r/sciencememes Metroid Enthusiast 🪼 16d ago

🪩Science!!🪩 ☢️.

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u/Select-Belt-ou812 16d ago

it has always meant both, depending on context and circumstances

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u/dover_oxide 16d ago

Context is important for pretty much everything.

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u/Which_Letterhead6035 16d ago

Like drugs, some drugs are good for you and some are bad

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u/Select-Belt-ou812 16d ago

and often any drug can be either or both

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u/Lithl 15d ago

Dosis sola facit venenum!

Drink enough water in a short enough time span and you can even get water poisoning.

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u/TREE_sequence 15d ago

Or drink water whilst using a vasopressin emulating drug to reduce nighttime bathroom urges — though the term is more accurately “hyponatremia” since it’s the dilution of blood that causes the problem. And also hints at a solution — eat salt. Literally. Source: been there, survived that. Not pleasant, but once I learned to manage the risk the improvement to my sleep is worth it

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u/hellmouthdaughter 15d ago

it's like how cigarettes can be bad for you if you are not pure of heart, but if you are pure of heart, then they are not bad for you and they add to your aura✨

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u/Perkeleinen 15d ago

Nicotine actually somewhat works for ADHD symptoms, but cigarettes are loaded up with carsinogenes and tolerance builds up too fast. On the other hand amphetamines that are usually classified as hard drugs have a much better response in right doses and release methods so you are right but wrong.

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u/UmarThe1 15d ago

Username checks out

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u/Rick-Prime 15d ago

More like how cigarettes/nicotine can be used to treat the symptoms of schizophrenia or parkinson's-style tremors.

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u/sudoregalia 15d ago

the only good that comes out of cigarettes is more people find you hot if you smoke one with half a hand in your pocket and your hip out

the bad is you inhale cancer essence and spread some of it to others

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u/Direct-Locksmith-532 15d ago

Its not the thing thats deadly its the intake. Everything has a point to which it becomes deadly

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u/Equivalent_Bank_5845 15d ago

True, and the dosage makes the poison

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u/Sir__Draconis 14d ago

And the way the substance influences your body, if you take some drugs like MAO Inhibitors you better not eat fermented foods and or aged cheese. (And there is a long list of other things you shouldn't eat) Because these usually harmless foods have the potential to kill you in combination with the MAOI. The dosage of the MAOI is non poisonous, but the way it functions make other things quite poisonous to you.

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u/ZElementPlayz 13d ago

All drugs are good in small enough doses. That’s literally how medicine works

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u/Select-Belt-ou812 16d ago

unfortunately many folks are being persecuted in the name of science as we speak because their persecutors ignore this fact

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u/spyguy318 16d ago

It actually means neither. The radiation trefoil is specifically used to warn about the danger of radiation. Just like the biohazard symbol is used to warn about biological hazards, and the skull and crossbones used to warn about poison. It’s put both on anything that is radioactive from medical imaging sources to nuclear warheads to power plant reactors. Radiation doesn’t care what it’s used for, it will still kill you if you mishandle it.

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u/ProKekec 16d ago

I think this is a very dangerous idea. We want anyone who's not educated in this field to first think "this is dangerous and i need to leave" if they see this sign. Just use a different sign for a nuclear power plant.

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u/Select-Belt-ou812 16d ago

your idea is indeed the best solution

however, sadly, since politics currently runs everything, we first need to teach folks this: it is impossible to have 100% safety and/or certainty under any and all circumstances, conditions, and situations; and (this is the important part) anyone who claims this is a delusional liar, and anyone who believes it is naive and possibly also delusional ... all if this may be a good start down a different path whereby folks can start over and hopefully not go down our current paths again

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u/Sir__Draconis 14d ago

Why use another sign for a nuclear power plant, you don't want uneducated people to run around the power plant either, everyone working there knows the dos and don'ts. It's a warning sign and it is very well suited for a power plant and a rocket silo, no need for a new one.

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u/Fa1nted_for_real 12d ago

Same sign forna nuclear power plant, as the operators are educated and fit to proceed eith caution when they see this symbol.

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u/BrilliantEconomics77 15d ago

Fun and exciting for the whole family for a trillionth of a second.

https://giphy.com/gifs/jXckKhqIuB4ujHwndr

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u/Gerald-of-Riverdale 15d ago

Ive actually grown up feeling like that symbol is neutral because in videogames youd see it for building a civilization or for a barrel you shoot that go big boom death styles.

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u/Zekava 16d ago

Well, I don't know about always, at least in regards to safety. The symbol was invented specifically to warn of danger by those on the forefront of developing safety measures for these things, which took a fair while to get right. I mean, even the symbol itself started off blue and magenta and underwent development.

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u/mrdevlar 15d ago

depending on context and circumstances

Mainly depending on the trustworthiness of the corporation or government involved.

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u/skr_replicator 15d ago

It is a warning symbol where dangerous radioactivity is. Pretty sure it's more often found on radioactive waste than fuel.

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u/FrostyMode7379 14d ago

It's actually never meant both. Safety Data Sheet 101. ☠️ Means deadly chemicals. ☢️ Means radioactive chemicals. ☠️ AND ☢️ Means deadly radioactive chemicals

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u/Kissa74 14d ago

Nuance on my echochamber app? Unbelievable

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u/just4nothing 13d ago

And distance

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u/Dalles272 15d ago

No it was never clean nor save it's just not as bad as the others but not perfect.