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When I was growing up, we had discovery channel. That sparked my intrinsic curiousity. My daughter has that intrinsic motivation as well, but only for k-pop now. She likes youtube videos and she likes when I tell her about science stuff. Maybe I can combine that by recommending her some good youtube channels.

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[–] tomiant@piefed.social 15 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)

God I can't stand Veritasium. Even the name is so fucking pretentious. Dude is in deep love with himself, I can't watch it. There's just something about narcissists, I get an allergic reaction listening to them.

[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

I can see that. I, like you, appreciate the content, but I have found myself watching fewer of his videos. I guess that’s also because he seems to be farming out his content production now. I like the self-produced stuff more than larger-scale productions.

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 hours ago

Apparently the channel is owned by private equity now

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 6 points 15 hours ago

I'm shocked I'm not alone, I was prepared to endure the downvote enema, good to know I'm not way off in my judgment at least.

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Good news than, he recently made a video about stepping back a little and letting his colleages do more videos.

[–] anothermember@feddit.uk 0 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

God I can’t stand Veritasium. Even the name is so fucking pretentious. Dude is in deep love with himself, I can’t watch it. There’s just something about narcissists, I get an allergic reaction listening to them.

Just call him Dirk instead, he makes good videos.

[–] theherk@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Well, his name is Derek.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 8 points 16 hours ago

Yes yes I know, I like the content. I just can't stand him as a person. That's on me. I was brought up by narcissists so I have this spider sense about it and I get a visceral reaction.