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Everythings Amazing & Nobodys Happy
A clip of Louis C.K.'s bit "Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy," about how quickly people take modern technology for granted and complain about it. It is a comedic riff on impatience with air travel and gadgets.
Why HN readers recommended it
Posted constantly in threads about tech complaints as a reminder to appreciate how remarkable modern technology is.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- checkoutmytrip
- Topic
- technology complaint culture
- Format
- comedy
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 20
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2010–2012
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
Refuse? Refuse? You can fly to the US - some 4000 miles away in 7.5 hrs for the East Coast and 11 hours for the West coast. You then may have a little bit of a wait at immigration (or not as the case may …
smiler on Hacker News · 2011-02
In Why I stopped travelling to the US and largely stopped doing business in the USPlus, "simply a taller screen and newer processor", really? New screen, new processor, new innards, new machining and construction, new connector, new iOS, new camera, improved battery life AND lighter. NFC and wireless charging? Who promised you that? And who delivers those at the moment? …
batista on Hacker News · 2012-09
In iPhone 5Everythings Amazing & Nobodys Happy Maybe we need to watch this tube to see things in a more balanced way: [VIDEO]
tomaszkubacki on Hacker News · 2012-09
In Everything's broken and nobody's upset
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.