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  • And the people voted for him (or didn't bother to vote) anyway. America as a whole deserves the shit that we've brought down on ourselves, which is really too bad considering how the people that are most actively anti-fascist are going to bear the brunt of the consequences.

  • Which is as it should be, as it’s what Conan is.

    too goddamn right. I don't know why I never realized that before.

  • On the other hand, if you have the power to help people and you don't use it, isn't that immoral, too? Especially when the harm you might be doing is merely subverting the free-will of oligarchs and bigots to ensure the physical safety of marginalized groups?

    It's the trolley problem on a larger scale with hypothetical superpowers

  • wouldn’t you use that for evil if you could?

    I wouldn't, but I can see the temptation, even for people that aren't sociopaths.

    I'd like to think that even if I was using that power to go around official channels, it would be in the service of the greater good and I would strive to leave the lower and middle classes better off than when I took office (but of course that could very easily turn into a God Emperor of Dune-situation where I'm trying to keep everyone on the "Golden Path" that only I can see, which is of course the danger of any dictator, benevolent or otherwise)

  • It's all just because Americans edit: the majority of Americans have a pathological aversion to metric prefixes

  • chemist: da fuq those ecologists doin' over there?

  • Yeah, I'm gonna need some more of these to surprise my science-y spouse on Friday

  • The burden of good taste is always knowing that nobody you met will ever know what the fuck you're talking about when it comes to music.

  • No worries! I don't think the chain needs to be stiff, just tight. From what I can tell, these are called a chain wrench, and I found a demo video.

    Hope that helps!

  • I'm no mechanic either, but it looks like you can tighten the chain around a stuck cap and then use the red handle as a lever to apply a large amount of force, "unsticking" the stuck cap

  • Man, I just started Man on the Inside by Michael Schur with Ted Danson, and it's pretty good, but it's not The Good Place. Looks like it's time for another rewatch

  • ocan't

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  • Folks, if your boo:

    • Calls their personality quirks "functional groups"
    • Tests you by demanding you elucidate their mechanisms
    • Has unexplainable peak splitting between 0 and 10 ppm

    That's not your boo; that's an organic chemistry

  • Remember when Republicans were whinging about “unelected bureaucrats” and the “shadow government”?

    "Wait, it's all projection?"

    🌍 👨‍🚀 🔫 👨‍🚀

    "Always has been"

  • Is stating the self-evident truth considered a meme now?

  • 12.99 at my tourist town in CA

  • It does get legitimately used both ways. In a chemistry textbook, seeing it written as "unionized" is pretty common, and wiktionary says that the hyphenated form is predominantly used in contexts where it might be confused with "having a union" (which matches with my experience).

    However, I still assert that it's just not a word chemists use that much as there are other, less ambiguous synonyms available.

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  • I'm an AI/comp-sci novice, so forgive me if this is a dumb question, but does running the program locally allow you to better control the information that it trains on? I'm a college chemistry instructor that has to write lots of curriculum, assingments and lab protocols; if I ran deepseeks locally and fed it all my chemistry textbooks and previous syllabi and assignments, would I get better results when asking it to write a lab procedure? And could I then train it to cite specific sources when it does so?

  • Plus, they are amazing as mixers, so you can always make them alcoholic