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    9 hours ago

    that is why I don’t click on youtube links on social media, they are just about guaranteed to be trash.

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        7 hours ago

        random looking youtube, maybe interesting

        The “It’s a british kettle” thumbnail, suggests he is probably from the ‘country’ between Mexico and Canada though.

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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.

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            6 hours ago

            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.

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              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.