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Aren't lathes extremely dangerous?
Lathes are only seen this way because they can go very big. The instant death accidents happen with the big ones, especially the ones designed to quickly remove lots of material from big metal pieces. Otherwise lathes aren't more dangerous than any other piece of machinery with exposed moving pieces. In particular the ones designed to turn small pieces of wood can't do much harm. Don't leave the chuck key in, wear ey…
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Videos of Biden (speeches, etc) were regularly seeing abysmal like/dislike ratios, esp on official news channels like CNN. Then suddenly YouTube removed dislikes because of "dislike bombs". There was some speculation they were specifically pressured by someone (Biden or the media) to remove dislikes so their ratings would stop being negatively affected. This is really silly because the theory assumes that A) Biden ca…
>Most likely it was because YouTube's own content (such as Rewind) was getting dislike bombed. If Biden or CNN don't care about dislikes, why would YouTube? The most obvious explanation is that some data scientists noticed that removing dislikes tends to increase ad revenue or watch time.
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The "moderation" for Shorts is just spectacular! And I don't mean good. The amount of back-to-back "Hi I'm Elon Musk and I'm something something bitcoin something something..." deepfakes is astounding. There are a handful that are seemingly pixel for pixel identical, yet as much as you report them over and over again, they only seem to shown more and more. Then there are the countless sexually inappropriate ones that…
Okay, so assorted cryptocurrency scams have obvious financial incentives, and I assume the sexual ones are trying to get people onto a paid site. What's driving the animal gore videos? I can't think that there's anything to sell there; is it just people uploading stuff for the shock value?
And who knows what happens when you click on links in the description or follow instructions in the overlays. I swipe away before the gore comes and haven't read any of the descriptions or overlays.
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> and (tack) welding To be fair, Gasless MIG is basically a glue gun for grown-ups.
… where the glue gun has orders of magnitude more power and speed and the “use electrical resistance to create heat” portion of the show necessarily happens OUTSIDE the housing. It’s a cute comparison but a MIG welder is a lot more dangerous than a glue gun.
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…
> 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…
In the dining hall one morning, a teacher sees three kids putting ice cubes into the toaster. The teacher walks up to them. Two of the kids dash away, leaving the third to fend for herself.
Teacher: "What are you doing?"
Student: "Putting ice cubes into the toaster."
Teacher: "Why would you do that?"
Student: "To see what would happen."
Teacher: "Okay. Let's think about this. What happens to ice when it gets hot?"
Student: "It melts?"
Teacher: "Yes, it melts into water. And what happens when you put water into an electronic device like a toaster?"
Student: "...it goes boom?"
Teacher: "So should you put ice into the toaster?"
Student: "No."
Teacher: "Thank you."
This is a camp explicitly for gifted & talented students, by the way. They are exceptionally talented in many ways, but they're still 11 years old.
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In the UK, you can find Dualit stuff in stores that have a kitchen appliance section (John Lewis, say). I've seen them in shops in Germany and the Czech Republic, too. Not sure where you're based, though. Mind you, there is a little shopping trolley icon at the top right corner of the page ... Or the site map has "shop" listed: https://www.dualit.com/products Don't know if that's international or just UK. A basic sea…
While a nice looking toaster, and supposedly good, I could buy 10 cheap toasters, each lasting up to 10 years, for the same price as one of these. It is at this point I realised my toaster oven is fine, for that once a week serving of toast. Now, if they had a 30 yr parts warranty, or some such, at least I'd feel semi-secure..
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Not just fabricated for the views, but reactions too. For each debunking video, some will follow the actual videos to see how bad they are. But the viewer intention doesn't matter - clicks are clicks.
> Not just fabricated for the views, but reactions too I regard videos which include the word "reacts" in the title as having a huge red flag. The signal-to-noise on this junk content is simply appalling.
YouTube's moderation is ridiculous, and it demonstrates the problem Google has in general. They don't like paying actual people to moderate their sites, and rely on automated systems and bots to do everything for them. So, if there's ever an issue (or you have a bunch of scammers mass reporting you because you debunk their 'work'), then YouTube/Google seems to think you're the problem instead of the scumbags. We need…
> We need things to change here. We need Google to moderate their services properly, Human moderation isn’t perfectly consistent, either. It would be extraordinarily expensive to expect YouTube to have humans moderate everything manually. What are people willing to give up in exchange for a human-moderated version of YouTube? Would we be okay if they charged a $3 “moderation fee” on every upload to cover the cost of…
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Same as a panini press. We've never owned a toaster, which seem weird to some. We use our panini press instead. It's a flat model without any grill marks. Easy to clean and makes perfectly even toast.
Tbf the texture and mouth feel is completely different. I prefer toasted as the bread dries out a bit and gets crispy in the process.
One bonus way I like to make it for myself is keep the lid open and only cook one side. This leaves one side moist and other crispy. Downside to toasting one side is it's slower due to no pressure.
Cooking both sides with lid down is quicker, but you have to be careful with the height setting you use. We know how to make it perfectly now, but when we first got it we were making squished cracker-like toast.
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It would never even occur to me to watch a video on finding my AirPods case. Either there is an article or forum post for it, or I need to post a question on a forum, but no way am I sifting through the garbage that is YouTube.
I'm exactly the same as you, but my adolescent children all turn to TickTock or YT when searching for an answer. They can't google for shit, unfortunately. My fault probably, but as I managed to learn all of this on my own, I expected them to do the same.