This guy knows how to live.
This was such an enjoyable look into someone’s life.
Peter Santanello’s videos are usually really enjoyable and pleasant. He has a calm, respectful demeanor and he just goes to random places you usually don’t think about and just kind of shoots the shit with people. He did a couple videos a while back where he went to a couple of native reservations in like one of the Dakotas, I think, and they were an intensely interesting look into that life and culture.
His titles can feel kind of click-baity sometimes and I don’t always agree with his take on things, but I find him a really likeable and honest-seeming guy.
Wasn’t there a Vice series like way back in the day where they’d go spend time with people in remote locations and just see how they lived? Maybe I’m imagining it and it was just about drugs. But, I think that was a thing because I remember thinking it was super interesting.
The Abandoned series visited some remote locations.
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Edit: so either my app is showing comment threads oddly, or he edited his comment, making my reply completely nonsensical. Originally, he said the video was scammy bullshit, and that he knew it for “two simple reasons.” His 1st was that no one living like that would actually jump on a horse from the rear, and the second was that no one ever sleeps over animals because they’d die of methane poisoning. I guess he couldn’t argue my reply so just changed his narrative instead.
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Where is the Lemmy version of /r/confidentlyincorrect? People have kept livestock on the first floor of their homes for thousands of years; the heat from the animals helped to keep them warm, and it kept the livestock safe from thieves. And no one sleeping above livestock is going to die of cow farts. Bless your heart.
Housebarns have been used the world over for thousands of years
Actually insane take.
Haha. You need help
Congrats, you are my first downvoted comment on Lemmy.
Actually he said he does have a social security number, just that he doesn’t have the card and doesn’t know what it is.
He says he “revoked” the number after he “studied the issue”, so it’s possible he doesn’t have a SSN based on a religious exemption.
People generally cannot voluntarily withdraw or stop participating in the Social Security program. You must pay Social Security taxes, regardless of you or your employer’s citizenship or place of residence. Unless specifically exempt by law, everyone working in the United States must pay Social Security taxes on earnings from covered employment. The law makes an exemption only in very limited circumstances for members of certain religious sects.
https://faq.ssa.gov/en-us/Topic/article/KA-02214
I’d take what he says with a grain of salt, but that’s what he said.
This was the best thing I’ve watched in awhile. I was sad it ended.
His video on coal mine towns in West Virginia is also fantastic
I’m just curious… In this day and age of a billion entertainment options, how do people decide an hour random video is worth it? I was questioning if it was five minutes of my time, then I found out it’s a fuckin HOUR
Do you actually want me to answer that or are you just low key complaining for the sake of complaining?
I actually am curious. Is there a type of video that you see that you think “an hour, that sounds good”? I see an hour and think “this better be a quality documentary” or whatever.
Well I guess a reasonable adult would probably start first by reading the title and description and looking at the thumbnail and seeing if that topic is at all interesting to them to watch. If not, they can move on. If yes then they can click on it, watch a little bit and decide whether they are still interested and whether they are willing to allocate time to this over something else and then consider that they can watch this at their own pace because it’s an online video. They can then decide to watch it all in one go or pause it and come back to it another time if they’re still interested.
I personally watched it all in one go as I was eating dinner and doing some side stuff because this was an interesting conversation and a look into a sort of lifestyle that is alien to me and it was presented in a digestible and very personal fashion and I was enjoying it the entire time I was watching it.
Does that answer your question?
No, you definitely didn’t answer the question but you managed to imply I’m a child.
FYI an actual complaint would have been “you linked to the embedded version of this video which hides the length of the video so I had to open it twice and then discover it’s insanely long and I don’t have time to be watching hour long videos”
But that’s not what I said. This place is looking more like reddit every day. 90% of my interactions here have been positive before the last couple of days. I wish that didn’t feel like it was changing.
You sound like really fun company.
Reddit still exists. People who hate questions or assume the worst seem to like it better, so…
People don’t hate questions, but you weren’t really asking one. You were making a statement and being a dick about it.
9 day old account and you talk like you’ve been here for years
Yet another toxic bullshit trait of Reddit bleeding over. It’s possible for an account age on an anonymous platform to have little relationship with actual usage patterns. Not sure why people don’t get that.
Ok buddy.
