https://x.com/wilding_gyres/status/2119947312332218484

btw the petrochemical industry knew what this stuff does to brains since before they started mass producing it and they did it anyway and they covered it up for more than half a century while they were just blasting a bioaccumulating neurotoxin out of every car exhaust in the world simply because it made producing a higher octane fuel a little bit cheaper and nobody responsible for this has ever been held accountable.

Inb4 leaded gasoline gets rebranded on being MANLY!

: “Morals? Intelligence? That’s for fucking GIRLS! Real men are stupid assholes, and that’s what makes you TOUGH! If you’re not a stupid violent orc! You’re not cool, you’re not a real man! Bring back leaded paint and let men be MEN!”

btw the general aviation industry is still blasting this exact bioaccumulating neurotoxin out of every propeller plane exhaust in the world

Yes and we hate it too 😅

My personal goal is to fly a beta flight electric plane medivac before I die and lead, carbon, and noise are exactly the reason.

Checking wikipedia:

The New York Times editorialized in 1924 that the deaths should not interfere with the production of more powerful fuel

Lmfao

in 1943, Randolph Byers found children with lead poisoning had behavior problems, but the Lead Industries Association threatened him with a lawsuit and the research ended.

Lmfaoo

And asking the slop machine:

Urban Bans: Recognizing the toxic neurochemical risks of airborne lead emissions, the Soviet government banned the sale of leaded gasoline in major metropolitan cities (including Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Baku, and Odessa) as early as 1956.

Also:

In 1935 a license to produce TEL was given to IG Farben, enabling the newly formed German Luftwaffe to use high-octane gasoline for high altitude flight. A company, Ethyl GmbH, was formed that produced TEL at two sites in Germany with a government contract from 10 June 1936.[30]

IG Farben is literally the corporation that made the Zyklon B for the gas chambers.

My pet theory on the Boomers' behavior is that lead ions are the same atomic radius and charge as calcium ions, so the lead they were taking up as children has been sequestered in bones until the past decade or so when those've begun to demineralize, leaching the previously-sequestered lead back into the bloodstream to the brain

Osteoporosis is making the frickjng boomers angery

Babe wake up: new emoji just dropped.

must be a notational thing with some of the atoms in the ethyl groups (CH₂CH₃) being represented by the angle

the actual structure is tetrahedral

What if the Swastika is also tetrahedral when viewed in 3D? 🤯

idk the specific rules, but for organic chemistry it's implicit that blank lines are just generic hydrocarbon chains

Yep, carbon makes 4 bonds but C-H ones are implied. Idk how well I can convey this with ASCII characters but a ”/\" would be H3C—CH2—CH3 (propane) molecule since there are 3 points on the triangle denoting the carbon atoms, the 2 lines connecting the points are the 2 C—C bonds, and you fill in the remaining bonds on each carbon atom up to the 4 total bonds. Similarly a "\/\/\” would be n-hexane (n just meaning a normal linear chain instead of cyclohexane, a ring) which can be depicted as H3C—CH2—CH2—CH2—CH2—CH3

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