My first Ghibli movie. Will definitely make an effort to go

Literally how I made it through college.

Hoping one day we get a consumer grade domino, but that’s probably a pipe dream.

I am in biotech in the US (currently in infectious disease monitoring, previously in cancer diagnostics). I’m going to assume you are in the US for this answer.

As long as you are willing to live in/near a biotech hub, there will be plenty of opportunities. These cities include Boston, San Fransisco, Denver, or any city that has a well respected research university (Duke, Ohio State, etc). If you choose to stay in academia, that opens up even more locations. There are many thousands of options outside of Monsanto. Depending on the area of the country you pick, you may start out in the 50-80k range, but it won’t take long to make over 100k a year.

Vacuum up economics

Yep. Smart tube on the TV, Firefox + ubo on phone and laptop.

…XcQ, I have to assume it is.

This was my favorite part

“If you can’t articulate what radical gender ideology means, how is the defense secretary going to know what it means?” Reyes asked.

Lynch said he is “loathe to speculate “what Trump meant.

“It’s not like I randomly picked you off the street,” Reyes fired back. “You’re the government’s representative here.”

What I do specifically is called wastewater based epidemiology. While the term has been around for a few decades, it really took off in concordance with COVID. Previous PCR techniques like qPCR are heavily inhibited by co-elutors from wastewater extract. We use digital PCR which is way more resistant to inhibition due to the partitioning. We are using cutting edge technology and our R&D dept is constantly looking into additional targets we can test for. As a company we also do some non-pcr-based wastewater testing (drugs of abuse by LC/MS is a big one).

Additionally we also do next gen sequencing to track the COVID variants in communities.

One of my 2025 goals is to learn to draw well, and I’ve been making slow, steady progress at that. My goals are 2-fold - make quality drawings of furniture for my other new hobby, woodworking - and draw cursed shit that is disturbing to friends and family alike. Here’s a texture study I did yesterday in about an hour.

Water heater repair?

Just make sure the gas if off before you touch it, and maybe don’t light a match right away.

I manage an infectious disease monitoring lab in industry. Pay’s a whole lot better out here, and my team is amazing and self-driven so I can do minimal people managing.

Biohazard might as well be a metroidvania.

We watched The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent last night. Perfectly on par for a Nic Cage movie, but Pedro Pascal is the one who made the movie worth it.

I started with liftoff then moved to connect. Has all the stuff I was used to with RIF.

His response to the 2018 Thai Cave rescue is what made me realize how big of a shit stain on society he is.

At least they aren’t using Access???

This is the way. Just make sure to disable the YouTube app on your phone so links people send you don’t open in the app.

I told a doctor once that I got a “normal amount of headaches”. He asked me how many that was and I told him 1 or 2 a week, to which he responded “the normal amount is 0”.

I was in to see him about migraines.

Been using Connect for over a year and it works great! Free app with easy to use user tagging.