Notices by 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social), page 45

"The D in David"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2kPSAYS2wQ

Highly inappropriate but quite funny.

The difference between Anders Breivik and Robert Bower is that, although Breivik claimed to be a member of the Knights Templar group of latter-day Christian crusaders (no evidence of such a group existing was ever found), he didn't hate the Jews. He saw the Zionists as a crucial ally in the great battle against the Muslims. In other words, he was pro-Israel. Being American and hating the Jews seems like such an odd thing, since America has seemingly always been welcoming of them.

Looks like Robert Bower, the Pittsburg synagogue shooter, was critical of Trump, saying that “Trump is a globalist, not a nationalist,” and “There is no #MAGA as long as there is a [Jewish] infestation.”

He reminds me very much of Anders Behring Breivik (the Norwegian terrorist and right wing conspiracy theorist), who had initially joined the Progress Party (populist right wing political party) but left it because it wasn't right wing enough for him.

The "keep it as a hobby" answer is what they'll give you if you go to the government employment agency and try to explain your problem to them, and I already know that this arrangement doesn't make me happy. My personality is too obsessive for that to work.

Still can't shake the feeling that society is missing a designated slot for an entire category of people that I belong to.

They tell you to keep your passion as a hobby, but that's like marrying someone for practical reasons and having a affair on the side. Everyone knows that such arrangements don't work out on the long term.

There's a slot for people who do what I do, *if* you're good at sales and networking, and that's the problem. I'm a generalist, but not to that extent.

Oh man, I wish I had an inheritance or a benefactor, because all I want is to create cool things until I die.

Does anyone know where I can learn metalworking in Oslo? I want to learn welding, machining, CNC and other stuff commonly used in industry.

I found them, but there aren't exactly many of them for sale on AliExpress. Also, no pinouts or technical drawings. I suspect this is the sort of part that hobbyists don't buy very often. I wonder if the store will give me a datasheet if I ask them nicely.

OMG, I found them, but they don't call them "3.5mm" or "jack" on Ali Express for some fucked up reason...

Can anyone give me a part name/number for this type of N-in-one 3.5 mm jack? I can't find them on eBay or AliExpress, which is weird, because all motherboards are manufactured in China these days, right?

@greenjon I think this is the case in several developing countries. It was like that in when I lived in the Philippines. In Norway, many drugs are on a "blue prescription", meaning that the government pays most of the cost, which is necessary because pharma companies subsidise their cheap drugs in poorer countries by charging the richer countries more. I have sometimes paid several hundreds of dollars for a few pill bottles.

TypeScript is basically a safety blanket for JS developers. It tries to offer type safety but offers none at all for data from external sources, which is where it matters the most.

In any case, I think some ability to legally try out medications that would normally require a prescription would be useful. The challenge is, as always, that you mustn't let idiots do it. Since idiot detectors aren't a thing, we limit this ability to doctors... some of whom are also idiots, by the way.

Most doctors don't even seem to use drug registries. I certainly don't see them pulling up the Norwegian Felleskatalogen website very often. Sometimes they'll pull out a paper version of it, but that's also rare. For younger doctors, this is probably fine, since their knowledge from medical school is reasonably up to date, but old doctors probably ought to check it regularly to stay up to date with the most recent recommendations.

Another reason for wanting the ability to prescribe medications is that doctors and psychiatrists routinely *try out* certain medications on patients just to see if they'll help. If a doctor is comfortable with that, an educated person with some basic medical knowledge should be able to manage it too, especially with the help of a drug register that lists dosages, groups who shouldn't take a medication, medications that shouldn't be mixed, etc.

Another good reason for wanting the ability to prescribe medications is that the government tells us to stock up on rations and supplies. I'd like to be able to stock up on stuff I might not need now, but might need in a war or disaster scenario when doctors are going to be in high demand but difficult to track down. Strong pain medication is probably a very good thing to have if you come across injured people and can't help them in any other way.

There are times when I wish I had the ability to prescribe medications for myself. For example, I'd like to be able to get tramadol from a 24-hour pharmacy if I get a terrible toothache at 2 AM that paracetamol is powerless against. (I can't take ibuprofen anymore for medical reasons.) I used tramadol for weeks when I had a herniated disk in my back some time ago, and it did not result in addiction, despite high dosages, so I know that one's safe.

My only issue with this project is that it has taken months to develop, and I'm most certainly not going to be turning any sort of profit on it, if the hours that went into it are added up. The concept is simple, but the implementation is not. I'm not making a simple board that sits naked on some rubber pads. I'm basically designing a shrink-wrapped sort of product that wouldn't stand out as particularly amateurish in an electronics store.

It would be the kind of thing where, if a hardware hacker took it apart, it would require a bit of effort to reverse engineer it because nets are going onto other boards via connectors and such, and disassembly is no longer trivial because everything is stacked, sandwiched and interconnected.