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wolframhydroxide

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  • Be forewarned: it's definitively from the 1870s. They didn't yet understand cellular respiration, there are a couple of seriously racist paragraphs (most notably one in which the article author states as a well known fact that the "hyperborean" people are all candle thieves, because supposedly they ate the candles. They didn't yet understand the nature of dinosaurs, either. However, the chemistry experiments seem fun, if potentially deadly at times, including some terrifying instructions on how to make chlorine gas, capture it, combine it with hydrogen gas, seal the container, then expose it to light and watch it explode as the photosensitive reaction makes hydrochloric acid. Fun times. Anyway, it's a very entertaining read, and there are six volumes of the stuff. I've only gone through the first thus far.

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  • It would be like sticking your penis in pineapple juice. It contains digestive enzymes that are very similar to stomach acid. The reason that butterwort (another carnivorous plant) is called by that name is that you can use the plant's dew to curdle milk. Just like how you can use acid or enzymes to cure food, it would cure your penis (in fact, volume I of the book "Science For All" from the 1870s has an entire chapter on carnivorous plants, and they give a fascinating description of how you can cure meat using sundew or butterwort dew) The curing (effectively cooking) would not occur very quickly (it's not like it's piranha solution), but it would happen, and that tingly, prickly feeling of eating a pineapple that you get on your lips and in your mouth when you eat a bunch of pineapple at once? That would happen to your penis, but it would happen faster, and burn more, because the penis is a very sensitive organ.

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  • I agree with most of that, except for this: Theseus clearly didn't give a flying fuck about angering the gods, because right after kidnapping Helen, he went into the underworld to try to kidnap Persephone, the wife of the Lord of the Dead. You can't expect me to acknowledge that Theseus was devout enough to think a fever dream was a sign to abandon Ariadne and that she'd be fine, but not afraid enough of the gods to try to kidnap a goddess out from under the nose of the lord of hell.

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  • I would say the title is like the name of the ship, since the title can't change without the URL changing.

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  • "Ship of Theseus"? It's in reference to a ship which was used to row out to Delos every year for a ritual, but it was very specific that it had to be the same boat that Theseus used. So, as the pieces broke and had to be replaced, eventually every original plank, nail and line would have been replaced. After all of those replacements, which occurred one at a time over decades, is it still the same boat? If you collected all of the old replaced bits of the original boat, then put them together into a boat, would that be the original ship? At what point does it stop being the "ship of Theseus"?

    If you're talking about History repeating itself, the joke is that the wikipedia page is, itself, now a ship of Theseus. It has the same URL (we call it the same thing), but none of the original remains. Is it still the same article?

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  • Also kidnapped Helen of Sparta when she was prepubescent so that he, already in his later years, could groom her and forcibly wed her. Also left the person who gave him the thread, who betrayed her entire family to save him, on an island in the middle of nowhere —as far as he was aware, left to die— without even giving her the decency of a goodbye, according to some sources. And no, don't come back at me with "Dionysus told him to do it in a dream". First, not in all sources, and second, do you make it a habit of immediately doing whatever your drunken night terror tells you to do, as long as you dreamed it, when the life of your paramour is on the line?

    No, fuck Theseus. Should have been left to rot with his ass glued to a chair in hell.

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  • Yes, silver nitrate. Also, she would have had that lesson painted on her face for at least a week.

  • What are you doing for podcast discovery?

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    1. mostly looking based on podcasts I already enjoy.
    2. The Magnus Archives. It's an examination of the Architecture of Fear. It is one of the finest examples of worldbuilding I've ever seen, It just makes sense that the world works in the way it does, and every piece you learn makes more sense. Tight storytelling, and everything is connected, even though it's a monster-of-the-week episodic show. The entire 200-episode storyline was planned by the time they finished the first 10 episodes. You'll know whether it's for you by the end of the fourth episode.

  • Matt Damon, Ben Affleck sued by Miami police for depicting them as ‘dirty’ in The Rip

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  • I mean, yeah, one of the more famous police procedurals is literally "Miami vice".

  • NutriTrace v1.0.0-rc.20 — Google Health migration, Resilience, Split Recipe

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  • This is an AI slop Spam Bot. Every single post it has made in the last two hours stops in the middle of a sentence, with each comment being at best sycophancy, and at worst a total non-sequitur. Everyone should report this spam from an undeclared bot account.

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  • But the "Miami police department" does, and these character saren't named as specific individuals. Only the police department. The police department is certainly, itself, a "public figure", which the defendants could easily demonstrate using the public figure's social media posts and press releases. Is there case law saying that a group such as a corporation cannot constitute a "public figure"?

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  • It's missing the diagonal and would be way off-center. The 4 would have to be sideways. You can see what it should look like in the discard pile.

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  • Ah, yes, the ultimate hallmark of trustworthiness.

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  • I think this might be AI. What card is the 4 supposed to be with that symbol in the middle?

  • Kindred spirits

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  • Nah, I think we're all clearly misinterpreting this: OC thinks furries are so hot they uncontrollably ejaculate fire at the very thought of them.

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  • Actually, the grout does look more puke-green than it should.

  • What was your "we have to leave now" moment?

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  • Thanks.

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  • Bold to assume the mint gives you a choice in whether you "keep" it.

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  • I think they want fewer brambles, because blackberries are neither the most-voluminous nor the most-annoying part of the bush.