That’s a joke, because that’s the way people make mistakes with apostrophes all the time.
The correct spelling is indeed “catastrophes”, but a lot of people would spell it “catastrophe’s” (which technically means “the […] of catastrophe”).
That’s a joke, because that’s the way people make mistakes with apostrophes all the time.
The correct spelling is indeed “catastrophes”, but a lot of people would spell it “catastrophe’s” (which technically means “the […] of catastrophe”).
Catastrophe’s*
So, this is all based on “averages” and such.
While the “lethal dose” of caffeine is “estimated” at between 150 and 200 mg per kg of body weight[1], the empirical evidence points to the possibility of death with much lower doses: a death with a dose between 3 and 6 mg per kg of body weight has been observed in 2017. However, this is a very broad estimate, based the reported consumption of a precisely unknown quantity of beverages from undisclosed brands… In this case, the individual was also clinically obese at the age of 16, so it is fair to speculate that he never really exercised, and that he had a rather high amount of visceral fat, along with an underdeveloped cardiac muscle.
All this to say that we do not have precise empirical data, nor thorough clinical studies, to exactly estimate the lethal dose of caffeine for humans.
However, we do know that consuming water, or any liquid, can be fatal, with doses as low as 8L over a few hours[2]. There has been other reports of people dying drinking 11L[3].
So this was obviously meant in jest, I would not recommend drinking more than a couple coffees a day, and if you do, I would highly recommend to eat healthy, keep hydrated, and regularly exercise.
Technically even 15L is ok. 69.9 servings of 8 fluid ounces is either 15.888L (UK) or 16.538L (US). Not that I would recommend that anyway, you would have issues from the amount of liquid alone…
Yep, I’ve been enraged by this decision from day one. This is depressingly amateur. Let people join, let other developers make very cool apps, and then introduce a deeply breaking change in a minor version, and deploy it on the most active instance, with mere days of warning. Or “How to destroy all the progress made by Lemmy, in one small change”.
I get it if the devs and admins of Lemmy.ml are paying too much out of their own pocket, and if they want users to literally go away, to mitigate that cost.
But doing it in such an in such an insidious, demoralizing way, as opposed to being transparent with the costs and announcing (drastic) measures to mitigate that cost, is literally destroying most of the progress made so far, and driving most users back to reddit.
As of today, the list of most active servers of the fediverse has only one Lemmy server (Lemmy.world), in ninth position, and that is the only Lemmy server in that list, over four pages… The Lemmy instances used to be in the middle of the first first 10 instances, with Lemmy.ml leading the way.
Now, I guess the devs didn’t want to take those drastic measures, and tell people to they would be closing down their accounts, ordered by creation date, until the costs become bearable again. Because that would mean “admitting the Lemmy.ml experiment to show the world that people are, when given the opportunity, rising to the challenge, and putting in the effort, in true communist fashion, is actually a failure”. People aren’t ready for communism. Communism requires education, intelligence, and empathy/compassion. Our western societies are fostering the opposite traits. When we become educated, intelligent, and empathic or compassionate, it is in spite of our societies, not thanks to them.
Now, a few people opened instances, but it wasn’t enough, and fast enough, when the “reddit migration” happened, to absorb the insane influx of users to Lemmy.ml.
So I guess it is what it is, but it’s still sad and depressing…
First off, I know it’s only words, but I’m sincerely truly sorry for your loss. I too hope anon is doing ok, must be rough. Especially since, probably because his sister loved him so much, he apparently didn’t experience it as an assault, but rather as “something weird that just is”; so he must miss her, and possibly even beat himself up for having ignored that “weird stuff” instead of seeing it as a cry for help… That sucks, because at 12 he sure wouldn’t have had the maturity to see that as a sign, and with time, the “routine” of it would have set in, so it might not have set any alarm off… So yeah, I’m with you there: I truly hope he got some help too, even tho given our society, I’m afraid that even some of the people with the best intent might do more harm than good. Gosh this is though…
FWIW I’m not even depressed by the post, but by the comment section… I just wish the sister would have said something, the dude must be devastated…
The key difference between “have you brought what you bought” vs “have you bought what you brought”. 😉
Most intelligent comment of the thread. The “You must spend the money. You cannot give it to someone to hold on to it for you for a while” prevents you from giving the money away to get it back. It doesn’t prevent you from spending the money in a way where you still have (indirect) control of it. One could use a preexisting company or nonprofit to make a donation to, and I’m pretty sure a private sale of that order still needs to be declared, and a possibly hefty tax will incurr; but if the theoretical deal doesn’t require sales to be “official”, that’s best way to keep all the cash.
It’s 5 am on a Sunday, in the country side, by the ocean, and hundreds of km away from any big city. The best I could do would be to walk to the local real estate guy, who I know a little, go ham on his door to wake him up, and offer him all the money for a later deal. I guess that for 300k he would accept to immediately sign an agreement to proceed, next week, on a deal for one of the properties he has listed, using part of that money.
Finally, a Scottish layout.