silverneedle

Don't get me wrong, I am not against people choosing on their own accord to go. Even if I think there are caveats with that because I don't consider people to ever be able to completely grasp their decisions and make decisions autonomously. We're after all limited creatures. I suppose in cases of extreme disease assisted suicide non the less represents a rational personal choice.

What keeps me from supporting an institution such as MAiD is how economic pressures can greatly affect the question of who dies and who dies when. If a person has the resources to pass in a comfortable environment, like a nice home in a calm part of town, they will consider assisted suicide much later in their trajectory than the person who has hardly any next of kin and no financial resources to install, say, the necessary aids at home. The former individual does not spend their last days in a stressful hospital environment. Of all examples I could give this is probably in the category of least extreme. As long as this contradictory aspect exists MAiD and everything like it will fail to live up to promises. Off the top of my dome I'm not able to name any regions where this would not be the case, even Sweden or Switzerland have dirt-poor strata that would be negatively affected.

In the actual free world where we have healthcare the mandates for treatment come from the physicians and the advice from medical professionals. It is far from perfect, but it is the best recommended care.

I would carefully disagree here. Would freedom not mean that the recipient of medical care gets to ultimately decide? Considering the state of the world, free world is a contradiction in adjectives. Especially here. I know this is a pedantic ask with it's scope, but I'm trying to nudge you away from a certain centrisms.

I don't think it's fair to draw this comparison on either end as this concerns relationships that are extremely contextualized and subject to change (human to nonhuman animal and human to human.) What constitutes suffering is highly debatable, we're not dealing with faulty RAM sticks that make the execution of operations unreliable.

The impossibility of creating clear and objective frameworks/rationality based decision-making has been a tool time and time again for repression. It starts with putting grandma out of what we or anyone who is not grandma considers to be her misery, then we go on to NICU children in dire or uncertain circumstances or individuals who can't communicate or contribute to society, and so on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktion_T4

cmd+f "Gnadentod"

There is something lodged in my mind but I'm not able to really put my finger on it

Luhmann, Hegel, and a secret third thing mixed into one.

I know they've had dealings across the Pond for quite some time now, but reading the headline is like reading "Family Mart is coming to Karlskrona with plans of opening 10 stores in Blekinge" or "Kroger's is coming to Sapporo."

It's ok though. Using MPV to watch YouTube is a good way to stick it to the man

Everything is written in typescript.

Companies are an awful trend.

Most of the time cheaper products are better for the environment when they're durable. A very simple whistle has hardly any parts that could fail easily and is therefore durable.

See the cost of veganism, prefab buildings or electric cars. If local production and local distribution of objects saves transport and handling expenses, which come from people expending time, keep in mind those people need to be fed and have to get to work somehow, then that is a fact.

This is incorrect, the author says that he prints whistles for 5c a pop, which is cheaper than dropshipping from China. This also implies that 3D printing whistles at home in that fashion is more productive when one doesn't live in China (or next to a whistle factory).

Cheers! Much obliged. Will definitely be adding ESD protection.

I based the USB power circuitry on a reference that assumes Micro-USB and I know that USB-C is really different when it comes to power. I'll see that I put a resistor there, as you did.

The point about connecting up the redundant pins is also an interesting one, think I need to look into the PDF for the specific part I'm using to know what extra work is necessary, if it is necessary. 👍

OK, that reassures me.

I'll get to swapping the caps for bigger ones though I do like the challenge of soldering them.

The spirally tracks/flourishes I added simply because of looks. No intentional RF stuff going on here. I have the track smoothing plugin installed and felt bad about not using it. Besides, the switch goes directly to ground here so having a bit of "cable salad" probably won't do any harm, I could even draw a little Tux on the board if I were so inclined..

Thank you by the way!