Technology Connections - Come watch a autistic man sperg over a fridge for 1 hour straight

[The Mat Harris]

It's a shame, because a lot of the videos are quite good. Frankly even the latest politicsperging video has a lot of interesting points, like the corn fields used exclusively for ethanol production, that i need to research for myself. It also has quite a few of bad points imo like the "look, no dead birds!" which ignores the fact that hundreds of thousands of birds die every year to wind generation just in the US.

From the abstract:

Adjusted fatality rates correlated inversely with wind-turbine size for all raptors as a group across the United States, and for all birds as a group within the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area, California. I estimated 888,000 bat and 573,000 bird fatalities/year (including 83,000 raptor fatalities) at 51,630 megawatt (MW) of installed wind-energy capacity in the United States in 2012. As wind energy continues to expand, there is urgent need to improve fatality monitoring methods, especially in the implementation of detection trials, which should be more realistically incorporated into routine monitoring.

Now it's not all doom and gloom for wind turbine fans out there. There's quite a few ways to mitigate the risk to birds by alot:

• Painting a wing black cuts down deaths by 70%, (other nations have also started testing this)
• Auto-feathering blades , with very low energy loss.
• Temporary shutdowns on high bird activity.
• Not installing them in known routes birds take.

Now when it comes to solar I keep being reminded of that video where china accidentally reforested a large part of their desert area by installing solar panels and letting farmers herd their sheep there, So it's not like the land becomes useless:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjD3j-5kTdw

 

[ZipDisk]

You didn't know about the ethanol scam? E85 never worked, but they went full steam ahead with it. I think Dole went all the fuck in on it. I wonder if they ever told him it was bullshit corn subsidies.

 

[moocow]

I don't get the complaining about this at all.

It's autism. It's all autism. If you need electricity from a wall, you plug in a plug that fits whatever's in the fuckin' wall. It's not like we're personally building new walls every day and specifying the cunting things on purpose to annoy somebody. Something-something-standards-bodies-something.

Presumably you know what the walls in your current location require, else you're a clueless tourist about to get robbed blind on overpriced adapters at the nearest convenience store. It's otherwise a detail completely unworthy of any mental effort whatsoever.

 

[ten dollars off]

is it a woman or "woman".

Probably as much "woman" as Cathode Ray Dude's "girlfriend."

 

[SCV]

So we're at this level of denial, gotcha.

So much denial. People need to wake up and smell the fascism.

 

[Jose Beaner Luna]

The only video i saw of this guy was about why fans start at the highest level, highly autistic but informative. Seeing him here is like having a chat with a stranger while in a queue for the bank and then see that same guy weeks later in the news for a murder-suicide. Less dramatic of course.

 

[ZipDisk]

CRD hurt. Like when I found out his house collapsed and he was in the hospital I was like "The guy who cares about those old laptop preboot managers?"

And then someone was like. Ay, zipdisk, no. Don't like him. He's a shitplay fetishist tranny. And then they were right, and I was like "I knew he was gross, fat, had a shitty haircut, but he rented a studio and explored niche tech stuff I liked", but the furry tranny shitplay nonsense is too much.

Once again, Alec isn't that.

Like yeah, shit play is going to kill him but finding that out was not pleasant.

 

[Curious Lurker]

Fuck I actually watch this guys stuff, a lot of the engineering history is very interesting (yes I know, puzzle pieces). I could handle the gay affectations so long as I spaced out his videos... but now that I know that the Adams Family extra looking mother fucker is on Bluesky wishing a Somali would rape him and stuff his corpse into the big red fridge or whatever... Well, I just can't take his food dehydrator reviews seriously anymore.

... Though I guess he truly was an expert on Betamax(ing) after all.

Same here. Funny, i started this video 3 week ago and stopped because i have seen these type of video dozens of times and lost interest. I thought it would be the same as his usual stuff, explaning how it works and why you should use it yadda yadda,

I missed the faggy rant by the end, i would stay subscribed if it was not pointed out in the community feature, this is a deal breaker for me

 

[Kyuruma]

Like a lot of successful content creators with too much time on their hands he started to 1. Run out of content and 2. Start to feel guilt over not "utilizing" his platform for good.

He explicitly spells out #2 in that patreon post from earlier in the thread but it started to creep in way earlier than that. I understand the frustration around people "fanboying" over specific types of heating/cooking methods but his "attack" videos on those subjects were not well researched and needlessly antagonistic. Like many pseuds he speaks from a place of experience or authority where there is none, and he gets enough wrong that it pisses off people who actually know a little bit about the subject.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

Not even two minutes in and I am already mad

"Companies are not covering rural areas in cellphone towers because it wouldn't make them that much MONEY"

No you fucktard, it probably would make them NEGATIVE money, companies are totally fine with increasing profits by a small amount.

He is either too dumb to realize this or he is just dishonest and wants to subsidized

It's all been done before. Look into the history of electrifying the south, and the (unconstitutional) disasters that followed.
Weirdos that fetishize their agendas, force feed 'progress' into their favorite pet groups.

Side note. I enjoyed this channel. His major failing is the (purposeful) failure to objectively critique 'green' tech. Old=bad, new=good.
Hauling around 500+lbs of batteries does not result in a 'green' vehicle, especially when the DOT allows a redefining of MPG for you. Replacing a $5000 quarter-panel to change a LED headlight isn't 'green'. Old cars were recyclable steel. New cars are landfill. On-board computers brick your car in 4 years. The list goes on.

Developing nations eschew green technology because oil is cheap, and tech solutions do not work without billions in tax subsidies.

 

[Smoke Manmuscle]

It's all been done before. Look into the history of electrifying the south, and the (unconstitutional) disasters that followed.
Weirdos that fetishize their agendas, force feed 'progress' into their favorite pet groups.

Side note. I enjoyed this channel. His major failing is the (purposeful) failure to objectively critique 'green' tech. Old=bad, new=good.
Hauling around 500+lbs of batteries does not result in a 'green' vehicle, especially when the DOT allows a redefining of MPG for you. Replacing a $5000 quarter-panel to change a LED headlight isn't 'green'. Old cars were recyclable steel. New cars are landfill. On-board computers brick your car in 4 years. The list goes on.

Developing nations eschew green technology because oil is cheap, and tech solutions do not work without billions in tax subsidies.

The TVA did nothing wrong. Other then steal peoples land.

 

[Pee Cola]

Fun fact: Type I (commonly known as the Australian power socket) is based on an old US design from 1915 that never took off.



Several other countries use this design, most notably Argentina and China. However, the Chinese install these sockets upside down.



btw I'm not saying that Type I is better or worse than any other standard, I just wanted to join in on the power outlet autism ITT, so I don't have to think about how disappointed I am in Alec for letting his Bluesky shit leak into his YT videos.

I watch a lot of techmoan and it always astonishes me just how fucking huge UK plugs are whenever he tests something with a tiny powerbrick and the plug is like 3x the size of the thing.

That's because the UK-style plug has a fuse in it. I have no idea why the typical Bri'ish buildings seemingly doesn't have a switchboard with fuses or circuit breakers like most civilised countries do. Maybe the typical Bri'ish property owner needs a loicense before they are allowed to have them.

 

[Zeftax]

I don't like the plugs, from which the cable comes at a right angle. They prevent me from using multiple of them on most of my strips, and I have to manage the order of plugs. The cable should always just come out straight.

 

[Chaotic Good Barbarian]

I'm pretty sure he's a faggot, I mean he imported the car Nissan made in the 1990s for grannies for fucks sake:

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I mean it's funny Mr environment bought a 3 speed carbureted turbo 4 cylinder with only 25-30 MPG and that event single part will need to be flown from fucking Japan, but I guess being cool and quirky beats it.

As a car guy I love the weird lil jap kei Thunderbird, and ohmagerd muh environment, but lol dude ain’t beating the allegations with Hipster Miata.

You’d need to have like a GT500KR parked next to this to offset teh ghey.

 

[The Mat Harris]

You didn't know about the ethanol scam? E85 never worked, but they went full steam ahead with it. I think Dole went all the fuck in on it. I wonder if they ever told him it was bullshit corn subsidies.

I am not american, we don't have a lot of corn fields here. I never even knew there were corn breeds specifically for producing ethanol.
As for subsidies: 90% of subsidies are bullshit. I can understand subsidies for the construction of alternative energy sources. However my country has subsidies for green energy generation -which is ubsurd, as energy production should be able to pay for itself.

 

[indomitable snowman]

All you fall out plug people are dealing with whore outlets. I said it.

Ever trued to plug something in at a airport? That's the only time I've had a socket that was a blown out whore.

 

[The Real Slim Shady]

Like yeah, shit play is going to kill him but finding that out was not pleasant.

Did I miss something and Technology Connections is into some kind of scat fetish?

 

[No Face]

Did I miss something and Technology Connections is into some kind of scat fetish?

Nah, its the other fat gay lefite tech tuber, Cathode Ray Dude. Rookie mistake

 

[Mr.Bucket]

It's all been done before. Look into the history of electrifying the south, and the (unconstitutional) disasters that followed.
Weirdos that fetishize their agendas, force feed 'progress' into their favorite pet groups.

Side note. I enjoyed this channel. His major failing is the (purposeful) failure to objectively critique 'green' tech. Old=bad, new=good.
Hauling around 500+lbs of batteries does not result in a 'green' vehicle, especially when the DOT allows a redefining of MPG for you. Replacing a $5000 quarter-panel to change a LED headlight isn't 'green'. Old cars were recyclable steel. New cars are landfill. On-board computers brick your car in 4 years. The list goes on.

Developing nations eschew green technology because oil is cheap, and tech solutions do not work without billions in tax subsidies.

My cheap EV has 900lbs of li-ion. 4000lbs and smaller than a focus. She's a dense little bitch.

 

[Niggergante]

holy shit lol lmao orange man and x man VERY bad

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Carter was also a massive faggot that preferred that Americans suffer and put on a sweater instead of actually addressing the issue of fuel costs.
"Just don't use it haha" Legitimately one of the worst presidents in history and he opens up with that.

>Blah blah blah papers please blah blah voting
What is it about these democrats that makes them completely forget that they were demanding to see covid vaccine cards for 4ish years and were infuriated when things went back to normal?