Comment on American exceptionalism

Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• PillBugTheGreat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If you did them the other way, kerosene then cigs, well that would burn the parasite out, sure, but the host… well, it might hurt a little.

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  • iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You can drop a lit cigarette in kerosene and it will just put the cigarette out. You can also so that with diesel. You cannot, however, do that with gasoline.

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    • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      A cigarette won’t usually light gasoline, if you’re quick and it’s cold enough you can plunge a lit match into gas. Diesel is practically difficult to ignite, I mix it with gasoline for a good, safer firestarter with a longer burn

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      • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Kerosene is definitely not gasoline. Kerosene is far more volatile.

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      • iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That is not a skill am willing to practice in order to get good at.

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    • Horsecook@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You cannot, however, do that with gasoline.

      Yes, you can. A match or a lighter will ignite gasoline vapors. A smoldering cigarette will not.

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      • iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I ain’t gonna test that, but yeah, I believe you.

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• captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s for the marines.

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  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Nono, that would be Crayon eating

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You will sometimes hear older pilots refer to a magnetic compass as a “whiskey compass.” Magnetic compasses are usually filled with some liquid to dampen it so it’s ever possible to read; an air-filled compass never stops swinging back and forth. Water would be the obvious choice, but then you’ll have an algae filled compass.

      Legend has it that the US Navy in World War II used ethanol to fill the compasses. And then the planes would come back with empty compasses because the navy pilots drank it. So they switched to kerosene. And then the marines drank it.

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    • Mpatch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Mix 1/2 of a yellow crayon with 1/5th of grey in a solution of kerosine to extract the cadmium and lead. Distill with lit cigarette. Consume promptly. Repeat treatment every 8hrs preferably more often.

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• MTZ@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The American way.

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