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[English] - The adventure starts, habibi. Where are we off to?
- To hell! - "Please, go outside!" - "Don`t film me anymore! "Fucking idiot"
- So, people here, probably the most friendliest, to be honest
What's up YouTube? I'm here in Bucharest , Romania and
I'm gonna go on a very special trip today. I'm gonna leave the capital of Romania and go to one of my
favorite regions and that is
Transylvania or
TransylvAnia if you want to make it sound like Dracula. We're gonna rent a car, we're gonna leave Bucharest
and we're gonna show you just how spectacularly beautiful Transylvania is
Let's go together to Transylvania!
What do you think of when you hear the word "Transylvania"?
-- Hmmm, "blood sucking". - "Blood sucking", "Dracula", another one...
Hey hey! I am Conor the Language Tsar, and this is the real Transylvania. So forget your cliches about
vampires and Dracula, and all that kind of BS about Transylvania.
I'm gonna be showing you what it's really like here.
And this is a lot more representative than anything you might have seen in cinema or any of these kind of cheesy
stereotypes that we read in the media about the region. Transylvania is not just a stereotype about
vampires and all that. It's actually a historical region, one of the historical regions of Romania and
has a population around 7 million and main cities are Cluj,
which is the biggest, here Brașov and Sibiu, which is known as the 'jewel of
Transylvania'. So here we have the backdrop to Brasov. As you see it's absolutely gorgeous. Here
we have the black church Biserica Neagră. It is one of the most beautiful cities in the region for sure if not of Europe.
This is why I love Transylvania so much. This is exactly the reason: towns, scenery, mountains, fresh air ...
it feels like a million miles away from the 'Big Smoke' of Bucharest.
So that behind us was a 1 million euro church,
which apparently caused a lot scandal when we googled it here in Romania, in provincial
Transylvania. The gold came from Ukraine. It's apparently the only place you could get a gold dome like that.
Opulence in rural Romania!
So behind me here is the famous fortified church in Biertan.
So this one here in Biertan is probably the most famous,
It's the most recommended and most intact
This is very traditional
in the region to have these churches that we're then later fortified, so they could also serve as
defensive positions if the village was attacked.
So I'm inside now in a very special room in the fortified church in Biertan
which is this is basically a room to which
couples that were having marital problems were sent and were made to stay here for one month.
They only had one bed, one set of cutlery and in 300 years of this policy
they had one divorce. Very effective method of
marriage counselling/reconciliation.
[German] - "Hello and come regulary to Hermannstadt. Hermannstadt is a very nice city. .
And people are nice.
[Romanian] - A natural and traditional drink made from fruit
- From fruit ... does it have alcohol? -Yes - It is alcoholic?
- 50% alcohol content ... 100% natural!
The Palinka Producers Association ... - Palinka, okay.
Really good, really good. It's cheese. What type of cheese is it?
- Matured cheese from cow's milk. - From cows ...
- Taste it!
- How many sheep do you have? - 200 - 200
[English] So 200 he has! - 200 - Yeah!
So down there below me is Viscri -- the village is really small and has a population about 400/500 people
But it has one special inhabitant
and that is that the Prince of Wales Prince Charles actually has a house here.
So this is quite an obscure place for maybe a royal family member from the United Kingdom to have a residence.
But it is true. He does live here on the main street.
He's not here all the time obviously, he goes between several residences.
But he does come a couple of times a year and hangs out here, walks through this beautiful nature.
So we're in Transylvania and
that is Bran castle otherwise known as 'Dracula's castle' but the
nexus with the very famous
vampire figure from cinema is
very very flimsy, right ... so Dracula is actually an invention of an Irish-British author called Bram Stoker
and he, while he did take the name "Dracula" from Vlad Țepeș, who was Vlad the Impaler,
who was also known as Dracula.
He actually wasn't even thinking of this castle here when he wrote the book.
He was thinking of another castle he had read about
and actually he wasn't ... while did obviously base the novel primarily in Transylvania
He kind of took these legends that were quite common in medieval Europe and it wasn't really Romanian specific.
However, these guys had done some fantastic marketing
because everyone thinks this is Dracula's castle.
Now Vlad Țepeș, who is a famous historical figure in Romania.
He was a person who existed, he's not a fantasy figure.
But he was ... and he was quite ruthless.
He was known as Vlad the Impaler because he used to impale his victims
his adversaries, his enemies captured in battle on poles, so they were basically put on poles
and they would slowly die. He's quite a, quite a cruel character and
what ... but he was not a vampire, he has nothing to do with vampires in terms of his own behavior.
But they've done a fantastic marketing job because people come here to Bran castle
which is a very nice castle, I have to say,
but it's not really that closely associated with the real historical figure who's Vlad Țepeș but nonetheless
it's worth the visit out here to see it because it is quite fantastic.
So Vlad Țepeș the despot who ruled Wallachia which was a kingdom
here in modern-day Romania ...
He did have an association with this castle
and that's because he was actually imprisoned there for two months
when he was captured by a Hungarian King and he was in the region he'd have a lot of
campaigns against the Germans here in Brașov ... well the Germans who were based close to here in Brașov.
So this region had a lot of German influence.
The Teutonic knights actually built this castle here
And it's really a very interesting historical monument
but don't come here and really believe this is Dracula's castle.
It has nothing to do with vampires here.
So here we are just at a country fair. Really raw food here. That's been cooked right in front of our eyes.
[Romanian] Hello!
[German] - What is your name? - My name is Conor. And what's your name? - Dennis - Great - "Dennis"?
[Romanian]: -- Speak in Romani!
[Romani] How are you? [Romanian] - Only if you pay!
- Don`t film us!
[English] - Boom... Where are we? We're on top of
Transylvania the most amazing road in all of Europe. Is this the best driving experience you've ever had?
- Absolutely! Hands down! Hands down! - Number one, number one!
So we've got the mountains in front of us, we're on the famous, famous road
"The Transfăgărășan" ..I need to learn how to say it, because they keep saying it around.
So this road is known as Ceausescu's folly.
So Ceausescu was a dictator in Romania until ... until 1989 when he's deposed in a bloody
revolution here, so he had this built at huge expense
through the mountains but maybe they call it his folly
but Nicolae, it's an amazing road, at least it you did one thing right when you were robbing the people blind!
Amazing vistas!
Amazing feeling being up here winding through the road. It's really fantastic.
Can fully understand why Top Gear said "number one road in Europe to drive".
The sun is setting here in Sibiu in magical Transylvania
and that is a metaphor for this amazing trip that I've just had here in the centre of Romania.
It's drawing to a close. Sibiu was the last city on the tour.
So this is unfortunate gonna be the end of the trip. I had an amazing time.
I hope it changed your image of Transylvania when you hear the word you don't think of Bram Stoker's Dracula
only and that you realise that it's got a really rich and varied culture here with influences from Romanians,
Hungarians, Germans and the Roma and it has this kind of
magnificent mix in the mountains really
spectacular scenery and cities. So if you liked this video, give it a big thumbs up.
Subscribe to the channel if you're not already subscribing and a hit that bell on
beside YouTube beside the channel's name if you want to get direct
notifications from me when I have a new video.
So from me, Conor the Language Tsar, it's "Aufwiedersehen", "Goodbye"
"La revedere" from Sibiu - Hermannstadt,
Transylvania, Romania.
See you in the next video!
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Hey! Tell me about yourself.
Hey! I'm Evan, one of the founders of STEEZY.
Hey Evan, so what exactly is STEEZY?
STEEZY is a company dedicated to making dance really easy to learn and accessible to everyone.
So right now we're making online dance classes from some of the best instructors in the world.
That's dope! So what do you do here?
I do a lot of things but mainly I'm a software engineer
Engineer...meaning you build STEEZY Studio?
Yeah, pretty much.
So right now I just made this brand-new navigation to make it REALLY easy for students
to find their next class.
Whoa, that looks really convenient.
Thanks! we're always brainstorming new ways to make our platform even better for our students
and always asking if this is something they really need or want, and then
we go out and make it.
Awesome. Well, I'll let you get back to work. Nice meeting you Evan!
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IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD TODAY YOU MUST UNLEARN THIS ONE THING
At present, we are dangerously trending toward chaos, total world war, civil war, incivility,
and a complete breakdown of civil society, and to the indoctrinated, it�s difficult
to understand why exactly this is happening. As the stress of this mounts, the misinformed
lash out at friends, family members and strangers who do not fully subscribe to their worldview.
The battle really is one of understanding how the world works, and with such epidemic
false perceptions, people choose the wrong targets for their ire.
If one were to unlearn, however, many of the things we�ve been taught about how our world
works, re-educate the self, and re-orient to a more complete and truthful assessment
of the world today, the picture becomes more clear, things make more sense, and a pathway
to unity opens up. One thing we can all agree on, though, is that we�ve all been duped
in big ways, most notably in the one arena which affects everyone, everyday, at every
time. Money.
False = Money is Real and the Economy is Capitalist
Trained to worship money and the idea of infinite growth, it�s tough to understand just how
much unnatural stress is being introduced in our world by a financial system and world
economy which is operates explicitly for the profit a few key players. The money is fiat,
and its value is controlled by privately run organizations who have the power to enslave
the entire world with debt.
Furthermore, the system is not capitalism, but rather something beyond capitalism. Post
capitalism, perhaps, as it more closely resembles the zombie ghost of capitalism, soullessly
eating everything in its path with no interest at all in sustainability.
Recently speaking on this matter, financial analyst Max Keiser explained the result of
having central bank managed interest rates kept artificially low in order to enrich those
at the top of the pyramid. This is one major piece of very large and hidden puzzle.
�There�s no incentive to save money, there�s only an incentive to commit fraud. So if there�s
no incentive to save money, then there�s no capital, and without capital there�s
no capitalism. So you have, unfortunately, now a situation where it�s the survival
of the most fraudulently inclined. It�s a kakistocracy, which is rule by the least
capable of a society.� ~Max Keiser This short interview with Max Kaiser by Luke
Rudkowski sheds more insight on this issue:
The system we have today is really more akin to an elaborate slave plantation. All money
that we use today in public is borrowed from private banks, and we pay dearly for the privilege
of using it.
This is because money is created out of debt in a one-to-one increase in public debt. The
national debt is $20 Trillion. That means the (roughly) 234 million US Americans would
have to pay approximately $62,000 each to pay it off. This includes babies, children,
poor people, and homeless people. There are even those who claim that it�s mathematically
impossible to pay off the debt. And almost every country is in debt to every other country.
It�s the height of insanity.
As former Governor of the Federal Reserve Marriner Eccles said, �If there were no
debts in our money system, there wouldn�t be any money.� ~Gary �Z� McGee
The stress in our world stemming from a global banking system designed to enslave is felt
everywhere, from endless wars to unaffordable healthcare and evermore expensive food. Yet
while few people really understand how this works, we are battling a war of propaganda
and mind control.
Making sense of the world today is no easy task for those who�ve yet to abandon the
standard American diet of propaganda and mental programming. Indoctrination works in a couple
of key ways. Firstly, beliefs are instilled and reinforced by repetition, and secondly,
undesirable beliefs are ignored and cast aside as fringe. What�s left is a mind which focuses
on what it�s supposed to focus on, constructing a reality around a false and incomplete picture
of the world.
This is food for thought for free thinkers, with the aim overcoming petty division in
order to create a more prosperous
and unified future.
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[Episode 59 - Surprise]
Hey, I'm headed to Rosamond's and I figured if I started filming myself that
I would actually go through with it, so...
- I mean, I always assumed I was straight, but-
ever since I met you- - Rosy?
- I've always been feeling like-
- Dot!
- Oh.
I'll just-
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Definiendo Infertilidad. www.isabelcoch.com - Duration: 2:13.
Sterility and infertility are nouns that may have some difficulties when you try to understand them.
In the RAE (Real Academia Española), both terms are considered as synonyms.
Clinically, we don't consider them as synonyms.
We consider sterility as the disability to conceive.
Infertility is a very different process: after a year of sexual intercourse and without using contraceptives, gestation is achieved but without a healthy baby.
Both have a primary and secondary meaning.
Primary sterility is when the couple has never achieved pregnancy.
Secondary sterility is when, after having a first baby, a new gestation can't be achieved.
Primary infertility is when the couple can achieve pregnancy but can't have a healthy baby.
Secondary infertility is when, after a normal pregnancy/birth, a new gestation with a healthy baby can't be achieved.
The WHO (World Health Organization) says that infertility is not a symptom; infertility is a disease.
There are a lot of disagreements in this definition.
I agree with the way that Sociedad Española de Fertilidad defines it (they talk about reproductive dysfunction).
In my opinion talking about sterility or infertility sounds diferent than talking about reproductive dysfunction.
I think when patients identify themselves as sterile or infertile it may sound stigmatizing. So it's more accurate or stylish to call it a reproductive dysfunction, because it's basically that.
It's very important the way we express ourselves and the way we treat our patients.
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I'm Dylan
I live in Redwater
and I come to Redwater Dodge for my $10 oil changes.
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Easiest Way To Run DCC Buss Wires On Your Model Railroad - Duration: 16:13.
we're going to continue on the DCC discussion about wiring your layout and
I'm gonna use romex and that's what I've used throughout my
entire layout so let's get started with this right now
I'm Tom Kvichak and this is Toms Trains and Things this channel was
created to help other modelers who are in need of guidance in pursuing their
dream of building a model railroad and if you're going to do DCC then it is a
good idea to run your buss wires with a good sized wire and what I did on mine
was I used some romex I had some romex leftover from a project and I and did my
entire layout with that romex I'm going to show you how to strip it and how to
set it up throughout your layout now it doesn't have to be romex could be any
wire that is suitable for DCC that is large enough to handle the amperage
through your system so you won't have any loss of signal throughout okay I got
my stripper I hope it's sharp enough because this thing is over 30 years old
all right here's the room that's right here it's a black and white wire with a
ground wire and it has a covering over top of it now this is usually used in
house wiring run this up on your on your wire and see this little little blade in
there like that that just sits down on there and you just squeeze it down the
center of it like that and you just pull and what it does is it
strips the coating off of the outside like that
so you have your black and you have your white wire and then you have a crown
wire in there and you could use your ground wire for a lot of different
things on your model railroad just showed it to you right here now I'll
measure this and give you the dimension of it so you could see what it is you
could use it for pipes you could use it for downspouts you could use it for
anything on there so save the ground wire also now I have it stripped all the
way through and I have approximately 15 foot of black and white wire and 15 foot
of bare copper wire all 14 gauge now the way you want to run your bust wires I'm
gonna give you example of my layout here as you can see behind me I have a loop
right here but it's on two levels I have a high grade and I have a low grade and
then as I move over here the low grade continues right underneath here actually
my layout is shaped like an M okay I have a circle on this side on two levels
and I go across the back and then I have a circle going across the back end
alright so I have my command station right here in the middle and what I did
because I have different levels and I was in different phases of construction
on building my model railroad what I did was I put in a PM 42 so I could have
four districts in there and what I did is I have high grade which is this whole
area up on this level here I have low grade which starts right over here as it
goes down to this level right here and it comes around underneath the camera
right here and then it terminates then I have my Mountain which goes along
the back end of my layout and goes up the Rockwood and I'll show I'll turn the
camera around and show you that in a little bit and then I have this area
right here it's not finished yet it's not connected yet but this area where I
have my computer and everything right here and where I do all my work is big
rock and that's my fourth district what I did was I run a bus wire for each
district so I actually have two bus wires going that way one for the high
grade going that way and one for the mountain route going that way going back
this way I have a bus wire going for the high grade come along the back and then
for the low grade coming along the back here on the lower level so and then the
fourth one is going to for Big Rock which is right here it'll be coming up
this way I already haven't run underneath this
table right here and I have some of it'll run over here so that's the four
districts that I have now you don't have to have run a termination on it it could
it could go out and just stop it you know if you want to you can put a wire
nut or any kind of terminal on the end of it so you know there's no bare wires
showing on it you just want to run your feeders along where your track is
underneath your track and make your feeders as short as possible
my feeders on there are no longer than six inches now you can make your feet or
wires long you can make them a foot you can make them two-foot but I chose to
keep it under six inches I'm gonna put a couple of drawings up on here of a cup
of a few sections my mountain section and my high grade you can see how I ran
my buss wires through my layout now I'm not going to show you the low grade or
the other section for Big Rock I mean it's just a repeat of what I did
in the sections for the mountain section and the high-grade behind me I have a
rough drawing of the mountain loop now as you can see I have the bus wire
running along the tracks now I'm only showing one line for the
tracks okay I'm not putting both tracks in here
but I'm showing that you have the positive the minus the positive and the
minus of the tracks coming up here now I have a siding on there and I have a loop
coming around now what I had to do was put a reversing in there the AR-1
and the reason for that is as you could see on this side you have the
negative coming around here okay and then it's matching up with the positive
right here so whenever you have that scenario you have to put a reversing
loop in there so what you do is you double gap all the track right here
there there and there what the manufacturers tell you with the
reversing loop is now this is my theory okay say you have a locomotive and it's
crossing over right here okay and you have all your cars all the way up here
and on your last car you have a decoder in it to operate a delight for your end
of train light or you have a caboose with the light in it or anything else if
your wheels are crossing this gap here the same time the wheels are crossing
the gap back there on the other end of your train then you're going to run into
a problem because your AR-1 one is going to try to reverse polarity here it's
going to try to change this to a positive and this to a negative
but over here you have another short you're gonna run into a problem I'm not
sure what it is if it's gonna stall out the train and burn up the AR-1 or even
burn up your command station or burn up your PM 42 like I have on here now this
is just to show you that I have one bus wire or a set of bus wire to black and
white running and I could you know I could
feed it with two separate tracks going all the way around and bring it around
all the way to a certain point and then I terminated here and then this is fed
by the AR one it's getting its signal from the bus wires over here I'll do a
drawing of another section so you could see how I did it now I have a rough
drawing of my high grade now again I'm only showing one line for the track and
one line for the bus to make it simple but you can see I have the this is in
the center and I have the command station I have two PM 42 and I'm not
showing all the connections for that but my command station and everything else
is in the center of everything now this from here to here is 17 foot and this
from here to here is 10 foot you have a bus wire that runs all the way down to
here and then this one over here is the same thing now I'm branched off on these
two right here where the tracks are coming apart where all where all the
tracks are close in together this one bus wire will feed all these tracks here
and the same thing for over here it came around now this is Leakin Creek right
here and this is underneath the tunnel this is underneath scenery right here
now it comes back out and I have the bus wire here and this one feeds the engine
facility that's underneath the mountain section and these are sidings right
here this buss wire that comes down here off of the terminal
board right there and I have these sidings and this is a loop that comes
around my drop bridge and goes out to and terminates right here and going this
way is to the mountain section and then this is the the close-in rail right here
from the high grade that goes to the mountain section it's terminated right
there so you can see I just have you know the pair of buss wires coming around
to feed wherever I need it now I'm keeping the feeder wires as short as
possible as I'm coming around so I'm feeding both of these tracks here
actually three three tracks right here because this one terminates right here
to go to the low grade I'm not showing that in this drawing right here you
could feed multiple tracks from a single pair of bus wires if they're close
enough together now I'm trying you know this right here from this track right
here to this track right here is no more than I'd say ten or eleven inches so
with the bus wire coming in between you know I could run short feeders to all of
these tracks right here all three of these tracks right here and then I have
a terminal board here where I I run it run it down this is the peninsula where
I have my computer right now and it feeds these sidings right here and it
feeds this loop coming around right here all the way to the drop bridge now
there's as you can remember I have a switch on a drop bridge that cuts off a
section of this whenever the bridge is down so this is all dead track right
here when the bridge is down but it's all fed
from the same bus wire at the same potential everywhere on there so you
just have one pair of buss wires that feed all these tracks in here and all of
this is connected - one section on the PM 42 you could
separate your wires here you can see where I have high-grade feed and
low-grade feed and then I split them off on this terminal board here in two
different areas and this could be done anywhere on your layout where you need
to branch off on another section I have below grade on another section I have
the high grade and on another section I have the continuation of the low grade
over here on a future city that I have called big rock the biggest thing that
you have to be concerned about is making your bus wire large enough to handle the
signal and to handle the area that you have now I did I I told you in the
previous video what you have to take into consideration I gave you all the
charts on there and I'll put another chart up here to show you the same thing
on this one here but that's the biggest thing is make sure that your bus wire is
big enough and your feeder wires you have your feeder wires close enough
together on my layout I have them every three foot or closer now I use flex
track through most of the layout here so every piece of flex track I have a
feeder wire going to it on some of them I have more because of turnouts in there
and you know you put the feeder wires on your sidings and everything else along
with your main line so I have it at three foot manufacturers and everybody
else NMRA has their standards for it in DCC
Wiki they have the standards different manufacturers have their own standards
for it so whatever you feel comfortable with is how you should do it okay if you
feel that you could stretch it out to six foot just make sure that you do the
coin test on there where you put a quarter on a
rhasta tracks to make sure that your command station shuts down as long as it
shuts down you're doing good well you know that I'm gonna have some comments
and questions on this and on the last video that I did I already had some
questions and so I'm gonna be doing a QA coming up pretty shortly so watch out
for that check out TomsTrainsandThings Dot Com
and don't forget to check out my patreon page and I want to thank Chris O'Connell
for pledging on my patreon page on Sunday thank you very much I really
appreciate it it helps out to put out better content and more content so I
could teach you things about model railroading so that'll be it for right
now and we'll see Ya!
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Patología física y Disfunción reproductiva www.isabelcoch.com - Duration: 1:29.
As a therapist, diseases are a very important topic.
When a disease (like cancer) makes us have a hard time by suffering from it; having to take therapeutic treatment makes it more harder for our patient.
Evidently, as therapists, we won't face this case in the same way for a patient who had cancer and could preserve ovum than for a patient that couldn't preserve ovum.
Other diseases could also make an impact in fertility; but I think that cancer is the one that provokes more trauma.
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Alright guys, it's Day 25, the countdown to the finish-line has truly begun.
Today's house is haunted by a terrible curse.
Because it's not really a house, it's a very unfortunate person who's been destined
to live trapped in the form of a house until the end of their days.
Can you imagine being a house.
Forever.
The boredom is one thing, and the cold, all the elements really, but the thought of having
little people tinkering around inside you, making noise, and you've got no control
over it.
No thanks.
So you know how yesterday I said I was gonna try and fit in one drawing last night… that
didn't happen.
I was too tired, I had my dinner and I just couldn't be bothered to do anything else.
I've gradually been losing energy and motivation over the last few days, pretty much since
my 'I almost gave up' video, I've been feeling closer and closer to giving up, getting
myself to draw has just been getting harder and harder.
But I made a deal with myself yesterday that if I didn't draw last night, I'd have
to get up and out of bed at a decent time this morning and start drawing before 11.
For whatever reason, if I can start around 11 in the morning, my day just kind of flows
better.
I finish by lunchtime and then I can edit after that and it turns into a normal, manageable
day.
For the last few days I hadn't been starting til the evening and cramming it all in when
I was already tired was really starting to sap the fun out of it all.
And just getting back into a better daily rhythm has given me some energy back, I've
rediscovered a little bit of motivation left in me, I've brought myself back from the
brink of quitting and I am going to finish this.
So… why's the video so late.
To be honest, I was struggling again with the voice-over side of things.
I was watching Myriam's last inktober video and she mentioned that voiceovers take her
a lot of time as well so I'm glad I'm not the only one.
I couldn't come up with what I was gonna talk about and then I started watching Grand
Design's and now it's past ten.
So, I'm just gonna leave it at that for today.
I already know what I'm gonna talk about tomorrow so no worries on that front.
And yeah, hope you're all doing well.
Hope you enjoyed the video and I'll talk to you tomorrow.
Bye!
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K.A.M.P. Episode 1: There's Only One Way (Original Web Series) - Duration: 4:59.
Man, this is a great party, eh?
Yeah, you got that right!
By the way Pete, are you sure about letting my friend into the party?
Yeah why? It's not like he's doing anything wrong!
What is this piece of crap? Sam, change it back to the Blizzard Channel!
Nani (what) did you say desuka?
N-n-nothing...
Well.... that's daijoubu (fine). Because I'm gonna kill ya!
You see, a bad case of anime addiction.
Well, we gotta stop it before it gets worse.
Okay, then it's time for... INTERVENTION TIME!
(NEW GAME!! opening plays)
He seems to really like the cute stuff.
Cute stuff... cute stuff... cute stuf...
I've got an idea!
Okay got it.
Which one would you prefer, this one or this one?
Well, she's got a nice face, pretty cute and she seems like a nice person. But....
But?
Who is this kawaii shojo (cute girl)? What anime is she from?! (continues rambling in weeb Japanese)
Well, you wanna try something else?
Sure, it probably won't take...
Can I be a part of this?
No.
What do we do now?
Well, I got a GUY.
A Guy?
Yes, a Guy. You know, from the BBC documentary?
The Guy has the ability to control minds, using advanced telepathic techniques. He is the greatest king of the animals in the jungle tree thing. I am definitely not forced to do this because he's controlling my mind...
Oh goddamn it! You're going off-script again! You're fired.
Wait, I'm not done here yet!
I'm LEAVING you too!
Wait, don't leave me here!
(Guy noises while the narrator is screaming for his life)
Martin has one too.
Well, where is he then?
Suffocating in the closet.
(Guy noises)
I'll go get him.
Hey Guy, you there?
Martin has an anime addiction. Stop it for me!
(Guy noise... you get it by now)
Nani desuka?
(Voiceover) Anime is trash, and you should stop watching...
(voiceover) Okay, nani the fuck are you doing in my mind?
(voiceover) What? How can he talk and hear me?
(voiceover) Well, I might as well take this opportunity and...
(non-voiceover) Omae wa mou shindeiru.
(voiceover) What? What does that mean? Oh, oh no, NO!
(Sonic music and Guy noises, the perfect duo)
Oh look, a chalk.
Welp, finders keepers.
(EAR RAPE WARNING *TURN DOWN HEADPHONES*)
(MICHAEL BAY!!)
It's over. He's never gonna get over anime.
Hey, have you heard of this American anime starring Jaden Smith?
American anime? Wait, is it on Netflix?
Yeah, why?
Because I have a great idea.
(2 HOURS LATER after watching an atrocity)
So, who wants to watch "The Room"?
(cheering)
...right after we watch this anime.
OH COME ON!
(tl: THE END)
Am I still a part of this?
NO!
But why?
(original music by Me)
And that's a wrap everyone!
CAN I GO HOME NOW?
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Putin Speech at Valdai 2017 - Duration: 34:14.
Thank you very much. I am not sure how optimistic it will sound, but I am aware that you had very lively discussions over the last three days.
I will try, as has now become customary, to share with you what I think about some of the issues. Please do not take it badly if I say something that has already been said as I did not follow all the discussions.
To begin with, I would like to welcome Mr Karzai, Mr Ma, Mr Toje, our colleagues and all our friends. I can see many familiar faces in the audience. Welcome everyone to the Valdai Club meeting.
By tradition, this forum focuses on discussing the most pressing global political as well as economic matters.
This time, the organisers, as was just mentioned again, have come up with a fairly difficult challenge asking the participants to try to look beyond the horizon, to ponder over what the coming decades may be like for Russia and the international community.
Of course, it is impossible to foresee everything and to take into account all the opportunities and risks that we will be faced with.
However, we need to understand and sense the key trends, to look for outside-the-box answers to the questions that the future is posing for us at the moment, and will surely pose more.
The pace of developments is such that we must react to them constantly as well as quickly.
The world has entered an era of rapid change. Things that were only recently referred to as fantastic or unattainable have become a reality and have become part of our daily lives.
Qualitatively new processes are simultaneously unfolding across all spheres. The fast-paced public life in various countries and the technological revolution are intertwined with changes on the international arena.
The competition for a place in the global hierarchy is exacerbating. However, many past recipes for global governance, overcoming conflicts as well as natural contradictions are no longer applicable, they often fail, and new ones have not been worked out yet.
Naturally, the interests of states do not always coincide, far from it. This is normal and natural. It has always been the case.
The leading powers have different geopolitical strategies and perceptions of the world. This is the immutable essence of international relations, which are built on the balance between cooperation and competition.
True, when this balance is upset, when the observance and even existence of universal rules of conduct is questioned,
when interests are pushed through at any cost, then disputes become unpredictable and dangerous and lead to violent conflicts.
Not a single real international problem can be resolved in such circumstances and such a framing of the issues, and so relations between countries simply degrade.
The world becomes less secure. Instead of progress and democracy, free rein is given to radical elements and extremist groups that reject civilization itself and seek to plunge it into the ancient past, into chaos and barbarism.
The history of the past few years graphically illustrates all of this.
It is enough to see what has happened in the Middle East, which some players have tried to reshape and reformat to their liking and to impose on it a foreign development model through externally orchestrated coups or simply by force of arms.
Instead of working together to redress the situation and deal a real blow to terrorism rather than simulating a struggle against it, some of our colleagues are doing everything they can to make the chaos in this region permanent.
Some still think that it is possible to manage this chaos.
Meanwhile, there are some positive examples in recent experience. As you have probably guessed, I am referring to the experience of Syria.
It shows that there is an alternative to this kind of arrogant and destructive policy. Russia is opposing terrorists together with the legitimate Syrian Government and other states of the region, and is acting on the basis of international law.
I must say that these actions and this forward progress has not come easy. There is a great deal of dissension in the region.
But we have fortified ourselves with patience and, weighing our every move and word, we are working with all the participants of this process with due respect for their interests.
Our efforts, the results of which were questioned by our colleagues only recently, are now – let me put it carefully – instilling us with hope. They have proved to be very important, correct, professional and timely.
Or, take another example – the clinch around the Korean Peninsula. I am sure you covered this issue extensively today as well.
Yes, we unequivocally condemn the nuclear tests conducted by the DPRK and fully comply with the UN Security Council resolutions concerning North Korea.
Colleagues, I want to emphasise this so that there is no discretionary interpretation. We comply with all UN Security Council resolutions.
However, this problem can, of course, only be resolved through dialogue. We should not drive North Korea into a corner, threaten force, stoop to unabashed rudeness or invective.
Whether someone likes or dislikes the North Korean regime, we must not forget that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a sovereign state.
All disputes must be resolved in a civilised manner. Russia has always favoured such an approach.
We are firmly convinced that even the most complex knots – be it the crisis in Syria or Libya, the Korean Peninsula or, say, Ukraine – must be disentangled rather than cut.
The situation in Spain clearly shows how fragile stability can be even in a prosperous and established state.
Who could have expected, even just recently, that the discussion of the status of Catalonia, which has a long history, would result in an acute political crisis?
Russia's position here is known. Everything that is happening is an internal matter for Spain and must be settled based on Spanish law in accordance with democratic traditions.
We are aware that the country's leadership is taking steps towards this end.
In the case of Catalonia, we saw the European Union and a number of other states unanimously condemn the supporters of independence.
You know, in this regard, I cannot help but note that more thought should have gone into this earlier. What, no one was aware of these centuries-old disagreements in Europe?
They were, were they not? Of course, they were. However, at one point they actually welcomed the disintegration of a number of states in Europe without hiding their joy.
Why were they so unthinking, driven by fleeting political considerations and their desire to please – I will put it bluntly – their big brother in Washington, in providing their unconditional support to the secession of Kosovo,
thus provoking similar processes in other regions of Europe and the world?
You may remember that when Crimea also declared its independence, and then – following the referendum – its decision to become part of Russia, this was not welcomed for some reason.
Now we have Catalonia. There is a similar issue in another region, Kurdistan. Perhaps this list is far from exhaustive.
But we have to ask ourselves, what are we going to do? What should we think about it?
It turns out that some of our colleagues think there are "good" fighters for independence and freedom and there are "separatists" who are not entitled to defend their rights, even with the use of democratic mechanisms.
As we always say in similar cases, such double standards – and this is a vivid example of double standards – pose serious danger to the stable development of Europe and other continents, and to the advancement of integration processes across the world.
At one time the apologists for globalisation were trying to convince us that universal economic interdependence was a guarantee against conflicts and geopolitical rivalry.
Alas, this did not happen. Moreover, the nature of the contradictions grew more complicated, becoming multilayer and nonlinear.
Indeed, while interconnectedness is a restraining and stabilising factor, we are also witnessing an increasing number of examples of politics crudely interfering with economic, market relations.
Quite recently there were warnings that this was unacceptable, counterproductive and must be prevented. Now those who made such warnings are doing all this themselves.
Some do not even conceal that they are using political pretexts to promote their strictly commercial interests.
For instance, the recent package of sanctions adopted by the US Congress is openly aimed at ousting Russia from European energy markets and compelling Europe to buy more expensive US-produced LNG although the scale of its production is still too small.
Attempts are being made to create obstacles in the way of our efforts to forge new energy routes – South Stream and Nord Stream – even though diversifying logistics is economically efficient, beneficial for Europe and promotes its security.
Let me repeat: it is only natural that each state has its own political, economic and other interests. The question is the means by which they are protected and promoted.
In the modern world, it is impossible to make a strategic gain at the expense of others. Such a policy based on self-assurance, egotism and claims to exceptionalism will not bring any respect or true greatness.
It will evoke natural and justified rejection and resistance. As a result, we will see the continued growth of tensions and discord instead of trying to establish together a steady and stable international order
and address the technological, environmental, climate and humanitarian challenges confronting the entire human race today.
Colleagues, Scientific and technological progress, robotic automation and digitalisation are already leading to profound economic, social, cultural changes, and changes in values as well.
We are now presented with previously inconceivable prospects and opportunities. But at the same time we will have to find answers to plenty of questions as well.
What place will people occupy in the "humans–machines–nature" triangle? What actions will be taken by states that fail to provide conditions for normal life due to changes in climate and environment?
How will employment be maintained in the era of automation? How will the Hippocratic oath be interpreted once doctors possess capabilities akin to all-powerful wizards?
And will human intelligence finally lose the ability to control artificial intelligence? Will artificial intelligence become a separate entity, independent from us?
Previously, when assessing the role and influence of countries, we spoke about the importance of the geopolitical factor, the size of a country's territory, its military power and natural resources. Of course, these factors still are of major importance today.
But now there is also another factor – the scientific and technological factor, which, without a doubt, is of great importance as well, and its importance will only increase over time.
It is also obvious that even the very latest technology will not be able to ensure sustainable development on its own.
A harmonious future is impossible without social responsibility, without freedom and justice, without respect for traditional ethical values and human dignity.
Otherwise, instead of becoming a world of prosperity and new opportunities, this "brave new world" will turn into a world of totalitarianism, castes, conflicts and greater divisions.
Today growing inequality is already building up into feelings of injustice and deprivation in millions of people and whole nations.
And the result is radicalisation, a desire to change things in any way possible, up to and including violence.
By the way, this has already happened in many countries, and in Russia, our country, as well.
Successful technological, industrial breakthroughs were followed by dramatic upheavals and revolutionary disruptions.
It all happened because the country failed to address social discord and overcome the clear anachronisms in society in time.
Revolution is always the result of an accountability deficit in both those who would like to conserve, to freeze in place the outdated order of things that clearly needs to be changed,
and those who aspire to speed the changes up, resorting to civil conflict and destructive resistance.
Today, as we turn to the lessons of a century ago, namely, the Russian Revolution of 1917, we see how ambiguous its results were, how closely the negative and, we must acknowledge, the positive consequences of those events are intertwined.
Let us ask ourselves: was it not possible to follow an evolutionary path rather than go through a revolution?
Could we not have evolved by way of gradual and consistent forward movement rather than at a cost of destroying our statehood and the ruthless fracturing of millions of human lives.
However, the largely utopian social model and ideology, which the newly formed state tried to implement initially following the 1917 revolution,
was a powerful driver of transformations across the globe (this is quite clear and must also be acknowledged), caused a major revaluation of development models,
and gave rise to rivalry and competition, the benefits of which, I would say, were mostly reaped by the West.
I am referring not only to the geopolitical victories following the Cold War. Many Western achievements of the 20th century were in answer to the challenge posed by the Soviet Union.
I am talking about raising living standards, forming a strong middle class, reforming the labour market and the social sphere, promoting education, guaranteeing human rights, including the rights of minorities and women, overcoming racial segregation,
which, as you may recall, was a shameful practice in many countries, including the United States, a few short decades ago.
Following the radical changes that took place in our country and globally at the turn of the 1990s, a really unique chance arose to open a truly new chapter in history. I mean the period after the Soviet Union ceased to exist.
Unfortunately, after dividing up the geopolitical heritage of the Soviet Union, our Western partners became convinced of the justness of their cause and declared themselves the victors of the Cold War, as I just mentioned,
and started openly interfering in the affairs of sovereign states, and exporting democracy just like the Soviet leadership had tried to export the socialist revolution to the rest of the world in its time.
We were confronted with the redistribution of spheres of influence and NATO expansion. Overconfidence invariably leads to mistakes.
The outcome was unfortunate. Two and a half decades gone to waste, a lot of missed opportunities, and a heavy burden of mutual distrust. The global imbalance has only intensified as a result.
We do hear declarations about being committed to resolving global issues, but, in fact, what we see is more and more examples of selfishness.
All the international institutions designed to harmonise interests and formulate a joint agenda are being eroded,
and basic multilateral international treaties and critically important bilateral agreements are being devalued.
I was told, just a few hours ago, that the US President said something on social media about Russia-US cooperation in the important area of nuclear cooperation.
True, this is the most important sphere of interaction between Russia and the United States, bearing in mind that Russia and the United States bear a special responsibility to the world as the two largest nuclear powers.
However, I would like to use this opportunity to speak in more detail about what happened in recent decades in this crucial area, to provide a more complete picture. It will take two minutes at most.
Several landmark bilateral agreements were signed in the 1990s. The first one, the Nunn-Lugar programme, was signed on June 17, 1992.
The second one, the HEU-LEU programme, was signed on February 18, 1993. Highly enriched uranium was converted into low-enriched uranium, hence HEU-LEU.
The projects under the first agreement focused on upgrading control systems, accounting and physical protection of nuclear materials, dismantling and scrapping submarines and radioisotope thermoelectric generators.
The Americans have made – and please pay attention here, this is not secret information, simply few are aware of it – 620 verification visits to Russia to check our compliance with the agreements.
They visited the holiest of holies of the Russian nuclear weapons complex, namely, the enterprises engaged in developing nuclear warheads and ammunition, and weapons-grade plutonium and uranium.
The United States gained access to all top-secret facilities in Russia. Also, the agreement was almost unilateral in nature.
Under the second agreement, the Americans made 170 more visits to our enrichment plants, touring their most restricted areas, such as mixing units and storage facilities.
The world's most powerful nuclear enrichment plant – the Urals Electrochemical Combine – even had a permanent American observation post.
Permanent jobs were created directly at the workshops of this combine where the American specialists went to work every day.
The rooms they were sitting in at these top-secret Russian facilities had American flags, as is always the case.
In addition, a list was drawn up of 100 American specialists from 10 different US organisations who were entitled to conduct additional inspections at any time and without any warning.
All this lasted for 10 years. Under this agreement, 500 tonnes of weapons-grade uranium were removed from military circulation in Russia, which is equivalent to about 20,000 nuclear warheads.
The HEU-LEU programme has become one of the most effective measures of true disarmament in the history of humankind – I say this with full confidence.
Each step on the Russian side was closely monitored by American specialists,
at a time when the United States limited itself to much more modest reductions of its nuclear arsenal, and did so on a purely goodwill basis.
Our specialists also visited enterprises of the US nuclear arms complex but only at their invitation and under conditions set by the US side.
As you see, the Russian side demonstrated absolutely unprecedented openness and trust.
Incidentally – and we will probably talk about this later – it is also common knowledge what we received from this: total neglect of our national interests,
support for separatism in the Caucasus, military action that circumvented the UN Security Council, such as the bombing of Yugoslavia and Belgrade, military invasion of Iraq and so on.
Well, this is easy to understand: once the condition of the nuclear complex, the armed forces and the economy had been seen, international law appeared to be unnecessary.
In the 2000s our cooperation with the United States entered a new stage of truly equitable partnership.
It was marked by the singing of a number of strategic treaties and agreements on peaceful uses of nuclear energy, which is known in the US as the 123 Agreement.
But to all intents and purposes, the US side unilaterally halted work within its framework in 2014.
The situation around the 2000 Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement (PMDA) of August 20 (signed in Moscow) and September 1 (in Washington) is perplexing and alarming.
In accordance with the protocol to this agreement, the sides were supposed to take reciprocal steps to irreversibly convert weapons-grade plutonium into mixed oxide (MOX) fuel and burn it in nuclear plants, so that it could not be used for military purposes.
Any changes in this method were only allowed by consent of the sides. This is written in the agreement and protocols to it.
What did Russia do? We developed this fuel, built a plant for mass production and, as we pledged in the agreement, built a BN-800 plant that allowed us to safely burn this fuel.
I would like to emphasise that Russia fulfilled all of its commitments.
What did our American partners do? They started building a plant on the Savannah River Site.
Its initial price tag was $4.86 billon but they spent almost $8 billion, brought construction to 70 percent and then froze the project.
But, to our knowledge, the budget request for 2018 includes $270 million for the closure and mothballing of this facility.
As usual, a question arises: where is the money? Probably stolen. Or they miscalculated something when planning its construction.
Such things happen. They happen here all too often. But we are not interested in this, this is not our business.
We are interested in what happens with uranium and plutonium. What about the disposal of plutonium?
Dilution and geological storage of the plutonium is suggested. But this completely contradicts the spirit and letter of the agreement,
and, most important, does not guarantee that the dilution is not reconverted into weapons-grade plutonium. All this is very unfortunate and bewildering.
Next. Russia ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty more than 17 years ago. The USA has not done so yet.
A critical mass of problems is building up in global security. As is known, in 2002 the United States pulled out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
And despite being initiators of the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and international security, they initiated that agreement themselves, they are failing to meet their commitments.
They remain as of today the only and largest holder of this form of weapon of mass destruction. Moreover, the USA has pushed back the deadline for eliminating their chemical weapons from 2007 to as far as 2023.
It does not look proper for a nation that claims to be a champion of non-proliferation and control.
In Russia, on the contrary, the process was completed on September 27 of this year. By doing so our country has made a significant contribution to enhancing international security.
By the way, the western media preferred to keep quiet, not to notice it, though there was one fleeting mention somewhere in Canada, but that was it, then silence.
Meanwhile, the chemical weapons arsenal stockpiled by the Soviet Union is enough to destroy life on the planet multiple times over.
I believe that it is time to abandon an obsolete agenda. I am referring to what was. Without a doubt, we should be looking forward, we have to stop looking back.
I am talking about this so as to understand the origins of the current situation that is taking shape.
It is high time for a frank discussion among the global community rather than just a group of the chosen, allegedly the most worthy and advanced.
Representatives of different continents, cultural and historical traditions, political and economic systems.
In a changing world, we cannot afford to be inflexible, closed off, or unable to respond clearly and quickly.
Responsibility for the future – this is what should unite us, especially in times like the current ones when everything is changing rapidly.
Never before has humankind possessed such power as it does now. The power over nature, space, communications, and its own existence.
However, this power is diffuse: its elements are in the hands of states, corporations, public and religious associations, and even individual citizens.
Clearly, harnessing all these elements in a single, effective and manageable architecture is not an easy task. It will take hard, painstaking work to achieve this.
And Russia, I will note, is willing to take part in it together with any partners who are interested.
Colleagues, how do we see the future of the international order and the global governance system? For example, in 2045, when the UN will mark its centennial anniversary?
Its creation has become a symbol of the fact that humanity, in spite of everything, is capable of developing common rules of conduct and following them.
Whenever these rules were not followed, it inevitably resulted in crises and other negative consequences.
However, in recent decades, there have been several attempts to belittle the role of this organisation, to discredit it, or simply to assume control over it.
All these attempts predictably failed, or reached a dead end. In our opinion, the UN, with its universal legitimacy, must remain the centre of the international system.
Our common goal is to raise its authority and effectiveness. There is no alternative to the UN today.
With regard to the right of veto in the Security Council, which is also sometimes challenged, you may recall that this mechanism was designed and created in order to avoid direct confrontation of the most powerful states,
as a guarantee against arbitrariness and recklessness, so that no single country, even the most influential country, could give the appearance of legitimacy to its aggressive actions.
Of course, let us face it, the experts are here, and they know that the UN has legitimised the actions of individual participants in international affairs after the fact.
Well, at least that is something, but it will not lead to any good, either.
Reforms are needed, the UN system needs improvement, but reforms can only be gradual, evolutionary
and, of course, they must be supported by the overwhelming majority of the participants in the international process within the organisation itself, by broad consensus.
The guarantee of the UN effectiveness lies in its representative nature. The absolute majority of the world's sovereign states are represented in it.
The fundamental principles of the UN should be preserved for years and decades to come, since there is no other entity that is capable of reflecting the entire gamut of international politics.
Today, new centres of influence and growth models are emerging, civilisational alliances, and political and economic associations are taking shape.
This diversity does not lend itself to unification. So, we must strive to harmonise cooperation. Regional organisations in Eurasia, America, Africa, the Asia-Pacific region should act under the auspices of the United Nations and coordinate their work.
However, each association has the right to function according to its own ideas and principles that correspond to its cultural, historical and geographical specifics.
It is important to combine global interdependence and openness with preserving the unique identity of each nation and each region. We must respect sovereignty as the basis underlying the entire system of international relations.
Colleagues, no matter what amazing heights technology can reach, history is, of course, made by humans.
History is made by people, with all their strengths and weaknesses, great achievements and mistakes. We can have only a shared future.
There can be no separate futures for us, at least, not in the modern world. So, the responsibility for ensuring that this world is conflict-free and prosperous lies with the entire international community.
As you may be aware, the 19th World Festival of Youth and Students is taking place in Sochi.
Young people from dozens of countries are interacting with their peers and discussing matters that concern them.
They are not hampered by cultural, national or political differences, and they are all dreaming about the future.
They believe that their lives, the lives of younger generations will be better, fairer and safer.
Our responsibility today is to do our best to make sure that these hopes come true.
Thank you very much for your attention.
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