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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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Yes and no. Punishing your kid for some dumb but innocent action has the potential to make them too cautious. Additionally, they might damage the toaster because they have no experience on how to properly open and clean it and that would make things much worse. That's especially true if your kid might be neuro-divergent - e.g. kids with ADHD tend to be clumsy but cannot help it, they might be 30% behind in motor coor…

I certainly agree that modulating the level of supervision of the cleaning to the kid's abilities is warranted, but I still think they should be involved to the end. I don't see it as a punishment to make the kid stick around and help with the cleanup to the extent they can; rather, it's an attempt to practice conscientious habits (if you make a mess, you stick around to see it cleaned up even if you need help to do…

No, no I wouldn't disagree they should be involved, I maybe misunderstood and believed you'd make the kid do the whole cleaning as a lesson.

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

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With a dislike counter at least that could signal something is amiss with these videos, but now you just see thumbs up everythings cool guys and the comments can be moderated by the uploader to remove anything negative. Still don't understand why they removed it.

Money. Lots of dislikes imply lots of ad views.

I've worked in advertising on the creative/client facing side, no one cares if their ad gets disliked. Engagement is engagement.

Don't think that's the reason.

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

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Do you have some links to this? A few cursory quacks turned up nothing. My family loves those channels but it would be interesting to see how the structures hold up and how/if they are ever used.

Here's one, although I don't like it because I feel like it's overdramatizing a bit. With construction quality this low, my hinge is that the jungle will claim back those spots fairly quickly, but the (drainless!) water pits will remain moscito breeders for a considerable amount of time (and wildlife trap hazards for some time). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCyLWhPnq1M In response to your question: they hold up ex…

Yeah I wondered if this was some kind of “traditional” construction with modern style. But water-based masonry seems like a suspect choice in a rainy climate.

On the other hand I was wrong once back in the 90s.

Thanks for the link.

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

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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…

This morning I was making toast in my cheapo toaster and was reminded of the Dualit a customer brought in last year for me to repair. The date code was 1997 and it sounded like it was the first heating element replacement it had needed in that time. I thought the one side/two side heating element switch was particularly clever. Honestly I was just impressed that the parts were available. Most consumer-grade toasters…

Conventional toasters are so cheap it makes no sense to try to repair them. Plus they aren't built to be repaired at all. When my last one died I tried taking it apart to see what went wrong (element burned through as it turned out) and see if I could fix it, but the whole mechanism was basically as single piece put together with spot welds and rivets, and with part markup being at least 2x or 3x initial cost there would be no way repairing it would make sense. I could gripe about it being cheap junk designed to fail, but it lasted over 20 years and browned thousands of slices of bread.

If some well built toaster that won't fail costs more than 4 times what the cheap toaster does, then it probably doesn't make sense to buy it. Especially if you can't guarantee that the well built toaster will actually last a lifetime.

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

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I like Big Clive (and Electroboom) because they know how to be safe, but do the stupid thing anyways (safely) to show how bad the ideas are.

I can't watch Electroboom because he always gives himself shocks in every video. Don't care that they are small or it's set up, I can't stand watching it, makes me ill. Seems to be interesting stories he's telling otherwise though, so it's a shame.

Some of the shocks are completely fake. For example, in the classic electric guitar video [0], if you advance frame-by-frame and capture the frame containing the flash [1], it is obviously Photoshopped in. Poorly, I might add.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwIvUbOhcKE

[1] https://imgur.com/KBOX11K

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

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post #437

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> 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.

Really? I kinda like the '[discipline X professional] reacts to [relevant movie clips]'-type videos (like 'Navy pilot reacts to new Top Gun movie'). You find them so terrible?

That's simply an appeal to authority, right in the title. I'm an programming professional and most react videos I could make about the art would be better served in another format. Not to mention it's tailored to clickbait.

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

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Here's one, although I don't like it because I feel like it's overdramatizing a bit. With construction quality this low, my hinge is that the jungle will claim back those spots fairly quickly, but the (drainless!) water pits will remain moscito breeders for a considerable amount of time (and wildlife trap hazards for some time). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCyLWhPnq1M In response to your question: they hold up ex…

Yeah I wondered if this was some kind of “traditional” construction with modern style. But water-based masonry seems like a suspect choice in a rainy climate. On the other hand I was wrong once back in the 90s. Thanks for the link.

Fyi, here's a probably legit traditional jungle building channel (that clearly inspired the ripoffs, down to the no talking, shirtless + shorts):

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA

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

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post #437

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> 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.

Really? I kinda like the '[discipline X professional] reacts to [relevant movie clips]'-type videos (like 'Navy pilot reacts to new Top Gun movie'). You find them so terrible?

> I kinda like the '[discipline X professional] reacts to [relevant movie clips]'-type videos (like 'Navy pilot reacts to new Top Gun movie').

Those are exactly the ones I'm talking about

> You find them so terrible?

Yes. All noise, no signal!

If you want to watch videos about Navy pilots doing their jobs, go right ahead. Why watch Navy pilots "reacting" to a Hollywood movie?

The average Navy pilot must know as about as much about filmmaking and acting as Tom Cruise knows about actually flying a fast jet (as opposed to being filmed sitting in the back seat and not being allowed to touch anything[0]) ?

[0] https://fortune.com/2022/05/26/top-gun-maverick-studio-paid-...

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

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Salad is pretty dangerous and I don't see anyone putting disclaimers on cooking shows.

I can't tell if you are being sarcastic, or if you actually live in a country with poor safety standards on produce and it is a risk for food-borne diseases to eat uncooked food.

I'm clowning on safety culture. It is not very dangerous to disassemble a microwave. Many people have died from eating salad, because fresh greens arrive liberally coated in goat shit. Also, you do not need to cook pork to 160°, that is an abomination.

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

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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…

A glaring example of how the advertising business model incentives lead to the worst outcomes for everyone. People working at TheSoul Publishing literally waste their lives producing straight up harmful content and the consumers either get brainrot from watching it or risk serious injury and death from replicating it.

What incentives would you put into place?
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