Ok but something that’s really bothered me about A Quiet Place (besides the writing being god awful).

When she’s giving birth in the bathtub, the lights start flickering. They provide no explanation for why the lights are flickering. It’s legit just a scary movie trope in-action.

He melts down to just his bill which floats next to the ring and mutters “you’re despicable.”

I think that’s a Qualcomm proprietary thing that isn’t supported by standard USB downward facing ports.

It always bugged me how in Man of Steel, Superman has to deal with the moral quandary of breaking the bad guy’s neck at the cost of vaporizing a family.

Like they spent the previous 20 minutes punching each other through buildings. No way that was the first family they killed.

Sorry. Just trying to make a joke a grandmothers’ expense. My grandma had several artifacts that she claimed were ancient and/or hand crafted that were definitely not.

We were 3/4 of the way through mounting her hand painted collectible plates when we found two that were 100% identical.

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Can you find a source that provides any scale for how much over the recommended daily 8-28mg (men vs. women) is required to cause long-term concerns? All I can find online is for acute iron poisoning which is usually when a kid wolfs down a bottle of supplements.

If you’re curious, Wikipedia says iron poisoning happens at around 20-60mg/kg or 1.8-5.4g for a 90kg (200 pound) person. That’s like 3/4 of an M&M’s worth of pure easily digestible iron which is a shitload.

I’ve never heard anyone talk about any negative health impact of cooking with iron (which people have been doing for literally thousands of years), so I’m curious.

Iron is literally a nutrient.

If I know grandmas, I was probably purchased at Kmart in like 1996.

Good idea, but the ribbon connects to the other side of the connector.

Yeah, I figure I’ll provide the option of soldering, but I’d just like there to be some other method as well.

Yeah, the GVDCVG is ground, voltage, data, and clock. My board is going to sit between this ribbon cable and the part that normally connects there.

You do make a good point though. I was hoping for an elegant solution where this ribbon cable was the only connected component, but there’s a large exposed voltage testpoint exposed nearby. It’s 1.5mm wide and 3mm from the board edge. I bet I can find a miniature allegator clip or some other way to connect to that.

The iron would probably triple the cost of the kit. The ewaste being diverted here is a $17 vape pen.

Everyone needs to start somewhere. The goal of this project is for an everyman to repurpose some e-waste. Hoping to maybe inspire a few people to learn more.

The circuit in question draws a decent amount of current (probably like 100mA or so), so I thought it better to short the signal line than try to power it directly.

Image from the funniest part of a movie that I won’t spoil because I was surprised and wish I could watch it again for the first time.

Yeah, but again, try running on a platform of “everything you enjoy will need to be different.”

Someone call Mumen Rider!

Oh sure. I agree with that. Obviously many people have limited options.

I just think think it’s a monumentally bigger ask no matter where the change has to be made (policy or individual choice).

Like our best solution for transportation (in the US at least) is to just keep making larger free ways. Even gas powered buses running on decades old technology could make a significant impact on the climate crisis, but people either don’t want to ride them or cities don’t want to build them.

Any way, I’m just frustrated with the attitude that we’re going to technology our way out of this hole without needing to change or sacrifice anything (like we pulled off with ozone).

When it comes to energy use, there’s such a thing induced demand. If it’s cheaper, people will use it more. Hell, look at how much energy it takes to use AI to write an email.

There’s no induced demand with refrigerants.

Yeah but consumers already have choices when it comes to fossil fuels and they’re sticking with fossil fuels.