Interesting info, but whoever produced the video made some really questionable editorial decisions. Commas separated values over 1000, except for periods used in #1. What's with the "big stuff" in the background? How do the heights of various buildings compared to things like mountains and the size of Halley's comet relate to these mortality figures?

Just... weird. Good video though, in spite of that

This is just weird. Who is it aimed at?

I really hope kids aren’t watching GOT

Too weird to live, too weird to die, but just weird enough to get down. Go Johnny, go. Go!

This is very very deep in the uncanny valley territory.
It looks just weird.
It feels like those fan art drawings and clips of "realistic" pokemon.

It also has a feeling of that supposedly horrible DBZ live-action movie.

Every single movie by PTA wow i'm just weirded out -- it's like there's a broken metronome of pacing that feels almost on beat and always escalating like Willy Wonka in that damn tunnel creeping me out about the rowers rowing.

@newtboy
you were not the only one who put me on the defensive for supporting chis hedges.
so if you feel singled out,i apologize.

the point of this post is put into light an adored spokesperson for the left,and a commentator who is also left leaning (and many of his upvoted videos can be found on the sift) to make a point.

and by your comment,you are struggling to reconcile the two.
but you DID reconcile,and you did so by giving maddow a tacit pass and condemning kyle for being a "complete bombastic liar".

when the truth is:
they both are...kinda..sorta..

they both are approaching,and making their points by using biased and slanted data to influence you,and i for that matter,into adopting their viewpoint.

these are not outright and pernicious lies.they are lies that serve a purpose and i find maddows far more egregious,because it is far more subtle..and you appear to have bought it.

she did so by using the innocuous word "might",yet her inferrence cannot be mistaken.they call it the "dog whistle".this is a wink and a nod that those dirty ruskies own our new president.

wink wink...nudge nudge..know what i mean?

now kyle is not exactly lying either.
he is using russias reaction to the new deployment from putin himself.who has stated that there was an agreement that there would be no new encroachment after the GDR,but that simply reveals the cleverness and political saavy of putin.

the real truth is this:
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2014/11/06/did-nato-promise-not-to-enlarge-gorbachev-says-no/

or is it?
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nato-s-eastward-expansion-did-the-west-break-its-promise-to-moscow-a-663315.html
from 2009?

maybe this is the truth?
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-shifrinson-russia-us-nato-deal--20160530-snap-story.html
from 2016.

well,personally i am going with the LAtimes and der spiegel.
brookings is a right wing think tank with deep tentacles in the pentagon and DoD.

but CNN reports that poland LOVES the new troops:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/14/europe/poland-us-troops-nato-welcome/

look,
while i will agree that putin is a vicious thug,who murders political opponents and tortures dissidents.that he is ruthless and relentless political player.

i do not see any evidence of russian hacking influencing our elections,nor do i see a new russian empire pushing for those cold war expansionism days.

the only entity/country i see pushing for expansion and a renewal of the cold war..is us..the pentagon and the department of defense,and those juicy juicy defense contracts!

i feel my time on the sift is coming to a close.
having to defend my admiration for a pulitzer prize winning,war correspondent and author is just...weird.

at least i know i am biased,but i do my best to self-correct.

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Lol. What the hell? Some guy who doesn't fully understand the Hyperloop tech makes a video 'debunking' it? It's just weird. I guess it makes money for him, though.

I had a best friend who had something very similar happen. He had a lifetime issue with Meth. I wouldn't necessarily classify it as addiction since he could go years without using it, but if it was available and he was in that mood, he would use it.

Usually it would happen when he went back home to Oklahoma and hung out with his old best friend from years before. The last time he went, he used it and it exacerbated an undetected aneurysm. They found him barely alive and with brain damage to the same area of the brain that the person in the video has.

After a year of recovery, during which we were unsure if he would recover at all, he did manage to begin speaking again and have some movement. His speech was very much the same; you could sense he knew what he was trying to say, but all the wrong words came out. He had to use a tablet like device that would tell you what he was trying to say, it was supposed to also help him retrain his mind so that he could speak again.

Sadly he passed away in his sleep about 6 months later. I still can't believe it sometimes. He died at 41, when I was 39. Now I am older than he was and he was in far better health than me, except for the aneurysm. It's just weird how things work out.

*promote

I finally got around to watching this and it is JUST WEIRD.

and I am pretty weird.

I generally fall into the "watching other people play video games is stupid" set, but on the other hand, if someone else enjoys it, I can't think of a good reason why they shouldn't. I do all sorts of stupid things for which the only explanation I can give is that I like it. Good enough.

Unless it's people who watch tentacle rape porn or US presidential primary debates, that's just weird.

Just weird

I liked the video better than the commentary.

I feel bad for the teacher...it feels like he is stuck (doesn't walk away)

I don't really understand this newfangled social justice warrior. I am just glad I missed it. It is always the self-important people that cause the most drama. They think they are so important.

The snap is just weird. No one questions it. This is how we clap now.

Hmmmm. I buy some of that, but not all of it. Or rather it's true in some cases but not all. Some art, like the two lovers/clocks has meaning beyond it's own form and that's important to appreciate it. But there are certainly some abstract works out there that are just too lost in art.

I'm on the edge of the art world as an illustrator and photographer and completely get the 'go do it' angle though. Just saying 'I could do that' is missing the point entirely. Anyone who looks at a simple bit of art with a high value and thinks it must be simple to just paint a few squares and put a thousand pound price on it can't honestly believe it, otherwise we'd be up to our eyeballs in shitty paintings with huge price tags.

If a bit of artwork needs an artist's name to be worth something then consider what it took for the artist to get to that place. They didn't just wake up one morning a famous artist. The name gives context and can be important. Not every time, some 'artists' are just way too into their circlejerks and mutual bigging up that the only skill an artist might need is to be just weird enough and in the right place at the right time to be one of the 'in crowd', but to be fair this isn't the case with the vast majority of abstract art.

What if it's done as a health issue? Shaking hands is a major disease vector, and if altering that social behavior just slightly can help us all stay safer, isn't that worth it?
I only fist bump these days. I'm not quite at Howie Mandel level, but I understand him. I always feel that if I'm going to shake your hand, I might as well go ahead and just give you a hug (and probably a pat on the back too), no?
But maybe that's just weird old me. ;-)