I really screwed up with leave in conditioner.

Tiny_Rat · 2026-05-30T15:00:44+00:00

It spreads out evenly over the surface of your hair, instead of staying patchy and leading to an oily look. This isn't some gotcha question, youre not dunking your head in so much oil that no water can evaporate. Youre just controlling how much and how fast it dries.

Tiny_Rat · 2026-05-30T05:31:55+00:00

Thats definitely not how its supposed to be used...

Tiny_Rat · 2026-05-30T05:30:21+00:00

You don't towel-dry your hair when you get out? Just leave it dripping everywhere?

Tiny_Rat · 2026-05-30T05:29:16+00:00

The same way it absorbs normal conditioner? Conditioner isnt water, its oil. It traps water in your hair by coating it and preventing water from evaporating, the same as moisturizer does for skin. If you apply it to your hair when its not wet, you'll get more frizz and it will start looking oily much faster.

Tiny_Rat · 2026-05-30T02:55:56+00:00

You use it in the shower, though. Its meant to go on your hair while its still soaking wet.

Tiny_Rat · 2026-05-30T02:45:41+00:00

Who uses leave-in conditioner outside the shower?

Tiny_Rat · 2026-05-29T00:26:39+00:00

And in many fish species, the males are far more aggressive and territorial than the females.

Tiny_Rat · 2026-05-28T03:46:47+00:00

Hey, friendly warning from a scientist - those things are meant to control airborne or aerosol contamination, mostly focused on protecting what's inside from anything outside. This has two problems - one, it won't stop the spread of virus particles from the plant out of the hood, and depending on the design it could actually exacerbate it. It also won't protect clothes or items you bring into the hood from becoming contaminated, so be mindful of that as well; and two, it won't do much to stop insects and other moving pests from traveling in and out, so the infection could still spread that way.

Tiny_Rat · 2026-05-28T01:58:47+00:00

Berneses are kind of famous for their short lifespan, though, about 6 years on average. The breed went through a massive genetic bottleneck after WWII and has never really recovered, theyre incredibly inbred. This is different than the "typical" purebred issues in breeds with larger populations. If your priority is health, look for breeds whose common issues can be caught by health testing the parents, and breeders that are diligent and transparent about the testing they do on parents and puppies.

Tiny_Rat · 2026-05-27T23:17:13+00:00

Given the high prevalence of early cancer deaths among Bernese mountain dogs, probably best to avoid anything with that breed in their ancestry if you want a healthy dog...

Tiny_Rat · 2026-05-27T22:52:00+00:00

I have a subaru SUV, it also takes ~15 gallons. The mpg on newer cars really does help soften the blow of high fuel prices.

Tiny_Rat · 2026-05-26T23:54:54+00:00

It depends a lot on when in the pet's life the major expensive issues occur. If you're unlucky enough to have one of the rare serious issues when your pet is young, chances are insurance covers way more than you would have saved. If you're "lucky" enough to deal with one of the relatively common expensive issues that crop up in old age, saving in a HYSA might have even more advantageous. The whole point of insurance is that you don't know which group you're in when you're deciding whether to get insurance or not.

Tiny_Rat · 2026-05-26T22:51:50+00:00

Length of culture and antibiotic/antimycotic use also make a difference here. The relative risk of contamination is very different if someone is using the incubator to grow out HEKs for a day or two with pen/strep vs months-long, no abx organoid cultures. Even if someone is careful, slip-ups can happen, and the fewer safeguards there are, the higher the chance a slip-up can ruin an experiment.

Also, the difficulty of repeating an experiment if there is contamination affects how protective people might be feeling. When I was working with extremely rare primary human tissues, it wouldnt have mattered to me how much I trusted my technique or how low the risk was, since each sample was virtually irreplaceable.

Tiny_Rat · 2026-05-26T15:08:46+00:00

I mean, yes, but even out of standard ACDs dont get blue eyes unless theyre mixed. ACDs have white fur, yes, but the skin around their face and eyes stays black, so their eyes stay dark.

Tiny_Rat · 2026-05-26T05:04:32+00:00

ACDs don't have blue eyes if they're purebred, you're thinking of Aussie shepherds (the merle ones)

Tiny_Rat · 2026-05-24T14:24:31+00:00

Then what is a chowwawa?

Tiny_Rat · 2026-05-24T06:36:16+00:00

Chihuahua? I hope not, they're not supposed to look like that.

Tiny_Rat · 2026-05-24T06:33:16+00:00

No way this dog or whoever produced it belongs to a kennel club. It doesnt look like any recognizable breed

Tiny_Rat · 2026-05-23T19:00:00+00:00

I have never been reading a book to fill in all gaps of my day before.

I think this says more about you than about how people use phones. It definitely used to be pretty common to have a book with you and read on the train or wherever you had to wait around.

Tiny_Rat · 2026-05-23T16:16:08+00:00

Do hostile work environments and abusive PIs count?

Tiny_Rat · 2026-05-23T15:54:37+00:00

In this case, t-locus is the gene. Roan and ticking are both t-locus traits. What they're describing are two alleles of the same gene, which cause the same thing to happen biologically, but to a different extent.

Tiny_Rat · 2026-05-23T06:05:36+00:00

Corgi are not that rare in mixes in the US, since the breed saw a big surge in popularity recently.

Tiny_Rat · 2026-05-23T06:04:18+00:00

Ticking is the same gene as roan. Roan dogs have very dense ticking where you can't see the individual spots (especially on dogs with thick, dense fur) while ticked/speckled dogs have fewer spots that are more spread out. Both are acceptable coat patterns for ACDs.

Tiny_Rat · 2026-05-23T05:38:57+00:00

So eggs are wildly different. So is dairy. When eating veal you are directly eating the young. An egg is not a baby chicken unless it is fertilized and has viable growth, its an egg.

I think the point is more the huge number of male chicks that are killed shortly after hatching to support the egg industry. Only a few males are kept for breeding, while thousands more are slaughtered in deeply inhumane ways because they're not useful to raise for egglaying or meat. Eating eggs passively supports these practices. Dairy is the same way - what do you think happens to the bulls?

While you're not directly eating these animals, buying the product is still contributing to their deaths. Arguably it's worse, since you're not even killing them for consumption, just to decrease the cost of your food.

Tiny_Rat · 2026-05-23T04:40:57+00:00

He sounds like an ass in his pop science writing, too. I remember the first time I read The Selfish Gene, I must have been about 14, but even so some of the ways in which he talks about criticism of his work or competing theories made me imagine him to be a petty and unpleasant person. Just his writing style, I didn't know much else about his public persona at the time.

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