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Incredible, right?! Telling them you’re moving internationally speeds up account cancelation, but they’ll still keep you on the phone for like ten minutes!

When you cancel your Comcast, telling them you’re moving internationally ends things much faster than saying you’re switching providers.

Part of me agrees with you; part of me is yelling, “Yeah? Many? Name five!” (Admittedly, that’s the American part and it’s kind of an asshole.)

Yeah. Cats are really, really good at making it clear they understand when you’re calling for them and they’re choosing not to respond. I figure it’s fair; there are plenty of people I wouldn’t cross a room to talk to, either

Hold on, shifting paradigm

Kinda wish I’d taken some comparative biology when I had the chance

I interned with a hematologist who was incredibly excited to show me a slide of hairy cell leukemia, the one case he’d seen in his career (like 20 years by then). That was just a microscope slide, I can’t begin to imagine how bad the loss of research samples would be on someone.

The failure was in supplying nitrogen to an array of 16 freezers. Unless samples were split and stored in different arrays without the same coolant source, they’d still have lost everything.

It would be easy enough to create multiple sample sets to be stored that way, but it’d add an extra variable researchers would need to account and test for in their work as well as reducing sample capacity by at least half. A place as mighty and prestigious as the Karolinska Institute probably has a ton of graduate researchers, too, and everybody knows those people just graduate and leave all their shit behind without clearing out old samples.

The whole thing is heartbreaking.

I’m happy that researchers are publishing their data on this, but I wish they’d include discussions of some of the bad faith antics organizations are pulling while pretending to push return-to-office (RTO). This goes way beyond reasserting control over their employees, like the firms owning those buildings and expecting rent from same-site retail businesses that need the higher foot traffic RTO could bring or wanting to do a round of layoffs without paying for severance.

My spouse and I went for it by working with a company called Sealed who did ALL of the legwork and laid out all the money for it. They started by analyzing our energy sources and usage history, home layout, and existing insulation. Then they sent out contractors to do things like re-insulate the attic (because our shit was old and not getting the job done adequately anymore) before actually installing the heat pump.

Repayment of the loan from Sealed is done based on how much our energy efficiency improved over our old furnace and insulation. The bill is pretty low in summer when we keep the house cooled and use a lot of power, but we see much larger bills in winter because of how much our efficiency has improved over past years–we’ve eliminated a lot of our waste there. (Sealed offers a balanced billing option where they average a year’s cost and spread it out over 12 months.)

We’re terrible at being adults and doing adult things like home improvement, so it was fantastic to be able to enlist the help of actual adults who were cool about holding our hands through the entire process of greening up our house!

Let’s do Elsevier next!

Anybody else weirded out by the terrestrial shrimp? Hahaha if they’re on land, do they count as bugs-akin-to-roaches or food-source-like-aquatic shrimp?!

~80% recovery of function and reduction of phantom limb pain. This was one of the most exciting pieces of news I read today!

Parents in the '90s yelled about how their kids shouldn’t be saddled with the stress of the impending climate catastrophe in school.

“Let our kids be kids! They don’t need the stress of adult problems!” they said, AND THEN DID FUCKING NOTHING FOR THE NEXT 30 YEARS.

The link goes to the Volts podcast at www.volts.wtf. Lemmy quirk?

About a pound per hand in American, around 400 g for the American scientists and drug dealers (and everybody else in the world)

You can be short-sighted and wrong, but it’s better to re-examine your beliefs and the way you understand the world. It’s a good thing to grow out of this phase.

Seems weird to me that you think helping marginalized people wouldn’t help everybody. That’s the whole point, finding solutions to problems that work for everyone, not just those in the middle of the bell curve.

As someone with a learning disability, a history of trauma, neurodivergence, and is part of a racial minority, I really don’t give a fuck if the majority are kept quiet for five minutes lol

What this means in this context is considering the viewpoints coming from many different groups–people of different races, religions, disabilities, neurodivergence, etc., so issues that affect men with disabilities, for example, are as important as issues that affect men without disabilities. They don’t get ignored or sidelined in favor of more mainstream conversations.

Article specifies that the 3d printing was done while the plane went through taxi, takeoff, and maneuvers. Hell yeah, that’s cool!