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Inorganic chemist working in food safety. TTRPG nerd and Chicago enthusiast

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Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 11h

Especially with threats to not even give back pay, what's the point of going to work?

Just utter chaos

Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 13h

I guess my question was is it like doing both experiments simultaneously. e.g. it takes a lot longer to get HETCOR so is it like getting a TOCSY for free with a HETCOR, or is it somewhere between the two for acquisition time

I don't know how these things work 😅

Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 13h

Very true. I'm glad Oregon got TROs against deployment from TX, but I'm worried for Chicago

Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 13h

I hope I'm wrong but I don't have many reasons to be optimistic.

Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 13h

Realistically this is likely to look like it has with state troopers in Chicago: keeping protestors out of ICE's way to prevent conflict between the two. Not engaging with ice on behalf of peotestors

Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 16h

What's the time/signal compromise on that? Never ran HETCOR but my impression from classes was it was signal poor. But if it's the exact same as a normal TOCSY and you get extra data that's neat

Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 17h

My undergrad work was on enzymes that require glovebox work (air sensitive) and avoided that ever since 😂

-air sensitive
-light sensitive
-heat sensitive
-cells

For your own sanity only pick one 😂

Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 20h

I've seen this far more often than I'd like...

Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 22h

Iirc that was discussing how opposite chirality bacteria could evade our immune system / antibiotics? If I'm thinking of the same thing as you

Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 23h

I think probably both coexisted for awhile, and then species with one hand got an advantage unrelated to handedness and then it spread from there. So I figure it's random

I'm unaware of any kind of abiotic origin of chirality that otherwise would affect things (maybe I'm just ignorant tho!)

Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 23h

I don't think there "needs" to be a benefit of one over the other. The benefit is that there is one conserved chirality. Its an unstable equilibrium that would converge on one or the other over time, but that doesn't mean there was a "purpose" for the one that won out. Or that's how I think about it

Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 1d

If we don't have enough money to provide for everyone then we did something wrong. Either by not funding veteran care enough or by doing too much war. Realistically both.

Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 1d

Something I clocked immediately was that the report was "a semi automatic firearm" which is literally any legal gun, but they wanted it to sound like a rifle

Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 1d

Almost as if there's a cost to war and we just don't want to acknowledge it, and instead blame the ppl harmed 🤔

Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 1d

More "they're abusing the system with frivolous claims" and then they rhetorically conflate claims for potentially minor conditions with fraud by discussing them interchangeably

Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 1d

Also, maybe, perchance, the general lack of affordable access to healthcare is related to people wanting to use the VA. And maybe stigmatizing seeking help and shaming people trying to get benefits that they're allowed is not appropriate.

Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 1d

That article is dripping with venom. Seems to me like there is more expansion of benefits not that people are abusing it on any wide scale. They keep harping on it being for ppl who can't work due to injury. Which... I don't think is the case ...

Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah that's gonna be a nightmare for sure... Bureaucracy isn't always known to do things that make sense. The sensible thing would be to exempt everyone related but sense is sometimes in short supply.

Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 2d

This is true for a lot of research so I wouldn't be surprised. If national labs had to shut down and restart it would be A Problem™️ (but they're weird as contracted institutions so they don't shut down)

Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 3d

If it makes you feel any better

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Aug 20

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing

There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.

Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 3d

Expansive*

Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 3d

True! The list of conditions is expensive so I encourage people to try, but it's definitely not the same situation as last year

Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 4d

Especially if you have any plans to go to a conference/convention/big gathering! You make yourself and others safe! How's the time so that your protection is up before the holiday season

(Also get your covid jab)

Jennifer Davis @jmd5120.bsky.social · 4d

Shoutout to everyone getting a flu shot this season, reduced risk of serious illness is so great

Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 4d

(an elementary school)

Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 4d

They popped teargas outside a school today in chicagoland. Things aren't great...