A couple weeks ago I posted the question " I'm a bartender with no college experience that is dating a nuclear physicist that makes ~$120,000 a year and it makes me feel inadequate. How do I overcome this?" Turns out she was crazy and a huge liar. Do you have a crazy ex story?

frozen_beer · 1 month

Upvoted for thermodynamics.

sup3 · 4 months

This is not Gautama Buddha, but Budai.

CaressWithAChainsaw · 4 months

Well if you were to take Atropa belladonna leaves for example, you could easily munch on just a few, and that would be enough to kill you, and the therapeutic dose of atropine would be below that no? So it's just the chronological factor that limits the effectiveness of such a treatment?

Say I am exposed to a medium dose of a nerve agent, and down some plant matter that contains atropine immediately after. How long would it take for the acetylcholineesterase inhibiting effects to set in? Around an hour or so? Wouldn't that be enough to at least reduce the damage done? Can someone with more specific expertise in dosages and antidotes perhaps answer this?

CaressWithAChainsaw · 4 months

Right. I was guessing that perhaps there was some amount of hope because when I was reading about the Tokyo Subway Sarin Attack, when the victims were being treated in hospitals hours later, some doctor who recognised the symptoms of nerve agent poisoning faxed information about the antidote to the city's hospitals, was said to have saved many lives, and prevented serious nerve damage in others. Though it has to be noted that the dosage that most of the people affected received was quite low in that particular case.

CaressWithAChainsaw · 4 months

Morning Glory seeds contain some toxic glycosides on the seed coatings, the purpose of which is to (you guessed it), stop animals from eating them. This is what is nausea inducing, and I wouldn't be surprised if it would induce diarrhea too.

EDIT: Also, certain varieties of Morning glory seeds were used in China traditionally for their laxative properties. Glycosides in the seed coatings may be similar to the Senna glycosides, which are a common sort of over-the-counter laxative.

pickups · 4 months

If you use acetone, make sure you dry it using some sort of Epsom salts, or Magensium sulphate. This is absolutely critical or you'll lose a lot of MDMA in the process.

CMGvend · 4 months

Well concerning Salmon, it's not really the most popular fish in Japanese sushi restaurants. Purely ocean fish are more popular, and those are simply brought unfrozen the same morning from the local market, and the risk from eating them is low.

CaressWithAChainsaw · 5 months

The thing is, when you do get into Japanese to such an extent to do your N1 test, etc, a lot of people have sufficient interest into kanji and such things to take their knowledge further, while many Japanese may take it for granted.

rezyn · 5 months

You could say they're getting exponentially worse.

HighSorcerer · 6 months

I'm afraid that as far as I know phenethylamine does not cross the blood-brain barrier, and doesn't have any pharmacological effect.

CaressWithAChainsaw · 6 months

The way it works for detecting grows in forests and fields is that Cannabis leaves reflect a greater amount of UV light than most other plants. That is the actual purpose of THC in Cannabis, it is a molecule that reflects UV light, instead of having it absorb, burning and overheating the plant. (also why there has been research into THC sunblock). The way this is applied by law enforcement is that a helicopter takes a UV scanning photograph of a region from the sky, and the Cannabis plants stand out compared to other plants because they are more reflective. This is a giveaway when a crop is hidden within a section of another crop, the difference in UV reflection is obvious. If there is nothing to compare it to, and only a small amount of plants, this kind of UV reflection scanning is completely useless. Another kind of imaging used is infrared (thermal), which looks for high heat signatures around suspicious places. Unless you are running a massive farm, once again, this is not a problem. Hopefully my explanations made sense.

coolandspicy · 6 months

I enjoyed more the explanations of the Buddhist than the display of supposed Christian stupidity in this video.

BUBBA_BOY · 6 months

Amorphophallus titanum

thewrongmelonfarmer · 6 months

Verdi's Requiem is a bit intense at times but I'd try it.

nonamenoke · 6 months

I too think this may be a sterile, therefore sporeless, Psilocybe semilanceata.

HockeyandMath · 6 months

Pattie Boyd, for reference.

gnorb · 6 months

The first time I took the closed form and plugged some values in and got 1, 1, 2, 3, 5 I shat bricks.

specialkake · 7 months

Really interesting read, I'd also recommend Hoffmann's book "LSD: My Problem Child".

DFGdanger · 7 months

How many molecules of water are there in a glass of water? Molar mass of water is 18. So 18 grams in a mole of water, i.e. 6.02 x 10²³ molecules weigh 18 grams. One cup is 237cm^3, and 237 grams of water in one cup. Therefore about about 13.1 moles of water in one cup, so 7.9 x 10²⁴ molecules in one glass of water.

The third one is probably trickiest to find out.

philmarreddit · 7 months

Upon examining this picture in particular, and looking through the species indigenous to Costa Rica, I think you're right, it must be a Vanda pictured. In that case I'd very much doubt that it was taken in the wild in Costa Rica.

philmarreddit · 7 months

While it looks quite similar, I do not believe it is a Vanda hybrid, you would not find one growing in the wild in Costa Rica. On the other hand, a number of Cattleya species that look very similar to the one pictured are indigenous to Costa Rica.

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