it's so annoying that mercury is as toxic as it is. convenient metal that's nice and conductive and also liquid at even very cold temperatures! buuut also it will fuck up your brain

and of course, being a heavy metal, it's not "maybe feel sick for a few hours" toxic, it's "cumulative lifelong damage with every exposure" toxic

so it's not even worth it to have a little bit lying around, it's just Not Good

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@diodelass So how about all that Coal we keep burning? =D Or the Lead they used to put in the gasoline? That shit's safe, right?

/sarcasm

@Motodrachen for the record we also hate lead

and coal because shit is *full* of toxic heavy metals

basically fuck all toxic heavy metals in particular

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