Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 02/06/2025@stefanmilo.bsky.social Please explain the Roman dodecahedron in Andor when Star Wars is supposed to be "a long long time ago." 11455
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 28/05/2025According to the article, she isn't an American citizen. Your first clue is the first sentence. I'm a citizen and I've yet to have a scheduled check-in with ICE. She had a green card which was revoked because of a criminal conviction 20 years ago. There's clearly more to this story. 220
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 05/05/2025Elevation is one of those "so bad it's good" movies Insects emerge from the ground War of the Worlds-style and kill everyone - but for some reason they can't go above 8000 ft. They can't even reach above that line with their limbs, so 8001 ft is safe. Watch it for a laugh. 4471
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 03/05/2025I still can't get over this downfall. All she had to do was *not* randomly accuse LegalEagle of stealing an editing style. 5903
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 02/05/2025I still can't get over this. Who thought this looked good on desktop? 13682
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 02/05/2025The NewsHour has been going out of their way to appeal to the right ever since January and it's been pathetic to watch. Last night, right after talking about how much of Project 2025 had been implemented, they had Christopher Rufo on to talk about how evil colleges are. @pbsnews.org 2482
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 29/04/2025Honolulu/Waikiki with its original coastline, ponds, and marshes. Half of everything tourists walk on didn't exist 100 years ago. 4645
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 19/04/2025Weird how many people all had the same thought at the same time! 5933
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 08/04/2025Some Russian channel uploaded a dubbed version of my SDA video without my consent. This is the back-end. I can ignore it, remove/strike it, or contact them. There is no option to claim the ad revenue. The next time a reactor says it's unfair to strike them, know that that's the only real option. 411611
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 27/03/2025This is how every person who sat on the Hawaiian throne, was declared eligible for it, or was presumed to be next post-overthrow, is related. This took me 9 hours to make. You have no idea how much I had to sift through to connect everyone like this. www.canva.com/design/DAGi3... 8742
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 24/03/2025Those stickers carry about as much weight for me as these. 0130
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 21/03/2025Here's a website repeating the claim, saying that permission was given 50 years before the arrival of the missionaries. Again, the missionaries came in 1820. So Vancouver was asked to send missionaries in 1770. 24 years before he even visited Hawaii. 6 years before Captain Cook found the islands. 2240
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 21/03/2025Keanu Sai's dissertation includes that bit from Vancouver's journal about them not interfering with the religion RIGHT BEFORE the Hopkins quote. Jarves is even in his source list, though he doesn't quote from it. So, which version did he tell Sarah Vowell? The Anglican one. 1130
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 21/03/2025In fact, if we go to Vancouver's journal for the day of the cession, February 25 1794... VANCOUVER HIMSELF says that he agreed that the government and religion would not be interfered with and the chiefs and priests would continue as they always have. 1160
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 21/03/2025So alright, they're both citing Jarves. So let's find his book... oh look, here's that exact quote from the bishop regarding the "true religion." But THE VERY NEXT SENTENCE SAYS THAT KAMEHAMEHA WAS NOT INTERESTED!!! No permission was given!!! 1120
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 21/03/2025Hopkins wrote his book on behalf of the Hawaiian monarchy to convince London to establish an Anglican church in Hawaii - and it worked. One opened in Honolulu that year. Here's the bishop of that church writing on the same topic five years later. Again, the same claim. Citing Jarves. 1100
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 21/03/2025So I go to the Library of Congress and find Hopkins book. And yep, there's the claim, word for word as it appears in the dissertation. Hopkins doesn't have footnotes, but in this same chapter, he makes it clear that he is citing James Jackson Jarves. We'll come back to that. 1100
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 21/03/2025He has his dissertation posted online and that same claim about Vancouver sending missionaries is in there. Thankfully, since this is a dissertation, it's sourced. It comes from Hopkins' book, published in 1862. 1110
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 21/03/2025He's a sovereignty activist. He's the leader of the Hawaiian Kingdom Government. One of about a dozen sovereignty groups cosplaying as the continuation of the old kingdom. He's the acting Minister of Interior and Minister of Foreign Affairs. He has a PhD in Political Science. 1130
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 21/03/2025So I wanted to know where she got this information - and there are no footnotes. In fact, most of the book is just quotes of interviews, including this paragraph. It isn't "according to Kuykendall in 1924." It's "Keanu Sai told me." So, who is Keanu Sai? She calls him a "Hawaiian historian," but- 2160
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 21/03/2025This is the craziest research journey I've ever been on. Strap in. Unfamiliar Fishes (2011) by Sarah Vowell used to be my favorite book. But reading it for this video, I noticed some questionable takes and oversimplifications. This was the paragraph that broke the illusion entirely for me. 3572
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 17/03/2025Trump repeals the "electric vehicle mandate." Trump orders all EV charging stations removed from federal property. ... Trump begs conservatives to buy Teslas. I'm honestly curious what an "illegal boycott" looks like. 5787
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 17/03/2025The point is that it's higher than other generations. Btw, this is the data they're using to say Gen Z is "abandoning alcohol." 110
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 16/03/2025I'm so tired of this line. As if Gen Z is somehow the most sober generation -- and therefore the most virtuous. No. They just switched to weed. And for some reason, decided tobacco was cool again. 81239
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 10/03/2025"Redskins" = describing someone ≠ racial slur 3552
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 06/03/2025Microsoft. You're ruining the continuity of the KB Cinematic Universe. Please don't. 😭 51335
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 04/03/2025Here's a Feb 24-26 poll by Marist/NPR/PBS showing the same numbers. 57% of Americans expect grocery prices to rise. Remember, this election was about eGg PrICeS. 🙄 Less than a third of Americans think we should provide more help to Ukraine. maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/the-st... 2373
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 04/03/2025That's 45% of the country. Far more than at any point during his first term. I don't think enough of you realize that we aren't voting our way out of this. 88% of Republicans like what he is doing. 8838
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 04/03/2025I had no idea this meme was 7 years old until I searched for it just now... kinda seems like they jumped the gun on this one... But it sure feels relevant. 0826
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 19/02/2025😂😂😂 Wish I could say this was somehow on purpose. 5572
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 07/02/2025I mostly write my scripts using the timeline. If there's anything I need more information on, I see that it's in purple, so I go to page 110 in my notebook and there are all the details. My notebook also contains timestamps and chapter markers so I can go back to the original. (see previous pics) 2280
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 07/02/2025From that, I construct an outline. This isn't necessarily in chronological order, but I start talking to myself out loud and figure out which pieces fit together narratively. If it doesn't make sense to talk about pineapples in the middle of an overthrow, I save it for later. 1120
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 07/02/2025Everything is color-coded by source. I can just look at this and know that green is Kuykendall, blue is Vowell, orange is a documentary, etc. I publish the timeline to Patreon after the video comes out. I don't want you copying my homework to make a video before me. 😝 1130
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 07/02/2025Once I'm done with a source or two, I construct a timeline. Arguably the most important part of the process. It reveals if a source got a date wrong, if they left out some key event that led to a decision, and generally helps me get "the full picture." 1120
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 07/02/2025Everything is color-coded. Dates are in green. Proper names are in blue. Anything I find elsewhere is red (if a source says May, and I look up that it's May 29, 29 is in red.) It slows down my writing, adding time, and makes it easier to find stuff for the next part. 1130
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 07/02/2025While I'm reading, I take detailed notes, by hand, in my notebook. Why? The most important ingredient for learning is time. It's why I'm against crash courses and kids skipping grades. Time with the material is key. Want to memorize something? Write it down. 1191
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 07/02/2025I posted this on the bad place a month ago, but I figured I should put an updated version here if this is my new home. Someone asked me about my research process, so here it is. It starts with books. I ask around, or google, for books and documentaries on the topic and just start from there. 3908
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 31/01/2025For reference, there was a 1.63% drop three weeks ago and nobody was running around panicking. Because that's also pretty normal day to day. 0350
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 31/01/2025A 0.75% drop is a very normal day. Three weeks ago, there was a 1.63% drop... which is also pretty normal. I'm no fan of Trump but you're crying wolf here. Call me next week when it's like -5%. 130
Knowing Better @knowingbetter.nebula.tv · 30/11/2024Here's what I did: Removed drop ceiling, replaced with QuietRock. Rockwool insulation all around Expanded the room 2 ft. Replaced closet with 5x7" walk-in. Filled in the window. Installed wafer and studio lights. Installed overhead rail system. Computer on its own circuit. 0390
