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Encephalotrocity

@ Cephalotrocity @biglemmowski.win

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Is this thing on?

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  • You could make the same argument about any experimental medical intervention in a child’s life

    Yup, and there's even ethics review boards convened solely to analyze that argument with the particulars of a case and rule whether the treatment is okay to go ahead. This guy played god without approval from this review process and deserved the time served.

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  • We can still see the initial intentions as being morally good

    Ah, yes... the pavement of the road to Hell.

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  • To all the commenters saying this guy was a saint for doing what he did, would you say the same thing had the outcome been disastrous? Babies born without HIV, but with constant excruciating pain or mental deficiency?

    He took an extraordinarily reckless and permanently life-altering, for good or bad, risk with children's lives.

    edit: spelling

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  • Are you aware that Blacklight is using Amazon Web Services?

  • If you could change one thing about the TV show you're watching now, what would it be?

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  • I've been noticing a reduction in what's shown lately and I approve. Many shows have them simply start kissing and cut to them getting dressed in the morning. Perfect. Show they've connected physically without unnecessary porn filler.

  • What do you put in first: Teabag or hot water?

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  • Explain to me how lab statistics would help? Then explain how you could generate useful statistics using the extremely non-standardized settings of every unique household in the world?

    Now that the absurdity of wanting statistics is set aside... Microwave caused superheating of water is a well studied and understood phenomenon. There are things that reduce the likelihood, sure: air bubbles created by modern low-flow taps, general impurity of tap water, and scratches in used containers all provide nucleation points and reduce the likelihood of superheating.

    All it takes is jossling a new mug so the air bubbles all float out, with a particularly clean supply of city water (or filtered is a common culprit) and that thing you've been doing for years blows up in your face at 105oC.

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  • Because technically the steam is dissolved in the water above its saturation point, right? If the gas were (say) CO2 instead of steam, wouldn’t “supersaturated” be the correct term?

    If the gas were CO2 instead of steam, CO2 would be the solute, and water the solvent. In that case the term supersaturated would make sense because the solvent contains more solute than it can handle under normal conditions. The steam is not disolved in the water. The microwaved water is unable to form steam in the first place due to a lack of available nucleation sites.

    I thought superheating referred to heating water over 100º by pressurizing it

    That isn't superheating. The boiling point of a given substance naturally varies with pressure. Liquid water at 200oC while pressurized sufficiently isn't superheated. It is just hotter than you expect it to be. That technique can be used to superheat something like water if heated over it's atmospheric boiling temperature while pressurized and then lowering the pressure without agitating it.

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  • That's not what is happening. If you drop a bag into water the whole bag gets wet and seals the air inside causing it to float.

    Slowly lower the bag into the water so the air can escape through the dry top and it'll sink.

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  • Thx Tips. Waiting 15 seconds is no guarantee the water isn't superheated. If you actually want to ensure microwaved water won't erupt put a wooden toothpick or spoon in it while nuking.

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  • It is not simply 'just another method to heat water'. There is a significant difference between microwaving and kettle/stovetop. Microwaving risks superheating resulting in flash boiling causing an explosion of steam and boiling water. This is also why microwaved water has foam appear when inserting anything into it. Bubbles that 'should' have formed didn't and are now doing so at the nucleation points whatever you inserted provided.

    That foam, while an indication the water was close to erupting, is otherwise harmless but ruins the tea/coffee for me and I'm sure others too.

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  • superheated, not supersaturated.

  • Anyone know why americans are relatively unconcerned about dying to totally preventable stuff like disease?

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  • Fuck your grass

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  • Don't forget rusty spoons

  • Measles has spread to where I am at. Other than a mask/Vaccine, what else can help protect against it?

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  • If you are vaccinated properly (2 doses last I checked) you will be fine. Isolate is really your only other option. It's that contagious. Thankfully, as you're old enough to ask here if you do come down with the full illness it'll suck but you'll survive unless you have a compromised immune system.

    Get vaccinated if you haven't and check if you need a booster if you have.

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  • If it's due to LLM is it "human written communication"?

  • What hyped thing did you fall for that you now regret and have to live with?

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  • The Fediverse (turns and exposes bare back)

  • What do people use in place of paper towels/kleenex/napkins?

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  • Rags, Cloth napkins/kerchiefs, farmer's blow when outdoors...

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  • Because it is.

  • What is the etiquette for skipping after-work events?

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