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[–] NaibofTabr 1 points 1 month ago (16 children)

So, ah, a lot of electrical wiring is insulated with plastic... including the wiring in your walls, in vehicles, in communication systems...

Plus you have components like capacitors which require plastic membranes to function, and most circuit boards are on plastic substrates.

[–] NaibofTabr 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Learn how things work. Take them apart. Try to put them back together again properly. Buy sacrificial items at thrift stores/Goodwill/Craigslist for this. Look for broken/worn out items and try to make them work better. Small kitchen appliances are a great place to start. Sometimes all it needs is to be taken apart, cleaned and relubricated. Collect common components (motors, screws, magnets, springs, wiring, lights) from the things you can't fix, and recycyle the rest if possible.

As you take things apart, pay attention to how the different pieces are connected. Take pictures for later reference. Look at it and ask, why this component and why is it oriented this specific way inside the appliance and connected to that other component? What function do the two parts accomplish together? What were the design choices that led to this arrangement? And if applicable, which part of it broke, and what was the likely cause, can it be fixed, and can the failure be prevented in the future?

You can really learn a lot by taking things apart, even if you're not able to fix it.

[–] NaibofTabr 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Newsom also shills harder for corporations than Trump does

(X) Doubt

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-goya-beans/

[–] NaibofTabr 7 points 1 month ago

That map is fantastic. Thanks for sharing.

[–] NaibofTabr 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Um, what's with the personal attack dude?

[–] NaibofTabr 51 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[–] NaibofTabr 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It is really nothing compared to what will happen if the current international infrastructure supporting hospitals and food delivery breaks down.

Most people don't grow their own food, they buy it from a store. There's about a week, maybe two of fresh food in the system, depending on local population density and available suppliers. Maybe a month or two of dry goods.

Hospitals are highly dependent on consumables to provide care. In a month they're out of exam gloves, masks, sample tubes, hand sanitizer, antibiotics - then sanitation starts to break down and hospital-acquired infections start to ramp up. Less time for high-value items like anesthetics, immune suppressants and other specialty drugs. The volume of chlorine and isopropyl needed daily just to keep things clean will be a problem. Anything less than immediate life-threatening conditions starts getting turned away because the hospital is a source of danger for otherwise healthy people, and they might not have the resources to provide care anyway. The emergency room runs out of blood bags.

In the present, the things that keep people alive are dependent on just-in-time logistics systems. There's very little inventory stored anywhere, because it's cheaper to not store stuff. If the trade relationships break down and the supplies become unreliable, it falls apart. And it doesn't have to all come to a complete halt for people to die, it just has to become unstable so that sometimes the right things don't show up at the right places at the right times.

Systemic collapse would lead to orders of magnitude more deaths.

[–] NaibofTabr 35 points 1 month ago (10 children)

...except for, you know, all the people that die.

[–] NaibofTabr 9 points 1 month ago

...and the penalties are enforced.

[–] NaibofTabr 4 points 1 month ago

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[–] NaibofTabr 8 points 1 month ago

A crack in the foundation like this could mean that the water has been eroding the ground under the slab, causing it to be unsupported.

You need an engineer to assess the property and the foundation.

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