drmikewiser.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist, teaching-track professor (knowledge transmitter), board game and cat enthusiast, teller of Dad jokes, believer that sarcasm doesn't have to be mean or denigrating. Also a "damn greenblooded hobgoblin". I read a lot.
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That would likely have been less effective for me, seeing as I normally went to a place literally across the street from campus. (My teaching contract turned permanent here in Feb 2020, so I honestly might not have had someone else cut my hair since that happened)
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There was a regional library collaborative we were part of (and still sort of are?) but that didn't run everything through Libby. The member libraries just pooled their electronic catalogues. But now it seems that that collaborative has instead moved fully into Libby.
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Also, yes, I know I can buy books, but given that I typically read 80-100 novels a year, that adds up pretty quickly.
I get why doing so isn't appealing appealing for a lot of authors, but I *love* it when I can get, say, the Humble Bundle of all of Scalzi.
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eg I'm one of 22 people waiting for the single copy of one book.
And that's assuming the new system even has access to the books. There's an author I wanted to catch up on who the system recognizes as an author, but has 0 of their published work.
*sigh*
I guess physical books are a thing
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Have you considered being adorably bashful?
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Oh no, not squares!
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The groupies, like the frogurt, are also cursed.
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I am largely ignorant here. I'm just thinking of a lot of standard corporate roles like Receptionist or Accountant or whatnot where the role is going to be doing the same sort of things almost independent of what it is the organization actually does. Where they wouldn't be making those changes.
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Full agree for the safety person perspective.
I guess I don't really get why everyone needs to build a laser themselves if that's what the company makes, though? I work at a university, and there are plenty of people who do important stuff here who shouldn't teach a class or do research.
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I did college in LA. During finals season, we had 24 hour quiet hours, except for Primal Scream from midnight to 12:15am.
One dorm member demonstrated that no matter how loud you think you can be, bagpipes can be louder.
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bsky.app/profile/brut...
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Fine, yes, spherical, but more important: are they perfectly elastic?
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I did enjoy the recentish post summarizing the various incarnations of Trek, where TNG was about nerds overcoming family of origin trauma to find a found family to be giant nerds in, and Voyager about an Assigned Mom Friend At Birth on the worst field trip chaperone experience.
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If I say no, does that mean someone will grant me a quest?
(Tangent: In my first semester as a faculty member, my unit's then-resident Grumpy Old Man said I didn't have enough microbiology wet lab xp to be teaching the intro lab. I'd been working in micro wet labs for 15 years at that point)
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What if, instead, they attempted to steal Krampus?
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Normal is important sometimes.
Mostly in physics problems.
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I have seriously debated buying a lockpicking set just to pick up another skill.
(Look, I already have sword and bow proficiencies, I may as well grab lockpicking too)
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This is ... minor?
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Hence the visiting scenario.
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If you don’t have a sound proof room on hand — maybe you’re visiting a colleague? — find a micro / molecular bio lab and ask where their cold room is. It’s a walk in fridge rather than freezer, but still.
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For someone who doesn't have much in the way of hobbies, maybe something consumable you know he likes but rarely splurges on himself?
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I mean, I assume a lot of the rank and file isn't exactly lying. Lying requires knowing that what you're saying is false. When you have constantly shifting, often contradictory decrees from on high, simply being wrong seems pretty easy.
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I think strength is my dump stat. I should probably avoid being in melee range. While I have stabbed people recreationally, a fencing foil doesn't do a lot of damage. And though I've taken up archery over the past year, I'm only drawing about 40 pounds on my recurve, so not exactly armor piercing
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Now try to figure out door guard always lies and which one always tells the truth.
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I feel like I'm not understanding the term. I thought your dump stat was the really low one because you weren't going to need that. It seems like you're describing highly charismatic people, though, who have low stats elsewhere?
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Since the pandemic began, I've been cutting my own hair. But, society is much more accepting of a dude just running a pair of clippers over his head every so often.
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Nah, Zeus is going to show up and just get to the seducing.
Remember the myth of Ganymede?
Zeus appreciates beauty in all its forms.
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Like, I can drive my car to the mechanic, explain why I brought it in, and then go sit in the corner and read while they figure out what's wrong and fix it. The only part that's uncomfortable is that they have a television playing loudly in the waiting area, but at least it's HGTV and not Fox News.
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I am an introvert who is absolutely happy for other people to be experts at things I am not and pay them to do the things they're good at.
They just don't necessarily need to talk to me while they do them.
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Earth!
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Ahh, you meant the noun form, not the adjective. My mistake.
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Perhaps by deep frying them?
Ooh, or bathing them in liquid nitrogen. Lots of stuff gets brittle when that cold.
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Hello. My understanding is that you are a news organization with a long history in television. Are you aware that this was captured on video from several different angles?
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There is a reason this comic lives on my desktop.
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<A House has entered the chat>
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aJf...
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I believe I am required to respond that rah up there is one of the people running DreamWidth, which forked from Live Journal so has many of the LJ stuff you may be missing.
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I believe you that this is true of most people, and I also believe that a substantial percentage of us who post here regularly are by definition not typical social media users and thus it's not all that unexpected that we are overrepresented in the small minority that actually want chrono.
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The frogurt is also cursed.
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Do they have to actually be worms, or could they just be called worms?
The tube worms at deep sea vents are pretty neat.
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That would be a remarkably fast 5k.
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So, you're implying there are times and/or days when you are not tired?
<takes notes>
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In that brief window where vaccinations were available and we didn't yet know how many people would dig in their heels in opposition to <checks notes> not risking death or disability.
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Now, would her other videos also be in this cinematic universe? Only other one I've seen thus far is Espresso, but I feel like that could tie in here.