You’re not wrong, but there are a lot of places in america where law enforcement presence is a long way away. Those places also typically have two lane highways and not much, if any, shoulder. That makes stopping the truck easy enough. Add to that the heavy presence of hideaways in the forests around, and you could jack a fair amount from a truck and shuck it into your box truck before skedaddling to a rural dirt road and all of its pullouts right quick.

Yum, I guess. My sink is pretty far from food prep, and my body is in the way, so hopefully my insect intake is only going to be coming from poorly regulated peanut butter factories.

I like how even the dude says not to do this.

The real issue with ‘immunizing’ yourself against venoms is that you need to have enough antibodies ready to go in order to neutralize the relatively large amount of venom injected when the venom is injected. Just having the memory B and T cells isn’t fast enough, usually. That means you have to keep the antibody count high by continual injections. The typical ramp up time for antibodies is 14 days on first exposure, and 3-7 days on second exposures, pic from an old friend who teaches immunology courses. Compare that to the typical amount of time it takes for the venom to cause damage or kill you: something like 20 minutes for the black mamba (though it usually takes a few hours, per that article), 10 minutes for one of the deadliest rattlers (wow, I didn’t know 10 minutes, that’s fucking fast, though again, that’s probably on the small probability side and it usually takes longer), and generally within hours for most species.

I don’t know actual numbers for the amount of antibodies that are injected in a typical antivenin dose (see the last paragraphs of the methods section for how they measure serum concentration of antivenom), but I’d assume it’s a lot of significant figures. Antibodies average 150 kilodaltons, so you’d get avogadro’s number of them less 6 significant figures (so 6.023 x 10^17) or so to get 1.5g of the stuff (and I’m totally guessing here, sorry) which would probably be a decent amount to dilute through the vials.

Hopefully someone who works in a lab for antivenins can come in and give better insight into the amount of antibodies per dose.

AND use at least an adblocker, and even more important, something like noscript where you can see what the website is trying to load onto you. Ublock origin lets through an ungodly amount of crap on those streaming sites.

It is the reason I have one of those electric swatters. The fuckers get near my sink, I just start lazily waving the swatter over the area and get them all.

I just got bit in the ass by bitlocker when my laptop motherboard died. I had to do the unsafe bootloader hack to get back into the drive.

Fucking poe’s law. I thought you were serious until the last sentence. Even the idea of being made whole isn’t something beyond what some fuckers would claim.

Depends on the safe, but the people executing a search warrant, if it’s a proper search warrant, will either take the safe with them or stay there until it is opened. The locksmith is also (likely) going to be covered because he was acting at the direction of the police. That means he’s going to drill it, and probably won’t be looking at the search warrant as confirmation. A proper search warrant means you’re fucked unless the cops do something stupid, like looking in your cupboard when the search is for a cow.

It’s bogus how heinous the government can be over small crimes.

It’s not a big deal, just one of those things that was jarring to read because I knew I had heard it differently in the past. It’s more irritating to me that I knew the ‘open heart surgery’ thing well, and hadn’t heard about this. Shows what some people are concerned with.

This wasn’t the first open heart surgery… opening/repairing the pericardium is not open heart surgery. Even in the wikipedia article, it specifically says “heart surgery.” In the cited sources from wikipedia, the listed first ‘open heart surgery’ isn’t until 1952.

I knew something was weird when I read your title, because that and the machine for heart-lungs in 1953 are always taught as huge leaps.

Heh, where’s the emetic? Also known as the ‘sudden info dump.’

I almost wish 1984 was the reality, but it’s a horrible mix of 1984 and Brave New World. Rather than just being oppressed due to fear of your comrades turning you in, like 1984, we also get people happily ignoring everything bad to get their fix of the fixed slice of the world presented to them.

If it was just 1984, at least I’d have hope that enough people could see the problem, rise up against the problem, and not have to contend with the contented masses that just want the status quo.

Never let your kidnapper take you to a secondary location.

This_is_another_fake_email@mailinator.com

add a number to the end if it says it’s already been used and won’t let you use it again.

Shock, or loss of perfusion to the tissues, can be painful. The most common cause of angina pectoris is brief interruption of blood flow to the heart. That’s the reason that heart attacks can be painful.

Username fucks out(hole).

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen some odd pictures of the giraffe over on pawb.social… Maybe not the same thing?

This is when they implement the backdoors that britain is requiring. /s

You’re not wrong, but good luck watching out for a vehicle approaching you at a 30 mph differential (which is what I recall from fortnine covering the topic years ago) from behind.

My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord. “And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.

Yet if adam and eve had just eaten the fruit of immortality, apparently they would have been exactly like god. That’s also in the bible. It’s almost as if there are contradictory parts and it’s full of bunk…