Oh God I went through with it!

My face is now plastered on YouTube!

Oh God, Oh God, Oh God, Oh my Gods!

What in all the seven hells of whatever planet did I just do to myself!?

*sigh* I might as well explain what my New Years resolutions were this year:
Get healthy, lulz! Get to Collage, find a job (no success, thus blog), and other things.

But above all, I really really wanted to get into making YouTube videos. I don't know why. I guess it just looked like a lot of fun! And I wanted to make something fun of it, you know? Rant and have you all see my face, if you even exist. This is why I call you my little no-one (or no-ones, at times, when I feel important on the scale of the internet.. . . .or try to feel important, at least. I dunno. "No-ones" invites a bigger audience, don't you think? It's a bit weird. .  . .)

Point is, I greatly enjoy watching some YouTubers I've been mentioning on posts as of late, and I enjoy "spending time" with them (is that a weird way to think about it? "Spending time" with them isn't exactly accurate, since we're not physically next to them, but they all acknowledge we're there. And like any conversation, conversations are struck in the hopes the other party likes what we're talking about. Right?).

So I went on and made a video. And I'm going to keep making videos all week. In hopes of. . . . . reaching someone. Anyone, so long as they're not a creep pedophile or something.

Would you like to see me humiliate myself?

Well. . . . hardly anyone's ever gonna see these videos, so they're not too big of a deal anyways.

Yeah, I think we're good!

With double the love
Nikola Strange

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MY NOTES!
Is it weird Charlie McDonnell and Dan from Danisonfire narrorate all the thoughts in my head?
Yeah, that is a bit weird. Very weird, actually. Too much YouTube! Then again, isn't that the point of this post?

*sigh*


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I am named in honor of Nikola Tesla.

Thank you, Nice Peter and Company!!

I love Nikola Tesla!

As you probably don’t already know, my pen name is actually after Nikola Tesla, who’s the greatest most brilliant scientific mind ever. It’s essentially this dude and Einstein to me.

Take a moment outta your day—right now would be good—to marvel at the brilliance and pay thanks to Nikola Tesla’s amazing mind:

Wireless energy in 1891.

1891!

Experiments with X-Rays, because of the beautiful thing to the right of this sentence!!

That awesome thing is the Tesla Coil a—and. . . . . you know, I should just let Hank Green take it from here:

With love
Nikola Strange

Understanding the Sequester (and why I love the Vlogbrothers)

 So after a myriad of terribly unclear news coverage, some (unsurprisingly extensive and time-consuming) studies on United States Government and Politics in AP US Gov't, and some . . . .spirited debate with individuals ranging from teachers to fellow students, I've found no greater video clearly explaining the origins of the Sequester, its' importance, and its' long-term effects as well as this one.

I would go so far as to say John and Hank Green are sort of like diluted Richard Feymans (was that rude? That felt rude): they make the same complex topics you've been brow-beaten with your entire life easy to understand, without dumbing down the subject matter. . . .And they still seem to have a lot of fun with it. Hell, it almost feels like their explanations for things just roll off their tongues, mostly on their main channel since you don't see all the cool animations or studios (even though it's absurd to assume they have some sort of genie or magic eight ball implanting knowledge in their minds. . . well, internet, but it's not insta--you get the idea, no ones!).

Back to the point: I feel this video is too important to miss out on for any American citizen and citizen of the world, because economies are global and this Sequester thing is seriously killing the brain cells of millions trying to wrap their heads around it: Similar things have been passed before including the Graham-Rudman-Hollings act (or however it is it's called/spelled) and PayGo, so why didn't those work? The answer's given to you in any US Government class, and in this video: loopholes, like refusing to cut things that actually add up to our national debt. Why would Congress to this? Simple: they like their jobs. And voters like their benefits. Yet despite how simple the answers are, no one can really comprehend them since we're always bombarded with heavy images and loaded diction even in seemingly objective environments (just ask any of my AP Gov't teacher's students. We're hashtaging quotes under "rocketship to 20".)

More importantly, I feel since there are virtually no holistic, objective viewpoints on these types of topics, there's a lack of digessiveness. The topic itself needs to be viewed from a more detached and statistic heavy (and slightly image-saturated) environment for the sake of having it be more digestible to the American public as opposed to being blown up to the size and force of a nuclear bomb falling from the sky in slow, ACME-esque style. We need to see the Sequester and other issues as they are: stupid plans with stupid results future generations will be facepalming at from the comfort of their school desks (like every other major catastrophe in our short but *for lack of better words* impressive history as a nation . . . . . or the history of humanity, which is short in comparison to the rest of the universe).

I am sincerely hoping you all are taking notes or watching and re-watching this video over and over again. Share it with your family. Share it with your friends, or on your own blog or with a teacher: this knowledge--this clarity--has to spread, and unfortunately because the main goal of the media is to make a profit, we have to spread it the old-fashioned way: pestering your acquaintances until they watch and/or give a damn.

This is ridiculously important and will affect everyone's lives to an extent, so arm yourselves with knowledge! As the Doctor said, "Books (or in this case infovideos) are the best weapons in the world!"

With Love,

Nikola Strange