New board, bad smell.

Health is a weird thing.  Most of my inlaws smoke tobacco heavily.  This always has taken me aback.  My SO smoked herself around eighth grade, then quit, she's kindofa neat-nik.  Anyway, she was recently diagnosed with Parky's.  Turns out with her genome she is 3% as likely as the average person to contract cancer and is unlikely to die from her high cholesterol, as their heart problems are typically non-fatal.  Turns out that if she had ingested nicotine regularly, probably the onset of her Parky's would have been delayed.  So environmental exposure must be rather idiosyncratic. Lucky for the members of her family that don't come down with Parky's, as they own one of the largest industrial farms in the USA and are exposed to spooky organics constantly.

If you have a family history of things like liver cancer, than you should take stringent measures to avoid organics, probably.  Otherwise, just hold the bag further from your schnoz next time.  As

Friedrich Nietzche informs us:  "All that doesn't kill educates."

OK, I kind of meant that as a joke. I know that one whiff of something won't kill me, unless its chlorine, hydrazine or something like that. I was just curious as I've done work with some boards and stuff (raspberry pi, arduino and taking apart calculators, computers and junk like that) and this smelled much more putrid than anything else I've smelled. Less like new electronic board, more like someone forgot to wash off production chemicals. I was just concerned that maybe someone did forget to wash off production chemicals, or something like that, in which case it would be dangerous.

Thanks again, this is actually very interesting, I've got a few examples of my own family that had similar experiences. My own great grandmother lived through almost all the twentieth century, lead paint, rampant smoking, and just about every health issue you can think of from then and she lived to 106.

OK, I kind of meant that as a joke. I know that one whiff of something won't kill me, unless its chlorine, hydrazine or something like that. I was just curious as I've done work with some boards and stuff (raspberry pi, arduino and taking apart calculators, computers and junk like that) and this smelled much more putrid than anything else I've smelled. Less like new electronic board, more like someone forgot to wash off production chemicals. I was just concerned that maybe someone did forget to wash off production chemicals, or something like that, in which case it would be dangerous.

Thanks again, this is actually very interesting, I've got a few examples of my own family that had similar experiences. My own great grandmother lived through almost all the twentieth century, lead paint, rampant smoking, and just about every health issue you can think of from then and she lived to 106.