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Self-experimentation: A scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab
  • Cutting off your arm isn't necessarily illegal (didn't look into that specifically, and it may well be), but from my quick googling is, legally required to be reported by most if not all medical professionals. That report will almost certainly fall well within the rules of what will put you into a 72 hour involuntarily psychiatric hold.

    So... Cutting your own arm off, regardless of legality, is likely to lead 72 or more hours of imprisonment.

    I don't know where exactly the line between cutting your own arm off for fun vs. to study it vs. self treating with homemade cancer drugs falls on the danger to self and others scale. My line would likely be a lot closer to 'do what you want to do' than most judges, but I do think cutting off your arm for most any reason is a reasonable bar for some outside inquiry, from a mental health standpoint.

    Just noodling here as well.

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    Thousands of shipping containers have been lost at sea. What happens when they burst open?
  • Ironically the hazardous (to people) goods may well be better for the ocean than most of the rest. Ethanol should disperse well enough and not cause much issue. Fireworks are mostly cardboard. Still a horror show though.

  • The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
  • Likely answer —we're being nerds and reading too much into it.

    No—
    —3 lbs of thrust isn't going to be happening, speaking from experience with model planes.
    —3lbs of the air inside is compressed and weighs more is even farther from possible.

    Likely—
    —It only has the battery, fan, whatever when it's running, and they don't count that when it's uninflated for some reason. Like how cars have dry weight, curb weight, and gvrw.
    —somewhere in the spec sheets, someone made a mistake, two people worked on things and rounded differently, some other clerical/communicative error.

  • Pennsylvania’s Fracking Wastewater Contains a ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Critical Clean Energy Mineral Lithium
  • There's a couple ways to read that, one being 'at dosages which have been shown not to cause clinically significant side effects'. The other interpretations are more concerning, of course.

    I vaguely remember reading that lithium in low doses has huge benefits with minimal to no side effects, but it's generally not taken due to stigmatization from the downsides of people being forced to take way too much for mental illnesses in the past.

  • Mammals
  • It's not actually especially difficult. People who produce more than their kid needs will sell or give away the extra to people who are struggling to produce enough. Also... Some hardcore body builders buy it as well.

  • Need game recommendations
  • I definitely recommend Baba Is You and FEZ as well. Similarly to FEZ there is a mobile game Monument Valley (and Monument Valley 2) which I adore. It's spendier in $/time, but I find is highly worth it.

    Bastion isn't a 2D game, but I'd like to recommend it while I'm at it, it's play is perhaps close enough, and it's stunning.

  • A terminal window periodically flashes on my screen every few minutes. It goes away in one second. I have no idea what it is, nor how to stop it.
  • I'm confused by the it in your last sentence.

    Using a screen recorder (there's a built in one in the Xbox games app depending on version of Microsoft, or if not, people always seem to use FRAPS) to capture whatever is in the window to get more information could help.

    Someone else will likely be along shortly with more helpful info.

  • Rats have an imagination, new research finds
  • On a mostly unrelated science note:
    Whatever compression happens to that thumbnail, on my phone at least, does some wild things to the rats face. Interesting how the different fur size/texture/focus interferes with the the compression.

  • Here’s a rare look at Google’s most lucrative search queries
  • A related article linked inside that one that lists the most expensive keywords to buy ad space for is absolutely shocking.
    Imagine paying Google over $1000 because someone visits your website.
    Kinda makes me want to Google some maritime accident lawyers and who knows, MLMs and essential oil charlatans and sow a little mayhem. Although is siphoning money from scummy MLMs to scummy Google even a net bonus?

    Article:
    https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/most-expensive-keywords-google

  • WIP dryer repair part 2: swapping out the heating coil.
  • Oh, regarding the burned spot, if the coil failed because it picked up lint, that burned on, insulated/heated up more from the lint catching fire/whatever, bending the coil outwards could actually make it more likely to catch lint/whatever. No idea with your dryer if that chance is better or worse than the possible benefits of spreading, just a thought.

  • When you have other tools, but are too used to the hammer
  • Second tangentially off topic reply by me, but hey, it's chat.

    Something I encounter more often is rather the opposite. When people come to you with problems, (especially technology related, but it fits all types) it's often "what's the solution to this weird specific thing?" and that weird specific thing turns out to be a result of them being part way through solving a problem their own weird way, because they neglected to consider the hammer situation.

    In your case I'd be like if you asked me for skateboard grip tape to attach to the cap because it's too hard to pull off.

    A good technique is to do what you did, recognize something might be wrong here, and try re-understand the original problem, feel good about recognizing it, not foolish for misunderstanding at first.

  • When you have other tools, but are too used to the hammer
  • When I was <5, I was a firefighter for Halloween. Apparently my mom wanted me to stop bothering her and she told me to go fight a fire. Apparently plastic axes can break windows, at least thin ones on a greenhouse. That is what firefighters do though...

  • Pizza, people
  • If by any chance you have tmobile, they have a coupon for free crazy bread with purchase of pizza every week, and occasionally $3 pizza's coupons.

    And if you're a family all on tmobile... Whooohooooo!

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