North Dakota: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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- North Dakota is known for being polite, but perhaps they’ve been a little too hospitable to oil companies.
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John Oliver's too awesome, always shining light on the stuff most don't notice.
Agreed !!
+bakerXderek It's so cool that North Dakota has these "Be Kind" signs, its almost like they're canadian.
+fclavijo With the amount of Canadians that come down, we practically are at this point.
+bakerXderek Cheaaaaaaaaaaaah
+bakerXderek Agreed - but don't forget that John is "just" the front figure of an awesome team that research and write. They do a great job and John really delivers the stories in a clear and precise way.
There's a state called North Dakota?
+Hardyt3kyoyo I know, it should have been one whole Dakota!
+Hardyt3kyoyo There's also a south Dakota...dont forget that.
I take it you don't know many of the states
+Martin .Luther umm you do realize that we just said is racist right?
+Hardyt3kyoyo It's located a bit north of South Dakota.
Y'know, people knock OSHA for not doing a lot to protect workers, but as someone with a degree in industrial hygiene and have thus learned a LOT about OSHA in the last few years, I find that yelling at OSHA for people dying on the job is like yelling at your security guard when your stuff gets stolen when you've nailed that guard's feet to the floor and have given him a rubber band to defend himself.
OSHA, for all the good its done, is still one of the most toothless and understaffed agencies in the government, and businesses will do the very crap done as reported here in this video to avoid having to be responsible for the lives of workers and save a buck. And when people try to introduce reforms or enhancements to OSHA, the same baloney comes back down the pipe of "over regulating" and "putting the handcuffs on businesses". I'm so sorry, businesses, that you feel chained down and enslaved because you're being asked to ensure that your employees and contractors are able to come home to their families alive.
The saddest part of this video was Governor Dalrymple's speech about how the "regulatory environment is very reasonable" in North Dakota. That's politi-bull for "we'll look the other way on your crap safety if it means you bring us business".
+CyricZ And it isn't going to get better with the amount of money being paid to certain congress members to gut OSHA. Oh right those were "campaign contributions".
+CyricZ They really are toothless. A buddy of mine many years ago wanted to file a complaint to OSHA about hazardous working conditions. He was asked to step inside of machines while there was a power outage and perform some repairs. The power outage was an unplanned one and nobody had any idea when service would be restored so he refused. He was threatened with his job and had to do the repairs. Thankfully he was out of the machines before the power came back on, but he was still pissed. He talked to a lawyer and the words that were used stuck with me: "OSHA is a graveyard organization. Unless somebody is dead, they probably can't do anything about it."
+CyricZ This is pretty much the tactic for fighting against regulations, reducing the funding and staff. This is thanks to the lobbyists of the various corporate interests and the political funding. It is very bad press for Republicans to look like they are endangering people by taking away safety regulations, but cutting funding sounds like a good thing, saves tax dollars and there are laws in place to punish companies. As we all know, allowing companies to self govern and self inspect only shows just how evil corporations really are.
+seancoyote I agree, but let's not forget that these corporations are just human beings all working as one entity... And we as consumers need to inform ourselves much better in order to make decisions that don't detrimentally affect us! Vote with your dollar because if this system is as corrupt as we all know it is then choosing what you purchase is one of our only chances to minimize the wrong!
couchpoet1
And how exactly do I boycott an oil drilling company, or all oil companies, and coal burning power plants, and medication, and medical care? There just isn't a viable way to boycott needed things. Sorry, I agree that boycotting is a tool, but it isn't the only one by far. Vote responsibly, and speak up. Speak with your vote, wallet, mouth and keyboard, make it known.
Stumbled in here (a few years late) and found:
A comedy show with MUCH more news and actual research than the actual news.
The research shown here is at a level not seen much these days.
Subscribed.
I just did the same thing
Same, this needs a new look by John and the gang!
@james kenyon I live in Saskatchewan, Canada, just above ND, and I have NEVER heard of this. Are Canadian oil workers also this badly mismanaged and unsafe??? Good lord.
goopah Sordid i. One of my better ideas.
james kenyon I have heard Canadian mines are terrible
Fun fact about the billboards: they’re still here. And we have no idea who pays for these things, but they’ve been around as long as I can remember
Are the billboards still there? ^^'
@@kristelbrok182 Yup. I see one every time I drive into Minot and I kinda hate it.
Which ones ? The one saying be polite or the one saying be angry
@@Cervantesbracetty The positive ones are never taken down. It angers me.
did anything actually change in North Dakota?
YES, SOUTH DAKOTA WAS MENTIONED. I'VE NEVER BEEN THIS PROUD. THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING US. SOUTH DAKOTA EXISTS!
Exactly! THANK GOD THEY MENTIONED IT!
Mayonnaise you don't need to suffer as much as North Dakotans so shut up
But, like... Are you *sure?*
Sorry, turns out South Dakota is actually fictional.
Does it?
"Be Polite? Fuck You! Don't tell me what to do" lmao
I live in a big city and was shopping one day when a women told me to smile. All I could think was "get fucked" lmao
Dude, coming from a born-and-raised small-town Canadian ... 'get fucked' is exactly the right response. Trying to tell someone to force a smile is just such an infuriating move. 'Fuck you, I'm not happy, I'm not going to pretend I'm happy for you!'
I'm from small town Europe, and although I've moved to the city, I still smile. But I don't tell others to smile, I just smile. It might make them feel a little bit better, or not. I don't care that much, tbh.
That's the New York way alright. :D
Anyone else notice they missed bleeping out that fuck you in particular?
I live in ND, and I approve this message. Thanks you, Mr. Oliver.
I live in Western Australia and this state digs ups rocks. A miner dies and the company says he was a contract employee. Our laws are a bit stronger and the family will get proper compensation and the company will get hauled into court but they will just get a fine and told to clean up their act. Better than nothing but the press here won't let the bastards off.
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Hi from Dickey County...luckily we aren’t near the oil fields.
I am from Texas, and I can confirm that the speed limit is "Let er' rip!"
+Tim Clark lol I guess you know how
It is.
+Carlos L. I'm in Houston, Never seen a sign like that but in remote areas you can pretty much drive as fast as you want. I imagine you can do the same in every other state that has a remote area.
+John Guy I live in Houston too, I see them everywhere.
+Tim Clark hehe, we have 130 limit on higway too.... but in km/h LOL
lol, true dat.
ps Go H-Town!
Did you know that Montana and North Dakota got into a war? It got so bad that the North Dakotans started throwing dynamite. The Montanans lit it, and threw it back.
+asdfasdfasdfasdf4113 Ha hahaha, Now I'm aware that Montana jokes about N Dakota are a thing that exists.
+asdfasdfasdfasdf4113
Do you know why North Dakota is so windy?
It's because Minnesota sucks and Montana blows. :P
+Dane Glasoe Did you know that birds fly upside down in North Dakota because there is nothing interesting to poop on.
+Ethan Lochridge LOL
+waltereg0 That's kind of the thing about upper Midwest states: We all make jokes about each other like rivaling high school sports teams. And don't even get me started on the Canadians....
I love John Oliver. He knows just how to simplify complicated topics while not making it sounding like he's dumbing it down, plus he's seriously funny.
Over 7 years in the Oilfield Services. I got out with all my toes and fingers. Thank God 🙏
If John was able to run for president i would honestly vote for him. Imagine the day, an English immigrant as President. Conservatives everywhere would cry
Problem is, you can only be president if you're American-born.
+mcgeej18 But what about Ted Cruz?
+The Duderino Man There's a clause that allows those born outside the US, but with an American biological parent to be considered American born.
John McMillen But his dad was born in Canada!
+The Duderino Man 'parent', singular. As long as someone has one parent who is an American citizen, they are considered American born. The nationality of the other parent doesn't matter.
69 hours that's almost 3 full days for an explosive technician, that's terrifying
+TheAnonymousGuy the explosions would keep you awake though
+MonkeyKong Something tells me you haven't stayed up for 3 days before.
what he is leaving out is that he was on standby probably.for most of it and he doesnt have to stay awake. i currently work in the bakken i know what its like
+TheAnonymousGuy The guy probably slept in a truck or something, that's what guys do out here on the rigs.
Yup! Imagine rigging it too! But you are so tired that instead using flash thread you end up using your shoe laces..
North Dakota: Come for the culture.....Stay because your car won't start..
“Culture”
@@kaydgaming ey, fuck you. It was great up here
You just have to learn to plug it in and start it up regularly. If we can work through -60 so can you!
LOL
Most new cars do just fine. Beaters and some diesel's maybe. And it doesn't get as cold as it used to. Yes, way up north but I'm from central Mn. It used to regularly get -40. Not any more.
What hit me hardest was that people were burned. That to me is the worst type of injury. Medical professionals have a hard time controlling pain from burns.
The pain is awful. 48 years ago my parents were hit in their VW bug by a drunk driver. The car burst into flames. A selfless man they, at the time didn't know, stopped what he was doing, ran over to the intersection, and pulled them out of their car. He saved their lives and is now a good family friend. He's told me several times my dad's legs sounded like bacon frying in a pan. Anyhow my parents have burns over 70% of their bodies and they've told me about pain from the burns and how uncontrollable it was and how they would have to take salt water baths and how they would nearly scream from the pain. They were in hospital for 6 months straight. So I can only imagine what these oil field workers felt when they got burned.
John please do a segment on the TPP!
+Mr. D yup essentially every trade deal in existence right now which screws over the ordinary person for the benefit of corporations.
The phantom pain?
Definitely! Mainstream media brushes over it or praises it. We need you John Oliver! You're our only hope.
lesslighter What took you so long....
....to figure out that this whole time....
....they played you LIKE A DAMN FIDDLE!!!
Don't forget TTIP!
Born and raised North Dakotan. Grew up in Bismarck and I hardly recognize it anymore. Porches, Ferraris, massive houses in gated neighborhoods. I just can't stand it here anymore. People, especially in big cities, are rude. At least in a place like NYC or LA you'd expect it. But with the massive migration to this state, they've brought that with them. Granted, the first time I tried Japanese food was after the boom, but I'd rather stick with lefse, kneophla, and hotdish if it means we could have our state back.
I really encourage journalists to check out the levels of corruption in our State Legislature. It's sick. But the citizens are too polite to say people aren't doing their jobs in government. It's true. We'd rather be seen as ignorant than rude. Being rude is a big deal here.
Thanks for bringing attention to the issue, John.
Shanna Wheeler It’s common to the Midwest - this underdeveloped ability to be rude. Or to be able to handle rudeness in others. Over-niceness comes at a cost. I grew up in the Midwest and then lived in the South for 10 years - many things to love about each region but people there are generally over-repressed.
Pretty sure u had ‘ porches’ , built on the front house , before the bakken, just sayin 🤔🤔🤔
maybe. I remember a N. Dakotan laughing at me when I had car trouble and pulled into his gas station. Thanks N. Dakota. Maybe you're getting what you deserve.
That's crazy! We in North Carolina have been fighting fracking to protect our environment, but otherwise we're having a steady economic boom like the rest of the South. My family and many others migrated to the South over the last decades and contributed to the South's economic progress, hopefully North Dakota ends up more like that eventually. But up north, where my family came from, corruption is just more obvious I guess. I really want to visit North Dakota and the other plains states, I went to college in Illinois and was amazed at how flat some parts of the state were. And I love Midwesterners.
I'm from Minneapolis, and I have been in Seattle for 4 years. It has a similar recent culture of young rich assholes, thanks to the tech boom... I've been to the Dakotas and rural Minnesota enough to see that, in and around Williston, a lot of corruption, injury and death can be written off by the fat cats at the top. They can always make the excuse that they are creating desperately needed jobs. It's not worth it...
They forgot to bleep the "fuck you" @ 1:28. I can't believe a show on HBO didn't bleep out a cuss word. Shameful. Here I thought HBO was good, wholesome family entertainment.
+SailingSeignior HBO a good, wholesome family entertainment? LOL, you do know Game of Thrones is on HBO right?
+Eliyah Yan sarcasm is difficult through text
Don't worry. There are other nice, wonderful, wholesome shows on HBO that the whole family can enjoy, like Boardwalk Empire.
Pussssssy
yake222 Oh, is it? Precisely why I assume it to be nonexistent.
"The longest I've ever been out on a job site is 69 hours straight"
Nice.
but also, you know, not nice.
Handling explosives
he wasn't working non-stop for 69 hours. he got a lot of sleep.
🤣🤣🤣
Ha nice
O.t. is always nice
ALL HAIL JOHN OLIVER AND THE GLASSES THAT LAYETH UPON HIS FACE!
+Kerry Wichterich praise be
Praise be! PRAISE BE!
Praise be, commenter, praise be
send him free money. praise be.
+Kerry Wichterich
Praise His Name.
I moved to Minot for a year and a half during high school, the first night I was back a few people died in a bar stabbing that involved a lot of oil workers with too much to drink. Violence indeed rose a lot in ND because of the influx of new workers.
+The Presidential Perkolator Good point. That rarely ends well.....:-)
Ooooo, the censors missed one
I heard! I was so startled!
When?
+WalrusBrosStudios last fuck you of the bit at 1:12
As soon as I heard it, I paused the video and scrolled down to the comments to see how quickly it was mentioned. LOL
Who gives a fuck? Bleeping fucks out is retarded anyways. As if the audience didn't know what he actually said.
"Business friendly" = "Civil Enemy"
That's how it sounds, at least.
Exactly!
John please do an episode on the problems in Alaska! Most people don’t even know we’re a state or that we are not an island. Despite the glaring issues with global warming they constantly vote against doing anything about it or other issues
@Armenias Thunk We can do both
There are people who think Alaska is an island? Jesus Christ, our education system is trash.
@@aaronmarks9366 Seriously, that is terrifying. We're so far behind other first-world nations in education and many of our own children can't even identify what parts of the world are part of the USA.
@@Fiericte Absolutely, it's atrocious. There are Americans who grow up and still can't name all of our states or where they are. Or where things like the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans are. 🤦♂️
I can sort-of picture how a misconception like Alaska being an island might take root, if an American schoolchild is only ever shown maps of United States territory that include the 48 plus Alaska and Hawaii in sidebars (though almost never to scale) and not world maps that show where the U.S. is relative to other countries. Hence the inability to find the U.S. on a world map or globe.
Still, though.... yikes.
"North Dakota is probably best known for the 1996 Coen Brother's movie Fargo, and the visitor's center can tell you all about it... " Like how all of it, save one scene, takes place in Minnesota?
I don’t remember the movie that well but I thought it was in North Dakota. Although, there isn’t a huge distinction between the two on their edges.
@@MaxwellKelley oh yeah, I think "it was filmed in Duluth MN bc Fargo didn't have enough snow that year" is almost always the second thing I've heard about that movie when I lived in Fargo 😂
Man, my econ teacher last year (who also happened to be a far-right conspiracy theorist) was going on about how great the North Dakota oil fields were. I hope he somehow finds out about this video.
+Kenpokid4 Send it xD
+Leon Belmont Libruls hate short term profits, dontchaknow.
+Leon Belmont The! Narrative! Must! Be! Maintained!
*****
Really. It's one of those things that sounds good on paper, but then fucks up horribly.
+Kenpokid4 He probably listens to Sean Hannity. Hannity is *_constantly_* rambling on about how North Dakota's oil boom is the future of humanity. It's -practically- a fetish for him.
The investigative team on this show is absolutely brilliant.
Coming from Saskatchewan the oil has had a disastrous impact to communities. it's made the crime rate skyrocket made once nice neighbourhoods turn into ghettos.
Yeah but a small number of people have gotten very wealthy out of it and America needs such heros to aspire to... #irony
Who'd have known in 2020 the barrel is worth more than oil in it .
ahahahahahahaha
Lol
I was watching this again and when I got to @3:19, that was my first thought to - followed by "Who's going to tell them?"
Lol
It will still always worth more than the worker as long as they can pull this shit.
This story echos the entire shale natural gas industry in multiple other states.
yes and it shows a ways that companies skirts safety laws to increase production. something they legally should not be able to do.
+Nitro Neo 1 death per year for millions of dollars, thousands of jobs, and a healthier worldwide economy?
+Nick Johnson Not 1 death, as we saw, and tons of land being polluted. THE STATE has the oil, if companies want to use it they should be forced to take the STATE's objectives into consideration.
Ezra Block
A. "State's objectives" is a very subjective topic (ironically) and B. THEY HAD TO PAY FOR THAT LAND... FROM THE STATE
Nick Johnson I'm pretty sure that the NUMBER 1 priority of the state should be to ensure protection.
Hiring sub-contractors. I live in Japan, have been here 36 years, and this is the standard operating procedure for large corporations to avoid responsibility of compliance to Japanese Labor law. The law mostly applies to only full time employees, not sub-contractors. And did you know that many of the workers at the pre-tsunami nuclear power plants are untrained and under-protected sub-contractors .... as are the foreign immigrant labor hired to clean up the shit?
That whole country is subcontracted at this point.
As a Texan, the "Let 'er rip" speed limit thing is 100% true.
Is the age of consent = winky face true too?
To an extent, but that's not just limited to Texas.
I've actually driven in an 85 mph zone. I didn't realize that 85 is the highest posted speed limit in the country until I Googled it just now. I thought a lot of big empty places in this country high ridiculous speed limits like that!
Daniel Kaplan Yep, Highway 130. Driven it many times.
Ryan Sorge Drove from Milwaukee to Laredo then to Odessa, I think my little needle had invisibility powers ;)
Being Norwegian here I never ate Lute fisk, If I ever go to North Dakota I will try that single restaurant. I just have 48 states to visit first.
don't you mean 49? or have you visited one? or is there one you want to visit last that isn;t south dcanada?
nobody here eats it either, we just feed it to stupid tourists
I'm in Minnesota and only the very traditional older generation eat it. I'm talking like people in the 70s and 80s.
Jelly Rolls I've been to one.
Most lutefisk made in the States is not real lutefisk. They use actual lye instead of lute, which makes the fish turn to jelly. That's not lutefisk, that's just shit. Real lutefisk tastes and has the consistency of regular fish. My family has it every year for Christmas.
John and his team must have saved lots of lives raising awareness
Those billboards straight up remind me of They Live.
John Oliver is wearing "the glasses" haha
Nice observation, what a movie 😊
It says on the bottom right: paid for by last week tonight by John Oliver
I really wish John Oliver would dedicate an episode to the 1100 murdered or missing indigenous women here in Canada. And how the government says it is not a problem and not worth investigating any further, despite calls from the UN saying it is a crisis.
yes, please U.S.A needs to learn some info
+OffRezWolf Do you have any source for that? Sounds interesting.
I hope John sees this.
+OffRezWolf I didn't yet hear about that. Can you link something i can go on?
That's terrible, I'm from the U.S. And never even heard about this, it needs to be addressed
Standing Rock is in North Dakota. This report came out just before the huge protests. The stranglehold oil has on the state was absolutely the reason for all of that unbridled police violence.
Oil benefits a few in the short term and hurts so many more in the long run
I was looking for this xxx
They didn't censor the "fuck you" at 1:30
Yea I noticed that as well.
Why do they even bother censoring it?
Have they censored things before? I never really paid attention, but he's on HBO now, I was pretty sure they're okay with it
According to some TH-camr I cannot recall right now you can actually say fuck once or twice without your material being considered for a "Mature" public.
They should upload these uncensored
I know this is an old video, but the real problem with the subcontractor system in cases like this is that it allows corporations to completely evade responsibility. Subcontracting can actually be good for local economies, by giving business to existing local firms rather than creating competition for them - or worse, transferring in people from outside the locale and displacing local workers - but the contractor themselves needs to have some degree of accountability for the actions of their subcontractors.
I worked on defense contracts for several years, and at first the company I worked for was subcontracted through another company. If we screwed around and our employing company didn't do anything about, _they_ could get penalized as well as us. The same went for the DARPA liaison on top of the whole contract - if he was made aware of improper work activity of a contractor (such as one University using DARPA funds to fund research that was not even tangentially related to the subject of the contract, outside of being about the military), and did nothing about it, _he_ could wind up being disciplined or even *prosecuted* for allowing the mismanagement of government funds.
Heavy industry *must* be held to the same standard, or some standard at *all* because unlike a contract that involves non-mission-critical software, peoples lives are _literally_ on the line.
EDIT: Full indemnification waivers like the one in Oasis' contract should also be abolished. Some of them can be scary as hell. I had to sign one during a competition that attempted to claim that I would not assign liability to the host school even in cases of _malfeasance_. In non-legal terms, that meant that they could _intentionally_ do something that could harm me, and I could not file civil suit against them. Was it enforceable? I don't know! Even if not, though, the fact that someone would ask anyone, let alone someone who was at the time a _minor_, to sign such a waiver, is unconscionable.
1:28 Don't bleep out fuck lol
I heard it too. haha
+Ben Palmer It's a show on HBO; why do they try to bleep them at all?
+Curtis006 They don't on HBO, but for some reason they do on here.
+CatJetRat: I guess TH-cam is too kind and gentle for that kind of swearing.
...(snrk) Sorry, couldn't say that with a straight face.
+Ben Palmer It's funnier with the bleeps
one aspect why they are so great, I'm watching this vid 8 years later, pretty cool for a "weekly news" series. Thanks!
One of the best jobs must be the person who photoshops the images for all the show's jokes. You'd just photoshop funny pictures and read jokes all day. 15:22 - 15:31 Even the Fifa building in the field next to a windmill seems like it'd be humorous to create.
I have a pretty great job but I think I'd still take a year off to do that job! LOL
Maybe work for Buzzfeed too... those job looks awesome
Additionally I love John’s little evil finger tap before he reveals the bullshit lol
My dad (and entire male side of his family) worked on the ND oil fields from a young age and he always had horror stories of deaths or injuries of people (or family members) working in the fields. It always astounds me how they viewed it as just part of the risks of working.
OSHA is laughable. My first job was on a power plant, and it was a few months before I knew I actually needed an OSHA certification; and I never even got one. Others I worked with said the same.
Damn. I'd probably fake an injury and fucking sue them.
WOOOOW.....Thank you for sharing that...that's outrageous!
Right. OSHA's the problem here my dude.
I can be Empathetic with the guy who broke down about seeing the Derrick hand killed in the Derrick. When I was 18 I started working at a well service company in Alberta, we were slow so working in the shop, I was giving a Derrick basket a new paint job. I thought nothing of it, until I seen burn marks on it, I asked someone what happened, it was a Rig that had seen a blowout and sadly the Derrick hand had literally burned alive. I immediately felt very creeped out and quite sad honestly.
I'm just gonna say what everyone's thinking. That was was a f*cking awesome turtle.
+Phil Hadel We have the turtle, and also the world's largest cow and bison statues. Oh, and Bismarck has a giant eagle.
+Phil Hadel and its literally within 5 miles of Canada
+Ammon Miller I know that Bismarck is the capitol of N.D. ... but I'd rather imagine Otto von Bismarck with a giant eagle on his shoulder.
+Phil Hadel Actually took pictures of my kids in front of that turtle this summer! It's in Dunseith.
AngelValis Now I think that the city should rebuild the statue to Otto von Bismarck with a giant eagle.
All the contracting is basically a way for all the businesses to avoid liability and put the blame on each other without anyone ever having to acknowledge it. It also allows them to bend the rules to absurd levels. I once worked in a restaurant that basically did this and what they would do is make you work at 3 different locations for about 5 to 6 hours at each site. The result is that you basically worked a 80 hr work week, but was not considered a full time employee because you are a contractor and are working at 3 separate jobs, yet your performance at any 1 of them affects the other 2. When I finally got hurt from work related injuries (second degree oil burns), they were able to get away with not having to provide any type of treatment or services or work related injury compensation because I was not technically an employee at that restaurant.
Kevin, what is your Chinese name?
+Quoc Nguyen pronounced Lei Jia Wei
I have a slightly ridiculous suggestion.
When we were in Seattle last year, my father wanted to photograph the welding sparks at a construction site near where we were staying. He did this several days in a row. He noticed he was getting nervous looks, and asked someone about it.
"You from the government?" the guy apparently asked.
"No," my father replied, "I'm just taking photos of the sparks."
The guy laughed and said, "I don't think I'll tell the boss. He's been double-checking all the safety equipment since they saw you."
My point being, if you dress business-casual and carry a large camera, you can sometimes get someone's boss scared enough to follow the law. Even if you have no authority. Schrodinger's OSHA.
Lmao nice
@@l.ga.1061 Gotta love letting the boss be paranoid
Comedians speak the truth while politicians make us laugh.
+Carnerd101 Personally, they both just make me want to cry.
+Carnerd101 ♟♞♝♜♛♚
David Cortese - Manga Chess
♙♘♗♖♕♔
+Carnerd101 brilliant quote
lol how's you first week of high school going
+Carnerd101 Have you heard of Bernie Sanders?
I work in the oil and gas industry. Most of my work is in Canada, but whenever I work on American projects, I'm always quietly amazed how non-existent regulations are in some parts of the country (and yes, North Dakota is particularly bad).
Honestly, though, having seen a few sudden oil booms in previously untouched areas, this sort of thing is sadly common. Basically, once the boom starts, you see a bunch of start-ups appear trying to capitalize on the opportunity. These companies typically have little experience ("Jeb and Willy sold their Pa's farm and bought a bunch of trucks to start a company" is not an exaggeration in some of these cases) and no concept of safe operations and they're pretty much allowed to do whatever the hell they want until the regulatory infrastructure catches up a few years later.
Worth noting that this absolutely infuriates the larger operating companies (I.E. the ones whose names people would actually recognize), because they tend to be much more strenuous about safety and crap like this gives the whole industry a bad reputation.
And people of the US learn all this not at school but on HBO after the age for schools. HBO is now more sophisticated than the education officials.
+Alan Founcright Are you kidding me? HBO is left wing TV channel. nothing valuable was said by this stupid British asshole
Logic Time
Prove it.
+Logic Time i guess facts and proof are left wing now, good to know
+Alan Founcright the fact he had to pull a story from 4 years ago to validate that it's dangerous, which for the year 2011 the explosion accounted for only 2 of the 4693 work related deaths in the U.S. (half as many as illegal cockfighting in number of deaths for that year, true story, look it up. 4 people died in illegal cockfighting in 2011, one of 'em in fact killed by a rooster) shows just how hard he had to stretch facts to make it fit in his narrative. Oil production has a hyper-safety culture surrounding it, so much so that I have seen plants require employees to wear hard hats while in a portajohn taking a shit.
plebiansociety
That just made things more complicated, as it should. Thank you, sir. Interesting facts. I shall take a look into it and so as other videos when I finish my work.
It's always the nicest people who get taken advantage of the most.
Well, in light of the recent protests, this gives a lot of info and fact checking to work on. Why do I have to get this from a comedian? Why has this been invisible, for all practical purposes, in regular news outlets!
Cause he doesn't need to ask then for money
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@@ms9771 please learn English if you're going to try to communicate in English.
And don't ever type in all caps.
1:28 A "Fuck" slipped its way past the FCC.
+Eli or Die Yes and there's plenty of swearing. But they still bleep all the "fucks" for online content. Why did this one slip through?
+Eli or Die You're right. Still a goof though, and someone had to point it out.
+Alomar K It's HBO, paid channel.
+Alomar K Yes, but luckily it does not bother me. If it did, I would just move on to another video. You can too if you like.
I HAVE AN AUDITION FOR A FILM TOMORROW, OLIVER! Ah fuck it! I love you
Good luck! :>
+J Wizard Phoenix Good luck !
+J Wizard Phoenix Good Luck
GL fam
good luck mate!
They're like Captain Planet villains without the subtlety.
Even Willie Wonka had some "victim blaming" on his side. They were naughty kids who don't listen.
didnt he say "Cut it out"? :P
PlayerTw0 depends on which version you’re referring to. Gene Wilder was more along the lines of “I wouldn’t do that if i were you.”
A very serious issue! AND a new sets of policies are absolutely necessary. Tell the oil companies to be polite and take responsibilities for degrading environment.
I once drove across North Dakota and it was honeslty one of the strangest places i have been
Some of the folks in ND are even stranger. I saw a man walking completely naked on a farm in Steele ND.
@@Toomuchbullshitt I've lived up here my entire life and I have never seen that.
what did you find strange about it?
I actually grew up in North Dakota. Broke my heart when I had to move away because the oil boom killed the economy.
@@MrJimShorts Nor mine. Happily living in Nevada now. Legal weed, prostitutes, and more guns than you can wave a background check at. I like it.
And Republicans still vote against government enforced business regulations. They'll say something heartless like: "Well, the guy knew what he was getting into when he signed the contract."
Complete. Lack. Of. Empathy.
Anything smacking of "We the People" like "collective bargaining" or "living wage" or "medicare for all" and the party of, for, and bought by the rich is totally against it. They love bailing out the rich and giving them BONUSES for bankrupting their ENTIRE industry in 2007, but when "We The People" need sensible regulations put in place as a moral deterrent they water down the regulation insuring that the financial meltdown will happen again. The market will not self regulate and neither will the oil industry.
And say it to his widow. You're right.
The media (backed by oil and tobacco barons) have done an excellent job of demonising regulation.
This is not just a Republican problem. It is a human problem. Democrats are just as bad when it comes to actual enforcement because they seem to think that passing a law is sufficient. They almost never back it up with decent funding and oversight for enforcement. While you can legitimately argue that Republicans like to ignore problems entirely, it is equally clear that Democrats tend to only care when a problem spirals out of control and is publicized on the news. So long as the public does not hear about t and get upset, most Democrats are fine with papering over such issues. So therein lies the problem, - your voting choice is often between the unsympathetic Republican and the hypocritical Democrat. We really need to stop choosing between the lesser of two evils because regardless of the choice you make, it is still evil.
Cash is king and the people that work for them expendable. This is killing people and destroying the environment. It's not a simple pandering point.
Sorry Blood and Oil..........there are no mountains in ND.........our snow is in drifts on the ground.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mountains_in_South_Dakota
Yeah it wasn't fair, SD got the mountains. We got rolling prairie.
I love how they make fun of us, but they are so rude it's disrespectful
bj u 7,87 (
Blood and oil go to hell don't we have snow and no mountains but hills and a guy who walks in the snow only in boxers
So New Yorkers are sort of the Parisiens of america right?
Yeh
+Alystas But without the sophistication.
+Sophie Beaumont get your head out your ass, Sophie!
+Sophie Beaumont If by "sophistication" you mean thinking their so much fucking better than everyone else because their fucking place has some historical significance that a majority of the citizens haven't added anything to, then yes.
+Scumbag_Stormtrooper We are better. We can go to a Last Week Tonight taping. Suck it.
Wow, this episode was particularly infuriating... The news clip describing the burn victim losing his legs and committing suicide is just horrific. Good lord...
The machine of capitalism is oiled with the blood of the workers.
@@MajorasWrath1 yes it is
@@MajorasWrath1 That is a DAMN good quote.
@@MajorasWrath1 not so with Communism. They just shoot you and take your stuff.
@@jamisojo yeah because you're like a landlord or something genius.
you guys should do another episode on what's going on in north dakota right now
3:01 "...like a solar eclipse, you _really_ shouldn't look directly at it."
Insert picture of Trump staring into the solar eclipse...
Just learned from john Oliver about america more than college and school god bless you John , I force all the family and friend watch your show, you are great,
That's where he gets his power lol
@@puredjsentertainment3874 You can really learn from anybody - a toddler to somebody on their death bed - they just have to know the thing you want to learn better than you :)
Oh my gosh, Stempy you're so funny. Your wealth of ignorance astounds me.
@@abisheks8511 stay off the drugs man
"The price of oil has dropped in the last year."
2020, 2021, and 2022:
*Allow us to introduce ourselves*
Thanks Joe.
@@kennethcoenen7643why should I be paying for your fuel?
1:27 they didn't censor out that one "fuck" lollll
Three fucks, you're out.
what's with the censor missing a few "fucks" lol
I've been asking the same thing
+Sniperaptor they give no fucks. badumtssss
+The Shadowscale At one point it sounded like Oliver said "fruck" instead which is why i think some weren't censored. He seemed to snicker right after so he could've been trying to be slick lol
+The Shadowscale HBO.
+The Shadowscale Those were the ones they give.
North Dakota. We're not even the best Dakota!
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good thing we are the only one that matters lol
Jack Valleli youre not even the 4th best dakota
we're best Dakota. Fuck South Dakota
you got that from family guy
Had my WHS induction at my new job today and when the guy leading the meeting started talking about the two people who'd died on construction sites (already) this year in the state and followed it up with 'and I can guarantee you, in 6 months, the developers behind those sites won't be operating' I kind of just...
On one hand, can we not aim to avoid loss-of-life simply to prevent loss-of-life? Does there have to be a financial motivation behind it? But, on the other hand, I remembered this episode and I was just so thankful that, not only do I work for a company that actually cares whether it's workers live or die (regardless of their motives), but that I also live in a country where this sort of bullshit blame-tossing actually has consequences.
I went to a Criss Angel show in Vegas. He was shirtless...and kept hugging girls in the crowd. I should have went to Penn & Teller.
...you had the option for Penn and Teller and you didn't go for it? For shame.
You genuinely would have had much more fun with Penn and Teller
Yes, Criss Angel was disappointing.
When I was in college in Montana in the 60's the biggest joke craze was "North Dakota"jokes...
kind of like our Montana jokes?
The Briggs thing about North Dakota oil wouldn’t let me stop thinking about the northern wall of Briggs.
I left Fargo ND not a few months ago. And YES. Those billboards are still there.
John Oliver is truly capable of doing the impossible. Making North Dakota entertaining.
I pushed the foot into the chipper last summer & the photo of me is one of the happiest I’ve ever had. We stayed in Fargo & it was sketchy af & honestly, one of my favorite things ever.
I grew up playing on that Turtle as a kid.
#feelthebern
#berndownforwhat
+Shawnus Cainius Burn*
+Larry -__-
Larry you got it all wrong
#NotPrevalentNow
this is why fines should be percentage of the companies earnings
YIKES! Um...... Yeah...... No....... That's too much.
+Dércio Lichucha Have you ever seen in the news how some companies, when making a massive profit doing something illegally, will choose to pay the fines rather than change their production? In some cases, it is far more profitable to pay what seems like a massive fine to the layman than pay to change their system into something that might not be as effective and cheap (and instituting said change is often ridiculously expensive). Panda God's idea to fine them a percentage doesn't have to be a massive percentage, just enough to make it so profits are in fact affected and it is better for companies to change rather than ignore regulation
You know what Amanda, that's a smart idea now that you explained it. I feel a little full for not having considered the fact that these companies would be interested in changing their methods to begin with- but Panda is right.
I supposed I just wasn't considering the fact that these companies buy chance wouldn't care to change their practices. I'm 19, I'm still getting to know the whole world so I get a little surprised when I discover how egotistical and cruel people can REALLY be.
+Dércio Lichucha Trust me, this is pretty mild compared to some of the shit corporations can pull legally
lol good luck with that. Quite a big task with the partisanship and lobby groups on the Hill.
Didn't censor his "f**k" you at 1:29 :o
...FUCK YOU.
+SCHIZOPHRENlC Hey look, they missed another one over here, too!
Don't know why they censor something that's on HBO and now on TH-cam.
I don't either. The subject matter is more disturbing than one word could ever be.
unfortunately, I live in the shithole of NoDak and I'm just happy someone knows we even exist
+Sky Stolen I think the point you should probably have taken away from this video is that it would've been nicer if outsiders weren't aware you existed?
+Sky Stolen Time for mutiny against this heartless witless state dictatorship. They don't deserve to be called government.
Wind, solar, and bio plastic. Fix the problem.
people aren't willing to switch when they don't think it's an economical option, but it has enough economical advantages that more and more are as it comes cheaper. in 2013 there were 400k homes in the us that had their own solar power, but were already starting to push 1 million and there will be an estimated 900k-3.8 million by 2020. that estimate was in 2014 and were already basically at the lower estimate. With Elon Musk+Solar City annoncing a solar roof they say will be cheaper to install than a normal roof, I'm hoping we can beat the upper estimate by 2020.
No, more like Tesla (not the battery powered car either) technology. THAT is what we should have done instead of Rockefeller oil instead.
You have oil, why would you be friendly to business? They should be cozying up to you, "can we dwill your oil, pwease, North Dakota?"
Unlike pretty much ANY other business, they can't just move across the border and build their factory, they NEED to be on top/adjacent to the reserves.
Honestly, that’s how you keep your supply, while simultaneously increasing the demand, WHILE also being able to raise your stipulations and keep your infrastructure/bureaucracy in conjunction with the businesses so you don’t have insane situations like with OSHA. I smell the money of coal lobbyists in this decision.
Edit: Not coal, oil. Different noxious source of energy.
I learn so much from John Oliver. He's also hilarious
.....like the saying goes in the Air Force: "Why not Minot, Freezin's the reason."
Like the saying goes in Spanish Gibraltar "Shoop di dap di boop"
Where can I see the squirrel playing ping pong video?
Need a new billboard, Be Accountable
It's funny because I've been to all the states west of the Mississippi besides North Dakota lol...
+JonathanOnLife Saving the best for last!
+JonathanOnLife congratu-fuckin-lations
+JonathanOnLife ♟♞♝♜♛♚
David Cortese - Manga Chess
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@1:28 Missed the censor. Which also makes me wonder two things: 1. This is from HBO and 2. This is the Internet. Why are these being bleeped out?
+Rockovissi Good point. Life could use more FUCKS. ;)
If you want to watch a comedic news show about the Democratic Presidential candidates you never heard of, click on my name.
2 minute & 21 seconds of joy.
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John Oliver stood by bleeps in podcasts. Maybe he just likes the sound.
+Rockovissi Bleeping is often more funny
"Fun" fact: I watched Blood & Oil, the drama mentioned in the video, and I can say that it doesn't respectfully portray the issues mentioned in the rest of this piece. The only part that vaguely tries to represent the workers' struggle is just one episode, but even that one isn't very good at doing its job right. However, despite the outright avoidance of the workers' struggle, I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed it. If you can get past the underrepresentation of the working conditions, I would recommend. I was skeptical when I saw the trailer, but it isn't as bad as it looks.
"Lowering explosives in the earth and detonating them." That is what happens when corporate interests are placed before environmental responsibility. We all know that humanity can and needs to do better. Environmental sustainability cannot be a partisan issue.
Lowering explosives into the earth and detonating them is in everyone's interest. Ever heard of mining, the thing that gives us all the things in the modern world. Humans are always going to effect the environment. Your house was built in a place that used to be nature. I agree that we should limit some of our more excessive activities, but your comment is describing a nessecary human service, not corporate greed.
@@zoravar.k7904 A healthy environment is much more of a necessity than anything that can be extracted from the ground. I would not put explosives under any category of minimal impact on the environment.
@@janineanderson1 Mining and extraction is done in special zones, they don't just go around throwing tnt into forests hoping for the best. A city is an example of a special zone, where nature is regulated or even destroyed entirely. Also explosives are used to excavate rock, not a lot of wildlife in rocks.
@@zoravar.k7904 When rocks are destroyed there is contamination of soil, groundwater, and surface water by the chemicals emitted from the rocks during the mining processes. Not to mention it can also cause sinkholes, erosion, and a loss of biodiversity.
@@janineanderson1 that's exactly what cities do as well. As a society we have accepted that some ecosystems are just going to be destroyed for the benefit of mankind, it's hypocritical to blame mining whilst living in anything but a cave, relying only on foraging. Now I'm not saying that miners are without negligence, in the us enforcement with regards to groundwater pollution is terrible. But saying that we shouldn't mine because it destroys ecosystems, whilst relying on those resources to build everything, and destroying other ecosystems for homes built using mined resources is crazy.
The funny thing is, everything he said about Texas is true. I live there.
Like a woman breast feeding in a resturant, a solar eclipse is free, beautiful, but under no circumstances should you look.
+Tom Jenkins
Actually you can look at a solar eclipse safely with certain equipment,
The police confiscated my special equipment that I was looking at breast feeding woman with though :C
should/cant
cant look at a breastfeeding woman or cant look at a solar eclipse?
cuz im pretty sure you CAN do both
I'm not sure i wanna look
Recently traveled from Washington to Ohio, I really loved North Dakota. Vastly underrated place. I saw the signs John mentioned and it was delightful. Beautiful geography, lovely people. eff yeah North Dakota!
Edward Marlowe Fuck yeah! Someone likes us!
8:18 - A few years ago, there was a rig down the road from where I was working (I live in Canada) and the guys HAD fire-resistant clothing and the rig HAD a safety slide, and the rig went up so fast the guy on the monkeyboard never stood a chance. There's a reason the pay's so high, John.
These vids are like topical extended-length late-night monologues without the interview guests promoting their record/movie/book. For a long time, I’ve recorded Kimmel and Colbert so I could watch the monologue and delete the rest. These topics are better chosen, too, as they can use the lengthier time to dig deeper. 60 Minutes show with one speaker and one topic per episode. Adding the comic asides during the rat-a-tat pace is brilliant. Rock on, John. Even when they’re old, they’re often topical.
John "But That Doesn't Always Seem to be the Case" Oliver