Honestly, the actual content of that video is pretty good, for the most part.angelfromanotherpin wrote:The youtube channel is basically the entire thing. Despite calling itself a university, PragerU doesn't offer even the fake degrees that a degree mill scam would. It's the same kind of not-quite-fraud as a person who changes their first name to 'doctor.' AFAICT, all the organization does is produce those up-is-down misinformational videos while hoping gullible people will assume they have academic legitimacy. My favorite title is probably 'Fossil Fuels: The Greenest Energy.' That there is some full-Orwell commitment.
"Conditions in developing countries are pretty shitty. To make them less shitty, they need reliable, cheap, and easy power. Fossil fuels are currently the cheapest and easiest we have, and thus will enable developing countries to build the infrastructure that they need more readily than alternative energy sources will."
I mean, that's the trust of their argument, that fossil-fuel fueled water, sewage, and power infrastructure will save a lot of lives in developing countries. And that's inherently true. Using diesel burning construction vehicles to lay down desperate sewer and water pipes is objectively better emptying your bucket of poop into the street and then walking two miles to the river to collect water for the day.
They even mention that improperly ventilated indoor fires, which are still used for heating and cooking in some parts of the developing world, are more dangerous than burning fossil fuels in a power plant and using the electricity to cook and heat. Which is also true.
The problem is that they take this great argument and then combine it with global warming denial (even though other videos of theirs admit that global warming is happening). And also they seem to be implying that these facts about the developing world should somehow influence internal domestic policy of developed countries but don't explain how or why.
If you're seeing any then it isn't blocking any. You probably need to update or upgrade or something.Count Arioch the 28th wrote:I have adblock. I still get ads on youtube. I don't know how many it blocks though but I get them semi-regularly.Koumei wrote:Oh right. I forgot I had adblock. Protip: use fucking adblock.