space_gecko

joined 1 year ago
[–] space_gecko@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

When I graduated college, I was interviewing with the charter school that my mom works at. They were looking for ANYBODY with a degree in physics. It didn't matter that I wasn't a licensed educator, it didn't matter that all I had was a Bachelor's degree. They were offering an annual salary of $42,000 per year.

Two years later, I'm making over 4x that amount, annually, as a software engineer.

I really would love to teach, because I love science and I love teaching. But I love financial stability and a good work/life balance wayyy more.

[–] space_gecko@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago

Pilot: Mayday mayday mayday, we've had an engine out

Tower: Is it a full or partial engine out?

Pilot: Partially out of the cowling

[–] space_gecko@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago (12 children)

Get a little portable bidet. They're not ideal, but it sure beats the awful toilet paper in public bathrooms.

[–] space_gecko@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

While others grow a beard because we've lost everything on top and it's at least a consolation prize.

[–] space_gecko@lemmy.world 68 points 10 months ago (2 children)

To be fair, allowing felons to run for office means that a leader's political enemies can't be charged with phony crimes in order to prevent them from running for office. It's a safeguard against authoritarianism.

[–] space_gecko@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I used to think there was no such thing as a stupid question. You have now changed my mind.

[–] space_gecko@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Helaman Halls at BYU. A lot of the student housing had fun post-it art or a variety of national flags in the windows, at least as of a few years ago.

[–] space_gecko@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yup.

I work for "medium pharma". We spend between 1 and 5 dollars per experiment (depending on the cell type). We run close to 2 MILLION experiments every week. We are still years away from any of those experiments yielding a safe compound that can move on to human trials, assuming we don't run out of money first.

Targeting drugs for rare diseases won't be profitable until we achieve proper high-throughput experimentation, analysis, and somehow streamline the FDA approval process. The government needs to fund academic research on these diseases, but no university lab can match the kind of experiment production that we're already doing in industry.

[–] space_gecko@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Not yet

Ignites lightsaber

 
[–] space_gecko@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Howdy neighbor. Things are pretty bad up here in SLC too. I'm just gonna keep renting until it all comes down, or the lake dries up.

[–] space_gecko@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I have absolutely no idea what they mean by conservative/progressive movie. I too would like to know, because I'm utterly baffled.

[–] space_gecko@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

"Liquidation" sounds like it's just another way to say "sunken"

 
 
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