Zyklon B might not have been developed as a chemical weapon, but Haber was instrumental in developing and advocating for the use of chemical weapons explicitly on humans for Germany and Spain both during and after WWI (source)
I must have been remembering that his research between the World Wars lead to the development of Zyklon B muddled that up with some other chemist (maybe Otto Ambros?). I'll see if I can find my source.
Edit: probably Richard Kuhn who fell into line and fired Jewish coworkers at the direction of the Nazis or Herman Kolbe who was an outspoken German nationalist and anti-Semite. I use all three of them as examples of prominent scientists behaving badly in my O-Chem course.
Don't get me started on the Haber process. My students will tell you that I can and will go on for half an hour about how it prolonged WW1 and is one of the first commercial processes to make use of Le Chateliers principle.
Also, probably best not to spend too much time idolizing Fritz Haber, as I'm pretty certain he went on to become a staunch supporter of Hitler.edit: I mixed up Haber with someone else, but his research was foundational in developing many German chemical weapons, including Zyklon B
Edit 2: probably Richard Kuhn who fell into line and fired Jewish coworkers at the direction of the Nazis or Herman Kolbe who was an outspoken German nationalist and anti-Semite. I use all three of them as examples of prominent scientists behaving badly in my O-Chem course.
Fun fact: German Chocolate Cake is actually from Texas. Either the cocoa company or the baker (I can't remember which) was named "German" and I think the original name was "German's chocolate cake"
People coming from privilege can still be progressive and want to enact change. I'm not sure why you're denigrating this man and his actions based solely on the circumstances of his birth.
Reservoir Dogs: he did so much with so little, and I love the idea of a heist movie that doesn't show the heist
Inglorious Basterds: Beautifully cast, and Tarantino's first collaboration with Christopher Waltz is just amazing. Plus that scene in the bar keeps you on edge for an unimaginably long time before letting the shit hit the fan.
Kill Bill (1+2): just an amazing soundtrack and he perfectly captures the essence of both samurai films and revenge films.
Django Unchained: somehow perfectly fuses blaxploitation and westerns. Plus, more Christopher Waltz
Jackie Brown: the least "Tarantino" of the Tarantino films, but still a pretty good flick.
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood: pretty good and I love when Tarantino rewrites history, but I don't generally like Hollywood movies about Hollywood as they usually feel a little too much like a circle-jerk.
Death Proof: I like it for what it is, but it's not really a feature-length Tarantino movie, so it doesn't really scratch the itch.
Hateful Eight: I grew up on Westerns and love Tarantino, so I really wanted to love this one, but it wasn't really very good. The premise of closed-room Western is fascinating and it was almost great, but the last third/quarter was a huge letdown
Edit: any system that's described as "a pitch-black, apocalyptic TTRPG" and uses "scum" in place of "player characters" is ok by me.
FFS, the official tagline is "a doom metal album of a game. A spiked flail to the face. Light on rules, heavy on everything else;" what more do you fellow grimdank dorks want?
I only got to play at my friend's house, and I think I got stuck on Minos (or whatever the Greek island was) and couldn't get past it before they bought a new computer
getting firearms across international lines is a little trickier than shooting dumbfuck CEO's, though. Not advocating anything; just commenting on availability and transportation of firearms.
And personally, I'd rather see billionaires sit in prison and watched their assets get nationalized than to see them die, but given the stranglehold money has on justice systems around the world, one of those is a less likely solution than the other...
You recover faster and better, because you distribute the new connections throughout the tissue, you don’t have this one rigid perforation to tear, so you don’t have to be healed up all the way before you can get back on your feet
Isn't this a function of the surface area, though?
Yes, they are entitled to and have a right to any beliefs they want. However, my whole point is that "Separation of church and state" and the lack of an official state religion are antithetical to fundamentalist Christianity, or any Christianity on some level. Christians believe that "the laws of God" supersede the "laws of man," so they won't let a pesky little thing like the Constitution get between them and legislating their beliefs.
And their right, if you start from the assumption that Christianity is true. Why wouldn't you want to spread the word of God and minimize sin? After all, that's what they are called to do in the New Testament! Why wouldn't they protect others from themselves by outlawing everything with which their religion disagrees?
To me, that is one of the central problems with tolerating discussion of Christianity and Christian values in a political space (or any religion that claims to have a monopoly on objective truth)
We live in a small town in a state that has a law that to attempt a VBAC, the hospital must have an full surgery team on site. It being such a small hospital meant they almost never had a full staff at any given point, so the second two were scheduled C-sections.
However, like your experience, my wife went into natural labor the night before the second C-section was scheduled and almost certainly could have delivered naturally, but the hospital went ahead with the C-section anyway
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Zyklon B might not have been developed as a chemical weapon, but Haber was instrumental in developing and advocating for the use of chemical weapons explicitly on humans for Germany and Spain both during and after WWI (source)