Month: June 2017

vampireapologist:

vampireapologist:

there’s a post going around about mixing nyquil with 5 hour energy and I’m thinking about the time my parents were both out of town and my brother was in charge of dropping me off at school and I must’ve been 15 or 16 and I was really miserably sick so he gave me nyquil and but the time we were pulling up to the school I was crashing so his friend who was driving said ‘I have a redbull in the glove compartment” and they said “drink it and it’ll like even it out” so I did and I walked into school at 7:30 AM

and then immediately the last bell rang and school was over.

potion seller, I’m going into school and I need your STRONGEST dissociation

15 years Repairing Electronics Here: With Liquid Damaged Electronics, DON’T Use Rice, Instead Use A Fan (explanation inside)

lifepro-tips:

I’ve
spent nearly 20 years repairing liquid/water damaged electronics. More
specifically, cell phones. In the old days, we’d open the phones up,
clean the corrosion, resolder, etc. Recently, they’ve (the
manufacturers) moved away from local repairs and moved more towards
warranty replacements, swap outs (FRU = factory replacement units) &
insurance. Now if you want your electronics repaired locally, you have
to visit 3rd party independent people since you can no longer have it
done in a corporate-ran store.

I know rice is the go-to recommendation for water damaged phones and other electronics, and it works, to an extent. It will passively absorb moisture. Unfortunately, you don’t want to passively absorb the moisture, you want to actively remove
the moisture as quickly as possible.  The longer the moisture is
sitting on those circuit boards, the higher the risk of corrosion. And
corrosion on electrical components can happen within just a few short
hours. If the damage isn’t severe, we’d take contact cleaner
(essentially 92% or better rubbing alcohol, the higher the percentage,
the quicker it will evaporate) and scrub the white or green powder (the
corrosion that formed) with a toothbrush to remove it. If that corrosion
crosses contacts, it can cause the electronics to act up, fail or short
out. The liquid itself almost never is directly responsible for failed
consumer electronics, it’s the corrosion that takes place after the fact
(or the liquid damaging the battery, a new battery fixes this issue
obviously).

Every time I see someone recommend rice I kinda twinge a little
inside because while it does dry a phone out slightly better than just
sitting on a counter, it really doesn’t do much to prevent the corrosion
that’s going to be taking place due to the length of time the liquid
has had to fester inside the phone or whatever.

What you want to do is set the item in front of a fan with constant
airflow. Take the device apart as much as you can without ruining it
(remove the battery, etc) so that the insides can get as much airflow as
possible. Even if it’s not in direct contact with the air, the steady
air blowing over the device will create a mini vacuum effect and pull
air from inside. It’s just a small amount but it’s significantly better
than just allowing the rice to passively absorb the evaporated moisture.
True, rice can act as a desiccant, but a fan blowing over whatever is
orders of magnitude faster.

I personally will take apart a piece of electronics completely, and
put those items in front of a fan, and if you have the relevant
knowledge, I highly recommend doing so as well. But if you don’t, it’s
not that big of an issue. What you want to avoid at all costs, however,
is heat. Do not put your phone inside an oven or hot
blow dryer, heat can damage electronics just as bad as liquid, sometimes
more so. Heat, extreme cold and liquid are bad for electronics &
cell phones. A fan (lots of airflow) is 99 out of 100 times better at
removing moisture quickly than rice. I would say 100 out of 100 but I’m
sure there’s going to be some crazy situation or exception I haven’t
thought of that someone will come in and point out. I’d like to remind
people that exceptions are just that, they don’t invalidate the rule.

Disability doesn’t come with extra time and energy

realsocialskills:

I’ve heard a lot of advocates of inclusion say things like “kids with disabilities work twice as hard as everyone else” or “my employees with Down’s syndrome never come in late or take a day off.”

This sounds like praise, but it isn’t.

The time disabled people spend working twice as hard as everyone else has to come from somewhere.

There are reasons why kids aren’t in school every waking moment. There is a reason why vacation time exists and why it’s normal to be late occasionally.

People need rest. People need leisure time. People have lives and needs and can’t do everything.

Being disabled doesn’t erase the need for down time. Being disabled doesn’t erase the need for play, or for connections to other people.

Working twice as hard as everyone else all the time isn’t sustainable. Praising disabled people for doing unsustainable things is profoundly destructive.

People with disabilities should not have to give up on rest, recreation, and relationships in order to be valued. We have limited time and energy just like everyone else, and our limitations need to be respected.

It is not right to expect us to run ourselves into the ground pretending to be normal. We have the right to exist in the world as we really are.

fuckyeahfluiddynamics:

We’re used to radiation being invisible. With a Geiger counter, it gets turned into audible clicks. What you see above, though, is radiation’s effects made visible in a cloud chamber. In the center hangs a chunk of radioactive uranium, spitting out alpha and beta particles. The chamber also has a reservoir of alcohol and a floor cooled to -40 degrees Celsius. This generates a supersaturated cloud of alcohol vapor. When the uranium spits out a particle, it zips through the vapor, colliding with atoms and ionizing them. Those now-charged ions serve as nuclei for the vapor, which condenses into droplets that reveal the path of the particle. The characteristics of the trails are distinct to the type of decay particle that created them. In fact, both the positron and muon were first discovered in cloud chambers! (Image credit: Cloudylabs, source)

Source: fuckyeahfluiddynamics