phdepressed
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- Comment on FIFY 16 hours 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 1 day 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 5 days ago:
Why you putting poptarts on pizza?
- Comment on Important update: It's 10 poptarts 5 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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. 2 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
What a terrible day to have eyes.
- Comment on The Cybertruck Is Not Selling 4 weeks ago:
Sadly I know at least 3 of these cybershits are in my city.
- Comment on Every damn time. 4 weeks 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. 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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. 1 month 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. 1 month ago:
I’ve used an enzyme from West Germany. Worked great.
- Comment on Pattern Recognition 1 month 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] 1 month 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.
- Comment on Pattern Recognition 1 month ago:
There’s a disturbing trend of pseudo or outright incest in Japanese media. Step siblings, cousins, actual siblings, etc. I mean western porn does it too with step-whatevers but it at least isn’t in kids cartoons afaik.
- Comment on Be nice 1 month ago:
Less tracking? Marginally lighter physical wallet? Idk, crypto is a scam as far as I can tell. Sure you can make a whole bunch of money and we’ve decided its legal but its somehow both an investment where you can make and lose millions and a currency to pay for absolutely nothing I’ve ever seen. If there was just one or if a few were based around NAFTA, BRICS or EU whatever it could make sense. But every scummy podcaster and 4chan memer makes their own to scam the participants.
- Comment on New York City commuters could soon start seeing ads for beer and other boozy beverages on subways and buses, ending a seven-year ban by the MTA. 1 month ago:
German=good beer. Woman=sex. Drink German beer, have sex, Das Guud tm* (actually just budlight horsepiss in a different bottle).
- Comment on Be nice 1 month ago:
That could actually make it a viable currency. Unless you mean the entirety of all bitcoin in which case lol.
- Comment on Inflation Outpaces Wage Growth For Over 40% Of Americans 1 month ago:
Yes, billionaires should not exist.
Can we also agree that school should be free and kids should be fed? Can we agree that roads (and rails) should be made and kept safe? Can we agree that our food should be safe to eat and not full of chalk or worse? Etc etc the most practical way to do those things is for everyone to chip in aka taxes.
One of the biggest problems in America is that since Reagan we’ve stopped truly taxing the rich and with that they’ve bought the government or enough of it to write the rules. Removal of the fairness doctrine, the repeal of glass-steagal, and citizens united are three big ones that come to mind. Where one-side can push their view without pushback or seeing the other side the idea of compromise goes out the window. That random opinions started getting treated same as facts is another thing. That companies could do stock buybacks and effectively manipulate their stock prices and C-suite/board pay meaning they can make money even without actual growth. And of course CU where money became speech and companies gained the benefits of being “people” without any of the detriments.
- Comment on Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s explanation for socializing with Jeffrey Epstein 1 month ago:
Honestly, that’s pretty much this entire administration.
- Comment on Families took safety into their own hands by painting yellow cross walks. Now, the city of Los Angeles is removing them. 1 month ago:
Depending on location there’s additional stuff, mostly signage notifying drivers. With great variation in requirements depending on the road.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I can’t speak to it as I haven’t done one but I can get the desire. I never went on a date or had a gf or any sexual experience until I was 25 and it wasn’t for lack of trying…paying for it would be a sort of bandaid to the issue of loneliness but I wonder if it decreases the chance of becoming an incel.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
If you think about having a gf, there’s a lot more to the relationship than sex. Nonsexual physical intimacy, much less anything emotional is extremely lacking for the average male not in a relationship.
- Comment on It's not just kind, it's kinder 1 month ago:
Quite possibly, it was rather popular in my middle school and I think MCR or some other popular band did a music video with them.
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 1 month ago:
That’s literally what calling your government representatives is. You’re supposed to be able to pressure your representative to represent you.
- Comment on How much of a persons body is needed to survive? 1 month ago:
Yeah, as with most implants there are issues with biofilm/plaques and immunity. They are also not responsive to loading so don’t allow exercise, affect vasculature weirdly etc.