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“Drinking hot tea is safe so drinking boiling water, which is also hot, should also be safe”

The quantity of radioactive material and what form of radiation it emits is extremely relevant to this discussion.

We have seen nuclear batteries - it’s decades old technology at this point. They were used in pacemakers. They stopped in the 80s because it’s too expensive and dangerous. You have to track radiation sources like this.

In smoke detectors and tritium watches the quantity of radioactive material is minuscule compared to the beta emitter in the battery, as in multiple orders of magnitude less. None of the things you mentioned have radioactive material in any significant quantity. If you swallowed or inhaled this battery you’d be exposed to significant amounts of radiation.

A microwave is not an ionizing radiation source.

Can’t imagine why we don’t put nuclear material in consumer products, seems practical.

Knocked Strom Thurmond’s racist ass filibuster of the civil rights act out of the #1 slot.

I’d point out this is a temporary pacemaker, not a permanent PPM or ICD. You get these as an inpatient in the hospital when you’re recovering from some pretty intense cardiac procedures. One of the advantages they point out is not having any electrodes to remove in this new device. With temporary transvenous pacemakers, they don’t implant an electrode in the heart, the wire is just chilling there in the bloodstream in your heart.

Not saying it’s not a cool development but it’s going to need a lot of testing and validation before it’s accepted in practice.

Note: I’m not a cardiologist, but I work with them doing EMR stuff and have to know a bit about cardiology.

Yeah, might be switching to Jellyfin eventually, but I want to milk my lifetime plex pass for a bit longer. The enshittification hasn’t reached terminal levels for me yet. I’d have to talk all my non-nerd friends through setting Jellyfin up as well, so there’s a significant effort barrier to switching there.

Plexamp is fantastic. Sweetfades and radio/mix features, which can also include songs from shared libraries, are dope as hell. One of my favorite audio players of all time. Bridges the gap between old school local library playback and modern algorithm stuff really well.

If you really want to see this type of content you can easily find it with the tiniest amount of motivation.

Nowhere in the article does it say anything like that. It’s pretty straight forward reporting - the guy ran some websites and distributed pirated books and software, and hacked a few websites. No judgements are passed, it’s just factual information.

Yes I did, multiple times. The only confrontation I see are people on other floors reporting you for snooping around.

Does the noise maker below you ever confront you directly? Have they said anything to your face regarding the noise?

To me it sounds like you may be assigning motives to things that aren't as evil as you perceive. Just live your life and be a normal, respectful level of loud. You're going to hear your neighbors in an apartment. Accept it and move on. Unless it's past quiet hours and affecting your sleep I don't think there's much you can do, practically.

Are they confronting you in person or something? Have they said anything to you or do you just hear noises?