• OwOarchist@pawb.social
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      28 days ago

      Not too bad. It’s the maximum allowed in a public space. Definitely noticeable and unpleasant, but not going to ruin anyone’s day, and the smell should fade fairly quickly.

      The scale goes up to 10, and it’s logarithmic. A level 6 – not allowable in public – is twice as bad as a level 5. A level 7 is twice as bad as a 6, and so on and so forth.

      Level 8s and higher are considered to be medical emergencies.

      Only three level 10s have been recorded in human history, two of which are disputed. The one level 10 we do have clear and unambiguous records of (from New Jersey in 1891) is said to have killed three people (including the perpetrator), a horse, and two cats.