I was cleaning out a chemical storage closet at work. A hydrogen chloride container leaked out onto some iodine containers. I picked one up (bare handed) and sat it down in the grass. About thirty seconds later, I noticed the steam boiling up from around the bottom of the container. This is about 45 seconds worth of contact.

There are so many layers of fuckery here. For instance, 1. Bobonic Paige isn't a thing, 2. Plague doctors with scythes weren't superadvanced reptiles spreading poison during the middle ages, 3. The bubonic plague isn't viral anyways, 4. What the fuck are you taking about????

Seriously. The thread has a plot thicker than a soap opera.

I recently heard that the nerves controlling the pinkie and ring finger are intertwined to the degree that it's almost impossible for most people to move the pinkie and ring fingers without the other. Does it count as "independent" if one twitches while the other does the real moving? I think I may finally be special!

I loved using hoppy.network to build a tunnel to my VM on my home server over the last year, but there are better options than 8 dollars a month. The service needs to be available to the wider internet, but run on my home server. I can use Linode to get the job done at 5 a month, but my home server is an 8 core, 16 thread Zen with 24 gigs memory and that's a single, low-priority Linode instance with less storage than my server has working memory. I've considered using Tailscale, but that solution strikes me as hacky. Any suggestions?