My favourite thing has always been English language, so I was disappointed you didn't think of an "apposite opposite anecdote" (though your experience was both apposite and opposite)
My phone thinks apposite isn't a real word. Silly phone.
One of the carnivore doctors (Dr Anthony Chaffey, I think) does a presentation named plants are trying to kill us. The central idea is to eat only meat because you can't overeat it, you can't poison yourself with meat. But plants don't have teeth, claws, hooves or horns, they use poison
Polyethylene, polypropylene and Teflon aren't damaged by hydrofluoric acid. Enema bags are commonly polypropylene, so he may not have used anything special, just the glass etching kit and the enema bag he already had to make an arse etching kit
Also it is a reminder that an expert in something is not generally an expert in anything else, and anything they're not expert in they're only as good at it as the average person of the same intelligence and education
I think that only happens if you manage to acquire a monopoly and are forced to break up your company - I'm not entirely sure you have to sell parts of it publicly even then
It's still legal in Australia, at least, we never got the anti-circumvention rule the US media companies got into the US trade agreements
Or rather we did, but they have exceptions that cover just about every otherwise legal use case. I can legally decrypt media to play on my Linux machine, for example. I think the only thing we can't legally do is circumvent controls to do copyright violation
The letter you're using y to stand in for is available on computers and phones: þ (thorn). It makes the same sound as "th" in "that". The other letter "th" replaced was ð (eth) which makes the sound "th" in "something"
D20srd.org has an automatic random dungeon creator. It's rarely sensible but even a rogue needs exceptional luck and several levels to make the detect and disarm checks that it comes up with. The monsters it populates the dungeon with are appropriate to the level you set
My favourite thing has always been English language, so I was disappointed you didn't think of an "apposite opposite anecdote" (though your experience was both apposite and opposite)
My phone thinks apposite isn't a real word. Silly phone.