Truly delightful
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I love watching Spacetime, but also feel like dum-dum-brain after watch. Me no think good enough to watch this show.
I feel like the more you watch the more watchable it is cause you get more and more context
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My problem with threads like this is that I only have 24 hours a day, and I've accumulated a critical mass of content creators to the point where I cannot keep up.
Which of these awesome people do I ignore?! What information do I leave behind!? How am I supposed to get anything useful done with my life?!?
Also, check out Chris Boden if you want to see something cool!
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I liked smarter every day but recently I have been kinda put off because of his fairly frequent military propaganda for USA's military.
Didn't he also make a video at some point heavily implying he believes in creationism?
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Been a while I didn't watch one of his videos, but I remember some US military stuff on there and I thought it was an interesting view from someone I think is smart but clearly doesn't share my political leanings.
Trying to not be in an echo chamber and all.
Important to note that I don't live in the US.
That's fair.
But it's not mainly his views that put me of (just kinda) it's the paid and unpaid sponsorships with the military. It's so obviously a recruitment strategy that it's painful to watch.
I don't live in the USA either.
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Anyone here like Folding Ideas? He's done some good stuff about flat earthers, crypto bros, and such.
One of the greats! Also, if you like Folding Ideas, you'll love Benn Jordan. The style is very similar. Also, Technology Connections.
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I just went back and watched a few to make sure I was remembering correctly. And yep, he's way too hyperactive, over animated, and dramatic for me. I mean, I don't hate his work, but it drives me a little crazy too watch it.
I'm talking about his full videos. I actively refuse to watch anything YouTube shows as a "short".
As a quick example, just watch the way his head and facial expressions zip around at the beginning of this video when he's in front of the white background. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHL9GP_B30E
You are 100% correct on this. I can't watch him either
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Also veritasium, 3blue1brown, practical engineering, adam savage kinda too
Feels warranted to also drop a mention of Physics Girl.
She's been going through hell for the past couple of years but she finally seems to be getting better.
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Me: “Sam O… haha cute name. I’ve never heard of it. I’ll see if they have a YT channel. Oh they do! What?! I’m already subscribed??!”
I wish YT actually respected subscriptions. Here I am subscribed to someone and I’ve so thoroughly forgotten it that their name doesn’t even ring a bell.
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I am big fan of their prepandemic work. But if you can get past their click bait videos, I think they still do good content.
Science pieces spreading awareness about something are their best videos.
This recent video on fentanyl was very good.
The south korea one, the vaping and weed ones. Very good at condensing complicated topic while still retaining pertinent information that's new and not patronizing.
I just showed their Fentanyl video to my 13yo daughter over the weekend and it was incredibly effective as a parenting tool. We paused many times and discussed. But their presentation didn’t leave all that much for me to say.
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It was very pro heroin
Only if you didn’t pay attention.
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If you wanna learn from the best chef in the world:
You Suck At Cooking! Yeah, you totally suck!
Or Preppy Kitchen if we're being serious
Legal stuff:
Meidas Touch and Legal Eagle
Retro video and music devices:
Techmoan and VWestlife
Also: Tom Scott. Or at least his backlog because he retired.
And a very important one! - Science stuff: Potholer54 I can't believe he doesn't have millions of subs. It actually kind of makes me sad.
One more for potholer54. He's one of the oldies, right up there with DarkMatter2525.(probably my favorite), Professor Dave Explains, Myles Power and Martymer 81. Oh, and in this vein there's a (relatively) new kid on the block: Forrest Valkai aka Renegade Science Teacher.
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I love watching Spacetime, but also feel like dum-dum-brain after watch. Me no think good enough to watch this show.
Yeah I think it’s a quality channel but apparently there are just SO many people out there smarter than me that they are fine catering only to them. It sucks being left behind by a publicly funded channel
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Me: “Sam O… haha cute name. I’ve never heard of it. I’ll see if they have a YT channel. Oh they do! What?! I’m already subscribed??!”
I wish YT actually respected subscriptions. Here I am subscribed to someone and I’ve so thoroughly forgotten it that their name doesn’t even ring a bell.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]wat? How do you get from being forgetful about your own stuff to youtube not respecting subscriptions? (whatever that even means lol)
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CGP Grey is a meh channel for a very long time now
I thought the Tiffany video was pretty meh, but the followup video about how the Tiffany video got made was one of his best. He's clearly a thorough and passionate researcher. The way he refuses to settle for anything less than the primary source is both entertaining and vitally important in our modern information landscape.
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Anyone know a good channel for film a vfx? I like Corridor Crew but they're a bit too noisy for me.
Kinda sorta Ian Hubert. He does "lazy tutorials" which are like 1 to 5 minute speed runs of different VFX tricks. There's not really enough detail to recreate what he's doing unless you're already pretty proficient, but it's cool to watch and get the creative juices flowing.
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wat? How do you get from being forgetful about your own stuff to youtube not respecting subscriptions? (whatever that even means lol)
The implication is that Youtube so rarely presents them the content they are subscribed to that they have forgotten about the channel entirely.
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wat? How do you get from being forgetful about your own stuff to youtube not respecting subscriptions? (whatever that even means lol)
I use YT daily, heavily.
It’s pretty well known that their feed is optimized for engagement above all else. They will show you videos they think you’ll like and NOT show you a new video from a channel you’re subscribed to.
It’s called an “algorithm.”
It’s so extreme at times that you can even not know that you’re subscribed to a channel, because you never see them.
This is what I mean by not respecting subscriptions. There’s no stronger explicit signal
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no Wendover the first time I noticed he used the wrong care when talking about EVs, Volt instead of Bolt, and constantly could not get Kansas Town tames correctly. There are more but this is the only one that stuck in my head because it was my wakeup call.
When he got called out for it he said "Its fine and it does not make any difrence to the video, except it was the wrong car
I noticed he used the wrong care when talking about EVs, Volt instead of Bolt, and constantly could not get Kansas Town tames correctly. [...]
When he got called out for it he said "Its fine and it does not make any difrence to the video, except it was the wrong car
Do you really disagree? Those two names rhyme and b and v sound extremely similar. Does getting that minor of an error warrant a retraction in your mind? If it does, you should retract your comment because you have typos in it. I personally don't believe they make any difference, but since you do you should retract.
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I've seen him double down on being very wrong more than once. I find it hard to take him seriously knowing how very wrong he can be without wavering conviction.
If he's wrong when talking about the topics I do know about, what should I assume about his knowledge of topics I'm less familiar on?
What topics? And who is the "he"? The previous comment mentioned two people.
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I use YT daily, heavily.
It’s pretty well known that their feed is optimized for engagement above all else. They will show you videos they think you’ll like and NOT show you a new video from a channel you’re subscribed to.
It’s called an “algorithm.”
It’s so extreme at times that you can even not know that you’re subscribed to a channel, because you never see them.
This is what I mean by not respecting subscriptions. There’s no stronger explicit signal
I can give YT when I want to see more of a creator. But they ignore that and decide for me what I’ll like.Do you not check the subscriptions tab and just hope "the algorithm" keeps feeding people you like?
