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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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aceazzameen wrote: post #439
conductr wrote: post #321

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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.

The bread dries out in our press also. You can see steam being released before it gets hot enough to smoke. 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 h…

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Post by fredophile »

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…

If people are curious about these, the YouTube channel "How to Cook That" often does videos exposing the fake cooking tips.

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robonerd wrote: post #470
t_mann wrote: post #459

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Tom Cruise is a really bad example, because he actually does have a pilot license since 1994 and is allowed to fly some jets. [0] I'm not looking for advice on how to make a good movie (or how to fly a plane, for that matter), but on some perspective how (un)-realistic those movies are. I think overall that sort of scrutiny does some good in terms of making movies less unrealistic (compare 80's action movies like Ram…

I've seen a few videos recommended to me that are psychologist/therapist reacts . I'm pretty sure psychology and therapy without ever meeting and talking to the subject is generally considered unethical quackery.

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

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Post by conductr »

aceazzameen wrote: post #439
conductr wrote: post #321

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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.

The bread dries out in our press also. You can see steam being released before it gets hot enough to smoke. 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 h…

It's still different though, enough for me to have a preference. Maybe I didn't or can't articulate that difference or you find it a close enough substitute (or outright preference). Moisture content aside, toasting by warm air and radiant heat and toasting by direct contact with hot metal plates creates enough of a difference for me to have a preference. Minor differences in cooking methodologies can make significant changes to mouth feel and other aspects that factor into taste/flavor.

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

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Post by pessimizer »

guggleet wrote: post #118
TrackerFF wrote: post #59

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Seems like their DIY / craft vids have moved from glue guns to angle grinders and (tack) welding lately. Anyone with even the smallest amount experience with either, know that these things are accidents bound to happen.

Dunno, I have used both since I was like 13. Also, we used to weld and do all sorts of things (acetylene torching, lathe, casting, grinding, sawing, milling) mostly unsupervised with very little instruction in middle/high school metal shop. I don't remember any accidents.

Me, too. The class was called Agri-Mechanics, and it covered everything technical that farm boys were expected to do regularly.

Of course it's an unnecessary danger for the children of parents who would consider them failures if they grew up to work with their hands and backs.

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Post by cuteboy19 »

xxs wrote: post #189
api wrote: post #13

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Wait until more DIY EV servicing videos start appearing. If you short something across a decent size EV battery it will be converted into plasma and deposited on your face.

EV is DC, and DC sparks are a thing of beauty as they lack self-extinguishing properties unlike AC sparks.

why is that? I couldn't find any info about this

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Post by pessimizer »

mikestew wrote: post #197
guggleet wrote: post #118

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Dunno, I have used both since I was like 13. Also, we used to weld and do all sorts of things (acetylene torching, lathe, casting, grinding, sawing, milling) mostly unsupervised with very little instruction in middle/high school metal shop. I don't remember any accidents.

Hello, Mr. or Ms. Survivor Bias! I used to cut firewood with my father using a 3 foot buzz saw made over 100 years ago*, and had but only the most token of safety guards (ignore the giant power take-off belt that's just waiting to consume some of your loose clothing, and you with it), yet I still have all limbs, fingers, and toes! And yet I still think it asinine to shrug shoulders and say, "I dunno, nobody I know ev…

> If one cannot see the potential for harm in such scenarios

This is a strawman. Nobody claimed that any activity was perfectly safe.

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Post by drewzero1 »

jandrese wrote: post #444
drewzero1 wrote: post #426

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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 w…

If it cost only 4 times as much I'd probably consider it, but 10+ is just a really hard sell unfortunately. I had to scrap a perfectly good toaster because I couldn't find a replacement for a cracked plastic part that is supposed to make or break contact in a switch and engage the electromagnet. It would still toast fine if you held down the lever, and it pained me to toss it, but I couldn't source or fabricate a safe replacement part.

I'm sure the manufacturer(s) don't want to worry about self-service causing house fires though, and it costs a lot to create, maintain, and distribute a stock of replacement parts for what ultimately is a disposable appliance. I just wish I could find a solid basic consumer/prosumer toaster in the sub-$100 range.

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Post by Grustaf »

cupofpython wrote: post #234
Grustaf wrote: post #152

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Seems better to teach the children to value their possessions.

What better way to teach that than have them understand if they dont respect the way something is supposed to be used, they might break it? Could be fun to sit with them and take apart the toaster and assess it together and see if its worth cleaning or replacing and explaining why. But I wouldnt spend 2+ hours cleaning it by myself and then complaining about it

I’m not American so I will never understand the dusposable-everything mindset.

I will happily spend hours repairing something that costs 15 minutes of my time to buy.

Throwing away salvageable things is just wrong, it’s not an economic question for me.

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Post by robonerd »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #384
chrisjc wrote: post #313

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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?

> I assume the sexual ones are trying to get people onto a paid site. What's driving the animal gore videos?

The latter is sexual for psychos.

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