• LordKitsuna@lemmy.world
    2·
    17 days ago

    How in the actual hell is technology connections not on that list and also why have I not seen it in any of the comments yet

    • starman2112@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      15 days ago

      Here’s an existential threat to humanity, and the various ways that it’s worse than you think. But don’t worry! Capitalism will save the day by inventing solutions to our problems which won’t necessitate any restructuring of our society or economy!

      Thanks as always to our billionaire owners donors!

  • enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    15 days ago

    I might be in a niche. Here’s my fav, Religion for Breakfast, Let’s Talk Religion, Esoterica, Al-Muqaddimah, Tablets and Temples, Useful Charts. Not religious but I like Religious Studies because it’s overlaps to history.

    In addition, the Crash Course series to Religious Studies by PBS is also very good.

    Also few history channel, Dan Davis History, A Historian’s Craft, Kings and Generals

  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    17 days ago

    Is it just me or has Kurtzgesakt gotten really weird over the last couple years? Like, their videos seem like they want to be clickbait, but they’re really bad at it.

    • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
      1·
      17 days ago

      They’re doing the thing where they upload a video and then change the thumbnail and title of the video every few days which I’ve only seen done by all the low effort click bait channels. It’s what finally got me to install the dearrow extension which swaps titles and videos of YouTube videos to be more informative and less click bait.

      • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
        0·
        17 days ago

        I believe this is a YouTube feature that effectively runs A/B tests on your behalf. You give it multiple titles and thumbnails and it’ll gauge engagement with each and then use the one that was most popular. I hate it.

    • xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works
      0·
      16 days ago

      Dang, I’m surprised to see how many folks are down on Kurtzgesakt in the comments here! Bummer!

      They might not be perfect, ya’ll, but at least they encourage open thought and critical thinking! Better than a lot of other media can say these days! 🙂

      • irmoz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        16 days ago

        But they don’t encourage open thought and critical thinking. They basically tell you what to think.

  • trolololol@lemmy.world
    1·
    16 days ago

    Kurgesatz was really good before they started the black mirror season, where every video is about how humanity can get killed by various things.

    Never heard of the other ones but I’ll give it a try.

    And there’s a PBS video for anything you can think about, sometimes they just don’t surface properly with search.

    • SpicyColdFartChamber@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      16 days ago

      I am big fan of their prepandemic work. But if you can get past their click bait videos, I think they still do good content.

      Science pieces spreading awareness about something are their best videos.

      https://youtu.be/m6KnVTYtSc0

      This recent video on fentanyl was very good.

      The south korea one, the vaping and weed ones. Very good at condensing complicated topic while still retaining pertinent information that’s new and not patronizing.

  • Slovene@feddit.nl
    1·
    16 days ago

    If you wanna learn from the best chef in the world:

    You Suck At Cooking! Yeah, you totally suck!

    Or Preppy Kitchen if we’re being serious

    Legal stuff:

    Meidas Touch and Legal Eagle

    Retro video and music devices:

    Techmoan and VWestlife

    Also: Tom Scott. Or at least his backlog because he retired.

    And a very important one! - Science stuff: Potholer54 I can’t believe he doesn’t have millions of subs. It actually kind of makes me sad.

  • pyre@lemmy.world
    1·
    16 days ago

    vsauce. no, you haven’t watched all of his videos. also i think his previously exclusive series is available now.

  • motherr@lemmy.world
    1·
    17 days ago

    I learnered about some interesting looking channels from this thread so I’ll pay it forward and share some that I like.

    2 and 20

    Angela Collier

    Bobby Broccoli

    Climate Town

    Computerphile

    Defunctland

    fern

    Folding Ideas

    JimmyTheGiant

    KnowledgeHusk

    Lextorias

    Not Just Bikes

    Odd Compass

    Ordinary Things

    PBS Space Time

    slow start

    Suibhne

    Thought Slime

    Tom Nicholas

  • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.world
    1·
    16 days ago
    • Kraut
    • Varitasium
    • OBF
    • Astrum
    • miniminuteman
    • Wendover Productions
    • Hankschannel
    • Practical engineering
    • NileRed, NileBlue
    • Fern
    • Hoog
    • Plainly Difficult
    • NEO
    • Versed
    • ColdFusion
    • Thoughty2
    • DamiLee
    • Facts in Motion
    • Barely Sociable
    • Mark Rober
    • Deep Dive

    Edit: Also know you can watch videos without ads AND without sponsor parts (using sponsor block) on desktop and android with grayjay.app

    • notarobot@lemm.ee
      1·
      16 days ago

      I’ve lost trust in veritasium. I don’t remember the specifics right now but every video he makes I have to take with caution

      • magz :3@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        16 days ago

        they did some self-driving car propaganda a while ago iirc. their latest videos have been mostly pretty focused physics and math history though, so they’ve generally been pretty okay imo. but any time they mention anything that can be sold i become a lot more suspicious

      • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.world
        1·
        16 days ago

        I googled it and apparently there’s been some commotion about him and his views. Especially about a video about why people are so easily offended, one I haven’t seen myself. I’m only on YouTube and Lemmy, I completely missed everything else on other platforms.

        The videos I’ve seen had no political content so I never noticed anything, but it’s good to know as it might have influence on the information and nuance he provides. So thank you for pointing out his bias.

    • candyman337@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      16 days ago

      It’s been fairly neoliberal for awhile now, I can’t remember which video it was but one of them really put a bad taste in my mouth. Whatever it was, imo it felt very apologist of capitalism. I unsubbed after that.