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wait is it genuinely irritating to sprinkle in greetings/thanks/you're-welcomes in other languages cuz i do that a lot cuz i like learning new words 🥺

I've gotten 2 skin burns from chemicals with a nitrile glove breakthrough time of <1 second

underfunded undergrad lab classes without heavy duty gloves shouldn't be allowed to use fuming nitric acid >:(

I tried scrambling an egg using the vortexer (it didn't work)

I rarely arrived at the lab before 10am as an undergrad intern. (And usually stayed until 7–8pm because I goofed around too much and it took forever to get all the cells taken care of 🫠)

Flexible schedules are a luxury I miss dearly

we used Macs at my last lab

I hated them because I'm a Linux nerd but at least they were reliable

(I suppose if my research PC ran Linux I'd spend all my time configuring it instead of researching...!)

only a cuntcunt would propose this

I can ID that as a total beaut <3

POCKTOPUS

I love the feathery overlapping shadows a lot

INDOOR PLUMBING

I live in an apartment complex. The thought of having to share an outhouse (more than 1 if lucky) with hundreds of strangers TERRIFIES ME. And/or use chamberpots. FUCK NO

A BLESSED ETERNAL AFTERLIFE OF BLISS FOR ALL HUMANS WHO CONTRIBUTED TO INDOOR PLUMBING SCIENCE 😩

probably leeches

my guess is a ruler was used but it was placed haphazardly each time

fuck i haven't fed my eyrie in like 14 years 💀

putting a whole new modern spin on the "gay bomb"

them motherfuckers down the street got 🅱️ones in they shit!

ugh everyone knows that babies don't always contain asbestos, just a lot of geological baby deposits are adjacent to asbestos and it contaminates the mined product

found the escalator engineer

but I am impatient and also I hate escalators and want to spend as little time on them as possible :[

stand on the right of the escalator, walk on the left, or go to fucking jail

(reversed in countries where they drive on the left)

also no single wide escalators. (MTA, cut that shit out!)

I lol'd

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> be me
> going thorough extremely rough time in my life, just trying to keep it together day by day
> friend across town offers to have me over for the night so I can shower, do laundry, have a meal with him and catch up
> nocar.jpg
> waiting at bus stop
> random guy in an anime tshirt and fedora is staring at me, incrementally stepping closer
> pleasejustleavemealone.avi
> he suddenly lunges toward me while screaming something about energy weapons
> fuckthis.ogg
> begin sprinting for previous bus stop, maybe i can get on the back of the bus and he won't notice me when he gets on
> fucking schizos

Technology Connections: REAL SHIT
Technology Connextras: I sleep

In addition to other reasons listed in replies, there's a fair bit of bacteria that excrete antifungal compounds into their environment so that they can colonize it more effectively than the mold.

There are viruses that attack fungi, too.

Any environment that hasn't been sterilized by some means is a constant microbial warzone between bacteria, fungi, algae, archea, viruses, etc. with the current winners being determined by how favorable the conditions (moisture, pH, toxin concentration, etc.) are to each species.

how I feel when I briefly don't hate my appearance but remember I'm still ✨hideous on the inside✨

hello fellow Arcticons / black background enjoyer :]

crispy eggplant semolina torta from Tortaria NYC

legit the best goddamn sandwich i've ever had

I'm 100% certain I could manage to be sad with a million dollars, lol

(mainly because it's not enough money to do anything significant against climate change)

i could die happy

I'm actually surprised one didn't exist yet

I am both disappointed and unsurprised

Could be one batch or many. A "batch" means different things in different food industry contexts and has more to do with ingredient tracking than production timespan

any kind of hooded mysterious secret society or cult-like costume resembles the KKK costume to us

They probably do. Though, food industry metal detectors have to regularly be calibrated with check wands: plastic bars with very small embedded metal fragments designed to mimic possible contaminants like brush wire, oven conveyor pieces, etc.

When I was QA at a food plant that used them, there were numerous problems with the metal detectors.

1. Line operators were haphazardly trained on calibration and how fucking important it is to do it correctly and on time. Lots of operators rushed or skipped calibration and falsified the logs. The fact they were rushed, overworked, and underpaid didn't help.
2. The detectors had a high false-positive rate, leading to a "oh it's probably nothing" attitude.
3. Management didn't want to spend ANY money on maintenance and upgrades that would have prevented metal contamination or decreased detection errors.

To this day I still have a lot of anxiety eating factory food because of the nightmares I witnessed at that place...

I got VERY worried until I saw the "LODGE" sign

recently became lactose intolerant (and less recently became disgusted with the dairy industry in my country) so I too would be excited about non dairy chocolate oranges

(though heavy metal contamination of many cocoa brands scares me too...)

I thought I was the only one who could fall asleep to the anti-soothing voice of Henry Zebrowski & company, lol