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MeowZedong

@ MeowZedong @lemmygrad.ml

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(Any/Comrade, Tankie for the unserious)

Marxist-Leninist with Meowist leanings (cat supremacy, but love all animals)

Labor organizer. USian.

Scientist, experience in vaccines/drug delivery/chemistry/analytics/biochemistry/protection of eggs dropped from tall structures

  • How to Halt a Rotary Evaporation

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  • As our laboratory's butterfingers, I find that this happens everywhere, but also the rotovap and always at the worst possible times.

    Some of my colleagues refuse to directly hand me sample vials now because they've seen me frantically attempt to save a sample I dropped by treating it like a hackey sack one too many times.

    If your lab assistant needed the rotovap moved to a hood quickly, chances are it should have been in there to begin with.

  • Elf on a Shelf

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  • I too use a microscope exclusively for distillation and drying.

  • Happy Weekend, boyz

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  • Piss + THF

  • little hopper

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  • Not just the clean lines, but the smooth curves too. It's difficult to do something like this and not make it all bumpy and uneven. Definitely lots of skill and time involved.

  • little hopper

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  • An alternative that I like to use in the lab is squinting and holding the sample really close to my face. Perhaps they used my method if the bugs weren't big enough?

  • Bidet anyone?

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  • Full HD and in stereo!

  • Bidet anyone?

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  • There are people who always have super solid movements that don't leave a trail. Many of us have a variety of textures that smear as they exit.

    I get that, but my experience has been that even greasy, sticky shits get properly washed off my bum so long as I use a decent bidet and know how to use it properly. I haven't found an instance where a bidet has been insufficient and I don't mean to belittle anyone, but there is a bit of a learning curve and perhaps it was a lack of experience or the lack of quality equipment?

    Poops that would leave me wiping 20x and with a sore, bleeding asshole while wiping are not an issue with a wash. I guess someone's poop could be very different from mine, but I haven't run into such an issue after using one for years unless I just didn't wash properly.

    A bidet removes the majority of it but never all, and wiping reveals what is left behind.

    This can absolutely be true, but it's an indication of improper washing and the need for a repeat or a better bidet.

  • If the US stayed out of other countries politics and there were no coups or installation of people favorable to the US what would the world look like?

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  • For real, the US committed a coup in Australia with Whitlam. They don't constrain the CIA to just poor countries.

  • If the US stayed out of other countries politics and there were no coups or installation of people favorable to the US what would the world look like?

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  • If the US was to take an isolationist policy 100 years ago, then there is a good chance that WW2 would have been won by the Axis. The Allied forces likely would have put up a good fight, but I'm not sure they would have emerged victorious against the combined Axis forces. The war in the Pacific would have raged on much longer, and without nuclear weapons, there would have been an extreme loss of life invading Japan. At the very least, WW2 would have lasted much much longer than it did. Depending on the outcome, plenty of countries might currently be speaking German and debating if they should tear down 80-year-old statues of Hitler.

    The only people who believe this drivel are those who have only learned about WWII via Hollywood and YT videos. Go listen to an actual historian and you will not hear this fantasy. They will tell you that Germany had one foot in the grave by the time the US joined the Western front. The only ounce of truth in this statement is that the Pacific theatre would have gone on longer.

    Edit: I didn't touch on this but should have...the whole idea that a nuclear attack on Japan was necessary or even justified in any way is not only incorrect but is a racist, genocidal excuse for not one, but TWO of the most horrific acts in our entire history. You should be ashamed for propagating this tired lie.

  • If the US stayed out of other countries politics and there were no coups or installation of people favorable to the US what would the world look like?

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  • Lol, only if you learned history from Hollywood.

  • If the US stayed out of other countries politics and there were no coups or installation of people favorable to the US what would the world look like?

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  • Did they also go into mass atrocities committed and initiated by the US? If you go around lighting fires and then come back around to put them out after donning an official uniform, should others consider you a fire fighter or an arsonist?

    Is there a single instance covered that wasn't a situation the US directly and purposely had a hand in creating?

  • Bidet anyone?

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  • Mine auto-tweets which number and the health profile of what I did and even switches between accounts based upon who is using it. Biometric scanning and mass data collection is used to match you with the correct account. If you don't have one, it registers new users without an account. Obviously filters out those under 13 as they don't meet the terms of service.

    When you flush it also plays a recording of a random tweet from our Lord and Savior Elon's account in his voice.

    Edit: Can't wait for my Cyber Truck to arrive so I can connect it and activate the feature where it honks my truck's horn every time I flush.

  • Bidet anyone?

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  • To collect your wet, smelly, non-degradable rags? No thanks, I'll keep the bidet.

  • Bidet anyone?

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  • No. If you are using a decent bidet and using it correctly, you do not need to wipe. At most you'll need to dab dry, but some models have blow driers so this isn't necessary. The water is the friction you need unless your bidet has weak pressure or the stream is too dispersed.

    Soap would always be better, but water alone is vastly superior and a complete replacement for wiping so long as something isn't wrong with the setup.

  • Subscribing to YT premium is also an evil act

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  • Yeah, same. I installed UBlock Origin on my Firefox browser for free and gotta say that enjoying YouTube and YT Music Ad-Free is the way to do it!

  • Any well-established Lemmy instances that publicly allow posting from VPNs?

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  • It's just the worst one.

  • The dinosaur paradox

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  • I prefer to chug my oil, crude.

  • The dinosaur paradox

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  • Shhh! Vegan is an option, not a mandate!

  • The dinosaur paradox

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  • Confirmed, oil is vegan.

  • "Now everyone will have an easy reference table at hand!"

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  • In my US chemistry undergrad program, we were required to memorize ~40 elements that were frequently used. We had reference material available to us in the test packets, but the test time given was so low that if you hadn't memorized those elements, you didn't have time to finish the test.

    Our general chemistry class was one of the hardest classes you could take and much of the grading seemed unfair. Very minor mistakes that could propagate throughout your calculations would lose full points. There was never enough time for exams: you were expected to be very sure of how to run your calculations, there wasn't extra time for you to be unsure or have to redo an entire question because you messed up. It truly sucked.

    That said, it was very effective at graduating competent chemists. I didn't trust any of the biologists, nurses, pharmacists, etc. to do even basic unit conversions unless they took that class. You can often tell well into someone's professional career if they went through such a rigorous training program because many of the calculations and principles we learned in this class are ones we use daily. I run into PhDs in biology fields who don't know the difference between molar and molarity, ones who are inconsistent at converting masses to mols, etc.

    It's embarrassing to reach that point in your career and lack these basic skills. I'll hear, "yeah, but they aren't chemists, so it's not so important that they know these things." If that's so, then why do they need to do it as part of their job? Skills like these are agnostic to degrees and positions, it's like learning basic arithmetic for most scientists.

    I fucking hated that class and the professor for putting us through that, but that faded quickly with time. He made the rest of our education easier and prepared us well for the work that was ahead.