NielsBohron
@NielsBohron@lemmy.world
- Comment on Cheers Bro 1 week ago:
I teach college chemistry, and half the time it’s to STEM majors that see the obvious applications, but the other half the time, my students are going into nursing or other “STEM-adjacent” fields and I try and try to get them to see that the applications are there, if they just look, but maybe of them never do.
- Comment on Par for the course 1 week ago:
You could be mixing up correlation and causation. The divorce could have happened for any number of reasons and the ensuing loneliness and alienation could have been what led the husband to seek validation in manosphere bullshit
- Comment on Break out the weiner sticks 1 week ago:
An old character actor who became somewhat relevant again when Family Guy referenced him and he voiced his own character, but then he turned out to be a racist piece of shit.
- Comment on There's fucking ads in board games now 1 week ago:
That’s fair. I’d say it’s easier on the GM, but asks more of the other players
- Comment on There's fucking ads in board games now 1 week ago:
Fair. I try to take that approach, too, but I still don’t like the cognitive dissonance of knowing someone I respect as an artist is a piece of shit. I can ignore it a bit if they evolved into an asshole over time (like I can still listen to early Kanye, barely), but I still don’t like it and it colors my appreciation of their work.
- Comment on There's fucking ads in board games now 1 week ago:
Isn’t Killer Mike one of those “black capitalism can save us” type guys anyway? Because that kind of tracks with him.
Maybe? I don’t know much about his personality or politics, but I would have said a lot of RTJ songs are fairly strongly anti-capitalist (“Ju$t,” “Report to Shareholders,” etc.). But maybe that’s just me projecting my own anti-capitalist beliefs on their lyrics.
Honestly at this point that’s how I feel about most artists in general.
Yeah, as my politics get more progressive/radical, it’s gotten to the point where I either have to listen to stuff that’s almost explicitly apolitical (mostly stoner/doom metal songs about death in battle, wizards, and weed work pretty well) or else I actively avoid reading about the artists so I can pretend they’re more progressive than they are.
- Comment on There's fucking ads in board games now 1 week ago:
I think if you get the video from Duck Duck Go, you can copy the link without the tracker. Plus, I think Firefox gives you option to “copy link without site tracking” from most search results
- Comment on There's fucking ads in board games now 1 week ago:
I was just thinking about this last weekend when I heard a Run The Jewels beat on a TurboTax ad during an NFL game.
- Comment on There's fucking ads in board games now 1 week ago:
Pathfinder 2 is sooo much better than DnD, especially if you want to GM any official campaigns/modules/one-shots. Paizo’s writing on their adventure paths make it so easy to just jump in and run a game or pilfer encounters and piecemeal a homebrew campaign
Plus, the character creation, ancestries, and classes are so flexible that you can play almost anything you can imagine without having to homebrew anything. You want play as the Rat King from The Nutcracker? Sure. A goblin sapper from Warcraft 2? Easy-peasy. You want to play as C-3PO? No problem. Christ, you can play as the fucking Velveteen Rabbit if you want.
- Comment on Reading into something that is said 4 weeks ago:
No, no; haven’t you heard? if we don’t read the Bible^™^, there’s nothing to stop us from killing and raping everyone we meet. ^/s^
- Comment on Reading into something that is said 4 weeks ago:
Do you honestly think modern superpowers are not “conquering empires?” If so, I worry what you think about “Jesus’ principals [sic].”
- Comment on Literally c/THE_PACK 5 weeks ago:
I COULDN’T QUITE HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND IF MY CRANKED HOG, BUT I THINK YOU SAID SOMETHING ABOUT DEFINING GENDER!!!
THE PACK IS ALL ABOUT INCLUSION!! I DON’T CARE HOW YOU MF’ERS SELF IDENTIFY, YOU’RE ALL MY BROTHERS AS LONG AS YOU LOVE CRANKING THAT HOG!!!
AROOOOOO!
- Comment on Everyone talking about the Indiana Jones game lately, so I gave in and bought it. It's a 10/10 recommendation from me! 1 month ago:
I only got to play at my friend’s house, and I think I got stuck on Minos (or whatever the Greek island was) and couldn’t get past it before they bought a new computer
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Bootlickers: Lots of CEO’s increase claim denials!
The Hound: Lots of cunts…
- Comment on CEO brains go brrrrr 1 month ago:
getting firearms across international lines is a little trickier than shooting dumbfuck CEO’s, though.
- Comment on huehuehue 1 month ago:
Fucking mirrors are the worst.
- Comment on The more you know 1 month ago:
It had metal skate wheels on it. My uncle said they used to make something like that in the 40’s by nailing a skate onto a board, though it sounded more like a scooter since they usually added a handle to the front.
As seen in the documentary Back to the Future
- Comment on This world is cruel… 1 month ago:
Afaik, they’re still around, but inflation and popularity has caused the prices to increase a fair bit.
- Comment on This world is cruel… 1 month ago:
“Backpacking” can also mean couch surfing and staying in hostels or on park benches. In the early 2000’s, it was a really popular way to travel across Europe (at least among rich white college kids)
- Comment on No phones, no emails, just living in the moment 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t have characterized The Princess and the Frog that way. In that movie, the protagonists learn to be happy despite being frogs, not because they are frogs. Being frogs throws them together and forces them to get to know one another, but their happy ending comes once they become human again (and the point of the movie is about working tirelessly to achieve their dreams, not removing themselves from society)
- Comment on No phones, no emails, just living in the moment 1 month ago:
Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.
- Comment on So this is how liberty dies... 2 months ago:
And his lack of any sort of moral compass beyond “money”
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 months ago:
That’s all well and good, but are you really suggesting that trans people who are fearing for their lives should stay put to help the electoral college issues four years from now?
- Comment on Feral Science 2 months ago:
I do live the feeling of disorientation I got from the first book. The whole thing felt like I was in a fever dream and I was never sure if I was losing my mind or it was the book.
Of course a big chunk of that could be the sleep deprivation that came with having 2 kids under two at the same time as reading the book.
- Comment on Houses in my area increases 82% in just 4 years 2 months ago:
We got in on early 2016 and the price of real estate increased by 20% while we were in escrow.
Our house has more than doubled in price since then but if we had fallen out of escrow, we would not have been able to buy anything anywhere near our jobs/preferred city (and my partner and I have a combined income north of 150k/year).
Shit is crazy these days
- Comment on Max Planck 2 months ago:
That’s because you’re thinking of it like a distance, but matter at that scale actually behaves more like a standing wave that only has discrete solutions.
Or at least that’s how I think about electrons and Schrodinger’s equation. I dunno, I only teach about stuff that’s as small as an electron, but it’s a useful tool for thinking about quantum numbers, so I assume it applies to smaller matter, too.
- Comment on Stress 2 months ago:
I don’t know that you’re wrong, because those MD/PhD programs are exceptionally demanding (but are a good way to avoid med school debt for some). It’s more that even for pure MD’s, research is a very, very different career path than practicing physician. I think researchers still have to go through residency, but after that they’re mostly designing and arranging clinical trials, writing grants, interacting with related university departments, etc.
So, you know, research stuff rather than patient stuff.
- Comment on Stress 2 months ago:
There are medical researchers that have MD’s, but they are not practicing physicians (usually). There are MD/PhD programs that are aimed toward medical research fields (usually with the PhD being in biology or chemistry as you mentioned), and lots of biological and biomedical engineers working on certain medical fields as well (especially using stem cells and other chemical cues to regrow tissues). So yeah, biology- and physiology-adjacent sciences are where most of the actual advances are happening.
Actually practicing medicine is basically like being a mechanic that specializes in keeping one particularly poorly designed piece of equipment running.
- Comment on Stress 2 months ago:
I’m aware of and support her current work and I agree that she’s much smarter than her public persona would lead people to believe. However, she still comes from a place of unbelievable privilege and telling people to “stop being desperate” is incredibly tone deaf, IMO.
Two things can be true at the same time.
- Comment on Stress 2 months ago:
“Stop Being Desperate” has a real “Let them eat cake” feel, especially coming from her.