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John Day MD's avatar

Thanks John.

"Too much of a good thing..."

;-(

Tara Townsend's avatar

Très intéressant. Merci

SteelJ's avatar

"because our species is apparently doomed to be led by bloodthirsty wretches". Nailed it in one phrase, John.

Suzy Cue's avatar

Yep. With any drug, it’s all about the correct dosage.

Rascal Nick Of's avatar

Kinda like giving remdesivir for COVID. Major disaster.

Birdingmom's avatar

Fascinating. Ah, pharmakeia. Same song....what verse are we on now?

guest1.6's avatar

"Stuck around St. Petersburg

When I saw it was a time for a change

Killed the Tsar and his ministers

Anastasia screamed in vain

Pleased to meet you

Hope you guess my name, oh yeah....."

Jursy Gurl's avatar

We never hear about hemophilia anymore. That is the condition that Nicholas’ son was born with I remember learning this in school. Then imagine adding aspirin to a hemophiliac

Sergie's avatar

Was reading just yesterday about the plans of that "polite civilised" for Eastern Anatolia/Turkey, where the polite and civilised plan was to deport its entire population of both Turks and Armenians - the polite and civilised slogan "Armenia without Armenians" was Russian, not Turkish, - and bring in an entirely new population of Cossacks and Russian farmers, sort of a Noveau Novorossia, if you will. Istanbul was only saved by his abdication, as the plans of its mass bombardment by the Russian Navy had been already signed by this very "polite civilised". Obviously the previous experience of attempted Russification of China didn't teach him much, did it? That said, I also wept sentimental tears once over that aggressvie expansionist ghoul, reading Nicholas and Alexandra, I was 23 and you were 11 at that time. :-)