Youz guys are so cute

*promote

Oh god I cannot wait to hear what the heck is coming next. Always had a morbid curiosity for everything coming down the QD pipeline ever since Omikron inexplicably captured my teenage mind and soul. *promote

Put some gears on it and call it steampunk... its SO almost there!

Still my fave sift of all time

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Is this not the opening to Highlander?

The camera operator seems pretty disdainful of this person who is in his own car! Sounds like a sociopath. She may be a dum-dum, but he's leading the witness.

that hacking function looks hot. still excited, even though i am pretty sure i'll hate the overdone sepia shit.

Yuck yuck yuck!

While I would not choose to phrase it that way, I agree with you in principle, westy. The big fear (which is hopefully not SIMPLY CONFIRMED by this SINGLE video) is that American will take this death as some major american triumph, when, in fact, this triumph can really only be located LARGELY on a symbolic level, and LARGELY in relation to a certain misrecognized reality on the part of the us state and its subjects.

We would do well to remember that Bin Laden made a hell out of many other people's lives before sept. 11th, and touched many other nations. This is NOT just an american triumph... many people are still picking up the pieces of their lives and countries as a result of the MISGUIDED american reaction to the attacks of sept. 11th, so they haven't really had the time or energy to even THINK about osama bin laden.

So, basically, I would have liked Obama to come out and point out all the FALSE POSITIVES: the deaths that were a result of America THINKING they were reacting to 9/11, but were, in fact, just carrying out acts of displaced violence. Bin Laden died MANY TIMES, it seems, because is image is so over-determined... the scope of his power and influence so shady... and he will die many MORE times if this absurd war on terrorism is allowed to operate as a seal over any more acts of military aggression around the world. This death is still just a symptom of the larger "war on terrorism," which will ALWAYS be imbalanced, confusing, and chaotic by its very nature. THat's how terrorism (and the reactions to it) operates.

We Americans might keep in mind that this death ALSO signals the end of the road for a giant beast that has gotten so big (its vision foggy from the steroids) in its rabid hunt for a little fox, that when it finally caught up to the small pathetic animal and ripped it to shreds, the beast is going to have to check into some kind of clinic to remember who it even is, or where it came from.

>> ^westy:

So naive uneducated and plain retarded.
Its baffling how ignorant many Americans are to the reality of the world how easy they are to manipulate and how often they are them selfs everything they profess to hate.

BB, thanks for the thoughtful reply (and again, for the awesome post). I didn't mean to excoriate for not knowing who this dude is or anything, I just think that "young black man" can be a little disorienting for people who might not fully appreciate the context and position from which Thurston is speaking to us today. I would never want provide a title for someone's video, but since you asked me, I might just suggest replacing "young black man" with "Baratunde Thurston..." or "Black Comedian/Cultural Critic..." or something like that. But I don't EXPECT you to change it--I was just voicing my (slight) dissent. But in any case, *quality dialogue and vid. Thanks again, BB!

>> ^bareboards2:

Sorry, I had never heard of him. That title came from my anger at my racist uncle who just told me two days ago that the only "good" black people (he didn't use those words) were older. Didn't use the word "uppity" but he might as well have.
Tell me what I should change it to. I am not attached to this title at all.

>> ^griefer_queafer:
Yuck on the title. This "young black man" is a fairly renowned cultural critic and comedian, and his speaking "eloquently" is not all that surprising. Anyway, upvote for the video itself. Thanks for the content (but not necessarily the heading), BB.

How unfortunate that we have another scientist thinking that philosophy (or, any kind of intellectual adventure not fully mediated by science), is just a bunch of intellectual pretense. Susskind seems like a good dude, but also seems like a bit of a bully in this way.

Yuck on the title. This "young black man" is a fairly renowned cultural critic and comedian, and his speaking "eloquently" is not all that surprising. Anyway, upvote for the video itself. Thanks for the content (but not necessarily the heading), BB.

Fox and friends... they always just skip the foreplay and blow their load immediately.