Allow me to reiterate
I do not watch videos. I will NEVER watch videos. So for the love of all that is Good and Beautiful and True, stop suggesting that I watch "just this one amazing video."
VD - I know you don't like videos but this is awesome.
First, I don't give a single fragment of a quantum of a damn what anyone else thinks is awesome. I am not asking for video reviews. I am not requesting recommendations. I am not inspired by whatever it is that inspires you. I do not care about whatever it is that happens to enlighten you.
Second, I do understand that most people do not share my antipathy for videos and podcasts. That's fine. I have no quarrel with their opinions and I am not offended that their preferences happen to differ from my own. If anyone wants to recommend a video or a podcast or a wax cylinder recording to others here, that is perfectly fine with me so long as they leave me out of it. I am very grateful that so many people so greatly appreciate and so staunchly support the videos being produced and published every day on UATV. Video is, without question, the dominant form of media today.
But what part of I DO NOT WATCH VIDEOS OR LISTEN TO PODCASTS is so hard for some of you to understand?
I. DO. NOT. WATCH. VIDEOS.
And I will never, ever, watch ANY video that is recommended to me no matter how many of you insist that because you are a Very Special Boy or Girl, I should ignore my preferences refined over four decades of informational intake because your one special video is the specialist special must-see inspirational series of moving pictures ever.
If you don't understand why I absolutely hate all video and auditory informational exchange, let me put it into terms you might understand. I read at around 1,200 words per minute with full comprehension. That's not an estimate or an exaggeration, as it has been repeatedly and reliably tested over a period of 34 years. I scan-read more than twice as fast as that when I'm reading casually to see if I'm interested in the subject or not. In contrast, videos and podcasts transmit information at around 150 words per minute on average.
And if you factor in the probability that whatever the person is saying in the video is something I already know in considerably more detail than is being addressed, then perhaps you can grasp that I view videos and podcasts as being considerably more akin to sadistic psychological torture than entertainment or inspiration.
VD - I know you don't like videos but this is awesome.
First, I don't give a single fragment of a quantum of a damn what anyone else thinks is awesome. I am not asking for video reviews. I am not requesting recommendations. I am not inspired by whatever it is that inspires you. I do not care about whatever it is that happens to enlighten you.
Second, I do understand that most people do not share my antipathy for videos and podcasts. That's fine. I have no quarrel with their opinions and I am not offended that their preferences happen to differ from my own. If anyone wants to recommend a video or a podcast or a wax cylinder recording to others here, that is perfectly fine with me so long as they leave me out of it. I am very grateful that so many people so greatly appreciate and so staunchly support the videos being produced and published every day on UATV. Video is, without question, the dominant form of media today.
But what part of I DO NOT WATCH VIDEOS OR LISTEN TO PODCASTS is so hard for some of you to understand?
I. DO. NOT. WATCH. VIDEOS.
And I will never, ever, watch ANY video that is recommended to me no matter how many of you insist that because you are a Very Special Boy or Girl, I should ignore my preferences refined over four decades of informational intake because your one special video is the specialist special must-see inspirational series of moving pictures ever.
If you don't understand why I absolutely hate all video and auditory informational exchange, let me put it into terms you might understand. I read at around 1,200 words per minute with full comprehension. That's not an estimate or an exaggeration, as it has been repeatedly and reliably tested over a period of 34 years. I scan-read more than twice as fast as that when I'm reading casually to see if I'm interested in the subject or not. In contrast, videos and podcasts transmit information at around 150 words per minute on average.
And if you factor in the probability that whatever the person is saying in the video is something I already know in considerably more detail than is being addressed, then perhaps you can grasp that I view videos and podcasts as being considerably more akin to sadistic psychological torture than entertainment or inspiration.
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Videos -- when you're too lazy to type, and you can't imagine that anybody could possibly read faster than you talk, nor imagine that anybody might want to search your material for keywords.
I cannot understand all of the people who are obsessed with video so much that they demand you do the darkstreams, rather than just reading what you write, especially since they're just you, in front of shelves full of books, talking, and banning idiots.
I'm picturing the waiter in The Meaning of Life trying to tempt the fat guy.
"It's wafer thin."
But have you tried listening to podcasts at 2.5x playback rate? /sarcasm
"I read at around 1,200 words per minute with full comprehension."
For anyone wondering what that looks like, here it is in video form:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg_dG6UKbqQ
Enjoyed the reasoning behind not watching videos, particularly the information rate of videos compared to effective speed reading. No wonder you get so much done. Amazing!
Showoff!
I read at around 1,200 words per minute with full comprehension. -VD
I can see how videos with "information" could become tortuously slow to you.
That is for information. What about entertainment value? I don't suggest videos or even information to anyone. I am usually a day late and a dollar short. Everyone already knows by the time I get there. But don't ya just love to watch a good movie now and then? Or am I stating the obvious and again should keep quiet because everyone has already been there?
We all live in a unique perception bubble. Some years ago I shared a computer with my wife and son. I hated it when they would read over my shoulder because I had to wait, and wait, and wait ... when I got to the end of the page for them to finish too. It was so tedious! My IQ is much lower than the dark lord's, so his experience must be much worse. Listen to him. Don't send him that stuff!
So what you're saying is that we need to write detailed descriptions frame by frame of videos and send those to you instead. Got it.
wow. for comparison, average USA reading speed is ~250 words/minute.
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Vox, I put together a mashup of Heathers and Gross Point Blank (I did have to include one scene from Good Will Hunting) that sheds new light on the free trade/labor mobility debate. Ricardo is retardo, but free trade is still right. It is both a magnum opus and labor of love. I am indeed very special.
Will you watch?
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:) But of course. When we watch something moving our brain accepts information without dissecting it. Powerpoint kill inteligence.
Watching video => accepting some kind of propaganda/disinfo.
Video (like TV) rots brain.
For example the SDL only sells Darkstreams, he is not watching them :)
Vox, what tips would you offer for us to learn to read faster? A cursory look online revealed some suggestions such as “stop reading each word to yourself, use your finger to draw your eyes across the page to prevent visual regression and listen to classical music”.
Thank you sir!
I watched videos for years. Since discovering Vox I have started reading again. There really is no comparison. Cuckservative dispelled years of indoctrination in gatekeeper nationalism in a few hundred pages.
NFL highlight reels are not videos.
I wake up this morning to read THIS?! It's me staring back from the mirror. I read. I meet with people face-to-face. Perhaps a Gen X thing. I knew we were stuffed when the selfie generation introduced itself. Ferk.
YouTube has a text conversion feature. It... functions. I would recommend anyone who has a video to recommend to copy paste the text and clean it up. It has the added benefit of letting you give it scrutiny to see if it is worth posting.
Yeah, but have you seen how fast little Benji Shapiro can talk in his videos?
I'm sorry but Owen is just not as funny on paper as he is in his videos
>> Ricardo is retardo, but free trade is still right.
You've moved from 2 Jews, 3 opinions to 1 Jew, 2 opinions.
I'm in the Gen-Z/Millennial age bracket, just finished a degree in Sociology/Anthropology last year (It was horrible but *eye opening*)
I never read ONE whole book as part of the course the whole 3 years.
My reading speed is like 1/10th of Vox's.
This is why I believe Unauthorised TV is essential for the culture war.
Muthtt bee Niiiiiice!!!
>> I knew we were stuffed when the selfie generation introduced itself. Ferk.
It's going to be interesting in a few months, when the selfie-generation can't selfie because the power in their entire metropolitan area, from the inner city to the purple suburbs is completely out, and won't be back online, until, at best, 2023.
What really burns my ass are these "listicle" videos. It's a millennial thing mainly. 5 ways to do this. 10 ways to do that. I'm looking for technical answers, I get videos like this. It's maddening.
The only videos that are useful are truly how to videos but 90 percent of them are just blabber. Some guy sitting there talking. If that goes on for more than a minute I'm done with it.
I miss the 80s even more.
Back in those days we had to go deal with other people to find out how to do things. Imagine that. But this was, for example, back when if you wanted to ask a mechanic about something so you can fix your car, you could find one that spoke English, or one that spoke English and didn't automatically despise you for not being an immigrant from the same shithole, or one that was not mentally ill. I can see why we're stuck with videos.
Heck from my political days, the people I got to meet! One attempted to murder a friend of mine.
So the fixation with videos is understandable, but I can understand our host and his dislike of having videos pushed at him.
I just might make a video about this.
Just kidding.
To me, and I assume most people, videos are mainly audio tracks that runs in the background while I am doing something else. Videos are preferred over pure podcasts because they tend to be heavier on pre production and narrative and lighter on the chit chat. Audiobooks on the other hand are of zero interest because here the option of reading is readily available. If the videos came with the transcript they would in most cases be given the same treatment. That being said, even hardcore video junkies would not engage with random video recommendations from random people on the Internet. I am guilty myself because I recommended the documentary "Fall of the Cabal" to Vox. Won't happen again.
>> I knew we were stuffed when the selfie generation introduced itself. Ferk.
It's going to be interesting in a few months, when the selfie-generation can't selfie because the power in their entire metropolitan area, from the inner city to the purple suburbs is completely out, and won't be back online, until, at best, 2023 and most, probably not until years after that.
Vox. What of musicals? Lmao
Watching a lot of YouTube isn't necessary; just listening. Switching between several other screens, reading, gets more info.
Tho, I sure wish I'd find more time for reading BOOKS.
But how fast can you type?
I let uatv videos play when I can't read because I'm doing something else like loading ammo. Multitasking.
I consume videos but I have to put them on at least 2x speed for me to be able sit through most of em.
This post cracks me up.
Just let VD do his thing. Don't bother him.
Mr Day i know how you feel about podcasts but if you just listen to this one i'm sure you'll change your mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIeFt88Hm8s
It still baffles me that there are people who read things by looking at each individual word one at a time. I can't bear to watch tv shows and few movies because of how inefficient they are. Unless there's an artistic visual appeal, I can't bear to watch these meandering programs.
And I too used to be a speed reader until I had an accident.
I hit a bookmark.
Sorry. Could not resist that old Steve Wright joke. * Scurries away quickly...
"1200 words/minute"
No wonder Vox digs in to Terms of Service Agreements like the rest of us read comic books. Nothing like cracking open a fresh TOS whilst sipping piping hot espresso in a silvered SJW skull to really relax his mind!
Vox, what tips would you offer for us to learn to read faster?
Never ask a natural how he does something. He has no idea, because it comes naturally to him.
"Um, be yourself!"
How dare you.
But how fast can you type?
I'm not particularly fast. 85 wpm.
Don wrote:Vox, what tips would you offer for us to learn to read faster?
In my experience, reading speed increases the more you read. Just be careful to make sure that you're fully comprehending what you're reading.
Reading Foucault's Pendulum at 1200 words/minute with full comprehension is unfathomable to me. That a very good demonstration of the difference between the gifted and not and the chasm between them.
Even at 2x, video content and podcasts are too slow and thin on content. If there is an awesome video, there is a more thorough source document somewhere. Videos are good for comedy and pr aggregators for full content links and sources. An average-speed reader will easily process and retain a magnitude more written content than he will with video in the same timeframe.
If you want to share a video with a non-watcher, take the time to write a summary for them instead. A half hour of content will take at most 5 minutes to summarize.
Your recipient will be far more likely to consume the message you share.
Yep. Video is an extremely inefficient means of communication. Similarly, reports via telephone waste a lot of time. Telephone conversations should be reserved for discussion where a rapid back and forth exchange is optimal.
Videos, "youtube style" videos, twitter, etc, all kill your attention span, your memory, your reading comprehension. Absolutely terrible. A waste of time.
As for speed reading, there are methods, and there are free lessons on...YOUTUBE...., interviews with world record speedreaders who give advice.
Vox, I'm assuming as a natural you dont scan with your finger while reading?
Reading Foucault's Pendulum at 1200 words/minute with full comprehension is unfathomable to me.
I read MUCH slower in Italian.
I was thinking of the English translation but now that you mention it...why would you read that one.
Improving information storage, transmission, and indexing efficiency was a requirement for civilization. Mass movement to less efficient media is an interesting trajectory.
I have to say that there are times when a youtube or other instructional video has saved my butt. These are when you just have to see what is happening to repair/build something done by someone who knows what they are doing. The instructional videos are even well done sometimes. IE, my experience, replace cylinder head on weed eater, same on full overhaul on pushmower, for those times when the owner's manual was done by, oriental, a complete idiot, in one case, and the darn mower was on sale, the manual had been half eaten by rats in the store [lowes] and they could not seem to get a replacement manual at all.
[that was the mower overhaul] Yes, thank you for your compliments. Took over a week. You try this I wish you luck getting the parts in. Enough digital ink.
Could be why Ted Williams was a terrible hitting coach.
This is most interesting to me because everyone who sends me videos (I don't watch them either) usually sends what regurgitates the same stuff as before.
Furthermore, they are nothing more than rationalizing their own viewpoints by watching - over and over - what they've already 'proven to themselves' years ago and accepted as DaTruth. Most of them are Conservatives and Churchians.
When I ask them if they read what I sent them either directly from Vox Popoli or DaLimbraw Library, their usual answer is no or if they have actually read it, rarely do they comprehend it.
As I have said for a long time - reading comprehension by most folks is seriously lacking - its simply not taught anymore because it requires critical thinking and vice versa.
Spoon feeding is now DaNorm - in church, school and any place where blind compliance is of the essence.
Thank you for the video Critias. The technique, like a metronome.
YES! I'm in much the same boat- I read fast, and find video equally frustrating.
VD. I have a video that might explain why you do not enjoy videos. Please email me if you would like to watch it!
“It still baffles me that there are people who read things by looking at each individual word one at a time”
It is possible to read each individual word, and read 2k, 3k, 4k, 5k+ plus words a minute. It’s construction, recognition, and processing. Converting the words into mental internal dialogue (internal audio), and parsing it at the speed of real world dialogue is more akin to what you are describing. It is akin to the difference between reading and writing, which is often conflated in treatment.
Don wrote:Vox, what tips would you offer for us to learn to read faster? A cursory look online revealed some suggestions such as “stop reading each word to yourself, use your finger to draw your eyes across the page to prevent visual regression and listen to classical music”.
Thank you sir!
I took a speed reading class in college, and the way you increased your reading speed is to start "reading" more than one word at a time. Train your eyes to focus on two words at a time, then three, and so on. Keep expanding your simultaneous "reads" and eventually you will be reading at whatever your natural ability is.
I got to around 800 WPM in class, but I don't read that fast when I'm really trying to grok what is in the text. Fiction or science fiction I just burn through, though. I can finish one of Tom Clancy's thick books (Executive Orders, for example) in a day.
I much prefer the written word, as well, the information transfer rate is so much higher. Some thing you just have to watch to understand, though, like turning wrenches on something, or building stuff.
I always enable Close Captioning on videos. For me it makes them easier to understand. I'd rather have a transcript of the audio than see the video.
VD. Are you able to read Stephenson at that same rate? For me I find my reading speed and comprehension slow considerably for that author.
Same reason I don't watch videos. Video is maddeningly slow if you are a fast reader.
Came for the dialectic but stayed for the Diatribes.
I agree with Vox that video is an extremely slow way to transmit information. At its best it is clumsy and bloated, when you stack on the ads that most video content providers force you to watch it becomes useless as an information medium.
What's amusing is that most everyone who hasn't been reading here for years, is assuming that you're exaggerating.
As far as speed reading. I'll give my advice.
One. Read the Bible daily. God wants to talk directly to you and can slowly improve your brains reading ability, comprehension, and retention.
Two. Get a more efficient brain. It is plastic and will be degraded by watching television, video, and movies. And by listening to shit music. It is improved by using it. And getting sleep and hard physical exercise. And cutting junk food.
Three. Read more. Build up. And if you're serious about improving, turn off all other noise and distractions.
Four. Read Deep Work by Cal Newport.
Five. Write down a summary of what you read. With critical analysis. You're not writing a school paper so write in your own shorthand, but do it.
While building the brain muscle, start with 15-20 minutes of intensity and add over time
I casually read books and stuff at two hundred fifty words per minute. So the idea that people on average read at two hundred fifty words a minute is laughable.
I watch maybe 1 hour of content a week. Just to slow, and I suspect my reading rate is half of Voxs. The fact that you got a degree without reading confirms why I am hesitant to hire any new grads.
But Vox, if you'd just watch this one . . . nah, just kidding. I've never actually tested my reading speed. Doubt it's nearly that high, though.
Thank you!
Thank you!
I could be a faster reader but my mouth only goes so fast.
My old English teacher in High school once challenged me to read an article, answer the questions, and di so in under ten minutes. I was done in five. She pulled me aside and said I could read in class as long as I sat in the back row and wasn't disruptive. Now, I'm sure I would be loaded up on drugs in order to make the teacher feel better
I really expected the link to lead to a rickroll video and now I'm a little disappointed.
If I'm listening to a video/podcast, I put it in 1.5 to 1.75 speed. It makes them much more tolerable.
The reason I like listening to things online is because I'm alone most of the time & putting a recording on my speakers means I can be doing other things and it feels like there are other people around me.
You know what drives me nuts is when I'm looking for a specific function in software and I go looking for info on the Internet. Instead of a document I can just parse through, I'm treated to "instructional" videos that are filled with so much filler that I can't even find what I'm looking for. It's infuriating.
@1 "they demand you do the darkstreams, rather than just reading what you write"
Because nuance, e.g., both stressed words and unstressed words; such slight emotional content/context as our Dark Lord exhibits; the tone of his voice: "was a joke or was he angry when he wrote that?"; these and many many more informational transmissions occur through video that do not travel in written word.
Plus in written word, how would Vox ever be able to play us a trace of the music he spent the weekend making with his family. Could he show us his dogs -- or even TELL us of his his grief and worry over Mesi -- and receive in return the prayers of a thousand-plus folks who also love dogs?
For the straight passing of carefully honed information, the written word may be superior. For the forming of a cadre who will instantly throw money at a crowd fund or an arbitration? Who will joyously provide immediate responses on higher-level 'awards' during an out-of-control crowd fund? Who will happily leap into arbitrations the very day he requests it? As a way to meld disparate crowds into one powerful group -- Bears, Deplorables, and Ilk/VFM -- who will support and buy Castalia and Arkhaven and Voxiversity and UA.TV and Infogalactic and Social Galactic and and... whenever whatever product is mentioned? Big Bear touring lumber yards and airplane hangers?!
Video is vastly superior for goals and intentions that are not merely the passing of information. That's even before we get to reaching the newer folks who don't read, to enlist them in the return to Christendom.
An article I read a while back from someone also discussed this. The author brought up the fact that any form other than written language is going to be inherently more shallow because everything from the inflection of the speakers voice or their looks will have an effect on your perception of the material and is intentionally used as a rhetorical device. It's not important and hinders your understanding when your interest is the dialectic.
But no number of words can convey the information presented in a simple cat fail video. Regardless how fast you can read, you'll never receive the information.
Case in point:
https://youtu.be/FUWmY13tsRo
How do you resolve this important inconsistency?
No way you read 1200 wpm Vox, your lips can't move that fast!
Seriously, it's rare I'm willing to wade thru info videos if it's not actually a show and tell how to do something w a mechanical aspect. And even most of those are poorly done, failing to slow down or freeze on the subtle critical move that bites you when trying to dis- or re-assemble something your first time.
News stories that only have the meat in a dumb video are a pet peeve. Ive gotten where I just punt.
P.S. Also hate audiobooks. If its something I'm truly interested in I want to fully focus. Might feel differently if I was a long haul trucker.
Unknown...
If for some bizarre reason you didn't know most sociology/anthropology was left wing low content garbage going in, why on Earth did you continue after you figured it out?
@3 - But have you tried listening to podcasts at 2.5x playback rate? /sarcasm
You were being sarcastic, but speeding up informational videos is the only way I can get through them, and I highly recommend this to others. (Not to Vox though. I'm sure he's aware of it and he still hates videos, and I don't blame him.)
Friends constantly send me video links and I almost never watch them. But occasionally I want or need to hear the video. 1.5x-2x playback is the only way I can do it. (Beyond 2x the audio distortion is too much.)
I have the same problem with speeches and Sunday sermons. Just give me the transcript please.
I wish there was an AI that would automatically produce transcripts of any audio or video speech. Maybe there is by now and I just haven't come across it.
>> Vox, what tips would you offer for us to learn to read faster?
Have your mother teach you how to read when you're 3-years old.
Long ago I read that the text of a half hour news broadcast would fit into 3/4(?) of a NYT page. That was the final straw. I have not watched TV 'news' for decades. There were additional reasons.
I am sure that reading engages your brain differently than watching a video. Reading is more linear and rational. I fear we are in a largely post literate age.
A professor used to have a small sign on his door. "Writing is God's way of showing you that your ideas don't work."
>> I have to say that there are times when a youtube or other instructional video has saved my butt. These are when you just have to see what is happening to repair/build something done by someone who knows what they are doing.
And those are DEMONSTRATIONS. Vox is talking about "talking head" video, where someone is just speaking the words which could be ready by even average-speed readers more quickly if they were in written form.
Good for you Vox, most videos of people running their mouths or podcasts are complete garbage. I like videos where people do creative, interesting things that requires some effort. But this selfie crap (podcasts included, video monologues) has got to go.
@12 - Vox, I put together a mashup of Heathers and Gross Point Blank (I did have to include one scene from Good Will Hunting) that sheds new light on the free trade/labor mobility debate. Ricardo is retardo, but free trade is still right. It is both a magnum opus and labor of love. I am indeed very special.
I honestly don't see how Vox can turn that down. I'm disappointed though that you did not include scenes from The Big Lebowski. Though perhaps those would have only undermined your thesis on free trade.
@15 - Vox, what tips would you offer for us to learn to read faster?
There are books on speed reading. Whatever level you're at you can most likely push yourself faster with the same level of comprehension. Your rate will of course vary with the complexity and familiarity (or lack thereof) of the material.
Aside from "read a lot", the "one simple trick" to improving reading speed is to trace the words with your finger while you're reading. Increase the speed of movement of your finger over the text, and force your eyes to follow, until it starts to impact your comprehension.
While information is consumed much faster via reading, inspiration might be a different thing. Perhaps this is just a feminine thing, but there's a whole new crop of quiet vidoes out there on Youtube, vlogs like Calico Girl or Fairyland Cottage--depicting quotidien tasks, sometimes accompanied by the sound of a gentle, lilting voice; sometimes with no words at all. Just starting off the day with an installment of one them, rather than hard news, is very calming. One leaves with a more intense focus and contentment towards one's reality and relationship with God.
Text is so superior to video. Would it be the right time to ask for transcripts of DarkStreams ?
I honestly don't see how Vox can turn that down. I'm disappointed though that you did not include scenes from The Big Lebowski. Though perhaps those would have only undermined your thesis on free trade.
"This Free Trade we had, it really tied the room together."
@revelation means hope. I read and heard a pastor of a large church who is very busy - when asked, "how do you find time to read?" His answer, "how do you find time to eat? Reading is to me what eating is to you."
Anyone who doesn't watch Youtube is missing the ad blitz of Biden desperately trying to pretend that he still has control of his mental faculties. There must be a lot of Democrats nervously waiting for him to drop dead so they can nominate someone else. Personally I can't wait for the debates.
I think you just challenged every gamma wandering by to find a video that you will look at.
@Noah B
I know theyre running him to be replaced immediately upon winning in their elaborate fantasy, but its still incredible. I cringed at first, now I laugh. No matter how many times I see them, I still chuckle.
And to think, that is his beat take. Id pay to see what was left on the cutting room floor.
I'm the same way. Cant stand videos. Either the person talks too slow (I'm a speed-reader as well), or they talk too fast. Benji Shapiru, I'm squinting at you. I think. Too tiny to be sure.
I dont care about cat videos or the latest chimp antics from Atlanta. When you've seen one of them, you've seen them all. Information is far more important to me, and video is just a horrible medium for passing actual information.
The wife reads at a snail's pace, and she knows it. Sometimes she'll ask me to read an article and sum it up for her in two sentences. God love her for at least recognizing that shes a slow reader, theres nothing wrong with that inherently.
Forgive me Dark Lord, but I dont usually watch the dark streams either. The pauses where you are presumably reading something and not saying anything are agonizing to me.
You too, Zaklog the Great: love ya and your video takes on stuff, but I'd much prefer to read a blog post, I could get the gist of a five minute video in thirty seconds in that format.
Likewise, though I can't boast a delta anywhere near as high as yours - video is excruciatingly inefficient, and it doesn't help a bit that many of them are cringey as hell.
I thought I was the only person who absolutely hates videos. The only videos I ever watch are of Trump's rallies, and even that is getting old.
Stephenson is not that hard. Try late Joyce or a second language. You slow down for hard stuff.
When I read out loud at my natural reading speed it comes out garbled, (kiwis talk at 150-200 wpm) and I am no where near as fast as our host.
Videos are for teaching others.
This one probably should have headlined Drugde, but didn't for obvious reasons. Over 100 rounds were fired at a Juneteenf celebration in North Charlotte, with several dead and nearly a dozen hit. If it were any other demographic we'd be having candlelit vigils and 2 weeks of anti-gun propaganda lectures.
https://www.wbtv.com/2020/06/22/two-dead-hurt-after-shooting-block-party-north-charlotte/
I like turtles
Would it be the right time to ask for transcripts of DarkStreams?
Not happening until we can automate them. I barely have time to do them in the first place.
Well its a good thing UATV subscribers don't think like you.
> I read at around 1,200 words per minute with full comprehension. That's not an estimate or an exaggeration, as it has been repeatedly and reliably tested over a period of 34 years. I scan-read more than twice as fast as that when I'm reading casually to see if I'm interested in the subject or not.
That a really impressive reading speed. I was never anywhere near that good, and I'm pretty sure declining focusing ability has caused mine to deteriorate over the past decade or so.
However, we agree about podcasts. The only time they're worthwhile is when I'm driving. Even there I find listening to old radio shows more worthwhile.
You can use a href html to put your ugly video addresses into a sharp-looking clickable link. It's a little extra work on your part (you'll be "copying" and using the preview button a lot at first) but collectively, time savings will accrue. (And you might trick VD into clicking on it!)
> Vox, what tips would you offer for us to learn to read faster?
Just google "speed reading". You'll find half a dozen howto's out there at least. All of them arguing slightly different things, of course.
> Have your mother teach you how to read when you're 3-years old.
Great grandmother at 4 in my case, but yeah, that works. The Little Golden Books were wonderful for that purpose.
What about bribery? Would you watch a short video I'm exchange for, say, some Taco Bell?
What's odd to me is I can read as fast as that "1200 words per minute" video, in fact, considerably faster if I am skimming and letting my subconscious filter for something. But when I have clocked myself reading a novel, it's usually at speaking pace (200 wpm or so).
Grunch: wow almost 100 comments already -- idk what was unclear about what you said VD.
Or are maybe most/some of them mentioning/referencing/suggesting particular things in your own Darkstream videos maybe? I am guessing you still would have no interest in responding to even that.
In the time you took to edit that video mashup you could have manually transcribed the content including adding your own commentary highlight... ;-)
Also no I have a feeling he still won't watch.
I rely on that auto-subtitle feature of YT, as I am currently needing to learn some 5+ year old *Java* technology stuff, and you can imagine the thick accents on virtually every search result.
Yet another reason I am happy to move on to CSharp -- most of those learning videos are actually comprehensible.
In both cases it is almost always nearly physically painfup to drop below 2x playback speed; am I correct in guessing much of VP can relate?
VD clearly has no time for info-TAINMENT.
Which BB definitely is. :-)
That's not funny, Bucko.
Go to your room. (It needs cleaning, eh)
@83 "Increase the speed of movement of your finger over the text, and force your eyes to follow"
Does that not mean slowing DOWN your reading from eye-speed to finger-speed? I'm a naturally fast reader, so the idea of having my finger get in my way as I'm reading seems... odd.
If you have a tutorial linkpage or similar for a bunch of the most useful "DaLimbraw Library" starting at foundational brain-rewiring brain food, sharing that here would be greatly apreciated sir.
Disappointed at the lack of pointless (but potentially amusing) rhetoric attempts to persuade VD.
There is a ... video... summarizing Richard Feynman's techniques for better remembering what you read, some of it was what you said but the video had a lot more detail. (It was under 10 minutes and quite engaging, with a lot of visual text bubbles etc. throughout, not just boring audio).
But of course I did not follow those tips at the time I viewed it so now I can not recall much else from it. :-\ (seriously)
I apologize for recommending videos in the past, Vox.
As you said - video is the dominant form of media of our time. If you miss out on video you can't look at the enemy's propaganda, speeches, news interviews, etc. You'd have to read about what happened from someone else. I don't trust others to write accurately about videos whether they be on our side or enemies.
VD spoke in absolute. So does Solon, below.
There is also the difficulty of squaring some of these claims with the sure knowledge of the great run of instructional books, certainly textbooks, sure God, being abysmal. Far too many authors do nothing but make a hot and incomprehensible mess of even a subject, discipline, skill that one may be expert in and long since possess intimate familiarity with to the point of it being second nature. Such works simply cannot convey understanding of, to say nothing of total comprehension, to anyone.
But I've always liked a good first class bullshiter. They are entertaining.
You dont watch videos, but you partnered up with some dude who got a huge following making videos. Nigga please.
Eh, just try reading and cooking dinner or cleaning the house.
To everything there is a season.
I don't give a Quantum Damn.....now there's a T-shirt
I'm at 600 WPM with full comprehension, however I'm 700-800 when skimming. I can kinda relate Vox, although it isn't the case with podcasts for me. I tend to get bored while watching movies. They seem to just drag on and on.
Lots of good instructional videos on You-Tube. When I am faced with a needed repair job I have not done before, there is usually a video on that subject available. Also used a lot of recipes from them cooking videos. Some of those stove top chemistry vids have come in handy also.
Darren - in answer to your inquiry about a tutorial linkpage to DaLimbraw Library - here is a quick starter https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/2016/03/what-is-this-blog-archive-all-about-cl.html?m=0 - in it you will see a link to my website which is actually the starting point and fundamental explanation.
You're actually the second person in two days who brought this up - the other by email - and it might behoove me to get my ass in gear to improve the navigational aspects of my two sites.
That is in the plan, but the simple explanation for using DaLimbraw Library is word query. Almost every word will provide enough reading for days or weeks - or hours at a minimum.
I have personally read every one of those archived and many more which I didn't archive.
To me, reading is learning - everything came from someone else who did the hard work. I'm just the DaLibrarian who's consolidating the material for guys like me who like to dig into stuff to see if it stacks up.
Here's to DaDig!
Schlockontent today is voice-input.The time savrd is not applied to homonym problems, complete sentences, or coherence let alone factuality.WASVF
How can you possibly read (and not skim) at 1200 WPM? The limit of the human eye's fixation and saccade cycle—not to mention necessary subvocalization and the size of the retina's fovea—has been estimated at 500–600 WPM, so you're not actually reading every word, you're reading...some of them, and filling in the gaps contextually, which is not unimpressive, but it's disingenuous to suggest that does speed-reading is the same as reading.
https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4229
https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2015/01/19/speed-reading-redo/
Saloon wrote:o you're not actually reading every word, you're reading...some of them, and filling in the gaps contextually,
Bull fucking shit. I read about 800 WPM, yes, every single word. My mother read over 1000. You can't do it. The average can't do it. But some people can. Get over yourself.
But this video of kittens playing with ducklings will BLESS you, and will likely immanentise the eschaton!
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