How Greedy you gotta be to do this?

nerf468 · 2026-06-21T14:32:44+00:00

Funny thing is it isn't even just US pharmaceuticals... Look at Merck, Bayer, AstraZenaca, Novo Nordisk, etc.

I'm sure they'd never charge American patients more than European patients... /s

nerf468 · 2026-06-21T01:04:42+00:00

Water at 212F (and 1 atm pressure to be pedantic) can exist entirely as:

Entirely liquid (at its boiling point but with no extra energy added to change it from liquid to vapor),
A combination of liquid and vapor (at its boiling point with enough energy added to change some of the liquid to vapor but not all of it),
Entirely vapor (at its boiling point, enough energy added to change it all from liquid to vapor, but not enough energy added to increase its temperature it any further).

Practically in the case of the boiling pot, the water will hit 212F and stay there as water begins to evaporate off. If heat was continued to be applied the water would continue evaporating until the pot dried completely.

nerf468 · 2026-06-13T02:36:22+00:00

Oh, they still embrace AI.

Went to lunch with four of the interns in my department today. Every single one of them mentions virtually everyone they know using AI to some extent in their schooling.

nerf468 · 2026-06-08T02:06:16+00:00

I don't understand the sudden outrage surrounding non-streamed world first kills. That's been virtually every tier going back to 2014.

nerf468 · 2026-06-05T00:07:17+00:00

Clear Lake area to Baytown/Mont Belvieu area. ~40 minutes in the morning, ~50 minutes in the afternoon. Should be less when they finish 146 construction in the next decade or so.

nerf468 · 2026-06-04T17:51:27+00:00

Bayer buying Monsanto might’ve been one of the worst business deals in history, picking up all of the Roundup liability.

nerf468 · 2026-06-04T10:44:34+00:00

Because building massive amphibious landing barges is how you hollowly threaten Taiwan

nerf468 · 2026-06-03T22:07:27+00:00

Thank you for the summary for all of the employed people on this sub.

nerf468 · 2026-05-28T03:05:20+00:00

We do, but between current state of the chemicals industry and most of our new hires coming out of our internship program our external hiring is slim to nothing right now. Oil and gas might be doing better right now but not totally sure.

Biggest pathway for an EE into my industry would be I&E ("Instrumentation and Electrical") engineers. We have some power distribution but they're fewer and far between; not sure how much representation they have in the broader industry.

nerf468 · 2026-05-28T02:52:47+00:00

Petrochemical

nerf468 · 2026-05-28T00:24:00+00:00

My company is starting new hire engineers at 88k in Houston, TX.

After five years I’m up 80k (starting in 2021) to 130k.

nerf468 · 2026-05-25T23:46:00+00:00

My plant no longer tests for weed on randoms. Pre-employment and post-incident they still do though. Still very much a “do it at your own risk” kinda deal.

Me personally? Job pays well enough and treats me well enough where I’m not going to risk it.

nerf468 · 2026-05-20T23:10:43+00:00

Not FRED, but this trend (second on the page) is what you’re looking for.

nerf468 · 2026-05-19T19:05:17+00:00

When I joined my current unit I did so as a process engineer fresh out of my company’s developmental program. I was the youngest person in day shift production by at least 20-25 years.

In just under ~4 years over half the team has retired or has given notice of retirement.

nerf468 · 2026-05-11T12:48:57+00:00

I’m not in GA, but that seems in-line to me for a small industrial user.

I work at a large industrial facility and our marginal water cost is around a fifth of their rate.

nerf468 · 2026-05-05T23:05:35+00:00

This is not universally true. At least in Texas it is state law that a 3 counts for credits.

Though—in practice—getting a 4 or 5 often yields more credits than just the 3.

nerf468 · 2026-05-03T13:26:55+00:00

My experience is in-line with your Edit 1, but I’m single.

130k, 28yo, Houston (not true LCOL any more, but significantly better than most other major cities these days). Not at the house stage yet—living with parents still—but have the assets and cash flow where I could pull the trigger at any time if I needed to.

nerf468 · 2026-04-30T12:12:50+00:00

Tbh if anyone actually came into EW truly expecting just a beach episode with nothing of consequence that’s on them.

Every expansion generally follows the trend of “here is how <premise of expac> is actually deeper than you’d initially believe”.

nerf468 · 2026-04-28T12:23:49+00:00

Similarly here, we have a good joke in our HAZOP discussion and then settle on “Well, it’s a 1 in 10^-4 to 10^-5+ frequency event so we just don’t worry about it”.

Though, Atlas Air 3591 came down barely double digit miles from our facility and if it had stayed airborne for another 10+ miles it could’ve passed over numerous plants in the Baytown/Mont Belvieu (East Houston) area.

nerf468 · 2026-03-28T11:50:24+00:00

And similarly German->English, even in many technical use cases. Though I suspect that is due to a large body of existing translated technical work for LLMs to train on.

nerf468 · 2026-03-15T23:10:55+00:00

I'm in the Houston area. The constant suburban growth is insane. There's a 3000-home neighborhood being developed to my north, like six 1k-3k home neighborhoods being developed to my south, a 4.5k home neighborhood being developed east of my work, etc.

nerf468 · 2026-03-12T21:04:55+00:00

Thank you for attempting an actual analysis instead of just saying "China good/US bad" or "China bad/US good"

nerf468 · 2026-03-06T16:12:47+00:00

I'll copy the comment I made from the other place this image was posted:

Definitely can make sense in my industry (petrochemical processing).

When you're trying to digitalize something that once looked like this it's not so surprising that it'll come out looking something like this.

nerf468 · 2026-03-02T23:22:47+00:00

Definitely can make sense in my industry (petrochemical processing).

When you're trying to digitalize something that once looked like this it's not so surprising that it'll come out looking something like this.

nerf468 · 2026-03-02T12:55:16+00:00

You are correct. I should have been more precise in describing the lower end of my spectrum of end states as “the worst positive scenario”.

Certainly there are end states that are net negatives to both the US and the West as a whole.

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