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YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips

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Re: YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips

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Post by tempest_ »

blntechie wrote: post #108
civilized wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Waffle iron. It's a horizontal toaster and applies enough pressure to cook faster. Leaves cool marks. Just don't burn yourself! (Technically applies to the toaster as well though)

Horizontal sandwich toasters are the popular kind of toasters around my parts. It can make from plain toasts to fully stuffed sandwiches and are not that hard to clean either. I guess Americans will consider them more as a grill though.

In North America you would be more likely to encounter a panini press.

I have seen that fancy horizontal mitsubishi toaster on youtube but never one in store.

Re: YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips

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Post by Grustaf »

cupofpython wrote: post #98
rtkwe wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a super wasteful solution to this. The toaster is perfectly salvageable.

So drop it off at a salvage location. OP was complaining about salvaging it, like it was necessary. If you want to do is as a fun personal project, go for it, but it is wasteful of human time to salvage something that cheap rather than add it to a scrap pile for a professional salvage company to process in bulk. As a bonus, the kid learns that if you arent careful with your items they may break and be gone. you dont…

Seems better to teach the children to value their possessions.

Re: YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips

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Post by hattmall »

toxik wrote: post #11
exar0815 wrote: post #8

When I was young and stupid, I did this. Suddenly felt some tingling sensation in my fingers, threw the leads away and jumped back. Most certainly saved my life and drilled in my head how dangerous it is. Still get a sinking feeling in my stomach whenever I am at some switching station below the 380KV leads, remembering that day. Especially after knowing people who got into 120KV, and what happened to them... Electri…

And remember that RCDs or GFCIs are not the panacea they may seem like at first. All it takes is an unreferenced secondary and voila, ground faults are invisible.

Can you explain what you mean by unreferenced secondary in this context?

Re: YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips

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Post by Zigurd »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #35

Imperfect moderation is inevitable at the massive scale of social media companies. YouTube receives an enormous quantity of video every day and it’s clearly impossible to have humans review all of it. If we humans did review every single minute of video, the subjective element of moderation would still lead to headlines like this where someone could identify instances of inconsistencies. Given that she re-uploaded th…

That's true. However, bad moderation is most harmful when clickbait-for-profit gets profitable enough to have their boiler room crew mass-report responsible people debunking the clickbait.

This is the bad stuff. It's also the stuff that can be caught with enough anti-spam effort. The example in this article fits that model: A toxic creator farm getting away with a coordinated mass-reporting campaign against an individual. It's just bad anti-spam and YouTube deserves the criticism.

Re: YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips

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Post by ericmcer »

pornel wrote: post #10

There is a massive YouTube and Instagram industry of outright faking craft and cooking tips. They're not just bad or a stretch, they're intentionally fabricated, made at scale by TheSoul Publishing with 550 employees. That's because making cool things looking surprisingly easy goes viral way better than actual reality-grounded instructions, and for the adtech giants nothing matters except the number of clicks. Before…

I see these constantly on instagram, and usually comment something skeptical, but it is drowned out beneath 500 comments of just heart and fire emoji’s. Maybe these recipes existing as just theoretical things you could do are enough for most people.

Re: YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips

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Post by rexreed »

RektBoy wrote: post #119
samizdis wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At the risk of sounding like a salesperson, I'd like to mention a feature of basic/classic Dualit toasters - namely, the optional and elegantly simple sandwich cage. [1] The cage is designed to take two slices of bread with a filling (in my usage, always heavy on the cheese). You put this into the toaster slot, which is vertical, and safely make cheese/whatever toasties. So, your 12-year-old had the right idea, but n…

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"Dualit Limited, Registered office County Oak Way, Crawley, West Sussex RH11 7ST. Registered in England".

Re: YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips

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Post by jeshin »

raldi wrote: post #109
throwaway9870 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It probably should have been more than 3 hours given that you likely mean "voltage" not "amps". Before everyone jumps on me, "it is the amps that kill you, not voltage", I understand electricity quite well and in this context, saying something like "handling high amps in a university" is almost certainly not what was taught.

Rather than admonishing everyone for wondering the obvious question, why not just explain your reasoning?

What they're getting at is that while it is the amount of amperage that goes through your heart that determines your likelihood of dying, you need a certain voltage to overcome the resistance of your skin to achieve such an amperage. Anything under around 50v is generally safe to touch, and often high amperage applications are under that limit.

So the reason high voltage is more dangerous, if it has sufficient amperage backing it up, is that the higher the voltage, the better its ability to pierce your skins resistance and flow through your body to begin with.

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Post by jimnotgym »

fendy3002 wrote: post #25
exar0815 wrote: post #8

When I was young and stupid, I did this. Suddenly felt some tingling sensation in my fingers, threw the leads away and jumped back. Most certainly saved my life and drilled in my head how dangerous it is. Still get a sinking feeling in my stomach whenever I am at some switching station below the 380KV leads, remembering that day. Especially after knowing people who got into 120KV, and what happened to them... Electri…

Such as a gun is always loaded, my take is electricity is always dangerous. Even professionals can get into accidents, moreover us uneducated plebs.

Every electrician I have met, has had some kind of shock in their career. Mostly it is a small induced current issue, which can easily kill you if it knocks you off a ladder....

Re: YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips

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Post by frogpelt »

samizdis wrote: post #56
logifail wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Before people realize that they can't really make a 3-layer cake in a toaster Our 12-year-old recently tried to make himself "cheese on toast" by putting both cheese and uncooked bread into the (almost brand new, upright) toaster. Aaargh! Cue the house full of smoke, a stern reprimand, then a couple of hours of my time wasted on removing every last piece of burnt greasy cheese from inside the toaster, followed by s…

At the risk of sounding like a salesperson, I'd like to mention a feature of basic/classic Dualit toasters - namely, the optional and elegantly simple sandwich cage. [1] The cage is designed to take two slices of bread with a filling (in my usage, always heavy on the cheese). You put this into the toaster slot, which is vertical, and safely make cheese/whatever toasties. So, your 12-year-old had the right idea, but n…

Ha. I knew the influencers would eventually make their way to Hacker News.

But seriously won't the cheese drip out the bottom?

Re: YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips

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Post by ghostoftiber »

mrtksn wrote: post #60

We really need to finish with this content removal business and simply hold people accountable for the content. In other words, YouTube or any "utility level" platform should not have the right to remove content by its own and just request information to protect itself. For example, if someone is posting about something harmful the videos should remain and the person who does that should face the consequences. It's n…

> simply hold people accountable for the content.

Yes but by what level of accountability? If I make a video about changing a clutch, and then some kid drops a gearbox on his face and kills himself, who is responsible? Is Demolition Ranch responsponsible for mass shootings? Is the History channel actually racist because it rebroadcasts Hitler all the time?

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