Agreed. Super annoying when people ask questions without a question mark.
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Gonna be a bit hard to push heroin through those. Lotta resistsnce.
I guess she encountered a lot of resistance from all those!
All this is a gateway drug to
5V-| | | |-3V3
GND-| | | |-IO16
IO12-| |_______| |-IO0
IO13-| |-GND
IO15-| |-VCC
IO14-| |-UDR
IO2-| ESP32-CAM |-UDT
IO4-|_______________|-GND
I think they call it a micro controller because it gets inside your brain and controls you!!!
Just like how cats offloaded all the thinking onto humans who serve them, and now we're offloading all the thinking onto chips who we will serve... o hwait
Yes, he is. But these are just resistors.
There was a clip I saw of a mother going through their child's text....
YOLO? What's that!!!! .... Is YOLO a drug!!!???
Not ragging on anyone for ignorance, never will, but it's a little weird how many people are asking what these are, especially in such a nerdy community.
Could just be my client but the image is so pixelated and the resistors are quite small. So it took me a while to see as well.
You're not gonna believe this, but most chemists never touch electronics. "Nerdy" is a really, really, really wide category.
“Enchanting nerds and alchemy nerds are two different groups of wizardry. They don’t share their secrets outside the group!”
-some guy named Clarke or something, I dunno.
You can be a nerd about anything. A language nerd who speaks 20 languages and studies ancient Akkadian for fun won't know what those are.
I mean I am a nerd, but I haven't much of a clue about trees and plant life.
They grow and are all plant-y.
I found two posts in this entire thread asking what these actually are. That's not a whole lot.
Resistance is futile
Found his kit, please help:
Fuck! This is a 21st century vampire hunting kit!
This is so overkill; all you need is a lighter and a spoon, and those contacts basically bond themselves
Paperclip might work better, less thermal mass.
I mean, you solder pipes with a flame, why not circuit boards too?
There used to be little butane soldering irons back in the day before lithium batteries took over.
Every soldering iron I've ever used has been a desktop station that plugs into the wall.
Apparently portable soldering irons in general are quite a new concept (1984): https://portasol.com/about-us
Sure, it always just starts with "I'll just solder a few resistors here; what's the problem?", but before you know it your kid is gonna be out there giving acid baths to PCBs.
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Worse, he's picked up a nasty through-hole habit.
Is that a reference to interest in electronics being a gateway drug to gender transition?
Connect LGBTQ+ to LGBTQ-
When I first started setting lgbt I was wondering why everyone was interested in insulated gate bipolar transistors.
Well they did enable electric cars and efficient per-home solar inverters, they're pretty cool.
gonna need a 4kOhm resistor to do a pull down for that. You'll be Queer, but you won't be happy about it.
...to gender transistor.
FTFY.
From transistors to trans sisters
IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!
The one time my mom sat me down and had a talk about the thermal compound syringe she found while cleaning...
I got some little baggies intended to hold stamps (as part of a magazine feature) and received a sit down talk about marijuana.
These look shady AF too :)
they are fine at the lower capacities. the higher ones die almost immediately though
often mistaken for disposable vapes
Worse, he is "soldering"
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