For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Hello and welcome to NewsClick and People's Dispatch. Today we're very pleased to be joined by Jiles Unapakon. Jiles was a professor at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand before he faced the Lee's Majesty charge and fled the country in 2009. He was charged, it was said, because of his book, A Coup for the Rich, which analyzed in detail the 2006 coup in Thailand. Jiles, welcome to People's Dispatch in NewsClick. Thank you for inviting me. Well, you know, Jiles, we're in the middle of this major uprising in Thailand. Thailand, of course, has a history of coups that goes back to the Palace Revolt in 1912, the 2014 coup and so on. Give us a brief sense of the role of the military and the monarchy in Thailand. I think this is a useful introduction for people who don't follow Thailand closely. Give us a sense of the role of the military and monarchy in Thailand. And of course, in all this, where is the United States of America? Well, before I talk about the history of the monarchy and the military, you said that Thailand has the history of many coups. But at the same time, Thailand has a history of mass uprisings against military dictatorship. And those mass uprisings were successful on two separate occasions, despite the violence used by the military against unknown protesters. So really, we should see the long term picture as a struggle between the people at the top, the military, the royalists, the conservatives, and the people at the bottom, the ordinary working people, farmers, and so on. So I would put it in that context. Now the monarchy is actually, if we start with, for example, the nation building in Thailand, King Dhulalongkorn, or Rama V, staged a revolution against the feudal system. It's basically a bourgeois revolution from above. This kind of thing happened in countries where the revolutions had occurred late. For example, a very similar thing happened in Japan with the Meiji Restoration. So the king abolished the Thai feudal system in the 1870s in response to the incrosion of colonialism, the incrosion of British imperialism and French imperialism, and created the nation state of Thailand. But at the same time, he made himself into an absolute monarchy. But this situation was unstable and only lasted about 60 years. Because in 1932, in the midst of the world economic crisis, there was a revolution which overthrew the absolute monarchy. And it was led by a coalition of left-wing politicians and anti-royal militia men. The problem is that these two factions that overthrew the absolute monarchy weren't looking for similar outcomes. The left nationalist politicians wanted a kind of socialist society. The military people wanted something to the right of this. And so it resulted in the number of twoing and throwing between the military and the civilian politicians. But it was the Cold War, really, that established the role of the military dictatorships in Thailand. And they were supported by the United States. And it was during this period that the military brought back the monarchy. The monarchy hadn't been totally abolished, but they started to promote the monarchy as a symbol of conservatism, of a symbol of anti-communism and so on. And ever since then, the Thai monarchy has been promoted like this, mainly by the military, but also by capitalist politicians, right-wing politicians and so on. The current protesters, the majority of them actually believe, well, I would say, the leadership actually believe that the the present king, Wachia Long gone, is trying to establish an absolute monarchy. I disagree with this. I think that the monarchy in Thailand has always been a tool of the military ever since the Cold War period. King Pumipon, the present king's father, who died recently, was weak and unable to actually, he was cowardly and just went with the flow, really. He enjoyed being made and promoted into some kind of god-like figure by the military, but he didn't really have any power in himself. And the present king has a history of failing exams, of being totally uninterested in social affairs. One could say he behaves a bit like a sociopath because of the way he treats women and so on. I mean, he's got a harem in Germany, where he spends most of his time. He treats his consorts who he falls out with them in a barbaric way. Some of them are just put in prison and so on. But the monarchy itself doesn't can't actually control the military. It's the other way around. It's the military that used the monarchy. It's the conservative elites that used the monarchy. Now, in order to understand this, you can see pictures of top military generals, including the present military dictator in Thailand, despite the fact he claims to have been elected, although the elections were for false elections. You can see pictures of them groveling on the ground in front of the present king, almost as though they are servants of this king. Now, I think you have to almost be a Marxist to actually understand what's going on. It's a play act. It's basically the military and the elites foster this view that the monarchy, the king, is some all-powerful godlike figure. The reason they do that is to put the fear of this godlike figure in the minds of ordinary people, and they have been successful over the years in doing this. Of course, monarchies are very symbolic, not just in Thailand, but even in places like Britain and Sweden and other places, because they represent the idea that it's natural, supposedly natural, for some people to be born low and some people to be born high, and you need to know your face in society. Now, it's taken to an extreme version in Thailand, but Marxists have talked about the idea of alienation. If you are weak, if we are weak, if we don't feel confident and powerful, we tend to believe all the crap that the ruling class put forward in society, and those beliefs can be shaken through struggle. That's something that a number of Marxists have talked about. You're seeing this happening in Thailand as we speak, because the view, the fear of royalty, the fear which is imposed also by less majesty laws and people being prosecuted, but also it was a mainstream view in society in the heads of many, many millions of people, but this has been shaken. It's been shaken by the struggles that have broken out over the last few months. It's also been shaken by the behavior, the reality of the present king. We've seen unprecedented criticism in public of the present king and the way he is trying to mass wealth through changing the constitution and the way he spends his time in Germany with his harem and so on, and his total disregard for ordinary people. That has meant that the present demonstrations have got one of their key demands is for the reform of the monarchy to allow people to criticize the monarchy openly and to reduce the wealth of the monarchy and to control his behavior. Now, this is something that is unprecedented, as I've said, but it's also something that the military are not going to allow very easily. There are strong powers within social powers within the demonstration to actually press the military or push the military out, overthrow the military, because the military depend on this image of the royal family and so on in order to legitimize their authoritarian rule. In summary, I would say that if you're looking at the military and the monarchy, the military is the main power base. They have the weapons, they have the armed forces and so on. The monarchy is a bit like the fairy on top of a Christmas tree. It's symbolic but very strongly symbolic so that it was symbolic enough to get people to actually feel fear or love or whatever or respect for the monarchy in the past. Well, you've given a very dazzling portrayal of the structure of the problem. The current Prime Minister, as you said, Pryut himself, after all, was an army general, led the crackdown against the red shirts about a decade ago, comes to power in the coup of 2014 and essentially is a coup prime minister. I mean, as you said, the elections are not possible in this sort of situation. We have a good understanding therefore who's in power. This is the army in power. This particular army officer has demonstrated already by his own hand that he's willing to use the most brutal force to crack down on people as he did against the red shirts. What is the character of the protests? Could you characterize the protests a little bit or at least the social force that's developing? Is it capable of becoming strong enough to provide a sustained challenge to this structure, which as you said is not the monarchy. Monarchy is the mask of the military, the capitalists and so on. How should we understand this social force that has emerged so dramatically on the streets? Well, I think that it's useful to use a Marxist analysis of social movements and so one of the key Marxist analysis of social movements like the pro-democracy movement in Thailand is that it doesn't just appear out of nowhere. It's a bit like a tree with many, many branches. Part of this tree was the mass movements that overthrew the military in the past and people build on movements in the past. The present movement has been building on the red shirts. It's been building on the 1932 revolution. It's been building on the uprisings in the 1970s. It's been building on a spontaneous protest that took place when the present dictator took power in the coup in 2014. But up till now, up till say August, the protests and so on have been small. But what's happened is that the present movement has been fueled and led by young people. Basically, this generation have said, well, we've had enough.  That's what's new about this is that the young people are not afraid. If you talk to the red shirts who were put down brutally 10 years ago, they will still feel slightly afraid. They carry the baggage of being shot down in the streets and so on. These young people, that was 10 years ago, but then that's like a lifetime away. They're very determined. They're courageous and they're prepared to go out on the street. They're prepared not to listen to people who say, oh, take it easy and so on. And they're prepared to criticize the monarchy. So we've been seeing these protests which have been led by young people. A lot of the leaders are university students. But we've also seen mass movements erupting among secondary school students coming to demonstrations, berating the minister of education, calling him a lack of the military junta, defying their teachers and so on. And prominent among these young students are women. Women have come to the fore in leading this. And the older generation are gaining courage from the young people and are joining in the protest. So since October, there have been a number of demonstrations in Bangkok which have numbered hundreds of thousands of people. And that's unprecedented for this decade. It's interesting that after the Brayutku in 2014, students who were prepared to protest protested in small numbers and they were saying, well, you know, we don't need large numbers of people on the streets because of social media. Well, that idea has been completely turned on its head. People certainly use social media, but they understand that you've actually got to build through face-to-face relationships with people and actually get masses of people onto the streets. And that's what is happening. But the thing is that the movement is just a junction because, as you say, you know, where is the power to actually overthrow the military? And I think that if you look at Thai history, if you look at international history, the overthrow of dictatorships depends on more than just turning out onto the streets. It depends on making the country ungovernable. And this can happen in a number of ways. You could have rioting, but that involves a lot of loss of life as well because the security forces would be prepared to shoot down people. But the other alternative is to have strikes, workers' strikes. And this is possible in Thailand. Already, there have been large gatherings of workers in working-class areas, in industrial areas along the eastern seaboard or north of Bangkok. But gatherings on the streets are not enough. We need work stoppages. We saw the power of work stoppages that built up in the Egyptian Revolution or in Algeria and other places in Sudan and so on. And I think that what is needed is that the Thai working class be mobilized. And when we're talking about the working class, we're not just talking about factory workers. We're talking about white collar workers, doctors, people who work in the health service, people who work in banks and other places. So that is the kind of power, I think, that is necessary. Unfortunately, because the left in Thailand is quite weak, the voices calling for a building of strikes are activists who go out to visit workers in their locations are quite weak. But just one more thing before I let you go, which is that in the context of you gave the example of Egypt, after all, Mubarak left when the military decided to let Mubarak go. And when Cici decided that the Morsi government of the Muslim Brotherhood was no longer going to be tolerated, they did a coup against the Morsi government. In other words, there has to be fissures within the military to allow for the advance of the project of the people on the street. What evidence is available that within the Thai military, there might be significant fissures that allow history to advance. It looks like there are no fissures and therefore history may not advance. What are your quick thoughts about that? Well, in order to get the ruling class to start to crack a power and argue with each other, you need a strong movement from below and the two go hand in hand. And so if you have a strong movement, the people at the top start wondering, well, the guy in charge probably isn't making things any better. We'll remove him in order to save the situation. That's basically what they always do. At the moment, I don't see that happening in Thailand. I don't see the fissures. Although the military in Thailand are factionalized, they're rivals within the military, but they're not about to to support the project that the mass movement in Thailand is putting forward because that would actually put them all out of power. Well, we're going to watch this very closely, Giles. That was excellent. Giles Unpakorn, thank you for joining us at NewsClick and People's Dispatch. Thank you for inviting me.


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Digikey and Adafruit present All right, this week is from Marauder power solutions lady to yes Marauder, okay. I didn't take you on a journey. This is gonna be a great IMP. I'm gonna learn all sorts of stuff that you didn't Expect to learn about so this week's IM MPI is for the MHM series of ionizer Modules from Marauder. These are chassis mount ionizers and ozone generators Okay, so this is what it looks like It basically it's got this little the blue thing is like the actual like ionizer I guess it's got like some ceramic or something that will actually generate the ions and then the PCB is you know this the high voltage PCB It's got you know a high voltage power supply with it looks like a I guess flyback transformer and all that all the control circuitry To to generate it and you basically just plug in 12 volts and like boom You get ions out which is awesome this is part of the Ionissimo Which sounds like a character and in some cool opera that really likes capacitors, maybe And basically they have ionizers and ozone isers We're gonna talk about the ionizer, but this is part of they have a series of boards and they all look as you see kind of similar So the MHM series they've got these really lovely data sheets And yeah, I mean the character thing it's actually kind of easy to use you just plug in the power There's a monitoring pin as well if you need like a feedback loop to make sure it's on and the high voltage is being generated And you get about five million ions per cubic centimeter Typical and you have ozone and it's either like point six milligram Or like point one six, there's also one that does negative ion one does positive ions There's three there's three different ones in this series And so you'll like they all look identical So to really tell which one you have be sure to open up the data sheet and then look at the negative ion amount and the ozone Amount because that's what's gonna vary even though mechanically they are Like the same size Okay, so yeah usage is really easy There's a V monitor and pen gives you 2.5 volts out Let you know that it's you know the high voltage is being generated because it's high voltage It's like 200 volts or something or who knows what like some some very high amounts is there's a fuse here That says 250 volt one amp. So I'm assuming it's it's about that high But that's that's the dangerous part. So just don't touch the bottom And you know keep the high voltage part away from your chassis And of course earth ground your chassis if you want to use this What I thought was interesting is there they released a few months ago a press release about using these ionizer modules to Deactivate SARS-CoV-2 otherwise known as the coronavirus and It said it was a scientific experiment. It was a you know a lab based experiment that they worked with a University to do so they have the some papers with graphs showing how you know the purple is the control and then if you have a Lot of ozone It will deactivate the virus. I guess this is like a well-known thing ionizers tend to be used for like air freshening Static removal You know disinfection and stuff.  Sanitizer you'll have to do your own experiments to you know Make sure that what you're doing what you're using this ionizer for is actually doing what you expect So I wouldn't like to keep make sure people keep that in mind that this is just a lab study It wasn't a like in real reality like you know every day use study Which is can be different that said for scientists and engineers who want to like generate a bunch of ions or ozone This is like the cheapest way to do it like compared to the other modules This is like you know a half or tenth of the price of other ionizer modules. It's really easy to use It's really cheap. So like definitely scientists engineers who want to get some ions going positive or negative This is your jam. Okay, so now I went to the marauder website You're like why what's this comic book? I read the marauder website and I click about the company because I really read a little bit about the company And they've got this awesome manga that they wrote and it's available in Japanese English and Mandarin And it tells you like the history of the company and like the ceramic capacitors that they made and like how this guy Invented them by going to university and studying really hard And it's like look there's like ceramic capacitors with like manga lines on them How can you not love it? I check out this This comic book. It's free off the marauder website. I thought that was a charming way better than like a boring PowerPoint for sure And it's better than one of the Justice League there. Yeah, that's true We're gonna get the Zack Snyder cut of the marauder capacitor manga soon Next up I They also were one of the companies. This is like Phil you talked to me about this like, you know 10 ish years ago a lot of Japanese companies started making their own robots So they made a robot and their robot was like a humanoid that would ride a bicycle And this is actually that tall. I think this is like maybe a foot tall So it's not like human size, but it used marauder sensors and you know wireless modules and motor controllers To make like a little robot that could Ride a bicycle back and forth and here's another cool thing it can balance on the bicycle So it's like not moving here and it can balance like side-to-side which is like pretty impressive. Check out the video Yeah, there was Sony that had curio and then Han had as a mob Yeah, and then there was a whole suit of others and it was this humanoid robot race to figure out who could have like kind of the most interesting demo and then Festo came along and they had these more organic ones and you haven't really seen it It was like a a humanoid robotic Competition worldwide unsaid and then later on with big dog and like Atlas you've seen some of those as well Yeah, and it's just showing you they have a they have some Tutorials on how it works too. So they're inside. There's like a flywheel and the flywheel Helps it retain its balance. It's look. It's not easy to make a balancing ball like this So I'm impressed that they did it and you know, they they have a couple of videos about Morata boy and then if you're wondering, well, what about more on a girl? We gotcha There's also a unicycle balancing robot same deal. It can balance on a single wheel and it even has a Whole history including a zodiac sign. I'm kind of surprised that there is no like, you know Blood type or whatever. I guess a backstory, but so check out these two robots What I just thought is cool is that these are friendly happy robots These are robots that would like to ride bicycles and and have fun. They are not robot enemies They are robot friends. So I'm I'm always a fan of that. So I thought that was cool to check it out But back to the ionizer so you can pick these up from did you key again? There are three different kinds One is like positive high ozone one is negative low ozone. There's a couple different kinds used for different purposes so You check out the data sheets to compare them also check out the ionissimo page on the Morata website There's also did you key has a little video? We're not gonna show that video. There's a different video that did you key has about these? So you can watch that as well and for like 30 bucks. You can have an ionizer tomorrow morning Yeah, chart your old code is digiki.com for such art for 3 3 fp 7 and the code is 490 14 864 Andy Yeah, let's go to the overhead real fast and then we'll go watch the video so I can just I'll just yeah The video doesn't any sound so you're gonna have to talk over it anyways. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, you're right. Yeah Yeah, it has a text. Okay, so this is the ionizer module You know, I probably didn't but like you don't you can't see anything. It just you if you smell it You're like, oh, that smells like ionizee Ozonee But powers here you connected JST Connector here and I have the part number in the blog post It's also in the datasheet and then this is the high voltage section.  It's like how do your own ion generator? Why not? All right, so let's check out the video. Yeah, you might have to do a little narration Yeah, all right. We're out of innovator electronics. So yeah, they basically released these, you know, they released these before Covid came about so they weren't originally designing these for use with like viral deactivation it was initially for like anti-static usage or for I guess they're used for anti-static usage in Dryers, which is kind of cool idea. You say blast ions or ozone in and They have the ionizer and they have ozonizers. So check out the ozonizer if you ever need those You just talked about the ionizer. Oh, yeah for 4.3 kilovolt. Sorry. Did I say 250 volt? I meant 4.3 kilovolt So yeah, definitely don't touch it Yeah, and they're often used I see them also in People have like portable air fresheners. They're used as well or like, you know, if you have smoke Like things you if you smoke you have one of these and it removes the smoke from the air So that's what these product these ionizers and those anizers are good for all right, and that is this week's


This is stock number 92398. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used Ram heavy-duty headquarters. Remember, we are the people who have the trucks on 41. Today, we are checking out this super clean 2013 Ram 2500 Crew cab short box. This truck has the 5.7 liter V8 Hemi motor. From this HD video, you will be able to tell that this truck is extremely clean all the way around. Factory fog lights, front bumpers in really nice shape, bright white as the color. I did want to point out that we shoot all of our videos in 1080p, so if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or a smartphone device, turn them on now because it's like you're right here looking at the truck with me. This is one of the polished aluminum rims. It has Michelin Defender LT 265 70R 17 tires with just about all the tread left. I'd say 90% or more of that tread is left on those tires. Very new tires. It has the projector lamp, headlamps, the LED running lights, chrome trim grille. This is a Laramie long horn, so this is like the highest trim level you could get on a Ram 2500 in 13. Passenger side rim is absolutely perfect. No scuffs or scrapes on that. That tire has just as much tread as the driver's side, and as we go down this side of the truck, you can see just how clean this body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. We take these HD videos, so if you're far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down, you can still see the truck, hear the truck, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. Cab is an excellent condition. I didn't see any denser dings down this side of the truck. The only thing I saw, one tiny little ding on that step bar, but still fully functional. Passenger side Back rim is a nice condition and the back tires have just as much tread as those front tires. You can see the frame and underbody on this truck is in excellent shape, and it's like that all the way underneath. Original exhaust, all the lower rockers are in really nice shape as well. We saw a lot of these trucks out of state. Another reason why we do the HD videos, so our out-of-state customers can have the same experience as our local customers, and you can have the confidence that you're dealing with the right truck and the right people. Rear tailgates in pretty nice condition. It has an undercover, hard tonneau cover, has a spray and bed liner. Pretty nice shape, has gotten a little use, but for the most part the bed itself is in really nice condition. I didn't see any major denser dings, and that tonneau cover is in really nice condition. You can see that the shocks work really well, and it does lock. Also locking tailgate, backup camera, rear bumpers in really nice condition, has a full towing package, which includes a receiver hitch, four pin and seven pin wiring, backup sensors, and as you go down this side of the truck, just as clean as that passenger side, for full disclosure, this back room is in really nice condition as well, and that tire has just as much tread as the rest. I didn't see any denser dings down this side of the truck. It does have the heated, fold-out tow mirrors. They also fold in, and they work really nice. Inside, the Laramie Longhorn package gives you the brown, saddle leather. There are no rips, there are no tears in the seats. Very nice condition, has the memory driver seat. Both these seats are heated and cooled. You get the Laramie Longhorn all-weather floor mats with the carpet inserts, power windows, power locks, and power mirrors. This one has the auto headlamps, the power pedals, and as we hop inside the truck here, you can see that this one has 54,414 miles. You have the 7-inch TFT display. You get the compass outside temp, mileage, range to empty time. You can customize all those corners on here, and then of course you have the digital speedometer. This one has the heated, leather-wrapped, and wood-grain trim steering wheel. No scuffs or scrapes, cruise controls on that side, Bluetooth and Information Center controls on that side, has the 8.4 touch screen radio with the factory navigation, dual-climate control, factory brake controller, turn-dial four-wheel drive, and then the six-speed automatic transmission. You can do your heated and cooled seat buttons down here as well as your heated steering wheel, your stability control, tow-haul mode. You can turn those backup sensors off. You also get a 115 volt, 150 watt plug-in. You can also do your heated and cooled seats right there. This is where your backup camera shows up as well, and this one does have the alpine sound system. You have the 911 and assist in the mirror. Those are always active. You get the homelink system, power slide and mirror window, and then your power sunroof is right there. Passenger seat is absolutely perfect as well. This truck has never been smoked in, smells very clean. All the seats are in excellent condition. Carpentine is really nice in the passenger side. You get the dual glove boxes. You can see the nice wood-grain trim, the intricate design on the top, glove box right there. And we'll take a quick look at the back seats, and then we will check out under the hood. Like I said, very nice truck inside and out, considering it has the miles that it does on it. Power slide and rear window. Back seats have the longhorn badge or whatever. It has the latch-child safety system. These seats fold up for extra storage. It has the load floor, which is a really nice feature. If you've got pets or tools or muddy boots, you can put them on there and not wreck your nice leather seats. There's also storage underneath the seats here. There's the receiver hitch reducer, and then you have in-floor storage right here. These come out for easy cleaning, and you can put ice and drinks and stuff. These back seats are heated as well, and there are the buttons for those. You get the saddle bag style compartments back here as well. And just very clean inside and out. Very nice truck. Highly recommended from a condition and quality standpoint. Under the hood, we have the 5.7 liter V8 Hemi motor. All of our trucks go through a safety inspection. This one's no different. It has been fully safety and inspected. It has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this truck is 100% ready to go. 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Hey, it's Bridget. Welcome to Above Life Channel. The purpose here is to inspire your spirit and to fill you with hope today. You're my backyard. I know this is one of the favorite backdrops, which I can only bring you a couple months out of the year here in Minnesota, so I hope you enjoy the background. We're gonna have a conversation, a channeling session today with Adam West in the afterlife. You know, Adam West, right? You guys know who that is? Mm-hmm. Remember Batman? Batman. Batman. Remember Batman? Adam West, I remember his Batman. I know I know he was on other, in other movies and other television shows. I totally know that. Yes, I know. And yet that's how I know Adam West. I used to come home from school in the elementary school days and watch Batman and Robin on television. It was so cool. It was all the reruns, you know. And so that's how I know Adam West. And I thought, right now, given the these times that we're in, couldn't we use a superhero, energy of a superhero? So let's connect with Adam West in the afterlife. Hello, Adam. Hi, nice to meet you. Like, I'm gonna shake his hand and I feel like he feels kind of appropriate, like a proper polite guy, a little bit charming, but not overly, not like super full of himself. He seems like a pretty decent guy energetically. Now, I know at times we're different and that there's a whole bunch of probably maybe some different kinds of stories or things that you could shed light on for us from back in the day versus now, but I'm not sure how relevant all that is. He said, he says, you know, it's nice to reminisce. He says, it's nice to reminisce, isn't it? It's nice to really think about, you know, how far, how far things, how far we've come, you know, a lot has changed. He said, a lot, a lot has changed. Yeah, in the world, a lot has changed. You know, he says, since my departure, a lot has changed too. So did you really enjoy LA or did you enjoy California? Was that kind of a special place for you? And he's showing me like surfing or the ocean or wanting to be by the ocean or liking to be by the ocean and enjoying the ocean. And he almost shows me, you guys, being young and surfing or a surfing movie or something like surfing times. I don't know. I don't know. Did you do that? Because I don't know. Was Adam West in those earlier like surfing movies? Maybe because I'm seeing California, the beach surfing and like the 50s or something, kind of like that. Okay, so I feel like you're a storyteller, are you? He says, I was known to tell a few stories. Yes, yes. And he's talking about cowboy movies or cowboys. He wants to be politically correct. He's not going to say playing cowboys and Indians. He's going to say the cowboys, you know, the cowboy movies and things. He says, that was a genre that I was very familiar with. He says very familiar with. Okay, so I feel like I'm all over the place. You have a lot. It feels like you have a really diverse acting background, which I didn't know. He feels comedic though, funny too. You feel funny, like yeah, like humorous. He says, thank you, thank you. I'd like to think that I had a depth to me and to my work. Thank you, I appreciate that. I kind of get the feeling that okay, so it feels like you're single and I'm not sure married, divorced, married, divorced kind of a thing. Because it feels like you're single. I feel like you have kids or grandkids. Looks like two and three and maybe two, three, two of three, two, three, two dash three, two, three, five, two, three, two and three. So I don't know if it's two marriages and three kids or if it's two of my marriages have children and three of them have kids. I'm not sure. I don't understand what that is about. So I apologize because it is really tough for me to channel right now. It has been difficult for me to really channel and be really clear in channeling, but I thought it'd be fun to talk to a superhero. How do you feel about the whole superhero context with the Marvel movies and things? He says, I have really, there's nothing to compete with.   He says, you know, we used to do a lot of our own stunts. It was written into our contract. Either you do them or you don't do them. It was kind of a big deal back then. You had to negotiate all that. And especially earlier on, you were kind of just expected to take care of those things. And it was tough to get insurance, you know, in case you got hurt or something. It was definitely a risk, but many of us took the risk.   Yeah, it's kind of buggy out here. It's getting a little buggy out. I might have to wrap this up, I think. So, do you have any advice for us? We could really use a superhero with advice. Good advice.  And I don't want to be rude to you, Adam West, but I don't really know what else to ask you or to talk to you about. I think I'm gonna have to ask my people the viewers on Above Life channel to ask questions if they want questions. Do you have any kind of inspiring things to share?   Enjoy what you have. He says, why do you have it? You really need to enjoy what you have while you have it. That's pretty much it. He's like simple, straight to the point kind of a thing. Friendly guy like you could have a beer with and have conversation with. He could tell some stories, but I'm just not really feeling it myself. So, here you go. That's Bridget here at Above Life channel. You never really know what you're gonna get for sure when you channel the Afterlife or open up to connect. And for me right now, I'm just not feeling it. So, I guess I'd say if you have questions for Adam West and you want me to talk to him again and have a deeper conversation, go ahead and put those in the comments below. And I'll consider that. But otherwise, I might have to go back to some of my faves, some of the energies of some of the channeling sessions for the Afterlife guests that I really enjoy talking to, you know. And no offense to Adam West, of course. Just a little more. A little more energy for me. So, thanks so much for being here. I appreciate it. And thank you for being here. I hope that your spirit continues to be inspired and that there is hope all around you. And remember that this is your life. It's your life after all. Nobody can tell you how to live it. Don't feel the pressure to live it either. I'm really a stand for that right now.  I am going to show up and do the best I can. And if it's not good enough, too bad. And on the days that I'm not feeling great, I'm just gonna tell you that.  And it's our own lives after all. Live in our own lives, right? So, it's your life. So, live it. Just live it. Thank you. Thanks so much for being here.


So today people I bring you details on the latest hotfixes arriving to Borderlands 3, the April 30th hotfix. Where we see fixes to a few of the problems people are having with Mayhem Mould, the new Mayhem Mould 2.0 and a few other bits and bobs. How's it going guys? My name's DPJ and today I bring you another BL3 video. If you do enjoy living a like really helps out and subscribe if you do want to see more. So jump in straight into their post. Today we will release a hotfix for Borderlands 3, which will be live on our platforms by 12pm PST. In this week's hotfixes, Lutlu Universe starts on Prometheus and we address drop rates in Mayhem Mould and concerns reported by the community. We've been closely monitoring feedback and we are aware of some stability issues and concerns as a result of the April 23rd patch. Since then we've released additional hotfixes to temporary disable two resource intensive Mayhem modifiers. Boundary issues and drawn ranger and have already seen substantial improvements to performance and stability. We are continuing to focus our efforts on addressing your concerns. Today's adjustments to drop rates and anointment rates are another step toward incorporating community feedback. The Co-op Lutdrop event ends today at 9am PT. The Lutlu Universe mini event is moving across the galaxy to Prometheus. Jump onto the planet until May 7th at 9am PT when it then changes to Eden 6. So changes and adjustments adjusted the drop rate for legendary items in Mayhem Mould. Adjusted the drop rates for a 90 gear in Mayhem Mould. I hope this actually fixes kind of an all about you guys but for me Mayhem 10 just doesn't seem right. I mean the Lutdrops in that Mould don't seem right to me at all. That's the only mod I play on. Haven't really tested anything else to be honest. I mean I've had a little bit of experience in them but to me for the majority of my time in Mayhem 10 Lut just definitely seems off. So hopefully this fixes that. Activated the Lutlu Universe event on Prometheus. Lowered the old PQ system's secondary rate of fire to prevent stability concerns due to the gunner's ability to spawn an excessive number of drones. Yes I covered that already. Quite hilarious to see honestly. Addressed a report of concern that badass enemies in the guns 11 tentacles DLC was sometimes only dropping common rare items. Addressed a reported progression blocker that could sometimes occur when enemies would fail to spawn during protect and nibble normican. Addressed a report of concern that the emirates would stand up and float when being defeated with the dominant status effect during the horror in the woods. Addressed a report stuck spot behind the wooden wall during the shadow of curse haven. Addressed a report stuck spot on the pipes during the nibble normican. Addressed a report stuck spot on the right emirate countable during the horror in the woods. And reduced the time between muckstales donations and the echo cast from 60 to 30 seconds. And there we have it guys. Not much to be honest in today's hot fix but the main one for me is obviously hoping they do fix the problems I've been having and so many have been reporting with mayhem mode and legendary drops. We hope whatever they've done will fix this but we will see you later today when this patch is applied. But yes guys on that note we have come to the end. If you guys enjoyed the video leaving a like really helps out. If you're new and want to see more boilers be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video upload you can turn notifications on by hitting that bell button. But guys thanks as always for stopping by hopefully you enjoyed the video and hopefully I will see you on that next one.


Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here just back from a couple of weeks in the US Of course while Larry picked up a few tech goodies including actually this microphone This is the Amazon. Sorry audio Technica AT 2020 So hopefully it's a good audio quality And I don't need to mean means I don't need to use my interview mic when I want to do Videos with the proper microphone like this on my desk. I also picked up a luggage tracker Something I've been interested in buying for quite a while. So what I got was the track II GPS luggage tracker I also picked up a few more tiles and tiles are definitely the better known of the two products I did a video a few days ago a real deep dive in the differences between GPS based trackers and Bluetooth based trackers what one does that the other one doesn't do and vice versa. I'm not gonna repeat all of that video I also did a few little videos along the way Assessing how the GPS tracking worked at different stages So the answer is basically or the summary of of my findings first time using a GPS tracker Putting one of my luggage was it actually worked really really well and it actually came in extremely useful That was because I happened to be doing this on like the worst flight I've ever taken the worst itinerary at least I've ever taken I was traveling back from the US to Israel and There was a storm system over Washington, which was supposed to be our like connecting point To Frankfurt to Israel and then so the plane never made it to our first airport in Connecticut So that whole itinerary got scrapped. We ended up staying in getting rebooked onto a flight X Washington the next day then we woke up to find that's like a rebook all because of the storm So we got rebooked two times in our bag was kind of sometimes ahead of us sometimes there now What I did discover was that the United Airlines? United Airlines have a pretty decent app which will give you baggy baggage tracking updates Now the first thing I heard or the most the argument against these GPS trackers I heard on reddit was well, you know, the airlines really do a good job at tracking your luggage my experience Yeah, pretty much that You know, I was able to go into the United app and see where my luggage was It just it was a bit easier and quicker with track You know the thing about track is I could see exactly where it was Like was it waiting for us on the plane because I kind of see where we were at the gate So, yeah, it's you know, it depends if you really think that's useful a useful thing The other thing to say is that not all airlines have apps or even website functionalities that show you your luggage tracking so one use case for the tracky is if you end up on a flight like mine that kind of goes haywire and You're getting revoked and changes of you know the routes changing and all that and you're worried about your luggage Is it gone ahead of you or is it staying with you? What's the airline doing with your luggage if your airline doesn't have a built-in tracking functionality and I'd imagine There's a lot of airlines in the world many probably don't then the tracky would be super useful So how did it actually perform? Versus the tile so the tile as I explained in my previous video It's a Bluetooth tracker the tile has a range of about up to 400 feet That's about as far as Bluetooth low energy will go and in all likelihood because of you know Just concrete and stuff in the way of the signal you're gonna get less now There is a sort of caveat to that and that's that blue the tile has a system like Air tags in that it uses other tiles. It's kind of like a crowd sourcing system So a lot of people have tiles and the tiles can talk to one another So if your tiles outside of the 400 feet radius, let's say But there is another tile user in that radius it will detect your tile and pass that information on to tile anonymously And then tile will tell you from their server that hey your tile is here and likewise when you're using the tile This is actually pretty cool tech if you think about it. You're also constantly Browsing for other other people's tiles in your Bluetooth range And if they are there you're feeding that data up to tile at least that's my understanding of how it worked So in my case because airports are probably people places where a lot of people are using tiles I did actually manage to see where my luggage was throughout the trip despite the fact that It was not within the Bluetooth range really at any point from when I put it at the checking gate so the tile actually worked pretty well as well, however, it didn't work as well as The tracky so the tracky because it's got a SIM card in it and because it's using radio networks It's using GPS as soon as there is any kind of reception to G3G4G This guy is going to be able to report its position for the tile You have to kind of hope that there's going to be other tile people either the things right next to you much Which case it might not be so useful or you've got to hope there's other tile users in that area so that the system will work so for more Robust tracking definitely tracky comes out on top. The thing is that it's more expensive than the Bluetooth tracker The one thing I find it by track a put a bit of research into the process of identifying Which one it was there's a couple of other options on the market now. These don't have to be luggage trackers, right? This is just a this is what it is. It's a little box and it's got a worldwide SIM card built in and it's got a battery built in and to the Best of my knowledge, there's nothing else in this box. It's really small as you can see, right? So This can be used to track vehicles in fact when you buy it to give you a little vehicle mounting case You could probably track people if you had you know a vulnerable person and put it on them or something There's probably illicit uses for this as well So really it's a thing tracker whatever you want to track that you can find some way to fit this on So long as the battery is good. It can use it. So my point here is to say that not that tracky isn't the only player on the market Really any GPS tracker probably could be used for luggage The thing I like about tracky is they say their FDA approved and they offer worldwide coverage and there's a no commitment contract The biggest player I could find in the space of GPS tracking Intended for travelers or flyers was a company called the Gigo now what turned me off Gigo and turned me on to tracky was that firstly Tracky said it has worldwide coverage. So if I flew from US to Israel if it was US only coverage It wouldn't help me at all. So that's the final thing I want to say for my a little test was that it worked in Israel It is currently working in Israel. So it seems there are worldwide coverage claim is actually pretty good. They probably have a little Receiver in this that picks up a ton of frequencies across the 2g 3g and 4g Bands that they work over so you can get other trackers than just Gigo I couldn't find on Gigo a monthly subscription even though they said they offered it It looked like they're trying to row people into a year whereas for tracky I was able to pay for one month the payment is tiered according to how often you want to think to ping you So if it's like every 10 seconds the one negative about tracky Well, I will say is that I paid for one minute updates. I never got those. I had to each time manually Ping it for it to report back. So that was one negative that I would have to say about tracky Whereas sometimes the tile was actually more frequent. So that's been my experience about tracky How much does it cost? I'm just going to jump quickly over into my Amazon here and you can see so the tracky at the time I'm recording this video is 18 dollars and 88 for the tracker now after you buy the tracker you need the data plan But in my opinion, that's a really really cheap price for For this technology under 20 dollars for a little box that it's rechargeable reusable Unlike the tile which have moved away from the replaceable battery System which I really don't like I have to say so that to me is a good thing for tracky You know I googled GPS track or I Amazon GPS tracker to find this and I would I like the fact that they had you know almost 32,000 reviews and the average was 32 stars Sorry for stars if you are Worried about if it's going to work in your country. So what I actually did before purchasing was I went down to the search Amazon feature, which is incredibly useful Customer questions and answers and I searched for Israel to see did previous people have success and it says kind of kind of work in Israel Shalom. Yes, tracky works perfectly in Israel. We've hundreds of satisfied satisfied customers using tracky in Israel It also works in the whole Middle East and the rest of the world So it that's just my W my tip if you're looking for a GPS tracker to work in a specific country Do a search in the customer questions and answer section of the Amazon listing? So that's tracky and again, I'm just gonna go back here just to show you guys that this is not the only game in town I trusted it was the first that came up and it was Amazon's choice. So I went with that, but I found other This is just tracky if I search for GPS tracker You're going to find other things that might be able to be used for luggage I don't know if the spy tech thing it looks to me more more like an elicit or black hat use tool for private investigators This one looks a bit more sort of appropriate for luggage, land-to-air, GPS tracker So again, I'd look into that I'd see so you're gonna have to do your own research If you're looking at this does it offer worldwide coverage? That's most important thing the second most important thing for me and probably for a lot of people was is this something I'm gonna have to buy for a year or can I just buy a monthly contract and pay for it when I am traveling? That to me is a big advantage that tracky offered over some of the alternatives. I'm not gonna go through the list Just to show that they're on Amazon. Let's just see by comparison how much the The tiles cost so as you can see I recently picked up a couple. They're 25 dollars Up to 250 feet so that it's actually less than 400 on these I think it's it's one of their latest ones It does the full 400 tiles are great. I love them. I have them for my Wallet sunglass case my keys all the stuff I commonly misplace brilliant technology for luggage tracking if you're really gonna go down this route I actually would opt for GPS tracking and tracky over the tile not the tracky isn't good Not that it you're really limited to 400 feet because you've got that feature that if there's people in range But to me that's not very robust because it can happen if you're if your bag really ends up somewhere wacky You may not have a any tile customer in that area So that's a reason for me why I would spend a bit more money on On tracky now what's interesting is that the prices are actually very similar 24 dollars for the tile made 2022 $19 for the tracky. So there's not much difference in the prices for the actual trackers But this is when you do multiple items each tracky needs its own data plan So let's say you wanted to track three bags. That would be $60 for that month just for data to do that so Concluding thoughts really on this video What do I recommend? I was actually really impressed with tracky. I have to say I think they're both great products for luggage GPS tracking I would not hesitate to use tracky again I look at $20 as a pretty cheap insurance policy If you don't know what what kind of baggage tracking your airline offers if you're really worried about it being misplaced You don't want to place your full faith in the airline It worked really well out of the box And I'm sure there's other uses that frequent travelers could probably make of it too I hope that as synopsis of a tile versus tracky or this track Your review really was useful if you are thinking about buying one Thank you guys for watching the video all the way through and to get more videos about lots and lots more tech Products and subjects, please subscribe to this YouTube channel. Thank you guys for watching