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[Iduno]

Why can't I get duckduckgo to show the options for video or images on Firefox? It's probably related to noscript somehow, but I don't see anything blocked on the site.

Why are blue LEDs used as power indicators? Blue's an eye-piercing color at night, so why don't manufacturers go for a different color that doesn't strain the eyes as much?

My current PC has a soft white which is alright, but I do miss the classic 'menacing red'.

Hal Eye.jpg.

[TheSteppeWolf]

Is there a difference between poison and venom? In my language they're the same word (хор).

[Iduno]

Is there a difference between poison and venom? In my language they're the same word (хор).

A poison is a thing you should not eat (it's in the plant or animal's skin/blood/whatever). A venom is spit or injected.

[scriver]

Is there a difference between poison and venom? In my language they're the same word (хор).

Nah. A bunch of quibbleprigs decided that there was one at one point but that's not actually supported by language, usage, or the history thereof, and the people who decided it doesn't in any way have the authority to make it so.

...But if you're writing a scientific paper you probably want to watch out for that difference

[hector13]

Poison is absorbed, venom is injected.

You could eat or drink venom, as long as you have no open sores or ulcers or something in your mouth or stomach. Probably not a good idea though.

[Iduno]

Also, consider the difference between toxic (large enough amount of a substance to be bad for you, like eating too much salt) and poisonous (substance that is just bad for your biology, like chlorine).

[Kagus]

The dose (not to mention the targeting) makes the poison.  Oxygen is bad for our biology, we also can't live without it.

[Trekkin]

Also, consider the difference between toxic (large enough amount of a substance to be bad for you, like eating too much salt) and poisonous (substance that is just bad for your biology, like chlorine).

Which is different from the concept of a toxin, which is a poisonous substance made by a natural metabolism.

Key to all this is that everything we can't metabolize, excrete or sequester is a poison. Venoms have gone through selective pressure to be poisonous in injectable quantities.

[dragdeler]

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[Iduno]

Is there a safe way to break a toe? With predictable healing and such I mean.

"No."

wait 5 minutes, then meet behind the Walgreens.

[scriver]

Yer all a bunch o quibbleprigs

[Naturegirl1999]

Yer all a bunch o quibbleprigs

no idea why, but reading this made me think of

Spoiler: Chuzzles (click to show/hide)

[Iduno]

Why do I check the out-of-context thread every once in a while to see if it's got anything entertaining? I know better than that.

[Naturegirl1999]

Why do I check the out-of-context thread every once in a while to see if it's got anything entertaining? I know better than that.

because the OoC thread is entertaining

[Grim Portent]

Does anyone know the term for the mild urge some humans get to squeeze spots, squish things and scrape loose bits off stuff? Not like Dermatillomania where you just damage your skin, but the sort of thing that makes popping bubble wrap or squeezing certain flowers that aren't quite ready to open yet so they pop open satisfying.

My mother mentioned that the feeling earlier while looking at one of my pet shrimp which is carrying eggs, and now it's been buzzing my brain for hours.