Allero
@Allero@lemmy.today
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 7 hours ago:
Both, preferably
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 1 day ago:
Honestly, I’d just rather not have any except ones I’m working on. Sterility requirements bring in a lot of headaches.
A decent lab requires several intermediate clean zones and several layers of sterile coats, plus if anything opens outside the flow cabinet, it’s as good as empty, except now you also get to manage the contamination of the surroundings.
And some molds are REALLY sturdy.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 1 day ago:
Microbiologists hate wild microbes everywhere
- Comment on need this pic without text please 2 days ago:
Checkmate
- Comment on This was a real thing and it "makes smoking easy" 3 days ago:
Lol
- Comment on Anon is a fact checker 4 days ago:
Plenty could have relationships outside school that they didn’t talk much about.
I had my first time at 16, and my classmates weren’t even remotely aware of how rich of a sexual life I already had, or that I had it at all.
Mom knew of relationships, but didn’t know much further, either.
- Comment on This was a real thing and it "makes smoking easy" 4 days ago:
How did that work?
- Comment on Tell me why, ain't nothin′ but a heartache Tell me why, ain't nothin' but a mistake 1 week ago:
Joke’s on you, I jumped over to the second first
- Comment on 100% vegetarian 2 weeks ago:
Sure, this was not a political statement or anything. Only a mention that lab-grown meat can technically be seen as vegan.
Personally, I still have meat in my diet, but I do experiment with plant-based options like soy meat and seitan, and also play around with tofu and oat milk.
- Comment on 100% vegetarian 2 weeks ago:
Lab grown meat, too
- Comment on Anon is feeling romantic 2 weeks ago:
Fair on that one!
Indeed, most feminists are not that. It’s just that this particular flavor of it grew to be increasingly toxic, and any sort of approach to it (granted, OP went too far to go for generalizations themselves) is treated with forks.
- Comment on Posting in honor of my nieces back to school week 😆 2 weeks ago:
As a part self-employed, part regularly employed myself, it has its drawbacks.
You have little to no protections as a worker, and bear a lot of the risks. You may run out of orders or get sick and you’re the only person responsible for your safety net. Given that self-employment quite often pays less than regular one, this might be a big issue.
But on a bright side, there’s so much more freedom in this. You choose what to do, and unless you run a place or something, you choose when and sometimes even where you do it.
For me, I found a very welcoming space for self-employment, particularly research contracts. Projects take anything from 3 months to a few years, and you only have to check in once a few months to tell how it’s going and what’s next. I have full access to the laboratory resources I need, and half of the job is paperwork (compiling sources, devising methods, referencing against equipment, estimating bills, writing reports, writing articles for public projects, applying for new projects…) that can be done from home.
So, I can easily take a week off this part if I need time for personal projects, and can double down when I feel I can pull it off. This reduces mental strain dramatically, though requires some level of discipline. Pay is not overwhelming, but it keeps me afloat. So, overall, I’m happy with my choices.
- Comment on Posting in honor of my nieces back to school week 😆 2 weeks ago:
I’d say “only post them if they themselves want to be posted and delete on request”
Moms forcing kids into taking a picture, or even worse, stealthily picturing them and then sharing it all over WhatsApp groups or Facebook or whatever is terrible.
- Comment on Anon is feeling romantic 2 weeks ago:
No, you’re just knee-jerking. I only said that assuming someone criticizing feminism “can’t get a date” is a very stupid take and that it’s broadly applied to every critique on every level.
- Comment on Anon is feeling romantic 2 weeks ago:
I’d say it’s representative of humanity thanks to its neutrality.
You’re not banned left and right for having a “wrong” opinion, as Internet’s greatest ruled out.
- Comment on Anon is feeling romantic 2 weeks ago:
Any generalization of this kind, positive or negative, struggles to capture individuality.
It’s stupid to argue “men are deeply emotional as a group, because some poet was male”
It’s equally stupid to argue “men are dangerous as a group, because some rapist was male”
Men, and women, are all different, and there is so much more variability within each gender than between them.
- Comment on Anon is feeling romantic 2 weeks ago:
someone criticizes any aspect of modern online feminism
Everyone: incel detected
Any other option is automatically dismissed.
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 2 weeks ago:
Modern Clock, available to download through Edit mode
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 2 weeks ago:
Anyone else outside US and Europe: do we exist?
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 2 weeks ago:
This clock is available in Linux with KDE as a simple widget, without any external software
(Sorry I had to bring it up)
- Comment on Shamelessly stolen from Reddit 2 weeks ago:
Not reading all that
The most blatant evasion. “I’m right because I’m right”.
Short version personally for you: all good things military does are better done by other specially trained people. And they don’t need deadly weapons for this. Military doesn’t make sense outside killing context.
- Comment on Shamelessly stolen from Reddit 2 weeks ago:
Assisting during disasters
Emergency responders do this with much less overhead - like, well, weapons. They also receive a much more extensive training for this specific kind of thing.
Stabilizing areas
UN Peacekeepers do this. National armies serve “national interests”, as defined by the government backing them. They are not always interested in deescalation of conflicts, and US Army is particular stirred so many conflicts and made them worse because it served US government.
It’s not the soldiers decision
It’s their decision to join the army and voluntarily give up their right to refuse. If you know you can be sent to raze territories and people, why do you join in the first place? There are better places to do good aspects of what army does.
The primary role of military is to project power by either destroying or threatening to destroy anything a given government doesn’t like. Everything else comes secondary, and if not for that, we would have dedicated personnel only meant to do the good things instead. Don’t buy weapons and helicopters, train people to respond to emergencies and assist local civilians in hostile areas. UN does this. But hey, how do you instate banana republics then?
- Comment on Shamelessly stolen from Reddit 2 weeks ago:
Things that actually help people don’t cost that much
- Comment on Shamelessly stolen from Reddit 2 weeks ago:
UN is doing pretty much that. A little armed personnel, a lot of medics and cooks to help the locals
- Comment on Lemmy be like 2 weeks ago:
Yet gun control works.
Same idea.
- Comment on Shamelessly stolen from Reddit 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I’m all in for spending company money. But I’d rather not incentivize murderers.
- Comment on Shamelessly stolen from Reddit 2 weeks ago:
Most of these roles are means to help actual infantry and pilots to kill people.
The only roles that might be seen as something different are medic and cook. But even then - they are there so that the soldiers could be there on the battlefield later on.
- Comment on Shamelessly stolen from Reddit 2 weeks ago:
It’s not about someone getting a discount. It’s about businesses incentivizing American military that is prone of causing misery around the globe. It is immoral and insane.
- Comment on New idea 3 weeks ago:
Better clean that thing well
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 3 weeks ago:
- World of Warcraft
- TES V: Skyrim
- Minecraft
