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Re:Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work by datameta on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @04:35PM (#27596849)
For the reader, that's not only an apt analogy - it's a chemically accurate one. Structurally the difference between methamphetamine and amphetamine as well as between ethanol and methanol is a methyl group.

Pharmacologically it's a different story - methanol is not a safe substance with any dose.

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Re:Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work by datameta on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @11:55AM (#27605976)
Addendum: This isn't to imply that methamphetamine has dosage that eliminates its side effects and neurotoxicity, but rather that drinking methanol will quite easily make one go blind.
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