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Altrex, in What songs do you like that are in a language which you don't speak?

ATARASHII GAKKO! My uncle told me to check them out and I’ve like them a lot.

Kage520, in How are you all making it right now with grocery store prices?

I mostly buy ingredients and cook bulk batches of food. Before, we were splurging on instacart, but they got crazy expensive with their upcharges (MINIMUM 15% increase in item cost, + service charge, +delivery fee (or the annual delivery fee), +tip (it started to feel like 15% was too low, on top of the 15% grocery upcharge).

We stopped that and we actually spend less now even after this inflation.

Phoonzang, in Am I the only one getting agitated by the word AI?

Part of my work is to evaluate proposals for research topics and their funding, and as soon as “AI” is mentioned, I’m already annoyed. In the vast majority of cases, justifiably so. It’s a buzzword to make things sound cutting edge and very rarely carries any meaning or actually adds anything to the research proposal. A few years ago the buzzword was “machine learning”, and before that “big data”, same story. Those however quickly either went away, or people started to use those properly. With AI, I’m unfortunately not seeing that.

mostNONheinous, in What is your unpopular flim opinion

I won’t watch SNATCH because people wouldn’t shut the fuck about it for like 10 years. It may be great, I wouldn’t know because I won’t watch it.

thisbenzingring,

Things are popular for reasons and being cynical about it and prejudging something based only on its popularity is limiting your exposure to the world.

Its better to have an informed opinion then a cynical ignorance.

mostNONheinous,

The notion that missing a single guy Ritchie flick is limiting my exposure to the world is laughable. I’m gonna add another 10 years on now.

roofuskit,
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Most of his other films are better, check them out and then watch Snatch if you still haven’t.

Couldbealeotard,
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I do this same thing. It’s there a name for it? Peer defiance?

Bluebanrigh,

Me too, when people recommend me tv shows.

On paper they’re series that I would like, but the recommendations years old and I still haven’t watched them.

AquaTofana, (edited )

I think it’s just called you guys being contrarian

mostNONheinous,

You could say this if I behaved that way with every recommendation, but it is how something is recommended that is the issue here. Context is key.

mostNONheinous,

Demand avoidance is a thing, I specifically hate it when people are all “BRO, how have you not seen this, it’s the shit. YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOURE MISSING!” So I just stay away as a fuck you I guess.

Couldbealeotard,
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I find the people who do the whole “how have you not seen […]” Have not matured enough too have the awareness that other people have different life experiences. Lack of empathy.

IronicDeadPan, (edited ) in What songs do you like that are in a language which you don't speak?

Anything by:

Dir En Grey

Yoshida Brothers

Phunter, in What songs do you like that are in a language which you don't speak?
klemptor, in What are you drinking tonight, and is it what you really want to be drinking?

Water, and I’d rather be drinking beer but I’m counting calories, womp womp :/

BastingChemina, in What songs do you like that are in a language which you don't speak?

[Bratisla Boys - Stach Stach

](m.youtube.com/watch?v=0mv7ljo9x0g)

I think that for this one we can all agree on “not speaking the language”

Scotty_Trees, in What songs do you like that are in a language which you don't speak?
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Any from the Buena Vista Social Club, album is beautiful, their song Chan Chan is one of my all time favorites:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5cELP06Mik

tal, in What is Something Scientific that you just don't believe in at all?
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I mean, define “scientific”. A currently-held, consensus theory? Because it’s easy to find theories that were developed in accordance with scientific theory, held for a while, but discarded.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether_theories

In physics, aether theories (also known as ether theories) propose the existence of a medium, a space-filling substance or field as a transmission medium for the propagation of electromagnetic or gravitational forces. “Since the development of special relativity, theories using a substantial aether fell out of use in modern physics, and are now replaced by more abstract models.”

doctorcrimson,

Reminds me of Electrogravitics, those old coots were silly.

scrubbles, in What's a movie you don't really watch but your damn proud to have on your shelf?
@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech avatar

The Whale.

Very happy to own it, watched it in 4k. Will keep it forever. It will be a very long time until I watch it again. It was amazing, but if you’ve watched it you know why.

weirdbeardgame, in What's a movie you don't really watch but your damn proud to have on your shelf?

I’ve got a solid one. Source code (2011), with Jake Gyllenhaal. And there’s a really specific reason for it because I do love that movie and definitely crack a smile when I see it in my libary. It’s that I just end up watching Inception instead.

pmw, in If reality wasn't wholly rational, could one ever come to terms with it, or would one rationalize it instead?

Most humans believe in magic in some form (gods, spirits, miracles, astrology, etc) so we don’t have to guess how people would respond if they believed reality was irrational. They rationalize it endlessly and try desperately not to look at the parts that make no sense.

Tja, (edited ) in Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?

Consumer Tech: mkbhd, LTT, MrMobile, Dave2D, JerryRigEverything, UrAvgConsumer, GamersNexus

Geeky Tech: TechnoTim, ServeTheHome, Explaining Computers, Level1Techs, Jeff Geerling, , Low Spec Gamer, Modern Vintage Gamer, Wolfgangs Channel, Network Chuck, Project Farm, Tech Rules

Smart Home: Everything Smart Home, The Hook Up, Smart Home Solver, Paul Hibbert, Reed’s Smart Home, NotEnoughTech

Popular science: Veritasium, Kurzgesagt, Smarter Every Day, Hank Green

Science: Cleo Abram, Physics Girl, Nile Red/Blue, Computerphile, NumberPhile, Minutephysics, The SciShow, PeriodicVideos, Sixty Symbols, Scott Manley, The Action Lab, 3blue1brown, Kyle Hill, Steve Mould, Fermilab, PBS Space Time

Engineering: Practical Engineering, B1M, Coby Explanes, engineerguy, Technical Connections, Simone Giertz

Entertainment with some science/engineering sparkled in: Colin furze, Mark Robert, Slow Mo Guys, Johnny Harris, TheBackyardScientist

Entertainment: CGP Grey, Tom Scott, Max Fosh, Lockpicking Lawyer, Legal Eagle, Kitboga, Not Just Bikes, Cheddar

Docutainment: Cold Fusion, Wendover Productions/Half as Interesting, Anything with Simon Whistler (Megaprojects, etc)

Programming: Fireship, The Primeagen, Tech world with Nana, freCodeCamp, Ben Eater, Jake Wright, Dreams of Code, mCoding

Electronics: Andreas Spiess, GreatScott!, Tall Paul Tech, EEV

Chess: Anna Cramling, Gotham Chess, Hikaru

Cars: Carwow, Out of Spec Reviews, TeslaBjorn, Throttle House, Engineering Explained, autoTrader, Donut, Hagerty, RSEV

Travel: HONEST GUIDE (the Prague guy), Pack Hacker, SV Delos, Tim Traveller, Trek Trendy

History: the fat electrician, historigraph, history matters,

Woodworking: Shaun Boyd, Blacktail Studio, Foureyes furniture

Late Night: Colbert, Meyers, Kimmel, Daily Show, Last Week Tonight

Russia/Ukraine: LazerPig, 1420 (Daniil Orain), Perun (edited to add)

If you speak German: HausbauHelden, FelixBa, Lohnt sich das, Finanzfluss, Next Move, Autogefühl, Smarthome yourself, Jonas Winkler, Held der Steine

KpntAutismus,

i also love crinacle for the occasional review of audio gear i will never buy.

and also all of the collabs he’s doing so i can recommend decent IEMs to people.

aquinteros,

also in woodworking mokongtv123 has so much amazing builds , worth checking out

Tja,

Something more for my “watch later” list, thanks!

ObsidianZed, (edited )

No Steve Mould? Definitely up there imo.

Edit: nvm I see him up there! I overlooked it the first glance.

Tja,

Steve Mould is one of the best ones, definitely. Top 10 of all, you always learn something and spend a very nice 10 minutes doing it.

Dark_Arc,
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Dang! Thanks for the detailed list, this had to take a while! Definitely going to look through it when I get a chance!

Tja,

I took it as an opportunity to do some Christmas cleaning of my subscription list as well :)

Aqarius,

Does lazerpig still claim mathilda 2s were immune to flak 88s?

NoMoreCocaine,

Not really commenting beyond the fact that you have a separate category for Russia/Ukraine and have lazerpig on it? I think he did like three maybe four videos on it. Max. And you didn’t even mention Perun…

Tja, (edited )

You’re right, big omission of Perun, I was going mostly from memory… Fixed now!

viking,
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Half of the channel you mention here were listed in the thread about youtubers who went to shit, which triggered this one here…

Tja, (edited )

If by half you mean 4 (edit: 7), I addressed those in a separate comment, and I stand by them.

Guntrigger,

It’s funny because I read through that other thread about creators going downhill and (while I don’t know most in either thread) you mention a couple of them here.

Tja, (edited )

Interesting, I just checked it out, and it seemed people really idealize “the good old days” plus they go absolutely crazy the second a youtuber wants to earn some money doing what they do.

Here’s what I think of the individual channels that I saw mentioned:

  • LTT had a big controversy after the Gamers Nexus video and it looks like they corrected. MKBHD was never super deep, he does reviews after a week or two of using a phone. You never get a full picture with just one review, if you are interested in spending your money watch a few, otherwise it’s just entertainment. I like LTTs server/Linus’ home series and MKBHD for the visuals.
  • Mark Rober had a few bad videos a year ago and now has a product that he sells, that fits perfectly with his theme “learning engineering by building stuff”. But his videos were never always perfect, people just remember the good ones.
  • The Primeagen reacting to stuff is the very reason I watch him (actually mostly listen while doing other stuff). He reads articles about programming/It stuff and comments about them. Yeah, sometimes he’s not an expert on the topic, but it’s still informative and very often he admits it from the beginning.
  • The lock picking lawyer picks locks. I don’t know what people expect him to do, there’s only so much variety. The 100th video about picking locks is not going to be so thrilling as the first one you watched… And again, him trying to monetize by creating products related to his hobby and selling them doesn’t seem like a capital sin to me.
  • Edit, because I forgot about Veritasium and Kurzgesagt: I completely disagree. Veritasium has gotten better with time and the last year has been awesome. The “Epic Math Duel” (somewhat older than a year, but the channel is 10 years old, so relatively recent), “Franz Haber” or “Sawing Machines” are excellent videos. Kurzgesagt is completely transparent about their funding and cite all sources, if some people feel a video about using stars as fuel for intergalactic travel or about Dyson spheres is “capitalist propaganda”, that is their right to an opinion I guess. If anything I would criticize for being a bit “too dreamy/science fiction”, but the visuals are great and it’s a great watch nonetheless.
gens, (edited )

Rex Krueger, Stumpy Nubs, Jonathan Katz-Moses , Bourbon Moth Woodworking for woodworking.

AlphaPhoenix, Applied Science for science.

Strange Loop Conference, and many such other for programming.

Tja,

Noted, will check them out over the holidays, thanks!

dog_, (edited )

Ltt is debatable now tbh.

Edit: if you aren’t aware of the situation that happened, here’s a video from Gamers Nexus www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGW3TPytTjc

KpntAutismus,

meh. their content is at the same level it was before, they just look over the specs twice before uploading now.

UsernameIsTooLon,

They’ve more or less addressed this issue. Their videos are like double checked now and you can kinda tell.

dog_,

But that’s not the only problem. They also sold that prototype for that one company, and I don’t think that company got their prototype back.

UsernameIsTooLon,

Yea that’s gone and they admitted to fault and reimbursed them to the best of their abilities. Sometimes in life you fuck up and you just gotta own up to it and that there’s no fixing it.

As a consequence, they’ll most likely never work together again and LTT knows they lost a company. It also hurts LTTs reputation in the long run too.

Tja,

I think they corrected, they don’t upload strictly one video per day anymore. I’m hope the working conditions / stress for the staff improved. They content produced is still pretty entertaining.

For factual info about a purchase I would trust GamersNexus, tho. And their content about cars sucks, Alex is a terrible car reviewer.

dog_,

Perhaps, but like I just said in a precious comment, they “sold” a company’s best prototype and I don’t think that company ever got it back. I was a long term fan and sub of the LMG team, but after this whole kerfuffle, I unsubbed from them and I don’t regret it.

TheGalacticVoid,

As far as I’m aware, they got in contact with the company and settled things.

Tja,

Fair

AdrianTheFrog,
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Sebastian lague and acerola are some other programming channels I like

Tja,

I just checked Sebastian Lague. Last video is more than an hour and about chess bots, so two hobbies in one, awesome, thanks!

I will check acerola later, but seems very focused on graphics, not my biggest interest :)

theywilleatthestars, in If reality wasn't wholly rational, could one ever come to terms with it, or would one rationalize it instead?

I mean that sounds pretty close to what absurdism is getting at

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