• snowe@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Veritasium. As soon as he put out a video with sponsored content where he lied with science I immediately knew he could no longer be trusted. I completely stopped watching his videos that day.

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      1 year ago

      I kinda slowed down on his videos since that Tom Nicolas video, but I watched his video from a few days ago about blimps because blimps are cool. But it just seemed like a corporate ad. The amount of the video that’s renders of products vs actual products is pretty bad.

      It didn’t feel like a science video about blimps, it felt like half blimp startup ad, half simple blimp explanation. I don’t know, it just felt a little devoid of depth.

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        1 year ago

        I would really like a channel that covers start-ups well, like explaining their idea and what they hope to accomplish then going into some of the challenges they face.

        Far too many seem to be nothing but reading the press release and the first couple of paragraphs of Wikipedia.

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        I don’t remember which video it was, I’d have to go find it. At the end he sets up a ‘science experiment’ to show that wet wipes are flushable, unlike what everyone says. And the way he ‘proves’ it is clearly a terrible way to prove it, but if you aren’t thinking about it you’ll agree. I’ll try to find the video.

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              Thanks for sharing that. I’ll agree it’s pretty dubious, but not enough to stop me enjoying their other content. But I have a pretty high skeptic quotient for everything online to begin with so, a little light shilling isn’t enough to turn me off of a channel that’s otherwise entertaining and often thought-provoking.

              That “experiment” definitely deserves the mythbusters treatment, though. Even if that brand breaks into pieces faster, that doesn’t account for total breakdown or even what happens to its individual fibers after flushing. More data needed.