What are lemmy’s favorite video channels for more depth then you get from average news and television sources?
Prerun is one that comes to mind as he digs, thinks, and explains, and is willing to say he’s wrong. Business Insider is another one that has a great number of in depth topics, even if not quite as much as one might want sometimes. DW is another. RealLifeLore also seems to some great explaining. LegalEagle similar.
All of these are debatable to a greater or lesser degree, but I’m interested in alternative sources. What else is out there? What platform? Why?
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If you want a deep dive on how fridges, christmas lights, or oldschool pinball machines operate, you need Alec at https://www.youtube.com/@TechnologyConnections
You will never get your hours back, and you’ll still be happy about it.
If you mention the word “heat pump” in the suburbs of Chicago too loudly you may be stopped for a brief hour-long explainer.
You can find Alec on Mastodon, too.
I hear the summoning words are “latent heat”
He is indeed a great find. His Dubai lights was one I was just thinking about due to another post.
- Not just bikes a channel on bikes, biking, traffic and street design to accommodate bikes and biking… plus fawning over how good everyone’s favorite country has set this up.
- Mega projects: channel on some of the worlds largest projects in engineering and beyond.
- The B1M: Construction!
- Kurzgesagt : fun animated explanations of large difficult concepts.
- Wendover productions: Cool explanations om random subjects. Also has a sister channel Half as interesting with even more random subjects.
- Good times, Bad times: Geopolitics old and new.
- William spaniel: Game theory and Geopolitics.
Some other fun channels:
- How to ADHD: hints tips and tricks for people with adhd.
- Lock picking lawyer: Never trust any lock anymore.
- Primitive technology: A guy using primitive technology to survive in his own piece of jungle.
Hah checked out the B1M mega construction videos and immediately stumbled onto the Fehmarn tunnel project which brings up a memory from when I took the train from Germany to Denmark some 10 years ago. In the middle of the journey, the train suddenly went into a hangar and maybe fifteen minutes later we were asked to A) leave all of our stuff in the train and B) descend.
Which we begrudgingly did.
We all followed the person giving the orders up through some staircases and … the weirdest thing I have ever experienced I think, through a door out on the deck of a large boat in the middle of the sea 🌀🌌🐵
Didn’t expect that 😁
Cool. That’s pretty unique.
I had the pleasure of experiencing the train transfer from Mongolia to China. All train wagons are moves into a hangar in batches and lifted off their undercarriage. The undercarriages are removed, then the rail width is changed, new undercarriages are rolled in and the cabins lowered onto them… It was one hell of a sight.
I wouldn’t call B1M in depth…
I think that’s kinda fair. They go further than a lot of info you see on the news though, so I think it will scratch OP’s itch.
Lots of good ones in there. Thanks!
B1M is great, Mega Projects and others of Simon’s channels are good (some better then others). Wendover is amazing, I just wish he out more out, but the production quality is probably to high to increase the rate.
I’ll have to check the rest out. :)
Primitive technology: A guy using primitive technology to survive in his own piece of jungle
I’ve always wanted to make a meal entirely from scratch in memory of our ancestors. That means either growing or catching it with tools that I made myself. I’d have to prepare and cook it from scratch too Everything as if I was living 50k years ago. Just haven’t found a tribe to do it with yet.
There’s that guy that did that. He said it wasn’t a very good sandwich.
*as this is a youtuber thread, he has a channel. It’s okay. https://youtube.com/@htme?si=qfrFo68rA3Wi4cTL
Some More News is excellent!
Coffezilla does awesome journalism.
ExtraHistory has also really stepped up it’s game.
Real Life Lore sucks. he’s algorithm bait. he isn’t necessarily factually wrong, but he’s just shallow. it plays better to the algorithm. he is pretty much the antithesis of “in-depth”. so I’m not really sure what you’re looking for if that’s the benchmark
I can’t remember which YouTuber called Real Life Lore the store brand Wendover, but it fits.
Oh yeah, I could see that. I’ve only seen a couple Wendover videos but they seemed decent
So what benchmarks would you define as in-depth? In-depth this decade is not what is was 2 or 3 ago, due to content consumption, but your comment made me realize how cultural the concept is. On the spectrum between a 5 bounce video to a PhD leaves a lot of room.
The granddaddy of science fiction and futurism channels is Science Fiction and Futurism with Isaac Arthur. The channel has content for days about all kinds of shenanigans humans could be getting up to in space and beyond.
A close second is futurist and science fiction author John Michael Godier. His voice will either weigh your soul down to the core of the earth or you’ll find it grating… there’s really no in-between.
Animagraffs makes 3d explainers of how machines/vehicles work. The one on the “Big Boy” steam engine is amazing.
Ancient Americas talks about pre-columbian America
I’ll throw in my two cents; Whitelight.
His bio describes his channel perfectly, “the dark souls of game media.”
Goes super in depth reviewing games, such as how they’re structured, and somehow keeps me entertained throughout
mehhhh… he’s a bit corporate now. he started as an excellent channel for teaching concepts in physics to layfolk using engaging questions. and he does great research. but i think more bias has crept into his content since he got big
Patrick (H) Willems is great movie criticism with plot.
