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Pop!_OS 18.10 - Screen doesn't turn back on after Power Save Blank Screen [on hold]

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.everyoneloves__top-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__mid-leaderboard:empty,.everyoneloves__bot-mid-leaderboard:empty{ margin-bottom:0; } 0 I have my timer set on 5 minutes. When it turns off the display, (my) user input does not wake it. The strange thing is my monitor will turn on, but the screen will stay black. A friend of mine used AnyDesk to remotely control it, and we confirmed my input is working. I entered my password and logged in while the screen was black and while he was still connected via AnyDesk and he was still able to move my mouse around and capture this log file. My specs: AMD® Ryzen 7 1700x eight-core processor × 16 Radeon RX Vega 64 (VEGA10, DRM 3.26.0, 4.18.0-17-generic, LLVM 7.0.0) Motherboard is a MSI x370 Pro Carbon Gaming Also, I wasn't able to install t

Gastric acid as a weapon

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7 $begingroup$ The dragons in my fantasy world spit fluid from their mouths when threatened, which upon contact causes a burning sensation. I could have this liquid be standard venom, like modified saliva, but I wanted to shake things up a bit. Could powerful stomach acid be spat as a means of defense and/or attack? My main concern is that it would be either too inefficient or too evolutionarily unlikely that another method of defense would be much more plausible to evolve. I'm not aware of any duplicates to this question, apologies if I've missed one. science-based creature-design evolution dragons natural-defenses share | improve this question