Oliver Lowe

Headline is a bit misleading. It’s not about cadavers being ferried around the place, it’s a policy change in how cadavers are distributed to schools.

Currently cadavers are donated to particular schools. The proposal is for some centralised gov. control over which schools they go to depending on shortages and demand. Seems fair enough…?

That Turkish Lira has always been crazy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_lira) Check out this graph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_lira#/media/File:Euro_exchange_rate_to_TRY.svg

When I drop off my electronics at “recycling” facilities, I always wonder if they don’t just end up at a place like this. It’s hard to tell if sending them to a local landfill wouldn’t be less impactful on the environment.

Same. I’m in Australia so there is a lot of space. At the supermarket near me they have a dedicated battery recyclin g bin, so I guess I trust this a little more than those general recycling bins. That trust is even involved is not ideal though.

For now I just try hard to keep old stuff going for my friends and family. Software-wise they all use native apps for personal and work, so I see about 7-8 years of life for each laptop/desktop.

Closer look at human story: Ghana: A Week in a Toxic Waste Dump

One of the problems with using older devices for a long time, even if they are repaired, is that common ways people use their computers (I’m including smartphones, tablets, laptops etc. here) gets slower over time. See How web bloat impacts users with slow connections by danluu@mastodon.social