Might be the best political attack (humiliation?) ad I’ve seen. Had to look up Dave Bautista.
Category Archives: YouTube
ChatGPT as reading companion
While I occasionally consult with ChatGPT while reading, it has never occurred to me to just keep it open. I think I’d find that distracting. This would be particularly useful for my non-fiction reading
iOS 18: Pause while recording video
Who’s buying all this booze?
ChatGPT: Advanced Voice
There are now nine Voice options in the ChatGPT app. Each one has a different tone, style and… “personality.” (I went with Sol) It also has something called “speech-to-speech capabilities.” This means that it can pick up on tone changes, “allowing for a more natural, human-like conversation and faster interrupting.”
I’m not sure about “Advanced Voice.” If you want it to sound more like yourself then you can ask it to adopt a specific accent. It won’t be able to directly mimic your voice but it can sound like it’s from your neck of the woods. I don’t think so. If I want to hear the lilting sounds of Southeast Missouri, I’ll talk to Barb.
“It’s time to be a man and vote for a woman”
Sam Elliot has one of those instantly recognizable voices. Up there with Morgan Freeman, james Earl Jones, Charlton Heston, just to name a few. (Good list of 20)
“Are we really going down that same broken fucking road?”
I love that they let him say “fucking.” Everybody says fuck. It’s a perfectly good word and, sometimes, the only word that fits.
Apple Watch: First Impressions
THIS IS NOT A REVIEW OF THE APPLE WATCH. Just some stream-of-consciousness first impressions. Runs just over 8 minutes. One thought to get you started: the watch already knows much more about me than I know about it and that will always be the case.
Apple Watch: Protecting my hearing
Monster
Guilty Pleasure #237: Drunk Karens cuffed and arrested
After paying for the ad-free YouTube I found myself watching more videos…and more different types of videos. I quickly discovered a fondness (addiction?) for videos I came to think of as “guilty pleasures.”
Early on it was videos of third-world truck drivers crawling along mountain roads or muddy jungle trails. Next came high-speed chases captured on police dash cams. Which led me to videos of assholes being dragged off commercial flights (necessitating all passengers de-planing). From there it was a shot hop to body-cam video of “sovereign citizens” refusing to provide ID when stopped by police or troopers. The guiltiest pleasure of all is from police body-cams of officers dealing with spoiled, entitled, drunk white women. I’ve seen the term “Karen Cam” used to describe these.
Several take-aways from these videos: a) most police offers/deputies/troopers have a vast reservoir of patience. (Cursed, spat on, kicked and scratched) b) it is insanely difficult to handcuff someone who is resisting. Even for half a dozen big strong officers, it’s all they can do to get the woman’s hands cuffed behind her back… her legs hobbled… then put her in the police vehicle. Where she kicks and screams all the way to jail.
No idea why I find these videos so… addictive. Perhaps it’s as simple as seeing these spoiled, never-told-no princesses suffering a consequence. And it pleases me to know these humiliating videos are out there for the world to see.