2004 folks, 2004. Now, you can read all about what is in these drug cocktails and how recreational and professional drug designers ply their trade.
That's how you read the news. You don't need to post wondering "what could be going on???" The author of the article didn't bother to include "there are indications that the active ingredient could be an element in the platinum group metals, maybe rhodium. The are signs of illicite designer drug research around these metals going back as far as 2004." But, it doesn't mean we need to wander around in the headspace of a casual current event type of world news piece. Just go get the answer and in so doing you get perspective on the designer drug industry and how this particular cocktail came about.
The link you've provided doesn't discuss the use of rhodium as a drug, it's the archive of a site named "rhodium" that was used for discussing drugs...
I don't know how these catalysts are interacting with bombe, but the active ingredients seem to be well known, from the article: "tramadol, dolarene, nitrile, ampicillin and, in some cases, traces of heroin". So basically opiods mixed with those platinum group metals you mentioned.
Different sense of the word Rhodium there I think.
Between the platinum getting stolen and sold, the platinum getting stolen and used by dealers to prepare some drug and the platinum getting put into a street drug so it can be used in a reaction by users, I'm gonna go with the platinum getting stolen and sold.
The rhodium archive isn’t about drug preparations with the element rhodium, it’s a defunct drug synthesis website (rhodium.ws) that was run by the user Rhodium.
Their whole post is wildly ironic on so many levels. They barely read the article which did specifically mention the chemicals they claim the article never mentions:
“ The car parts contain deposits like zinc oxide, platinum and rhodium. A laboratory in Antwerp, Belgium is taking a look at the effect of each individual component.”
And then their whole “how to read the news” leads you to absolutely useless information that provides no illumination.
Their entire post is like a replication of exactly what they think is wrong with the news but as a HN comment. Maybe it’s some kind of deeply clever parody…
What are you on about? Rhodium was the name of one of those old school knowledge base websites and I have no idea what hit you got on palladium but it seems to be involved in synthesis.
Ironically if you had actually checked what you linked you wouldve seen there's no discussion of rhodium as a drug but simply an archive that happens to have the name rhodium with information about unrelated drugs.
Catalytic converters are stolen frequently even in Europe for their Pt and Pd content, so my guess would be that these guys are snorting exhaust residues, not precious metals.
Imagine another possibility. The person that named their project Elf looked at the other projects named Elf and thought, "my project is more deserving of the name". Don't attribute to incompetence that which can be explained with vanity
What if we just want to break up Facebook for our enjoyment? It's legal to do so and we can do it. I can't remember where I heard that argument. I think it was some tech CEO (or maybe all of them).
> How does breaking up Facebook help fight misinformation, polarization, engagement baiting, objectionable content, etc?
I think that attitude is the root of our current political morass. The primary motivation is the desire to hurt those that we dislike/view as The Other, and we'll happily bend any logic or principles it takes to justify it.
The article talked about the brain because the researchers talked about the brain and they aren't modest about what they say they discovered. Blame the scien(ce/tists) not the journalist if the conclusion is disagreeable.
> Douglas Hofstadter asserts that human thought entirely depends on analogy. In describing analogy, he says, “we build concepts by putting several concepts together and putting a membrane around them, and kind of miraculously these [interior] concepts disappear." Hofstadter also noticed that analogy could be achieved using the Ising model.
> In one study, a human brain was scanned and compared to the 2D Ising model — it found that at the Ising model’s critical point, the two systems were indistinguishable from each other in all relevant statistical properties.
Not sure if “journalist” is the right term here. This isn’t even a news site. It looks like someone’s personal blog/website to promote Quantum Annealing as the solution to everything.
Why do we blame the scientists here for something they didn’t write? Nobody forced the author of this post to misinterpret science. It is a reasonable assumption that a science communicator knows the science they’re communicating.
I do not think there is a "journalist" here. This seems all presented as coming from a researcher (although they do not seem to identify themselves?). I do not think this should be taken particularly seriously. It is just someones ramblings for the moment, and that is fine.
It is the same. The propellers take the same role as gyros. It just uses atmosphere to create lift to become buoyant to make up for the fact that it is not very powerful. Once it is buoyant the interaction between legs and blades seem like the same type of stabilization as any other robot- fast micro adjustments of various potential-filled motors to stay on course
Not quite it’s much easier to balance on a slack line if you can put a hand or even just a few fingers on a stationary object. The propellers offer similar benefits.
I checked, "Get WebGPU as an alternate backend (help wanted)"
> We need this [WebGPU] in GPU.js, possibly as a sub-project: https://github.com/maierfelix/webgpu
Once it becomes stable, and well supported and tested, we could possibly make it the default fallback.
Do these folks study speech and know what to control for at all? Seems there are more critical confounding factors a study is likely to observe before psycho-active drug use is a significant factor https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2790192/
How many years until a solo hobbyist launches a rocket that crosses the Karman line? I bet as soon as three years and not longer than five years. Ground-based research isn't your only tool in the near future.
- A drug from a car part??? What's in a catalytic converter?
- Google says: platinum (Pt), along with palladium (Pd), and rhodium (Rh). All three of these platinum group metals, or PGMs
- Is there a site that talks about every drug known? Yes, erowid.org
- Google: site:erowid.org platinum | palladium | rhodium
- Relevant Hit: "Palladium/Platinum Catalyst Preparation FAQ"
Which leads to...Da da da ta da!
- Rhodium Archive Snapshot from August, 2004. Last Updated Mar 31, 2009
https://erowid.org/archive/rhodium/
2004 folks, 2004. Now, you can read all about what is in these drug cocktails and how recreational and professional drug designers ply their trade.
That's how you read the news. You don't need to post wondering "what could be going on???" The author of the article didn't bother to include "there are indications that the active ingredient could be an element in the platinum group metals, maybe rhodium. The are signs of illicite designer drug research around these metals going back as far as 2004." But, it doesn't mean we need to wander around in the headspace of a casual current event type of world news piece. Just go get the answer and in so doing you get perspective on the designer drug industry and how this particular cocktail came about.