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Cake day: December 5th, 2025

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  • It can happen. Systemic absorption as opposed to only local effects of eye drops can have a big impact, and if you’re trying to poison someone, you’re probably putting in most of a bottle of eye drops (5-15ml) instead of the few drops you would put in your eye, so potentially a ~100x higher dose.

    Just thinking briefly about it, I think the more dangerous eye drops would cause lower blood pressure if taken orally or potential kidney problems depending on the drug.

    It would probably have to be a high dose to seriously affect a healthy young person, but an older person or someone with underlying health issues or other interacting medications could more easily be affected.


  • I don’t think the article is arguing that the wood banks should just go away, but that they shouldn’t be necessary, and their expansion is a symptom of the failing system.

    It’s the “orphan-crushing machine” again. People band together to do something good that needs to be done because of systemic failures, and most reporting on it focuses on the good done instead of talking about fixing the systemic failures. This article is just the response to that, a different way of looking at the same event.