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Appreciation post for the YouTube rabbit hole that took me 4 hours to escape
I clicked on a 3-minute video about fixing a vacuum cleaner and ended up watching a guy build a working steam engine from scrap metal. Has anyone else had an algorithm just vanish their whole afternoon like that?
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maxhart17h ago
Oh man, "My Mechanics" is exactly the place that does that. I clicked on a video about restoring a rusty old saw once and next thing I know it's 2 AM and I'm watching a guy carefully rebuild a 100 year old lock with nothing but hand tools. The vacuum cleaner thing got me too but it was actually a video about fixing a broken hair dryer that led me into a whole series about rewinding electric motors by hand. I swear that channel could make watching paint dry interesting because they just show every tiny detail. Now my whole recommended feed is just disassembled appliances and tiny gears.
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