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  1. The Circle warns of the danger of EU fragmentation: “It doesn’t know how to agree”

    BarcelonaThe Cercle d’Economia is approaching its annual conferences, increasingly focused on the health of the European project, with…
    #Economy #agree #circle #danger #doesn #EconomyofEU #EconomyoftheEU #EU #EUeconomy #Europe #fragmentation #how #IT #Know #of #t #the #TO #warns
    europesays.com/3019516/

  2. The methyl methacrylate tank incident in Garden Grove, California has resurfaced one of my pet peeves.

    According to mainstream news journalists, anything that is a "chemical" is "highly toxic". It's the end of the world. There isn't enough drama in the world.

    This stuff is not great - it's a skin irritant, and the fumes can irritate mucous membranes like the eyes, but it is *not* instant-death-on-a-stick. The explosion they were worried about was far more dangerous for its explosive effects than for the chemical release.

    It's no dimethylmercury or hydrogen fluoride or dioxygen difluoride [1]. Heck, it's oral LD50 is something like 7g/kg - so an adult would have to *eat* almost two pounds of the stuff to have an even-odds chance of dying.

    Stop trying to terrorize the public, journalists. Do your damned jobs.

    [1] Expose it to most things, even at almost 200 degrees C below freezing, it explodes. Try to put out the resulting fire with water, it explodes. Try to put out the fire with sand, it *sets the sand on fire*.

    #journalist #journalism #accuracy #drama #hype #facts #science #toxicity #danger

  3. The methyl methacrylate tank incident in Garden Grove, California has resurfaced one of my pet peeves.

    According to mainstream news journalists, anything that is a "chemical" is "highly toxic". It's the end of the world. There isn't enough drama in the world.

    This stuff is not great - it's a skin irritant, and the fumes can irritate mucous membranes like the eyes, but it is *not* instant-death-on-a-stick. The explosion they were worried about was far more dangerous for its explosive effects than for the chemical release.

    It's no dimethylmercury or hydrogen fluoride or dioxygen difluoride [1]. Heck, it's oral LD50 is something like 7g/kg - so an adult would have to *eat* almost two pounds of the stuff to have an even-odds chance of dying.

    Stop trying to terrorize the public, journalists. Do your damned jobs.

    [1] Expose it to most things, even at almost 200 degrees C below freezing, it explodes. Try to put out the resulting fire with water, it explodes. Try to put out the fire with sand, it *sets the sand on fire*.

    #journalist #journalism #accuracy #drama #hype #facts #science #toxicity #danger

  4. The methyl methacrylate tank incident in Garden Grove, California has resurfaced one of my pet peeves.

    According to mainstream news journalists, anything that is a "chemical" is "highly toxic". It's the end of the world. There isn't enough drama in the world.

    This stuff is not great - it's a skin irritant, and the fumes can irritate mucous membranes like the eyes, but it is *not* instant-death-on-a-stick. The explosion they were worried about was far more dangerous for its explosive effects than for the chemical release.

    It's no dimethylmercury or hydrogen fluoride or dioxygen difluoride [1]. Heck, it's oral LD50 is something like 7g/kg - so an adult would have to *eat* almost two pounds of the stuff to have an even-odds chance of dying.

    Stop trying to terrorize the public, journalists. Do your damned jobs.

    [1] Expose it to most things, even at almost 200 degrees C below freezing, it explodes. Try to put out the resulting fire with water, it explodes. Try to put out the fire with sand, it *sets the sand on fire*.

    #journalist #journalism #accuracy #drama #hype #facts #science #toxicity #danger

  5. The methyl methacrylate tank incident in Garden Grove, California has resurfaced one of my pet peeves.

    According to mainstream news journalists, anything that is a "chemical" is "highly toxic". It's the end of the world. There isn't enough drama in the world.

    This stuff is not great - it's a skin irritant, and the fumes can irritate mucous membranes like the eyes, but it is *not* instant-death-on-a-stick. The explosion they were worried about was far more dangerous for its explosive effects than for the chemical release.

    It's no dimethylmercury or hydrogen fluoride or dioxygen difluoride [1]. Heck, it's oral LD50 is something like 7g/kg - so an adult would have to *eat* almost two pounds of the stuff to have an even-odds chance of dying.

    Stop trying to terrorize the public, journalists. Do your damned jobs.

    [1] Expose it to most things, even at almost 200 degrees C below freezing, it explodes. Try to put out the resulting fire with water, it explodes. Try to put out the fire with sand, it *sets the sand on fire*.

    #journalist #journalism #accuracy #drama #hype #facts #science #toxicity #danger

  6. The methyl methacrylate tank incident in Garden Grove, California has resurfaced one of my pet peeves.

    According to mainstream news journalists, anything that is a "chemical" is "highly toxic". It's the end of the world. There isn't enough drama in the world.

    This stuff is not great - it's a skin irritant, and the fumes can irritate mucous membranes like the eyes, but it is *not* instant-death-on-a-stick. The explosion they were worried about was far more dangerous for its explosive effects than for the chemical release.

    It's no dimethylmercury or hydrogen fluoride or dioxygen difluoride [1]. Heck, it's oral LD50 is something like 7g/kg - so an adult would have to *eat* almost two pounds of the stuff to have an even-odds chance of dying.

    Stop trying to terrorize the public, journalists. Do your damned jobs.

    [1] Expose it to most things, even at almost 200 degrees C below freezing, it explodes. Try to put out the resulting fire with water, it explodes. Try to put out the fire with sand, it *sets the sand on fire*.

    #journalist #journalism #accuracy #drama #hype #facts #science #toxicity #danger

  7. Scars talk back

    Scars talk back

    Keeping pain buried inside
    is a foolish way to survive,
    even storms that split the heavens
    must thunder to stay alive.


    We were never made for silence,
    never built to slowly break,
    hearts are not abandoned graveyards
    for every wound we take.


    Words are dangerously appealing,
    they turn ashes into flame,
    give trembling souls a language,
    give lost nights back their name.


    We have swallowed enough darkness
    to understand the light,
    learned that courage isn’t loudness—
    it is choosing still to fight.


    What survives in hiding
    Slowly turns to stone;
    Rivers that refuse to flow,
    Are left by the ocean alone.


    So let the truth arrive untamed,
    let old fears finally depart,
    because healing never blossoms
    inside a guarded heart.


    And if life carves us open,
    let it also make us wise—
    for the souls that speak their sorrow
    are the ones that truly rise.

    #abandoned #blossom #break #courage #danger #fear #foolish #heal #heart #Light #pain #silence #Soul #stroms #tamed #thunder
  8. Chef Jose Pizarro: ‘My restaurant has been broken into four times – London has changed’

    Chef Jose Pizarro was lying on the beach on holiday in his native Spain last Sunday when he…
    #London #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Britain #ColorImage #danger #GreatBritain #horizontal #Law #london #London(England) #Pedestrian #Photography #risk #Stealing-Crime #telephone
    europesays.com/uk/977170/

  9. Sabine Lackner, the president of the Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW), has issued a warning about increasing wildfire risks due to climate change. She... news.osna.fm/?p=47325 | #news #army #change #climate #danger

  10. Sabine Lackner, the president of the Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW), has issued a warning about increasing wildfire risks due to climate change. She... news.osna.fm/?p=47325 | #news #army #change #climate #danger

  11. Sabine Lackner, the president of the Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW), has issued a warning about increasing wildfire risks due to climate change. She... news.osna.fm/?p=47325 | #news #army #change #climate #danger