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0 pointspigbearpig3y ago0 comments

The Blancolirio channel is pretty respected when it comes to covering aviation incidents. (Seriously, the first article of the site linked in the parent comment was just talking about most expensive airports for Christmas car parking.)

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8bitsrule3y ago

And Juan questioned the flight director's wisdom in having the jets and bombers flying at the same altitude so near the audience. Had there been a 500-ft separation, any collision would have left a lot more reaction time.

MerelyMortal3y ago

> pretty respected

Isn't that some sort of fallacy?

Just because they are respected doesn't mean something else they are doing is wrong.

560,000 views, times a minimum of one man-minute wasted (that's just the intro, I didn't let the person waste away any rest of my life) is 1 man-year and 23 man-days of collectively wasted time, just to add a couple extra dollars of ad revenue.

This person is saying that he values a couple of extra dollars and not the one resource that you can't get more of: time in your life.

pigbearpigOP3y ago

The guy is a an actual airline pilot. He's showing the same stuff that NTSB would be analyzing in their investigation.

You're oddly barking up the wrong tree by complaining about a genuine pilot's non-sponsored youtube channel to recommend a website that is passenger focused.

It's like complaining about a scientific journal having too many words and recommending the Yahoo! Health article instead. It's a different audience.

MerelyMortal3y ago

You can easily skip over and not click on an article, not so with fluff content in a video.

There's a reason people are using add-ons that let you skip that kind of garbage in Youtube videos.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/

> SponsorBlock lets you skip over ... annoying parts of YouTube videos.

mertd3y ago

But he doesn't have a sponsor segment? I enjoy his long explanations with lots of side commentary.

You can find the long form narrative boring. That's ok. There is no right way to tell a story.

MerelyMortal3y ago

And that's comendable, but SponsorBlock says it also can skip over annoying parts (such as irrelevant talk about local weather and video pans of trees) and not just sponsorship plugs.

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8bitsrule3y ago

MerelyMortal3y ago

> pretty respected

Isn't that some sort of fallacy?

Just because they are respected doesn't mean something else they are doing is wrong.

This person is saying that he values a couple of extra dollars and not the one resource that you can't get more of: time in your life.

pigbearpigOP3y ago

The guy is a an actual airline pilot. He's showing the same stuff that NTSB would be analyzing in their investigation.

You're oddly barking up the wrong tree by complaining about a genuine pilot's non-sponsored youtube channel to recommend a website that is passenger focused.

It's like complaining about a scientific journal having too many words and recommending the Yahoo! Health article instead. It's a different audience.

MerelyMortal3y ago

You can easily skip over and not click on an article, not so with fluff content in a video.

There's a reason people are using add-ons that let you skip that kind of garbage in Youtube videos.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/

> SponsorBlock lets you skip over ... annoying parts of YouTube videos.

mertd3y ago

But he doesn't have a sponsor segment? I enjoy his long explanations with lots of side commentary.

You can find the long form narrative boring. That's ok. There is no right way to tell a story.

MerelyMortal3y ago

And that's comendable, but SponsorBlock says it also can skip over annoying parts (such as irrelevant talk about local weather and video pans of trees) and not just sponsorship plugs.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse