covid, iFixit Medical Repair Guide
Intro & How to Contribute:
https://www.ifixit.com/News/36354/help-us-crowdsource-repair-information-for-hospital-equipment
Actual Repair Guide:
https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Medical_Device
covid, MIT Ventilator Project
open source ventilators!!!
covid, MASK FORCE
and their list of hospitals in need:
https://airtable.com/shr949Bh4uOzKz9bm/tblNY9FQRpS9x7UyC?blocks=hide
[via BoingBoing]
Rats. The external thermometer for the weather station has just gone flooey. No readout, except for a failed battery sign, but batteries are fine and a replacement set tried.
I don't think it's worth replacing, as the rest of the weather station is old as well.
May have to look for an alternative, that is supported by weewx and cheap. Any suggestions welcome.
"WARNING! It's another stupid recursion meme"
submitted by TobyWasBestSpiderMan
https://reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/vqv4v1/warning_its_another_stupid_recursion_meme/
Covid
Tacit confirmation that someone is out & about going for walks with active covid infection (making some assumptions, but pretty confident without a mask)...
So at least I'm not crazy for never not wearing a mask, even outside, and actively avoiding being near even solitary maskless people...
I would say that our collective social responsibility is in the toilet now since it's no longer cool for governments or news to acknowledge covid (or any other emerging plague (election year much?))... but when was social responsibility ever not in the toilet in the recent past...?
Before touching a powerful talisman, you must purify yourself, by touching a large piece of metal, so that any evil spirits present in your body do not destroy the talisman.
Many wizards possess special armbands that establish a direct connection to Mother Earth, to protect their bodies from such evil spirits.
Electrons? Oh, you mean metal spirits?
We use metal strings to trap the metal spirits, and talismans of black sandstone engraved with tiny runic circles to harness their power.
Sometimes we replace the strings with totems made of layered metal, but those don't last very long on their own. We can also use light spirits to command the metal spirits at distance, but the metal spirits are the ones that do most of the work.
Farm Data Relay System: Combine LoRa and 2.4 Ghz Networks Without WiFi Routers And Cloud Dependence https://hackaday.com/2022/07/02/farm-data-relay-system/
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1543369043629031430
Climate debate
"Do we want to be good people, or do we want to adapt?" False argument about moralizing
In this context "be good people" means do something to cut emissions, and "adapt" means do nothing and wait for Elon Musk to solve the problem for us (and raise GDP...)
Climate debate
Yes, "insurance pricing" will save us all.
...oddly the argument about insurance prices going up due to global warming was the only thing that my 'conservative' friend took seriously...
Climate debate, sexual assault reference?
Same guy keeps saying "we are not passive victims" in regard to climate change, which after a very cursory search mostly turns up references to sexual assault research... but I didn't look much further.
Either way it sounds like about as much bullshit as the "rational actor" assumption in economics.
<cat boat meme> I should study economics </cat boat meme>
Climate debate
Hate-listening to the NPR debate on "Can humans adapt to climate change".
I have a lot of questions on the usefulness of these style of "debates"... or like in high school having to take the devil's advocate position in half the debates and legitimize a viewpoint you truly believe is wrong...
Also I'm now convinced that the entire field of economics is completely detached from reality; I think the air might be too thin up in those ivory towers...
One guy even mentioned "the invisible hand guiding adaptation" and how wonderful the "entrepreneurial motivation" of global warming is.
Sure. Some people will probably adapt. I don't give a flying fuck about GDP though and neither does anyone else in Mad Max or Waterworld...
Common CyberPower UPS models are catching fire - https://forums.redflagdeals.com/some-cyberpower-upses-may-pose-fire-hazard-2516306/
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