*ban

*ban

Thanks!

Thanks for getting this Sifted!

Thanks for the promote!

Thanks for the quality!

Thanks for the promote!

Dude, don't forget to vote for your own video!

http://videosift.com/video/Stephen-Colbert-appears-to-host-Monroe-MI-public-access

No, no, no offense taken. I and don't think you're hypocritical. You probably consume far less tuna over the course of a year than an average Japanese individual. The sad thing is, the population as a whole here is completely unaware of the tunas' plight. There's a conspiracy-theory level lack of coverage of the issue in the media here.

Case in point, a few weeks back the media reported about the first tuna auction of the year at Tsukiji Market in Tokyo, where traditionally people overbid on the largest tuna caught as kind of "good luck in the coming year" tradition. Except, the highest bid this year (as well as the fish caught) was much smaller than the last two years.

I read two different Western newspaper articles on the topic and they both went into great detail about how tuna catches are way down due to overfishing and how the size of the fish being caught is much smaller because only the juveniles are left (the more adult fish have already been caught). Both mentioned Japan consumes 80% of the worldwide tuna haul.

Then that night I go running at my local gym and watch the Japanese nightly news and they have a brief 30-second bit about how the first Tsukiji auction of the new year took place and how the person who won was the same as last year.

That's it, end of coverage. I literally laughed out loud on the treadmill, more in bitterness than anything else.

That's why in my Media English classes at the university I teach, the first newspaper article of the semester is always an English newspaper article about the tuna fishing situation. The kids are shocked at the statistics and they tell their friends about what they read. Most claim they're going to stop eating tuna. I have no idea if they actually do or not, but it's all I can really do to try to change attitudes here.

Wow, thanks! I'll try not to spend them all in one place!

Thanks for getting that Sifted!

Thanks!

In reply to this comment by Deano:
*quality

Also, @MarineGunrock

FYI, it wasn't a dupe. It was filmed on the same day by a different person and had different footage. But then they made it private. Was gonna kill it anyway because I couldn't find a replacement, so thanks I guess.

In reply to this comment by chicchorea:
*isdupe>> ^MarineGunrock:

dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Russian-backhoe-swimming-pool

I absoutely agree! Feel free to vote up anything in my PQ and maybe even throw a promote my way to help me get there!

In reply to this comment by chicchorea:
With all due respect, you definitely need to star up.
In reply to this comment by SDGundamX:
*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Japanese-SNES-Commercial-Zelda

Gold star members, please dupe this and transfer the votes when you have a chance

Thanks for those. Interesting reads. But it is still a bit confusing, isn't it? The FAQ says one thing, the poll says something else, and it looks like a significant number of people on the Sift still don't agree with the poll's results. I'd be one of them actually--I think it clutters up the Sift to have the exact same content filmed from a slightly different angle unless that angle shows something compelling.

For example, there was a vid that made top 15 of two cops beating a guy in a subway station. Then someone else posted a vid that contained the exact same scene from a different security cam--only this time you could see them beating the guy even more from an angle that the 1st vid couldn't capture (because the cops dragged the guy around a corner). To me, that's a case where clearly both videos deserve to stay on the Sift, because the second one adds really compelling information. In most other cases though, I think it should be first to Sift gets all the votes.

In reply to this comment by xxovercastxx:
>> ^SDGundamX:



http://videosift.com/talk/Accute-Dupitis

[edit] and here's the resulting poll: http://videosift.com/poll/What-is-a-dupe