SoleInvictus
@SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 1 day ago:
You’re just another shill for big juice, Pulptastic.
/s in case it’s not obvious
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 1 day ago:
They’re probably thinking about glucose, which is the sugar in “blood sugar”. You’ll die without it, but it’s created endogenously in the liver and kidneys.
- Comment on I can't find a single decent bedtime story online. 90% of the articles are AI slop. 4 days ago:
I seem to recall a real snoozefest about a guy named Warren Peese.
- Comment on Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out. 1 week ago:
I can’t even get one of my cats past intermediate algebra, and the other keeps confusing the Kronecker delta with the partial derivative delta. I’ll keep trying, I won’t fail them.
- Comment on Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out. 1 week ago:
This will totally dox myself to anyone who might be in or know someone in an old friend group.
I’m a very furry person - I joke that I put the hair suit in hirsute - but at least it’s soft! Years upon years ago, I had a one night stand with my then future partner’s (now ex’s) best friend. It was bad. Really, awkwardly bad. The kind of bad where I woke up the next morning and, instead of trying for another go, groaned inwardly because they were still there, a living reminder of how bad it was.
I took out my phone and hastily messaged my best friend, asking her advice on politely dealing with this. Unbeknownst to me, my guest was awake, messaging my future partner. She described being barely awake in the early morning, petting my cat. I didn’t have a cat or any pets. As she became more aware, she realized she was petting my chest.
Apparently some humans think I’m a big stupid cat too.
P.s. She also thought the sex was awful.
- Comment on Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out. 1 week ago:
LIDAR. Cats don’t even have the concept of it.
- Comment on BREAKING NEWS: We did it, guys! 20 poptarts! 1 week ago:
A shitpost so wholesome, of such quality, it has become a compost.
- Comment on Would-be City of Heroes successor, Ship of Heroes, decides to launch the MMO with a $45 price tag and a $15 monthly subscription and it's, er, going about as well as you'd expect 1 week ago:
Especially if someone gets to assassinate Lord British again.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 weeks ago:
Depending on the concentration, it would hurt as it’s a bit of an acid, plus ATP outside of the cell is one of the mechanisms that drives inflammation, but it won’t give you extra energy or anything.
ATP is used to transfer energy more than store it, more like a wire than a battery. The average adult has about 250g of ATP in their body (for my fellow Americans: about one rather chunky hamster) but it’s recycled about 200 times a day, so would require 50kg (6 watermelons or two average labradoodles) if it was used and discarded.
ATP has been around since the beginning of life or near enough, and evolution is a deranged, cat-piss-soaked hoarder that makes use of whatever is already lying around, so ATP also does several things beyond energy transfer. This also means where ATP is allowed and in what quantity is fairly controlled. To that end, there’s a class of enzyme called ectonucleotidases that’s found on the outside of cells. One of the things it does is keep the level of circulating ATP and things like it low, so whatever was injected would get chopped up pretty quick.
- Comment on Steady 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I have sleep apnea and my SpO2 drops into the eighties once or twice a night.
Central apnea: fun for the whole family.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 weeks ago:
This is why partially why fiber helps with bulking and pooping. Fiber is “fiber” because it’s made of things we can’t digest, but our gut microbes can. One of the byproducts of their utilizing it is SCFAs, short chain fatty acids. These confer various benefits like reduced inflammation and enhanced mucous production, which helps you drop a deuce.
Feeding your microbes also means you grow more of them, which makes your turds bigger and easier for your intestines to push along.
Yet another fun fact: ruminants like cows ferment otherwise indigestible plant matter in their guts, breaking it down and growing absolutely huge quantities of microbes in the process. Then they digest those microbes. That’s how they get enough protein. A cow is a mooing, shitting house of horrors if you’re a microbe.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 weeks ago:
Friendly neighborhood microbiologist here. You’re right except for one thing: most cells can use sugar directly through anaerobic respiration. Mitochondria allow aerobic respiration, which utilizes oxygen and is far more efficient, albeit a bit slower, and produces carbon dioxide as its end product.
Fun fact: ever wonder where your weight goes when you lose weight? CO2. You literally breathe most of it out.
I can get as nerdy as you want if anyone has any questions.
- Comment on Wobble wobble 2 weeks ago:
It depends on the speed and size of the centrifuge, the mass of the load, and the magnitude of the imbalance. Someone else mentioned an ultracentrifuge, typically a large, washing-machine-like device that can spin larger loads at high velocity. The amount of energy released if they become significantly unbalanced is pretty huge: they have a containment layer, but some could kill you if the load got through and hit you.
On the flip side, I may have intentionally ran unbalanced microcentrifuges a few (many, it was many) times as a grad student because I was too tired and lazy to make a counterweight. I just held it down with fairly firm pressure and it was fine. That’s not very good for its bearings, though. Sorry lab manager!
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Same here with different nonsense. Oh well.
- Comment on Anon dates a 19 y/o 3 weeks ago:
For real. When I was 24, I dated a 19 year old for like two weeks. They were really nice and interesting, but ultimately the age gap proved to make a relationship unviable. I can’t even imagine a nine year gap at that age. Gross.
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 3 weeks ago:
And Empress is gone, though they were pretty toxic so that’s no big loss for me.
- Comment on Good luck! 4 weeks ago:
You can rent the space for only $1600/month in San Francisco!
- Comment on Practice makes perfect 4 weeks ago:
Fuck yeah it does. I learned better emotional regulation and how to analyze, form, and deconstruct arguments thanks to Reddit’s general argumentative douchebaggery. Now I’m an even more insufferable prick than ever!
- Comment on Anon hires a goth chick 1 month ago:
This is a really common sentiment. Humans are social apes but many cultures have severely curtailed what kind of touch is considered appropriate.
I highly recommend hanging with cats. When I was younger, I volunteered at a cat rescue. Friendly cats are almost always down to be pet and to rub their furry little faces all over you. It’s hard to feel as lonely when you’re hanging out with your cat buds, and the rescue cats need friends too.
- Comment on when ur higher than sagan 1 month ago:
They should be fine anyhow if homeopathy really works. They just need to take a little train material, serially dilute it to 10⁻²⁰ strength, then take it with sugar pills. Train immunity!
- Comment on leading ai company 1 month ago:
Racisms per minute (RPM)?
- Comment on i just think they're neat 1 month ago:
I was surprised to see them called inedible. The young gourds are tender and taste like squash.
- Comment on Shit like this is why we need open source printers! 1 month ago:
Here’s the relevant wiki article:
- Comment on It's why the thrift store has so many of them 1 month ago:
Use linesman’s gloves and don’t unplug them first for extra effects!
- Comment on I knew I should have cancelled the order 😑 1 month ago:
100%!
- Comment on I knew I should have cancelled the order 😑 1 month ago:
Unfortunately, the “in matters is taste” line isn’t true and appears to have originated on the internet in about the last decade, being popularized on Reddit. The original phrase was “the customer is always right”, full stop.
The slogan has its origins in early 1900s retailers, as the previous predominant principle in commerce was essentially “buyer beware”, that the relationship between buyer and seller was inherently distrustful. In an attempt to gain shopper’s trust, retailers such as Sears and Marshall Field issued instructions to their employees to satisfy customers regardless of if they’re right or wrong. This led to a number of similar maxims, including the above.
Why so I care so damn much? Two reasons. First, I’m a stickler for facts and “in matters of taste” is entirely unsupported. Second, and greatest of all, is how it shifts the responsibility for encouraging bad customer behavior from the retailer to the customer, as if the customer is intentionally misinterpreting an element of the social contract for personal gain. The original intent, to require retail employees to satisfy customers regardless of their behavior, was driven by retailers for greater profits at the expense of their employees. It grooms customers toward bad behavior as they know acting out will get them a better deal or service. Sure, customers must choose to behave in such a manner, but it’s the retailers condoning and even encouraging such behavior that allows it to so easily continue.
- Comment on I knew I should have cancelled the order 😑 1 month ago:
I’ve been orbiting the sun for more than 40 years and that’s the first time I’ve heard that
It’s because it’s not true. It was always “the customer is always right”, full stop, originating in 1920s department stores as a slogan to encourage employees to be doormats for entitled customers. Gotta make the owners richer at the cost of the employee’s self respect. Then folks on the internet uncritically started repeating this “matters of taste” nonsense in the last decade or so, and here we are.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I suppose you and I have different notions of what defines smart. Being “brainwashed” into supporting something that someone of even middling intelligence can see is overwhelmingly stupid suggests a lack of the most basic critical thinking skills, which I would not say suggests any notable degree of intelligence.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
As someone who did both of those things, be sure not to conflate educated with intelligent. I have met many very well educated, astoundingly stupid people in academia and industry.
- Comment on Anon puts himself out there 1 month ago:
It’s definitely a third date or beyond activity. When I was single, I always asked third dates to compare their emotional baggage with me, but wouldn’t discuss it in depth until later. We all have it, so might as well bring it out.
