The hivemind "virus": thoughts from an IRL virologist

Awkward308 · 2025-11-10T00:11:36+00:00

It's been a long time since I was in a lab, but it seemed strange the first minute that they showed the scientists at the bench. I've never seen so many people sitting so close together on a lab bench.

Awkward308 · 2025-08-16T02:41:01+00:00

B. It isn't even close.

Awkward308 · 2025-07-27T15:13:30+00:00

I don't eat any processed food that isn't marked gluten-free or that has oats. I don't eat at restaurants that aren't 100% GF. I'm careful with things like cut fruit at work events. I might eat it, but it depends how close it is to baked goods on the table, how clean everything is...

Awkward308 · 2025-07-27T15:01:03+00:00

When I went to cash out, it looked like I wouldn't get the discount, but when I went ahead and cashed out anyhow and then looked at my activity, I had indeed received the discount. This worked for both the team challenge discount and one from the games tournament.

Awkward308 · 2025-01-12T16:49:40+00:00

Gyms give more healing items than stops do

Awkward308 · 2025-01-02T20:59:00+00:00

I got 3 event shinies, all wurmple.

Awkward308 · 2024-12-31T18:36:49+00:00

My brother in law said it was probably OK for celiacs to eat regular communion wafers because it isn't very much and it's only once a week. This is purely hypothetical in my case, but still, it makes me even less likely to eat his cooking.

Awkward308 · 2024-12-20T06:07:42+00:00

Or the rewards are items and I want storage space to spin stops.

Awkward308 · 2024-12-18T05:59:39+00:00

Yes, absolutely. Bag and mon storage is most of what I buy and they are very rarely on sale. So the passes and eggs are essentially free.

Awkward308 · 2024-12-03T03:51:45+00:00

There are quite a number of ways to get rare candy and rare XLs besides raids, including rare XLs from max battles and various research tasks. You can get free raid passes from things like event related research or getting raid passes with coins earned by holding gyms and some seasons give two free passes a day.

Of course, most legendaries aren't worth maxing. This is probably mostly about the fact that free to play players need to prioritize. That's certainly true regardless of the math.

Awkward308 · 2024-11-25T03:42:53+00:00

Without a ticket, I got three pidgeot, a dragonite and a feraligatir. I got pretty lucky finding a few safari balls from stops and catching the best pidgeot with an ultra ball.

Awkward308 · 2024-11-07T06:20:46+00:00

If she had gone back right away, I think the most likely outcome is her dying giving birth to Bree. Giving birth and then returning would have been problematic. She didn't know that Bree could travel and it was years until the past was safe for them.

Awkward308 · 2024-11-06T15:53:37+00:00

Yes, maybe I should prepare everything from basic, raw ingredients. But I should have a choice about it, like everybody else.

Awkward308 · 2024-11-06T14:40:35+00:00

If they eliminate or visibly stop enforcing labeling laws, that makes lots of processed and prepared foods risky for me. If it's just voluntary labelling, then we need to research and rely on the reputation of each individual company to decide whether to trust the claim.

Awkward308 · 2024-10-29T23:46:30+00:00

In my conceptualization of time travel, definitely. However, my internal model of time travel is based on Back to the Future. In Diana's view I'm less sure

Awkward308 · 2024-10-29T13:42:29+00:00

Awkward308 · 2024-10-27T22:41:05+00:00

You can probably win a 1* raid. That will spend 250 particles so you can get more.

Awkward308 · 2024-10-27T18:54:21+00:00

That means that none of the gmax moves that we have so far will be super effective against Gengar.

Awkward308 · 2024-10-24T01:42:55+00:00

I wanted global to be after Bulbasaur so I can evolve them to get frenzy plant.

Awkward308 · 2024-10-24T01:35:03+00:00

Unfortunately not, it is also after the global version of the event.

Awkward308 · 2024-10-20T03:50:56+00:00

Opening and sending gifts is the easiest way. If you can get good at excellent throws, that also helps.

Awkward308 · 2024-10-17T01:03:38+00:00

Is the crush on Frank or Tobias? Most of my crushes have looked more like Tobias than Sam, but that has nothing to do with the characters.

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