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Comment by throwaway81523

5 years ago

In the article, "P2P" is an abbreviation for Phenylacetone, a precursor to meth (the drug). It's not "peer to peer" so that solved a lot of puzzling over what the headline could mean.

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Enginerrrd  5 years ago

Technically, P2P is an abbreviation for phenyl-2-propanone which can also be called phenylacetone depending on the naming convention used.

DarmokJalad1701  5 years ago

When I read the headline, the idea I had in my head was of some kind of crowdsourced meth production system.

  • edgyquant  5 years ago

    I don’t think that would be a bad description of the state of meth manufacturing in the Midwest during the 2000s and early 2010s. Users would source together (one person buys the Sudafed, another the chemicals, etc) to make meth and then they would trade with each other, etc. The rise of super labs and purity levels the average meth head couldn’t achieve basically killed the peer-to-peer meth business. At least this was my experience with my addicted cousins back home (in the Midwest.)

  • stcredzero  5 years ago

    I thought someone had decided to be edgy, and named their project, "meth"!

    • __blockcipher__  5 years ago

      On MacOS I use an app called Amphetamine to prevent my computer from sleeping. I got a real kick out of that. I got a further kick when I learned that Amphetamine was the successor to the earlier version, which was called Caffeine.

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