She slipped and fell to her death.

Sounds like a cautionary tale, similar to that of Pippa Bacca.

The world rewards those rare people who are developed enough to be able to enjoy being boring and responsible. (Read that link.) Zina and Pippa would have been happier today if their parents had told them that.

YouTube comment, QFT:

"If there were idiots who believed in this before this video was posted, I assure you there will be idiots who believe in it afterwards. He'll probably make something up about how the alignment of the stars affected him or that an evil EFO master put a curse on him."

Non-empiricism ruins peoples' lives.

I'm currently watching an extended family member destroy her end-of-life financial planning because she thinks she just needs to meditate/pray harder.

Instead of living below her means before it's too late, she's planning on being able to "manifest" the money needed to continue her needlessly exorbitant lifestyle.

Naturally, she's lost a lot of money to salesmen and con-artists with "high integrity" who pitched her "alternative investments" that were "sure things."

"I see a connection between this feeling of powerlessness and the "stop and frisk" laws."

If we were science-minded, we'd demand statistics to confirm that hypothesis. And we'd look for data showing that removing "stop and frisk" reduces crime. But it's likely the opposite... "stop and frisk" works, and removing it increases crime.

The reason there's a correlation between cities with "stop and frisk" and the "knockout game" is because these cities passed "stop and frisk" in response to their unhinged urban youth violence.

These kids feel powerless because their academic scores are the level of third-worlders. Fix that, and everything else will fix itself.

The top gorilla appears to be male. The narrator suggests the bottom gorilla might be male as well, which does happen in gorillas, but there's no visual confirmation within the video.

Gorillas, like lions, have relatively small penises and testes because they form highly ordered societies.

FFS, if you only have enough material for one joke, make a 30-second video.

This is as bad as SNL: good ideas but terrible, drawn-out implementation.

The thumbnail is funnier than the skit is. (But I still upvoted )

I think she meant take your clothes off before pouring boiling water on them.

Kanye West is 36 years old.

But many 13-year-olds are more mature than he is... typing in all caps, becoming offended over nothing, and trying to win debates through insults.

To put it in perspective... if Kanye was a commenter on Videosift, he'd be less intelligent than everybody here. I've never seen anybody typing in all caps here.

Rationalist African-Americans tend to dress so people will know from looking at them that they reject ghetto culture.

Aren't we talking about culture, but pretending we're talking about race?

For example, conservatives dislike ghetto crime, but they've wanted Herman Cain and Allen West to be their presidential candidates.

Artician, minorities like Asian-Americans have lower average crime rates than the White-American average.

So it seems like you're talking about NAM (non-Asian minority) culture, but you're instead using the blanket term "minorities" inaccurately.

What a self-absorbed attitude toward his community.

1. Industrial design of this type is more about math and data, not about intuitive understanding.

So controlling things with your hands looks like a gimmick which would be useless for power-users. For power-users, their mouse and keyboard shortcuts become extensions of their mind.


2. I had no idea we can 3d print now using titanium, rather than just plastic

That part really does conjure up the Iron Man movies... the lone designer designing and printing in his garage without needing to wait for a titanium factory 10,000 miles away to create your prototype and ship it to you.

"If we cannot nitpick twerking videos, then we no longer have freedom."

I just did a handstand and simulated falling over.

I think there's no way anybody would keep their arms straight.

Our bodies are extremely wary of letting out bodies slam into the ground, full impact, with our arms as a fulcrum. When we're next to a glass table (!), that instinct is even more pronounced.


Once we're tipping over upside-down, our bodies instinctively crumple to return to the ground and avoid the body slam.

This just adds to the already large number of improbabilities that have to occur in order for this video to be real.