Hello and good evening! It is 6.37 and uh I did a little nighttime shower thing and I've got like I just realized that I like look like I'm five years old so we're just gonna go with it like I'm basically a toddler. Today I'm wearing my like rainbow pride shirt I got from Target and um I put braids in my hair but here's the thing so you know I said the other day I was like I'm gonna french braid my hair. I struggled for like a good 15-20 minutes in the bathroom trying to figure out how to french braid because I can french braid like other people's hair but I can't french braid my own hair. Do you guys have that problem? So anyways it's not really a good braid but I just kind of like braided it and then put my little hair ties in and then hopefully I mean it's still wet like it's still um it's not super wet it's just like damp and um I'm gonna sleep in them and then hopefully tomorrow I'll have like luxurious wavy hair at it that's that's the goal I don't know I don't know it's probably gonna look like crap but I don't care so because Emily looks like a toddler today so but anyway today was actually really busy at work I got a lot of stuff done and um yeah so I got a lot of good stuff done. After work I worked on some of my washi sample projects so that's moving right along I'm gonna show you guys so before oops before it was just this side and this is over the past this is like Sunday and a couple of these I did today not very many but majority of I did on Sunday so any who that's that so I'm getting stuff done I'm actually like also like when I'm going through my little box I'm also downsizing a bunch of them so I'm putting them into like a little d-stache for my Minnesota planter people so I think one of the organizers said that we're gonna have some sort of meetup in July hopefully fingers crossed um but we shall see I don't have a date I don't have a time I don't know when and uh that's all right that's all right but I'll bring it all then um what we do we're not we I don't do anything with it I just bring stuff that I just am not using any longer or found or things that were sent in PR that just don't really have a use for me um and don't have really a use for anyone like super close to me either I try to gift stuff as much as possible but um bring it there and then if no one takes it um one of the gals actually works for a local school district and then she takes those into I think like I think she takes them into like the art department um because there's like washi and stickers and things like that and so I don't know exactly what they do with them um and I've also heard that they've donated them before to like senior centers and stuff too um you know a lot of senior centers like to work on projects with their hands and stuff like that especially if you know people have like arthritis or they just want to like keep their hands moving and stuff um so yeah but I don't know she takes them and they go somewhere that's useful for them so that's that's awesome but yeah that is uh what's happening here at the FGE house not much else uh going on uh I feel like I was texting with Ryan earlier um because we were just catching up on some other things and he was talking about he's like I want to come and eat Taco Bell with you and eat our feelings I was like oh I'm having that kind of a Monday too at work so yeah he was having a a Monday and I was having a Monday at work so you know just it happens you guys it happens so now I'm really jonesing for Taco Bell so I don't know if I should go I'm kind of in the mood for it and I kind of I should call my dad my dad's always down for the bell so let me call him and see if he wants to go or if he wants me to pick up anything so let's do that hold on we'll call him on we'll call him we'll talk to him we'll see we'll see what he says it's actually quite late so he might have already eaten because he gets hangry let's see if he picks up let's see if I'm his favorite yes Emily yes father hey have you have you eaten yet yeah I just finished oh all right oh no thanks no thanks all right nope I'm gonna pass yeah I guess I don't know the hour's kind of just meld together over here so sometimes you have like lunch late so I figured I would call you and ask you because you know you're always down for whatever well yeah yeah that's all I called about I'll talk to you later but well you heard it here first he has leftovers he was making some sort of like weird hot dish if you don't know what hot dishes you guys should go google it um it's basically like everything all congealed together it's very it's like actually really good but depends like there's many different versions of hot dish so it usually starts with like ground hamburger and then other things are added so the sometimes like those are tomato base sometimes it's like cream of mushroom base you just never know and then there's like other things inside of it anyway my dad sent me a picture of it yesterday and I was like I'm gonna pass plus I had already eaten so I don't know and yes yesterday was father's day but my gift to him was leaving him alone because we have that kind of relationship you know I'm saying but man should I go to Taco Bell or not in about actually I don't know I sound so good but it's so far away it's like a 20 minute drive there and then clearly like a 25 minute drive back or I could just go to like someplace local that's like five minutes away which would be better maybe I don't know I kind of want to eat my feelings today hmm the toddler wants to eat her feelings oh maybe I can go get a happy meal a meal that's happiness I don't know Doyle what do you think Doyle's over here in the corner oh there he is hey there's my buddy what are you doing little guy just sitting in the corner just chilling doing nothing yeah my chair squeaks by the way I need to like get some WD40 for it or whatever but I just have not done like that so weird it's so weird to see myself like on the viewfinder with these things I keep thinking they're like not mine and my face is all red from my shower I did a little face shave do you guys shave your face because I do and it's amazing I highly recommend I use these razors they're called twinkle twinkle razors I don't know I'll leave a amazon link for you guys below um I love them and they're awesome some people shave their face like once a week ah I try to do it like twice a month so like every other week but really I should do it like once a month for sure it makes your moisturizers go on really nicely I have super sensitive skin so it does this I usually do it at night um sometimes I do it before a shower sometimes not just kind of depends but um your hair doesn't grow back any thicker or anything like that um but it's kind of amazing like all of the I think I believe it's called vellus hair so it's all of the like little like baby hairs that you have um but you just got to be like mindful of like your eyebrows and things like that and like you know what you do over here and all that good stuff so yeah but shaping my face really changed the game with like the moisturizers and serums and like all that good stuff for your face so I don't worry okay I think I want to with my feelings I think I'm gonna go to McDonald's because it's pretty close and I like it and it also sounds really gross so that sounds really good to me oh my gosh and that was really good for dinner for lunch today I had leftovers so I just had some rice it was very like uneventful Doyle also got some rice for lunch too so he was extremely happy oh why am I still like in my work computer screen hold on let me let's get rid of that okay we're done with that I mean I already logged out but I'm like why is that still up so I think I am going to run over to Mickey D's um and talk to Ron get myself some Donald and I'll see you guys when I get back I'm not going to take the vlog with me because it's just going to be me in a drive through and then I'm coming right back so very uneventful but toddler Emily is going out into the real world yeah that would be actually really funny if I went to go like buy booze like this do you think they'd ID me I feel like they would I feel like I'd get ID'd for a lottery ticket right now with the situation going on yeah and especially with this like beautiful like acne well it's not acne it's just like now these are totally flat I've talked about this in vlogs before these are totally flat now and they will stay that dark for a long time welcome to my skin okay but that's gonna be it I'm gonna see you guys when I have McDonald's I don't know what I'm gonna get yet but I'm probably gonna get two cheeseburgers with no onions and extra pickles that's what I'm thinking about okay I'll see you in a minute bye I am back I'm ready to eat my feelings you guys I got some McDonald's I got the my tried and true the two cheeseburger meal no onions extra extra extra pickle on both burgers and you know when you ask for that many extras they still only put two fucking pickles on there drives me nuts then I also get one package of barbecue sauce because I like to dip my fries in barbecue zones I would have gotten a small chocolate shake with no whipped cream however my local place did not have any ice cream products they're out of ice cream products at my place so um yeah oh well that's all right so anyways I'm gonna eat my feelings and have some dinner and uh go from there but let's I'm gonna open up one of these burgers and I'm gonna show you what extra pickle looks like oh my god it's like a freaking murder scene up in here it's like ketchup all over the damn place oh here here's what extra extra extra extra pickle means yeah mm-hmm if I don't say extra extra extra pickle you usually don't even get any anyways but yeah look it's like a freaking murder scene up in here anyway all right I am messy now and I am going to see you guys in a little bit bye well hey I completed another washi card while I've been sitting up here I'll show you this one's like a musical card so I'm kind of doing them in themes it kind of is working for me so the top two like this is like you know actual like music you can read the other ones like musical notes and then piano keys so fun fact I used to play piano as a child I actually did like a piano competition and one I also got to play at I can't remember where the orpheum I don't know some like prestigious place I don't know mom if you're in the comments put down where I played I can't remember but yeah I had to go through like this whole competition thing and it was I enjoyed it I didn't know what I was doing but it clearly my piano teacher knew what she was doing because she taught me well um so yeah I played the flute for a very very short time like a year or two hated it by the way and then I went to clarinet and I liked that I like that I could probably still play the clarinet today I can read music but man um I don't know I wouldn't be able to jump back to the piano because I'm super rusty but um I know how to read it at least but very slowly very slowly anyways but yeah it's actually my brother actually for like an hour and I currently have up men's warehouse because boy needs to get himself a suit for a wedding not his wedding not his wedding okay so we're gonna go in a couple of weeks and we're gonna go to men's warehouse because that's where the groom is getting his suit um they're like gonna just buy like he's he's able just to buy whatever so um he's got the details of what the groom got and he doesn't even need to match they're just like just go buy a suit or rent one whatever you want to do it's probably more cost effective just to buy one because he doesn't have one so um we're gonna go pick that out together so he wanted my help because I worked in men's tuxedos for a very long time I think like over 10 years it was a long time you guys like I started working with men's tuxedos and I was like what 16 or 17 um and I like did weddings yeah I don't know you guys aren't learning a lot about me today anywho but he's like yeah um can you measure me I'm like sure thinking like aren't you in Iowa but I'm like sometimes he's just randomly in Minnesota and I don't know about it and then he's like yeah I just want my measurements I'm like it doesn't like work that way um like I can tell you like what you probably wear just by like knowing your body but I don't want you to buy that because I don't know how these suits fit because some suits are a little bit different and suits are different than tuxes a little bit and it's just like a whole thing I'm like we'll go together they'll measure you they'll fit you and we'll see what you like and then we'll just pick something out how's that so that's the plan that's the plan but that's going to be in July so the vlog will be over by July but maybe I'll take a picture or something for you guys because I know you guys like it one favorite brother shows up sometimes but I won't see him until um that July 4th weekend so anyway that's what's going on here but I think I'm going to close out the vlog uh ate all my dinner Doyle got a bonus french fry which he gets very very excited about and he's now down there just digesting away digesting that little tiny little french fry in his little baby body but yeah I think I'm gonna sit up here for a little bit it's nine o'clock I think I'm gonna sit up here and do a little bit more of my little wrapping project and um by the way I'm like really glad that I got a hundred of these because there's how many I have left like I don't have that many left because I'm kind of going in category like I'm not I'm not going like fitting as many as possible on the card I'm just going like okay here's a category we're gonna do that that's kind of I don't know how it's going over here um but yeah so that's what's going on over here I'm gonna let you guys go I'm just gonna like put things away because time to put things away today yeah so I hope you guys had a great day I will show you whatever this does to my hair for tomorrow it's still wet I can tell you it's probably still gonna be a little tiny damp tomorrow morning so I might just leave them in like during the day tomorrow as well and just like you know don't get them wet in the shower so um my hair stays wet for a really long time but we'll see we'll see if it does anything good I don't know maybe it'll just look stupid who knows you guys will be the judge tomorrow um you'll see me with different hair hope you guys enjoyed the video if you like it make sure to give it a thumbs up feel free to subscribe give me a comment also turn on the bell notifications if you want to be notified every time I post a video because I don't really have a schedule at the moment things just go up when they do so anyway hope you guys enjoyed I will see you tomorrow for another Vligity vlog see you then bye guys well folks it's time to kick it old school so you can feel cool


Bonjour tout le monde. Hello everyone. Je suis accompagné aujourd'hui de la vice-première ministre Freeland et des ministres La Metis, Mendocino et Blair. These past weeks have been incredibly difficult for the people of our capital city, and they've been stressful and disturbing for all Canadians. The situation is not anything anyone wanted, and quite frankly, not anything we'd want to see again. Lundi dernier, après avoir consulté les provinces et les territoires, le gouvernement fédéral a invoqué la loi sur les mesures d'urgence. Mardi, le postfrontalier de Coutts en Alberta a été ouvert, et mercredi, le barrage à Emerson au Manitoba a été élevé. Aujourd'hui, les familles et les travailleurs d'Ottawa sont en voie de retrouver leurs quartiers et leurs libertés. I want to take a moment to thank the law enforcement agencies from across the country who joined the operations. And I want to continue to thank them as they ensure that, among other things, Canada's border crossings remain open, including in Windsor, and that all communities are safe. We didn't want to use the Emergencies Act. It's never something to turn to without serious consideration. But after weeks of dangerous and unlawful activities, after weeks of people being harassed in their neighborhoods and small businesses forced to close, after billions of dollars were stalled in trade, putting people's jobs and livelihoods at risk, after the National War Memorial was desecrated, after evidence of increased ideologically motivated violent extremism activity across the country, after a flood of misinformation and disinformation washed over Canada, including from foreign sources, after these illegal blockades and occupations received disturbing amounts of foreign funding to destabilize Canada's democracy, it became clear that local and provincial authorities needed more tools to restore order and keep people safe. For the past few days, parliamentarians have been debating the Emergencies Act and will be voting on it tonight. I ask all members of Parliament to take action against illegal blockades and to stand up for public safety and for the freedom of Canadians. Invoking the Emergencies Act has been necessary. Law enforcement agencies relied on it to set up secured areas in downtown Ottawa and at border crossings. It prevented foreign money from continuing to fund illegal blockades and it's making sure our borders remain open. It has been the responsible thing to do. We now have a choice to make as a society. We can choose to keep reliving these scenes that tear at the values that bind us as Canadians, or we can choose to remember who we are and the best vision of what Canada can be. What we've seen in these past weeks is not the story of this pandemic. The story of this pandemic is one of unity and solidarity. The pandemic is the story of health workers who present themselves every day at work, regardless of their fatigue and difficulties waiting for them. It is the story of truckers and frontline workers who are turning our economy. It is the story of children and grandchildren who have remained strong and resilient. We have seen people from all over the country work together and adapt collectively to save lives. We have the highest vaccination rates in the world. We all made sacrifices and yes, it was difficult. 36,000 Canadians were brought in by COVID-19. It was grandparents, parents, children, friends and neighbors. But through all this, we were there, one for the other. Through this pain and heartbreak, Canadians answered the call because Canadians are good people. We're among the world leaders in vaccination and health outcomes, as well as in economic recovery and job creation. It took courage, it took resilience, but we did it together. And despite the many challenges that we faced, our democratic institutions remain strong. We don't always agree and that's okay. In fact, it's not only healthy to have debates in the democracy, it's necessary. Our government will always defend freedom of expression and freedom of peaceful assembly. These values are at the core of our Charter of Rights and Freedoms. They're at the core of who we are as Canadians. In a democracy, you can protest, you can share your opinion at the top of your lungs, you can disagree with elected officials, you can certainly disagree with me. But you can't harass your fellow citizens who disagree with you. You can't hold a city hostage. You can't block a critical trade corridor and deprive people of their jobs. You can't attack journalists for reporting, which is essential to our democracy. What you can do is vote. What you can do is run for office. That's how change happens in a democracy. We're all tired of the pandemic. But it doesn't give us the right to participate in occupations and illegal barrages or to put others in danger. And it's unacceptable to attack a journalist because he does his job or to intimidate people and to break the freedom of the press. There's no doubt that the last few weeks have been challenging, that the last few years have been painful and that there are still challenges ahead of us. But we can't let the anger divide us. More than ever, now is the time to work together. It's also the time to reflect on the kind of future we want for our country. There's a lesson for all of us in what happened this month. We don't know when this pandemic is going to finally end, but that doesn't mean we can't start healing as a nation. And it starts with all of us. If you spend a lot of time online, try looking outside your social media bubble every now and then. If you have a cousin who you haven't seen in a while because they're unvaccinated or because they're vaccinated, give them a call. If a political conversation got heated during a recent gathering and a friend or relative left early, pick up the phone. Not to try to convince them, not to argue, but simply to ask how they're doing. Look, in the heat of the moment, we can all get carried away trying to win an argument. But not every single conversation has to be about winning an argument. Sometimes it's more important to just be there for one another. As a country, let's aim for more decency in our public discourse, not less. Let's cherish the democracy that we have and let's commit ourselves every day to working together to make it even better. Merci.


Another sleepless night, there is thousands of innocent civilians are slaughtered and massacred in the most horrifying and graphic ways, in Israel and in Gaza. The latest round, in a war that has been going on since 1882, when the first Jewish settlers arrived from overseas in occupied land in what used to be at the time Palestine, joining an existing settlement of Jews throughout the Holy Land. We are all acquainted with the trite and tired arguments on both sides, the Jewish historic right to the land of the forefathers, the Arabs of Palestinian continued presence in the same territory, the religious edicts of regarding a Jewish state in the midst or amidst the Muslim world in the front against God's cosmic order and will. The Jews as the last of the colonialists in Israel is the only remaining colonial outpost in a world that has moved on to other forms of government and other organizing principles. We all know the grievances who did what to whom, repeatedly in dozens of bloody rounds, massacring, slaughtering and killing each other, sometimes with glee and joy and sometimes inadvertently and sometimes because there is no other choice. But beyond the historical and the religious and the political scientific theoretical considerations and arguments and debates, beyond the eggheads, butting heads, what do we have? What is the psychology of this intractable conflict, the longest ongoing conflict in modern history? Why doesn't it seem closer to solution at all? And I'm talking about the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, not the conflict between Israelis and Arabs, which is nearing its solution. Many Arab states have signed peace agreements and established diplomatic relations with Israel. I'm not talking about the conflict between Judaism and Islam that has never been really a real thing. I'm not talking about any of this. I'm talking about the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Both these peoples lay claim to exactly the same piece of land, the size of New Jersey in the United States. And both of them demand 100% of this land. Both parties are intransigent, inflexible, uncompromising, devout in their dedication and commitment to maximizing outcomes at the expense of the other. Both of them regard the situation as a zero-sum game. Because of this skewed viewpoint, they are incapable of reaching any accommodation, striking a deal of coexistence and perhaps, perhaps, mutual prosperity. Instead, they kill each other's babies and women and the elderly, and of course, each other's military. What is the military? 20-year-olds flowering the prime of their lives. This is the military on both sides. These young men and women are dying and they are dying because of the psychology behind this conflict. And that is the topic of today's video. My name is Sam Vakny and for a change, I'm not only the author of Malignant Self-Love, I am not only a former visiting professor of psychology. I am also in Israeli and an analyst of international affairs. I'm trying to balance these two as in Israeli, of course to some extent, I'm biased, although I'm highly critical of Israel, especially in the last 20 or 30 years, under the criminal and demented regime of the authoritarian pseudo-dictator or quasi-dictator, Benjamin Netanyahu. But I'm trying to balance the fact that I'm an Israeli and a Jew with my allegiance to the truth as I see it as an analyst. And I hope I will succeed in this delicate, delicate threading of the line in this video. What goes on in the minds of the Hamas, of the Islamic jihad, of Fatah, of Palestinian refugees in camps in Lebanon and Jordan, Palestinians in the diaspora? What goes on in the minds? What goes on in the minds of Jews all over the world, of Israelis, of military service age, of older Israelis? What passes in the minds and what compels them to behave in ways which ultimately are self-destructive and self-defeating? Because this is going nowhere. This is going nowhere. This is leading to no favorable outcome. This is not self-efficacious. This is ruinous to both parties. Every decision each of the parties makes, every such decision drives the deciding party closer to the edge of the cliff and very often beyond. What is behind this essentially suicidal behavior? It is very telling that both parties have their own suicidal myths, suicidal ideation, which is often coupled with religious righteousness. Israel has the Masada story, a group of Jewish far-right extremists in today's terms who fought off the famed and celebrated Roman Sixth Legion in Masada, an outpost in the desert, and they succeeded to hold off the hallowed Roman army for a very long time until they had no choice, and under the siege they all committed suicide in a suicide pact that is one of the founding myths of Israel, a suicide. Similarly, in Islam, religious righteousness is associated with Shahada and Jihad. Shahada, which essentially means witnessing, is conducting a life that is right in the eyes of God, but it also means committing suicide in order to further military or political goals, at least that's the interpretation of the hadith, and Jihad is striving to conduct your life in a way that is good and would incur God's pleasure and approval. But Jihad is also a wholly righteous religious war in which, of course, one dies as a Shahid, as a martyr, so death and suicide are at the heart and core of the ethos and the myths that motivate both these people, the Jews and the Palestinians, the Muslims, the Muslim Palestinians, and so it's a bad starting point. On both sides there is a trauma response, a fight response, it's both parties, the Jews and the Palestinians are in the throes or in the wake of trauma, they are in a post-traumatic condition. Israel is the product of the Holocaust, the greatest and most horrible genocide ever perpetrated. The Germans killed well over six million Jews in an industrial, heartless, faceless process. The Holocaust is a major trauma, the entire Jewish people, regardless of its origins, regardless of its locations, is heavily traumatized to this very day. The Palestinians have their Naqba, the disaster or the catastrophe of 1948, when they have been expelled from their homes by the advancing Jewish army on the one hand and encouraged by their own, by their own arrogant leaders to leave their homes because the Jews will soon be defeated and thrown back to the sea where they came from. These are two motivating identity-defining traumas on both sides and so the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a form of competitive victimhood. These are two victimhood movements, there's a clash between two entitled and self-centered victimhood movements. This competitive victimhood, of course, give rise to narcissism and psychopathy on both sides. These movements, Zionism on the other hand, the Arab national movement on the other, they were hijacked by narcissists and psychopaths, who currently constitute the leadership on both sides, the Israeli side and the Palestinian side. Thugs, bullies, murderers, dictators in the making, criminals are in charge today of the State of Israel and of all major religious Palestinian movements such as Hamas. Like every conflict in Israel, it gave rise to specific dynamics, psychological dynamics in the parties involved. Conflict triggers narcissistic defenses. Conflict, also known as dissonance in clinical terms, conflict creates cognitive distortions. In the case of Israel, conflict led to the emergence of grandiosity, a sense of immunity to the consequences of one's actions, a sense of invulnerability and invincibility. All of them, of course, counterfactual. All of them have been falsified on October 7th, but not only in October 7th on multiple other occasions. The Israeli army has been repeatedly defeated, time and again, and yet this is denied and repressed in the collective Israeli consciousness, refrained as victory. Similarly, of course, there are cognitive distortions on the Palestinian side which also involve forms of grandiosity, the belief that the Palestinians are fulfilling some kind of godly or divine mission on earth, that the fight is of cosmic proportions, that it signifies some apocalyptic timeline.  Both parties, therefore, have an impaired reality testing. They are unable to grasp reality as it is because they need to deny it. They need to repress it. They need to reframe it in order to avoid narcissistic injuries and narcissistic modification in public. I think both cultures, the Jewish Israeli culture and even more so, much more so, the Palestinian Muslim Arab culture, are based on shame, on not losing face, on maintaining one's reputation. It's very much a mob, a mafia mentality. And so they need to ignore reality and to inhabit a fantastic space, a paracocin, in which they are perfect, in which they can do no wrong, in which they are always morally upright. This impaired reality testing leads to wrong decision making, erroneous choices.  There's a lot of magical thinking involved.  If we only attack Israel, it will fall apart. Magical thinking. My thoughts shape reality. My words have power. I'm going to magically, wizardry, sorcery of sorts. I'm going to transform the world, solve my problems simply by wishing them to go away, somehow. And I'm going to act and pretend as if they are no more these problems, these issues. I'm going to besiege the Palestinians in Gaza Strip, well over two million people, most of whom are refugees, 1948, and their children, grandchildren and grand-grandchildren. I'm going to just ignore them. I'm going to besiege them, forget about them.  This is magical thinking. And of course, on the Palestinian side, there's even more magical thinking. Even more egregious magical thing, you know? Magical thinking leads to gradual, psychotic break, a departure from reality.  Both parties are demented. Both of them require medication on a regular basis. They are so divorced from reality and from the mere fact of each other's existence. And so this leads to reactance. Reactance is associated in clinical psychology with psychopathy. It's an anti-social feature. It involves defiance, consumatiousness, the rejection of authority, the other's authority, defiance against the other, pushing back in your face, see if I care. I'm going to do it regardless of the cost. Both sides. It's not limited to Israel, although it sounds a lot like Israel. And so the losses mount and they are enormous. And the parties are unable to move on. Unable to move on. Israel has built thriving economy, scintillating cultural sphere in life. The Palestinians have tried to hold under impossible circumstances. But both of them are locked into this dance macabre. Both of them are unable to let go of the other because the other, the pernicious, nefarious, malevolent other, the demonized other, has become a determinant of their identity. Palestinian identity is in opposition to the Israeli. The Israeli is the other. What does it mean to be a Palestinian if not to hate Israel and oppose it in every way? Palestinian resistance is Palestinian identity and there's no resistance without Israel and Israelis. Similarly, the Israelis came to define themselves via their conflict with the Arab world and with the Palestinians. The two parties, Palestinians and the Israelis, engage in negative identity formation, identity politics that relies on negating the other, rejecting the other, demeaning and debasing the other, humiliating the other, ignoring and denying the other, and ultimately exterminating the other, but not too fast because what would happen then to one's identity? One needs an enemy in order to feel that one exists. It's a form of self-harm and self-mutilation. Israel is committing suicide by Palestinians and Palestinians are committing suicide by Israel. It's a form of recklessness, disregard for the consequences of one's actions, no long-term foresight and planning, no intelligence employed or deployed into any of these decisions and choices, it's short-term, it's knee-jerk, it's impulsive, it's crazy-making, it's acting out, it's the compensation, the loss of all psychological defenses which leads to violent, externalized aggression and both parties of course react to this ongoing self-inflicted trauma the same way that individuals react to trauma. There's modulability, elation and then depression, there's emotional dysregulation, emotional thinking and emotional decision-making. People are driven by negative affectivities such as rage or envy or vengefulness and vindictiveness and hatred, the parties to the conflict abuse each other and manipulate each other as the exclusive modes of interacting with each other. They don't talk, they dictate, they don't communicate, they posture, they don't shake hands, they shake guns, they don't sit down to reach a compromise, they sit down to engage in one upmanship, it's a zero-sum game in the sense that the others gains are your loss and your gains are their loss and it's a hundred, a hundred to zero, it's winner takes all, it's your me, this dichotomous thinking of black and white, good versus evil, a morality play, the parties are like actors in a play scripted by a higher power of some kind, power of history, power of the own trauma, perhaps God, but they are actors, they're not free, they're not that liberty to determine their own script, to control their own destiny, to shape their own fate, they've handed control to the outside, they have an external locus of control and of course they have alloplastic defenses, they blame the other for everything that has gone wrong, for every defeat, for every failure, for every mishap, for every idiotic choice, for every malicious decision, and for the backlash and inevitable consequences and outcomes of such misbehavior and misconduct and the parties seek to manipulate each other exactly as abuses do, they gaslight each other, they try to cause the other party to doubt their own judgment regarding reality, they try to cast the other as crazy, insane, unreliable, demented, to be shunned and avoided because they are no longer with us, they're psychotic or they are religious fanatics, so there's a lot of gaslighting going on, gaslighting of the other, Palestinians, gaslight Israelis, especially the Israeli left and Israelis gaslight Palestinians and there's gaslighting of the rest of the world of course, also known as propaganda and there's projective identification, the parties provoke each other to behave in ways that conform to their expectations and they need this, these provocations are not accidental or incidental or unintended, they're premeditated, they're part of a plan, they're part of a pattern, there's a need to provoke the other in order to buttress one's self-identity, in order to remove doubts as to one's misconduct, own misconduct, both parties at heart have a negative self-image, they see themselves as somewhat inadequate, somewhat bad, somewhat wrong and the only way to get rid of these doubts, self-doubts, the only way to reassert oneself in opposition of 100% righteousness and right is to force the other party to behave in ways which remove the shame, negate the negative self-image, so if the other party abuses you, kills you, slaughters you, besieges you, then definitely you are the good one and this leads of course to splitting, we are all good, the enemy is all bad, but how can we reassure ourselves that the enemy is all bad, projective identification, we're going to push the enemy, we're going to provoke the enemy, we're going to make sure that the enemy behaves in horrendous, horrendous, unacceptable ways, we're going to make sure that the enemy is condemned by one and all and we are going to drive the enemy to behave this way, we are going to dump our shame on the enemy, we are going to recruit the enemy to help us feel, to help us to feel that we are perfect, to help us with our narcissistic defenses, fantastic inflated grandiose self-image, we need our enemy to help us with this, so we need our enemy to act as an enemy and not only just any enemy, an evil enemy, an implacable enemy, a god-hating enemy and so both parties provoke each other to act the enemy in order to purge themselves of these bad objects, internal bad objects, the feeling that one is less than perfect, this splitting, we are all good, our enemies are all bad, is the exact reason why no meaningful dialogue is taking place, why all the attempts at peacemaking have failed and why the compromise can never be struck, the positions of both parties are maximal precisely in order to ascertain that they will never cease to be each other's enemies, enemies and lovers, as Bachevi Zinger once famously wrote, hatred and love are flip sides of the same coin, this is known as ambivalence, you love your enemy because what are you without your enemy, nothing, your enemy defines you, your enemy provides you with an identity, a purpose, a direction, your enemy imbues your life with meaning, makes sense of your reality, you need your enemy, had your enemy not existed, you would have needed to invent it, the United States is doing this very often, so this is the tango in which these two parties are engaged, barely on their feet, wary, dying, at least morally if not physically and very often physically as well, and yet unable to disentangle, to stand apart, to detach, held in each other's arms, they lean into the horror, attempting to perpetuate it, because that is their comfort zone, that is the only thing they've known for decades now, well over a century and a half, they know no better, and they know no different, and the horrifying news is no one can ever teach them, that the heart of all conflicts is the inability to empathize, the incapacity to put yourself in someone else's shoes, especially your enemy shoes, the lack of will and wish to somehow attain objectivity, neutrality, the ability to observe impartially and to make decisions based on reality, including the reality of your enemy, wars and conflicts are the sad outcomes of our declining ability to empathize, a decline that started thousands of years ago, when the Palestinians see an Israeli, they don't see a baby, they don't see a mother, they don't see a sister, they don't ask themselves what common experiences do we have, what things we share, what do we share, what makes us more the same than different, they don't ask these questions, the stereotype is two-dimensional cartoon figures, and they react to the stereotype, they react to the cartoonish rendition of the other, the enemy, and similarly of course the Israelis, tens of thousands of Palestinians work inside Israel, almost a million Arabs, Arab Palestinians are Israeli citizens, and yet the Israelis never bother to get acquainted with the other's culture, the other's world, the other's life, the other's point of view, the other's pains, the other's wishes and dreams, including and especially broken dreams, there's no interface between Israelis and Palestinians, both ways Palestinians are as guilty as Israelis in pretending that the other is less than human, in dehumanizing and objectifying the other, in a way both parties instrumentalize each other, they use each other's tools to obtain political goals, military aims, and most importantly a sense of moral uprightness and superiority, you can't do that if and when you empathize, empathy reduces aggression, empathy prevents malevolence, empathy is the antidote to narcissism, narcissism is crucial in any conflict because narcissism helps you to pretend that this is a morality play in which you are good and fighting against evil, fighting to eradicate it and eliminate it, making the world a better place, even the Nazis claim that exterminating the Jews would make Europe a far better place, it's for the greater good, they said, this argument the most pernicious, despicable, abhorrent and abominable argument in human history, it's for the greater good is a cover for the most heinous crimes against humanity and war crimes, anything that is for the greater good is evil because it overlooks the individual, it overlooks the inner life of human beings, human beings are relational, they inhabit collectives, they share of course many things in common, a common ethos, a common culture, a society within which they function that is all true but every human being every human being shares with other human beings much more than he or she shares with the collective, every Israeli has a lot more in common, a lot more in common with every Palestinian than it would ever have with the state of Israel and every Palestinian has a lot more in common with every Jew than it would ever have with Hamas, collectives are not and should never be definers of identity, identity is human, we are first and foremost human beings, this should be our primary and possibly only allegiance and affiliation, we are members of the human tribe, the human species, we get up in the morning, we are hungry, we are thirsty, we are terrified, we are happy, we are joyful, we are laughing, we are making love, we are raising children, we have dreams, they get broken, promises, we experience pain and loss and we outgrow them and develop and become, this is a universal experience of Palestinians and Jews and Sikhs and Russians and Ukrainians and Americans and Mexicans everywhere around the world who is bipedal, everywhere around the world who is human is the same experiences, 98% of what it is to be us humans, the layers of statehood, nationality, citizenship, history, that's a veneer, that's a veneer, it's a coat of paint, it's not who we are, it's not our essence and quintessence, we are above all human and if we are given the possibility and the choice to empathize with other humans, the very concept of enemy is dead, capability to live together, to collaborate, rest heavily and sometimes exclusively on the capacity to reimagine ourselves as the other, as our enemy and it is through this reimagining, through the inhabiting of the space of the other, the world and life of the other, the mind of the other, the hopes and dreams and narratives and stories of the other that we come together as humans and this is what's missing in conflicts such as the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the other is demonized, stripped of its humanity, the other is not human, it's devilish, it's evil, it's vermin as the Nazis call the Jews and if the other is not human, then slaughtering the other is justified, shouldn't provoke any moral indignation, pangs of consciousness and conscience, killing the other should be as simple as eradicating insects in your kitchen, this reduction of the other, of the enemy into non-human form is at the core of the atrocities that people commit when they're engaged in conflict, we must never let that happen whether you're Palestinian or an Israeli, a Jew or a Muslim, you must never let that happen, remember the humanity of the other, try to be your enemy for one day, one hour, one minute, maybe it will stay your hand on the way to slaughtering a baby, bombing the family, maybe if you go through this exercise sufficient number of times, the conflict will be over


This is Think Tech Hawaii, Community Matters here. That's Ninky Van Damarel. Ninky Van Damarel. Yes. Did I get it right? Okay. And she's Dutch. I never met anybody from Holland I didn't like, you know. This is Think Tech. I'm Jay Fidel. And today we're going to do, hmm, what, Science and Minoa. And we're going to find out about astronomy. Some big deal happening at IFA in the next few weeks, isn't it? We're going to go, we're going to go film it, yeah. Roy Gal told me about it. Yes. Yes. He's my office neighbor. Okay. Okay. So your office is in IFA? Yes. Okay. And you're an astronomer from, from Holland? May I say Holland instead of the Netherlands? Yeah, that's fine. Is that fair? That's politically correct. And you studied in Leiden, Leiden University, which is a big observatory, which is world famous, world class. And you came here only towards right into the middle of the TMT dispute. Yes. How do you feel about that? Yeah, that was, that was very strange because actually, so I arrived at the end of November 2015. So my first working week, that was the first week of December. That was when the judge decided that the permit had to be revoked. And that basically the whole procedure of obtaining the permit had to be redone. So. Welcome, Nikki. Yeah. And I had heard about it, of course, like the, the TMT story was, was a big issue in, in astronomy, but suddenly it got a whole lot closer and yeah, it's been interesting to follow it. Interesting to follow. In the last two years. I'm really glad that the permit has now been granted again. Yeah. Yeah. Knockwood that it'll actually happen. It, it's still, yeah. There's still a couple of steps to take, but I, I have confidence that the TMT will be built. There's some people think they're going to fight it forever, but you know, there is the law. Yeah. We do have the law. Yeah. Yeah. I'm really concerned actually, you're into exoplanets and other amazing things in the universe and beyond the universe that you're not limited to universal, your universal plus. Yeah. I'm not entirely sure what you're referring to the universe, the universe is everything maybe you were, you mean the solar system. Solar system. Right. Yeah. No, the solar system is very tiny part of, well, the Milky Way and then the Milky Way is part, a tiny part of the, of the universe. Yeah. How did you choose to study this? Because I was, so I was good in physics and math in high school and I started to look into possibilities like, what can I study? I went to visit universities and my father was a physicist too, so he was very happy about that. Oh, runs of the family. Yeah. Yeah. And then, and then I heard that you could study a combination, physics and astronomy because they are, they are closely related. Yeah. Astrophysics. Yeah. And that sounded very interesting. So that's when I started and I started to do this double major and by the end of my bachelor studies I was, I was like, this is what astronomy, this is what I want to do. It's so fascinating. Why? Why is it fascinating? What is about it fascinating? It's because there are so many things that we don't really understand yet in the universe. And at the same time we have the tools to study it. But what is, yeah, what is so cool is that you need only a tiny little bit of information, like one picture with a telescope, maybe a very long exposure picture but still. Yeah. Or one spectrum that you're measuring. Yeah. And then because the laws of physics are the same everywhere, we can actually use that in order to learn from that tiny bit of information. Yeah. And then we combine it with what other people have done, we try to put it in a bigger picture there. It's incredible how much we can learn just with those. It sounds like it's a gratification in being a detective, taking one little subtile of information, building a theory on it and then validating this really exciting. Physics is like that in general, but gee whiz.  And that includes the periodic table of elements. So if it's not on the periodic table of elements, it isn't ever anywhere. Well, who knows? Maybe the periodic table is not entirely complete. Okay. We don't know that. I take your point. There are definitely elements that are very unstable that are impossible, definitely impossible to find on earth, but they may form in very exotic environments and may survive for, I don't know, a millionth of a second. Yeah. And we don't know about them. And we don't know about them. So the table may not be complete, but whatever is on the table or should be on the table, that's constant everywhere in the solar system, outside the solar, in the whole universe everywhere we could possibly imagine. Yeah. So the ratios will be different because they depend on the environment and because all the elements are in principle formed in stars, because stars burn hydrogen and form heavier elements. And once we get beyond iron, then we need actually a supernova or other exotic places to form even heavier elements. But all of that is something we can understand and that is governed by the laws of physics. Yeah. Well, there's something comforting about it to know that whatever you're doing, whatever far reaches you're visiting, the rules are essentially the same. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. You know, the other thing is chemistry. You talk about astrochemistry, that in fact that's a big thing for you. What is it? So astrochemistry is formation of molecules in space. So we're no longer talking about elements, but actually molecules that interact with each other and exchange atoms and electron bonds, et cetera. They're more complex than atoms. They're more complex. Yeah. I mean, a molecule consists of multiple atoms. Multiple atoms and structured in a certain way. And they are structured in a certain way, exactly. Yeah. Astrochemistry is interesting for many reasons. So there is a link with origin of life. I mean, eventually molecules have to grow. We're all made of molecules. We're all made of molecules. And they have to have been formed at some point, becoming more and more complex. Yeah. And maybe eventually form things like DNA. So that's one part of it. But another really cool thing about astrochemistry is studying molecules allows us to study conditions. So we are studying, well, CO is a very simple example. CO is the most abundant molecule in space after molecular hydrogen. And so it helps us to trace densities. So it's carbon oxygen? Yeah. Carbon oxygen, carbon monoxide. Yeah, OK. Yeah. And it's a molecule that's very easy to form and is very abundant everywhere. But you wouldn't want it in your garage. No. Definitely not. But it can help us to trace gas densities. And that is something that we need in order to calculate physics and dynamics in a certain system. OK. But then there are other molecules that are telling us something about processes that are happening. So for example, there are locations where CO is frozen out because of the low temperature in combination with a certain density. What is frozen out mean? Frozen out means that it's frozen out onto the dust grains. So the dust grains have an icy layer of CO molecules. So that means there is no more CO in the gas phase. Dust grain is a particle of matter out in space? Yeah. OK. Yeah. And then once CO is frozen out, other chemical reactions will occur. And then suddenly a molecule like N2H plus can be formed. Which is? Nitrogen, nitrogen, hydrogen. Ah, we speak a little else at our dinner table, yeah. Oh, that's good. I encourage that. No, I know it sounds very exciting, but it's a molecule that we like because it tells us, hey, that is an area where CO is frozen out. So it must be very cold there. And so it tells us something about the conditions. About what you're looking at. Yeah, yeah. So this is a big thing because if you can look at the molecules far away at places and see how they're reacting and how they're developing, then you can find out about that place. This is very important in discovering about that place. And I guess the two things come to mind is, one is, how do you do that? How do you look at this molecule millions of miles away and figure out what's going on with it? OK, so a molecule actually emits photons. So it emits light at very specific frequencies or very specific wavelength equivalent. So that means that if you observe at this wavelength range, where that molecule is emitting, you can detect a so-called molecular line. So you need spectroscopy in order to do that. So how do you do that? You have to have telescopes. And telescopes help you do that. And then you look at the frequency and the wavelength and all that of the light, then you can discover what's happening with the molecule. And this, I want to tell you something you don't know. This is closely related to photography, because you are a photographer. She's a bike rider. The old Dutch people are bike riders. And then she's a photographer, yeah. So this connection. Yeah, that's true. Although with molecules, it's really looking at these very specific wavelengths. So with a photograph, you usually take a broad range of wavelengths. So when you get the data for this, I mean, you have to have a telescope. And why do I feel that Subaru helps you and Keck helps you? As you get the data from Keck and Subaru on Monokea. And this is the data. You get it in a spreadsheet form or in a database form. How do you get that data? So the way that a telescope works is that the owners of the telescope, which are usually countries or, in some cases, institutes, universities, the astronomers that work in those countries or at those institutes, they have access to using it. From the telescope. From the telescope. Yeah. But it's in computer format, yeah? Yes, yes. But this is even before you have any data, because the telescope is not randomly observing. You just pick out what you want, because the sky is way too big for that. So what you do, if you want to observe something, is that you write an observing proposal where you say, this is what I want to do. This is why it's important. That's why it's interesting. This is how my telescope settings should look like, like this instrument, this wavelength range, this exposure time, et cetera. And then also, important, how much time do I need? So you need to estimate that. You cannot just say, oh, give me half a year, and I'll see how much I'm going to use. No, you have to specify how much you need. Then this is usually a cycle once a semester or once a year that everyone sends in their proposals. Then a committee will read all those proposals and grade them. Committee in the consortium for the telescope. Yeah. And they decide which proposals get granted time. Then if you get the time, either you go there yourself or it will be observed for you. You get an email saying, hey, your data has been observed. Here's the download link. And you download it to your computer. So you've made proposals like this, and they've been granted. And then you have to benefit this data for a length of time. It's not just one observation, it's a length of time. How many years do you get it for? It depends on the telescope. So I believe the CAC telescope has two years proprietary time. So that's the time that I'm the only person who can download that data. The ALMA telescope, which is in Chile, that's another one that I use. Yeah, because ALMA is a global collaboration of countries. So no matter where. Let's say within the US, or in the Netherlands, or anywhere in Europe, I can use it. Oh, that's terrific. Now, suppose I went there, Niki. And I said, my name is Jay. I know Niki. And I really like astronomy. And I'd like to have some observation time, too. What do you say, guys? What would they say to me? They would say, write an observing proposal and send it at a deadline. You think I might get an observation time? Yes. In principle, everyone can apply. Because, well, I already mentioned you have to be related to a country or an institute. But most telescopes also offer so-called open time, which is for everyone. That's great. There's a democratization there. It is. I have to emphasize that it's very competitive. Because there are countries where astronomers are working that are not part of these collaborations. So a lot of people like Australia, for example, apply for this open time. So you would still have to go up against these astronomers. I feel it's a real challenge for me. And that's why we're going to take a one minute break, Niki. I'm going to go and write my proposal. We'll come back in one minute and continue this conversation. And when we do, I'm going to ask you, what do you do with all that data? How do you make it work? We'll be right back. This is Think Tech Hawaii, raising public awareness. We have this crazy thing going on today. I was just walking by. And all these DJs and producers are set up all around the city. And I just walked by and I said, what's happening, guys? They told me they were making music. I had no musical talent. And then I sat down and kind of, I saw it do it. Yes, sir, we're back with Niki Vendemarro of IFA, an astronomer. Wow, fabulous. And I wanted to ask, I mean, Hawaii, you came from Leiden, which is world-class. Everybody knows. And you came to Hawaii. What's about Hawaii that makes it so special that it would advance your career and your inquiry into astronomy? Yeah, so Hawaii has the very special advantage that we have access to 10% of the telescope time of the telescope, so Mauna Kea. Oh, that's the deal. Yeah, so. U.H. has 10% of the time. Yes. So the other 90% is divided over the owners of the telescope. So for example, Subaru is a Japanese telescope. So most of the users are Japanese. And Keck has several owners on the mainland, where astronomers are proposing. But we have 10% of the observing time. And, well, we don't have that many astronomers. So it's relatively easy to get a lot of observing time. So this is a very attractive point. This is very attractive for my research, yeah. Yeah, would TMT help you? If you had time on TMT, would that help your scientific inquiry? Probably, yeah. I mean, my interest is not so much in the optical near-infrared, which is what TMT is going to do. I actually look mostly in longer wavelengths, radio wavelengths. OK, OK, a radio telescope. So here we are.  And you've downloaded it from Keck, from Subaru, and from Chile, too. Yeah, Alma. And so, oh, Alma, yeah, Alma. What is ALMA? What does that say for? Atacama Large Millimeter Array. I knew that. Now they know it, too. OK. OK, it's got these three things, including Alma. And they're all laid out on your computer. What do you do with them in order to make scientific sense out of them? Well, that can be a very long, painful process. So we always have to reduce data and calibrate data, because what we measure is not the actual information that we can use. So we have to convert it to units. We have to get rid of disturbances by the atmosphere, all those kinds of things. And that's up to you. You have to make algorithms and formulas to do that. Yeah, well, a lot of software luckily exists already. So I don't have to reinvent the wheel, because many people are using these data. And they share. Yeah, yeah. This is very nice about science in general. Yes, yes. But it always depends a little bit on the science that you want to do with it, how you are doing your reduction. So that's why, in principle, you still do it yourself. It's the end of the day. What comes out? It's either images, so 2D image, or in case of Alma, it's actually 3D images. So it has, well, it has x and y. And then it has the third dimension, which is frequency or wavelength, because Alma allows you to study a lot of wavelengths at the same time and get those spectrums out of there, that we were talking about before. You can get a 3D modeling. You get a 3D map with all that molecule information. So we can detect different molecules and even detect their velocities, so the way that it's moving. Now it's up to you to take that data, those maps, and figure out, I'm just making a guest list here, about the exoplanets, about the disks and where they fit on the exoplanets, and about their creation and their evolution over millions of years. And what do you do after lunch? I'm only kidding. I do sleep sometimes. No, so as soon as I have those images, what we usually do is we write models where we put in the physics, and then we let it calculate. And then we compare those models to the data. And if it matches, that means that, oh, our model seems to be consistent. So maybe our model is representing the real thing, the nature of what we're looking at. Writing those models is also a very lengthy process. But that is primarily what we do. So you're getting confirmation. You make a theory, you get confirmation, and then presumably you publish. Where do you publish? Astrophysical Journal, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Monthly Notices Royal Academic Society. Those are the three main astronomy journals. I've had one publication in science a couple of years ago. Science magazine. This is a big deal. Because it was a very big discovery. And what was your conclusion in that article? I mean, we don't have a lot of time here. I understand. Well, I can tell you what the discovery was. So we had observed a disk with Anna. And what we found was that the disk was actually not circular, not pancake-like, which is how we always imagine disks to be. No, what we saw was that the dust particle in that disk were actually concentrated on one side. They were all gathered on one side of the disk. It was asymmetric. On the other hand, we could also observe the gas through molecular lines. And that one was showing this sort of pancake structure. So all the gas was still distributed. But the dust was concentrating. And this is super important for our understanding of planet formation. Because in order to form planets, including exoplanets, the dust grains need to collide and stick together to grow to larger and larger particles. And well, this is a slow process. But we have models sort of predicting it. We predict the development, the growth of a planet. Predicting the growth of a planet. By gravity and astrochemistry. No, no, no. Long before gravity kicks in. This is, these are van der Waals forces, electric forces.  So this is at the very start. Dust grains are a micrometer in size. And they grow up to a millimeter, centimeter, very slowly. But we can observe this growth by looking at different wavelengths. So we can see where the larger grains are. In this case, all the large grains were located in one place of a disk. So that means that they're growing very rapidly there. And this is what we call a dust trap. And that was something that was predicted by theory that dust traps must exist. Because they help us to grow planets. But it had never been observed before. So that was the discovery. And that's why it got published in Science. It's a major thing in terms of the fact that you could find the development of the planets. What caused it? And it's just logic. So you take all that data and it's logic. Now an exoplanet is just a planet outside the solar system. Is that what it is? And I told you that one of our young guests here, his name was Christopher Lindsay, at a Elanee School. He was a sophomore at Elanee School, invented or rather discovered an exoplanet that hadn't been discovered before. It's really remarkable. This is a very interesting field you're in. Yeah, definitely. So let's talk about the Science Cafe, which you spoke on September 19th, as I recall. Something recently. And you spoke to a group of scientists and science enthusiasts in Kaimuki at the regular meeting of the Science Cafe. What was it like? What did you tell them? So I mostly talked about the most fundamental question in astronomy, or maybe even in humanity, which is this question, are we unique? Are humans unique? And the Earth itself, is it unique? Because historically, we like to put ourselves in the center and we like to compare everything to ourselves. We are normal and the rest is hopefully following the same normal. And even if you look at the history of astronomy, that is very obvious that people are taking that stand because people used to say, oh, the Earth is in the center of the universe. Everything else is orbiting us. I think I've rid of that notion a long time ago. Well, we got rid of that. But still, it was around for a long time. But even after that, when they put the Sun in the center of our solar system and the Earth orbiting it, OK, well, fine. But maybe our Sun was still very special. And then when we realized we were actually part of the Milky Way and we are just somewhere in the outskirts of the Milky Way not really special. Again, we're making ourselves less important. That's fine. However, then we started to discover exoplanets and so planets around other stars. And what we are looking for are planets just like us. And they are actually pretty hard to find. Because what we find primarily are these hot Jupiters, which are very massive planets, very close to the Sun. So it's a complete different configuration than our own solar system. So that raises the question, maybe we are more unique than we thought. Origin of life elsewhere. Yeah, that is the second part of it. Because you need certain conditions in order to even have life. I mentioned that also in my talk, the habitable zone, which is the region where water is liquid. So temperature and pressure are just right so that water is liquid. So it's possible. And that's possible. And we've discovered planets like that that are in the habitable zone where water is liquid. So maybe life is fine. Well, with a cocktail, the cocktail could give rise to it. Let's look at some of your slides that you used at the Science Cafe before we close here. And why don't you describe what we're looking at? So that's your title format, yeah? That was your big question. We went from there to, ah, life elsewhere. They don't look like that though. Maybe they do. We don't know how they look like. I mean, we haven't found them yet. Okay, what's next? I'm significant. Yeah, I'm significant. Well, it is illustrating the point that I was making before. We are thinking we are significant. We are important. And maybe we are just really generic. We don't know. It's really hard to say how normal we really are. Yeah. But you have to think about those things. What's this now? This disk? No, this is the solar system. The whole thing that we know in this around the sun. Yeah. We are the third planet around the sun. Really pretty small. Yeah, we are pretty small. Yeah. And the one with the rings, that's Saturn up in the foreground. Okay, what else we got? And what's that? That's the Milky Way, as seen from, well, how we imagine how it looks like from outside. So the whole, our solar system is where the arrow is. Our solar system is one of those tiny little dots but the arrow is pointing at, yes. Big question though, Niki. What's at the center? What's that bright light at the center? Is that a big sun or something? No, that is the bulge where a lot of stars are concentrated. But then we know that in the very center of that, there is a supermassive black hole. We cannot see that. In the center of that white hot spot.  Well, we know there are about 100 million stars and statistics tell us that on average, each star has at least one planet. So that's 100 million planet. Oh, no, 100, at least 100 million. At least 100 million planets, yeah. I think you have a lot of work to do. Yeah, well, I have time. You do. It's great to talk to you, Niki. It's really wonderful. I'm so glad. And we're making a movie for OC 16 of your talk and we'll include some of this discussion too. But on the other hand, it's not over.  So I'd like to have more of this conversation later. It's okay with you. Sure, yeah. Thank you, Niki. Great to talk to you. How did you say goodbye in Dutch? Goedendag. Goedendag. Goedendag. Goedendag, I could do that. Thank you so much. You're welcome.


Welcome back to Siyano. It's Meks from the Meks Glacian TV. What do I have for you today? In today's video, we are going to look at what you call the FIFA World Cup tickets. Remember we had the FIFA World Cup tickets, what you call the last minute sale of the tickets and that was started late in September whereby it was open everyone for both the international travellers and international funds and also for the reasons where you would have the time or you will have the chance to buy for your ticket and today's video we want to look at the latest development that has been put on what you call the FIFA dot com dot tickets dot com slash tickets and that is what you call what you call the resale platform which is open today remember over around 2.5 million tickets have been sold out to the funds but what does it mean in this scenario remember we had different phases of sale of the tickets that were being amended in one world the other and you find that in this situation we find very many people from the start of the ticket bought very many tickets that are not going to they are not going to use and they are willing to sell them off and remember I told you something that we need to understand for this resale of ticket you cannot sell a ticket to an individual before you use or before you use the platform which is given by FIFA because that ticket has to be accounted for and that ticket has to be verified before you can sell it to another person so that's why there is what you call a platform and that platform is called what you call the resale platform to open for the FIFA World Cup ticket and what does it mean the people who might have bought or people who bought tickets that are more than what they can own and they were willing to sell off some of those tickets so what does it mean for the person who has not bought a ticket yet it is your time right now you can have a glass or you can have a grab a part of those tickets especially if you want to have your favorite team if you want to watch that favorite march that you wanted at that time you can have part of that ticket you can buy it you can go and check on the FIFA dot com dot slash tickets when you go there when you click that specifically that one's that column for resale of the ticket it will be there and those tickets it will be for what you call the it will be for different marches it may be for group stages it may be for semifinals depending on what you'll find and remember some of these tickets a little bit a little bit cheaper compared to the tickets that we are seeing on the last minute sale because most of the tickets on the last minute sales especially for the internationals and the nationals especially when you look at the nationals and the residents living in Qatar you find that i think you can find there a ticket of 600 which is 800 750 but when you go to the resale platform you can get a ticket of 250 kataria which is which is definitely in one more day that's a little bit very cheaper so it will be a very good time a very good chance for everyone that is living in Qatar and if you want to enjoy that time to have the fun or to enjoy the football or the one cup of football matches and remember after you purchase in that ticket it will be it will be confirmed and you'll have to pay instantly for that time and what does it mean after buying that ticket then you'll have to apply what you call for higher card and remember the higher card is not only the ticket you can have the ticket but you have what you need to have what you call the pass to the stadium and that is what you call the higher card it's going to contain all your information and it's going to be the gate pass to the to the stadium and still also remember the higher card is going to give you free public transportation for you to go and wherever you have to go and it's also the higher card can give you an opportunity to how to invite a non card holder for uh or your mother or your son anywhere to come in Qatar and be part of the uh the funds to watch the FIFA World Cup which is uh football funds watching the games and which is called one plus three uh one plus three that is all you can invite someone out and this is the chance for people who have not buy the tickets definitely to go to that platform and get a great opportunity to buy the tickets in one more remember we are talking about the FIFA World Cup we talk about the opportunities i think most of people who have been in Qatar most of people that go to the opportunity out of there the jobs and the opportunity you definitely know what i'm talking about the people who got them working and those that do not get the chance do not get the chance to have the jobs in Qatar for the FIFA World Cup please don't lose hope because we still have what you call expo 2023 which i doha which i can also talk about uh it can advertise it before it comes we have it uh which is going to be a very global event still 2024 in Qatar there's another event that is called the Asian Cups uh now football there's also another opportunity meaning that there are so many opportunities that are still within the pipelines and you can still have that opportunity to come in Qatar and do whatever and get something for yourself and remember Qatar is not yet very strict compared to other Gulf countries so the opportunity once the opportunity clocks your way then probably use that opportunity to get it hope thank you so much Averiz thank you so much for coming back to Israel and thank you so much for supporting Rumba is mixed from the next question see you again in the next video


Hello everyone in YouTube land. We're doing a poor shocker. So, so far all you've missed is we've prepped this canvas like right here. Doink, doink. And we've mixed our resin. It's two-part resin. One-to-one. We're using promarine short perper supplies. I'll list it all in the description box below. And the colors that we're using are... If this comes through the way that teal and what do you call it come through? I'm just... Gonna be over the moon. Definitely going to be over the moon. The thing with this, with that paint is it's so... I mean it's like you have to tone it down. Like water it down or you can add what you call it paint additives to make it thinner. It's very opaque. I'll just say that.  I just... I loved it on my skin next to these blues and now I don't even have a blue. I need to have a blue. This is gonna be an all-warm palette seams. This is gonna look right. I mean it might look cool next to this gold but I actually think I want to put some of that teal in this. In this piece or in that... This. I've been experimenting with colors lately. Which is awesome because he doesn't think he's good at colors but he is. I'm not good at spray painting colors. That's super dark. It looks like a chocolatey purple-y color. It should go good next to... I can see that next to the gold for sure for sure. Excuse me, thank you. I put the white over the gold, right? Yeah. I didn't put a lot of white in there last time, so maybe I want to make this a little bit more opaque. This is a good looking color palette. Excuse us, we have the sniffles because the weather has been ultra bipolar here in Dallas. It was like mid-70s earlier today and now it's... I have to wear a coat to go outside. Easy as dark, bullish, brownish red. Looking awesome so far. Did they do gold and then white? Yeah. I did like a lot of gold. So you want this to basically do what the last one did? Yeah. Other than using a lot more white it looks identical. It's like, just do it. It'd be very interesting. I did exactly what the last one did, except for that was a longer tilt. All right, so now I want to try this. This is what I'm... what I know.  Sorry with the cuss words. You know, even the people that are sitting at home with the problem with that word, they're still like, well, yeah, that's what I was saying in my head.  How'd it go? It's like this. I really like how deep spots are right there. That's pretty much of the gold off. You're dripping into things. You should keep working it back down towards that corner. These colors are really pretty. There's some awesome things happening, and I know that it's going to get pushed off. Do you want to make more of that deep one? Oh yeah, you do. A little bit more of that color. I feel like that looks like a flower. Every time you say something like that, I'm literally about to change it, and then the people are like, oh my god, why is he changing that? And it makes me look so bad because I'm not listening to you, but I am. I know you're hearing me, but this is your piece. I'm just glad you added more of that dark color. This is a very visually interesting all the way around the room. I like the contrast of solid with all these cells. Give me some cells. Give me some cells. A whole different look on this side. I like the contrast, and it's just going to grow into this. It's just going to stretch into it. This is so pretty, and all of this, it's like, I don't know if you can see it from my angle, but it's like there are white cells. Stretch these out. This is what I'm looking for. Like there's something that we're not understanding that we think, because why is there, why does this, why is there holes in that that those are the first colors? Like the white and the gold are sinking through? And if it is, how come all of it doesn't sink through? There's just something that we're not understanding about why this does the way it does. If this was an effin long one, I probably could have poured like, and it would have stretched out all of this and make all of that happen. Let's keep that in mind for this one. Pour that one, pour that one. Pour all that. I could just tilt this, and it would all go. You're going to lose a good piece if you do that.