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I'm sorry if this is not the best place for this, I couldn't think of anywhere better to ask about it

the reason most of these people are youtubers is because I went through my youtube subscriptions for ideas

edit: I've just realized I forgot to add rule to the title but I don't know how to fit it in there with it looking not bad

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

Just YouTubers? I don't really know them as people but I think the content they create is admirable at least:

Electroboom

~~Mark Rober~~ <- Never mind, apparently he's down with Autism Speaks (a shitty group that wants to "cure" neurodivergence) That's a shame.

Kurzgesagt

SmarterEveryDay

Oversimplified

Vsauce

Veritasium

Captain Disillusion

ZeFrank

ForgottenWeapons

I guess I'm kind of a sucker for educational stuff.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Zefrank

Educational stuff

Hmmm

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

ZeFrank is fucking hilarious, but also, technically informative as well.

Edit: Hmm, maybe I should also add YourGrammarSucks too...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Zefrank makes exactly the sort of content that's required to get bored kids interested in a science. He is doing us a public service.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Personally, Veritasium is out of that list for me due to some of his more recent videos. He still has some good content but I really disliked that "rods from God" video where it feels like he's basically doing the same thing as the "How Ridiculous" guys and trying to disguise it as science communication. And the (admittedly few) ones where he's basically disguising advertising as his regular content.

I nominate BobbyBroccoli to take his spot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Damn, really? That's disappointing to learn, why's he a dick?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ok so not nessesarialy a dick, just a strong reaction with his name sorry.

In his video saying he has an autistic son, he did a charity event for NEXT for autism, who wish to 'cure' autism, and have worked with Autism speaks before. The actual event before changes made due to criticism had like no autistic voices present. I don't think Mark is a dick because he seems to genuinely love his son, but was just uninformed about the harm that group does.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'd call that disappointing, Autism Speaks is a shitty group. Neurodivergence doesn't need to be "cured". I even thought Rober might be on the spectrum himself.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Kurzgesagt is a shitty neoliberal who greenwashes the future involving climate change. I'm not sure if he's paid by oil companies or if he just loves huffing their balls that much.

[–] n3m37h 3 points 7 months ago

Gamers Nexus is good for PC stuff, they do factory tours of PC parts manufacturing and testing/analysis of PC parts

Louslis Rossmann has great mackbook repair videos and now does lots of advocy for right to repair

Strange Parts does all sorts of electronics stuff and has been doing pretty cook factory tours too

Project Farm tests everything and does a great job of it