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  • The danger comes from the distilling, which concentrates the miniscule methanol to dangerous levels. When I learned distilling, I was taught to throw away the first half cup or so to reduce methanol. In reality, methanol has a lower boiling point than ethanol, so you get mostly methanol in that first few shots due to the still warming up, but overall it’s negligible. In a well controlled environment, it’s technically possible to separate the two via this fractional distillation, but it’s not something those early moonshiners really knew about.

    In summary, I see home distillation in the same light as picking wild mushrooms: you really have to know what you’re doing. As always, regulation and education is the answer here.















  • The party does this by picking someone else in the primary next election. Yes, they can choose to kick him out of the party, but all that does is remove any shred of influence they have over him. He’s doing this now because they already said they’re going to primary him in 2028 and he’s being a giant shit about it. I bet he’d vote to burn Pennsylvania to the ground if the rest of the party voted against it, just to spite them. He’s a gigantic brain damaged fucking toddler.

    A bunch of his staff quit over his insanity over a year ago! https://theintercept.com/2025/02/19/fetterman-staff-quit-resign-israel/

    Pennsylvania is purple though, and he flipped a seat when he got elected, so it’s likely he’ll get reelected or the seat may go back to being de jure Republican instead of defacto Republican.

    He’s said he won’t switch to being an Independent like Manchin and Sinema did, but if he gets primaried and the challenger wins, I doubt he’ll stick to his guns and bow out of the election. Hell likely run indipendent and cause a spoiler effect.