Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

[DT]

Figured I'd open a specific place to post clips from LWT

Great piece about "the wall" ... I remember when I was following an acquaintance who's a structural engineer, a guy who has constructed bridges all over the world, and he was saying, "Umm, this isn't going to work ..."

Original piece from 2016:




The follow up from last week, which is just amazing, especially given the context we have now:

 

[Thomas Veil]

Nice idea. Although LWT is ostensibly a comedy show, John talks about some very serious subjects. You can learn quite a bit from watching.

(Memo to Danbury CT, though: get a fucking sense of humor.)

 

[Alli]

Nice idea. Although LWT is ostensibly a comedy show, John talks about some very serious subjects. You can learn quite a bit from watching.

(Memo to Danbury CT, though: get a fucking sense of humor.)

He teaches through entertainment. He’s like the teacher who tricks you into learning something. I really like him. I just have to remember to watch him on Mondays.

 

[BigMcGuire]

I enjoy his shows a lot. A lot of my conservative friends/people I know do not like him. I'm not sure why... I enjoy quite a few of his shows and watch regularly. The amount of information one learns from his shows are extremely valuable. I think he upsets a lot of people tho. lol.

Connecticut mayor slaps back at John Oliver with sewage plant renaming announcement

It doesn't sound like he would anyway, but John Oliver may not want to visit Danbury, Connecticut, anytime soon.

www.cnn.com

How great is that... upsetting a city enough to get a sewage plant named after you... Doing something right I guess .

 

[Thomas Veil]

LOL. Turns out they weren’t really gonna go through with it...and John is upset.

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It’s a helluva episode for other reasons, too. Lotsa good stuff about the RNC, racism and Kenosha.

Edit: Okay, the segment above is great, but it doesn't contain the funny Danbury stuff. Here it is.

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[User.45]

I enjoy his shows a lot. A lot of my conservative friends/people I know do not like him. I'm not sure why... I enjoy quite a few of his shows and watch regularly. The amount of information one learns from his shows are extremely valuable. I think he upsets a lot of people tho. lol.

Connecticut mayor slaps back at John Oliver with sewage plant renaming announcement

It doesn't sound like he would anyway, but John Oliver may not want to visit Danbury, Connecticut, anytime soon.

www.cnn.com

How great is that... upsetting a city enough to get a sewage plant named after you... Doing something right I guess .

I once made a semi-detailed analysis on the original hydroxychloroquine+azithromycin paper on Reddit (on a Trumpist subreddit). A few weeks later he pointed the same issues out with the same study in the same order with the same emphasis. He's team either thinks the way I do or read reddit. I've not read the same type of criticism of the study elsewhere. It was amusing.

found it:


That paper should have been retracted it was so bad.