Deconceptualist

u/Deconceptualist@leminal.space
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Don't give Nintendo your money. As a company they have nothing but contempt for gamer freedoms. Yes I understand they playtest the fuck out of their titles so they're genuinely bug-free and frictionless, but as a former fanboy that doesn't give them the right to rip off customers and overcharge for everything and make more stupid walled gardens to hold you captive.

on Poetry · c/science_memes · 10 pts · 3d

Oh we can spoil it further.

Roses aren't inherently any color. Color is a perceptual phenomenon created in your mind based on which cone cells are triggered in what quantity and how your brain interprets the signal. If you're red-green colorblind, they might legitimately appear grey in normal sunlight.

Also, at least where I live (and with normal vision and sunlight conditions), violets appear majority white, sometimes yellow, and once in a while actually violet -- but never what I'd call blue 🤷

Which one do you think is best for folks who never use voice chat? I run a discord server for my friend group but we really just post text plus funny images and videos. I'd like to migrate away from this corporate nonsense.

Better IRL event features would be extra nice to have but I'm not that picky.

Burners are definitely still used in chemistry, but primarily in teaching labs and other situations when you don't require fine precision and just need to bring a solution to a boil, e.g. at the bottom of a distillation column.

But yeah reusable tools are generally sterilized in an autoclave or with UV. Especially something like a quartz cuvette that you wouldn't want soot on.

I worked for a university chemistry department for most of a decade and never heard this nuttiness. Sure of course the flame itself can quickly sterilize a small metal spatula or glass stirring rod when held over it. But definitely no effect on any other things in the room (like the air or bench surfaces?!) that aren't literally heated to a few hundred degrees.

Great Lakes rust belt. Okay well maybe rent is actually $2200 and utilities are $450, but the others aren't too far off if you put in the work to find deals. So maybe those figures were circa 2009. That only leaves you what, $1k in debt each month with zero spending money? Not so bad for one of the most affordable major urbanized regions, right? /s