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> when was the last time someone tried to re-invent something as basic as a knife?

A year ago? This one is designed for woodworkers.

https://www.bourbonmoth.com/shop/p/the-bourbon-blade-origina...

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I thought I recognised the name - Bourbon Moth is the guy who faked a video of oily rags self-igniting to make a video to advertise fireproof bins for woodworking.

This one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gqi2cNCKQY

Debunking: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtU3bYyCtA

It's interesting that AvE devoted multiple videos to debunking oily rags but believes 9/11 was an inside job.

Expertise & ignorance alike don’t carry across domains.

Writer Jack London's mansion,The Wolf House, that he was building up in Sonoma county was destroyed by a fire that investigators later attributed to the spontaneous combustion of oil-soaked rags in the dining room...

> but believes 9/11 was an inside job

Uh, really? I haven't been following him for a while, so I don't absolutely know if you're wrong, but I absolutely can see him joking about it and maybe even taking it too far.

Never heard of either of these Youtubers but I've seen tons of cans of stains and such with warnings about potential self-ignition if left on rags in the wrong conditions...

Yes. Learn from my mistake--I almost burned down my apartment by leaving linseed oil rags unattended.

A pocket chisel is very much not the same thing as a kitchen knife.

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