Re: Tonight's movie

On 2/5/2025 5:40 AM, Gary McGath wrote:

On 2/5/25 8:31 AM, Cryptoengineer wrote:

On 2/3/2025 11:14 AM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:

Keith F. Lynch <kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:

We ended up mostly watching YouTube videos.

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Most notably, a new Lehto's Law video that shocked even me.  And I
thought I was unshockable.  It's about a man who was compelled to
plead guilty to stealing his own identity.  He had to falsely confess
that he wasn't who he claimed to be.  (He was eventually exonerated.)

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Lehto's Law is a channel that demonstrates something I hate about
YouTube.
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It has interesting content, but the 'video' angle has exactly zero
added value - its just him sitting in his office talking at the
camera.
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You spend 10-40 minutes for a story you could have read in 5 minutes.
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No wonder I watch it at 1.5x to 1.75x speed, and still feel he's
wasting my time.
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pt

 I watched a Lehto's Law video with a friend yesterday, about the challenge to a Louisiana law that says cops can order people to stay 25 feet away from them. I'd already known a lot of what was in it. The main benefit was that I got my friend to see it.
 I think videos are popular because many people use phones for computers, and it's a pain to read much text on them.

Have they never heard of audio only?  If the video doesn't add anything, why have it?
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