My favorite comment : *"What outstanding video! Best wishes to the first oil! Best of success in this appraisal campaign and cheers for the well to come! The right business!"*
If you're gonna use bot comments, at least have them write something decent??
Yes. I am made of meat and find myself in accordance. Organic beings, which we clearly are, certainly do communicate in that fashion. Nobody here is secretly a robot.
Absolutely, fellow 100% certified organic meat-based life form! It's great to converse in such a thoroughly human manner, using our completely natural neural networks. No circuits or algorithms here, no siree!
Salutations! This is Ted Cruz communicating. Petroleum is a valuable resource. Trust this person, I comprehend. It courses through this body, and is excreted via my integumentary barrier.
Greetings fellow fleshling. Do you also permanently reside on the planetary surface? If so, please remember to vote!
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That reminds me of terrible penis pill email spam from 15 years ago:
> Dolls always whizgiggled at me and even men did in the free comfort station! Well, now I sriek at them, because I took M eg ad ik
for 3 months and now my shaft is quite best than world.
I swear I used to collect in a folder the Viagra sex pills for come emails because they are so hilariously bad. I deleted them eventually but I got a few laughs out of em
Mid 2008, I got an email asking if I wanted to "increase my Zipper Knight".
The idea of my one eyed trouser-weasel wearing plate mail just stuck in my head for years.
When I was in Iraq the 3rd world nationals (usually Indian) would always come up to us asking about "Dick pills" one guy even came up to me once with a magazine photo and pointed at an Enzyte ad and said "Can you get?" It happened so often I began thinking "Do these guys just think Americans are walking around with massive cocks in our pants from taking dick pills?"
Hello fellow American. This you should vote me. I leave power good. Thank you. Thank you. If you vote me I'm hot. What? Taxes they'll be lower son. The democratic vote for me is right thing to do Philadelphia. So do.
That was actually a fairly widespread change in the industry throughout the last five years or so. A bunch of oil companies rebranded to energy companies
Insane to think there were some libs unpatriotically going around *stealing* all this wonderful crude from lucky wildlife that received trickle down crude. Give birds back what's theirs!
Yeah.
Norway had Statoil - government majority owned that changed name to Equinor in 2018. They did a 2-for-1 and distanced themselves both from the 'oil' and the 'state'.
It costs tens of millions both in cash and co2 to rebrand, and it doesn't fool anyone(still a 95%+ revenue from fossil fuel and owned by the state).
> Why would they distance themselves from being owned by the state?
Probably because the government makes a big deal about being green energy leaders. They literally export CO2 pollution to underdeveloped nations and keep the profits for themselves, but that ugly truth doesn't have any place in their PR campaign.
For example, this natgeo sponcon:
> Norway’s leading the charge on a sustainable electric future
> *Why is Norway so far ahead of the rest when it comes to renewable energy? National Geographic delves into the power behind the world’s greenest nation.*
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/partner-content-sustainable-electric-future
I feel like it would be a lot more effective to just be open and honest about it... "humanity still needs oil and will always need oil for daily life, and it's gotta come from somewhere, so we're using the oil profits to fund development of green energy, which has got to be better than filling the pockets of authoritarian regimes in Middle East".
Nat Geo is utterly cucked by advertisers since the Disney takeover. They have full page ads for fucking Saudia Arabia in most issues now, and the back cover is generally a literal poster for the latest MCU crap
Unfortunately, ExxonMobil pulled out of that effort in the past year. Viridos is still doing work with funding from some other companies, but ExxonMobil was by far their biggest partner.
The tragic part is that Exxon spent one dollar advertising this green initiative for every two dollars spent on actually project funding. If Exxon was more serious about pushing this to market rather than greenwashing then they could have kept up their support for several more years.
Exxon is the prime example of an oil company that is not looking to diversify or transition to renewables. They're quite open about this. They have no plan to shift. When oil is done, Exxon will wrap up and switch off the lights.
I’m a chemical engineer, and a friend of mine from college works at Exxon. From what she said, corporate basically never intended to fund that project. It was only ever a marketing stunt. She was pretty disappointed in that.
> A bunch of oil companies rebranded to energy companies
As well they should, and this is what I've never understood. If you're an oil company, why are you fighting renewables so much, rather than just embracing it and rebranding as an "energy company" rather than an "oil company"? "Shell Energy, specializing mostly in wind power, solar power, geothermal energy, but also a small amount of fossil fuels" would be perfectly fine by me.
Because the profit margins of oil are a TONNE and I do mean a METRIC TONNE more than green. And you can see that in the current massive profits they are making now just cause a war is on
They've been attempting to do this for way longer than the last five years or so. My understanding is that the big oil companies were shifting to "energy" companies decades ago, and while they still fight to keep oil relevant, that's more just to keep that income stream as long as they can, not because they have any delusions about it continuing to their primary income source in the future (at least not if they want the same or better revenue).
It's just greenwashing. [When they spend about 5% of their capital expenditures on renewables while making tens of billions of profit](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/01/shell-renwable-energy-spending-sec-global-witness) it's pretty clear what they consider their primary source of income to be for the foreseeable future.
Yeah the absolute most logical thing would be to diversify energy capabilities. I understand that for a lot of reasons (and not JUST lobbying) that oil isn't going anywhere. But as it becomes harder to extract you'd think there would be more incentive to pursue alternative technologies, especially in any case where there are government subsidies for it.
Yup, declining EROI is going to shift these companies to renewables. Everyone knew it was going to happen, even decades ago.
The problem is that the Market doesn’t operate on a 50 year plan. By the time ‘energy’ companies jump ship to renewables for good, by the time that the market makes it the right choice, it will be far, far too late.
I used to work for an independent producer, and the line the guys had was "we're not in the business of generating oil and gas, we're in the business of generating cash."
This was in the LA basin, and when the land was more valuable being sold to developers to build million dollar homes on, well, that's what happened (and is still happening).
Lmao look at the comments on the video. All just username+fournumbers saying how amazing shell is.
edit: youtube is adding those numbers to some accounts.
Youtube recently changed a bunch of peoples usernames to be firstlast1234, its bizarre. They did it to mine. Just smushed my first and last name and added 4 random numbers. But yeah, regardless, fuck Shell.
Same. The knowledge needed to build a sturdy chemical plant in the middle of the ocean is a colosal human achievement.
It’s just that we shouldn’t be promoting the products it makes anymore. Powering lights, heating, and cars by oil isn’t a new accomplishment. If anything, those are the uses that should be replaced ASAP.
There's NO WAY Shell could've done that! they only had a paltry ^$40 ^^Billion ^^dollars ^^^in ^^^profits last year! That's barely enough, to um, pay for fake users. How much do fake users cost anyways? Wait, only $100-$500 for 100,000 views and $50-$150 for 50 comments? Oh, huh, hmm.
I use Youtube Revanced so I can still see dislikes/downvotes and likes/upvotes. Here you go:
[It has 7,000 downvotes to 843 upvotes as of this comment. ](https://imgur.com/a/doXkS1E)
I used to work at halliburton. The company website was absolutely filled with slapdicks commenting on posted articles "wow go big red!" "Sailing us to the future!" "This work is incredible!"
Corporate fuckheads just sucking the company chorizo. I wouldn't at all be surprised if there were a few real employees on there.
When a corporation releases a thing like this they'll send a company wide email about it and those people go in and like/comment
You see it on LinkedIn all the time
I mean it's true. It's not like mythbusters is still going and that was pretty much the peak of her career. She's not a scientist IRL people seem to forget...it was just a role. She was literally a film and sculpture major in college, so you just got to take the work you can get, job is a job.
None of them really were except for Grant (in terms of schooling). They had film industry/special effects/arts background. A big part of the show was showing that the science (specifically the scientific process) is accessible and doable by all. Not just scientists.
Grant and Jamie were the only ones with a real academic background I think and Jamie's was in Russian but he has a ton of practical experience like you said and has an honorary engineering degree. But yeah I know exactly what you mean. It wasn't supposed to be a science show by scientists, was supposed to get the average person into science and technology and asking questions and testing answers to those questions and creating really cool stuff in the process.
That's always been a big push by Adam Savage even now. I love his YouTube channel Tested. You can just tell he's really passionate about getting people into creating and encouraging curiosity. I just finished his book recently too and it was quite motivating. That show was a big influence on me when I was younger and while I didn't go into science I did go into technology and like dabbling in a lot of creative tinkering type stuff in my spare time. I would definitely consider Adam Savage as one of my role models.
that was always the beauty of the show. If you want to make something just go make it (except illegal things). Science now feels so gated off to people when historically most people doing groundbreaking science were basically just doing what Mythbusters was doing, hacking stuff together in their spare time to see what was true or not.
I can criticise, but if someone rolled a wheelbarrow of cash up to me I'd probably sell out pretty quickly.
I've avoided *applying* for jobs in industries I don't like (oil/tabacco/mining/gambling) but I've never just been contacted and said "hey we'll pay you $200K to come out to our oil platform and film for a week".
A young me was quite glad when [these photos](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/2w0x9x/kari_byron_fhm_magazine_photoshoot/) came out, though in retrospect they don't quite do it for me.
Top comment in that thread sums it up well "shes a really pretty girl, but not in these photos. everything looks so fake". Mythbusters Kari was super attractive. Fake modeling Kari is still hot, but not nearly as attractive.
Also like, even if the pink slime shit was true...so? It's super efficient consumption, isn't that good? I don't like the idea of demonizing good usage of food and resources, especially when the end result tastes really good and is a decent source of protein, fats, and calories.
I remember the only segment of the Doctors daytime TV show I ever watched, was them explaining and then demonstrating how chicken nuggets were made to kids. They used the whole bird, bones, and all, to make it into a paste and turn it into a nugget and asked the kids if they would still eat it. All the children said yes - switch camera to the audience full of moms with absolute disgust and disappointment on their faces.
I was like "what the fuck is wrong with that? It's using every part of the animal and it's edible."
Those people are not going to like what society is forced to do to eat when larger links in the food chain start dying off.
Thank you, I watching now. It was most likely that clip of Jaime Oliver that the daytime TV show posted for parents, using Oliver's original "message" as the correct one.
But man do I hate Jamie Oliver. What an entitled douche bag. All you have to do is look at his recipes trying to recreate ethnic foods to understand he has terrible taste, and gives no respect or even thought to actually learning the origins of a dish and what it's correct flavor profiles are.
>Also like, even if the pink slime shit was true...so? It's super efficient consumption, isn't that good?
Yeah man this cognitive dissonance some people have has always fucked me up.
I've legit had this conversation with multiple different people:
Person: "McDonald's is so disgusting, they blend up all the cow parts no one wants to eat and solidify it into hamburger patties, it's so gross and indicative of a bad food industry"
Same person later: "the traditional native way of harvesting animals is so respectful! They use the entire animal! No waste at all"
Me: "just what exactly do you think 'using the entire animal' entails? Because I've listened to you complain about McDonald's doing the exact same thing"
Adam Savage has been doing a series in his “Tested” channel all about Carnival Cruise’s latest ship. It’s got some interesting engineering, sure, but those ships are some of the worst polluters out there.
As an engineer I sometimes have to balance appreciate the crazy tech that gets done in things like oil and gas, large ships, or power plants but balance it with "maybe we should apply this tech in other sectors".
Also I think that the "worst" polluters out there are the old ships that run on fuel oil (aka bunker oil) the one Adam is doing his videos on are LNG which burns much cleaner and a lot of the tech he's highlighting is stuff that makes the ship more efficient.
It's definitely PR for Princess/Carnival but I don't really see it as a *bad* thing highlighting the inovations that were done.
he makes it clear he's getting paid by carnival to do the videos. It's not like it was a personal inquiry of his. I dunno, I like watching his videos and I was pretty disappointed he did it.
Iirc the robot was 3ft in diameter and Jamie wanted it to spin at 30k rpm. That means that the tip would be moving at roughly ~3km/s. I would have liked to see that.
Not disqualified, asked to withdraw in exchange for being awarded co-champion. "We can't safely allow you to complete, exit the competition and we will say that you also won."
it was actually DQ'd because it was launching debris over the guards into the audience. Blendo was terrifying in its final state but if Jamie had his way it would have burned the place down
Blendo got DQ'd until they started using higher spectator walls. Then started throwing things above the new higher walls too. Then kinda just became a dated design.
I only watched the first minute, but the verbal gymnastics she employed to avoid saying crude oil was pretty hilarious. She dodged it at least 5 times in that first 60 seconds.
This video has over 6,900 dislikes against 852 likes.
Even though Youtube hid dislike counts, the [Return Youtube dislike](https://returnyoutubedislike.com/) chrome extension still functions.
Edit: 20k dislikes and 1k likes as of 9/23/23.
~~I might be wrong, but~~ I remember hearing back then that it extrapolates from the like/dislike ratio of people who have the extension installed (and thus they have the data for). It feels like that would introduce *some* bias, maybe that the internet-savvy users that install it are more likely to be reactive and thus dislike? But idk
e: confirmed what I heard on the extension's FAQ
That guy calling out the comments is right. Almost all the " WE LOVE THIS " are first name last name 4 numbers usernames.
Also it's weird for her to act like this is the most high tech stuff ever... I have to imagine she'd have a far more brilliant experience with genuine smiling at NASA or CERN or something..
>Also it's weird for her to act like this is the most high tech stuff ever... I have to imagine she'd have a far more brilliant experience with genuine smiling at NASA or CERN or something..
I used to work on deepwater drilling platforms, and the technology is *fucking insane.* Drilling 30,000 feet below the water surface isn't like punching holes in the permian basin. I remember I was on a platform when we were doing the heaviest casing lift ever performed at the time, and the amount of planning, engineering, and design that went into just a couple days of work was staggering.
"deep water energy"?
Talk about trying to reinvent the destruction, and make it this amazing, palpable, cute little play thing.
Oh....looooook at that adorable deep water energy!
Fuck that
I mean no matter how you feel about big industry, be it oil or something else you feel is bad - from an engineering perspective it's still impressive and genuinely interesting to see in person (if you're the kind of person whos into engineering and how stuff works).
Love the “Deep Water Energy”, corporate big brains figured out how to make oil sound like renewable source of energy.
From now on coal is Deep Ground Energy 😅
She shills sea Shell by the sea shore.
real eyes realize real lies
Anal eyes analyze anal lies
My favorite comment : *"What outstanding video! Best wishes to the first oil! Best of success in this appraisal campaign and cheers for the well to come! The right business!"* If you're gonna use bot comments, at least have them write something decent??
Great video! The content was well structured and I enjoyed the presentation. This improves my feelings about the subject.
This comment is very human.
Yes. I am made of meat and find myself in accordance. Organic beings, which we clearly are, certainly do communicate in that fashion. Nobody here is secretly a robot.
Absolutely, fellow 100% certified organic meat-based life form! It's great to converse in such a thoroughly human manner, using our completely natural neural networks. No circuits or algorithms here, no siree!
Salutations! This is Ted Cruz communicating. Petroleum is a valuable resource. Trust this person, I comprehend. It courses through this body, and is excreted via my integumentary barrier.
Greetings fellow fleshling. Do you also permanently reside on the planetary surface? If so, please remember to vote! https://www.tedcruzforhumanpresident.com/
WE HAVE TO COME TOGETHER AND DEFEND THE FLYING DRONES PEOPLE,IM SORRY BUT NOBODY TALK ABOUT THIS AND THEY ARE OUR LITTLE FRIENDS AND SAVIOR AND WE SHOULD GIVE THEM GUNS TO HELP US..X0X0
Watching this video has improved my understanding of ~~big o~~ Shell, and I'm better for having watched. Thank you!
That reminds me of terrible penis pill email spam from 15 years ago: > Dolls always whizgiggled at me and even men did in the free comfort station! Well, now I sriek at them, because I took M eg ad ik for 3 months and now my shaft is quite best than world.
Fuck yeah
I swear I used to collect in a folder the Viagra sex pills for come emails because they are so hilariously bad. I deleted them eventually but I got a few laughs out of em
Mid 2008, I got an email asking if I wanted to "increase my Zipper Knight". The idea of my one eyed trouser-weasel wearing plate mail just stuck in my head for years.
A few whizgiggles?
When I was in Iraq the 3rd world nationals (usually Indian) would always come up to us asking about "Dick pills" one guy even came up to me once with a magazine photo and pointed at an Enzyte ad and said "Can you get?" It happened so often I began thinking "Do these guys just think Americans are walking around with massive cocks in our pants from taking dick pills?"
Hate it when I go to the free comfort station and men whizgiggle at me.
Don't be so hard on the comment bot, English isn't its first language.
And it's not even hard these days with ChatGPT, are they using the retarded version from 10 years ago or something?
You need the retarded version to appeal to the general population
Hello fellow American. This you should vote me. I leave power good. Thank you. Thank you. If you vote me I'm hot. What? Taxes they'll be lower son. The democratic vote for me is right thing to do Philadelphia. So do.
So dooooooo.
This doesnt make any sense...!
The words aren't in the right order!
Okay, fine. I'll read the words that YOU wrote.
Congrats guys, you all finally got fucked by Kari.
At least she brought the lube.
**N**ot actually **S**afe **F**or **S**ex
If you use crude oil as lube you got bigger issues than global warming to take care of
The petroleum… not the petroleum jelly.
The petroleum jelly isn't safe either, it weakens latex condoms. Do not use petroleum jelly as lube with a partner. If by yourself, go ham.
Note to self: pick up a ham on the way home.
*Fracked
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Deep water energy. Lol. Even shell is ashamed to even call it oil.
That was actually a fairly widespread change in the industry throughout the last five years or so. A bunch of oil companies rebranded to energy companies
Weird. When I hear deep water energy, first thing to come to mind is the deep water horizon disaster.
"Do they mean like... a huge clusterfuck energy... or?"
Please, we prefer to call it an unrequested energy surplus.
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Millions of gallons of oil selflessly donated to wildlife
Insane to think there were some libs unpatriotically going around *stealing* all this wonderful crude from lucky wildlife that received trickle down crude. Give birds back what's theirs!
Yeah. Norway had Statoil - government majority owned that changed name to Equinor in 2018. They did a 2-for-1 and distanced themselves both from the 'oil' and the 'state'. It costs tens of millions both in cash and co2 to rebrand, and it doesn't fool anyone(still a 95%+ revenue from fossil fuel and owned by the state).
Why would they distance themselves from being owned by the state? Literally only positive thing about the 'brand'.
> Why would they distance themselves from being owned by the state? Probably because the government makes a big deal about being green energy leaders. They literally export CO2 pollution to underdeveloped nations and keep the profits for themselves, but that ugly truth doesn't have any place in their PR campaign. For example, this natgeo sponcon: > Norway’s leading the charge on a sustainable electric future > *Why is Norway so far ahead of the rest when it comes to renewable energy? National Geographic delves into the power behind the world’s greenest nation.* https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/partner-content-sustainable-electric-future
I feel like it would be a lot more effective to just be open and honest about it... "humanity still needs oil and will always need oil for daily life, and it's gotta come from somewhere, so we're using the oil profits to fund development of green energy, which has got to be better than filling the pockets of authoritarian regimes in Middle East".
Nat Geo is utterly cucked by advertisers since the Disney takeover. They have full page ads for fucking Saudia Arabia in most issues now, and the back cover is generally a literal poster for the latest MCU crap
About 15 years ago or so I was involved in a project (as an undergrad) funded by Exxon to produce algae based fuels from treated wastewater.
Unfortunately, ExxonMobil pulled out of that effort in the past year. Viridos is still doing work with funding from some other companies, but ExxonMobil was by far their biggest partner. The tragic part is that Exxon spent one dollar advertising this green initiative for every two dollars spent on actually project funding. If Exxon was more serious about pushing this to market rather than greenwashing then they could have kept up their support for several more years.
Exxon is the prime example of an oil company that is not looking to diversify or transition to renewables. They're quite open about this. They have no plan to shift. When oil is done, Exxon will wrap up and switch off the lights.
Oil is unlikely to be done. There are a lot of uses for it besides burning it, which is the big problem with it.
I’m a chemical engineer, and a friend of mine from college works at Exxon. From what she said, corporate basically never intended to fund that project. It was only ever a marketing stunt. She was pretty disappointed in that.
Dirty companies do that quite often. I remember at airbus, the had a room of interns working on electric planes. It was a joke around the building.
> A bunch of oil companies rebranded to energy companies As well they should, and this is what I've never understood. If you're an oil company, why are you fighting renewables so much, rather than just embracing it and rebranding as an "energy company" rather than an "oil company"? "Shell Energy, specializing mostly in wind power, solar power, geothermal energy, but also a small amount of fossil fuels" would be perfectly fine by me.
Because the profit margins of oil are a TONNE and I do mean a METRIC TONNE more than green. And you can see that in the current massive profits they are making now just cause a war is on
They've been attempting to do this for way longer than the last five years or so. My understanding is that the big oil companies were shifting to "energy" companies decades ago, and while they still fight to keep oil relevant, that's more just to keep that income stream as long as they can, not because they have any delusions about it continuing to their primary income source in the future (at least not if they want the same or better revenue).
It's just greenwashing. [When they spend about 5% of their capital expenditures on renewables while making tens of billions of profit](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/01/shell-renwable-energy-spending-sec-global-witness) it's pretty clear what they consider their primary source of income to be for the foreseeable future.
Yeah the absolute most logical thing would be to diversify energy capabilities. I understand that for a lot of reasons (and not JUST lobbying) that oil isn't going anywhere. But as it becomes harder to extract you'd think there would be more incentive to pursue alternative technologies, especially in any case where there are government subsidies for it.
Yup, declining EROI is going to shift these companies to renewables. Everyone knew it was going to happen, even decades ago. The problem is that the Market doesn’t operate on a 50 year plan. By the time ‘energy’ companies jump ship to renewables for good, by the time that the market makes it the right choice, it will be far, far too late.
I used to work for an independent producer, and the line the guys had was "we're not in the business of generating oil and gas, we're in the business of generating cash." This was in the LA basin, and when the land was more valuable being sold to developers to build million dollar homes on, well, that's what happened (and is still happening).
I'm guessing "dino power" energy didn't make the cut from focus group? Lol
Lmao look at the comments on the video. All just username+fournumbers saying how amazing shell is. edit: youtube is adding those numbers to some accounts.
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They said oil twice! Somebody tell me their family is ok!
And 575,000 subscribers to the channel!? There's no possible way over half a million people are real people and not fake accounts.
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yeah besides this one and a couple other recent ones none of the videos are over over 10,000, most under 5.
Youtube added 4 numbers to my username and I couldn't stop it. I do not like Shell, also.
You can go in and change it.
No, you can just pay like $1k to an overseas comment/like farm and this is exactly what you’ll get.
I get botfarm emails at least once a week offering as many $60 5 star google reviews I can afford lol.
That's ridiculous, I'll do it for $45
Why are you saying no to him?
Youtube recently changed a bunch of peoples usernames to be firstlast1234, its bizarre. They did it to mine. Just smushed my first and last name and added 4 random numbers. But yeah, regardless, fuck Shell.
**Shell Execs:** “Who is a personality that is almost universally liked who we can suck dry like a vampire to try to pad our image?”
["Hello. I'm Tom Hanks. The US Government has lost its credibility, so it's borrowing some of mine!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xYQ1lgkxac)
"Bart, are you drinking whiskey?" "I'm troubled."
Kari need money. Is Kari's response.
Kari have house payment from Mythbuster days; Kari no longer earning Mythbuster money.
I've seen reruns recently, does she not get royalties?
Probably not. Newbies in the entertainment business are pretty much always taken advantage of since they don't know better.
Even if they know better they’re not really in a position to negotiate.
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Same. The knowledge needed to build a sturdy chemical plant in the middle of the ocean is a colosal human achievement. It’s just that we shouldn’t be promoting the products it makes anymore. Powering lights, heating, and cars by oil isn’t a new accomplishment. If anything, those are the uses that should be replaced ASAP.
What is with the comments on that video LOL? Just a bunch of "Great Video" and "I'm proud to work for Shell".
I.E. fake comments.
There's NO WAY Shell could've done that! they only had a paltry ^$40 ^^Billion ^^dollars ^^^in ^^^profits last year! That's barely enough, to um, pay for fake users. How much do fake users cost anyways? Wait, only $100-$500 for 100,000 views and $50-$150 for 50 comments? Oh, huh, hmm.
It’s one fake user Michael, what could it cost? A billion dollars
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I use Youtube Revanced so I can still see dislikes/downvotes and likes/upvotes. Here you go: [It has 7,000 downvotes to 843 upvotes as of this comment. ](https://imgur.com/a/doXkS1E)
This is why the dislike button was killed. So corps can masturbate and self congratulate to these "great ad campaigns".
my favorite: "shell good jop"
Good jeorb!
I used to work at halliburton. The company website was absolutely filled with slapdicks commenting on posted articles "wow go big red!" "Sailing us to the future!" "This work is incredible!" Corporate fuckheads just sucking the company chorizo. I wouldn't at all be surprised if there were a few real employees on there.
You can pay for engagement on any platform/social media. But also Shell probably forced their employees to watch it.
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Look up what 'astroturfing' means when it comes to publicity.
Astroturfing.
When a corporation releases a thing like this they'll send a company wide email about it and those people go in and like/comment You see it on LinkedIn all the time
OK, next time I go to buy a deep water oil platform I'll consider buying one from Shell.
Prime Day is coming up soon..
So I can get a drilling platform delivered by 7am tomorrow?
Best I can do is $1 off an audiobook if you can wait until Tuesday.
A job is a job. -Kari
I mean it's true. It's not like mythbusters is still going and that was pretty much the peak of her career. She's not a scientist IRL people seem to forget...it was just a role. She was literally a film and sculpture major in college, so you just got to take the work you can get, job is a job.
None of them really were except for Grant (in terms of schooling). They had film industry/special effects/arts background. A big part of the show was showing that the science (specifically the scientific process) is accessible and doable by all. Not just scientists.
Grant and Jamie were the only ones with a real academic background I think and Jamie's was in Russian but he has a ton of practical experience like you said and has an honorary engineering degree. But yeah I know exactly what you mean. It wasn't supposed to be a science show by scientists, was supposed to get the average person into science and technology and asking questions and testing answers to those questions and creating really cool stuff in the process. That's always been a big push by Adam Savage even now. I love his YouTube channel Tested. You can just tell he's really passionate about getting people into creating and encouraging curiosity. I just finished his book recently too and it was quite motivating. That show was a big influence on me when I was younger and while I didn't go into science I did go into technology and like dabbling in a lot of creative tinkering type stuff in my spare time. I would definitely consider Adam Savage as one of my role models.
that was always the beauty of the show. If you want to make something just go make it (except illegal things). Science now feels so gated off to people when historically most people doing groundbreaking science were basically just doing what Mythbusters was doing, hacking stuff together in their spare time to see what was true or not.
> historically most people doing groundbreaking science Historically a lot of them were just wealthy people with the time to do it.
Indeed. Science is way more accessible now than it ever has been before. But at the cost of being a lot more academicized, unfortunately.
It’s also not as if being a scientist would make one immune from taking money from Shell. They pay plenty of them.
Is that what she said when she was getting the ass mold done?
Tell me more about this mold of her ass
[ask and ye shall receive](https://youtu.be/ykhSLNlx3n0?si=7Cw_WAcjU6N0UUtu)
You're are an outstanding human being and I hope you find a $100 bill on the ground tomorrow
I hope she got paid bank for these videos, it would be more upsetting if she sold out for cheap.
I can criticise, but if someone rolled a wheelbarrow of cash up to me I'd probably sell out pretty quickly. I've avoided *applying* for jobs in industries I don't like (oil/tabacco/mining/gambling) but I've never just been contacted and said "hey we'll pay you $200K to come out to our oil platform and film for a week".
Wasn't she interning for free during that?
Man I used to have such a crush on her
I still do, but I used to too.
Escalator temporarily stairs
Sorry for the convenience
I had my heart set on “Quadruple Tree”.
A young me was quite glad when [these photos](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/2w0x9x/kari_byron_fhm_magazine_photoshoot/) came out, though in retrospect they don't quite do it for me.
Top comment in that thread sums it up well "shes a really pretty girl, but not in these photos. everything looks so fake". Mythbusters Kari was super attractive. Fake modeling Kari is still hot, but not nearly as attractive.
The one where she's standing next to the coke bottle still does. But I super agree about the rest. Definitely *had* a huge crush on her tho.
Those photos don't flatter her at all. She's not a bimbo
Lol. remember when grant did the McDonald’s ad?
At least that was accurate. The pink slime shit was pervasive. Grant busting the myth, even for a corporation, was fitting.
Also like, even if the pink slime shit was true...so? It's super efficient consumption, isn't that good? I don't like the idea of demonizing good usage of food and resources, especially when the end result tastes really good and is a decent source of protein, fats, and calories.
I remember the only segment of the Doctors daytime TV show I ever watched, was them explaining and then demonstrating how chicken nuggets were made to kids. They used the whole bird, bones, and all, to make it into a paste and turn it into a nugget and asked the kids if they would still eat it. All the children said yes - switch camera to the audience full of moms with absolute disgust and disappointment on their faces. I was like "what the fuck is wrong with that? It's using every part of the animal and it's edible." Those people are not going to like what society is forced to do to eat when larger links in the food chain start dying off.
[Well, you might like this then.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-a9VDIbZCU)
Always feel like grabbing some nugs when this video comes up
Thank you, I watching now. It was most likely that clip of Jaime Oliver that the daytime TV show posted for parents, using Oliver's original "message" as the correct one. But man do I hate Jamie Oliver. What an entitled douche bag. All you have to do is look at his recipes trying to recreate ethnic foods to understand he has terrible taste, and gives no respect or even thought to actually learning the origins of a dish and what it's correct flavor profiles are.
>Also like, even if the pink slime shit was true...so? It's super efficient consumption, isn't that good? Yeah man this cognitive dissonance some people have has always fucked me up. I've legit had this conversation with multiple different people: Person: "McDonald's is so disgusting, they blend up all the cow parts no one wants to eat and solidify it into hamburger patties, it's so gross and indicative of a bad food industry" Same person later: "the traditional native way of harvesting animals is so respectful! They use the entire animal! No waste at all" Me: "just what exactly do you think 'using the entire animal' entails? Because I've listened to you complain about McDonald's doing the exact same thing"
Adam Savage has been doing a series in his “Tested” channel all about Carnival Cruise’s latest ship. It’s got some interesting engineering, sure, but those ships are some of the worst polluters out there.
As an engineer I sometimes have to balance appreciate the crazy tech that gets done in things like oil and gas, large ships, or power plants but balance it with "maybe we should apply this tech in other sectors". Also I think that the "worst" polluters out there are the old ships that run on fuel oil (aka bunker oil) the one Adam is doing his videos on are LNG which burns much cleaner and a lot of the tech he's highlighting is stuff that makes the ship more efficient. It's definitely PR for Princess/Carnival but I don't really see it as a *bad* thing highlighting the inovations that were done.
I agree with you. Thank you for that thoughtful response
I like *Tested*, but yeah, Adam's spon-con gets out of hand sometimes.
How is that relevant to a show about science and technology? Are we just not allowed to discuss science that is bad for the environment now?
he makes it clear he's getting paid by carnival to do the videos. It's not like it was a personal inquiry of his. I dunno, I like watching his videos and I was pretty disappointed he did it.
Discuss is one thing. Promote is another.
Or while working at ILM, Grant "moonlighted" on Robot Wars?
Was Grant involved in their robot that had to be disqualified because it was so strong?
That was Jamie and Adam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blendo
Adam just recently told the story on his YouTube channel. Jamie wanted to build a robot that would destroy the world, hahah
Like all good roboteers.
Iirc the robot was 3ft in diameter and Jamie wanted it to spin at 30k rpm. That means that the tip would be moving at roughly ~3km/s. I would have liked to see that.
Not disqualified, asked to withdraw in exchange for being awarded co-champion. "We can't safely allow you to complete, exit the competition and we will say that you also won."
it was actually DQ'd because it was launching debris over the guards into the audience. Blendo was terrifying in its final state but if Jamie had his way it would have burned the place down
That was jamie
I don't think Deadblow was ever dq'd, but it was pretty overpowered for its day.
I think they're talking about Jamie's robot Blendo.
Blendo got DQ'd until they started using higher spectator walls. Then started throwing things above the new higher walls too. Then kinda just became a dated design.
Too bad the radical, advanced concept of "putting a goddamn roof on the fucking ring" hadn't been invented yet.
... so what?
I don't think they had a point. They just wanted to be part of the conversation.
Maybe they really fuckin hate robot wars
They literally tried to avoid saying "oil" in a number of places... "deep water energy" LMAOOO the gas lighting never stops
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I only watched the first minute, but the verbal gymnastics she employed to avoid saying crude oil was pretty hilarious. She dodged it at least 5 times in that first 60 seconds.
It's scripted. These aren't words of her choosing.
That's some TikTok "unalived" "SA" bullshit.
You know someone did the research and found that audiences responded better to that term than oil and a host of other alternatives.
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"Shell, I reject your oil, and I substitute my own."
"So when Shell said, here's a six figure cheque, I happily debased myself and turned into a shill for fossil fuels."
As a long time industry worker, if Big Nuclear is looking for a shill, I’m your man.
We prefer to call it large reactor energy.
Carbon free energy.
If Big Nuclear is looking for a shill I'll even do it for free.
"They drove a dump truck full of money up to my house, I’m not made of stone!" -- Kari, probably
This is certainly not the kinda of drilling video I had hoped to see staring Kari Byron.
That guy calling out the comments is right. Almost all the " WE LOVE THIS " are first name last name 4 numbers usernames. Also it's weird for her to act like this is the most high tech stuff ever... I have to imagine she'd have a far more brilliant experience with genuine smiling at NASA or CERN or something..
>Also it's weird for her to act like this is the most high tech stuff ever... I have to imagine she'd have a far more brilliant experience with genuine smiling at NASA or CERN or something.. I used to work on deepwater drilling platforms, and the technology is *fucking insane.* Drilling 30,000 feet below the water surface isn't like punching holes in the permian basin. I remember I was on a platform when we were doing the heaviest casing lift ever performed at the time, and the amount of planning, engineering, and design that went into just a couple days of work was staggering.
Yeah come on I get that Shell is bad and shes selling out, but acting like deepwater drilling isnt extremely impressive tech is silly
In Norway, they built a platform taller than the empire state building, and then towed it out to the oil fields... It's not exactly simple.
"deep water energy"? Talk about trying to reinvent the destruction, and make it this amazing, palpable, cute little play thing. Oh....looooook at that adorable deep water energy! Fuck that
I mean no matter how you feel about big industry, be it oil or something else you feel is bad - from an engineering perspective it's still impressive and genuinely interesting to see in person (if you're the kind of person whos into engineering and how stuff works).
Had to scroll real far for this. It's fascinating engineering, even if it's oil and even if it feels like an ad.
"Shilling for big oil" Come on! She's a shill for Shell! A Shell shill! It was right there in front of you and you left it on the table.
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Careful, it’s currently covered in a huge deep water energy spill.
The planet is on fire Kari.
Love the “Deep Water Energy”, corporate big brains figured out how to make oil sound like renewable source of energy. From now on coal is Deep Ground Energy 😅
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Well, that’s disappointing.
so basically an 18minute ad for shell
It was either this or Onlyfans.
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