weāre so lucky that gilgamesh survived and is a banger. can you imagine if we found the oldest written human story ever recorded and it sucked balls.
i think we should stop having "kink at pride" discourse and START having "kink at the 4th of july" discourse. for no reason other than that it would be very funny
when i was at walgreens (at 3 in the morning which explains all of this) the cashier was talking to her coworker about how shed rather be a werewolf than a vampire because vampires are condemned to hell but werewolves arent and then she asked me what i thought and i said vampire because im already condemned to hell and she said in the nicest tone of voiceĀ āi dont think anybody is condemned to hellā¦.ā paused, stared at me for a few moments, and added onĀ āā¦not even gay peopleāĀ
sometimes when I'm bored, I go through the list of recent bad faith Wikipedia edits that have since been reverted. a lot of them are politically contentious/offensive topics that attract crazies and trolls in general, but sometimes there are completely innocent inoffensive articles that people attack for no reason. some guy yesterday vandalized the article on the chemical element francium
Francium IS a stupid element. It has a half life of 22 minutes and barely exists at all, only naturally occurring as a product of the extremely rare alpha decay series Ā²Ā³āµU ā Ā²Ā³Ā¹Th ā Ā²Ā³Ā¹Pa (š· decay) ā Ā²Ā²ā·Ac ā Ā²Ā²Ā³Fr (1.38% chance). Thereās less than a gram of it on earth at any given moment. It has no uses to anybody and it isnāt even the most reactive group 1A element due to relativistic effects fucking up its electron binding energies. Stupid substance.
If you somehow asked a genie to get you a gram of Francium in a sealed vial so you could do an experiment with it, the genie would just give it to you because the enormous amount of radioactivity it produces would instantly vaporize the sample and cook you alive. Absolute dogshit isotope and its synthetic siblings are just the same but worse
theyāre using fucking nerve gas on us. chemical warfare i am not kidding these are known carcinogens deployed in neighborhoods with families and children.
Hexachloroethane is really fuckin bad but also it is not likely to represent an immediate possible life-threat unless you have a preexisting respiratory condition like asthma or COPD.
That said, there are tactics to limit exposure and decontaminate yourself and others, below the Read More.
1. If you're at risk of exposure, wear a respirator (the same sort you would need for working with paint vapors) and try and wear lab goggles with a seal. This isn't perfect, but it helps, and it's relatively cheap.
2. Try to remain calm! HC is a neuroactive agent so it will cause disorientation in addition to respiratory distress (coughing and difficulty breathing normally).
3. Evacuate yourself and others from the area of dispersal as quickly as possible.
4. When to a safe location where it's possible to shower, remove clothing, and try not to disturb your clothing as you do so; HC is a very heavy molecule, so it'll settle on your clothes and in your hair, so try to keep the mask on until you've removed as many layers as possible. You can cut your clothes away if you want, but you don't have to. (Place the contaminated clothing in a pristine plastic bag (NO HOLES. THIS IS IMPORTANT) until you can wash them, and when you do wash them, wash them thoroughly, assuming heavy soil. You will also likely need to clean the decontam area; don't sweep, use normal mopping solution.) (Deconning, cleaning, checking for injuries, and monitoring for worsening symptoms are all things that are easier to do with friends, by the way!)
6. You will need to rinse off, with special attention to hair. Sit in the water stream for 10-15 minutes before doing any soaping or scrubbing (think decontamination flush from poison control), and try to shower with cool water rather than hot to limit opportunities for skin exposure and absorption through pores, etc.
5. Do NOT touch your genitals, and, I am not fucking around here:
DO NOT TOUCH YOUR EYES, NOSE, OR MOUTH.
You will still likely be mildly exposed to HC agent.
7. If exposure occurs, you may have some respiratory distress, and you may feel mildly disoriented and/or experience general malaise (feeling shitty) for a couple of days. Your urine will turn bright yellow/orange (<- it's genuinely this color of orange. wild shit tbh) as your body clears the HC out of your system. This is not uncommon.
I have... heard it said in some spaces that nebulized albuterol can possibly be useful for the worst of the initial respiratory distress symptoms experienced from HC gas. I don't know how accurate this statement is, it's all anecdotal and there is no proposed mechanism of action for it as a dedicated treatment for HC exposure, though albuterol's use for asthma-related respiratory distress would imply that it could be helpful. Once again. Anecdotal conjecture: Use your own best judgment with regard to all protective measures taken.
8. Do seek further medical help if:
a. You have a preexisting respiratory condition and you have been exposed to HC gas,
b. You identify a significant second injury (think contusions from being struck, crowd crush injuries if you fell) that you were distracted from earlier,
c. Respiratory distress significantly worsens over the 12 hours immediately after decontamination, or
d. Disorientation and malaise persists for more than a couple days.
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