Yet another Reddit refugee from the great 3rd party app purge of 2023. This account is mostly for learning how Lemmy works and may be purged once I get around to hosting my own instance.
Obligatory fuck /u/Spez.
They did sort of use CO2/CO in the earlier days, in the form of poorly maintained van trucks that would drive around the camps with their exhaust piped directly into the back of the van. That was slow and inefficient though, as the truck had to run long enough to actively displace all the oxygen within the volume of the van.
Zyklon B from its Wikipedia page was intended as a pesticide so there was already a large industrial supply lying around. It works on a cellular level and will cause widespread cell death within 2 minutes of inhalation at extremely low concentrations, making it ultimately much faster with less maintenance.
I’m not a historical expert, but the deaths caused by Zyklon B are also described to be much, much more violent than simply passing out from oxygen deprivation- and I could posit that the Nazis, viewing jews et al. as not human, would have preferred such a death for them.
I’m sure it’s just autism, but I start taking machines apart in my head, or go through steps of a project I’m in the middle of. I can walk through step by step of how every part interacts, visualize how it moves and where the wear and contact points are, which tool I need for fastener X, Y and Z… then go farther down, and think about how each part would itself be cast, machined, welded, and packaged for assembly. Somewhere in the rote repetition of it, I’ll pass clean out.
Outside of the hard sciences where youre there to learn necessary specific foundational knowledge and technical stuff - mech/elec/civil engineering, high level medical, etc - it really doesn’t. The degree is proof that you can put your head down and manage yourself well enough to survive in the white collar world.
I’ve got a ~20oz Yeti vacuum stainless bottle with the small-opening screw-on top. I think I’ve used it for, maybe 5 years at this point? A long while. It’s the right size for casual carrying at work and school, but I use a bigger non-insulated body when doing physical labor.
That poor yeti gets bounced off the back of ATV’s, thrown in toolboxes, left baking in the car, all sorts of shit. It’s dinged up and doesn’t sit flat on a table but still doesn’t leak so it keeps going.
What does he play it on?
If he’s like I was and playing on hand me down office PC’s, consider getting a better keyboard/mouse, headphones, a stick of memory or something in that line to improve his experience. Actual pc upgrades are probably a little expensive for your budget, although really nice large monitors can be had for <$150 these days.
The bank account does not an attractive person make.
Dude has okay looks but a manipulative,self centered, egotistical personality. I can’t imagine he’d even be tolerable as a friend let alone a partner- and his 3 separate marriages can attest to that.
Kinda feels like you’ve fallen down the celebrity worship rabbit hole and/or see dollar signs.
I know it’s a mess mate, but let’s just go down to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this all to blow over.