Comments by "Jason Dashney" (@jasondashney) on "Real Engineering" channel.

  1. Thank god for cheap Chinese sets. $20 gets you every goddamn tiny bit you can imagine.
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  2. This is a worldwide problem. Canada went on a crusade against its own tar sands which resulted in actually importing oil from countries who do things in a far less environmentally responsible way. It's beyond belief.
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  3. As a Canadian I take offence to that. You can never think too much about hockey. They just forgot to paint black and make it out of vulcanized rubber.
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  4.  @James-sk4db  Are you sure that's the message though? You seem to have articulated one of the few advantages of massive companies creating absurdly high barriers to entry in order to make billions. If we get safer planes out of it, is it really that bad? This seems like a win-win.
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  5. I think your anger should be towards your own government. No Western country is forcing anything on you guys. It's not like British ruled India from a century ago. Countries that struggle do so because their own governments are corrupt or incompetent, or both. To place all the blame on others when you are a completely sovereign nation won't help anything. Change starts at home. Countries need to fix their own institutions before anything will change. Rule of law, fair and consistent rules across all institutions is absolutely vital. When visiting countries that aren't considered first world, it becomes immediately apparent how their institutions need to change and strengthen and lose the corruption. Until a country tackle the problems from within, it will not change for the better. Once the customs department is run fairly, once the citizens can trust in the police process, once the taxes are collected fairly and transparently distributed, once elections are fair and open, THEN you can start blaming others.
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  6. YouTube seriously needs some competition. It's a monopoly right now and that's bad for everyone except Alphabet.
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  7. Matthew, be sure to ask him for a refund.
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  8. Birds flap their wings. That would require some serious design modifications.
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  9.  @RainytheNB  So glad I'm Canadian. When building a fence or a deck, the bit never slip out of the deck screws. Love 'em!
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  10.  @ryandylan6946  D brandon says "Wow, all analog". ryan dylan says in response "rich get richer". Huh?
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  11.  @HeyHEY-fg9rp  fair point.
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  12. This is literally in no way imperialism. If Morocco sells locally grown spices to Europe it's the exact same thing. It's not imperialism simply because it's Europe. Imperialism means the European countries control the African ones and they to not. People keep using that word but they clearly don't know what it means.
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  13. Almost all transactions take place electronically now and that requires a grid. Sorry not sorry unions.
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  14.  @marlan5470  it's so cliché, but "follow the money" pretty much does summarize 95% of what gets done in the world and why.
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  15. I'm not your buddy, guy.
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  16. I'm truly saddened at the sheer amount of stupidity and intellectual laziness in these comments since you are all watching an engineering video. I figured this guy would've cultivated a much better following. That's the internet for you, I guess. The idiot vocal minority speaks up (myself included of course).
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  17. I'm glad you brought that up. Most people on here are just virtue signalling about "imperialism".
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  18. Amen. Now add to it the Woke points he went on in the end of the video, talking about imperialism etc. Nobody seems to want to approach any of our pressing problems with objectivity. Let's see what is realistically feasible here and now, what will most likely be feasible in the near future, and let's do a cost benefit analysis for all of it in both social and economic terms. We don't want to do that though. We want to play virtue signalling politics and as per usual, it's the poor that suffer the most. We waste more money and resources trying to appear to be doing the right things than we do actually doing the right things.
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  19. At the end of the video you talk about how much you talk about climate change. That's actually part of why I don't watch your channel that often. I wanna watch videos about engineering, not about environmental issues. There are plenty of channels that talk about the environment. They don't talk about engineering on the environment channels. They stick to their lane. Absolutely everywhere you go you hear about climate this and climate that. Yeah, we know. I don't need it shoved down my throat at every turn.
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  20. If the pandemic taught us anything, it's that international trade is great, but it should only be a supplement, as opposed to a total abdication of domestic self sustainability.
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  21. "long distance transmission of renewables is heating up" I see what you did there ;-P
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  22. Or the countries in question could strengthen their own rule of law and institutional soundness. Then they could compete on their own terms.
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  23. Amen. Like I've mentioned elsewhere, it's not like this is British ruled India where they can just do what they want. This video completely takes away the agency from the African nations and I find that to be very condescending. Yes the world bank will do shady things to sucker poor countries into doing things but that's not the way absolutely everything works. Just because a western country is doing something with a non-western country doesn't mean it's inherently bad.
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  24.  @RealEngineering  "Cool story bro"? Completely serious; I wanna know what the point of that was. If you aren't gonna contribute anything of substance then why bother sounding like a petulant ideologue? Good God, I had a lot of respect for you and your channel because you do have a ton of valuable contact but I just lost some respect for you as a person. The smugness, the condescending smugness amongst the left if insane these days. FYI, I miss politically homeless as it gets, but you don't see that same level of condescension from the right these days, except at the extremes. Unfortunately it's not the same on the other side of the spectrum. Your reply wasn't "Hey man, I know and I'm entitled to my opinions and there are plenty of other channels to watch if you don't wanna hear it". Nope, it was "cool story bro".
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  25. A to D converters are irrelevant. He wasn't comparing individual component qualities, he was talking about the human ear vs the best of what each format can produce.
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  26. I understood 16 of the words used in this video.
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  27.  @ServingOthers99  "2 weeks later, still waiting on that confirmation video, this guy is either the worst PR person ever or a troll" Why does this person owe you anything? He is trying to contact RE, not you.
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  28. This was a good video until you went all Woke at the end. It's imperialist to have a country voluntarily set up one of these things? They can say no anytime they want. They are not under European rule in any capacity. Just because Westerners are doing it with people not from the west does not make it imperialist. It's really sad that the younger generations have this built-in guilt like everything we do is "problematic". Where is Africa's agency in all this? It's not like British ruled India where are the British could come in and just set one of these things up and India didn't have a say. I think it's incredibly patronizing to the Africans to make it seem like they are just poured dummies who are getting taken advantage of. If bad things are happening to the locals, that's on the African government. Germany needs to make choices for Germany, Morocco needs to make choices for Morocco. Saying that any solution has to be grassroots is just bananas. Westerners can't win. If we intervene then we are evil imperialists, and if we stay out, then we are blind to the struggles of others and letting them suffer while we sit back in our opulence. I can't wait for the next generation because they hopefully will push back on the nonsense that you guys have been fed your whole lives. This woke garbage that hurts everyone.
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  29. Absolutely. You tell me it's a coincidence that so many big bands have memorable artwork. Iron Maiden, Ramones, ACDC, Rolling Stones etc. Tell me that Iron Maiden would be as popular to this day if they didn't have their artwork (and that's coming from a massive Iron Maiden fan). You won't find Helvetica on a patch ironed on to a jean jacket.
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  30. Yes, people poured billions and billions of dollars into the desert hundreds of engineers worked tirelessly on it and they all completely forgot that sand and weather exist. If only they have Arnold Keen to advise them.
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  31. Like webtoedman says, they are great when brand new or in a clean environment. Robertson are great because a square is really easy to clean out with any sharp object.
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  32. It's outdated because it references the very thing that you're linking to to show how outdated the video is?
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  33. Great, all you need is a massive body of water, natural elevation change, and a gigantic infrastructure project that is not a component replaceable.
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  34.  @evanwatling3897  Yeah it will, just the type will change. If fur pelts were valuable, the one who had the most fur pelts would run the show.
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  35. I've borderline had an urge to do the opposite because what is happening is the opposite of imperialism. The African nations are completely sovereign and are free to make their own choices. If they export locally grown spices or materials they have mined, it's perfectly OK and that's benefitting those countries and hooray for international trade, but as soon as it comes to exporting solar power it becomes imperialism?
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  36. Here is where I agree completely with Neil Degrasse Tyson. He talks about research for research's sake and how much came out of NASA that we use every day and I completely agree.
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  37. Giant interior chambers.
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  38. Oh behalf of a country that's been officially metric for decades, along with everybody else in the world outside Myanmar, Liberia and the USofA, you demand they use the system that "English speakers use"?
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  39. And by pain, you mean job.
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  40. 3:35 We're using ebonics now?
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  41. It's the strangest thing. Morocco can export something they grow, like spices, and everybody thinks that's wonderful because it brings money into the Moroccan economy. But if you export something they harvest from the sun and is a limitless supply, suddenly it's evil imperialism. This self flagellation of the younger generations when it comes to their western guilt is something to behold.
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  42.  @EgnachHelton  "grabbed by share holders who DON'T WORK AT ALL." A large percentage of big corporate shareholders are either working individuals, or pension funds. Pension and mutual funds pretty much drive the stock market. The amount of people who live off of completely passive stock market gains is negligible at bests. Those funds are made up of the retirement payments of unionized teachers and firefighters etc. Most of the stock market money is the "little guy" so when the little guys shits on the market and big companies, they're shitting on their own retirement savings.
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  43.  @S1191669  Amen. People need to understand how pension funds and mutual funds work before they spout off. And that's before even starting with individual investors. The amount of people who don't work at all and just live off of large corporate dividends or capital gains on stocks is extremely, extremely low.
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  44. There are hundreds of millions of little spots where wifi and cell signals get weak. My kitchen, and especially bathroom are awful for both. No idea why.
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