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Alobar
Jun 21, 2011

Are you proud of me?

Are you proud of what I do?

I'll try to be a better man than the one that you knew.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm8yG8sBrIE

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NoNotTheMindProbe
Aug 9, 2010
pony porn was here

Rime posted:

Does not get nearly enough credit, I think the name does too much disservice and makes people immediately skeptical tho. It took a few episodes before my partner got over the branding and agreed it was seriously good. :(

It was 17c degrees on Sunday. On Wednesday it will be 17c degrees again.

In Southern Alberta.

On December 1st.

:sickos:

Not seeing the problem. That's a standard Winter's day in Brisbane.

Hubbert
Mar 25, 2007

At a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Ruggan
Feb 20, 2007
WHAT THAT SMELL LIKE?!


Trabisnikof posted:

the final stage of climate denialism was always going to be "oops its too late, might as well not do anything"

which is distinct from this thread's "our society won't stop the extinction level event, the powerful won't let us change societies, and you fuckers wont even let us do anything to make it slightly less lovely"

because "gently caress ourselves irreparably decades ago" doesn't preclude things we can do to stop current future damage, but our society and our power structures do.

but have you tried recycling your used plastics? just put them in the right bin to save the world

BIG HEADLINE
Jun 13, 2006

"Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"
Sometimes the Earth feels a little sick.

So all the humans dumped their poo poo in its mouth until it suffocated and died. It was the most profitable (and last) fiscal earnings quarter ever.



Ruggan posted:

but have you tried recycling your used plastics? just put them in the right bin to save the world

But only if they're the right numbers! :eng101:

Oh, also - who has "Pink Goo Apocalypse" on their 2021 Bingo Card? https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/11/29/americas/xenobots-self-replicating-robots-scn/index.html

BIG HEADLINE has issued a correction as of 04:08 on Nov 30, 2021

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001

quote:

This may include things like collecting microplastics in the oceans,

lol they're going to eat us alive

BaldDwarfOnPCP
Jun 26, 2019

by Pragmatica

500 good dogs posted:

lol they're going to eat us alive

I don't see the problem here

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
The hero we deserve

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




lol darpa funded

Mayor Dave
Feb 20, 2009

Bernie the Snow Clown

Alobar posted:

when is technology going to upgrade my rear end in a top hat to an official 3d printer so i can print things other than piles of poo poo? i need some things. the piles of poo poo are very useful because of all the plastic i can extract from it, but i need more.

Tangentially related to 3d printing with your rear end in a top hat, the book the stars are legion is about a worldship populated exclusively by women who give birth to components to the ship, and the worldship is dying because it's running out of resources

Seatbelts
Mar 29, 2010

Perry Mason Jar posted:

Reincarnation is real so you're good. It's fine.

What? you mean come back here? pass

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry



seems to be tumerics, ginger, oreganos, basil, and paprika that are the main culprits. particularly it seems spices grown bulk in india and adjacent regions which is where most of those would come from (for cheap). and particularly your cheap garbage grocery store Great Value mccormick poo poo.

i buy most of my spices from a small local very bougie place. i should ask them next time i'm there what they do.

A Bakers Cousin
Dec 18, 2003

by vyelkin
it would be fitting to be poisoned by spices considering the horrors the americans and europeans inflicted to get those spices throughout time

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007

lmfao

Homeless Friend
Jul 16, 2007
i'd rather listen to the heavy metal girls tbh...

mod sassinator
Dec 13, 2006
I came here to Kick Ass and Chew Bubblegum,
and I'm All out of Ass

Xaris posted:



seems to be tumerics, ginger, oreganos, basil, and paprika that are the main culprits. particularly it seems spices grown bulk in india and adjacent regions which is where most of those would come from (for cheap). and particularly your cheap garbage grocery store Great Value mccormick poo poo.

i buy most of my spices from a small local very bougie place. i should ask them next time i'm there what they do.

lol that is like a photo of my spice cabinet. i need to do a clean out and start fresh

Enfys
Feb 17, 2013

The ocean is calling and I must go

i have and use so many spices

i buy in bulk from an asian market but imagine like most modern production it comes from the same small handful of sources

all that cadmium and arsenic and lead can fight with the plastics i guess

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

mod sassinator posted:

lol that is like a photo of my spice cabinet. i need to do a clean out and start fresh

at this point id prob guess heavy metals from spices for aged-adults is a, relatively-speaking, non-issue compared to *waves hand at earth burning down in the background*

if you have kids, that changes the dynamic. but also lol

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

Enfys posted:

i buy in bulk from an asian market but imagine like most modern production it comes from the same small handful of sources

all that cadmium and arsenic and lead can fight with the plastics i guess
maybe. you can tell differences in spices from the color, the fragrance, pungency/taste, and grain size which should prob tell a lot about it's common (or not common) megasource. i can definitely tell my local spice shop isn't the same spices thats bottled in grocery store Great Value! brand poo poo having used numerous different spice brands for years. they did say 2/3rd were fine and it seems more clustered around certain crops.

but also lol who cares. i wouldn't bother throwing anything out until it's empty.

Xaris has issued a correction as of 08:14 on Nov 30, 2021

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.
More like cadmibad

nailed it

kyojin
Jun 15, 2005

I MASHED THE KEYS AND LOOK WHAT I MADE
Cadmi-yum

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

College Slice

Enfys posted:

all that cadmium and arsenic and lead can fight with the plastics i guess

Jel Shaker
Apr 19, 2003

so arsenic is ok in childrens food up to a certain level? cool

starkebn
May 18, 2004

"Oooh, got a little too serious. You okay there, little buddy?"

Jel Shaker posted:

so arsenic is ok in childrens food up to a certain level? cool

All toxins are lethal or not depending on dosage

:science:

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.
I like to imagine there is a toxin out there so toxic that a single molecule of the stuff will go around the body loving poo poo up all by itself, causing enough damage to cause serious illness within a noticeable timeframe and never getting removed from the body

Perry Mason Jar
Feb 24, 2006

"Della? Take a lid"

Seatbelts posted:

What? you mean come back here? pass

You can "level up", as it were, to an incarnation that is much, much better than this. If you're lazy and loving around and not learning then you gotta incarnate on this bastard Earth again. Anyway being here is a precious gift! No other incarnations have as much potential for accelerated growth than here (not Earth per se but a human-like experience), really you should be grateful although I understand why you may feel otherwise.

BaldDwarfOnPCP
Jun 26, 2019

by Pragmatica

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

I like to imagine there is a toxin out there so toxic that a single molecule of the stuff will go around the body loving poo poo up all by itself, causing enough damage to cause serious illness within a noticeable timeframe and never getting removed from the body

Ice IX

They've already found Ice VII in diamonds so we just have to delve more greedily and surely we'll hit it

Perry Mason Jar
Feb 24, 2006

"Della? Take a lid"

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

I like to imagine there is a toxin out there so toxic that a single molecule of the stuff will go around the body loving poo poo up all by itself, causing enough damage to cause serious illness within a noticeable timeframe and never getting removed from the body

Tetrodotoxin has an LD50 of 334 micrograms (per kg).
VX, a nerve agent, has an LD50 of 3 micrograms (per kg).
Batrachotoxin has an LD50 of 2 micrograms (per kg).
Maitotoxin has an LD50 of 50 nanograms (per kg).
Botulinum has an LD50 of 1 nanogram (per kg).

nomad2020
Jan 30, 2007

Dented bean cans as weapons of mass destruction.

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

is a virus a toxin?

Perry Mason Jar
Feb 24, 2006

"Della? Take a lid"

mawarannahr posted:

is a virus a toxin?

No. There is only one virus of which we're aware that produces a toxin - rotavirus produces the toxin NSP4.

Edit: the spike protein, but not SARS-CoV-2, may properly be considered a toxin but as far as I'm aware no one has named it that specifically. A case can be made but to my mind it should only be considered a toxin if the protein circulates independent of the virus, which I don't believe it does (I think this is an open-ended area of study and no one can say for certain whether it does or doesn't?).

Perry Mason Jar has issued a correction as of 14:01 on Nov 30, 2021

Strom Cuzewon
Jul 1, 2010

Perry Mason Jar posted:

Tetrodotoxin has an LD50 of 334 micrograms (per kg).
VX, a nerve agent, has an LD50 of 3 micrograms (per kg).
Batrachotoxin has an LD50 of 2 micrograms (per kg).
Maitotoxin has an LD50 of 50 nanograms (per kg).
Botulinum has an LD50 of 1 nanogram (per kg).

Somewhere between 10 and 100 ng of Polonium is fatal. That's absolute dosage, not per kg of body weight.

And the Litvinenko killers contaminated themselves, their hotel room, and left multiple trails all across London. Jesus.

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

Perry Mason Jar posted:

No. There is only one virus of which we're aware that produces a toxin - rotavirus produces the toxin NSP4.

Edit: the spike protein, but not SARS-CoV-2, may properly be considered a toxin but as far as I'm aware no one has named it that specifically. A case can be made but to my mind it should only be considered a toxin if the protein circulates independent of the virus, which I don't believe it does (I think this is an open-ended area of study and no one can say for certain whether it does or doesn't?).

cool, thanks. it does seem like an academic difference to a know-nothing.

Perry Mason Jar
Feb 24, 2006

"Della? Take a lid"

Strom Cuzewon posted:

Somewhere between 10 and 100 ng of Polonium is fatal. That's absolute dosage, not per kg of body weight.

And the Litvinenko killers contaminated themselves, their hotel room, and left multiple trails all across London. Jesus.

Yes! But we couldn't properly call it a toxin.

Also we would measure it in GBq not grams but if you were to convert Litvinenko's lethal dose (2 GBq) to grams you get ~10 micrograms not nanograms.

Strom Cuzewon
Jul 1, 2010

Perry Mason Jar posted:

Yes! But we couldn't properly call it a toxin.

Ah very true, I was just going for the most small amount = death think I could find.

quote:

if you were to convert Litvinenko's lethal dose (2 GBq) to grams you get ~10 micrograms not nanograms.

I think it bears repeating: Jesus. Only alpha decay, so not as terrifying as it could be that they spread it all over the place. But still, plenty terrifying.

Pryor on Fire
May 14, 2013

they don't know all alien abduction experiences can be explained by people thinking saving private ryan was a documentary

worst toxin is probably a cosmic ray, one naked proton can kill anything, anywhere

people really don't appreciate the atmosphere

Perry Mason Jar
Feb 24, 2006

"Della? Take a lid"
jesus christ they put climate migrants in scare quotes

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/11/27/how-climate-migrants-are-roiling-american-politics-523295?utm_source=pocket-newtab

what an incredible decade this is shaping up to be. just incredible

and this article is talking about the politics of the refugees (not migrants!) rather than anything that matters. lol. lmao

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.

Pryor on Fire posted:

worst toxin is probably a cosmic ray, one naked proton can kill anything, anywhere

people really don't appreciate the atmosphere

Can it? If it hits a particular nueron you mean? I'm not sure the brain is that susceptible to be honest but I'm willing to hear you out

an egg
Nov 17, 2021

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JAY ZERO SUM GAME
Oct 18, 2005

Walter.
I know you know how to do this.
Get up.


Xaris posted:



seems to be tumerics, ginger, oreganos, basil, and paprika that are the main culprits. particularly it seems spices grown bulk in india and adjacent regions which is where most of those would come from (for cheap). and particularly your cheap garbage grocery store Great Value mccormick poo poo.

i buy most of my spices from a small local very bougie place. i should ask them next time i'm there what they do.

i am loving dead

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