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Per the wikipedia article on the guy who got hit:

On 13 July 1978, he was checking a malfunctioning piece of equipment when the safety mechanisms failed. Bugorski was leaning over the equipment when he stuck his head in the path of the 76 GeV proton beam. He reportedly saw a flash "brighter than a thousand suns" but did not feel any pain.[1] The beam passed through the back of his head, the occipital and temporal lobes of his brain, the left middle ear, and out through the left-hand side of his nose. The exposed parts of his head received a local dose of 200,000 to 300,000 roentgens (2,000 to 3,000 Sieverts).

The dragon of Budapest rises again!

It's already pretty concentrated. From what I can tell, particle beams are a few millimeters in diameter at most; the LHC is apparently 16 microns at the point of collision. It's more that the amount of actual power being dumped into the skull is extremely small. The unit eV stands for "electron volt" and is equal to the energy gained by a single electron being accelerated by 1 volt, which is about 1.6x10^-19^ Joules. Add on that an electron has very little mass, and you're not exactly going to have much stopping power.

If you weren't fairly online and/or in fringe left-wing or right-wing spaces, you probably wouldn't have heard about him because he wasn't really that important. Most of my coworkers (and this is in the US) had never heard of him before his neck just did that.

A Russian physicist got a proton beam to the head and is still alive (with some damage) despite getting like 300 times the lethal dose of radiation. It was localized to his skull rather than full-body, admittedly, and that'll reduce things but one would think your brain wouldn't be able to handle that. That was at 70GeV, the LHC is up to 6.8TeV (~100x the energy), and the particle you mentioned was 320EeV (~50 million x the energy), so who knows?

On another note, I'm like 90% sure that the LHC is shooting a particle beam made up of shitloads of particles, so you're not really going to be able to just shoot a single proton or whatever at somebody.

These long-termist morons all read I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream and thought it was the only possible outcome.

Rittenhouse got away with it and it's legal to run over protestors so idk like 2020?

It was good for a bit during the black death, but then it was all downhill.

Trying to convince Biden to execute every republican by arguing that by reducing demand for burgers, the price would drop.

The "lawyers are bad people" joke was a trope from the 80s to the 2000s. IIRC there's a episode about how that kind of rhetoric was pushed by megacorps who wanted to discourage "frivolous lawsuits", like the woman who got 3rd degree burns from mcdonalds coffee.

Hinkle rhymes with Stinkle, whereas Hickle rhymes with Sickle.