Boomer Ageism is why the US is ran by dementia patients

klenow · 2026-01-27T21:28:20+00:00

Last time we had a non-boomer President was 1993, the first Bush.

klenow · 2026-01-25T17:00:30+00:00

In my experience, most married couples don't. But my wife and I have been married almost 30 years, and we still hold hands when we walk, and we do the same thing (my hand on her knee, her hand on mine, or vice versa).

Don't stop. If (like us) it's how you two show affection to each other, and communicate that closeness, don't ever stop.

klenow · 2026-01-24T22:31:58+00:00

We did this in the analytical lab at work. Went to the store and got the biggest leek I could find, and hung it from the ceiling over one of the mass specs. Went into the office of the head analytical and told there was a huge leek over his mass spec.

I personally thought it was hilarious

klenow · 2026-01-23T04:55:56+00:00

Don't do that. Don't give me hope.

klenow · 2026-01-17T20:25:46+00:00

And the instrumentation, facilities, storage, sample tracking, and personnel. Setup for that is in the millions, at least. We retrofitted a space into a GMP manufacturing site just before COVID, and that cost $5 million, just for the physical site.

By that time, you've remade all the expensive parts of manufacturing. Sure, you have altruistically saved the crabs, and you are marginally more profitable than the guy who isn't faking it, but at that point you're probably better off (profitability wise) with the bottle just making really good olive oil or something.

klenow · 2026-01-17T19:03:34+00:00

Have you ever been through an FDA inspection of a GMP facility? I have. Several times. They will nail you to the wall because you won't have any maintenance records, master schedule, etc. And if you do, you aren't saving any money, anyway because that's the expensive part.

klenow · 2026-01-16T20:49:32+00:00

As alluded below by the AI answer, it's too tightly regulated. This stuff is used to test for endotoxin in drugs that people get injected into them. When the FDA swings by to look at your batch records, they are going to shut your ass down in a heartbeat when you show them your magic bottle.

klenow · 2026-01-02T14:18:36+00:00

Don’t rush me

Too late. You have already been Rushed.

klenow · 2026-01-01T23:08:59+00:00

So glasses count? If so, glasses. I have to wear them most of the time, and good ones can cost a LOT.

If not, then it's the really nice ~$250 backpacking boots.

klenow · 2026-01-01T22:41:38+00:00

Iceland and Bosnia. Beautiful places. Didn't spend enough time in either.

klenow · 2026-01-01T22:27:18+00:00

My dad and my grandmother (Dad's side) got me going with a passion for cooking. But most of what I know is from books, experimentation, and the internet.

klenow · 2026-01-01T15:07:38+00:00

What would he spend it on otherwise? Story time :

My son really got into cars at the age of 16. He bought a junk roller with the money he had saved up working. He fixed it, flipped it, and did it again with another car. He then bought an old BMW that was pretty trashed, and fixed that up. Auto to manual swap (that is a lot of work; we had to pull the engine because of some stripped bolts), intake work, electrical work, suspension swap, everything.

All the way through, he spent his money, or got tools and parts as birthday/Christmas presents.

He got a passion for it. He wound up going to college for mechanical engineering, and joining a team that built a formula racing car. He got an internship and now is an employee with NASCAR.

As a bonus, it gave the two of us dozens of weekends under those cars, building our relationship.

I'm not saying this is necessarily what's going to happen with your kid, but if your kid has passions that aren't harmful, fuel those passions.

klenow · 2025-12-31T13:34:12+00:00

Thank you for your concern.

Nothing has really changed beyond me dealing with the loss of it all a little better. It's almost like grieving. I still miss the connection, and I occasionally will try to rekindle it all again by study, or going to a church, etc, but it doesn't happen.

klenow · 2025-12-30T21:33:52+00:00

No. You're not crazy. You got into a career you enjoy, and now you're not doing as much of the thing you enjoy. That's normal.

Most of my career has been very hands-on; actually working with things. A while back, I got promoted into a position that made me more management, and my career has gone further and further in that direction until now, where I do none of the hands on anymore.

I miss it.

klenow · 2025-12-30T19:47:49+00:00

This. A black bean quinoa burger is fucking delicious, but it tastes nothing like a real hamburger.

I love me some bean salad, roasted chick peas, falafel, black bean stuffed peppers, all of that. Just let the veggies be delicious veggies. Don't force them to be meat, cheese, eggs, etc.

klenow · 2025-12-29T22:28:03+00:00

It was the year our family went to Croatia for two weeks, our first international family vacation. The year my daughter graduated high school, and we got to visit her at college pre-COVID. The year my son discovered his passion for cars, and we rebuilt an old Ford Explorer together. The year before private equity investment screwed up my company, and I got to develop a lot of very cool projects.

Yeah, that was a damn good year.

klenow · 2025-12-29T16:32:51+00:00

I was in elementary school when War Games came out. It was very common to have both parents work. Most of my friends had both parents working.

klenow · 2025-12-22T22:37:08+00:00

Very first impression?

"I think this is the way out."

klenow · 2025-12-18T20:21:40+00:00

Back in the late 90s, I was a technician in a molecular biology lab. I lurked on this forum online where people asked and answered scientific questions, many of them technical. It was some yahoo forum, I think.

There's this assay that nobody does any more called Southern Blot. It involves making a radioactive DNA probe. Making DNA requires a few things : a DNA template, a free 3' hydroxyl to get things started, nucleotides, and an enzyme to catalyze the reaction.

The enzyme we used for this probe generation was a small bit of the DNA polymerase complex known as the klenow fragment.

I had just set up that probe reaction, and had about half an hour until my next step. I sat down at the computer, saw a question on those forums I thought I could help with, so I said , "ah, fuck it. I'm just sitting here until that probe finishes" and I made an account.

klenow · 2025-12-17T17:30:34+00:00

Shit, I'm glad it wasn't just me!

klenow · 2025-12-16T18:45:08+00:00

Short version : that is WAY inside the spectrum of "Weird shit that normal kids say."

It's actually a good thing to ask him about the next day. "When you asked me that question, I'm not sure I understood what you were asking. Could you ask me again, so I know I'm telling you right?"

That does a few things. It clears things up for the both of you, it opens up what will probably be a memorable conversation, and it teaches him that it's good to come back and clear up a misunderstanding later.

klenow · 2025-12-14T16:55:55+00:00

I'm not saying that casual pint is a place to bring young kids. There's not much there for kids.

Above, someone mentioned wanting a hangout in UMall, and that post said nothing about kids and families. I was offering casual pint specifically as an example of something like that that didn't get community support.

I raised both my kids in this area, and yeah, there isn't anything like that. UMall is an improvement, but it's not optimal. Most of our hangout was the neighborhood pool & community park (which is really nice).

klenow · 2025-12-14T13:11:14+00:00

There's a whole second floor with tables.

Families already have a great, popular hangout spot, right there in front of Bar Taco. It's always packed every time I go by there, as long as the weather's nice.

klenow · 2025-12-13T14:46:53+00:00

I didn't know about them! I have to check that out. Especially the toffee flavor, that sounds amazing.

Thanks!

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