Well, here we are again, after far too short a weekend and far too little real R&R. I had to spend some of yesterday working, as there never really seems to be enough time to get things done during the week, but that’s OK – things will be pretty intense up to the week before Christmas, and then they will finally calm down a bit. I am rather looking forward to the quiet period, to be honest – it will be a good opportunity to catch up on a few things, or just plain sleep.
But all of that is in the future. None of it changes the fact that today is Monday and nobody is happy about it. Fortunately, this is why the Great Mondaydact Browser Killer exists, so let’s get on with it.
This week’s theme is a suggestion from our good friend, The Male Brain. I’ll let him take it from here:
Eli Wallach, in full Eli Herschel Wallach, (born December 7, 1915, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.—died June 24, 2014, New York City), American character actor of great versatility who was perhaps best known for his film appearances in westerns in the 1960s.
Wallach grew up in a Yiddish-speaking household in Brooklyn, where his father owned a candy store. He attended the University of Texas in Austin, and while there he performed onstage and learned to ride horses, a talent that would come into play in his later gunslinger roles. In 1938 he received a master’s degree in education from New York’s City College. Wallach served in the U.S. Army during World War II, working as a medical administrator in France and North Africa. On his return to New York, he was among the earliest groups of students at the famed Actors Studio, where he studied Method acting under Lee Strasberg.
Wallach made his Broadway debut in 1945 with Skydrift, and in 1951 he won a Tony Award for his performance in The Rose Tattoo. From 1949 he made television appearances that included a four-episode run with The Philco Television Playhouse. His first film appearance was in Baby Doll (1956), written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Elia Kazan. It featured Wallach as a vengeful seducer in a performance that won him a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for most promising newcomer.
In 1960 Wallach appeared as a Mexican bandit in the movie western The Magnificent Seven. He went on to star in How the West Was Won (1962) and in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966), arguably the most famous film of the Spanish-Italian genre known as the “spaghetti western.” His 1967 appearance as Mr. Freeze in the television show Batman won him a new legion of fans. Also in 1967 he received an Emmy Award for the television drama Poppies Are Also Flowers (1966).
His later films include The Godfather, Part III (1990), in which he played a Mafia don; Clint Eastwood’s Mystic River (2003); and New York, I Love You (2009). Wallach continued to appear on the stage and screen into his 90s. In 2010 he won an honorary Academy Award.
Even decades after the classic 1966 western, people saw Tuco, the “ugly” in “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” the Mexican bandit whose every line is a veiled threat: “Whoever double-crosses me and leaves me alive, he understands nothing about Tuco,” he tells fellow bandit Clint Eastwood.
“I was hanged four times in that movie!” Wallach boasted — a reflection of his impish humor and a reminder of a lengthy and distinguished acting career that just kept going. As a boy in Brooklyn, the only horses Wallach knew were the ones in his immigrant parents’ stories about marauding Cossacks. But in the movies, he was the one in the saddle.
“I used to arrive on the set early in the morning, put on my outfit, get on my horse with my 35 bandits and we’d go for an hour’s ride through the brush in Tepotzotlan, in Mexico,” he told NPR’s Terry Gross in 1990. “I loved it — I loved it.”
Chicago Tribune movie critic Michael Wilmington, writing about the film nearly 40 years after its release, said that Wallach “burns up the screen as scruffy, insanely energetic Tuco, forever popping up like a berserk, evil toy.”
In the most famous scene, Tuco is in a bathtub when a pursuer confronts him with all the reasons he will be glad to kill him. Tuco pulls out a gun, shoots the man in the head and says: “If you have to shoot, shoot. Don’t talk!”
And here are some memes to go along with that:
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Dawn of Battle
The Male Brain has assembled some great videos on top of today’s theme to keep us all occupied. We begin with a question that has perplexed and puzzled the greatest minds in human history for centuries – a question of such great importance that its answer could very well determine the entire future of the human race:
If you drop an egg from space, will it break?
Mark Rober provides us with an answer:
The Babylon Bee reports on the progress made by the most painfully Clownipornian couple you’ve ever met, upon entering a Texan institution:
DW Planet A reports on a phenomenon that gives Dawn Pine a very, very bad feeling – the kind you get when you think a war is imminent:
Acts17 Polemics is back with the latest episode of Muhammad’s Boom-Boom Room, and it’s a good-un:
Rational Animations asks if alien viruses beamed from SPAAAAAACE!!! might kill us all:
As you can see, we ask and answer the questions that really matter here at Didactic Mind.
Randal Musings
LRFotS Randale6 wrote in with some additional browser fodder for today. We begin with some hilarious, and disturbing, stuff from Flashgitz. First up – Detective Pikachu:
OK, who here would be interested in a Games Workshop spin-off involving Space Marines and Furries slaughtering each other in the name of the God-Emperor and Slaanesh, respectively?
Yep, that’s what I thought – LITERALLY 100% OF US would vote for that shit.
What, though, do you suppose would happen if WH40K ran face-first into Looney Tunes and South Park?
Like I said – we really ask the important questions around here.
And now, over to MeatCanyon:
One more from The Grim Kleaper:
Poli-ticking Off
Mark Dice offers a well-reasoned and nuanced take on Kanye West‘s latest episodes of batshit bugf**k craziness:
As far as that whole interview with West, Nick Fuentes, and Alex Jones goes, all I can say is that Kanye is bipolar, Fuentes is a COLOSSAL Gamma who quite literally thinks that being a virgin incel is less gay than having sex with a woman (which is idiotic on its face from a Christian perspective, as long as sex happens within marriage), and Jones is… well, he is who he is.
The dynamic duo over at Redacted go into details about what the Twatter dump on the Laptop From Hell tell us with respect to the Fake Election of 2020:
Jackson Hinkle finally seems to be twigging onto the realities of dumbocracy in America:
Дед Сварливый Говорит!
Grandpa Grumpuss grumps, grumpily about Ursula Von Der Loony‘s little slip-up with the numbers of hohols that dun got kilt in Banderastan, and makes a wider point about Western innumeracy in the process:
It’s All Greek To Us
The good gentlemen of The Duran analyse the recent call between the rather gormless “Salty Liverwurst” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the Neo-Tsar, among other things:
Europe is collapsing. All of these Euzi traitors calling up Putin are desperately trying to cut a deal before their beloved imperial project collapses around their ears and takes them with it.
China Syndrome
China Uncensored unpacks the death of former CPC Secretary and Chairman Jiang Zemin, and what that means for the “Shanghai Bloc”:
Winston Sterzel aka serpentza is greatly amused by people telling him that he is to blame for the recent unrest in China:
Let’s be clear about one thing – the CPC will not fall just because of some protests in their country. They know damned well how to manage those protests and use them as a “release valve” for social pressures and public anger. This is just more of the same.
Digging to China offers a pro-Western perspective on the same protests:
The Bald Truth
Brian Berletic of The New Atlas channels his inner Alex Christoforou and goes walkabout while explaining just how badly the hohols are doing in Artyomovsk:
Semper Fi!
Maj. Scott Ritter talks turkey with Ania K from Through the Eyes of about the next stages of potential conflict after the inevitable collapse of Ukraine:
Warrior’s Rage
Col. Douglas Macgregor discusses the latest on the Banderastan War with Judge Andrew Napolitano:
Righteous Rantery
Lord Razor of the Fist Clan offers up his own take on Krazy Kanye:
PJW is even less impressed with Feikh & Ghey Sportzball than I am:
Dr. John Campbell unpacks an important study showing the prevalence and power of natural immunity against the Coof among the Eyeties:
Warriors of Faith
Dr. Frank Turek from Cross Examined gets all philosophical on us for a bit:
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms points out the obvious truth that Izzlam is just a game of Chinese Whispers, and not a very good one at that:
Al-Fadi from CIRA International and Lloyd De Jongh explore the realities of shariah law:
Manly Men of Manliness
Terrence Popp is in the mood to tell ghost stories:
Pastor Michael Foster offers advice about how to restore manliness to the Church and the men within it:
I’ve got an equally good recommendation – go read The Heretics of St. Possenti and then start your own heresy.
Burn Paedowood to the Ground
Midnight’s Edge looks at a rather interesting book and the Netherflix series based on it, which apparently is very good, but has a lot of controversy surrounding it:
Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock confirms the rumours about the new Indy 5 trailer:
Gary from Nerdrotic is pleased as punch about the failures of Woke Hollyweird:
Ryan Kinel is greatly amused by Alyssa Milano‘s self-immolation:
The Drinker is not amusd by the new Indy 5 trailer:
In case you’re wondering what all the fuss is about with Indy 5, here’s the actual trailer:
Yeah. It’s AWFUL.
The new trailer for Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, however, is loud, brash, and full of very stupid things:
Exactly the kind of movie I enjoy. Didact approves.
Hey, I’ve always claimed that my taste in movies is appallingly bad. My taste in MUSIC, however, is UNIMPEACHABLE.
Reading Too Much Into Things
Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week is from The Male Brain, and is all about how the rates of somatic (i.e. acquired, not genetically inherited) mutations are generally consistent across species:
The rates and patterns of somatic mutation in normal tissues are largely unknown outside of humans1,2,3,4,5,6,7. Comparative analyses can shed light on the diversity of mutagenesis across species, and on long-standing hypotheses about the evolution of somatic mutation rates and their role in cancer and ageing. Here we performed whole-genome sequencing of 208 intestinal crypts from 56 individuals to study the landscape of somatic mutation across 16 mammalian species. We found that somatic mutagenesis was dominated by seemingly endogenous mutational processes in all species, including 5-methylcytosine deamination and oxidative damage. With some differences, mutational signatures in other species resembled those described in humans8, although the relative contribution of each signature varied across species. Notably, the somatic mutation rate per year varied greatly across species and exhibited a strong inverse relationship with species lifespan, with no other life-history trait studied showing a comparable association. Despite widely different life histories among the species we examined—including variation of around 30-fold in lifespan and around 40,000-fold in body mass—the somatic mutation burden at the end of lifespan varied only by a factor of around 3. These data unveil common mutational processes across mammals, and suggest that somatic mutation rates are evolutionarily constrained and may be a contributing factor in ageing.
Your long read of the week is an article from the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) – apparently, the oldest military think-tank in the world – about the lessons learned from the Banderastan War:
Russia planned to invade Ukraine over a 10-day period and thereafter occupy the country to enable annexation by August 2022. The Russian plan presupposed that speed, and the use of deception to keep Ukrainian forces away from Kyiv, could enable the rapid seizure of the capital. The Russian deception plan largely succeeded, and the Russians achieved a 12:1 force ratio advantage north of Kyiv. The very operational security that enabled the successful deception, however, also led Russian forces to be unprepared at the tactical level to execute the plan effectively. The Russian plan’s greatest deficiency was the lack of reversionary courses of action. As a result, when speed failed to produce the desired results, Russian forces found their positions steadily degraded as Ukraine mobilised. Despite these setbacks, Russia refocused on Donbas and, since Ukraine had largely expended its ammunition supply, proved successful in subsequent operations, slowed by the determination – rather than the capabilities – of Ukrainian troops. From April, the West became Ukraine’s strategic depth, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) only robbed Russia of the initiative once long-range fires brought Russian logistics under threat.
The tactical competence of the Russian military proved significantly inferior compared with the expectations of many observers based within and outside Ukraine and Russia. Nevertheless, Russian weapons systems proved largely effective, and those units with a higher level of experience demonstrated that the AFRF have considerable military potential, even if deficiencies in training and the context of how they were employed meant that the Russian military failed to meet that potential. Factoring in the idiosyncrasies of the Russian campaign, there are five key areas that should be monitored to judge whether the Russian military is making progress in resolving its structural and cultural deficiencies. These areas should be used to inform assessments of Russian combat power in the future.
There is a very great deal of nonsense in this executive summary, not least in the notion that Russia planned to capture Kiev with just 60,000 troops – that is idiotic on its face. You do not attack a city of 3.4 MILLION people, with roughly 60,000 enemy troops in it, with only 60,000 men yourself, especially if you don’t actually want to level the place.
The article is notable for the fact that the video accompanying it features LtGen Mikhail Zabrodskiy, the Ukrainian senior commander who conducted the largest and longest armoured raid in history behind Russian/LDNR lines in late 2014, and as such has a remarkable degree of understanding of Russian operational and tactical doctrine. But even he gets quite a lot wrong, not least because of his NATO-oriented biases.
The bit of the article that is actually useful, is this one:
Warfighting demands large initial stockpiles and significant slack capacity. Despite the prominence of anti-tank guided weapons in the public narrative, Ukraine blunted Russia’s attempt to seize Kyiv using massed fires from two artillery brigades. The difference in numbers between Russian and Ukrainian artillery was not as significant at the beginning of the conflict, with just over a 2:1 advantage: 2,433 barrel artillery systems against 1,176; and 3,547 multiple-launch rocket systems against 1,680. Ukraine maintained artillery parity for the first month and a half and then began to run low on munitions so that, by June, the AFRF had a 10:1 advantage in volume of fire. Evidently, no country in NATO, other than the US, has sufficient initial weapons stocks for warfighting or the industrial capacity to sustain largescale operations. This must be rectified if deterrence is to be credible and is equally a problem for the RAF and Royal Navy.
THAT part is absolutely correct and right. And it is a reality that Western governments cannot and will not face up to – they are totally unprepared for real combined-arms warfare to ANY degree of depth or sustainment.
Linkage is good for you:
- Russia continues to do the job the West will not do in defending traditional values and marriage, by banning ALL LGBTQWTFISTHISSHIT propaganda and garbage from their country;
- In not-unrelated news, the Russians are about to hike defence spending to record levels (for them) to about US$110B in the next fiscal year;
- Yulia Bokova explains how the West sowed the wind and is now reaping the whirlwind, quite literally, with energy prices;
- Col. Douglas Macgregor writes an excellent article for The American Conservative about the impossibility of a stable peace agreement for Ukraine;
- Batiushka writes for The Saker about how President Crackhead of 404 can find a way to save face as Banderastan collapses around him;
- Dmitry Orlov also writes for The Saker about the uniquely measured nature of the war, which has to be neither too hot nor too cold;
- Helmholtz Smith writes a guest post for Larry Johnson about how Russia is actually winning the big-picture economic war, and by MILES;
- Larry Johnson himself looks at open-source information about Ukrainian military deaths in 404 and is horrified by the results;
- Blackrock appears to be getting ready to snap up large amounts of Banderastan at discount prices;
- This story about a Ukrainian refugee who was stabbed to death by another refugee from another Dirt World country is just the definition of tragic irony;
- Another Ukrainian woman with baby rabies decided to do things the old-fashioned way with the world’s most notorious sperm donor – happily, things worked out pretty well for her in the process;
- Our Beloved and Dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) Voxemort the Most Malevolent and Terrible has some very useful and timely advice for the Gamma King, Scott Adams, about NOT consorting with daemons;
- Andrei Martyanov is DEEPLY unimpressed by the German performance in the Feikh & Ghey Sportzball Cup, and puts it down to interminable virtue signalling;
- And speaking of Fake and Gay, PommieBastardLande has become less White and less Christian than at any time since its Christianisation over a thousand years ago;
- A flight attendant on a Gulf Air jet died of Suddenly and forced a diversion of the flight itself – this is likely to become much more common in the coming days;
- If you want to impress your wife, just play a few neat tricks with some household items and you’ll get lots of bonus points;
- The Chinese protests have been a great opportunity for trolls and wags of all kinds to wage psyops in the country, which just goes to show the Chinks really do have a very funny sense of humour;
- Speaking of a sense of humour, God DEFINITELY has one, as this hilarious video of Secret Service Hummers catching on fire in Nantucket right after the Fake President passed through will attest;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- Stop us if you’ve heard this one before – girl takes boy for granted, leaves boy for tingles, boy moves on and displays High Value, girl’s hypergamy rebounds;
- The Not-British Prime Minister of PommieBastardLande now wants the NHS to look at cancer, obesity, mental health, and addiction, which likely means new fatass-prevention lockdowns in the near future;
- A Colombian judge showed up to a virtual court hearing half-naked (literally) and basically STONED OUT OF HER MIND, and blamed it on “low blood pressure”;
- Fans of Feikh & Ghey Sportzball show their appreciation for their national team’s results by rioting;
- The Krauts are FINALLY beginning to see some sense with respect to nuclear power – years after Mutti Merkel shut down their most effective sources of cheap and independent energy;
- A woman in Massachusetts figured out a novel way to attack police officers – with angry bee swarms;
- As if flights weren’t unbearable enough already, airlines are now looking to end the need for flight mode by letting people use their mobiles on the plane;
- A grandma has managed to stay fit and strong at the age of 65, and looks FAR younger than that – gotta respect that work ethic, that’s for damn sure;
- Unless you suffer from room-temperature IQ, you will have notice by now that the only true beneficiaries of the Banderastan War are American MIC and energy companies;
- The Turks are busy trying to create their own 5th-gen fighter aircraft, the TFX – nice idea, but let’s see if they can actually mass-produce the thing, since they have ZERO experience or expertise in this area;
- A crazy woman tried to open up a door at 30,000 feet on a flight, and claims “Jesus told her to do it” – more likely, it was Satan;
- Everyone thinks Buddhist monks are all really chilled out peaceniks – turns out, quite a few of them are HIGHER THAN KITES;
- The Euzis setup a party for like US$380K in the Metaverse, and BASICALLY NOBODY SHOWED UP, which just goes to show how good Eurocrats are at throwing parties ANYWHERE – maybe they should have tried a virtual Ibiza?;
- The Hungarians appear to be keen on sharing their love of music in a very novel way – by letting you drive over a road that then plays a folk tune;
- In Australia, not only does EVERYTHING WANT TO KILL YOU AND EAT YOUR EYEBALLS FOR JUJUBEES!!!!!, but their “privacy commissioner” wants to eat your data too;
MUH RUSHIAN KAHLOOOOOZHUN!!!
The Neo-Tsar had to subject himself to the ordeal of listening to the moronic and hapless German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, speaking through his blowhole, and the Russian leader really did not mince his words:
The discussion focused on various aspects of the situation around Ukraine. Vladimir Putin again explained in detail Russia’s fundamental approaches to the special military operation and pointed out the destructive policy of Western countries, including Germany, pumping the Kiev regime with weapons and training the Ukrainian military. All this, as well as their comprehensive political and financial support for Ukraine, leads Kiev to reject any idea of negotiations. In addition, it encourages radical Ukrainian nationalists to commit more and more bloody crimes against the civilian population.
The President of Russia called on Germany to reconsider its approaches in the context of the Ukrainian developments.
The Russian leader noted that the Russian Armed Forces had for a long time refrained from pinpoint missile strikes at certain targets on the territory of Ukraine, but now such measures have become an unavoidable and inevitable response to Kiev’s provocative attacks against Russia’s civilian infrastructure, including the Crimean bridge and energy facilities.
This list of incidents also includes the terrorist attacks against the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines. A transparent investigation into the circumstances of those attacks must be conducted and it must include the relevant Russian agencies.
Vladimir Putin and Olaf Scholz also touched upon certain aspects of implementing the July 22 Istanbul package deal on the export of Ukrainian grain from the Black Sea ports and the unblocking of food and fertiliser exports from Russia. The parties emphasised the need for bona fide comprehensive implementation of the grain deal, which implies the elimination of all barriers for Russian exports.
In other words – the Russians are fed to the back teeth with explaining the basics of international politics to idiots, and they are DONE with the West. They will continue to talk with the West, because that is how Russians are – they are always willing to talk with their enemies in a civil fashion, at least. But they will never trust the West again, at least not for a full generation or two.
Those Who Fail To Learn From History…
History lessons of the week:
Your Great Man of the Week is the legendary Lord Horatio Nelson:
Nelson’s impact on British culture and their military was so great, in fact, that the Royal Navy to this day continues to do things the same way he did them back in the early 19th Century. This is both good and bad – the world has rather changed since those days, after all, and the RN has not caught up with the times.
HALO Nation
Slayergod Remy aka Mint Blitz is not pleased with 343i’s insistence on bringing microtransactions back to the franchise:
Learning at the Master’s Feet
Nerd of the Rings offers a detailed look at the life and times of the Queen of the Valar:
Bring on the Grimdark
The Remembrancer, uh, remembrances the Raven Guard chapter:
That’s Not Gone Well…
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:
Comedy hour:
Meme Warfare
We start with some good stuff from The Male Brain:
Onward:
My apologies to everyone who got an upset stomach and/or violent seizures from seeing that daemon-possessed witch’s face.
Headlines of the week indicate Floriduh Man is something of an overachiever:
Your “Vegans Are Giant Gas-Filled Hypocrites” moment of the week:
Your “Misinformation Sharknado” moment of the week:
Your “So HomoButtPox Was Too Offensive, Then?” moment of the week:
Your “This is Why You Don’t Listen to the Crazy Christ” moment of the week:
For those who missed the reference, one of Jordan B. Peterson‘s original “12 Rules” told men always to stop to pet a cat in the street.
Your “Now THAT’S an Overachiever” moment of the week:
Your “Approved by Popular Acclamation” moment of the week:
Why the Brits don’t just do this already, is quite beyond me.
Your “And This is News?” moment of the week:
Your “Know the Feeling” moment of the week:
That’s because it’s a stupid game played by preening prima donnas who spend 90 minutes running up and down a pitch and mostly never score. Kind of like most of the football players themselves in a bar, actually, because most birds have no idea who the majority of them are.
Since most (not all) of my readership feels pretty much the same way about sportzball as I do, let’s indulge in some football-bashing memes:
Quite apart from the fact that no F-1 car these days goes up to 250mph – they max out at about 220, these days – that is pretty accurate.
There was a time when dudes would put up with liberal chicks and their idiotic ramblings because they were hotter and crazier in bed. Neither of those things is true now, thanks to weed, tattoos, and “body positivity”.
I went to an AC/DC concert some 13 years ago in New Jersey, and it wasn’t too far removed from that, actually.
Our Operator friends will appreciate this next one:
Animal Planet
Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:
And also your animals are absolute DICKS moment of the week, to balance things out:
And finally, your “Meanwhile, in Russia” moment of the week:
The Lords of Steel
Gym beast props this week go to Jamal Browner for deadlifting 1,003lbs for a DOUBLE, without straps:
Of course, it WAS a sumo deadlift, not a conventional one, which means the range-of-motion was smaller and therefore, in my view at least, nowhere near comparable to deadlifting 1,000lbs or more using conventional grip and setup. BUT… he did that with HOOK GRIP.
That’s just insane.
His other lifts are every bit as bonkers:
Ass-Kicking of the Eight Limbs
They See Me Rollin’…
Palate Cleansers
Shuffle Off
Jump-Starts
Gingervitis Injections
Technically, gingervitis supplements, today, given the shuffler up there is also a soul-stealer.
Livin’ in the Land of the Metal Gods
Rock Out With Your Glock Out
Hot Totty
Finally, here’s your Instathot to get the week off to a sufficiently insalubrious start. This week’s model is Erin Michelle Cummins, age 30, from Amerikhastan, and she’s some sort of fashion model (whatever that means these days).
OK, gents, off your duffs and back to work, fun time is over…
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Buc-ees is one of the finest institutions in Texas. I had a co-worker move his young from California to be able to take care of his in-laws. He was shocked by two things: The higher quality of all the cars&trucks on the roads and the passion and fervor his family relations held for buc-ees at any given time of day.
I don’t care how dumb and stupid these Transformer movies are, the voice and the presentation of Optimus Prime does not fail to give shivers down my spine. What a legend.
One of the most compelling lessons of The Great War, in particular the phase prior to Verdun, was the chronic under-planning for artillery and munitions expenditures by both sides. A single day in Verdun was equivalent to the entire planned expenditures of the allied powers for an entire war. The lesson a century later is the western euro types don’t keep enough dry powder on hand.
Attention citizens: Beef up that stockpile of 5.56×45, because even if you don’t need it, you can practice with it.
Buc-ees is nice and all, but their BBQ sandwiches don’t impress me much.
The redhead with short hair and beard, the lead singer for this song, is my next door neighbor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqmB21tcX2A