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SCIENCE and thank you
It's not SCIENCE until somebody replicates the OP's results.
It's science if he did the experiment and documented it (he did, see post). It's proven science when others verify the results.
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> there's no technical reason to use poison Yes, there is. Methanol and ethanol are very chemically similar and small amounts of methanol in your ethanol is usually acceptable from a chemical standpoint. But denatonium benzoate is not like ethanol, and can be a contaminant that destroys the process. To get around this, you either have to find old-fashioned methylated spirits in very high purity, pay the alcohol taxes…
Labs aren't buying their stuff at Walmart, so I don't know why they'd by affected by any remotely reasonable law. The supply houses can keep selling methylated alcohol, but let's get the unnecessary poisons off store shelves and out of consumer cabinets.
Except this is why chemistry is less entrepreneurial - you can't just set up a lab in your shed (for better and for worse)
And so now I write code for a living instead of trying to push the frontiers of medical chemistry :)
FYI I fully get why many chemicals are fully regulated. I recall a funny story from uni and how only the big boss head of the entire chemistry org had the authorisation to handle lysergic acid (precursor to LSD) and he had to be supervised while pouring it/measuring it for your experiment.
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#263Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not SCIENCE until somebody replicates the OP's results.
It's science if he did the experiment and documented it (he did, see post). It's proven science when others verify the results.
It's never "proven science," the theory just has more experimental support.
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#264Earlier quoted context omitted.
Labs aren't buying their stuff at Walmart, so I don't know why they'd by affected by any remotely reasonable law. The supply houses can keep selling methylated alcohol, but let's get the unnecessary poisons off store shelves and out of consumer cabinets.
Except this is why chemistry is less entrepreneurial - you can't just set up a lab in your shed (for better and for worse) And so now I write code for a living instead of trying to push the frontiers of medical chemistry :) FYI I fully get why many chemicals are fully regulated. I recall a funny story from uni and how only the big boss head of the entire chemistry org had the authorisation to handle lysergic acid (pr…
As kid I had a reprint of the Boy Mechanic from the turn of the 20th century. Sooo many of the activities involved going to a pharmacy and getting X dangerous compound or element that I doubt most pharmacies today even carry let alone would sell to a 12 year old kid.
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The best data I could find was the following https://wp.unil.ch/space/files/2021/12/SPACE-II_2020_Final_r... Council of Europe Annual Penal Statistics – SPACE II – 2020 - so evidently 2021 not published yet. that is the full report maybe take this https://wp.unil.ch/space/files/2021/06/KeyFindings_Probation... which is the keyfindings and a quicker read. Figure 3 on page 5 (in the keyfindings document) - Probation an…
The OP is probably referring to this well known article (in French): "In 2020, 27 deaths as a result of law enforcement response, including 12 during containment" https://basta.media/recensement-interventions-policieres-let...
I was not referring to this article specifically but yes i was referring to those infamous stats. Before Macron, we had a casual rhythm of ~1 police murder/month. Under Macron they started raising, until we hit over ~2 police murders/month last year, as you pointed out.
If talking about secret services murdering people, the Rainbow Warrior would be a good example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior
And about police torturing people, i've been lucky enough to be only mildly hurt by police who beat me down on more than one occasion, but i know first-hand people who were tortured by police. These situations are well-documented by copwatchers. One case made news worldwide two years ago but is a good symptom of the wider problem: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/26/paris-police-f...
Re: Nintendo Switch game cartridges taste offensively bad (2017)
#266I cannot taste "bitter" (it's a genetic thing), though bittering agents used in food/drinks do taste very unpleasant to me (I don't know what it is I'm tasting in those or why it's so unpleasant). I have not tried licking a Switch cartridge. Does anyone know if Denatonium Benzoate will still taste bad to me, or is the badness entirely contained in the "bitter" that I cannot taste? I could experiment myself but I've r…
You REALLY have to try monkfruit - it has some weird enzyme or something that will make sour things turn sweet. And given that bitter and sour often go together......I wonder how the hell that would taste given your genetics
Isn't that miracle fruit?
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Absolute alcohol (200 proof ethanol) has a number of ways to kill you. It's slightly poisonous on its own. It's a massively powerful dessicator, so it can turn tissue into leather. And, if you've got industrial quantities of the stuff, it's probably not quite pure: turns out you can't just distill it past 190 proof due to water and ethanol forming an azeotrope. To push past that limit requires azeotropic distillation…
I started using Everclear as a kitchen disinfectant when Covid started. It's 190 proof, kills germs, and it's non-toxic (in small amounts) so you can use it on food surfaces like cutting boards. A big bottle is surprisingly affordable in the US and after 2 years I still have half a bottle left. Downsides: It's flammable and you wouldn't want it accessible with kids around.
> It’s 190 proof
Everclear is 151 in states where it’s not legal to sell spirits of higher proof than that (for example, California).
I discovered this little disappointment while attempting a limoncello recipe that called for real Everclear and all I could legally buy was the 151 proof version.
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Alcohol is extremely useful for many things but some people will drink it if they find it. So they add denatonium to it to discourage that. Alcohols that are meant for people to drink are taxed more heavily, so adding denatonium puts it into a completely different category of product thereby avoiding all those taxes. Just like the way Sony avoided taxes by adding Linux support to the PS2 and PS3 which caused it to be…
A computer not running Linux is considered a sin, so it's taxed??!
Taxed differently - gaming console (aka entertainment) vs ‘work computer’.
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#269The same bitterant has been used in anti-freeze for about a decade now to help prevent poisonings of children and animals. It is also used in air duster cans, which I've found annoying because it can go from your keyboard to your fingers.
Oh makes sense, I seem to recall that anti-freeze supposedly tastes sweet?
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Labs aren't buying their stuff at Walmart, so I don't know why they'd by affected by any remotely reasonable law. The supply houses can keep selling methylated alcohol, but let's get the unnecessary poisons off store shelves and out of consumer cabinets.
Except this is why chemistry is less entrepreneurial - you can't just set up a lab in your shed (for better and for worse) And so now I write code for a living instead of trying to push the frontiers of medical chemistry :) FYI I fully get why many chemicals are fully regulated. I recall a funny story from uni and how only the big boss head of the entire chemistry org had the authorisation to handle lysergic acid (pr…
> Except this is why chemistry is less entrepreneurial - you can't just set up a lab in your shed (for better and for worse)
Given the number of wannabes PhD in chemistry having peaceful religious beliefs that are entering in EU every year, this is really for the better.