I modified a pen torch to work with a valve stem and mounted one of those to the chamber. Of course, I only used the oxygen cylinder of the torch.

I like your solution. Can you post a picture?

I learned this playing with potato guns. There is an optimal fuel level beyond which the power quickly declines to zero.

The solution, of course, was to saturate the chamber with fuel and close it. Then I injected oxygen. Worked like a charm.

Basically universal healthcare means that it is paid for by the government rather than private insurance companies. Medicare is a form of universal healthcare for the elderly. Blue Cross, United Healthcare, and Humana are all forms of commercial / private insurance.

To be clear, the citizens fund the government, so the citizens pay the bill for universal healthcare. However, being government funded means that the “insurer” is not profit driven. They are not fighting to deny claims or to exclude high cost members, etc.

Government funded care is cheaper than commercial insurance because it is a single large entity rather than many small entities.

Universal healthcare is probably 90% a benefit and 10% a detriment. The argument against it is that money drives innovation and superior care. there is an ounce of truth to that and a pound of lies.

Universal care will likely never happen because there is an absurd amount of money in the health care industry so there are billions of dollars in lobbying / related spending / corruption to keep insurance private.

I work in healthcare and laptops are almost always intentionally destroyed not repurposed. A laptop can contain absurd amounts of personally identifiable data and if it is lost then the fine for violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) can quickly exceed $1M. It starts at $100 PER RECORD! Now imagine a nurse that sees 10 patients per day for 5 years. Or how about a person doing claims review on 100 claims per day? Then there is me who processes millions of records all the time.

Since a loss of information could be so costly, it is much easier to just destroy laptops than to try to format them. One of my former employers would take old hard drives and run a government format on them. Next they would erase them (again) with a strong magnet. Then they would shred the devices in house. Then they would give the shreds to a secure documents destruction company who I think would melt things down. Admittedly that was a bit over the top, but my point is that hardware destruction is the norm in healthcare.

15 seconds of research shows that a simple large pizza from dominos is about 2,000 calories. That makes this challenge equal to 10 pizzas. That seems wrong to me. Thoughts?

Edit: using 2,000 KCalories = 8,000 KJoules, we get 2.5 large dominos pizzas.