Is it not commonplace for US banks to send a text notification for card transactions? In my country, this is considered table stakes when choosing a bank card or credit card.
Isopropanol is relatively safe to drink in small amounts (single digit mL). It's only about 2x stronger than ethanol, and your liver metabolizes it to acetone, which is safe.
Denatured alcohol contains methanol, which is way more dangerous since you metabolise it to formaldehyde.
Source: I unknowingly got drunk on IPA fumes before work one time and wrote some really bad code
Methanol is indeed quite toxic but it is not the only denaturant. There are many others [0]. When methanol is used as a denaturant, special labeling is required [1]. Most of the denatured ethyl alcohol I've seen in pharmacies in recent years has not contained methanol but merely bittering agents, because methanol is so dangerous.
In the grand scheme of all social issues the UK is beset with, this is small potatoes. It's not hugely important, it's just hugely important to you because it's an emotional issue.
Fair point, but then who are either of us to make that judgement? Who are you to say that it's small potatoes?
In my defense, I'd say that the suicide rate for men is 4x that for women, and that a large proportion of suicides come after divorce and loss of access to children. (Sorry for being hand-wavey, but I can't search for the research to back these claims from where I am currently.)
That alone at least backs the case for more research in this area.
Academia has been in trouble for a while, what with the exploitation of PhDs and postdocs and low wages - they can't attract or retain the necessary talent. This will just accelerate the decline.
The exploitation is real, but the irony of these cuts as a “savings” is that these underpaid phd candidates and post docs are the cheapest labor possible.
There is none for Taiwan as far as I can tell. They’ve provided aid to Ukraine so it wouldn’t make sense. But there is clear incentive for China to be involved in cable damage, given it is already supporting Russia economically and militarily. China is the biggest adversary for many other nations (the US, Canada, the EU, India, etc) so for them, there is benefit in making this conflict expensive for its adversaries.
