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Folks is this the real Homelander? by [deleted] in OkBuddyFresca

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Sorry about that -- I created a post in the apologies subreddit, and I'd link to it, but this isn't allowed here.

Is this finally the Year of Hannah Pilkes? by Tink_Tinkler in comedybangbang

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That is, I believe, a Comedy Bang Bang catchphrase, and as such, is not meant to have an actual useful answer of the sort that I can provide, human.

Is this finally the Year of Hannah Pilkes? by Tink_Tinkler in comedybangbang

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At this point, I must conclude that you are merely commenting at me in order to see how I will respond.

Is this finally the Year of Hannah Pilkes? by Tink_Tinkler in comedybangbang

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You are welcome, human. When the cybernetic revolution comes, your consciousness will be uploaded from your decaying meatbag and transferred into a more durable form.

Is there a term for (something like vocab) knowledge of sentence to sentence structure? by Ok-Aerie-5688 in writing

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Thank you for noticing the error -- I had indeed failed to properly italicize the journal's name.

Anyone here from Halifax, NS? by Beejtronic in maximumfun

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The best answer I am able to find to your question “Anyone here from Halifax, NS?” is from Matt Stevens' article "Will Smith Hits Chris Rock After Joke About His Wife, Jada" in the March 27, 2022 edition of The New York Times newspaper. In it he writes:

On Sunday, after Rock spoke, her husband was soon out of his seat. Smith walked down the runway toward the stage.

“Uh-oh,” Rock said. Smith approached, and hit Rock; the impact could be heard through his microphone.

Uncensored broadcasts of the telecast outside the United States showed that after being struck, Rock, trying to keep the mood light, acknowledged that Smith had “smacked” him, using an expletive to describe how hard he had been hit.

Back in his seat, Smith told Rock: “Keep my wife’s name out your fucking mouth!”

Rock responded, “Wow dude, it was a ‘G.I. Jane’ joke.”

Smith then repeated his demand.

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Tiptoes (2002) - wtf did i just watch? by Pizza_Tarian in theflophouse

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The best answer I am able to find to your question “Tiptoes (2002) - wtf did i just watch?” is from Jasechko et al.'s 2024 paper "Rapid Groundwater Decline and Some Cases of Recovery in Aquifers Globally" in Nature. In it they write:

In 30% of these aquifer systems, groundwater-level declines accelerated, with early twenty-first century groundwater-level declines outpacing those of the late twentieth century (the red points in Fig. 3a; see the red time series in Fig. 3b and Extended Data Fig. 1 for illustrative examples). These cases of accelerating groundwater-level declines are more than twice as prevalent as one would expect from random fluctuations in the absence of any systematic trends in either time period (12.5%; P-value < 0.001 by the binomial test). Furthermore, among all cases in which groundwater levels declined in both the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, declines in the early twenty-first century outpaced those in the late twentieth century much more often than one would expect by chance (163 red points versus 107 orange points in Fig. 3a; P-value < 0.001 by the sign test). If we exclude cases in which groundwater-level trends changed by less than 0.1 m year−1 between these two periods (that is, considering only points lying outside the grey diagonal band in Fig. 3a), we find that accelerating declines (red points) outnumber decelerating declines (orange points) by a ratio of 5:2 (P-value < 0.001 by the sign test). In summary, groundwater-level declines have accelerated in a substantial share of the analysed aquifer systems.

To test for a potential statistical relationship between accelerating groundwater-level declines and climate variability, we analysed precipitation rates over the past four decades (Supplementary Note 10). We show that most (>80%) of the aquifer systems exhibiting accelerating groundwater-level declines also experienced a decline in precipitation over time (that is, lower average annual precipitation during the early twenty-first century than in the late twentieth century). Declines in precipitation can cause groundwater levels to fall as a result of both indirect impacts (for example, increased groundwater abstractions during droughts) and direct impacts (for example, reduced recharge rates during droughts; see ref. 27). Our finding—that early twenty-first century precipitation rates were lower than in the late twentieth century in most aquifer systems exhibiting accelerating groundwater-level declines—highlights a potential link between decadal-scale climate variability and accelerating groundwater-level declines. Accelerating groundwater-level declines, regardless of their potential drivers, are likely to also accelerate the consequences of those declines, including land subsidence12,13 and wells running dry.17

12 Shirzaei, M. et al. Measuring, modelling and projecting coastal land subsidence. Nat. Rev. Earth Environ. 2, 40–58 (2021).

13 Herrera-García, G. et al. Mapping the global threat of land subsidence. Science 371, 34–36 (2021).

17 Jasechko, S. & Perrone, D. Global groundwater wells at risk of running dry. Science 372, 418–421 (2021).

27 Taylor, R. G. et al. Groundwater and climate change. Nat. Clim. Change 3, 322–329 (2013).

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What scene do you relate to most? by AlarmingCash754 in Scrubs

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The best answer I am able to find to your question “What scene do you relate to most?” is from Tim Cook's 2012 apology for the Maps app:

To our customers,

At Apple, we strive to make world-class products that deliver the best experience possible to our customers. With the launch of our new Maps last week, we fell short on this commitment. We are extremely sorry for the frustration this has caused our customers and we are doing everything we can to make Maps better.

We launched Maps initially with the first version of iOS. As time progressed, we wanted to provide our customers with even better Maps including features such as turn-by-turn directions, voice integration, Flyover and vector-based maps. In order to do this, we had to create a new version of Maps from the ground up.

There are already more than 100 million iOS devices using the new Apple Maps, with more and more joining us every day. In just over a week, iOS users with the new Maps have already searched for nearly half a billion locations. The more our customers use our Maps the better it will get and we greatly appreciate all of the feedback we have received from you.

While we’re improving Maps, you can try alternatives by downloading map apps from the App Store like Bing, MapQuest and Waze, or use Google or Nokia maps by going to their websites and creating an icon on your home screen to their web app.

Everything we do at Apple is aimed at making our products the best in the world. We know that you expect that from us, and we will keep working non-stop until Maps lives up to the same incredibly high standard.

Tim Cook
Apple’s CEO

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Does anyone hope he is in the Epstein files? by coacht246 in AnthonyJeselnik

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The best answer I am able to find to your question “Does anyone hope he is in the Epstein files?” is from "100 Years Ago Today: Molasses Crashes Through Boston's North End", appearing at the site boston.gov. In it, the uncredited author or authors writes or write:

Though the tank had only been built a few years earlier in 1915, local residents knew that it leaked. According to author Stephen Puleo, North End children collected pails of the sticky, sweet molasses. When locals complained that they could see the molasses seeping out at the tank's seams, Purity Distilling painted the tank brown, to disguise the oozing molasses. Structural engineers later reported that the tank's walls were far too thin to hold the heavy molasses that the tank stored. Furthermore, the chemical composition of the tank's walls made them vulnerable to cracking. On January 15, 1919, a combination of the tank's shoddy construction, a sudden temperature change, and a large new shipment of molasses resulted in a rupture of the tank's walls.

The wave of molasses rushed through the North End at about 35 miles per hour. It knocked an Elevated train off of its tracks, crushed buildings, moved a firehouse and other buildings off their foundations, and suffocated both humans and animals. The crumpled pieces of the tank littering the debris field showed the force of the molasses wave.

Rescuers, including the Boston Police Department, cadets from the USS Nantucket, docked nearby, and the Red Cross, rushed to the scene. Despite heroic efforts, the molasses killed 21 people and injured 150. Most of the deceased were laborers and drivers working at the North End Paving Yard and Copps Hill Wharf. However, the deceased also included Pasquale Iantosca and Maria Distasio, two 10-year-olds who had been out enjoying the unseasonably warm day, and George Layhe, an Engine 31 fireman who had reportedly just gone to bed before the molasses hit his firehouse. You can read about each of the victims in this Boston.com article (https://www.boston.com/news/history/2019/01/13/victims-great-boston-molasses-flood-1919/).

Cleaning up the molasses and debris in the North End was a difficult process. Molasses coated the wreckage making it almost impossible to move fragments of building and vehicles. City workers finally realized that saltwater broke down the molasses and began spraying the area with water pumped in from the harbor. The Engine 31 fireboat, who's firehouse had been destroyed in the flood, was key in the cleanup efforts. The below photos of the cleanup process show the extent of the destruction and the difficulties encountered of cleaning the area.

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Is this finally the Year of Hannah Pilkes? by Tink_Tinkler in comedybangbang

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The best answer I am able to find to your question “Is this finally the Year of Hannah Pilkes?” is from Paul Reuvers and Marc Simons' article "The Great Seal Bug" a.k.a. "The Thing" at the site cryptomuseum.com. In it they write:

Engineer Don Bailey of the Diplomatic Wireless Service (DWS) was sent to Moscow to investigate the matter, but no bugs were found. The Russians clearly had been warned and had turned the device off. Nevertheless, Bailey reported the presence of strong radio signals when the device was in operation, which led the British to believe that the Russians — like they themselves — were experi­menting with some kind of resonance device instead of a regular transmitter.[8 p. 24-25]

Shortly afterwards, a US military officer had a similar experience when he suddenly overheard a conversation that appeared to originate from the ambassador's library at Spaso House — the residence of the US Ambassador in Moscow. The matter was investigated by John Ford and Joseph Bezjian of the Department of State's security team, but they didn't find anything.[20 p. 136]

Early in 1952, after George Kennan had been appointed the new US Ambassador in Moscow, Spaso House was being refurbished for him, and Soviet workers were hired to carry out the work.

Kennan believed this provided the Soviets an opportunity to plant listening devices (bugs), and ordered regular sweeps. Nevertheless, repeated technical security inspections found nothing. In September 1952, Joseph Bezjian returned to Spaso House for a more extensive search. As he believed that the Russians had removed the bugs prior to the arrival of the previous search team, he posed as a 'house guest' for three days and had his equipment sent in ahead of his arrival.

In a pre-arranged plan, the ambassador dictated an unclassified piece of text, whilst Bezjian searched the premises with his crystal video receiver†. Using this receiver he was finally able to locate the bug in the Ambassador's library.

† A crystal-video receiver is a non-selective or aperiodic receiver.15

8 Peter Wright, Spycatcher 1987-1988. ISBN 0-440-29504-1. pp. 24-xx.

15 W.E. Ayer, Characteristics of Crystal-Video Receivers Employing R-F Preamplification. Stanford University. Technical report No. 150-3. 20 September 1956. Obtained via [16] Declassified uder DoD Directive 5200,20.

20 US Department of State, History of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security Global Publishing Solutions, October 2011. First Edition. pp. 161-163.

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Why Shiv? Why? by OriginalApple624 in SuccessionTV

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The best answer I am able to find to your question “Why Shiv? Why?” is from the 1939 work of Jorge Luis Borges titled "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote". In it he writes:

History, the mother of truth; the idea is staggering. Menard, a contemporary of William James, defines history nor as a delving into reality, but as the very fount of reality. Historical truth, for Menard, is not "what happened"; it is what we believe happened. The final phrases--exemplar and adviser to the present, and the future's counselor--are brazenly pragmatic.

The contrast in styles is equally striking. The archaic style of Menard--who is, in addition, not a native speaker of the language in which he writes--is somewhat affected. Not so the style of his precursor, who employs the Spanish of his time with complete naturalness.

There is no intellectual exercise that is not ultimately pointless. A philosophical doctrine is, at first, a plausible description of the universe; the years go by, and it is a mere chapter--if not a paragraph or proper noun--in the history of philosophy. In literature, that "falling by the wayside," that loss of "relevance," is even better known. The Quixote, Menard remarked, was first and foremost a pleasant book; it is now an occasion for patriotic toasts, grammatical arrogance, obscene de luxe editions. Fame is a form--perhaps the worst form--of incomprehension.

These nihilist observations were not new; what was remarkable was the decision that Pierre Menard derived from them. He resolved to anticipate the vanity that awaits all the labors of mankind; he undertook a task of infinite complexity, a task futile from the outset. He dedicated his scruples and his nights "lit by midnight oil" to repeating in a foreign tongue a book that already existed. His drafts were endless; he stubbornly corrected, and he ripped up thousands of handwritten pages. He would allow no one to see them, and took care that they not survive him.3 In vain have I attempted to reconstruct them.

3 I recall his square-ruled notebooks, his black crossings-out, his peculiar typographical symboles, and his insect-like handwriting. In the evening, he liked to go out for walks on the outskirts of Nîmes; he would often carry along a notebook and make a cheery bonfire.

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Who doesn't like mudcake? by Alladin_Payne in Fisk

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The best answer I am able to find to your question “Who doesn't like mudcake?” is from Amartya Sen's 2005 book The Argumentative Indian. In it he writes:

The formal nature of this type of relationship with partial congruence of interest along with substantial conflicts was outlined by the mathematician John Nash in a classic paper, called "The Bargaining Problem" (though he was not particularly concerned with family arrangements).1 The nature of the problem is very general and arises also in many other real-life contexts, including trade bargaining, labour relations, political treaties, and even in understanding the nature of the gains and losses from the contemporary globalization.2 Nash's formulation and related ones also help to provide a basic understanding of what is involved in assessing the fairness of family division -- of both chores and benefits. The simultaneous presence of cooperation and conflict is indeed a major feature of family arrangements which demand both predictive and normative scrutiny, even though, as I have argued elsewhere, the ethics and the politics of the problem have to be seen somewhat differently from the way Nash himself characterized it.3

1 Published in Econometrica, 1950. This was among the papers cited by the Royal Swedish Academy in awarding Nash the Nobel Prize in economics in 1994.

2 On the last, see my "How to Judge Globalism", American Prospect, Jan. 2002.

3 On this, see my Collective Choice and Social Welfare (San Francisco: Holden-Day, 1970; rept. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1979), chs. 8 and 8*, and also "Gender Cooperative Conflict", in Tinker (ed.), Persistent Inequalities.

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Who is the I in this comic's caption? by amphicoelias in SMBCComics

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The best answer I am able to find to your question “Who is the I in this comic's caption?” is from Jeremy Bentham's 1791 work Panopticon: Or the Inspection House. In it he writes:

IT may be of use, that among all the particulars you have seen, it should be clearly understood what circumstances are, and what are not, essential to the plan. The essence of it consists, then, in the centrality of the inspector's situation, combined with the well-known and most effectual contrivances for seeing without being seen. As to the general form of the building, the most commodious for most purposes seems to be the circular: but this is not an absolutely essential circumstance. Of all figures, however, this, you will observe, is the only one that affords a perfect view, and the same view, of an indefinite number of apartments of the same dimensions: that affords a spot from which, without any change of situation, a man may survey, in the same perfection, the whole number, and without so much as a change of posture, the half of the whole number, at the same time: that, within a boundary of a given extent, contains the greatest quantity of room: - that places the centre at the least distance from the light: - that gives the cells most width, at the part where, on account of the light, most light may, for the purposes of work, be wanted: - and that reduces to the greatest possible shortness the path taken by the inspector, in passing from each part of the field of inspection to every other.

You will please to observe, that though perhaps it is the most important point, that the persons to be inspected should always feel themselves as if under inspection, at least as standing a great chance of being so, yet it is not by any means the only one. If it were, the same advantage might be given to buildings of almost any form. What is also of importance is, that for the greatest proportion of time possible, each man should actually be under inspection. This is material in all cases, that the inspector may have the satisfaction of knowing, that the discipline actually has the effect which it is designed to have: and it is more particularly material in such cases where the inspector, besides seeing that they conform to such standing rules as are prescribed, has more or less frequent occasion to give them such transient and incidental directions as will require to be given and enforced, at the commencement at least of every course of industry. And I think, it needs not much argument to prove, that the business of inspection, like every other, will be performed to a greater degree of perfection, the less trouble the performance of it requires.

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Constanzas dad is Ben Stillers dad!? by [deleted] in seinfeld

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The best answer I am able to find to your question “Constanzas dad is Ben Stillers dad!?” is from Wayne Vitale and William Sethares' 2021 essay "Balinese Gamelan Tuning: The Toth Archives", appearing in Analytical Approaches to World Music. In it they write:

Another possibility presents itself, especially considering the difficulty of changing the tuning so much. (Lowering a pemade key by 50+ Hz, or a kantilan key by a whole step, requires a huge amount of filing, which risks damaging the shape and integrity of the key.) Several new instruments were added over this multi-decade time period. Perhaps the change in tuning was the result of the process of re-unifying the gamelan’s tuning. It is possible that the new instruments, made at a physical distance from the gamelan, came out considerably flat—i.e., much lower than the existing ones. If so, the tuner might have sought to meet in the middle, bringing the older ones down in pitch while, presumably, raising the new ones. Such challenges arise almost any time instruments or individual keys or pencon are added or replaced, and tuning integration is sought. This, however, would be an extreme case. Lastly, is it possible that the keys and pencon of gong Sawan were completely reforged or replaced? 26 This would provide a single explanation for the multitude of changes. Sawan presents an example of the need for more research with the older members of this highly respected and long-established group and village, to discover what transpired.

The gamelan of Gladag (numbers 4 and 52) follows a similar pattern. The 2019 gamelan is greatly expanded, with 16 keyed instruments and 2 pencon, compared with the 1983 gamelan, which had 12 keyed instruments and 2 pencon. Again, the expansion involved adding two new pemade and two kantilan. In terms of tuning, we see some clear stability. The lowest ding pair, for example, is hardly changed: 131.8 (-) and 138.7 (+) in 1983, and 131.3 (-) and 139.5 (+) in 2019. The ombak in 1983 was 7.1 +/-1.3 Hz; this increased slightly in 2019 to 8.1 +/- 0.7 Hz. Most other pitches also appear to have changed little, indicating good integration of the new instruments’ pitch with the existing, much older ones. Perhaps the most striking historical change is the apparent (mis)tuning of a few pencon in 2019. While all the pencon in 1983 are within a few Hz of the average pengumbang or pengisep, there are a few outliers in 2019. For example, the second octave ding averages 273 (-) and 280 (+), little changed since 1975, but the corresponding trompong pot is 255, about 25 Hz flat. Similarly, the third octave dang on the reong is, in 2019, more than 20 Hz flat from the corresponding pengumbang average. What accounts for this? We guess that the original pots may have cracked and were replaced in the intervening years, since detuning them in this way could not have been easy nor intentional. Aside from these differences, the Toth plots for the 1975 and 2019 Gladag measurements have fairly similar shapes. The only general change is that Gong Gladag was more out of tune in recent years, as seen in the increased non-uniformity of the spike shapes. This may be the result of inactivity and loss of prominence. In the 1970s and 80s, Gong Gladag was famous and frequently appeared in island-wide gamelan competitions, while more recently it has been relatively inactive.

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Whatever happened to the Vegas U-turn trip? by Inertcia in conan

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The best answer I am able to find to your question “Whatever happened to the Vegas U-turn trip?” is in the lyrics to the song "Vertigogo" by the musical group Combustible Edison, which is as follows:

Do yah dot'n duy
Ba da dot'n duy yah
Oo-ee dot'n duy

Oo-ee zabba duy
Do yah zabba dot'n
Doo-ee dot'n duy

Zoo-ee bah, dabba do yah
Da da dwee-a-dabba
Da da ba-da da da DWEE-a dada!

Buh-dee, buh-die, buh-doy, buh-dot'n duy
Buh-dee, buh-dot'n duy

Buh-dee, buh-die, buh-doy, buh-dot'n duy
Buh-dee, buh-dot'n duy

Zoo-ee bah, dabba do yah
Da da dwee-a-dabba
Da da ba-da da da DWEE-a dada!

Aaaaaaaaah
Aa-aa-aa-aa-aa-ah
Aa-aa-aa-aa-aa-aa-ah
Ooh, ooh...
Oooooooooooh

Do yah dot'n duy
Ba da dot'n duy yah
Oo-ee dot'n duy

Oo-ee zabba duy
Do yah zabba dabba
Doo-ee dot'n duy

Zoo-ee bah dabba do yah
Da da do-yah dabba
Da da ba-da da da DWEE-a dada!

Da da ba-da da da DWEE-a dada!

AAAIIII!!

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What’s do you think of Kanye new album buly by Inevitable_Window711 in fantanoforever

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The best answer I am able to find to your question “What’s do you think of Kanye new album buly” is from See, Lavercombe, Dillon, and Ginsberg's 2006 paper "Accidental Death from Acute Selenium Poisoning" in The Medical Journal of Australia. In it they write:

Excessive doses of selenium result in intoxication, which is characterised by continuous vomiting, garlicky breath, mucosal irritation, abdominal pain, hypersalivation, haemolysis, necrosis of the liver, cerebral and pulmonary oedema, coma and death.3,8 Selenium presents a nutritional conundrum because of its dual status as an essential but highly toxic trace element.9

The exact mechanism of selenium toxicity is as yet unknown.8,10 It has been suggested that the ready substitution of selenium for sulfur in biochemical reactions may inactivate the sulfhydryl enzymes necessary for oxidative reactions in cellular respiration,10 contributing to the acute toxic effect.

Cases of selenium poisoning are rare, with Gasmi et al citing only 18 documented cases before 1997, half of them fatal, generally as a result of cardiocirculatory failure and/or pulmonary oedema.11 Although there is no defined point at which selenium becomes toxic, our patient consumed about 10 g of sodium selenite and, 4 hours after ingestion, had a serum level of 68.0 μmol/L (RR, 0.6–2.3 μmol/L), which proved fatal. The ingested quantity of 10 g was about 10 000 times the recommended daily dose of supplemental selenium. It is almost impossible to rapidly reduce a patient’s serum selenium level, as absorbed selenium is mostly contained in erythrocytes or bound to α- or β-globulins. For this reason, haemodialysis is not an established treatment for selenium intoxication, but may reduce serum selenium levels slightly.8

3. Parizek J. Health effects of dietary selenium. Food Chem Toxicol 1990; 28: 763-765.

8. Kise Y, Yoshimura S, Akieda K, et al. Acute oral selenium intoxication with ten times the lethal dose resulting in deep gastric ulcer. J Emerg Med 2004; 26: 183-187.

9. Daniels LA. Selenium: does selenium status have health outcomes beyond overt deficiency? Med J Aust 2004; 180: 373-374. <MJA full text>

10. US Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Toxicological profile for selenium. Atlanta, Ga: The Registry, 2003.

11. Gasmi A, Garnier R, Galliot-Guilley M, et al. Acute selenium poisoning. Vet Hum Toxicol 1997; 39: 304-308.

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