What are you watching right now?
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I am about to watch: Fred Frith - Step Across the Border
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I rewatched Spiderman: Far From Home with friends but I pretend watch it again but dubbed. Good movie that let me with high expectations due the post credit scenes.
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I am about to watch K-PAX
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Debunks some myths about the effect of religion on birth rates.
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How Does An Owl Fly So Silently?
BBC Earth
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How Does An Owl's Hearing Work?
BBC Earth
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These last days I've been watching the Good Omens series based on the cult classic by Gaiman and Pratchett.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1869454/It's really good, and very British which I love
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The Search for the Northwest Passage: Part 1
The Search for the Northwest Passage: Part 2
The Historical Story of Finding the Northwest Passage
The search for a sea route across the top of the world linking Europe to Asia - the fabled Northwest Passage - was one of the most difficult and dangerous in the history of exploration. 2005 marks the 100th anniversary of Roald Amundsen's discovery of the elusive route. The original 1845 expedition led by Sir John Franklin resulted in Franklin and his entire team of 128 men disappearing whilst searching for the passage. What happened to Franklin's expedition is one of the Arctic's most enduring mysteries, Was the expedition poisoned by its own supplies? Did some members of the expedition commit cannibalism or were they killed by the local Inuit? It wasn't until 1903, that an expedition finally found a way through which was lead by Roald Amundsen. His success owed much to the experience of those who had gone before him. But unlike them, he also understood that to survive in such conditions, he had to learn from the native Inuit. The skills Amundsen learnt in the Arctic would later pave the way for his successful assault on the South Pole. The two-part series concentrates on these two famous expeditions. The stories are told using dramatic reconstructions, CGI and documentary techniques. New information sheds light on what happened to Franklin's expedition and also shows how Amundsen was able to succeed when so many before had failed. Documentary first broadcast in 2005.
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@Pesala Nice find. Definitely will add to watch list
Did you watch the series "The Terror" a couple of years back? Most of it was of course complete fiction but I found the depiction of the hardships of life aboard these vessels very interesting.
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@Pathduck I prefer the red pill, though I do sometimes enjoy docudramas. The one on Gandhi was shown in the Thai Forest Monastery where I was staying at the time.
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The saddest part is that it is targeted at the poor, who have the least disposable income, are the least able to cope with a large sum if they do win, and most likely to have a poor understanding of statistics and maths.
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@Pesala It's a foul and despicable industry, especially the online gambling business. Thinking of how many lives have been ruined and families broken because of gambling addiction. And they say video games are dangerous and cause addiction... while these dirtbags giggle as money flows into their tax paradises.
I've seen a trend lately where the big online casinos try to brag about their "new credit limits" in ads, to pretend they actually care. As if that's going to stop an addict from just upping the limit every time they hit it...
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@Pesala said in What are you watching right now?:
The truth is stranger than fiction.
After humanity is long gone - probably by our own doing - fungi and insects will still rule until the Earth is swallowed by the sun.
Fun fact:
Humans inhale somewhere between 1,000 and 10 billion mold spores on an average dayAnd I just watched this:
Sakawa - An unbiased behind-the-scenes look at internet scamming in Ghana, where con artists cheat wealthy Westerners to escape poverty.Now I have a renewed respect for these young men (and women) tricking easy, dumb, horny and rich westerners for their money. Anyone foolish and gullible enough to fall for these scams deserve everything they get.
The irony of course, is that the young scammers are themselves being scammed out of their money by the older tricksters like witch doctors, shamans and other assorted charlatans - who have done this for thousands of years already, so have much more experience in the hustle:
Internet Scamming in Ghana
