phdepressed
@phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on May the 4th be with you 3 days 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. 1 week ago:
Per egg it is cheaper than buying the dozen.
- Comment on Is water an acid or a base? 1 week 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] 1 week 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 1 week 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. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on ms paint tree 2 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Have you seen his doctor, worse crazy eyes than Kash.
- Comment on Pens in Space 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Depends on your field and thesis.
- Comment on ripperoni pepperoni 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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! 4 weeks ago:
Think my tracker is behind only shows me down like 5% from peak right now.
- Comment on We're cooked, I'm hooked 4 weeks ago:
With Medicare and social security cuts how old you are doesn’t matter anymore(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks 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.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Shift happened well before 2019/2020.
- Comment on Breaking - Trump Resigns! 5 weeks ago:
Cory Booker just filibustered for 25h against the social security and medicare/aid cuts.
- Comment on Porn button might actually be runner-up to Esc. 1 month ago:
youtube.com/shorts/SsDyNOB1hZs
P keyboard
- Comment on Every morning when I read the latest news 1 month ago:
What movie?
- Comment on If everyone goes to baseball games by car and everyone gets wasted like Randy Marsh, how do people get home? 2 months ago:
Nope, still ~same amount of beer. A us pint is only 16oz which is only 473ml.
- Comment on GARBAGEOLOGY 2 months ago:
I think we already did reputation wise. Economically, give it a bit longer cause I think we’re playing great depression 2: techie boogaloo.
- Comment on Indian cinema chain sued by film-goer over lengthy pre-film ads 2 months ago:
This opens up further lawsuits from anyone else who feels the same way though.
- Comment on Indian cinema chain sued by film-goer over lengthy pre-film ads 2 months ago:
If you aren’t coinciding with a popular movie that has just been released I’ve never had an issue.
- Comment on Maybe I should live next to a blueberry farm or something. 2 months ago:
Driscoll sucks anyway.
- Comment on Funny this never made it into a James Taylor song 2 months ago:
I toast my sandwiches. So yes, in a manner of speaking yes.
- Comment on Funny this never made it into a James Taylor song 2 months ago:
It’s not even cooked after?
- Comment on How long before Trusk/Mump try to introduce Droit du seigneur? 2 months ago:
Unfortunately, viagra exists.
- Comment on Patch this Bish! 2 months ago:
We used to do the vitamin c but then were like its too easy to get elsewhere why bother.