Speaking of voices, the way this YouTube video and many like it provide information is frustrating. I don’t need 5 minutes of expository filler, but I guess they do to get a certain monetary length. And the filler is all “did ya know”; yes I knew and was interested in the new stuff you teased, so get on with it. “but did ya know”; yes, please get on with it.
I raised identical twins. It doesn’t take long living with them to move past whatever appearance they have in common and easily tell them apart by their personalities. I mean, did you know that character matters more than looks?
@Leland, regarding Youtube videos, there’s a quote (meme?) known as the The Wadsworth Constant originally by Redditor named Wadsworth.
For EVERY youtube video, I always open the video and then immediately punch the slider bar to about 30 percent.
I rarely view the videos linked here, or in any other blog. And by “rarely,” I mean almost never.
Wow– Ron DeSantis had 20 persons arrested yesterday for breaking Florida’s elections laws: “Fort Lauderdale—Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that his Florida Office of Election Crimes and Security (ECSF) and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), have arrested 20 individuals for breaking Florida’s elections laws.
“All 20 of these individuals were disqualified from voting after they were convicted of murder or a felony sexual offense, but they chose to vote anyway, and now they have all been charged with voter fraud — a third-degree felony punishable by up to a $5,000 fine and up to 5 years in prison,” stated a press release.Fort Lauderdale—Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that his Florida Office of Election Crimes and Security (ECSF) and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), have arrested 20 individuals for breaking Florida’s elections laws. ‘All 20 of these individuals were disqualified from voting after they were convicted of murder or a felony sexual offense, but they chose to vote anyway, and now they have all been charged with voter fraud — a third-degree felony punishable by up to a $5,000 fine and up to 5 years in prison,’ stated a press release.
‘In 2020, Florida ran an efficient, transparent election that avoided the major problems we saw in other states. At the same time, the election was not perfect, which is why we continue our efforts to ensure the integrity of our elections,’ said Governor Ron DeSantis. ‘Our new election crimes office has sprung into action to hold individuals accountable for voter fraud. Today’s actions send a clear signal to those who are thinking about ballot harvesting or fraudulently voting. If you commit an elections crime, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.'”
Came across this from a couple of years back. A big part of our problem is cultural. That is, the social dynamics of organizations have elevated the worst sort of people from among the birth cohorts occupying upper management, and among the hallmarks of the worst sort is casual lying. The perpetrator of his dismissal was this douchenozzle:
@Art Deco: I have encountered a few executives during my career whose “success” is marked, in my words and figuratively, by the number of dead bodies they have left on the side of the road. You just want to avoid them at all costs. They eventually get found out, but not before immense damage has been done. And then their bosses fail to address that damage, lacking the courage to own up to their mistake for placing authority and trust in those persons, further demoralizing the people expected to carry out the work. It exposes a kind of rot in the leadership.
I liked the video. Very interesting. I’ve known a couple pairs of identicals. The one pair that my wife and I watched grow up definitely had different personalities which my wife could distinguish easily, but I never got to that point.
I thought it was a flaw of the comprehensive study to only look a fraternal twins. These semi-identicals were of opposite sex, but what if some other ones look identical and were really semi-identicals.
______
Leland and Nonapod,
I’ve gotten so weary of op-ed pieces where the author insists on demonstrating how clever or witty or worldly he/she is in the first paragraph. Almost always the material is completely irrelevant. So now I usually just skip past it.
The only identical twins I ever knew were four year old girls who lived next door to us when our now 50 year old son was four. Of course our kids alway played together and we knew the family well and be did baby sitting for a few days while one of them was having an operation to fix something where her esophagus went into her stomach. When the parents were getting the discharge orders to leave the hospital from the doctor as an afterthought they ask if they should be concerned about their other daughter and after a bit of discussion they mentioned they had identical twins. The doctor told them that indeed follow up should be done on the sister and of course she had the same identical situation which required the same surgery. They moved a couple of years later and it would be interesting to see how those now 50 year old sisters are doing.
I was wondering if there were any developmental similarities between the semi-identicals and a chimera.
I guess not. The semi-identical start with a single zygote that splits into twins and the chimera begins with two zygotes that then merge.
We have a pair of identicals among our shirt-tails. They’ve been readily distinguishable since they were about 14 (different grooming) and went in different directions occupationally. They seem on satisfactory terms. They always were.
Regarding the semi-identical twins . . .
I had a good high school buddy whose younger brothers may have fit this category. The doctors swore they were identical, according to my buddy’s parents, but they definitely looked different from each other. No way, insists moi, that they were 100 percent identical. But that was over half a century ago, and we-all figure we know more now.
Nonapod and TommyJay; I guess I’m not the only one that was taught a bit about journalism in High School, the five W’s and the Inverted Pyramid. Now it seems we get a lot of general background information first, then maybe some details and newsworthy items later “if we hang on to the end and don’t forget to like and subscribe”. Blah, drink more Ovaltine!
I certainly agree with the intro skip. I enjoy about half the videos neo posts, which I consider a decent Venn diagram of interest. As much as I seem to be complaining here about YouTube videos; most of my video watching now is YouTube or Patreon. Every now and then, it strikes me how much it reminds me of Heinlein’s “For Us, the Living” and the character Diana working in her home. I suppose the same can be said for blogging, but I don’t think either the videos or blogging pays as good as Heinlein’s story suggests.
If you mouse-over the time line, some YouTubes will show faint peaks and valleys for the sections which have been watched the most.
Not all YouTubes. Not the one above. I suspect it’s a matter of the YouTube being recent and having had many views from which such data has been collected.
I use this feature when I want to skip the intro or the ads or the boring sections and cut to the chase.
I too get impatient with the filler and frequently skip ahead.
De Santis’ action is to be applauded. Criminality is deterred when the risk/reward ratio is heavily skewed toward risk.
Which is why there are far more instances of larceny than bank robberies.
A friend of mine had been an OBGYN in the Army. He told me he delivered a set of twins that were different races. One was black and the other white. Interesting to speculate on the situation at conception.
Two of my closest friends in high school were identical twins who had been adopted. They were really identical. Both big and with red hair. Their mother’s name had been Collins. They had been adopted by a nice Jewish couple which made for some interesting dynamics. One was very athletic and had a tryout with the Chicago White Sox as a pitcher. Both were tough and had considerable experience in fights. One reason for this was that one of the two was a bit of a loudmouth and would get into arguments. Then the other party would round up friends and come looking for him.
At least half the time, the disgruntled party would find the other twin who would have to fight his brother’s fights, The one who was not the loud mouth was the athlete. The athletic one joined the Marines and used to come to my fraternity parties in LA when he was at Camp Pendleton. Great guy.
Here’s a brain-squeezer. To what extent would the common good be harmed if schools of public health were shut down?
Leland,
The backstory problem is the same in many articles on RedState (the worst offender), TownHall, and PJMedia. Sometimes I cannot find the factoid promised in the headline. Which is why I enjoy the present site, where the articles are well written. I don’t know how people like Neo can put together thoughtful and well-structured articles — good grammar, punctuation, paragraph structure, flow of paragraphs — so fast, and multiple ones on the same day. PowerLine is also good in this respect.
PS: I especially like the occasional quotes from “Moby Dick,” particularly when applied to the January 6 nonsense.
T-Rex: I once experienced this kind of executive–at a community college, an upper-level dean. When he was finally fired, the president of the college asked why no one told him what was going on. Well, people who tried were fired. Duh.
BabylonBee does Zellenski vs Bare Chested Vlad on his Pony™.
Vlad makes your heart go a pitter patter? Takes all kinds.
Banned Lizard:
Not “arisen.” Zelensky started out as a “rock star” – an extremely successful comedian, actor, producer, etc.
Speaking of rock stars and Putin…
Putin makes my heart go pitter-pat. At least when I watch this MTV-like video. I’ve linked this song before, but this is the New Improved Enhanced Edition:
They rock out with Young Woman, violin, viola and bass. No one sings along, but they get good applause at the end.
I don’t know why, but I love the Russians so much. Yet they got so much, so terribly wrong.
Now America seems to be saying, “Hold my beer…”
Bare Chested Vlad on his Pony™ goes boom, boom, boom in Crimea. How’s that for a bass line? The bodies come home in bags or not at all. So many eggs. Never get nice things.
Speaking of voices, the way this YouTube video and many like it provide information is frustrating. I don’t need 5 minutes of expository filler, but I guess they do to get a certain monetary length. And the filler is all “did ya know”; yes I knew and was interested in the new stuff you teased, so get on with it. “but did ya know”; yes, please get on with it.
I raised identical twins. It doesn’t take long living with them to move past whatever appearance they have in common and easily tell them apart by their personalities. I mean, did you know that character matters more than looks?
@Leland, regarding Youtube videos, there’s a quote (meme?) known as the The Wadsworth Constant originally by Redditor named Wadsworth.
For EVERY youtube video, I always open the video and then immediately punch the slider bar to about 30 percent.
I rarely view the videos linked here, or in any other blog. And by “rarely,” I mean almost never.
Wow– Ron DeSantis had 20 persons arrested yesterday for breaking Florida’s elections laws: “Fort Lauderdale—Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that his Florida Office of Election Crimes and Security (ECSF) and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), have arrested 20 individuals for breaking Florida’s elections laws.
“All 20 of these individuals were disqualified from voting after they were convicted of murder or a felony sexual offense, but they chose to vote anyway, and now they have all been charged with voter fraud — a third-degree felony punishable by up to a $5,000 fine and up to 5 years in prison,” stated a press release.Fort Lauderdale—Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced that his Florida Office of Election Crimes and Security (ECSF) and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), have arrested 20 individuals for breaking Florida’s elections laws. ‘All 20 of these individuals were disqualified from voting after they were convicted of murder or a felony sexual offense, but they chose to vote anyway, and now they have all been charged with voter fraud — a third-degree felony punishable by up to a $5,000 fine and up to 5 years in prison,’ stated a press release.
‘In 2020, Florida ran an efficient, transparent election that avoided the major problems we saw in other states. At the same time, the election was not perfect, which is why we continue our efforts to ensure the integrity of our elections,’ said Governor Ron DeSantis. ‘Our new election crimes office has sprung into action to hold individuals accountable for voter fraud. Today’s actions send a clear signal to those who are thinking about ballot harvesting or fraudulently voting. If you commit an elections crime, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.'”
https://floridianpress.com/2022/08/desantis-announced-arrests-of-20-illegal-voters-in-florida/
Well, it’s a start, anyway.
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2020/08/my-firing-at-knkx.html
Came across this from a couple of years back. A big part of our problem is cultural. That is, the social dynamics of organizations have elevated the worst sort of people from among the birth cohorts occupying upper management, and among the hallmarks of the worst sort is casual lying. The perpetrator of his dismissal was this douchenozzle:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joey-cohn-2974283
@Art Deco: I have encountered a few executives during my career whose “success” is marked, in my words and figuratively, by the number of dead bodies they have left on the side of the road. You just want to avoid them at all costs. They eventually get found out, but not before immense damage has been done. And then their bosses fail to address that damage, lacking the courage to own up to their mistake for placing authority and trust in those persons, further demoralizing the people expected to carry out the work. It exposes a kind of rot in the leadership.
I liked the video. Very interesting. I’ve known a couple pairs of identicals. The one pair that my wife and I watched grow up definitely had different personalities which my wife could distinguish easily, but I never got to that point.
I thought it was a flaw of the comprehensive study to only look a fraternal twins. These semi-identicals were of opposite sex, but what if some other ones look identical and were really semi-identicals.
______
Leland and Nonapod,
I’ve gotten so weary of op-ed pieces where the author insists on demonstrating how clever or witty or worldly he/she is in the first paragraph. Almost always the material is completely irrelevant. So now I usually just skip past it.
The only identical twins I ever knew were four year old girls who lived next door to us when our now 50 year old son was four. Of course our kids alway played together and we knew the family well and be did baby sitting for a few days while one of them was having an operation to fix something where her esophagus went into her stomach. When the parents were getting the discharge orders to leave the hospital from the doctor as an afterthought they ask if they should be concerned about their other daughter and after a bit of discussion they mentioned they had identical twins. The doctor told them that indeed follow up should be done on the sister and of course she had the same identical situation which required the same surgery. They moved a couple of years later and it would be interesting to see how those now 50 year old sisters are doing.
I was wondering if there were any developmental similarities between the semi-identicals and a chimera.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)
I guess not. The semi-identical start with a single zygote that splits into twins and the chimera begins with two zygotes that then merge.
We have a pair of identicals among our shirt-tails. They’ve been readily distinguishable since they were about 14 (different grooming) and went in different directions occupationally. They seem on satisfactory terms. They always were.
Regarding the semi-identical twins . . .
I had a good high school buddy whose younger brothers may have fit this category. The doctors swore they were identical, according to my buddy’s parents, but they definitely looked different from each other. No way, insists moi, that they were 100 percent identical. But that was over half a century ago, and we-all figure we know more now.
Nonapod and TommyJay; I guess I’m not the only one that was taught a bit about journalism in High School, the five W’s and the Inverted Pyramid. Now it seems we get a lot of general background information first, then maybe some details and newsworthy items later “if we hang on to the end and don’t forget to like and subscribe”. Blah, drink more Ovaltine!
I certainly agree with the intro skip. I enjoy about half the videos neo posts, which I consider a decent Venn diagram of interest. As much as I seem to be complaining here about YouTube videos; most of my video watching now is YouTube or Patreon. Every now and then, it strikes me how much it reminds me of Heinlein’s “For Us, the Living” and the character Diana working in her home. I suppose the same can be said for blogging, but I don’t think either the videos or blogging pays as good as Heinlein’s story suggests.
If you mouse-over the time line, some YouTubes will show faint peaks and valleys for the sections which have been watched the most.
Not all YouTubes. Not the one above. I suspect it’s a matter of the YouTube being recent and having had many views from which such data has been collected.
I use this feature when I want to skip the intro or the ads or the boring sections and cut to the chase.
I too get impatient with the filler and frequently skip ahead.
De Santis’ action is to be applauded. Criminality is deterred when the risk/reward ratio is heavily skewed toward risk.
Which is why there are far more instances of larceny than bank robberies.
A friend of mine had been an OBGYN in the Army. He told me he delivered a set of twins that were different races. One was black and the other white. Interesting to speculate on the situation at conception.
Two of my closest friends in high school were identical twins who had been adopted. They were really identical. Both big and with red hair. Their mother’s name had been Collins. They had been adopted by a nice Jewish couple which made for some interesting dynamics. One was very athletic and had a tryout with the Chicago White Sox as a pitcher. Both were tough and had considerable experience in fights. One reason for this was that one of the two was a bit of a loudmouth and would get into arguments. Then the other party would round up friends and come looking for him.
At least half the time, the disgruntled party would find the other twin who would have to fight his brother’s fights, The one who was not the loud mouth was the athlete. The athletic one joined the Marines and used to come to my fraternity parties in LA when he was at Camp Pendleton. Great guy.
https://ace.mu.nu/archives/400546.php
Here’s a brain-squeezer. To what extent would the common good be harmed if schools of public health were shut down?
Leland,
The backstory problem is the same in many articles on RedState (the worst offender), TownHall, and PJMedia. Sometimes I cannot find the factoid promised in the headline. Which is why I enjoy the present site, where the articles are well written. I don’t know how people like Neo can put together thoughtful and well-structured articles — good grammar, punctuation, paragraph structure, flow of paragraphs — so fast, and multiple ones on the same day. PowerLine is also good in this respect.
PS: I especially like the occasional quotes from “Moby Dick,” particularly when applied to the January 6 nonsense.
Off topic, a bit of fun from the Bee
“I wish we all could leave California”
Beach Boy parody
https://youtu.be/ApfBvkql0lI
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/08/19/watch-huge-mob-flashes-california-7-eleven-and-picks-it-clean-n1622408
This is the Democratic Party.
T-Rex: I once experienced this kind of executive–at a community college, an upper-level dean. When he was finally fired, the president of the college asked why no one told him what was going on. Well, people who tried were fired. Duh.
Meanwhile, a rock star has arisen.
BabylonBee does Zellenski vs Bare Chested Vlad on his Pony™.
Vlad makes your heart go a pitter patter? Takes all kinds.
Banned Lizard:
Not “arisen.” Zelensky started out as a “rock star” – an extremely successful comedian, actor, producer, etc.
Speaking of rock stars and Putin…
Putin makes my heart go pitter-pat. At least when I watch this MTV-like video. I’ve linked this song before, but this is the New Improved Enhanced Edition:
–“Takogo kak Putin (A Man Like Putin)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtZUeHmpV6A
That’s a Putin look-alike in the video parts, but the newreel excerpts are the Man Himself.
If you have any question why Putin Rules in Russia, watch this video.
Or if you might enjoy an infectious disco-Bond-girls music video experience.
It’s the greatest modern propaganda piece I know. Putin used it as an anthem for his rallies and to support his regime.
Really, watch this one.
Takogo kak Putin!
Here’s the busker version:
–“Attractive Young Woman Sings Song ‘A Man Like Putin'”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XfjBDgy7zU
They rock out with Young Woman, violin, viola and bass. No one sings along, but they get good applause at the end.
I don’t know why, but I love the Russians so much. Yet they got so much, so terribly wrong.
Now America seems to be saying, “Hold my beer…”
Bare Chested Vlad on his Pony™ goes boom, boom, boom in Crimea. How’s that for a bass line? The bodies come home in bags or not at all. So many eggs. Never get nice things.
Yephttps://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/08/18/new-york-times-hires-buzzfeed-lead-reporter-on-steele-dossier-to-cover-right-wing-media/
This woman should be four people, at least.
https://notthebee.com/article/watch-this-quadridextrous-artist-draws-six-photo-realistic-portraits-with-both-hands-and-both-feet-at-the-same-time