Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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July 4, Hawaii, Independence
Imagine a Native American community who had a Disneyland-like resort built over their villages and ancestor's graves, the people made to do bastardizations of their sacred dances, wear mock 'sexy feather headresses' and entertain the rich tourists for starvation wages, 12 hours a day 7 days a week, living sardine-packed 20-to-a-house. And then be arrested for speaking their own language. It'd be an outrage, right? But that is just everyday life, in US-colonized Hawaii
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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The most important 4th of July toot
Where the fuck are my reparations?
@TonicBH boggle? boggle!
salt about "conservatives"
@kelerak fascists, I mean "conservatives", think the Constitution is like three paragraphs long and mostly about guns and states rights
4 July
(and yeah, the real independence day was the second of July)
4 July
hey how we all gonna celebrate the anniversary of two days after a bunch of colonial landowners formally declared that they were gonna go on plundering America without giving their king a cut of the proceeds
spectroscopy, open science
@JigmeDatse that's where an "internal standard" comes in. you spike the sample with a known amount of some element that isn't one that you are trying to analyze, but whose emission lines show up in the spectrum and can be used as reference lines
hm, kinda wonder if other related compounds would also work. like, naphthoquinones (make one out of menadione, haha--the Vitamin K3 electrode!)
wanna try to make some p-benzoquinone, and some chloranil (that's tetrachloro-p-benzoquinone, and it's the end result of vigorous active chlorine oxidation of a lot of aromatic precursors)
you can make pH electrodes that exploit the redox couple between quinones and their corresponding hydroquinone, q.v. "quinhydrone electrode". the parent quinhydrone electrode starts degrading in high pHs because hydroquinone is soluble in alkali, but the chloranil counterpart should be better
spectroscopy, open science
@JigmeDatse holy shit! well...you might be right, but you could _probably_ get some quantitative results with this simple method, although it'd take a bit of cleverness. you'd need to make use an "internal standard", probably
but it's tempting to see if such a simple means could be used to get simple metals analyses, looking at emission lines
thanks for the tip! 👍
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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spectroscopy, open science
@Alyx we got:
https://publiclab.org/wiki/papercraft-spectrometer
and:
https://spectralworkbench.org/
Shared with us.
I think that a dedicated scanner probably gives "better" results. And the question is whether the results you are looking for justify it.
has anyone ever tried ring-opening olefin metathesis polymerization with terpenes? there's some work on making useful polymers from limonenes etc. that I've seen but going through the radical polymerization route with, like, aluminum alkyls and stuff like that
someone worked out a solvent extraction method for _lithium_?! of course it uses some strange bespoke ligand, a substituted pyrazolone (so think, like, antipyrine only fancier) *and* a phosphate ester (which tend to be useful in metal ion extractions, cf. how actinides can be fractionated with tributyl phosphate extraction)
fwiw I was thinking of how solvent-extraction methods could be good for analytical techniques using my shiny new spectrophotometer
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0039914087800954
@wigglytuffitout you know this story about Harrison Ford?
https://myoldpseudonym.tumblr.com/post/181884588024/like-im-not-even-surprised-screenshot-of-a
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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listen. we all know, deep within our hearts, that leia organa is the woman that, in another destiny, would be the most terrifying PTA president any world has ever seen.
and that luke skywalker is definitely the one who thinks his incense totally covers up the weed smell but in fact it just smells like incense and also weed.
han's the one growing the weed.
or rather he thinks he did, chewie goes out there every night to actually do the horticulture bc he's the one good at it, but doesn't tell
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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Realising we haven't really added much to our music library since 2016
Throw me a good album, friendos
I will listen to it
@undyne haha! well I figure monsters can look like whatever makes the most sense to them. like Crystal Gems, heh
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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@Alyx I like the headcanon, it probably works a lot better than what I actually had. on the other hand, it's probably a lot harder to make a fin do both "athletic ponytail that won't bother me", "punk as fuck mohawk", and "long un-gelled mohawk that falls over my ex-eye so I look slightly less like a pirate knight halloween costume from the dump"
