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Organic Chemist. Beer Lover. Metal Aficionado.

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My yearly plea, daylight savings time should take effect at 4pm on Friday and the day called “early happy hour day” and become a beloved national holiday.

07.03.2026 23:04 👍 210 🔁 51 💬 4 📌 6
Written details of the cuts coming after the midterms

Written details of the cuts coming after the midterms

The Ugly bill hasn’t hit yet.

25.02.2026 10:01 👍 133 🔁 104 💬 7 📌 4
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Mine in this week’s @newyorker.com

23.02.2026 15:05 👍 316 🔁 99 💬 2 📌 8

The destruction of American public health and its replacement with pseudoscience continues.

30.01.2026 02:22 👍 44 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0

I'm begging the media to state this clearly -- we are all in danger now because of the deliberate choices made by Trump's administration and RFK Jr in particular.

When the next major outbreak of a preventable disease strikes, they'll point the finger at other people. But it'll be their disaster.

28.01.2026 14:08 👍 1128 🔁 331 💬 17 📌 3

Based

28.01.2026 16:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The jug does grant enlightenment, of a sort.

27.01.2026 23:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I'm old enough to remember when wealthy people would fly to Costa Rica to get the same or better care at a much lower price. That was way back in *checks notes* oh people still do it because Costa Rica is rated higher than the US and less costly.

16.01.2026 16:34 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Please watch.

16.01.2026 02:21 👍 2107 🔁 824 💬 75 📌 40
15.01.2026 22:55 👍 2530 🔁 818 💬 90 📌 28

So, if I'm following all this correctly, a bunch of internet shitposters who spent years screaming "don't tread on me" and warning about federal agents stomping out people's rights... have been hired as ICE agents to go around breaking into people's homes, kidnapping & shooting them

15.01.2026 23:33 👍 11055 🔁 2614 💬 168 📌 201
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Dissolve My Nobel Prize! Fast! (A True Story) It's 1940. The Nazis have taken Copenhagen, and physicist Niels Bohr has just hours, maybe minutes, to make two Nobel Prize medals disappear.

Longer version with more detail: www.npr.org/sections/kru...

15.01.2026 22:33 👍 59 🔁 20 💬 0 📌 2

Niels Bohr famously dissolved two Nobel Prize medals in aqua regia rather than let fascists have them

www.npr.org/sections/kru...

15.01.2026 21:48 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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Dropkick Murphys' Unveil Anti-ICE Song: "Too Scared to Join the Military, Too Dumb to Be a Cop" Dropkick Murphys are releasing an anti-I.C.E. song, "Citizen I.C.E.," as part of their tour-only split LP with Haywire. Learn more.

Dropkick Murphys are releasing a new song called "Citizen I.C.E."

The lyrics go: "Too scared to join the military/ Too dumb to be a cop."
consequence.net/2026/01/drop...

15.01.2026 18:39 👍 14372 🔁 3838 💬 144 📌 465

Listen viper oil is the good snake oil. Don't listen to anything the asp oil salesman tells you.

11.12.2025 00:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I thought "hard to pronounce" meant it's bad for you?

11.12.2025 00:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I've always thought tungsten is a W element

21.11.2025 22:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, you set up an experiment that would disprove it. If you can't do that, you shut your fucking mouth and learn something.

12.11.2025 23:33 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."

12.11.2025 17:36 👍 733 🔁 102 💬 785 📌 525
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Some Items of Interest to Process R&D Chemists and Engineers

Happy #OPRD Items of Interest Day!
#ChemSky #ChemChat

12.11.2025 21:13 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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How much protein do you really need? What the science says Fitness influencers promote super-high-protein diets, but studies show there’s only so much the body can use.

The baseless protein craze
"You just create an inefficient system where your body gets very good at wasting food protein”
“It’s really frustrating because there isn’t evidence to support the claims that they’re making"
Feature @nature.com
nature.com/articles/d41...

12.11.2025 14:40 👍 165 🔁 47 💬 10 📌 6

Jesus rather famously just gave people fish.

21.10.2025 22:13 👍 453 🔁 13 💬 12 📌 1

Okay, I'm all in for the Blue Jays.
1) AL East representing. Toughest division in MLB
2) Fuck the bigger payroll always.
3) Canada deserves something nice after all the bloviating and assholery they've endured from us these nine months.

Yeah, Cali v. Trump. But Newsom can troll with other stuff.

21.10.2025 03:30 👍 381 🔁 25 💬 27 📌 0

Moon Man is the superior New Glarus beer.

18.10.2025 20:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of David Simon interview 
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

Screenshot of David Simon interview SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

08.10.2025 22:34 👍 2435 🔁 690 💬 17 📌 30
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Disney Didn't Expect What Happened After Jimmy Kimmel's Cancellation - & Is Scrambling To Fix It Now it's scrambling.

scramble you little shits, scramble

19.09.2025 22:45 👍 4931 🔁 917 💬 201 📌 156
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Disney has lost nearly $4 Billion in three days from combined stock price collapse and cancelled subscriptions.

20.09.2025 15:16 👍 7303 🔁 2116 💬 380 📌 1008

Two Hydrogens, TIL

19.09.2025 08:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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NO KINGS South Bay LA · No Kings **California is coming together to form a human chain on Sept 27. Join the chain in the South Bay here: https://www.mobilize.us/indivisiblesouthbayla/event/834049/. View the event overview here: https...

@jimmykimmel.com If you're in town on October 18th, we'd love to have you again at our Torrance rally.

I've heard your calendar has opened up. . .
Sorry, too soon?

www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

19.09.2025 07:01 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

I don't remember seeing any calls for violent retribution after a Minnesota state senator was assassinated, and it would have been nice not to see any today.

10.09.2025 23:49 👍 10577 🔁 2049 💬 94 📌 45