phdepressed

@phdepressed@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help me out: which looks better for the Duck - the neck tie or the bow tie?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Split the difference, bolo tie

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's absolutely true.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The disrespect to Data. I expect better of lemmings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this is controllable now: guy has moving robot messing with stuff in his house and blabbering TTS under internet control⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they made this instead of cleaning or doing home projects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is a fee to close my HSA account⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  After 65 they don’t audit what you withdraw for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes on holiday⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yellowstone is good if you actually hike and do the physical things. If you only do the geyser paths and driving it is hard to be away from a crowd. And so many idiots trying to get close to wild animals (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

  Honestly, that’s the case for most of the more famous national parks but Yellowstone and Grand Canyon are the ones that get a surplus due to their worldwide fame.

  That said I still count it as a place every American should visit and think it’s worth a visit. If you really want to reduce the other people, visit in winter but some things may not be available but some other things are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is a fee to close my HSA account⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  FSAs do depend on you kinda predicting or hedging bets against your own health since they only last the year. You can also use them to buy certain health/exercise equipment though.

  HSAs can often be invested (in stock market) thus act like an IRA with extra tax avoidance if you manage not to use it for long enough. It’s counter to the stated purpose but it’s basically better to not withdraw or reimburse from it unless you need to.

  Deductibles are Deductibles. How much you have to pay before insurance “kicks in”. There are per visit deductibles and yearly deductibles which are as they sound. HSAs are only available to plans with high deductibles. FSAs are available to plans that aren’t just high deductible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is a fee to close my HSA account⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s FSAs.

  HSA funds continue growing so long as you aren’t using them. If you’re healthy and actually middle class or better they act as a 3rd retirement vehicle, since after 65 you can use it for whatever and they don’t penalize you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wanna play a game? (please don't call osha)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not if you need to stir it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't like spears⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most spears didnt have rounded spikes so you could still slash with them. Using the pole to whack people with was also common. They’re more like bladed staffs than anything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No one showed up to his party⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Triple when they convinced you to throw a party even though you know people won’t show. Happy 18th birthday, where are your friends?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨steal his look⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t a rental be traceable through simple billing unless it was stolen?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was going on in England in the 1970s to give Monty Python so much comedy fodder that is still relevant today?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a very abrahamic religious centric view. No fault divorce existed in the latter Roman empire, and was in certain Norse communities and other “pagan”/heathen societies the world over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bayeians⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists suck at naming and abbreviating stuff⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I am a sci fi reader but maybe my scientist side showing but I like the Trappist name. The fact that real scientific names are sometimes “stupid” or weird I think makes out easier.

  I mean like Southern blots had a name behind them, Edward Southern. Northern and Western blots were just named as a sort of joke about it. Naming doesn’t have to be serious and rarely is by those within the community. So many congressional bills have long obtuse names because someone chose an word or phrase for it and then made the title acronyms spell it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Causes of Death in London (1623)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All the poxes, consumption, measles, etc are all standard vaccinations in any decent country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's a good present for some friendly nurses who taught me little tricks to work better before I leave the hospital I'm working at?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just go to an atm near a strip club.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turkey Temptation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Would depend on the specific hot spring. Most would cook and dissolve it. Additionally it would be very Sulphur smelling and tasting which would be range from icky to deadly depending on how much of the undissolved you ate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Having the same last name is just an easy way to show togetherness and unity. My wife kept her last name because she earned her MD with it but she’s fine going by Mrs. (my last name) in a parental setting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how did you master splits (for flexibility)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically 5-15min of stretching in the morning and evening (shorter if younger or decently flexible, longer if older or less flexible). You start with what you can do easily then go until you “feel it” then you do your best to hold it for 10-30s and relax (slow breathing). If you stop feeling it go farther (it was just muscle tensing in the way) and a couple inches more and you’ll be at your current real limit hold for 10-30s then do other stretches.

  Will take 1wk to a couple months. The biggest caveat is the risk of injury for those who don’t know their bodies well or try to rush the process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do the ultra-rich consume popular media?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think there are many Freemasons around anymore and most of lodges that remain have probably adapted their rules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨where the magic happens owo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was just their T100, the CFX96s I’ve used don’t have the touchscreen but yeah the bigger “lid” does look like for the CFX.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨where the magic happens owo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Top left is a thermal cycler. Basically it heats and cools samples at a given rate. This is primarily used for generic PCR, and certain enzymatic reactions. Top right is the fancier version of this, it is for qPCR, so it can do the heating and cooling and has a laser/detector for the dye or probe that reacts to generating more dna with each PCR cycle so you can quantify approximately how much of the target DNA you had.

  Bottom right is a luminex. This uses detection of fluorophore signals to measure multiple analyates, usually different proteins.

  Idk what bottom left is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel this way about cinnamon.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Chili just needs to be hearty and filling. Meat and beans are great for this purpose. Having an appropriate ratio is important and the types of beans is also important (doubly so in vegetarian chili). Meat should be on top but shouldn’t overpower everything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this what every election is like?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are no good guys. That said no I don’t want to be under the Chinese surveillance state especially as a non-chinese. India also not great at the moment though. Those are just the two main countries with the population and domestic production capacity to potentially go toe to toe with the American military, probably still need some help from Europe…our military is so damn bloated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this what every election is like?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I doubt the orange cares about deporting people to the correct country so you might get more problems…sorry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this what every election is like?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Would take China and/or India in that case. Europe and Canada don’t have the population, Mexico probably doesn’t the will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Democracy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well start figuring out how to get it as a ballot measure in your state now then do what’s left of our democracy a favor, swallow your pettiness and vote for the lesser evil until you get RCV in your area.

  Greens and other parties are only doing favors for the facists as things stand right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Democracy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, well, I did my part. ml and hexbear certainly didn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Democracy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While this is a large part of it, a significant thing I think is that you get a lot more enthusiasm voting for something than against something. If she was campaigning for things I didn’t hear it above the constant “orange shit is an orange shit”.

  A number of terrorist bomb threats to predominantly democratic polling locations in swing states and other fuckery may have also played a role.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Organic chemistry is killing me🤯.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s biochem. O chem is is this reaction a substitution or replacement. Does this catalyst make a product in cis or trans orientation. Etc