This idiot is at it again
 

Here is a review on YT by Yammie Noob, condemning all Chinese bikes sold on Amazon. Once I had determined a while back that he was an idiot, I stopped watching his stuff, but this headline caught my eye and I wanted to see if he has going to be fair. Alas.....

This one is six months old, so I am not sure if it was mentioned by someone earlier. I replied to his video in the Comments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36bsVMSXoSY

He didn't like Royal Enfield's at first either. He reminds me of a young parts guy in a motorcycle dealer who thinks he knows everything. What most of these reviewers don't realize is not everyone is shopping for the same thing, rides the way they do, where they do, or has the same tastes.

Just the intro is enough for me to write this guy off as a complete moron

I consider him a shill for the Japanese and European manufacturers. Probably cozying up to them to get access, like lots of reporters do. Chinese bikes can be an economic threat to the motorcycle manufacturing establishment. Note how motorcycle mags in the US act as if Chinese bikes don't even exist.

Ironically, CFMoto owns KTM.....

You can usually spot the difference in videos where someone is doing them basically for fun or in their spare time versus cranking them out in effort not to have to go out and get an actual job.

Haven't you heard? Content Creator is THEE job. Must be how mechanics (or anyone who works with their hands) felt about computer nerds in the 90's. Love the trades, but they are going the way of the dinosaur.

He started off doing light hearted and funny content poking fun at the biker community and it's various stereotypes. He turned into a person that takes himself too seriously and tries to pass himself off as an expert. Most of his content is just hollow regurgitated talking points that other people have already beat the dead horse with, and he just wants to take his own swing with their opinions.

You are dead wrong on the trades going the way of the dinosaur ,very much in demand , paying huge money ,it couldn’t be a better time for a kid to take up a trade or a veteran to cash in before retirement .

I don't personally get this. Worked with my hands and been a mechanic my entire adult life. Been a nerd so long my first computer was a Timex-Sinclair 1000.That's just me.

I watch a lot of Youtube. With a wary eye. Was looking at tips on how to install a metal roof. Some folks filmed their entire reroof of their house. I picked one how some things they did contradicted some other things I had seen, including some info from a manufacturer. Then I caught where one guy said something about how well it was going considering how it was their first time ever doing such a thing. There's a lot of stuff like that out there. My favorite is the guy showing how to make generator very quiet. He made a box and put it over his generator. Seriously. Showing that he had a camera, a sound meter, and zero comprehension of how air-cooled gasoline engines work. Yes, commenters called him out.

There's a whole class of Youtube videos which are just blather. People facing the camera and just babbling about anything to get views basically. I don't see them because Youtube tailors itself to what I watch. But I have a grandson addicted to such. To the point that he has a hard time going to sleep unless this junk is running on his tablet. I take a look at what he's watching ever so often (and turn the tablet off after he's asleep) and the mindless drivel blows me away. Apparently there are thousands of people who love to hear themselves talk producing it and obviously multiple thousands of people watching it. And there's obviously money in it. If it weren't for my grandson's apparent addiction I probably wouldn't even be aware such junk videos are a thing.
So there's a formula. Talk about anything you can think of to get views and get money. Repeat. Bad part is that the content doesn't have to be "good", factual, or even actually funny. Just stuff you can get people to watch. I suspect this guy bashing Chinese bikes is pretty much in this category. I bet he has zero mechanical experience or engineering qualifications to be judging anything. Nor is he old enough for me to respect his experience much.

Doesn't matter really. Just me rambling on with some observations.

I keep from wasting time on YT vids by first doing a kwik check in the Comments section, then watching the last few minutes of the video for a summary. Then if still intrigued I'll watch the video. Rarely will I watch something over 30ish minutes, unless I think it's vital info I need/want to know. Too much else to do.

I suspect he had a little sarcasm going on when he said the trades were dying. As an electro-mechanical technician my pay has doubled since I first bought my first Hawk in 2017.

You are right, however. The trades will never die, and the demand is so high that pay scales have come up to correct the imbalance and to attract people to those jobs. There has been a big influx of younger people into many professions. Diesel/Truck mechanics is one area that was desperate for people and it saw pay rates skyrocket over the last few years. I have seen entry level positions in that field starting at 25 an hour, and offering tuition reimbursement for classes and paid certification testing. There are even shops offering to provide substantial tool budgets just to get people in the door.

I did the youtube thing for a little while, and I even started to build a good following. On paper it sounds great, but the reality is that, to be successful it requires a LOT of work. Many of these younger kids don't see that side of it. It looks easy on the surface, record yourself doing things and upload it. What they never see is that many of the extremely successful channels out there have a whole team of people behind the scenes. They are proper production companies.

Kinda sorta being sarcastic about the trades. You HAVE seen the Tesla robot? Couple that tech with AI and it's pretty much game over. The elites will have all the slave labor they ever wanted and consumerism (guilty as charged) will be our downfall. I believe someone somewhere has built a gigantic 3D printer and is printing cars, or huge car parts. Soon, if not already, it will be houses.


I mean, the writing is on the wall, clear as day. They called me a crazy, conspiracy theory kook 20 years ago about 9/11 and the BS WMD's just as I'm sure some will call me a kook today for this forward view because it makes them feel better. How many times do we have to see reality imitate art (Capt Kirk and the "recorder", now cell phone) before we begin to see what's coming? If Tesla made one robot, I see a warehouse full of a million units in the future. Star Wars Clone Wars, anyone?


Have ya'll heard of Malcom's Plasmoid Thunderstorm Generator? I believe it's our first step in the direction of harnessing zero point energy. Check out Lex Fridman's podcast on that if you really want your mind blown.

I think I've got 'ya beat, GypsyR. My first computer was an Ohio Scientific Superboard II. (You can tell that it's old because the model numbers are in Roman Numerals!)



https://i.imgur.com/kxTdIU9.jpg

Anyone who thinks Chinese bikes are all 100% pure crap is a moron; likewise, anyone who thinks they're the greatest thing since sliced bread.

To paraphrase Sigmund Freud, sometimes a cheap motorcycle is just a cheap motorcycle...

Hah! Well put.

Before my son finally got a job in cybersecurity (his intended profession), and was submitting dozens of apps and getting ignored, he was storming around complaining that we should "let him" become a youtube creator. And I helped him get a midi keyboard for another distraction. It is still collecting dust, and he has yet to make a single video. ;)

Actually they are just in a partnership with KTM.

The thunderstorm generator is quite an interesting concept, imploding instead of expanding things for energy (if my limited understanding is correct). I actually passed a few videos on that to my father, a long retired physicist expecting a long winded explanation of why it won't work and was shocked when he somewhat excitedly began explaining why it "might be working" full of terminology far above my understanding. If this idea pans out it certainly may be a pivotal moment.

Lex Fridman's podcast with Randall Carlson blew my mind. It's great because Professor Carlson struggles to fully understand, so it's like we're learning at the same rate he is (not really, but it feels like it). When he starts talking about the shape of the plasmoids during the compression phase, then you take a cross-section of it and look at it from the side, it creates the shape of an 8 laying on it's side, or the symbol for infinity. That is your first clue. Then they plot, with perfect mathematical precision, every element in the periodic table along some curve that the plasmoid makes....mind is still blown...


Malcom credits Professor Carlson with building the foundation, whereas Malcom *just* built the house on top. The foundation is Sacred Geometry and some far out, hippy dippy math. I believe the "house" is based in physics and/or string theory. I have yet to look into Malcom.

Malcolm has some serious issues in his past which makes the whole thing require a bit of extra scrutiny. Admittedly his past "issues" may have been because he was blocking some large corporate profits or he may have actually been the problem, hard to tell. Either way if this thing can successfully lessen the pollution produced by ice engines as dramatically as they are hoping it will be a game changer. Wouldn't it be ironic if the same groups currently profiting from the "co2 is too high" campaign switch gears to then promote "co2 is too low" in order to protect corporate profits?...
All is a stage...

The five main components of our atmosphere, rounded to the nearest percent are:
nitrogen.......78%
oxygen.........21%
argon.............1%
water/H2O...0 - 4%
CO2.............325 ppm, or 0.000325%

The other more minor components drastically fall off in percentage after CO2. As anyone with the slightest knowledge of plants knows, CO2 is a vital part of photosynthesis. As a result of that process, plants emit oxygen which we breathe.

And as it turns out, the amount of CO2 in the modern atmosphere is quite low compared to earlier historical epochs. It was far higher during the age of the dinosaurs, for example, due to more abundant plant life, and also the planet was overall hotter. Since the dinosaur epoch was millions of years long, obviously this was not detrimental to them. In comparison, plants are now on a "restricted-calorie diet" of CO2.

We are actually now in what climatologists consider a cold period. The relative warming we are experiencing is just getting us out of the worst of the cold. We had a cold snap in the 1970s, and everyone was hyperventilating about a coming ice age. During the Revolutionary War, George Washington had to deal with a super-cold period when they were wintering over at Valley Forge. And the Dark Ages were also a super-cold period in human history, lasting hundreds of years. Many other examples of warming and cooling in pre-industrial times, with zero input from humanity.

Climate science is much more complicated and nuanced than politicians and the media would have you believe. And most scientists go where the grant money is, in all fields of science.

And they will make the science say whatever you need it to say to get that grant money.


Thank you, sir. Finally some reason. Will we ever have leaders who speak plain truth with no interest in $ or power? I really like Tulsi Gabbard out of Hawaii. Military background and serves in the Army Reserve to this day. She is impressive.

My position on EV's: Was, is, and always will be a stupid idea. This is the way to go:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAEhhYqMEBE&t=891s

I was recently yelled at by a friend who is a science teacher for trying to discuss the issues associated with the demonizing of co2. The level of brainwashing for lack of a better term in our society even among those who really should know better is alarming. I have lost faith in so many people, institutions and agencies over the past 2 decades as to find myself withdrawing from many aspects of "modern society". Cults seem to be a mainstay of the human experience and I suppose weather cults have existed from the beginning. Nothing under the sun is new...

Addendum to post #20 above.

Safe CO2 Levels
10,000 ppm, about 30X the outdoor air concentration, is considered safe for indoor breathing for an 8-hour period. 30,000 ppm, 90X the outdoor concentration, is considered safe for 15 minutes indoors. Outside of some manufacturing operations, this concentration is almost nonexistent. The only other situation where CO2 could get dangerously high would be something like a group of miners trapped in a cave-in in a small space with no ventilation, for days or weeks. Serious danger starts at 30K ppm and higher. (The well-reported 2010 Chilean miner cave-in had them down there for ten weeks, and all 33 survived.)

So all the Chicken Little screeching about high CO2 in the atmosphere is complete nonsense. The Earth is a self-regulating system, and never in its 4.5 billion year history has there ever been a CO2 problem--with the exception of very roughly the first billion years or so, when the planet had no life at all. Once plants evolved and started producing oxygen, the atmosphere very slowly started changing into something breathable. And it has been so ever since.

Sources
https://www.health.state.mn.us/commu...oxins/co2.html
https://www.britannica.com/topic/evo...sphere-1703862

What really makes me sick is the truth that's beginning to come out about the vax. I am SOOO glad I resisted getting vaxxed. Got weak there for about 3 days and almost went and got it. Not sure what changed my mind against it...probably a Joe Rogan podcast.


Or maybe I heard "safe and effective" one too many times. Maybe it came out of a particular mouth, like Biden's, and that's when I KNEW it was a lie.

No comment. I know from past experience that this gets into a touchy area on this forum. Don't want to get stuff deleted.

Probably best. There's some reasonable stuff here and some bits that are off the rails loopy.

Good call. Gotta watch out for the truth and avoid it at all costs. That stuff will get your post deleted!

Just for grins I ordered this CO2 detector yesterday. The Amazon truck just dropped it off a few minutes ago. Calibrated it per the instructions. Indoor CO2 concentration in my office is under 900 ppm, very safe. It also displays temp, humidity, time, weekday and day of month. And is colorful. It is battery or USB-powered, but they just give you the cable, so you need a USB source unless you want to use the three AAA batteries, which they do not supply.

https://www.amazon.com/Newentor-Dete...27&sr=8-3&th=1

Not sure about the internet "truth" stuff. I like stuff like the Templar 250 thread though. Lots of easily verified facts in it.

"History was written by those who've hanged heroes."


That is a FACT. That fact is a BIG reason that movie did so well, because it speaks to our souls...that is...IF you have one. There is precisely one book that contains the ONLY facts I'm interested in, and it ain't no shop manual about some simpleton Templar 250.

What movie?

And what book?

Did some kwik research. Movie is Braveheart.

Basic
Instructions
Before
Leaving
Earth

There are some powerful words in that book. Words written many moons ago, yet still apply to this day. Here's one that I really like and have attempted to commit to memory: Isaiah 10:1-4


"Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless. What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster strikes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches? Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives or fall among the slain."


I don't know about you, but that makes me feel better about what's happening in the world. We will all of us be held to account, whether you believe or not. Nothing new under the sun fer sure, dude.

Yeah, thought that was the book but didn't want to speculate.

I couldn't agree more.