John Trant

That's a particularly stupid fairy tale.

"If"

I think that this is all bullshit, but IF it was true, I think Iran would have a nuke. (Not saying they aren't trying, i would in their place, but I think this claim will hold up as well as Saddam's WMDs).

Considering the Iranian capabilities, and the likely location and "hardness" of any "nuke production facilities" (considering a response to last years' bombing) and the pattern of the initial bombing, would it be safe to say that if Iran was 3 days from getting a nuke...that it now has a nuke?

They needed that money for Alaskan crab.

We make nasal sprays in our lab (like we have the bottles and everything!).

I did not do well on this test.

To be fair...it feels like marketing material for a particular project rather than CHEMISTRY of nasal sprays.

Then in 1980 we decided that this was the status quo now, and it would be ok to give money back to the ultra rich. And of course, that is resulting in a return to the original conditions of the past 4000 years.

I can't believe people have now spent 40 years VOTING for their own immiseration.

I think Capital never forgave the loss of power when labour got more in the postwar period. For most of human history, almost all of civilization, the rich had everything and everyone else had next to nothing.

For 35 or so years, we decided enough was enough, and created wealth for all.

And these fuckers are going to tank the global economy doing this shit. That's probably baked in now. Just so the oligarchs can buy more of everyone cheap while it all goes down, and come out even stronger at the end. This war is terrorism against the world.

No one is enjoying the fascist on fascist violence as it is the non-fascist peoples of Israel, Iran, and the Gulf that are suffering.

If we stuck the Trump admin, the Israeli cabinet, and the Governing council of Iran on a small island with sticks to "discuss"...the world would be better.

Ant-fascists of the world can agree that the Iranian regime is fascist, the Netanyahu government is fascist, and the Trump government is fascist, and the Gulf governments are all police states.

On the other hand, over the years, I've met way more people who are Anasole than people named An(n)elines.

But not the answer.

Fats? Oils?

To be fair, I posted that BEFORE you ditched (correctly) about Reagan. Its a thing we do around here regularly, Folks.

Thatcherite neoliberalism promised that IF ONLY we cut taxes and slowed "wasteful" social spending we would unleash economic growth. Instead wages stagnated and the rich grifters made off with more and more money. So. How about we flip that back? This hasn't worked for 40 years. Try something else?

So a mini- Kruller then, right?

IPOH-- International Pancake of House!

I once offered Entropy a great agreement.

It scattered the pages everywhere.

Entropy is the ultimate jerk.

Obviously yes.

Agreeing with @lawprofblawg.bsky.social.

If 80% of your PhD could have been done by AI in weeks...I think your institution might want that degree back. 'Cause someone dropped the ball.

GOP Congressman Says ‘Muslims Don’t Belong In American Society’ Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee also called it “a lie” that diverse groups of people can respectfully engage with each other.

Diverse groups of people have no trouble respectfully engaging with one another. I see it all the time. It's the best of humanity.

Small-minded assholish bigots, however, have trouble with respect for anyone, and don't deserve our respect or consideration. He's taking a very anti-Christian stand.

But the technique is perhaps perfect for many things and shouldnt be lost in the noise. So it deserves its own paper.

End t-Rant.

Maybe that stuff is exactly what someone else needs, and so we will get it out. I am a bad judge of what is important. And to bring this back around, that means that often the application we are using a technique for will like not be cutting edge/best in class for long.

But the paper wasn't the point. It's just a byproduct of solving a problem...partially. But even in this we learnt a lot. Protein aggregation kinetics are really sensitive to secondary metabolite identity. Different aprotic solvents find different times for maximal extraction without degradation.

So we'll publish. Its patented and the products will be rolling out, but it would be good to show how to do this with other natural extracts.

So a extremely inexpensive free flowing powder that freely dissolves with an all-mushroom clean label and reliable measured levels of the supposed actives is useful and...novel. And frankly will be used by more people than our cool C-H activation methods.

But, walk into your nearest Health food store and look at all the snake oil mushroom products that dont contain mushrooms (or at least not the stated species); or try to use them and dissolve them in liquid and look at the brown gunge that never dissolves.

For instance, we are finishing a half dozen separate reports about mushroom nutraceutical formulation. Is it scientifically super important in that it changes our understanding of the universe? No.

So yeah, I never learnt that papers were important. Good. I learnt that learning new things and asking big questions is important. And that our stuff needs to matter.

Look, I'm a lucky SOB. I got a job by just doing good science and not worrying about papers like some freakin' idiot savant. I stumbled into a job by luck, and never had been trained to chase papers. He'll, I worked for Hudlicky who despised publishing in general and what it was doing to integrity.