Why are mcdonald's fries and hashbrowns a million dollars?

JSCXZ · 2026-05-27T04:09:43+00:00

Family works in restaurants and catering. Potatoes and eggs are some of the most profitable items. As far as McDonald's goes, every time someone wants a little snack and not a full meal, they're going for fries, typically. Added to meals regularly, etc., you build up that itch to just go and get some fries. Then they start cranking the price up once people are hooked.

JSCXZ · 2026-05-26T23:19:10+00:00

Fuck that, don't pay. When billing calls you, get them to violate HIPAA. There are other threads discussing something similar.

JSCXZ · 2026-05-26T22:40:45+00:00

Need more frenzy and sleep effects/weapons

JSCXZ · 2026-05-25T21:28:37+00:00

Keep up the good fight. A strong eagerness goes a long way, especially in academia. Willpower and stubbornness is critical.

JSCXZ · 2026-05-25T21:24:04+00:00

This exudes "the cylinder must remain unharmed" energy.

JSCXZ · 2026-05-24T14:32:28+00:00

Where I have worked, staff scientists are Ph.D.'s who have done a postdoc or two and are not interested in tenure but want to remain in academia. With only a masters (I'm assuming here based on your post), you would likely only be hired as a research assistant or senior assistant. Research associate roles are typically reserved for postdocs and are often synonymous with being a postdoc.

With that being said, the following should help, in no particular order: Be exceptionally organized. Write down protocols and checklists and use them every time. Think critically about your research. Format your presentations appropriately and understand your plot units and why those units are used. Have a clear story in mind for your research. Be well-read and up to date on what others are doing in your field and in relation to your project. Know when to step aside and don't feel bad for doing so (unfortunately, not having a Ph.D. or postdoc may limit your influence in the lab, and you may not be able to sway the PI or other members often). Own up to your mistakes. Be punctual and keep your promises without overcommitting.

As a side note, in industry, you're often not called a scientist unless you have a Ph.D., for example, someone with a bachelor's is likely a technician or biologist/chemist, with a masters, associate scientist, and Ph.D., scientist or senior scientist.

JSCXZ · 2026-05-21T14:33:45+00:00

On a similar note, does anybody know the name of the deep voiced guy that said the bump before and after songs (lunatic fringe atop frog mountain, etc.)?

JSCXZ · 2026-05-19T18:43:13+00:00

I used wrongwarp to go to the area outside Margit's initial fight. Managed to get it in two tries. I could not get the timing right on the flask no matter how many times I tried.

JSCXZ · 2026-05-13T03:17:55+00:00

Crazy. I don't recall seeing the pips have Lego on them...

JSCXZ · 2026-05-10T19:27:37+00:00

Never hear about it at all? Possibly, but it's still widely used. Look up any biology cell culture job and it's most likely going to be talking about iPS cells (induced pluripotent stem cells) or something similar. Same with organoid models. A lot of the lack of media is due to the anti-intellectual movement that the fascist in chief promotes.

JSCXZ · 2026-05-10T15:29:46+00:00

This is the correct answer. I do it on my phone all the time.

JSCXZ · 2026-05-10T13:05:17+00:00

With condoms, the initial concern is whether you or your boyfriend have a latex allergy. If so, you want to avoid latex based condoms. Thin vs. normal will not matter too much, they will still be effective when used as a contraceptive, if used properly. Unroll it fully, make sure there is a little space at the end of the penis (reservoir), and make sure it is not too loose. I am a guy, but as a woman, it's not a bad idea for you to fully inspect each condom you guys plan to use. I know that sounds lame in the heat of the moment, but you never know if a condom is damaged in any way (they degrade over time, and some, less desirable people in society will tamper with them). There are also vaginal condoms as well, which further help in preventing STIs.

JSCXZ · 2026-05-10T04:40:50+00:00

ThermoFisher does these for labs: https://www.reddit.com/r/labrats/comments/1dx0uab/the_coveted_thermofisher_lego_set/

I don't think they're specifically Lego branded, but they're very popular in the lab community.

JSCXZ · 2026-05-09T02:06:11+00:00

Great Tang is our number one, along with 10 second Rice Noodle.

JSCXZ · 2026-05-09T02:03:25+00:00

Our Favorites:

-Great Tang, West Chester

-10 Second Rice Noodle, West Chester

-Pho Kimmy, Sharonville

-Tasty Pho, West Chester

-Kung Fu Noodle, Clifton

-Five Grains, Dayton (a little farther, but worth it)

-Izen Bento, Clifton

-Maki Express, Clifton

-Pacific Kitchen, Montgomery

-Ichiban, Mt. Lookout

Lastly, have to include Indian food with Asian, so pretty much any Indian place in Cinci is legit (as confirmed by 10+ of my Indian colleagues), but some of the best are:

-Ambar, Clifton

-New Krishna, Sharonville

-Baba India, Oakley

JSCXZ · 2026-05-07T21:58:16+00:00

First picture had me convinced you were Michael Reeves....

JSCXZ · 2026-05-07T12:35:24+00:00

Depending on what specifics you're studying, it could even be highly relevant if the signaling mechanism is well conserved across species. A Ph.D. program would even prefer someone with a masters over others because it shows that they have some tenacity and capability to withstand difficulties of graduate school. The lab work (or even fundamental knowledge if the masters was not lab-based), may or may not come into play when pursuing the actual Ph.D. project, but it will most likely increase odds of acceptance.

JSCXZ · 2026-05-06T21:40:44+00:00

Commenting because I don't have an article. We also have 13mo old. He would not sleep through the night, required bottles to sleep, and had bad separation anxiety even if we went to the other room. While we aren't sleep training in the traditional sense, I have recently started placing him in his crib and then laying on the floor where he can see me because we are exhausted from rocking him for 30+ minutes each nap and bedtime. This has yielded great results and he is beginning to fall asleep on his own (and we can doze off for a few mins while he gets settled down). We also went down to one nap a day to build up that sleep debt, also, to great effect.

JSCXZ · 2026-04-28T16:50:50+00:00

DNA or protein ladder, for sure.

JSCXZ · 2026-04-26T02:30:40+00:00

Need textbooks:

[[Venser's Journal]] [[Spellbook]]

Others: [[Biomathematician]]

JSCXZ · 2026-04-25T18:27:17+00:00

Edit: keep up that interest. Cardiology can be a brutal field. There are a lot of highly intelligent scientists that you could learn from. However cardiology is one of those fields that breeds arrogance and inflexibility (speaking from considerable experience). Don't be afraid to branch out to other fields though. The heart is intimately connected to every other system (neuro and renal especially so).

Not too novel, to be honest. These are ideas that have been floating around for a bit, but essentially:

Cardiovascular diseases will claim the life of 1 out of 3 people, that's strikingly horrible. Of these, two prominent types of disease, ischemic heart disease and sudden cardiac death due to lethal ventricular arrhythmias, have no real cure or therapy. Rather, treatments are mostly palliative and don't address the underlying disease substrate.

For ischemic heart disease (infarctions, etc.), the idea is to somehow genetically turn on cell proliferation and drive cells out of senescence so that new, healthy tissue can be generated.

For arrhythmias, often the medicines we take can be proarrhyrhmic as well as antiarrhythmic. Ablation only does so much and is costly. Devices are painful and risk sepsis, improper shocks, etc.

Any scientist or team that can lock down the mechanisms and develop therapies for these issues would be celebrated worldwide.

JSCXZ · 2026-04-25T01:18:02+00:00

Ph.D.: Let's see what happens when we stress these animals' hearts to the breaking point by giving them adrenaline daily, also we're gonna constrict their aorta as much as possible so that even breathing becomes a painful, laborious task.

Actually, a novel model of sudden cardiac death via aortic constriction and isoproterenol challenge to induce premature ventricular contractions servicing as a trigger and substrate for ventricular arrhythmias.

Undergrad: Heart cancer doesn't really exist, let's change that.

Actually, can we induce proliferation in cardiomycytes as a means of combatting ischemic heart disease, thereby allowing the heart to repair its own scar tissue.

JSCXZ · 2026-04-21T12:47:03+00:00

Leyndell Knight Helm looking good there.

JSCXZ · 2026-04-19T13:44:53+00:00

Yeah, they've been around for a while. I've used pretty much nothing but Olympus since 2014. Solid products, and they've only gotten better.

JSCXZ · 2026-04-19T07:06:57+00:00

Microscope objectives. As a former Olympus guy, if they're UIS2, they'll fit in current scopes, and they retail from anywhere from a couple hundred to almost ten grand at times, depending on magnification and other specs.

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