Pessimists drink sulfuric acid?
this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2025
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Little Johnny was a ~~scientist~~ pessimist
Little Johnny is no more
For what he thought was H2O
Was H2SO4
edit: I love markdown, but I hate how it handles line breaks.
Add 2 spaces at the end of your line then enter to the line below for a normal next line
Like this
Proof, y'all
Much appreciated!
You can also just put a \ at the end of a line
Then continue on below
But I think I like your method better tbh
I wondered whether escaping would work, but not enough to test it.
I actually like the escaping method better because
- My time spent with git has resulted in me seeing lots of editors argue about whether whitespace at the end of a line is acceptable, but I prefer to do without
- I post almost exclusively from my mobile device, so two spaces create a full stop where I don't want one
- I'm accustomed to escaping newlines from my shell scripting experience, so it looks right to me
- It reminds me of xkcd, which I have frequently enjoyed
Regardless of which method any of us use, thank you for the information!
The opposite. They're more likely to think that the drink of unknown provenance that they find in front of them might be sulphuric acid, and so they avoid drinking it, even if it was actually a perfectly safe beverage.
And who can blame them with how the world's going?
I’d have said carbonic acid
Chemist: WHY THE FUCK IS THERE AN UNLABELED GLASS?!!
Realist: "Guys, I think this is piss".
Cash Strapped, Alcoholic, Indebted Lab Monkey:
N2, O2, etc.
C3-H8-O
Who the hell drinks propanol?
Spend 8 to 10 hours a day for 4 to 6 days a week doing nothing but titrations, earning maybe $20 an hour, with no realistic opportunities for career advancement, for which you had to qualify by getting a 4 year degree and going 60k into debt, and you may consider it.
Not something I've done, but I've known a fair bit of Chem and OChem majors.
ONE TEQUILA! TWO TEQUILA! THREE TEQUILA! FLOOR!
The optimist chemiat us not gonna have a fun time
ethanol is such a simple fromula. I really think this one missed an opportunity.
As did you as now I had to search it up myself.
CH~3~ CH~2~ OH
sorry. I think another commentor had a good idea with pee. Thats a complex mixture but I think using urea CO(NH2)2 would have been a good substitute. likely most folks whould have to look it up but I think it would be worth it.