Girls are trained early on to be wary of pretty latin boys with lots of lashes. Luckily, fellahs, not so much.
So Fallout 4 has made me go look up a Shakespeare quote. See, there's this character who kept on and on about finding the "milk of human kindness". Deciding to find out the origin of the quote -- only knowing it was from the play Macbeth, I found it and its interpretation. Lady Macbeth: Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be What thou art promis'd. Yet do I fear thy nature, It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Macbeth Act 1, scene 5, 15–18 The curious thing is, they (enotes, the site I found this on) interpreted it to mean 'human compassion', as in Macbeth was having compassion for King Duncan, while I interpreted it to mean 'spineless coward'. She was basically calling him a sissy for not having the stones to knife King Duncan and his kids in their sleep. The more ya know! And they say videogames can't inspire you to go learn something. If I remember correctly, she was going to go do it for him, but when she looked at the king's face, she was reminded of her own father and was all, "Eh, nope" and Macbeth had to do it anyway. Not sure how the sons escaped though...
Just set things up to go do some community service for extra credit at school by doing some work at the local animal shelter. I'm kind of torn about doing it, because as much as I love animals, I know that I'll go there and get attached to some of them and hate to leave knowing that they might not find a home and could be euthanized.
I think that community service at an animal shelter would be tough for me too. Although, I am a Registered Nurse and I've often had to care for a patient that was in the end stages of disease and death was knocking at the door. It's hard sometimes but I always did everything I could for them so when the time came it was a little easier to bear. If you go to the shelter love and care for them in the best way that you know how, I think you will be fine knowing that you enriched their lives in your own way. Truly own it and make your mark. That's all anyone including an animal can ask.
There's a place where I've gotten tuna salad sandwiches several times (because I like them and they're a cheaper option than other subs) and the owner asked me if I was Catholic. I suppose she thought I was observing Lent. I'm not by the way. *amused*
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water... https://www.yahoo.com/news/salmon-full-cocaine-antidepressants-study-140100123.html Man I can't imagine what kind of trip those fish must be on. Are they happy? Are they sad? Are they tripping daisies?
Probably either not affected or completely freaked out. Like, if they work on them that mixture of stimulants, depressants and hallucinogens is going to fuck you up.
The article doesn't give the concentrations, so I had to read the study. The highest concentration was nearly 1000 ng/g (nano-grams per gram). I don't know enough about fish biology to estimate, but if you had 1000 ng/g of cocaine in your system, you'd only notice if you happened by a lab that was testing your blood for cocaine. The article also confuses the results of the study. 81 toxicants were found in the sewer water not the fish. Only 42 were found in the fish, and cocaine (to use the example) wasn't one of them. Or to put another headline on it: Scientists Find Smaler Amount of Cocaine in Sewer Water Than You Would Expect to Find in Cocaine User's Urine
Of course the media wanted to make it sound more dramatic than it is. That is half of the point of headlines.
... But it's not the companies. Well not directly. Sewer plants. They were checking the sewers. Those chemicals are getting into the water via you.
GAAASSSPPP!!! (Jokes, I know. Honestly, thinking about how we deal with sewage just disgusts me, and not in a 'icky!" kind of way. We should be far more responsible than we are. But it's sooo convenient to continue with a lazy system when coming up with proper disposal is sooo big of a project.
So you are saying that our sewer plants are able to disintegrate trash and and feces coming from our homes, but we don't have anything that can destroy or filter the medicine we piss away?
Guys, remember, this section is for limited levels of debate. It's specified in the OP. Just, keep it cool and small.
OMG I'm not going to start a separate thread to talk about prescription medicine in fish, besides, @Jack Asher and I are not going to get in a long drawn out serious debate about it. We are just discussing it... SNITCH!
Just pointing it out. I can feel what could be the beginnings of a serious angry argument. Never underestimate how big of an argument you can have over small things. It just takes the right people in the right mood in the right circumstances to make something like your wording into an shouty five minute debate.
Well...yes actually. Some of these toxicant were down to 4.5 ng/g. Aside from straight distilling the water, we simply don't have a way to screen for that. We can test for it, but this quantity is literally like an eyedroper in the middle of Niagara falls. Aside from a scorched earth purification, there's really nothing we can do.
This. You'd be surprised what microscopic traces of random things you encounter on a day to day basis. You'd have to be a Bubble Boy to avoid it. How much cocaine is on money? Does it depend on the bill in question? http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/08/090816-cocaine-money.html
I don't think that is quite the same as finding fish and water that is polluted with 81 different things.
Wanna get even more terrified? It is impossible to avoid most of the things listed in the article. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ColdandFluNews/story?id=5727571&page=1
