“It’s just always exciting! That amazing moment when twelve tonnes of metal leaves the earth… and no-one knows why!”

“Yes, we do.”

“Yeah, but, you know, not really. I mean, we know you need wings, and engines, and a sticky-up bit on the end for some reason, but it’s not like we actually know why a plane stays in the air.”

“No. No, Arthur, we really do! We- we do, we do know that!”

hell yeah

LXDE/LXQT because I grew up using potato computers and now I can’t stand it if my DE uses more than 2% of my hardware resources

though I am currently using KDE because for fuck knows what reason, Kubuntu is the only prepackaged Linux I’ve been able to get to boot on my weird Samsung laptop and I haven’t bothered to gut KDE and replace it with LXQT yet

unless the big block of text is interesting, in which case I will not stop reading it 💀

I would gladly decorate with a real skeleton as they’re biodegradable non-petroleum products but my mom said I’m not allowed

I vaguely remember from my Dr. Who phase one of the doctors confirming he did get an Earth M.D. at some point

decaffeinating likely removes a few flavor compounds inevitably, but in my semi coffee snob experience I’ve had plenty of flavorful decaf espresso

decaf! it has saved my entire cardiac system lol

can’t wait for the absolutely bonkers technique arms race between corporate facial recognition tech devs and makeup artist cyberpunks

that is a high fantasy wizard ass sounding name for a plumbing part

would be an injectable radiation therapy or a radiotracer for a PET or SPECT scan. afaik radioactive tracers aren’t used in MRI or regular CT scanning

I’ve gotten 2 skin burns from chemicals with a nitrile glove breakthrough time of <1 second

underfunded undergrad lab classes without heavy duty gloves shouldn’t be allowed to use fuming nitric acid >:(

I tried scrambling an egg using the vortexer (it didn’t work)

I rarely arrived at the lab before 10am as an undergrad intern. (And usually stayed until 7–8pm because I goofed around too much and it took forever to get all the cells taken care of 🫠)

Flexible schedules are a luxury I miss dearly

we used Macs at my last lab

I hated them because I’m a Linux nerd but at least they were reliable

(I suppose if my research PC ran Linux I’d spend all my time configuring it instead of researching…!)

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Could be one batch or many. A “batch” means different things in different food industry contexts and has more to do with ingredient tracking than production timespan

They probably do. Though, food industry metal detectors have to regularly be calibrated with check wands: plastic bars with very small embedded metal fragments designed to mimic possible contaminants like brush wire, oven conveyor pieces, etc.

When I was QA at a food plant that used them, there were numerous problems with the metal detectors.

1. Line operators were haphazardly trained on calibration and how fucking important it is to do it correctly and on time. Lots of operators rushed or skipped calibration and falsified the logs. The fact they were rushed, overworked, and underpaid didn’t help.
2. The detectors had a high false-positive rate, leading to a “oh it’s probably nothing” attitude.
3. Management didn’t want to spend ANY money on maintenance and upgrades that would have prevented metal contamination or decreased detection errors.

To this day I still have a lot of anxiety eating factory food because of the nightmares I witnessed at that place…

Asahi makes the best one I’ve ever tried

delicious, delicious beer-flavored soda water