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- Comment on Am I cognitively performing less than I could've been if I hadn't drunk alcohol at that age? 6 days ago:
Probably somewhat yeah. How much is a harder question.
- Comment on moist rodent 6 days ago:
I didn’t say anything about safety considerations just that everything can be unisex if you’re brave enough.
- Comment on moist rodent 6 days ago:
Everything is unisex if you’re brave enough.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
“Love you forever”
- Comment on Microsoft moves to the uncanny valley with creepy Copilot avatars that stare at you and say your name 1 week ago:
That’s the current trajectory for corporate internet in general.
- Comment on If you are in the US, and a karen threatens to call ICE on you, what's the best course of action? 1 week ago:
Still similar advice, get away, have a manager or ally deal with them. The point is to try and deescalate by removing yourself from the situation. If they prevent that and continue escalating then you escalate to the level needed to get away and call the cops on them.
- Comment on If you are in the US, and a karen threatens to call ICE on you, what's the best course of action? 2 weeks ago:
Act like you can’t hear and get away. If she grabs or tries to block moving away then escalate to what is required to get away.
- Comment on I get texting and driving being a danger. But back in my day you could eat drink change radio stations etc. Why weren't laws implemented back then? 2 weeks ago:
I’d rather die than deal with the ads thats cabs play nowadays.
I report and low rate shitty drivers, no real option for that for cabs.
- Comment on DOdodo DODO DOdodo DODO Dodododo DODO DODOOOOO🎶🎵🎶 2 weeks ago:
A mix of 3 and 2.
They already made modified red wolves and called them dire wolves and named them after GoT.
- Comment on Hello there 2 weeks ago:
There’s a fair bit of humor you miss out on if you’ve only seen clips and memes. Most of my irl friends have seen it and blazing saddles, though that could be my fault…
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 3 weeks ago:
npr.org/…/nra-was-foreign-asset-to-russia-ahead-o…
apnews.com/…/russian-interference-presidential-el…
www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/…/598258001/
Just some quick bigger stories. There are others as well.
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 3 weeks ago:
If you look into it an amazing amount of them are further funded by Russia. Not solely but enough to make them bigger than they’d be otherwise.
- Comment on FIFY 3 weeks ago:
So its not like restaurants where they can legally be paid under min if tips make it up but rather that housekeeping tends to be immigrants (often illegal) and thus underpaid. Most hotels will allow you to opt out of room servicing but when you leave they still have to “turnover” the room. Those neat sheets and clean towels all get thrown in the wash. The carpet still gets vacuumed, etc.
All that said I don’t really follow through on this all the time especially as I don’t carry cash as much nowadays.
- Comment on FIFY 3 weeks ago:
Whole stay, when you’re leaving. What the housekeepers do is up to them. It isnt like restaurant tips, the expectation isn’t as engrained. Maybe 5-10 per time your room is serviced maybe more if you’ve left a real shitshow for some reason.
No on the bus driver. A hotel shuttle you can give a couple to if they help with the bags but generally not.
- Comment on Important update: It's 10 poptarts 3 weeks ago:
Why you putting poptarts on pizza?
- Comment on Important update: It's 10 poptarts 3 weeks ago:
The filling is like a bad taxidermy. You know what it is but it’s just not right. Icing is more of the same. The biscuit(?) part is cake flavored cardboard.
- Comment on Brad buys a house 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, basically what happened to Florida and a part of why it went from swing state to Red.
- Comment on Brad buys a house 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, moving to lower cost of living will make you relatively rich. It’s a reason people sometimes retire to rural (lower tax-red) areas. However, If you’re still working the usual problem is that the jobs also pay less and “amenities” are also less. Fewer good restaurants, less option for entertainment, worse schools, etc.
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 5 weeks ago:
Honestly, me and wife on that one. Sure we’ve tried it but neither of us really enjoyed it. So we haven’t done it again…doesn’t stop me from making the jokes though.
- Comment on Do you think he'll respond? 1 month ago:
Specifically for medical stuff, they swipe your number and email when you take the MCAT. I was debating an MD/PhD so I took it and even never applying or getting into med school they’d randomly email me, for like 5y after.
- Comment on I'll take care of it Alfred 1 month ago:
What a terrible day to have eyes.
- Comment on The Cybertruck Is Not Selling 1 month ago:
Sadly I know at least 3 of these cybershits are in my city.
- Comment on Every damn time. 1 month ago:
Think like a microchip but for cells. These organ on a chip contain various cells to emulate the function and response of an organ.
I recommend finding a different hobby as salt up your urethra sounds unpleasant. But I mean if your partner is into it whatever.
- Comment on Every damn time. 1 month ago:
Yeah, because it’s fast and little pain can be felt before its dead. Guillotines were developed to be a more humane execution for people.
“Physical methods” (Guillotine, cardiac puncture, thoracotomy, etc) are usually a secondary confirmation of death after lethal ketamine/xylazine cocktail injection, isofluorane, or CO2 inhalation.
And yeah we’re sacrificing them to the science god to try and make new discoveries and new therapies. We’re also trying to develop ways to avoid using organisms such as organ on a chip or multiple organ on a chip systems but thats expensive af and not yet sufficient quality to replace organism testing.
- Comment on nothing against that guy, but this was a funny glitch 1 month ago:
Lot of reasons behind the replication crisis that basically boil down to two main things. 1) fraud and 2) really miniscule stuff that isn’t practical to consider.
So 1 is pretty self explanatory. 2 for an example can be something as minute as a slight temperature change in what the animal facility is kept at. Or even the time of day animals or cells were treated.
- Comment on Would we be able to use the measles virus to reset the immune systems of people with autoimmune disorders like MS or rheumatoid arthritis? 2 months ago:
Aside from some comments mentioning how immune reset therapies are in fact a thing through either antibody or chemical depletion of your immune cells. These can show improvement but it is very far from curative and not too much better chances than existing immune suppression stuff.
The danger to an immune “reset” are that you are generally then able to be reinfected with every cold and flu as well. This is dangerous for older or already fragile people. The existing therapies reduce this danger by not entirely wiping memory cells out but that also means they aren’t always curative.
Beyond that autoimmune diseases in general are a mix of genetics and environmental factors (and even gut bacteria by some studies). If the underlying problem isn’t fixed then relapse is a question of when not if. It’s like adding fluid to a container with a leak, eventually you’re going to have to add more again unless you fix the leak first.
So we have to find where the “leaks” are, what they are caused by and fix the cause(s) to have something that is an actual cure. Right now we mostly know where the leaks are and some causes and can patch some up leaks up. However, we don’t have a way to fix the causes yet and we dont know all of them.
*I am a cell bio PhD but not an immunology specialist.
- Comment on Sup, guise. 2 months ago:
No you add DMSO (5-10%) and freeze slowly. Using a Mr frosty or similar. Otherwise a few hours at -20, then -80, before the LN2.
Just chucking in LN2 is going to have terrible recovery. That might have been done with HeLa way back when but certainly isn’t standard anymore.
- Comment on Sup, guise. 2 months ago:
I’ve used an enzyme from West Germany. Worked great.
- Comment on Pattern Recognition 2 months ago:
I mean its like the top category for the last some years in the US as well. Elon’s dad has multiple children with a woman who was his adopted daughter. The pedo in chief is on TV talking about how attractive his own daughter is. Listening to women and stories of sexual abuse by family are a dime a dozen. I unfortunately don’t think it is just a regional thing but that they are more open with it and don’t take the effects of it seriously.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
At 22 I didn’t want kids. At 32 I have a kid without regrets. Prior to getting a long-term partner with the same mindset I think it is a bit much unless something or someone has scared you about “baby trapping”.
Vasectomy reversal can usually be done but isn’t always effective.