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My wife’s father was Cuban and so has a lot of Cuban American family. They vote R because “we came to America the right way and all those who are coming illegally should be stopped”. Lobsters in a bucket.
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BigPaddy posted:My wife’s father was Cuban and so has a lot of Cuban American family. They vote R because “we came to America the right way and all those who are coming illegally should be stopped”. Lobsters in a bucket. The UK has a surprisingly large percentage of second generation immigrant politicians who are positively giddy at the prospect of competing with each other over who can kick the biggest ladders away to ensure there are no more people like them.
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Darchangel posted:Glad to hear it's not working down there. when someone is faced with the choice between the "pretends to care about you but actually makes everything worse for you on purpose" party and the "doesn't try to hide how little they're interested in making any change in either direction" party, i can see why the former might have some attraction if you don't look too close. it doesn't make that the right decision, but i can see why someone might make it
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BigPaddy posted:My wife’s father was Cuban and so has a lot of Cuban American family. They vote R because “we came to America the right way and all those who are coming illegally should be stopped”. Lobsters in a bucket. gently caress you, got mine. The rallying cry of the republican party.
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Disgruntled Bovine posted:gently caress you, got mine. The rallying cry of So much FYGM and doing things while only looking out for your best interests.
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Darchangel posted:I'm astounded how Latinos are moving to the Republican party, but given how much the Dems are focusing on poo poo that's high-brow but has zero effect on day-to-day difficulties of, you know, living, it becomes somewhat understandable. Not that the Right is going to do anything about affordable housing, employment and wages, which is actually what's causing most people pain. Quite the opposite, but for some reason... It’s like the agricultural sector here in Australia votes almost exclusively for the liberal/national party, who without fail ALWAYS fucks over the agricultural and rural sectors. I don’t know whether it’s just stubbornness or ingrained stupidity at this point?
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IME (albeit from a different country) it's because farmers are all convinced that 1)if it wasn't for all the taxes and bureaucracy I could make my farm into a money printing paradise and 2) if I vote for anyone that isn't conservative or maaaaybe libertarian Lenin will literally rise from his grave to nationalize my farm and have me killed as a kulak.
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Possibly should go here? Modern child labor in Hyundai subsidiary in Alabama https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ex...i51gvfP3kAv1i7E Here's a bit of a taste - quote:Reuters learned of underage workers at the Hyundai-owned supplier following the brief disappearance in February of a Guatemalan migrant child from her family's home in Alabama.
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Nidhg00670000 posted:IME (albeit from a different country) it's because farmers are all convinced that 1)if it wasn't for all the taxes and bureaucracy I could make my farm into a money printing paradise and 2) if I vote for anyone that isn't conservative or maaaaybe libertarian Lenin will literally rise from his grave to nationalize my farm and have me killed as a kulak. Not to mention that nowadays farms are big business, or, even worse, small business
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Ferremit posted:It’s like the agricultural sector here in Australia votes almost exclusively for the liberal/national party, who without fail ALWAYS fucks over the agricultural and rural sectors. I don’t know whether it’s just stubbornness or ingrained stupidity at this point? Read "What's the Matter with Kansas" to understand this a bit more.
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I guess it's on topic, but maybe as a counter example, perhaps a little palette cleanser if you will. I was stoked to see M&M in the latest Mighty Car Mods video talking aboout mental health and their ambassadorship for a mental health org (reachout.com) I think this thread, by it's nature, has the potential to be a lot of doom and gloom. It's great we're going our due diligence and making sure we know what we're consuming and who we're supporting. Perhaps it might be worthwhile looking for some bright spots too?
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slothrop posted:I guess it's on topic, but maybe as a counter example, perhaps a little palette cleanser if you will. Those two seem like genuinely good dudes and I know there are people here who've met them and have said the same.
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Toyota, upset that their BEV strategy is so dismal, choosing to heavy the UK govt by threatening to shut down manufacturing if they go ahead with hybrid ban in 2035. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/30/toyota-warns-government-may-stop-manufacturing-uk-bans-hybrid/
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I’m sure this isn’t a plan to get the gov’t to fund their BEV development.
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The UK government will pay because there are no British mass manufacturers anymore only Japanese, German (Mini) and Stellantis who have plants in the country. I guess Ford have a Diesel engine plant in Dagenham still there unless that closed in the last decade. Lots of small sports car and super car manufacturers which is what counts right?
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BigPaddy posted:The UK government will pay because there are no British mass manufacturers anymore only Japanese, German (Mini) and Stellantis who have plants in the country. I guess Ford have a Diesel engine plant in Dagenham still there unless that closed in the last decade. Lots of small sports car and super car manufacturers which is what counts right? I assume that the Tories can find a way to spin it as "levelling up" to only sell exclusive high dollar sports cars to rich people, not gross hatchbacks for poors.
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BuckyDoneGun posted:Toyota, upset that their BEV strategy is so dismal, choosing to heavy the UK govt by threatening to shut down manufacturing if they go ahead with hybrid ban in 2035. UK are quite fine with leaving without planning, not sure how Toyota can win this?
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:UK are quite fine with leaving without planning, not sure how Toyota can win this? Yeah best case they're left selling hybrids while buyers all want EV's??
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W...what are these replies, but also, why am I surprised
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Someone might want to hit up Ken Block about his newest sponsor. https://mobile.twitter.com/lib_crusher/status/1561765433576869888
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Ah gently caress for real? C'mon Ken, don't be a loving shithead.
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You had me wondering what the hell I did there for a moment. I wish I was even slightly surprised that someone in motorsport was like this.
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That thread is a big 'ol yikes https://twitter.com/TNawtical/status/1561926634604838912?s=20&t=Ad_IQihpQ90PnwwZ34Bneg
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Guys it is just Super Sport coffee come on!
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gently caress all of those people
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Large Testicles posted:Someone might want to hit up Ken Block about his newest sponsor. lmao I'm an idiot and like a lot of Hoovie's videos and Freddy's does have some great burgers (their shakes are to die for) but he gives off serious "cool-guy-boss-who-is-actually-a-huge-prick" vibes. No concrete proof but that's the vibe I get. I refuse to believe that car wizard is anything but great to work for (as long as you're a competant mechanic)
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Hoovie is a rich failson who inherited his grandad's franchise. IDK if he's a prick but he's definitely someone who tries way too hard to be "just one of the guys". Wizard kinda pissed me off when he got super sniffy about some 20 year old turbo Beetle and went in on the previous owners for being neglectful monsters. Like bro, not everyone has their own shop and there's a HIGH chance that this was the only car they could afford and could probably not afford to keep it in top condition. Get off your high horse.
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you want fewer chuds overrepresented in car culture, gotta start making your own content goons
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I refuse to YouTube.
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I’m still waiting for that OnlyVans link.
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Ok Comboomer posted:you want fewer chuds overrepresented in car culture, gotta start making your own content goons I've got a face made for radio and a voice made for silent film. Would be fun to try the content creator gravy train but it's the confidence that kills it
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I can do the filming and editing part but I have no money for projects or road trips. The last video I made was a year ago of me driving from West Yellowstone to Big Horn, MT, is 1hr45m long and I think has like 100 views, 30 of those are easily me.
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Large Testicles posted:I can do the filming and editing part but I have no money for projects or road trips. The last video I made was a year ago of me driving from West Yellowstone to Big Horn, MT, is 1hr45m long and I think has like 100 views, 30 of those are easily me. we gotta find you a goon with a project to film what about the dude that imports old jdm trucks?
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Editing is a nightmare. I also hate filming when working on a project because it distracts and makes everything take ten times as long. I also have no garage or even parking for any additional cars. What I'm trying to say is let's start a goon project.
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I only have a GoPro and my iPhone right now for recording but I built my computer partially in mind for video editing so I can do 4k60fps poo poo no problem. I’m in Sacramento area if there actually is anyone who wants to start something but doesn’t want to do the filming and editing.
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Ok Comboomer posted:you want fewer chuds overrepresented in car culture, gotta start making your own content goons The big issues is that lets say if I did a series on say restoring a rare MY2000 Clubspec EVO4 WRX - which I am contemplating because that car is going to be a lot of interesting work - is that unless you are say MCM you have to combat the algorithm and that means mostly being the same lovely spam that yooootooobers vomit out because thats what will get pushed to people. MCM have been around so long the algorithm barely matters and also they have daytime jobs so Youtube can be a passion project and they can do whatever they want as getting the youtube bucks doesnt matter to them. Also to do a series that will be interesting takes a lot of work to plan, script, film, edit and publish, of which can be several hours and that's not even the hour or so just it'll take me to start the car and get it into the garage to even start the project. Sure I could dash off 10 mins of gonzo footage that would be decently shot because I have photo and video skills but it would be boring as gently caress and who the hell wants to listen to some dickhead trying to come up with witty banter on the fly? SuperFastMatt spends hours/days coming up with his stuff to voiceover. Lord knows how much time Project Binky takes to film and edit. Another point is something Roman Atwood bought up while doing a podcast with Cleetus is that controversy sells the clicks. poo poo like Whistin Dickhead are cancer but it undeniably gets the clicks. You can have the best script, camerawork and editing with best music etc and will still likely go nowhere. Start a fight with a restaurant and watch that take off. Hey, if people want to watch some smartass Aussie restore a POS, fine (And I'll do the video anyway because that helps document where parts go in three years time). But I'll bet right now not a single video will get more than 500 views at best.
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Lotta good stuff here.CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:The big issues is that lets say if I did a series on say restoring a rare MY2000 Clubspec EVO4 WRX - which I am contemplating because that car is going to be a lot of interesting work - is that unless you are say MCM you have to combat the algorithm and that means mostly being the same lovely spam that yooootooobers vomit out because thats what will get pushed to people. MCM have been around so long the algorithm barely matters and also they have daytime jobs so Youtube can be a passion project and they can do whatever they want as getting the youtube bucks doesnt matter to them. While there's a lot of stuff you have to do to feed the algo (Like and subscribe! The Youtuber shocked face thumbnails etc, which Matt Farah mentioned can *double* his views), those are more about driving engagement, which pleases the algo and keeps your video getting pushed to both your subscribers and new viewers. The algo doesn't like human faces in thumbnails - the actual humans doing the clicking do because we're dumb animals, which means engagement which means better promotion from the algo. It's the same reason we put humans using the product in ads, they do better than just images of the product. Like and subscribe is the "call to action", oh hey now you're engaging again. The 'same lovely spam' thing applies to the content choices you make in order to attract viewers, hence "Buying and fixing the cheapest Lambo on Co-part" - those get clicks not because of the algo, but because every chucklefuck with a socket set thinks "hey maybe I could do that too". That's more about firstly building your channel, but then the next problem you hit is that your viewers came to you because you're the fixing supercars guy. On boat channels you see a similar thing, people subscribe for the dude fixing his boat on the hard, but once the fixing is done and you're off sailing, those people didn't come to watch you sail the Caribbean. Hence the proliferation of "secondary channels", because doing anything other than what your regular content is pisses off your viewers, which means what? They engage less, so the algo frowns upon you. Again, Farah has given several examples of stuff that tanks his numbers - motorbikes, cars on track in particular. Different length videos even! If all your videos are 10mins, suddenly you do a 20min video? No good. CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Also to do a series that will be interesting takes a lot of work to plan, script, film, edit and publish, of which can be several hours and that's not even the hour or so just it'll take me to start the car and get it into the garage to even start the project. Sure I could dash off 10 mins of gonzo footage that would be decently shot because I have photo and video skills but it would be boring as gently caress and who the hell wants to listen to some dickhead trying to come up with witty banter on the fly? SuperFastMatt spends hours/days coming up with his stuff to voiceover. Lord knows how much time Project Binky takes to film and edit. On top of all the creativity and skill that goes into ALL of the parts of filming it, you've actually got to have a personality too. Say what people will about the current Youtubers, like them or hate them, they've all mostly got strong personalities. You've got to be ON, I'm not interested in some goon droning on as they fight rusted bolts for hours, the quiet unassuming guys have to be REALLY skilled technically, or interesting in *some way*. Look at Skid Factory Al - most of the time his quiet demeanour wouldn't be a recipe for success, but he builds interesting as gently caress poo poo, knows what the hell he's talking about, and he IS a funny guy, he's quiet but not devoid of personality. Plus he's got Woody to bounce off. I'm not saying everyone has to be Richard Rawlins BIG, but it goes a long way. Demuro might be irritating but he's also the only guy who deep dives into all the little 'quirks and features' that literally no one else does. That's interesting in its own way. As for time - conservative estimates say it doubles the time, probably even more when you're new. That's why the Irish dude who stop motioned his builds was so mindblowing, I think he estimated it at least quadrupled his time. CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Another point is something Roman Atwood bought up while doing a podcast with Cleetus is that controversy sells the clicks. poo poo like Whistin Dickhead are cancer but it undeniably gets the clicks. You can have the best script, camerawork and editing with best music etc and will still likely go nowhere. Start a fight with a restaurant and watch that take off. Yup. Sure, some guys get lucky, some guys have one video go viral and it builds from there, others are smart businessmen and manage to stumble into fantastic opportunities (Cleetus a mix of that, first with the throwaway Cleetus character going big, then being in the right time and place to pick up the Freedom Factory which had the added bonus of hitting the "abandoned thing* subject, which is also a popular click grabbing subject), others have just been years of grind, others are rich kids (Some might put Shmee in this category but I highly recommend the interview he did with Jonny Smith, he grew up privileged but not supercar wealthy, he's built his fortunes through hard work and smart money management), and yet others are Whistlin Diesel. Going back to MCM for a second, I'd suggest the other reason apart from dayjobs they can care less about the algo is they (like an increasing amount of others) have built other income streams and aren't as reliant on straight ad-rev, so merch, big sponsorships (Supercheap in MCM's case, regular ad-reads in others) and the like. The merch numbers I've seen implied for big channels are impressive - one single run of a particular print funding an entire build even. Long story short it's hard work and a grind even for people experienced in traditional media production.
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SavageGeese have talked a bunch about their process—how the “boring” content about stuff like the KIA Telluride/etc that gets a jillion views from every dad who googles “KIA Telluride 2022 review comparison ranked car & driver consumer reports” subsidizes the enthusiast passion content like their recent Corvette documentary that might only get a few tens of thousand and took months of work to make but/and consistency and frequency are also really important because Robots. Successful channels these days have to balance cutting 50 hours into writing/shooting/cutting a 35 minute mini movie that you can only realistically make once every few weeks without a pro team vs banging out some 10 minute subscriber Q+A clips and reactions to car news or quick tips or whatever on your phone and an uncut video recording of your podcast so you have stuff to feed the algo every week. And if you actually are gonna make a go of monetizing it, to work on getting as much of your revenue stream away from YouTube ads (Patreon, etc) as possible
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It may be easier to do the "helpful indian youtuber" thing where you just do small bits on common repairs and stuff that people like me need to look up when they do work. From there you may find people egging you on for more content that will give you a better idea of if its worth doing or not.....
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