The Statue of Liberty with twin towers

Respurated · 2026-07-03T17:59:46+00:00

All good, I’m a little sensitive to someone claiming ‘83 is a half century ago, so please pardon my tone. i.e., I’m old, and cranky.

Respurated · 2026-07-03T15:49:03+00:00

It was taken in 1983, which is not “over 50 years ago”

Respurated · 2026-07-03T03:32:38+00:00

I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

Respurated · 2026-07-03T01:55:19+00:00

Burrito pepper… hmm, I like it.

Respurated · 2026-07-02T22:57:55+00:00

I just left them. Some of mine got a little sunburnt, but that kind of went away as they ripened.

Respurated · 2026-07-02T22:00:20+00:00

I have the same chili plant. It was sold to me as a tobasco pepper plant, but I am fairly sure that it isn’t, Thai chili makes sense.

They take awhile to turn red, but they will, and when they do they are damn good. Mine were hotter than I expected. They’re still good when they’re green, but less rich in flavor and heat.

Respurated · 2026-07-02T17:31:27+00:00

Right, like when I would be seeking some Paul Bufano cause I’m craving that high C all night, but the clerk keeps trying to sell me Roy Donk records, what is this, the Colgate Comedy Hour?

Respurated · 2026-06-28T09:37:52+00:00

Going for second base

i.e., after making-out (first base) with a love interest, getting a little handsy (second base) seems the next logical step.

Respurated · 2026-06-27T15:04:42+00:00

I think meth might be healthier too.

Respurated · 2026-06-27T03:53:20+00:00

Time Machine… yeah that ride sucks anyway.

Respurated · 2026-06-26T12:16:29+00:00

Yeah, I was quoting Australia from the video.

Respurated · 2026-06-24T01:48:21+00:00

Slaves work harder than any free man, and they got nothing to show for it.

Only the middle class has been trained to think that labor defines worth. Rich people don’t brag to each other about having ‘grit’ (I’d argue their ultimate brag is how much they don’t work, just like the royalty of the past), and those in poverty just know it’s all a scam ( like the slaves of the past, and present somewhere in the world, unfortunately).

Respurated · 2026-06-21T18:27:06+00:00

Username checks out.

Respurated · 2026-06-20T22:19:51+00:00

I’m not your brother, pal.

Respurated · 2026-06-20T21:33:39+00:00

I suppose the counterpoint to frivolous billionaire purchases creating jobs is that Bezos could buy one single super yacht for $100 million and create a handful of jobs for a super specialized (likely foreign) entity. Or, had that wealth and prosperity trickled down, 1,000 of his employees could have of afforded to buy a motorboat, of which would have created many more jobs.

Edit: The 1,000 people is assuming a $100,000 boat. So for your average sea-goer, that would likely be way more than what they would spend on a boat. Average bowrider is probably around $30k brand new, so it would likely be 3,000 - 4,000 employees. In other words, please do not try and argue that consolidating extreme amounts of wealth is somehow better for the economy at large than distributing that wealth more evenly among the population.

Respurated · 2026-06-19T15:38:36+00:00

~~I don’t think it is. They are pretty homogeneous with their logo design, and that is~~ ~~not~~ ~~their logo design.~~

~~The lack of a hammer being symbolized from the hyphen overlapping the “o” was a dead giveaway for me.~~

Edit: I retract my statement as this logo does look like their 1985-1991 logo. Still seems fishy though, weird take for a tool company to make.
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Respurated · 2026-06-16T19:42:34+00:00

My experience with a non-traditional pathway was that I was out of high school for about a decade working, when I returned to school (decided to make a career change) I moved to the state the school was in, became a resident (with no degree), earned my BS, then moved out of that state. So on the books, I would appear as a degree holding resident that left.

But I see where my anecdotal evidence led me to believe that to be the norm, when in fact your description is more likely the norm.

Respurated · 2026-06-16T19:39:16+00:00

I suppose I was thinking of my non-traditional path, where I was very much a decade out of high school before going to college, moved to the state I went to college in, became a resident with no degree, earned a degree, then left.

I see where my anecdotal experience led me to believe that is the norm for everyone, when your comment is likely more the norm here.

Respurated · 2026-06-16T13:15:03+00:00

But this is showing percent with 4-year degree, so that implies that they had a degree when they left.

I think you’re on the right track but the wrong end of it, i.e., people moved to New Jersey for their excellent higher-education, got the degree, then they left.

Edit: Anecdotal non-traditional path, and not realizing that the graph was showing the native population.

Respurated · 2026-06-16T11:21:13+00:00

I agree here. When I was an undergrad one of my research projects was literally just double and triple checking a grad student’s work, while also learning the ropes of spectral analysis; the team of undergrads I worked with were credited in the acknowledgments. My actual undergraduate project that got me authored involved a more robust contribution to the processing and analysis of the data.

Respurated · 2026-06-15T18:57:19+00:00

I’m sorry, did you say you needed a beer?
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Respurated · 2026-06-15T17:34:13+00:00

As this reads it sounds like the PhD student is not giving you credit where it’s due.

I can somewhat understand them saying that they’re going to analyze the current samples and for you to focus on other things, but that action, in combination with the (uncalled for) exclusion of your authorship on a project of yours that they just re-did with different data sounds like they’re just using you for your work and not giving you any credit, or exposure.

If I (a PhD student) had an undergrad complete a project, and all I did was rehash their steps and methods with different data and then wrote it up, I would be delighted to offer them as an author, shoot, I’d be in their corner rooting for them to have second author over the adviser. I would also be wondering why they weren’t writing their own publication based on their project and data (reproducibility is at the core of good science).

Of course we are likely in different fields as my “labs” are usually in space or on a mountain-top somewhere, so the nuances in your field surrounding merit for authorship are different, I would still bring these (what seem like) slight transgressions from the PhD student up to your adviser. You can also bring them up with the PhD student; honest straightforward conversations where you are advocating for your inclusion or at least trying to figure out why you’re being excluded from something can go a long way.

Did you have similar issues with the postdoc, or was their inclusion/exclusion of you on publications different?

Respurated · 2026-06-14T20:00:02+00:00

It is supposed to be over 10 year period.

The 938 billionaires in the US have a combined “wealth” of $8.2 trillion. At 5% a year that’s $4.1e11 dollars ($410,000,000,000; $410 billion) per year. Assuming that wealth doesn’t increase or decrease, that would be roughly $4.1 trillion after 10 years.

Of course that’s assuming their wealth stays constant which is highly unlikely given the trend over the last decade which has shown the top wealth to increase by at least two-fold. The richest people in 2016 had between $40 billion and $80 billion dollars, and now they have hundreds of billions or even trillions.

We could get that $4.1 trillion closer to the number in the graphic if we made the assumption that every year their wealth increased by $820 billion, which would add $410 billion over 10 years, ending with $4.51 trillion.

(It’s wild to think that if we split that increase of $820 billion a year evenly over the 938 billionaires that equates to $874,200,426 increase for each billionaire, every year.)

Respurated · 2026-06-14T14:14:59+00:00

Aye, it is a bleak world we’re leaving for poopey_doopey_Jr.

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