Nuggets of Truth

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Not a video, but this X post belongs in this thread:

Daniel Foubert 🇫🇷🇵🇱
@Arrogance_0024
Our society is becoming a psychiatric asylum run by lunatics.

Men are women. Borders are racist. Criminals are victims. Truth is hate speech. Sanity is a threat. Stability is oppression. Normality is taboo. Everything that once provided structure, identity, and meaning is now declared violent, outdated, or dangerous.

You are no longer judged by your actions, but by your compliance with collective delusion. Virtue is measured in lies. Reality is optional. Facts are negotiable. If you refuse to lie, you’re dangerous. If you tell the truth, you’re erased. If you say nothing, they’ll speak for you.

The public square has become a courtroom — where guilt is collective and evidence irrelevant. The workplace is a therapy session. The university is a reeducation camp. The school is a lab for ideological experiments on children. You don’t learn to think — you learn to obey.

Bureaucrats pass policies like sedatives. Journalists hallucinate enemies and call it reporting. Politicians promise safety in exchange for language controls, memory edits, and institutional gaslighting. Reality is no longer something to face — it’s something to censor.

What we call “progress” is a breakdown — not a leap forward, but a collapse inward. We’re dismantling foundations faster than we can pretend to build replacements. We don’t fix the problems — we rename them.

And the doctors? They’ve joined the patients.

https://x.com/Arrogance_0024/status/1952320387850612919

[grapevine]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zvdzPV55h4U

Sounds absolutely wonderful . . .
Have to say this description reminds me of the time I heard Shirley Bassey sing live at the Royal Albert Hall; it was like being hit by a hurricane and run over by a train. Totally overwhelming and I've never experienced anything like it before or since . . .

[grapevine]

Madness

On the one hand . . .

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zmkLfzjMcIU

and yet . . .

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JVvhUiTJEqs

[grapevine]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cOhww_F2grc

[Bill Ryan]

I do think this most excellent knot-tying 'how-to' video belongs here. It's 16 minutes long, but you can skip through it to find things you might not have known, and/or play it at 3x the speed.

10 super-useful knots are shown, and so you can pick and choose any that look potentially valuable to you. They're all really simple to learn. (I've been doing outdoor things with ropes most of my life, sometimes in serious safety situations, and even so there were a couple here that were new to me.)

The only super-useful knot that's not shown here is the clove hitch, another which I use all the time and which may be the simplest of all. Here's a one-minute video on that.

The 10 BEST Knots in Life

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5lLPAHK_k6I

[grapevine]

Still on the theme of Chocolate . . .

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mCNVnXW072k

In the USA and UK white chocolate must contain at least 20% cocoa butter but unfortunately doesn't contain the same nutritional values as dark chocolate.

[grapevine]

The Incredible History of Vanilla Pollination

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZqvgWTYP6sM

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Why Police Close Desk Without Data

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=r4qOmdFl2Gw

Pretty shameful, but given their performance lately perhaps it's just as well . . .

[grapevine]

Is your pelvis misaligned?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qrYHR4kj3zg

[grapevine]

Massive trick for activating superconscious mind

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UY0KAU50zko

[grapevine]

The Earthquake Bed that could save your life

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=aUiL70SDgVI

[grapevine]

The last pair of glasses you'll ever need

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=G7_IkwNWdAM

This is an ad which appears frequently in YT shorts atm. I thought it was a joke or far-fetched but it turns out there have been great strides in Adaptive Focus, Electrochromic and Photochromic glasses in recent times and the claims in this ad are correct although of course the "one size fits all" is a little far fetched. Research shows that many of these new glasses come with a lifetime guarantee and of course they don't come cheap, but hopefully as they catch on the price may come down a little.

For interest, here's a link to a longer video about smart glasses just over 22 minutes long;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noKCqel3nks

[grapevine]

Tanzania - turning desert into forest

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yN3hnmaUf_w

While we in the West are wallowing in the decline of our countries, there are wonderful things happening in other parts of the planet. If the whole of Africa was made lush it could feed the world and bugger Bill Gates.

Here's another short about the same thing which gives a little more information:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WKrANHuWM8E

[RunningDeer]

No pumps, no electricity. It’s all gravity fed permaculture. In the end the water is cleaner than when it entered the system.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LVwvc_-agZE

[RunningDeer]

Chocolate Croissants🥐


A worker who knows physics is worth his weight in gold!


Revive the Puff

[grapevine]

If you were born in 1900:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LWORrsDfapQ

We seem to be going full circle . . .

[grapevine]

Built his own prosthetic - wonderful

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VVo9pPAAiVg

[grapevine]

The Message

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YWA7hMbaEVc

[grapevine]

Longevity doctor ranks bio-hacks and supplements 1 to 10

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-RfvaBBPYG8

YT: Comments:
- raw turmeric with boswelia 10/10
- caliesthenics 8/10
- fresh celery juice 8 /10
- wild blueberries 10/10
- family love 10/10
- fun with people 10/1
- Meditation and thoughtful breathing is 10/10.
- Everyone should put down their phones and meditate.
- I give him a 10! 😅

[RunningDeer]

Antique 18th century Italian hobnail floor safe.

Mod note from Bill:

Ugh, this Telegram channel has disappeared. But I found what I think is the same magnificent Italian floor safe, shown and described here on YouTube:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=7waE0LsjCyU