He decides to study psychology because he was told that you should follow your passion, and that was the only subject that he was slightly interested in outside of playing video games and watching YouTube. He graduates after five years and $100,000 in student loan debt, and surprise, surprise, he's not able to find a job in psychology. Every job available requires at least a master's, and there's hundreds of applications for each open position. He ends up working a low-wage job at Starbucks where his only pleasure in life is purposely misspelling people's names just to see their reaction. Do you know Wojak? Are you a Wojak? It's okay. It's not your fault. Useless degrees are one of the biggest scams of all time, and every single year, millions of people fall for it. Whoa! This is worthless! And that's because society has lied to you about college and how it actually works. Your parents probably told you that you need to go to college to be successful, and it really doesn't matter which degree you get because all of them will open a lot of doors for you. And to be fair, back when they went to college, it probably was that way. A degree was basically a golden ticket to success. But then things changed, and your parents and your teachers were lied to and fooled. All the while, universities and student loan companies were raking in trillions of dollars by stealing your dreams and your future potential. But today that ends because I'm going to be exposing the most useless college degrees so that you and anybody else who needs to hear it can avoid getting scammed. Thank you! Number 13 is psychology. And I can already see it.  And they're going to be smashing their keyboards when in reality they should be smashing the like button instead. Because let's be real here. With $100,000 that this degree costs you could have started a business, could have bought yourself a condo, you could have bought yourself a lifetime supply of ramen, traveled around the world. I mean just about anything would have been better than spending it on this useless degree. And I remember when I was about to graduate high school and I was picking what to do with my future, I talked with both high school counselors as well as college counselors and they both gave really bad advice. They told me to follow my passion. Which is basically code speak for spend $100,000 on whatever college degree you think is mildly interesting.  We have no idea what we want to do with the rest of our lives. So making a 17 or 18 year old spend $100,000 on a college degree to find their passion is probably one of the worst possible ways that you could help them to find their passion. And at the time I almost ended up choosing a useless degree like psychology because it was the subject that I found the most interesting. But the truth is I was only interested in parts of psychology and I could have learned all of that online completely free from the best universities in the world. And I think a lot of people out there can relate to this. So psychology is actually one of the top three most popular degrees with over 127,000 graduates per year. And it comes in third behind business and nursing degrees. But there's one massive problem here and that is there is nowhere near 127,000 jobs available for people who graduate with bachelor degrees. To even have a chance of getting a job, you need a master's or in some cases even a doctorate in psychology. And don't get me wrong, there are some good jobs out there if you have those. But most people go in not realizing that. And a lot of people have no clue what they're getting themselves into because only a small percentage of psychology grads end up going to get a master's or a doctorate. So the vast majority of them end up with a degree that is not going to help them get a job and anything related to psychology, aka a useless degree. Now with that being said, this degree is actually pretty good compared to a lot of the other ones on this list. But the reason I included it here is because I think it's one of the most overrated degrees out there. And this is a perfect example of a degree that's way too saturated because let's be honest, just about everybody thinks that psychology is interesting. Number 12 is a biology degree. Now I know some of you might be thinking that Shane, a biology degree is the key to understanding the intricacies of the human body, the secrets of the natural world and the mysteries of life itself. And to that I say, the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. Because let's be real here. A biology degree is not only expensive, it's also becoming less and less valuable. With all the advancements in technology, you're probably better off learning how to code and then have a robot do the lab work for you. And let's not forget about the job prospects. Sure, you could become a doctor or a scientist, which would require a lot more schooling. But let's be real here, the competition is fierce and the job market is flooded. So why not just skip the degree and go straight to working as a Starbucks barista? But don't take my word for it. Ask the countless biology graduates that are working minimum wage jobs that have nothing to do with the subject. And they'll probably be happy to tell you how their expensive degree is really paying off. Because let's be real, a biology degree might make you smart, but it certainly is not going to make you rich. But all joking aside, biology does come in at number four right behind psychology with 120,000 graduates per year. And everybody says that STEM degrees are great, right? Any science, technology, engineering or mathematics degree you get is going to be great. And that just simply is not true. Biology is bad, especially considering it's a STEM degree. Because no, not all STEM degrees are amazing. Because when you look at the important statistics like demand, salary, job satisfaction, unemployment rate, et cetera, biology is actually pretty bad. And I had a friend who got this one in undergrad because she thought it would be a great degree to get for medical school. Well, plans changed. It turned out she didn't want to go to medical school after all, but she couldn't find a job with her basic biology degree. And so what did she do? She was forced to go back to school to get a master's. She still couldn't find a good job. So she went back to school to get a doctorate. And of course, this is not something she wanted to do initially. You know, I had conversations with her. She definitely thought like she was misled and scammed. But with that being said, it turned out okay for her. For many other people, it doesn't turn out nearly as well. So just keep in mind that even the almighty STEM degrees aren't always going to be a great choice either. Number 11 is going to be a communications degree. Ah, yes, the athletes major. And I appreciate my friends also, my wife and my girlfriend. What? I mean, my wife, sorry to say. This is the major that athletes take when they have to maintain a C average to stay on the team. And they want to do it with the least amount of time and effort. And basically this is the best degree for them to keep their fancy scholarships while putting in absolutely no effort whatsoever. Now make no mistake, this degree is going to be borderline worthless to just about anybody who takes it.  Why? Well, it's just way too general. That's the truth. It's one of those skills that's like a life degree or a breathing degree. There are certain skills that you can learn in the classroom and there are certain skills that you have to learn in real life. And communications is one of those skills. They were the only way you're going to get really good at it is by practicing it in the real world. I'd like to take my wife again and my two kids. And think about it. Business owners have no clue what specific skills you have when they see that you graduated with a communications degree. Like, how are you going to help their business? How are you going to provide value? How are you going to justify them spending $50,000 on you? Speaking of general degrees, the next one on the list is going to be a liberal arts or general studies degree. Now, please, if you take one thing from this video, just one thing, you forget everything else, keep this in mind, do not get a degree that has the word studies in it. No, God, please, no. Basically, this is the golden rule that you should just always follow to avoid getting a useless degree. And I'm sure there's going to be some woe jack in the comments section. It's going to find like one exception to the rule and then brag to his wife's boyfriend that he debunked a YouTuber. But generally speaking, 99% of the time, getting a degree with the word studies in it is going to be a massive waste of your time, effort and money. I'm not even going to go on here. It's painful to even talk about these things sometimes. So number nine on the list is going to be a sociology, anthropology, or archeology degree. Now, I decided to bunch these three degrees together because they all have one thing in common and that is they are commonly associated with psychology degrees. But the truth is they actually make a psychology degree seem like a great investment because they are much, much worse. Now, with these degrees, it's pretty much impossible for you to get a job in anything related to the subject, even if you get a master's or a doctorate. Like with psychology degree, at least if you do get a doctorate, you're probably going to get a pretty decent job. But with these degrees, the only people that are actually making money are the people that are working at colleges and teaching other people about the degree. Hey, wait a minute. That kind of sounds like a pyramid scheme. I have to go make a call. Number eight on the list is going to be photography and pretty much any other art related degree. And by the way, I just want to say right off the bat before people get mad, I have no problem with artists. I love artists. Many of my best friends are artistic. And also I'm not one of those people who says you can't do art for a living. You absolutely can't. I mean, I'm a YouTuber. I'm literally making videos for a living. But just about everybody I've met who has gone to art school has told me that it is a scam and it's typically not worth it. Why? Because art is subjective and it's constantly changing. The music that was popular five years ago is no longer popular today. Fashion looked completely different 10 years ago than it does today as well. And art degrees are kind of like designer handbags. They cost an arm and a leg and you'll only use them a few times a year. But unlike designer handbags, you'll be paying off the student loans for the next few decades. Plus let's be real, that degree and medieval pottery is probably only going to come in handy in a game of trivial pursuit. So save yourself the debt, get a good job or better yet, become a YouTube superstar like Mr. Beast, PewDiePie or myself if you truly want to achieve true happiness and do art for a living. Wait a minute. All joking aside, college is probably one of the slowest moving and least artistic entities that has ever existed. Like if you want to learn exactly what not to do to be successful in art, go to college. That would be actually a pretty good value proposition. Like here's everything you shouldn't do. If you want to learn what's up to date in the art world right now and whatever niche you're trying to get into, college is the last place in the world that you're going to find that out. Every ounce of creativity has been squeezed out of college, like a watermelon thrown into a shredding machine. But Shane, college will teach me how to be more creative and expand my mind. Nope, not at all. College is probably the most standardized and least creative place in the entire world. Most universities are like dinosaurs stuck in the mud. They're teaching you stuff that worked 10 years ago, but it doesn't work today. Or they teach you things that you could have learned online for free on YouTube or maybe $5 in a Udemy course. And if you think you're going to get a well-rounded perspective on the world, learn about everyone's opinion in different cultures like liberal ideology or conservative or libertarian or socialist. Nope, think again.  And this is even though 73% of Americans identify as either moderate or conservative. So if you think you're going to expand your mind, get a well-rounded perspective on the world, take in every different type of opinion and then formulate your own.  Because they don't actually want you to be successful. They want you to be a good little NPC student that does exactly what you're told because that's what keeps the system going. And more importantly, that's what keeps the easy money flowing into their pockets. But I digress. Number seven on the list is going to be art history. And this one is even worse than art because it's literally the history of art. And I guess this one kind of goes for history degrees in general. By the way, history is my favorite subject. This is another one that I almost went into because of the bad advice that I got from my high school and college counselors. And I actually did take some history classes and I ended up not enjoying it nearly as much because they made me study stuff that I didn't want to. They also made me memorize dates which I quickly brain-dumped right after the tests and they would make me write long papers about stuff I wasn't interested in. When the truth is I can very easily study my favorite subjects on the internet and I can even take classes from the best universities and the best professors in the world completely free. And in the modern world, there are so many different ways that you can follow your passion other than dropping $100,000 on a college degree. I mean, we are living in the 2020s. You have access to the world's foremost experts at your fingertips. All you have to do is just type it into Google. And there are classes at the top universities in the world. For instance, MIT OpenCourseWare is one of them and you get access to the lectures. You can use the same books they use, take the same quizzes, same homework. And in some cases, you can even take the same tests. So you can take all those classes you wanted to about art history online, completely free. The only difference is at the end of the day you wouldn't have the piece of paper which isn't going to help you out anyways. So it just does not make any sense to get the degree for like 99% of people. Number six is going to be a restaurant management degree.   So they've started coming out with reasonable sounding degrees that sound like they might actually get you a job like restaurant management or hotel management. Yeah, they're basically printing these degrees faster than the government is printing money. And that's pretty impressive because the government is printing money pretty damn fast. And these degrees do end up trapping a few extra thousand suckers per year that think that they're actually getting a worthwhile practical education. When in reality, the only way to learn how to be a good restaurant manager is to work in a restaurant and then work your way up to the manager position. And this is another one of those examples of things that you cannot learn in the classroom. The only way you're going to learn how to do this well is through real life experience. And this is an absolute joke of a degree that will probably lead you to an entry level minimum wage job as a bus boy or a fry cook. Oh boy. Number five is pop culture degrees. You serious? Yes. Sadly, this is the thing. Now, entering into the top five, this is where we're gonna start getting to the really, really bad degrees. And it's actually starting to get painful just to even think or read about this. Yes, there is such a thing as a pop culture degree. Sadly, I discovered this while I was doing research for this video. Yes, you can get a degree where you study about who Taylor Swift is currently feuding with or Justin Bieber's latest haircut. I mean, I just, I don't even know what to say about this.  Number four is a nannying degree. Yes, this is a thing too. Where's the baby? So let's go ahead and see which one of these makes sense. Option one, a career that didn't require college degree for, you know, thousands of years suddenly requires one.  Let's see, probably option number two. All right, listen, I can't even say anymore about these degrees. It's just too much. Let's go ahead and move on. All right, so number three on the list is going to be a puppetry degree. Yes, finally degree that's worth something. It's going to teach you how to become a puppet master. No, no, no, no, no, not that kind of puppet master. What I mean is a ventriloquist like Jeff Dunham. What the hell's so funny? But the only problem here is Jeff Dunham never got a puppetry degree. In fact, I looked up just about all of the famous ventriloquists online and I didn't find a single one that got a puppetry degree. Because if it wasn't completely obvious, you don't need a college degree to learn this skill. This is something that you learn by practicing. And if you really need help from somebody else, you can go ahead and hire a professional ventriloquist. Even if you hired them hourly and you work with them several times a week, it would still be much less than a college degree. But hey, at least you'll be able to entertain your little nieces and nephews at family gatherings, right?  The headache can become a street performer. You never know, it could be your calling. Yeah! Number two is going to be individualized degrees. And this is a very disturbing trend that I've noticed lately. So this is proof that colleges are just completely shameless. Like they're not even trying to hide it anymore.  But then universities like Evergreen State College decided to take it to a whole nother level and they're essentially allowing students to create their own degrees. Yes, this is basically the Bill DeBear workshop of degrees. This place is psychopathic. Because of schools like this, you will likely soon be seeing meme degrees like Runescape Art History or World of Warcraft Studies. And unfortunately, there will be a significant amount of naive 17 and 18 year olds that will fall for this trap. But speaking of memes, none of them are as bad as number one on the list, which is going to be a gender studies degree. All right, number one is so bad that it literally became a meme on the internet. They're the same picture.  And by the way, I'm sure there's gonna be a bunch of people in the comments section that say stuff like my aunts, barbers, daughters, butchers, cat got a gender studies degree and now makes seven figures working in their dream job. Like, okay, cool. You can always find an exception to the rule. It's called luck and probability. But anyone who actually looks into this stuff is going to quickly figure out that most of these degrees are useless 99% of the time. And I know somebody's gonna say, oh, but Shane, it's not about the money. It's about studying these subjects for personal fulfillment.  It absolutely is about the money. They wouldn't be charging you $100,000 to get the degree if it wasn't about the money. And this decision is gonna have huge effects on literally every area of your life outside of money.  So of course, the rational thing to do in this situation, whether you agree with the situation or not, is to make sure that you are getting a return on investment for whatever degree you decide to get. And also, who gets to say that college is the only place that you can find personal fulfillment? I personally have found much more personal fulfillment from traveling around the world and experiencing different cultures. So who gave college a monopoly on personal fulfillment? There are many places that you can find personal fulfillment and college is probably the most expensive and least effective one. So I don't wanna be negative here. Usually the videos I post to this channel aren't all that negative. In fact, I made an ultimate guide to choosing your dream college degree, which I highly recommend you check out because it's a life-changing video.


How are you feeling leading up to the event about how the horse was progressing, what your chances were at the maturity? We knew he was a good horse, we knew we had something a little bit special. Todd doesn't say too much and we didn't talk to him a lot through the horse's training. But the few times that we did see him, he said that he thought he was very special. He was just a bit behind some of the other, a bit greener because he was born in January, so he was a late baby for us. So he was a bit more immature and younger than a lot of the other fertility horses. And so he felt he just had a little bit more growing up to do. He was a bit like a bit of a teenage kid as he would describe him. So we knew he was good, but we didn't know whether he was that, whether he could just really step up to this. We knew he'd be good later on and we knew his ability, but whether his mind was going to be ready to mature. Because he was just a bit of a big kid really. Through the rounds he just got better like he started on just the 43. The cows were a little dull and didn't have the chance to do anything special. And then the second round he ran second in the round by half a point and ran 46. The first cow scared is pretty bad, but the next two were just unreal. And then he ended up one point off top aggregate. So to get a score that high in the aggregate we thought, well he has a bit of a shot once it comes down. We were confident then. I mean not confident, but we knew. We didn't expect to win. We were sort of hoping for a top five finish, especially after how he'd shown. And if he got better in the final, like not many horses can get better at every round. So it was pretty good.


Terima kasih banyak, Pak Harry. Selamat pagi semua. Sekarang saya mahu bercakap dengan anda tentang bagaimana perubahan kerajaan terbang dan perubahan air mengalami emisi gas greenhouse di Jambi. Kenapa kita melakukan perubahan di Jambi? Sebab kita tahu dari Margonoetal 2012, perubahan kerajaan terbang tinggi di sana. Dan juga daripada perubahan itu, biasanya perubahan kerajaan terbang di perubahan air dan perubahan air kerana perubahan kerajaan terbang tinggi dan itu sebabnya perubahan kerajaan mahu mengubahnya. Dan dari data, kita tahu bahawa banyak perubahan kerajaan terbang, sebahagian jauh, 67% bernasibuk ke perak, dan seluruhnya bernasibuk ke perubahan kerajaan. Selain jauh, untuk perubahan kerajaan, banyak perubahan kerajaan terbang ke perubahan kerajaan. Sebahagian jauh perubahan kerajaan terbang terbang. We run these experiments in the five different land use system which are forests and then disturb forests and then young rubber plantations, one year rubber plantations and then 20 years old rubber plantations and 8 years old oil pump plantations. We focus on the small holders plantations. All of the plantations have never been fertilized before but because we also want to quantify the effect of the intensification so we applied an fertilizer during these experiments. The rate is about 33 kg per hectare which is quite low compared with the actual practice that usually have done by the farmers. They usually applied 141 kg per hectare per year. We have two kind of measurements. We have monthly measurements and then focus in oil pump plantations. We have the intensive measurements following the fertilizer application. We found that there is no land use effect regarding all of the greenhouse gas emission that we assess. I think I should explain that we measuring nitrous oxide, methane and carbon dioxide. To value dust chains but statistically they are not significant. From here we highlight that probably in the condition when there is no intensive high addition and fertilizer to the plantation. Actually the greenhouse gas emission is not changed much. But in the oil pump plantations when we start to apply the fertilizer and we quantify the annual fluxes rate, we found that the emission factor is about 3.2% which is quite high compared with the actual emission factor from the IPCC. If I'm not wrong it's about 1.1%. It means that if we apply and continue to increase the dosage following the common fertilizer application, for it's 141 kg n applied in the plantation, the emission will be about 4.4 kg nitrous oxide per hectare per year. Dan if the fertilizer application was doubled then it's increased. It means that there is potential danger here if we make this non-intensive plantation become more intensive. Regarding with the environmental variable, we found that N2O fluxes more related to the environmental variable that change by the change of the land cover such as N from the standing litter and then at temperature and then interesting it's also related with the termite as well. So the closer distance from the chamber measurement to the next mount the emission will be higher. Why we also quantify the effect of termites? Because in our sites we found quite high termite population. Regarding with the methane, the clay is the most important environmental variable which affect the methane. But if we look more detail in oil pump plantation, we found the strong relationship between the availability with the methane fluxes. So the higher ammonium in the soil, the lower methane emission that we will find. And regarding with the carbon dioxide, we found that soil CN ratio and then the next population have the strong relationship with the annual carbon dioxide. For me, that's all the results that I can share with you. Thank you very much. It's very surprising that the conversion from forest, I don't know how good or how bad forest to the small scale agriculture doesn't affect a lot. Or significantly the greenhouse gas emission in term of nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide and methane. So we are allowed to convert forest to agriculture, small scale. In term of without contributing to the global warming. So I invite comments, question. Thank you. This is an interesting study. I wonder whether you measure emission only from soil. Do you also consider emission or sequestration from the plants? Thank you very much for the question. For this study, yes, we only focus on the soil emission. And we didn't compile and calculate the emission and the stock from the trees in this study. But I did the measurement of the three carbon stock as well, but it's not compiled in this paper yet. So mostly coming from the soil emission. Thank you, Fitri. It's a very interesting presentation and research results. Recently in C4, maybe this sort of research is quite rare that we can find. I'm interested when you say that if you increase the amount of fertilizer or composition of fertilizers to the plants, it will also have effect to the greenhouse emissions. So what is the result of the fertilizer applications that you find from your research? In this study, we didn't focus to find the best fertilizer application, the sales for the oil plantations. But I think that should be our next focus to find the thread of between how many and fertilizer that we should apply in the soil to get the good productivity. But still regarding with the greenhouse gas emission, we get the acceptable emission. So will be kind of a thread of between productivity or... Yes, but in this experiment, we don't have the experiment with the different doses of the fertilizer. Any comment? Small scale, not the large scale. Small scale is okay, not the large scale. Christine, do you have a question? Hi, thank you very much. It was very interesting. Actually what you just mentioned is exactly the question I want to ask.  It suggests that this is what small scale would do, but it's not the same as what large scale. I'd like to know why this is about small scale and not about fertilizer application to oil plantations in general. Is there something specific about your research that would be only applicable to small scale and not to large scale, or are we talking about in any size, say, plantation? Ya, we focus on the small holder's plantation, in the small scale's plantation because we predict that in the future it will increase the amount of the local villagers or the farmers, the local farmers who are interested in plant the oil pump. So that is why then we want to assess the effect about how they apply fertilizer and the effect to the greenhouse gas emission. And besides that, regarding with the recent studies, we found that it's still quite rare to assess the effect of the land use change from the forest to the small scale plantation. That's why you focus on the small scale because there's not much study related to the small scale. So, is there something specifically about it? I mean, do you expect small holder to apply fertilizer in a different way or to clear land in a different way from how large scale? I'm just wondering why this is applicable to small scale and not to large scale, your particular experiment? Ya, because in this small scale when they don't have money, they will never apply fertilizer they think they have, you know, for them that's okay as far as they can harvest the palm fruit, they get the money they don't need to pay money to buy the fertilizer but no, around them there are large company which have really good land management and apply the fertilizers and some of the small holders start to practice it and so we want to see if in the condition when they never apply fertilizer and then they start to apply it So, what is the effect, what is the trend? Is it the same like if the small holder which has a really good land management and they have a continuous fertilizer application in the land, do they have a different? Of course for this step we cannot compare directly with the large scale because it's still in the beginning, in the study Okay, thank you Any more comments? Of course Not a comment but another question I wonder if you can maybe comment about the forest because you have also some studies I will be interested to understand your results in Pasir Mayang, for instance The distant forest that we our distant forest in Pasir Mayang is in the succession period when we did the measurement so it was locked in the past but now it start to recovery and in term of the tree diversity I can say that about 80% of the tree species in the natural forest are there in the distant forest as well but in term of the tree biomass the natural forest still has a higher tree biomass compare the distant forest So it's not on the pristine forest but 80% of the species in the distant forest in Pasir Mayang No, unfortunately, all of them are gone because soon after I finish the experiment then the pristine forest and the distant forest has been converted to the small holder rubber plantation It's not because your recommendation, right? No Okay, any more comments? Yes, Adi? Terima kasih Saya berminat tentang kawasan di atas bila-bila kawasan mineral atau kawasan pitland dan apa yang berbeza dari kawasan emisi dari kawasan soal?


We have a bit of a late night bonus video for you guys because Phil Spencer just dropped a bomb on Twitter and this bomb is in regards to Nintendo specifically and I find this quite fascinating as this move is clearly something intended to push parties across the line to get the Activision Blizzard deal done because the biggest concern the FTC and other governing bodies have over this purchase is not only that it would be a potential monopoly but that Microsoft would start yanking Call of Duty off of other platforms and create this thing where hey this once multi-platform mega IP would now only be available on Xbox and that as something a lot of these governing bodies don't want to see. So we already know that they've tried to offer a 10-year commitment to PlayStation that PlayStation refuses to agree to but um here's something that did happen today according to Phil Spencer read the tweet Microsoft has entered into a 10-year commitment to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo at Nintendo they they they have literally have them all tagged up here on Twitter so this is the Japanese account they've tagged you're not Nintendo of America so it says to add Nintendo following the merger of Microsoft and Activision Blizzard King Microsoft is committed to helping bring more games to more people however they choose to play and they tag Activision Blizzard as well and he says I'm also pleased to confirm that Microsoft has committed to continue to offer Call of Duty on Steam simultaneously to Xbox after we've closed the merger and this is important for a couple of reasons one Call of Duty is not on Switch so once the merger is done for at least a decade we will be getting all Call of Duty games that's a big deal Steam will be getting all Call of Duty games after the deal closes again that's a big deal and what's also a big deal is this isn't Microsoft offering a 10-year deal this is a commitment that it has entered into what does that mean Nintendo has agreed to these terms steam valve has agreed to these terms so at this point after this is done the only company at the moment to not agree to the terms is Sony themselves who is trying to block the sale and it's going to be very very hard for Sony to argue that they are creating a quote-unquote monopoly situation where other platforms are going to be hurt by this when they have just committed to bringing it to platforms that currently don't even have Call of Duty committed to it we have not seen a Call of Duty on Nintendo Switch since Black Ops 2 back on Wii U if Switch has never seen one but on Nintendo platforms since Black Ops 2 this is massive like look I'm not necessarily the biggest Call of Duty guy I did enjoy Black Ops 2 on Wii U but I'm not the biggest Call of Duty player and obviously we have Splatoon 3 and other things but this is like Phil Spencer ain't messing around man he wants this deal to go through so much so he's like fine you don't think that we're actually committed to keeping this multi-platform decade deal with steam decade deal with Nintendo both of those companies agreed so Sony what is your problem why won't you agree because right now you're just looking petty that seems to be what Phil Spencer is presenting forward so you guys let me know what you think about it just a kind of a quick video I don't want to sit here and take up a whole bunch of evening because this is breaking news like this is one of the largest IPs in the world we already have Minecraft right another massive IP now Call of Duty so this is now something we need to pay attention to if this Activision Blizzard deal goes through Nintendo just knocked down Call of Duty for 10 years probably going to be more than that but at least for the next 10 years Call of Duty is coming to switch after this deal closes talk about some breaking news you guys have a good rest of your evening and I'll catch you in the next video


Well good afternoon. I hope everyone can hear me well and I hope this goes well. It's very hard without any feedback so bear with me. So my name is Emma Richardson and I'm coming to you from Colorado in the United States where it is approximately 5 a.m. in the morning and I believe it's about 5 30 in the afternoon there. So hopefully you've all had a great day. I think maybe this was your first day of the moot but I may be wrong on that but I hope it's been going well for you and so I'm here to talk to you about the Moodle Users Association and normally I would ask how many people are from the Moodle Users Association but I can't see or hear you so I'm just going to talk and then at the end what we'll do is if anyone has questions if you can just send them up to one of the people in the room and we'll use the chat to get them to me and I'll answer them all at the end. So right now I'm kind of stuck in my powerpoint and that's all I can see so I'm just going to keep going until I get through it so here we go. So what is the Users Association? The Moodle Users Association was created about three years ago and it's basically an association of just Moodle Users so you have to be a user of Moodle to join the association. It is not Moodle it's a separate entity and it's we've got our own governing board it's run by a committee of volunteers there's 10 of us we get elected in every year currently I'm the chair of the committee but we have a great committee of people this year we have 10 very very active members and we just got voted in a couple of months ago and I've kind of put the committee to task this year and they're really coming through so I'm really excited about what's happening with the association and we have our own rules and procedures and these can all be found on our website our website is at MoodleAssociation.org and I really encourage everyone to go look at the website and look around we are in the middle of revamping it so within about a month I hope to have kind of a whole new look to it but all the basic information is there. So when we talk about what we do it basically comes to that we have some power to influence Moodle development and so there's three tracks where you can help change things in Moodle. The first thing is if you find a problem or you have a feature request you can go to the Moodle tracker and the Moodle tracker is great they're actually very responsive I know Martin has a whole new team there now and they're really trying to go through all the tracker issues which is excellent and so that is one way just through the general Moodle progress of making changes in Moodle and you can propose code there if you're a code writer you can actually implement solutions right in the tracker right there and get them incorporated. The other track is if you're a Moodle partner and so that way you get to help Moodle by it's kind of a two-way relationship you get to use Moodle's name you help support Moodle financially and through that there's also some features and stuff that you can influence over bringing into Moodle that way and then the third way which is this new way is the Moodle users association and what we do is we develop projects and our Moodle users or our members are able to submit projects which are just like ideas that they want to go into Moodle and so it can be anything from something really little to something really huge and so we have two cycles a year each cycle run six months and so during the beginning of that cycle our members come in and they propose their projects and they say this is what we want to see change in Moodle we would love this feature or this needs fixing and so they come in and they propose projects and then our members vote on them and we say which is the best of these projects and the first time we vote we just kind of cut it down to the top 10 and then those top 10 we kind of try and develop as much as we can so we're really ready for Moodle HQ to take a look at them and go yes this is a you know this is a good project we can do it and here's a rough estimate of how much it's going to cost to do that and then once Moodle HQ's come back with their feedback and their estimates we vote again and that top project if we have enough money then gets pushed over to Moodle and gets implemented into Moodle core and so it's a it's an exciting process because it's a way that an individual member can make a huge change or a you know a larger university or something can also have quite a bit of influence so the way our membership works is we have different levels of membership we have an individual member which is it's actually very cheap to join it's a hundred US or sorry Australian dollars annually and then we have different levels for institutions to join going up to our gold level which is 10 000 Australian dollars a year and each dollar represents a vote so while you can have a great effect as an individual member with your hundred votes probably the biggest effect you're going to have is maybe getting a project proposed and voted on by other people because obviously your hundred votes won't have as much as an institution's votes but you still have the equal right to put in a project which is wonderful so through this whole process it's really just a group of people coming together so we support the growth of Moodle by taking all those membership fees and putting them into new ideas and new projects and we become a united voice for the community out there so not only are we driving that direction for development but we're actually providing the resources to turn those ideas into actual Moodle features and reality so it's kind of an exciting it's almost like crowdfunding um but then you get to decide which project we crowdfund so it's a really neat way to support Moodle and a lot of people just come in because they want to give a little bit back to Moodle and they understand that this money is all going directly back to HQ for core features so a few projects that we've already released the very first project that the Moodle users association came up with was the recycle bin and this is oh invaluable I use this all the time because I'm one of those people that deletes things so we now have the recycle bin and that came from the users association just recently in 3.3 we rewrote the whole dashboard and that was hopefully you guys are on 3.3 and you're really enjoying that new look of the dashboard so it's got a nice completion editor you can look at your dashboard and kind of see your progress in each course what is wonderful about this project was it was suggested by just an individual user member so for her you know little hundred dollars um 100 Australian dollars that she paid for her membership she was able to have a huge effect on Moodle overall because dashboard is one of those major pages um in there and in 3.4 um I don't know how many are on 3.4 I know I'm in the process of upgrading my sites um the calendar um went through um a big rewrite and so what's great about that is we now have drag and drop in the calendar so your events you can drag them from one date to another and it will actually update the date in the corresponding activity too and I think the majority of the core activities are now compatible with the new calendar drag and drop maybe not quite all but I know that um we've got choice assignment I'm not sure if quiz got um bought up but if not it's I believe it's on the list to get done soon and maybe we'll ask the Moodle team about that um so that's really been um a great project too and um just a new look too for the calendar so um that's coming in currently we're working on improved tagging for the question bank um and our next project um we believe will um allow us to create quizzes um by tag um pull random questions from a category and then further filter it down to a tag so this is going to give us a lot greater control over selection of quiz questions um and we think that's going to be a great improvement on the quiz bank and we're currently in the process of voting on the next project um and so we've always got a couple of things in the works and in January we start a whole new round and we'll start um looking for suggestions and project proposals again so if you haven't joined already now is a great time to join um because you can actually get in on that next round in January and then if you have a great idea for Moodle you can get in there and get that submitted right away um we have a lot of current goals with our new team so we've really been working on improving communications with members um our last chair came up with a great um idea to have monthly town hall meetings and we do that um so twice a month we meet and um we started off just kind of with open discussion discussing what people wanted to see change with the association um and that's where the improved communications came from um now our members have asked that we kind of have some topics to talk about so we're now picking a topic for each town hall meeting um this last month we discussed the grade book and we had some really great discussion about the grade book and we had some great book people there that joined us um and so we do this on the um first and second Tuesday of every month and um the meetings are on the calendar on the website they're also open to everyone now so we open them up they're not just for members so we invite anyone to come join us so if you even just want to come find out a little bit more about us the town hall meetings so a great great place to do that um we continue to collaborate with HQ that's our primary focus um and HQ are a great bunch to collaborate with so um as I mentioned we're revising our website um I believe we're going to switch to a different to bring it up to date and switch over to the boost theme here shortly and so we have some work going on in the background just to make sure everything um is ready to do that so um so that'll be exciting we're trying to make it a little bit user-friendly so um some of our committee members are working on um a frequently asked questions glossary um so we can get some you know questions answered quickly for those people that come in um we also have done a lot with our times and we have some countdown timers to help people not miss the end of the vote and stuff like that so we've been working on that a lot and then of course our main goal is to fund more projects and um obviously we can't do that without people like you joining so we really hope that um you will come and join us in this great um this great overall project of helping to fund Moodle and helping to bring some great changes to Moodle as well so I went through that kind of fast because it's really hard to see when I can't see anyone um but I would really kind of like to throw it out um to questions and see um what questions are out there and hopefully Francis will type those in and I'm going to stop sharing just so that I can um see the chat here uh well thank you Emma um does anyone have any questions for Emma no okay um that's all right if you have any questions you can always get in contact with them um through the MUA website and they'll be able to be in contact with you then I'll pass on to Tom now well if there's no questions I will say thank you and please visit the website um please feel free to um Francis maybe give out the my email if anyone has questions afterwards um I'm more than happy to answer emails and stuff so and I hope everyone enjoys their evening


So the 2019 Oscars are being held this Sunday, February 24th, the Oscars, the top accolade in film. In a word show so prestigious that even being nominated for an Oscar gives you the privilege to tack on Academy Awards nominee to your name for the rest of your life. Your name, or Kimi no Nawa, has been regarded by many critics as a cinematic masterpiece, and a lot of people even think it's the greatest anime movie ever made. It has a 97% on Ron Tomatoes, and across 21 film festivals and award organizations, it has won best film or best animated feature four times, and it's been nominated 11 times. It's grossed $357 million, making it the highest grossing Japanese film of all time, beating Spirited Away. Despite all of these amazing accolades, it was never even nominated for the 2017 Oscars. Instead, it was beat out by these five movies. Coco, Ferdinand, Loving Vincent, The Breadwinner, and, wait for it, Boss Baby. Forget about your name or a silent voice, we have Boss Baby, truly an absolute masterpiece, the epitome of animation cinema right there. I can't think of a better movie. Granted, Coco was a good film, great film actually, and Coco 100% deserved to win that year. But Boss Baby, we were able to speak with Kyle Abert, famous for being Gohan and the narrator from Dragon Ball, Kiba from Naruto, Kakyoin from Jojo's Bizarre Adventures, and many other roles. Now that it's considered cool to be a geek and whatnot, what is necessarily popular isn't necessarily up for grabs in terms of critical acclaim in all that, but that doesn't negate the impact that anime has. An award show is an award show. Whether something makes a personal difference in your life or simply entertains, that is something that is entirely subjective. To date, only seven animes have ever been nominated for an Oscar. Spirited away in 2002, Howl's Moving Castle in 2005, The Wind Rises in 2013, The Tale of Princess Kaguya in 2014, when Marnie was there in 2015, The Red Turtle in 2016, and finally, Marae in 2018. The reason why this year is so important is that Marae is the first anime ever nominated for an Oscar that isn't made by Studio Ghibli. It's a miracle it's even up there. This year, it'll go up against Incredibles 2, Isle of Dogs, Ralph Breaks the Internet, and Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse. Since the start of the award, Disney and Pixar have won 12 of the 18 years. Only one anime in history has ever received an Oscar for Best Animation, and that's Spirited Away, which is critically acclaimed to be the best anime movie ever. This was a unique moment in history, particularly for anime fans. We were able to see, in our lifetimes, one of our own received the most coveted award in film. This doesn't happen very often because Hollywood likes to look after their own. After all, Hollywood runs the Oscars. It's a tight-knit group that doesn't really allow a lot of outsiders. A lot of its members are from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Old white men who probably think anime is just for kids. If you're not in with them, good luck getting a nod your way. That being said, how did Spirited Away even get nominated? As I'm sure everyone knows, Spirited Away was produced by Studio Ghibli, a Japanese studio. But who was responsible when it needed to be distributed in America? That's right, our very own Walt Disney. You see, Walt Disney also had the rights to localize it in America, and they decided that John Lasseter, who at the time was an executive producer and director at Pixar, was a man for the job. And what do you know? John Lasseter was the biggest Miyazaki fan of all time. He hired some Hollywood actors to do some voiceovers, and I guess the rest is history. When a movie's got big names like Disney and Pixar and John Lasseter backing you, there's no surprise that it was nominated for an Oscar only a year later. Look, Spirited Away is a great film for a good reason. It truly is a masterpiece, but when nominating a film, we should be looking at the film itself and not just nominate it because we're a fan of the director. This begs the question, how do Oscar nominations and voting work exactly? You see, it's a huge privilege to be part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. There are 6,000 voting members of the Academy, and they require each member to have some kind of distinction. They need to have been credited in several movies, and they have to be recent movies, or they have to have been nominated for an Oscar themselves. In the past, for nominations, directors would nominate best directors, actors would nominate best actors, animators would nominate best animation. When it goes to voting, however, anyone can pretty much vote for anything, and as of 2018, even the nominations have opened up to everyone. As the YouTuber Jeff Thu, also known as Mother's Basement, aptly explained in his own video why the Oscars don't get animation. A lot of the voters just don't care about best animation. They don't give two shits about animation as an art form, and a lot of them don't even bother to watch all the nominees before mindlessly casting their votes in the category. It doesn't matter how much better the other nominees might be, the Academy voters never bother to watch them in the first place. First things first, I think it would be great if the Academy members would actually do their job and watch the movies that are nominated, like, at least once. And just as a side note, your grand kid watching Big Hero 6 three times, it doesn't count as you watching it. And when you do watch all the nominees, judge fairly, instead of simply picking whatever feel good Disney Pixar movie was released that year. In 1994, Hoop Dreams, one of the most widely acclaimed documentaries of all time, was passed up for an Oscar nomination. People called it the worst Oscar snub of all time. A lot of people said the reason why is because the Academy members were tired and didn't watch all of it. Other members claimed that they did watch it all the way through, though. While he didn't say what films specifically, director and Academy member Chuck Workman stated that a lot of good movies were turned off because people didn't want to spend the time. There was a whole world of nonfiction films going on that they just kind of missed. When you have a bunch of people with similar backgrounds gathered together in a group like the Academy, they tend to have similar views and opinions on things.  Even they acknowledge it. Tonight we honor Hollywood's best and widest, sorry, brightest. According to a 2015 study, when it comes to Academy voters, 93% were white, 76% were male, and 86% were 50 years or older, with the average age being 63. You have to give them credit, though. In recent years, the Academy has actually brought on more diversity, and we hope that these new Academy members will be able to nominate a wider range of films, besides the same five Disney Pixar films we see every year. We still got a lot of work to do, but it's definitely a step in the right direction. I for one am excited to see how this decision will impact the future of the Academy. Anime has come in waves of popularity. I don't think it's ever going to go away. I think it is here to stay. I don't think it will ever overtake domestic animation in terms of art form or popularity, but it is definitely here to stay.


And so tonight, you know, as always, we want this to be very open and interactive, and that's why we have our little chair. Gangaji calls it the hot seat, but I don't think we'll call it the hot seat. Let's call it something else. The love seat. The love seat. And it's not hot at all. It's very comfortable up here. And we like the sun's going down so we can do eye gazing too. So, yeah, we just open it up into the practical. I think it was the word practical that prompted me. It actually came up to me yesterday during your talk in the afternoon. Not sure why I feel nervous. Stage fright. I was feeling much calmer yesterday playing all by myself up here. Anyway, it's a funny question. What should I do with my CDs? What it's based on is the whole just giving all to all idea. I guess if there's a world of form and issue is, you know, I bore this money for my mom to have these CDs duplicated and made into these things. So there's an expectation that I need to pay her back. After yesterday's talk, I was ready to just go around the circle in the little pit and just hand them out. And just let them go, you know, let them go kind of thing. Then, of course, I go, well, what do I tell my mom? How are the sales going? They're gone. They're gone. So, you know, then maybe some miracle will happen. Well, that's fine. That's okay. You know, that could be a possibility. Another one would be where, well, you know, I'll just jump back into the truck and, you know, I'll start making a paycheck again and I'll just pay her back that way. What do I do with my CDs? Okay, that's a real direct practical question. Well, I remember with Mahatma Gandhi, I always liked to follow Gandhi along in the movies and his autobiography and everything. He was always making experiments with truth. And I think a lot of us have this feeling we want to just give from our heart, you know, really learn how to do that. And we want to learn that giving and receiving are the same. So we can just give, give, give, give, give and receive, receive, receive and happily go our way without concerns and worries. And what I find with the Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit is so practical that it's like that's the direction where this is all heading, give all to all. And the practicalities of it is that we, we have to be shown, we have to experience that divine providence, that joy passing through us. And so in my case, in my parable of life journeys, at the beginning when I was guided to just open my heart to Jesus and the Holy Spirit, I was, I did work different jobs to pay off loans that I had taken out. It didn't matter whether it was to your mother or to a government loan or, you know, paying bills, paying the rent and so on. The Holy Spirit is so practical in the sense that when you really open up to feel it in your heart, it's moving towards a sense of pure giving. And yet the Spirit helps us unwind from the world one turn at a time. And that's where we can really feel it out. When I first started traveling around the United States and Canada, you know, I just would go where I was invited, where I was called to go. And the donations came in and just show up and trust and just accept donations of whatever, food or gasoline for the car or whatever, and just show up and shine and share and speak and be spoken through. And that was good practice at seeing how things were working and coming out. And, you know, if you're unwinding from the self-concept and you have a partner, you have children, people you borrow money from and everything, that's how practical the Spirit is. It's just really tuning in and practicing with experimenting with that and learning from the experiences that come with that. So that you come into it from an experiential basis, not from I should or not to, or try to be spiritual or do the right spiritual thing and all those things. There's going to be a lot of guilt still associated with that. And you want the experiment to show you the way. And bit by bit, piece by piece, miracle by miracle start to have a demonstration of that. So, you know, I know early on we, Ramel and I were having a conversation with Greg and Greg was sharing the same thing. So I think I'm going to have some CD shipped here and I'm wanting to offer some up on donation and take some back to Australia to really have an oppressed here in the United States and UPS out here. But it's just sometimes it can even be a combination of things where you test it out a little bit with so many and notice what comes. You practice and you work with it that way. And then when you have really helpful mind opening and heart expanding experiences that builds your confidence. And then you can go forth without a sense of sacrifice or loss or concerns. And that's what we want to live. We want to live a life that's free of concerns, just totally immersed in it. Yeah, the friend I was joining with this afternoon was just really looking at the ideal so that keeping believing that he has to be the one in charge of everything was like a barrier to receive what people wanted to offer to him. And so it's interesting also to look at that and see that truly in accepting our true worth and really knowing that we are worthy of receiving everything is opening up to both ways. I want to give and if someone wants to give to me, I can also say yes. And so let life do its job instead of wanting me to be the one in charge of the spirit's job. How wonderful that is. Sharing and extending and how for us it just, it's huge. It takes on a huge meaning, a huge experience. Yeah, I've been looking a lot at that since the talk giving it all to all because I feel like this has been the calling of my heart since so many years even before being in the course. I seem to be a therapist back then in Belgium and at some point I couldn't even do my job because it felt like it was all about money somewhere and I lost the joy really of doing what I was doing and joining with people and giving and I could feel like the only thing that was really attractive to me in keeping doing what I was doing was the idea of just allowing people to give me whatever they want and not having any price anymore, not asking for any specific amount but just let them give whatever they could, whatever they wanted even if it was a vegetable or whatever just really letting life pick actually for me and not trying to direct the way it was supposed to be and yeah, earlier we were talking about this idea again that some have resources, some don't have resources some have skills, some have a huge desire for awakening and for coming together and we've been looking at the Extension Center in Hawaii of creating a scholarship fund and I feel like it's really based on this idea that some really want to go deeper in this path but don't have the mean but there's such a deep devotion in the heart and such a strong willingness and I feel like really it is about accepting our true worth and accepting that everything can be given us when our heart is at the right place and so I just really feel that there's something really powerful about that about joining all of us in the same purpose and sharing whatever we have, however it look like a skill, a drive, a car, a house, money, a meal whatever it is but just really coming in the spirit of true sharing and really coming to this experience actually where it is impossible really that there would be mine and there would be yours and that everything can only be ours because if we share the same mine how can it be any separation in between all of it so that's kind of the idea that we're exploring this afternoon we're not joking when we say that we're talking about the call of the time