Even free samples?

The italics were almost enough to show the sarcasm. A true believer would’ve used THIS TO SHOW THEIR EMPHASIS.

It’s subtle, so really listen to the lyrics

Edit: Actually, think it’s too close

Don’t forget about the banning of indoor smoking in public places. God the 90’s were a horrible time for that although it was winding down.

Holy shit that’s a great bot!

One Tap Bingo?

There was a paper back in December about a new class of antibiotics being discovered thanks to the use of Deep Learning.

This looks like a decent writeup about it, the paper itself is not open access

This is very welcome as it has been a long time since the last new class of antibiotics was discovered. Here’s a good paper that talks about the timeline of antibiotics

It’s been a little while since I took the AMR course, so I’ll let the papers speak for themselves instead of trying to quiz myself here on Lemmy.

I’ve been around the AMR space for a while, but only as a collaborator. Have helped do some bacterial assemblies and help find methods of detecting ICE. I’m a bioinformatician so I get to jump onto a bunch of different projects.

AMR is scary and not really in the public knowledge of upcoming issues. I think about it every time my son had an infection while he was very young and hope he didn’t get a resistant strain.

He’s had a series of mini-strokes though. We know it because he tweeted that he didn’t have them.

It was just before he drank the poison.

He was just on my favourite podcast as a contestant! It’s a podcast where famous people geek out over things outside their field of work. It’s very refreshing and Yakov was an amazing contestant.

https://maximumfun.org/episodes/go-fact-yourself/ep-139-yakov-smirnoff-salamishah-tillet/

Not really a money saver, but I’ve been buying shampoo and conditioner bars. They often come in cardboard or paper wrapping instead of plastic containers like regular shampoo and conditioners. I enjoy the reduced plastic waste, and they don’t take up as much space in the shower.

Go Fact Yourself is my favorite podcast. It’s a quiz style podcast where two (usually minor) celebrities come on the show and answer questions about 3 topic they choose for themselves that they are an expert in, but outside their field of work.

It’s very interesting to hear these successful people talk about things they’re not really known for, like the music they love, or a movie or sometimes niche topics like marathon running.

Now the really interesting part is they bring on special guests who are experts in the chosen topic to award the points. The guests that they get for this are the real treat of the show. First, you have someone showing off about how much they love a topic, then they get someone really involved to give great in depth details! For instance, someones topic was the Evil Dead movies, and the special guest was Bruce Campbell! He was so awesome to hear talking about the movies. The experts are almost always awesome, from movie directors to the songwriters for Frozen, to book writers on the topic, they’re almost always amazing to listen to.

There are a couple of other segments of the show that are also well done. There’s a “what’s the difference” round that always makes me think. Like, what’s the difference between a graveyard and a cemetery? Or what’s the difference between roasting and baking?

The hosts are great fun too. J. Keith is the master of punny segues, and Helen Hong is a pretty good co-host. All in all, highly recommended!

You need to know where the wooden studs are first because drywall is only easy to punch between the studs.

The stairs in the movie don’t line up either. Always bothered me.

“I’m not going to ask you to remember them all. Mostly because I don’t remember them all. Therefore, for ease of both narrative and our collective sanity, I’m going to name only the more important members of the Crow’s Song. The rest, regardless of gender, I’ll call ‘Doug.’ You’d be surprised how common the name is across worlds. Oh, some spell it ‘Dug’ or ‘Duhg,’ but it’s always around. Regardless of local linguistics, parents eventually start naming their kids Doug. I once spent ten years on a planet where the only sapient life was a group of pancakelike beings that expressed themselves through flatulence. And I kid you not—one was named Doug. Though admittedly it had a very distinctive smell attached when the word was ‘spoken.’'Doug’is the naming equivalent to convergent evolution. And once it arrives, it stays. A linguistic Great Filter; a wakeup call. Once a society reaches peak Doug, it’s time for it to go sit in the corner and think about what it has done.”

• Brandon Sanderson, Tress of the Emerald Sea

Good one!

Not!

If it was good enough for Wayne’s World, it’s good enough for me!

That arm wrestling scene scared the hell out of me. I was way too young for it.

I can recommend “The Realm of the Elderlings” audiobooks. James Langton has a British accent and it’s just wonderful to listen to. He does voices for other characters fairly well too. Great book series too.

Don’t be so cheap, it’s a whole 50% better!