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beenBoutIT
5y ago
Prior to that inevitable slaughter some of them get to experience things that most humans never get to experience. Mice on MDMA for example could easily be having the best time that any mouse has ever had.
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beenBoutIT
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If this technology is real it needs to be expensive enough to prevent the vast majority of people on earth from having access to it.
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beenBoutIT
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Apparently PET's safe to burn and has the equivalent energy content of soft coal - Penn State's found a way to make a coal-substitute out of it. https://tpsalliance.org/pdf/conference/2010/5B-Garthe
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beenBoutIT
5y ago
Most likely more mercury than is found in the plastic alternative. The mercury may be bound somehow to the seaweed in a way that prevents it from being absorbed when the seaweed is consumed although steeping it in boiling water may leech it
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beenBoutIT
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Morality aside the uneaten dead birds never go to waste. If a raccoon, opossum, coyote or bird doesn't eat the carcass something else will and it all goes back into the mix. The only way it becomes an actual loss is when a human interf
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beenBoutIT
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Seaweed is often contaminated with heavy metals and radioactive isotopes that no one wants coming near their food. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10898404/
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beenBoutIT
5y ago
Melt them down with solvents/heat and then cast them into something useful. Every home could have its own artisanal plastic forge. It could be the Great Leap Forward (Third Five Year Plan).
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beenBoutIT
5y ago
Showing off is the whole point of social networks. Showing off pictures of dinner, children, girlfriends, boats and other things people might think are cool.
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beenBoutIT
5y ago
Apparently people with untreated narcolepsy (who naturally go in-and-out of that zone automatically on a nightly basis) tend to have "higher creative potential" than people without narcolepsy[0]. [0] https://pubmed.ncbi
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beenBoutIT
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After using any type of force, lethal or otherwise against a trespasser that type of sign would be used against the owner in court to their detriment. There's a requirement for "no trespassing" signs to be posted around prope
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beenBoutIT
5y ago
The heart attack stats are likely incorrect. An international WHO study on cocaine[0] concluded: "A majority of health consequences may not be directly attributed to cocaine use. Cocaine often contributes to or exacerbates the cond
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beenBoutIT
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The "addiction" doesn't have anything to do with particular drugs, it's an underlying flaw that can be triggered by more or less anything that's enjoyable enough and meets a few other requirements. Sex, gambling, fo
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Some people are just destined to become addicted to something. Anyone who's ever been drunk has an idea of the level of dedication and the massive amount of work that would be involved in becoming an alcoholic. Being drunk constantly i
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beenBoutIT
5y ago
That ugly disposable McDonald's branded spoon doesn't strike me as something that 70s-80s era women would view as being "cool" or "hip". I really doubt a guy like Burt Reynolds would spend a few grand on a smal
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beenBoutIT
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Unless it's posted on government land this type of warning just tells you that you're in the vicinity of white trash.
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beenBoutIT
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What about in prison? There may well be Einsteins locked up in our overcrowded prisons.
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beenBoutIT
5y ago
Facebook: We don't just tolerate bad design we celebrate it!
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beenBoutIT
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Unless Apple's lying it has been in the works for YEARS. "Apple spokesperson Nick Leahy told The Verge that the program 'has been in development for well over a year'."[0] [0] https://www.theverge.com/
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As of 1995 more than 50% of people who identified as Indigenous preferred the term "American Indian".[0] It's interesting how people outside of a group can erase that group's identity just by taking away the name that th
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Oddly enough for whatever reason they don't seem to use that as much anymore. The visual symbols have been replaced with english text like CAUTION, WARNING, etc. A system of pictograms exists for chemicals but manufacturers must not ha
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Investigate fume hoods and implement a good one with enough make-up air to take everything coming off of your range out of your kitchen. Air quality's negatively impacted by heating pots/pans/etc. and their contents up and le
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Pods are a scam. They measure out ordinary crappy dishwashing detergent and package it up in a 'pod' then mark the price up 10x. In the US soap seems to exist in a grey area where manufacturers can make unsubstantiated claims abou
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With dishwashing detergent liquids are superior. Liquid detergent often contains varying amounts of KOH which is about as good as it gets in terms of cleaning power that won't also destroy dishes(NaOH). They can't put KOH in dry d
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Managers need to be able to spot OCD spirals and keep things on track. Having perfectly realistic doors isn't that important - the end user only notices them when they break. TLOU2 is remembered most for being less great than TLOU and
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beenBoutIT
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According to the Late Great Alexander Shulgin the recommended dose is 1-10mg orally. TiHKAL #35 Melatonin with an exceptionally long Extensions and Commentary section: https://isomerdesign.com/PiHKAL/read.php?domain=tk&
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Longitudinal Content Analysis of Nerd Representations in Popular Television
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The violent anti-nerd sentiment of the 1980s had real life implications for anyone who was into computers or other nerd behavior well into the 90s. I actively avoided any public association with nerd things, only using them secretly and not
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beenBoutIT
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The whole NES era really was the last terrible period in video game history. No console after the NES had so many games that were so bad and so expensive. New PS2 games cost around $50 USD back in the 2000s and most new PS4 games actually c
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Blizzard was literally actively marketing its games to imbeciles. I'd love to know how common that type of buying decision gets made and if it carries over to online game buying - Amazon lists the weight of items. Rockstar Games takes
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With video games there's often good reasons to want the disc so you can roll back to the v1.0 before any changes are made. Rockstar Games always adds easter eggs to the disc version that typically get eroded with updates. At least on t
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