The more primitive electronics are still pretty easy to work on and fix though. OBD helps with diagnosing, and the sensors are usually simple enough to swap out for a new one if they fail, in most cases. If an ECU fails, that’s usually as simple as swapping a cartridge, like on an old console.

Very much so :)

Fair enough, but in my experience Techmoan has always been trustworthy in his reviews, he’s not sponsored by the manufacturer.

Apparently the version without the head sprinkler is the one that was most widely adopted.

the outer pot must be unglazed to allow it to become saturated with water. There’s quite a few guides on how to make these, like this one, which detail their capabilities and the materials needed.

It mentions the neck-coolers being ineffectual, but at least according to a Techmoan review I saw, the model he had was surprisingly effective.

Not that I disagree with the point of the article, which is that we shouldn’t need this shit to begin with and only the wealthy first world nations will be able to afford them, but the tech itself does seem to work.

Andor isn’t explicitly anti-capitalist, but it is revolutionary, so I’d throw that in there. Very well made to boot.

I think it’s already difficult to find an airport or firefighter training area that isn’t saturated in pfas anywhere.

It’s depressing that the must vulnerable and exploited will suffer the most, though to see food production will not become catastrophic everywhere was at least a small bit of good news. I can only hope that the areas that will see increased production can increase exports to help stave off famine in the highest impacted areas.

They were in the hallways, not out on the street. I didn’t look for any cameras, but there wasn’t any security nearby that would’ve seen anyone vandalize them. If there were cameras, I can’t imagine it mean much to people wearing a mask.

I’m not saying vandalism isn’t more common in the US, I’m sure it is in compared to hyper-respectful Japan, but I don’t think it’s absolutely impossible to have these.

When I visited california, there was a mall with multiple vending machines like the one in the OP for various foods and icecreams.

Nearly ended him too. He got shot in the neck, but survived. When he was discharged from the hospital, he intended to head back to the front, but he received word from his wife that the Communists had turned on the Anarchists and Trotskyist, and were rounding people up to be executed. He and his wife narrowly escaped the country with their lives.

Shit was hardcore!

Added! :)

Though I should mention Freetube is available for Android as well, and libredirect should work with it, eliminating the need to manually copy and paste links.

Ideally it’d be done with reclaimed materials, like the second guy who used old insulation from an RV.

But at least in my area from a local hardware store, I can buy 1.5 inch 4x8ft sheets of expanded polystyrene insulation for $20 per sheet. 3 sheets should be enough for most fridges (or 4, if the heat exchanger is underneath the fridge), so 60 to $80 for new materials.

Using this energy star savings calculator, it spits out this rough estimate of the yearly cost of a 1990’s fridge:

If the foam decreases energy usage by 50%, that would mean a $115 savings within the first year, paying off the initial foam costs within 6 months of use.

According to that same calculator, this is the numbers they give regarding carbon emissions compared to using a new energy efficient fridge:

It’s difficult to find the information of expanded polystyrene’s carbon footprint, I think I found it here? Specifically this chart from that article:

The second column there can be ignored, since we’re not trying to achieve R28, which since XPS foam is pretty low R value compared to other foam insulators would take a LOT of foam. So I guess the first column is the relevant one.

The 2012 forum guy actually made a post about that topic here. According to this site, it can catch fire from a sufficiently hot spark, but its auto-ignition temperature is fairly high.

There does exist some styrofoams with flame retardant in them, but that would probably have to be sought out specifically.

You mean like a shell to go around the foam? That would make it take up even more space, but it could be a cool project for someone who doesn’t mind. :)

Glad you found it helpful! I didn’t even know it worked on android 😯

You’re absolutely right, and I don’t mean to imply it’s just a matter of the law being there, and the rest will be easy. The deck will forever be stacked against those most vulnerable.

But it does show it’s not a hopeless inevitability, and I think most people just assume it is. We have the tools to fight back, even though it will be hard fought.

Ha, cool! Hope you enjoy it 😄

From what I’ve been able to find in my short time researching this, many states allow tenets to withhold rent from their landlord if the landlord fails to make a rental habitable.

There are a couple options here.

1. You simply stop paying rent entirely. In some states, a failure to make a home habitable is grounds for a tenet to prematurely terminate their lease. The landlord can still try to evict you, but this is often a drawn out process, and the entire time the property will be burning a hole in their pocket. This is ultimately a gamble that the property owner will choose to repair the property as the most cost-effective solution, and to avoid potentially being sued for uninhabitable conditions (but that assumes the tenants can collectively afford to sue them). Also, the tenets could appeal the eviction, citing the uninhabitable conditions to a judge, and hope that the Judge sides with them and negates the eviction despite the lack of paid rent.

2. You and your fellow tenets continue to make rent payments to a court, a neutral third party, or an escrow account set up by a local court or housing agency, which withholds payment from the landlord until the repairs are accomplished.. This is legal in many states, which would make the rent strike legally protected, and make an eviction attempt null (as far as I can tell, I’m not a lawyer!)