Rule changes are not done arbitrarily by some random bureaucrat but rather through an structured, public process. Rule changes begin with an NPRM (Notice of Proposed Rule Making) which is published in The Federal Register which is issued daily online and is free and open to the public. The approval process includes a 60 day public comment period and usually includes a Cost-Benefit Analysis along with a Regulatory Impact Analysis. There is nothing secretive or sinister about this process.
The process is followed...hence the exceptions...but little difference between what the head honcho INITIALLY wanted and the final "consensus." Like the planning version of a show trial.
Standards are invented mostly by corporations esp. after industrial revolution. Clubs by interest made the political parties-which was in every country during monarchies. All have sources.
@@friendlyone2706 I work for the government in mine safety regulation. Scientists, engineers, and economic analysts make the proposed regulation - not head honchos - which are always backed by a cost-benefit analysis with, as untasteful as it sounds, a price assigned to a human life. The proposed rule - the making of which which is always authorized by the relevant enabling act of congress - is then published in the federal register for public comment. But the "public" all to often ends up only being the lawyers of powerful corporations because the public is indeed ignorant as Fran says. Consequently, useful regulations that save lives, save the environment, and usually also save ordinary people money, get held up and cancelled.
*FREEEEEEEE* *Duhhhhhhhhhhhmmmb!!!!* the recent CONservatives' "revival" is ALL about their ridiculous *FREEEEEEEEEEEE* *Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmb!!!!!* Just ask all the foolishly obedient voters in *Flori-Duhhhhhhhh* who voted for *Ron* *Duhhhhhhh-Santis!* *FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE* *Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmb!!!!!!!!!*
One of the easiest ways to keep an "under educated" population loyal to a cause or a person is to make them afraid of what would happen if their side lost, and then make them angry over such a possibility. Fear and anger will keeps them coming back.
6:49 about 15 years ago my mom was helping her friend (connected through AAUW) put in place a STEM-like educational program in schools, calling it CHiPS-Civics, History, Political Science. Some schools in Oregon did things like bring students into courtrooms to watch proceedings, or teach how to debate with each other.
Believe me...... I had classes on how our government works. All the students were either goofing off or asleep-- didn't give two shits about it (or learning in general, for that matter). 35 years ago I looked around me realizing with some level of horror, "These people are going to vote... they will even hold office."
We stopped using tungsten light bulbs in Canada ten or more years ago. Everybody still got up and went to work. The sun still rose and set. However, my hydro consumption went down. Unfortunately, ignorance is anybody's illness. Great video. 👍❤️💪
@@abbush2921 Except the 8.99 lasts and lasts 20x the hours of the Tungsten. That means for 8.99 you have saved $91 in Tungsten bulbs. And that doesn't mention the energy savings.
When I was a high school, I worked in a restaurant that used a heat lamp as lighting in the bathrooms so the water wouldn't freeze. They opened outdoors and had no heating in them. It was a vivid illustration to me of the energy a bulb gives off that isn't light. As for the rest, I was reading about North Korea where it is illegal to read anything other than state produced media. There are no independent movies, newspapers, or anything else. Nothing from outside can be read. And it is sad here in the US to see the consolidation of newspapers and other media into larger and larger companies.
@fanman421 True - but the point OP is probably trying to make is that the science behind the dangers of weapons vs psychoactive substances is pretty different. I would personally prefer if all weapons(guns, explosives) were regulated by one body - while all psychoactives/food generally were regulated by the FDA...in my mind that would make much more sense anyway...
I wish I had so little to do in life that I could be OUTRAGED at light bulbs. Just sad that everyone that needs to watch this video will probably never watch this video.
The internet has created and accelerated a divide between the people who use it to learn and gain new skills, and the people who use it to vent and form mobs to endlessly complain or troll.
Fran, you are so articulate, intelligent and bright. Watching your videos is always a source of clarity and wisdom on so many topics. Your delivery is always mixed with a dose of healthy wit and well placed sarcasm. 😊. From a fan in PHL,.. Thank you. Thank you.
I think your most important point of many was the increasing lack of oversight. I live in a small rural town in Washington state, we still have a local newspaper but unfortunately the staff has been culled which has impacted the coverage of local government. It’s decisions made in my county and legislative district that have the most impact on my life and that’s the reporting that’s going away.
Most people believe our government is a democracy, but we are actually considered a democratic republic. However, I personally believe we live within an oligarchy.
When I was in high school in the mid-70s, no student could graduate without taking the 2 semester American Government class, and other Civics related classes were also offered as electives. The government class could be potentially boring, but we had a firebrand of a teacher. He was a black, green-fatigues-and-beret-wearing and was named Bronco. He was reportedly a graduate of a political science curriculum at Berkeley in California, and we were given to believe that he had once been a Black Panther (I suspect that was a fiction, but he seemed to be putting on something of an act, although his rhetoric was fiery and the image was easy to accept). He gave great, entertaining lectures that did not seem like lectures; more like attending a political rally. But he always made the intended points. Funny thing was, his wife was a locally celebrated lyric soprano singer in the city's opera.
One niche application for tungsten lamps is for the "current limiter" tool used when testing tube amps. What can be used in their place when they're gone?
Literally any other nonreactive resistive load of the same value. They will always be available for niche applications, most likely at a niche price though.
@@David.C.Velasquez Yes, but not only does the lamp protect the amp if there's an internal short, but also provides a visual indication by glowing brightly.
Let’s not forget the majority of the population is ignorant of Science and what science really is. What is the Scientific Method? What does it mean to isolate variables in a study? What is Peer Review? What is Scientific Consensus? Most people think it’s just the OPINION of “pointy headed intellectuals”.
Honest question - why can't that oversight -- copy writers, editors, fact checkers, etc. -- exist in an online medium? I'm not talking about social media or TH-cam, I'm talking about literally the newspaper being digital instead of ink. To me, it's just a medium -- and companies are going to use the most cost effective medium. I guess what I'm asking is -- if I can trust the printed version of the Grizzlytown Bugle Gazette -- why can't I trust the online version of the Grizzlytown Bugle Gazette if they decide it's more cost effective to put up a website rather than print? Can't they have the same copy writers, editors, fact checkers, etc.?
Just saw this today 10-16-24. Fran, this short says it all about where we are now, and just how far down the rabbit hole of ignorance we continue to slide. One of your best observations.
In the UK about 10 years ago we had the same. I got angry and bought a huge box of tungsten bulbs. Guess what. They are still in the attic. We have just all switched to LED. Why would you not
Well said. John Goodman's ending speech from Red State, "people do the strangest things when they believe they are entitled. They do even stranger things when they just believe...
I agree the lack of Civics education is alarming. But I'll also note that Americans have for many decades been voting for President based on the current state of the Economy. So even when Civics was taught, the efforts of the teachers was largely wasted.
I am in complete agreement with you and thank you for your cogent presentation. I might add that a certain segment of our population cannot be shamed by the exposing of multiple hypocrosies
You are right that regulatory agencies are created by Congress, but they are in the Executive Branch, which is headed by the President. And don’t leave out the well-paid lobbyists - they are essentially a fourth branch of government, and they are not on government salaries. Money is power, and some of the wealthiest zip codes are in the Washington DC area. I haven’t heard of any efforts by the President to influence how light bulbs are regulated, but there have been efforts recently in other fields, such as student loans, border enforcement, oil pipeline approvals/disapprovals, armaments for Ukraine.
15:50 . . . I totally agree. I would rather come across things myself than have 'recommended' articles put in front of me. Getting a VPN has really changed this.
Haven't used a incandescent bulb in years. Although I was always concerned with the CF and the mercury issue. Happy using the LED bulbs now. As for newspapers, I subscribe to the electronic version of several newspapers. Ignorance is not bliss.
That’s funny 😆 I was one of the first to buy all LED lights for my house even when they were very expensive. That said, lighting is not exactly plutonium. The problem people have with regulation is if the regulations are ridiculously overbearing . You have to pick your battles.
Statutes and regulation only apply to "your" "legal identity" but do not actually apply to real physical human beings. Like this: Your "legal identity" is like a monopoly game piece that has been given the label "person" but is not actually a person. when you call yourself a "person", you are saying you are a game piece. Statutes and Regulates are rules of the game for game pieces. There are laws for forcing the gov't to respect the separation between the player (you) and their game piece force you (legal identity). The gov't does NOT respect its own laws when it stops the gov't crimes, eg. gov't does not respect the law separating the player from the game piece. The gov't is the game. EVERYTHING legal is fiction. there is no such thing as a legal right.... that's just fictional unicorn thinking. If you believe yourself to be a citizen or have a "legal identity" or "legal name" then you are ignorantly confusing yourself with the gov't game piece for you. Everything you think you own is, according to gov', owned by, as, and through your game piece... you already own nothing and are ignorantly happy about it. If you think you are a citizen or have/use a legal name, you are AGREEING to the gov't OWNING your body above your own "authority"!! This is literally slavery by all attorneys, magistrates, judges, and legal fictionally and lethally (but unlawfully) enforced by sheriffs and cops!!! To them, NON_LEGAL is ILLEGAL!!!
Indeed, as an RC enthusiast, you would no doubt be aware of regulations (including Remote ID) that are "ridiculously overbearing", thanks to the arrogance & stupidity of the FAA and AMA.
As long as I can get tungsten bulbs for my lava lamps I'll be happy. Or at least I will be until the ignorant Americans among us elect a fascist president and democracy comes to an end. Thanks Fran for doing what you can to help save us from ourselves.
I have a lava lamp too, the bulbs seem quite readily available in the UK online - despite us banning incandescent bulbs some time back... Lava lamps are very neat! 😁
The problem with regulatory authority is the lack of oversight and accountability. Once imbued with power by congress, an agency becomes self governing and inevitably increase their own power over time with no input from the people or their representatives which is inherently undemocratic. Agencies are just as prone to corruption as political bodies if not moreso which is how we get terrible gas cans that are supposed to save the environment but instead dump gas all over the place.
Fear not, those same agencies are intentionally/politically underfunded to a point where the term 'self oversight' has become industry standard. Maybe focus less about 'corruption' in these agencies and more on the fact they are underfunded and understaffed.
I have a secret stash of 40W tungsten bulbs for two den lights that are touch sensitive, the other 90% of lights in the house are LED and I don't think we have changed one in six years.
Respectfully, Fran, you just demonstrated that it is you who doesn’t know how our country works. Regulatory agencies are absolutely beholden to the President and Congress. The President is, or at least should be the authority of all of those agencies. That’s how it’s supposed to work. Otherwise, we have unelected bureaucrats who are accountable to no one. There are absolutely problems with regulatory agencies dictating what we can and cannot do. They are not legislative bodies. You’re, right, freedom is not being able to do whatever we want, but there’s no real reason we shouldn’t be able to buy or sale any light bulb we want.
Still available here in Canada, though I don't know why you would want them unless you need one for your oven. That is about the only application that LED bulbs wont work in. LEDs are great except for one thing. They don't last as long as they should. They seem to last no longer than incandescent bulbs. That has to be a designed obsolescence thing. LEDs themselves are very robust. If the product is designed right, there is no reason it cannot run for decades. Too bad the regulators don't go after the manufacturers for that, as they end up in the landfill as much the old. I agree with you about the ignorance. My impression from the outside, is that many Americans wear ignorance like a badge. They are proud of it. That is something I don't understand.
Do they last as long as they should? No. Do they last longer than incandescent bulbs? Definitely. I keep the light on in my oven range hood 24/7. I have had the same two LED lights in there for over 7 years. That’s more than 61,000 hours.
I love this message you have about staying objective and impartial to all information until you have read it in full. I feel like ego also contributes to close mindedness. Maybe if there if there was some form of infrastructure we could give the local newspapers so that they could bring the newspaper to our phones it could help keep them thriving(I'll be honest I have no idea how that would work or if it could I'm just brainstorming). I agree with you, I want to live in a world that values freedom resist totalitarian ideals!
But that's exactly the problem she's warning about: Newspapers sent to your phone (which already exist, plentifully) drastically alter the way readers engage with news, because of digital algorithms that feed you "more of the same." Actual, printed daily newspapers gave us daily educations; we've been robbed of that in the name of "progress."
Think of it this way: The difference between digital news delivery and actual, printed newspapers is like the difference between a vending machine and a lavish buffet.
Yeah. Regulatory committees are still beholden to congressional and judicial intervention. There's this whole concept of checks and balances that permeate our political system, that every seems to ignore. Regulatory committees/bodies are not the sole arbiters of law in these matters. Their rulings/regulations can be challenged. That's what I hope is the basis for most outrage, is the lack of checks from our body politic. People can petition their legislators to challenge the constitutionality of any and all regulations.
In the EU, they banned lightbulbs for household use. Now some shops sell them as industrial lightbulbs, and some, funnily, sell them as heaters or HEATBALLS :).
*"Bulb"* is the slang term for a *"Lamp"* because it looks like a *"Bulb"* you plant in the garden. Like *"Seagull"* when there is no such thing, its a *"Gull"* .
One of my favorite papers was the weekly paper from Lebanon Ohio (20 years ago). It had a section of all the police reports for the week. The City of Kettering OH has a blotter that they post to FB, but I'm thinking I need to get a scanner, and a new setup for the CB. People on the ground know what's happening. Brodcastify is a good site, but it is unreliable. When the Memorial Day tornadoes hit Dayton, the live feed had a 2hr delay. We do need a comeback of the papers. They are a hard copy record.
I use fluorescent at home (which is also being banned), got a nice stash of new tubes as I don’t like the light from LEDs. However my solar panels generate way more than they use. Everyone should try and help the environment in some way or other!
Fluorescent tubes eventually release their mercury into the environment one way or another. The phosphor coating in the tubes is a pollutant too. And which light from which LED's dont you like? LED's now come in all ranges of color temperature - so you can certainly find a level of light you like.
I'm constantly surrounded by "acquaintances" that inform me they only watch/read information that is "happy" as they just don't do downer information! SO, YES, you have a very valid point.
Cramming negative “news” which is designed for the sole purpose of emotional outrage and driving clicks does not make you more informed. This has nothing to do with “downer” vs “upper” news.
How dare you!! I'll give you my faux outrage (about something vague I just heard about that's not relevant and/or understood by me) when you take it from my cold, dead mind.
Think that’s very true about newspapers, the quality of editorial has been going down year after year here in the UK. Unfortunately the mainstream papers were bought by big business decades ago. Shouldn’t have been allowed, as it allows them to cover things up easier. The shift online hasn’t exactly improved anything either. Lots of local papers have either gone bust or are just full of ads.
I was born to the age of "ignorance is it's own punishment". But for many decades now ignorance is not only a viable career option but a lucrative one. sigh! Every freedom even when not legislated still has the social imperatives. Civilization cannot exist without universal observance of the "social laws" Your "rights" end at the edge of my "rights" and the edge of everyone around our / their "rights". Bristle at an Officer of the law , , , he will bristle back (and vice versa). Constantly paying attention is still cheaper than the cost of a single poorly chosen moment of inattention. imho rock on Fran 10👍/10
What’s sad and pathetic and all too frequent is actual members of congress who don’t know how government works and will blame the president as a scapegoat for whatever some regulatory agency does or can’t/won’t do.
Sounds kind of awkwardly funny and I'm not dissing Fran here: "cut down the load on the power grid" - - - so, no more tungsten light bulbs - ok - - oh - - btw, the regulators, or what it really is, our government, wants us all driving electric cars - - hmmm. 🤔
Sorry to break it to you Fran, but the rest of the world has known that ignorance is rife in America for decades. America has been the laughing stock of the developed world for a long time. A lot of Americans live in a bubble though and don't realise.
I delivered the Pittsburgh Press and the Post Gazette and for a short time the Sun Telegraph. My brothers and I delivered the news from 1957 to 1970. The local paper in Alamance County NC is thrown from a car. It is a faint shadow of the papers I delivered and read.
I still think that getting tungsten bulbs should always be an option for special use cases (and in my case some classic stuff) but the "main day to day use" should use better energy alternatives. And all those people crying "freeeeedom" are just edge cases of sovereign citicens to me.
Yep. it works like that in NZ - I have to go looking for incandescents, but there are a couple of specialist with all, all the special lamps. LIke chrome-caps for photography and big round orange ones for '70's chandeliers. Everywhen else in my life, I prefer led.
A bit of classic insight into the workings of Government is "The Gilded Age". Not much innovation in Washington since then. Regulations are written by people who think that they have a job to do, and they are the ones who applied for the job. Look out.
"Yeah, news papers are so yesteryear!!" "What do you have today?" ...... We have Fox News, CNN, Facebook, TIKTOK etc.... "So basically, you have rumor, innuendo and scandal...."
Here in UK i was one who was pro tungsten , mainly the way the change was.... introduced. All of a sudden we were told how bad it was for landfill etc only to supply us with not cheap "mercury" bulbs. Since then LEDs have come to for front and now can see the light so to speak.......keep it up Fran
I'm not quite so pessimistic about the future of the press. From the UK I can access for example the New York Times and the Washington Post online which pre-internet it was impractical/too expensive for me to do. There is a superb range of news and current affairs channels on TH-cam that I consume a lot of.
The Agencies are a strange mix of folks. Take the FCC for instance. The FCC has a great website by the way. Its all about making decisions about technical things like how much protection do we need for spurious emissions or what frequencies are being wasted or not properly utilized, what kind of modes are allowed, how much to charge, how to do an spectrum auction and a million other decisions. It really is a living set of rules that change based on input from all over. What does the science say? What are the politics? Is their grandfathering or guaranteed protections? What is the rest of the world doing? What is the state of the art? What do Hams think? What does the lobby say? NAB ARRL, Manufacturers, Carriers, Investors etc... Most technical decision making people in the FCC are technicians, engineers and many are Hams or Military commo folks and this helps - but ultimately they have to hear from everyone involved to make rules properly. That means you and I must INFORM them.
"everybody immediately blames the President" Yes, and often it is ignorant to do so, but those regulatory agencies are part of the Executive Branch, are they not? So, as the chief of the branch, he does have influence and authority over them if he chooses to do so. If he thought they'd overstepped their constitutional &/or delegated authority, he would/should act to correct them. Do we still think "the buck stops here"?
Excellent video, Fran! What has always irked me are the folks who complain about "too many regulations" and want regulations "rolled back" but are the first to complain about lack of regulations after some catastrophe.
The maddening part is we’ve never had easier access to actual information… literally at our fingertips. “ dammit my right to burn my fingers unscrewing a bulb is in the constitution!!!” Sadly though apparently where I grew up in Philly you DO seem to be allowed to own heroin :(
America looks insane from the outside. I often feel bad for all the nice normal Americans I’ve met or see online. It must drive you crazy when you hear what’s going on in your country. If I were to pick a country where the fewest people could explain freedom, democracy and the rule of law it would be the USA.
What pisses me off (personally; this is just my personal opinion) about the tungsten bulb ban is that it's a -ban-. Not a discouragement, or a suggestion, or a high tax on them etc etc, but an outright ban. The concept of ban for a consumer product like a type of light bulb nobody uses much anymore anyway is a bit heavy-handed and something I find outrageously overreaching (I'd say egregiously so), especially when tens of thousands of megawatts of electricity are wasted every day on bullshit like cryptocurrency mining and the like. Will phasing out tungsten bulbs save electricity? Of course it will. Enough to make a difference? NO! The ban (to me) is nothing more than an exercise in "hey look, we're serious about energy conservation!" when in reality it's a big fat nothing burger at the end of the day. As far as energy conservation it's robbing peter to pay paul. And banning for the sake of political theater is something European countries do, not the USA. Edit: I already know some of you reading this comment are already dismissive thinking 'you miss the point, it's not political, libertarian boomer!' to which I would counter it's everyone else missing the point, it's absolutely political.. It's optics, it's low hanging fruit from a regulatory agency grasping at straws to show its relevance, that it's working hard for you and "doing the right thing, for humanity!".. and it's bullshit. When ANY critical thought is applied to the ban to any degree it becomes apparent that stripping away an inconsequential niche consumer item that's a drop in the bucket (niche; tungsten bulbs have been niche for years, don't forget that part) while leaving everything else we waste elec on like server farms etc al completely unchecked or even discussed or brought up for review, is absolutely political, and lazy, and hostile to the consumer. Because the optics mattered more than the end result. Yes ignorance is all the rage.
@@beefchicken Actually come to think of it we've not even talked about how the original bill is from 2007, thats *sixteen years ago* which is probably using the same energy use estimate data points from.. *twenty three years ago* when the original studies were conducted around y2k thereabouts.. when incandescent bulbs were still relevant. So there's that. This entire thing is likely based on obsolete data to effectively ban an technology that was, by nature of the passage of time, already long long ago irrelevant and obsolete anyway. It's 2023 not 2000
Actually, congress is supposed to make the rules. The agencies then enforce those rules. But congress has not done much as of late in that area. So the agencies have started doing both jobs.
Why can’t you own whatever? America hasn’t always been the land of regulation. We’ve been conditioned to believe that we need some huge faceless governmental body to tell us what’s acceptable what isn’t. Our ancestors founded America as a land where individuals could manage themselves and that governments sole purpose was to guarantee individuals the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness by recognizing your already god given rights. Since then, faceless bureaucrats, organizations and non elected officials have slowly eaten away at our rights so that now people like you don’t even know your rights and you automatically accept what you are fed because you are conditioned to do so. When I say you, I really mean us as citizens. We’ve all been fed this and every year we continue to let government bodies continue to ruin what we once had. It’s so bad now tungsten is considered an item we’re not trusted with.
We went through this with toilets years ago. And a few years before that what do you mean they are taking lead out of gasoline. And before that "they" out-lawed Bromo-Seltzer.....
Rule changes are not done arbitrarily by some random bureaucrat but rather through an structured, public process. Rule changes begin with an NPRM (Notice of Proposed Rule Making) which is published in The Federal Register which is issued daily online and is free and open to the public. The approval process includes a 60 day public comment period and usually includes a Cost-Benefit Analysis along with a Regulatory Impact Analysis. There is nothing secretive or sinister about this process.
The process is followed...hence the exceptions...but little difference between what the head honcho INITIALLY wanted and the final "consensus."
Like the planning version of a show trial.
Standards are invented mostly by corporations esp. after industrial revolution. Clubs by interest made the political parties-which was in every country during monarchies. All have sources.
@@friendlyone2706 I work for the government in mine safety regulation. Scientists, engineers, and economic analysts make the proposed regulation - not head honchos - which are always backed by a cost-benefit analysis with, as untasteful as it sounds, a price assigned to a human life.
The proposed rule - the making of which which is always authorized by the relevant enabling act of congress - is then published in the federal register for public comment.
But the "public" all to often ends up only being the lawyers of powerful corporations because the public is indeed ignorant as Fran says. Consequently, useful regulations that save lives, save the environment, and usually also save ordinary people money, get held up and cancelled.
*FREEEEEEEE* *Duhhhhhhhhhhhmmmb!!!!* the recent CONservatives' "revival" is ALL about their ridiculous *FREEEEEEEEEEEE* *Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmb!!!!!*
Just ask all the foolishly obedient voters in *Flori-Duhhhhhhhh* who voted for *Ron* *Duhhhhhhh-Santis!*
*FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE* *Duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmb!!!!!!!!!*
the elected officials or the electorate directly should have final say
One of the easiest ways to keep an "under educated" population loyal to a cause or a person is to make them afraid of what would happen if their side lost, and then make them angry over such a possibility. Fear and anger will keeps them coming back.
Yes, there’s no way educated and informed people fear any possibilities or consequences of any side winning…..
"Ignorance Is All The Rage." Truer words have never been spoken. Or at least, not lately. And the statement is true on so many levels.
People seem to be proud of their ignorance too...
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
― Mark Twain
*"Ignorance* is *All The Rage."*
And Vice-Versa, I might add...
@@chrispomphrett4283 That, or the Dunning-Kruger effect
Willful ignorance.
6:49 about 15 years ago my mom was helping her friend (connected through AAUW) put in place a STEM-like educational program in schools, calling it CHiPS-Civics, History, Political Science. Some schools in Oregon did things like bring students into courtrooms to watch proceedings, or teach how to debate with each other.
Believe me...... I had classes on how our government works. All the students were either goofing off or asleep-- didn't give two shits about it (or learning in general, for that matter).
35 years ago I looked around me realizing with some level of horror, "These people are going to vote... they will even hold office."
We stopped using tungsten light bulbs in Canada ten or more years ago. Everybody still got up and went to work. The sun still rose and set. However, my hydro consumption went down. Unfortunately, ignorance is anybody's illness. Great video. 👍❤️💪
But you didn't say 4 regular bulbs was about 4 .99 now 1 is is 8.99 , you must be extremely well off .
@@abbush2921 Home Depot up here sells the LED bulbs in econo packs, it's actually pretty economical.
@@abbush2921 Except the 8.99 lasts and lasts 20x the hours of the Tungsten. That means for 8.99 you have saved $91 in Tungsten bulbs. And that doesn't mention the energy savings.
Actually you can still buy them in Canadian Tire.
@@va3ngc Why am I not surprised.
Thx for your content, Fran. Hope to see you on a livestream sometime again.
lmao what is wrong with you
When I was a high school, I worked in a restaurant that used a heat lamp as lighting in the bathrooms so the water wouldn't freeze. They opened outdoors and had no heating in them. It was a vivid illustration to me of the energy a bulb gives off that isn't light.
As for the rest, I was reading about North Korea where it is illegal to read anything other than state produced media. There are no independent movies, newspapers, or anything else. Nothing from outside can be read.
And it is sad here in the US to see the consolidation of newspapers and other media into larger and larger companies.
The thing is, traditional newspapers are on the decline. However. Online there are a myriad of opportunities.
1:45 - ..and the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Not sure why these three items were lumped together!
@fanman421 True - but the point OP is probably trying to make is that the science behind the dangers of weapons vs psychoactive substances is pretty different.
I would personally prefer if all weapons(guns, explosives) were regulated by one body - while all psychoactives/food generally were regulated by the FDA...in my mind that would make much more sense anyway...
Well, for some, all three are pleasurable vices.
I wish I had so little to do in life that I could be OUTRAGED at light bulbs.
Just sad that everyone that needs to watch this video will probably never watch this video.
The internet has created and accelerated a divide between the people who use it to learn and gain new skills, and the people who use it to vent and form mobs to endlessly complain or troll.
Fran, you are so articulate, intelligent and bright. Watching your videos is always a source of clarity and wisdom on so many topics. Your delivery is always mixed with a dose of healthy wit and well placed sarcasm. 😊. From a fan in PHL,.. Thank you. Thank you.
I think your most important point of many was the increasing lack of oversight.
I live in a small rural town in Washington state, we still have a local newspaper but unfortunately the staff has been culled which has impacted the coverage of local government.
It’s decisions made in my county and legislative district that have the most impact on my life and that’s the reporting that’s going away.
Oh addressing people who have no idea how Govt. works getting upset about something they refuse to understand. Welcome to the U.S.A.
"Imagine a congress where nothing would get done."
Now that's just crazy talk, Fran.
If only... Just four years in row with no law changes....just four years of being able to predict the game I'll be playing next year....
15:20 - I also remember when papers would publish morning and evening editions!
A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny. Thomas Jefferson
Most people believe our government is a democracy, but we are actually considered a democratic republic. However, I personally believe we live within an oligarchy.
When I was in high school in the mid-70s, no student could graduate without taking the 2 semester American Government class, and other Civics related classes were also offered as electives. The government class could be potentially boring, but we had a firebrand of a teacher. He was a black, green-fatigues-and-beret-wearing and was named Bronco. He was reportedly a graduate of a political science curriculum at Berkeley in California, and we were given to believe that he had once been a Black Panther (I suspect that was a fiction, but he seemed to be putting on something of an act, although his rhetoric was fiery and the image was easy to accept). He gave great, entertaining lectures that did not seem like lectures; more like attending a political rally. But he always made the intended points. Funny thing was, his wife was a locally celebrated lyric soprano singer in the city's opera.
One niche application for tungsten lamps is for the "current limiter" tool used when testing tube amps. What can be used in their place when they're gone?
Literally any other nonreactive resistive load of the same value. They will always be available for niche applications, most likely at a niche price though.
@@David.C.Velasquez Yes, but not only does the lamp protect the amp if there's an internal short, but also provides a visual indication by glowing brightly.
@@dingalarm I see now :)
Let’s not forget the majority of the population is ignorant of Science and what science really is. What is the Scientific Method? What does it mean to isolate variables in a study? What is Peer Review?
What is Scientific Consensus? Most people think it’s just the OPINION of “pointy headed intellectuals”.
Honest question - why can't that oversight -- copy writers, editors, fact checkers, etc. -- exist in an online medium? I'm not talking about social media or TH-cam, I'm talking about literally the newspaper being digital instead of ink. To me, it's just a medium -- and companies are going to use the most cost effective medium. I guess what I'm asking is -- if I can trust the printed version of the Grizzlytown Bugle Gazette -- why can't I trust the online version of the Grizzlytown Bugle Gazette if they decide it's more cost effective to put up a website rather than print? Can't they have the same copy writers, editors, fact checkers, etc.?
I cannot stand the super bright LED head lights on cars. They are blinding when driving at night. Does anyone else feel the same as I?
I agree - it's some, but certainly not all, leds. The projector types can really blind for a couple of moments of angle when cresting toward you.
Just saw this today 10-16-24. Fran, this short says it all about where we are now, and just how far down the rabbit hole of ignorance we continue to slide. One of your best observations.
In the UK about 10 years ago we had the same. I got angry and bought a huge box of tungsten bulbs. Guess what. They are still in the attic. We have just all switched to LED. Why would you not
Well said. John Goodman's ending speech from Red State, "people do the strangest things when they believe they are entitled. They do even stranger things when they just believe...
I agree the lack of Civics education is alarming. But I'll also note that Americans have for many decades been voting for President based on the current state of the Economy. So even when Civics was taught, the efforts of the teachers was largely wasted.
I am in complete agreement with you and thank you for your cogent presentation. I might add that a certain segment of our population cannot be shamed by the exposing of multiple hypocrosies
You are right that regulatory agencies are created by Congress, but they are in the Executive Branch, which is headed by the President. And don’t leave out the well-paid lobbyists - they are essentially a fourth branch of government, and they are not on government salaries. Money is power, and some of the wealthiest zip codes are in the Washington DC area.
I haven’t heard of any efforts by the President to influence how light bulbs are regulated, but there have been efforts recently in other fields, such as student loans, border enforcement, oil pipeline approvals/disapprovals, armaments for Ukraine.
15:50 . . . I totally agree. I would rather come across things myself than have 'recommended' articles put in front of me. Getting a VPN has really changed this.
Haven't used a incandescent bulb in years. Although I was always concerned with the CF and the mercury issue. Happy using the LED bulbs now. As for newspapers, I subscribe to the electronic version of several newspapers. Ignorance is not bliss.
I stopped watching news, and reading papers. I was more ignorant when I read them...
If ignorance was bliss, there'd be a lot more happy people around here.
Mark Twain
Paraphrased
That’s funny 😆
I was one of the first to buy all LED lights for my house even when they were very expensive.
That said, lighting is not exactly plutonium.
The problem people have with regulation is if the regulations are ridiculously overbearing .
You have to pick your battles.
Statutes and regulation only apply to "your" "legal identity" but do not actually apply to real physical human beings. Like this: Your "legal identity" is like a monopoly game piece that has been given the label "person" but is not actually a person. when you call yourself a "person", you are saying you are a game piece. Statutes and Regulates are rules of the game for game pieces. There are laws for forcing the gov't to respect the separation between the player (you) and their game piece force you (legal identity). The gov't does NOT respect its own laws when it stops the gov't crimes, eg. gov't does not respect the law separating the player from the game piece.
The gov't is the game. EVERYTHING legal is fiction. there is no such thing as a legal right.... that's just fictional unicorn thinking.
If you believe yourself to be a citizen or have a "legal identity" or "legal name" then you are ignorantly confusing yourself with the gov't game piece for you. Everything you think you own is, according to gov', owned by, as, and through your game piece... you already own nothing and are ignorantly happy about it.
If you think you are a citizen or have/use a legal name, you are AGREEING to the gov't OWNING your body above your own "authority"!! This is literally slavery by all attorneys, magistrates, judges, and legal fictionally and lethally (but unlawfully) enforced by sheriffs and cops!!!
To them, NON_LEGAL is ILLEGAL!!!
Indeed, as an RC enthusiast, you would no doubt be aware of regulations (including Remote ID) that are "ridiculously overbearing", thanks to the arrogance & stupidity of the FAA and AMA.
As long as I can get tungsten bulbs for my lava lamps I'll be happy. Or at least I will be until the ignorant Americans among us elect a fascist president and democracy comes to an end. Thanks Fran for doing what you can to help save us from ourselves.
I have a lava lamp too, the bulbs seem quite readily available in the UK online - despite us banning incandescent bulbs some time back...
Lava lamps are very neat! 😁
The problem with regulatory authority is the lack of oversight and accountability. Once imbued with power by congress, an agency becomes self governing and inevitably increase their own power over time with no input from the people or their representatives which is inherently undemocratic. Agencies are just as prone to corruption as political bodies if not moreso which is how we get terrible gas cans that are supposed to save the environment but instead dump gas all over the place.
Fear not, those same agencies are intentionally/politically underfunded to a point where the term 'self oversight' has become industry standard. Maybe focus less about 'corruption' in these agencies and more on the fact they are underfunded and understaffed.
13:16 You can often get the paper version online too. Free through a local library. It’s like the PDF version almost.
I have a secret stash of 40W tungsten bulbs for two den lights that are touch sensitive, the other 90% of lights in the house are LED and I don't think we have changed one in six years.
People are making "custom" 6V6's a simple tungsten bulb will be made and on Etsy.
"The only people who criticize media are people that do not read."
I had to listen to this several times to accept that you actually said it.
Personally, I BOTH read & criticize.
When I was a kid, we had rocks, and liked it! 😂
Respectfully, Fran, you just demonstrated that it is you who doesn’t know how our country works. Regulatory agencies are absolutely beholden to the President and Congress. The President is, or at least should be the authority of all of those agencies. That’s how it’s supposed to work. Otherwise, we have unelected bureaucrats who are accountable to no one. There are absolutely problems with regulatory agencies dictating what we can and cannot do. They are not legislative bodies. You’re, right, freedom is not being able to do whatever we want, but there’s no real reason we shouldn’t be able to buy or sale any light bulb we want.
Again, the F1 engine does not seem to have a converging section or throat. Can you explain.
Still available here in Canada, though I don't know why you would want them unless you need one for your oven. That is about the only application that LED bulbs wont work in.
LEDs are great except for one thing. They don't last as long as they should. They seem to last no longer than incandescent bulbs. That has to be a designed obsolescence thing. LEDs themselves are very robust. If the product is designed right, there is no reason it cannot run for decades. Too bad the regulators don't go after the manufacturers for that, as they end up in the landfill as much the old.
I agree with you about the ignorance. My impression from the outside, is that many Americans wear ignorance like a badge. They are proud of it. That is something I don't understand.
Do they last as long as they should? No. Do they last longer than incandescent bulbs? Definitely. I keep the light on in my oven range hood 24/7. I have had the same two LED lights in there for over 7 years. That’s more than 61,000 hours.
I took Civics in junior high. Mr. Merrill managed to make it fascinating. We need that.❤
Wait, they don't teach civics anymore? Really?! When did they stop doing that? Is that even true?
I love this message you have about staying objective and impartial to all information until you have read it in full. I feel like ego also contributes to close mindedness. Maybe if there if there was some form of infrastructure we could give the local newspapers so that they could bring the newspaper to our phones it could help keep them thriving(I'll be honest I have no idea how that would work or if it could I'm just brainstorming). I agree with you, I want to live in a world that values freedom resist totalitarian ideals!
But that's exactly the problem she's warning about: Newspapers sent to your phone (which already exist, plentifully) drastically alter the way readers engage with news, because of digital algorithms that feed you "more of the same." Actual, printed daily newspapers gave us daily educations; we've been robbed of that in the name of "progress."
Think of it this way: The difference between digital news delivery and actual, printed newspapers is like the difference between a vending machine and a lavish buffet.
Yeah. Regulatory committees are still beholden to congressional and judicial intervention. There's this whole concept of checks and balances that permeate our political system, that every seems to ignore. Regulatory committees/bodies are not the sole arbiters of law in these matters. Their rulings/regulations can be challenged. That's what I hope is the basis for most outrage, is the lack of checks from our body politic. People can petition their legislators to challenge the constitutionality of any and all regulations.
We still haven't adopted Metric like most of the world either.
It’s a stupid law. Why does the FDA allow things to be put in our food at the same time against law in UK?
In the EU, they banned lightbulbs for household use. Now some shops sell them as industrial lightbulbs, and some, funnily, sell them as heaters or HEATBALLS :).
*"Bulb"* is the slang term for a *"Lamp"* because it looks like a *"Bulb"* you plant in the garden. Like *"Seagull"* when there is no such thing, its a *"Gull"* .
One of my favorite papers was the weekly paper from Lebanon Ohio (20 years ago). It had a section of all the police reports for the week. The City of Kettering OH has a blotter that they post to FB, but I'm thinking I need to get a scanner, and a new setup for the CB. People on the ground know what's happening. Brodcastify is a good site, but it is unreliable. When the Memorial Day tornadoes hit Dayton, the live feed had a 2hr delay. We do need a comeback of the papers. They are a hard copy record.
I use fluorescent at home (which is also being banned), got a nice stash of new tubes as I don’t like the light from LEDs. However my solar panels generate way more than they use. Everyone should try and help the environment in some way or other!
Fluorescent tubes eventually release their mercury into the environment one way or another. The phosphor coating in the tubes is a pollutant too. And which light from which LED's dont you like? LED's now come in all ranges of color temperature - so you can certainly find a level of light you like.
I'm outraged that people are outraged... oh wait... I am outraged at my outrage now! ;o) hehe
Trying to reason oneself around the reactionary thought processes within the right is indeed enough to make one go a bit insane! 😅
“If you disagree and you’re not informed, then I do not care what your opinion is”
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I'm constantly surrounded by "acquaintances" that inform me they only watch/read information that is "happy" as they just don't do downer information! SO, YES, you have a very valid point.
Cramming negative “news” which is designed for the sole purpose of emotional outrage and driving clicks does not make you more informed. This has nothing to do with “downer” vs “upper” news.
I'll never get too many rolodex openings from you dear. 👉📇👈
How dare you!! I'll give you my faux outrage (about something vague I just heard about that's not relevant and/or understood by me) when you take it from my cold, dead mind.
We haven't had them here in Australia for years, some led globes are cheap and get hot and fail quickly.
"I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day"....Douglas Adams
Think that’s very true about newspapers, the quality of editorial has been going down year after year here in the UK. Unfortunately the mainstream papers were bought by big business decades ago. Shouldn’t have been allowed, as it allows them to cover things up easier. The shift online hasn’t exactly improved anything either. Lots of local papers have either gone bust or are just full of ads.
From Australia. Well said Fran!
This town has alot of solar pannels to lower the grid load,so why are we paying more for electricity!?
After that rant, and finding no holes in any of your points, I've decided to buy a couple of acres on the shore of Arizona Bay.🤨
Yeah, it didn't occur to me that with sea level rise, the Gulf of California will intrude out of Mexico into the SW corner of AZ.
I was born to the age of "ignorance is it's own punishment". But for many decades now ignorance is not only a viable career option but a lucrative one. sigh! Every freedom even when not legislated still has the social imperatives. Civilization cannot exist without universal observance of the "social laws" Your "rights" end at the edge of my "rights" and the edge of everyone around our / their "rights". Bristle at an Officer of the law , , , he will bristle back (and vice versa).
Constantly paying attention is still cheaper than the cost of a single poorly chosen moment of inattention. imho
rock on Fran 10👍/10
Thank you Fran!
What do you think about gas stoves. Always enjoy your videos Fran.
tungsten bulbs are still necessary for some applications...
OH NO. What will I do? My Easy bake won't work?
I waited out the vid to say this: I see a trend for institutionalism over individualism. Regulatory agencies: ignore them
How many people does It take to change a light bulb?
Fran when are we going to see you with a soldering iron again?
What’s sad and pathetic and all too frequent is actual members of congress who don’t know how government works and will blame the president as a scapegoat for whatever some regulatory agency does or can’t/won’t do.
Sounds kind of awkwardly funny and I'm not dissing Fran here: "cut down the load on the power grid" - - - so, no more tungsten light bulbs - ok - - oh - - btw, the regulators, or what it really is, our government, wants us all driving electric cars - - hmmm. 🤔
Sorry to break it to you Fran, but the rest of the world has known that ignorance is rife in America for decades. America has been the laughing stock of the developed world for a long time. A lot of Americans live in a bubble though and don't realise.
I delivered the Pittsburgh Press and the Post Gazette and for a short time the Sun Telegraph. My brothers and I delivered the news from 1957 to 1970. The local paper in Alamance County NC is thrown from a car. It is a faint shadow of the papers I delivered and read.
Yep, totally agree, as a Pittsburgher i can relate those papers and the Beaver County Times
Gotta say, I love the slogan "Freedom Bulbs". Thanks!
I still think that getting tungsten bulbs should always be an option for special use cases (and in my case some classic stuff) but the "main day to day use" should use better energy alternatives. And all those people crying "freeeeedom" are just edge cases of sovereign citicens to me.
Yep. it works like that in NZ - I have to go looking for incandescents, but there are a couple of specialist with all, all the special lamps. LIke chrome-caps for photography and big round orange ones for '70's chandeliers. Everywhen else in my life, I prefer led.
Finally found proper channel, thanks for being here Fran
A bit of classic insight into the workings of Government is "The Gilded Age". Not much innovation in Washington since then. Regulations are written by people who think that they have a job to do, and they are the ones who applied for the job. Look out.
"Yeah, news papers are so yesteryear!!" "What do you have today?" ...... We have Fox News, CNN, Facebook, TIKTOK etc.... "So basically, you have rumor, innuendo and scandal...."
Here in UK i was one who was pro tungsten , mainly the way the change was.... introduced. All of a sudden we were told how bad it was for landfill etc only to supply us with not cheap "mercury" bulbs. Since then LEDs have come to for front and now can see the light so to speak.......keep it up Fran
I'm not quite so pessimistic about the future of the press. From the UK I can access for example the New York Times and the Washington Post online which pre-internet it was impractical/too expensive for me to do. There is a superb range of news and current affairs channels on TH-cam that I consume a lot of.
The Agencies are a strange mix of folks. Take the FCC for instance. The FCC has a great website by the way. Its all about making decisions about technical things like how much protection do we need for spurious emissions or what frequencies are being wasted or not properly utilized, what kind of modes are allowed, how much to charge, how to do an spectrum auction and a million other decisions. It really is a living set of rules that change based on input from all over. What does the science say? What are the politics? Is their grandfathering or guaranteed protections? What is the rest of the world doing? What is the state of the art? What do Hams think? What does the lobby say? NAB ARRL, Manufacturers, Carriers, Investors etc... Most technical decision making people in the FCC are technicians, engineers and many are Hams or Military commo folks and this helps - but ultimately they have to hear from everyone involved to make rules properly. That means you and I must INFORM them.
"everybody immediately blames the President"
Yes, and often it is ignorant to do so, but those regulatory agencies are part of the Executive Branch, are they not? So, as the chief of the branch, he does have influence and authority over them if he chooses to do so. If he thought they'd overstepped their constitutional &/or delegated authority, he would/should act to correct them. Do we still think "the buck stops here"?
Excellent video, Fran!
What has always irked me are the folks who complain about "too many regulations" and want regulations "rolled back" but are the first to complain about lack of regulations after some catastrophe.
Agree that our First Amendment and in particular Freedom of the Press is the greatest and most essential thing about our country and our freedoms.
The maddening part is we’ve never had easier access to actual information… literally at our fingertips. “ dammit my right to burn my fingers unscrewing a bulb is in the constitution!!!”
Sadly though apparently where I grew up in Philly you DO seem to be allowed to own heroin :(
Heroin barely exists anymore it's all Fentanyl, which is far deadlier
@@magickmarck Yes and now I’m hearing about the Narcan resistant varieties
America looks insane from the outside. I often feel bad for all the nice normal Americans I’ve met or see online. It must drive you crazy when you hear what’s going on in your country. If I were to pick a country where the fewest people could explain freedom, democracy and the rule of law it would be the USA.
Irony Abounds.
Best. Thank You
So what's now to appear in our thought balloons when we have an idea?
That's why I saw a guy selling tungsten bulbs outta the trunk of his car.
What pisses me off (personally; this is just my personal opinion) about the tungsten bulb ban is that it's a -ban-. Not a discouragement, or a suggestion, or a high tax on them etc etc, but an outright ban. The concept of ban for a consumer product like a type of light bulb nobody uses much anymore anyway is a bit heavy-handed and something I find outrageously overreaching (I'd say egregiously so), especially when tens of thousands of megawatts of electricity are wasted every day on bullshit like cryptocurrency mining and the like. Will phasing out tungsten bulbs save electricity? Of course it will. Enough to make a difference? NO! The ban (to me) is nothing more than an exercise in "hey look, we're serious about energy conservation!" when in reality it's a big fat nothing burger at the end of the day. As far as energy conservation it's robbing peter to pay paul. And banning for the sake of political theater is something European countries do, not the USA.
Edit: I already know some of you reading this comment are already dismissive thinking 'you miss the point, it's not political, libertarian boomer!' to which I would counter it's everyone else missing the point, it's absolutely political.. It's optics, it's low hanging fruit from a regulatory agency grasping at straws to show its relevance, that it's working hard for you and "doing the right thing, for humanity!".. and it's bullshit. When ANY critical thought is applied to the ban to any degree it becomes apparent that stripping away an inconsequential niche consumer item that's a drop in the bucket (niche; tungsten bulbs have been niche for years, don't forget that part) while leaving everything else we waste elec on like server farms etc al completely unchecked or even discussed or brought up for review, is absolutely political, and lazy, and hostile to the consumer. Because the optics mattered more than the end result. Yes ignorance is all the rage.
In the states, tungsten bulbs weren’t niche. They were still selling in significant volumes.
@@beefchicken Actually come to think of it we've not even talked about how the original bill is from 2007, thats *sixteen years ago* which is probably using the same energy use estimate data points from.. *twenty three years ago* when the original studies were conducted around y2k thereabouts.. when incandescent bulbs were still relevant. So there's that. This entire thing is likely based on obsolete data to effectively ban an technology that was, by nature of the passage of time, already long long ago irrelevant and obsolete anyway. It's 2023 not 2000
A social studies teacher one told me, "You have no right to complain about government if you didn't vote in the last election."
Actually, congress is supposed to make the rules. The agencies then enforce those rules. But congress has not done much as of late in that area. So the agencies have started doing both jobs.
Amen, and preach on! And I am agnostic.
I'm convinced the majority live in the Bay Area. I've started referring to it as the land of the ignorant, thin skinned, and perpetually outraged!
Why can’t you own whatever? America hasn’t always been the land of regulation. We’ve been conditioned to believe that we need some huge faceless governmental body to tell us what’s acceptable what isn’t. Our ancestors founded America as a land where individuals could manage themselves and that governments sole purpose was to guarantee individuals the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness by recognizing your already god given rights. Since then, faceless bureaucrats, organizations and non elected officials have slowly eaten away at our rights so that now people like you don’t even know your rights and you automatically accept what you are fed because you are conditioned to do so. When I say you, I really mean us as citizens. We’ve all been fed this and every year we continue to let government bodies continue to ruin what we once had. It’s so bad now tungsten is considered an item we’re not trusted with.
America is the land of theft.
OK I’m tripping! WTF what am I gonna do with all this friggin plutonium I have! 💡
What if you make your own bulbs ?
LED bulbs are so good now, I even got Dad to love them.
Dang. I guess my Kenner Easy-Bake Oven just became obsolete!
We went through this with toilets years ago. And a few years before that what do you mean they are taking lead out of gasoline. And before that "they" out-lawed Bromo-Seltzer.....