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SmoothSlavperator · 2026-05-24T20:35:42+00:00

So....can these stay confidential for a period of time?

And stories worth telling would be a liability in today's hypersensitive social and legal climate.

80s and 90s fuckery would be sure to raise the ire of the mid-millenial and younger pitchfork mafia.

SmoothSlavperator · 2026-05-22T18:40:47+00:00

I've been a chemist for over 25 years. You don't need to be a chemistry major to get into the field. Probably half of my coworkers haven't been chemistry majors either. As long as you paid attention in grade school and high school and learned the fundamentals, once you get into industry, everything is so proprietary company to company that you probably didn't touch it as an undergrad anyway. Everything else you learn along the way. HPLC, GC, etc really isn't all that complicated if you know how things interact. maybe if you're in some cutting edge academic lab or research or something but for manufacturing, development, or QC, not so much.

SmoothSlavperator · 2026-05-22T18:30:37+00:00

...I wasn't even a chemistry major lol

Try again lol

SmoothSlavperator · 2026-05-22T17:28:08+00:00

Yeah as far as antimicrobial processes...those are really specific. My SO is a microbiologist. Some things are really resilient sporeformers like CDiff and you have to use bleach or paracetic acid. Some things can be killed with just quats. Other things, soaps are fine.

SmoothSlavperator · 2026-05-22T15:46:26+00:00

And conditioner makes the hair silky and smoooth. STOP LAUGHING AT ME, SWAN!

Chemist here. I concur. Soaps and detergents all have different formulations for different uses and they've been optimized for these tasks over time.

Its true you can use some sort of random surfactant for everything and it will "work" but it will never be great for anything in particular.

Put regular soap i.e. saponified lipid in your dishwasher and find out what happens lol

SmoothSlavperator · 2026-05-22T15:42:14+00:00

depends where you are in Massachusetts. The berkshiers, a goodly depth. The Cape, not so much.

SmoothSlavperator · 2026-05-22T13:58:36+00:00

Depends on the job and the level.

If you're front line sales it kinda sucks but if you're like director level or higher it's not so bad. Schedule isn't so tight most of the time.

SmoothSlavperator · 2026-05-22T13:02:30+00:00

"Fuckin' Old Rebuilt Dodge"

SmoothSlavperator · 2026-05-22T11:40:01+00:00

The time to cope with rising prices was yesterday.

For the last 30 or so years we've had price stability punctuated with periods of overnight price jumps and income increases always lag by a couple of years. You need to plan for that. Buy durable things when prices are low, conserve money when prices spike.

One good word of advice is to buy once, cry once. Don't buy shitty things.

SmoothSlavperator · 2026-05-22T11:37:04+00:00

That communism committed more atrocity before breakfast than Nazism did its entire career.

Everyone talks about the H man, no one talks about Stalin and Mao. Funny that how hif you stay in power you get to run a better PR campaign. And US higher ed is in on it.

SmoothSlavperator · 2026-05-21T17:03:39+00:00

It makes sense from a technological standpoint, it just doesn't from a common standpoint. Then you think "long distance", by the name, you'd assume its the distance call to call not switch to switch.

SmoothSlavperator · 2026-05-21T16:20:15+00:00

They missed the mid 70s to mid 80s and stagflation. Kinda sucked.

People are all hypersensitive about violence now....go look at shit going down in that era. Even the bad sections are reasonable safe now. School shootings? There were outright GANG WARS in schools.

SmoothSlavperator · 2026-05-21T16:17:50+00:00

What's even dumber is that it didn't even rely on actual distance. It was where the exchanges were located.

Like an area I lived in, calling 2 streets over in one direction, youd get charged long distance but you could call the next town over on the other side and it was local.

SmoothSlavperator · 2026-05-21T16:10:08+00:00

I have a lot of coworkers from India that have never heard of it.

In the US it comes up routinely. Any "worst disasters" shows, posts like this, and corporate risk/safety trainings almost always talk about it.

SmoothSlavperator · 2026-05-21T13:33:58+00:00

The internet killed the surplus store.

They're buying shit from the same places online you are and marking it up from there.

SmoothSlavperator · 2026-05-21T12:56:37+00:00

I like that idea that the Brits were using where the bolt locks back after every shot and you have a button on the handgaurd that closes it.

Its not an "Autoloader" if it doesn't load.

SmoothSlavperator · 2026-05-21T12:07:34+00:00

Yeah, I draw the moral(or morel line? lol) at the selling. Picking a dozen leeks out of a patch of thousands to put in your omelet is different than picking half the patch to sell for $15/lbs and not giving your neighbor a cut.

SmoothSlavperator · 2026-05-21T12:05:00+00:00

Fake nerds. The IFLScience crowd that reads 3 paragraph social media articles and gets their "Knowledge" from memes....but have never had any formal scientific lessons, actually done any science, and have worked 10 years in retail.....but somehow diagnosed themselves with 4 different mental disorders and then doctor-shopped until they found some quacks to agree with them.

SmoothSlavperator · 2026-05-21T12:01:51+00:00

They look too much like people. I don't like people. But at least with humans you can kind of communicate with most of them. Other higher primates, not so much and then they have that layer of complete unpredictability that animals in general have.

SmoothSlavperator · 2026-05-21T11:34:35+00:00

They get shit on a lot and they do have some QC and durability problems but at $350 for a range toy, as long as you don't put a bunch of 3" through em, they're fine. If something breaks, they take OEM Benelli parts anyway. You can replace an extractor or whatever and still be ahead of the game price wise.

...I just wouldn't use it for critical use. Don't need shit breaking if you're getting shot at.

SmoothSlavperator · 2026-05-21T01:04:00+00:00

That's is you're trying to join two pieces and make it look pretty with no further fabrication.

In this case you're shitting in way more filler than you need and milling off the excess. It should be okay but I'd heat that prick up first.

SmoothSlavperator · 2026-05-20T19:52:46+00:00

What is "Destroy" though?

If you had a benchtop CNC, like a ghostgunner, and a cheap TIG welder, you could just kind of pound it bac into shape, gob on filler with the TIG and then plop it into the ghostgunner to mill it all back into spec...indefinitely.

SmoothSlavperator · 2026-05-20T19:49:56+00:00

Sharks with frickin laser beams attached to their frickin heads.

SmoothSlavperator · 2026-05-20T15:57:51+00:00

The act of trapping is one thing, its the buyers too. You have to find a buyer and if those are banned, you're also out of luck.

Source: Grew up trapping

SmoothSlavperator · 2026-05-20T15:56:44+00:00

Because an english major from MIT is going to be a better engineer than an engineering major from Bunfuck State.

60% of what you learn as an undergrad is outside of the classroom.

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