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Linus hasn't distanced himself enough from the company. If LMG "wants to be a real company", which it is now, it needs to be able to take criticism. Nobody is criticizing any individual at LMG, we are criticizing the company. Companies are not individuals and need a mechanism for dealing with any criticism, abuse, harassment, dogpiling, ect that's not a defensive CEO taking it personally and blurting out their emotional reaction. I don't know how Linus can live being the sole punching bag for such a large company.

"Nobody should buy it" is probably true, but it's not the problem here. LTT did not do their due diligence before publishing that conclusion. Even a product that no rational consumer should buy deserves a fair review that explores why you might buy it anyway.

Linus does this all the time, he makes excuses based on some technicality that only he understands. He's said in the past that "it's only a review if we explicitly say it's a review, and if it's not a review we don't have to be held to the same standards", despite the fact that most of their viewers won't assume that distinction, and it's not exactly obvious with their nonsense clickbait titles on all videos. His ego is way too big and he cares more about being right than making good content.

I don't think he wants to fight the alphabet soup, I think he wants to watch the alphabet soup.

Why not, after you clicked on a post in a piracy community?

I know about all the trade offs you mentioned. Personally I'm happy with my coil electric stove because a bit more difficulty cooking is a good trade off to avoid cancer and climate change, but that argument has been moot for decades anyway because induction stoves are better than gas in every way.

Modern heat pumps work fine at the vast majority of locations where humans live. If you happen to live at the north pole, you can supplement your heat pump with electric resistive heaters or even, god forbid, gas, and still come out far more energy efficient.

You're absolutely right that people won't do the right thing voluntarily, as seen with all these examples. That's why we need governments to encourage them. That could be through regulation, taxes, subsidies, and building the right infrastructure to make it easy to do the right thing.

Which is offset by the lack of safety regulation

Citation needed. SUVs tend to be modern which would generally have stricter safety regulations

high center of mass, heavier weight to crush the cabin in a rollover

I wouldn't have though that rollovers are a common cause of deaths or serious injuries in cars. The higher center of gravity is going to be offset by the wider wheel base, so it depends on the car.

Traction seems like a much bigger problem, although many SUVs solve this with bigger wheels.

and much higher likelihood of running over your own kids.

Agree 100%

Stop spreading propaganda by cherry picking,

Look, fuck SUVs, obviously. If you aren't a psychopath you should not feel safe driving those things. My point was specifically about the physics of collisions. What you're bringing up can't be answered with physics because it depends on the details of the car, we need real world statistics to continue this conversation.

Transport is not an obsession, it's a basic necessity. It's a huge deal regardless of what mode. But I think your point with cars is that there are alternatives that don't cause as much harm. I can think of a few other similar examples.

Housing - Suburban housing. It's worse than cars in many of the ways you outlined. Typically cars and suburbs come as a double punch.

Food - Meat. At least as damaging to the environment as cars, causes huge amounts of suffering, and it's also pointless because there are great alternatives.

Cooking - Gas stoves. Fairly minor, but there's no good reason they should still exist. Same story with gas heaters instead of heat pumps.

I didn't know there was such a thing. Surely by making it prohibitively heavy to just lift into a car, you also make it too heavy to ride easily

Who would use this? Wouldn't you either walk on the grass or clearly in the middle of the street?

Physics says that in a collision, the heavier vehicle will always come out better. Higher mass means more resistance to acceleration, so it will take longer to change speed and impart less force on the occupants. This is one reason why buses sometimes don't have seatbelts, when the bus collides with much lighter cars it will be largely unaffected.

If everyone has a heavy vehicle, it's worse overall because of higher kinetic energy causing more dramatic collisions. And obviously significantly worse for everyone outside a car.

Hence the arms race.

True, but singular they is undeniably clunky. Unfortunately it's the best we have, so we will have to get used to it. Opposition to the natural evolution of language has never worked.