fermionsnotbosons

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[–] fermionsnotbosons@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

Are you Larry David?

[–] fermionsnotbosons@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

I know of a hospital where the local university sends tracers with F-18 for PET scans in much the same way. Half-life of 110 minutes.

[–] fermionsnotbosons@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

American Giant. Expensive, but they have a great warranty and the craftsmanship is top notch.

[–] fermionsnotbosons@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Rod Farva level of stupid.

[–] fermionsnotbosons@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Good. If the regents and their lackeys had their way, everyone at the UC would be working for the military industrial complex and the executive leadership would keep raking in their bloated, obscene salaries.

The faculty and students make the university, and without them it's just another grift. I don't know if this charge will have an effect, but it must be tried.

[–] fermionsnotbosons@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Women are not really relevant to what the actives are trying to do so they are obviously not bringing them up at convention or not this video helped me understand why an elementary schooler might actual know what we find a new leak in our ceiling and we also need to secure a cat sitter to the firehose of content that a massive social media platform brings.

[–] fermionsnotbosons@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Requires an acid catalyst for the reaction to actually proceed, but yeah, could definitely ruin your day - although a lungful of chlorine gas is nothing to sneeze at either.

[–] fermionsnotbosons@lemmy.ml 30 points 3 months ago (9 children)

According to the story I heard as to the origin of the "no liquids over X amount" rule, years ago there was a terrorist that tried to smuggle hydrogen peroxide and acetone - which can be used to rather easily synthesize triacetone triperoxide (TATP, a highly sensitive explosive) - onto a plane in plastic toiletry bottles. They got caught and foiled somehow, and then the TSA started restricting liquids on planes. This was in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, if I recall correctly.

And I happen to know, from a reliable source, of someone who accidentally made TATP in a rotary evaporator in an academic lab. So it seems plausible.

Not that the rule is actually effective prevention against similar attacks, nor that the TSA even knows what the reason is behind what they do at this point, haha. I just thought it was an interesting story.

[–] fermionsnotbosons@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No postage needed in California, nor Massachusetts if I recall correctly. Does your state really make you find a stamp to vote in 2024? That sucks, sorry to hear that.

[–] fermionsnotbosons@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Dumb. Acting like the good cop to Trump's bad cop routine is turning tons of people off. "You'd better cooperate with me now or I'll have to bring my associate in here, and he won't be so nice!"

Supposedly Harris told a representative of the uncommitted voting bloc from the Dem primaries that she was down to meet to discuss an arms embargo on Israel, but I wouldn't hold my breath. She needs to be more forthright about her stance, because the subtextual indications of being flexible on this and her hypothetical empathy for Palestinians I keep hearing about (but not really seeing in any meaningful way) are not cutting it anymore.

[–] fermionsnotbosons@lemmy.ml 45 points 3 months ago

I would also like to see a similar graph for mid-term elections. Do the winners even get 10% of the eligible votes?

[–] fermionsnotbosons@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Let's go! When the workers can't even afford an apartment, much less a day at Disneyland for them and their families, you know they're in a bad spot. I hope they do strike and hold Disney accountable for this ridiculous exploitation.

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