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Thanksgiving -
Happy thanksgiving to the Amerikaner mottizens, I have no clue what the real story behind it is so would be nice in case you guys could tell me what exactly is the correct origin.
Death of Web shows and Fishtank.live -
Web shows, pre netflix web shows were quite hot for a minute. Collegehumor and Cracked.com put out fairly interesting low budget things. Youtube or the internet back then was not just another medium for larger crops like it is now but more decentralised. You did not expect to find mainstream people having thier own channels, it was its own subculture. Some web shows I liked were after hours by craked, jake and amir by collegehumor, most stuff put out by them was pretty good until like 2015, they had many great shows besides these two. One web entity that stood out enough to get a TV Show was MDE with its frontman Sam Hyde, his TED Talk is a hilarious introduction in case you have never seen him before.
MDE - World Peace was Sam Hyde's original breakthrough, 6 episodes of 12 minutes, it was the funniest thing on cable till it got cancelled literally by Adult Swim for Sam shilling for Trump, the group disbanded but Sam kept at it, he kept making videos and greenlight Fishtank, an idea Jet Neptune, one of the people in his team had. Do not go into it expecting to find something meaningful, Fisthank is what you want trashy humor to be, just balls-to-the-wall funny.
I started watching Fishtank.live via daily recaps on youtube since yesterday and it is the highest-brow trashy reality tv anyone can enjoy. Sam Hyde is the perfect host and the whole host of people there doing insane things is too funny not to laugh at. I cannot name my favourite incidents without getting banned since the show is seen primarily by 4chan folks.
Unlike Big Brother, you see it live 24/7 without edits, but instead of washed-up celebrities, it's internet weirdos and washed-up internet celebrities with cameos from the likes of Frank Hassle and Alex Stein. One of the episodes in season one ended with a guy smoking crack and getting kicked out, and another with Luke Valentine teaching an actor how to yell profanities. Viewers can pay money, send tts, and meddle with the lives of the contestants. Many would be put off by Fishtank which is fine, I am too at times but it is quite entertaining, you can just pick up at any point in any season and laugh real hard. Sam has made two of the most interesting web shows
Miscellaneous
No fights this weekend and since I have started Tantra Illuminated, the online academy run by Christopher Hareesh Wallis, I am tempted to pick up his book titled Tantra Illuminated. Hareesh comes from a school of Tantra called Shaiva Tantra that you found in Kashmir, it is a non-dual theistic tradition that encourages you to read up about the nature of reality from the perspective of a yogi. This is a purely leisure thing and I have a terrible habit of putting down books halfway. Do drop your own understanding of whatever spiritual readings you have come across, I never cared much about this till now so I do find it exciting.
Have a fun weekend folks!
A group of English religious dissidents got permission to settle in what is now the US, a bunch of them died in the first winter but a local Indian named Squanto offered to teach them to make the local soil grow crops when he wandered over to see if they brought any beer with them. His chief then noticed they had guns and threw a feast where he convinced the colonists to sign a mutual defense pact(which he actually invoked a few times, but it broke down before King Phillips war). Thanksgiving commemorates that feast.
Samoset was the one who first met them and asked for beer in some English he had learned from fishermen. Squanto was a more effective translator because he knew more English, having been enslaved by English people, sold to the Spanish, getting out of Spain to England, and living in London until he could return home (only to discover his birth village/tribe had died out in the meantime).
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