Your Friday Afternoon StupidiVideo

GLaDOS helps NASA and explains nuclear fusion vs. nuclear fission.



We do what we must, because we can.

Money Can't Buy You Empathy, Apparently

A couple of videos for your StupidiVid Friday viewing pleasure, first up, a TedX talk from social psychologist Paul Piff on how people behave in a rigged Monopoly game where one person (determined by a coin toss) is clearly rich and has all the rules favoring them, and the other player doesn't.  Here's a hint: lots of money turns people into complete jackasses with all the empathy of a hunk of volcanic pumice.




Second, a Bloomberg News piece on billionaire investor Sam Zell, on why the one percent is better than you are.  Here's a hint: lots of money turns people into complete jackasses with all the empathy of a hunk of volcanic pumice.




The more money you have, the less empathy you have, period.  Nothing new there, but it's worth reinforcing.

Seems Like A Normal Family To Me

The latest Fine Bros. video explores a number of kids reacting to the recent Cheerios commercial with the biracial family, and it will make you feel a whole lot better about America, when not one of the kids or teens can find anything "wrong" with the commercial.



Once again, as a biracial man with a biracial brother and three mixed-race nephews, that fact that these kids see nothing wrong with the notion of a white mom, black father, and a biracial daughter is pretty damn awesome.  When I was 11 or 12, growing up in relatively small town North Carolina, things were difficult sometimes.  That was a generation ago, however.  Now?  Now I see a lot more hope.

Good job, kids.  Keep being awesome.

Your Saturday Afternoon Nothing Can Possibly Beat This Ever

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Last Call

For Bon, a giant rubber duck story.




Because GIANT RUBBER DUCK.

StupidiVid: Knocked 'Em Dead

President Obama at last night's White House Correspondents Dinner was a thing of beauty.




Enjoy. I certainly did.

Why Obama Now: The Video

Professional animator Lucas Gray (who has worked on The Simpsons and Family Guy) put together this video, with President Obama's own words, as the case for four more years.



It's rather compelling.  Do give it a watch.

Paul, A Little Presidenting Music If You Would

President Obama was on the Late Show with Dave Letterman on Tuesday, talking about his campaign and of course, Mitt Romney's really awful week.  Here's the video, courtesy of Raw Story.

Barack Obama warned Tuesday his Republican foe Mitt Romney was “writing off a big chunk of the country” following his remark that 47 percent of Americans were “victims” and therefore backed the president.

Obama offered his first response to Romney’s remarks, made in a secretly recorded meeting with rich donors, at a “Late Show with David Letterman” taping in New York on Tuesday, 50 days before the presidential election.

“One of the things I learned as president is you represent the entire country. If you want to be president, you have to work for everyone,” Obama said.

“What people want to know though is you’re not writing off a big chunk of the country because the way our democracy works … this is a big country.

“When I won in 2008, 47 percent of the American people voted for John McCain,” Obama said.

“They didn’t vote for me and what I said on election night was: ?Even though you didn’t vote for me, I hear your voices, and I’m going to work as hard as I can to be your president.’”

“There are not a lot of people out there who think they’re victims,” Obama said.

“There are not a lot of people who think they’re entitled to something.”

It was a pretty good appearance by the President, a good reminder that he's a father and husband as well as President of the United States.  Oh, and he got in a couple of good digs, give it a watch.

Space, The Final Frontier

Faith in an orderly universe that will function long after I'm gone:  restored.

Pro Tip, People

A very nice local story from down the road in Lexington, and if you haven't seen the video, first let's take a look:




And the story:

Aaron Collins was only in his 20s. But something, his family and friends say, made him outline three things he wanted when he died: to repay his parents any debt he may have owed, to give a homeless person some money and to leave "an awesome tip" for a waiter or waitress.

"I'm not talking about 25%. I mean $500 for a ... pizza," Collins wrote in his will, according to his brother.

Collins died on July 7, just three weeks after his 30th birthday, in a Lexington, Kentucky, hospital, leaving behind family and friends who took up his final request -- to leave a big tip.

Family and friends fulfilled Aaron's request, tipping one waitress in Lexington the $500, a moment that Aaron's brother, Seth Collins, videotaped and posted online Wednesday to YouTube. It is linked to the family's memorial page, AaronCollins.org.

And they did just that, and this thing blew up.  Do drop by the page and help make more EPIC WIN for folks out there.

StupidiVid: So Easy A Canadian 12-Year-Old Can Do It

Meet Victoria Grant, who apparently is a lot smarter than a lot of people you and I know.




Smart kid.

If 12-year old Victoria Grant can explain how banks that print our nation's currency and their puppet global banks are the most immoral criminal institutions on our planet responsible for oppression, mass suffering, and misery, shame on anyone else that is too lazy and/or too misanthropic to take the time or effort to watch this six minute video to understand this essential truth that is probably the most important misunderstood truth in the entire world. No humanitarian efforts will ever make a sustainable impact in this world if we first don't tackle the fact that our modern banking system is criminal and must be destroyed, the truth of which 12-year old Victoria already understands.

Yep.  Worth a watch, at least.

StupidiVid: Cheerios Edition

Today we have a double feature!  First, we have a brother who is amusing his sibling by eating.  I'm not sure how that's funny either, but the baby's reaction is too good to skip.



And then we have this, from my own archives.  My husband and our youngest nephew had a hilarious Cheerio-related moment.



Cheerio, mates!