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What movie or TV show is the footage showing at 2:48 to 2:55 from?
Fascinating. Even if I personally am not familiar with Swift or Barbie, Im sure the same forces mentioned in this video have affected me.
If I see anyone shoplifting, no I didn't.
Man, This was so boring and whatever the opposite of informative is. I think watching it made me forget how to tie my shoes
American here. I'm stressed af.
I mean, Taylor Swift CAN be a CIA psy-op without the whole Deep State baggage. Even if they appropriated her rather than created her. Personally, I think she's using pop culture the way con artists used to use the pulpit. Creating a secular idol that is more relatable and accessible, while also being remote enough for the audience to project their aspirations onto her. Watch that clip at 17:14 again and tell me that's any different from the power a faith healer or a cult leader has on their flock. She knows exactly what she's doing and you can see some of that mask slip in the Vogue interview where her answers are strangely cynical and direct.
The Yanomami are not hunter gatherers they grow cassava and plantains.
I love this channel - I wish I could play it in my literature classes, but I teach in a christian homeschool co-op and that wouldn't fly. But I casually mention it to my students so it's all on them
I noticed you mentioned Zizek twice. I think that when we address Zizek’s vast work, we should ask both sides of the question that he asks: what is ideology here in this instance, and then whether something deserves ideology-critique. For Zizek, ideology is not simply prejudice and bias, like racism and sexism which press on our everyday interactions, ideology is the value placed on “fun and enjoyment” in the sense that we are required by the social system and by the typical perceptions of activity to - enjoy. Clearly, work and especially mental labor like doing the readings, the writing and the paperwork does not fit the injunction ‘Enjoy’ which thereby demands ideology-critique. More seriously, Reagun entered the fray in Germany during a furious debate between politicians, historians and partisans. The issue was not just the integration of the Federal Republic and the GDR (East Germany) but extended into the contrast between nation and state, between the end of National Socialism in May 1945 and the experience of the past 40 years when this dispute arose - mid 80’s. Further, there was the problem of capitalism (West) and Socialism (East), and the necessary repression of conservative nationalist sentiments (neo-Nazi’s). The elite politicians, party officials, and intellectuals were further distressed over the Constitution which not only revised the Basic Law but was put before the officials for vote without any deliberation or public discussion! Enter Reagun with his communist jingoism completely ignoring the condition of the German culture as if it were an obliquity. The main point, using Zizek as a jumping off point, is that ideology is a multidimensional construct which must be defined in its particularity, eg Reagun appearing to take credit for a process occurring at fever pitch long before him. Ideology-critique is perhaps the more effective term, mentioned repeatedly by Zizek when he identifies circumstances necessitating critique. Consider University education. It used to be that the jocks were a marginal entity on University campuses. Today, sports has taken over the curriculum. Instead of drilling down in literary critique, media studies, history, philosophy or the social sciences, sports gets the attention of the masses while the periodicals and published books are insulated off into their own system where degrees and licenses are prominent, second to University sports programs! Things like this require ideology critique.
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During the superbowl, Israel intensified its bombing of Gaza. Hundreds died.
Reagan's poor policies, such as bloating the national defense, drastically cutting social services, and making missiles-for-hostages deals, led the country into record deficits and global embarrassment. For example, he cut the NEA budget from 168M to 143M while increasing the Defense Budget from 267B to 393B. Here we are today at 850B, which is a low estimate. What was the purpose behind cutting social services?
Hi Helen!!! So happy to see you again!
The friends theme song? I wish I wrote stairway to heaven ❤
Wonder if Diddy went to better Help 😂
"We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination." - David Lynch It takes the wisdom of the elders and young people's energy. - Common, Glory ...not or, AND.
Psycho-Pass.... I love this series, there are some thing that I would like to change, but damn it is a good show. And there is much more to it than just free will.
When I was in High School, it seemed like 'sell out' became something any band that achieved any level of success got called, or if their style changed. Maybe I'm naive, but I always got irritated by that. As someone who hoped to be an artist, it felt like these people were both set against the success of the things they liked, and also wanted their favorite artists to stop changing and growing. Of course, I grew up on TMNT.... And, I never would have found the original Eastman/Laird series, without that cartoon. So there is that.
I've worked from the age of 16 until graduating grad school, and during those 12 years, the most I ever made was ~35k. I was fortunate to land a nice job after grad school with a starting salary of $80k. Between student loans, taxes, and the higher cost of living, my *effective income* hasn't quite doubled - it's probably closer to $60k where I use to live (moved from MO --> WA). As a result, I went from living pay-check-to-pay-check ($0 savings), to having an extra ~$1k/mo. Having an extra $1k/mo has been massively beneficial to my mental health, and I no longer feel the need to be a social recluse to save money or wake up in the night to check my bank account. However, I dont know if it has brought me happiness, per se; it's more of an alleviation from stress. Nevertheless, I am still frantically saving for a opperation that I I'll need in the coming years, and if my car died, I'd loose most of those saving, and buying a house feels laughably unattainable. I dont know if it would make me happier, but I suspect I'd need to make closer to $110k to try and address the afformentioned shortcomings.
Hollywood has always been a finance bro lawless playground...... to the point where "Hollywood Accounting" aka fraud is a cultural thing.
Jordan Peterson's favorite movie is definitely "There will be blood", except he thinks that Daniel is the Ambitious and enterprising good guy.
"According to Jung, the bloody point is that we find the milkshake, and we drink the milkshake! We drink the whole bloody thing up! All of it!"
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@@WisecrackEDU what do you mean by ambitious and good? By milkshake and drink? The milkshake is a representation of the divine feminine. The dragon of chaos. The straw on the other hand is order. It's all about archetypes you see, Daniel is the embodiment of the logos and by drinking the milkshake his transforming chaos into order. Toxic femininity is being sucked by the good Daniel who happens to save the virgin, which is oil btw. 🤣
OK to start off with this play and the book it is based off are myth building. Right off the bat you have people talking about Hamilton as if he were an immigrant.He travelled to the what would become the US before its founding. He was American then as anyone could be.
To be fair to acting is part of making movies. So talking about acting is somewhat related.
Dennis Quiad has become too old. It sounds like he had a stroke the he talks. Or maybe that just how old men talks.
That interview was incredibly hard to watch. Quaid struggled to express even the most rudimentary sentences in full.
I havent fully watched this video yet, so perhaps you go on to explain this. With these AI models there exist 'emergent properties', where data is entered into the LLM, with reinforced learning + agents etc etc or whatever exact combination of methods it is. An emergent property is an ability that the AI seems to be able to make use of which the model shouldnt understand. An example of this that has been demonstrated and tried to be understood in an extremely basic AI system was this: The moves in a chess game were entered in the form p3-d4 where p3 is the 3rd pawn and d4 is the location on the chess board where it moved to. The information may have been more basic than this but I cant totally recall. This is the only information that was entered. When the 'black box' of transformers and weights was stopped and the data investigated it was found that the model had created a layout of a chess board which it was using to store and manipulate the data. It had not received any information about what a chess board was etc, but it seemed to have created one which it could refer to when calculating the moves it should make. So, it was doing something it shouldnt be able to. These properties seem to have become more and more complex as the GPU's, weights, parameter's, training time/style and compute have increased. There now seem to exist many examples of these properties. Why they occur is entirely unknown, and most likely unknowable as the systems are far too complex. It is a very difficult concept to comprehend, a machine creating ways to manage data that replicate the real world, and the idea is controversial still within the AI world. A much more complex version of this starts to arise when you look at something like Sora the text to video model. That model was trained on still images one after another in order. It was then able to out put images one after another which seemed to demonstrate that it had created a model within itself for things like gravity, continuity to some degree, collisions in 3D space, fluid dynamics and many other things. So the argument becomes; could the AI imitate these things extremely well just from pictures, or had it formed a model of gravity for example. It shouldnt be able to, but it seems that it has. From there it becomes an issue of understanding how the AI could possibly replicate complex models from minimal data, and whether you believe it is just an expected outcome from analysing loads of data, or whether it is doing something more. Im a computer systems engineer and the idea of data being manipulated in such a complex way and creating models for various things like gravity etc seems extremely hard to believe, but then there is no other explanation that fits terribly well. How exactly it is doing what it is doing no one knows. So from that is where this idea of AI's kinda 'understanding' the data comes from. So in parallel to that is the concept of how does matter become conscious, and is consciousness an emergent property of extremely complex neuron networks etc, which could be considered to be essentially the same, since both seem to us to be made of the same matter. Why does matter become conscious? Its obviously a ridiculously hard question to answer, if not impossible. But these systems do seem to suggest that complex manipulation of data etc can arise in unexpected abilities. I dont claim to know or understand anything either way but I do find it extremely interesting. Thats the best I can do to try and explain the concept. :)
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She’s just the Madonna of the oughts…..she will become irrelevant and forgotten about just like many female artists who sold out for the fame and money (lady ga ga, Madonna). Auto tune is not talent, she will not be celebrated in her eighties like Joanie Mitchell and Carol King are.
Well you have the right to get GenocideHelp as a sponsor and we have the right to criticise, push back and loose a little bit of trust.
The irony of plugging Raid shadow legends in this video
Stop advertising better help.
I see there are TWO insane Quades, not just the one. Something tells me they probably won't talk about The Day After Tomorrow...
Yay, another way that Reagan wrecked us.
kzread.info/dash/bejne/ln-no5iGlMLVcco.html Dr. Joesph Johnson in this video talks about tribalism and its impact faced by black doctors in training. He raises a number of great points that doctors are being evaluated by subjective measures instead of objective ones. Spoilers his performance was under review so he was asked to take an IQ test and if he received a low score he would be kicked out of the program. Despite scoring high enough to earn his Mensa card and higher than the average doctor, still remained on review and his IQ scores were ignored. He was kick out of his program like many other minority doctors for subjective reasons instead of objective one.
I’m astounded as to how many times you were able to ask for comments.
The action of inaction
Wild conspiracy theory: DEI itself is not bad. DEI the way companies like BlackRock demand it to be implemented is being done to keep racial discussions going over a unified working class. They're not demanding companies needing funding to implement DEI to better the world, they're pushing it the way they are to keep workers divided. They want to keep the discussion about "the evil black man taking the butter from the white man's bread through DEI" going so people won't come to the conclusion that they're milking the working class and lobbying for the removal of worker's rights.
Bro this is the best thing I have ever seen😭❤️Who knew I just needed a hood version of this summary😂😂
The only thing it would accomplish would be maybe 10,000 deaths and turn into a glorified standoff with the US military for like two weeks and a bunch of people would go to federal prison
I really like the Monday show, but I'm wondering if, rather than having a case of the Mondays, we could have an entire cask of the Mondays...?😅
Private equity ruin everything
Peaceful protest feels like admission that the electoral process can be wrong or slow so for serious issues like the Vietnam war it makes sense that you can’t expect people to 4 years for their side to get power. If you don’t give people some chance of peaceful protest than you are forcing violent protest. No two people protest for the same reason and cops can escalate of course but it feels like protesters today don’t accept any consequences. Like they can get permission to protest in a certain area and then start marching because their cause is worth it. Random instigators can start throwing rocks at police which is terrible but some think the cops should ignore it because trying to arrest a threat might break up the good protesters. When people chained themselves to trees they expected to be arrested and sued by loggers for lost profits. There was inherent risk in any important protest. I don’t want kids betting maced for no reason but I never understood how long a worthwhile protest could go on for even if I agree with it. Campuses might look bad cracking down on peaceful protesters. But protesters think protesting means demanding boards fire employees for allowing guests and not apologizing for not saying they were wrong. Protesting the Vietnam was a simpler idea seemed to be the right decision. But protesting to make a company not work with Israel or invite pro Israel guests? My boss can’t fire me for political views but college protesters can hold a business hostage until they conform? Most of these protesters don’t deserve to be taken seriously even if they are sincere. They gave money to these colleges without caring where it went. Except for blocking highways we were never going to agree on a limit for protests. But we saw liberals let their side take a city and conservatives took over the capitol. Protest lost all meaning after that.
Translation: How dare these students protests their schools investing in war crimes.
These two should join Tim and Greg for an episode of On Cinema
I won't describe ear cropping but suffice to say it's exactly as bad as you think it is
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Leisure is expensive, so when I want to do something like take a 4 day long vacation once a year I in turn have to work 12 - 16 days of overtime in order to afford the trip 🥴
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I had no opinion about her, this video, without even trying, just showing her ideology, made her despicable to me