The Anything Goes Youtubery Thread

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youtubery from Vlad, giving little Donnie, a style guide for renovations and acceptable autocrat camera ready behaviours.

 

 

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laugh ?  5 5 5 

 

 

and more 5 5 5

 

 

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Jon Stewart is a funny and intelligent man. And has a serious side as well. Many have talked about him as a Democratic candidate or to run for Congress.

 

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T'were  I  'merican - I'd vote for him.

an aside

Fallon, Colbert, Stewart, and a legion of comedians would do a good job running the USA.

If you're going to have a bunch of clowns doing the work, at least get the professionals.

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Even Jimmy Kimmel who has a huge following from MAGA supporters 😀

There is any number of eligible candidates. Since I started following Independent Media, the level of honest and accurate reporting on Trump still baffles me how he got elected. Fox News and Musk etc had a huge hand in it. The algorithms X used should be considered election interference.

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I got my scuba ticket at age 14 and I grew up watching Ron and Valery Taylor's groundbreaking underwater films, Saltwater Crocodiles, Dugongs, Great White Sharks etc etc (they consulted and filmed for Jaws).

This docco is a bit of a mish mash but very good for vision of stuff you will have never seen before and likely won't again, underwater scenes, islanders, whales, even volcanic stuff. recommended.

 

 

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The latest index

https://index.goodcountry.org/

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Thank you, the most interesting 17:54 mins I have had, in recent times.

Well worth the watch and sticking through it to the end.

A very little, self promoting, but that's a bloody good thing.

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A personal anecdote:

Over the years, my involvement with SEA has been reasonably thorough. Beginning with Japan and their Shinto and Buddhist ways, then Thailand and Laos and their ubiquitous Buddhism.

As an Atheist and detractor of religions general, I sometimes find myself, having to explain why I don't denigrate Buddhism along with the other religions.

What I reckon, is that Buddhism is more of a philosophy than a religion, but I suppose you could argue that for other religions. 

So my opinion is, that it's the treatment of the philosophy, by the people, as a religion, that is where we go astray.

And further, that once you've read all the texts and such, and talked with monks etc, that you can boil it all down to a two word phrase, which is,  "do good".

And I find myself startled, that the gist of the above TED talk, aligns somewhat.