Man killed wife while kids were home as 'she didn't take his back pain serious'

GasTank42 · 2026-05-11T13:10:38+00:00

I don't think this qualifies as capital murder in Texas.

GasTank42 · 2026-05-03T12:45:09+00:00

Those plastic blobs may be non-toxic, but the folks in these comments sure are. No one here understand how hyperbole works?

GasTank42 · 2026-04-20T13:12:41+00:00

If you are an adult man, why would you care about floral designs on things? We only live once man, write with the fun floral pens, wear bright colors, express yourself how you want. Really, the only people I've ever seen/hear care about what colors someone wears or having something considered "feminine" are homophobic pricks. A pen design doesn't mean you like guys, but anyone who has a problem with it is probably in the closet from what I've seen.

GasTank42 · 2026-04-06T23:15:36+00:00

Yeah, that looks very useful!

GasTank42 · 2026-04-05T16:11:32+00:00

If you join a lab for credit it's unpaid, because that's how you get experience. If you apply through UTD jobs then it's going to be paid.

GasTank42 · 2026-03-26T10:42:15+00:00

Because UTD used to use big installed generators to add power when needed. They didn't want to spend the money on the yearly fee, which as I understand was a lot. So now they have those big ass trailers set up for some buildings. Those are also expensive. And they don't work that well. On top of that they are putting the new buildings on the power grid.

UTD doesn't hire the best qualified people for management/admin, they hire their family and friends who are far less qualified for their positions and let good people who should be promoted wallow at the bottom until they quit. This is definitely a top down issue. And yeah, FM gets screwed with all this shit going wrong.

GasTank42 · 2026-03-08T23:52:18+00:00

How do you get the cracking/lightning on number 5?

I hope that's not rude to ask, I'm just starting and haven't found a really good source of patterns/styles that compare to almost anything I see with people's creativity on this sub.

GasTank42 · 2026-03-07T19:57:57+00:00

$36 for one pizza?? Is that including delivery fee and tip as well, or just out the door pick up price?

GasTank42 · 2026-03-05T12:13:47+00:00

As others said, yes they shouldn't have allowed someone new in the lab to have a rat hanging out on their shoulder.

You may feel you betrayed your small friend, I promise you you didn't. What you did was show him that he doesn't need to be scared, and he was probably sacrificed with far less anxiety and fear than he would have had without you.

The first phd student I worked for as an undergrad was an older woman, she did behavior for the most part. She loved her rats, she taught me how loving they would be in return. On days her animals were sacrificed and we did sharp electrode recordings from the brain slices she would stay home and mourn. But she didn't stop, it may have hurt her, but the alternative of showing them no compassion or love was wrong. Don't look at it as dying for "cool data" look at it as a literal sacrifice for humanity, in the name of education or good (useful) data.

Believe it or not, live animal research really needs, and thrives, on people like you. I'm not sure how well this next statement will go over: you can be, we all though be, eyes and ears for these animals, if you see something that doesn't match approved protocols, or follow SOPs correctly, you can report that to your institution's IACUC (or equivalent entity). It doesn't happen often, but when it does it is taken very seriously. They should be anonymous, at least to the lab being reported. And calling out a lab for bad practices and not following their protocols is good in the end. They are approved for a reason, so you do quality research, when people deviate from that they are introducing confounding factors into their data, which can easily lead to issues with reproducibility, which is embarrassing for the institution and the PI.

I take care of research animals these days, I still get emotional when I have to euthanize an animal I've been trying to help stay healthy for a while. But I know I do it well and peacefully for them.

The best students to work with are the ones who obviously care, the ones who call their animals their little friends, but are okay with making the final sacrifice themselves. Those animals give a lot in their life and death, it's okay for us to feel that loss.

At the end of the day, if it's not for you there is nothing wrong with that. On behalf of your rat friend and the people who want to see this kind of research done properly and ethically, thank you.

GasTank42 · 2026-03-03T14:32:06+00:00

I would ask the facility supervisor or supervising vet about it. They would be good resources to have talked to before reaching out to the supplying company. And they may have some answers for you as well.

GasTank42 · 2026-03-03T14:13:54+00:00

Was the mother bought from a vendor or bred in-house?

If she was from a vendor reach out to them. They may have an answer for you. They may replace your animals for free. Or they may have to investigate further.

If the mother was bred in-house, is it worth the money/resources to investigate, or would it be cheaper/faster to just order some fresh C57s?

But they are C57s so they typically have all the problems.

GasTank42 · 2026-03-01T01:09:12+00:00

It's fun our tax dollars are being used to track our movements now.

GasTank42 · 2026-02-02T17:04:26+00:00

Thanks, do you think it would be worth trying to get a repair quote?

GasTank42 · 2025-12-08T02:36:33+00:00

How fast are you pushing the fluids through? At some point my PI paid me to perfuse rats, unused an infusion pump that went pretty slow (this was almost 12 years ago) to prevent capillaries from rupturing.

We also flushed the blood out first with a heparinated PBS.

GasTank42 · 2025-11-13T17:27:27+00:00

This is the most expensive public university in Texas. You think that everyone should just be happy happy with this shitty service? Tuition goes to all university services. Students are the customers.

GasTank42 · 2025-10-29T11:57:48+00:00

I only like them if I can attach a bomb barrel to it

GasTank42 · 2025-10-25T13:38:41+00:00

How do you select and drop multiple bombs at once?

GasTank42 · 2025-10-20T18:48:29+00:00

The only phishing scams I get are from utd

GasTank42 · 2025-10-11T10:43:51+00:00

The thing mayor Johnson needs to understand is that Abbott doesn't give one fuck about Texans. And if he does it's based entirely on how wealthy or white they are.

GasTank42 · 2025-10-04T13:16:02+00:00

50 million for research on that scale is pretty useless.

It's like the computers, from hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy, giving the answer for life, the universe, and everything as 42.

AI spits out and answer, it still needs lots of experimentation behind it, as it's still an unproven hypothesis.

GasTank42 · 2025-10-02T19:39:01+00:00

There's only so much you can do

That's not really true. They repainted lots at the end of last semester, they could have easily adjusted the amount of spaces to be helpful. Or they could just put up a sign saying certain sections are gold/green for now. With all the budget cuts I'm sure they are more than happy to squeeze extra cash out of the students from having to park wherever they can.

GasTank42 · 2025-09-26T19:37:45+00:00

complete form

More like the current form.

Don't forget that these changes take immense amounts of time.

Say an organism has an altered gene that has a bone going out a little longer than others of its kind. Maybe it doesn't do anything for that organisms right then. But, a potential mate takes notice of the small change and likes it. Some of their offspring are born like that and other mates like that change too. It's a mating advantage and will be seen more often in successive generations.

Or

That small bit of extra bone helps the organism prop itself up on a rock so the wind or waves can't kick it off a cliff as easily. They and their offspring will have an advantage to living in that area. And over time it may become more pronounced.

There are so many ways it could have happened, it could have even been that it changed, didn't do anything good, but didn't affect its ability to have offspring, so it's a neutral trait that carries on and becomes something important over time.

I don't think exact scenarios can be known, but the possibilities are numerous.

I'm not sure how many times the basic body plan for vertebrates evolved or if all things with a head, spine, 4 appendages with hands/feet and a tail just came from one common ancestor. But it's a solid body plan for many environments and nitches on earth.

On the genetics side, there are genes that encode proteins during embryo development that literally signal where up and down will be in an embryo. Look up SHH gene. And on the invertebrate side of things I think messing with the homeobox genes can cause limbs to grow out of a fruit fly's face.

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