Contramuffin
@Contramuffin@lemmy.world
- Comment on What strategy would you use to estimate the number of hazelnuts 1 week ago:
Find a cup that is similarly shaped and sized, fill it with hazelnuts and then count it manually
- Comment on Mmm... 2 weeks ago:
Don’t be comforted. Sacrificing mice is still extremely cruel and is the reason I specifically don’t work with mice.
Animal protocols require you to use 2 methods of killing to ensure the mouse is dead, and I’m assuming the decapitator is meant to be used as the second method to ensure death.
The first method of killing often involves gassing mice with CO2. This takes several minutes, and the mice definitely know that they’re getting gassed. After some time, they start panicking and scurry around the chamber looking for a way to escape. After a bit more time, they get weak and collapse. This is typically when you do the second method of killing. Some protocols require you to stab the heart with a needle and drain the blood. Some require you to snap their neck (like in the movies, except what the movies don’t show is that the mouse flails and twitches when you do it). Some require you to inject with ketamine (ok, this one isn’t so bad). And I guess now there’s a decapitator that lets you just cut the entire head off.
Even among researchers, there’s a pretty sizeable number of people who don’t want to work with mice
- Comment on Caption this. 2 weeks ago:
They’re putting chemicals in the air to make the friggin’ spiders gay
- Comment on Real Talk 2 weeks ago:
That’s why you change the color of any temporary text so that you can really see if there’s any left
- Comment on i just think they're neat 2 weeks ago:
It probably has to do with weight. Pottery is pretty heavy and I assume this gourd, when hollowed out, isn’t
- Comment on Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots) 3 weeks ago:
I get why the ending to 2017 Prey might have been annoying, but I honestly thought it was very in line with the themes present in the rest of the game. The more time has passed, the more I’m satisfied with the ending. That being said, IMO the only right ending is
Spoiler
to murder everyone
- Comment on Sup, guise. 4 weeks ago:
You freeze mammalian cells by dunking them in LN2? I’ve… never heard of anyone do that. I’ve always put them in either a Mr. Frosty or a styrofoam conical holder (makeshift Mr. Frosty)
- Comment on Soup of Theseus 5 weeks ago:
This used to be a pretty common practice. It’s called a forever soup
- Comment on Name him. 1 month ago:
Bouba
- Comment on After 18 years, a surprise Half-Life 2 update makes it once again possible to beat a honking train on Highway 17 1 month ago:
My speculation? They’ll call it HL4 and then just say that HL:A was technically HL3
- Comment on sardonic soup 1 month ago:
Dose makes the poison. Most bitter flavors (that you eat) aren’t really meant to discourage you from eating them, it’s really meant for insects.
Plant: I will make an unappetizing flavor to prevent myself from getting eaten
Humans: finally, some good fucking food
- Comment on How does a guy become his most confident around women? 1 month ago:
If this is how you treat men, then the OP appears to be one of the smaller problems that you may have
- Comment on How does a guy become his most confident around women? 1 month ago:
The best thing to do is to not see gender. Treat women the same way that you treat men. I mean that in the most literal sense, not in an “equal rights” sense (though you definitely should make sure that’s true as well).
Do you know the uncanny valley? It’s the idea that things that appear close-but-not-quite human are offputting. Something similar happens in social conversations as well. People are very good at subconsciously detecting subtle signs of incongruity between your tone, body language, and spoken words. For instance, if you are nervous but act blasé. There will be subtle signs, like in how you phrase sentences or your tone, that will be noticeable, and people will think that you are hiding something. And people may find it strange and offputting.
It’s the same reason why pick up artists appear creepy - people can detect that their intentions and worldview don’t match with their exterior façade.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Hence, the qualification that I’m referring specifically to his pattern of behavior, not beliefs. More specifically, I’m referring to his obsessive, rigid hyperfixations. The abuse is entirely on him.
Interestingly, I have a family member who is almost certainly undiagnosed autistic, and he acts very similarly to what is described in the OP, even down to the “I know better than the experts” rhetoric. The vast majority of autistic people aren’t like that, but it is interesting for me to note the similarities between these 2 people.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Autism has a genetic component, and what you describe (specifically his pattern of behavior, not his beliefs) makes it sound like he may be undiagnosed autistic. Not a doctor or psychologist, but it’s an amusing thought nonetheless that he may be responsible for his children’s autism
- Comment on Can you guess, chat? 1 month ago:
First one looks like a repeater pipette? Not sure about the second one
- Comment on Th EU iniative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!! 2 months ago:
No, that requirement has already been met. The final requirement (which has just been met now) is to reach a total of 1 million signatures. Basically, all requirements are now satisfied
- Comment on CRISPR-Cas9 2 months ago:
Explanation: CRISPR-Cas9 is most commonly known to be a gene editor, but since its initial discovery, people have found that with some minor tweaks, CRISPR can be made to do a bunch of other things, things that biologists could have only dreamed of previously.
If you introduce a mutation that deactivates the Cas9 protein, the entire CRISPR complex still binds to DNA. Then, you can essentially glue whatever you want onto this modified Cas9 to produce a bunch of different effects:
- deactivated Cas9, no additional modifications: blocks other proteins from touching the DNA, which suppresses a gene without destroying it
- glue on some transcriptional activators: makes the cell express a gene
- glue on some fluorescent proteins: makes your DNA glow, lets you see where it is
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 2 months ago:
My understanding is that they misunderstood the petition, so this new one is rephrased in an attempt to avoid another misinterpretation
- Comment on I played Lovecraftian doctor simulator Do No Harm, and let me tell you, my brother in Cthulhu, I did some serious harm 2 months ago:
I quite like Strange Horticulture, but it felt too linear for my tastes. This seems like an interesting shakeup of that formula. I’ll keep an eye on it
- Comment on Why are living beings not being cooked alive constantly at the tekpersatures we are? 2 months ago:
Are you confusing fahrenheit and Celsius? Body temp can’t cook food
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Heavily context dependent, I’d say. In a vacuum, it’s not that unusual. The entire purpose of text is that you don’t have to respond immediately. If it happens constantly, then maybe it would have been worth figuring out why that keeps happening. Maybe he dislikes you, or maybe he’s just busy.
It seems you already understand that, though. So perhaps the more informative question is why you feel the way that you feel towards your ex. Frankly, it’s probably some level of infatuation (or as I call it, puppy love). It’s not intrinsically bad, but it does tend to drive people to have unrealistic expectations for their partners, which can drive conflict once those expectations become established
- Comment on The Elder God 2 months ago:
The Sun god demands more sacrifices
- Comment on Fabulous through the ages 2 months ago:
- Comment on geneticists 2 months ago:
Fwiw that qPCR curve doesn’t look that bad, just don’t have the y-axis be in log form
- Comment on Ke$he's Quantum Party 2 months ago:
Can she make a law that she cannot break? Checkmate Christians
- Comment on Why are you here and not on Reddit? 2 months ago:
I use Reddit through Relay and it’s gone now. Even if I want to use Reddit, I have to jump through hoops to use it.
- Comment on Do you care about up/down votes? 2 months ago:
To me, it’s a way to quantify how other people feel about my own positions. It’s neither good nor bad to be upvoted or downvoted. People have unpopular takes sometimes and you shouldn’t stake your identity on the amount of upvotes or downvotes you have.
Instead, upvotes and downvotes are most useful for other people to guage comments. Generally speaking, if a comment is universally downvoted, that likely means the position is unpopular enough that it adds no value to a discussion, and is therefore not worth engaging with.
I consider it to be a system built upon mutual understanding - that you don’t have to seriously engage with everyone’s viewpoints, and conversely, that nobody has to seriously engage with yours.
It becomes a problem when upvotes and downvotes are gamified like on Reddit, because Goodhart’s Law demands that it stops serving its purpose when people are only attempting to optimize their upvote/downvote ratio.
- Comment on “Yay! We made our project objectively worse!” 2 months ago:
It doesn’t get crispy, but on the other hand, less microplastics on your food, so that’s a fine trade anyways.
Pro tip: microwave for half the microwave time, then bake for half the baking time. That reproduces the original crispiness without the sleeve
- Comment on Anon goes camping 2 months ago:
If parasites weren’t an effective life strategy, there wouldn’t be parasites in the world
