<story><title>YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips</title><url>https://boingboing.net/2022/07/01/youtube-removes-criticism-of-dangerous-fractal-wood-burning-instructions-but-leaves-up-the-lethal-tips.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foobarian</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s disappointing how most of the articles and videos criticizing the dangerous content don&amp;#x27;t explain why exactly something is dangerous.  They just scream &amp;quot;omg high voltage&amp;quot; &amp;quot;one mistake you&amp;#x27;re dead&amp;quot; and so on.  I honestly think they are worse than the source; it reminds me of the medieval experimenters and alchemists being oppressed by the conformist public.</text></item><item><author>colejohnson66</author><text>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.</text></item><item><author>dazzawazza</author><text>Big Clive has a good video on why this is dangerous and how to make it more safe. Note: not safe safe, just more safe.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=FBeSKL9zVro&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=FBeSKL9zVro&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>krisoft</author><text>&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s disappointing how most of the articles and videos criticizing the dangerous content don&amp;#x27;t explain why exactly something is dangerous.&lt;p&gt;Which videos are you talking about in particular?&lt;p&gt;Both the Ann Reardon and the Big Clive video explains exactly what makes this experiment more dangerous than others people do.&lt;p&gt;The Big Clive one in particular goes into interesting details about how a ground fault circuit interrupter works, and why it doesn&amp;#x27;t protect you in this case.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; They just scream &amp;quot;omg high voltage&amp;quot; &amp;quot;one mistake you&amp;#x27;re dead&amp;quot; and so on.&lt;p&gt;The ones I have seen don&amp;#x27;t scream. They calmly explain that the voltage generated in this setup is much much higher than the voltage the average experimenter has experience with.&lt;p&gt;About the &amp;quot;one mistake you&amp;#x27;re dead&amp;quot;. That is the crux of the matter. People should be aware of how thin the margins are, and how few guard rails protect them in any particular situation.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; it reminds me of the medieval experimenters and alchemists being oppressed by the conformist public.&lt;p&gt;Who is oppressing anybody here?</text></comment>
<story><title>YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips</title><url>https://boingboing.net/2022/07/01/youtube-removes-criticism-of-dangerous-fractal-wood-burning-instructions-but-leaves-up-the-lethal-tips.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foobarian</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s disappointing how most of the articles and videos criticizing the dangerous content don&amp;#x27;t explain why exactly something is dangerous.  They just scream &amp;quot;omg high voltage&amp;quot; &amp;quot;one mistake you&amp;#x27;re dead&amp;quot; and so on.  I honestly think they are worse than the source; it reminds me of the medieval experimenters and alchemists being oppressed by the conformist public.</text></item><item><author>colejohnson66</author><text>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.</text></item><item><author>dazzawazza</author><text>Big Clive has a good video on why this is dangerous and how to make it more safe. Note: not safe safe, just more safe.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=FBeSKL9zVro&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=FBeSKL9zVro&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bentcorner</author><text>If you read the article, Reardon&amp;#x27;s video goes over exactly why fractal wood burning is dangerous.  She doesn&amp;#x27;t go into extreme detail but I think it&amp;#x27;s enough for the layman to understand (i.e., you can get electrocuted easily, and a gfci won&amp;#x27;t save you).  bigclivedotcom&amp;#x27;s video above also goes into why fractal wood burning is dangerous.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;I honestly think they are worse than the source; it reminds me of the medieval experimenters and alchemists being oppressed by the conformist public.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I can kind of see where you&amp;#x27;re coming from here but in this case I think the right thing has happened.</text></comment>