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I like to play the videos at 1.5x-2x speed, with subtitles. That makes a 90-minute lecture take a more easily found 60 or 45 minutes.

Tobacco advertising is banned in the US, and tobacco use is in decline there. (The US State Department works to outlaw bans in other countries. True!) A ban on advertising sugar-laced products -- high sugar-to-fiber ratio products, specifically -- ought to help.

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I like 3× speed with subs and librubberband (automagically speeding faster through silence and slowing down on fast speech, automatically activated by mpv's librubberband-helper plugin).

After reading the lies and cover-ups the NIAAA, NIH, etc. were involved in relating to the alcohol study, adding more bureaucrats to enforce new bans is about the last thing I'd try to help.

TIL librubberband! So, like

  $ mpv --af=rubberband --speed=2 --demuxer-readahead-secs=60 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpNU72dny2s'

Food labeling requirements have to be counted as a success, as far as they go. And, I find it hard to criticize the execution of the tobacco advertising ban. Stringing people up has been seen to work, but most often the wrong ones get strung up.

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