Look, all you have to do is memorize a couple thousand pages of reagents and their products. It’s easy, bro. Don’t even think about all the pressure/temperature/volume/math-like-Le-Chatelier’s-Principle stuff, that’s physics, bro.

Do we get to use the 'ole stick trick, mistah?

It’s prolific, for certain. I have been reading research papers for a laboratory class (3000 level) that are written over the entire semester with a group. They contain errors so horrific that I don’t understand how the student passed any writing class. There were entire paragraphs without a single complete sentence, and others where another paper was cited without any connection to what was being said.

I’m not joking when I say that our response at the academic/instructional level during the COVID pandemic has ruined the intellect of a segment of the population. Combine that with the push I saw ten years ago while working in lower grades to pass students to the next grade regardless of their capabilities and the greed of colleges to get those first year students, as Maggoty mentions, and it’s a perfect storm.

I think it was a five month wait to see if I had cancer. Luckily it wasn’t a bad one, eh?

I think you might be wrong there. How much conversation was happening a week ago about actually killing rich folks? I saw it occasionally here on lemmy in the form of ‘eat the rich.’ Out in my meatspace conversations though? Never. There might have been a grumble once a year, or they might agree with a statement about the elite political and financial class not caring about harm done to anyone else. In the last few days, even my normiest of normal friends has been talking about it, even if not directly. Most of the comments aren’t putting the rich in a positive light either.

This event has sparked a great deal of thought about death and taxes.

Frankly, we should move on from the mitochondria and start talking about the immune system. I want pre-schoolers to know about the interleukins, goddamnit! Let the children in first grade recite a list of adjuvants! And somebody shootshoo away vaccine deniers!

'Tis a house of power, milord.

Ideally you would set the oil companies against the car companies. Electric cars are a bandaid on a bleeding stump. We need mass transportation and efficient cities rather than suburbs. Busses, trains, and efficient last mile solvers like bikes are the goal.

Are there even five evil ceos out there? Come on, be real.

Bah! I know what they really meant with those wordless songs! I’ve listened to enough Für Elise!

The one word at a time thing is a way to demand more of your attention. It’s just a side path of the old advertising stick where words would ‘pop’ in weird ways. See this video for an example.

I certainly hope not; he just gave you the book for free.

Ah, what a great opening scene. I was split between horror and laughter.

Just don’t mention the four winds shotgun, and we’ll make it through these difficult times together.

You were able to be distracted by girls? Fucking nerd. I wish I had gotten my nose out of the books long enough to be distracted.

You’re off by a factor of 10: https://en.as.com/latest_news/what-was-brian-thompsons-net-worth-unitedhealthgroup-ceo-killed-in-manhattan-n/

I more meant to laugh at the hilarity of them having a misspelled word. Quick! We must test this more! Someone else get a comment removed by posting relatively innocuous statements!

I had a doctor straight-faced tell an entire class of college students about it, and how it was a good thing. This was within the last 15 years. I would bet it is still far more common we’d want to imagine.

I get it, but the joke was right there and I had to take the swing.

Huh. Tax stamps must have really changed. It used to be a 7 month wait, minimum, when I was dealing with them.