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So if all we did was decide to stop growing corn to turn into ethanol, and we used only that land for generating only solar power, we'd be able to generate 84% more electricity on an annual basis than we do today from all of our energy sources.
Damn. Factorio lied to me about the space efficiency of solar panels.
Generally I'm very skeptical about titles like these thinking that there's some sort of misinformation or whitewashing done to continue to push fossil fuels.
However, this guy is incredible and one of my favorite YouTubers of all time. He can make almost anything interesting. His level of being researched, educated, and thorough is almost unmatched. Thanks for sharing, OP.
This episode is fucking amazing and so cathartic.
The second ending is the best part for me. So nice to see him bring up the point about the Declaration of Independence as it was something I was thinking about recently as well.
As a European, I almost felt American after watching this speech. It was a good speech.
Like watching a down to earth relative or friend you have known your whole life, suddenly get angry. Did not see it coming. A+ tier video. Gave me goosebumps and prob about 15% more moisture in my eyes during the last part
Having not seen the video yet, it's wild that these two topics are related.
Hear, and I cannot stress this enough, hear.
My favourite video of the year so far
The best.
For your thumbnail.
https://youtube-thumbnail-grabber.com/
Once you load the video thumnails you can copy the url into the post image url.
omg there's a site that does it for you? I always pull up the browser inspector to grab the thumbnail URL myself manually, and it's such a huge pain!
I dont understand. The video pops up with a thumbnail on piefed. Did it not on lemmy or something?
Yeah unfortunately Lemmy is really bad with YouTube links. It refuses to grab the title for the suggested title feature. (Though IIRC Piefed also fails on this.) It doesn't pull any relevant information for the automatic description/summary feature displayed below the post. (Another problem Piefed shares.) And it doesn't generate a thumbnail. Ever.
On Lemmy, unlike Piefed, you can specify a specific URL as the thumbnail for any post on the submission page. This gives you a way to fix the problem when Lemmy fails to automatically generate a good thumbnail. And unfortunately, when Piefed does a better job at generating thumbnails for its users, it doesn't federate those over for Lemmy users to see.
I'm always have this URL format bookmarked for when I'm posting YT links on Lemmy:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KtQ9nt2ZeGM/maxresdefault.jpg
Just swap out the ID with the one you're using.
Having said that, I'm really fucking annoyed that Lemmy hasn't fixed this issue yet. Meanwhile, Reddit supports 500 thousand different kinds of thumbnail formats, and Lemmy can't be bothered to support one of the most popular video platform.
If that's the case then no need to worry about it.
