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  • Repeated deadly cough syrup scandals pose hard questions for India’s drug regulators

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  • Manufacturers, knowingly or unknowingly, use commercial-grade PG when making cough syrups to cut costs.

    i'd note that there's zero technical reason why DEG would end up in PG. reaction of water with ethylene oxide gives you ethylene glycol, diethylene glycol and higher analogues and these are then separated by distillation. propylene glycol is made from propylene oxide instead, and it's more expensive than ethylene oxide. diethylene glycol has little use on its own, at least compared to other glycols

    however,

    The physical properties of diethylene glycol make it an excellent counterfeit for pharmaceutical-grade glycerine (also called glycerol) or propylene glycol

  • Microsoft flips the switch: Word will now save new documents to OneDrive by default — and that changes everything

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  • there is an ancient spell that will help you:

    india romeo mike space hotel tango tango papa sierra colon slash slash golf echo tango dot alpha charlie tango india victor alpha tango echo delta dot whisky india november space pipe space india echo xray

  • Trump's Nobel Prize desperation now a 'running joke' among diplomats

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  • this can be dealt with

    After the Nazi invasion of Denmark this placed them in danger; it was illegal at the time to send gold out of Germany, and were it discovered that Laue and Franck had done so, they could have faced prosecution. To prevent this, de Hevesy concealed the medals by dissolving them in aqua regia and placing the resulting solution on a shelf in his laboratory at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. After the war, he returned to find the solution undisturbed and precipitated the gold out of the acid.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_de_Hevesy#World_War_II_and_beyond

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th October 2025

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  • it seems to me that bigger problem is that they also think that software can solve these problems

  • Just a tip

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  • wait, there's a specialized tool for cutting cock rings?

    also i guess some variant of miniature wire saw would work

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th October 2025

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  • is nobel committee fronting everyone on the next bubble?

  • Ukraine says it struck Russian ammunition plant, oil terminal and weapons depot

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  • Trains (electric) or pipelines generally won't, but pipelines aren't everywhere you need them and trains can't be used for anything else in this case. Effect is the same: local shortages

  • Ukraine says it struck Russian ammunition plant, oil terminal and weapons depot

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  • so the way i understand it, at first refinery strikes had little impact because other refineries still had slack capacity. but even before that slack capacity was gone, it had a further effect that now fuel was not prepared in places it used to be, so it had to be hauled longer distances. meaning logistics is strained and some fuel is used to haul it, and also now fuel production is more concentrated

    at some point that slack capacity was gone and fuel went from not where you need it to not existing at all. there already were shortages in some regions. that and still large demand for fuel for farming caused decrease in exports. there was a refinery that only produces products for export, and its output wouldn't be directly usable as fuel (they only distilled crude into fractions, still high in sulfur etc) but it was also hit so exports from it don't matter because these are none

    at any rate these developments are on borrowed time because it only takes maybe half year to repair more advanced parts of refinery, so under certain droning intensity they can just roll on. everyone involved knows that, and looks like situation will get worse for russians

  • Pakistan Fights Its Fiercest Taliban Insurgency in a Decade

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  • oh no, how come my own actions have consequences

  • Merkel says Poland and Baltics' heistancy to engage with Russia contributed to the invasion of Ukraine

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th October 2025

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  • this is big talk coming from beginner cult founder funded by thiel, a failed lawyer

  • OpenAI wants all the gas power — and prices go up

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  • i'm all in for banning ai dc buildout until they build all the required nuclear powerplants

  • What technology would you give to ancient people just to fuck with them?

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  • aluminum bars, they won't be able to work it into things like with iron. even if they do, they can't make more

  • A leisurely trip

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  • commercial planes are a bit subsonic, you're asking for 300-400 km/h trains. high speed rail is like 200 km/h

  • It was in fact hot

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  • note to self: hot metal and cold metal look the same

  • Microsoft Copilot AI tries faces instead of a pearly blob

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  • are they just reinventing clippy but now it will remind you about eating your daily recommended pebble?

  • tylenorule

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  • you're using up enough paracetamol to kill a horse small herd of horses before it goes bad?

  • tylenorule

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  • i don't think there are limits on paracetamol, but there are limits on codeine and such, you need ID for that. it's just that nobody needs this in these amounts

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  • i'm starting to think there's something wrong with healthcare out there!

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  • americans you have paracetamol pills packed 100 per box? biggest common box out there is 50, and usual 20 per