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There’s a French documentary series about the shit people go through living in areas with bad roads that is my favorite thing on YouTube. Here’s an episode abou

There’s a French documentary series about the shit people go through living in areas with bad roads that is my favorite thing on YouTube. Here’s an episode about Afghanistan https://youtu.be/a-QHgZYmfpM https://youtu.be/a-QHgZYmfpM

js2 3y ago
Have you seen The Wages of Fear? I would imagine it would be your favorite movie.
- dekhn 3y ago
  And Sorceror.
  - themodelplumber 3y ago
    Sorcerer is really quite an audio-visual treat. Then on top of that, all the historically-relevant backstories. And Roy Scheider's perceptive POV slowly going off the rails. It's really amazing. It also reminds me of some of the worst scouting trips I ever went on as a kid. A sense of zero control while an adult wheeled the van over loose gravel around a drop-off corner on a one-lane logging road. Or, just driving around the backroads in various mountain ranges from the cascades to the uintas. That experience you get to have when you feel like you have reached what might be a turn in the road, but you are going uphill at quite an incline and can't see over your car's hood. So you're at 12K feet and glad your car is in good running shape, but you have to roll down your window and lean your upper body outside to check that you're not about to drive your family off a cliff. As the car gently noses over when you finally reach the turn, the first landform you see is a 10K+ peak about 15 miles away. Then you see the valley full of cities 8K feet below you. Rinse and repeat on the cliffs of highway 1 near the lost coast, dodging landslides and massive rock falls in the coastal ranges during rain storms just before you have to stop to lose your lunch, arriving at the perimeter of your camp site to find the highway bridge was lost to the river, etc. Just unpacking some road memories here I guess :-)
  - bookofjoe 3y ago
    Up next
- bookofjoe 3y ago
  I watched this last night after reading your comment. Great movie. Thank you. About once a month I learn about a film I'd never heard of in HN comments and it turns out to be superb. HN's an under the radar movie critic site for the cognoscenti.
jacquesm 3y ago
Amazing, thank you.
xhkkffbf 3y ago
A friend of mine was stationed in Afghanistan during the US occupation. He said there was a well-understood eco system. The US would pay local businessmen, say, $10k to fix a section of road. In the meantime, rebels/terrorists/freedom fighters would blow up a section of road for, say, $1k. Lather, rinse, repeat.
- 55555 3y ago
  Try explaining the broken window fallacy to a guy who just bought a new Porsche from breaking and repairing windows.
groestl 3y ago
> my favorite thing on YouTube. Off topic, but can we have a thread about our favorite things on YouTube? I also have one, and I'd like to see more like this exact thing above!
- OoooooooO 3y ago
  Just create an "Ask HN: " thread?
  - moralestapia 3y ago
    I will support it :D
DwnVoteHoneyPot 3y ago
I just got sucked in a watched the whole thing. Near the end, "On the other side of the world, they are trying to get to Mars! And just look at how we are living here."

js2 3y ago

Have you seen The Wages of Fear? I would imagine it would be your favorite movie.

dekhn 3y ago
And Sorceror.
- themodelplumber 3y ago
  Sorcerer is really quite an audio-visual treat. Then on top of that, all the historically-relevant backstories. And Roy Scheider's perceptive POV slowly going off the rails. It's really amazing. It also reminds me of some of the worst scouting trips I ever went on as a kid. A sense of zero control while an adult wheeled the van over loose gravel around a drop-off corner on a one-lane logging road. Or, just driving around the backroads in various mountain ranges from the cascades to the uintas. That experience you get to have when you feel like you have reached what might be a turn in the road, but you are going uphill at quite an incline and can't see over your car's hood. So you're at 12K feet and glad your car is in good running shape, but you have to roll down your window and lean your upper body outside to check that you're not about to drive your family off a cliff. As the car gently noses over when you finally reach the turn, the first landform you see is a 10K+ peak about 15 miles away. Then you see the valley full of cities 8K feet below you. Rinse and repeat on the cliffs of highway 1 near the lost coast, dodging landslides and massive rock falls in the coastal ranges during rain storms just before you have to stop to lose your lunch, arriving at the perimeter of your camp site to find the highway bridge was lost to the river, etc. Just unpacking some road memories here I guess :-)
- bookofjoe 3y ago
  Up next
bookofjoe 3y ago
I watched this last night after reading your comment. Great movie. Thank you. About once a month I learn about a film I'd never heard of in HN comments and it turns out to be superb. HN's an under the radar movie critic site for the cognoscenti.

jacquesm 3y ago

Amazing, thank you.

xhkkffbf 3y ago

A friend of mine was stationed in Afghanistan during the US occupation. He said there was a well-understood eco system. The US would pay local businessmen, say, $10k to fix a section of road. In the meantime, rebels/terrorists/freedom fighters would blow up a section of road for, say, $1k. Lather, rinse, repeat.

55555 3y ago
Try explaining the broken window fallacy to a guy who just bought a new Porsche from breaking and repairing windows.

groestl 3y ago

> my favorite thing on YouTube. Off topic, but can we have a thread about our favorite things on YouTube? I also have one, and I'd like to see more like this exact thing above!

OoooooooO 3y ago
Just create an "Ask HN: " thread?
- moralestapia 3y ago
  I will support it :D

DwnVoteHoneyPot 3y ago

I just got sucked in a watched the whole thing. Near the end, "On the other side of the world, they are trying to get to Mars! And just look at how we are living here."