Do all of your family talk a lot of empty meaningless crap?

This very vague comment could be applied to literally every arbitrarily selected set of a group - both you and i would be seriously fucked if everyone "stopped caring" about us as we'd have to survive off foraged and grown food/drink and self-built shelter in non-private wild areas. Every day would be a constant struggle to shelter, heat and feed ourselves. That's why we have society where people work with other people for a greater level of overall comfort. Did i really have to explain any of that? (Now imagine you don't get the same share of the overall produce of the society you're in because you've got different coloured hair..... just nevermind)

I love how unspecific the promise of the threat is. There's going to be .... a wake-up call. There's going to be some serious alarm bells people, so just ... just watch out, that's all i'm saying. Cos when this wake-up call happens, everyone will then be awoken, and there's no going back to bed, no lie-ins. But it'll only happen when people in the country "stop caring" about black people - as opposed to every other day when black people are a primary care concern for everyone. Let me point out the obvious that they are only different in their skin colour, they don't radiate psychic concern-potential; you can care about them as much or as little as every other white person you know... unless you're racist.

Lovely to watch again. for the multiple time. So great.

Makes me want to forage for quality pop/soda and drink it and savor it as a quality home crafted beer.

The fuck I can get quality Soda though. or Beer. I can distill water from the air though, MmmMmMMM fresh H2O.

S'called long-pig and if ya had the right hunger and seasonings you'd probably adjust if you had to in a pinch. Personally, I'd forage and sprout and the occasional rabbit, squirrel, possum, turtle or nutria, which are all quite tasty. oh and fish, frogs, snails, and snakes-You can eat all that and not feel guilty, as long as it's not STARING AT YOU FROM THE PLATE!! Fuuuuk!

>> ^Sagemind:

America is supposed to be that wonderland that everyone aspires to become - only it isn't.
The people around the world still hold on to that idea. By asking them to vote - they would project their vision of the ideal country upon the USA, instead of having the already jaded and defeated population do the voting.
It's always easier to see something from the outside.


The "jaded and defeated population" don't vote.

I can get a BBQ meatball sandwich delivered to my house if'n I don't feel like bothering with putting my shoes on. Just about any kind of food I desire is available to me. When I'm feeling olympic and must forage for food, I have my choice of 6 large chain grocery stores within three miles of my home. I have a car. I can go anywhere I please in this country without fear. I have 240 channels (60 HD) on my television. There's a convenience store two minutes in every direction from just about every square foot of this country (seemingly). I can hike in the wilderness far from "civilization" and not have to worry about bandits or terrorists, and because I have the entire fricking world in the palm of my hand, I'll never get lost. I don't have a computer. I have four computers with high speed access. I have running water; hot water on tap, a microwave, and more goddamn dishes and silverware and towels and t-shirts than any one person should ever need. I can go see the Blazers play, watch live jazz, a choice of music festivals during the spring and summer, live theater, short trip west to the beautiful Oregon coast, or trip south for the Timber Festival or one of several plays in Ashland at the Shakespearean Festival. When I opt to go see a movie over reading any damn book in the world on my Kindle, there's seven movie theaters in my area, and I can even afford the insane prices for soda and Raisenets. Education opportunities abound here, regardless of your age or income. You can learn how to fly a plane at several local small airports, or jump out of one. I have a "headphone drawer".

I make less money than the average American, and I'm RICH, and thankful that I was so damn lucky to be born in the United States of Wonderland.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years'_War

"The conflict lasted, unceasing, for 30 years, making it one of the longest continuous wars in modern history...

"A major impact of the Thirty Years' War was the extensive destruction of entire regions, denuded by the foraging armies. Episodes of famine and disease significantly decreased the populace of the German states and Bohemia, the Low Countries and Italy, while bankrupting most of the combatant powers..."

>> ^dannym3141:

>> ^Confucius:
Lol...kinda was but still cool.
Im no poison/snake/giant gecko expert here but ifn that is a long-oh-so-long POISONOUS viper arent both geckos dead? Unless geckos have some kind of immunity, or its some variety on non-poisonous.....In which case shouldnt this be under some sort of romantic gesture channel?
>> ^sillma:
that was really, really, REALLY slow-paced. I slept for an hour after starting the clip and still woke up in time for the first gecko attack.


I agree, but i was confused by the snake because it looked like it was trying to constrict. In which case, it wouldn't be poisonous? I'm no expert, someone help, i want to know if this was epic success or not!


The fact that the snake is holding the gecko in it's coils does not mean it's a constrictor. Most snakes, both venomous and nonvenomous, that consume large prey do this. It keeps the prey from escaping and is necessary so that the snake can position the prey in order to ingest it. Ingesting a prey item bigger than your head is a tricky process, especially if you don't have any hands, and once the process has begun, the snake would become extremely vulnerable.

Many lizards show some resistance to snake venoms. Several skink species, for instance, are highly resistant to elapid (cobras, kraits, adders) venom. Some geckos too show a degree of resistance.

I could be wrong about the following, but the snake in the video does not look like a pit viper to me. The neck is thin, the head shape isn't quite right, and it doesn't appear to strike like a viper. I think it is more likely to be a colubrid, perhaps a golden tree snake (Chrysopelea ornata). If so, that would mean that the snake is rear fanged, the snake would really have to bite down to inject it's relatively weak venom, and the attacking gecko is far less likely to be envenomed during a strike.

It is also probably relevant to point out that the gecko is most likely not trying to 'save his friend', but is instead reacting aggressively to the presence of a predator because of the direct benefits the gecko will receive from his actions (the harassed snake, an ambush predator who has lost the element of surprise, will leave and forage elsewhere).

>> ^Ryjkyj:

Not much. How's it goin' Ant?


Same old: Work, forage, eat, sleep, Internet, TV/television, clean/shower, repeat.

>> ^dag:
Humans can get by just fine without animal proteins. And as the literature at my local Hari Krishna restaurant says- you could feed the entire world 7 times over if the crops devoted to livestock feed were instead used for human food production.


I already referenced the Least Harm Principle. "So, every time the tractor goes through the field to plow, disc, cultivate, apply fertilizer and/or pesticide, harvest, etc., animals are killed. And, intensive agriculture such as corn and soybeans (products central to a vegan diet) kills far more animals of the field than would extensive agriculture like forage production, particularly if the forage was harvested by ruminant animals instead of machines."

The conclusions of the LHP are that we should stop eating poultry and eat ruminant animals (cow, goat, sheep, deer, etc.). Reasonable estimates are that we would kill about 0.982 billion animals per year. Less than in the vegan alternative of 1.2 billion. (See: Davis, Steven L. "The Least Harm Principle May Require that Humans Consume a Diet Containing Large Herbivores, Not a Vegan Diet" in Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics Vol. 16 No 4 July 2003.)

When I've thought of this, I've always considered what every action I take results in. If I grab a spoon, place it on the counter, let it sit for there for a few seconds, then, if possible, placed it back in the exact same position I got it from, what really changed? Most everyone I know would say, "Well, it was there for a few seconds." Obviously this is a stupid statement because time does not exist. The only things that changed are there are tiny particles from my thumb on the spoon, and the spoon on my thumb, along with the counter on the spoon and vice versa. Also, you have breathed in air, blood as circulated through your veins, etc. As tiny and seemingly insignificant these changes may be, they are still there and always will be. Everything you do has some affect on the world as you see it, as small as it may be.



You can't look at the universe as something that is moving along a timeline. You must completely remove time from the picture. The amount of time a person lives is nothing more than the human measurement for how long that persons body was able to sustain their life before it expired.



The universe as we know it is a system of laws. Matter cannot be destroyed, nor created which brings forth the question of how, or even if it was created. Knowing this, I've always asked myself; Is it even there in the first place? Is all of this real? Am I real? Is anything real? Is there a "real"? Our senses are all we have to perceive the world around us. Without them what is left? Nothing. You die without the help of other beings. So if the world as you know it is nothing without your physical body, is it anything in the first place?



Every animal lives, every animal dies. The only difference is how their bodies perform. Humans are nothing more than animals that have developed methods to make their lives easier by making use of their advanced bodies. But are our bodies really superior to those of different species. No. You can't run into the forest and punch a bear to death. Humans have to be resourceful to live. Without all our inventions we would be reduced to merely foraging for food as any other animal does. The only thing that could possibly have any value, if anything has value at all, is something that helps your body sustain your conscious being forever. But, I don't know anyone that would want to live forever. If everything you live and die for is gone once you're dead or soon after, did it even matter? In my eyes, no, it didn't and nothing ever did.

It looks like a lot of it motions are trying to find a cavity to crawl into. Actually, it looks like it's foraging, many of the movements in the first half of the video are it turning over a small piece of coral rubble, but it's hard to imagine it's thinking about food when surrounded by 3 divers.

^and notarobot,funny that you see a scorpion. I was just thinking that the "stingray" looks more like the flying gunard, which is common to some of the areas in Indonesia where the mimic is found. It's in the order Scorpaeniformes, as are lionfish which mimics supposedly mimic. I'm guessing the order was so named because of the poisonous spines of the fish rather than any general resemblance.

Upvote for the future conquerers of the planet Earth.

This clip doesn't even go into detail on how interesting of a creature this is. I wish National Geographic would get back to representing the facts about interesting animals, instead of sounding like an episode of America's Most Wanted.
They lay eggs, though they're warm blooded, they can hunt by electrolocation when using their bill to forage, females have two ovaries but only one is functional. After hatching, the young still feed from milk produced by the female, not from teets, but from pores in the skin.

They're just crazy animals. A real wonder of nature.

... Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

-Carl Sagan

I joined because it was pre-ordained that I would one day be the dark lord of the sift...

I can't remember what video really drew me in as I think it was a combination of videos and the community. I originally found the site because of ants quality foraging on Blues News. I came back a number of times via Blues and eventually starting browsing the sift. I decided I wanted to be able to vote so I signed up and started voting. Eventually I thought it'd be fun to join the community by posting some videos and well after my first one got sifted I was hooked.

I never expected to get anywhere near the top 15 let alone the top of it.

Very well put Krupo.

In reply to this comment by Krupo:

With a gold star come certain rights and privileges, not to mention responsibilities including wielding the painful nochannel scalpel and other admin actions. While I take no pleasure in *discarding a video that's doing well on the charts and especially from a young new Sifter who has lots of great sifting ahead of them, it is what we do here. Heck, I also noticed that this vid first - which has some awesome comedy I might add which I should channelize at http://www.videosift.com/video/Be-a-Hero-join-the-LCPD - as second voter, so the timing of my comment vs.
kulpim's confirms that the other one's way older, in case there was any doubt - which there isn't as Zifnab did his math right.

Please wander over to http://www.videosift.com/video/Be-a-Hero-join-the-LCPD to manually merge your votes until we come up with a more elegant solution (VS5.1?).

Hmm, odd that this didn't show up in related vids below. [foraging/edits] Hmm. Report made to videosift overlords. It wasn't catching the difference between GTA IV and GTA, IV. Sad.

Sorry again but one of the Good Things about the sift is that if you find a GTA IV trailer, there's just going to be one copy of it on the site. And there's a clear rule on which one gets there. Good luck with your next sifts!