When I was still working IV Mucomyst wasn’t available here, not sure if it had been approved yet
One of our ER docs described a tylenol OD as you got sick, you got better, and then you died horribly from liver damage
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That’s about it. First day or two you get liver enzyme elevations, and elevated acetaminophen levels. Then the acetaminophen levels die off and the liver enzymes die down - about day 3. Then day 4-5 they return with a vengeance and wreak havoc on your body until you die.
Mucomyst has been available as IV for a while at the bigger hospitals (where I generally worked). You would start it even if you had day 3-5 poisoning as there was no downside and you just might save a life. But most acetaminophen poisonings are suicidal in nature, the victim not really recognizing just what all would happen to them. In truth, most OD suicide attempts were really cries for help. When you ran into one that was serious about dying, it was really scary! They usually made significant attempts to hide what they were about, to the extent of hiding their car, telling friends they were taking a 2-week driving vacation to somewhere, etc. Flat affect! And I do mean flat. These were not fun cases to find. Aspirin OD was better, although similarly ill. But you had a real chance on finding it and treatment was generally simply alkalinizing the urine to trap the acid. Take a day or two of IV bicarbonate.
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NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) flight controllers fat-fingered an uplink command to the Voyager 2 spacecraft, launched in 1977 and presently at a distance of 133 astronomical units (19.9 billion km) from Earth, which caused it to mis-aim its antenna at a point two degrees from the correct position of the Earth. This broke communication with the space probe so it can neither send data nor receive a command to correct the pointing error.
Several times a year, Voyager 2 resets its antenna aim point in order to recover from loss of communication problems. The next reset is expected on October 15, “which should enable communication to resume”, says JPL.
This demonstration of incompetence by personnel of the laboratory whose predecessors in the job once precision-aimed this spacecraft to explore Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, is being called a “communications pause”.
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U.S. F-35 “Lightning II” has been prohibited from flying closer than 25 miles (40 km) to a thunderstorm because it is vulnerable to…wait for it…lightning.
Yes, the F-35, the aging “wunder plane” that the U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin have been assuring us for decades is just that one fix away from being ready for full-rate production, isn’t allowed to fly within 25 miles of a thunderstorm.
So far, the indefinite restriction has been publicly announced as applying “only” to the Air Force’s F-35A. But given the F-35 Joint Program Office’s history of hiding and “managing” bad news, it would not be at all surprising to find out that the same restrictions are in place for the Marines’ F-35B and the Navy’s F-35C, but have not yet been made public. That having this unpublicized policy in place could make sense was demonstrated in July 2021 when two F-35Bs flying out of their airbase in Japan were forced to execute emergency landings after they both suffered millions of dollars worth of lightning damage in the same storm.
This restriction is even more crippling than the F35’s restrictions on supersonic flight, as not being able to fly within 25 miles of potential lightning activity will allow an enemy to use lightning proximity as cover for air, ground, and sea operations knowing that the F-35s will not be flying overwatch or be able to be scrambled to areas where lightning threatens them. That this is the plane that’s slated to be the replacement for F-16s, A-10s, AV-8B Harriers, F/A-18E Hornets, and F/A-18F Super Hornets is a decision that needs to be re-evaluated.
On the face of it, it seems as if it shouldn’t be that hard to design a plane to do what planes have been doing for many decades. Each year commercial aircraft worldwide are struck tens of thousands of times by lightning. And every commercial plane is struck about once or twice a year on average. As is the case with commercial aircraft, military aircraft, while instructed to avoid thunderstorms if possible, are expected to be able to fly through them as necessary. And they’re expected to be able to take lightning strikes and complete their missions with no problem.
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Looks like peak institutionalized diversity:
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Meet the Rainbow Sheikh:
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Why in Latin and not Arabic?
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Very few literate Arabs. 
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While this is true, I think you’re missing the point of the construction, which, as I see it, is one in the eye to the West.
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Meanwhile in Airstrip One:
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Fresno warehouse lab has been illegally operating since October 2022. Lab was meant for creating Covid-19 and pregnancy test kits
Actually, I’m happy to hear that an illicit lab tested their tests. Speaks more about the flaws of certification than the ill intent of the said entrepreneurs.
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There’s a collection of such stories at https://itsnotgov.org/ (click through to the articles - the previews don’t make it apparent, but there’s information in every one – cc @Mooselake )
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