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CosmicApe, in Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?
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Primative Technology. A dude out in the bush building houses and tools out of mud, sticks, and rocks without speaking a word.

CmdrShepard,

I know there are several similar channels so maybe I’m mixed up, but wasn’t this the one where they found out the guy was using machinery to create his projects off camera and claiming it was all done by hand?

setsneedtofeed,
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He is legit.

The most popular fake primitive building channels are obviously fake if you have even a little bit of critical thinking. They usually pretend to build some preposterously sized waterparks and other complex structures that are obviously above the scale of two guys with hand tools.

brenstar,

Nope. This guy is the real deal. Nothing he does is large scale or unbelievable. If you turn on captions he walks you through what his thought process is/what he is doing. Very enjoyable.

Deceptichum,
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Nah, this is the guy that basically spawned the entire “genre”. He’s legit as can get.

Xariphon,

I'm a fan of him.

Do you watch How To Make Everything?

wildcardology, in Why in the year 2024 and with all the knowledge humans have now do people still believe in religion?

Maybe in a couple hundred years more. Indoctrination is very hard to shake from people.

raynethackery, in If you could have any game remade by a studio of your choice, who would you want working on what?

Ultima 4 Quest of the Avatar by Larian Studios. With Lord British’s approval, of course.

cyberpunk007, in People with Disney+, how's the movie selection?

Meh. I liked the star wars and national geographic stuff but that didn’t take long to burn through. Only have it for kids at this point. And when it’s just the same 2 shows over and over… Feels like a waste of $

As much as people rip on Netflix I watch a lot of stuff on there and use it way more than D+

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

Smarter Every Day

Mark Rober

toasteecup,

I love Rober but his most recent video kinda irked me with the double science camp commercial, hopeful that’s an accident and not intentional.

flames5123,

Veritasium is in the same vein.

0x4E4F, in Tips on making your data less sellable?
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Don’t do shitposting, they’ll ban your account, so you won’t even be able to use messenger.

CaptObvious,

Honestly, this sounds like a good thing.

0x4E4F,
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Well, he needs the account, that’s why I warned him… cuz that’s how I got mine permabanned 😁. And I also consider that a good thing 😉.

sanguinepar, in Which of your favorite creators content quality went downhill very quickly?
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Not sure if this counts, but I’ll nominate Unidan.

PrinceWith999Enemies,

People still crowing about Unidan.

sanguinepar,
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Here’s the thing…

bfg9k,
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Now that’s a blast from the past

DigitalTraveler42,

Now hold on I think you’re confusing crows and jackdaws…

theneverfox, in Why in the year 2024 and with all the knowledge humans have now do people still believe in religion?
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Because at the core of every religion is a tiny grain of truth. It’s 50% intentionally fabricated nonsense, 45% poetic license and the personal interpretation of someone long dead, and maybe 5% of it is truly profound and universal

If you look at religions, they have a lot of commonalities. There is an inhuman, unknowable creator, or source. Then there’s some number of superhuman beings who serve or reject the creator, and may interact with humans. They don’t interact with the creator directly though - they’re also not human, but have some exaggerated human qualities

The abyss, the primal chaos, Ginnungagap for the Norse… It’s the nothing that spawned and makes up everything. It’s ever present, but you know it by acting in harmony with it, and destroy yourself by acting against it.

Then there’s the pantheons, servants, great spirits, naga or what have you - they’re assertions for how to live in harmony with it, some kind of greater being that is partially right and partially wrong. They’re value systems, and they make mistakes in most myths, showing the flaws. Sometimes they created the world from the abyss/chaos, sometimes they created humans, sometimes they just stumbled upon us. Or sometimes aliens that created us as a slave race, depending on how you want to see it.

And then there’s the reason for it - in one way or another, it’s to become something greater through our time alive. Often to become strong or pure enough to be able to join the deities, or to be able to exist in the void without burning to nothing.

You do it through engaging in life - mindfully doing anything will teach you truths about the universe, and through various forms of introspective meditation (or prayer) to bring yourself more in harmony with your version of the truth.

That’s all more like spirituality, but then you spend generations adding in some cautionary tales - we do live in a society after all, these are like bedtime stories that mix our history with the values our society prizes.

Often heroes grow spiritually they make distilled rules to guide the society to improve… Generally they’re pretty reasonable (in the context of the original period)

But then sometimes a more temporary spiritual leader decides they don’t like something - clearly it’s unnatural and unaligned with the truth of existence because they really hate it… So obviously it’s the will of the creator, and it gets tacked on to the guiding code.

And several hundred years later, once the religion has gained institutional power in a much larger and more hierarchical society, assholes just add in whatever is convenient. The core message is forgotten, there’s endless stuff tacked on teaching morals or history that can be reinterpreted… Or maybe society just changed, and you have to drop some rules or lose the flock

Tldr: there’s a core message of how to grow spiritually as a person, and a glimpse of something true about the nature of reality (in a very metaphorical, poetic kind of way). The promise of a reason and a goal speaks to everyone… But then they keep going, and bury the original message by teaching all sorts of other junk, often misinterpreted for an agenda centuries ago, in the same tone. Often misinterpreted today for an agenda.

(Side note, all ancient stories are super poetic and metaphorical, even historical ones… They’re probably just more fun and more easily remembered when they’re repeated around the fire for the next generation)

ani, in Non microsoft git repo

You can’t go wrong with Sourceforge

centof, in What is the most cost effective solar battery on the market today?

I’d probably go with a renology battery via amazon or an eg4 battery from signature solar or from solar sovereign for lithium Ion batteries for long term use.

I second u/seth’s recommendation on Will Prowse as a good source of knowledge on this topic. I agree with avoiding lead acid as it’s less cost effective for a long term solution. I think they also have some more maintenance involved with them compared to li ion.

pastermil,

Don’t the lead-acid have better longetivity tho, since you can change the acid?

JayleneSlide,

The acid is not the problem. It’s the sulfation of the plates (or mats) in flooded cell (and absorbent glass mat) batteries that ruins the batteries.

centof,

Yeah, I guess you could recondition one kinda like how this guy does it. I had never heard of doing that before. Thanks for the info.

I would still opt for li ion even with that though. Lithium Ion has a 2x greater depth of discharge(usable stored power) and 2-3x the lifetime (not taking into account any reconditioning) when compared to lead acid. That equals 4-6x the utility theoretically at around double the cost. That would make li ion 2-3x more bang for your buck compared to lead acid.

But there may be some case, for using a cheaper lead acid on a small scale project. Just be aware of the maintenance requirements of them and the increased cost if you do end up using it on a long term project.

ani, in What can the US do to help Mexico finally stop the cartels?

Full scale invasion and death penalty

perviouslyiner, in Does France have a terrorism problem?

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  • magnor,
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    What even are you on about ?? We have no colonies left. There are a few French “enclaves” left out of the mainland, but they are isolated, forgotten about (in a bad way sadly, shit is tough there) and absolutely not a source of immigration.

    Tar_alcaran,

    Mali(Chad, Mauritania, Niger) may not officially be French anymore, but let’s not forget French soldiers spent a good decade at war with Jihadist groups in the Sahel, which made them extremely unpopular with a lot of people.

    France has also been quite interventionist in other countries in the region, like Cote d’Ivoire.

    Also, technically speaking, France doen have a handful of colonial regions, 2 million people live in them.

    magnor,
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    Technically speaking, those regions (which I mentioned above) are not colonies. Of course one could argue they are in all but name (and I would agree), but they have nothing to do with any case of terrorism on the mainland, which is what the above poster was saying.

    As to the rest of your post I agree with your point, but those are not colonies (the OP was deleted since but it said that terrorism happens because France still has colonies, which is bullshit on many levels).

    Joker, in People with Disney+, how's the movie selection?

    It feels smaller than other streaming services. The quality is there though. I like Disney+ a lot at night when I have some time to watch TV before going to sleep. It’s not a bunch of murder or negative and depressing shit like some other services. I like some true crime and violent action, but I don’t exactly enjoy it right before bed. I’d rather put on Rescue Rangers, original Star Wars or some other stuff I enjoyed as a kid. If you’re into nostalgia, Disney+ probably has more of it than any other service and they still have a bunch of new stuff too. It’s a great service.

    ani, in Do you feel a UBI is more left- or right-wing (or other) and why?

    IIRC ubi is a liberal idea. So right wing

    Boiglenoight, in Why in the year 2024 and with all the knowledge humans have now do people still believe in religion?

    People need to believe in something. Otherwise life feels meaningless to many.

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