apparently this kind of disinfo was kinda prominent all the way back in 2017? looks like it was fueled by fad diet industry. statins affect something that is not immediately perceptible and tests for that outcome are done only rarely, maybe that’s why

it seems like common commercial box size for this caliber is 50, and some were likely already used for practice. soviet pistol ammo for army used to come in cans (“spam cans”), 1200+ per

tunguska incident only wiped out local squirrel population and its fallout was inert. this is more like leaded gasoline: introduced for profit, polluting for decades, makes people dumber during entire duration of it, entrenches techbros and makes them responsible for development of infrastructure going forward

would be easy to figure out during autopsy as cops had 9mm and zizians had .380 and .40

huh i had no idea, but considering how that crowd looked like, it would happen if it were real

has been going on for a while https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Congress_of_Families also look up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Malofeev

we already know how would it end

wikipedia says that not for a long time:

Beginning with underwater swimming pool lights (1968) successive editions of the code have expanded the areas where GFCIs are required to include: construction sites (1974), bathrooms and outdoor areas (1975), garages (1978), areas near hot tubs or spas (1981), hotel bathrooms (1984), kitchen counter sockets (1987), crawl spaces and unfinished basements (1990), near wet bar sinks (1993), near laundry sinks (2005)[26], in laundry rooms (2014)[27] and in kitchens (2023)

american electrical code has so much of weird shit that would be illegal out there, it’s dazzling. you can’t get three-phase power as a regular customer, but you can as an industrial, but only as 480V interphase. there are like 7 different mains voltages available. it would be illegal in europe to come up with something like “high-leg delta” but it’s a thing out there

fuse is in plug and accessible only when plug is disconnected

it’s also a very weird thing because fuses are supposed to protect what is downstream of them. so effectively fuse in plug protects cord and appliance only, not the wires in the wall. there’s breaker box for this

eastern block solution to copper shortages was to wire houses with aluminum instead of copper. this avoided all that bizarre bullshit that brits do, and in principle it’s a good idea since aluminum is used for big time power distribution as well. this worked pretty well until it was noticed that under some conditions hot spots can form on connections over time, requiring replacement of connectors. it’s still legal to use aluminum wires in some places, but copper is more common now

the only thing that would make a shred of sense would be reactive power from plugged but unused transformers and the like, and for this reason you should disconnect these when not in use. but the only loads of this type that matter are welders and such

at least in part it’s an end result of decades of crud and tech debt, so to speak, accumulating in british power grid and home wiring. they do it this way because otherwise it won’t be safe. continental euro home wiring usually has thicker wires, residual-current circuit breakers and no ring circuits so we get away without fuzes and switches, and with smaller plugs that don’t become caltrops. sometimes we do have ring circuits kind of thing, but not in house wiring, instead it’s in medium voltage distribution grid, and it’s sized so that it can serve most of loads after single failure.

it’s this bullshit again isnt it https://www.404media.co/inside-the-world-of-tiktok-spammers-and-the-ai-tools-that-enable-them/

that question was sorta related to research done previously by that uploader (not anonymous; how many noahs b. are professors at stanford?) and there’s 15 of them, which makes me suspect that he might have just loaded some exam questions for undergrads there

rat death squads are a thing now? this wasn’t on my 2025 bingo

The findings revealed a significant negative correlation between frequent AI tool usage and critical thinking abilities, mediated by increased cognitive offloading

i think it was posted somewhere in techtakes https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15/1/6

i’d say it was made easy for machines in that wisdom woodchipper would “randomly” stumble upon correct answer while scraping everything related to more general topic, while it’s made harder for humans because it’s rather obscure

well, it’s not the most obvious thing but not because it’s easy, it’s because it’s almost a trivia, a sort of thing you can see once in textbook and then never use it ever for anything and that doesn’t really connects readily to anything else, most of the time. i haven’t done electrocyclic reaction once in my entire phd programme, and last time i’ve seen them was in second year ochem course. these kinds of reactions are not very controllable or clean, synthesis of precursors looks like a major PITA, precursors would probably have to be kept in freezer under argon for maybe days before they decompose, and introduction of any modifications requires you to redo multistep synthesis, and then it might fail to work. i also suspect that this exact example might be in some undergrad textbook verbatim, and it will be in scihub pdfs at any rate. it’s also kinda old stuff with research starting in 60s

i only want to notice that the example chemistry question has two steps out of three that are very similar to last image in wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocyclic_reaction (question explicitly mentions that it is electrocyclic reaction and mentions the same class of natural product)

e: the exact reaction scheme that is answer to that question is in article linked just above that image. taking last image from wiki article and one of schemes from cited article gives the exact same compound as in question, and provides answer. considering how these spicy autocomplete rainforest incinerators work, this sounds like some serious ratfucking, right? you don’t even have to know how this all works to get that and it’s an isolated and a bit obscure subsubfield

might be relevant https://lemmy.world/post/21995141