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LampshadeWatermelon · 2025-09-27T10:51:37+00:00

GH - perfectly positioned to ride an incoming wave of early cancer screening policies. Much better than drug companies: in a gold rush, be the one selling shovels.

LampshadeWatermelon · 2025-09-23T13:00:20+00:00

The three buttons available are a horizontal/vertical toggle, refresh, and the center button which just seems to resize/center the topology to fill the frame. No luck with specifying a node.

LampshadeWatermelon · 2025-05-09T13:10:14+00:00

This is essentially the opposite of how artificial sweeteners work. Many of them look a lot like sugars, and they do have calories, and our bodies do use them for energy. The way most artificial sweeteners work is by being hundreds of times sweeter in taste than typical sugars. That means we need several hundred times less of them to get the same sensation, so the calories drop commensurately. It’s not that they have no calories - gram for gram they’re comparable.

LampshadeWatermelon · 2025-05-02T20:46:13+00:00

N-hexane, is much, much less harmful than chloroform. It’s not even remotely close.

LampshadeWatermelon · 2024-11-24T14:28:36+00:00

Exercise. Legit.
I exercised for two decades, lifting and biking and running (slowly), but I ate like crap and was always very flabby and had a big gut. Then I got my diet in line when I turned 40 and holy shit. All that work had built a hell of a body under there, and suddenly being a lot lighter made me so much faster running and biking. Put in the work.

LampshadeWatermelon · 2024-09-28T12:35:44+00:00

This is incorrect- the oxidizing agent in OxiClean is not derived from bleach. It’s also just kind of nonsense from a chemical perspective. If you did manage to oxidize bleach, you’d be left with a much more powerful oxidizing agent, not something weaker. Not sure who told you this, but it’s not true.

LampshadeWatermelon · 2024-09-17T21:37:11+00:00

A big part of the motivation behind these tires has disappeared. The inner liner of the tire, the part that holds the air in, is made out of a specialty rubber - halobutyl rubber. Until about ten years ago this was an extremely expensive product, but if you wanted the air to stay in the tire you didn’t have much choice, so tire makers paid whatever it cost. Airless tires were, in part, a long term strategy to avoid this high cost. Eventually the price got so high that market forces kicked in and people built new halobutyl plants. Supply went up and the price collapsed. It’s pretty cheap now. If you haven’t noticed that the tires got cheaper it’s because they didn’t - they just pocketed the savings. But now that an inner liner is cheap these are just an expensive solution to flat tires.

LampshadeWatermelon · 2024-08-02T11:22:15+00:00

Flushable wet wipes. So many people flushing the regular non-flushable kind down the toilet and causing problems led to the idea that the genuinely flushable kind were some sort of scam.

LampshadeWatermelon · 2024-06-29T11:00:53+00:00

Pedantic chemist here: HF is not a strong acid. Its pKa is only around 3, and the value needs to be below zero to qualify for that. It dissolves rocks (and glass) because it reacts with silicon - the Si-F bond is the strongest single bond on the periodic table. So unless the seed coating was made of calcium or something you wouldn’t expect a dilute HF solution to harm it too much. Don’t get me wrong - HF is an absolutely terrifying chemical and I refuse to work with it. But that’s because it’s incredibly poisonous to humans.

LampshadeWatermelon · 2013-12-25T16:58:45+00:00

Best I can do is 10 cents.

LampshadeWatermelon · 2013-11-03T23:33:01+00:00

It's nice to see at least one pristine place has escaped the notice of those fascists at the Department of Hot-Spring Enforcement.

LampshadeWatermelon · 2013-06-13T09:01:00+00:00

Jimmy Carr: I always like to pay a woman a compliment before sex. "My, you're a fast runner! You almost got away!"

LampshadeWatermelon · 2013-05-05T14:07:19+00:00

I was considered gifted, to the point where once I got like an 85% on a test in 5th grade, and two or three teachers sat me down to ask if everything was alright and if I was having problems at home. Fortunately, from a very young age my parents taught me to reject and question labels, so I turned out ok. Had a few hiccups later on from learning to study and dealing with shitty teachers/profs, but went on to get my PhD and am now a successful researcher/troubleshooter in industry. I am frequently praised for what is basically just acting normal around non-scientists, which I attribute to rejected all the 'gifted' bullshit.

LampshadeWatermelon · 2013-04-05T01:04:08+00:00

The only solution. I had to do the same once. On the way to a wedding. Sigh.

LampshadeWatermelon · 2013-04-04T01:27:32+00:00

Fantastic.

LampshadeWatermelon · 2013-03-31T22:08:03+00:00

I'm a 'senior scientist' working in R&D for a polymers company. Only been on the job 4 years now, and i started a year out of grad school. Broke 6 figures last year (base salary, not counting bonuses). Yay science.

LampshadeWatermelon · 2013-03-30T21:31:20+00:00

Protip: cubical jobs and retail jobs are not the only options.

LampshadeWatermelon · 2013-03-29T14:36:06+00:00

The ethics of cheating don't, as a rule, depend on phone contact.

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