SoleInvictus
@SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Feeling that groove 3 days ago:
I’m a microbiologist. That’s pretty normal. Things that look smooth and even when viewed normally frequently look different when significantly magnified. Your eyes can’t resolve the fine details so your brain fills in the gaps.
- Comment on Racism restaurant 4 days ago:
It’s a process cheese product! My uncle used to work at a factory that made it so I know their process.
It was only about 40% cheese, and the cheese utilized was a blend of the bits left over from making things like cheese sticks. This was combined with milk, milk proteins, and several emulsifiers to keep it from separating into oil and solids as it solidifies and again if it’s melted.
It’s called a “pasteurized prepared cheese product” because it doesn’t contain enough cheese to legally call itself cheese or any variant of processed cheese.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
All men are people but some men are more people than others.
- Comment on Labcoat! 5 days ago:
Just like my ochem lab partner. We just huffed diethyl ether on the sly and tried not to fuck up too much.
- Comment on Knows more than most scientists… according to one extremely reliable source: themselves 1 week ago:
Here on Lemmy, I recently learned of a far-reaching conspiracy that by its nature involves bribing research scientists and their support staff across the globe to falsify their data and support the falsified data of others.
I was quite surprised, having worked as one for over a decade and never receiving a cent of my universal bribe income (UBI). I’ve filed grievances with requests for back pay from both ANSO and the ISC, but they’re denying any knowledge of it.
- Comment on Scientists of Lemmy, explain: 1 week ago:
How about this one?!
- Comment on Not impressed 1 week ago:
Yep, traditional (non-phylogenetic) taxonomy creates problems like protists, the grab bag of eukaryota.
There are more species labeled protists than the sum of all their descendants.
Are they animals, plants, or fungi? Sure, why not!
Some are heterotrophs (eat things), some are autotrophs (energy from sun or chemicals), and others are mixotrophs (some of both). Some are motile, others immotile. Some are multicellular, most unicellular.
The problem is all taxonomy is arbitrary, and traditional taxonomy is pretty inconsistent. Phylogenetic taxonomy is still arbitrary, but using evolutionary relationships instead of “this monkey looks like other monkey” at least gets you more consistency in that system.
- Comment on Anon takes a DNA test 1 week ago:
Also “Turned out my father isn’t my real dad” is BS. Genetic test results are useless for determining such.
Wait, what now? The AncestryDNA test isn’t WGS, but it analyzes 700K loci. One can infer relatedness with an insanely high degree of accuracy with that number. For reference, the standard US paternity test uses 20 loci and it’s more than 99% accurate.
Or do you mean one needn’t be a biological parent to be a real father to a child?
- Comment on NEW TOAD ALERT 2 weeks ago:
TOAD! TOAD! TOAD! TOAD!
- Comment on Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post 2 weeks ago:
I see you too are familiar with Heart Forth Alicia.
- Comment on Become unrecognizable 2 weeks ago:
At least your face wouldn’t burn
- Comment on turing completeness 2 weeks ago:
Percent of Alovoa PC users on Linux: 93%
- Comment on turing completeness 2 weeks ago:
She did, but I had my concerns. I’m down with poly relationships, but I don’t think I could date someone who is seeing that many other people.
- Comment on turing completeness 2 weeks ago:
I read the same. We need a FOSS dating app without these stupid semi-matching algorithms.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 2 weeks ago:
The biggest initial issue for many is that it’s pretty sedating, but that lessens with time. I slept like the dead for the first three weeks as baclofen is one of the few drugs that increases the frequency and duration of deep sleep. Now I can take 100 milligrams in a day and not feel a thing. I have literally no side effects.
One downside is sudden cessation is hell. If I miss an entire day, my anxiety graduallygoes through the roof the following day until I start taking it again. Two days results in gradually increasing hallucinations. All of this reverses within an hour of taking a dose. You must taper off this stuff, but doing it isn’t hard. Just don’t go cold turkey.
It’s also a medication that people tend not to grow resistant to. It hasn’t lost any effectiveness for me despite having taken 60-80mg/day for almost two decades.
I used to have constant burning throat pain and the taste of stomach contents. Not anymore! It reduces the frequency of transient lower esophageal sphincter (LES) relaxation and increases its resting tone. Here’s a relevant paper for anyone interested:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9981648/
Bonus: 20 mg for non-users will halt hiccups but will likely also sedate them pretty hard. 10-20 mg will prevent MDMA hyperthermia.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 2 weeks ago:
Hey fellow LPR person! Ever looked into baclofen? It’s an oddball, but it helped me and a friend with our LPR.
- Comment on You guys ready for NO Nut November? 3 weeks ago:
I nut thrice each day for the poor souls who go without.
- Comment on ‘It’s about redemption’: Peter Molyneux says Masters of Albion will make up for decades of ‘overpromising on things’ 4 weeks ago:
I actually forgot about this clown. The Elon Musk of gaming.
- Comment on Banana 4 weeks ago:
A tie between the Gros Michel and the Cuban Red. I was staying with a friend in Hawaii when I went on my banana bender, but both look to be intermittently available for delivery online at Miami Fruit.
- Comment on Banana 4 weeks ago:
So get this. Have you ever had Runts candy? If you or any other readers have, then you’ve likely noted that the banana candy just doesn’t taste right. That’s because it’s based on the original mass production banana, the Gros Michel, AKA the “Big Mike”. That’s a proper banana. Cavendish is shit but it’s the only type most people have eaten. They’ve eaten shit. Banana shit.
The following may not apply to you but may for others:
Saying you hate bananas when you have only tried cavendish is like saying you hate beer when you’ve only tried warm, flat Keystone Light.
- Comment on Banana 4 weeks ago:
There are SO MANY bananas, but most people have only eaten the Cavendish. Awhile back, I got a box of assorted bananas from a farm that specializes in growing unusual fruit. I ate about twenty pounds of bananas in three weeks. So many fucking nanners spread across my entire kitchen countertop for weeks, ripening in stages.
My life has been a lie. Yours too. We’ve all been hoodwinked. We are getting fucked, and not in the good way, because Cavendish is a straight up garbage fruit. There are tiny tart toothsome Thai bananas, chunky Cuban, alluring Apple, beauteous burro, pleasurably plump Pisang, orally outstanding orinoco, mouthwatering Mysore, and the gustatorily magnificent Gros Michel, the OG mass production bananer, which was replaced by Cavendish in a mycological midlife crisis (I’m drunk and if I was a dinosaur, I’d be a tiny tenacious thesaurus tenuisi). Plus more. So many more. Fucking. Bananas.
They all taste like bananas, but each is a little different, some more than others, but they all had more taste that those Cavendish fuckers. So get fucked Chiquita, Dole, and Del Monte. My banana bread sucks because of y’all.
- Comment on Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition - Reveal Trailer 4 weeks ago:
HDR?
- Comment on But why 5 weeks ago:
I can’t agree more. I enjoyed his earliest works some, but he quickly hits his “stride” and falls into his characteristic writing pattern, making every book more or less the same novel with interchangeable variations on the same plot points.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 5 weeks ago:
I have awful acid reflux and have an adjustable bed frame. Having the top half slightly raised is a life saver since I can raise it for worse reflux and lower it for better sleep. I just use a remote, though. Doing it on an app through the internet is just stupid.
- Comment on It's not? 5 weeks ago:
That’s a fair request. Just keep in mind that you asked for this. You asked!
My partner has an Amazon account that we occasionally use for purchases. A few months back, I saw this absolutely bullshit item listed for a stupidly high price, so I left it a brief but scathing review. After hitting submit, I had an invitation to join something I’d never heard of before: Amazon Vine.
I learned Vine is a program where sellers can offer up “free” (I pay income tax on the estimated value) things to people in exchange for reviews. Honest reviews. Never before have I handed out so many one- and two-star reviews and they love me for it. I get three things per day with a maximum value of $100 each. It was really cool at first! I picked up all those weird little gadgets that I had to considered buying but never really wanted enough to spend the money. Eventually, though, I ran out things I wanted, plus the looming tax debt was growing, so I decided to be more strategic about my acquisitions.
One thing I frequently saw was dildos. Some days I saw more dicks than a urologist. Oh, and the variety! Double sided, single sided, with and without suction cups. With and without balls! Big, small, long, short, thick, and thin. White, black, brown, pink, green, red, orange, blue, and clear. Monster dicks, dog dicks, horse dicks, dragon dicks, an alien dick that lays eggs, a dick coming out of a rose, a rose that looks like a dick, a 16" dick with a bendy internal skeleton (it has a knee!!!), a dick with an electric clit nibbling mouth, an octopus tentacle, a monster tentacle, even a multi-lobed, size graduated ass blaster. The best part? They all have a tax value of $0. No tax! 100% free dick! So now I have the dildo bucket: a bog-standard 5 gallon bucket full of dildos. I try to nab as many dildos as I can each day to fill the bucket.
When you have this many dildos, the world is your fuck oyster. When my partner or I unbox a new shipment, we prank each other with them, hiding them throughout the house. They hid a 12" black dildo somewhere two weeks ago and I still have no idea where it’s at. Just the other day, they refused to wake up from a nap on time. Dildo to the face! They woke up. I made a tasteful succulent arrangement with a big black cock right in the middle. Friends or family coming into town? Give them the gift of a dildo forest hiding in their shower, 30+ suction cup dildos gently swaying in welcome. I plan to hide a dildo up my neighbor’s truck’s exhaust pipe - don’t worry, we’re friends. Potato launcher? Cock cannon! The possibilities are truly infinite.
- Comment on It's not? 5 weeks ago:
As someone currently collecting a massive number of free Amazon dildos*, I can authoritatively concur with this statement. If I had a nickel for every “silicone” dildo that is actually TPU… well, I’d currently have $1.15.
*for purposes of mayhem, not actual use.
- Comment on Why doesn't anybody get notified about warrants for their arrest? 1 month ago:
This is correct. Story time!
A friend of mine was arrested due to a warrant from an unpaid traffic violation ticket for driving without proof of insurance. It wasn’t paid because the ticket was dismissed after they later showed they did have insurance, but this was not recorded in the proper system.
Five years later, they were arrested after being pulled over for a burned out brake light. They spent most of a day in jail. Luckily, they kept proof of the dismissal, otherwise they’d have been held accountable for the government’s mistake. No compensation was provided for their time in jail and missed work. Murica!
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 1 month 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 month 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. 1 month ago:
I seem to recall a real snoozefest about a guy named Warren Peese.
