TRN is the brand stamp for Turan, a Turkish ammo manufacturer. (info from reddit)

There's a couple pics of their products here: forum.cartridgecollectors.org/t/new-turkis...

Chinese has a very strong "shoot the messenger" culture in their bureaucracy.
No one wants to be the official who reports a problem so they wait until it's too big to ignore (and far harder to fix) while they try to find a scapegoat.

And the USA blinded itself!
www.reuters.com/article/worl...

I went to school with children who would be diagnosed as autistic today.
Absence of a diagnosis doesn't mean the condition didn't exist.

WTF! Getting it from snake dens? Are these like opium dens?

A new level of stranger things.

The phrase you need:

Je ne parle pas français. Parlez-vous anglais ?

I am DEEPLY concerned about the effect of the 50% tariff on Brazilian products. My morning coffee and sugar will be more expensive than the eggs.

So is rattlesnake venom, polonium and cyanide

Niacin ... the initial skin flushing and dizziness can be fierce with a modest dose.

So they have discovered the fudge factor required to make the equations work?

If that's a "wet market", so is Guadalajara Mexico's Mercado Libertad and the DF's Central de Abastos and many others.

And maybe Quincy Market in Boston and Pike Place in Seattle.

Here's a genuine lab leak ... smallpox leaks on one floor, kills someone in the same building.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_sm...

When a lab has an accidental pathogen release, the typical pattern is that LAB employees, visitors and their family members are the first to be infected. They were at "ground zero".

With COVID, 1st cluster is miles away, centered on a market ... so lab leak is improbable.

My SO's physicians wanted to know EVERY prescription drug, OTC drug and supplement he took.

They should be regulated but it's a circus out there.

The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
John Salzi ... Starter Villain and The Kaiju Preservation Society
Ann Leckie ... anything!

Elephants. Either the nearby ones or traded from India or sub-Saharan Africa
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_A...

Poor signal coverage in that area - they need more towers, but the NIMBY effect takes over.

And the county commissioners voted against sirens.

And the girls' camp counselors were not allowed to keep their phones turned on.

What makes a food "ultra-processed"?

She slipped and fell in the bathroom, lost the baby, the last chance at an heir to the title and fortune.