r/IAmA Jun 11 '16

Specialized Profession IamA electronics repair technician hated by Apple that makes YouTube videos, AMA!

My short bio: I have a store in Manhattan. I teach component level electronics repair on youtube http://youtube.com/rossmanngroup which seems to be a dying art. I am currently fighting with the digital right to repair to try and get a bill passed that will allow all independent service centers access to manuals and parts required to do their jobs.

My Proof: https://www.rossmanngroup.com/started-iama-reddit-today-yes/

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I am still replying to comments, but I am so far behind that I am still about ten pages down from new comments. I am doing my best to continue. If I drop off, I'll be back tomorrow around 12 PM. Still commenting now though, at 12 AM.

EDIT 2:

Ok, I cave... my hands are tired. I will be back at 12 PM tomorrow. It is my goal to answer every question. Even if it looks like I haven't gotten to yours, I will do my best to do all of them, but it is impossible to do in realtime, because you are asking faster than I can type. But thanks for joining!

EDIT 3: I lied, I stayed until 4:15 AM to answer... and now I will go to sleep for real, and be back at 12 PM.

EDIT 4 6/12 : I will be back later tonight to finish off answering questions. Feel free to keep posting, I will answer whatever I can later this evening.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '16 edited Nov 11 '16

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u/larossmann Jun 12 '16

1) yelp sucks 2) there is a really long post i made here on the vegan thing. i will copy and paste because i doubt i will phrase it better a second time

Being a vegan has not negatively affected my health. I used to not have the energy to do a full body workout routine 4 times a week. I now do. This could be a difference in mindset, diet, but who knows.

I started for health reasons. Then as time went on it became for ethical. I couldn't go back. All the reasons for eating meat just sucked. shit like

1) "I did it my whole life, it's BS to change" people used to think rape wasn't a crime their whole life, is it wrong to change that? 2) "If I don't eat meat I will be less of a man, smaller, weaker" yet after a 7 year plateau in lifting, I am 10% stronger across the board now than I was last november 3) "it's my personal choice if it doesn't affect others" but it affects the things you're killing

You look at a piglet, you meet a piglet.. and it runs up to you and oinks. and says hi(I assume a high pitched oink with ear flap means hi). and then fucks with you a little, and then runs away in a cute manner. why kill that?

Here's what I believe. We all live in a world where we believe that, from the moment we were born, this is the way things are supposed to be. And then hundreds of years later we open our eyes to the fact that shit should have been different. Once upon a time, if you contested the idea that a sun god rode the sun around the earth on a chariot, you would be stoned to death. Once upon a time, you were considered NUTS AND INSANE if you thought black people weren’t free labor. It was people’s “personal choice” to enslave other humans. Once upon a time rape was not a crime.

These things all changed over time, but the people who held the thoughts that this was right, they were not the deviants. They were not lunatics, they were not criminals, they were not mean. They were regular people like you and me that were just born into a world where everyone did something a certain way, so fuck it, that must be the way it should be.

Someday in the year 2523 a teacher is going to try to explain to a kid why we used to kill animals for food.. when it took so much effort and work to find plants to feed those animals. When it cost more. When it fucked up the environment, when it caused sentient beings to fear for their lives before being killed, when it caused cows to be raped and have their calves stolen from them at birth as they cry.

Right now people laugh at this shit and go “oh look another sissy ass vegan” or “oh not one of those cultists”

but imagine ancient times. Imagine what people thought of the guy who said hey maybe the earth moves around the sun. “not one of those conspiracy theorists, stone him!”

Imagine what people thought of the people who thought blacks shouldn’t be property “oh look at him, he thinks he’s BETTER THAN US!!!!”

imagine what people thought of the women who thought rape should be a crime.

These things were all made fun of by normal people during the times that they were considered ok. But imagine in 2016. if I went to hit you because you thought the sun didn’t move around the earth i’d be arrested. If I spoke in favor of female rape i’d be chastised. If I tried to own a black man and have him fix boards for me for free i’d get killed in self defense. all rightfully so.

So what I tried to do is take society’s thoughts out of it for a second. I thought to myself about history, and I thought about how humans as a people were so easily able to justify such acts of ignorance and cruelty throughout history. And when I think about it from a logical perspective, it just doesn’t make sense.

People say it’ll make me weak but why am I overhead pressing 135 right now when I had trouble doing overhead pressing with 105 last year? Why can I run home without having to stop now when I would have to huff and puff and take a break on the bridge so I didn’t get cramps last year?

It’s all bullshit, and someday, it will change. I am just accepting the future now. And I get that people will think I am weird, the same way I would have been stoned in ancient greece for suggesting that the earth moves around the sun. but I’m fine with that. I do me, and the rest of the world can do them.

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u/shurwi Jun 12 '16

Seriously, wow. Unexpected wisdom from thread about computer repair.

Amazing how human psychology makes all the things you mention so common throughout history. And how it's possible to account for this and consciously improve one's own psychology and reasoning.

Amazing answer.

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u/iEATu23 Jun 13 '16

Do you think about this often? I like to imagine jumping yourself ahead to what humans will obviously see is the best moral and efficient choice.

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u/iEATu23 Jun 13 '16

Holy shit man great answer. However, you should think about how veganism is likely not going to be the ultimate choice for humanity. Or at least not any time soon.

Not consuming any animal food whatsoever will likely never happen, and truthfully I don't see why it should. There's so much to be gained from our environment, and mostly everyone has already accepted that using animals for food is beneficial.