Ignorance Is All The Rage
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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.
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.
⁉️Civics isn’t taught anymore? Given the state of our politics, not teaching civics sounds like part of a long game. The Supreme Court was definitely a long game. 💙Read history and civics books and for Democracy’s sake VOTE‼️‼️‼️
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.
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.
A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny. Thomas Jefferson
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.
"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....
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.
Functional societies are a combination, including socialism.
Those regulatory agencies seem to think they have the power to legislate. The Supreme Court has very recently ruled against them on these grounds, and expect more of these findings in the future. You will either desire liberty, or a life of control. Most men are followers, and are terrified of liberty.
And women?
The supreme court ruled against those environmental rules completely permissible under earlier interpretation of the Clean Water Act on grounds of powerful business interests.
☀️We are definitely headed towards a AUTHORITARIAN FASCIST THEOCRACY! I’d like to hear more of your views. Thanks!💙VOTE!
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. 👉📇👈
“If you disagree and you’re not informed, then I do not care what your opinion is”
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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.
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 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.
I waited out the vid to say this: I see a trend for institutionalism over individualism. Regulatory agencies: ignore them
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.
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! 😁
"I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day"....Douglas Adams
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.
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
When I was a kid, we had rocks, and liked it! 😂
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.
"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.
We still haven't adopted Metric like most of the world either.
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
@@sn1000k Yes and now I’m hearing about the Narcan resistant varieties
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
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?
*"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"* .
I took Civics in junior high. Mr. Merrill managed to make it fascinating. We need that.❤
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
People are making "custom" 6V6's a simple tungsten bulb will be made and on Etsy.
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.
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...
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”.
Oh addressing people who have no idea how Govt. works getting upset about something they refuse to understand. Welcome to the U.S.A.
"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...."
Thank you Fran!
That's why I saw a guy selling tungsten bulbs outta the trunk of his car.
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.
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.
True! Every single word of it!
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!
As a one-time scientist, willful ignorance infuriates me.
“All the rage is from ignorance” I see what you did there. Approved.
Gotta say, I love the slogan "Freedom Bulbs". Thanks!
15:20 - I also remember when papers would publish morning and evening editions!
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.
Nice Frant, just love to sit with you and hear your thoughts , thanks
I think that has been our country's motto since 2001
Amen, and preach on! And I am agnostic.
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 :)
1:45 - ..and the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Not sure why these three items were lumped together!
They can all be deadly.
@@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.
OH NO. What will I do? My Easy bake won't work?
LED bulbs are so good now, I even got Dad to love them.
"Imagine a Congress where nothing could get done". It's not so hard to do.
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.
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
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.
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.
Finally found proper channel, thanks for being here Fran
13:16 You can often get the paper version online too. Free through a local library. It’s like the PDF version almost.
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.
But, if plutonium is outlawed, only outlaws will have plutonium! /s
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! 😅
Best. Thank You
Well put Fran!
Excellent. I learned a lot from this video.
We haven't had them here in Australia for years, some led globes are cheap and get hot and fail quickly.
I stopped buying tungsten bulbs as soon as LED bulbs were available.
You're breaking my heart!
Good riddance to the horribly inefficient incandescent light bulb.
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.
H G Wells wrote The Time Machine. He predicted that humans would speciate into two distinct races: The Eloi (pretty but stupid) and the Morlocks who were dwarf-like violent savages who lived underground. All of mankind's knowledge would crumble. Personally I am finding it difficult to avoid morons. They are outbreeding the Eloi.
Well said.
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 :).
OK I’m tripping! WTF what am I gonna do with all this friggin plutonium I have! 💡
"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"?
Great video. All very true. Hopefully, some of the enraged will listen and understand and learn.
William Burroughs wrote that the most free American society was in 1910.
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.
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
I also feel meanness is all the rage as well. Dang.
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
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.
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.
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.
Wait, they don't teach civics anymore? Really?! When did they stop doing that? Is that even true?
Many of our regulations happen based on “experts” with a need to justify their existence.
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.
What do you think about gas stoves. Always enjoy your videos Fran.
A social studies teacher one told me, "You have no right to complain about government if you didn't vote in the last election."
Thank G-d that LED bulbs came along, imagine us getting stuck with CFL's only - which is what existed when the concept of banning tungsten incandescent bulbs was dreamed up. CFL's in the winter make terrible porch lights. Also, CFL's were a waste of copper and a somewhat of a mercury hazard.
There once was a time when Americans could not own gold - what makes it funny though is that the Constitution says that gold is the only recognized currency. Which is proof that there are parts of the Constitution that have been long ignored.
Hopefully, I'll be able to find replacement bulbs for my current limiter.
have had to add a 200 ohm resistor to some cheap 12v led light bulbs. they were getting way too hot and burning out.
RIP Paul Rubens
Those same idiots that complain they should be able to do anything they want in this free country would also be the first to complain if the US turned into a Mad Max Thunderdome type scenario.
You can call your congressmen, in addition to an agency, that's probably one of the few people who could do something. Congress could, by statue, overide or change the regulatory charter of an agency, although it would take a whole lot of momentum to reverse something like, i dunno, the retirement of analog TV...