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What is your opinion on #Mullvad #VPN?
- robustness
- trustworthiness
- cost effectivity?

I am a moderately paranoid EU user, seeking good protection against retrofitted criminalization.

in reply to 8Petros [$ rm -rv /capitalism/*]

It'd be a lot shorter if you'd stop trying to be part of some group because it's hip or whatever your reason is to want to be seen as "paranoid".



Radiant Heat Of Revolutionary Passion, Mark I
#Emergency #chemical #warmer #heatpack to prevent or treat #hypothermia

Comments, remarks, improvement suggestions, funding proposals – all WARMLY welcome. :-)

in reply to robryk

IMO: Too complex, too costly, one more failure point. In principle, the wet variant is for civilized environment mostly – street workers / medics and such.

The design is open, though, so one can modify it at will. :-)

in reply to 8Petros [$ rm -rv /capitalism/*]

I would appreciate if you elaborated on the cost/failure point increase (either I don't see something obvious -- it seems to me that everything should be ~comparable -- or I failed to get the difference across).

Unrelatedly, I noticed:
> The solution that remains after the reaction is completely harmless and can be reused as a food additive
or antifreeze liquid.

~1/4 of that liquid is calcium. Daily recommended intake of calcium is on the order of magnitude of 1g. Random sites on the internet claim that taking more than ~3g per day is a bad idea and NHS claims that it can cause diarrhea (nhs.uk/conditions/vitamins-and…). It might be a bad idea to drink that.

in reply to robryk

One also should not inject it, vape, eyedrop etc., etc.
What I refer to is that CaCl2 is widely used as a food add-on

Wikipedia on CaCl2 use in food

in reply to 8Petros [$ rm -rv /capitalism/*]

That seems to talk about adding it in quantities that cause a person to ingest hundreds of mg of it per day. If you had even a 10g heatpack, you'd need to split it across ~50persondays to be in the same dose ballpark.

The reference for it being considered generally safe in the US lists sub-1% accepted levels in various foods: accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdr…

in reply to robryk

This subthread leads nowhere, drifting towards sealioning. Please kindly stop.
in reply to robryk

I would appreciate if you elaborated on the cost/failure point increase (either I don't see something obvious -- it seems to me that everything should be ~comparable -- or I failed to get the difference across).


I will not.

I am not selling anything, I am not writing a scientific report and I clearly marked the statement you refer to as my opinion only, which means you are welcome to ignore it.

I spent two days thinking on this topic (most energy went towards making it as simple as possible) and the whole day today on experiments and measurments, let alone sourcing materials.

I am tired and not inclined towards pointless theoretical conversations. Get your hands dirty and show the world a better version.

in reply to 8Petros [$ rm -rv /capitalism/*]

I'm sorry for being brusque(or something similar; not sure what exactly) and thank you for directness.



Wstałem pewnego ranka, umyłem twarz, chciałem się napić wody z kranu, on się obudził, spojrzał na mnie i mówi: „Nie powinieneś pić wody, jest szkodliwa dla zdrowia”. Myślę sobie: masz żółtaczkę, HIV, od dziesięciu lat bierzesz heroinę, gnijesz, kiedy się zadrapiesz, palisz jak lokomotywa i mówisz mi, że picie wody z kranu jest szkodliwe dla zdrowia.


Peter Pirx
21 stycznia 2019

One day, each of us will own an AI bot. We will program them to troll each other and smear each other and flame each other – and then we will be free.
Actually, to do what?


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