- For Your Tool-Box: How to get YouTube Captions to make a Transcript
- 1. Go to youtube, find video with captions.
2. Go here: YouTube Subs
3. Paste the URL of the video into that tool and follow directions. When you hit the download button, a .srt caption file will be saved to your desktop.
4. Change the file extension from .srt to .txt, open in Notepad or whatever and you’re done.
So easy! (I should note that the .txt file comes with the timing marks in it.)
- Applying the Louis Farrakhan Standard
- [Echidne of the Snakes - olvlzl]
Back when Louis Farrakhan made some of his more outrageously anti-Semitic statements, it became practically de rigeur for anyone who was black who appeared in the media to be forced to condemn him. I remember all kinds of people with no connection to Farrakhan or his ideology put through that degradation ceremony. The eminent poet Gwendolyn Brooks was one of those I remember especially…
This is absurd. Fairness isn't an absolute standard, it depends on the standards that prevail and those are set by the Republicans and their kept media. Allowing them to apply a standard which they don't apply to themselves allows them to set up a double standard in their favor. We are under no ethical or moral obligation to do it, certainly not in this issue where the facts are clear and fully documented and they have been going back years.
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
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