A cranky biologist who means well. My hobbies include long walks off short piers and anything science related.

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Cake day: June 25th, 2023

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  • meyotch@slrpnk.nettomemes@lemmy.worldShowing Up Is 90%
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    1 month ago

    What keeps me going is knowing that the fear of having their wealth taken absolutely destroys their happiness. There are so many invisible prosperous and successful people WHO KNEW WHEN TO QUIT and go fishing.

    The sad monsters who won’t have the epiphany they can easily afford to indulge need intervention for their sake and ours.



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    2 months ago

    I helped maintain a dermestid beetle colony that was used by a natural history museum to prep specimens for display.

    They are surprisingly easy to care for. It was just a large wooden box full of ripped up paper egg cartons. Drop a nice head in there and mist the cardboard with some water. Soon you have a nice clean skull. When not using it, just mist the cardboard once a week. The beetles just hang out between feedings.

    For science purposes only, folks









  • I solved this problem for life by going to my 10 year reunion (a mostly Mormon town). I only went because I happened to be on a motorcycle trip in the region with a girlfriend, a certified Freaky-Chick™️.

    I had my own bike, but chose to ride on the back of hers to add extra confusion.

    Just to be sure I was not included any more, I loudly proposed we wait at least 25 years for another when the choices presented were 5 or 10 years for the next one.







  • They used to give more feedback inadvertently, loud floopy drives, modem noises, all that. Then they got earily quiet and still.

    Then Apple spent many millions restoring haptic feedback to their trackpad to create the illusion it was still mechanical when it is not.

    I leave the conclusion here as an exercise for the reader.