If I'm allowed to be nostalgic, I do miss that period of leftist video essays trying to be educational. President Sunday is right about the debate bros, but another thing is that we lost the 10-30 minute video essays along the way and have 4-6 hour _somethings_ instead once or twice a year per channel. Hbomberguy and Shaun were good at those, ContraPoints' best stuff was the now deleted early <15min videos, though she was always a progressive liberal at best. While YouTube has some good creators in political space like President Sunday just presently linked, The Morbid Zoo and BadMouse, it's really feeling like the platform is decaying at this point on multiple fronts. Even many rightwingers aren't sustaining themselves from it but rather from wealthy benefactors, like billionaires and the literal country of Russia. And a platform like TikTok has some of the worst educated leftists getting a platform, which is disturbing. Well in the end I'm personally thankful I learnt some media literacy from all the CinemaSins debunkings and such, I didn't have access to anything more formal and probably avoided a rabbithole or two by getting to know what grifting on YouTube is. The outrage Right depends on the miseducation of people, making their audiences actively worse at interpretation.

merry christ mas my fellow christian posters

they say when your dorsal system collapses, you experience a sort of spiritual death, and your consciousness is set on autopilot until you get back. hopefully you do. it gets lonely not having a body, as flawed as they are. there's something about having a nervous system. youre made up of wires. you can touch other people and it sends signals through _their_ wires too. pretty neat. ive missed the passage of time. the past makes me cry and i dont believe theres much of a future, but you dont really understand how nice it is to move along the present until the whole concept is taken away from you. time was created so you can give each other hugs. **Did you Know?** that you occupy space in your universe? i mean you can like GO places. you can revisit your childhood home. you can revisit the botanic garden you went to on your first date. you can get your haircut in someone's house or buy hemp weed in that weird local shop you drive by all the time but never noticed til now. you also have new orleans in your universe. they have alligators there. and VCRs. if you're wondering, you bring your dorsal system back online by connecting yourself to as many entities as possible. interact with everything. punch holes in the wall and scrible on the floor with chalk no one can stop u. then buy a bunch of used ethernet cables and start plugging your soul into everything with an open port. dont bother with trying to organize them. once you're sufficiently immersed within the network, you're gradually transported back into your body. not sure why, but thats what a notepad youtube tutorial from 2007 said to do and its been working fine for me. good luck

Don't tell me everyone already knew this okay, I'm slow

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They were really trying to prop up the Healing Properties of the Beverage, and while i do enjoy a Nice, Crisp Sprite™, its not the most effective Health Potion on the Market.

what happened to "RED VS BLUE", i love "T F 2"

TW: for spousal abuse. You rarely see something as vulnerable on YouTube as this. I highly recommend it.

In the US, military surplus stores would sell new overstock as well as used gear from people who are no longer active. The utilitarian and frugal choice was to visit an army surplus store. Surplus stores sold all sorts of goods, but this is probably best encapsulated in the M-65 fieldjacket. Vietnam anti-war activists reappropriated the M65 jacket, but outside of that, it was a symbol of frugality. (Much like the NHS circle glasses, worn by John Lennon, Harry Potter, Gandhi, etc.) Charlie from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia wears a jacket much like the M65, playing on the viewers conscious or subconscious association, to play into his unclean and disheveled looks. But these surplus stores also sold bags, clothing, boots, and, importantly, sleeping bags. But as US Military moved from large surplus orders to made-to-order manufacturing, overstock started to dry up. The military surplus store is dead. Over this past month, at least two people froze to death in my city. * * * When I am doing my Travels, I hit up Goodwills along the way. It's one of the thrift stores which sell more than just clothing. Being already 30 minutes out from the city, I'm saving an hour someone would need to go to Goodwill and search. The US military has a really nice modular sleeping-bag system. For all the cool experimental "this sleeping bag is a tent!" "this jacket is a sleeping bag" systems, none of them beat the US military's modular sleeping bag system. But, again, the surplus store is dead. You'll pay upwards of $150 for that now. The only reason to purchase it is familiarity. So, I just got a sick score from Goodwill: Three bags for $32. I don't know their heat rating and I don't know what they're filled with. I have a connection at a local unhoused activism org who took these, washed them, and have given them out to people already. The unhoused activist org I know about is a good one- they do direct action and many of the people in it are unhoused themselves, or have been in the past. They are knowledgable. But you can also just give things to people directly if you prefer. (p.s. if you, like me, have too many reusable shopping bags, then you can also give these to people. people love these)

Really good movie but you gotta just sit there and soak it in. Otherwise

This is from r/BeAmazed, 19.9K upvotes with 97% positive, emphasis mine: > This is the definition of "mind over matter." Leonid was only 27. Outside, there was a literal polar blizzard; inside, he was staring into a mirror held by a shivering meteorologist, trying to operate on his own guts. The wildest part? He had to do most of it by pure touch. Because of the mirror, his vision was reversed, so he eventually took off his gloves and reached inside his own abdominal cavity to feel for the appendix. He recorded in his diary that his heart was "noticeably slowing" and his hands felt like rubber, but he knew if he fainted, he’d never wake up. He finished the surgery, showed his assistants how to clean the equipment, took some sleeping pills, and was back on duty two weeks later. Absolute legend. **Pro-tip: If someone asks if he had anesthesia, reply: "He used local numbing for the skin, but once he was inside, he had to be fully conscious and un-drugged to make sure he didn't nick his own intestines."** _Twelve_ top level comments down, with the eleven comments above having hundreds of total child comments, someone states > Another pro tip: read ChatGPT’s entire response before copy-pasting it and leave out the pro-tip part The OP, Fair_Sugar_3229, has 91K post karma and 9K comment karma, and is a mod of several subreddits. Their posts to r/BeAmazed are blocked from their profile. man

A bunch of Epstein-related files dropped yesterday, and they just blatantly deleted one that had a photo of Donald Trump on a desk, "EFTA00000468.pdf". There are "more than a dozen" now-deleted files, according to NPR. It's not surprising that they're deleting anything in the Epstein files that could implicate Trump or Republicans, but it's kind of surprising they'd delete something like that so clearly and out in the open. You'd think they'd have done so before uploading them, and you'd think they'd not do so _after_ uploading them. We've already seen photos of Trump with Epstein, but they delete that otherwise innocuous photos? As far as I can tell, this is being archived exclusively on Twitter dot coms and Facebook meme pages, and not in a public, proper, diff'd format. Bystander effect and whatnot-- I'd think _someone_ would have been archiving these. I see "archives" using OCR to make the files searchable, etc. but nothing that seems to have anticipated the need. But I might just not have seen such a thing, and I am wondering if anyone has?

As an American, this report gives me so much hope. Our government doesn't consider this issue to be important anymore. Our senators openly talk about defunding education and expanding allowances to business to access cheap child labor. I hope one day I can join Viet Nam, so the work I put into my community can help a more fine society! When I see videos like this, my mind immediately jumps to lectures from my dad and boss about how media and statistics are manipulated. I resent them so much for that. I can absolutely hear my dad launch into a lecture about what Scott Adams would say. What a goddamn buffoon. Hey! This is a society whose government is tracking child-labor numbers and agrees that those numbers should go down! This is a society who has **hope** for more than "I hope my stock portfolio goes up". They have goals, and those goals revolve around the future that they might leave to their children! Do I think it's likely that the actual numbers are higher than reported? For sure, juicing and fudging do happen. Do those juicing and fudging make the goals not worth pursuing? Of course not. I think my dad and boss would agree in a conversation but I also think in their hearts that they have given up. I think they would see this report and say, "no these are lies and nobody is there to help and there is no hope and no point for any individual trying to help." For sure that's the case in Saudi Arabia. I think that's true in Russia and China. I think it's become true in America. Maybe it was always like this in America but I doubt it. I think it's only in the last decade or so that America has lost all hope for the future. But it's not true everywhere. That's why this video gives me so much hope 💚 I gotta keep learning Vietnamese!

That is why the message "being autistic is not a negative outcome" doesn't land at all with those people. Autism is a spectrum and most people if they had their druthers would not sign up for some of the more severe manifestations of it. Idk not that we need to debate better, but that is the reason people still try to find a "cure" for autism. They may have experience with people totally unable to function who will need people to take care of them their whole lives, which there's nothing wrong with that but I think most people would prefer not to need that. Are there any groups for autism that are better than Autism Speaks? Like who acknowledge that most people with autism are just people who lack social grace at times but are otherwise just like anyone else, while also trying to provide resources for people like discussed above who have more challenges?

Sounded like a better time than spending it with my 2/3rds transphobic family

31/12 again!!!!!

Space alien? Edgy and red? Peasant boy whose closest friend/lover is basically royalty? They even have a space Ark and a space Weapon of Mass Destruction? (I wonder why this was a theme in 00s era games?) Named Shadow? ("Shadow of Sundered Star") He's left to go mad in stasis as she dies? (_That's, like, the main thing behind their characters!_) He's the spitting image of his nemesis? > Context for the nemesis part: Shadow and Sonic are obviously similar. > > But Halo? A big theme in the 2010s Halo is contextualizing everything through a generational prophecy, starting with the Didact and the Librarian. The Librarian weaved the events of the series with a geas (pronounced gay-ass, aka a 'genesong'), imbuing her spirit into Halsey, who would imbue herself into Cortana, and then The Weapon. Meanwhile, the Didact would have his brain-ghost time-groomed space-cuck clone in the Iso-Didact (who he would hate), and then he would later be seen in John. This is why, in Halo CE, 343 Guilty Spark states, "_Last time, you asked me, if it was my choice, would I do it?_ ", confusing John for the IsoDidact. > > Also, the "groomed" part wasn't a joke, it's actually kind of weird! The Ur-Didact, slated for execution, met 15 year old Bornstellar and began the arduous process of copying his consciousness over Bornstellar's, transforming him into the "Iso-Didact". (This is known as the "Dirk Strider" maneuver.) The Ur-Didact survived his execution and had to watch as his wife, the Librarian, went gallivanting off, having hot space sex together (as confirmed in the same book we learn that the Ur-Didact's name is "Shadow of Sundered Star"). The Iso-Didact was 15 when this all started (he just like me fr), while the Librarian and the Didact were in their 14800s and 12700s, respectively. just search "halo 4 the didact" and you'll say 'yeah that's a shadow the hedgehog kind of guy'

she took a three hour trip and paid $120 to take a bus and a train to get to me she was wearing a leather jacket, a crop top, a short skirt, thigh high socks and combat boots i left her to hang out with my roommates for several hours while i played DOTA 2 my dad came back and dropped her off where did i go wrong

(See my previous posts on the topic here, here, and here) So I recently started on the atypical antidepressant Agomelatine, which my GP recommended to me due it being one of the rare antidepressants you can quit cold turkey without withdrawal symptoms, meaning I could just stop taking them if there were any negative side effects. One of the side effects of Agomelatine is drowsiness. It's a "take before bed" type pill. A lot of people report increased quality of sleep as a positive side effect. And in fact interestingly I read that it's actually been experimented with in the treatment of circadian rhythm sleep disorders, i.e. the thing I have. I've been taking it for a couple of weeks now and hadn't noticed any changes to my sleep cycle (though its been great for my depression), but I've just been letting my sleep schedule free-run like normal, I hadn't attempted to conform to a "normal" sleep cycle with the aid of the antidepressants. So, last night I thought I'd experiment with it. Normally free running at the moment I would have gone to bed around 3-4 AM and woken up 12-1 PM. It takes an hour or two for the drowsy effects of Agomelatine to kick in for me, so I decided to take it at 9 PM with the goal of going to bed around 11 PM and waking up around 7-8 AM. And it kind of worked! I did end up going to bed a little after 11, and I woke up at 6:40 AM. Sleep quality was not as good as when free-running, but it was better than it was when trying this same experiment with melatonin. With melatonin I consistently had the problem of it putting me to sleep for around 4 hours after which I would wake up and be unable to get back to sleep, with Agomelatine I was successfully able to sleep through an almost 8 hour sleep, even if it was a little fitful and I did have brief micro-wakeups throughout the night. It's not perfect results, but it is the closest thing to successfully managing my n24 I've had so far. Promising. The biggest downside to Agomelatine so far has been the cost, they're kind of pricey as antidepressants go, but if they end up successfully treating both my depression AND my sleep disorder they've earned all of my money honestly.