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David Reader
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Enthusiastic wielder of tools, electronic parts, computers, sometimes cameras. Operates part of the Internet. Helps others do same. Make, Tinker, Break, and Fix

🇪🇺 Manchester, England
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1/ 🚨 Conspiracy theories about the 2024 election miss the bigger picture.

The truth? It wasn’t one night, one hack, or one fraud. It was a system rigged in plain sight – right in front of us. The playbook was out in the open for years. But hardly anyone paid attention.

Here’s how they did it... 🧵
November 21, 2024 at 12:01 PM
I am really quite impressed by a new ̶t̶o̶y̶ ̶ ̶ .. tool .. I mean tool .. definitely tool 😇..😄

This is the Hikmicro Mini2 v2
November 16, 2024 at 1:52 PM
This evening's challenge..

Replace this SMT IC using only this vintage Weller iron & failing eyesight.

Miele washing machine. Common fault.
November 14, 2023 at 12:34 AM
This is sad.

My daughter had an Islabike a few years ago.

Excellent product.

A sad reminder that a good product often isn't enough .. and it'll be those pushing inferior goods who survive longer.

www.islabikes.co.uk/pages/cease-...
Cease of sale
The UK's premier range of British designed high quality balance, first pedal, multi-purpose, road, cyclocross, gravel, mountain bikes and award-winning e-bikes for adults and kids of all ages, includi...
www.islabikes.co.uk
October 26, 2023 at 10:38 PM
America also kills people.

Presuming this imbecile is American, he should be asked why he hadn't killed himself first.
A man broke into a Jewish family’s home in Los Angeles, attacked them with a knife, and said, “I’m going to kill you because you are Jewish… Israel kills people.”

The family was all home, including the wife, who is 9 months pregnant, and their four children. The husband managed to fight him off.
Studio City home intruder shouted antisemitic insults, victim says
A man who was arrested for a home invasion in Studio City early Wednesday morning shouted “Free Palestine” as he was cuffed and placed in a police cruiser, video shows.
ktla.com
October 26, 2023 at 2:28 PM
Ha!

I've been doing similar from the outset purely on grounds of instinct anyway:

"holding one's breath within five seconds of passing a person, keeping a distance of at least 1 meter, and standing upwind of them are effective measures to prevent infection."

mainichi.jp/english/arti...
When passing face-to-face, risk of COVID infection peaks within 5 seconds: Japan study
TOKYO -- The risk of coronavirus infection peaks within five seconds of passing an infected person, a research team from the University of Tsukuba has
mainichi.jp
October 26, 2023 at 10:51 AM
Hello World

Déjà vu?
Something about a dead bird, maybe.
October 20, 2023 at 9:57 PM