Odd Stuff (Part 5)

If you examine this map closely, you will see exactly where flowers for florists come from and where biodiesel is allowed to be produced.

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On LA County:

The county population is similar to the state populations in Georgia, Pennsylvania, and New York, just to name a few.

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Hopefully no one thinks it looks fun to try.

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Two thoughts:

  1. Iโ€™ve heard the term cow exploder which may be more accurate for what happens when a huge, hard mass with considerable momentum hits a, comparatively speaking, small, squishy object.

  2. Why? To the best of my knowledge, in Switzerland it is verboten/interdit/vietato/scumandร  to jump in front of a tram. So this obviously never happens.

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Thatโ€™ll fix the trolley problem.

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Modern American version of the trolley problem:

Pull the lever or donโ€™t pull it . You have no impact on the situation because the tracks were pulled up in the 1950s. Instead, everyone who would have been riding the trolley is forced to buy a car, and the resulting traffic kills more people than either lever position ever could.

You ponder whether you should choose not to drive, but society is structured to make it practically impossible to exist without a car. This is advertised to us as freedom.

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It depends on which one you consider the prize.

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โ€œIโ€™m so sorry everyone: the rules say youโ€™re all going to die.โ€

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Anyone ever read the comic Dalgoda? That happened to a character there. He wrecked a starship and was accused of being drunk.

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This one simple trick exterminators donโ€™t want you to know about

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โ€œHyper-localized icingโ€ sounds like something on a dessert.

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In their defense, people are told to bring in the animal that bit them if at all possible, for positive identification and/or rabies testing. (Or Lyme disease testing, etc.)

And in Australia, lethal snakes are an everyday occurrence, so it probably didnโ€™t seem that weird to them to follow the usual guidelines.

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Dr Michael said medical staff did not need to see a snake to know how to treat patients.

โ€œWe can determine if you need anti-venom and if so, what anti venom you need based on clinical signs, blood tests and also the snake venom detection kits that we keep here at the hospital,โ€ he said.

"Weโ€™re actually not trained to identify snakes, and so itโ€™s not helpful.

โ€œIt just puts the staff at risk as well as yourself.โ€

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Narnia is spilling out.

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I hear you, but what people โ€˜knowโ€™ in general might not be accurate, especially as it pertains to a particular hospital. I was postulating on an understandable reason why the incident happened, not saying itโ€™s always the correct course of action.

Hopefully this story can be used to get the real info out there, that when it comes to snakes at least, they donโ€™t need to be brought in to be identified.

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