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I have no idea what's going on in most of these photos, but I love it. I wish they had coordinates though.
Same here. Would like to know where http://36.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maf5ynOadW1qzun8oo1_1280.j... was taken.
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#42After waking up, I watched a video of two cats fighting and screaming for a couple of minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEvvRfuVk30 The video has 8 million views. Out of all the activities and experiences that our modern world offers, 8 million viewers still chose to watch two cats fighting ... Why ? Projects like these make me both happy and scared - happy, because life is so good that people have nothing bet…
I posted a 9 second video of me pushing a coke can over a table making a sound that's similar to Chewbacca (https://youtu.be/myhYNsRXYgs) a few days ago. So far it's been seen 750.000 times on youtube and about 3.000.000 times on facebook. This is about 416 days worth of people watching this video (wasting time).
However, I think it is the wrong perspective to take. People do all sorts of "seemingly" non-productive things (including but not limited to watching stupid youtube videos)... all the time. But I think these activities might have important and positive social properties (people bonding over the video, having a laugh). There are possibly even some positive psychological effects (such as stress relief). Well, that's just my thoughts on the matter. :)
But of course I'm not a psychologist, and I don't know if this is the case in reality. But it is certainly an interesting topic to explore.
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#43Do they have no respect for the privacy of the sheep?
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#44After waking up, I watched a video of two cats fighting and screaming for a couple of minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEvvRfuVk30 The video has 8 million views. Out of all the activities and experiences that our modern world offers, 8 million viewers still chose to watch two cats fighting ... Why ? Projects like these make me both happy and scared - happy, because life is so good that people have nothing bet…
> After waking up, I watched a video of two cats fighting and screaming for a couple of minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEvvRfuVk30
That video needs subtitles.
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#45When the iPhone 7 is released, you will be able to clearly see the locations of the Apple stores :)
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#47After waking up, I watched a video of two cats fighting and screaming for a couple of minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEvvRfuVk30 The video has 8 million views. Out of all the activities and experiences that our modern world offers, 8 million viewers still chose to watch two cats fighting ... Why ? Projects like these make me both happy and scared - happy, because life is so good that people have nothing bet…
Huxley must be smiling (or weeping...) somewhere out there...
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#48After waking up, I watched a video of two cats fighting and screaming for a couple of minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEvvRfuVk30 The video has 8 million views. Out of all the activities and experiences that our modern world offers, 8 million viewers still chose to watch two cats fighting ... Why ? Projects like these make me both happy and scared - happy, because life is so good that people have nothing bet…
What would be your answer? Why did you watch it?
Precisely. It's funny to complain about people watching cat videos in a 'Out of all the activities and experiences that our modern world offers, 8 million viewers still chose to watch two cats fighting' and 'have we all gone mad' manner while admitting to doing the same.
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I know exactly what you mean. I am trying to figure out why I do this too. I guess at some level, I expect a dopameine reward for watching a video. And, I guess this also motivates the other 8 million people. Even after I've watched something like this, I'm not entirely sure I've wasted my time. But, I think this does point to some kind of human failing, or inherent human bias, a bit like a propensity for gambling.
I'd argue that a propensity for gambling is essentially a propensity for risk taking, something that makes us human and commonly leads us to success (and major failures too, but this is the human condition). Many of my own successes have come via merely dicking around or dabbling in things that interested me, so I'm going to chalk it up as a win.
Richard Feynman got a Nobel prize out of 'dabbling in things that interested him'. Not everything has to have a purpose right away, good - even great - things can come from activities without direction.
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#50The problem with AJAX pages is that I keep scrolling just to see how far it goes. 455 entries, not bad.
I find myself scrolling just to see if I can get at the horribly placed links and text at the bottom of the page, before the next batch loads in.