phdepressed
@phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Let's play this game again 3 days ago:
You are also affected.
- Comment on Lil' secret 3 days ago:
I mean it just has to be within reason unless you eat and drink only the same stuff all the time shit can vary considerably. They’re both pieces of shit in this story.
- Comment on venomous 4 days ago:
Solenodons have a modified salivary gland and a sort of channel for the venom, related fossils show full on hollow teeth similar a snake.
The slow loris mixes their sweat with their saliva(both saliva and sweat are toxic).
However in both cases I’m not sure about the molecular details of toxin production. E.g. whether the loris or solenodon just carry certain bacteria that make the toxin or whether they produce from their own cells.
- Comment on venomous 4 days ago:
The loris and the solenodon have toxic saliva. The rat is controversial as it slathers chewed up poison dart tree on itself so hairs absorb it but it doesn’t produce venom/poison itself. Not sure of any “venom missiles” from mammals.
- Comment on venomous 4 days ago:
Show loris(big eyes), African crested rat(spiky hair), Cuban solenodon(shrew like thing), and of course the platypus.
- Comment on WTF is this ad in my recording app 4 days ago:
It’s shoes. Fuzzy pink heeled shoes. Had to zoom in.
- Comment on negative rizz 1 week ago:
If its a gift take it and sell it.
- Comment on SAG-AFTRA Files Unfair Labor Practice Complaint Against Epic Games Due To A.I. Darth Vader 1 week ago:
I do want an imitation voice, because I want new people. I don’t want to hear the voices of the dead just because companies don’t want to pony up. I’m ready for the next JEJ but that’ll never happen if the industry dies because companies have just been reusing AI voices instead of hiring anyone.
AI should be used for tedious tasks not creative ones.
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 1 week ago:
Chaotic evil would be rearranging the slices so they don’t work for easy sandwiches.
- Comment on Lemmy Shitpost 2 weeks ago:
No, colonies of oppressed people don’t count.
- Comment on Lemmy Shitpost 2 weeks ago:
Lentils aren’t beans, and daal is as British as tacos are American by that logic.
- Comment on Lemmy Shitpost 2 weeks ago:
Are any of the British preps actually spicy?
- Comment on Lemmy Shitpost 2 weeks ago:
I mean this is the internet so no one is stopping you from making false statements. But also refried beans are just one type of Mexican bean preparation.
- Comment on May the 4th be with you 3 weeks ago:
You asked for spoilers so I’m not tagging them. Iron man dies, Captain America retires, black widow dies, antman joins in. There’s some wonky parallel world time travel hijinks. Think those are all the big ones.
- Comment on A completely useful compulsion I have. 4 weeks ago:
Per egg it is cheaper than buying the dozen.
- Comment on Is water an acid or a base? 4 weeks ago:
The dissociation constant of pure water at RT is 1x10^-14. This is many magnitudes more than just one per avogadros number. The “trick” is that any given molecule of water basically has that 1x10^-14 chance of being split or otherwise whole at any given time.
- Comment on Trump tells Canadians to Elect the guy who'll make them the 51st State of US [Canadian elections today] 4 weeks ago:
Honestly, even then. 45 was always unhinged but 47 has really lowered the bar more than was ever thought possible.
- Comment on Space Dreams 4 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, I can. 30% of Americans are actively antiscience/reality and they for sure enforce it on their kids. Another 40% honestly don’t give a fuck and again show that apathy to their kids. Leaves 30% who care but doesn’t exclude those who are limited by socioeconomics.
You talk to people and realize their parents never drove them out of the light pollution late at night to see a meteor shower or comet pass by never showed them any of the constellations, etc. Applies to all science really but astronomy is often put on the wayside even more than others because a lot of people really aren’t curious about space anymore.
- Comment on Caption this. 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on ms paint tree 5 weeks ago:
Even in baobab forest pictures they seem far enough apart for sunlight not to be an issue. I’d hazard either an environmental or animal caused adaptation (but I can’t seem to find anything about why).
I’d also say for forests in general “crown shyness” means if they get similar enough height they usually avoid one another rather than compete.
- Comment on Pens in Space 1 month ago:
Pens are dust-free, pencils are not. Dust-free pencils are special and expensive because it’s a lot of chemistry and testing to ensure that. How do you cleanly sharpen a pencil for example? Special pens are special but cheap because the components to make them are still relatively simple, the ink is still standard. More expensive than standard pens by a fair bit but a lot cheaper and more practical than the pencils.
- Comment on Even his doctors are full of it 1 month ago:
Have you seen his doctor, worse crazy eyes than Kash.
- Comment on Pens in Space 1 month ago:
Pens are dust-free as is, the problem with a regular ballpoint or felt tip pen is that both inking mechanisms rely on gravity. When you’re in 0g the ballpoint won’t work at all and the felt will stop working after a point when there’s no gravity to pull more ink to the tip.
You could probably spin a felt until it rewets but you’d be liable to make a mess as well.
- Comment on Probably not a good look 1 month ago:
Shit dad to be worth 300mill and won’t just buy his son a house. Like the whole point of wealth is to keep life easy for you and yours.
- Comment on ripperoni pepperoni 1 month ago:
Depends on your field and thesis.
- Comment on ripperoni pepperoni 1 month ago:
The NIH postdoc rate and therefore academic standards in most places for all biomedical postdocs is ~60k. Math is an outlier by a lot.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 1 month ago:
A lot of it is laziness but on the other hand my boss will often cc me on irrelevant emails, rather infamously sometimes forward an entire 20 responses email chain and tell you to read it, and send 8 paragraphs of questions with only one related to me. Frankly, it is overwhelming and a waste of time. I’ve started not responding and my productivity and mental health have improved.
Emails and texts need to be succinct. The higher up the chain you go the more true this is. The higher up the chain the more emails you get think 200+. If someone writes a paragraph you’re skimming for relevance generally.
Tldr; professional communication does not need length. Justify your questions separately from actual bulleted or numbered questions.
- Comment on I lost 6 to 10 years of my retirement last week! 1 month ago:
Think my tracker is behind only shows me down like 5% from peak right now.
- Comment on We're cooked, I'm hooked 1 month ago:
With Medicare and social security cuts how old you are doesn’t matter anymore(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
As other have said Tinder was the biggest shift and the prime reason as stated is there’s a lot of fear that gets removed when you know you’re both there to date and you both at least superficially like each other.
This was before it was enshittified. Superlikes weren’t a thing, you had unlimited swipes and the algorithm tried to get you a match. Post-enshittification the algorithm tries to keep you hooked and paying. So there’s been a slight shift back to in-person but life is busy and expensive.