if you've ever come near the healthcare profession you probably have had a pulse oximeter on your finger. they're brilliant devices, incredibly simple - shines a light through your skin and measures the spectral absorption to get your blood oxygen level
these are absolutely universal in medicine, have been for many decades. well what's good for the goose (humans) is good for the gander (aminal) so vets must use these. animals don't have fingertips. where do they put the probe?
i'm glad you asked. they put it absolutely anywhere they can
apparently dogs under anesthesia get it on the tongue
cats actually CAN get it on their adorable dainty paws
there is one that measures Straight Off The Bean
Tiny Rat Paw Sensor
on rats it can apparently just be clipped straight to the scruff, and this particular system has the delightful name of MouseOx Plus
mouse! thigh! sensor!
anyway, the reason I told you all of this is because I found an image of a prototype being tested on a cow, and when I sent it to @Garudina, they replied "OXimeter" and so I am looking for a new friend
it turns out the name in the research paper was Bovine Mobile Observation Operation or BMOO, so what's even more upsetting here is that this pun was better than the one from the actual scientists
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you won't find anything really interesting coming from nearly any media business because their revenue sources aren't "put out interesting writing which people can only get here, so they have to subscribe." now it's... god, I don't even know.
the way things sucked before was so interesting, and now it all sucks in the same way.
it's always the same thing. every day, the same thing. everything is bad for the same reasons. I used to complain about businesses. I gave up. There's no point. It's always the same explanation, and everyone already knows what it is.
thinking about how we've fallen so far from gods light. in 1994, a pc magazine writer tasked with covering doom bit their lip, thought a little, and said "i should put a complete map editing tutorial in there. maybe next to the cheat codes"
let me tell you why the future we live in sucks so much dog shit every single second of every single day: data. as recently as the 2000s, businesses were stumbling through life completely lost and had no idea what they were doing. now they know, and everything sucks
do you fucking know how many people got paid anywhere from a living wage to big bucks to sit around and "i don't know, do something", and then nobody knew how to figure out if the thing they did made any money, or in fact, if they did it at all?
I haven't even hit 100k subscribers and this is what my inbox looks like. every day i get emails
I now receive multiple shill offers daily. Most are "from" electronics "manufacturer" storefronts on amazon that likely do not exist as anything more than a sheet of paper in a government office in China and one of hundreds of rollstamps at a factory in Shenzhen.
I can't figure out the scam, honestly. I'm positive these "businesses" don't exist in any meaningful way - all the six-letter names you see on Amazon and Aliexpress cannot have staff and offices. There have to be millions of them, it's unthinkable.
so it turns out that the rubberized coating on the Latitude E6420 is not the only thing that high-test isopropyl dissolves. it strips the paint right off the plastic.
well, nothing to do but to do it
the upper 2" of paint are absolutely nuclear-grade. must be baked on there from years of heat, took as long to remove 1/3 of that part as it took to strip the whole rest of the thing