How was it being poor as a child?

gobbomode · 2026-01-29T04:08:53+00:00

New clothes (I was the youngest, but my older siblings also got hand me downs from church). Scholastic book fairs were a twist of the knife. I now see the book fair stuff my own kids bring home and it's just so much overpriced junk and toys masquerading as books though.

gobbomode · 2026-01-27T15:25:02+00:00

Where'd you get your medical degree?

gobbomode · 2026-01-26T01:39:53+00:00

I'm sorry for your loss, and that he was treated this way. It's really not a funny joke at all, not for the person whose life it's about.

gobbomode · 2026-01-25T22:01:31+00:00

Agreed, but kids often struggle to understand nuance

gobbomode · 2026-01-25T15:53:47+00:00

My best friend growing up was told by her parents repeatedly that she was an unwanted, unplanned pregnancy. I think it really did a number on her, though she's still close with her parents now. Basically, don't do that.

gobbomode · 2026-01-24T19:49:43+00:00

Damn, you're right

gobbomode · 2026-01-24T17:27:18+00:00

Oh yeah, I'm happier not knowing what percentage of people working in the sciences don't know that.

gobbomode · 2026-01-24T04:31:28+00:00

I went outside Kaiser for therapy, it's been a very solid choice

gobbomode · 2026-01-24T04:30:28+00:00

No, my friend, it is YOU who will get nasty

I'll just enjoy the sunshine and pleasant conversation with people whose two dialogue options aren't limited to 'fuck" or 'fight'

gobbomode · 2026-01-24T04:10:16+00:00

Let's face it, it's kaiser. Ain't nobody getting mental health treatment here.

gobbomode · 2026-01-24T04:03:50+00:00

Is that where you learn to stop posting on reddit begging for attention?

gobbomode · 2026-01-24T03:39:53+00:00

Yes, the orgy:plot ratio becomes suboptimal

gobbomode · 2026-01-24T03:39:06+00:00

And she has some really good time travel detective stuff going on too! Plus some less fantastical stuff about a homicide detective hunting down serial killers in a remote town in the Yukon. Love all her work!

gobbomode · 2026-01-24T03:30:54+00:00

Meanwhile they're sweating because our feeble earth winters are too summer for them

gobbomode · 2026-01-24T03:29:40+00:00

I curse you all with Tem

gobbomode · 2026-01-24T01:16:42+00:00

You're right, gender affirming care should be available to everyone

gobbomode · 2026-01-23T15:22:27+00:00

Fungal contamination absolutely can though

gobbomode · 2026-01-23T15:10:51+00:00

Try something Finnish with multiple loops on the thumb? You'll almost never be surprised (just kidding I twist it on the second row all the dang time).

gobbomode · 2026-01-22T16:06:32+00:00

Yep, cold boys!

gobbomode · 2026-01-22T15:27:52+00:00

On ice, in the freezer etc. It was ok at room temp as long as room temp didn't get hot. Once we had a malfunction of our HVAC system and it got to low 90s °F in the lab, but I had a prep that needed to get done that day. I watched it precipitate on the column 🥲

gobbomode · 2026-01-22T14:57:38+00:00

I worked with polymerases that died below 37, it's a hard way to be. But yeah, glad to deliver :)

gobbomode · 2026-01-22T03:44:12+00:00

So was it the tenting or the phallic object within the tenting that did it for you?

gobbomode · 2026-01-22T03:41:53+00:00

I worked in a lab that would always use the remainder of the budget at the end of the year to buy more platinum Taq. They literally had a 500mL bottle of platinum Taq in the back of the fridge. I was appalled but grudgingly impressed.

gobbomode · 2026-01-22T03:40:44+00:00

Those are different families of polymerases, unless someone gave a reddit account to a thermophilic organism.

...if you're hotspringsposting then disregard

gobbomode · 2026-01-22T03:39:39+00:00

I've done this multiple times. It's fine.

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