The "Chlamydia" one reminded me of the movie Antiviral, where people with celebrity obsession can buy a virus/illness sampled directly from their favorite vip.
Books by the foot is an amazing idea! And seems pretty reasonable in prices also. Kind of want to buy some to see what kind of interesting books I would get, that I would never buy otherwise.
Three yards of books, arranged as they are by colour in that photo, reminded me of a really great team leader at Automattic.
I forget his name - and even if I remembered it would not disclose - but when I had a Zoom with him the books were behind him. Nothing random, all perfectly arranged by spine colour. They looked fantastic. I do not recall if I asked as to why the arrangement, after all, not my business.
My wife's uncle owns a 2nd hand book shop and also seeks booked by the foot. They are books that are well kept but with near zero resale value - which generally means religious texts and some training materials. Often they are books of catholic scripture or training for subjects where newer materials will be more useful to anyone with an interest in the subject.
Books are sorted by size and colour - if you want to see the sort of books head to a Wetherspoons in the UK - the ones with 'bookcases' are filled with these sorts of books - they have no fear of anyone stealing them! And if they do they are likely worth les than the cutlery they provide.
I had a neighbor who bought books at sales to flip on Amazon so he had a large-ish, extremely varied, constantly changing selection. Any time I was over I'd see something interesting to talk about.
The service here seems reasonable in price, though replicating it would not terribly difficult and fun if you enjoy looking through bookstores/sales
I remember seeing on Twitter a while back that a really rich influencer lady had her husband buy enough books to fill a wall-sized bookshelf in their house purely for aesthetic purposes. I did some math in my head and, purchasing from somewhere like Barnes & Noble they would’ve spent something like $10,000 to get all those books. Now I realize they must’ve just ordered them from somewhere like this.
It's actually standard. Other than significant outliers they just don't have a high second hand value, low variance, not (for the most part) worth selling by name individually.
According to YouTuber Patrick Boyle, Russia is buying lots of old tankers as a way to circumvent the price cap on Russian oil exports. So I guess it partially depends on which country’s oil is in your tanker!
TIL bedbug sniffing dogs are a thing. I would never dare to train one, spilling the training material at the wrong place would be a very unpleasant experience.
After reading just the bedbug headline I couldn't imagine any non-shady use of living bedbugs besides science. I know some people which worked for or owned hostels - it's kind of a don't ask don't tell arrangement. This is why I would always take reasons which hostels give why you have to switch a room (pipe burst, issue with the electricity that needs immediate fixing...) with a grain of salt. You probably won't hear the word bedbug until you're the one reporting them to the hostel.
One can order hundreds of pounds of silly putty directly from Dow Chemical Company for a rather reasonable price. If you need to pull the pictures off of a whole newspaper page, for instance.
A little bit more than 20 years ago the Italian mafia acquired seven bars of enriched uranium from the failed government of Zaire that General Atomics sold them. It caused a bit of a stir at the time but now I can’t find any information in the event except a Guardian article so I have no idea how that got resolved. There haven’t been any dirty bombs so I assume they never managed to sell it to MENA terrorists.
Sigma is a huge supplier to the sciences; you can (with 40,000 pages of DEA approval) get just any chemical overnighted to you. For instance, you can order a Methamphetamine/Cocaine/Heroin solution (all in acetonitrile):
It probably wasn't their poop (though I guess that's possible too) but rather their vomit. As I recall, they can't fully digest the bones and fur, etc of their little mousy victims so they throw it up after they digest the meaty bits.
Regarding bees: I encourage you if at all possible to find a local beekeeper willing to sell you nucs rather than ordering packages through the mail. Mann Lake, one of the largest package sellers in the country, positively screwed me to the tune of $400 this year. The packages you receive from national providers are almost by definition not healthy stock. Many of the sellers found online actually source their bees from the same few wholesalers (for lack of a better term) so be aware of who is actually providing your packages.
Nucs are generally better acclimated to your local environment, are already a complete colony, and especially for the beginning beekeeper are far more likely to get you started out right.
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I forget his name - and even if I remembered it would not disclose - but when I had a Zoom with him the books were behind him. Nothing random, all perfectly arranged by spine colour. They looked fantastic. I do not recall if I asked as to why the arrangement, after all, not my business.
(Two Ronnies' comedy sketch; UK TV years ago)
Books are sorted by size and colour - if you want to see the sort of books head to a Wetherspoons in the UK - the ones with 'bookcases' are filled with these sorts of books - they have no fear of anyone stealing them! And if they do they are likely worth les than the cutlery they provide.
The service here seems reasonable in price, though replicating it would not terribly difficult and fun if you enjoy looking through bookstores/sales
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/sep/07/disastrous-voya...
Billions Trapped in Russia! — https://youtu.be/KV-gMmSd340?si=AyQvX6iRsYb36ecp
>How do I keep the bed bugs alive?
>Bed bugs eat blood and blood only. They aren’t picky to a particular animal. At Cheapbedbugs.com, we use a custom made blood feeding machine.
>How do you feed bed bugs?
>Unfortunately this is one of the things I cannot share.
After reading just the bedbug headline I couldn't imagine any non-shady use of living bedbugs besides science. I know some people which worked for or owned hostels - it's kind of a don't ask don't tell arrangement. This is why I would always take reasons which hostels give why you have to switch a room (pipe burst, issue with the electricity that needs immediate fixing...) with a grain of salt. You probably won't hear the word bedbug until you're the one reporting them to the hostel.
Used to buy these for the 14-person co-ops I lived in.
The box said "1000 count" on the front, but it was just a bag of ~25,000 chocolate chips.[0]
52,920 Calories, and I'm pretty sure I ate more than 1/14th of them.
[0] https://www.instagram.com/p/CGf1oUtFZHb/
An honorary mention to plutonium, which I think you can buy online as well. Although nobody has yet tried to build their own demon core, yet.
https://www.amazon.com/Passion-Lubes-Natural-Water-Based-Lub...
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https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/product/cerillian/m025
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Lazar
Nucs are generally better acclimated to your local environment, are already a complete colony, and especially for the beginning beekeeper are far more likely to get you started out right.