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- Comment on Chicken vs Egg 1 hour ago:
- Comment on Soup 1 week ago:
Ever seen DMSO solidify upon cooling? I wouldn’t even call it vitrification, it obviously has macroscopically large crystalline domains. It would be like putting rocks in your veins. I mean it kind of works fine for single cells because the failures* can be treated as a statistic, but anything on the scale of organs will become damaged just too badly.
* See e.g. what happens to frozen sperm cells: “chromatin disruption through protamine translocations, DNA fragmentation, and lesions to genes involved in fertilization capability and embryonic development […] are known consequences of the cryopreservation process.”
- Comment on Oxygen 1 week ago:
It can burn diamond at 720 °C, what do you think it’ll do to soft tissue over the course of an entire lifetime. Things helping aerobic life survive are
a) partially consisting of partially oxidized polymers in the form of carbohydrates (remember, the only thing that cannot burn is what has already been burned);
b) oxygen’s peculiar, natural triplet state which greatly slows down its kinetics compared e.g. to its horrible relative, ozone. - Comment on Official 30th Anniversary Poster for 'The Crow', Returning to Theaters May 29 & 30 - any fans of it here? 1 week ago:
The Crow was one of THE defining movies of the 90s. I don’t think it was overhyped. In fact, it perfectly captured the spirit of that peculiar year 1994 when it looked like the 80s would shift into the next gear, with everybody wearing “Souled Out” clothes, listening to the Cult’s “Witch” and either ogling or trying to imitate Fairuza Balk.
Then along came 1995, everybody went online, lipsticks turned from dark red to “flesh” and a new page, if not a new chapter in history began. - Comment on hawt 2 weeks ago:
Found the mathematician that contributes to Urban Dictionary in this free time.
- Comment on Capitalists hate competition, especially when it comes to wages 2 weeks ago:
I use the wage filter on Stepstone because I don’t want to sift through more than 20 pages of job ads each week. Also, I’m seeing more and more companies asking for your expected salary when applying on their web page anyway. If they don’t, I just put in the number at the end of my cover letter. Cuts through the bullshit.
Sure, I’m getting an order of magnitude fewer interviews this way, but on the other hand, I’m not wasting hours on dressing up and preparing myself, potentially even taking a day off and travelling out to the fucking company because they insist on meeting me in person, only to stare into blank faces after having answered the final interview question about my salary expectations.
Rather recently, when I was in sudden dire need of a job, I could not pull that shit off, obviously, but I still managed to get more than in my previous job. Then again, it turned out to be the fucking worst job I ever had, by far, so there’s that, too. - Comment on Cheesing it up 5 weeks ago:
Thank you so much for this. The Wikipedia rabbit hole it opened up led me to the fact that “vintage” originally meant “wine harvest”.
- Comment on Anon goes bouldering 1 month ago:
A friend of mine (not me, I swear) once got sudden diarrhoea and shat his pants in public. He “found” a pair of underpants in the locker room, put them on instead and skedaddled. No one ever found out.
- Comment on Pierogi were good though 1 month ago:
“Stu you loved it, you were crying saying how special it was. I had to slow down so I didn’t drop my load too quick.”
- Comment on Reddit moment 2 months ago:
To the top with you!
- Comment on Just to keep it going 2 months ago:
Means… of production.
- Comment on Just thinking about what to cook 2 months ago:
- Comment on STEM 2 months ago:
Doing research, I used to work with mathematicians, engineers AND physicists on a daily basis for years. Physicists were the least fun. Most of them seemed to think of themselves as a sort of Jesuits of Science. As in: “I just figured this out, and already it’s set in stone, why do you even argue with me?” Mathematicians and engineers were a lot humbler, more down-to-earth. Also, some of them were astonishingly edgy in a very positive way, and I like that.