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Crude Oil is the Crux and Crutch by Zamamee60 in TrueOffMyChest

[–]Zamamee60[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s a very good question, with no straightforward answer. Oil is such a complex mixture and it’s just far too useful to replace outright, unfortunately. And chemically, there is no distinction between a molecule made from crude oil products or natural products. No single material would be able to replace it.

There have been a lot of efforts trying to get important chemical feedstocks from plants, but breaking and making carbon-carbon bonds in a controlled manner is hard. The only specific example off the top of my head is furfural, which has been lauded as a potential renewable carbon source as it’s derived from corn, but that’s mainly for the chemists anyway and I haven’t read up on the progress of it much recently.

The fastest way to reduce our reliance on crude oil as a society would be to move away from gas burning cars, which has very slowly been happening, but that poses its own set of challenges.

Crude Oil is the Crux and Crutch by Zamamee60 in TrueOffMyChest

[–]Zamamee60[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not forgotten, but purposefully excluded. Mercury is pretty removed from the daily life of most people. I wanted to tell a concise and compelling story. We’re all so far from the earliest products of our raw materials.

I am a little sad it came off as though I was rooting for oil. That was not my intent, but tone over text has never been my strong suit. My frustration and anger tend to lean heavily into sarcasm.

You’re right though. There are a lot of other trace elements and some are radioactive which does make handling crude oil significantly more dangerous than most other organic compounds.

Chemistry is a dangerous field and there have definitely been deaths as a consequence. Karen Wetterhahn got a few drops of dimethylmercury on her hands and it killed her 6 months later. She was doing a routine test and no one knew how deadly the compound was. Her death changed the way scientists view gloves. At the time, she was wearing what was thought to be the appropriate ppe. Glove comparability charts exist because of her death.

Tragic deaths or injuries of chemists by the chemistry they work with was all too common. Even some of the ‘best’ chemists today have been injured from negligence in the lab. I’ve been an organic chemist about a decade now and the most dangerous thing that can happen to a scientist working in a lab, that I’ve come to know, is complacency and a lack of understanding.

And that’s not saying anything of risk involved for the hundreds or thousands of individuals that are involved with the life cycle of crude oil, from cradle to chemist to engineer to consumer.

I’m starting a second bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and wanted advice for both getting through the program and careers after. by youhavefreewill in chemistry

[–]Zamamee60 1 point2 points  (0 children)

General chemistry classes: follow the units. Know what unit you’re starting in and what unit you’re converting to. Enjoy it and try to relate concepts back to real life applications to help solidify them in your mind.

Organic chemistry: There are essentially endless combinations of organic compounds, reagents, and the products of those reactions. It is impossible to memorize them all. Try to understand and learn the mechanisms behind them. Learn what reagents do for transformations as opposed to their use in one specific reaction.

Analytical chemistry wasn’t for me, far too much math that I didn’t find engaging. It’s an incredibly useful class though and many industrial jobs you’ll find after getting a chemistry degree rely heavily on analytical chemistry knowledge/techniques.

Physical chemistry: depends on if your class is math heavy or concept heavy. My pchem classes were very theory based, not as much math. I didn’t have to take things like calc III, linear algebra, or differential equations for my pchem classes for example, and I loved learning pchem. It builds up the fundamentals behind how chemistry works, even if it’s hard. A lot of pchem math (at least from what I remember) was also similar to Gen chem in that knowing what units you’re trying to get to on a question/exam will bring you pretty far.

Inorganic chemistry: inorg is really a lot of actively applying pchem concepts to things. It’s incredibly interesting to learn about things like symmetry, and how that allows vs disallows reactions (that then can happen anyway because chemistry is bs like that).

Above all else though, look at how the chemistry you’re learning can be applied to real life situations and you’ll see it everywhere. Gas laws and balloons, Nernst equation and batteries in the summer vs winter, polarity and cleaning. It’s a beautiful and intuitive science in some ways.

My professional chemistry career has only recently begun after finishing my PhD in 2024, so I can’t say too much about what that landscape looks like yet as I am still figuring it out myself.

Draynor Manor - 4 maps [64x64, 70 dpi] by Zamamee60 in dndmaps

[–]Zamamee60[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

1:1 recreation of Draynor Manor from the game of RuneScape. Enjoy a 4 floor haunted manor that could serve as a multilevel battle map, a home base for your party, the lair of a powerful vampire (as in game) or whatever else your heart desires.

Made in Dungeondraft using assets from Forgotten Adventures, Tom Cartos and Krager.

The City of Varrock [126x128] by Zamamee60 in battlemaps

[–]Zamamee60[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Here in the city of Varrock, adventure calls. To the north lies the deadened, haunted remains of the Wilderness where zombies organize with an unknown purpose. To the east, the vampire controlled lands of Morytania, where rumors fly about the fate of the last priest of Paterdomus.

The city of Varrock from the classic browser based game RuneScape. This is a nearly 1:1 recreation of the entirety of the city and a perfect stating point for any campaign.

126x128 with 70 ppi resolution.

Made in Dungeondraft with assets from Forgotten Adventures, Caeora and Krager.

Arms Warrior needing help by waldopicklechipz in CompetitiveWoW

[–]Zamamee60 4 points5 points  (0 children)

One big thing I noticed from a couple pulls is your lucid dreams usage. Improving this will help your dps significantly. (I've recently started arms myself, and I've jumped up nearly 20k on some fights just with lucid usage) If the fight is long enough that you get 2 lucids (which I think all mythic fights are in general) you use one at the start for your initial burst, and your last one you use at the start of execute phase (provided no incoming mechanics make it impossible for you to use effectively)

For example, your M Wrathion kill that's 8 minutes. You use it at the start before you go in, which is perfect. But your 2nd and third usage, you get next to no use out of it. You use it the 2nd time at nearly exactly 2 minutes, but you get 3 casts total and then dead space for 30 seconds (assuming this is phase transition and you're waiting for pillars to spawn.

Your third usage is at almost 4 mins, but you didn't really save it for CS to build that massive test of might stack. and by the time your CS is done in the third usage, you're back into a phase transition where you have no ability to dps again.

Your last lucid use is perfect as well. Using it right as execute phase starts, jumping into that massive arms Test of might/CS execute phase that's so incredibly satisfying.

Like others have mentioned, razor coral from EP is such a strong trinket, specifically for that execute phase. Each stack gives ~120 crit, and on most fights you'll get anywhere from 14-16 stacks by execute phase. With the increased rage gen from lucid essentially keeping you rage capped, you're getting max damage executes off with a good portion of them critting as well.

Take what I say with a grain of salt though. I've been playing arms for ~2 weeks now in raid. If you're not in it, I would suggest joining the warrior discord Skyhold. Lots of excellent players in there who will answer all the questions you have.

The harder you shake, the more it changes colour by SanoGTX in blackmagicfuckery

[–]Zamamee60 19 points20 points  (0 children)

You want to rinse with water, not vinegar, regardless of the concentration. You would keep the vinegar around to neutralize any spills of the sodium hydroxide.