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Some Venn diagrams would be interesting because those Seinfeld scenarios were not just triumphs of the imagination. YT has an interview of Jason Alexander who played George, and said his scenarios were based on true experiences of co-creator Larry David, pictured below in a later series also based on his life. Excerpts sound like the writing is top notch but the acting not. Speaking of actor criticism, Jason described in his cold clinical way (opposite of his volatile character) the origin to what I think was their peak moments. Getting George free of his fiance (Susan?) eventually thru accidental invitations poisoning was because Jason couldn't bear working with that actress. Hopefully not based on a real involuntary manslaughter...

It can be quite a convenience to click "watch on youtube" then stop playback and click on "ask" for an AI summary. Then can pick a point to expand with an excerpt playback (altho I often forget I have to then un-stop by hitting play). Not so needed for this short video, but what a tool to preview those many videos stuck in your "watch later" playlist. Especially those slow to get to the point.

Couple gripping Black-Ops documentaries that dig into what made news events possible. YT does not allow embed: How Peruvian Commandos Ended the World’s Longest Hostage Siege. Follow 1996 taking of hundreds of hostages for a hundred days at a Japanese embassy party in Peru. One hostage manages to inform authorities that the only time the terrorists were not vigilant was during afternoon soccer games, so they tunneled under the game room and blew it up. How Israel Secretly Destroyed Syria’s Nuclear Reactor - The Untold Black Ops Triggered by observing massive phone traffic between empty corner of Syria and North Korea 2004, Israel further notices shipments of lead lined body bags back to Syria after a massive nuke accident killing thousands in N Korea. Correctly guess the phone traffic is nuke user help, and that bodies were nuke foreign exchange students, a honey trap fills in details so that the Syrian weapon factory can be safely destroyed. Speaking of N. Korea, I'd love to see a documentary on the Wildberries business now being hammered all over Russia. Apparently run by a (north?) Korean women with sometimes hundreds of N. Korean warehouse employees, her Russian ex-husband once employed gangsters to storm corporate HQ and shoot a couple of her security guards dead. She seems to be accepted into the elite altho is drowning in debt. I can't help wondering if her warehouses burn so readily because they emulated Amazon with recent biodegradable packaging.

I was talking about forest-clearing piles generating smoke and ashes, the latter then buried a dozen or so feet deep in a natural or manmade hole and covered so tractors etc won't sink there. Crop fires or wild fires can leave ash in place to fertilize, but to make wet wood burn they form massive dense heaps which leave ash too messy and floaty to distribute. We had a log cabin in remote N. Maine woods and if you put green wood into our Jotul stove it would puke out creosote and risk a chimney fire. Anyway I was just surprised how lightly or stealthily rural practices are vs the clean air party line. The same party line that can unwisely forbid controlled forest burns. And surprised how much deforestation seems to be happening with no energy or lumber payoffs.

I happen to follow several U.S. farming and land prep channels, and they do a considerable amount of stealth burning of piles of downed trees and brush. Sometimes at night or ideally waiting for cloudy drizzly days that hide smoke. It's burned unattended in the wet to avoid spreading, and while wood and stumps are green which maximizes smoke. They do this because landfills charge so much and folks are uninterested in even free donations of pulpwood, firewood, or sawmill wood, especially if they have to expensively haul it. Burning remains free (well, they do squander a 5 gal bucket of diesel brute-force starting it) while alternative disposals costs more and more. Whatever happened to power plants efficiently using chips of dry waste wood - banished by the carbon hysteria? Anecdotally the source of so much smoke-prone wood is 1) field expansion (often to milk gov't subsidies of corn to be inefficiently burned as ethanol), 2) field trimback of bordering forest leaning into the field to seek sunshine, 3) clearing for new residences or rural bnb cottages (escaping urban regulation), 4) elaborate recreation ponds pretending to be for water mgt, or 5) just plain odd construction probably for vanity / tax deduction, like for show horse barns and prancing tracks.

To get a sense of racetrack structures, walk a quarter mile SE from Circus Maximus to Baths of Caracalla. Your ticket there will include the best preserved Circus of Maxentius which is a reasonable couple mile walk towards Via Appia. Visiting hours are exasperatingly sparse:

I've tried to appreciate the sculptures from that collection since they were unveiled 5 or so years ago, but they lack Roman trademark pensive demeanor and warts-and-all vibe that I value. Kind of florid and artsy like from Greece, or those retouched during the renaissance like what Michelangelo did on some famous Vatican pieces. Same goes for some pieces in the overrated Galleria Borghese (now timed entrance tickets - ugh).

Exhibits moved back onsite: https://ercolano.cultura.gov.it/the-wood-that-didnt-burn-at-herculaneum-at-the-archaeological-park-antiquarium-the-exhibition-on-woods-visitors-immerse-themselves-in-the-setting-of-a-domus-of-ancient-herculaneum/?lang=en

Afraid of being banned from tourist donkey rides? Or getting stuck in ancient passageways? US medicare has just launched a historic affordable diet pill program at a tiny fraction of hitherto prices. Yes the famously effective ones that kill your appetite, benefit cholesterol and insulin modulation, and I guess revive kidney function. The paperwork is rather byzantine, so I will post some tips. The approval documents can be exasperating; I brought info sheets with points relevant to my case highlighted into doctors office. They may fail to make clear that most Advantage plans include the needed medicare Part D coverage. Pharmacies may not handle this program (Amazon) or stock your preferred pill. I went to the (eccentric) source LillyDirect pharmacy. Which pill/needle jab for you? My humble opinion is that you'd be insane to take anything other than the carefree Foundayo pill. This 18 month program is described in following doc (has an omission that pre-diabetes will qualify you at middle BMI). Questions? https://delivery-p137454-e1438138.adobeaemcloud.com/adobe/assets/urn:aaid:aem:c11dd4ec-5a2d-467f-bdf7-a106863e9513/renditions/original/as/CMAT-30456-Digital_Medicare_HCP_Resource.pdf?assetname=CMAT-30456-Digital_Medicare_HCP_Resource.pdf

True spy thriller in Naples: "How I caught an Illegal Russian Spy" only on youtube but with 6k comments urging Netflix to adopt it. Prize winning journalist tracks down honeytrap spy trolling Naples Nato base officials for blackmail potential due to illicit romance or finances. Found due to her fraudulent passport number being in sequence with known spy assassins and kidnappers. Her several fake identities tied together via ID chip in her cat. I always suspected one of the top U.S. youtube publisher of the ancient and modern around greater Naples of being a history teacher for K-12 schools of that Nato base. Sounded like such a nice gig, but now can see threats of sinister or sometimes buffoon operatives. P.S. not in the headlines for murder so much today because spys get the same reward for dead or alive (kidnapped into Russia):

Coupling: 2001/2 BBC's edgy answer to "Friends" sitcom. Find 3 seasons streaming on Kanopy or Hulu. Sample: Trailer for "Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald" aka "Radio No Jikan" (Japan 1997). Next the whole hilarious film (click on closed captions). Also available on archive.org if you need to avoid ads.

That last video has such a wretched AI style, but I wish AI would enumerate logical possibilities beyond we-are-thieves stereotype morality tale. For my perspective, I have read German memoirs of 1930's and 40's over 1000's of hours which should have been consumable to AI in a couple seconds. Looted by whom, let's consider possibilities that could and did occur. Maybe looted by the original museum in 1920s, or by a Nazi official taking it in exchange for an exit visa for a wealthy Jewish family in 1930s. Or liberated post bombing by a starving German family to trade for food other than the fare of decaying shrapnel-ridden horses. There was frantic such foraging towards the end, and why would a valuable sit available from bombing until later occupation? Finally maybe formally registered 1945 as war booty by a US soldier, who was allowed to request silverware, cameras, jewelry, weapons, etc. I think the last two likely and while the latter stretches certain ideals, compare organized looting by German henchmen, sometimes for public display. For instance Hitler unlike Goering paid for every artwork, which he aimed to install in a hometown Austrian museum. These US soldiers who may have stretched war booty rules were pretty altruistic about what they risked their lives to accomplish. They put a stop to tough adversaries who on average killed 7 to 11 victims per German soldier (I forget which, but Japanese soldiers killed 7-11 mostly Chinese civilians each, and German soldiers killed 7-11 mostly Russian civilians each).

Honey's gel-like moistness may be key, like emphasized in video below. Citizen Surgeon has about a dozen videos saying don't let wounds dry and don't apply antibacterials - only petroleum jelly. Honey sentimentalists, please be aware it's spores can cause fatal infant botulism under age 1.

- Two aqueducts and possible soldier bath house discovered in Slovakia https://spectator.sme.sk/culture-and-lifestyle/c/roman-soldiers-in-slovakia-might-have-lived-way-better-than-we-thought - Additional half mile of sprawling 90 mile Agrippan underground aqueduct straddling Naples area found (in 2023) https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/66353 P.S. These volcanic villages west of Naples have stunning ruins & scenery, and are quite walkable with ferry access too. Sophia Loren grew up there.