Apparently it can be used to hide drugs from sniffer dogs, and it has live yeast that makes it easier to brew alcohol in jail.
Still seems a bit draconian. Life is a little sadder without Marmite, and if you grew up with Vegemite, I’m sure the same is true.
I stand corrected:
PHP was originally an abbreviation of “Personal Home Page”, but it now stands for the recursive backronym “PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor”
P.S.: “One of these two statements *is correct.”
Yep. PHP stands for Perl Home Page. Perl is awful to debug and maintain.
Wait, you write web scripts in rust?
They call me a womanizer, but it’s been years since I’ve womanized anyone.
Toxin, as far as I can tell, specifically means a pure substance that is toxic, like botulinum toxin (the molecule). A venom can have multiple toxins.
Anyway, to labour the point about usage, it’s always been normal to refer to animals that can poison you by biting you as “poisonous”. Here’s an example in a published book from every century from the 17th to the 21st:
1668, John Wilkins, chapter V, in An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language, London: […] Sa[muel] Gellibrand, and for John Martyn printer to the Royal Society, →OCLC, 2nd part (Conteining a Regular Enumeration and Description of All Those Things and Notions to which Names are to be Assigned), page 161:
SERPENT … either that which is not poiſonous: or that which is counted poiſonous, having two long, hollow, moveable teeth, …
1787, F.S. Clavigero, The History of Mexico[2], London: G. G. J. and J. Robinson, page 60:
The Cencoatl (o), which is alſo a poiſonous ſnake, is about five feet long, and eight inches round at the thickeſt part.
1895, Leonhard Stejneger, The Poisonous Snakes of North America[3], Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 475:
Evidently the first thing to ascertain is whether the case is really that of a bite by a poisonous snake…
1963, United States. Navy Department. Naval Operations Office, Poisonous Snakes of the World[4], U.S. Government Printing Office, page 29:
The characteristics which separate the dangerously venomous groups from their non-poisonous relatives are emphasized.
2002, B. Kalman and K. Smithyman, The Life Cycle of a Spider[5], Crabtree Publishing Company, page 31:
These antivenins make living near poisonous spiders much safer.
What annoys me about people correcting this is that it’s never been incorrect. Poisonous has been used to mean “having a bite or sting that injects poison” since forever.
“Poisonous” has always also had the meaning of “having a bite or sting that has poison”. Check the quotations at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/poisonous for some examples.
Plastic caps being attached to bottles has nothing to do with carbon footprint, it’s to reduce plastic waste in the environment.
To be precise, kept going to the church whose priest had molested their sibling and her son. The fuck are they still there for?
Also, I repeat: the idea that the kid grabbed the grenade is the cops’ version, which can safely be assumed to be a lie
I mean yes, the cops lie a lot, but if the kid didn’t have the grenade in his hand, it seems implausible for it to have blown his hand off.
I completely agree that explosives should not be used against protestors.
Still, I fail to see how a stun grenade can blow your hand off if it’s not in your hand.
If he didn’t pick it up or catch it, how did it blow his hand off?
Lol, what mask do you have that blocks NO₂?
As an outsider, the whole situation is a weird clusterfuck of social expectations. I’ve only ever seen trick or treating on TV and it seems to be a stage managed ritual where kids dress up and everyone buys candy for everyone else’s kids.
Although, the American part of the company that I work for makes bank every Halloween, which is nice.
The student picked up a stun grenade that had been thrown and it exploded in their hand.
Gullibility isn’t reserved for Republicans though. Just look at how many people were eager to believe that a Yandex datacenter being hit meant that a Russian bot farm got taken out and that it was affecting online discourse.
To save you a click:
The state senator had seemingly drawn his conclusions from a series of playful TikTok videos posted by Holscher’s 20-year-old daughter, Maddie, who had shared clips of her and her mom brushing their teeth set to a song from the Wicked soundtrack.
“Casting a spell so my mom wins Kansas Governor except she’s so done with me,” Maddie Holscher captioned one clip from April, in which she waves her arms around her mother.
And I guess it’s also going to solve emphysema, strokes atherosclerosis, erectile dysfunction, etc. etc.
And in the meantime they’ll stink.
That isn’t either?