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    Water to rinse once hit.

    Lemon juice (on a rag or bandana as make shift mask) and milk (soothes).

    Wear Layers of clothing. Remove contaminated.

    Heavy gloves - leather. Canisters get VERY hot.

    Stay upwind if possible. They’ll try to move you with the wind.

    Don’t look up. Wear face obscuring and impact resistant glasses and mask.

    No makeup or contact lenses. Chemical warfare will fuck that shit up.

    Yes, I’ve done this before.


  • A couple short stories on the matter:

    Is there a god? (Less than a page, but says it all)

    Dwan Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connection with gold. The eyes of a dozen television cameras watched him and the subether bore throughout the universe a dozen pictures of what he was doing. He straightened and nodded to Dwar Reyn, then moved to a position beside the switch that would complete the contact when he threw it. The switch that would connect, all at once, all of the monster computing machines of all the populated planets in the universe – ninety-six billion planets – into the supercircuit that would connect them all into one supercalculator, one cybernetics machine that would combine all the knowledge of all the galaxies. Dwar Reyn spoke briefly to the watching and listening trillions. Then after a moment’s silence he said, “Now, Dwar Ev.” Dwar Ev threw the switch. There was a mighty hum, the surge of power from ninety-six billion planets. Lights flashed and quieted along the miles-long panel. Dwar Ev stepped back and drew a deep breath. “The honor of asking the first question is yours, Dwar Reyn.” “Thank you,” said Dwar Reyn. “It shall be a question which no single cybernetics machine has been able to answer.” He turned to face the machine. “Is there a God?” The mighty voice answered without hesitation, without the clicking of a single relay. “Yes, now there is a God.” Sudden fear flashed on the face of Dwar Ev. He leaped to grab the switch. A bolt of lightning from the cloudless sky struck him down and fused the switch shut.

    (Fredric Brown, “Answer”)

    https://www.roma1.infn.it/~anzel/answer.html

    Or

    The Last Question - Isaac Asimov

    https://xpressenglish.com/our-stories/the-last-question/








  • Thanks for these stats. Its nice to see actual data.

    It’s not exactly a revelation. Seeing the drugs that were all the rave in the 90s/00’s at the bottom end of the data and remembering the UK gov and police going hard against the love, all the while docs are prescribing the worst and pubs are serving the king of the worst.

    Also, Imagine if alcohol were illegal.

    And thanks for the sentiment.

    Its been years now but I still have flashbacks and it makes me want to drink. I don’t drink, seing what it did to his body. He was otherwise an upstanding and very well respected member of community and society. He just liked his beer and whiskey at the end of the day. Every day.

    Though I have done every other drug on that list aside from khat. I don’t anymore.

    Just the best 7 or 8 of them.


  • This is a great response.

    When harm to society is considered, does that include such things as health care, legal/criminal, and damages to property? Death would obviously be a more weigghted category.

    The single use danger makes sense.

    I wonder, is length of horrific suffering and toll it takes and trauma it leaves, a factor?

    (My dad was a drinker, his many medical issues attributed to drinking were not much fun to witness over the 7 months I had to stay with them til he died.

    I am not ok.)




  • AI bust subtracts 100s of thousands of jobs and a $4 trillion bailout package paid for by the taxpayers as foreclosures reach record highs, people are being disappeared in record numbers, a hundred million people are starving, the democratic party has been deported, and the ufc is providing the circus live from the grand octagon, Venezuela has been invaded, and a carrier fleet is approaching Greenland, and people wonder ‘is this the line’ and do nothing still, and the tech barons buy all your property and everywhere is company town, in 2026.