https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1433220650169159683
critical support for viper comrades in their secret quest to purge reactionary forces from the west
Wonder why some snakes like this one have much more "defined" (for lack of a better term) scales than others.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeled_scales
It's a characteristic of vipers meant as a warning display. They do look scary af too
its like the snake version of puttin swangers on your car lmao
well certain snakes lack the conviction to have angular, more detailed scales
Scales are a seperate layer than their skin. I can't really explain it well. But the scales are extra armor for their particular environment. I dunno enough veteranary medicine to know what those kinda sales correlate with but I figure it'd be
They're made with keratin like our hair and nails. I think the roughness or smoothness is part genetic and part environmental. Plus they come out smoother after shedding their skin.
reminds me of that guy who skateboarded a lot and also got poisonous snakes to bite him or something. old-ass documentary
It was a vice thing right? When vice was still decent? He’d inject himself with small amounts of snake venom every day to build a tolerance to it. Over did it a couple of times and had to go to the hospital. Weird fuckin guy.
Oh shit I found it, dude is fuckin based too. Wears a cool af shirt in the doc with evo, Fidel and the gang on it.here’s a link if anyone wants to watch it
thing with vice is they stumble ass backwards into cool stories and interesting journalism.
They still produce intriguing things but with an expanded budget they throw way more shit at the wall and end up with a lower hit rate cause, well, again, they have no idea what they’re doing
It's the dumbest journalist outfit, and everything good or interesting they've done has been purely by accident, and it's amazing.
Idk what his name was, I watched the doc like a decade ago. but if I remember correctly, I think it did work.
the Mithridates name is a reference to a story about a Greek king who was afraid of being poisoned, so he always took small amounts of poison until he was immune. Eventually he was (defeated or captured, I don't recall) and wanted to commit suicide, but he was unable to poison himself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q_m-rDUNw0
@necrocop as well, that's the original video. Here's a more recent update thing from 2 years ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcbqB0pFRPA
Doc I got a shit ton of viper bites, my blood is all poison, because facebook told me to do it.
You won't catch covid if you're dead from viper bites.
:think-about-it:
shitty news outlets please stop reporting whatever garbage works in vitro against covid as breaking news for FUCKS SAKE.
I feel bad about the schadenfreude I have when I see articles like this.
