Good video on cognitive dissonance

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october 7th was a horrific terrorist attack

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[–] 39 points 2 years ago (1 child)

october 7th was a horrific terrorist attack

Why would this even come up in the video? Can libs seriously shut the fuck up

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Besides being a LIB her videos have been feeling kinda unfocused and scattershot lately, with way more focus on bits and costumes than good argumentation. I'm actually less anti-bits-n-costumes in edutainment than most here but even for me it's getting to be a bit much.

    Honestly feels like she still doing YT just as a means to promote her acting career, which, whatevs, we all gotta hustle, especially those of us who want to be actors shrug-outta-hecks

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If she's gonna hustle, she should hustle for better projects. Her big project is a short film directed by someone whose other credits includes ads and youtube scams (actual scams, "Buy my brain tonic/video courses" type scams)

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I mostly just know she does some stage shit in London, idk the quality of it

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    She did a play called "The Prince", which I don't know a lot about. The summary I heard, partially from Abigail herself, was that it was Hamlet but Hamlet finds out he's in a play halfway through. I haven't watched it, since it was only available as a stage performance or on nebula. That was her last big project that she would try to sell people on.
    Her newest project is short film called Dracula's Ex-Girlfriend which is a short film (Not a play).

    Edited out some criticism, it wasn't necessary.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago

    Sorry, I don’t care how good the rest of the video is, casual denigration of resistance to genocide is an immediate turnoff. Also I’ve had enough of these us-foreign-policy infrastructure influencers

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I wish she'd make these videos less about herself, I dont need to know or care about her vanity projects and future career. I dont like the spoiled little rich kid energy one bit.

    But I actually managed to listen to the whole thing, first one of her videos I've made it through for ages.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeeaaaah. Both contrapoints and philosophy tube really leaned into self indulgence the moment that they came out.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    I feel similar about Hbomb doing long videos about fixations like the oof sound. At a certain points the brand becomes bigger than the video subject. If the views come regardless they just follow whatever whim into a video essay or turn it into a vlog.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I earnestly, just this very moment, learned that Philosophy Tube and ContraPoints aren't the same woman doing bits for an hour for their 10 minutes of content.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Not Just Bikes is an awesome channel btw

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    NJB makes good points about how infrastructure can be changed to be better and gives good examples of that happening, but his solution to bad infrastructure is straight up "just move"

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I remember him saying Americans should just give up on making their cities better because he did. I'm sorry we can't all live in Amsterdam or wherever, but what the fuck kind of activist tells people to give up?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    He's not an activist he's a lib with good opinions about transport and cities.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    There are a number of libs with good opinions and good editing skills in that field. I'd rather watch one that actually believes good things are possible in the places that need help the most, if for no other reason than that car emissions in the US fuck things up in Prague too

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  • big fan of her videos, this looks cool abby-exasperation

    also the cowboy costume is pretty nice i think crush

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    is anyone else really tired of urban planning videos? they were cool for a year or so when the topic was new to everyone, now there's thousands of people making the exact same videos about induced demand, bike lanes, etc.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Yes. I started on the topic by reading strong towns articles, moved on to YouTube. Read a few books. I feel like I've learned all I need to on the broad strokes of the topic and unsubbed from Not Just Bikes.

    I do still follow Alan Fisher though because he covers specific projects and gives calls to action.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    That hoodie though >_>

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  • [–] [B] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

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