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Episode: 3779
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Title: HPR3779: Just Because You Can Do a Thing...
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3779/hpr3779.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 05:15:15
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3,779 for Thursday the 26th of January 2023.
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Today's show is entitled, just because you can do a thing.
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It is hosted by train and is about three minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is, just because you can do a thing does that mean you should.
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Hello Hacker Public Radio fans, this is Trey and I'm throwing this recording together
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for several reasons.
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One, the queue of shows is abysmally sparse.
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There are far more openings for shows in the next few weeks than there are shows posted.
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And two, this show is a pitiful excuse for why I haven't posted any shows recently.
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If you like what you hear on Hacker Public Radio, please express your gratitude by recording
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your own show.
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If it doesn't need to be long or sound professional or anything, introduce yourself and share
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something you find interesting.
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If you do not like any or all of what you hear on Hacker Public Radio, then it is the
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perfect opportunity for you to take a few moments and record a short or long podcast of
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your own which fills the gap of what you feel is needed on HPR.
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Alright, enough preliminaries.
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A long time ago at an undisclosed university far, far away, I took my first class about
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ethics.
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One of the things I remember most was the question of, just because you can do a thing, does
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that mean you should do the thing?
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This was applied to many different scenarios.
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Some nation states building weapons of mass destruction to offering computer viruses
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and even to saying what you're thinking at any given moment.
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It should quickly become obvious that you should not always do a thing simply because
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you can do it.
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And today, I would like to relate that to DIY home improvement projects, especially
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as we work our way up in years.
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For regular listeners, you may recall my series, everything you always wanted to know
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about PEX recorded and shared in May through July of 2022.
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These are episodes 3604, 3614, 3624, and 3634.
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In this series, I recounted the process of re-plumbing my home using PEX with helpful advice
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for anyone else who wants to try it.
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What I did not realize at the time I was doing the project was the toll that doing so much
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overhead by myself was taking on my old shoulder joints.
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It was only one straw, but a rather significant one, which eventually broke the camel's back,
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or in my case, resulted in several severe tears in my rotator cuff and bicep tendon.
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Therapy was marginally effective and surgery was eventually required to put things back
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together the way they belonged.
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My effort to save money and do the project myself, because I could, helps lead to significantly
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more expenses and more than a year of recovery.
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I'm not sharing this for sympathy, but rather because I learned something important.
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Now that I'm getting older, as I decide which projects I should do myself and which
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I should pay professionals to do.
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It is important to factor in the potential impact on my body, my mind, and those around
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me, even if all goes well.
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Just because you can do a thing does not necessarily mean you should do that thing.
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Unless the thing is recording a podcast for HPR, that is something you can and should
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do.
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You have been listening to Hacker Public Radio, as Hacker Public Radio does work.
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Today's show was contributed by a HPR listener like yourself.
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If you ever thought of recording a podcast, then click on our contribute link to find
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out how easy it really is.
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Hosting for HPR has been kindly provided by an honesthost.com, the Internet Archive
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and our sync.net.
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On the Sadois status, today's show is released under Creative Commons, Attribution 4.0 International
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License.
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