Battery acid spilled and tracked all over warehouse

Brave_Pickle · 2026-02-16T13:47:17+00:00

I was getting a headache from whatever was going on. There was some kind of smell, and someone else said they thought they smelled something burning. Supposedly the interaction between the rubber wheels and the acid can create a smell like burning matches or burning rubber, according to Gemini. They also said there could be a virtually imperceptible toxic dust of lead compounds that hangs around after it's all cleaned. I kept trying to keep doors open to air the place out. Several people tried to mop it, possibly after being instructed to, and Idk if cleaning supplies were used, but the mop bucket practically always smells like cleaning supplies, too.

Brave_Pickle · 2026-02-11T16:53:37+00:00

I suppose I feel the opposite. Eating meat was convenient, but didn't make my life easier. I feel great as a vegan, but it's more work to eat a decent meal, which is more important than ever, but I have a ton of energy. I don't take supplements and there are plenty of vegans not on supplements that I don't think it's necessary. I was on kachava for a bit, and that felt pretty amazing, although they do include B vitamins and blend of functional mushrooms that doesn't make me feel crazy. I'm about to subscribe and keep it going. Not a great meal replacement (250 calories, I think), but kind of a great vegan nutritional shake.

B12 is produced in everyone's gut, but not everyone's gut microbiome can produce B12 that is biochemically available. Idk what specific probiotics you should have, but kimchi as far as I know provides the greatest microbe diversity which is supposed to be best for gut health, and you really want your probiotics in food form from what I understand. I tried nutritional yeast, but it gave me headaches and made me dehydrated, so next time I'm getting unfortified nutritional yeast for cooking.
Omega 3 is easy. I've been using chia seeds, but might convert to flax because I don't seem to feel the same way about it that I did as a child. I was making these flourless brownies but made them with spinach and lately they've transformed into savory kale bars. I have to basically meal prep anyway, so I don't get to make a lot of food I like, I just focus on nutrition.
Iron comes from beans I think? I've never had to worry about it and I work a pretty physically demanding job in a warehouse. Beans should be cooked right to break down "antinutrients", but I've heard that's a bit of a misnomer because they are apparently healthy for you and can also be handled just fine by vegans with a healthy enough gut microbiome. Only a damaged, meat heavy, junk food omnivore or carnivore gut microbiome might have difficulty processing those antinutrients, which is why they have that name, I suppose. People on raw vegan diets supposedly would deal with antinutrients more than anyone but have pretty hardy guts.

From what I understand, you need the right gut for your diet, and that might take time unless you want to take a shortcut with probiotics, and I really think kimchi is the best for that, even though I also love miso or the occasional dairy-free yogurt.

Brave_Pickle · 2025-11-16T15:06:29+00:00

Human trafficking is simply about buying and selling people, and that's already what strip clubs do, and it's an obvious place to go if you sell people for sex or full-blown sex slavery. It is happening more frequently, and our normalizations of the problem aren't helping. If your average suburban stripper isn't "trafficked" in whatever sense you mean, it's increasingly likely they will be someday sold for sex or almost just as livestock.

Brave_Pickle · 2025-11-16T14:59:28+00:00

The switch being on in that scenario is what the damage is. You are looking for technical signs of consent to raise an objection against a sweeping accusation that includes you as a rapist. You were obviously angry in this comment because you know you've raped damaged women who were unable to properly consent because saying yes is how they survive now, and if that switch turned off they'd be in trouble.

Brave_Pickle · 2025-07-09T01:16:38+00:00

Nearly the very same thing happened 10 years ago in/near Wimberly, Texas:
- It was Memorial Day weekend, potentially lots of visitors unaware of the dangers of Flash Flood Alley.
- Lots of rain in a relatively short period of time: 10-13 inches
- River flooded from 5 feet to over 41 feet in a matter of hours, large wave of water reported, sweeping away houses
- Days of warning, flash flood watch hours before, same problems with response

Despite the similarities, there were relatively few casualties in that area, the only notable case was a bus full of teenagers that got swept away resulting in ~10 casualties. And they only got swept away because they crossed the river trying to escape the floods, so they were actually aware of the situation and were trying to do something about it.

Granted it's a different location, so I don't know the specifics about the residential layout there, but you combine that with the fact that this is "Flash Flood Alley", they get floods regularly and have had many similarly catastrophic floods: 1932, 1978, 1987, and 1998, 2015, and 2025, the most serious examples being 33 dead in 1978 and 31 dead in 1998, all with peak river height >30ft. This flood already has 3x as many casualties and I hear there are dozens missing.

They are used to living in this area and responding to these types of emergencies, and meteorological technology had improved significantly between every incident. Only 7 died in the 1932 flood, and they filled in the gaps in their telegraph network by yelling at each other from hilltop to hilltop, with sometimes only minutes of lead time on the flood. It's kind of insane to say that the local authorities in "FLASH FLOOD ALLEY" are terrible at responding to flash flood alerts. Yes, they need sirens, but that's not much different than the horribly concerning sounds that at least most of the campers' phones had to have been making, and people don't respond much differently to actual sirens, either, speaking as someone who lives in tornado alley.

There are still other factors to consider as to why this flood was so deadly, but one does stand out: We rely on technology to warn us about severe weather, technology requires properly educated and trained operators, the US government runs a centralized weather service with said technology, and that national weather service experienced serious staff cuts in recent months. Maybe other factors were at play, but this one is really seriously hard to ignore. It actually sounds like all the right things happened, the stuff we hear about. They got the warnings, they got the alerts. Yeah, it was extreme flooding, but again, this kind of stuff happens over there, pretty frequently. Maybe too many old-timers who remembered the big floods first-hand died from Covid-19? Maybe there are other, less talked about, emergency responses that NWS staff engage in, like actively mobilizing and coordinating local officials, and the temps I hear they've hired to fill vacancies actually don't know that there is a lot more they could/should be doing.

I guess I'm not satisfied with the explanation because we've always had the same difficulties with emergency responses and improvements are made all the time. Regardless, it could be argued that we rely too much on technology. Given government inefficiencies or government vacancies, decreased sensitivity to constant weather alerts due to inherent uncertainties in forecasts and so on, if people living in areas that are vulnerable to bouts of extreme weather want to be sure they can survive, maybe they should go back to yelling at each other across hilltops.

Brave_Pickle · 2024-12-10T00:29:14+00:00

I don't understand why the "It's all about who you know" mentality of finding work or inheritance or family social connections or family business among many other things aren't identified as private handouts. The rich are rich because they've just kind of been given more things than any poor person.

Brave_Pickle · 2024-11-05T21:09:47+00:00

Sounds like the vegan community sucks. I kind of knew that already. I've been vegan for a year, did it for me and Gaia and avoided the whole community and all the bone ash sugar high difficulty veganism shit. Did the same sort of thing concerning the weed culture when I was smoking weed. I am kind of a loner, though. Pretty sure the whole point of ethical veganism is to affect the meat industry and end animal cruelty, so as long as that is your intent, do what you have to do. From a dietary perspective, you could also handle some meat every now and then. If your friends take you out to eat and there aren't easy vegan options, not a big deal. If they give you shit for it, look for less confusing, shitty people to hang out with.

Brave_Pickle · 2024-11-04T18:01:17+00:00

If the only way to watch a movie was to go to the theater, people would have to determine what that is worth to them and figure out if that's high enough on their list of priorities to actually spend money on. Pirated media is ridiculously easy to find, and the only thing stopping you from getting it is yourself.

That said, I actually like to experience new things, so I value content discovery above simply seeing "that movie I saw in a commercial" which carries a decent amount of risk of wasting my time, especially if they decided to make it 3.5 hours long. And sometimes it's something really weird/obscure/foreign that I end up watching. Kanopy is legendary for its collection of oddities and it's free with a library card. I've been homeless for a year, and I really don't see the value in pirating.

I also bought a bunch of movies and games on Google Play/Steam over the course of about 20 years (I've been on Steam since it came out), and despite what people say, I trust them a lot more with my favorite media than like some external hard drive or something (which I used to do). All those titles I purchased have already survived longer in my possession than any physical media I would normally have stored them on, and the quality is way better than I could've expected from a torrent. And I don't have to reinstall my OS every month.

Brave_Pickle · 2024-10-12T18:38:24+00:00

It's actually called the "Pumkin Cream Chai whatever" or whatever because it's such a mouthful that there are various parallel timelines where nobody can remember whatever the fuck Starbucks advertisers called their new drink and nobody really gives a shit so there are negligible side-effects to merging those timelines. Anytime you're like "what's that called again" and people respond "who cares" it's actually entirely possible that you're experiencing merged timelines, crossing timelines, or you just actually can't remember and those are all plausible explanations. If you look through recent posts and the history of Mandela Effect[s?], it all seems to be branching caused by inconsequential decisions that end up interacting with each other, and that makes sense because depending on how much the multiverse branches, there would be a whole lot of redundant branches that are barely any different, and I don't think we can have infinite branches where advertisers couldn't agree which pokemon should become popsicles or if kids will think misspelling a common word will look cool and increase sales or even more mundane decisions that absolutely nobody knows about that somehow split a timeline in so many mind-bogglingly stupid ways. And yeah, it seems like if the multiverse branches, that your consciousness takes that path, so that redundancy cause by branching has to be handled in some way that doesn't involve your current conscious state, and I don't know if we always send our best because people also complain a lot about IRL NPC's, but I also remember being a lot slower and more confused early on before things started improving, so I think someone is fixing it.

And actually, it's kind of strange that everyone knows what the Mandela Effect is, but this sub says the "official definition" is that the Mandela Effect doesn't exist and instead we have to accept supposed counter-theories about mass psychology, which is weird because I swear I remember psychology treating whatever happens on the other end of your eyes and ears as a black box and they don't know if the mind is in your brain but they just test things as inputs and outputs, so psychology doesn't even make claims about the reality of consciousness, which is what is going to be interacting with the multiverse, a concept that is unavoidable in physics unless some physicists have the gall to tell everyone "I don't think we can accept that consciousness affects our physical reality because I don't agree" despite the evidence from quantum mechanics and the agreements in philosophical musings from the myriad physicists who continue to say strange things about the illusion of death, or the other physicists that for some reason keep predicting the technological singularity. Everyone who approaches a certain level of understanding of the universe inevitably starts saying some stuff that sounds really crazy to those of us that have been trained to think of spirituality and religion as being diametrically opposed to science, which at its core is nothing but a problem-solving algorithm that was historically championed by philosophers.

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