janus2
@janus2@lemmy.zip
paranoid linux sadgirl with imposter syndrome
- Comment on 94.3° F 6 days ago:
- Comment on Ska ftw 1 week ago:
hyperpop: the world is working exactly as intended and you should be as many levels of angry as there are genre influences in this track
- Comment on Ska ftw 1 week ago:
[cue nightcore]
- Comment on Anon buys a can of beans 2 weeks ago:
i hope anon takes their meds :(
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
my chemistry-addled brain thought these were GC columns with some weird blue filter material in the middle
- Comment on bumper sticker 2 weeks ago:
does the observer have to be able to see the sticker with normal human eyesight? if so that constrains distance (which maybe doesn’t matter?)
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 2 weeks ago:
kicked out of a church for ripping too much ass is an achievement that might actually get me through the doors of a church to try, ha!
and try to fart louder than you like a good host
there is a non-zero chance we’re blood related lmao - Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 2 weeks ago:
i struggle with lactose and oligosaccharides
yes, i can take an enzyme pill for both
no, it’s not a perfect solution (not in my case at least)at this point I’m just straight up with people and say “I will burp and fart if I eat this, so it’s your culinary pride or your nose, choose wisely”
me being gassier than the sun is practically a holiday tradition when i visit family. nothing has more milk and onions than Pennsylvania white people cooking lol
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 2 weeks ago:
I like onions and peppers. They do not like me (understandable ) and exact their fiery indigestive revenge every time I dare eat more of their ranks
- Comment on UFO 3 weeks ago:
i gifted one of these, they’re awesome lol
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 3 weeks ago:
DELCO MENTIONED
(haha fuck i am so glad i left that shithole)
- Comment on Why now... 4 weeks ago:
am a gay aunt
can confirm i have resting “fuck the cat is puking on something again” face
- Comment on oh, there's so little left 4 weeks ago:
that genuinely sounds more appetizing to me than actual eggnog lol
- Comment on Machine go brrrrrrr brrrrrrrrrrr br br br br br br brbrbrbrb 4 weeks ago:
ah the undies walk of shame. I started keeping extra large lab coats in the controlled area after that to use as emergency bathrobes but fortunately never needed one after that
the story about the 3 guys is fucking heartbreaking. I hope to hell I can get into a union at my next position. Not that it would have reversed the death sentence, but fuck’s sake a little dignity would have been in order
- Comment on Machine go brrrrrrr brrrrrrrrrrr br br br br br br brbrbrbrb 4 weeks ago:
Ok that is a rough time. Every time I got contaminated I was always insanely glad it was only a 2 hour half life (and that each time, I managed to remove it by ditching clothes/shoes or washing my skin so I wouldn’t be trapped in the lab).
We also had some very small amounts of long-lived isotopes that would end up in our waste stream and have to be found by playing hot/cold with the pancake. Oh and most of the contaminated items were needles and broken glass. I was so fuckin scared of accidentally stabbing myself with a LLRM sharp 😭
Oh also I broke a pancake tube by letting it get stabbed and Ludlum took like 3 months to get it back to us and the other Model 3 was shitty uuuuuuuugh
- Comment on Machine go brrrrrrr brrrrrrrrrrr br br br br br br brbrbrbrb 4 weeks ago:
this explains a lot, lol. especially the “your hand is hot enough to worry about but sure go ahead get on a crowded train”
As Long As Radiation AintNearMe lol
- Comment on Machine go brrrrrrr brrrrrrrrrrr br br br br br br brbrbrbrb 4 weeks ago:
“stay away from people, especially children” thanks doc I’m already always doing that haha
- Comment on Machine go brrrrrrr brrrrrrrrrrr br br br br br br brbrbrbrb 4 weeks ago:
Some atoms don’t like being the way they are (mood tbh), and we call them unstable. Some unstable atoms spit out something called a positron in order to become the atom they want to be.
A positron is an anti-electron, and when it collides with an electron (easy since those are everywhere) they annihilate each other, turning into a bunch of energy in the process, in the form of gamma radiation. The gamma radiation from annihilation is special because it always comes out as two rays going in the opposite direction from each other.
That means, if you can detect when those two rays hit a ring that encircles the point of annihilation, you can use math to figure out where that point is in the ring. That’s because you know the speed of the rays and the difference in the times that both rays struck the ring.
The aforementioned ring is a PET scanner’s detector array. (The machine at the bottom of this meme is a PET scanner.) So if you put a living thing in the PET scanner that has eaten or been injected with something that is undergoing positron emission, you can tell where in their body the position emission is happening.
This is useful because you can use chemistry to attach something that emits positions to something that a body will move to specific locations based on what it is. For example, if you want to find cancer cells: they absorb way more glucose than normal cells. So you can attach unstable fluorines to glucose molecules and inject them into a cancer patient to find the cancer.
Wherever you see way more positron emission happening than normal, that’s where the glucose is going. So if we know cancer cells are absorbing glucose at an abnormal rate, now we know where in the body the cancer is.
(That’s more or less how I explained my previous job to my 4-year old niece, but with more drawings and smaller words.)
- Comment on Machine go brrrrrrr brrrrrrrrrrr br br br br br br brbrbrbrb 4 weeks ago:
That liquid must have had a hell of an ability to be absorbed into skin if she wasn’t able to remove the contamination by just washing her hand.
The fact that they let her leave the controlled area makes me think the activity was low enough that holding her hand away from her was probably overkill. If you’re contaminated enough that it’s a risk to your organs, most radiation safety officers aren’t going to let you leave the controlled area lol
At the radiopharm manufactory I used to work at, we had a guy accidentally inject his finger with the QC sample. Fortunately it was low enough activity that he was able to leave by the end of his shift. It was really stupid that the QC sample syringe was capped with a needle instead of a blunt syringe cap, but changing the manufacturing protocol to allow capping with a new type of device would have required FDA oversight.
The first thing I always did during my QC testing was remove the needle entirely, fuuuuck that.
- Comment on Caption this. 4 weeks ago:
chiropractors:
- Comment on Choose your fighters, chat. 4 weeks ago:
I’m definitely keeping rose cuz I love rose flavor
any other ones of these edible (more than once)?
- Comment on The Fuck Jar 4 weeks ago:
One Punch Man but it’s all C-class
- Comment on Statistically, probably with the beetles. 🪲 4 weeks ago:
outside
- Comment on If the US was partitioned, what new states would you want to appear? 4 weeks ago:
as a new yorker i support nyc secession lol
- Comment on Have you noticed the new way of promoting horrible food by telling you it has lots of protein 5 weeks ago:
caffeine breaks down at vaporization temperatures, though. I know this as a former vape user and current caffeine addict lol
- Comment on My all time favorite short horror 5 weeks ago:
this is also one of my favorites and it made me irrationally scared of spillways
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
so sick of living in the race to the bottom economic system
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Pretty well! Accounting for prep time (makeup, outfit, etc.) and cleanup time, it’s about double the hourly rate of my other jobs I’ve had where I “use” my stupid biochem degree. However I don’t have a guaranteed number of hours. Some months it’s only a few :(
I need to get a 9–5 again I’m running out of money 🤷♀️
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
i work in a sex dungeon. i don’t think my friends want to see what i do lmao
