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Eehh... that probably depends on the superman. I'd be surprised if there wasn't some incarnation of it or another that preempted their universe's existence, somehow.

Without is something of a bad joke to comic book characters, though. Extrauniversal is something of a "big whoop" to those critters.

Welcome to sporeland, population +1.

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Nah, you'll probably be fine. Mold generally isn't actually that dangerous to eat, from what I understand, for all that there's a lot of cultural avoidance of it in the world.

For a village of 400 people, you would expect anywhere between 1,000 and 0 opioid pills a year...

Just to make sure it's acknowledged, the kermit one's just flat nuts, yeah. I could maybe see those numbers of huntington, just going by US prescription rates (which are probably themselves somewhere in crazyland compared to how things work regarding the NHS -- from what I've seen, even this long into the opioid crisis docs are very, very casual about prescribing opioids), but the kermit one boggles even the possibility of reason. Idle look into it suggests there was a lot of tourism coming into that town to pick up prescriptions*, but that'd have to do a hell of a lot of lifting to get those kind of numbers.

But yeah, making it clear, I do think the kind of numbers huntington saw is fucking nuts. I'm just less sure they're unusual for (parts of) the US. It's an indictment of the state of US healthcare more than anything, heh.

Funny thing is, from that map posted it kinda' looks like they were actually a little below their state's average at the time, so have fun with that one.

... though there's also a dash of frustration with the reporting involved. 81 million sounds like a scary number, but the presentation involved with it was shit -- you gave better context on that in a maybe an hour without pay than those reporters did in who knows how much time for a paycheck :V

*Though, in something vaguely resembling fairness for that one, it's not actually uncommon for folks to go across state lines to pick up prescriptions in the US... lot of times it's just cheaper to do that for whatever reason, or access just isn't available where you live.

Huntington's population is 46,842 which already give me a different number (where did you get your population Frumple?)

I was just plugging in the ones LW used, heh.

That said, I'm seeing where LW's 91k came from, it's roughly the population of the larger county that city's in (huntington apparently is in both cabell -- ~93k -- and wayne -- ~38k -- counties), which seems to be the actual target area in question. The age thing wouldn't be particular relevant, ~5% of the population is on prescription opioids, not 5% of the adult population. It works out to about where I was at from there, I think.

The more I'm looking at this, the less it seems like something wildly out of place, though. Going by the numbers, it's entirely possible the place actually wasn't getting a significantly larger amount than normal. Possibly higher, from eyeballing it, but not wildly so.

I could... maybe see something like that, if the places they were sent to were more primary distribution areas for a larger region? There's areas where much more than the population of the town/city itself use the place to fill prescriptions.

Probably it was just wildly overprescribed, though, yeah.

Maui's governor Josh Green announced that 89 people have died in the island fires, making this the deadliest fire in the US in over a hundred years.
Green warns that people should prepare to find more dead under the rubble.
The histroical town of Lahaina has been nearly completely destroyed. Fires are still burning.

Yeah, maui in general is just... closed, basically, for the next while. Really bad confluence of events, lot of it looks like just plain bad luck from what I've been seeing of commentary -- firefighting infrastructure was tied up, bad winds flared up at the worst time and spread the fire too fast to really react, nasty stuff. Rebuilding's going to take a while, lot of people lost more or less everything they had, it's pretty rough.

Wild thing is there's apparently folks out there asking when the island'll be open for tourism again, which is, just. Words fail. Now ain't the time, asshats

The best tip I have, if you haven't already noticed the functionality (it's easy to miss or forget it's there), is that you can click on the numbers that are already there and it'll highlight all the ones on the board. Easiest way to start a hell board I've found, is to take a minute to go through everything that's already there and see if the lines let you eliminate any possibilities. You usually seem to be able to get at least two or three spots down that way, and sometimes you can actually get down every one for a particular number.

Zero mistake hell board, for the second time. Took 1405 seconds and four tries, heh.