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electroösmotic pumping
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Bill Nye antisemitism, holocaust -
@Alyx oh, great. Wonderful. Maybe later I'll take a look to see if I can find it, if I have the spoons and remember to. Still, another point for "maybe don't treat people who have the good luck to have gotten famous as gods of knowledge and justice"
there aren't many celebrity science people I actually like
maybe none
eh, Stephen Jay Gould seemed cool enough
on Twitter I hashed out what I thought was a clever way to do titrations by spiking the reagent with a marker ion or dye, and then measuring the concentration of that in lieu of measuring exact volume of the titrant solution
then Kara said "why not just track weight instead"
...
ok yeah that is simpler
Undertale, Flowey
think Flowey would like a flower-pot with spider legs on it? I think he might like that a lot
cooking, sauces
wonder if you could use enchilada sauce as a base for a decent pasta sauce
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Thinking about setting up a writefreely account somewhere to miniblog some tech mumbojumbo that doesn't really fit here and could use permalinks and search indexing.
Does anyone around here do this? 
plurality bad stuff
when Kara has one of her numerous deep depressions, it ruins all of our days
except maybe for Chara, who somehow can keep going, but then they get all guilty and blaming themself for the bad times
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Also a million remembered support desk calls:
"But I have Java. I ticked the box saying JavaScript enabled"
"I understand your confusion, but you have Java SCRIPT. Completely different product from Java. Absolutely no connection between the two at all."
"But that doesn't make any sense! Why would two unrelated products have the same name??"
Because Web and because Sun and because Netscape and because moving fast and breaking things from two now-dead companies before that was even a meme.
plurality, Kara
wow uh... Kara's talking about giving up fronting and giving me the job
I don't like it, I dunno if this is good
https://twitter.com/kara_dreamer/status/1143378160504885248?s=20
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Wotan would like to remind you that he was cute before the kitten was even born
(who's Kara's "dad" then? I think she decided it was Sub-Commander Fuyutsuki)
woohoo, Kara's girlfriend got her an Eva-02 model kit, which she is now calling "her mom" because Kara's a weirdo
I also wish Kara hadn't shattered the glass over her phone's camera like a month after getting the phone
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still sore about ethics in tech class, IP bullshit
thinking about how mad we still are about hearing an ethics prof say that if things like music or scientific papers were always free and not a reliable source of profit, then no one would ever bother to make them
the music part of that is bad enough
the science part of that displays an absolutely shocking ignorance about how scientific publishing works
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neg | aggretsuko s2 spoilers
I really didn't like s2 of aggretsuko
so I go to the tag on tumblr to see if there's any new fanart
and it's EXACTLY the same shit as before, but now the fandom seems "split" between Retsuko staying with Tadano, or Tadano & Haida getting together and like...
y'all are incapable of learning aNYTHING from this show??? Let Retsuko be single, it's canon!!
(also why do the fandom take a show about WOMEN!!!!!!!! and INSTANTLY obsess over the only men characters??)
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if you want to hurt my friends who are jewish or POC or LGBTQ
i want to hurt YOU 
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holocaust -, BAD racism - (also a strong curse word but who cares)
this year I had a history teacher who claimed to be at least democratic but constantly referred to "the hispanic problem" and hOO BOY LEMME TELL YOU as a proud member of the "jewish problem" FUCK OFF YA NAZI CUNT
bleh. let's try to get SOMETHING going today
well Discord is borked
time to start working on getting away from Discord I think. wish I had a head for this computer stuff
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One final note – for writers
I've heard the complaint made before that utopian fiction is boring because there's no conflict and that's why dystopian fiction is more interesting. And sure, that's a fair criticism. But replace utopian with eutopian, and that's something altogether different.
To reference Black Panther again (the movie specifically), Wakanda is a good vision of a eutopia. It's a place with fabulous technology, where people live good lives. Their needs are met and, as far as we see, there aren't any systemic problems with poverty or hunger. But Wakanda is not perfect and still contains numerous deep flaws. Those flaws are explored in the story and are the source of every major conflict which happens. At the end of the story, the flaws are still there, but efforts are now being made to address them.
So it's possible to have interesting conflict in a world which isn't a dystopia. If you want to write solarpunk fiction, this kind of eutopia is a good source of inspiration.
