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  • Addressed to an unnamed applicant—following “a careful review of the claim submitted for emergency services on December 4, 2024″—it informs them they are being rejected for coverage because “you failed to obtain prior authorization before seeking care for the gunshot wound to your chest.” “If you would like to appeal the fatal gunshot, please call 1-800-555-1234 with case # 123456789P to initiate a peer to peer within 48 hours of the fatal gun shot,” wrote one user.

    Does this sound LLM generated to anyone else? I mean I’ve seen other LLM generated articles summarizing top Reddit posts, and this reads a lot like that.








  • They were repeatedly being selected for the people who could handle a slightly colder environment, so by the time the population reached the polar regions, all that was left was people with traits to handle the cold. Any remotely beneficial recessive gene would quickly replace dominant alleles in the population.

    Although I’m sure there was some genetic adaptation, I’d argue it was more technological advancement. The northernmost tribe discovers a better make of clothing, or a better housing structure and suddenly the colder winters farther north are now tolerable so people settle there. The new northern tribe refines their technology and knowledge and now that they know how to… ice fish or something they have a winter food source, and now their descendants can settle even farther north.





  • Industrial ethanol? It is still just ethanol. It is not more poisonous because it is “industrial”.

    By industrial alcohol, I meant ethanol intended for industrial purposes. And while it’s just as safe as alcohol intended for human consumption it’s usually much cheaper.

    Finally, what is denatured alcohol even supposed to mean? Proteins can denature, but they are complex molecules. Alcohol cannot denature.

    I looked in your profile and noticed some comments in German, so I guess this is how I find out “denatured alcohol” is a US centric term. In the United States denatured alcohol is a term for a high concentration ethanol mixed with enough methanol to make it poisonous (and maybe a few other things to make it even more unpalatable). It’s usually used for fuel or a solvent. Just throw “denatured alcohol” into the search engine of your choice and it should spit out a few examples.