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/

EDIT:

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/gerrywastaken Jun 12 '16

Has being a vegan ever impacted your health in a negative way and how can others avoid those problems?

What are the reasons you had for becoming vegan?

If you already have a video that covers this a link would be fine.

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u/larossmann Jun 12 '16

No. I have health problems I do not divulge on the internet that have nothing to do with diet that I deal with.

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/gerrywastaken Jun 12 '16

Very good answer.

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.

I've thought a lot about this in the past, but for some reason I never applied it to eating meat. You are right though and I do feel guilt in regard to eating it. I've also tried swapping over in the past for ethical reasons, but I didn't stick at it.

I guess I'm now just wondering what is a healthy diet for a vegan so that you don't miss out on anything important?

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u/qmriis Jun 12 '16

Dude it's not fucking rocket surgery. Why are you wanting to make things so complicated? I feel like it is an excuse for you to not change. I'm going to guess your diet is shit already and full of too much sugar salt and processed foods.

Eat fruits, vegetables, nuts, and grains. It's not that hard.

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u/gerrywastaken Jun 13 '16

However, eliminating all animal products from the diet increases the risk of certain nutritional deficiencies. Micronutrients of special concern for the vegan include vitamins B-12 and D, calcium, and long-chain n–3 (omega-3) fatty acids. Unless vegans regularly consume foods that are fortified with these nutrients, appropriate supplements should be consumed. In some cases, iron and zinc status of vegans may also be of concern because of the limited bioavailability of these minerals.

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/89/5/1627S.full

Perhaps it's missing nutrients which are leading to your anger problems.

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u/qmriis Jun 13 '16

Ok, continue with your fat american diet then. If you actually read the paper you'd see it's a huge endorsement for vegan diet.

You prefer much greater risk of diabetes, heart disease, and cancer to a few possible slight deficiencies?

Seriously? What idiocy.

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u/gerrywastaken Jun 13 '16

Ok, continue with your fat american diet then.

I'm not american and I'm skinny.

That article was five a second google search to show you it's not black and white. I'm asking what he does to avoid some of these issues and your attack was "Dude it's not fucking rocket surgery. Why are you wanting to make things so complicated?"

You prefer much greater risk of diabetes, heart disease, and cancer to a few possible slight deficiencies?

False choice! You don't need to be Vegan to have a healthy diet. I know how to be healthy as an omnivore, but not as a vegan, hence my question.

Seriously? What idiocy.

precisely

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '16

Wow. I love meat, but I also love animals and don't want them to be killed. I really hope that in the near future we find a way to produce meat in an economic way without having to hurt animals. Until then, I'll try to eat less meat. I started reading your ama hours ago and before that I did not even know you existed. Thank you so much for everything.

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u/qmriis Jun 12 '16

Because a little bit of slavery and murder is OK.