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Why was the link changed? 3 hours ago it linked to this: https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2024/01/i-used-to-not-worry-about-climate.html https://backreaction.b

Why was the link changed? 3 hours ago it linked to this: https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2024/01/i-used-to-not-worry-about-climate.html https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2024/01/i-used-to-not-worr... Now it links to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCo3XwTRg9o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCo3XwTRg9o

Corrado 3y ago
Dang, the new video is NOT the original Sabine video and is some weird, stupid thing. Please change it back to Sabine's video.
- kristofferR 3y ago
  Is Dang trolling us?
  - joshxyz 3y ago
    im not pissed i find it hilarious
- iandanforth 3y ago
  The new video is however a spot on commentary on people who didn't worry about climate change but now do. Very sharp swap, IMO.
  - Unfrozen0688 3y ago
    I saw a few seconds of people yelling and turned it off. What is this crap?
    - MPSimmons 3y ago
      Try listening to what they were saying. It's a skit, but with some biting truth.
      - tsukikage 3y ago
        What's the biting truth?
        MPSimmons 3y ago
        That scientists have been telling policy makers for decades, and by the time they're taken seriously, it's going to be way too late.
        Unfrozen0688 3y ago
        And the original blog/video isent saying this?
      - Unfrozen0688 3y ago
        Maybe I speak for myself, but the reason I visit this site is for longer in-depth topics on everything, not just tech. I'm not a programmer, more IT, so some posts are way over my head. But this site is a good filter to get good, long articles and videos and in-depth discussion in the comments. Short meme comedy skits can be left to plenty of sites like 9gag/some subreddits etc. There is a time and a place for that too. But in my opinion, not on HN.
    - Aachen 3y ago
      I genuinely gave it a try but either my smartphone speakers or my ears weren't up to the task of having this at a non-obnoxious volume during the screaming while being able to understand the lines being spoken. Subtitles are not available and the auto-generated ones are (predictably, for this format) quite unusable. If there's a point they're making, I wasn't able to hear it unfortunately :/ Can't imagine what a hard-of-hearing or deaf person would have to make of the auto subtitles...
    - iandanforth 3y ago
      It's a sketch comedy YouTube group. In this sketch a group of scientists are accosted by two people representing the rich and politically powerful who are yelling that people are dying outside because of poison falling from the sky. The scientists take this in stride saying it was a bit earlier than they predicted. The politicians try to get the scientists to do something, but they refuse angrily throwing their papers in the politicians faces that predicted this outcome. The scientists then don additional PPE as the politicians die (there wasn't enough funding to make PPE for them) and the scientists walk out the door to go see a movie, noting that they won't have any competition for the theatre since everyone else is probably dead.
- dkalola 3y ago
  The new video is pretty funny!
harha_ 3y ago
I don't understand why someone would change it. I was very confused when I opened the link.
- GaryNumanVevo 3y ago
  It's because it's just a link to an embedded youtube video. The HN mods unwrapped it (accidentally to the wrong link) and added a "[video]" tag to the title. They'll reword titles that people editorialize or shorten titles for length
Unfrozen0688 3y ago
Thank you for posting the original link. The new one the admin switched to is some people yelling. A "comedy" sketch.
- chasely 3y ago
  Was it an admin or the OP? Can OPs even change post links?
Aachen 3y ago
That blog post is a thin wrapper around another video btw. Direct link to the content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S9sDyooxf4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S9sDyooxf4 (For those who prefer to read: it has subtitles/transcript available for various languages — proper ones, not auto-generated!)
alurm 3y ago
This is very funny.
GaryNumanVevo 3y ago
Most likely an accident, I'm guessing dang or another moderator was changing the link directly to Sabine's video and copied the wrong link from youtube
dang 3y ago
Yikes, not sure what happened there! It would be standard mod practice to replace https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2024/01/i-used-to-not-worry-about-climate.html https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2024/01/i-used-to-not-worr... with a link to the video, since the blog post is just a thin wrapper around it. As the HN guidelines say, "If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) Why the wrong video made it in, I don't know, but most likely it was a simple copy-paste error. Sorry, all! Edit: oh it might have been that one of us saw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39157418 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39157418 and mistook that for a comment of this sort: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39163616 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39163616.

Corrado 3y ago

Dang, the new video is NOT the original Sabine video and is some weird, stupid thing. Please change it back to Sabine's video.

kristofferR 3y ago
Is Dang trolling us?
- joshxyz 3y ago
  im not pissed i find it hilarious
iandanforth 3y ago
The new video is however a spot on commentary on people who didn't worry about climate change but now do. Very sharp swap, IMO.
- Unfrozen0688 3y ago
  I saw a few seconds of people yelling and turned it off. What is this crap?
  - MPSimmons 3y ago
    Try listening to what they were saying. It's a skit, but with some biting truth.
    - tsukikage 3y ago
      What's the biting truth?
      - MPSimmons 3y ago
        That scientists have been telling policy makers for decades, and by the time they're taken seriously, it's going to be way too late.
        Unfrozen0688 3y ago
        And the original blog/video isent saying this?
    - Unfrozen0688 3y ago
      Maybe I speak for myself, but the reason I visit this site is for longer in-depth topics on everything, not just tech. I'm not a programmer, more IT, so some posts are way over my head. But this site is a good filter to get good, long articles and videos and in-depth discussion in the comments. Short meme comedy skits can be left to plenty of sites like 9gag/some subreddits etc. There is a time and a place for that too. But in my opinion, not on HN.
  - Aachen 3y ago
    I genuinely gave it a try but either my smartphone speakers or my ears weren't up to the task of having this at a non-obnoxious volume during the screaming while being able to understand the lines being spoken. Subtitles are not available and the auto-generated ones are (predictably, for this format) quite unusable. If there's a point they're making, I wasn't able to hear it unfortunately :/ Can't imagine what a hard-of-hearing or deaf person would have to make of the auto subtitles...
  - iandanforth 3y ago
    It's a sketch comedy YouTube group. In this sketch a group of scientists are accosted by two people representing the rich and politically powerful who are yelling that people are dying outside because of poison falling from the sky. The scientists take this in stride saying it was a bit earlier than they predicted. The politicians try to get the scientists to do something, but they refuse angrily throwing their papers in the politicians faces that predicted this outcome. The scientists then don additional PPE as the politicians die (there wasn't enough funding to make PPE for them) and the scientists walk out the door to go see a movie, noting that they won't have any competition for the theatre since everyone else is probably dead.
dkalola 3y ago
The new video is pretty funny!

harha_ 3y ago

I don't understand why someone would change it. I was very confused when I opened the link.

GaryNumanVevo 3y ago
It's because it's just a link to an embedded youtube video. The HN mods unwrapped it (accidentally to the wrong link) and added a "[video]" tag to the title. They'll reword titles that people editorialize or shorten titles for length

Unfrozen0688 3y ago

Thank you for posting the original link. The new one the admin switched to is some people yelling. A "comedy" sketch.

chasely 3y ago
Was it an admin or the OP? Can OPs even change post links?

Aachen 3y ago

That blog post is a thin wrapper around another video btw. Direct link to the content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S9sDyooxf4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S9sDyooxf4 (For those who prefer to read: it has subtitles/transcript available for various languages — proper ones, not auto-generated!)

alurm 3y ago

This is very funny.

GaryNumanVevo 3y ago

Most likely an accident, I'm guessing dang or another moderator was changing the link directly to Sabine's video and copied the wrong link from youtube

dang 3y ago

Yikes, not sure what happened there! It would be standard mod practice to replace https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2024/01/i-used-to-not-worry-about-climate.html https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2024/01/i-used-to-not-worr... with a link to the video, since the blog post is just a thin wrapper around it. As the HN guidelines say, "If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) Why the wrong video made it in, I don't know, but most likely it was a simple copy-paste error. Sorry, all! Edit: oh it might have been that one of us saw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39157418 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39157418 and mistook that for a comment of this sort: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39163616 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39163616.