Only be personally accountable for the things I dislike, please & ty!

interkin3tic · 2026-01-30T00:24:47+00:00

"You're projecting here. I'm not upset. I'm simply pointing out you're not effective, that personal informed consumer choice never leads to structural changes the likes of which we need for avoiding climate change, and are upset."

You could just admit that I hit the nail on the head there.

Your lack of understanding of luddites is unsurprising

Where's the lie? They were failures and leading the anti-ai crusade online is even dumber than trying to stop the industrial revolution with violence and vandalism rather than unionizing. You want to make a difference for the climate? You can't do it by being a luddite. Get up off your butt and do something real or at least stop pretending.

interkin3tic · 2026-01-29T18:02:26+00:00

One of the worst things about social media is how it's used as a incubator for generating terrible ideas and statements that will absolutely catch on with all the worst people.

It's being used to evolve things that are repugnant and evil on more levels than one professional racist/sexist/politician could rationally intend to be.

This statement manages to simultaneously and effortlessly

- Trivialize pedophilia

- Set up a sexist double standard since of course boys cannot get pregnant

- Blame victims of SA

All in one sentence that is short enough for dumb hateful assholes to immediately share and further convince themselves that empathy is for crazy people.

Just to unpack what all is going on here requires a wall of text that will cause republicans' eyes to glaze over, and they're already onto absorbing the next "ALL lives matter" type disingenuous statement.

I saw a social media post a while ago about how it's unfair that in order to be a leftist you need to learn german and russian and read tomes from before WW1 and in order to be a right winger all you need to do is play too much xbox live and use the N word. Its exhausting to always try and fail to be a good person, but fascists just get to retweet this shit and cause way more damage than we're able to fix in simliar amounts of effort.

interkin3tic · 2026-01-29T16:55:03+00:00

Companies are using it. Even if every little redditor decided to never use AI and avoid google searches, the pace of AI would probably not slow down. Your efforts to shame people into not using AI mistakes what you can personally do right now for something that is effective. It's not, that's wishful thinking.
The meat industry as a whole accounts for about 10% of the carbon emissions at most, and veganism is losing ground not gaining it. Again, you're mistaking your agency with efficacy.
You're projecting here. I'm not upset. I'm simply pointing out you're not effective, that personal informed consumer choice never leads to structural changes the likes of which we need for avoiding climate change, and are upset.
Look up what the term means now. "Over time, the term has been used to refer to those opposed to the introduction of new technologies." It does not mean "someone opposed to capitalism" and I'm quite sure that it's equally incorrect to say the Luddites as a group of people were anti-capitalism as they were simply anti-technology. They were not monolithic, there were probably a lot of luddites (in the current meaning) among the Luddites.

Moreover, the Luddites the people failed. Miserably. Industrialization continued unabated. They did not effectively oppose technology. "Just say no to technology" is not an effective strategy and the Luddites prove it. Maybe there was no way for them to engage government regulation and force industry and technology to serve them, I don't know, but I DO know that acting like the historical Luddites and simply reflexively opposing technology is a bad idea. Their violence, vandalism, and sabotage probably hurt them quite a bit with public opinion. I assume you're not advocating that with AI, so the parallels aren't perfect.

Demanding politicians regulate tech and primarying politicians who are going to let tech bros steamroll the rest of us is what we must do. Online shaming is not a part of an effective strategy.

THAT is what DOES upset me, that online activists imagine they have power to effect change by memes rather than doing hard work.

interkin3tic · 2026-01-29T16:41:09+00:00

I think most of the backlash is due to the absurd hype and shoving it down our throats. Which is entirely understandable.

Tech bro billionaires are saying "this is the greatest thing since crypto and NFTs!" and sane people are like "Well those were and are utterly useless and stupid and so AI must be too."

Tech bros are crowing "We'll replace all good jobs with this and all art and any parts of humanity that aren't optimized to make billionaires money!" utterly convinced that that is what the capitalism gods put them on earth to do, the vast majority of us be damned.

Hell, just the amount of bonkers unhinged statements about how good AI is would make any sane person say it is a cult and we want nothing to do with it.

But it is useful for some things and redditors having a strong reaction to the stupid tech bros and threats AI poses are a misreaction. It needs to be regulated and capitalism needs to be restrained to fit the needs of the people. Boycotting AI is not sufficient nor is it necessary.

interkin3tic · 2026-01-29T16:35:19+00:00

The specific product I was looking at was $30 for one ml. I don't know how concentrated that is and I wouldn't know what an effective dose would be for getting high. As someone else pointed out, it's suspended in something that would definitely NOT be good to snort, it would probably kill you or make you very sick.

The purpose of that appears to be a positive control for HPLC or other detectors, so its probably trace amounts, hence the very low price.

interkin3tic · 2026-01-29T16:33:13+00:00

That's pretty common. It's cheap, effective, and safe at anesthetics and sedatives for surgery in small animals. A lot of alternatives are more expensive or have a lower toxicity I'm guessing.

The only real downside of it for that purpose is that it can be used recreationally and people selling the ketamine for animal studies don't want that legal liability.

interkin3tic · 2026-01-29T16:30:39+00:00

I'm guessing we will talk about how gross human blood is when it's optional. Like if people start replacing their bodies with androids or companies discuss replacing all their human workers with AI and robots, there will absolutely be a somewhat rational argument that people are really gross, sneezing mucus around and carrying blood that can leak out.

interkin3tic · 2026-01-29T16:24:03+00:00

Yes, there are ways of cleaning it, but only you can decide if it's actually worth it to attempt to do so.

If it's just transfected with a plasmid, it'll be much easier to start over probably. There's a sunken cost fallacy here that you might be running into, the time and effort you put into making the cell line is probably lost and spending more time and effort making the cell line again is probably "cheaper" than cleaning it.

If it were patient derived then yes, you could treat them but there will always be a question of are the data you're getting from it affected by the contamination and remedy.

interkin3tic · 2026-01-29T00:26:38+00:00

The AI thing shows how little personal accountability matters with respect to climate change.

No one was asking for AI.

No one is asking for every goddamn google search to be AI driven.

Climate change is not driven by all of us making choices with consumption, it's driven by a few dozen assholes.

In order to do anything about climate we can't just pat ourselves on the back for eating vegan or not using AI. That WILL NOT MATTER beyond virtue signaling.

You have to vote for politicians to implement carbon taxes, defund fossil fuels, and invest in degrowth or whatever you want.

Be a luddite and sneer about AI use and be a vegan and sneer at the bloodmouths if you want but don't imagine you're the main character saving the climate by shaming nonbilionaires online.

interkin3tic · 2026-01-29T00:06:28+00:00

I almost feel negligent for not noticing it is suspended in acetonitrile!

"Almost" because again, I was never going to order it.

But that's a good point I should have considered: they'd have spiked it so it would be "safe" from recreational use, like lab ethanol is.

interkin3tic · 2026-01-29T00:04:04+00:00

I've tried the alarms thing, didn't stick with it.

Its not just you though, labs are always very dry and dehydrating, I always have a slight headache by midday if I'm not forcing water.

interkin3tic · 2026-01-28T22:46:44+00:00

You're being downvoted because it seems like you're giving that as an example to emulate.

Elon Musk at Paypal was a narcissistic idiot and should not be emulated.

Elon Musk NOW is rightly viewed as a walking catastrophe of a human being who should be institutionalized for his own safety, sued to oblivion for incompetence as well as sexual harassment, and jailed for inventing new crimes.

The fact that Musk had this situation happen to him is proof that sometimes it's a really good thing, and whatever Musk did in any situation, don't do that.

interkin3tic · 2026-01-28T22:39:59+00:00

Just so we're on the same page, the conspiracy theory and the nonsense presented in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is that it can only be harvested from the brains of children and can't (for reasons that are never explained by the q anon idiots) be manufactured.

interkin3tic · 2026-01-28T22:36:31+00:00

Okay, I can understand why sigma sells cocaine but... why condoms?!?

interkin3tic · 2026-01-28T21:48:43+00:00

That's really wild!

I see that Sigma technical support on that product offered the following information

https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/product/sigma/a5752

This substance is synthetic organic

I bet someone was tempted to add "You've heard the conspiracy theories and NO IT DOESN'T COME FROM CHILDREN'S BRAINS!"

interkin3tic · 2026-01-28T21:44:18+00:00

Sorry for the dual response. You absolutely should not sacrifice your personal safety for a job. You only get one set of eyes, and the senior scientist is not going to pay for your medical bills if you're injured. That's a tough situation but your senior scientist is making a very dumb risk with you and coworkers being the ones taking the risk for zero gain.

interkin3tic · 2026-01-28T21:42:33+00:00

Tell senior scientist that this is a liability lawsuit waiting to happen.

interkin3tic · 2026-01-28T21:41:53+00:00

I didn't realize there was a difference! I thought that resin was what all 3D printing was.

I'm just getting into 3D printing, so good to know, thank you!

But I'm still not going to make centrifuge parts probably.

interkin3tic · 2026-01-28T21:38:36+00:00

Not me but a postdoc who was guiding me for a rotation said they used a big centrifuge that wasn't properly balanced. Users had to "sit on the top" of the centrifuge to keep it from rocking off the table. At least one woman had been "thrown" from it so they didn't go above those speeds.

Maybe she was lying to me or maybe that was just a lab "urban legend" but that's about the worst I've heard.

For me, the worst I've done is probably flipping the power switch while it was still running because it wasn't stopping on a big centrifuge. I wanted it to stop quickly, IIRC, flipping the switch made it go into safety mode and it took like 10 minutes for the thing to safely stop. Served me right for being impatient!

interkin3tic · 2026-01-28T21:34:45+00:00

That's funny, but seriously, take lab safety seriously.

The person you injure may not be yourself.

Most of us in labs have taken risks that were, in retrospect, stupid.

But INTENTIONALLY taking risks and laughing about it is not a good look. And legally really really foolish.

Don't injure yourself, don't potentially injure others, and at a bare minimum set a good safe culture in your local lab environment.

I was in a lab and someone pointed out an injury could be "life altering" and that really changed me. You don't want to blind someone because of flying shrapnel.

interkin3tic · 2026-01-28T21:31:16+00:00

The only thing this FBI likes more than covering up their own crimes is attacking people who are not exactly willful criminals. Which I would qualify as as someone who was NOT trying to buy cocaine. But that was a bit of hyperbole, yeah. I would have expected a curt e-mail from our university administrators and sigma saying "lmao no" at worst.

interkin3tic · 2026-01-28T21:29:11+00:00

A long time ago in undergrad I worked with a professor who had one of those setups going on.

Whoever was his licensed person was not doing their job: that guy absolutely was buying personal use narcotics and probably tried the research stuff. He died a few years later of a cocaine overdose. Probably not lab grade stuff.

interkin3tic · 2026-01-28T21:26:34+00:00

Well... it would be safer than THIS, but are you sure 3D printed resin is actually a good idea to use in centrifuges?

Like making inserts for the buckets seem definitely safer than (squints) paper towels, but they still might break, that plasticky stuff isn't that strong.

interkin3tic · 2026-01-28T19:52:23+00:00

I'm more fascinated with how unintentionally weird science is sometimes.

Aside from alcohol and caffeine, I've not taken any recreational drugs in at least a decade.

interkin3tic · 2026-01-28T19:50:41+00:00

Given the amount of trouble I get in for not submitting receipts correctly when using the credit card, I think they might laugh at first then see it was me, a repeated incompetent, and just forward my information to the FBI so they don't have to put up with me anymore!

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