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Andreas condemns Israel

00:14

Found one selling for 24 000 NOK. I think that one's a bit overpriced...

Cheapest I found right now where around 250 NOK. But that was really, really minimal.

Journeyman Geek

@Tinkeringbell I'd also buy some solder braid and flux

Starship

00:45

@ElementsInSpace Why do you think I'm trolling...

Journeyman Geek

@AndreascondemnsIsrael and everything you need to get started

If you're desoldering something, touch of flux, heat up the solder, apply braid which sucks it up, snip the braid, and repeat. I did an entire keyboard like that :D

Elements In Space

@Starship Maybe you’re angry at the company, maybe you’re just bored — I don’t know, I’m not a psychologist.

Andreas condemns Israel

@JourneymanGeek I'd have to accept a high shipping cost and no consumer protection, though.

Starship

@ElementsInSpace Well I am angry at the company and bored right now, but no I'm not trolling

Journeyman Geek

ah so

free shipping over 15 for me, and the full kit is 22

Starship

00:56

@cocomac and @VLAZ are members are charcoal maybe they know?

Anyways it decided to work again now...

Journeyman Geek

I wonder if charcoal got a little heavily loaded by the spam waves

Andreas condemns Israel

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, well, things are a bit different for us. ;)

Journeyman Geek

But if you want a recommendation

This is literally what I dig up to do soldering

Andreas condemns Israel

She does.

Journeyman Geek

One might even call it my weapon of choice

Fatboy Slim ft. Bootsy Collins - Weapon Of Choice [Official 4k Video]

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cocomac

01:00

@Starship What am I supposed to know? If you're asking about metasmoke, it works for me.

Andreas condemns Israel

On the 17th of December, 2024, approximately 02:00, Andreas watched something weird.

Spevacus

@Starship It might've rebooted when you were trying to access it. I forget when exactly it reboots, but it does so at least once daily.

Andreas condemns Israel

@JourneymanGeek He's more acrobatic at his age than I am in my 20s. This is disappointing. Where do I learn to fly?

Journeyman Geek

01:15

@AndreascondemnsIsrael In this country, we obey the laws of gravity

Starship

@JourneymanGeek Who cares about those stupid laws anyway?

Journeyman Geek

Its all fun and games till you're floating around a tin can far above the world

Also, the video is trippy as heck

Andreas condemns Israel

@JourneymanGeek Hallo, Spaceboy!

Journeyman Geek

@AndreascondemnsIsrael Mankind reached space not on the shoulders of giants, but in the footsteps of a dog that never came home >_>

Andreas condemns Israel

@JourneymanGeek If you'd like to, we can turn back time and undo the moon landing.

Journeyman Geek

01:30

@AndreascondemnsIsrael eh, or brought Laika home

Andreas condemns Israel

@JourneymanGeek That is not an option.

Journeyman Geek

That's what they want you to think

Andreas condemns Israel

We can send a rescue team today, however.

Journeyman Geek

Would they have left Gagarin in space?

(covered up his dead? Sure. But he would have come home if he hadn't died)

And he chose

Laika sure didn't

Andreas condemns Israel

Dogs cannot consent?

Journeyman Geek

01:33

And this makes it ok how?

Andreas condemns Israel

Not saying it does.

But it cannot be undone.

Journeyman Geek

It can be remembered

We should send less lamented things to their potential deaths in the cold of space.

Like politicians, and insurance company CEOs

Andreas condemns Israel

@JourneymanGeek World leaders-

@JourneymanGeek Great minds think alike.

Journeyman Geek

(I don't actually endorse that, there's too much junk in space as is)

Andreas condemns Israel

Space missile payload.

Journeyman Geek

01:37

Make science, not war

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Journeyman Geek

and "the practical study of the after effects of thermonuclear war" is not good science if there's no one left to publish or peer review it

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Andreas condemns Israel

But there will be people left to publish studies on the global population's perception of genocides.

You can even conduct studies on how to get away with genocides!

It'll be useful training material for future cabinets.

Starship

@AndreascondemnsIsrael Dogs can somewhat consent

@AndreascondemnsIsrael If a dog has to be dragging to its training you can probably safely assume it doesn't want to go and if it is very obviously eager to go you can probably assume it does

@AndreascondemnsIsrael Obviously the dog can't fully understand but still

Andreas condemns Israel

01:43

A dog is incapable of understanding what is going to happen after it jumps into the rocket.

Starship

@JourneymanGeek What's wrong with CEOs?

@AndreascondemnsIsrael Well yes I guess

@AndreascondemnsIsrael But what do you suggest they do then?

Andreas condemns Israel

@Starship Not torture animals to death for seemingly no purpose?

Starship

@AndreascondemnsIsrael It wasn't murder...

@AndreascondemnsIsrael They weren't trying to kill the dog

Andreas condemns Israel

Sure they were. They expected her to die.

Starship

@AndreascondemnsIsrael Oh never knew that

@AndreascondemnsIsrael But still would you rather have a human die or a dog

@AndreascondemnsIsrael The purpose was avoid human death.

Andreas condemns Israel

01:52

I'm kinda thinking neither.

Starship

If killing Laika saved Gargarian I'd say that's worth it

@AndreascondemnsIsrael Well they needed to test somehow

Andreas condemns Israel

Quoting Wikipedia:

> As the technology to re-enter the atmosphere had not yet been developed, Laika's survival was never expected. She died of hyperthermia hours into the flight, on the craft's fourth orbit.

Could've solved those two first.

Starship

@AndreascondemnsIsrael Okay fine that would make sense

@AndreascondemnsIsrael But I do think it would have been reasonable after developing technology to re-enter the atmosphere to test using a dog though

Andreas condemns Israel

Hyperthermia, though?

So, I wonder when something concrete and useful will come out of that MSE post.

(Spoiler: I'm pretty sure it was another pointless discussion.)

Journeyman Geek

@Starship there's a really bad, topical joke behind that I'd better not explain

@AndreascondemnsIsrael I cannot begin to explain how messed up that is

cocomac

02:02

@Starship To be completely clear, I am not advocating for violence to address the health insurance issue in the USA, but see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Brian_Thompson

Journeyman Geek

@AndreascondemnsIsrael We'll need to see. I've a few suspicions, but I don't trust the company to have the attention span to follow up

@cocomac Neither am I, but in context I think its grimly funny

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Andreas condemns Israel

@JourneymanGeek Hence you should've just started your post with "Yeah, but you don't have the attention span to do anything about what I'm about to write, so I'm not sure why I'm wasting this time". ;) :P

Journeyman Geek

@AndreascondemnsIsrael I like writing meta posts \o/

@SmokeDetector too slow

Besides, I sort of addressed the attention span thing

@Starship apparently there was a way to euthanise the dog, but they wanted data, and let the poor thing die alone in the cold of space

Andreas condemns Israel

mhm

Journeyman Geek

02:08

@Starship They could have sent Stalin.

Would have saved a lot of people, and he could have trailblazed the way for communism. IN SPACE!

Andreas condemns Israel

I don't really think Iosef Stalin lived up to the ideals of communism.

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02:28

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Starship

@JourneymanGeek Realistically....

@AndreascondemnsIsrael Well he certainly lived up to what communism actually is...

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