problem with the world. He's correct to bang on about it constantly because it really is THE problem with the world. It's not just a moral, ethical problem, but it's the entire issue that's causing the engine of our economy to seize up. When a mechanic tells you the reason your car is breaking down is because you haven't topped the oil up, you listen to him and put some fresh oil in; when an economics autistic savant like Gary says the entire problem with the economy is inequality, people find any excuse to say "yeah but not but what it is right is erm well erm anyway you don't know nuffin shut up".

My biggest problem with him is that he never quite fully manages to articulate his reasoning in a way that I think becomes fully persuasive and concrete. He sees it because he's an autistic economic savant, and he manages to outline the basics of why, but it's like he always stops one or two steps short of the a>b>c of fully explaining the economic cause and effect behind it.

>>25489

Well, sort of. In theory you can still allow people to have their inheritance, but the catch is they'd only have say, 40 odd years left on the clock to spend it because their parents held it for 50 odd years already. The whole point is that is people are forced to spend their money, you get all the benefits of a tax without the government stepping in at all- Just the act of spending it and transferring it into some sort of different asset class is what stimulates the economy. Even iff the rich only "dodge" the scheme by swapping it from property into yachts or whatever, that's still economic stimulation.

>>25487
>>25488

Tragic. The thickos who came straight out of the woodworks to demonstrate they don't even understand the premise.

The thing is this kind of policy already affects anyone who lives on under £25-30k or so. The paltry figures those people might have in their savings account aren't what we are bothered about here- The vast majority of the money they earn goes straight back out on rent, mortgages, bills, weekly shops, and so on. The necessities f living.

What we're bothered about is the wealth that floats up and accumulates at the top, and never circulates again. That's just wasted economic potential.
>> No. 25492 Anonymous
1st February 2025
Saturday 11:48 am
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>>25491

>The whole point is that is people are forced to spend their money

The wealthy don't have any money, that's why they're wealthy. They keep their wealth in other asset classes that appreciate in value. Elon Musk is the richest man in the world, but he has approximately zero money - it's all shares in his companies. There are obvious problems with forcing him to give up his control of those companies and spunk the money on yachts.
>> No. 25493 Anonymous
1st February 2025
Saturday 12:05 pm
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>>25492

That's exactly why the hypothetical cap is on wealth and not money.

That's also why the hypothetical cap would be a long term- It wouldn't be five or ten years, it would be 70, 80 years.A lifetime cap, you could call it. Elon Musk would only be forced out of Tesla when he's had more than a fair shake at it, and his kids don't get to go on to be automatic aristocracy because of it.

You can argue it's insanely complicated and impractical to implement anything like this and I will concede that. But economically it's pretty watertight.
>> No. 25494 Anonymous
1st February 2025
Saturday 12:14 pm
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>>25492

>The wealthy don't have any money, that's why they're wealthy. They keep their wealth in other asset classes that appreciate in value.

Depends on your level of wealth, I guess. But many wealthy people only keep as much liquidity, meaning cash or bank balances, as they will need to actually spend in the near future.

A close friend of my parents was really quite wealthy, but almost all of it was tied up in half a dozen buy to let properties. I'm not sure what they were worth, but at the time, even 20 years ago, they were probably £1m-£2m. He would keep about £20K in his bank account at all times to be able to cover irregular expenses, plus about an extra £5K in cash in a small safe in his house. The rest of his wealth that wasn't in his properties was invested in gold coins, stocks and ETFs. But yeah. His entire net worth was probably £2m in 2005 money, but his ready-to-spend liquidity reserves were only a bit over one percent of that. He was raking in a few grand in rent every month, so he could live off that comfortably.
>> No. 25495 Anonymous
1st February 2025
Saturday 12:28 pm
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>>25493

Unless you think that Elon will live to be 130, that's just inheritance tax.
>> No. 25496 Anonymous
1st February 2025
Saturday 8:33 pm
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>That's not a problem with Gary, that's a problem with the world.

No, it is. His credentials as an 'autistic economic savant' are that he made money as a bearish stockbroker during the crash on a thesis that is patently wrong (consumption didn't collapse) so it's likely a story of a stockbroker being lucky and deciding to quit while he's ahead with an enormous ego boost.

You can argue that 'getting lucky' is an oversimplification but that leads into my second point that the economy isn't a car and you don't take it to a mechanic when it starts making funny noises. I'm sure we can agree that there's more going on in the economy than inequality even if you think it's the main source of problems as its patently not a zero-sum game and there are massive distortions at the moment thanks to AI, China moving up the value chain (and booting out western companies as it does) along with going from a global pandemic to a land-war in Europe with associated spikes in our cost of living.

To follow that up; when professional economists review his material they find it full of holes which should be expected as he's not an economist with detailed macroeconomic experiance nor has he been publishing papers. Indeed his former co-workers tell us that he's also telling ludicrous porkies about how well he did and has altered his story: https://www.ft.com/content/7e8b47b3-7931-4354-9e8a-47d75d057fff

The theory he puts into his videos are trite observations - "oh the rich industrialists are putting the underclasses against each other are they?" Which isn't new and quickly becomes entirely predictable. It's not that he's inarticulate, which would be a hard ceiling on his celebrity career, it's that he isn't saying anything new or interesting. It's activism as far as I can see.

So it comes down to; do you think he's worth listening to because he's become rich or because he's saying things that feel nice to you? Does his 'memoir' have a place in the economics section or is it more at home by the hotel poolside?
>> No. 25497 Anonymous
2nd February 2025
Sunday 2:54 am
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>>25496
I'd love to take you seriously - yeah he's just some guy who made some good bets - but the esteem you hold 'professional' economists in is laughable.
>> No. 25498 Anonymous
2nd February 2025
Sunday 9:10 am
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>>25496

Gary is very clear about the fact that he was the most profitable trader at Citibank for one year, 2011. The rest of the time this title was taken by one other trader, who Gary writes about extensively throughout the book.

It's also clear that the book is not an economics textbook (and he offers pretty good reasons for why, he wants to communicate with the public about the economy). It's his personal experience of wealth inequality, and it's a pretty good illustration of why it matters.

>To follow that up; when professional economists review his material they find it full of holes which should be expected as he's not an economist with detailed macroeconomic experiance nor has he been publishing papers.

This is just flatly untrue, the guy studied at the London School of Economics and Oxford University and holds advanced degrees in economics. He talks about what he thinks of those courses regularly and why they're not actually helpful for understanding the economy, as well as the demographic that actually end up on those academic tracks and are considered experts (and apparently unassailable experts by you).

>His credentials as an 'autistic economic savant' are that he made money as a bearish stockbroker during the crash on a thesis that is patently wrong (consumption didn't collapse) so it's likely a story of a stockbroker being lucky and deciding to quit while he's ahead with an enormous ego boost.

That wasn't his thesis. He bet that interest rates wouldn't rise for about ten years and was correct. As for being lucky, was he being lucky with the effect that the COVID-19 spending would have? Because he got that right. What about gold prices, or house prices?

You are aware that he's still trading now, aren't you? Is he still getting lucky now?

What a massively dishonest post you've strung together, there.
>> No. 25499 Anonymous
2nd February 2025
Sunday 11:22 am
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>>25496

This sounds suspiciously similar to the way I am defensively dismissive when I see a band that I used to play the same shitty dive venues with in 2013 on the bill for international festivals nowadays. I haven't ever actually listened to them but I know we were better and we would have been there too if we'd kept at it.

>he isn't saying anything new or interesting

I'm not even sure exactly what your point is here. If you have a better lens through which to analyse the western developed world's economic stagnation, feel free to start your own YouTube channel. You might even be on Radio 4 one day. And some cunt on an imageboard will still know better than you.
>> No. 25500 Anonymous
2nd February 2025
Sunday 6:41 pm
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>>25496
>when professional economists review his material they find it full of holes which should be expected as he's not an economist with detailed macroeconomic experiance nor has he been publishing papers

He holds degrees in maths and economics from the LSE and Oxford. One of his recent videos outlines his beef with "professional economists". The tl;dw is that most of them have spent a career studying models that take little to no account of distribution, and the people who are any good at it end up leaving government and academia for much better pay in private practice, and so what you end up with is a field mostly populated by people who see interest rates as a golden hammer.
>> No. 25505 Anonymous
3rd February 2025
Monday 1:44 am
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>>25500
Oh my this is quite the hornets nest I've stirred up.

>Gary is very clear about the fact that he was the most profitable trader at Citibank for one year, 2011

Which is bollocks, impossible even, as I've sourced, and he openly claims to go much further. He even uses his 2m bonus as proof of his success while Andrew Hall cleared 100m the year before.

Now if you want to go further he has unimpressive qualifications for the field of Economics and lacks the experiance to back it up. You can 'muh track' all you want but economics is structured as a hard field that on macro specialisms requires time spent in the Treasury and published papers on your ideas. Yes some economists spend all day working on theory - a truly cutting observation of academia made by snake oil salesmen.

>That wasn't his thesis. He bet that interest rates wouldn't rise for about ten years and was correct. As for being lucky, was he being lucky with the effect that the COVID-19 spending would have? Because he got that right. What about gold prices, or house prices?

Follow the logic further, it doesn't go far, his insight was that QE wouldn't trickle into public pockets which it didn't by design and he appears to have based this on feelings rather than a coherent theory. On house prices going up, not insightful and as a recommendation it's unusual that the time we live in would have seen some of his fans get fucked by the interest rate. Now you forgot to mention Bitcoin which remains an ongoing embarrassing fuck up.

There's NO. FUCKING. WAY. He was able to secure an accolade as the most profitable trader on this (not just because it doesn't and can't exist), it's impossible to even see him getting the risk as a junior trader. As for the rest, he's certainly making a fortune betting on his books isn't he which being me back to the idea that he's not saying anything insightful. He's Jordan Peterson for Guardian readers.
>> No. 25506 Anonymous
3rd February 2025
Monday 9:59 am
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>>25505
>Which is bollocks, impossible even, as I've sourced

Accusations from a former colleague picked up by the FT, that he's just recently written about in an expose book, is your only "source" for that.

>Follow the logic further, it doesn't go far, his insight was that QE wouldn't trickle into public pockets which it didn't by design and he appears to have based this on feelings rather than a coherent theory.

No, mate. It's his literal thesis, that he graduated from university with: https://www.wealtheconomics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Stevenson-2019.pdf
>> No. 25507 Anonymous
3rd February 2025
Monday 11:26 am
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>>25506
Colleagues. And they're quite clear why it's bollocks, there is no leaderboard on profits and traders don't work like that. It would also, to stress, be impossible for him to take on enough risk to achieve this and his whinging about his payout shows how little he actually understood of his own contract.

>No, mate. It's his literal thesis

This is his MPhil written long after his supposed genius move. To recap (again):

- He provides no real evidence or advice on how to make his money, in fact he discourages people from investing
- His advice is flawed and he's playing an invented character that is impossible to exist
- He has a Patreon

Grifter.
>> No. 25508 Anonymous
3rd February 2025
Monday 12:42 pm
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>>25507
>This is his MPhil written long after his supposed genius move.

What difference does that make to the content of the thesis or his success in trading?

>- He provides no real evidence or advice on how to make his money, in fact he discourages people from investing

"I'm betting on asset prices going up. I'm very long gold, [...] long property, this what I think will happen."



"I would encourage anyone if it's possible to try and save as much money as you can and build that up into real assets, stocks, gold, property if it's possible, whilst always understanding that even those investments can lose money and in many cases will lose money over short periods of time."


>> No. 25509 Anonymous
8th February 2025
Saturday 1:41 am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehwNkIQ_T2w?

Videos like this keep popping up in my youtube recommendations.

I don't want them, but I also don't want to delete my history.
>> No. 25510 Anonymous
10th February 2025
Monday 7:24 pm
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Is there anything better on a Monday than a monotonous bloke standing in the rain while talking about an obscure building feature?

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10th February 2025
Monday 7:29 pm
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>>25510
I was literally watching this at the exact moment you would have posted it.

I think we need to spend less time together.
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10th February 2025
Monday 8:01 pm
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10th February 2025
Monday 8:03 pm
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>>25510
>>25511

Is this a bad time to mention I already watched it too?
>> No. 25514 Anonymous
11th February 2025
Tuesday 12:47 am
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I know that self diagnosis on the Internet, via youtube or otherwise, is popular these days, but I'm not sold. I think videos like this do more harm than good. They're probably cheaper than seeking out an actual therapist to help you with your particular problem(s), especially in Septicland where you have to pay half a week's pay out of pocket for one session. But to be diagnosed with anything, nothing can replace somebody actually examining you one-on-one as a patient and arriving at an individual diagnosis based on that.

Everything else just feeds all the special snowflakes.
>> No. 25515 Anonymous
11th February 2025
Tuesday 2:15 am
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>>25514

The creator of that video is flogging a book and a course, despite having absolutely no qualifications whatsoever; at least she admits to it, if only in the small print.

Worryingly, the terms "psychotherapist", "psychologist", "therapist" and "counsellor" are not protected titles, meaning that anyone can call themselves that regardless of their qualifications. They sound formal, but they're as meaningless as something like "life coach". Even if you do seek out an actual therapist, you need to do a bit of homework to avoid the chancers.

Psychiatrists are bona-fide doctors with the same medical training as any other doctor, they've just specialised in mental illness. Weirdly, while "psychologist" isn't a protected title, "practitioner psychologist", "clinical psychologist" and "counselling psychologist" are; using those titles requires you to be registered with the HCPC and meet a fairly rigorous set of educational and professional standards.
>> No. 25517 Anonymous
11th February 2025
Tuesday 10:01 am
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>>25515

> but they're as meaningless as something like "life coach".

I think life coaches are even worse, because they require even less qualifications, or a pretense thereof, and are really just a grift. They prey on vulnerable people who will end up gaining next to nothing from books, seminars and personal coaching sessions.

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240206-life-coaching-industry-scams

If you have to pay somebody hundreds to tell you to get your shit together, then you'll probably never have your shit together.

That said, I'm seeing an NHS approved therapist and she has a side gig as a life coach for pay, but I have no problem believing that she can improve people's lives, because she is a formally trained medical doctor and psychotherapist, with 20 years of experience. So she is coming at it from a very different angle than somebody who just one day decided to make money in the industry, because she has well founded knowledge.

It's still good money for her, she told me that she once had a motivational speaking engagement with British Airways at their head offices, and they paid her over £3000 for about a week's worth of work.
>> No. 25518 Anonymous
11th February 2025
Tuesday 12:29 pm
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>>25513
It’s hacked the algorithm somehow. I had it recommended to me too, but I didn’t watch it. Why do they have clock towers?
>> No. 25519 Anonymous
11th February 2025
Tuesday 1:19 pm
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I, for one, don't have any clocks in the suggested videos for me featuring Tesco.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA5YpLJI95w
>> No. 25520 Anonymous
11th February 2025
Tuesday 3:51 pm
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>>25518

TL;DW it's because some nimbys in the 70s-80s didn't want supermarkets being built near them, until Asda pioneered that specific style of supermarket architecture you'll probably recognise as The One Near Pugney's, and we all lived happily ever after.
>> No. 25521 Anonymous
11th February 2025
Tuesday 4:40 pm
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>>25519
He doesn't even smash up the freeze dried noodles before cooking. Like wet slapping on your chin, much? Enjoyable videos though - not entirely sure why.

Do you suppose each shot was balleted day by day, or did they cook a whole loaf of toast over the course of 10 minutes?
>> No. 25522 Anonymous
11th February 2025
Tuesday 4:58 pm
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>>25520
Does Asda in Durkar have a clock tower? I've never noticed it.
>> No. 25524 Anonymous
11th February 2025
Tuesday 5:06 pm
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>>25522

No, but it's not all about the clock tower, a clock tower is just a typical feature of the style. I do suspect it used to have one in place of that slanty roof bit over the entrance, and I am almost certain the Morrissons up the road from the driving test centre had one when I was younger, but that's beyond what I can be arsed to research.
>> No. 25526 Anonymous
13th February 2025
Thursday 9:17 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHY0Y6Nz5zM

Found this kind of interesting.
>> No. 25527 Anonymous
13th February 2025
Thursday 10:27 pm
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>>25526
Nice to see Jeremy Corbyn pursuing his other passion. The Daily Mail would go apeshit if they saw this.
>> No. 25528 Anonymous
14th February 2025
Friday 6:33 pm
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These lads are a good laugh. I sometimes get a bit jealous and wish I had a best mate who's willing to do this kind of daft shit with me, and make me laugh as much as that.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhtWOY9F-tM
>> No. 25529 Anonymous
14th February 2025
Friday 6:44 pm
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Here's one for you, CDcollectorlad.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9b6XH7yS0M
>> No. 25530 Anonymous
14th February 2025
Friday 8:37 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZFJ9cAouMs

She sounds like a risky shag.
>> No. 25531 Anonymous
16th February 2025
Sunday 8:36 pm
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I want to post the Fire Control Technician video from Stiff Lip Supplements because it's a hilarious look at the life of US Submariners and what US culture has become but there's no way it would be allowed here.
>> No. 25532 Anonymous
1st March 2025
Saturday 1:04 am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BghRaVXZXJM

Wronguns, them Japanese.
>> No. 25539 Anonymous
7th March 2025
Friday 2:03 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzuj14hzCaw

I was making a video about trying to get 50k steps in one day and raise awareness forn crows feet diseases ecause my aunt died from it on the day i was making the video. I walked pass my exgirlfriends hows and saw the rock it was making sounds
>> No. 25545 Anonymous
24th March 2025
Monday 5:31 pm
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>> No. 25558 Anonymous
6th April 2025
Sunday 9:47 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xniS7kMpW4I
>> No. 25568 Anonymous
17th April 2025
Thursday 9:58 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8-54-9J9ns

This is unexpectedly interesting.
>> No. 25571 Anonymous
24th April 2025
Thursday 7:30 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0CQTsggXuc
>> No. 25572 Anonymous
15th May 2025
Thursday 2:17 pm
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It's not my fault the thread's half-dead.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYrNjPGgAAA
>> No. 25575 Anonymous
25th May 2025
Sunday 9:02 pm
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I really enjoyed this DIY video, because if you watch closely, you can see things constantly going wrong, and that's such a perfect reflection of what real DIY is like.

"If you have a plasterboard or hollow wall, use a plastic back box, but this is a solid wall, like bricks or breezeblocks - and oh, it's actually some weird concrete thing that only like 1% of houses have"
"I will put up a chart of what colours your electrical wires should be - and oh, wait, this house has the old wire colours"
And his tape rips the paint off the wall as well. And he handles it just fine! It's so much better than your average DIY video where everything is easy.



He does of course still have all manner of obscure power tools that no normal DIYer would have, and he re-plasters his wall in 90 seconds, but I nevertheless feel incredibly motivated to try this out.
>> No. 25605 Anonymous
15th June 2025
Sunday 10:25 pm
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This guy even looks like what an AI would spit out if you gave it the prompt "man who subsists exclusively on coffee".


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX6F_l_KreM

Strangely compelling videos though.
>> No. 25606 Anonymous
15th June 2025
Sunday 10:37 pm
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I liked this and I never really thought properly about trying to interpret cave paintings before. But what's the deal with youtubers all showing their faces over the last few months - has the youtube algorithm changed?
>> No. 25607 Anonymous
16th June 2025
Monday 5:31 am
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>>25606

AI can write scripts, edit videos and do pretty convincing voiceovers. There are now a number of channels pulling in 7-figure view counts despite being obviously entirely AI generated. Right now, showing your face proves that there is at least a human involved in some stage of the process. You're probably more likely to pull in some parasocial patreon subs if people know what you look like.
>> No. 25608 Anonymous
17th June 2025
Tuesday 2:33 am
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You know when you find a video that's absolutely excellent, but it's a one complete one off and the rest of their channel is shite? Here's one of those.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhuuKuc28SY
>> No. 25609 Anonymous
26th June 2025
Thursday 10:02 pm
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Pretty decent dive into the state of AI and its consequences.
>> No. 25610 Anonymous
26th June 2025
Thursday 10:36 pm
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>>25609

I'm normally reasonably fond of Ordinary Things, but at 9 minutes in I'm shouting at the screen. The scaling laws governing AI performance are dictated by both data and compute - you can still improve a model by throwing more computing power at either training or inference, without any additional data. The model collapse hypothesis has been thoroughly debunked by DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-Prover, which were intentionally trained on vast amounts of completely synthetic training data.

I hate the current wave of slop videos, but my mum bloody loves watching impossibly cute cats doing human things and I will fight anyone who wants to take nice things away from my mum.
>> No. 25611 Anonymous
26th June 2025
Thursday 10:50 pm
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>>25609

Every time somebody uses the word slop nowadays I hear it like the seagulls in Finding Nemo. SLOP SLOP SLOP SLOP.

It became so quickly ubiquitous I can't help my contrarian instinct to loathe it. It's the word used to describe mediocrity by midwitted people who would previously have gulped down blast after blast of identical Marvel The Disney's Star Potter Heroes 9, year after year, because apparently it's cool to suddenly be a discerning elitist who only likes hand made human garbage now. What happened to all that talk about how mean and nasty it is to be a big grumpy old gatekeeper now? It's become a dogwhistle for me, that immediately makes me disregard somebody's opinion as, ironically, one they had fed to them by their internet echo chamber, and not an organic feeling that they created in their own mind.

I am sure this bloke is a fine and decent chap as far as YouTubers go, but I think YouTubers in general should stick to gushing over FromSoft games because they only reveal themselves to be complete and utter charlatans when they attempt to stray into much else. The takes on AI are all so fucking boring. There's a huge amount if interesting theoretical possibilities we are seeing open up in front of our eyes thanks to this technology and people can't see past the very basic ethical quandaries to dig into any of it.

Take my opinions with a pinch of salt though becase I think I am just leaning into the accelerationism. We're never going to get a socialist utopia, so I'll settle for a maximalist cyberpunk dystopia. I mean, why do it by half measures. Commit to the bit. I want to have robot arms and brain implants and be ruled by a corporation instead of a government. I want to drive around the city at night fucked out of my mind on e-coke and have VR sex with anime girls. I want to pay for everything in "creds". Bring it.
>> No. 25612 Anonymous
27th June 2025
Friday 4:44 am
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>>25610
>The model collapse hypothesis has been thoroughly debunked

It really hasn't. It's also not a "hypothesis", it's a "theory"; it has been demonstrated experimentally and the findings replicated. The key thing is that model collapse happens with uncontrolled use of purely synthetic inputs without distinguishing them as such. It mostly manifests when training a model on its own output.

If you're familiar with MENACE (a "machine" that can play noughts and crosses comprising matchboxes and coloured beads), you can use it to derive a fairly simple demonstration of model collapse.
>> No. 25613 Anonymous
27th June 2025
Friday 10:29 am
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>>25612

OK, over-simplification on my part. I should have said that the inevitability of model collapse has been debunked and preventing model collapse is trivial in real models, because we have data that is definitely not model-generated (i.e. the entire corpus pre-2020). Models only inevitably collapse if real data is replaced by model-generated data; as long as you have a fixed quantity of real data, we have multiple algorithms that provably allow you to add an infinite amount of synthetic data to the training set without degrading model accuracy.
>> No. 25614 Anonymous
27th June 2025
Friday 11:43 pm
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You wanna see someone bazzing out on stinging nettles? It's like a Mitchel & Webb skit.


>> No. 25615 Anonymous
29th June 2025
Sunday 11:38 pm
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This guy's taking off a bit. He's got some good moments.
>> No. 25617 Anonymous
2nd July 2025
Wednesday 10:14 pm
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Young adults are weird.

>> No. 25618 Anonymous
2nd July 2025
Wednesday 11:10 pm
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>>25617

Blimey, it's Ashly Burch.


>> No. 25619 Anonymous
3rd July 2025
Thursday 7:38 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBSPJ_QeUxY
>> No. 25620 Anonymous
3rd July 2025
Thursday 8:11 pm
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>>25619
Couldn't pay me to click that.
>> No. 25621 Anonymous
3rd July 2025
Thursday 8:40 pm
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I'm watching this at the moment. Not a fan on the overproduced hair but I loved drawing maps as a kid and was hooked by the thumbnail.



>>25617
I went in hating this but it sort of won me over at the end. It's good that it describes what's happening in the brain but I can't help but feel an over-familiarisation of mental health issues may lead people to insist they have one and end up creating a persona around it.

>>25619
>24h eating at locals
Doesn't quite match the title but eh, it's in the watchlist. I like stuff exploring how statistics are expressed through behaviours - what is that, sociology?
>> No. 25622 Anonymous
4th July 2025
Friday 10:48 am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU6wl4m6qh8

Luckily I haven't had to apply for a job in a long time, but if that's what HR and hiring have come to nowadays, then I feel very sorry for anyone who has to jump through the hoops.

Obviously everybody hates AI interviews, and there will probably be a tendency for actual high potential candidates to avoid these employers altogether because they've got other options. And so companies will get stuck with everybody else who have no choice but to apply to any vacancy they become aware of.

In that sense, you could argue that it leads to adverse selection. As an employer, you've fallen victim to the promise of AI being far more efficient at finding the right candidate, but if the experience is as shit at the other end for the candidates as it appears to be, then AI makes your hiring less efficient and leads to picking worse candidates, while scaring off the ones you actually want.

At some point, much of generative and analytic AI will end up just being a fad. In any case, in the hiring process, it shows to your candidates that you don't care enough about them to put an actual human in front of them, and there will be a time when companies will realise that that's not a good thing. Good companies will, anyway.
>> No. 25623 Anonymous
4th July 2025
Friday 4:13 pm
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>>25622

Yet again though, another area where the AI crapshoot doesn't actually make anything significantly worse than humans already were.

We have studies showing that no matter how extensive you make the interview process, or how much you try to reduce bias, people will actually decide who they want based on completely absurd and illogical first impressions and gut feelings, as well as the obvious fit lass with good tits/handsome bloke with a firm handshake kind of bias over competency. Even in situations where they involve some kind of competency testing, it's a complete toss up wether the actual testing methodology will highlight the same skills that are really useful in the job role because the people designing the test probably had no idea what they were doing.

I don't think you are actually any better or worse off with an AI interview than a human interview, frankly, if anything you might even have better chances depending on your individual circumstances.

More and more I find myself making arguments that sound like I am some kind of shill for Big AI and I'm really not. I just find it revealing how people look at AI and instantly say "oh this is a problem" when they would be blind to the exact same issues in humans. More often than not, AI isn't measurably worse than humans, it's just retarded in different ways than we are.
>> No. 25624 Anonymous
4th July 2025
Friday 4:45 pm
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Regarding AI. If there's somebody I consider worth paying attention to, it's John Caramac.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4epAfU1FCuQ

Also the dude's fucking hench now, what the fuck lmao
>> No. 25625 Anonymous
4th July 2025
Friday 5:26 pm
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>>25624

Testosterone replacement is all the rage in Silicon Valley. It's like how half of Hollywood mysteriously got really into clean eating and healthy lifestyles at exactly the same time as Ozempic came out.

>>25623

Given a choice between being judged by an incomprehensible mass of linear algebra or Gemma from HR, I'm taking the dystopian future every time. I don't know which hypothetical humans the AI sceptics are interacting with, but the real humans I deal with are mostly fuckwits.
>> No. 25626 Anonymous
5th July 2025
Saturday 5:09 am
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>>25625

>but the real humans I deal with are mostly fuckwits

From the perspective of someone who is currently applying for jobs, and isn't completely bereft of social skills, I think I prefer the idea of interviewing with real people, face to face, as I feel like I'm more easily able to manipulate or bullshit a human, particularly a management type, into giving me the job. An AI is doubtless easily manipulated too, but it must be more difficult to know exactly what tactics will break their code.

By contrast, charm has been an effective tactic for thousands of years.
>> No. 25627 Anonymous
5th July 2025
Saturday 11:56 am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKRcbRGDC6U
>> No. 25628 Anonymous
5th July 2025
Saturday 7:42 pm
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>>25623
>>25626

Maybe it's yet another generational thing, but if I apply for a job where I'll end up spending eight to twelve hours every weekday sitting at their desk and putting the minimum possible amount of energy required to not get fired all my energy into my work for them, then really the least they can do is have a human person interview me for the job. I'd rather not be accepted because I had mediocre chemistry with the interviewer that day than to have to convince a computer algorithm that it should put me into the next round. Where I'll probably end up talking to yet another AI. Cheap bastards.

I also really dislike all the automated customer service lines nowadays, where that sort of thing has been spreading for some time now. I don't care how much more cost effective it is, if you want my money for your goods and services, then fucking have the decency to put me through to a human.
>> No. 25629 Anonymous
5th July 2025
Saturday 8:18 pm
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>>25628

On the other hand, it spares a human the indignity of working in a call centre.
>> No. 25633 Anonymous
5th July 2025
Saturday 11:47 pm
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>>25627
>Yah, I have a PhD in this, by the way, no biggie but I have a PhD (proceeds to describe very basic and obvious concept)
There's something I really can't stand about Hannah Fry, and I'm 70% certain that it isn't just that she's a woman.
>> No. 25636 Anonymous
6th July 2025
Sunday 12:14 pm
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>>25627

That's all fine but I've got an even easier way. Many newer cars have a feature that when you keep the button on your key fob pressed for a few seconds that opens your door locks, it will roll down all your windows automatically. Which exchanges the air inside your car with even less fuss.
>> No. 25637 Anonymous
6th July 2025
Sunday 1:49 pm
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>>25627
My air conditioning takes entire seconds to be effective.
>> No. 25638 Anonymous
6th July 2025
Sunday 5:19 pm
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>>25636
>Many newer cars

My 2009 Seat Ibiza had it, it's hardly cutting edge technology.
>> No. 25639 Anonymous
6th July 2025
Sunday 7:15 pm
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>>25638

Volkswagen and all its daughter brands had it by about 2000/2001. But a friend's 2016 Renault didn't have it. Other brands, I'm not sure.
>> No. 25640 Anonymous
6th July 2025
Sunday 7:37 pm
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>>25637
>>25638
>>25639

My 11 year old Corsa has it but it takes like 5 minutes to get going cold. Think maybe it needs the gas recharging but I don't want to pay for that and find out there wasn't actually a problem, it's just shit.
>> No. 25641 Anonymous
6th July 2025
Sunday 7:57 pm
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>>25640
You could try the opening the window and then opening and shutting the door a few times trick to see if that helps, depends on whether your ego is so fragile you can't advice from shudder a woman.
>> No. 25642 Anonymous
7th July 2025
Monday 12:58 am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTXT7qORWJo

Well this is odd.
>> No. 25644 Anonymous
7th July 2025
Monday 6:35 pm
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I didn't realise that NHK is still running its cats of Japan series. It's ongoing with a new episode soon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYecO4v4-K0

Caution: Some episodes contain rampant cat-on-lap action and if you want to cry your eyes out then The Travelling Cat Chronicles is worth a watch/read
>> No. 25645 Anonymous
8th July 2025
Tuesday 11:18 pm
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>>25644
>if you want to cry your eyes out then The Travelling Cat Chronicles is worth a watch/read
I don't know how you did this but I have just bought a copy of the book. If it's bad, I will know and I will come back here and abuse you. You fucker.
>> No. 25648 Anonymous
16th July 2025
Wednesday 6:13 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aemG49-BjNM
>> No. 25649 Anonymous
16th July 2025
Wednesday 6:37 pm
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>>25648
This is just some guy making mundane observations over a few relatively unremarkable clips of people on a night out.
>> No. 25650 Anonymous
16th July 2025
Wednesday 7:16 pm
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>>25649

If he is to be believed, it still earns him enough money that he is able to do it as his full time job, and he has even hired an editor or editors.
>> No. 25651 Anonymous
16th July 2025
Wednesday 7:20 pm
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>>25650

That's not an excuse for recommending it to anyone.
>> No. 25652 Anonymous
16th July 2025
Wednesday 7:52 pm
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>>25651

He's still one of the better minimal-effort, bedroom youtubers out there.
>> No. 25653 Anonymous
16th July 2025
Wednesday 8:26 pm
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>>25652

I will force-feed you one of my better minimal-effort bathroom turds.
>> No. 25654 Anonymous
16th July 2025
Wednesday 8:55 pm
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>>25653

Well nobody's forcing you to watch it are they, you autistic fuckwit.
>> No. 25655 Anonymous
16th July 2025
Wednesday 9:05 pm
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>>25654
Why is he autistic because you piss away your free time watching dreck on YouTube? I think the point otherlad was trying to make, in a roundabout way, was that if you're going to watch this shite, you should do so with a certain degree of shame. You don't see me coming into this thread posting seven hour plus VODs of a man doing increasingly occult Noita challenge runs. No, you don't. That's because I have a healthy degree of shame. You though, you're basically one of those gooner accounts they have on Twitter now.
>> No. 25656 Anonymous
16th July 2025
Wednesday 9:12 pm
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>>25655

It's all about what you expect to get out of watching a video. Do you expect your chippie down the street to deliver three star dining? Probably not. But if you are in the mood to just listen to a lazy youtuber reacting to reddit, then that channel is not the worst.

Reaction videos have always been the lowest hanging fruit on youtube, yes. But pardon us for not being youtube snobs.
>> No. 25657 Anonymous
16th July 2025
Wednesday 9:42 pm
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>>25651
How else is he going to get 3 organic views?
>> No. 25658 Anonymous
16th July 2025
Wednesday 9:58 pm
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>>25655

I'm not even the same lad you were bickering with about it, I just think you are pathetic for getting this pissy over a youtube video somebody else likes and you don't. And I knew calling you autistic would set you off again.
>> No. 25659 Anonymous
16th July 2025
Wednesday 10:01 pm
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>> No. 25660 Anonymous
16th July 2025
Wednesday 10:07 pm
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>>25658

You're gloating like you're some sort of troll mastermind while not realising you're responding to a third party. You're not that smart mate, stop playing stupid games.
>> No. 25661 Anonymous
16th July 2025
Wednesday 10:36 pm
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>>25656
>But pardon us for not being youtube snobs.
Err... no. It's shite and you should feel bad for liking it. Feeling bad would be a good thing.

Also I avoid bad food and when I don't, guess what? I feel bad.

>>25658
Nowt pissy about my post. Also I wasn't referring to myself in the third person, that was my first contact with you regarding this video. "Actually, you're autistic for thinking some embarrassingly uninspired and uninteresting YouTube video isn't good" isn't really much of an own. It just makes you sound like a sixteen year old who has to be right about everything, no matter how stupid it is, and spends too much time on 4chan. If you didn't want people telling you how wank the video was, take the advice from my previous post and don't share it on here.
>> No. 25662 Anonymous
16th July 2025
Wednesday 11:07 pm
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>>25661

>Err... no. It's shite and you should feel bad for liking it

Right then.
>> No. 25663 Anonymous
17th July 2025
Thursday 7:25 am
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>>25648
What I don't like about this guy, and many like him, is they want to have their cake and eat it. They make videos laughing at mentally ill autistic transwoman Elphaba, but because they dance around directly calling her a retarded evangelist christian korean youtuber, they don't alienate their main audience of retarded gen Z girls who have no issue with horrendous online bullying but who would balk at explicit transphobia, misogyny, or racism (implicit bigotry is fine though).

I watched a lot of him and other commentary YouTubers when I had fuck all else to do last year, and they're real subhuman pieces of shit.

Am I jealous they make six figures bullying mentally ill retards and whores like Bonnie Blue to an audience of vapid 17 year old girls? Yes. Yes I am.
>> No. 25664 Anonymous
17th July 2025
Thursday 11:51 am
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>>25663


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YSF9quRzs4

Are you honestly trying to tell us he's wrong to laugh at people like this?
>> No. 25665 Anonymous
17th July 2025
Thursday 5:33 pm
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>>25664
Having a laugh at someone in your own house is one thing, making it your job to publicly mock them for money and attention is another.
>> No. 25666 Anonymous
17th July 2025
Thursday 5:40 pm
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>>25665

> making it your job to publicly mock them for money and attention is another.

And yet, you've admitted that you would be doing exactly the same if it paid you six figures.
>> No. 25667 Anonymous
17th July 2025
Thursday 6:24 pm
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>>25664

Morbidly obese Disney adults make up most of my dating pool.
>> No. 25668 Anonymous
17th July 2025
Thursday 6:27 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvbl_Wm4t_A

You wouldn't be able to get away with this these days.
>> No. 25669 Anonymous
17th July 2025
Thursday 7:53 pm
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>>25666
It's a job I'd like to do because it's easy and potentially lucrative. There are also reasons I would not like to do it, mainly moral reasons. A full time job where I sit on my computer all day, compiling clips of TikTok retards and recording some commentary on them, sounds so fucking easy. And with a decent number of subscribers, you can make a lot of money from something so low effort. But being someone whose purpose in life is to create content like pic related, I'd feel less scummy selling arms to Israel than being one of these cancers upon society.

GeorgeM is not the worst of the commentary lot, and a lot of his content is harmless enough, but he's a cog in the "bullying mentally ill retards for money" machine.
>> No. 25670 Anonymous
17th July 2025
Thursday 8:28 pm
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>>25659
This is really interesting. I spent about 25 minutes finding translations for the words. The conflict at the end is because the talkative guy betrayed a partner to the police to protect themselves (or possibly just because?). I can't make out the expression after the spit - is that supposed to convey a level of grief?
>> No. 25671 Anonymous
17th July 2025
Thursday 9:04 pm
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>>25665


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjhkwKbGUfA

Some of his other videos aren't like that.

Taking the piss out of shit AirBnbs is something we need more people doing.
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18th July 2025
Friday 12:03 am
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>>25670
I interpreted it as to protect himself, and he's feeling shame and self-loathing, took the spit on the face as something he deserved.
>> No. 25673 Anonymous
18th July 2025
Friday 12:56 am
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>>25672
Yeah, he does hesitate slightly in telling the story. Great acting, from my perspective.

The video has had much more effect on me than I realised, it's been ruminating these last 4 hours.
I got the sense that the individuals portrayed lead radically different lives, with their only connection being the lingo. There's an underlying reason the book reader hadn't heard from the mutual friend in a while, not necessarily prison. It goes to show that gender expression and sexual orientation 'clubs' mean little more than surface detail, in terms of knowing a person.

With the level of coded language and underground activity, it's no wonder the intelligence services have reputations for banditry.

>took the spit on the face as something he deserved.
I half expected him to lick it, if I'm honest.

Not particularly astute observations but it's turned over in my mind.
Thanks for posting.
>> No. 25674 Anonymous
18th July 2025
Friday 12:41 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRvBQdJlBeo
>> No. 25675 Anonymous
20th July 2025
Sunday 12:14 pm
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I enjoyed about 3 episodes of this before setting it to side viewing. The characters aren't particularly well written and some of the tropes are exhausted. It's rather juvenile but also a bit fun.

The makeup on Superintendent Julie Spry was good, but unusual. It looked like an uneven suntan. The white shadow on her lip was a brilliant touch, suggestive of an authoritive moustache and character background.

I want to see Mark Heap in other, non-type cast roles - the performance here was usual and boring (The character peaked on Friday Night Dinner). Conversely I loved the receptionist character and would like to meet her in real life - very sexy.

Most of the cadets weren't particularly interesting, I found myself more interested in the unvoiced extras.


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>> No. 25678 Anonymous
22nd July 2025
Tuesday 1:16 am
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvvN1txdVTQ

Matt Rose is like GeorgeM's weird and more useless older brother.
>> No. 25679 Anonymous
22nd July 2025
Tuesday 7:28 pm
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>> No. 25680 Anonymous
22nd July 2025
Tuesday 8:42 pm
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>>25675
I'm trying to watch it and feel like I should enjoy it on the grounds that it's just more Green Wing/Campus and I'd happily watch more of either of those, but I can't get comfortable with setting. Given the politics of the past few years it seems a very odd choice to make a police comedy.
>> No. 25681 Anonymous
22nd July 2025
Tuesday 8:55 pm
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>>25680
What about a police comedy from the good old days?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSVL_ZiursA
>> No. 25682 Anonymous
22nd July 2025
Tuesday 9:39 pm
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>>25680
>Given the politics of the past few years it seems a very odd choice to make a police comedy.
I saw it as a recruitment series, if I'm honest. They're selling police academy.
Speaking of which this was a big film back in the day, not a touch of racism as I may poorly recall. What on earth happened?

>>25681
I don't get it. further links are good though :) I'll be watching Monty Python all night. Didn't realise they did sketches, thought it was all weird Blackadder stuff (it's probably about time I took a look at that too).
>> No. 25684 Anonymous
22nd July 2025
Tuesday 9:52 pm
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>>25679

Bit unsettling that I usually read about celebrity deaths first on .gs.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrZFscfJxXc

I'll be ripping a bat's head off with my teeth tonight in his honour.
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22nd July 2025
Tuesday 11:17 pm
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>>25682
>not a touch of racism as I may poorly recall.
There is a bit in the first Police Academy film where Harris calls Hooks "a dumb jigaboo" and so Hightower flips his car over, and then Hightower is really worried that he will be kicked out of the Police Academy. So the film itself opposes racism, but one of the characters does say something racist.
>> No. 25710 Anonymous
26th July 2025
Saturday 5:29 pm
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WildBeare is nice to watch, even listen to. This particular video is the best of my viewing.
https://youtu.be/umvZOe65bcM
>> No. 25711 Anonymous
26th July 2025
Saturday 5:44 pm
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>>25710
A mod did say once that raw YT URLs work alongside tags, but it must have been only on certain boards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umvZOe65bcM
>> No. 25712 Anonymous
26th July 2025
Saturday 5:48 pm
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>>25711
If you copy a YouTube link off a phone, you get a youtu.be URL, and the links only embed automatically if they start with youtube.com. That's a pro tip for everyone here.
>> No. 25713 Anonymous
26th July 2025
Saturday 10:37 pm
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>>25711
>>25712

I will always still use the [yt] tags regardless because I don't trust technology.
>> No. 25714 Anonymous
26th July 2025
Saturday 10:42 pm
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>>25713
The tags also include the video title, which is able to be right/middle-clicked as well as the obvious benefit, whereas just pasting the link doesn't. For example:




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8K6QUPmv8Q
>> No. 25717 Anonymous
27th July 2025
Sunday 12:05 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEGOv-L5dOY

He's another one of those lads who makes a living just commenting reddit, but he's not the worst. He does say that this is his full time job, and apparently it pays enough that it made him leave behind his career as a university educated engineer.

No wonder so many younguns want to be full time youtubers.

Note the faux American accent, probably learned through decades of watching American TV shows with subtitles on Swedish TV (Sweden is one of a few countries that don't dub foreign programmes). And some of the words he uses are just very slightly off in their meaning. A bit like those two long haired Swedish guys on Family Guy.
>> No. 25718 Anonymous
27th July 2025
Sunday 2:23 pm
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Would you like to spend an hour listening to someone talk about Star Trek ship logic?


Old Britannia is also managing to squeeze out a lot of original content of 19th-20th centuries


Art Chad also gives you some hard takes from the art world and what that means in our contemporary world which has lost meaning and become a simulacrum (he uses the analogy to world building):


I've also been watching Kyplanet which makes a pretty good space channel to watch before sleep. He tends to cover exoplanets and gives a reality check to some of the optimistic views people have online about habitability:

>> No. 25720 Anonymous
27th July 2025
Sunday 3:49 pm
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>>25718
>Would you like to spend an hour listening to someone talk about Star Trek ship logic?
Yeah I would, but 10 minutes in he's giving massive emotional spoilers that might ruin my experience of Star Trek. A borg kissing Data? Picard re-living the final years of a lost civilisation? On the other hand I might not have known any of these.

I've stopped watching a lot of content like this unless I have zero investment in the topic matter. The videos are often ruinous to the newbies experience.
>> No. 25721 Anonymous
27th July 2025
Sunday 5:17 pm
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>>25720
Would you like us to get you started on Star Trek? It's worth watching.
>> No. 25722 Anonymous
28th July 2025
Monday 12:36 am
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>> No. 25727 Anonymous
29th July 2025
Tuesday 12:26 am
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Food
> Alvin Zhou Films
URL: https://www.youtube.com/@alvinzhoufilms

Infrequent (8 videos in the last 2 years) but high quality documentary style videos on asian food, focussing mostly on high-end but unlike most of YouTube, with the narrator as the observer. It's pretty good!

And some sculpty/painty people, which are very much vicarious enjoyment but due to the nature of what they do, post infrequently:

> North of the Border
https://www.youtube.com/c/NorthoftheBorder
Solid sculpts and painting, enhanced with LED effects where needed only.

> Bill Making Stuff
https://www.youtube.com/@BillMakingStuff

Themed scratch builds, i.e. glue all manner of plastic and household things together and paint it. Highly recommended.

> Art Chong Art
https://www.youtube.com/@ArtChongArt

Sculptor with a high focus on anatomy, very educational.

> Bobby Fingers
https://www.youtube.com/@bobbyfinger

An artist building anything from a small diorama to a peculiar fibre glass rowing boat.

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