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For context - he has a ~9m sub youtube channel on phones that must be banking it. This is a side project that appears to be grown out of frustration of disabled
by Havoc 2y ago
For context - he has a ~9m sub youtube channel on phones that must be banking it. This is a side project that appears to be grown out of frustration of disabled wife & seeing the shitshow that wheelchair market is. Seems 10/10 wholesome to have this disrupted by someone that cares
- TrainedMonkey 2y ago> This is a side project that appears to be grown out of frustration of disabled wife & seeing the shitshow that wheelchair market is While it is absolutely true that he cares, I think you are selling his long term plans short. The primary growth factor for the channel was reviewing phones with the repairability / endurance focus, but somewhat recently he expanded to topics such as plugging abandoned oil wells which are leaking methane and wheelchair mobility issues. From what I understand he has a couple similar things in the pipeline.
- 123pie123 2y agoi think he's a better than average presenter for a youtube channel. I did like his huge bunker videos my biggest annoyance is his plugging or advertising stuff too obviously
- jeanlucas 2y agoMan has to pay bills
- flutas 2y agoMore like tithe it all to the LDS.
- bulletsvshumans 2y agoI wouldn’t expect more than 10%
- kube-system 2y agoObvious advertising is the most ethical kind.
- password4321 2y agoThank you for pointing this out so clearly, I'd not thought about it this way before but this makes perfect sense in a "best of the worst" kind of way.
- steve_adams_86 2y agoI'll take his transparent advertising over "native" ads any day.
- jccalhoun 2y agoAgreed. I understand he has to pay the bills but there were one or two episodes of the bunker series that really felt like fluff to put in between ads.
- joelhaasnoot 2y agoWould rather have 5 episodes with a 5 min sponsor section than one 25 min episode about your way too expensive cooling mattress
- yunohn 2y agoI mean, without the advertising, he wouldn’t be able to make any videos. Quite honestly tired of people pulling out this argument like all content creators need to be altruistic trust fund kids.
- stronglikedan 2y agoLet's not forget that he also shoots stuff like the cybertruck for fun, which is awesome.
- steve_adams_86 2y agoDidn't he also help get some libraries built in Kenya? I think so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R71uDa3DNw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R71uDa3DNw
- imhoguy 2y ago> abandoned oil wells which are leaking methane What? That still happens with so much CO2 and climate change outrage and people literally gluing themselves to roads as protest? Ok, did more research: "In 2021, fugitive U.S. methane emissions from abandoned wells were 295 kilotons—equivalent to 8.2million metric tons (MMT) of CO2 with a 95% confidence interval of 1.4 to 25.1 MMT, the largest uncertainty range among the nation’s largest sources of methane (US EPA 2023)." https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/orphaned-wells-methane-measurement-guidelines-july-2023-version.pdf https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/orphaned-wells-metha...
- daedrdev 2y agoWhich is like 0.1% of us co2 emissions
- TrainedMonkey 2y agoI actually looked it up, per EPA in 2022 6343mmt of CO2 were released in U.S - https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/inventory-us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-sinks https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/inventory-us-greenhouse-gas... So the estimate would range from 0.12% to 0.4% (for 8mmt and 25mmt respectively).
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- hmottestad 2y agoI’ve been watching his channel for a long time and remember back before they were together. If I remember correctly he first built her a wheelchair to go hiking in. That was kinda the beginning of their relationship. I think there was also a stair climbing wheelchair involved at some point, but that could have been a sponsored thing rather than something he built. He’s also been working on an electric humvee. So he’s a lot more than just the channel where he scratches and tears apart phones.
- averageRoyalty 2y agoIt's explained not very far in the article what the first wheelchair he built her was.