I am today years old understanding the Überwald joke in Terry Pratchetts Discworld

Its so strange to see how hight has increased these last 130 years

The Ford Mustang Mach-E seems very nice as well

Not me but years ago the inorganic lab at my uni was tasked with measuring heavy metals in whale fat and did what they normally did back then to disolve test materials. Mix nitric acid and hydrocloric acid in some heavy duty pure quartz reagent tubes, put in sample and microwave.

Well. Turns out mixing triglyceride (fat) with nitric acid and HCl as a catalyst makes nitroglycerine. And what does that do in a confined space and microwaved

It turns expensive heavy duty quartz tubes into expensive quartz dust and a fucked microwave.

HF is a weak acid but extremely complex binding. If you spill it on skin, it will react with any Ca in your body and FUCK.YOU.UP! Always have plenty of water with Ca to rinse with and Ca containing “lotion” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrofluoric_acid_burn?wprov=sfla1

It is also fun as you can get really interesting results. I wanted to make a coffee cup with no bottom and put some in a cup and placed the cup in Ca-water. What happened was it removed the glazing and made a cup with slight leak as liquid permiates the clay.

Yeah, lets hear you out when the residental house next door has new people in every week treating it as a hotel. Think of the average hotel guest you have experienced? Yeah that one EVERY week.

Luckily my municipalityv/(Norway) will strike down hard on zoning violations if you run a commercial operation in a residential area.

The initial idea was brilliant. Occasionally renting out a room in you house/flat. Or renting out a few weeks when you are yourself on vacation. But now that it’s businesses buying up housing and running them as hotels

By contrast, Airbnb has said the World Cup is to be “the biggest hosting event” in its history."

When you have an unregulated marketplace like AirBnB the legitimate businesses will loose. AirBnB rentals destroys neighborhoods and kills hotels

Heard a joke about two people sitting in Cafe Central discussing a possible revolution in Russia.

… - and who is going to lead that? That guy?

Randomly pointing at the ever idle Lenin

Remeber the head of the network at my university told me that he once was contacted by someone from a US LEA about how someone with an IP from the student housing had said something threatening about then US president George Bush Jr. and wanted information.

He told them that US law doesn’t apply in Norway, and that they had to go through proper channels by the Norwegian police and court system to get that information.

Diesel or petrol? Skyactive diesel engines w/turbo needs one long drive a week to burn the particle filter if you do many short drives

I usually love ASUS as they have dared to try unconventional ideas, like the eeePC. I also like how they make everything from MoBos to TVs and phones. But it felt like they wanted to brick the Transformer for some reason.

Personally I have a couple of Samsung tablets, they serve a purpose when I want have a “TV” on in the background in a random place in the house I also read some comics that comes as pdfs on it

A pager called MiniLink when I was 16 right before mobiles became common

The ASUS transformer with keyboard. As they did an update that made it super slow and clunky right before end of lifeing it.

Living in rural Norway this was never an option. Normal stuff was accessible (and in shops with qualified staff) but anything special was only available if a distributor had it.

EBay, Etsy, Ali Express and amazon (however much I despise their business practice) makes stuff available. Even now living close to Oslo, Norway is such a small market that stores can’t really have that much capital bound up in stock that occasionally sells.

A few examples:

• Pluck foam is impossible to find outside specialized commercial vendors that want to sell it by the ton or something
• Small vortex mixer that is not sold by ThermoFischer for an insany jacked up prize.
• 3mm rubber mat, that apparently you get cut to measure in Home Depot according to the craft YT channel, cannot be found outside companies selling them as health and safety mats to cushion walking surface… Guess if they are cheap?

Had cable growing up in Norway and DJ Cat Show and Fun Factory showed most of these.

Think I have randomly sung the Denver the last Dinosaur song at least once a week since 1988

Ok, looked into the data and saw that there were practically zero until 2011 and a steady rise to 5/100000 annually for Norway. That is equal to 280 people a year.

Looked at national newspapers and found that following numbers: Between 2017 and 2021 860 people had malnutrition and starvation as main cause of death. 3790 had starvation as one of several causes if death.

These are all gearateic patients in hospital or assistes living. If you stop eating or drinking you will worsen existing conditions and also be more susceptible to new afflictions. Because of increased awareness to this in Norway, doctors writing cause of death has started registering more cases.

As I said as long as the numbers is just presented and not quality assured and explained it’s like discussing apples and pears. There is a problem with geariatric patients not starvation in Norway.

We have some similar memories :)

Crisp “smell” after first frost.

Oceanic pine forest on hot days

Onion and garlic when heated in oil making food.

That fucking makes me curious as I am a Norwegian and hunger and malnutrition is not visible. But 5 in 100000 in Norway with 5.6 million totalt population is 280 people. But it all depends how deaths are reported. In Norway the norm is old age homes, run by the local municipality and there has been discussion how the food served is not the best. And how the residents doesn’t eat enough. Also you need more flavour to make food palatable for the elderly as you loose your sense of taste as you get older.

How anyone can have infant malnutrition on Norway is beyond me. You have mandatory visita to health station at 1, 3, 6 and 12 months (and 2 and 3 years) with consultation from physician and nurses. They weigh and measure and vaccinate. We got state sponsored prescription for hypoallergenic baby formula, so actual malnutrition should be caught. But I know that some immigrant communities and “alternative medicine” doesn’t trust the system so they might be the numbers.

There is no information on how the data is collected. Perhaps China labels the deaths as heart failure or some other cause of death.

And like the other comments states, these numbers needs to be weighted for population.

Imagine that there IS indeed a company that caters to such needs