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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Fri Nov 29, 2024 9:53 pm






Elon Musk wants to emulate what Milton Friedman talked about in an interview, where he would gut most of the government institutions, but the ideas presented are pretty much the same results that the GE CEO Jack Welch (which he jump ship just in time to put the blame on his successor, even though he was probably just the kind of ass kisser the company was left with after the environment became toxic for anyone that had half a brain cell.)



The Origin Of 'The World's Dumbest Idea': Milton Friedman
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenni ... -friedman/

I was sort of glossing over Milton Friedman and wasn't sure to what extent he should be admired or hated, but I started to recognize how similar he is to the most destructive leadership in our country/world, and in many ways, he is the precursor to people like Jack Welch.

Hint: The legacy of sub-prime mortgages and Reaganomics (and further back, you could say that fiat currency under Nixon was a terrible legacy) screwed over Keynes and his warning of unregulated conscious awareness as such with the Glass-Steagall act, and is much of the primacy to "success" that is so often the same problem facing how people glorify wealth and destructive narcissistic behaviors as seen today.

How Jack Welch destroyed Sloan’s Century
https://globalpi.org/research/how-jack- ... s-century/

Short-term profits and long-term consequences — did Jack Welch break capitalism?


And once they are long gone they no longer seem to be recognized for the short-term myopic turds that they are unless people are forced to look in the rear-view mirror.




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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Sun Dec 01, 2024 3:05 am



Zack and Miri Make a Porno






More vintage films
https://archive.org/details/@picfixer


This was produced but directed by a different Director than the original Night of the Living Dead (which is truly a classic in it's own right,) though might be closer to the original than I actually recall. It seems like it might be somewhat better than the newer versions of other Romero movies.


I was just looking at it spontaneously, but it turns out the actor, Tony Todd, that plays "the black guy" (that in the original movie looks similar to Obama) had died; and no, he is not a zombie.



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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Wed Dec 04, 2024 1:58 am

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog, 2010)
https://www.documentaryarea.com/video/C ... en+Dreams/

You can save the file but it will show as PHP which needs to be changed to mp4.





Tommygmcgee has practically become the new Vice News, but also. . . Nat Geo is taking on the Vice News style (which I consider MTV to have been a precursor to, if not "Gonzo Journalism.")


I've never heard of this guy ('Billionaire') Jarek Tadla, who is described as an "Internet personality."


Nat Geo has come a long way. . .



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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Thu Dec 05, 2024 12:31 am

I was watching Lee Daniels' 'The PaperBoy' (2012) and noticed how awkward his directing style is, where every scene tries too hard to seem authentic to the point it just showcases his lack of Directing or editing talent and approach to telling a story, without confusing the fuck out of people with it's awkwardly forced interactions.

One review which seems to summarize it well:
"Call it Tennessee Williams by way of Jerry Springer."

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_pa ... cs-reviews

He did a documentary on Michael Jackson that has high ratings.



A 1994 'The Paperboy' might be even worse (though it's hard to believe, with similar ratings.)


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110770/

Because both The Paperboy films are bad in their own way, I consider them "watchable" (laughable?)


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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0756683/?r ... mg_knf_t_1


This goes well with the Cave of Forgotten Dreams film in the previous post. Also, I assumed the old guy was Wilford Brimley (which would have made sense as he did Coccoon, which is sort of along the theme of an immortal or youthfulness, but it seems a similar-looking actor, named, Richard Riehle.



No Country for Old Men is currently free to watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8PBL1P9jU4&pp=sAQB


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Phillip Zimbardo Lucifer Effect How passive people become evil.


The ghosts term in this video is referencing getting shot at and shooting back without actually seeing anybody (who was in hiding.) For awhile I was thinking it would be something paranormal but I decided to google his name in reference to the thumbnail statement ( blurb is here: https://youtu.be/sr77Z2NDQhA )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Irving







Stephen Wolfram Time and Space





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Super 8 (JJ Abrams, 2011) is free to watch
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0D4TGMR7K

The movie that largely inspired Stranger Things.
https://screenrant.com/super-8-movie-st ... show-copy/



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X-Files would have come out before this movie, but the story is much older and closely resembles the X-Files. Heinlein was also familiar with L Ron Hubbard who confided to him that he would start his Scientology cult. . .

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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Sun Dec 08, 2024 2:37 am

A month ago he posted this video but then the following video, as he's saying he feels safer walking around Russia than the USA, and that it's a great place (for what it is,) he soon get's pulled over or arrested and detained for information about who he is while commenting about how his video will likely get "Russian bots" or rather, people who literally get paid extremely little while also having a system that is designed not to pay them, where many are driven to suicide; according to those in Russia that are familiar with the "(pre-)occupation"



Russia is a shithole country no matter what part of it you explore, and their prized Stalin-era subway tunnel is just part of the Potemkin village persona people idolize so much.


Obviously, to some extant it should have been known by him that anywhere near a border Russia is afraid of foreigners, and it's assumed that their recording and documenting the perimeter of Russian territory could be a strategic spying (so the letting him on that everything is okay and that it's a minor inconvenience for him, and then having the FSB/KGB interact with him the next day after he's supposedly awaiting his physical passport confirmation, was a bit of a rouse.)







1:36:00 It's worth mentioning that Putin's mafia connection shares a bond with Trump. Litvinenko was poisoned in part for his familiarity that Putin had in connection with the mafia in addition to calling him (in all honesty) a pedophile.

Trump’s ties to the Russian mafia go back 3 decades
https://www.vox.com/world/2018/9/12/177 ... raig-unger


Litvinenko, before he was poisoned: Putin is a pedophile
https://telegrafi.com/en/litvinenko-par ... e-pedofil/



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Trump wants to stockpile Crypto and use it to pay off national debt (hence, DOGE cabinet with Musk. . .) This is just stupid and insane.






Bitcoin is a Con
https://bitcoinisacon.azurewebsites.net/


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Oh yes, Ross Perot is the reason Bush Snr lost the election. . .


It did have some interesting fallout


The interesting thing is those cameras in Japan weren't supposed to even be there, on fear that he would vomit and was feeling sick.


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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatiy_Stelletsky

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Libr ... e_Terrible

The Search for the Lost Library of Ivan the Terrible
https://www.ancient-origins.net/history ... ble-002598



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Not sure about this one.


Some of the more intelligent discussions on this topic




The book: Michael Schratt - DARK FILES Hynek Encounters (2020)


He also has an out of print book which coincided with a NASA project unrelated to aliens:
Michael Schratt - PROJECT AQUARIUS (Alien Secret Organization)(2010) MS Word

Not a lot of coverage other than the Author. . .




A Glitch in the Matrix https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_glit ... cs-reviews
""A Glitch in the Matrix" is less of a documentary and more of an accidental exploration of unchecked narcissism."



The person who was dumb enough to think the Matrix was real, and in his desire to "escape" kills his parents, and then wonders why it didn't resemble what he thought it should, was clearly a bit off.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ts-19.html



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I was reminded of a lecture by an author who I previously glossed over, who had a book made into a movie:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1 ... sell_Banks

Russell Banks is a pretty decent Author and has some movies based on his books. A very clear comparison to his message here (at around 32 minutes in) and his book The Sweet Hereafter (Russell Banks book from 1991) (1997 movie starring Ian Holms from LotR), where he compares the greed of business run by bean counters who knowingly put people's lives in danger while weighing the costs of liability to their business to that of predators.

Though the movie at times seems like a forced narrative with some weaker performances by less experienced actors, it takes some paying attention to how the story builds up, while seeming pretty clear how he wanted the story to be a knife in the back of crony capitalism (so the MacGuffin is how children were preyed upon in comparison to the Pied Piper who wanted to extract revenge upon those who refused to pay what they needed to ensure the safety of the town.)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120255/ )
https://m.ok.ru/video/1838116440774

also

Affliction (Paul Schrader, 1997) Nick Nolte, Willem Dafoe, Sissy Spacek

(better quality but the link probably won't work for long https://youtu.be/qyBGZXrJH5M )
Alternatively: http://ok.ru/video/2504584334022

Starts at 32 minutes in, where he compares capitalism to a child predator.



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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Wed Dec 11, 2024 5:51 am



Visual novel game (and because it's linear and changes little in outcome from the options you pick, seems pointless to buy.)




The above newer story are considered woke compared to this one:


And a previous game to Bloodlines game also exists, which seems to have more in common with older PC games like DnD series.



"Gambling, Gods and LSD" (Peter Mettler, 2002) 3-hr documentary akin to Ron Fricke nonverbal films which took some time to find a link, though Vimeo does have it, and it should be 3 hours in total, so it might be omitting some beginning and end portions.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/gambling-gods-and-lsd
https://m.ok.ru/video/5972627884574


Memoria Oculta (Eva Villaseñor, 2014) (Documentary about memory loss)
https://m.ok.ru/video/5935611120158

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Sick for profits (Playlist of healthcare industry by Brave New Films)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... -yk7_H8Psf


One Piece (subbed) 1-574 (575-782 mkv files with sub dub optional https://nyaa.si/view/1527971 )


One Piece (dubbed) anime 164-628 episodes


One Piece (bad subs) 1-1000
https://archive.org/details/one-piece-0 ... rible-subs



https://www.quora.com/What-would-cause- ... er-cut-off

Outrage (Takeshi Kitano, 2010)
https://m.ok.ru/video/434654284293
Needs Eng srt https://subdl.com/s/info/aOMoNu6Hyu/outrage-autoreiji


Just realized this existed:

Like a Dragon- Yakuza S01E01
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x983wpu
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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Thu Dec 12, 2024 11:35 pm

Pretty good insight.




An old video playlist from someone that tampered with a telescope and claims to see aliens in outer space. Most all of these are probably aberrations caused by tampering with a telescope and not expecting lens anomalies to give sway to an apophenia phenomenon. If people are fantasy prone or prone to schizoid tendencies, it can lead to "false-postives."

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... tAZSXIAwYE

Stock Market computer



Not sure entirely but he is a well-known Philosopher.




This guy showed up in a video about people who claimed close encounters (amongst other things. . . some were certifiable kooks.) Though he is what I consider credible even before listening to this.





Dr Fauci was infamous and has had conspiracy theories about his behavior for some time. How "Gain of Function" research was never implicated as the cause for Covid, may have something to do with national security but also due to irresponsible studies done by China (hence they might prefer to avoid pointing fingers in spite of knowing full well it was being spread long before officially reported.)

This seems to be the agreed consensus that it was a Wuhan lab leak and many were trying to cover their complicity.
https://nypost.com/2024/05/16/opinion/w ... ists-lied/

And when an actual Scientist in the Wuhan Lab claims Covid was an accidentally released bioweapon, it probably makes sense to acknowledge it (though the likelihood the US would have funded a bioweapon and handing over that development to a potential enemy, given that China is about the equivalent of Russia circa WW2 which is why the UN always classified Taiwan as China since that was where the head of government went to when Mao Zedong took over; it's safe to assume the actual reality could be obfuscated to cover up for both complicity but also national security and how geopolitical works for economic necessity (since the USA and vice versa global economies depend on commerce otherwise it will all go to shit overnight.)

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ne ... s?from=mdr

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