<story><title>I converted my microwave into a laser oven [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM9hYzJnao0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avian</author><text>I wonder, how many people will give themselves RF burns or permanent laser damage to their eyesight trying to replicate stuff they see in these click-baity videos?&lt;p&gt;YouTube is full of content that tries to give the impression of a random, edgy, not-quite-knowing-what-they&amp;#x27;re-doing guy just messing around with stuff in their parent&amp;#x27;s garage, woefully ignoring all safety concerns on camera.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure many of their viewers don&amp;#x27;t realize that in reality they are highly skilled, do in fact take care of safety behind the scene and basically run a successful business off videos attacting millions of views.&lt;p&gt;Seems unethical to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>junon</author><text>This isn&amp;#x27;t a clickbaitey video. This is styropyro, one of the most knowledgeable YouTubers when it comes to lasers and the related engineering. He&amp;#x27;s not just some dude who hooks up lasers to a wall outlet. He knows very well what he&amp;#x27;s doing. He always makes a point about proper laser safety.&lt;p&gt;Another one is Photonicinduction, an electrical engineer that plays with insane voltages in his attic basically. I&amp;#x27;d never want to replicate anything he does because I would surely kill myself doing it.&lt;p&gt;That doesn&amp;#x27;t mean we should censor such channels. They&amp;#x27;re insanely educational, insightful, and fun. If some idiot thinks they&amp;#x27;re god and wants to emulate something they&amp;#x27;re clearly not capable of doing safely, that&amp;#x27;s not the fault of all of the rational viewers who know better.</text></comment>
<story><title>I converted my microwave into a laser oven [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM9hYzJnao0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>avian</author><text>I wonder, how many people will give themselves RF burns or permanent laser damage to their eyesight trying to replicate stuff they see in these click-baity videos?&lt;p&gt;YouTube is full of content that tries to give the impression of a random, edgy, not-quite-knowing-what-they&amp;#x27;re-doing guy just messing around with stuff in their parent&amp;#x27;s garage, woefully ignoring all safety concerns on camera.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure many of their viewers don&amp;#x27;t realize that in reality they are highly skilled, do in fact take care of safety behind the scene and basically run a successful business off videos attacting millions of views.&lt;p&gt;Seems unethical to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sandworm101</author><text>If you think these laser vids a bad, don&amp;#x27;t look at the chemistry ones.  A laser might blind you or give you a nasty burn, but it won&amp;#x27;t kill you.  Chemistry will see you, and potentially some of your neighbors, dead on the floor very quickly.&lt;p&gt;And those skydiving wingsuits channels.  That is very dangerous.  And the skiing ones.  And don&amp;#x27;t even talk about all the crazy drifting&amp;#x2F;stunting&amp;#x2F;driving channels.  I once saw a kid on a snowboard break his arm attempting a trick on that he had seen one youtube ... or was that the olympics coverage?  Either way, such stuff is far far too dangerous to be allowed on the internet.</text></comment>