"U.S. History: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)"

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"John Oliver takes a look at how the history of race in America is taught in schools, how we can make those teachings more accurate, and why it’s in everyone's best interest to understand the most realistic version of the past."

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"Ignoring the history that you don't like is not a victimless act. And a history of America that ignores white supremacy is a white supremacist history of America."

(EDIT) Honestly, I think that this rampant misteaching of history is, in and of itself, something that is worthy of being taught to students in schools. That is to say, I think it should be explicitly taught to students that not all schools teach history (or anything else, e.g. science, religious studies, etc.) equally, and that some of them try to sugarcoat everything and make it seem not as bad as it actually was. That would happen in an ideal world, however, and I'm not sure how such a curriculum would be created. I wouldn't trust the Department of Education of the current US federal government to do it, that's for fucking sure. (EDIT 2) Actually, no, in a truly ideal world, teaching about this shit wouldn't happen, because the shit itself wouldn't be happening, and thus there would be no need to teach about it. (/EDIT 2) (/EDIT)

Tucker Carlson was promoted to a full double deuce from me this time. The single deuce was relegated to Laura Ingraham.

(And because those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it [hint hint HBO with its asinine region-locking of Youtube videos], here are some alternative links.)

"YouTube Creator Burnout - Is It Real?"

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"We discuss YouTube creator burnout in light of the hiatus announcement of James & Mike Mondays."

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It wasn't Youtube, but I'd have to say that burnout was probably one of the main reasons that I finally wanted to stop doing OW! posts (well, that and the fact that it seemed like just about everyone else had already burned out on it even before I did), given that I'd been doing them on a semi-regular basis from... fuck... something like 1998 to 2003 or so? Five years? That's actually kind of hard to believe now, looking back on it. And that was just writing silly posts on a newsgroup.

And I've certainly felt burnout on trying to write a novel. Hell, it's why I've only gotten like six chapters or something like 32,000 words, even though I've been "working" on the thing off and on for like five years or more now.

I couldn't even imagine myself doing something more demanding than that like writing for a skit show like AVGN, not to mention actually performing said skits, or even just doing a regular podcast or a Let's Play series or something like that. I like me some video games, that's for damn sure, but having to do it on demand, as a performance? Fuck no to that noise.