18 Feb
2022
18 Feb
'22
10:04 p.m.
Hey, lizzard from Noisebridge here, just to say that no, we also have a
fairly horrible e-waste problem and not enough people are helping with it.
I want to get rid of the giant e-waste bin that we have because it fills
up, overflows, no one but me has dealt with it for months and we have like
shelves and shelves and giant piles of increasingly unloved broken stuff.
I have been putting some of it out on the curb and paying junk haulers to
take it to e-waste. Trash warriors has been very helpful and seems like a
good company for this.
But too much of it, we keep because someone thinks it may be an interesting
project for someone someday or have some value or they hate to think of the
waste. But it's so much work to move it out. And every time I do someone
is upset about some part of it.
I'm just here to support being a little harsher on hoarding behaviors
because I believe we need to clear space --- physically and mentally ---
for new people and ideas and projects. We won't find out what those new
things will be, if the space is overdetermined into a giant nostalgia pile.
Make room for making!!!
Maybe there's also a place in our world for a giant warehouse full of
weird electronic scrap!!! Like urban ore but for hacker space folks. But
that isn't what I want the primary purpose of noisebridge to be....
My 2 cents.
Lizzard
On Fri, Feb 18, 2022, 4:13 PM Joule Munic via sudo-discuss <
sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> wrote:
Yar: I think a lot of it just comes from random people
who see sudo room
as a place to “donate” electronics that they no longer need.
I suspect the laser came from a Berkeley lab. I didn’t know it was
dangerous as I was raised to believe UV-A just tans the skin but according
to this 2020 study no, it was found to be profoundly mutagenic.
Noisebridge had this e waste problem for a while until they made a
dedicated spot for e waste which gets regularly emptied —I don’t know by
whom.
Presently we have about 5-8 cubic meters of stuff that piled up and should
be removed…
-J
_______________________________________________
sudo-discuss mailing list -- sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org
To unsubscribe send an email to sudo-discuss-leave(a)sudoroom.org
On Feb 18, 2022, at 3:21 PM, Jake via sudo-discuss <
sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> wrote:
I'm not in agreement that sudoroom's interaction with e-waste equals
cancer,
but I'm very sorry that you're having to
deal with a skin tumor, i'm sure
that's very stressful.
As for the e-waste at sudoroom, I'm planning to do an e-waste run after a
session of sorting with another sudoer, within the next two weeks.
I did recently help fix and sell the fridge and earned sudoroom $210
while
clearing up some space. I have also been putting
hours of work into
sorting
ewaste and moving things along and out of the
space, every tuesday night.
-jake
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2022, Yardena Cohen via sudo-discuss wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 2:55 PM Joule Munic via sudo-discuss <
sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> wrote:
>> I'm no longer strong enough to keep
cleaning up, and some of the
e-waste
>> that shows up is genuinely dangerous,
like a UV laser that appears to
have
>> given me vascular tumors.
>>
>> Appear benign, but, punching a hole in my genome has really kicked my
>> survival instinct into high gear and I don't want anything to do with
>> e-waste anymore.
>
> Holy shit, I'm so sorry. That is awful and I don't blame you for
stepping
back
after something like that.
Where is all this stuff coming from?
_______________________________________________
sudo-discuss mailing list -- sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org
To unsubscribe send an email to sudo-discuss-leave(a)sudoroom.org
_______________________________________________
sudo-discuss mailing list -- sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org
To unsubscribe send an email to sudo-discuss-leave(a)sudoroom.org