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[Arx]

I've once packed a sandwich that was a day old and bitten into it, only to discover that the unseen side was covered in mold. I feel your pain.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

And now I know

I'm sorry that happened
Bread mold probably isn't the best thing to ingest
(I've only eaten it like twice but the bread had very few spores so I didn't really taste it)

[Arx]

Penicillin, my friend. It's good for you*!

*Citation needed.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

Penicillin, my friend. It's good for you*!

*Citation needed.

Unless you're allergic then it's deadly

[Aseaheru]

Or whatever you have infecting you is immune. Whereapon its neutral.

[Worldmaster27]

Yeah, it was by accident. I made a sandwich, but didn't notice the mold on the upper crust so yum yum for me.

I can still taste it. >.<

[Tack]

I'm having some issues coming to terms with my gaming. It's become pretty clear to me that my family does Not approve, and whilst I'm sure that my closet-gamer status is because of this, I have more trouble deciding whether or not it's a good thing.
I'm pretty paranoid about letting people know that I game, or do Warhammer, or DnD, but because of this I have a lot of non-gamer friends, and therefore I'm out of the house a lot more often and keep reasonably fit.
Meanwhile best-chick-friend is telling me that I should stop being ashamed of who I am and what I enjoy, and she's convinced that I'm pretty much tearing up my own psyche with my constant self-disparaging (She got mad when she found out I call our hobby room the 'shame room' and our WH40K case the 'Wall of Shame'.)

But I personally don't feel like I have anything less than a gigantic ego. Just not sure who I should be listening to- family or friend.
Maybe this belongs in life advice.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

Took me awhile to tell my mom I've been playing pathfinder and that sort of thing
She doesn't like it but she's ok with it
Felt like a big weight off my shoulders when I stopped being afraid of what my parents thought of it
Not sure if that's any similar to what you're going through or not but ya sorry you're flushing a rough time

[scrdest]

Or whatever you have infecting you is immune. Whereapon its neutral.

Potentially dangerous. Depends on the dosage. Most medicine (even paracetamol) can cause liver failure in too high doses.

Well, that's less of an 'even' and more of 'we use a medicine that is hepatotoxic if not countered properly by the liver for minor pain'.

And it doesn't take OD in case of mold - they produce mycotoxins, which can fuck you up in more or less subtle ways.

[XXXXYYYY]

Well, general rule of things is 'If you can eat it, it can kill you. You just need to eat use/be around enough of it.'

FTFY

[flabort]

Regular old visible-spectrum light, AFAIK, can't kill you. Blind you, yes. Make you look like an X-ray, yes. But it's not high enough frequency to cause radiation damage, doesn't heat you up (that's infrared and microwaves)...

Laser beams begin to cause plasma breakdown in the atmosphere at energy densities of around one megajoule per cubic centimetre. This effect, called "blooming," causes the laser to defocus and disperse energy into the surrounding air. Blooming can be more severe if there is fog, smoke, or dust in the air.
An electrolaser lets blooming occur, and then sends a powerful electric current down the conducting ionized track of plasma so formed, somewhat like lightning. It functions as a giant high energy long-distance version of the Taser or stun gun.

Light can kill you; not directly, but it has been weaponized, so...

[scrdest]

Regular old visible-spectrum light, AFAIK, can't kill you. Blind you, yes. Make you look like an X-ray, yes. But it's not high enough frequency to cause radiation damage, doesn't heat you up (that's infrared and microwaves)...

It might be mostly we aren't transparent - we have a fuckton of light-absorbing... stuff. Either intentionally or unintentionally so. It's also likely why it's VISIBLE in the first place - if you're gonna use EM waves, you would want to use the stuff that is not high-energy enough to loloxidate you.

[flabort]

Basically anything with mass can kill you in high quantities and anything with energy can kill you in high quantities.
That leaves a vacuum. Which will kill you if you're in one.

[scrdest]

That's... a good point.

Well, what is there that won't kill you in super high quantities? Air will crush you, food will blow you up, perfect temperature will make you die because of a lack of a temperature gradient...

Pretty much anything outside of our tiny-ass metabolic comfort zone can kill us - we're a system of a laaaarge number of moving parts designed to work in an optimum range of variables, then gradually fail as it moves outside of that, and once one part fails, the missing function gradually fucks up the conditions for the rest. We've developed a bunch of compensator systems, but extreme circumstances are, well, extreme - not much point in evolving to shrug off absurd conditions on the off chance someone decides to put you under a jiggawatt of pure blue light.

[BlackFlyme]

Not moving until next week. Very little accomplished today. Took almost five hours just to assemble a table and couple of chairs at the new place.

Didn't sleep at all last night. Though my sleeping habits have always been terrible.

Completely unprepared for exams, and they start tomorrow.

Found out that when we move into the new place, my computer desk will be placed in the living room so that what I do on it can be monitored. Even though my desktop is still broken. I'll likely have to use my laptop where it can be seen as well.

I don't understand why. My mom is incredibly suspicious when it comes to my computer usage. If I get caught doing so much as changing tabs she will freak out on me. Hell, even flashes from playing a video game can make her suspicious.