briefer intro to extreme unicycling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkppaV-gQXU

Fake news that walruses don't live further south than Alaska! I saw a bunch without tusks in Florida.

laowhy86, who made the underlying video, lists his sources in his YouTube description as:

* https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/health-china-bgi-dna/
* https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2019/08/its-high-time-germany-fund-and-fix-its-military/159149/
* https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Military-Review/Directors-Select-Articles/Nanatechnology/
* https://nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/scientific_risk_assessment_genetic_weapon_systems06_cover.pdf

I've not checked the video's claims against his sources, but didn't hear anything about bioweapons or the PRC/CCP's interest in them that seemed surprising.

The video did strike me as partisan: I have no doubt that the USG is also working on weaponizing precision medicine. While I don't like partisan presentations, I recognize that may be acceptable to keep a topic tractable (thus, "Chinese genetic bioweapons" v "all genetic bioweapons").

I think this is a very important topic, so would like to see the _ideas_ discussed - not just our political differences exposed.

Can anyone expressing concerns about the original video indicate which _ideas_ they think are incorrect or overstated? (I'm not interested in the partisan aspect of the video: I'm aware of that already.)

I'm surprised that it seems to have as long as it goes for the fluid to ignite.

Can anyone check the accuracy of the autocaption at c. 1:50 min? If accurate, not cool.

nice, but also somewhat painful to see them using manual labour: how much better could they do, using more modern techniques to make the same soap?

for more background, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor

I would have liked to hear how efficient this is.