SoleInvictus @ SoleInvictus @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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This is me, exactly. We're leaving the country in the next 6-8 months and can't justify selling it just to buy another car that we'll then sell soon after. In the meantime, I get shit for "being a nazi" despite being a leftist. Good times.

Honestly, I love the car. We haven't had any issues with it, it drives great, the features are nice, and the energy efficiency is top notch. I wish Elno would step down as CEO and/or die so we could take it with us, but I doubt he will.

Why would you do that to this poor man? No one deserves to be saddled with Elon.

Because he's a billionaire. Rules for thee but not for me.

I never tell people I have a PhD. It's rude, plus I don't have one.

Bingo. Just go test drive a vehicle. I test drove a Cybertruck, it was awful, but it costs Tesla the most for a test drive. Maybe slap an inflammatory bumper sticker on it to help others hate Elon as much as you already do.

This has been my issue. I'll order something from a seller and it shows up two days later, delivered by Amazon.

Detergent sheets rock! I've been traveling and need hypoallergenic detergent. I've carried 24 loads worth with practically no added weight to my suitcase and it won't leak everywhere if it gets hit.

I'd take the other half and the detained immigrants - for free! Then I'd hire them all immigration lawyers and split up what's left.

I thought about buying options on TSLA when Musk become president and really regret not doing so.

I'm sorry, but that's just word salad - it doesn't actually make sense. Even if it did, it would still be easily accounted for with control tissue.

Don't you know mRNA vaccines transfected parents with insect DNA?

Administrator of environmental protection agency announces agency no longer protecting environment, will now be simply referred to as the environmental agency.

Fuuuuuck, why did I look it up?

I'm a microbiologist but my grad school work, research, and coursework was very chemistry heavy. There are no "probably does somethings" of significance here: the chemistry of plastic generation is extremely well researched.

Plastic is made of polymerized hydrocarbons, linked up identical tiny units of carbon strands called monomers. Polymerization, the linkage of the monomers into a polymer, requires the use of a catalyst. This is often done with increased heat and pressure to increase the speed of polymerization. Maximum temperatures are around 350°C for certain plastics but are more commonly 140-160°C as higher temperatures can cause the material to break down. Once the desired size of linkage is created, the polymer is capped to keep it from growing further.

Polymerized hydrocarbons degrade, not further polymerize somehow, at high temperatures like 600° C. Saying there's some mysterious, high-heat-driven polymerization is like saying burning wood, which is largely a polymer of glucose called cellulose, somehow creates more cellulose as it burns. The burning is due to the release of the energy contained in the bonds in the wood as they break down and react with oxygen.

Even if the process DID somehow create some plastic, a given mass of brain tissue would be expected to create predictable amounts of this mystery polymer, giving a background measurement that can be subtracted. Again, though, we know how this all works so it's not really a concern.

You can always glob it full of petroleum jelly (I did quantitative fit testing for a time, it really works) but it's gross.

I learned Cuban Spanish. Upon going to Spain, I was told I spoke with the English vocabulary and accent equivalent to a southern yokel from the 1970s.

Was it? We owned a Bug and a Bus when I was a kid. A '69 Bug was my second car as a teenager. There's a reason I can still fix air-cooled engines in my sleep - I had a lot of practice.

In the video: putting them in the freezer for three days will also kill them. After watching that video, I feel itchy everywhere.

I wish you were right, but the rich LOVE a stock fire sale and Trump is giving them one. Berkshire Hathaway has been saving up liquidity specifically in anticipation of a recession. Every time the market dips, the rich end up growing even richer.

"Land of the free"