The World's Dumbest Black Market Trade

[@h0ser]

F it. Since you're here in these comments, you have time to follow me on Instagram: instagram.com/hoserforever @hoserforever

[@neskey]

WHERE is that George Friedman video you made

[@NKY151]

Singapore is a major sand importer, that mysteriously stopped major land reclaimation efforts once their conplicity came to light... I wonder why...

[@מ.מ-ה9ד]

I can't believe you didn't mention that in 2008 someone stole an entire beach in Jamaica and no one knows who that was. (I think you mentioned it once).

[@maximator3471]

Yo, it'd be really nice if you could include the names of the music used in your videos in the source pastebin. Some really nice tunes here and there

[@barneyrubble4293]

I will not.

[@Sque-kh2il]

Imagine going on vacation and finding out someone stole the entire damn beach

[@revupthosefryers9177]

cant have shit in detroit

[@benjamindover4337]

Like theres nothing there but a big hole full of water? That's called the ocean mate.

[@ChineseKiwi]

This literally happened in Jamaica. Look it up 😅😂

[@Sque-kh2il]

​@@benjamindover4337 I just mean the coastline

[@DakotaZ162]

​@@ChineseKiwilmfao In July 2008, 500 truckloads of sand were stolen from a 400-meter stretch of beach at Coral Springs in Jamaica's Trelawny parish. The theft occurred as the beach was being prepared for a resort complex, but development was halted after the sand was taken. While sand was found on other beaches, no charges were filed.

[@TheGeopoliticsMan]

This reminds me of the amount of desert I destroyed in Minecraft for that sweet sweet glass...

[@gollossalkitty]

Yeah this is much more effective because of my experience with the consequences of resource gathering in video games. The problem is that in video games there's infinite space to move away, and there's no people left to suffer

[@RefreshingShamrock]

I made a sand/red sand duper out of the end portal. Mojang left that glitch in because postgame requires too much labor. Why spend days of your life excavating desert by hand when you can AFK in the end for a few hours? Also, red sand is incredibly rare since the biome it spawns in is rare and not all mesa biomes have red sand. I couldn't even fill up a double chest full to make enough red sandstone for my build.

[@moritzebert6118]

@@gollossalkittyand you can mine it in the desert and not just frim riverbeds and beaches

[@AshDeGirl]

Tbh, terraria is worse, cuz you need sand for a lot more than glass

[@will7254]

I did this but for tnt

[@Mrfv-js1kz]

This is a huge unspoken problem in the Dominican Republic, and it has devastating effects in our diverse ecosystems. You could literally go to a river with your family and on the other side you'd see a truck or two stealing sand 😢

[@ShaktiChaturvedi]

Same in India, despite several court interventions. Reason ? Corruption.

[@dominicanbrian]

It’s so sad because we are killing our little paradise 😢

[@Nanostarical]

I am sorry for your country

[@123shotas]

Yeah baby, that sweet sweet profit is nice for the right people 😂

[@Mandai-f2d]

Boo hoo. some people lose, some people win. Nyehnnanananyeh🎵

[@sekkuar]

I provided helpdesk support for a sand mining company once. There I found out that they basically falsify all their invoices so trucks leave loaded with twice, sometimes thrice the legal limit. That was baffling to me, so I asked how come those trucks don't get caught on the weighting stations on the highway? And the owner of the company answered me as if it was the most normal thing in the world "Have you ever seen any of those stations actually open? No? That's because we pay the police to keep them closed" The sand mining industry is quite literally a mafia. (I'm from Brazil btw)

[@Ganara426]

Damn man

[@CrueltyIsBack]

De qual estado meu chapa?

[@sekkuar]

@CrueltyIsBack sp

[@sekkuar]

@@CrueltyIsBack sp

[@wiel5908]

tive um amigo que trabalhava em cassino, mesma coisa, pagam a policia pra n encher, o meu amigo ganhava até bem pra um trabalho por fora, e disse ter visto uns famosos por lá

[@zencozx-gene8289]

If Sandman in Spiderman is smart enough, he'd be rich selling premium sands, enough to treat his kid and more

[@daizdamien1409]

Sir selling your body is prostitution and it is illegal

[@plebulus]

Isn't that his body?

[@frustationoverloaded5976]

That he can regrow​@@plebulus

[@galacticmango2161]

@@plebulus well he doesn't seem to have a limit to how much sand there is. eg he once became a massive beach in the comics but sometimes is just hulk sized. maybe he found a sand dupe hack

[@plebulus]

@galacticmango2161 very good point, maybe he has to grow, does it hurt when he loses it? If so it'd suck to do lol

[@w.n2425]

Sand Mafia sounds cursed, having anything next to mafia sounds like drug slang

[@luxraider5384]

in my country we have a mafia around selling plastic bags, since it's illegal, and you'll hear on the news things like that: "the police just cracked down on a underground plastic bag factory" So yeah, mafia can work around anything.

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

It sounds like a gang based in a desert, not a gang that sells sand illegally.

[@Dac_DT_MKD]

Last year in Greece there used to be Donuts Mafia, run by Albanian gangs from N.Macedonia.

[@bc-cu4on]

The og mafia started as a cartel of lemon sellers. Anything with strong demand will attract such attention.

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

@@Dac_DT_MKD WTF, why? Was there a donut shortage somehow?

[@dorianodet8064]

Ok, so let me sum it up : We're running out of : Petrol, gas,rare earth material, arable land, whatever goes into making fertiliser, and now I have to add "sand" to the list of the "soon to come" crisis ? Great

[@SomePotato]

In 1972 the Club of Rome predicted the end of growth to start around now. Recently updated models show we are pretty much on track, just lagging a few years behind. Fun times ahead.

[@notusneo]

Dont forget water

[@beyondborderfilms4352]

Phosphorus goes into fertilizers s

[@beyondborderfilms4352]

And we haven't found ways to replace,find more, or mitigate the effect in scale cheaply enough yet..double great.

[@Homer-OJ-Simpson]

For most of those, we are finding alternatives

[@alessandrozambetti3746]

"I hate sand, it is rough, irritating and Gets everywhere" cit. Unstable teenage space wizard

[@andrewwinslow9315]

In his defense, he was getting clean from a Vicodin Addiction. Whoops, wrong movie starring the Canadian "Actor".

[@joe-zj8js]

But I'm a senator. 😂

[@andrewwinslow9315]

@@joe-zj8js I am the Senate

[@CS-yw4vm]

And then Predatory Jedi kidnapped that kid and brings it to weird cult of men in a temple in a big space city😂

[@DataBattlesZ2087]

Are you guys talking about Jordan Peterson or something else?

[@28add11]

For some info on how we melt sand into microchips, the primary component of microchips is ultra-pure silicon crystals, which are gotten by dipping a seed crystal in and out of molten silicon. Some of that silicon comes from this silica sand, which is further refined.

[@benayers8622]

damn il stop preheating my oven then 😞

[@SNEED_FEED]

🤓🤓🤓

[@Ganara426]

Very cool thanks ❤

[@SubOptimalUsername]

Check out asianometry for more info on chips

[@kilacoda]

Growing up in Uttar Pradesh, I remember frequently seeing reports of sand mafia related incidents in the news (probably because the state is a really big part of the Ganga river drainage basin). Many police/administrative officers have made progress exposing/shutting them down though some have paid for it with their lives :( Never understood what's the big deal about that sand though till now! Good job!

[@Shiva-05]

Hello fellow Up walla, i am also from Up 👋

[@kilacoda]

@Shiva-05 नमस्ते!👋

[@qlip]

Its still going on in Bihar. On a large scale too.

[@sinnaras9120]

​@@qlip fr , or ab inki sarkaro bhakti nahi jagti hai jab ganga ka balu dusre desh me bech rahe hai, which will result in accelerated deterioration of the river .

[@lordvenom4419]

UP isn't famous for rapper ? Lots rapper case are from that state. Right ?

[@cirralisis2518]

Can't even afford a house and now we gotta buy sand too 😭

[@emilianohermosilla3996]

😅😅

[@andrewwinslow9315]

But what If I don't like sand because it's coarse, rough, irritating and it gets everywhere?

[@mizan-mq3me]

Just dig hole like Steve dude

[@jarskii11]

Tell me when you got sand for free?

[@joegartland]

can't afford a house cus of the sand market bru

[@tjadangus]

I lived in Morocco 4 years. Once I went to out to the country with my friend to visit his uncle's farm. His backyard was basically a big sandy cliff. We were walking towards the cliffs and noticed trails of dust being kicked up by horses. When we got to the hill we found an overturned cart and bags full of sand. I asked my friend what was going on and he said "sand bandits." We encountered a policeman up there and he asked us if we saw where they went. We said "no."

[@plebulus]

Sandits...

[@Dwigt_Rortugal]

Old Ben Kenobi taught us to watch out for those sand people.

[@marylebone9357]

If you don't mind me abusing my civil engineering degree to bring up a teeny tiny techical hang up, the stony crystals you spoke about do not stem from silicates in aggregates like sand. Portlandite Hydration creates these stony spindly star-like crystals from silicates in cement (tri and di calcium silicates) alongside crystallisation of other cement based compounds (aluminiates and ferrites). These compounds come from heating clays and limestone into clinker and grinding it into cement. All of these compounds come from the cement not the sand aggregate. Aggregate provides mechanical strength to concrete mixes and reduces the heating effect of cement hydration by spacing out the cement paste which prevents overheating and the formation of cracks. Fine aggregates like sand are important because they fill gaps between larger aggregates which reduces the total space that can fill with cement mixture.

[@marylebone9357]

These spindly star like crystals grow into each other and lock all of the aggregate in place but the way crystallisation was spoken about in the video implies that portlandite crystalisation is a reaction between sand, cement and water. While it actually happens without sand. Sand is super important in concrete but is not a chemical component of the formation of these crystals. It is a mechanical additive to the concrete mixture not a chemical additive to cement.

[@emilebichelberger7590]

That was very informative, thank you friend.

[@showershiter]

I ain't reading all of that.

[@sonwig5186]

Is that the same thing as quicklime?

[@marylebone9357]

@@sonwig5186 chemically speaking, lime mortars and cement mixtures are very different and form different compounds when they harden. Industrially they are similar in the sense that they both are made from heating limestone, they both form hardened gels when water is added, and they both do so exothermically so they release heat in the process. But chemically speaking cement works by turning calcium silicates into calcium silicate hydrate while lime based mortars work by turning calcium oxide into calcium hydroxide.

[@Fake_Dozer]

The sand must flow!

[@andrewwinslow9315]

I don't like it

[@ham_the_spam4423]

maybe Arrakis' Spice harvesting operation is just a coverup for mining its sand lol

[@Thegoldenaerobar2]

"Wake up Mr. President, Hoser posted."

[@HistoryHelmets]

Bot 🤖

[@Thegoldenaerobar2]

Im not a botttt

[@FroggyPrince]

Npc ass comment tho

[@SaidBKD95]

Thats what they programmed you to say

[@Melonist]

So-called 'free thinkers' when someone doesn't make a comment that they've never seen before:

[@seishay]

as indonesian, if the island counting is conducted now the 17000 island indonesia have probably dont exist anymore.

[@seishay]

its now maybe 15000ish and still counting- DOWN

[@nggatauYT]

and don`t forget that our government just legalized sand mining 🤦

[@thisisalie-s1s]

Man you guys really have it tough with the politicians

[@firmanimad]

@@nggatauYT "it's good for the enviroment" said the dumbass minister

[@savasava9923]

@@nggatauYT when there's no sand anymore its become illegal horay

[@artekchanel9358]

I am almost over my bachelors degree in international relations. But this man manages to surprise me again and again. Keep on like this!

[@Betweoxwitegan]

I would not have the balls to study international relations, the job prospects are well... Prospects I suppose. What do you plan on doing?

[@artekchanel9358]

@Betweoxwitegan I will tell you even more! I am such a crazy man that I'm doing this in Russia, where each word spoken in university makes me one step closer to a criminal case :)))) And, moreover, my course is focused on the Middle East (crazy place indeed). Usually we either stay unemployed or become teachers of English :( And, in addition, the expected salary is the best part, it is around 300$ or even less!

[@artekchanel9358]

​@@Betweoxwitegan I will tell you even more! I am such a crazy man that I'm doing this in Russia, where each word spoken in university makes me one step closer to a criminal case :)))) And, moreover, my course is focused on the Middle East (crazy place indeed) Usually we either stay unemployed or become teachers of English :( And, in addition, the expected salary is the best part, it is around 300$ or even less!

[@Betweoxwitegan]

@@artekchanel9358 You're a nutter bro 😂

[@skootzkadoodles]

​@@Betweoxwitegan i did it and i work in sustainability. Pays ok but i like what i do. I paired it with a science degree. Gonna upskill with a few data related things tho to round it out more.

[@evan]

I visited Gibraltar last year and they’re doing a lot of land reclamation since they have so little space… that said Spain is NOT PLEASED

[@aber_kadaber1034]

thats what they get for being spanish

[@prelovedbargainsandantique2245]

Gibraltar is Spanish.

[@aber_kadaber1034]

@ Ceuta and Melilla are Moroccan.

[@lordswagman1419]

@@prelovedbargainsandantique2245i thought it was owned by the UK?

[@Liminal_Simulacre]

Another solution may be to use far less concrete by bringing back stone building techniques mixed with modern technology. Sure it's more expensive today, but if done at scale, it could become more cost effective en efficient overall (as well as more durable, recyclable and modular).

[@lithic2331]

Hmm, sounds like the corporations would make less money that way though. And doing things to help people in the future? Why don't the future people just solve the issue.

[@marcpegueroles6769]

​@@lithic2331unless you are up fifty, you are the future people

[@mizan-mq3me]

No ,it will be ended like sand , over mining, destroying ecosystems and more And stone was hard to shape and hard to get ,unlike sand

[@mizan-mq3me]

Or just dig hole and covered with leaf and wood

[@Manuel_Conrad_delfin]

Bg😊😅0

[@kdigitalproductionservices6581]

We haven't even figured out how to recover sand from buildings destroyed by natural disasters or war and so when any kind of rebuilding inevitably begins, we will need even more of it making matters worse

[@Potato-rb8ms]

Not to mention that buildings made of concrete don't last very long anyway, especially in places like China where they make cheap concrete for better profit. We don't make them like the Romans

[@secondbeamship]

So climate change increases sand demand. And making sand increases climate change (CO2) production.

[@m.n152]

​@@Potato-rb8ms are you an expert on China construction industry? How do you know their concrete is worse? Do you know that the largest dam in the world built there?

[@joseppiee8797]

You can just crush it again tho?

[@Moonstone-Redux]

​@@joseppiee8797you're right: construction and demolition debris is one of the most commonly recycled materials these days in countries that actually do so. These are used in new buildings.

[@mizan-mq3me]

We got Oil mafia , crypto, lithium, diamonds,gold ,wood ,house. And now SAND MAFIA, what's next? Stone Mafia?

[@andrewwinslow9315]

@@mizan-mq3me we have real Tusken Raiders. If only there was someone who could fix this situation, and not just the men, but the women, and the children too.

[@benayers8622]

Lightbulb... They can last forever but that's not profitable so planned obsolescence was introduced... Even newer LEDs can last 10x as long and 5xmore efficient, dubai has even paid them extra to bend the rules and make a batch of good ones jusg for use there! Bet u wasnt expecting that one 🤣sorry

[@DesertsOfHighfleet]

air mafia

[@OfekKazes1]

Hold up you got a point there

[@JustAnotherNamelessGuy]

Don’t mess with the WATER mafia.

[@BS-vx8dg]

I have been reading articles and watching videos on the growing shortage of sand for about ten years now, so I consider myself at least a bit more informed than most people on the subject. And yet, I still managed to learn quite a bit from this video, despite the dumb title and the very casual narration style. I've never heard of you, hoser, but I'm impressed.

[@MartijnterHaar]

Serendipity: my Dutch newspaper published an article on exactly the same topic a few days ago (although this video is much more in depth.) The Netherlands will run out of the quality North Sea sand it uses for building around 2050 at the current rate.

[@niismo.]

Thanks h0ser, I almost thought I would waste my first day in years, without any existential crisis.

[@Orionstar528]

30.000 tons of concrete per km of highway is insane. Really puts in perspective how degrading for the environment it is to have a car-centric society

[@grandtheftavocado]

If my country is going to import violent third worlders who ride public transport, I'll just take my car

[@jimmyc7269]

Did you miss the part about how most of the concrete is used for urban developments, the opposite of a car-centric society?

[@cameron.t]

@@jimmyc7269 No, no. In his utopian vision we live in skyscraper made of glass. As we all know, glass is a plentiful resource. You can mine it or pick it off of trees

[@CarbonatedGravy]

“China uses more concrete than the rest of the world combined” “Sand flows in one general direction, from shoreline to cities” You didn’t even watch the video did you? Really puts in perspective how people want their perspective to be

[@ham_the_spam4423]

I do wonder how much concrete and thus sand railroads use compared to highways

[@everythingpony]

You can infact use dessert sand, but it costs more to make it useable

[@ekothesilent9456]

Which makes it cost more than just buying already usable sand, thus making it redundant, thus “you can’t use desert sand” it explains this in the video 😭

[@benayers8622]

It costs to remove rock and soil dust maybe?

[@sarahfisher5719]

No, you have to put gravel in it. Irregularity in size is what makes cement work. I’m wondering where Namibia is in all of this, as they have desert sand along the Skeleton coast. That could become a world sand source.

[@bastiangierahn2313]

I'm not entirely sure, but the sand grains need to be angular as well for the cement to work properly, and not just a mixture of different sized clasts The sand grains in an aeolian environment (desserts or other places with significant accumulations of wind-borne material) are to well rounded. This is because when two grains collide in the air, they do so with greater impact than they would experience under water. Air has a density much lower than that of water, and therefore the grains aren't cushioned when they collide in the air, as they would've been had they collided under water. Because the collision are relatively high energy, the grains may be damaged in the process. The most vulnerable parts of the grains are the angular edges, which tend to be ripped off during a collision. The grains in an aeolian environment are therefore what you call well rounded, since all their edges have been chipped off. Without the edges, I imagine that the sand grains won't be able to stay in place in the spaces they are supposed to fill between the larger grains in a mixture of cement But I'm no expert in cement, and I'm also only in my first semester of geology, so I'm not 100% confident in what I'm saying here

[@merzto]

@@bastiangierahn2313no that’s a myth. With round sand one needs to use less water in concrete but it works fine.

[@Oscar92839]

“Hey bro what you got for sale” “Sand”

[@secondbeamship]

That’s some good sand bro

[@FiredAndIced]

Fun fact: Singapore doesn’t advertise this, but Southeast Asian countries banned export of sand because of this island republic. Myanmar, Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia had at various points in time before today, banned sand exports. Singapore being the kid with the most money in the region, tends to use small contractors to subcontract to other grey suppliers who in turn get their sand from intermediaries that functioned basically as the local cartel from those named countries. Recently Jokowi had lifted the ban of sand exports, so Singapore can now buy (exfilter) sand from Indonesia again.

[@Mandai-f2d]

the gall of these poor third world SEAmonkeys, to undermine Singapore's growth?!?!?! They will regret it. Singapore is influential enough to meddle in their politics. best they not find themselves to be tributary states to Singapore. we are the King of Southeast Asia!!!! 🇸🇬🇸🇬🇸🇬🇸🇬🇸🇬🇸🇬🇸🇬🇸🇬💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

[@Nixdb]

Number of likes on this comment really shows how many people read comments before finishing the video.

[@Teutathis]

You can see the sand deposit on the ride from Changi airport.

[@TheAnnoyingBoss]

I didnt think they had much sand and thats why they had to do that

[@Rotuma1260]

@@Nixdb Yup. It's covered well, starting at 13:50.

[@levis503]

Wow, I would have never thought of sand as being so valuable. Great information.

[@mnaeseth24]

As a kid I remember going to a beach in Guatemala named “playa dorada” meaning golden beach. Over the years greedy miners have almost dried out the beach leaving just a rocky surface very sad tourism completely disappear

[@AskTorin]

That sucks!!!

[@krakerjax2027]

That town in North Carolina is the reason that FEMA did not give them relief after the hurricane. The land the residents own is too valuable for them to pass up. They want to open a mine to mass manufacture the crucibles so we can make microchips on us soil. The residents would never sell so it was easier to let them die so they can take the land

[@sharrpshooter1]

Thats literally not how that works, they wouldn't kill of people like that when they can legally Eminent domain their house. Get out of here with your dumb conspiracy theories

[@Decisive000]

I know a certain Jedi knight who would find this quite irritating, he might even hate it.

[@popsicalstickgamer123]

Lols who is it? I have 2 in my mind

[@andrewwinslow9315]

Did this certain Jedi Not reach the rank of Master?

[@popsicalstickgamer123]

@@andrewwinslow9315 I think it’s anikan skywalks or Luke

[@lancetheking7524]

Well to be fair, it's coarse, rough, and it gets everywhere

[@andrewwinslow9315]

@@popsicalstickgamer123 it's Anakin who doesn't like sand. Luke doesn't share his opinion.

[@MakerBees333]

… you missed the most profitable, Human trafficking, doesn’t get used up the first time like drugs or sand. And because the vast extent of how people are sold and used worldwide is unknown but easily eclipses all these illicit trades combined.

[@jondoe5937]

Why does the victim not getting 'used up' matter? There is a huge surplus of illegal drug trade for meth and cocaine. It does not have a scarcity problem.

[@MakerBees333]

@ if you can sell something repeatedly you make more profit than having to get and source another person to make another sale. Or they can work another shift for free in a factory etc but it explains a lot of WHY that market is mind-bendingly huge.

[@andrewwinslow9315]

Sand is coarse, rough, irritating, and it gets everywhere

[@silvesta5027]

Probably because the size of the human trafficking industry varies from 100-250 billion, which is smaller than the other 3 illicit industries mentioned in the video

[@Lil-normie-X]

There are less humans than yotta tons of sand

[@memestar22]

Hoser watching your channel grow to the hundreds of thousands feels so nice 1 million soon man Proud of You

[@jdrmanmusiqking]

If somebody figures out a way to reclaim sand from abandoned/destroyed buildings, they would be FILTHY STINKING RICH

[@instrumental]

It gets turned into gravel

[@tabbytabster]

That "China is adding a new Singapore" is so much funnier when you consider that a lot of non-asians think Singapore IS a part of China

[@404willum]

I don’t know anyone who thinks that

[@legend-rx9ik]

@@404willumThe American government

[@reubennelson4086]

Ok but the jury asking the tiktok ceo about his association with the CCP is extremely valid if you know anything about its history.

[@ThevralLee]

⁠​⁠@@reubennelson4086 if you mean tiktok/douyin’s connection with ByteDance, yes. But the CEO definitely still thought Singapore was in China considering he asked if he had a Chinese passport and if he ever been a member of CCP even though Singaporean citizens above 22 years old can’t have dual citizenship lmfao

[@harrynelson9203]

Only the american government thinks that 👍🏻🇬🇧

[@funkey6737]

IRL Tusken Raiders before GTA 6

[@andrewwinslow9315]

"I don't like Sand. It's Coarse, Rough, Irritating, and it gets everywhere" Hoser's Compatriot

[@OdinAllfather123]

Title: World's dumbest black market trade Content: Here's why it's actually the smartest black market trade

[@freeman4755]

3:34 Very off topic, but I love how the people that own the Breaking Bad house hate the fact that they own the house but still won't sell it to someone who does. They literally re-did the roof to make sure pizza's would slide off of it because people kept throwing them on it

[@rocoe9019]

They shouldn't have to sell it just because fanboys are a pathetic bunch of losers! But seeing as fanboys are pathetic they would be better selling it! Personally I would renovate it so it looked nothing like the original facade so pathetic fanboy losers have nothing to be pathetic about!

[@cameronwallman4722]

hoser is giving me an existential crisis over sand

[@danielzak4405]

I live in Cambodia, and it is extremely depressing how badly sand digging is affecting the country. Officially, it is illegal but if you go to the river you can watch ships full of sand go past you one after another. Other dredge right in front of the most populated part of the city, in view of everyone. There is no attempt to stop it or even hide it, even as some streets have collapsed into the river because of the sand dug out underneath them.

[@gooseguy9148]

OH MY GOSH IT'S HOSER HOSER I AM LIKE A BIG FAN

[@joshp4582]

Oh look, it's yet another reason why England was never going to let Scotland gain independence in 2014 2:04

[@duck4834]

cry more

[@Hoosier765]

Sea level rise denied. We're stealing all the sand

[@Terszel]

3:33 Stelvio Cipriani - Mary's Theme (1969) for anyone wondering

[@michaelthayer5351]

Because I needed another rapidly depleting natural resource to add to the list of why the future fills me with anxiety. Take my subscription.

[@userMB1]

_"I hate sand. It's rough, course and it gets everywhere"._

[@andrewwinslow9315]

@@userMB1 not like here. Here, everything is soft and smooth.

[@mikeinkalaoa]

The numbers in this are just astonishing. Can’t believe how interesting a video about the sand trade is.

[@christiankneupper7011]

I want Anakin Skywalker in charge of the anti sand trafficking agency

[@blackoutlol2857]

So you’re telling me what Walter white REALLY should’ve done out in the desert was just start diggin?!

[@solitivity]

3:21 "...even boats have been made of concrete." Fucking *WHAT?* 😭

[@MTTT1234]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_ship

[@luisaguilar4286]

The beached remains of the SS Palo Alto is featured at the timestamp you provided.

[@rorymac7813]

Love the use of Mary’s theme. The laughing woman is a fantastic film

[@sandman6353]

Guys this is a diversion. The real reason theyre mining sand is to craft TNT

[@AskTorin]

You've gotten really good at this. Pacing, wording, vfx. Smooth as the smoothest sand, baby.

[@crashdavis4123]

actually, very informative, thank you!

[@KneeJerk]

That was great. The yay at the end made me subscribe faster than Saigon is sinking...

[@Loststack-d2j]

Australia sand exportation, although it's relatively small around 4MT compared to Iron ore of 893MT, for caparison Australian iron ore lands in China at around $16 a tonne, and sand would be chaper as it requires less processing. All sand mining in Australia happens off rivers, as there are huge plains of ancient deposit. Around the south west WA the sand is from rivers in the jurassic.

[@aloftoft8403]

These are the videos we need 🙏

[@andreyachimescu9253]

This happens a lot in my area, in Romania, close to a river. The authorities tried to stop them once but they couldn't

[@WilliamAshleyOnline]

great video. Yes it seems concrete continues to be an issue not only for its C02 emissions but also for its desetructuion of natural draininage systems globally. I am curious though why hydraulic cements can't be used recalling roman concrete hardened as it aged and it hardened under the ocean. Curely the answer would be to find a way to get rid of sea salts like conversion of the sea salts into sodium / and chlorine. I am guessing there are technologies that do that. But I have also heard of newer building materials, even carbon itself. It really comes down to cost though but there are other technologies that don't depend on concrete. Its just costings "This can be done by mixing the sand with water and then separating the saltwater mixture from the sand using a device such as a sieve or sedimentation tank. The water can then be evaporated or distilled to remove the salt, leaving behind the clean sand." Concrete is a VERY dated technology. There are modern alternatives to old portland its like over 100 years old technology now. The issue is really that people are tied up in artificial costs rather than the social impacts of industry. Currency driven decision making is really contradictory to common sense but the capitalist system puts $$$s before humans. This is mjuch the same as non regulated exploitation of natural resources. Some people benefit at the cost of the public wellbeing. Where it creates devestation in peoples lives and roll over property damage and loss of life through flooding or loss of water supply that is crime. Sadly people want to breed and continue to increase the planets population beyond its local carrying capacities.

[@ShaktiChaturvedi]

I knew this was a big mafia. In India it sure is, but seems its a global thing. Great vid, sharing this with friends and family.

[@adamkelly5458]

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[@hisownfool1]

Another fun fact about sand and concrete: Pouring and curing concrete accounts for an estimated 8 percent of CO2 emissions worldwide.

[@tealkerberus748]

If you look at what it would cost to build all those concrete structures from steel, you'd call concrete cheap. And there aren't enough trees in the world to replace concrete with timber. Per unit, concrete is actually pretty efficient as a building material. The 8% is because we're using so much of the stuff. Also because we keep building short-term structures out of concrete even though we know this stuff can last thousands of years if we design it right.

[@yaszer69]

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[@Youtubeisadummy]

Tf2 lore does'nt sound so insane anymore.

[@scribeslendy595]

Did a septic install on a sand mine in West Texas earlier this year Apparently, most of our fracking sand was coming from Wisconsin/South Dakota via rail, and its only in the past few years that sand mining has started domestically within the state

[@rossmurray6849]

I read about this in the international version of the NY Times, I think in 2007 or 08. A business in the UAE applied to the Saudi government for a permit to export some sand out of Saudi Arabia. The Saudi government denied the application! The reason was that it was a special type of sand the business in the UAE wanted to import: the sand had particularly angular grains making it suitable for bunkers on golf courses. The angular grains make it less likely for a ball to become buried in the sand if landing in a bunker from a great height.

[@Yapperinos]

That vaguely reminds me of a different story. A business in Arizona asked Illinois or Wisconsin for permission to build a pipeline all the way to Lake Michigan to use their water. The type of business? Some fucking retirement home. This is amid already decreasing water levels

[@gerannightshadow5688]

That “Yay!” at the end. 😂

[@vivalaleta]

We're running out of sand so we have to replace using concrete for every fucking thing.

[@cloudunknown]

Why not use concrete for highways, and cobblestone for streets? That would be much more sustainable

[@vivalaleta]

@cloudunknown Simply because....WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF SAND.

[@ham_the_spam4423]

@@cloudunknown cobblestone is really rough to walk on, still, alternatives should be sought

[@cloudunknown]

@@ham_the_spam4423 idk grass then

[@ham_the_spam4423]

@@cloudunknown dirt gets muddy and grass dies from being walked over often. I'd suggest clay brick roads, they're smooth like concrete and thus nice to walk on.

[@alexburke1899]

There’s gold in a lot of sand deposits too, it’s just rarely worth processing it at current prices, but if you had some black sand from beaches in Alaska or Chile it would probably have some decent fine gold and rare earth minerals in it. If rare earth supply chains get stressed or as technology improves we’ll probably see more processing of sand for gold and minerals which will possibly exacerbate the problems covered in the video.

[@Ryfael]

18:57 That ending 😂..... 😭

[@batchelerjr]

This is the best and funniest Yankee presentation of what might change my life. I'm no aggregate specialist but I do know a lot of it with a degree in soil science and plants. However the most fun was building golf courses. But because I wasn't aware enough of the younger age to get in the same business

[@Veilure]

🖕🤓 4:12 Desert sand is actually totally fine for concrete, as it requires less water than other sands which strengthens the mix overall. Transportation cost has a much higher impact on where people get sand - not many people are building mega cities in the desert, but if they did, desert sand would certainly be used. Practical Engineering did a great video about this myth - check out “Are we running out of sand?”

[@JoseLeybaDiaz]

Nah, hoser is right bro. I remember my history teacher talking about this too

[@Veilure]

@@JoseLeybaDiaz Your history teacher fell for the common myth! Happens to the best of us -- including me until I learned better.

[@timothytumusiime2903]

Real Engineering or Practical Engineering??

[@Veilure]

@ Practical, whoops

[@Betweoxwitegan]

So as far as I understand dessert sand has smoother grains making it harder for it to interlock and form strong bonds, it also has more trace elements in it which make it less suitable for construction, you can filter these impurities out but it costs more So whilst desert sand can be just as good as beach sand it costs a lot more to process and transport it.

[@theegwana2103]

Rough grain sand is needed for concrete can’t use any sand for structural purposes Silica is also extracted from thermal springs here in nz

[@Sb129]

You ever play Minecraft you know that sand is precious, Lol~

[@EvanInHell]

3:53 Thats the hospital i was born in :0

[@AlineInGreen]

Gru be like, WE ARE GOING TO STEAL... THE BEACH!

[@SomePotato]

Yeah, no to the "it's because people move to cities" argument. Resource use and infrastructure need per person are much lower in cities.

[@AskTorin]

I think (I don't know) that this depends on the region you live in. In Europe, this is true. In SS Africa, I'd be very surprised if this was the case outside of a few very advanced economies.

[@SomePotato]

@AskTorin I'm sure that's true as well. But even in this case, the root cause for more resource use isn't the movement towards cities.

[@anondimwit]

@@SomePotato hey a person with Environmental Resource Management Degree here, the movement towards city is a huge reason why the increase in concrete usage

[@cyberfub1]

The background music is fire on this one!

[@Ludraman_]

I thought the sand mafia was a mafia in the desert

[@dandundun]

Ladies and gentlemen, this is a Team Fortress lore video.

[@sourpickles6308]

Hoserrr, great video, very informative. I think way more people should see this kind of stuff man. There's a butt But I think you gotta structure the video with desire to watch almost til the end, like keep a little secret you hide until the end that will bring up audience retention or something. I know it's a creative and difficult obstacle, building storylines while also being accurate and informative. But I think it got a little boring now matter how interesting the knowledge was. For reference, for about a year I've watched the channel and pretty much never clicked off a video of yours; always pulling it up walking to the break room or preparing a nice meal to sit and view the art you make, but this one is like old people talking, it's enjoyable to a point. But during this vid, I clicked off around maybe 10 ish mins and came back days later and almost clicked off again, hence the reason for sending this message. Definitely don't lean into perfection, I don't wanna see my hoser burn out. Do what you think is best, the true fans will always click when they are ready to be enlightened and laugh. Keep doing your thing man, I don't know another channel that's this good at 'edutainment'.❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😇😇 (I should get better audience retention with my comments😔)

[@anemoiajunkie]

been waiting for hoser to talk about sand dredging for awhile now

[@RaynerAng754]

10:32 calm down hoser..

[@corpusdeligti]

Anakin presenting a PowerPoint about why he doesn't like sand to Padmé be like:

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[@claymorexl]

Comrade Shcherbina: I need 5000 tons of sand Sand Mafia: *Heavy Breathing *

[@Outwitterr]

Wherever there is a building boom... Minors will appear... Even if they're not officially counted as a minor...

[@africa-first]

If you come from Ukambani-Kenya you know that this is a multi million business in Kenya 🇰🇪

[@chr0n0s17]

gotta love how every existential problem ends up going back to the solution of just having less people lmao

[@BangBangBang.]

A guy was on the news the other day loading trucks on a Saturday for a trucking company. They busted the guy buying the loads of dirt too because the state law said he knowingly knew it was way below market value and suspicious. Employee at the loading site saw the odd loading on the weekend and reported it.

[@FullLengthInterstates]

8:10 We don't want to hear it, but real estate bubbles can be really good for cities. Big skyscrapers become viable projects, sophisticated infrastructure is built, and modern megacities pop up in areas that would otherwise never have the motivation to build anything higher than a 3 story walk up. Whenever a governing body makes a decision to rip the band aid and let the bubble pop, they are always trading long term growth for short term relief. Similar dynamics exist for other industries. We are training company managers to either scale up supply quickly or not at all, because if they wait too long, the nation's managers would step in and end demand.

[@edwinhuang9244]

Bubble bursts tend to be more harmful than the growth the bubble can generate. We have quite a few recent case studies showing that. And bubble burst are very difficult to stop, if not impossible. There's a reason why economists don't recommend you get into a bubble.

[@abdalhadifitouri131]

I saw a video from an engineer who stated that man made sand is better for concrete, and that the primary cost of concrete sand is transporting it, not harvesting it. For that reason, he stated that man made sand is typically preferable to natural sand as it can be manufactured near the areas where it will be used.

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