urine is sterile
Not by the time it exits your body, no. Urine is sterile when it leaves the bladder, but it picks up bacteria on its way through the urethra
It's also kind of a fringe theory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951_Pont-Saint-Esprit_mass_poisoning
The attribution of the poisoning to the CIA in Albarelli's book has been roundly criticized. Historian Steven Kaplan, author of an earlier book about the events, said that this would be "clinically incoherent: LSD takes effects in just a few hours, whereas the inhabitants showed symptoms only after 36 hours or more. Furthermore, LSD does not cause the digestive ailments or the vegetative effects described by the townspeople."
To be clear: I have no reason to believe that the CIA circa 1951 wouldn't or couldn't pull this kind of stunt, just that the evidence that they in fact did is pretty shaky.
First of all, this is amazing.
Weirdly enough, I'm much more aware of "The Problem With Music" than any of his actual music
Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MOVE_bombing
The 1985 MOVE bombing, locally known by its date, May 13, 1985, was the destruction of residential homes in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, by the Philadelphia Police Department during a standoff with MOVE, a black liberation organization. Philadelphia police dropped two explosive devices from a helicopter onto the roof of a house occupied by MOVE. The Philadelphia Police Department allowed the resulting fire to burn out of control, destroying 61 previously evacuated neighboring homes over two city blocks and leaving 250 people homeless. Six adults and five children were killed in the attack, with one adult and one child surviving. A lawsuit in federal court found that the city used excessive force and violated constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure.
The callousness manifested by the police is truly shocking. "Allowed the fire to burn out of control" is important here -- the cops deliberately denied firefighters access to the scene so they could deal with the spreading fire. "WTF" is exactly right.
For more depth on this, I recommend the CBC podcast "The Africas vs America". It's weird that the incident isn't better known given how wild the story is.
Help me out here, I'm having trouble picturing this. Like... a pair of complete, full-size gazelles? Just fastened to the woman's torso? If not, which parts?
Is IDF even letting foreign journalists into Gaza right now?
Genuinely curious what he had in mind. A GNOME desktop? A terminal shell?
Shush you, Venice is magnificent. Wouldn't want to live there but it's an extraordinary place absolutely worth experiencing. Ancient, labyrinthine, palaces and churches everywhere, it's like stepping into the Renaissance.
Don't know if the panelist that kept saying 'pussy' was deliberately baiting her into revealing her hypocrisy, but if they were then fucking bravo.
Woof, thought I was having déjà vu for a minute. Nope, just republicans being republicans, yet again.
https://www.newsweek.com/greg-abbott-axing-water-breaks-texas-heat-wave-anger-1807538
Quoth Wikipedia, "Even when at peak magnitude of 2.5, this recurrent nova is dimmer than about 120 stars in the night sky."
The fact that "recurrent nova" is a thing caught me by surprise though, Reminded me of the on/off star from A Deepness in The Sky