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intensely_human, in What are some food items that cost less than what they "should"?

Pretty much all food. I can work for 5 minutes and buy 700 Calories’ worth of trail mix. My work consists of walking around a climate controlled room answering questions about things people are buying.

This means that with 15 minutes per day of effort, I get a diet more consistent than my ancestors could get with six hours of work per day.

Food is ridiculously cheap around me.

EuroNutellaMan, (edited ) in Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?
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Climate Town, Adam Something, Not Just Bikes, Contra Points, Hbomberguy, World War Two, The Great War, The Linux Experiment, CivDiv, The Thought Emporium, and there are some others that currently escape my mind.

I also have GioPizzi and Yotobi but their videos are in Italian.

cloud_herder,

I feel seen.

someguy3, in What are some food items that cost less than what they "should"?

Like everything made in China.

A shirt that costs $8? Board game that costs $20?

Mathazzar, in Does AI-generated art posted on lemmy bother you?

I’m against AI-generated anything as a principal. I have too many friends in the art community who’s primary form of income is the art they create.

I think I’ve become more jaded over time. I blacklist authors who use AI generated cover art, and I’m getting to the point that I want to do the same for games because I am so tired of hearing AI voices to replace characters, even if that character is an AI in the game.

Again, it doesn’t stem from my hate of new technology, but rather the people being effected by that technology - the artists, voice actors, what have you. And also there’s that thing where I do not want to talk to a chat robot for things.

sronweb, in Thunderbird or Betterbird. What is better on Windows?

You may compare both as, is possible to share the same profile between the 2 apps. Actually I rely on Thunderbird, as I use it since the beginning, and it has the functions I need. Perhaps I will give a try on the Betterbird as well.

genie, in Best android app for news aggregation?

For the self hosters – Nextcloud news!

But the underlying answer for me is an RSS feed aggregator. Set up your own feeds and tweak as needed.

morphballganon, in What groups you are unwillingly associated with? How you handle it?

I’m a man, which means I am part of “men.”

Lots of men are predatory, objectify women and scoff at feminism. Being a man, people just inherently assume I’m like that too.

I deal with it by engaging only with people who demonstrate the ability to listen and withhold judgment.

teichflamme,

That is as sexist as it gets from whatever dumb people think about literally 50% of the world’s population as a monolith

Custoslibera,

He said ‘lots of men’ not all.

Linus_Torvalds,

Indeed. Oftentimes they kinda resolve their cognitive dissonance by saying ‘Ah, you got a fiance, you have to say that wink’. As if there is no other logical explanation.

MicrowavedTea, in Whats the difference between the language codes ro and ro_v26 (romanian)?

With a quick search it seems to be a translation specifically targeting Android 8.0 (API 26) but I only see it in the TBLauncher project. Some small details here but not sure why there is a separate translation for it github.com/TBog/TBLauncher/issues/90.

Ziro427, in Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?

Well, after looking through, I saw that some of my favorites are not on here.

Kraut: makes well thought out video essays on politics, history, culture and everything in between. He also tells you his reading list that went into making a particular video.

Adam Something: bit of politics, bit of urban planning, bit of shitting on Elon Musk, bit of shitting on stupid ideas.

The Great War: started in 2014 doing week by week of the first world War, 100 years after it began. Now is doing a similar series on the second world War.

The Operations Room: breaks down historical military operations minute by minute, incredible level of detail.

Korean Englishman/ Jolly: Josh and Ollie a couple of British guys introduce korean food to people and on Jolly they go get into other foods and hijinks

Townsend: showing what life was like in early colonial America

Tum,

I think we must have a very similar viewing list.

My favorite thing about Adam Something is that he points out consistently that nearly all the big hyped “futurism” ideas for transport and infrastructure, are just solving problems that we have already solved using trains. except it’s always slower more costly and less efficient than a train.

For some other recommendations, specially about videogames, Civvie11 does reviews and playthrough of old FPS games (the boomer shooter, Doom and Quake generation). His videos are very entertaining.

Warlockracy is similar, but for CRPGs like the original fallout and various obscure, usually eastern European mods for them. He’s also extremely entertaining.

MandaloreGaming does a mix of old and new games, usually older, and goes into great detail about them and their development and he’s probably the most fair and honest reviewer I’ve ever seen. He reviews games he thinks are interesting so sometimes they’re obscure and sometimes they’re very popular oldies.

EuroNutellaMan,
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Don’t forget World War Two, run by Indy Neidell (same guy who presented The Great War)

Nemo, in Let's get raunchy

On a tiny island in an artificial lake in the middle of a big city park.

yuki2501, (edited ) in Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?
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Here’s some of my own, in no particular order:

Gotham Chess - also known for his catchphrase: “Sacrifices… THE ROOK!!!”. Yeah, that guy.

Kyle Hill is a science communicator and makes awesome educational content; he also debunks conspiracy theories.

Jeff Geerling is a RasPi aficionado who’s made tons of projects.

Louis Rossmann specializes in consumer tech (mostly computers); he’s a great critic of corporations and DRM.

Jenna Moreci is a published fantasy writer and has great videos on what to do and not to do when writing fiction.

One Topic at a Time - shares LGBTQ memes found on reddit. His voice may sound annoying. (What can I say? It’s an acquired taste)

Bits inside by René Rebe specializes in Linux and Open Source stuff.

Noralities is a girl who makes video essays about anime, and they’re not trivial opinions They involve writing, stereotypes, romance, society, and stuff. She’s done her homework.

EDIT: Added details.

theherk,

Love Geerling and Rossmann, but I simply don’t understand the appeal of Levy; he is so over the top. Not that I would downvote this though, he is just not my style, and there are many good chess channels since the boom. Chessbrah, Anna Cramping, Hikaru, Banzea, and Hanging Pawns all come to mind.

Anna’s content, especially with parents GM Cramling and GM Bellón López is so fun and wholesome.

🐮

yuki2501,
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It’s a matter of taste. I like his humor, but I do understand he’s not for everybody. Yeah, Anna Cramling is one of my favs, too.

v4ld1z,
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I second Second Wind. The quality they’ve been putting out so far is surreal

NikkiDimes,

To boil down Kyle Hill as simply debunking conspiracy theories is so sad… He’s a science communicator and makes awesome educational content. Occasionally, he debunks a conspiracy or two.

TicklePickle,

His video about the SL-1 meltdown was the first I saw of him. Incredible video and definitely not worthy of being called just a conspiracy debunker.

Excrubulent,
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Funnily enough I just got done with his video about the “nukes aren’t real” conspiracy theory. Of course that’s just one in his long Half Life Histories series which is mainly about the science and not conspiracies at all.

yuki2501,
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Fixed, thanks for the heads up.

NikkiDimes,

Thanks!

Highly recommend anyone interested in approachable nuclear science adjacent entertainment or science entertainment in general to check him out.

Raiderkev,

Lol, I used to hang out with Jenna way back in HS. I knew she was writing books, didn’t know she had a YouTube channel and/or was successful at it. That’s cool to hear.

RBWells, (edited ) in You have a magic pill, which de-ages you by 20 years. You can take it once in your life only, so long as you are at least 20. What age — past, current or future — do you reckon is best to take it?

Probably 65, as 45 was my vampire age, and I have enjoyed the time since that age. I am not sure I’d like to go back to fertility though. Think about it, say you take it at 40, menarche around 15 and menopause around 55, that’s periods for 60 years instead of 40 years, and twenty extra years you might get pregnant.

I’ve had some time to think on this, I still say probably 65. I waffled for awhile because I would like to have the build I had before the last 2 children, but keep the kids, the ten pound wonder blew out my abs and skin which happily bounced completely back several times did not make a complete recovery with the last. But the 3 additional years I spent nursing them provides additional protection vs. breast cancer, don’t think I’d want to give up their half of that. And I have literally felt better and healthier in the years after 40, so rather have more of those.

ryven, in Which of your favorite creators content quality went downhill very quickly?
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I have the opposite problem where Youtubers who I watch because I enjoy their unedited, off-the-cuff content keep deciding to put more effort into their channel and start producing videos that are scripted and edited well, which I find way less interesting and watchable than their stream-of-consciousness rambling was. WolfeyVGC is a big one. He theoretically has a second channel for low effort content but he rarely posts to it.

banneryear1868,

You might like Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t if you like that style of video. It’s a crass low brow approach to botany and ecology presented by a Chicago Italian. Been going for years now and has improved his quality but it’s still off the cuff rambling.

chicory,
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I second, Crime Pays is a great channel

SorteKanin, (edited )
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This is why I love SlowMoGuys, their stuff still feels unscripted.

fastandcurious,

I can relate to this, i also really enjoy more raw, down to earth, simple content which is very rare these days

cley_faye, in Does AI-generated art posted on lemmy bother you?

Content created with some thought, attention to quality, and correctly disclosed is fine. Endless waves of mindless garbage taken directly from some automatic generation to post it as fast as possible in as many places as possible? These can’t go away fast enough.

AI is a tool people can use. Generative AI is far from being the most useful of them. And people posting raw “generated” output that instantly gets spotted as AI garbage should really question themselves about why they’re doing it.

L1amnees0ns, in Let's get raunchy

Inside of an automatic carwash with the longest wash we could buy running.

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