MeowZedong
@MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml
- Comment on New Additions! 1 week ago:
I have an incredibly happy sundew that doesn’t mind the colder temperatures by my windows in the winter at all.
I took a big round-bottom flask, threw in some wet sphagnum moss, added the sundew, and capped it with parafilm. Zero upkeep besides an occasional turn and it’s thrown up multiple flowers. It’s an artificial marsh with the sun causing the water to circulate and keep the humidity high while it’s quite low outside the flask.
This has worked well for other carnivorous plants too…until a cat decides to yeet itself onto that window ledge and knocks everything over.
- Comment on lab toys 1 week ago:
You need to treat them nicely and maybe show a bit of romance. Poems, flowers, even a printed picture of flowers, something nice that will last is all it takes and your instruments will work perfectly for you. Each person may need to contribute individually to the shrine.
I swear, some damned tech came in on a PM and removed my poem from my favorite HPLC and now it’s been acting up for me nonstop.
- Comment on Calcrelatable 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, some companies seem to be allergic to standards, hence the need for the final disclaimer.
- Comment on Temporary Carbon Storage 🙃 2 weeks ago:
Oh, this shit is funny!
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Institutional Support
Offset (version 0.1) was commissioned by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, for Data Relations.
- Comment on Calcrelatable 2 weeks ago:
C or AC = clear all CE = clear entry
That said, there are variations based on brand and model.
- Comment on Monster Hunter Wilds will have a spider-free mode for those with arachnophobia 3 weeks ago:
The best arachnophobia mode is Satisfactory turning all of the spiders into ridiculous cat heads.
- Comment on Clever, clever 3 weeks ago:
The professor hides white text on a white background to catch potential cheaters. The actual assignment is written in black text. If the student has followed the instructions that are written in white, this is a good indication that they may have cheated, because human eyes won’t see the white text against a white background, while a computer program writing a paper for the student will see the white text and follow the additional instructions.
- Comment on bitey 3 weeks ago:
Never skip jaw day.
- Comment on Pressure vs Temp 3 weeks ago:
How’d you find a way around the gender triple point?
- Comment on Get good. 4 weeks ago:
Wow, you were lucky! I grew up only knowing one type of knife because that’s all my dad could afford. Imagine growing up in a house where the whole family had to share one knife for both bread and poop!
- Comment on Eureka 1 month ago:
This was before Newtonian physics were established vs after. Newton observed the universe and therefore altered it in the process.
- Comment on fwiends 1 month ago:
0.3mm in length, not diameter. Yes, you can see them, but they just look like dead skin/gunk to our eyes.
- Comment on This might also apply to conferences. 1 month ago:
How dare they censor a meme taken from a different context that may have required censorship to post? How dare they not swear for my pleasure? This displeases me and I will not stand for it! What *** Fuck is wrong with them?
- Comment on Drunk würms 1 month ago:
- Comment on rabioli 1 month ago:
They don’t mean immune escape. It’s either an unclear joke or pseudoscientific bullshit based on a lack of knowledge around the immune system and diseases.
- Comment on Jet Fuel 2 months ago:
You forgot the anti-vaccine campaign they ran in countries near China saying their vaccine contained pig parts. Not the US state dept’s first anti-vax campaign btw.
US vaccines were made available first and foremost to Western citizens, and only then were made available to purchase. China released their vaccine worldwide, so countries without a vaccine program had access earlier and cheaper than they could acquire vaccines from the US. Their anti-vax campaign was meant to prevent other countries from accepting China’s offer, thus preventing goodwill towards China, protecting the profits of US companies, and leading to the deaths of millions who could have been saved in “US Allied” countries such as the Philippines.
If you were going to buy into one of these two conspiracy theories, first you should have some actual evidence, and then you should look at the behavior of these countries and ask yourself: which behavior is more consistent with releasing a virus that could act as an economic weapon meant to shut-down a country, but not kill everyone?
- Comment on Jet Fuel 2 months ago:
The US is the only country that has ever used nuclear weapons on civillians, so them using biological weapons on civillians would not be a big moral barrier for them or a big stretch to think about.
That’s such a small stretch that it’s actually a confirmed fact that the US has repeatedly used chemical and biological warfare. Korea and Vietnam are merely two easy examples.
- Comment on Slapping Chicken 2 months ago:
And for even juicier chicken, directly inject cranberry juice using a needle and syringe. You can use other juices, but IMO, cranberry goes best with chicken.
For outrageously juicy chicken, sous vide to 155-160F directly in cranberry juice (no vacuum bag). This may bring the chicken beyond many people’s juicy limits, so I suggest trying the other two recipes first to gauge your personally acceptable limit of juiciness.
- Comment on Jet Fuel 2 months ago:
Citations needed or all citations point to unreliable sources (Adrian Zenz).
- Comment on Jet Fuel 2 months ago:
Stop giving a shit about those limitations. Stop posing the question and expecting others to fix it for you. Leaded fuel is a much bigger problem than the cost of replacing or retrofitting those planes and if people don’t have an incentive to change, they won’t.
At the government level:
Subsidize the cost of retrofitting, set a hard deadline for no more leaded fuel, tax that fuel ridiculously starting yesterday…seriously, just invest in actual solutions instead of shrugging your fucking shoulders and saying, “but it’ll cost too much.”
Money ain’t shit compared to public health. Give the problem a reason and the means to be solved. It really isn’t that hard unless your government only cares about profits, not about improving the lives of its citizens.
Community level:
If this is your case, it’ll be harder, but you need to create circumstances where either the government’s or those continuing to use and produce leaded gas are punished for doing so. This is only possible through mass organizing. One of the simplest versions of this is through forming consumer unions. An even simpler method is to burn all of those little fucking planes down and burn every new one that pops up. Make it too expensive for people to buy and insurers to cover.
I think you can see where I reached the limits of my patience in writing this comment. I joke, but it is an effective means and should probably be The last resort. The point is nothing will change unless you take direct action which will involve organizing people who are affected by this problem to invoke positive change. Alone you are weak, together you are powerful. Power is what allows you to change the world.
- Comment on elucidating 🤌🏼 2 months ago:
My group abuses this word and I fucking despise it. Every manuscript I see has “novel” in it, I call out unless it actually is displaying novelty in that context.
- Comment on Happy Weekend boiz 2 months ago:
Piss + THF
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says "almost all games should cost more at a base level" because they cost so much to make 2 months ago:
There’s a little, top-down hack-and-slash, strategy/tower defense game built on this premise of “dad-mode” called Thronefall. I’ve found it fun and sufficiently challenging.
It’s pretty easy to get through almost all of the content and leveling progression, but the developer puts out content regularly, so there is almost always something new to do every time I go to pick it back up.
It might be something you find entertaining.
- Comment on My personal favourite: "Oh, fuck me. CHRIST." 2 months ago:
We actually had one of my bosses say, “this is what we call a breakthrough,” yesterday. First time ever.
- Comment on Quick Chat 3 months ago:
I do this to my boss and I think it annoys him as well.
I share something cool I observed in the lab “So how does this relate to the project goals?” “It doesn’t! I just thought it was cool and wanted to share.”
- Comment on Aluminum 3 months ago:
We seem to be at an impasse, my stainless steel ass face. How about a compromise: we return to asbestos!
- Comment on Aluminum 3 months ago:
If you really want to stop the stainless steel obsession, you could start cleaning the benches with bleach and not rinsing again afterwards. The corrosion will set in quickly.
Aluminum will stain, but it won’t start rusting.
- Comment on I definitely never unsubscribed from a YouTube channel just for that... 3 months ago:
I support this. If you’re going to fluff a paper with a load of bullshit words and clunky phrasing, it should at least be fun.
As an addendum, I would like to abolish the use of the word “herein.”
- Comment on I definitely never unsubscribed from a YouTube channel just for that... 3 months ago:
Counterpoint:
The language of science is specific because it is beneficial to have standards that allow explicit specificity. Scientific linguistics evolve differently from the way colloquial linguistics evolves due to different motivations and this difference is okay.
The real problem isn’t that scientific language is too strict but that we gatekeep scientific participation in every form, preventing most people from participating in such a way that scientific communication is not confusing. This is in addition to most scientific publications being unnecessarily written in inaccessible language. Specificity is helpful, but the excessive use of jargon and buzz-words to make yourself sound smarter through obtuse language is unhelpful for everyone involved. When jargon cannot be avoided, define it. If you cannot define it, reference a definition.
Clarity and accessibility in all scientific communication is the key to understanding.
- Comment on Powerful 4 months ago:
Yeah, I feel like a good middle ground is to cite your previous work in the context of “as we previously reported,” but maybe that’s just based on something that was ingrained in me by academia. It seems tacky. My boss has no problem with it though, he’s like, “idgaf, more citations, more views, higher impact.”
