obviously use unpaid interns only /s

start with literature search and listen to people who knock down physically impossible ideas, for starters. what are you cooking, at least point to general area

NIST peanut butter is the (analytical) standard, all tests are done with that stuff as a reference (or part of reference). That’s why it’s so expensive, it has to be very consistent

20 years in the future

Georgians and dodgy heat sources, name more iconic duo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lia_radiological_accident

more common than you think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_negative

different dialects can have different rules about their use

https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com

Pacifism is only good for aggressors and cowards

you’re missing the point so hard i’m not even sure where should i begin. thalidomide is synthetic, it didn’t exist before it was made for the first time in lab. there’s no way to tell which one is “right” and which one is “mirrored” this is nonsense. it is completely normal for pharmaceuticals to have different activities depending on enantiomer, sometimes one is weaker and one is stronger but both act at the same receptor/enzyme, sometimes one has one activity and one does something completely different, like slow down breakdown of the other, but most of the time one is active and the other does nothing.

the point of that thing is that maybe, perhaps, lifeforms based on d-aminoacids and l-sugars could evade immune response, and that’s rather speculative. not to mention incomprehensible barriers to making this all work in the first place. d-aminoacids exist in nature, if not all of them, and normal organisms can metabolise them. proteins made out of d-aminoacids degrade slower, but it doesn’t mean that there are no mechanisms to destroy these things. similarly i don’t think it’ll be impossible to generate immune response to wrong chirality bacteria, humans generate antibodies against things like PEG, important thing for antibodies is how external shape of these things looks like and this will be rather unique

These mirror organisms would be dangerous in living and dead form, as they’d be chuck full of mirror proteins and biological molescules, any of which could trigger an environmental disaster if released by accident

where are you getting this from? dead bacteria don’t come back to life

UV or heat, or ethylene oxide and a number of other things still would kill wrong chirality bacteria, these are not prions, where are you people are getting this from

why the fuck would it be mentioned. thalidomide is synthetic, article is about wrong enantiomer of natural compounds working in a living organism that has unnatural chirality. that teratogenic effect of thalidomide was figured out and is now used in anticancer treatments. it’s a tool, and if you use it right it can be useful. that thing in article is highly speculative as of now and making any component would be hideously expensive anyway

well it’s still not broken down in environment so it doesn’t accumulate in people but it accumulates in seawater in general, so it’s probably not good even if it’s not very toxic

main source appears to be decomposition of fluorinated refrigerants, not breakdown of pesticides

TFA is not usually considered PFAS because while it technically is, it doesn’t accumulate and doesn’t exhibit the kinds of toxicity that longer-chain PFAS do, like endocrine disruption https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36800005/

i think you have it backwards, jet fuel and diesel are easier to make and gasoline requires heavier, more energy-intensive processing (like reforming or cracking). jet fuel up to fuel oils are just desulfurized distillates

but you can make it work with either, it just means yield is smaller. rearranging refinery so that it can take different source of crude is a long and expensive process tho

it looks like they do refine it, just that petroleum products are counted in petroleum exports. these then are sold everywhere, esp to countries that don’t have refineries https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-products/imports-and-exports.php

so crude is imported but propane, diesel and greases exported. some crude is exported to friendly countries that have no oil but have well developed chemical industries, like south korea or netherlands

the crude you are exporting is not the same kind of crude that you’re importing, and depending on what refineries take they can make different products with more or less problems

that’s just the old prime minister kept in place so that whatever underfunded state apparatus was there keeps running, to not worsen humanitarian situation. they don’t have anything agreed last time i’ve checked

They aren’t even done combing countryside from SAA stragglers, nevermind having any kind of coalition deal by now

(literally writing this from lab) i’m not calling him a techbro because i have some kind of disdain for tech workers, i’m calling him a techbro because he’s chasing unviable or harmful ideas or tech from old scifi that his cult (or at least was influenced by ideas typically associated with that cult) adopted as a part of doctrine. things like cryonics, some sketchy supplements that are supposed to give extreme life extension, or AI and quantum computing (because they think simulation = actual thing, and they hope to achieve immortality with AI). you might start to think that i’m batshit crazy just by explaining it, but i assure you it’s them, and these people will be part of american government really soon. start there https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/LessWrong

in no place i’m saying “technology bad”, i’m saying there’s plenty of harmful tech being pushed for profit and Luigi went full in in that sector. other than healthcare, that is