Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es
multiple monitor handling must still be reported as "woeful"
Kara despises Linux and there's good reasons, but if you wanna hack away at a crappy little program there's nothing better. it _shouldn't_ be more tricky on Windows but it always is
gotta be honest, so far Xubuntu's been pretty boring, which is good
it'd be nice if I could see Windows file shares. like, at all
if a cat tends to seek out warmer parts of the room to sit in, does that count as a form of convection
coulometric analysis is a really cool idea. one I haven't tried yet
the idea is that instead of adding some kind of titrating reagent as a prepared solution and then measuring the volume needed (that's why it's called "volumetric analysis", you're getting a volume measurement as your data point)--
🦄 "datum"
who the fuck uses that word, Mona?! anyway, instead of adding a _volume_, you generate a titrating reagent electrochemically, using a known quantity of electrical charge
wanna start working towards having some general methods of chemical analysis on hand. I have a (bad) buret and a lot of experience with volumetric methods but bleh, I wanna get away from having to do everything by hand. so I think coulometric titrations are the way to go
what is the behavior of a population of cats at thermal equilibrium
rolled a two @kara_dreamer@plural.cafe haha
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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I still like deer. They are precious bleat bleats. It's still Kaylin's fault that I like deer.
gotta cleanse the palate with a bit of Devilman no Uta ;=3
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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Neon Genesis Evangelion, Leliel
@Alyx Riight? Aisling was rewatching the whole thing recently (she's stopped after episode 19), and just like... Leliel wants to help, he's the first one of their kind to reach out across the divide between Lilim and Adam-folk(?) and what does he do, basically gives shinji a therapy session. Little rough around the edges, but again, first time this has ever happened probably.
sheesh how would _I_ measure Planck's constant? I dunno
maybe measure radiation "pressure"?
home steroid hormone monitoring
this has gotta be achievable. tell you what I'm imagining
you prick your finger like you're doing a blood test for glucose, and you just dab the blood on some machine's sensor pad and you get estimates of estradiol and estrone and testosterone and so forth
or, lower-tech, semiquantitative analysis: you get some kind of color reaction and you compare colors to a chart, like you're using a pee strip
how does that strike people?
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Not all cults are religious
Right on. During the past few years, I've been doing a little reading about cults, since I wanted to learn if it was possible to stop one's self from falling for a cult. After I'd learned about the red flags and manipulative tactics of cults, I noticed that a lot of secular organizations use them, just the same. I was so creeped out when I realized that training videos for a minimum wage job have a lot of the red flags of cult indoctrination, making sure that workers stay obedient, fearful, ignorant, and don't unionize for their rights.
there totally has to be some trick that'll allow us to get estradiol valerate injection bottles by the crate
bleh we are terrible at using what Kara calls "liminal times" usefully
Evangelion and mother feels
hah Kara's asking her girlfriend (who is a huuuuge Eva fan) about shopping for an Eva-02 figure as a sort of symbolic representation of our "biological" mom
like...we fucking hated her. there's no two ways about it. because she could never bond with us. we've got ideas about why it happened that way...she was in a lot of pain
but she did try to protect us and teach us as best she could
kinda like Eva-02, really...
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Not all cults are religious
I used to hear the stories of people who’d come out of cults (as typically defined in our media) and think ‘wow, what a unique life experience.’
I now (partly, mostly, or nearly completely) out of heteronormativity, cisnormativity, liberalism, American exceptionalism, capitalism, rationalism, and scientism and that’s just the cults I can think of off the top of my head. So many of us are survivors, it would seem.
pretty good Asuka Langley fanart. (kinda hate the tendency to turn her into total fanwank material, yanno)
https://www.deviantart.com/myth01/art/Soryu-Asuka-Langley-110430108
(I mean, sometimes...web pages do whatever the frig they want don't they, these days)
