MeowZedong
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- 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 Calculatable 1 week ago:
Yeah, some companies seem to be allergic to standards, hence the need for the final disclaimer.
- Comment on Temporary Carbon Storage :) 1 week ago:
Oh, this shit is funny!
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Our Approach
Carbon offsets apply the logic of capitalism to atmospheric interactions. This logic assumes that all activities on earth can be quantified and abstracted, and therefore exchanged. Offsets produce the capacity to outsource the effects of one’s consumption—at the scale of the individual, the corporation, or even the nation state—to someone, somewhere else, even to the generations of the future. In short, many existing carbon offset markets act to maintain a status quo rather than address root causes of the climate catastrophe.
In contrast, the Offset platform includes a registry of alternative offsets that focus on social exchanges and political actions in order to contribute to a program of highly financialized radical change.
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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 Calculatable 1 week ago:
C or AC = clear all CE = clear entry
That said, there are variations based on brand and model.
- Comment on MDPI 2 weeks ago:
And your email account will never recover. They’ll sell it like it’s going out of style.
- Comment on Monster Hunter Wilds will have a spider-free mode for those with arachnophobia 2 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. 3 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:
We’re stupid, but at least we’re honest about it. They’re stupid, but at least they have the decency to not act like it out in broad daylight.
Wrong comparison. People from the US are stupid and proud of it. There’s nothing honest coming from the US except bombs.
- 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:
This thread brought to you by Western Imperialism™.
Seeing this allowed on mander.xyz is deeply disappointing.
- 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:
Counter-point:
There are also many widely accepted beliefs in the scientific community that are based on misinterpreted data/results published by others, unconfirmed, and out-dated beliefs. I agree with you, but I also think we too quickly dismiss those who question the paradigm and many in translational/translated fields (like medicine) continue operating on out-dated beliefs because they don’t want to or don’t have the time to keep up with current research.
Case in point: the justification for 6-foot spacing at the beginning of the COVID pandemic. Particles do not magically drop off after a few feet, this was justified in medical textbooks based on a misinterpretation of a particle physicist’s publication. Another example: many organic chemistry classes still teach that FTIR is a qualitative method only despite many examples of FTIR quantitation and the widespread adoption of this method throughout companies that produce instruments and analysis software.
We should encourage trying to disprove that which we think is true and unquestionable so that we can fix our past mistakes and better inform our future work.
- 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 MSc Mansplaining 2 months ago:
This was bait to get you to mention the podcasts you are listening to so I could either say “me too!” or find something new to listen to.
What you said about propaganda was reminiscent of Amy Westervelt’s research in “Rigged.”
- Comment on Too many looks. 2 months ago:
Umm, this is a science community, we say 6.5 x 10^6 decades here, buddy.
- Comment on Too many looks. 2 months ago:
Paper my ass, that was a small book!
As a scientist, I’m disappointed there were no models with big, goofy lips, even if it was to show how unlikely and ridiculous it would be.
- Comment on MSc Mansplaining 2 months ago:
And once they become professors, they forget how to keep their Eve Online alerts from interrupting class.
- Comment on MSc Mansplaining 2 months ago:
Australians.
Southern Australians.
- Comment on MSc Mansplaining 2 months ago:
I bet you listen to podcasts.
