https://videosift.com/video/Vsauce-Why-Are-We-Morbidly-Curious

fixed it for your morbid curiosity.

*doublepromote

Mark's been on the money since about the time he wrote "Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea", but there have been two significant developments in Europe that he seemingly didn't see coming: Portugal and the UK.

The Left Alliance in Portugal has basically been giving Schäuble the finger for two years now, with their unilateral end to austerity. How dare they defy the master of coin?! If Schäuble says you need another round of austerity, by God, you better tighten your belts, even if they are already around your neck.

Unsurprisingly, everyone going along with austerity without having a completely export-dependent economy is in deep doo-doo. Meanwhile, those pesky Portuguese actually managed to massively reduce unemployment, despite running a deficit that is entirely too small for their current situation. But that's a different story.

And then there's the UK. There's Corbyn. Tribune of the Plebs. Managed to get the youth voting by offering actual left-wing policies (the "radical youth", as the NYT likes to call them, while claiming that the warmongering, Constitution-shredding, wage-depressing, ecosphere-destroying "centrists" are not the real radicals). Managed to turn quite a lot of UKIP voters around as well. Within striking distance of the Tories, despite the media running 24h a day of drivel like "Jezza's Jihadi Comrades" -- Goebbels would be ashamed of the crudeness of the propaganda campaign by the Sun/Daily Mirror/etc.

The populist left is back, bitches. Corbyn and Sanders are the first steps past the neoliberal warmongers of the Third Way. The Obama experience of a corporatist disguised as a left populist may have given us The Orange One, but it also put another nail into the coffin of neoliberalism.

Antonio Gramsci, founding member of the Italian communist party, who was killed by the fascist regime of Mussolini, gave us the appropriate description of our time:
"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear."

That's your Trump. That's your opioid epidemic. That's the EU's austerity program in Greece, doing twice as much damage as the German occupation in WW2.

Mr. Plinckett is right as usual. I watched it in IMAX 3D yesterday, but didn't feel immersed into the story all that much. While watching it I couldn't help but think that a panel of Disney marketing geniuses meticulously thought out what we wanted to see, to guess our expectations, more than the brain child of someone with a vision, with a true story to tell. The girl-that-every-girl-wants-to-be with great athletic prowess and wit as the main character to try and get women to go and see it. The two popular Chinese actors were obviously there to appeal to the ever more important Chinese market. Nostalgic re-enactment (or pre-enactment?) of the ROTJ final battle. Darth Vader! Tarkin! The Death Star! There's someone and/or something for everybody in this movie. Maximum appeal to go and see it.

I think all characters did have potential, but there wasn't any time for them to really come alive, as we were introduced to too many locations and too many people. On the topic of coming alive, resurrected Peter Cushing was very clearly stuck deep into uncanny valley, and watching him was a little... morbid I think.

Like with the Force Awakens, I left the cinema not really unsatisfied, but not really happy either. Just kind of... okay. That was something all pre-Disney SW films did way better for me.

Yeah bareboards2 beat us both to it

I will definitely be watching how the press covers Trump with morbid curiosity.

*promote the morbid yet funny reality.

Now they just need to make the game...

I used to love a Norm joke. He's a bit of a troll now though, isn't he? I kept watching, morbidly, to see how Stephen would handle Norm, not to hear Norm.

"I deserve a great life"


Yeah you moron, I'm sure you'll have a wonderful life being morbidly obese.

Some people are just too fucking stupid

You know, if you tied a rope the exact right length to the back of your boat this would be an awesome prank to play on your friends.

Until they jump in the water and fall over the edge... Still it'd be hilarious, just in a morbid way, I suppose.

I completely agree with the industry. She's practically morbidly obese.

Here, here's a lovely young upcoming model that is far closer to the ideal.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/a7/34/1a/a7341ad1bb13582edc457004b93f8565.jpg

Japan tries to hide their breast mutilating, savage raping, mindless torturing of Chinese. In all honesty, if the Chinese government invaded, then murdered every politician and news venue that opposed teaching the true savagery of Japan's recent past, that would be 110% justified. In fact, it would be moral--since Japan is trying to sweep it under the rug in some morbid attempt to feel better.

I would think that would be more of a Rick Astley moment.
Would Stairway to Heaven be considered too morbid?

Someone....has a morbid sense of humor.

YEAAAAAHHHHHH!!!

Damn that's morbid and creepy and intense.

It's good seeing things like this to remind yourself how royally destroyed you can really get in a car accident despite all your fancy airbags and hwat-not.

Interesting. The music at the end is morbidly hilarious. Like something out of a gameshow. I expected to hear an audience "ooooooh".