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

None. I have self-respect. For example. My own MAGA worshipping Trump-humping father demanded that I apologize for telling him that America sucks (in regards to healthcare). I was told to either apologize or to never talk again.

I said we’d never talk again. And we haven’t.

Gallardo994, in Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?

Karl Jobst for sure.

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

He posts infrequently but Sean Hodgins videos keep getting better. Don’t let the thumbnails fool you, he puts a ton of work into them. It’s hard to describe, it’s mostly him showing off his projects but they have an analogue/80s cyberpunk feel in the way he tells his story, the music that’s played, and how he edits the videos together.

b7c431d1823d, in Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?

Cambrian Chronicles: Welsh history

buzz86us, in Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?

I’m a big fan of illwillpress foamy forever.

a9249, in Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?

Tom Scott. Only gotten better with time.

cerulean_blue,

Amen. Shame he’s jacking it in. But he has been going non-stop for like 10 years

a9249,

Youtube viewership has been quickly declining in the past year… hes just running out the clock.

Kolanaki, in Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?
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Good Mythical Morning has been around since before YouTube even existed and they still put out good shit. Even more so, with the GM Kitchen stuff (which I actually like more; those guys are fun as hell).

nomous,

I loved GMM until every episode became a food episode. I’m trying to watch what I eat and every episode being a food tier-list or guess-where-the-food-is-from really turned me off.

I still like the guys and their staff. I listen to Ear Biscuits and catch the longer-form stuff they’re experimenting with but I no longer watch GMM/GMMore daily.

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

GhostsAreShitty,

I don’t think I’ll ever connect with his YouTube stuff like I did with his pre-YouTube The Show. But he’s consistently churning out great stuff.

Crack0n7uesday, (edited ) in Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?

Wendigoon, he doesn’t post as frequently as a lot of others but his videos are like an hour long and he researches the fuck out of a subject. He did one about the unabomber recently that he had to break into a two partner because one part was just an hour long interview with the lead FBI investigator on the case.

TwanHE, in What is your best story when you were in a foreign country?

I was out camping in Slovenia with the scouts. We stayed in podljubelj and met an older guy (friend our campground owner, important for later) that did tours through the redstone mines and abandoned buildings in the mountains. The tour was to take 3 hours and it cost €15 cash only, so we did a quick calculation of how much we needed and got it from the atm just before the tour started.

We had a great time and got some cool memories climbing down a abandoned mineshafts and lifts while this guy was terrified for our lives😅 So the tour concludes and we go to pay him, and he almost fell over backwards when we handed him €200 which was the price we calculated + a small tip.

Turns out the €15 wasn’t per person but instead a flat rate no matter the group size. Fucking €15 for guiding a group of 12 idiots for 3 hours.

We ended up having intense negotiations with the guy for how much he was willing to take. In the end we managed to convince him to take €100 from us and we ended up giving the other €100 to our campground owner who would make sure his stubborn friend didn’t turn down “free” money.

I still can’t believe that tour was meant to be just €15

TwinTusks,
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Lets convert. Currently Euro to CNY (Chinese) is 7.78.

€15 for 3 hours is 116.7CNY, that is 38 CNY/hour, that is mighty high even in China today where the average salary is about 3-4K CNY.

agissilver,

They were in Slovenia, not china?

TwinTusks,
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I know, I’m just providing a example to show the disparency between economic of two different countries, where as for one person the amount is minimal while for the other is significant.

(Solvenia also uses Euro, so I don’t know whats going on over there)

Persen,

Yep Slovenia is cheap unless you live here.

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

I’m a large, unpleasant looking man living in a red state who has a pickup truck, and a harley. I’m married to a methodist lay speaker. I have a few firearms.

So naturally I must be the biggest trump supporting, red-hat wearing, religious conservative twatwaffle in existence, there is no other option.

As a result, the actual redhat cockwombles I work with think I’m going to be OK with their racist comments, and are shocked when I’m not. The thing that helps me with these guys is the fact that they are having to work from prints that have my initials on them so they can whine about the LiBuRl all they want, and I’ll still be helping them get their jobs done.

The traits they are assuming make me One of Them™ are just incidental things. I have a battered old truck because my wife and I have either a large garden or a small farm, depending on how you look at it. A Honda Civic won’t carry the stuff I need. (Neither will a van) I have a harley because the local motorcycle dealers are pretty terrible tp deal with, but the harley dealer is nice, helpful, and act like they want to sell a bike. I’m large and unpleasant because of genetics. And I have firearms because for most of my adult life I have lived somewhere that has an hour’s response time for law enforcement, and I’ve had to defend myself in the past. None of these things made me hate any particular group of people.

someguy3,

How big is your garden/farm?

Kase,

Pretty big. Or pretty small, depends on how you look at it. /s

someguy3,

If only we had measurements.

Kase,

He’s American tho. We don’t use those here.

ShittyBeatlesFCPres,

1 megaparsec^2 / α*137 rounded to the nearest farm.

lingh0e,

“Methodist lay speaker”?

zeppo, in What is your best story when you were in a foreign country?
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My family went to Tijuana when I was about 5. My brother and I saw an unconscious/dead person being dragged into an alley and were ‘wtf?’. My parents just said uh, nevermind about that.

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

Cooking

youtube.com/Chef John is a treasure, every recipe I’ve followed of his has been a banger! Highly recommend

Guitar related

youtube.com/Eric Haugen is a fantastic guitar player/teacher, I love his mellow Bob Ross-esque vibe

youtube.com/Philip McKnight is the god of the guitar gear heads. Has a ton of great videos showing how to do simple guitar repairs, reviewing gear etc.

Comedy/pop culture

youtube.com/Internet comments etiquette is a hilarious channel that teaches how to leave respectful comments in this increasingly hostile and confusing online world.

youtube.com/Red Letter Media - movie/tv critics with great skits and characters. Maybe the best thing on YouTube IMO

Board Games

youtube.com/Really great board game reviews, I’ve found a bunch of my favorite games here

Educational

youtube.com/Amazing 3d renders and walkthroughs of complex machines/systems. The video on the HMS Victory is inspired.

youtube.com/Professor Dave does science education, great videos on many topics.

Motorcycles

youtube.com/FortNine puts out the best moto content I’ve found on the Internet.

somethingp, (edited )

Chef John is literally the best! Every time some other popular YouTube cook puts out a recipe talking about how xyz is the authentic way to do it and they take half an hour to explain everything, chef john already had a video recipe for it from 5 years ago with exactly the right/authentic ingredients and technique in a 10 min straightforward video. Or he’ll have the practical way to make something that gets you 90% of the way there with half the effort and cost. And you actually end up with something good when you follow his recipes. Especially important when making food you’ve never eaten before and have no frame of reference for how it should be.

Twodozeneggs,

He’s the best, his technique explanation videos, his recipes…

He really wrote the book, on how to be a YouTube cook

;)

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

bigclivedotcom has been my favourite channel for almost a decade. Specalized on electronics and his soothing voice is pleasant to listen to.

BeMoreCareful,

I’m vaguely interested in what he’s doing, but I sure enjoy watching him do it lol.

HonorIsDead,

He has a video where he talks about his experience caring for his mother who had alzheimers at the end of her life. Very sad situation. His video was informative on the difficulties it presents and the perspective of trying to make it as easy as possible to let your loved on live while having to watch them regress and adjust.

NextNoobi,

Oh yeah that one hit hard. :'-|

TK420, in What groups you are unwillingly associated with? How you handle it?

Religious people are as stupid as flat earthers. I can’t stand either.

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