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What YouTube channels do you like?
« on: February 09, 2023, 01:54:04 PM »
I regularly check in on:
Foresty Forest - A guy living in a van with his dog. He does some great hikes and has some good recipes
Big Think - Interesting sciency topics
Not Just Bikes - Urban planning
City Nerd - Urban Planning
Mr Chickadee - Building stuff with hand tools
I just found Driftwood Guitars where they disassemble a perfectly good guitar to see how well it was constructed.

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Re: What YouTube channels do you like?
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2023, 04:05:11 PM »
The B1M (coverage of megaprojects and construction all over the world) - https://www.youtube.com/@TheB1M
Dick Cavett Show (awesome interviews from the 60s/70s. The ones with Muhammed Ali are particularly fun) - https://www.youtube.com/@TheDickCavettShow
David Oranchak (about code-breaking and ciphers with a particular emphasis on breaking the codes of the Zodiac Killer) - https://www.youtube.com/@doranchak


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Re: What YouTube channels do you like?
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2023, 10:21:24 PM »
@Luke Warm if you like NJB you might like to try Strong Towns, who approaches the same topic from an engineering perspective.

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Re: What YouTube channels do you like?
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2023, 01:50:35 AM »
meine mechaniker  - hypnotic renovations of small mechanical devices that look like scrap metal.

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Re: What YouTube channels do you like?
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2023, 03:05:11 AM »
@Luke Warm if you like NJB you might like to try Strong Towns, who approaches the same topic from an engineering perspective.
Or BicycleDutch. You will need a strong heart though if you live in the US. Shifter also has some nice, more practical videos about biking.

A must have is Well There's Your Problem Podcast, a podcast about engineering deasters with slides. Hi Liam!

I also like Japan walking videos like the ones from Cory May or Tokyo Explorer.

And of course everyone should already have subscribed to the hydraulic press channel and yovo86, the 11foot8+8 bridge channel.


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Re: What YouTube channels do you like?
« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2023, 06:42:07 AM »
Of broad interest to many on this forum:

Tom Scott - Short videos, interesting topics, interesting perspectives on those topics, very high journalistic integrity.

Climate Town - Funny/quirky climate scientist (he's a younger guy) making complex topics and issues related to climate entertaining and palatable.

Technology Connections - Interesting quick looks and deep dives into the technology, design, history and engineering behind various mass-market consumer products and services.

Project Farm - Redneck meets hobbyist meets Consumer Reports meets Engineer. He does unbiased, scientific, empirical testing of stuff you'd find in Home Depot/Tractor Supply/Harbor Freight.

Business Insider "Big Business" and "So Expensive" series  - How it's made vibes, but about industries and cultural practices. Very well done and great for background listening/watching.

I'll also second NJB, Strong Towns, and City Nerd.

My indulgences, I don't recommend these because I know some just won't care:

Doug Demuro - I grew up with a fascination about cars. Read car magazines for years. He does reviews of cars from the 80's to present, and doesn't accept a dime of compensation from manufacturers to do his reviews. He built a car buying platform (similar to BringATrailer) from scratch.

Vice Grip Garage - Entertaining, down to earth mechanic turned hobbyist vehicle restorer/builder/racer.

You Suck At Cooking -  I just find these funny. Bite me.

Pitch Meeting (formerly Screen Rant Pitch Meeting) - I also find these funny. Bite me.

 

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Re: What YouTube channels do you like?
« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2023, 07:07:32 AM »
I just remembered that "kurzgesagt" also has an English channel. Exlain science videos, often a bit creepy, since nature is creepy. Like the slaver ants last month. 

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Re: What YouTube channels do you like?
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2023, 08:07:51 AM »
1.  The Swedish Investor - Summarizes books on investing
2.  The Plain Bagel - Financial Topics
3.  Late Night with Seth Myers - The TV show chopped up into blocks.  I especially like "A Closer Look"
4.  The Critical Drinker - Reviews movies and streaming series, mostly.  I don't care to watch much of what he reviews, but the reviews themselves are quite entertaining.

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Re: What YouTube channels do you like?
« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2023, 09:34:31 AM »
Channels I appreciate:

Already mentioned --
Doug DeMuro (car reviews by a journalist, not a gearhead)
Tom Scott (neat overviews of random facts/places)
Technology Connections (combination of "how does it work?" and a tech history lesson)
Project Farm (the product testing/review show you've always dreamed of)

Also --
Adam Ragusea (former journalist who nowdoes home cooking and food history)
Smarter Every Day (rocket science pro who now teaches "how things work")
Physics Girl (actual physicist excited about physics)
Rick Beato (musician/producer talking about the state of music and music theory)
The SloMo Guys (slow motion footage of all kinds of cool stuff)
Practical Engineering (anything you might be curious about infrastructure or civil engineering)

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Re: What YouTube channels do you like?
« Reply #9 on: February 10, 2023, 09:59:03 AM »
True Facts - It's basically how all nature documentaries should be.  Informative, light hearted, laughing at the weirdness of nature, and full of butt jokes.

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« Reply #10 on: February 10, 2023, 10:06:18 AM »
I'm addicted to "Hot Ones" (the channel is First We Feast). I love hot sauce and wings, and it's really interesting to see how different folks react to all the sauces. The interview questions are pretty interesting, too.

Most of my other subs are to offbeat history-related stuff, which was kind of a phase I went through during the pandemic. OverSimplified is fun, and there's one that does ancient recipes (Taste of Tasting History), etc.

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Re: What YouTube channels do you like?
« Reply #11 on: February 10, 2023, 10:14:01 AM »
Forgot to add another one, and I think it's worth watching enough to not edit my above post -

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

The main segment from each episode is almost always posted to the YT channel the next day. His comedy can be repetitive at times but the level of depth his team can go into on various topics is striking. Some of the episodes are more relevant to the time around when they were posted, but others are evergreen.

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Re: What YouTube channels do you like?
« Reply #12 on: February 10, 2023, 10:27:49 AM »
Seconding Technology Connections, Last Week Tonight, and Tom Scott. Extra seconding Not Just Bikes and City Nerd, and adding City Beautiful, Oh the Urbanity, and Alan Fisher in the "urbanist Youtube" category.

James Hoffman for coffee. Coffee is one of those interests that lends itself to lots of product reviews, so there's lots of consumeristic "ooh aah shiny" at ludicrously expensive grinders and espresso machines and such, but he's also got lots of great stuff on history of coffee and guides for finding coffee you'll love and brewing the best you can with a simple setup.

Then I just have to give the most massive endorsement possible to Vlogbrothers. I feel like I heard of Vlogbrothers ages ago and just had a lot of really muddled preconceptions about what their deal was. They've been on Youtube for a long time now, and changed a lot in that time. I ended up subscribing over the depths of COVID, and in the last couple years they've had a genuinely substantial and positive effect on my life and worldview. I can't even summarize what the channel is "about" because they jump around topics with ease, but it is generally educational in nature, and often considering humanity's place in all the complexity of the world. There's a lot of self-promotion of their other projects sprinkled throughout which might be off-putting to some, but the proceeds of basically everything they do nowadays goes to charity, so I don't begrudge their promotion of charity.

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Re: What YouTube channels do you like?
« Reply #13 on: February 10, 2023, 10:43:11 AM »
Seconding Technology Connections, Last Week Tonight, and Tom Scott. Extra seconding Not Just Bikes and City Nerd, and adding City Beautiful, Oh the Urbanity, and Alan Fisher in the "urbanist Youtube" category.
Ah right, Adam something. If you like sarcasm and trains.

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Re: What YouTube channels do you like?
« Reply #14 on: February 10, 2023, 10:47:19 AM »
Ah right, Adam something. If you like sarcasm and trains.

Hey, another Adam Something viewer out in the wild! There's dozens of us!

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Re: What YouTube channels do you like?
« Reply #15 on: February 10, 2023, 11:07:15 AM »

Project Farm - Redneck meets hobbyist meets Consumer Reports meets Engineer. He does unbiased, scientific, empirical testing of stuff you'd find in Home Depot/Tractor Supply/Harbor Freight.


I also enjoy project farm. That’s a good description of the channel… I’ve started checking his videos when considering tool purchases more and more frequently.

A similar quality more crass review channel is AVE. Specifically his BOLTR (bored of lame tool reviews) content. He tears things down and explains how they work and what corners they cut to make it cheaper.

Other channels I enjoy for general education are:
CGP Grey - random interesting topics
Veritasium - mostly physics and science
Economics explained
Money and macro - deeper economic ideas
World war 2 week by week 

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Re: What YouTube channels do you like?
« Reply #16 on: February 10, 2023, 12:38:26 PM »
Kraig Adams - amazing hikes

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Re: What YouTube channels do you like?
« Reply #17 on: February 10, 2023, 01:01:12 PM »
According to my subscriptions list on YouTube here are the channels I watch. They appear to be ranked roughly in order of how much time I spend watching them.

Steve Lehto <--Legal channel with a focus on cars
Battleship New Jersey
Task & Purpose
Wendover Productions
Steve Wallis <--Imagine if Bob Ross went camping
Clint's Reptiles <-- If Mr. Rogers REALLY liked snakes
Company Man
Chubbyemu <-- Medical show
Ride-Along Sessions with Cookie <--Windsurfing instructional videos
OverSimplified
Technology Connections <-- It's nice getting all the Midwest jokes.
CGP Grey <-- This would be higher if he uploaded more than two videos a year.
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« Reply #18 on: February 10, 2023, 01:54:44 PM »
Farmcraft 101.  Dude does, well, everything - woodwork, metal work, building, chainsaw, he buys old heavy equipment and fixes it.  He replaced a transmission in a car to give away to a high schooler (rural area, lots of need).  Entertaining.

Blancolirio - started watching him when the Oroville Dam was in the news, but he's a pilot (commercial and pleasure) and covers all sorts of aviation accidents and near misses.  Both terrifies and reassures me (private planes go down with surprising frequency, but the safeguards on commercial plane flights are pretty robust).

Scott Manley - all the space launches.

Sorted - Set in London, with occasional travels - cooking entertainment, some competitions, some reviews.  While I find them entertaining, I can't keep up with their volume.

Practical Engineering - explains stuff so I can understand it.

SciShow (one half of the vlogbrothers), and of course Technology Connections and Tom Scott.

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« Reply #19 on: February 10, 2023, 02:21:09 PM »
Mine are mostly mountain biking and programming focused.

Biking:
- BKXC: A guy that travels the world and mountain bikes
- Global Mountain Bike Network
- Sam's Bikes
- Skills with Phil
- The Loam Wolf
- Jordan Boostmaster

Math/Programming:
- 3Blue1Brown
- PyData
- Jeremy Howard
- Corey Schafer

News/Politics:
- Breaking Points

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Re: What YouTube channels do you like?
« Reply #20 on: February 10, 2023, 03:39:16 PM »
I just remembered that "kurzgesagt" also has an English channel. Exlain science videos, often a bit creepy, since nature is creepy. Like the slaver ants last month.

Oh yeah, kurzgesagt is great. The animation seems like it's geared towards kids but there are some dark concepts covered that might scare young ones.

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« Reply #21 on: February 10, 2023, 03:54:12 PM »
Another vote for vlogbrothers.

Cooking - You Suck At Cooking is great and worth starting from the beginning because he's really building up a cinematic universe. Internet Shaquille never wastes a second on screen - his videos are short and really informative.
Money - I like The Financial Diet and How Money Works for actual financial content and Coffeezilla for crypto-scam takedowns

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« Reply #22 on: February 10, 2023, 04:02:45 PM »
Another vote for vlogbrothers.

Cooking - You Suck At Cooking is great and worth starting from the beginning because he's really building up a cinematic universe. Internet Shaquille never wastes a second on screen - his videos are short and really informative.
Money - I like The Financial Diet and How Money Works for actual financial content and Coffeezilla for crypto-scam takedowns

I forgot about Internet Shaq! Great sense of humor and solid instructional content.

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« Reply #23 on: February 10, 2023, 08:33:02 PM »
Scooby1961.
OG internet fitness turbo-chad and early retired bodybuilder.
https://www.youtube.com/@scooby1961
Possibly the biggest winner Youtube has ever seen

Andrew Huberman.
Insanely long in-depth conversation about biohacking / optimal life habits.
When I hear this guy say something I just assume it's correct at this point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIy-WQCZd4M&ab_channel=AndrewHuberman

Lex Fridman
Very long conversations with all sorts of people where a humanoid robot ( Lex ) attempts to harvest data on humanity to conquer us.
https://www.youtube.com/@lexfridman

Soho Forum
Fair Debates on alternative economic subjects where 99% will find themselves completely out of their comfort zone, likely confronted with ideas and fact they never considered
https://www.youtube.com/@thesohoforum9409/videos

Michael Malice.
Possibly one of the most interesting and thought-provoking guys you've never heard of. Big advocate for raising awareneness of the horrors of North Korea.
https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelMaliceofficial


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« Reply #24 on: February 11, 2023, 04:49:55 AM »

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Re: What YouTube channels do you like?
« Reply #25 on: February 11, 2023, 04:52:47 AM »
I regularly check in on:
Foresty Forest - A guy living in a van with his dog. He does some great hikes and has some good recipes
Big Think - Interesting sciency topics
Not Just Bikes - Urban planning
Citry Nerd - Urban Planning
Mr Chickadee - Building stuff with hand tools
I just found Driftwood Guitars where they disassemble a perfectly good guitar to see how well it was constructed.

Foresty forest is great!  I have no desire to live in a van but somehow the range of activities combined with his casual commentary makes his videos fun to watch.

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« Reply #26 on: February 12, 2023, 04:43:27 AM »
I regularly check in on:
Foresty Forest - A guy living in a van with his dog. He does some great hikes and has some good recipes
Big Think - Interesting sciency topics
Not Just Bikes - Urban planning
Citry Nerd - Urban Planning
Mr Chickadee - Building stuff with hand tools
I just found Driftwood Guitars where they disassemble a perfectly good guitar to see how well it was constructed.

Foresty forest is great!  I have no desire to live in a van but somehow the range of activities combined with his casual commentary makes his videos fun to watch.

I haven't watched him in a long time.   I hope to do some of his bicycle routes soon.  I'll start hikimg the Appalachian Trail in May.  I've been watching AT hiker videos lately.

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« Reply #27 on: February 12, 2023, 05:02:04 AM »
For beginning or novice guitar instruction I recommend Eric Blackmon.

On a road trip a few years ago I actually made a small detour to stop at his shop...the only YouTube star I have ever met.  Just as nice in person as in his videos.

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« Reply #28 on: February 12, 2023, 06:32:55 AM »
I regularly check in on:
Foresty Forest - A guy living in a van with his dog. He does some great hikes and has some good recipes
Big Think - Interesting sciency topics
Not Just Bikes - Urban planning
Citry Nerd - Urban Planning
Mr Chickadee - Building stuff with hand tools
I just found Driftwood Guitars where they disassemble a perfectly good guitar to see how well it was constructed.

Foresty forest is great!  I have no desire to live in a van but somehow the range of activities combined with his casual commentary makes his videos fun to watch.

I haven't watched him in a long time.   I hope to do some of his bicycle routes soon.  I'll start hikimg the Appalachian Trail in May.  I've been watching AT hiker videos lately.

Have you watched the Homemade Wanderlust channel?

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« Reply #29 on: February 12, 2023, 10:41:55 PM »
Army University Press
Perun
Casual Geographic
The Chieftain
History of the Universe
Free Documentary
Fall of Civilizations
PBS Eons
National WWI Museum
Eastory
SciShow
PBS Space Time
History of the Earth
History Buffs
CrashCourse

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« Reply #30 on: February 13, 2023, 06:58:00 AM »
Good thread.  PTF

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« Reply #31 on: February 13, 2023, 07:48:08 AM »
https://www.youtube.com/c/ProWalks/videos
When you need a bit of "sunshine" and a nice wallpaper. Was a fair substitute for traveling during COVID. There are many other similar channels but I always come back to this one.

If you are into classic cars like me this guy is entertaining with time lapse videos on his projects:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl9I7RgD0i7JZ58CK17kKHQ
He is in Ireland.

If you want to see how badly a vehicle can be wrecked and still repaired:
https://www.youtube.com/@tussik01
DW and I joke about the music choices, he needs a soundtrack album. He's in Lithuania.

All the channels about better cities like "Not Just Bikes". When we showed these videos to our Trumpy relatives they were surprised and impressed. Not at all what a "socialist" country ought to look like... Maybe we planted a few new ideas? I hope so.

Excellent thread idea.

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« Reply #32 on: February 13, 2023, 07:49:24 AM »
Was looking for info on Joshua Tree Natiinal Park and stumbled on "Adam Walks Around". Ww watched episodes 47 & 48, which were excellent.

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« Reply #33 on: February 13, 2023, 07:59:52 AM »
a LOT of food and cooking ones, mostly.

Non-food:
NotJustBikes
Primitive Technology
Legal Eagle
Eugenio Monesma/Lost trades - a Spanish documentarian who has spent decades capturing traditional crafts and manufacturing processes. A great way to practice my Spanish and learn something new!
Linguriosa - Spanish language videos about linguistics and etymology

Food related:
Kenji Lopez-Alt
Helen Rennie
Carla Lalli Music
Claire Saffitz
Ethan Chlebowski
De Mi Rancho a Tu Cocina
Tasting History
Food Wishes

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« Reply #34 on: February 13, 2023, 09:12:17 AM »
Rick Beato was good for a while then he started doing streaming videos which I find annoying
Vlogbrothers is great.
Weazy Waiter is another one that's sometimes interesting. A guy and his wife do month long deprivation videos like no coffee for a month or no alcohol for a month. He's a bit of a dork but his wife is super laid back.
Primitive Technology was good at first but for some reason I'm not that into it anymore.
In the winter months I try to find cyclocross races on Youtube. The racing this season has been great, both men's and women's.

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« Reply #35 on: February 13, 2023, 09:36:43 AM »
Here are some of my favorites

Engineering/Science/Building Stuff

Mark Rober - Former NASA engineer - has made stuff like glitter bombs for package thieves and a squirrel obstacle course.
Stuff Made Here - Makes cool projects but a lot heavier on coding and explaining how to build something mechanical/electronic and the software to control it.
ColinFurze - British guy who makes cool stuff like a hoverbike and an underground tunnel in his backyard, mostly mechanical things with lots of welding and cutting metal.
TheBackYardScientist - Guy in Florida who builds stuff in his garage and test it in his backyard - often involving molten metal and exploding things.
Primitive Technology - This guy has basically gone from the stone age to the early iron age and shown how to make fire from scratch, build tools, and create structures/building materials along the way. He doesn't narrate his videos but has been doing it for years and is the real deal.
Practical Engineering - Civil Engineer talking about real engineering problems and concepts with some small scale testing/demonstrations.

History/Geography/Finance/Interesting Things
Wendover Productions
How Money Works
Tom Scott
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« Reply #36 on: February 16, 2023, 03:20:45 PM »
https://www.youtube.com/@MoneyMacro

Very entertaining, yet you're learning macroeconomics!

As an econ nerd and fan of extremely desert-dry humor, I also find Patrick Boyle entertaining:

https://www.youtube.com/@PBoyle/videos

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« Reply #37 on: March 03, 2023, 08:41:39 AM »
Rebecca Watson is a new channel that popped up on my Youtube feed.

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« Reply #38 on: March 03, 2023, 12:44:12 PM »
LockPickingLawyer - He does a lot of cool things and is entertaining

Andreas Spiess - Does a good job of explaining things I want to know more about

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Re: What YouTube channels do you like?
« Reply #39 on: March 03, 2023, 03:57:22 PM »
LockPickingLawyer - He does a lot of cool things and is entertaining

I wonder if he's a criminal lawyer? :)


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« Reply #40 on: March 03, 2023, 05:36:41 PM »
I'd seen some of Paige Saunders' videos as one-offs, but just realized recently that his videos are really intended to be watched as series, which isn't totally clear when you just spot one of them out of context (they're not labelled like "____ Series, X out of Y" or anything like that).

He's a New Zealand-born Canadian living in Montreal and is doing some really kickass explanatory journalism, recently centered around the housing crisis and transit politics all around Canada. Would really highly recommend checking out his videos, and in particular watching by playlist rather than just clicking a random video.

He's got a really fascinating tone where he often doesn't bother humoring the bad-faith NIMBY arguments and just skips straight to the solutions that all the experts agree we need to be focusing on.

One of his recent series I found super fascinating is about how a Quebecois public pension fund is becoming one of the most effective transit-building institutions in Canada. Essentially, municipal governments give this pension fund a perpetual cut of fare revenues* in exchange for them building a kickass system. This gives the transit project a great blend of public subsidy and real profit-incentive, because those fare revenues need to yield returns for the pensioners. So when some new city councilors get elected and want to throw a wrench in the new transit project, the project is being led by a powerful third-party institution that can pushback against bullshit that will delay the project or make it less effective. It's like all the benefits of a public-private partnership, except this pension fund is also a public institution that is beholden to the people... it's just a much more independent public institution that won't get battered around as easily by fickle swings back and forth in political coalitions as the project gets built.

It really seems like an ideal situation, and the beautiful thing is that by doing this in multiple cities, this pension fund is actually building up a ton of institutional knowledge about how to manage large-scale transit projects and get it done efficiently and effectively. Theoretically, a US city (or really a city in any other country) could also hire a big transit improvement project out to this fund, and they would likely manage the project better, faster, and cheaper than that city employees could. It's really a promising model for rebuilding institutional knowledge about public transit, after such knowledge has mostly been lost over the last couple generations.

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*I got this wrong and was just rewatching the video—the city just pays the fund a certain amount of subsidy, which is lower than the subsidy they would have paid into running this system if they had built it themself. Then the fund gets to keep all the fare revenue, so if ridership is low they lose money, and the higher the ridership, the more money they make for their pensioners.
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Re: What YouTube channels do you like?
« Reply #41 on: August 17, 2023, 11:06:08 PM »
Another vote for vlogbrothers.

Cooking - You Suck At Cooking is great and worth starting from the beginning because he's really building up a cinematic universe. Internet Shaquille never wastes a second on screen - his videos are short and really informative.
Money - I like The Financial Diet and How Money Works for actual financial content and Coffeezilla for crypto-scam takedowns

I forgot about Internet Shaq! Great sense of humor and solid instructional content.

I'm resurrecting this thread to thank you two for the Internet Shaquille recommendation! When I was reading this thread for the first time, I watched one or two of his videos but wasn't hooked. Recently he surfaced in my recommendations and I have been totally binging on his stuff. It's great! He also has a second channel of non-cooking related content.

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Re: What YouTube channels do you like?
« Reply #42 on: August 17, 2023, 11:43:03 PM »
https://www.youtube.com/@regenerativeagriculture

This is a new one for me, but what I have seen is very interesting. Methods to grow and sell. I'll just quote his own description:

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Re: What YouTube channels do you like?
« Reply #43 on: August 22, 2023, 06:23:40 PM »
Omeleto for high-quality short films.

Soft White Underbelly for very interesting interviews.

US National Archives.

The History Guy.

Old clips from The Onion.
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