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oolong OP wrote

i posted about this on the fempire as it happened, and essentially, i am really careless.

to treat cystic acne, ie to dry the hell out of it, i would dab tea tree oil onto my face but i'd use a drenched cotton swab or tissue. and i'd do it while my face was still wet. and i'd use it right above my mouth and under my nose. so that one time, a slightly diluted drop of tea tea oil got into my mouth and then i experienced numbness from the waist down and light headedness for half an hour.

i tried using the fempire as poison control (i emailed the local poison authority too, they responded to me a whole month later lol) while panicking but it was luckily not that bad. unfortunately i did not learn because i had minor repeats of this until the tea tree oil expired and my mom threw it out. i'm currently considering buying a bottle again!

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hollyhoppet wrote (edited )

even if the us were to begin a process of balkanization, the irs is how the federal government extracts value from its citizens, so i imagine it'll be the last to go. in many empires, one of the last bodies to stick around has been the tax collecting arm, long after any actually useful offices are closed.

even the ottoman empire, whos dissolution was pretty fast, took about ten years from what is considered the start of its dissolution. the mongol empire, considered to have begun collapsing after kublai khan's death, stuck around for several decades, and that was also considered relatively quick

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