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Cake day: November 6th, 2023

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  • True that I’m not likely to get drafted into a trench position - I have sectarian violence/civil war looming instead.

    But I’m deadass serious when I say that Europe can beat Russia. Even without US support and their nuclear arsenal on speed dial. Unlike Ukraine, Europe has a bunch of next tier stuff like F35 or domestic built Taurus/Storm Shadow that Ukraine didn’t have/was restricted using that shaped the battle into an attritional land war we know today.



  • That’s American, Jewish voters surveyed last fall. 68% support land swaps, an independent Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders, Palestinian return from the diaspora, and financial/population restitution.

    A lot of regular people get swept up into the default of supporting the concept of Israel and protecting the lives of the 6-7 million Jews living there, but the topic has so many land mines and risks of misunderstanding that people don’t delve into the topic openly. But if you look for it, there’s a lot of silence from folks who are uneasy about the direction Israel is headed.



  • Who will win?

    • 500 newly purged Red Army conscripts?
    • Or one Lutheran farmboy and his Mosin

    All of Häyhä’s kills were accomplished in less than 100 days, an average of five per day at a time of year with very few daylight hours… Häyhä never discussed it publicly, but his own private memoir, discovered in 2017, states a number. He begins by stating that “this is his sin list”, and estimates the total number he shot to be around 500.





  • I’m assuming you’re not super familiar with PCB fabrication? The toner transfer is a way to get small, repeatable, and precise definition of the component pads and traces - at home - without needing the expensive industrial machinery that fab houses have.

    The toner ’print’ is a negative image, placed on a sheet of copper mounted to (usually) fiberglass. Much like masking off areas when painting, the ‘print’ protects the copper surface in select areas you want to keep safe when the whole board goes into the acid bath to dissolve the unprotected copper - leaving copper only where your ‘print’ was, and hopefully no shorts/grounds.

    Definitely cool to have the ability to DIY fine pitch if you’re manually mounting SMT components or want higher board density, beats out the hand drawn permanent marker lines I’ve done in the past 😅