SoleInvictus
@SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on how do plants in a green house get enough co2? 1 day ago:
I can’t tell if you’re joking or not. Unless a home is small, effectively airtight, filled with people, and the doors and windows are never opened, oxygen concentrations aren’t going to fall enough to be impactful.
- Comment on Pebble Time 2 has screws 4 days ago:
Cheaper manufacturing costs with the added “benefit” of making it hard to repair so users buy another one if it breaks
- Comment on Feeling that groove 1 week ago:
I’m a microbiologist. That’s pretty normal. Things that look smooth and even when viewed normally frequently look different when significantly magnified. Your eyes can’t resolve the fine details so your brain fills in the gaps.
- Comment on Racism restaurant 1 week ago:
It’s a process cheese product! My uncle used to work at a factory that made it so I know their process.
It was only about 40% cheese, and the cheese utilized was a blend of the bits left over from making things like cheese sticks. This was combined with milk, milk proteins, and several emulsifiers to keep it from separating into oil and solids as it solidifies and again if it’s melted.
It’s called a “pasteurized prepared cheese product” because it doesn’t contain enough cheese to legally call itself cheese or any variant of processed cheese.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
All men are people but some men are more people than others.
- Comment on Labcoat! 1 week ago:
Just like my ochem lab partner. We just huffed diethyl ether on the sly and tried not to fuck up too much.
- Comment on In many ways, Cat is to Lion as Bear is to Dog 1 week ago:
You got it. Bears and dogs/wolves last shared a common ancestor around 55 million years ago, whereas lions and domestic cats had their ancestral split about 11M years ago.
- Comment on My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent 1 week ago:
Short answer: late stage capitalism
Long answer: Because they don’t have enough money to make rent on time and the associated fees are less than the late fees. Being poor is expensive.
- Comment on DIY Retained Heat Stockpots for efficient slow cooking? 1 week ago:
Ooof, the blurb about haybox food safety needs to be corrected. Some microbes create secondary metabolites which cause illness. Reboiling won’t destroy them.
- Comment on Baby boomers want to axe property taxes. Millennials and Gen Z would pay for it. 1 week ago:
It’s funny to me because I previously agreed with them 100% - when I was seven. Around age eight I could see the value in investing in communities. I was and am not an unusually intelligent person, yet I figured it out. What’s their excuse?
- Comment on Knows more than most scientists… according to one extremely reliable source: themselves 2 weeks ago:
Here on Lemmy, I recently learned of a far-reaching conspiracy that by its nature involves bribing research scientists and their support staff across the globe to falsify their data and support the falsified data of others.
I was quite surprised, having worked as one for over a decade and never receiving a cent of my universal bribe income (UBI). I’ve filed grievances with requests for back pay from both ANSO and the ISC, but they’re denying any knowledge of it.
- Comment on YSK How to cook a perfect (hard) boiled egg 2 weeks ago:
Age is the big factor. It does two things:
- Eggs gradually lose water, which introduces more air into the air cell and between the membrane and the shell, making it all a bit looser as you peel.
- The pH increases, reducing the attraction/attachment of the boiled egg white to the membrane, which is why fresh egg shells are more likely to tear strips of white off as you peel.
Eggs in the US can be up to 60 days old at the time of packaging, then are considered good for another 45 days. Large flats of eggs can contain eggs from multiple batches of varying age, so some eggs might be two weeks old and others two or more months.
- Comment on YSK How to cook a perfect (hard) boiled egg 2 weeks ago:
Agreed, ice bath is only important for me if eggs are super fresh, which makes them harder to peel, or if I need them to stop cooking fast, like if I am making soft boiled eggs or have the sudden realization I started boiling the eggs and walked off at least five minutes ago but neglected to set a timer.
I’m not ADHD, you’re ADHD!
- Comment on If we ever find a planet with life in it, we could never set foot on it, because the interaction of the two biologies can have unpredictable consequences 2 weeks ago:
I’m a microbiologist. I can speak from experience (my grad research required attempting this a few times) that entirely sterilizing anything of microbes is incredibly difficult regardless of technology level. They are tenacious little fuckers. I’ll lay this out for anyone interested.
Gotta Kill 'Em All: Most microbes are fairly easy to kill using simple physical and/or chemical means. Some are more difficult, like spore formers, bacteria that produce little personal suspension pods when conditions are rough.
What matters is you start with huge quantities of microbes, they’re everywhere, and you can’t see them. All you need is one to survive to potentially reproduce into vast legions of descendants. Even NASA’s protocol is about lowering the total number, thereby reducing, not eliminating, the probability of causing an issue. Miss the wrong microbe in the wrong environment and you’ve inoculated a planet.
Checking Your Work: How do you verify that you successfully sterilized your tool? You might say culturing - swab it and grow that on some type(s) of media. That’s NASA’s protocol! It’s just not very effective.
Not all microbes grow on all media. There are an estimated one trillion microbial species on the planet and we only know how to culture less than about 0.5% of them. The rest are a mystery, largely uncharacterized*. Most sterility testing is for known microbes of consequence, not every microbe in existence.
*Fun fact: Sometimes people get sick with something atypical, that doesn’t get IDed through standard testing. I worked for a time identifying these pathogens via gene sequencing. There was a whole lot of “that’s a new one” out there.
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 2 weeks ago:
I found a blurb that Americans spend an average of $22/week at coffee shops. That’s nearly $1200 per year!
With a median US home price of $410,000 and a minimum FHA loan down payment of 3.5%, all you need to do it save that for twelve years and never have anything go seriously wrong in the meantime. Then you too can pay about $3300 per month for 30 years, ultimately spending nearly $900,000 for your $410,000 loan.
- Comment on We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30. 2 weeks ago:
It took an MS for me, a BS for my partner, choosing to not adopt children, five years of saving, a minor inheritance from an unexpected death, and the housing market cratering due to the pandemic for us to be able to afford a house that we absolutely could not afford now without making 150% of our current income.
All it took was accruing nearly $100k in combined school loan debt, plus over three times that much in mortgage debt. That’s freedom debt! Murica!
- Comment on Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post 2 weeks ago:
I see you too are familiar with Heart Forth Alicia.
- Comment on Become unrecognizable 2 weeks ago:
At least your face wouldn’t burn
- Comment on turing completeness 2 weeks ago:
Percent of Alovoa PC users on Linux: 93%
- Comment on turing completeness 2 weeks ago:
She did, but I had my concerns. I’m down with poly relationships, but I don’t think I could date someone who is seeing that many other people.
- Comment on turing completeness 2 weeks ago:
I read the same. We need a FOSS dating app without these stupid semi-matching algorithms.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 3 weeks ago:
The biggest initial issue for many is that it’s pretty sedating, but that lessens with time. I slept like the dead for the first three weeks as baclofen is one of the few drugs that increases the frequency and duration of deep sleep. Now I can take 100 milligrams in a day and not feel a thing. I have literally no side effects.
One downside is sudden cessation is hell. If I miss an entire day, my anxiety graduallygoes through the roof the following day until I start taking it again. Two days results in gradually increasing hallucinations. All of this reverses within an hour of taking a dose. You must taper off this stuff, but doing it isn’t hard. Just don’t go cold turkey.
It’s also a medication that people tend not to grow resistant to. It hasn’t lost any effectiveness for me despite having taken 60-80mg/day for almost two decades.
I used to have constant burning throat pain and the taste of stomach contents. Not anymore! It reduces the frequency of transient lower esophageal sphincter (LES) relaxation and increases its resting tone. Here’s a relevant paper for anyone interested:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9981648/
Bonus: 20 mg for non-users will halt hiccups but will likely also sedate them pretty hard. 10-20 mg will prevent MDMA hyperthermia.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 3 weeks ago:
Hey fellow LPR person! Ever looked into baclofen? It’s an oddball, but it helped me and a friend with our LPR.
- Comment on Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound 3 weeks ago:
Same! I grew up playing a lot of dungeon crawlers, so I’m pretty good at making mental maps. I tried explaining to an ex how I could envision a rough map of wherever I might be and he was completely baffled.
- Comment on Is Kagy web browser worth it? 3 weeks ago:
Dammit, my fence picket didn’t even get cold!
- Comment on Is Kagy web browser worth it? 3 weeks ago:
Appreciate you linking in your blog post. I’ve been on the fence about Kagi and you bring up a lot of good points informed by sources I’m unlikely to delve into.
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 3 weeks ago:
I wish! The tire shop said that the last set was damaged by excessive acceleration, so they wouldn’t honor the warranty. I can’t argue - our EV has over 600 horsepower and almost 900 lb-ft of torque, so my partner is just destroying those poor tires.
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 3 weeks ago:
Yep, I have an EV and the way my partner drove it just eats through tires. We’re talking about $1.5k, 50k mile warranty tires being replaced at 20-25k because someone liked to pretend they’re a fucking astronaut.
Not bitter.
- Comment on You guys ready for NO Nut November? 4 weeks ago:
I nut thrice each day for the poor souls who go without.
