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The Death of Educational Content on YouTube
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Yeah and he's not happy about it, routinely using his specific soapbox to inform people of the precise ways the American government is ruining things. (His 90 minute video on renewable energy from a few months back veers hard into a political plea, unusually direct for the channel but it's very clear how much he cares and wants people to push for radical change) If you can get over your bigotry it's easily the best "How It's Made" style deep dives into mundane technology and how it's integrated in our lives.
My point was the daft "british kettle", as if the uk is the only place where people know that electricity can heat water...
Knowing that the usa is the worst thing to happen to earth in the last fucking large amount of years, is not bigotry, it's just common sense.
Should he refer to a kettle from Britain as a foreign kettle? Genuinely, what way of referencing it would have been unobjectionable to you here?
The electric nature of the kettle isn’t what makes it abnormal for Americans (it might not be owned by every household, but people aren’t generally surprised or confused by them), it’s because Britain has 240V and the US has 120V electricity in most outlets, so American electric kettles take longer to boil water.
*US people, you don't own the continent(s)
The absurdly low voltage is yet again a mcmurican thing. 240V is not just a british thing numbnuts.
No, American.
Canada uses 120V, Mexico uses 127V, Colombia uses 120V, Suriname uses 120V, Venezuela uses 120V…
Maybe you should learn before you make a fool of yourself, but you probably do that no matter what.
has your ye olde kettle boiled on your coal stove yet jim-bob?
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I don't remember ever suggesting that you couldn't find other low voltage countries.
Here is a handy reference for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mains_electricity_by_country
"Maybe you should learn before you make a fool of yourself, but you probably do that no matter what."
Have fun believing that people are stupid, and gullible enough to buy your bullshit.
Aw, did that one land for you? 😘
I’m so glad I got you to educate yourself!
first day on the internet?
Yes.
I’ve also never spoken to a real yuro-peen before, let alone someone from another continent (I’ve heard there are more, but they beat us for asking questions about unamerican things in school, so I’m not sure).
Just watch the video, you moron.
I started watching one of his videos and it was dull as dishwater
In the usa I guess you would say 'dull as toilet bowl water'
The specific kettle is from Britain, it's not the concept of kettles that is unknown to us.