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More historical organized pirates of east Asia:

You will be highly rewarded by checking out one more home made documentary by the above channel. It is an absolute bombshell that may be removed by youtube at any time. He has gotten interviews with the children of the most famous mystery hijacker (two time actually) who had been silent to protect their now dead mother from prosecution. It is more polished than above but super long and marred by personal attacks in the first hour that seem gratuitous until later account of botched investigation. I will try to ease your way into it with links that cue up at the summation in last 12 minutes (2:36:36 or 9396 seconds) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UuRpW8wdVA&t=9396s Next backing up to re-enactment of first parachute with money and transition into second hijacking (1:09:51 or 4191 seconds) https://youtu.be/7UuRpW8wdVA?t=4191 Below is the whole thing. He normally does wonderful short punchy muck raking videos but struggles in longer subjects. He lashed out at my critique of his flying Tarzan video, but seems to have improved a bit anyway. The blundering FBI he depicts was at the tail end of J. E. Hoover's directorship and I wonder if he was steering the investigations while losing mental sharpness near end of life. P.S. you may have to cue this last one back to time zero manually.

What is your favorite (or least fav) consumer item gotten recently by gift or online or whatever. Not big ticket items or mail order spouses; I am thinking of more modest things we all might brainstorm as something to acquire or stay away from. Favorite #1 at $19: Sheet tangle preventor for wash and dry cycles https://wadfree.com/ . It makes the whole load orderly and thoroughly cleaned, not bunched, twisted, or wet wrapping other items. Possibly could do it yourself with a zip tie bringing corners together, or? UNfavorite #1 at $78: Proprietary "mixpresso" machine. Compact and elegant but very limited compatible coffee pods. Amazon own brand was affordable but accurately described in comments as wet ashtray flavor, and their thin foil bursts with air shipment pressure changes. UNfavorite #2 & #3: 15 and 16 inch laptops from Dell and Apple. The Dell touchpad intermittently fails even after being replaced twice, so added a refurbished Macbook which also carried an open box discount. Forgot that Apple refurbs tend to be years old (mine 2019) and the open box came from shock that this generation alone lacked all but a few ports. It has taken ages to personalize the two machines to at least half work, together making one functional unit. Favorite #2 & #3: Same high res laptops now offer good redundancy and surprisingly the Apple pro can now read Win format portable hard drives. The Dell has a pen that has makes quick work of pdf paperwork I have to annotate and sign. I got adapters cheap to work with Mac ports and maybe I will request another free touchpad when Dell warrantee about to expire.

Above sailboat is now at west end of La Palma chain, so should have something to say about conditions in future videos released every friday. I will attempt to post a dynamic map showing where they are, but first wanted to show the sight of floating hot lava. Beware of roiling clouds of lung-scalding steam near spots where lava drops into water: https://www.vesselfinder.com/?mmsi=265781780

Really nice decorative elements from classy to whimsical. Where is the traveler on this forum who used to comprehensively post exhibit pictures; maybe still on flickr? Location seems to be out of the tourism mainstream except for Unesco fortress Carcassonne. Closest tourist hub appears to be Barcelona.

Nice, my library has a downloadable copy. But it does spread itself thin to encompass the traditions and religion instead of just philosophy, so I will have to consider other Tao e-texts.

Two months seems brief to me. Here is Hawaii's volcanos, where pink zones over the decades are labeled "essentially continuous activity". Granted it is an unusually slow and steady example: What I do for viewing is visit on a calm night. Then should develop a catabatic gravity wind flushing fumes downslope and offshore. Night means less officialdom to shoe away visitors and easy ID of hot glowing rock that just looks dull grey in daylight. My biggest fear was falling thru crust over a receding magma channel. So I only did this once in my life, and in a super vigilant state like a cat burglar. Carry backup flashlights, and don't stray far from other crazy visitors. In fact, simply watch a 4k youtube video by a daring intruder; I know some show floating, glowing bubble lava reaching Hawaii waters. I watch a couple sail cruising channels that visit these Canary isles for provisioning. One passed thru just as the eruption was starting and only experienced thicker than usual cloud cover. Now my favorite such channel is approaching there with a little toddler. I wonder if they will be bold and visit, maybe letting the little one get close in a lesson of Swedish self sufficiency, or?

Worth checking out if the museum is financially healthy enough to not only buy, but protect coins over time. I killed an idle hour just to the east of that museum in Portsmouth or Southhampton in the town museum and it was hardly more than a collection of historic postcards. Probably small gov't funded museums may be on a shoestring budget. Private museums at least in the US can often be seen in liquidation auctions, especially lavish displays in small towns with low attendance, a dead founder, and amateur trustees. A huge tank museum in northern California lost their zillions of private bankrolling by mistiming the 2009 investments crash, and never really opened to the public. Hope that never happens to the UK's fabulous Bovington tank museum.

I thought the Roman practice was to water down wines just before drinking. The alcohol served as a preservative in long term storage or transportation, then you use your local source of reliable water to take the hangover edge off it and maybe hide off tastes of water. I also hate water, maybe after seeing our untreated well uncovered to see slimy yuck vegetation inside. I cannot get excited about wine and only use one of the better boxed variety to squirt an ounce of red into resealable bottles of diet cola to mask the fake sugar taste. After you reseal, do a slow head over heels tumble of the bottle and you can usually reopen the bottle without volcano of foam. Yummy and supposedly healthy, although I can't understand how red wine antioxidants can be more healthy than those in tangy grape juice which I stir into applesauce. I have one weakness in the alcohol realm, which is non-Bailey Irish Cream Whiskey. Bailey is so overpriced and candified (I once found an eyeball sized lump of hopefully caramel in their bottle). Carolans for example has a better, clean taste at half the price and is avail in large 1.75l pirate jugs with large handles. If the Roman alkies had access to this velvety way of pickling their brains, maybe fewer monuments would have gotten done.

Here is a poor quality substitute for the fantastic video that seemed to have just been removed above. It depicts early rehearsals/arrangement for the Stones sympathy for the devil. In youtube comment section you can jump to various sections, such as an unrelated live concert of the song near the end. They mercifully omit the 35 takes needed for the actual recording. For some reason I am more interested in historical human drama than the song, and will yak a bit about it below the video. The docu-filming was by famous Jean-Luc Godard for a dud movie. It's amusing to see some of the stones and their girlfriends self consciously overdressed for the occasion. The session piano-god Nicky Hopkins seems dressed and haircutted for church instead of his usual homeless look (partly from digestive disease that would kill him). The blond founder of the stones seems disengaged and patronized with possibly guitar mike switched off, and on his trajectory towards being fired and subsequent death. Too bad because in early songs he contributed really catchy embellishments. The girlfriends who kiss and cuddle while helping with the chorus aren't just bystanders. The caped one inspired the lyrics due to a Russian novel she gifted to Mick. The other girl has famous involvement with the founder - was she the one he chronically beat up and had to be kind of re-assigned to another stone? Anyway the caped one suggested the signature woo-woo chorus, and that and conga drums finally elevated a kind of limp lamentation song to brash pop immortality.

I gather that last couple years of archeo digs have found evidence of admiration of Nero by everyday Romans, and perhaps his golden house was intended to serve public as well as selfish purposes. Has this revisionist view held up recently? One of the more articulate examples of this view found in https://www.thecollector.com/emperor-nero/

What if he didn't enforce the Nicaea decision on holy ghost/spirit, aside from any resulting combat? Altho he didn't influence the decision, he wanted to stifle untidy disagreements. It strikes me as a committee type compromise - would history be much different if alternatives naturally rose to dominance? I hear a US cult church (tarzan piloted plane crash church) used the trinity structure to assign their leader to holy ghost/spirit status over worshipers.

Here I try to use the cue-up option to skip the first 39 boring seconds of this song. It is a pleasant digression into psychedelic music by the normally bad boys of the rolling stones. I am following K. Richards (latest?) bio audiobook on youtube, and started reflecting on Jaggers usual angry tone, which is absent here. It was odd since they started as evangelists of US blues, but added the twist of maze-smart white boys who were prepared to go beyond regret and kick down the walls of a stifling establishment. It seemed to surprise them that teen girls became excited to the point where Stones feared for their lives. I guess the girls gravitated to bad boys who could offer an alternative to stifling 1950's father figures shaped by WW2 even on the home front. Stones songs more literally pandered to males neanderthal side, and maybe promoted that except in a few songs like this...

It may be possible to deal with this, as does Hawaii with tons of active volcano tourists over decades. As a last crazy feat of my teflon youth, I made a night hike along a lava flow and followed it to the ocean where it actually floated glowingly due to bubbles! I was right next to the flow with no worry of fumes due to a reliable catabatic offshore flow of wind which I was very familiar with having waited to paraglide off a 13000+ volcano there for day after day. I flew and survived a violent collapse that day, so had leftover adrenaline to deal with collapse of cold lava crust with an instant leap to safety. In between the flight and lava walk, I think I also swam with giant manta rays, an expenditure of energy and danger avoidance that seems inconceivable to my existence now. P.S. I follow various sail cruising channels, and it is odd that none quite ran into the volcano timeframe. It is a common last resupply stop for European boats to follow favorable winds and currents to the Caribbean, and seems somewhat backward in terms of services the sailors can call on for repairs or whatever.

A good video on the so called pirates of the Mediterranean is posted below, although they were really state sponsored privateers or coastal raiders. In the pursuit of Roman sites on the Italian coast you are constantly encountering lookout towers or hill towns fortified for these "pirates" which came after the pax romana or mare nostrum dissipated. They are actually part of what I suppose you would call client states of Ottoman empire. Let us appreciate what the Romans accomplished, although I am not sure if they allowed non-Romans free passage thru the Med. The pirate name is I think a euphemism for organised warfare (with actual raid investors) that came before and after the Romans, and didn't really vanish until north Africa was colonized again in 1800s.

Interesting how above example shows you can cue up a video to an intermediate point with &t=, which is typically unsupported by forum software. Anyway I throw in vids of maybe only personal appeal with too many words a red flag. First is a translation of an opera aria I had posted earlier. I like how it contains reflections rather than banal narrative. It's remarks on the flighty illogic of love somehow reminds me of a poem Hadrian wrote for his tomb on the elusive fate of souls upon death. Next a couple of go to sleep videos. First is unlike the typical efficient train video, but it reminds me of old fashion trains in Europe. Their progress could be so uncertain that you had cathartic relief when they resumed progress on uneven tracks after being sidelined by an oncoming train or strike or whatever. Maybe sigh that at X hours late, at least we are moving. Journeys typically started or ended in quaint Luxembourg (now a ritzy tax haven?) due to the only discount transatlantic flights connecting there with Iceland. Lastly sleep by the sounds of a rainy lake. I don't know if this does full justice to the 3 dimensional soundscape of a large lake being splattered on a still night. There is pleasing light hiss, punctuated by torrents of throaty downpour here and then there. It can be like an orchestra with different sections rising and falling in dominance, as upper air still pushes clouds around.

In case some hadn't subscribed, the series continues with better resolution on a slave who apparently bought his freedom and extravagantly embellished Rome's wall. Other freed slaves left proud memorials behind such as on the Via Appia.

Here, in this awkward topic fit, is praise of a high quality video course. It used to cost $hundreds https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/rome-and-the-barbarians but now can be found for little as used disks on ebay, or streamed for free from your library. My library streams a rotating selection of "Great Courses" from an app called Kanopy. It's best to access video rather than just audio due to good maps, etc. Anyway the professor is very knowledgeable and engaging even tho a bit stiff and a pirate accent (making everything sound like "rrrr"). I avoided it for a while due to not wanting to dwell on Rome's sad end. But it has a rich focus on Roman ways and comparisons with my barbaric ancestors.

I paste in only the URL, optionally press enter, and wait a few seconds for the picture to emerge with an option to revert to clickable link which I ignore. BTW my opera video above is for fellow opera haters. All the 90% songs we can't stand are at the end of the video, so that leaves 9ish reasonable ones at the front. Sorry for the multiple posts, but I keep thinking this is the last from my "watch later" list.

A bare bones version and a super embellished version of Lou Reed's Rock 'n Roll track: This version features embellishment by cult guitar maestros Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner who only worked briefly with him, then he reverted to less accessible "cool" style. He cultivated an image of unconventional sexuality, but I saw him in a first class line at Rome airport after a concert and he had the most conventionally stylish and stunning girl companion I have ever seen even in rockstar photos.

I don't know which narrative is more truthful, like for example Diocletian's treatment of Christians. One lecture went thru his long proclamation to meticulously give accused Christians a chance to repent and be released. Others demonize him for aggravated ruthlessness. It used to be common for attacks on Roman ethics to be a proxy for attacks on current western culture. But I think that utopian demographic is now redirected onto a coordinated elitist movement for woke-ness, such as pollutes nearly all television in the US now. Maybe I should change my provocative avatar to one of those emperors who were depicted as calm and cogitating which is so admirable to me vs egoistic or threatening like mr. bootikins. I think they had switched over from realism to stereotypical stern propaganda then. However I don't want to appear as a wimpy Marcus A., who mentally fiddled while his demonic son burned with evil. As for music I have no affinity for classical, except I like the tuneup chaos. The internet has allowed me to get tired thru overplay of all my niche interests. Maybe I will revive a music youtube thread here, with Indian santoor music for instance. The Shostakovich episode was memorable since it is so unlikely from my extremely remote and unworldly background. I have an even more surprising personal connection re: Mick Jagger, so with the recent death of a bandmember I am reviewing early Stones concerts on youtube. Not to admire the music so much but the human element becomes tangible. They cultivated an edgy theme sort of like various lookalike contrived Caracalla busts, but I get the background drama trying to tame bandmembers, public image, etc.