The one sub I miss. Wish there was a hexbear comm for it, as the lemmy.ml one has like 3 active users before it died over a year ago

They make quality stuff for the prices, an old job got a bioreactor (basically a carboy for homebrewing wired with sensors & computer-controlled pumps) for $25k from a Chinese manufacturer. They later sold it to the Open Insulin project & used the money to buy a textured vegetable protein extruder from China to make vegan deli meats. Both had kinda wonky unintuitive user interfaces, but they were solid pieces of hardware

Reminds me of the funny pharmacology of Navalny's poisoning, according to the chemist that got crank called by Navalny & Bellingcat in that CNN documentary. The chemist said he smeared 10x the lethal dose in his blue underwear's waistband yet it took an hour to take effect & he survived throughout the entire duration of the emergency landing at Omsk plus ambulance ride.

I'd like to consider myself a freak with an amazing memory but, yeah, that on the spot pressure/call-outs were especially rough in graduate-level sciences. I get the whole in-situ "determine the limits of your knowledge on the subject" but damn if it didn't feel like the primary investigator of the lab I was in just saw me as a lab rat to poke and prod for his curiosity when I was presenting research updates.

Also not fun to learn I probably had test anxiety for my entire scholastic career & never had accomodations suggested to me until I was nearly done with my coursework :/

Same, but vaguely employed with a short-term tutoring grift. But hey, I'm 46 episodes away from being current on Death is Just Around the Corner & while everything the host MSJ is saying seems to ring true, it's definitely making things worse (:

I'd love to have a longitudinal study on boomers' lead levels; since all that aerosolized leaded gas got sequestered in their bones as kids, it must be being reintroduced into their bloodstream as osteoporosis sets in

No U.S. military personnel went ashore in Gaza.

This sentence seems like one of those half truths/pre-confessions you tell your parents when you know you're gonna get caught but you try to preemptively lessen your culpability.

I have an LLM turn my resume into cover letters & I feel great! (I am still unemployed)

Managed Democracy™ really does seem like the ideal method of voting to libs

Also worked with 2 Israeli VCs (sorry for linking times of Israel, it's the most comprehensive source I could find)

https://www.timesofisrael.com/2-israeli-startup-entrepreneurs-played-roles-in-rise-of-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/

Even German law recognizes trying to escape prison is a sane response & doesn't extend sentences for re-captured escapees

Being straight with her dad. You hate to see it folks