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@flabdablet said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
Expert Says: Intelligent people go to bed late, leave a mess everywhere, and use bad language
To be fair, stupid people do exactly the same things.
Also left handers.
There are disproportionate amount of left handers among high IQs and low IQs (upside down bell curve).
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@flabdablet said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
Expert Says: Intelligent people go to bed late, leave a mess everywhere, and use bad language
To be fair, stupid people do exactly the same things.
Also left handers.
There are disproportionate amount of left handers among high IQs and low IQs (upside down bell curve).
Is that because they (more than right-handers) are more easily and distinctly split into groups of those who give up easily and those who stick with something to find a solution? ???
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
@flabdablet said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
Expert Says: Intelligent people go to bed late, leave a mess everywhere, and use bad language
To be fair, stupid people do exactly the same things.
Also left handers.
There are disproportionate amount of left handers among high IQs and low IQs (upside down bell curve).
Is that because they (more than right-handers) are more easily and distinctly split into groups of those who give up easily and those who stick with something to find a solution? ???
I have no idea WHY this is the case.
I do know that in general, left handedness is about 10% of the population and I had classes where 1/3 of us were left handed.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
Is that because they (more than right-handers) are more easily and distinctly split into groups of those who give up easily and those who stick with something to find a solution?
Likely because left-handedness is related to atypical brain organisation. Not just mirror-image either, set up in a different way (and all sorts of things from autism and schizophrenia to - possibly - homosexuality and non-cis gender identity are associated with higher incidence of left-handedness). People with atypical brains are probably at decreased likelihood of being at the apex of the bell curve.
Disclaimer: this is conjecture on my part.
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Soccer/footy fans showing their usual intelligence...
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Yesterday I visited a furniture shop on a road called Long Length
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@Jaloopa
I misread that title as 'Officials wank to make Dick Street longer'To the OffBiOne Thread!
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Oops!
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@boomzilla It's a big deal apparently: the entire above-the-fold of the BBC News homepage is all about this one silly gaff. It's almost as if the destination of a small statue of some bloke is more important than exposing human rights abuses and misplaced patient records.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Oops!
So, La La Land got the popular vote, but Moonlight won the Electoral College? Is that how it works?
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Just for the headline.
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Transcript:
Ken Bruce: Here's BBC Radio 2, online, on digital radio and 88-91 FM.
Clare Runacres: BBC News at 11 o'clock, this is Clare Runacres.
NHS England says thousands of patients may have come to harm because of an administrative cockup <pause> sorry, mix-up. About 500,000 documents containing medical information were mistakenly put into storage rather than being sent ot GPs or filed in the patients records.
An investigation is underway into the error, which occured between 2011 and 2016 in the East Midlands, The South West and North East London.
The acadamy award for Best Picture was presented to the fil Moonlighting <fade>
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OK, this is actually from 2010, but I can't not share it:
And yes, it was officially supported by Sega themselves.
Related, and rather more recent (2015):
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11869373/Policeman-helps-hedgehog-cross-the-road.htmlI like that police officer. He is now my friend
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From the department of "
/. editorTech 'journalist' cannot write a clear headline"...(Also, yay, cheaper nerd parts. Or boo, greedy Intel monopoly cutting their prices to drive out competition. Whichever floats your boat.)
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Also, yay, cheaper nerd parts. Or boo, greedy Intel monopoly cutting their prices to drive out competition. Whichever floats your boat.
Why not both ?
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Imagine what that same dose could do to a human that's 1/100th that bodyweight, or less.Yeah, a drug like that could really be dangerous to people weighing less than twenty pounds.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
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Imagine what that same dose could do to a human that's 1/100th that bodyweight, or less.Yeah, a drug like that could really be dangerous to people weighing less than twenty pounds.
It's the elephant weight that's wrong. The African Forest elephant, the smallest species, is 2700kg, which is about 6000 pounds. African and Asian elephants are 5-6000 kg, which is more like 13000 pounds. 130lb is small for a person, but not completely emaciated
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
And why are firefighters working to handle this, rather than police?
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
And why are firefighters working to handle this, rather than police?
Police aren't normally equipped with those masks firefighters use to help them breathe in smoky buildings.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
And why are firefighters working to handle this, rather than police?
RTFA.
First responders are trained to wear gloves to protect themselves on nearly all calls, Mesa firefighters explained. They're also outfitted with things like protective goggles, gowns, and masks to be extra careful. These are used on many other calls, but are especially important when Carfentanil is suspected of causing an overdose.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
For example, "U" goes between "O" and "R" when it is pronounced (hour, flour, etc,) and does not when the "U" is not pronounced. (Honor, color, etc.)
That a corageos opinion to hold.
Edit: okay, I just replied to a post from last year. How did I end up there? Someone must have necro-liked a post of mine.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
And why are firefighters working to handle this, rather than police?
They're first responders, they have EMT gear and trained paramedics, and they're situated in the community so that there's a station as close as possible to every resident for a very fast response. Additionally, part of their first responder training is to quickly assess potential hazards in an unknown environment -- particularly, inhalation and contact hazards from aerosol and particulate toxins. They're dealing with fires, and quite often harmful chemicals will be present in the smoke, especially in chemical fires or locations where chemicals were known to be stored, but even in residential or office fires from burning plastics, rubber, and electronics. They have to protect themselves from those types of hazards so that they don't become victims themselves.
Put together, those are good reasons to have them be the first to arrive on the scene for many types of medical emergencies, so you'll quite often see them dispatched for emergencies such as heart attacks, strokes, trauma, or, in this case, drug overdoses. This drug is apparently so potent that just touching or inhaling some could be deadly, so they have to take precautions anytime they suspect it might be present.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
For example, "U" goes between "O" and "R" when it is pronounced (hour, flour, etc,) and does not when the "U" is not pronounced. (Honor, color, etc.)
That a corageos opinion to hold.
Obviously, from the context, we're talking about its use at the end of words (or root words, as the case may be).
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
This drug is apparently so potent that just touching or inhaling some could be deadly
With that sort of LD50 dose, it sounds more like a poison than a drug
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@Jaloopa Most (if not all) drugs are poisons.
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@loopback0 all substances are poisonous at a high enough dose. Drugs usually have a psychoactive effect well before the lethal dose, which is what gives the incentive to get high off them. Some get you high closer to the lethal area than others (apparently they're quite close in nutmeg). Something that could make you OD from inhaling a few particles doesn't sound like it has much of a window for being used recreationally
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@Jaloopa at some point before use it would have to be cut with something less potent. The article mentions it being mixed with heroin. With that sort of toxicity in very small quantities, though, you run the risk of not getting it mixed in well enough and some of the doses could contain a lot more than a "safe" amount.
In any case, the pure drug would still need to be stored and handled, and I bet the thought of a fire breaking out in the dealer's house when they're in the process of mixing up a batch scares the panties off the firefighters who might have to respond.
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Oh noes, SPRING IS COMING!!!!!11eleven
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
scares the panties off the firefighters
I really don't want to know what they're wearing under their Nomex.
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Hippo murdered in El Salvadorean zoo.
An unknown attacker entered the hippo's enclosure and delivered a "sustained" beating with both sharp and blunt weapons.
This is horrible and tragic, but in all honesty the first thing I noticed is that the assailant was not found in the enclosure, bitten in half, followed by the fact that officials have called the attack "cowardly". What the hell kind of hippo is this?
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@CarrieVS said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
Is that because they (more than right-handers) are more easily and distinctly split into groups of those who give up easily and those who stick with something to find a solution?
Likely because left-handedness is related to atypical brain organisation. Not just mirror-image either, set up in a different way (and all sorts of things from autism and schizophrenia to - possibly - homosexuality and non-cis gender identity are associated with higher incidence of left-handedness). People with atypical brains are probably at decreased likelihood of being at the apex of the bell curve.
Disclaimer: this is conjecture on my part.
Yeah, I am pretty sure I have an atypical brain.
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@Karla
Maybe you should send pictures of the rest of yourself, and a panel oftrollsexperts can determine if anything else is atypical
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@Karla
Maybe you should send pictures of the rest of yourself, and a panel oftrollsexperts can determine if anything else is atypicalI have some MRIs and various X-rays.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
A dead one.
He wasn't dead at the time. He died a day or so after, despite treatment.
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@CarrieVS said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
A dead one.
He wasn't dead at the time. He died a day or so after
, despite treatmentpining for the fjords.FTFY.
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@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
Drugs usually have a psychoactive effect well before the lethal dose, which is what gives the incentive to get high off them. Some get you high closer to the lethal area than others (apparently they're quite close in nutmeg).
Bologna. One tablespoon is enough to have an undeniable effect. 4 Tbsp has a very strong effect. But many have taken the full 8 Tbsp. Lethal amount is somewhere above that.
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
Bologna. One tablespoon is enough to have an undeniable effect.
are you trying to tell me that deli meat is a psychoactive substance?
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@bb36e Depends what grows on it while it's in the back of the fridge.
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The onebox from @Boner's post in In other news today... said:
...swearing prolifically and eating whole wheels of cheese. Doctors were forced to put Kai Thomas in a coma
This is what I get from skimming.
"He's eating all our cheese! Put him down!"
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@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
It's the elephant weight that's wrong. The African Forest elephant, the smallest species, is 2700kg, which is about 6000 pounds. African and Asian elephants are 5-6000 kg, which is more like 13000 pounds. 130lb is small for a person, but not completely emaciated
No, you're just getting a tripled elephant size from a vandalized wikipedia article, see:
In reality, there are elephants as small as 15cm and 500g, we call them microelephants.
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More Uber shenanigans:
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
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Imagine what that same dose could do to a human that's 1/100th that bodyweight, or less.Yeah, a drug like that could really be dangerous to people weighing less than twenty pounds.
a drug 10,000 times more potent than heroin
"It's 10,000 times more powerful than morphine," Denton said.
A drug powerful enough to even make Nick Ciletti of ABC 15 senseless just by writing about it is really dangerous, yeah.
Fun fact: while heroin does break down into morphine and that's what gets you high from it, heroin is transported into the brain much more effectively than morphine and is thus 1.5-3 times as powerful as morphine.
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@Fox said in In other news today...:
1.5-3 times as powerful as morphine
so, same order of magnitude whichever they use then?
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@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@Fox said in In other news today...:
1.5-3 times as powerful as morphine
so, same order of magnitude whichever they use then?
if a drug is 10,000 times more powerful than morphine, then it's only about 3,300 times more powerful than heroin.