*promote in the same way that I would promote a video of an actual great old one whose very image would drive any sane person to madness.

Cheers. It was unexpected, and I'm actually happier about it than I thought I would be. Now to decide what to do with all this power

It finds them. In Mercia.

I mean, I know the coconut's tropical and this is a temperate zone, but it holds them under its newsflare guiding feathers.

Cheers for the link so we can play. All I need to know now is how to stop playing.

Interesting as ever. The subtitles are even more useful than usual, describing the glazes, what he's trying to do, and how the second experiment failed.

Things scurvy is worse than:
I. Death
II. When you open one of those ring-pull beers and it comes off but doesn't open the beer
III. Roman numerals being used unnecessarily
IV. Your boss saying. "Can I have a word with you?" and you know you're fucked but you're not sure why
V. The emoji movie

This is from a frame or so at 3:44, but I thought I'd trick you into thinking I was mildly funny until just now.

Can confirm. A cm or so of insulation on live and neutral pins on plugs here in Ireland (and UK) have definitely saved me and probably my toddler from shocks / death / learning experiences.

I can tell you it was a little alarming seeing how he unplugs stuff. It's hard not to give into the temptation of a few hundred volts of rigged 'I told you so', but no one wants him living like Medhi here.

Interesting stuff until the last line where I think he's mixing up cause and effect. He says that "not playing by the rules is advantageous once you get out of a closed system like education" using high earners as evidence. Instead he should be looking at people who exhibit those trails and seeing how successful they are relative to the high GPA crowd.

There's a great book on this and lots more written way back in 1954... How To Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff.

It's available for free here: https://archive.org/details/HowToLieWithStatistics

"Trump Lane" at 1:12. Fantastic. I suppose it would be remiss to talk about the word without mentioning the foremost modern example.

This is extremely important, and (as far as I know) is extremely prevalent in Judaism, where the notes and interpretations are literally just as important as the scripture itself. These notes have been debated and clarified over the centuries by people who specialise in studying it; beyond that there is still debate, and the notes are still evolving. This means they have something of a self-righting mechanism whereby the mistakes of the past can be corrected.

This is in a way similar to the scientific approach, but using debate instead of empiricism.

The problem is that most christian churches ignore this fact and go by the interpretations of the church leader(s). The most extreme are the bible literalists who can justify pretty much anything by cherry-picking passages. The larger established churches like the catholics have some of this, but are largely missing the key feature of self-correction (except over far longer periods of time, and almost fully at the discretion of the pope).

I'm reading a book where an 18-month-old just died of diptheria... given the make-up job in the video I'm just glad the author didn't go into the symptoms.

At least smallpox was wiped out before the anti-vax movement came along.

In case you didn't know, there's a good amount of extra info in the subtitles of his videos. Much of it is covered in his description, but it's a lot nicer to get it while watching.

Cheers for the promote.

You've just given me a... thought. A good mst3k-style commentary would make a far better Turing test than the standard conversation thing.

I've heard this idea espoused many times: follow your passion. An alternative that I like and follow (but not in a social media way) is 'become useful'. Find a useful skill or set of skills, become good at them, contribute to society, and get rewarded in return. This reward can come in several forms such as money, time, or convenience.

Of course, the best way to get good at something is repetition/experience, and the least painful way to get that is to pick something you enjoy doing, so in that respect I agree with the video.

I love programming. I got reasonably good at it. However, working as a programmer sucked much of the joy out of it, so I found a role where I could use that experience but not keep coding. I got good at that, and found a better niche that combined the two skills. I then did the same again. I now have a very nice set of very useful and quite rare skills, and have plenty of options.

I can't find where I first heard this idea - there are a lot of vidoes out there saying this - but there's a good version at https://videosift.com/video/Is-Follow-Your-Passion-is-bad-advice.