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SkyMaster:

--- Quote from: ebastler on February 17, 2020, 06:33:46 am ---Gents, I agree that in some discussions the home country of a poster may provide useful context. And I understand that bsfeechannel's posts in this thread may have annoyed some of you, resulting in an interest to obtain more context.

Nevertheless, I think we should respect bsfeechnnel's wish not to disclose his (or her?) home country. To my knowledge, he has never mentioned it in a post. And the somewhat unusual approach to his Youtube videos suggests that he is concerned about privacy.

May I suggest that you remove the above posts disclosing or speculating about bsfeechannel's home country? It's a very mild form of doxing but I still think it's not appropriate. Thank you!

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Anonymously bashing a particular country?

Nobody is forced to post on an internet forum.
 
If a person has a concern about privacy, this person should not post on an internet forum.

 :popcorn:
coppercone2:
thats the voice you run a number station with lol
bsfeechannel:

--- Quote from: KL27x on February 17, 2020, 07:58:04 pm ---BSFEEchannel has had very little to say, this month.
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I've been busy. Sorry.


--- Quote ---Even his last post was fairly devoid of, well, anything. Just a note to say he's still alive and that he still hates imperial (and everyone who has voiced disagreement with his brand of "logic.").

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Logic appeared in the wake of democracy. Since politicians had to persuade the people to vote for them, rhetoric became an art. The most important art of the Graeco-Roman antiquity. However, rhetoric, though a powerful tool to influence and please the audience, could render speeches lacking truth. Philosophers like Aristotle set themselves the task of analyzing the truth of assertions and so logic was born.

What I'm doing here is not "criticizing" the US' "position and stance on the metric system". What I'm doing is trying to determine the truth in the assertions given.

The US is really behind in terms of metrication when compared to the whole world. Metrication there goes at a sluggish--almost indolent--creeping pace. This is a fact. This is true, and is admitted by many in the US. Of course that's an embarrassment. Having two competing systems of units in a globalized world is ridiculous. Especially when one of them is outdated, based on principles and concepts obsoleted long ago.

To mitigate that discomforting predicament, assertions like "the US is metricated where it makes sense", "no country is fully metricated", "metrication is expensive" or "shut up because we landed on the moon" are designed to persuade people inside and outside the US that the state of affairs is not that absurd as it really is.

But we are engineers, and we smell bullshit 20,000 km away. So this kind of argument can't survive here. We like to vapulate them without getting tired, and some of us even do that for a living. Here it is better to admit the truth than try to cover it up with that vacuous rhetoric that no one is buying.
bsfeechannel:

--- Quote from: xrunner on February 17, 2020, 02:23:59 am ---What's up with the gloves and computer voice?  :-//

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Thanks for watching.

I wanted to give my videos a timeless character. I didn't want them to get old as I get old. Since I can't afford a narrator, I thought I could use the computer voice. But even I think it sucks. I am kinda shy. I don't like to be filmed or appear in photos, so I find recording my own voice a problem.

I have sweaty hands and I easily leave visible fingerprints all over the objects I touch and that's not very good in video. At first I used white gloves, but they get dirty pretty fast. So I switched to the black ones you see in the videos.
bsfeechannel:

--- Quote from: tooki on February 17, 2020, 03:42:19 am ---Ah, that brand of suicide shower is a dead giveaway that it’s Brazil. And one of his suicide shower videos mentions being Brazilian. Luckily I happened upon that segment by random chance, since the robotic voice is quite maddening.

Yes, Brazil, the leading voice in standardization...

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That reminded me of a passage in the "Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.





So if I come here dressed like this no one will believe me.


But if I come dressed like that everybody will accept my report.

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