Self immolation as a form of protest. For anyone unaware of it there was a Buddhist monk who immolated themself to protest the oppression of Buddhists by the Catholic PM of Vietnam.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage_Against_the_Machine_(album)

https://time.com/3791176/malcolm-browne-the-story-behind-the-burning-monk/

Maybe this is why I’m not seeing it, it was a few months ago.

Edit: The link says this was in DC recently though.

“A US Air Force soldier is in critical condition after he set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, Sunday.”

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Yup, they are only as good as their programming

The posting essentially says there is no risk than tosses out mercury and lead vapors which don’t exist in a HDD. Then it talks about the lead in solder. You’d have to vigorously rub and handle the solder on circuit boards to get any amount on your skin worth worrying about and then you just wash your hands. That risk is true of all boards that don’t use low or lead free solder. The whole comment is very hypothetical.

If your hard drive has dust it would’ve failed a long time ago. They are designed to be extremely clean. The head is like a 747 flying an inch above the ground. It sounds like an urban myth to scare people.

I used to collect AOL cds. I had a stack a few feet high. I was going to make some sort of artwork out of them.

You haven’t seen some of my coworkers then

I was crushed when I had to ok putting my last cat down. It felt like I’d let him down even though there was no better option. We eventually adopted another furball. Maybe we’ll see all our furry buddies again someday.