Food related channels:
Townsends - cooking using historical (1700s) recipes and techniques, plus random colonial historical stuff
LifeOfBoris - he does more than just cooking stuff, but his cooking videos are the main thing I watch. Still, an insane Slav making Slavic dishes is quite amusing.
Steve1989MREInfo - no cooking here, just a guy eating and reviewing ancient MREs and survival food.
Gaming related:
Arch - mostly Warhammer and 40k lore related, but playthroughs and previews of strategy games as well. And some SJW dunking.
ManyATrueNerd - General game reviews. Does get a little cringy on occasion, but generally fair reviews and LPs
AllThingsDND - Not so much D&D mechanical stuff, but a bunch of vignettes about various D&D (and tabletop RPG) stories
I don't think its possible to compress more idiocy, pandering and insulting into 13 seconds than happened in that clip. Outside of the Amen and Awomen being ridiculously stupid (which it is, as amen has nothing to do with gender at all), he manages to commit blasphemy according to Jewish, Christian and Muslim standards (and possibly drags Hindus in there - I can't quite tell what he says at the 4 sec mark but it sounds like Brahma), insults anyone who follows any of those religions, and demonstrates that he has no understanding of religion at all.
The only legitimate response that doesn't break federal laws
Remy is a freakin treasure. Don't care what political side you're on, but he skewers the insanity on both sides of the aisle.
If you haven't seen his stuff before, here's a playlist of the 80 or so political song parodies he's done
Ever since Crog the Caveman decided to smack Grog the caveman upside the head so he could take Grog's shiny stone, rulers have been using virtually any excuse they can to motivate people under them to go die horrible deaths to increase the ruler's personal power. I don't care what your most dearly and deeply held ideological pillar is, someone has almost certainly used it in the past to convince people to kill other people in the name of that belief. Saying "We must fight for the glory of the Fatherland!" is not substantively different than saying "We must fight to protect the Emperor!" or "We must fight to kill the heretics!" or "We must conquer this country to civilize them" or whatever else people said. To quote the intro cinematic to Fallout 3,
Since the dawn of humankind, when our ancestors first discovered the killing power of rock and bone, blood has been spilled in the name of everything: from God to justice to simple, psychotic rage.
Yes, the weapons in WW1 were more devastating than anything humanity had used on itself before. But, so were the Ottoman siege cannons that brought down the walls of Constantinople. And so were the hordes of Mongolian horsemen that established the second largest empire this planet has ever seen (second only to the British empire). And so were the longboats of the Norse raiders that let them pillage much of Europe with impunity for centuries. And so were the Roman legionnaires that ground multiple existing great civilizations into the dustbin of history. And so were the chariots that dominated warfare in early human history. And so was Oog the Caveman's decision to tie a sharp rock to the end of his stick.
Technology always advances, and with weapons it pretty much always means that you can kill more people faster. Even ignoring the nukes and concentration camps, what was seen in WW2 made WW1 look like a nice day in the park. Stalingrad alone saw nearly 2,000,000 casualties between both sides, and Operation Meetinghouse left 100,000 (mostly civilians) dead, and over a million homeless in a single day.
And technology has kept advancing. Korea saw napalm bombs being dropped on military - and sometimes civilian - targets, literally burning people alive. Parts of Southeast Asia are still feeling the impact (both environmentally and medically) from the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam. These days, we've got conventional firepower on an unimaginable scale - the basic US Navy Arleigh Burke destroyer can carry up to 90 Tomahawk missiles, which are 1000lb warheads with a 1600 KM range - and unconventional firepower that was unimaginable even a couple decades ago, like the Predator Drones and cyber-weapons.
Carthaginian troops slaughtering Romans at Cannae so Hannibal could fulfill the vow he made his father, French knights charging to their deaths at Agincourt due to a couple nobles squabbling over who is the rightful king, Japanese pilots launching kamikazi attacks to protect their divine emperor, and a guy sitting in a cushy chair pressing a button to blow up someone half a world away in the name of I don't even know what anymore, fighting terrorism? promoting democracy? cheap oil? something else? are all functionally the same as the men dying in the mud on the banks of the Somme. The tools change, the rationales change, but the end result is always the same. Young lives getting snuffed out in the dirt because someone in charge convinced them that they needed to go kill other people. Nationalism is just one item in the long list of excuses for war, it is nothing special.
3 things that I can think of.
First, it has some degree of plausibility behind it so the average person can say "ok, I can see that" and get on board.
Second (probably most importantly) it makes it VERY easy for the Karens. Just at a glance, anyone can quickly see who is playing ball and who is not and the busybody people will jump all over the non-compliant folks. If you want to keep your boot on someone getting some people to keep fighting with others makes like much easier.
And finally, facial recognition is minimally important these days. Keep in mind, cameras have already been branded racist by the Woke Mob (aka, the foot soldiers for the authoritarians). And, for the type of surveillance that the govt actually wants, facial recognition is mostly useless. Tracking people's phones and monitoring social media is a lot better at IDing Wrongthink than cameras. And if you really want to track someone on surveillance camera footage you can get things like gait recognition going.
"We’re not through this crisis," he said. "It’s too early for a postmortem analysis of what worked and what didn’t.”
No, it's not.
Lockdowns. Do. Nothing. (Well, nothing in terms of viruses anyway. They cause a ton of non-virus problems).
You don't get to try the same thing over and over for a year, show no positive benefits at all in that time, and then say "well, its too soon to tell, we must keep doing the same thing, only harder!"
At a miimum from what I've seen, ridiculous amounts of bailouts to special industries, having the Smithsonian build 2 new museums (one of latinos and one for women), something like $1 billion in foreign aid, provisions to crack down on online piracy and saying:
the wishes of the 14th Dalai Lama, including any written instructions, should play a key role in the selection, education, and veneration of a future Dalai Lama.
They don't care about decency. I'm serious, they don't.
Jonathan Haidt's Moral Foundation Theory work showed that. Of the 5-6 foundations (care/harm, fairness/cheating, loyalty/betrayal, authority/subversion, sanctity/degradation as the originals, and adding in liberty/oppression more recently), moderates and Conservatives will use all of them (to varying degrees) but the modern-day left does not care about any except care/harm and fairness/cheating. Call it whatever you want, purity, decency, sanctity, whatever. It does not factor in the worldview of the modern left to any significant degree.
Its not just invermectin, its not just HCQ, everything to do with this ridiculous politicized response to a mild respiratory infection.
Take, for example, the case of Vitamin D. Vitamin D deficiency has been, historically, a major health problem, primarily among people with darker skin.
According to data collected between 2005 and 2006 by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), insufficient vitamin D levels were found in 41.6% of the 4495-individual sample size. Race was identified as a significant risk factor, with African-American adults having the highest prevalence rate of vitamin D deficiency (82.1%, 95% CI, 76.5%-86.5%) followed by Hispanic adults (62.9%; 95% CI, 53.2%-71.7%)
Back in 2017, a study found that vitamin d helped weaken the impact of respiratory illnesses
Conclusions Vitamin D supplementation was safe and it protected against acute respiratory tract infection overall. Patients who were very vitamin D deficient and those not receiving bolus doses experienced the most benefit.
Vitamin D supplements have been around for years and for most people are safe. Heck, myself I've been taking a supplement for going on 2 years now since my doctor said my bloodwork showed a vitamin D deficiency.
Since the hysteria began, there have been multiple studies showing that higher vitamin d levels were linked to better outcomes if you catch the virus. Last month, a study showed 87% of virus deaths were linked to vitamin D deficiency.
So, here we are. A safe, easy, cheap, widely available way to potentially address outcomes, especially among the minority populations which are being hardest hit by the virus. Is it a cure-all? No, probably not, but it would certainly help (especially since one of the main sources of vitamin D is sunlight and the idiot politicians kept us locked up all summer, thus likely increasing vitamin d deficiency levels). And yet, what do you get if you google "covid vitamin d"? Very first freakin thing on the page, 3 "authoritative news sources" saying "There's no proof it helps!"
Well, there's a heck of a lot more proof that Vitamin D, Invermectin, HCQ, and a bunch of other stuff helps than your vaccines do. Yet we all know which one is going to be physically rammed into our bodies.
Is anyone surprised?
Obama's DoJ (which Biden was VP for) prosecuted more whistleblowers then every single preceding president combined. But it is apparently Trump who is the enemy of journalists.
As Throwaway531 mentioned, I'm keeping an eye on Evil Genius 2, as I liked the first one. And trying to stay hopeful for 2077 as a couple people have said.
Does waiting for Bannerlord's full release count? Cause that's on my list too.
Outside of that, whenever it comes Total War Warhammer 3. CA's had some suspect moves recently and they've been riding a semi-Paradox monetization scheme for a while now, but still want the Warhammer world to finish up. And I want my evil dudes with funny hats implemented already, darn it!
Hmmm. Well, since I have medically documented mental health issues, anyone know how to go about renting a container ship? Cause if this passes, I may have to plan a vacation there and I'm going to end up with a LOT of souvenirs.
Don't give them ideas. In academia, we're just about at that point already. You posted a video without subtitles? Bad professor! You put a document online that wasn't 100% compatible with screen-reader software? Bad professor! And so on. Due to the amount of work and ridiculous number of rules you need to follow to meet ADA guidelines these days, a lot of professors are just saying "screw it, I'm not putting any resources online anymore"
Its more than that, too. Its people flat-out refusing to accept reality and just blindly believing whatever their television tells them.
Fact: If you do not have a severe, pre-existing medical condition primarily caused by lifestyle (diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity) your risk of dying is quite small. Similarly, unless you are >75 or so, you again have a negligible risk of dying. And, based on hospital admissions data, if you aren't vitamin d deficient you're almost certainly fine - and that is something that's easy for anyone to fix.
Fact: Despite the "We Listen to SCIENCE!" crowd not shutting up about what St Fauci says, this has been politicized to an absurd degree. Take HCQ - it was being used seemingly effectively to treat this, it had been used to treat regular SARS, people had been taking it for years with no issues, and then Trump mentions it, the media goes on a smear campaign and some governors ban prescribing it - when is the last time you ever heard of a governor telling a doctor what legal drug they can or can't prescribe? Even the name of this. I don't give a **** if the "official" name is covid-19. When have you ever heard of a virus being called the scientific name in common culture? Cause in 3 decades, I've never heard it once. Until Trump called it the Chinese Coronavirus or Wuhan Coronavirus or something, and then the media flipped their lid and now everyone just says "Well, that's the official name!"
Fact: The cure is provably worse than the disease. 250k (or whatever it is today) deaths in the US is bad, yes, but its a drop in the bucket. The US has a population north of 330 million, so we're not even close to 1/10th of 1% of the population. Meanwhile, poverty is skyrocketing, I read one that 1/3 young adults are becoming suicidal, drug and alcohol abuse is up, domestic violence is up, people are suffering complications from previously treatable conditions because hospitals are being shuttered, the economy is in freefall, but I guess I just want Grandma to die.
Fact: There is no hard evidence that the lockdowns even work. Worldwide trends are similar in terms of spiking infections (or, at least they were a week or so ago, haven't checked in the last few days). And, in the US, a tight cluster of NE states all of which followed similar harsh lockdown procedures remain the most deadly part of the country for the virus.
Opinion: Past evidence suggests that their vaccine hopes may well kill a lot more people. Remember SARS back in the early 2000s? Well, attempts to make a vaccine for that failed horribly, and in fact vaccine candidates for that made life worse for animals who got infected down the line. Yes, the vaccine candidates for SARS-CoV led to the animals experiencing the cytokine storm phenomenon that's killing people who get SARS-CoV-2. So, while they obviously aren't identical diseases or vaccines, I don't hold out a lot of hope for the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine to have better long-term safety than the SARS-CoV-1 vaccines did. And, yet, we're not going to get any long-term trials on this one until its been injected in tons of people already. (Plus, I have heard - though haven't independently verified - that the vaccine trials are only being conducted on otherwise healthy people who are already highly resistant to the virus, not the people with pre-existing conditions who are at risk.)
"I'm not going around saying I told you so," said Sedillo Lopez, who sponsored an unsuccessful bill last year calling for a fracking moratorium for environmental reasons. "I'm very sad about it. Our state was on a collision course with itself." Sedillo Lopez, who called Lujan Grisham an "excellent governor," said she hopes the moment serves as a wake-up call and forces the state to reassess its relationship with oil and gas.
Uh huh. I'm sure that this is all the fault of the evil petroleum industry, and not at all the inevitable consequence of a pie-in-the-sky progressive scheme to buy votes with "FREE MONEY HERE!" only to realize that other people's money has suddenly dried up. Like it always does.
With some exceptions, governments have made great efforts to put the well-being of their people first, acting decisively to protect health and to save lives.
Provably false. Maybe they had good intentions (though I'm skeptical), but even if they did have the well-being of people at heart 10 months ago, they do not now. Because they just repeat the same lines over and over despite no proof they work, and plenty of proof that the cost of the lockdowns are much greater than the gains.
That's been the case for months now. Police will stand down for the BLM protestors who are actively calling for them to get fired, but will still go after people protesting the lockdowns. Insanity.