I went to the, quite strange, Osaka Expo 2025, and made a video about it! You legally have to watch it because you follow me on the internet youtu.be/D10S6G1InXg?...
the thing about the Will Smith slap is that zooming in on it doesn't serve you well. What seems like it should be a Big Crazy event is in fact a small, kind of uncomfortable moment where a man is obviously struggling. Time and nostalgia is on the side of the will smith slap
when I go to different countries and people ask where I'm from, I sometimes pretend to be shocked and say "?? France??" gets a laugh like 80% of the time
even the idea of some standup comedian going on stage and being like, "so have you seen this, this is all over the news, Will Smith SLAPPED Chris Rock at the Oscars." is putting a smile on my face as I write this
I really like the joke people do where they pretend to have just learned about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars, and are like "oh my god". If you're ever wondering if you should make that joke, just keep in mind that it would probably get a smile out of me
Just for reference, this is the number of Ad spots youtube would automatically try to put on a 34 minute video of mine. While I imagine it would be unlikely for this many ads to be served, the standard seems to be about an ad every three mins
yes it gives us the ability to manually place ads. I don't know if there are significant drawbacks to doing so. I'd guess that you'd see less ad revenue, but that's because YouTube automatically places a TON of ads
and while I'm not personally judging creators for trying to make a living, I don't think audiences on youtube have no reason to be annoyed by constant and poorly placed ad breaks, right
well idk, I'm not really "blaming" anyone. But you can't both think it's a shitty decision from youtube and that the decision to allow automatic ads shouldn't be stigmatized. the auto ads help creators make money, is what you're saying, and I agree
it also really clarifies to me that "vocabulary" is like not really my central problem in french. I can usually read messages fine. it's understanding when these fucks blend their sentences into what sounds like one syllable and then look at you like "quel est le probleme petit homme"
one very fun language learning thing I just did was make it so my phone automatically translates everyone's messages to me to french. I'd honestly recommend, it really feels confrontational
Like, "we want a modern crusade, we want the west to occupy Jerusalem" just seems so much more fitting to the actual things conservatives say than "we want a rapture soooo bad"
I think it's a belief that some people might vaguely hold, but that the far more important impulse is just simple anti arab sentiment. And that rapture talk kinda of functions as a fun curiosity distracting from more practical and important neo-conservative reasons for American Zionism
I'm genuinely curious about your thoughts on this opinion I loosely hold: The idea that a broad support for Israel among conservatives in America comes down to some desire to bring about the rapture is quite overstated.
UK so crazy. I don't think there's any overt contradiction here, but isn't it odd that on the international stage, they're beginning to take an at least vaguely more pro palestine stance, and at home, it seems they're just going crazier and crazier
(to be clear, a more well liked video I have not made, the video isn't swimming in hate or something. Though recently, like for the last day or two, for some reason, the comments are oddly negative. I feel like it's on some discord out there that hates it)
