when they finally crash and burn like RCA, AT&T, Motorola, Intel, and many others

In what world have any of these “crashed and burned”

Sure, but you can do better for $3. Smaller, more powerful, similar power consumption

A lot of opioids are fairly related, Oxycodone and Oxymorphone can be used as precursors to make Nalaxone and vice versa. I recall Four Thieves Vinegar Collective doing a similar trick though I don’t remember what the actual precursor was.

The implications are the variables are conflated and the conclusions are overblown.

It should come as no surprise that acute trauma and injecting a foreign substance would cause a relatively significant immunological response. The issue is that for the “chronic phase”, which is where the novelty of this research lies, the evidence shown is far from difinitive compared to the story being told and what results are shown aren’t overly significant.

Even if you 100% believe the paper the conclusion is that the effect of getting tattooed is, arguably, similar to catching the flu once. However, the paper itself tried to obfuscate that so they have a more impactful result and the marketing/outreach/media site that was linked here doubles down on it trying to sell the story of “tattoos==illness and death”!!!

Oh honey… This is barely below average.

The full paper is here and, as usual, it’s hardly anything and decontextualized in order to get a publishable result.

This one is so bad that it doesn’t use established baselines or do any form of statistical analysis on the results instead opting for their own “baseline” measurements using very small sample sizes. It also plays a smoke and mirrors game where it shows a result for short term immunological response and then uses that to insinuate the ‘slightly reduced but still likely well within the error of the poor control’ long term effects are worth noting.

Other major flaws:

• As others have mentioned, mice are a terrible model for this as their skin is very thin and proper tattooing is near impossible.
• They mention verifying with human cadavers but don’t include any data from those.
• There was no control group, the baseline was an untreated mouse, not one with an acute foot trauma.
• Mice age very quickly, best I can tell the immunological markers weren’t age controlled. 2 months out of a <2 year lifespan is a lot of aging. Again, if there was a proper control to measure against.
• The obsfucation of the raw data into cheesy and unreadable box and whisker plots is hella suspicious.

At best it’s a very poorly communicated and poorly designed experiment but I suspect that’s due to it result hunting.

Depends on when you count, but for the Iraq war specifically that’s about right for the official foreign coalition forces.

However, the Iraq war was just one front of the nearly dozen wars that were being fought as part of the “Global War on Terrorism” which NATO perpetrated, the short list of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, but arguably also including Camaroon, Philippines, Libya, Kashmir, etc.

Sure, of Europe only UK and Poland were officially deployed to Iraq, but they were actively collaborating with the rest of NATO in a much broader conflict and don’t ask about where the mercenaries and security consultants that were used heavily during those conflicts came from.

It’s not a misconception, it’s misdirection.

Also the issue of you need to be a deranged psychopath to get wealthy in the first place.

And it’s not just “overcrowded jails full of pretrial prisoners, the barefoot children carrying buckets for water in Appalachia” but the grad students in LA living out of their cars, or grandpa sleeping on a bus stop, or people in the Rockies surviving off roadkill and forage.

Seattle tent cities/tiny homes make some Favelas look real swanky.

Oh, those other administrations were absolutely intentional. They were just smart enough to ensure plausible deniability and not gloat about it like the current Idiocracy.

Length of shutdown had drastically increased recently.

Yes. That is what this is a graph of, but that’s not particularly interesting and doesn’t make for a good graphic. The interesting bit is the addition of uncorrelated variables to imply a correlation/causation that isn’t supported by the data.

The problem with stats is the prove truth or show complete trash and both look the same if you don’t have experience.

Right, which is why I would hope a “data is beautiful” community would be able to recognize trash when it sees it.

The story that I suspect is trying to be told is that “Republicans cause shutdowns” but that is not what this shows. Using a basic PCC¹ shows that these 2 variables aren’t particularly correlated:

With a standard error of +/- 0.302 the signal is technically outside the noise, but it’s not a strong signal and is indicative that different methodologies will give different results.

In other words the data shown does not support the hypothesis. It’s barely correlated and certainly not to enough of a degree to argue causation.

This might show the assumed premise if it included every year without a shutdown. I’m lazy, but I linked the tools so if somebody else wants to show that they can.

This does, arguably, show that shutdown length increases over time independent of controlling parties.

But, as is, it’s a chart of two uncorrelated variables where the author and audience are assuming causation despite available data.

^1. not ideal, especially with such little data, but I’m lazy.^

To be fair, that is how @ToastedRavioli@midwest.social responded to your comment and I assumed it was the same mispelling.

That’s my bad for not checking, sorry.

Chichong Ping is objectively worse

Judging by the location of the PWR plug and general layout, plus the large tantalum caps next to the inductors I think that’s a bank of DC switching supplies. Signal inductors I would expect to be closer to the size of L25-L29 shown in that photo.

The rest of this is good advice though! It’s CANbus so there should be a set of optocouplers somewhere to protect everything from, an admittedly less significant, type of ESD event. However, I’m not seeing anything I can immediately identify as one. Are there components on the underside as well?

The optocouplers themselves might be okay, the things most likely to be killed are diodes and capacitors. A fixed 8V would make me suspect one of those failed as a short. If you have a thermal cam handy and value your time over potentially damage you can short the signal to ground and use the cam to try and identify what specifically is damaged as those should heat up significantly when directly shorted to ground¹.

^1 use a loose wire, shorting events should be kept as short as possible, increasing the duration after each sweep with the cam. Don’t do this with the power line. If the circuit was undamaged this should be fine for the signal lines, but poor/cheap design + damaged circuit could cause any amount of havoc. Do at your own risk, etc.^

I lost count of the ways this article misrepresented and misinterpreted the underlying research.

No, it does not “replace the metal in future computers” the thing it’s promising to replace is specific kinds of non-volatile memory which is typically made from specially doped and patterned silicon with metal interconnects. Replace the silicon part does nothing about the metal part and it still requires the metal interconnects to do anything interesting.

No, memristors alone are not a good stand alone memory storage devices.

No, a <6KHz with <90% accuracy is not a “grow at home replacement” for modern computing memory systems operating at >2,000,000KHz signal speeds with >99.999999999999% accuracy rates (measured as ~10^-12 bit error rate).

Cool research, potentially interesting applications to neuromorphic computing but FUCK this blatant misinformation slop.

ICE NOW HAS A BUDGET LARGER THAN THE MARINES, IS COMPLETELY EXEMPT FROM ANY LEGAL ACTION BECAUSE TRUMP HAS THROWN OUT THE CONSTITUTION, RAMPIDLY BUILT CONCENTRATION CAMPS AT A RECORD PASTETHAT ARE MORE RESTRICTED TO THE PUBLIC THAN EVER, AND NOW ARE MASS ARRESTING LEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND CITIZENS ALIKE.

The same can be said between Trump’s first term and Biden’ presidency. The level of funding and militancy isn’t a function of R vs D, but a function of time as they because increasingly less cost effective and require increasing force to attempt to maintain/increase the level of eliminations.

All while the rule of law has been entirely abandoned.

You’re delusional if you believe in the “rule of law”, that’s never been how the justice system has worked in the US.

It was bad for immigrants before, it’s actual Hell for everyone now.

Sorry you can no longer sleep through brunch and now have to face the realities that immigrants and others have been facing for decades.

Not to mention it’s gotten so much worse that you can actually observe it on national economic data.

… What? Can you clarify what you mean by this and what data? This feels like Facebook level finger pointing and not based on any actual data or proper analysis, but I’m happy to be proven wrong there.

I think any marginalized community would prefer having the wiggle room of being able to exist and organize under hollow virtue signals than ACTIVE AND RAPIDLY EXPANDING GENOCIDE.

Your “group” being spared genocide as a tool to influct genocide on others is not the “easy moral dilemma” you make it out to be.

REPUBLICANS BANNED ABORTION

The bipartisan nominated supreme court banned abortion during a democratic party trifecta.

Blaming the Republicans primarily for that is as asinine as blaming the Democrats primarily for the current government shutdown.

Dems, believe it or not, fucking didn’t.

No? So they’re just completely powerless and their votes were forced even though they really, really didn’t want to?

The only people you are helping by spreading this “both sides” BULLSHIT is the fascists.

The difference is who we say are fascists. Yes, the Republicans are fascist, but so are the Democrats.

Take Trump’s tiny cock out of your mouth and smell the shit around you.

If there’s one thing we can agree on it’s that the elephant in the room is absolutely covered in shit. However, I’m busy trying to take the fucking animals outside and am currently begging for you to please, please stop sucking donkey cock, realize the problems, and help.

The difference is method, not end result.

The main purposes of DACA was to get immigrants to “come out of the shadows” and have individuals self-report and turn themselves in, in exchange for temporary benifits to, primarily, their children. As stated at the time:

“Deferred action is not a pathway to citizenship. It is not legal status. It simply says that for three years, you are not a law enforcement priority and are not going to go after you, It is temporary and it is revocable.”

It was part of a series of incredibly smart, effective and efficient moves which resulted in record high deportations without needing a bunch of jackbooted thugs cracking skulls in the street.

For a while. Now we’re in the “jackbooted thugs” phase which is less efficient, but plays better with the base it’s trying to appease. It’s less efficient and less people are getting deported overall, which is good. But the majority of those are switching from self-deportations to direct expulsions which are getting increasingly violent, a process that started back in 2021.

I submit that the Democrats are at least 1% better than the Republicans, and that this proves the meme is fake news.

You can’t just state something as fact and not show your work. You are making a claim it’s up to you to support it. You can’t just go around saying “I’m right unless you prove the negative”.

You have not placed any goalposts to begin with, what is your definition of “better”? By what metric are you using? What do you mean by “under the Democrats”?

How about we define “better” as “death rate per capita within immigration detention centers”? And “under the Democrats/Republicans” as “who holds the executive branch”? We should see an increase during the Bush years, when ICE was first created, a decrease during the Obama years, followed by an increase during Trump’s first term, decrease during Biden, and increase under Trump’s second term right?

Is that what happened?

If you don’t like my attempt at making your claim falsifiable, which I suspect you won’t; especially when you see the results, feel free to redefine your lose language into something else rigid and falsifiable. Set those goalposts.

wanna go ahead and go to any neighborhood that’s been raided by ICE and tell them how the Dems are exactly just as bad as the GOP?

Those neighborhoors will tell you that ICE had been around since 2002 and while happy you’re finally getting with the program, despite the current administration’s best attempts, 2012 was the worst year so far right after the democrats had their governmental trifecta and with the dreamers bait and switch.

So yes, while different flavors, they have been equally bad.

go tell a bunch of drag queens and trans people.

Republicans despise them, Democrats love to use them. That isn’t necessarily better.

go find some under aged girls who’ve been impregnated by adult men and tell them the Dems are just as bad as the GOP.

Fucking yes, the big Epstein reveal is that it’s all of them. The Trumps and the Clinton’s.