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GNU Sir Terry Pratchett

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Harvey Epstein is also a real life politician with an unfortunate name. Less so, but, still.

That’d be like me calling my kid Suddam Hussein

Udolf Hitler?

Oh that death toll is going to rise dramatically as 279 are reported missing.

Oh and just while writing it I saw another headline saying 44 dead 279 missing.

Oh. My bad. TIL

I assume it’s to avoid the disinformation running rampant which made the US give up on reason as well. And India is so tightly populated that they really can’t mess around with measles outbreaks.

Depends on where you’re from and what the regulations are, might have been just non-denatured high% vodka essentially. As so much was needed regulations weren’t the strictest everywhere.

Anyway, I’m not gonna believe you before I see you take a mouthful of 80% alc and swirl it around your mouth and smack smack smack mmm. Without making any sort of sour face.

Because if you do, then that’s actually medically concerning, because that’s a poison and we have systems in our bodies to make us not ingest poisons easily. As in, that’s why we can taste bitter. Alcohol isn’t bitter per se but it’s a volatile solvent, and at those percentages it’s just not in anything way a taste. It’s a sensation.

I may be wrong, but I don’t believe you. You also say you don’t "really drink, so I’m thinking a younger person who’s had a small hit and enjoyed the aftereffects and can’t now discern them.

When you talk about “ethanol for disinfection”, do you mean denatured alcohol? Because if so, I believe you even less.

Yeah I’m not gonna believe this before I see you drinking 80% alcohol without making a sour face.

Well it’s essentially just herbal opioids, so yeah, it will make you dependent then you can ease that dependence by getting even a harder dependence from like Oxy or fentanyl.

This is the actively ingredient in kratom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitragynine

Again, it would be about the volume, not just having music in a helmet.

Tony’s type A personality may suggest he was in fact listening to it too loud.

Fuck off this isn’t fking Facebook

Sexual awakening at 69.

I think the kid might’ve been avoiding hardware disease

They do that by feeding cows magnets.

(no but seriously 100 small magnets on purpose is something else)

Except unless you’re gonna train your own models, you really can’t avoid shit being put into it.

And as a personal rule, I generally avoid any blended cocktails with noticeable amounts of excrement in them.

Where on Earth do you live that hand grenades are available to children?

Because while I have tossed a bunch, it was one of the most secure boxes I’ve seen in my life, before we cracked it open and started tossing them, that is. (The chief didn’t want the hassle of returning them to storage so after training the conscripts and there being 75% of a box left, he just told me to toss them asap as he couldn’t be arsed to do the paperwork of returning them.)

My point is that arresting them is marginally less bad than just outright disappearing them (ie murdering them “in secret”, despite the sort off open secret nature of the business).