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> 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.

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Didn't he also help get some libraries built in Kenya?

I think so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R71uDa3DNw

Let's not forget that he also shoots stuff like the cybertruck for fun, which is awesome.

i 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

Man has to pay bills

More like tithe it all to the LDS.

I wouldn’t expect more than 10%

Obvious advertising is the most ethical kind.

Thank 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.

I'll take his transparent advertising over "native" ads any day.

Agreed. 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.

Would rather have 5 episodes with a 5 min sponsor section than one 25 min episode about your way too expensive cooling mattress

I 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.

> 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-metha...

Which is like 0.1% of us co2 emissions

I 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...

So the estimate would range from 0.12% to 0.4% (for 8mmt and 25mmt respectively).

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