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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • I mean yea, non consenting chemical alteration of someone’s mental state is a messed up thing, accidental or not. For someone not expecting it, or not used to it, you will likely think you’re sick. That could be distressing. It could be dangerous if that person were, say, headed off to work (nurse, doctor, crane operator, taxi driver, office worker on commute), or had been avoiding cannabis due to family history of psychosis, or has a damaged immune system and now fears they’ve caught something, we also feed pizza to kids.

    Most probably nothing grim will come of this, and the jokes are fine I think, but we all should understand that this is serious.


  • Really interesting stuff. Going to give a close read for insight into what is driving the microbes to act this way.

    Edit: “Atmospheric δ13CCH4 does not allow us to differentiate between anthropogenic microbial sources (livestock, landfills) and natural ones (wetlands), so further study is necessary to investigate the potential climate feedback hypothesis”.

    So, their simulations suggest its the microbes, but without more study we don’t know if it’s us causing it directly or natural sources (and they can’t rule out anthropogenic influences on natural sources either). So, don’t let anyone tell you this proves humans aren’t driving climate change or methane emissions, because that’s not what it says.