<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Vlad the Pacifistic Impaler</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@munin" class="u-url mention">@<span>munin</span></a></span> that&#39;s a guy I assume everybody knows about but I keep being surprised.<br />I wrote a whole thing about immortals &quot;killing&quot; each other and treating it like a wine tasting and surprising few people got that I was riffing on that guy.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@jacqueline" class="u-url mention">@<span>jacqueline</span></a></span> </p><p>another agent of chaos pipes up</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@schrotthaufen" class="u-url mention">@<span>schrotthaufen</span></a></span> no permanent damage and lived to 89 years, so the guy *clearly* had a point</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@jacqueline" class="u-url mention">@<span>jacqueline</span></a></span> 18650 but it&#39;s 186 mm long, 65 mm wide, and 10*(1+0) mm thick</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> point made :p</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> oh yeah, when being a paramedic you hear about stuff like this occasionally.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> I really don’t know how I process this. On one hand, it’s just mind boggling disregard of one’s life, and on the other hand it might be the most badass thing ever. Probably both.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> There’s risk tolerance, where I am used to thinking, “wow, I would not try that dangerous thing.”</p><p>And then there is your second quoted story. </p><p>Yikes.</p>