Titles are for nobility

[riflebrass]

I have a theory that if you ran numbers on people who die at 90, 91,92, etc you'd probably find an abnormally high number of people who die at 99 compared to similar ages. It really seems like a lot of people die just before hitting 100.

[fresnel149]

I’m actually curious to see the numbers on people who die within 6 months of turning 80, 90, 100, etc compared to the rest of the decade. Some people just hold on to hit a milestone and then give up, knowing no matter how hard they fight they’ll never see the next one.

[inkandguns]

Do you think guys at the beer factory are allowed to drink one every once in a while? I mean as long as they keep it chill.

[fresnel149]

You know how every company has that one cool thing they used to be able to do there until some dipshit took it way too far and ruined it for everyone?

[unification]

it's about being an instrument of truth by your own will. the guy who ingested helicobacter pylori to establish a clear causal link between it and the formation of gastric ulcers understood this too

[finalgirlfall]

some sources about Barry Marshall (the doctor in question, who was a resident in internal medicine when he did this). he credits Dr. J. Robin Warren with the initial discovery of heliobacter pylori, and he and Warren won a joint Nobel Prize for this in 2005.

Monmaney, Terence. "Marshall’s Hunch." The New Yorker (New York, NY), September 13, 1993. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/09/20/marshalls-hunch.

Nobel Prize Outreach. "Barry J. Marshall | Facts." NobelPrize.Org, Stockholm, Sweden, 2026. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2005/marshall/facts/.

Marshall, Barry J. "The discovery that Helicobacter pylori, a spiral bacterium, caused peptic ulcer disease." In Helicobacter pioneers: firsthand accounts from the scientists who discovered helicobacters, 1892–1982, edited by Barry J. Marshall. Wiley Blackwell, 2002. ISBN 978-0-86793-035-1.

[mendingthechaos]

[riflebrass]

Long ago my grandpa worked at a Standard station. I never knew that was the old name for Chevron. One time he called me and needed me to meet him at the Standard station a couple towns over. I tried to tell him there are no stations with that name and that I had no idea where to meet him but his hearing was so bad he didn't understand. Finally I found his car at the Chevron. He'd been waiting almost an hour for me and he was pissed. "Can't ya read? It says Standard right on the sign!" I told him to take a good look at that sign and read what it says. "It says standard!" I told him to look very closely because if "Chevron" looks like "Standard" it's time to turn in the drivers license because he's as blind as he is deaf. Fuckin Helen Keller over here lol.

[anarchomikeism]

This hits close to home for me. My dad has early onset dementia. I recently stopped him from using bleach with Dawn while cleaning the kitchen sink. I explained how it's dangerous. He asked "Where did you learn about this?" I just made some shit up. The truth is, he taught me that when I was like 8. This is the one scenario where telling a little white lie is the best and most merciful option.

[riflebrass]

I didn't know there was anything in dawn that reacts with bleach. That's the scary thing about the stuff. Bleach interacts with a bunch of different things that can mess you up.

[fresnel149]

There isn't, as far as I can tell, although some other liquid dish soaps have a small amount of ammonia in them which is bad to mix with bleach, as you know. I think this is misinformation by way of brand genericization.

That said it also doesn't really offer any benefits either, so any level of risk isn't worth it.

[riflebrass]

Yeah it's easier to keep everything separated. If I need a degreaser I use dawn. If I need to sanitize I use bleach. I don't really mess with ammonia.

[fresnel149]

I went back to ammonia-based glass cleaner recently and if you can stand the horrid stench, it does an amazing job. Non-ammonia cleaners simply can't compete.

[mendingthechaos]

[riflebrass]

Long ago my grandpa worked at a Standard station. I never knew that was the old name for Chevron. One time he called me and needed me to meet him at the Standard station a couple towns over. I tried to tell him there are no stations with that name and that I had no idea where to meet him but his hearing was so bad he didn't understand. Finally I found his car at the Chevron. He'd been waiting almost an hour for me and he was pissed. "Can't ya read? It says Standard right on the sign!" I told him to take a good look at that sign and read what it says. "It says standard!" I told him to look very closely because if "Chevron" looks like "Standard" it's time to turn in the drivers license because he's as blind as he is deaf. Fuckin Helen Keller over here lol.

[anarchomikeism]

This hits close to home for me. My dad has early onset dementia. I recently stopped him from using bleach with Dawn while cleaning the kitchen sink. I explained how it's dangerous. He asked "Where did you learn about this?" I just made some shit up. The truth is, he taught me that when I was like 8. This is the one scenario where telling a little white lie is the best and most merciful option.

[riflebrass]

I didn't know there was anything in dawn that reacts with bleach. That's the scary thing about the stuff. Bleach interacts with a bunch of different things that can mess you up.

[fresnel149]

There isn't, as far as I can tell, although some other liquid dish soaps have a small amount of ammonia in them which is bad to mix with bleach, as you know. I think this is misinformation by way of brand genericization.

That said it also doesn't really offer any benefits either, so any level of risk isn't worth it.

[quinoaphoenicks]

I love you guys but I think a lot of you are the kind of people who are susceptible to falling in with a cult.

[teaboot]

You’re right. We should all band together under a trustworthy and influential leader who can keep us safe from outside threats

[recoiloperated]

I elect @ivan-fyodorovich-k as our leader.

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

[fresnel149]

That's what makes you a good pick.

[capsfromtrek]

[galbee]

[twistedpictures1-deactivated202]

hey you should ask your doctor about MAOIs. my SSRIs weren’t working so we tried those (i’m on nardil) and it did wonders for my mental health. just saying as a suggestion because based on the fact that you put the fucking onceler on my dashboard in 2022 the meds you take right now don’t work

WHAT

[giltspark]

[pinkbowsandstripedsocks]

[edwardspoonhands]

Honestly, Tvyek is pretty miraculous. It’s permeable to water vapor but not to water, it’s nearly impossible to tear, but can be easily cut. It’s cheap and made entirely without binding chemicals. In addition to being used for wristbands, it’s used to wrap construction sites to keep out water during construction, for tear-resistant envelopes at Fed-Ex, coveralls for mechanics, and my wallet, actually.

Fun tip, though it looks like paper, Tyvek is plastic, and cannot be recycled with paper.

[fairypsychicarchive]

[andromedafalls]

holy fuc

[piisbetterthanpie]

I didn’t even know it had a name

[uncle-beanbag-mojave]

I made a tent out of it a long time ago. Worked great

[fresnel149]

Also these wristbands come off easy if you grab the loose end on the inside and pull. They're designed to shred from that.

[boomer-mythology-destroyer]

[riflebrass]

The post shows hundreds but it only says "dollar" bills. A bill weighs a gram and gold is $144 per gram

1kg of singles is $1k 1kg of benjis is $100k 1kg of gold is $144k give or take a little because the price fluctuates

[fresnel149]

I choose neither and leave the Sierra Madre, never to return.

[beardedmrbean]

One of these days I'm gonna give in to the temptation

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

[fresnel149]

[tendie-defender]

Two front sights? wtf? Lmao.

[ketchuplaser]

Bro, one is a backup. SMH

[recoiloperated]

If you can break a fixed front sight, you have bigger problems.

[fresnel149]

Which makes it a very reliable backup.

[azspot]

[fresnel149]

I'm not sure what's funnier, a MAGA hat on a man from 1996, predating the movement by 20 years, or a "birther certificate" on a man from 2004, four years before Obama took office.

[hybridmindthoughtsreloaded]

Did you know?

People living within a mile of golf courses had a 126% higher chance of developing Parkinson's disease compared with people living farther away.

[riflebrass]

I've known a few people with parkinsons. Most were farmers exposed to a ton of chems.

[fresnel149]

I don't know if this is a nationwide thing but out here we have whole communities built around golf courses so that everyone can have grass out their back window without the community master plan having to give them more than a postage stamp of a backyard, so this makes me wonder if part of the problem here is the sorts of people who live in a community like this, rather than the golf course itself.

[enriquemzn262]

Colombian soldier manually deactivates a propane tank turned into an IED by FARC terrorists, 2025 Colombian Internal Security Crisis.

[enriquemzn262]

Video of the incident.

Reminder that this is all a consequence of Gustavo Petro’s absolutely abhorrent work as the current president of Colombia, as he’s more worried about Gaza and his international reputation, than actually governing the country.

[fresnel149]

Why did they not just detonate this in place? Or hook a fishing line to it, pull it into the ditch, and blow it there? It doesn't seem like there's anything close enough to damage from that except the road itself.

[enriquemzn262]

The new coastal paint scheme for the MH-60M of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, the Night Stalkers.

A lesson from the January 3 2026 Maduro raid.

[uncle-beanbag-mojave]

Nice

[goulashforce]

Hmmm very nice indeed so they can hide ... in the water? 🤔

[uncle-beanbag-mojave]

No it's so they can hide in garages with poured epoxy floors

[fresnel149]

To be fair to the camo pattern, the ocean and the sky have relatively similar color schemes, so it's kinda dual-purpose.