Kurt

@Kurt@lemmy.one

Dad, husband, and mechanical engineer based in beautiful New Jersey. On Reddit I’m u/engibineer.

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Kurt,

Blame!

Kurt,

The only spiders I kill are the yellow sac spiders because they will bite you in your sleep and cause a nasty infection. It happened to me once.

Kurt,

I think recluses and widows do sometimes live around here in NJ, but I haven’t seen any yet. Regardless, I’m ready for them.

Kurt,

Ugh I’ve never encountered a black widow, but I just felt that sentence.

Kurt,

This would be a nice upgrade for my wife and I. We’ve been using a knockoff Rubbermaid for ages. Putting it on the future project list.

Kurt,

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Kurt,

No. Organ “donation” after death should be compulsory. For living donors there should be a publicly funded bounty system where you either take the money or not. Donors and recipients don’t get to be picky.

Kurt,

Hmmm okay, but it has to be difficult to opt-out, kind of like how conscientious objectors have to go through a whole process to get out of military service.

Kurt,

Because living people who are sick might need those organs, which would otherwise just go to waste in your corpse. Also, it good to have a steady supply of organs from the deceased in order to avoid perverse and exploitative market situations.

Kurt,

You’re kind of talking about different things. Copyright should of course be abolished along with all private property. I don’t rule out compensation to your estate for organs harvested after death and there should definitely be a public bounty/reward system to encourage the living to donate.

You shouldn’t be able to opt out, or at least it should be very difficult to do so, because when you are dead what you have a say in that affects the living should be very limited, because those organs won’t matter to you anymore, and because those organs might matter very much to living people. Whether you trust society or not doesn’t matter anymore when you are dead.

Kurt,

There’s not really a problem with meat either. You don’t have to eat it and if you do, you don’t have to feel bad about eating animals.

That said, there is kind of a problem with insulin manufacturing in that it’s kind of centralized and distribution can be difficult, especially in remote areas with unreliable electricity. If insulin manufacturing could be done at the garage or shipping container scale in the places where it’s needed, it would help a lot of people.

Kurt,

Oh that sounds fascinating. I’ll have to search for that.

Kurt,

It was Eva Saxl. She had fled the Nazis from Czechoslovakia only to find herself under Japanese occupation in Shanghai. From the Wikipedia article, it seems like she extracted the insulin from water buffalo pancreas. I’m not sure if that counts as homebrewing. When I think of homebrew insulin, I think of actually manufacturing it by fermenting specialized yeast as opposed to harvesting it from animals. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, but it isn’t really the same.

Kurt,

Really? I’ve only seen good reviews of the stuff as served by restaurants.

Kurt,

Any idea if these are native?

Kurt,

Is this something you really want to “both sides”? Only one side kills Nazis.

Kurt,

Yes like in Cuba, which went on to fight against Apartheid South Africa.

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