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stringless
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

indigi posted:

what’s caffeine’s LD50

Wikipedia posted:

The LD50 of caffeine in humans is dependent on individual sensitivity, but is estimated to be 150–200 milligrams per kilogram (2.2 lb) of body mass (75–100 cups of coffee for a 70 kg (150 lb) adult). There are cases where doses as low as 57 milligrams per kilogram have been fatal.

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Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!

indigi posted:

I think this was a plot point in Anaconda

I doubt one could conceal several live anacondas in a drink, no matter how big or sugary.

The Nastier Nate
May 22, 2005

All aboard the corona bus!

HONK! HONK!


Yams Fan

when you're to lazy to go to the store and buy your own bottle of syrup

Len
Jan 21, 2008

Pouches, bandages, shoulderpad, cyber-eye...

Bitchin'!


The Nastier Nate posted:

when you're to lazy to go to the store and buy your own bottle of syrup
good luck splitting it from the 99 shots of espresso

is pepsi ok
Oct 23, 2002

indigi posted:

what’s caffeine’s LD50

From wiki: The LD 50 of caffeine in humans is dependent on individual sensitivity, but is estimated to be 150-200 milligrams per kilogram (2.2 lb) of body mass (75-100 cups of coffee for a 70 kg (150 lb) adult).

I bought a big tub of powdered caffeine once because I was young and broke and decided I would make my own pre-workout. Problem was the dose I wanted (150mg) is an incredibly small amount of powder and I just kinda eyeballed it and took way more than I should have. No idea how much I ended up taking but it was one of the worst experiences of my life, worse than any illegal drug I've taken. Your mind is just racing at a million miles per hour and all you want is for your inner monologue to shut the gently caress up for 5 seconds, and this went on for like 6 hours.

stringless
Dec 28, 2005

keyboard ⌨️​ :clint: cowboy

i've been there on the tail end of a ~20 hour road trip. caffeine overload is rough

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

I love peeps
Nap Ghost
caffine powder tubs have like a 0.1% serious injury and fatality rate due to the above, basically the most dangerous way to take legal drugs possible

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

Gorson posted:

How are these things priced? By the cup? By the pump? Is it billed hourly????



This makes eating frosting out of the jar look healthy.

DACK FAYDEN
Feb 25, 2013

Bear Witness

pentyne posted:



This makes eating frosting out of the jar look healthy.
you may also like this chocolate coated lollipop :)

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

bob dobbs is dead posted:

caffine powder tubs have like a 0.1% serious injury and fatality rate due to the above, basically the most dangerous way to take legal drugs possible

Seriously.

Buy a goddamn gram scale for your miscellaneous powders. It's like $20 for one that goes down to 0.01g. And there's a lot to choose from.

Len
Jan 21, 2008

Pouches, bandages, shoulderpad, cyber-eye...

Bitchin'!


DACK FAYDEN posted:

you may also like this chocolate coated lollipop :)

it's cake!

mycomancy
Oct 16, 2016

is pepsi ok posted:

From wiki: The LD 50 of caffeine in humans is dependent on individual sensitivity, but is estimated to be 150-200 milligrams per kilogram (2.2 lb) of body mass (75-100 cups of coffee for a 70 kg (150 lb) adult).

I bought a big tub of powdered caffeine once because I was young and broke and decided I would make my own pre-workout. Problem was the dose I wanted (150mg) is an incredibly small amount of powder and I just kinda eyeballed it and took way more than I should have. No idea how much I ended up taking but it was one of the worst experiences of my life, worse than any illegal drug I've taken. Your mind is just racing at a million miles per hour and all you want is for your inner monologue to shut the gently caress up for 5 seconds, and this went on for like 6 hours.

I think your first problem was smearing caffeine powder all over your eyeballs.

duz
Jul 11, 2005

Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost


mycomancy posted:

I think your first problem was smearing caffeine powder all over your eyeballs.

how else are you supposed to eyeball a dose?

Weatherman
Jul 30, 2003

WARBLEKLONK

duz posted:

how else are you supposed to eyeball a dose?

rectally

paul_soccer12
Jan 5, 2020

by Fluffdaddy

Failed Imagineer posted:

You put in more ice than the usual amount

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

mycomancy posted:

I'd rather take a drink from the WASP CUP



No Water
Wasp

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

I love peeps
Nap Ghost

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

Seriously.

Buy a goddamn gram scale for your miscellaneous powders. It's like $20 for one that goes down to 0.01g. And there's a lot to choose from.

if you gently caress up a mild amount on the gram scale you die

i would eat the $5/bottle penalty for professionally pressed pills imop

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

Which is thicker? Edward’s drink or his blood?

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

Seriously.

Buy a goddamn gram scale for your miscellaneous powders. It's like $20 for one that goes down to 0.01g. And there's a lot to choose from.

I have a centigram scale that cost me about that much and while it’s never given me particular reason to doubt it, I absolutely would not use it for anything that could kill me.

Lib and let die
Aug 26, 2004

Once you get a good feel for what good coke looks like it's much easier to eyeball off a line based on your preferences anyway. Experience matters!

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004

Rah! posted:

more like crapitalism

ArmedZombie
Jun 6, 2004


seven pumps of dick camel sauce???

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Lib and let die posted:

Once you get a good feel for what good coke looks like it's much easier to eyeball off a line based on your preferences anyway. Experience matters!

Back when I was a drug addict I got real good at doing this too, weird what fun little life skills you can pick up in the strangest places

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

Though tbh I got off poo poo right before the dorknet exploded in popularity and I'm 100% positive that had it been around when I was way into hard drugs I'd absolutely have died. One of the F-Plus drug subreddit episodes features a dude who took a bunch of acid blotters and was wondering why he couldn't feel anything an hour or two later, then posted again the next day that whoopsie daisy he mixed up his acid blotters with his fentanyl blotters and just got back from the hospital after taking 1.8 milligrams of it, and that dude is absolutely 19 year old me from an alternate reality.

Zedhe Khoja
Nov 10, 2017

sürgünden selamlar
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blatman posted:

i could see ordering one of these to dilute an entire pot of black coffee with for like, twelve people, but we all know this guy is gonna unhinge his jaw like a snake and eat the whole thing cup and all in one gulp

I do this on the rare moods I want something in my coffee because there's nowhere to buy a decent creamer here. Except I don't order twenty things I just get a normal mocha or something.

Lib and let die
Aug 26, 2004

Shame Boy posted:

Though tbh I got off poo poo right before the dorknet exploded in popularity and I'm 100% positive that had it been around when I was way into hard drugs I'd absolutely have died. One of the F-Plus drug subreddit episodes features a dude who took a bunch of acid blotters and was wondering why he couldn't feel anything an hour or two later, then posted again the next day that whoopsie daisy he mixed up his acid blotters with his fentanyl blotters and just got back from the hospital after taking 1.8 milligrams of it, and that dude is absolutely 19 year old me from an alternate reality.

yeah the smartest thing i ever did was not gently caress with bitcoin, because i absolutely would've bought a ton of shady internet coke with it

Ruffian Price
Sep 17, 2016

Shame Boy posted:

Back when I was a drug addict I got real good at doing this too, weird what fun little life skills you can pick up in the strangest places
https://www.theonion.com/metric-system-thriving-in-nations-inner-cities-1819565900

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

indigi posted:

I think this was a plot point in Anaconda

You joke, but this was a huge safety campaign in Australia during the 80s and 90s from kids at the beach leaving cans out and bees and wasps flying into them attracted by the sweetness.

To this day, I can't leave a can alone without spinning the tab around to cover the hole and I even tend to hold the can with a finger over it.


I honestly don't know if it was really a danger worthy of a national campaign, but I'm pretty sure it was attached to the Africanised killer bee scare.

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

Megillah Gorilla posted:

You joke, but this was a huge safety campaign in Australia during the 80s and 90s from kids at the beach leaving cans out and bees and wasps flying into them attracted by the sweetness.

To this day, I can't leave a can alone without spinning the tab around to cover the hole and I even tend to hold the can with a finger over it.


I honestly don't know if it was really a danger worthy of a national campaign, but I'm pretty sure it was attached to the Africanised killer bee scare.

Nothing like ads for little bits of plastic to cover the hole of your drink when you're not at it.



I seem to remember it related to European Wasps rather than being bee related.

Shame Boy
Mar 2, 2010

So a wasp flies in your drink and... then what? You drink it and it stings you from the inside? Is that really PSA-worthy?

DR FRASIER KRANG
Feb 4, 2005

"Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?
it seems like a fun and cool way to keep from getting drugged too

Inceltown
Aug 6, 2019

poo poo POST MALONE posted:

it seems like a fun and cool way to keep from getting drugged too

Why would you want to do that though? If someone someone is kind enough to give you free surprise drugs it would be rude to not accept.

Hollandia
Jul 27, 2007

rattus rattus


Grimey Drawer

Shame Boy posted:

So a wasp flies in your drink and... then what? You drink it and it stings you from the inside? Is that really PSA-worthy?
If it stings you inside your throat it's potentially pretty bad, possibly life threatening (afaik).

Kreeblah
May 17, 2004

INSERT QUACK TO CONTINUE


Taco Defender

Orange Devil posted:

The reasonable sounding part is that if we accept that the purpose of a company is maximizing shareholder value (we shouldn't accept this in the first place, but bear with me here), then obviously making sure the CEO has skin in that game is a good way to tackle the principal-agent problem and align the interests of the manager with the shareholders through the one weird trick of making the manager a shareholder.

Except there are different types of shareholders. There are those whose interests are with a stable company generating stable profits so that they can achieve stable investment returns over the long term. Like say, your institutional investors such as pension funds. This is all BORING AS poo poo however and we're living in turbocapitalism times so to paraphrase documentary show Silicon Valley, it's not about making a little bit of money every day, it's about making a shitton of money all at once. This is like, every other type of shareholder in the market right now, from your hedge funds to your billionaires to your banks to your loving retail investors. Everybody wants to hit the loving jackpot today, cash out, and then dump all their earnings right back into the casino so they can hit another, even bigger jackpot. This is because the middle class is disappearing and this crunch is now starting to hit the low level rich as all of society is stratifying into everybody being either a multibillionaire plutocrat part of the tiny owning class, or worthless human waste, also known as the owned class. So you better make it real loving big real loving fast or you too, are going to be owned.

CEO's fall in the second type there by the way, as they too are scrambling to make it to the top right the gently caress now to avoid falling into the ever widening, ever hungry abyss below. So in conclusion, most everyone involved in running companies nowadays wants to make a fuckton of money right this instant and is willing to gamble burning the whole company to the ground over it, even if that company has been providing stable, low risk profits for loving decennia.


There's no real way to fix this without doing away with the whole dumb system, but a way to theoretically align the interests of the CEO with the former type of shareholders is to have the shareholders define dividends rather than share price as the goal, aka ban loving stock buybacks, set a cap on dividend payouts so the company doesn't just get looted that way, and give CEO's dividend paying stock which they aren't allowed to sell off for a very long time. At least then there payout would be dependent on the company continueing to loving exist and continueing to make money. Also it would keep the CEO focused on material reality because that's what generates actual profits, rather than totally focusing on perception management to drive stock prices up by thinking about the way investors will expect other investors to perceive your company and react to it and aaargh everything that actually determines share price is so goddamn dumb.

For anybody who hasn't seen Silicon Valley, this is absolutely worth a watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo

Russ Hanneman is basically the embodiment of people who tune their poo poo to scam as much money out of Silicon Valley investors as possible.

Also, here's a thing:

https://twitter.com/thrasherxy/status/1387849329390542849

The screen's only purpose is to play ads.

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
Clear space, delete ad software, reboot.

Screaming Idiot
Nov 26, 2007

JUST POSTING WHILE JERKIN' MY GHERKIN SITTIN' IN A PERKINS!

BEATS SELLING MERKINS.

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

Clear space, delete ad software, reboot.

Break monitor, tear out faucet, wash hands in spray, politely inform staff of plumbing issue.

Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus


Screaming Idiot posted:

Break monitor, tear out faucet, wash hands in spray, politely inform staff of plumbing issue.

Upper decker in this situation or no?

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014


Be a real shame if they kept getting broken.

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

Zil posted:

Upper decker in this situation or no?

Those kind of bathrooms don't have tank toilets, they have flow control valves set up on electric eyes lined up with your rear end crack.

So a coiled seat snake.

Kreeblah
May 17, 2004

INSERT QUACK TO CONTINUE


Taco Defender
It gets better. If there's a kernel panic, it looks like it displays an ad for the faucet itself, complete with a phone number to call.

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CloFan
Nov 6, 2004

I can't wait to see then smash one of those

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