NielsBohron
@NielsBohron@lemmy.world
- Comment on xkcd #3081: PhD Timeline 15 hours ago:
Those people are strangely quiet when it’s a conservative-leaning meme, so I’ve learned to, as you say, tell them to get bent.
I can think of no better situation for the phrase “fuck you and the horse you rode in on”
- Comment on Great submission to "rate my professor" 2 days ago:
Do people still use ratemyprofessor? The reviews at my school don’t seem terribly recent
- Comment on Panic! on the trade floor 2 weeks ago:
The system isn’t broken; it’s working exactly as intended.
- Comment on THE CLASS WAR IS BACK, BABY! 3 weeks ago:
His handlers are just using it as a distraction from the class war. Trump is too dumb and fried to think with that level of intention.
- Comment on LPT 4 Summer BBQs 4 weeks ago:
You can tell that this wasn’t written by a parent. Parents know that the small child is already covered in jam, despite there being no jam at the BBQ
- Comment on It's weird that a room with just a toilet and sink is called a "half bath", when it in fact has zero bathtubs. 5 weeks ago:
or “water closet” in the UK
- Comment on You guys have to end it 1 month ago:
Depends on how steep the hill is and how precise you need to be with your position. Parallel parking in San Francisco almost requires the handbrake.
- Comment on You guys have to end it 1 month ago:
I live in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and regularly drove my standard transmission in San Francisco (one of the hilliest cities in North America), and used my hand brake all the time to maintain my position while I engaged the transmission. I’m not really sure what you’re on about…
- Comment on Frogwares' The Sinking City 2 Kickstarter is Now Live 1 month ago:
Like any decent Lovecraftian work, it looks like a big ol’ bag of NOPE.
- Comment on Attempt to motivate people to take the stairs 2 months ago:
It’s all just because Americans have a pathological aversion to metric prefixes
- Comment on If you can find the oil filter, I'll give you a quarter. If you can get it out after the lube tech tightened it to 325 lbft, I'll give you sixty bucks. 2 months ago:
No worries! I don’t think the chain needs to be stiff, just tight. From what I can tell, these are called a chain wrench, and I found a demo video.
Hope that helps!
- Comment on If you can find the oil filter, I'll give you a quarter. If you can get it out after the lube tech tightened it to 325 lbft, I'll give you sixty bucks. 2 months ago:
I’m no mechanic either, but it looks like you can tighten the chain around a stuck cap and then use the red handle as a lever to apply a large amount of force, “unsticking” the stuck cap
- Comment on Literally c/THE_PACK 4 months ago:
I COULDN’T QUITE HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND IF MY CRANKED HOG, BUT I THINK YOU SAID SOMETHING ABOUT DEFINING GENDER!!!
THE PACK IS ALL ABOUT INCLUSION!! I DON’T CARE HOW YOU MF’ERS SELF IDENTIFY, YOU’RE ALL MY BROTHERS AS LONG AS YOU LOVE CRANKING THAT HOG!!!
AROOOOOO!
- Comment on No phones, no emails, just living in the moment 5 months ago:
I wouldn’t have characterized The Princess and the Frog that way. In that movie, the protagonists learn to be happy despite being frogs, not because they are frogs. Being frogs throws them together and forces them to get to know one another, but their happy ending comes once they become human again (and the point of the movie is about working tirelessly to achieve their dreams, not removing themselves from society)
- Comment on No phones, no emails, just living in the moment 5 months ago:
Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.
- Comment on What's the best super nintendo game based on a movie? and why is it alien 3? 5 months ago:
Aladdin is right up there, too
- Comment on Feral Science 5 months ago:
I do live the feeling of disorientation I got from the first book. The whole thing felt like I was in a fever dream and I was never sure if I was losing my mind or it was the book.
Of course a big chunk of that could be the sleep deprivation that came with having 2 kids under two at the same time as reading the book.
- Comment on Max Planck 5 months ago:
That’s because you’re thinking of it like a distance, but matter at that scale actually behaves more like a standing wave that only has discrete solutions.
Or at least that’s how I think about electrons and Schrodinger’s equation. I dunno, I only teach about stuff that’s as small as an electron, but it’s a useful tool for thinking about quantum numbers, so I assume it applies to smaller matter, too.
- Comment on Stress 5 months ago:
I don’t know that you’re wrong, because those MD/PhD programs are exceptionally demanding (but are a good way to avoid med school debt for some). It’s more that even for pure MD’s, research is a very, very different career path than practicing physician. I think researchers still have to go through residency, but after that they’re mostly designing and arranging clinical trials, writing grants, interacting with related university departments, etc.
So, you know, research stuff rather than patient stuff.
- Comment on Stress 5 months ago:
There are medical researchers that have MD’s, but they are not practicing physicians (usually). There are MD/PhD programs that are aimed toward medical research fields (usually with the PhD being in biology or chemistry as you mentioned), and lots of biological and biomedical engineers working on certain medical fields as well (especially using stem cells and other chemical cues to regrow tissues). So yeah, biology- and physiology-adjacent sciences are where most of the actual advances are happening.
Actually practicing medicine is basically like being a mechanic that specializes in keeping one particularly poorly designed piece of equipment running.
- Comment on Stress 5 months ago:
I’m aware of and support her current work and I agree that she’s much smarter than her public persona would lead people to believe. However, she still comes from a place of unbelievable privilege and telling people to “stop being desperate” is incredibly tone deaf, IMO.
Two things can be true at the same time.
- Comment on Stress 5 months ago:
“Stop Being Desperate” has a real “Let them eat cake” feel, especially coming from her.
- Comment on Stress 5 months ago:
As someone who teaches chemistry to premeds, this is not surprising at all. To make a swing generalization, premeds, med students, and the MDs they become are done if the most entitled, condescending, and obvious people I’ve ever met.
There are exceptions of course, but in general, I can’t stand most premeds or how our culture puts MDs on a pedestal.
- Comment on hard to argue with 5 months ago:
Believe me, I’m all for using religious imagery when it’s appropriate for getting the point across. However, the whole point of OP’s statement is lost if it’s not made clear that religion itself is the primary source of this evil. Otherwise, “It’s always the Devil who tries to convince everyone that he speaks for God,” could just as easily mean “my god is right and yours is the devil.”
- Comment on hard to argue with 5 months ago:
Fair point, but using ambiguous religious language to convey the dangers of religion seems a bit open to misinterpretation, imo.
- Comment on hard to argue with 5 months ago:
I’d remove the religious implications and say “it’s always those who are most convinced they have a monopoly on Truth who are most dehumanizing to the out-group”
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Appropriate.