You know what I like about this? It's 100% pure nerd content, no sneaky influencer videos or clickbaity news.
It does need a new-to-old sort though, which is easy to add in.
If you watched all of these videos, you would be the smartest, most annoying person ever. Lol
It is also quite ironic that nerds of the 21st century who built social media and a hyper-connected world are simultaneously repulsed by it.
It was built by nerds but optimized on the data of everyone, so it ended up appealing mostly to the average person.
Maybe that's also the solution to a question I've had for years. The ads I see on diverse social platforms are terrible, but if they are matched with algorithms that try to fit me in as an average person, then it makes sense that, as a huge nerd, they miss the mark.
> It's 100% pure nerd content
well some might use it to listen to Rick Astley's Music
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> The rants about dishwashers and HVAC were memorable for being completely impractical advice and ignorant of economics
How you got that message from hour long rants and findings about dishwashers I'll never now.
The main take aways I got were: - You might be using way too much soap - Run your tap until it is hot before starting the dishwasher
It's still far cheaper, faster, and less wasteful to wash by hand. It's just that the technique required to achieve that is... controversial? It's definitely always so misrepresented you'd swear it's the "before" part of a 90s informercial shot in black and white with a frustrated idiot failing at a simple task before throwing their hands up and pleading that "there has to be a better way".
Dishwashers simply aren't used in places with water restrictions. Broke people don't have a budget for dishwashing detergent because it's less general purpose than dish soap. There are likely people who started using their dishwasher more or even suddenly bought one based on those rants. It jiggled the handle on consumer trends that otherwise rarely change, so I consider that "influence".
If he stuck to just explaining how they work instead of attacking people's way of living, it would have flown under the radar.
> It's still far cheaper, faster, and less wasteful to wash by hand.
Citation please? https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/20798 links 2 sources that disagree with you.
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Omit internet tropes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Someone gives you sources disproving your claim and you respond by...quoting yourself calling the viewership of a video young?
Dishwashers aren't as evil as you think they are, I promise.
They are forced upon Americans in every way imaginable. They're bundled in with appliance sets sold to first time home buyers and preinstalled in every apartment.
You and the other comment are missing my point. It really doesn't matter at all how well they do or don't work. Dishwashers are a sales platform. The rest of the world doesn't have them.
They are neat in a way, but even TC himself admitted that the dishwasher is sort of a solution in search of a problem. His only endorsement was that they save water compared to the typical lazy bastard attempting to wash dishes by hand, and that it's a net good for that reason. I never disagreed with that. I said that TC counts as an influencer, and perhaps in the sneakiest way possible, given these replies.
Calling you all "naive" is really an understatement once the echo chamber begins reverberating. Jeez! Yes, you're part of it. I'm simply pointing it out. Yes, "citation needed" is a pseudointellectual crutch. No, you don't have to trust an influencer just because everyone else does.
> They're bundled in with appliance sets sold to first time home buyers and preinstalled in every apartment.
Do you object to stoves and refrigerators in the same way?
> The rest of the world doesn't have them.
This is not at all true. Source: my non-American household, which has had one for decades. (Also, web search.)
> even TC himself admitted that the dishwasher is sort of a solution in search of a problem
I don't recall him saying anything of the sort. I don't suppose you could provide a timestamp?
> Calling you all "naive" is really an understatement once the echo chamber begins reverberating. Jeez! Yes, you're part of it. I'm simply pointing it out. Yes, "citation needed" is a pseudointellectual crutch. No, you don't have to trust an influencer just because everyone else does.
It's not a matter of trust. TC presents a complete, reasoned, independently verifiable argument; and it turns out that his results replicate quite well. As per the skeptics.SE link you brushed off, and as per the personal experience of myself and many others.
At any rate, you are using inappropriate rhetoric and then disingenously trying to brush it off as "simply pointing out" claims that don't actually stand up to scrutiny.
Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Did you mean to flag the parent comment I was replying to? These tangents rarely start with the replies. I do understand that the metadiscussion I'm bringing up is uncomfortable, though.
@tomhow, who you're replying to, is a HN mod - as such he rarely flags comments - flagging is a HN user action (for users with accounts of sufficient age and standing).
The mods are drawn to [flagged] comments to double check / inspect whether such a thing was warrented, if no one has made a comment as to why something was flagged they might have a guess, add that as a comment - or even reverse the flag.
If I had to guess, the comment you replied to was not flagged as it was a top level comment to be read with a generic non specific "you", however your comment was likely flagged as it appeared to some to have a judgemental tone toward another user - the "you" that you used was a specific non generic you with the comment parent as target.
FWiW I'm a rubber necking drive by user - I didn't flag your comment.
That makes sense. I am aware that what I'm saying would agitate a certain cohort of commenters who are used to the echo chambers of other communities. They would abuse the flag feature, and the mods on HN aren't free of bias either.
EDIT: Upon some more reflection, I can go back to my old format of posing my skepticism as questions instead of making statements. I guess the brainrot is getting to me.
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