Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this.)
Unfortunately actually working in bio/med didnāt go well despite training for it aggressively and working her ass off given that she graduated at the perfect time to compete for entry-level positions with recently laid-off people with 5+ years of experience. Between that and chronic illness in the family will all the associated experience with the failings of our medical system Iām actually pretty sympathetic to the biohackers from a purely ideological perspective, but these people are just begging for a disaster.
Beyond reading through and enthusiastically agreeing with everything you had, she did say that if youāre working on anything consumable or injectable using 3D printed parts at all is going to be a red flag. Your first two pieces of equipment should be an autoclave and a fume hood, at which point youāre better off working with all glass for durability and not melting reasons. Making your work space actually sterile and sufficiently free of contaminants to do any of this jnt be first place is also going to be a pain, require a lot of tape and curtains and the like, and probably not work as well as youād want.
Also even working in a proper university lab with a fume hood and climate controls you still get sufficiently different results that the mk1 eyeball is utterly insufficient for identification. Youāll learn worse than nothing.
I keep having to remind a couple of my friends who got 3D printers for themselves as gifts that 3D printed parts arenāt ever food safe, much less whatever standardās required to make safe injectables. specifically, bacteria likes to hide inside the layer lines on FDM parts, and resin parts are made of a material that shouldnāt be ingested or introduced into your bloodstream
on chemistry side, i guess you can wing it a bit and not strictly require fume hood in low population density area. not having rotovap, at best with appendages (chiller + chemical resistant vacuum pump, aspirator gives limited capability) makes all but simplest syntheses deeply unserious to impossible especially if you want to do some analysis later. especially if itās IR and melting point because solvents fuck up both