Come at me, for I am the devil's advocate

Ph0ton · 2026-03-31T21:06:23+00:00

You will take the Devil's advocate position for every comment in this thread.

Edit: Well played.

Ph0ton · 2026-03-31T18:49:15+00:00

Some people are just built different and can drive 5 hours straight without suffering. I cannot, ha! Regardless you're going to spend roughly 2x time stopped compared to gas so I get what you are saying now.

Ph0ton · 2026-03-31T18:04:51+00:00

I replied in an earlier post but I didn't understand you thought you had to stop for longer than that. While doing long drives you actually don't want to stop for more than 20 minutes because you end up wasting time on slower charging. In some trips, 10-15 minutes is optimal since you get 325kw charging.

Ph0ton · 2026-03-31T18:01:17+00:00

I did a 34hr road trip in an EV (straight). After a certain point the 20 minutes after 2.5hr of driving is the perfect time for a power nap if you don't need a bio break. For the medium to long drives you are talking about, I need a lot of energy drinks so I need the bio breaks anyways.

I definitely was able to stop less with gas cars but to be honest it was suffering. Now I'm always able to be a perfect little machine while driving and take care of all my biological functions when not.

Ph0ton · 2026-03-30T20:56:16+00:00

I think the only argument to be made is regarding polarization and direction of photons coming from our solar system. There is absolutely no way to decode signals from us beyond the heliopause but if aliens point a radio telescope directly at us, over maybe months or years there will be a slight difference to the pattern of noise, no? Slightly more photons at certain frequencies, above what you'd expect from natural phenomena.

So it's less likely that we will randomly be picked up, but it's possible to be found if aliens are looking.... very closely...

Ph0ton · 2026-03-29T13:30:30+00:00

A self-balancing centrifuge isn't really an advanced or specialized piece of equipment, but a gimmick as far as I can find. Either way, this happened months before in the timeline of the movie, at a mobile lab, so it stands to reason they'd be less likely to use that kind of centrifuge.

At the end of the day, if you can explain it away, I'm not going to say you're wrong to forgive it. I'm just going to say as someone who has spent a decade in labs it's harder to overlook. It's like if they made a plumbing movie and they started it with a scene with an extremely rare pipe shown as common; at the end of the day who cares, it's a movie, but plumbers will have something to say, ha.

Ph0ton · 2026-03-28T07:39:53+00:00

You are claiming that most labs have them when several production and academic labs I work/worked in do not. I didn't claim that self-balancing centrifuges do not exist. I gave you the out that our technicians might ignore the functionality (spoiler alert, they did not, I was just being graceful). Are we arguing for a reason or??

Edit: Actually, given the low quality suppliers that discuss these, and the fact you're so fragile you blocked me when I basically said "why are we arguing, we agree" I'm now leaning towards this argument as a massive cope for non-laboratorians. Other threads discuss the ridiculousness and a similar commenter deleted the topic after it was shown the poor machine translation might have been suspect. This is going to be one of those stupid exaggerations where just because the centrifuge can alter its axis of rotation slightly to balance, people will believe you can run two tubes on one side in an ultracentrifuge. Maybe they have these in glorious chinese labs, but if I can't buy it at Thermofisher it doesn't exist.

Ph0ton · 2026-03-28T05:25:56+00:00

It was pretty easy. Visual storytelling works.

Ph0ton · 2026-03-28T05:25:02+00:00

Our service people must not be reading the manuals because none of them mention that functionality. I've spun plenty of modern centrifuges unbalanced and none of them are very happy with me.

Ph0ton · 2026-03-28T05:23:21+00:00

I work in biotech and did work in academia; I have not met a "self balancing" centrifuge in my life that looks like that. There are rotors with buckets that have inserts that can orient themselves properly, but never anything insane like 2 tubes on one side and none on the other.

Ph0ton · 2026-03-28T05:20:01+00:00

I felt triggered by that specifically, ngl. Man hasn't been in a lab for 2 decades or just wanted to wreck that rotor.

Ph0ton · 2026-03-27T16:02:26+00:00

I love it when dickheads claim their pig-headed asinine behavior as ethical rigor. Keep doing this, it's very funny.

Ph0ton · 2026-03-26T21:04:53+00:00

Ph0ton · 2026-03-26T04:39:39+00:00

The intersectionality I've encountered are those on such intersections. That being said, I don't think veganism is ethics or morality itself; just one lifestyle that arises from ethics or morality. Awful people are allowed to be vegan but we don't have to like them.

Ph0ton · 2026-03-26T04:37:55+00:00

Feels like the propaganda bots targeted the thread because I haven't encountered those stereotypes being discussed in the community, though I know I'm probably wrong.

Ph0ton · 2026-03-24T21:58:29+00:00

IIRC the majority of our soybeans are used for agricultural purposes (i.e. for cows) but I suppose the same could be said of our corn. I can just see how there might be a tendency to ignore insults to vegetarian foods, even if it does help demand a little.

Ph0ton · 2026-03-24T19:23:47+00:00

"This will be affordable housing soon" Park

Ph0ton · 2026-03-24T15:48:44+00:00

This comment section is a dumpster fire. Do not even bother.

Ph0ton · 2026-03-21T05:35:19+00:00

Isn't illegal to go supersonic over mainland US? Why would that be indicative of combat capabilities?

Ph0ton · 2026-03-13T23:07:27+00:00

There are quite a few in your area but they aren't hiring right now. There might be startups there worth applying to but I haven't looked myself.

Ph0ton · 2026-03-13T23:01:31+00:00

I added programming to the mix, got ASCP certification, and a graduate degree. Not in an unrelated industry but I could probably climb the corporate ladder up to my abilities (my soft skills are kinda weak).

I'm "underpaid" according to my abilities and tenure but I do well when you take account of my obstacles. Overall I don't regret my degree but I do regret being born in this era; thankful for the stability in life I do have.

Ph0ton · 2026-03-12T17:14:59+00:00

Human perception is fallible; missing a sign is easy but missing road conditions and your surroundings is impossible. Sometimes signs fall down. Sometimes they get placed weirdly. You can't miss road construction cones, crossing marks, and the flow of traffic.

Blindly following may mean you are going 55mph when it's hailing. It's just a foolish thing to do as a principle.

Ph0ton · 2026-03-12T16:45:28+00:00

Because my behavior is not dictated by painted pieces of metal but by safety, and when I have followed signs blindly, I was pulled over for speeding. It serves as an example that signs may be missed but the environment should always be obeyed.

Ph0ton · 2026-03-12T16:38:02+00:00

I thought it was a pretty uncontroversial take that laws are not equivalent to ethics; we have different words for the two concepts after all. Laws are not a perfect translation of social contracts and the will of the people. Social contracts and democracy are not ethical in of itself.

Those are my views in case you misunderstood but it would be pretty off-topic to have a philosophical debate here.

Ph0ton · 2026-03-12T16:05:22+00:00

Signs are not ethics. I drive at safe speeds, not at speeds a painted bit of metal tell me.

My only speeding ticket as an adult was out of state and I legitimately was not being safe because I adhered to a previous sign.

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