fermionsnotbosons

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Are you Larry David?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I know of a hospital where the local university sends tracers with F-18 for PET scans in much the same way. Half-life of 110 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

100% spot on, sadly. The level of misogyny and other types of bigotry was the most surprising, when taken relative to the university environment in general.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

American Giant. Expensive, but they have a great warranty and the craftsmanship is top notch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Rod Farva level of stupid.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Good. If the regents and their lackeys had their way, everyone at the UC would be working for the military industrial complex and the executive leadership would keep raking in their bloated, obscene salaries.

The faculty and students make the university, and without them it's just another grift. I don't know if this charge will have an effect, but it must be tried.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Women are not really relevant to what the actives are trying to do so they are obviously not bringing them up at convention or not this video helped me understand why an elementary schooler might actual know what we find a new leak in our ceiling and we also need to secure a cat sitter to the firehose of content that a massive social media platform brings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Requires an acid catalyst for the reaction to actually proceed, but yeah, could definitely ruin your day - although a lungful of chlorine gas is nothing to sneeze at either.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (9 children)

According to the story I heard as to the origin of the "no liquids over X amount" rule, years ago there was a terrorist that tried to smuggle hydrogen peroxide and acetone - which can be used to rather easily synthesize triacetone triperoxide (TATP, a highly sensitive explosive) - onto a plane in plastic toiletry bottles. They got caught and foiled somehow, and then the TSA started restricting liquids on planes. This was in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, if I recall correctly.

And I happen to know, from a reliable source, of someone who accidentally made TATP in a rotary evaporator in an academic lab. So it seems plausible.

Not that the rule is actually effective prevention against similar attacks, nor that the TSA even knows what the reason is behind what they do at this point, haha. I just thought it was an interesting story.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago

I would also like to see a similar graph for mid-term elections. Do the winners even get 10% of the eligible votes?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Let's go! When the workers can't even afford an apartment, much less a day at Disneyland for them and their families, you know they're in a bad spot. I hope they do strike and hold Disney accountable for this ridiculous exploitation.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago

Good for her, well done! Not as pretty of a tattoo as a well-drawn organic molecule, IMO, but publishing is hard and worthy of celebration when you succeed.

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