I’m not much for the idea of gene editing, but hey it would be pretty neat and beneficial if they could manage to fix our broken genetics so humans can generate their own vitamin C…

Ah, the drowning lol meme…

I do still have a lot of these games, ROMs, programs, music and videos from back then actually, as I was heavily involved in my area salvaging flooded hardware and data right after Katrina.

Within like 2 weeks, using WD-40 and a pressure washer for the circuit boards, I estimate that I was able to get about 80% of the electronics that came my way working again.

Mechanical parts like hard drives might as well be considered a loss in the long run, but if addressed quickly, cleaning the controller board separately often allowed data recovery and backup.

I don’t have it all anymore, but I do still have a lot…

I’d go back to my old Hurricane Katrina flood salvage computer setup, specifically the evolved upgraded version by about 2008. I literally had 18 different cables plugged into it, with multiple devices connected throughout the entire trailer we lived in.

• 2 monitors
• A printer and a scanner
• Stereo speakers
• TV tuner with 2 televisions, a VCR, and an FM radio antenna
• Game controller
• Ethernet
• Keyboard and mouse, of course
• External card reader

And probably a couple other things I forgot.

Internally…

• 5 hard drives

• 3 disc burners

• Floppy drive

• 2.53GHz Pentium 4 CPU

• 1 whopping gigabyte of RAM, 333MHz I think

And you better bet your ass I had lots of music, movies, games and emulators too, even had multiplayer sessions across different rooms.

Man, lots of weed was smoked back then…

So you’re okay with eating toddlers, gotcha 👍

I’m not sure exactly, but I’d guess about 2x magnification, and text is totally legible and easier to read.

The focal point distance for sunburning/fire is about 7cm.

The lens part itself is 6cm x 5cm.

Yes I did some measuring…

I almost skipped past this post, but something cheap I carry in my wallet every day is a credit card sized Fresnel magnifying lens, same size and thickness of a credit card. Suprisingly durable, and can even start fires in good sunlight.

Analog television. Sure it may have been a bit grainy and staticy when the signal was weak, but the video wouldn’t get all blocky and outright freeze up, you could keep watching your show and not miss anything.

Good thing for sure!

If it were me and the lady behind me turned it down like that, I’d probably just say something like…

“Well I was blessed today, so I figured I’d pass a bit along. If you’re sure you don’t need it yourself, then perhaps go buy a meal for a homeless person or buy a kid a toy for Christmas. Pass it forward.”

No evil here, you did a good thing 👍

NO HABLA JIBBERISH!

Haha, have a good day mah dude 👍

I don’t know any other way to say that, perhaps read over my quote a few times and think about it a bit… 🤷

💩🍍

Wait wait…

You folks don’t have a kicker? Well how do you start the baby then?

When it comes to word salads, I tent to tell everyone the same thing…

“I have the right to wipe my ass with a pinecone, but that doesn’t mean its the right thing to do.”

So if the woman has to yeet the baby to execute the birthing process, why is there no goal post?

Ok, I’m still trying to understand here…

According to a number of other comments, execute basically means to complete a process. So, isn’t the pancake the executed final product? Isn’t the baby?.. 🤔

English is so fucking confusing 🤷

So to execute a program is to start as execute a human is to…? 🤔

Interesting, thanks for the info and link.

So the next time I meet a woman that recently gave birth, I can confidently congratulate her for executing a new human!

So, if there was any actual consistency to the English language, giving birth would mean the same as executing a new person…?

All awesome advice, but this is a pocket size kit that’s practically full already. I think I might be able to fit a 2 Alka-Seltzer packet in there, but that would be a pretty tight fit…

Edit: I already have some medical bandage tape in there, probably only about 2 feet or so though, re-rolled section to be flat to fit in the box…

Meh, I ain’t stressing it too much, I’m mostly using select supplies from our home first aid kit, 140 items. All too many are just average size bandages, Equate brand, almost like they just simply dumped a 50 box of them in there to pump up the item count…

Just using what I got ya know, not like I’m in a hurry to have to even test different bandages…