Stank Moody

Or collect unemployment. – SOCIAL: https://www.twitter.com/stank_moody https://www.instagram.com/stankmoody https://www.tiktok.com/@stankmoody EDITED BY: @lahcen.essayeh – 00:00 Is you a sad sack? 00:45 Is you skilled? 02:01 Is you employed? 03:02 Is you honest with your employer? 06:12 Is you good at your job? 07:22 Is you asking for a raise?

There's actually very little information online about soft vs hard problems, so maybe I made all of this up. If you find a good resource, send it to my P.O. box at your mom's house. There's a heat wave going on and I’m just a dummy out here making stupid videos. But, hey, at least give me some credit for making a whole video about soft and hard things and not doing a single dick joke the entire time. – I hope you enjoyed the video. I had a lot of fun making it :) – SOCIAL: https://www.twitter.com/stank_moody https://www.instagram.com/stankmoody https://www.tiktok.com/@stankmoody EDITED BY: @lahcen.essayeh – 00:00 Intro 00:54 Hard Problems 01:51 Soft Problems 02:23 Us vs Our Ancestors 04:36 The point 05:30 Sponsor

MUSIC: My boy Mārtiņš let me use his song and some unreleased beats, go check him out, he’s mad nice with it. “Pannāpirdējs X Chilliflex - Tā Meitene” | https://youtu.be/vwy4FktvQiY SOCIAL: https://www.twitter.com/stank_moody https://www.instagram.com/stankmoody https://www.tiktok.com/@stankmoody EDITED BY: @lahcen.essayeh – 00:00 ha 00:06 God 01:20 Hinduism 02:35 Buddhism 05:02 D(T)aoism 06:33 Ego & Power 07:56 Glory & Legacy 10:00 Work 11:36 Self-improvement 13:16 Love 15:50 Philanthropy 17:40 Activism 19:38 Existentialism 23:10 Nihilism 24:50 Absurdism 26:24 Stoyakism 27:37 *no-spoilers* One last option – I hope you enjoyed the video. I had a lot of fun making it :) – This video summarizes some of the things people turn to when looking for the meaning of life. I made this video because I’ve struggled with the topic quite a bit. But I’m not going to make something serious about it. Jesus, if I wanted to just jerk myself off with some pseudo intellectual drivel, I would’ve become a movie/tv/music critic or one of those people who make TikToks educating the general public about gender pronouns, why working out is toxic and being fat is not only sexy but if you don’t find a beached whale fuckable you’re a literal nazi. I already feel like I’m a waste of life, I don’t need to actually be a waste of life. Anyways, back to the serious shit, and, yes, I’m putting the serious shit here, because I know no one reads this. I’ve struggled with meaning and still do. I’ve watched so many videos about it. Read books (well, started them mostly, because I’m a lazy S of a B) about it. Had therapy sessions about it. Had psychedelic trips about it (-69/10, don’t recommend). And, honestly, I am no closer to the answer. The best I’ve found so far is just a vague set of soft rules. Something like: - Do your best to find some things that you enjoy and do them. For me those are walking with the dog (I have an awesome dog, his name is Dog), writing jokes, writing code, sometimes shooting the bow, avoiding people (most of the time, with rare exceptions). - Do your best to avoid absolute thinking and moronic clichés like ‘the one’, ‘find your passion’, ‘justice’, ‘good and bad’ etc. - Do your best to be compassionate, to empathize with people you disagree with or dislike. - Do your best to be honest. To others, but, most importantly, yourself. - Admit not knowing shit about fuck when you don’t know shit about fuck. - Don’t take shit too seriously. - Trust no one, expect nothing, and give without expectation. - Don’t take no shit off nobody! (Warning: you might get shot) I break these rules all the time, but I’m slowly getting better at it and I keep going back to them, which makes me think that they’re useful. Fuck knows if they’re correct or what even is ‘correct’, and who cares. No one knows what this reality is and if they say they do, their wallet and/or pussy supply and/or credibility and/or psychosis depends on you believing them.

Dr. Hayes TED talk: https://youtu.be/Hu0IXMTFY9Q MUSIC: My boy Mārtiņš let me use his song and some unreleased beats, go check him out, he’s mad nice with it. “Pannāpirdējs X Chilliflex - Tā Meitene” | https://youtu.be/vwy4FktvQiY Sound effects & music edited by: fiverr.com/squidgloves | https://youtube.com/channel/UCVQuLbvFyPuHXBMXYWyjFGg SOCIAL: https://www.twitter.com/stank_moody https://www.instagram.com/stankmoody https://www.tiktok.com/@stankmoody – 00:00 Intro 01:31 Demonstrable craziness & rational opposition 03:36 Stranger than fiction ("Gay frogs" story) 16:47 Short list of actual well known conspiracies 18:24 Conspiracies, a tutorial 20:55 Suggestions on how to fight misinformation – I hope you enjoyed the video. I had a lot of fun making it :) – The video explores the difference between conspiracy theories and conspiracies, using the story of Dr. Tyrone Hayes and his battle with Syngenta as an example. Personally, I am not a big conspiracy guy. What I mean by that is that I don’t spend a lot of time and attention to stay up on the latest conspiracies and the theories there of. The reason I don’t do it is the same reason I don’t follow politics, social issues, wars, recessions, what celebrities and politicians say. The same reason I don’t have any social media on my phone, why I don’t have Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and whatever other parasitic willpower/attention stealing shit is in vogue this fiscal quarter. I have fallen for every trap there is to fall for and I’m sure there are a hundred more that I am yet to discover, but all of the above mentioned ones I am successfully avoiding. However, it’s still fun to sometimes talk about the things that I’ve noticed and find funny, absurd, noteworthy. And when it comes to conspiracies and how terms like “misinformation” and “conspiracy theorists” have come to be used as tools to discredit people, it’s something that, for the first time in my life, I noticed way before it blew up. Of course, people have always thrown around the “conspiracy theorist” term to make people they disagree with seem crazy, but you can agree, I hope, that lately this has become way more popular. I saw some years ago that the terms “misinformation” and “disinformation” were being used more and more. And I felt in the moment as if I had stumbled upon $500 bitcoin. I knew that shit would eventually be used by the powers that be (media, corporations, governments, lizard people and yo mama) to discredit whoever had an opinion that wasn’t approved by whoever was in power at the time. Oh, boy, if Enron was still around, I probably could’ve put some money on that shit. I would’ve also put a side bet on something like “TRUST SCIENCE” being a thing. And, yes, I probably would’ve put my money on “SCIENCE” being some no-name amoral bureaucrat with a PhD, not the actual process of the scientific method. But, you know, that’s life. I am not the guy who’s going to change shit, nor do I want to. Whichever side of whatever hot topic you’re on, I’m sure you’re pissed about the state of the world. But the world is not broken. Humanity is not broken. It’s just the natural course of reality, happening before our eyes. And making dumb jokes about it is about as much involvement as I can handle. Sit back and enjoy it, like Ron Swanson admiring hippies at Grain 'n Simple.