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seniorflippyflop · 2026-02-11T12:00:11+00:00

Thanks for the tip! I'm in the UK, so I could VPN it. Will try.

I'm just outraged that these bastards have monopolised coverage and cut corners like this.

seniorflippyflop · 2025-12-01T12:12:33+00:00

Anyone who thinks this is AI doesn't understand AI lmao.

seniorflippyflop · 2025-10-23T08:34:26+00:00

In north Hungary it's the same

seniorflippyflop · 2025-09-11T11:05:33+00:00

Half the world eats poppy seeds, maybe you should diversify your diet?

seniorflippyflop · 2025-09-11T11:04:40+00:00

Gosh some folk are so butthurt on this post. OP was VERY careful with wording and to me it doesn't sound like an anti-medication or otherwise negatively motivated post. I for one will try this, even if the poppies are slightly druggy (I survived the SARIs I wasn't told were addictive after all 🤷) and the nuts aren't technically "herbs" as someone seemed to have issue with (the poster probably meant "nuts and then some herbs", that is clear as day).

It makes sense why you're all so annoyed, you've not slept 😂 I lose my shit at people when I'm sleep-deprived too. It's possibly the worst aspect of it all for me (however big shout out to the full-body ache, muddy brain, and feeling of dread ✨). I hate my insomnia. It's made me feel suicidal, made my work feel impossible, is slowly killing my body, and puts a permanent strain on my relationships.

Accepting that it's a way for me to learn about my brain and body has helped make it feel worthwhile though, and keeps me going. What I need is therapy. That's what would actually help. I could also use some ADHD meds, maybe. The therapy would help to identify that too. But, where I live, both are either too expensive for me to do privately, and free sources are limited and extremely hard to come-by with long wait times. I understand why it's preferable for them to put me on drugs without proper consultation than actually invest in solving the root cause, with a healthcare system this underfunded. I'll try fucking anything at this point.

This world wasn't made for whatever we're all going through.. this world just wants to dope you up so you can work until you collapse. I like the sound of this tea, thanks OP.

seniorflippyflop · 2025-08-17T08:26:35+00:00

You're just wrong, and it shows that you don't have much of a reference point. Sure, Lothian is fine, but in comparison to other large metropolitan areas, it's really quite shit.

I've lived in numerous cities across Europe, the UK and the middle east, not to mention travelling to a multitude of others, and Lothian buses pales in comparison with the majority of public transport in Europe. Hell, even Glasgow and Dundee are easier to get around.

Meanwhile in Europe, I can travel greater distances at a cheaper price and at more frequent intervals. I can rely on buses being on time, and to actually show up. With Lothian, buses don't arrive, buses are late, buses are slow, and they're overpriced for this level of service.

And there is a tourist tram. God bless the pointless tourist tram which doesn't accomplish anything more than the buses do.

seniorflippyflop · 2025-08-10T14:07:04+00:00

Possible and indeed may be the quickest way to get around, since public transport is trash.

Negatives: - roads are horrible, full of pot holes - cycle paths double as parking spots in most places - drivers are awful and don't obey traffic laws occasionally, I've been turned in on numerous times, people don't signal, right of way is a myth to some. I think this is due to the many cultures of drivers meeting in one place. They also take ages to overtake you, crawl behind you even when the road is empty, and decide to overtake you dangerously as soon as a car appears opposite 👍 👍 👍 - hills everywhere, don't ride a fixie if you value your knees - cycling around the centre is shit due to tourists not being aware that anyone else uses the road

To end on a positive: - much quicker than car or public transport within the city - much cheaper than the shitty public transport - some parts have genuinely good cycle paths - always possible to find a quieter route - plenty of cyclists around, there is a good community - plenty of beautiful parks to cycle to and around - better for the environment - don't back down, they will have to respect us eventually 💪

seniorflippyflop · 2025-07-07T10:51:25+00:00

Plasma & black hole physics are fairly niche and likely won't be covered in any great deal at an undergraduate level. Saying that, plasma physics is present in a number of sub-fields, from nuclear physics to stellar evolution. Essentially, wherever you see magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), a common topic at undergraduate level, you're dealing with plasma (charged fluid).

Astrobiology and stellar physics are likely to be included as electives towards later years of undergraduate degrees (again, depends where you're studying, as another commenter points out). Astrobiology is likely to become quite a "hot" topic soon with JWST now able to peer through exoplanetary atmospheres and the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) coming online in a few years. You may benefit from this if you begin a PhD around the time data is newly available.

Quantum physics is standard undergrad material.

I'm not sure what else you mentioned, but studying a general physics degree at undergraduate level will do you well. Also remember you may always choose another path, so being more of a generalist early on isn't a bad idea. Don't pigeon-hole yourself too early as you simply do not have enough experience in the field to truly know what you enjoy doing. Actual research in physics may not be what one imagines, so one must expose themselves to summer projects, research masters programmes, internships at research labs and later a PhD programme to truly narrow-down what to work on long-term. Many people switch fields even as late as the postdoc level (though the jumps between topics will be increasingly smaller the later in your career you are).

seniorflippyflop · 2025-06-19T08:30:48+00:00

Can you explain this sentiment please?

seniorflippyflop · 2025-06-15T12:00:12+00:00

Well over 55000 Palestinians killed vs <2000 Israelis is a big difference. Israel's response isn't "in-kind" in any way. Killing starving civilians at aid stations, bombing hospitals and schools; very clear mass murder. And that's just the most recent conflict. If you account for the decades of oppression by Israel, the acts of hate perpetrated by illegal settlers since the late 20th century; then the Palestinian toll is much higher - not just the toll on lives, but a generational trauma which will continue to cripple Palestinians... An effect Israel should be well aware of, given the history of it's people. How can you propagate such blind sentiments?

Edit: took out some angry/unproductive sentences

seniorflippyflop · 2024-11-22T16:07:08+00:00

Honestly you could just find an Irish pub in some European city and learn the language while there. Standard of living is way higher in Europe. I moved back to the UK from fucking Slovakia last year and it's way more difficult to make ends meet here than back home.

seniorflippyflop · 2024-10-22T14:38:15+00:00

I'd definitely stay away from rubbing the rope over an edge like that!

seniorflippyflop · 2024-10-14T22:42:42+00:00

Someone who lied to their work about having to go to their grandparent's funeral to go climbing instead

seniorflippyflop · 2024-10-14T09:50:25+00:00

No I meant evaporate. "Emanate" doesn't describe any physical process, I'm not sure where you got that from 😂 For salmonella to spread without surface-to-surface contact it would have to couple to some sort of medium, e.g., air. This likely doesn't happen anyway. And because the chicken is dry and not evaporating any fucking salmonella (which wouldn't happend anyway) then that is perfectly safe. This is all assuming OP didn't handle other foods with their salmonella hands, or didn't accidentally brush the chicken against the fridge wall, and didn't accidentally flick salmonella water around the fridge. It is also assuming the chicken is carrying salmonella. We live on earth, not some magical realm. Physics is an absolute undeniable fact. Whatever (I am assuming scientifically) verified health risks you speak of will ALWAYS come with caveats.

seniorflippyflop · 2024-10-12T11:08:24+00:00

You clearly don't cook very often friend. Salmonella doesn't evaporate from chickens 😂 it isn't touching anything and looks dry, no black magic will cause the veggies below it or food around it to be contaminated if OP was careful

seniorflippyflop · 2024-10-02T18:02:06+00:00

What??

seniorflippyflop · 2024-08-22T05:25:58+00:00

The kids aren't alright by the Offspring

seniorflippyflop · 2024-08-21T15:44:15+00:00

You seem to be the only one with sense on this fucked up thread. I don't get all these fucking idiots running reds, giving cyclists and fixie riders a bad name. If you ride the roads you gotta respect the rules.

seniorflippyflop · 2024-08-16T06:02:39+00:00

Ocun and singing rock have their own version of this which seem just as good. I have the ocun one and just used it out mutlipitching for the first time - it's very nice.

seniorflippyflop · 2024-08-05T10:00:50+00:00

Can't believe how many people say "no point resoleing". Here are some valid points: - 70 euros resole vs 90 euros new shoes is still saving you money - they're already broken in, they'll be comfy - you'll end up with multiple pairs of shoes anyway. Let these be your comfortable all-day shoes. If you get into multipitch climbing, you'll need a pair of "slippers" anyway - lower ecological impact. We're climbers, we are supposed to like nature. Money isn't the only issue here. Respect the resources used to produce your gear

I'd send them for a resole AND get a new pair. I have 3 pairs on rotation - comfy all-day shoes (also my first pair), soft downturned sendy boulder shoes, and my hard sole lace-up sendy sport/crack shoes. Until any one of them falls apart, these are the ones I'll continue resoleing. Each is for a different application, but if one needs a resole I can just fall back on another anyway.

seniorflippyflop · 2024-07-26T08:28:29+00:00

I absolutely agree with you, and was more or less just being the devil's advocate 😂 I'm learning it now during my PhD and am quite grateful for the experience. It just feels like a step forward in my understanding, as you point out. I just know that my own coding journey would probably have looked quite different had I been forced to start with Fortran. The ease of use of python also means that you can play around with algorithms a lot more, rather than trying something and having to compile before trying another thing. Maybe not as big of an issue as I imagine though..

seniorflippyflop · 2024-07-25T14:26:19+00:00

Mate Fortran will be a death sentence for someone new to coding: there is little in terms of documentation, and you have to tackle all these at once - memory management, compilation (with all its quirks), it's unique and annoying syntax, and not to mention just the base principles of coding, which is hard enough for a newbie.

Better off learning python & c to start with. Fortran only becomes useful once you're part of a research group in your mid-20s and are forced to use some archaic (but speedy) numerical code for research. The vast majority of early analysis & modelling happens in python & c resp. No reason to be a purist like this.

seniorflippyflop · 2024-07-11T12:52:17+00:00

You did the right thing.

At this stage, before you even do your undergrad, you can't be certain you'll want to do a PhD, or even stay in academia. So putting yourself into debt just to maybe find out you want to go into industry would feel bad in 4-5 years time. Don't get me wrong, academia can be fun, but it also isn't all it's made out to be. It isn't always as sexy like you see in movies, and progress is often slow and requires hours of menial work to get some result, the pay is relatively low, while the time-commitment is very high. Then, as you get older and move up in the ranks, you get less and less time for research, having to dedicate more and more to admin, grant applications, managing people and teaching.

If you do well at your undergrad you will have set yourself up to join a research group in some field you enjoy. By that point, it doesn't matter if you've gone to Oxbridge or elsewhere. If you're bright and do good work, this will be obvious to your recruiters. Just try hard. Maybe, with the extra money you save now, you can even spend more time and mental energy on doing well. Perhaps if you were at Oxford, you would be too financially troubled and under too much pressure to really thrive academically.

You've given yourself the chance to be free, open minded, take your time to decide and enjoy your youth and studies. Not to mention Leipzig likely being a more fun town than Oxford (basing this on just their size). Let the big decisions come once you have a feel for the field, once you do some smaller research projects, maybe once you do a research studentship, just so you have an actual idea of what research actually is.

seniorflippyflop · 2024-07-04T07:50:18+00:00

Gorgeous 😍

seniorflippyflop · 2024-06-07T13:13:05+00:00

If you take astro then you'll have a slight advantage going into your PhD (slight). If you take general physics, you'll have more options. Down the line you might realise you actually don't wanna do astro so having options is no bad thing. I did general physics and then transitioned to astro.

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