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

I gotta admit, I lol'd after clicking the link.

In reply to this comment by Gallowflak:
Um... ...?

I see what you're saying. I'm sorry you feel that way. I'm not gonna say the world is all tulips and butterflies, but as someone who used to be in a pretty dark place myself and think there was no point to anything, I guess the only thing I can offer is the hope that maybe you won't feel that way forever. In my case, I realized a lot of the assumptions I was making about other people were just plain wrong. They were based on the fact that I'd been hurt pretty bad when I was younger by people I trusted, and I kind of developed this self-defense mechanism of just assuming everyone is an asshat. If you don't ever get close to anybody, they can't ever hurt you right?

I can't say it was any one thing that changed me in the end. Over time I started to become aware of inconsistencies in my perceptions. People I thought were total assholes turned out to be all right. And other people that were actually assholes... I came to understand why they acted that way. Sometimes, knowing how they got there, I couldn't blame them. Plus, I was pretty miserable too believing the worst in people all the time. So I decided to change.

Anyways, I hope you can change your mind someday too.

In reply to this comment by NinjaInHeat:
You're right, about pretty much everything you said, but there's no better or worse here, there's a person and his willingness to make "his world" better. Will I receive less support when I need it most if I turn my back on most people in my community, of course, that is unfortunately not reason enough for me to not do so seeing as I hate my community. I can be a "better" person, I can say hi to my neighbors, I can help people out, I can do lots of shit, I just don't want to in most cases. It's not some fierce ideology, it's just me as a person reacting to how I feel about my fellow man (which is usually disgust). Don't get me wrong, I don't go out of my way to fuck people over, and I'm not an asshole generally, but I will go out of my way to remain passive, just the thought of associating myself with other people in some common goal makes me sick. Human kind is a mass of retarded flesh from which occasionally there gets spewed a decent chunk, a free thinker, someone I can respect. Ignoring everyone but those few can be considered childish, but in my eyes it's not an option, it's either that or to be constantly consumed by rage and frustration, the world of tomorrow doesn't really enter the equation...