This is just straight up dangerous

Just like most of his plans. The spa, the tunnel, buck a beer… all short-sighted and focussed on legacy instead of actual helpful policy.

most academics/research roles. Huge competition, your life depends on winning grants, requires PhD and years of training, poverty-level salaries.

I’m just tired of everyone asking for my money. Rent/mortgage: insane. Groceries: insane. Transportation: insane. Phone/internet: insane. I think people realized they can just charge whatever they want and get away with it so thats whats happened, everyone is squeezing every last penny out of everyone. If everyone starts doing that then theres not much left over and yeah, people feel like shit. They did everything right and its just not enough. Thats the world now.

I would love it if renting was just banned entirely. Just play the stock market with your extra cash, homes should not be an investment/traded around. People need a place to live. I hope people realize that a shoebox of a condo isn’t worth $1M and theres a massive correction back to more realistic valuations. its just stupid now.

well of theres’s more competition… be competitive. make better cars, reduce prices, make the product stand out.

I came here after they banned 3rd party apps, never looked back!

I could go for personal quad copters. Imagine leaving work early on a friday and packing up the oll’ whirly bird and heading up to the cottage? that would be awesome.

The codex astartes approves

we’re 2/3 of the way to the expanse, just need belters!

I was trying to do a meme but it didn’t format :( I was going to say “do you want to continue without supporting us?” and put in a “you’re god damn right” breaking bad meme but I goofed it.

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I feel like bees are a bit of a grey area. We’re not eating them, we’re kind of like landlords that give them a nice place to stay and they pay rent in honey. I’m not vegan so I’m not quite sure what the rationale is for bee stuff.

Thats pretty neat “you cant kill something thats not alive”. Can viruses respond to stimuli? We consider bacteria alive but viruses are debated, wheres the line? are enzymes alive? Are prions alive? cool article.

technically viruses aren’t alive. They just use cellular machinery to replicate and thats it.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10144565/ Here’s a good start on “NNS”/non nutritional sweeteners.

Honestly its probably not a very big impact, its more of a “its possible” sort of thing.

Its a really interesting field!

Ya thats a fair point!

ya I did a lit review for my thesis a few years back, plenty of papers on microbes metabolizing these compounds, shouldn’t be hard to find.

FYI there is no such thing as truly “zero calorie”. Sure, we can’t use aspartame and those “0 calorie” sweeteners for energy BUT our gut microbes can metabolize those compounds into products that we can then use for energy. So one way or another you’re still taking in calories. Now do you gain more energy from straight sugar vs the sweeteners? I have no idea, I haven’t studied this in years. I just like to bring up that little bit of trivia whenever anyone brings up zero calorie drinks in conversation :)

I saw a meme about using red and blue ink and old 3D glasses with one red lens and one blue. That seemed pretty smart.