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[Tellemurius]

You're close.

The powerful base is actually just part of the reaction rather than the product, but it does evaporate due to the heat, and you don't want to inhale basic fumes.

been there, done that <_>

[ChairmanPoo]

Now, making nerve-gas out of window cleaner, you'd be amazed how easy that is.

The way I hear it it's relatively simple to make nerve gas out of standard laboratory reagents, using organic synthesis methodology. (I wouldn't know, personally. I did not have that subject as core -pharma and chemistry students did, though-, and was not suicidal enough -academically speaking- to pick it as free choice .)

[Aqizzar]

I'm pretty sure the discovery process was less empirical than that.  As I heard it from my hotboxing highschool science teacher (never had the stones to make nerve gas in my house), you just well mix a couple brands of good glass cleaner, 409 and Windex if I'm not mistaken.  Since they're prevented by copyright from using the same formula, they all get to the "dissolve anything" part by different chemicals, and two specific brands are wickedly reactive with each other.

[Jopax]

So it's either Twilight on TV or studying, I picked studying, now my head hurts and I can't really do anything but watch Twilight, this will be one horribly long night :<

[RedKing]

So it's either Twilight on TV or studying, I picked studying, now my head hurts and I can't really do anything but watch Twilight, this will be one horribly long night :<

There are always other options, especially when one of them is watching Twilight. You could, for instance, NOT watch Twilight. Or staple your tongue to the floor. Or make a tiny scale model of the Taj Mahal out of eggshells. These would all be preferable options.

[Pnx]

So my mother came up to me and talked to me about how she wanted me to go to one of these colleges that will escort me from class to class and have someone take care of me, and be more like high school (this is her description).
On the one hand it might help with the fact that I'm petrified of the outside world, but on the other hand, I don't think it's actually going to help the real issue at hand here (that being that I'm unmotivated, borked, and frankly, slightly retarded).
Also the place she was looking at is $28,000 a year. I really don't want to have to pay that much, especially since there is no way in hell I'm getting a scholarship.

I've been consistently freaking out inside whenever faced with this issue, and frankly if I can't even handle the prospect of going to college, how am I supposed to handle actually going to college?

Self, truly though art borked.

[Darvi]

THE COUGHING, WHY DOESN'T IT STOP

Must be bad karma for enjoying those videos or something. Or for playing the copy of Skyrim that my brother obtained by a less than ethical manner. Or something.

[SalmonGod]

Oh god... the coughing... I've been resisting the urge to complain about it here, but you started it... thankfully I'm mostly over it now (been going on for about a week), but the air in this office agitates it really bad.  I'm eating candy just because I have no other available way to protect my throat.  I have serious problems with this every time I get sick.  My throat's overly sensitive ever since I had a really bad case of bronchitis when I was 13.  So I'll be fighting to get rid of a chronic cough for weeks after I've gotten over the actual illness.

[Virex]

You're close.

The powerful base is actually just part of the reaction rather than the product, but it does evaporate due to the heat, and you don't want to inhale basic fumes.

Let me guess, you're either thinking of Potassium Perchlorate (made by mixing sodium-free 'diet' salt and chlorine-based bleach) or you're doing something funky with Permaganate (available as a pool cleaner at some hardware stores)?

[MantisMan]

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What I found when I went on a cross-country travel and volunteer program/trip (the Katimavik Program, if anyone's curious) was that lots of places are very similar. Once you settle into a groove you can get used to brand new things really fast. I went from having my own room with a large bed (the bottom half of a bunk bed) to having three roommates with beds that were barely wide enough, and not nearly long enough. And this was in a house with 11-12 people. I'm now living at home with my Dad and brother while commuting over an hour to a university. The point is, Humans are very adaptable, and you probably deserve to give yourself more credit.

On the subject of burning things, a few days ago I took a can of bacon grease out to a plot of dirt in my backyard and set it on fire. It's a bit hard to light (I was using paper towels as the wick), but once it gets burning it's good. No smoke or spatter. For the most part it's a respectable yellow flame, but it  does smoke a lot when it finally goes out. I didn't even notice much of an odour in it. It's a surprisingly well-behaved fuel source. Just have a shovel of dirt at the ready to put it out.

What made me sad today was when I talked to a couple of people and mentioned the recent news story about a woman drugging her husband, tying him up, waiting until he woke up, cutting off his penis, and tossing it in the garbage disposal. This, because the husband asked  for a divorce. Then I mentioned that there was a talkshow (the view, I think) where the hosts were making fun of the guy and cracking jokes. The hosts and the audience (all women) were laughing their asses off.

The first person reacted to this by smiling and chuckling. When I pressed him on the issue, he started justifying why he didn't consider it a big deal. (Well, violence happens to women too). The second person's first reaction was to say that they guy probably did something bad enough to deserve it, and he didn't seem too bothered.

This casual disregard and mocking of a human being who was just mutilated is making me frustrated. Combined with the knowledge that if I, or any of my other male friends had this kind of thing happen to them that the response would be the same is making me have a much lower baseline opinion of people.

[quinnr]

Girls flirting with me again. I don't like it, but I don't want to upset anyone either.
But last year really sucked because this one girl wouldn't stop following me around. So yeah, I have no clue what to do about that. And I can't ask my parents for advice because the teasing would never cease.

[Vector]

Douglas Hofstadter's work has ceased to excite me =/  I feel like he spends too much time going "I am a polymath, I am a polymath!  Here is my story!  Look, I can insert AI into any discussion!" and too little time speaking to what really matters.

GEB was brilliant when I read it as a freshman, but I'm now reading Le Ton Beau de Marot and finding it severely lacking.

[Virex]

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Well I guess he won't be eating any sausages soon. Anyway, I've seen the video. However, what shocked me more than the stale jokes (honestly, whoever forgot to give them a sense of humor?) was the backlash it generated. I would be more scared of the people spewing bile over the video then I would be of my future wife deciding I could do without brains. At least the later, I can avoid getting...

[Criptfeind]

My game bugged out causing my cursor to get stuck going up. No save file and no auto save.

[scriver]

Worse day today.