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this is so wrong, do you know how absolutely awful our understanding of RNA biology is and also how our understanding of interacting echelons in biology is still in the neolithic . Do you know how absolutely useless LLMs and AI will be for making progress on this due to a lack of
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34yo coworker who is incredibly nice and hardworking but also single and overweight told me she wants to have kids someday. we literally work in a biology lab, idk who is going to tell her.
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who else has to pretend to be extremely liberal & heartbroken at work tomorrow for your job security.
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SO the man who tried to assassinate Reagan makes an income just painting the same portrait of his cat over and over again and then selling it on ebay for hundreds of dollars. it's a monthly income of $3500. holy #^%* what am I doing with my life
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40yo introduced himself at a gathering as a painter and watched an art bro wax poetic to him about creating & the need to live in the city to feed off the energy for art before he asked whether the 40yo did abstract or realism & the confused 40yo clarified he paints apartments.
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met a young guy who just graduated with a cs degree & can't find a job at all & I asked if he did any side passion projects or leetcode or had a strong opinion on rust or python or javascript & it was a no to all & dude if you can't even fool me, maybe it's not this job market.
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parents who let your children scream continually for 20 minutes straight in public without trying to interfere at all: why.
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9 out of 10 male friends under 35 with a net worth over 2m mention bad tattoos as a reason they're not going to see a girl again for roughly half of their dates.
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TIL there's a couple in California that unironically loves the way their lobotomy turned out and maybe this is the key to happiness
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did you guys know people with shellfish allergies consistently react to ground coffee because all ground coffee has a non-zero amount of ground up cockroaches which cross react with shellfish allergies . anyway that's how my boyfriend convinced me to buy whole bean.
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I've never met someone who goes to therapy regularly who is a good or happy person.
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like literally a pamphlet just to tell these women it's now or never so at least like freeze embryos or get drunk in brazil.
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a few months into dating my high school boyfriend, his mega-lawyer mother pulled me aside & said her obgyn during his pregnancy okayed 1 glass of wine/day so she turned that into half a bottle of wine/day & she always wondered if that or his 45yo dad/her 2nd husband was why he.
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increasingly as I get older, I don't understand how more middle class to wealthy people aren't embarrassed about their non-technical unnecessary jobs . like a barista does more for the world than a lot of people at mckinsey & deloitte and we should tell them.
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they should invent a drug that helps you socialize at parties that isn't alcohol and doesn't make you feel like ground beef the next morning.
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my maternal grandfather was the 5th of 5 kids & his parents couldn't support him in the 1930s so they gave him up to his infertile aunt & uncle thru which he inherited a huge farm. he thought it would be in our family for centuries but his 7 daughters sold it last year for 20m.
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if you're complaining about the mental labor of telling your partner who wants to help what they can do, imagine the mental labor of dealing with you every day.
Tip for men: this is weaponized incompetence. Why are you acting like things are on HER plate and you have no idea what’s going on in your own house?? . You don’t need to “read minds” to know the dishes need to be washed, groceries bought, house vacuumed, etc.
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one time I went to a speed dating type event of just tech ppl & one guy found out I was only making $70k/year at the time & was horrified & exclaimed "we need to get you a job that actually pays you!" after talking to me for only 5 minutes. in my top 10 bizarre life moments.
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I have 2 married friends in Austin that spent $90k on multiple rounds of IVF only to have a severely special needs child from a de novo mutation & they're now struggling to pay all the associated medical bills & IVF should genuinely come with an insurance policy to cover this.
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something I'm slowly coming to terms with is that maybe the old school royal society way of doing science where it's just a hobby of the rich might actually be better because making people's livelihood depend on producing scientific results is neuroethologically doomed.
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guys I had a lab mate who was a 31yo woman who lived in her truck and bailed on me in middle of biochem lab in fall of 2014 for a man in Brazil who she now has three children with. I think you guys are seeing judgment where there is none.
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honest question but why are Australians so much hotter than the British & Irish when they're the same gene pools.
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by far the hottest woman I know is the wife of an (almost) billionaire hedge fund manager who truly looks 25 at 60 and when I asked her her main secret she said she literally never cheats on the healthy diet she set out for herself- not even a sip, not even one day in decades.
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guys this is not a citibike. I don't know if you've been to new york but they have a much much larger frame, dark blue etc. also anyone who uses a silencer is not dumb enough to flee on a CITIBIKE
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men have to be one of my favorite animals on earth- a dude told me to eat the skin part of salmon after my parents raised me not to and for the first time I had zero joint pain in the morning the day after.
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when I was in the 10th grade, an english teacher told us to only experiment with drugs if we didn't actually need them & to never use them as a coping mechanism or to meet emotional needs & I think that advice very much applies to social media & you should only use it if- (1/2).
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a good ml engineer friend wrote the tool that monitored and automated firing amazon warehouse workers based on their productivity and felt so bad afterwards that he quit his job and started volunteering at a nearby hospital but coudn't stop seeing opportunities to automate away.
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I went on one bumble date once with a vegetarian ML engineer on SSRIs who made $300k at google & genuinely thought AI was going to end humanity in the next 5 years and didn't want children due to that and thinking his depression was genetic. anyway it's 5 years later.
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apparently girls on tinder in japan don't even post pictures of themselves, just like food and cute animals and art???? sorry but is there any precedent for a species just choosing to go extinct?.
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in general I've noticed late 20s men underestimate how quickly the novelty of a girl being hot will fade and how tedious listening to astrology will be after that point.
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getting older is essentially realizing a lot of professional interactions are actually just soft blackmail.
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one time a guy on a date pulled out a heat gun and moldable plastic to make me an ad hoc mouth guard retainer so I could stay over because I didn't have my own with me and have quite bad bruxism at night . it actually turned out surprisingly great/dentists are probably overpaid.
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I've dated minimally in my life and hopefully never again and I would fully expect gen z to be absolutely celibate based on how young people treat each other like a gender version of kgb vs cia in dating and only in an emotionally psychotic terrorism way that is not at all hot.
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having dated several more dudes with 45yo dads when they were brought into existence since then- I can definitely say it was the wine . that first relationship where I thought I could ignore intelligence is when I learned it mattered maybe the most & I'm glad I learned young.
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but ever since it has always made me wonder how much of the dark ages were due to women being plastered during their pregnancies.
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everyone horrified that a lot of the NIH is shutting down like what did you think the effect of turning every other seminar into something about equity would be.
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anyway this reminds me of a lot of friends who need a 10x bigger aquatic tank in life.
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one time when I was 8 I offered to turtle sit for the neighbors and I brought over their shoebox sized tank with a dime store turtle the size of a golf ball and my dad was so angry because he knew turtle growth was constrained by their enclosures and immediately brought up a-.
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apparently you can use SNAP on ubereats and I think it may be time for a wakeup call in the west.
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I make sure to ask women their pronouns if I dont like their fashion sense so they know to try harder.
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listening to a conversation on the train and a hot blonde girl won't go out with a guy if he has too many computers & monitors because she just assume they're "a hacker" and doesn't want to "go to jail with them". I love women.
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hello everyone, today I will be risking my job and personally removing and disabling a fire alarm at my company that has been low battery beeping for days and building management refuses to do anything about after three emails. please like this in case twitter becomes my only.
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talked to a md phd who chose his research lab in schizophrenia because of how many friends of his in college at Reed smoked weed everyday and now just regularly text him clinically psychotic copy pasta while living with their parents.
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guys how on earth is the match group in 3.8 billion dollars of debt . like what about running tinder and hinge costs 3.8 billion dollars.
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what's the female version of "ok I guess I'll just join the army and go to war because what other worth do I have". it can't be prostitution . is it teaching . what is it.
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reasons people around me have offed themselves during my lifetime:.-B in Calculus at Tulane.-Rejected by a boy.-Family rejection over house work, Iraq.-didn't want to go to med school.-felt bad for drug dealing.-wanted to go to med school.-math/def should not have gone on SSRIs.
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you spread rumors that we had sex after we went on ONE date & the entirety of SF was under that impression which was humiliating to be made aware of and have to correct. your startup doesn't even work in autocad, get off twitter
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one thing you'll never see online re anxiety is maybe you're actually just in a bad place in life and you will fix the anxiety problem most efficiently not through therapy or medication or an elimination diet but just through fixing whatever the elephant in the room is.
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it's actually wild how many young people are voting for trump rn . as a kid who hit puberty in the absolute height of the anti-bush era this is like witnessing a geomagnetic reversal.
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oh fun fact if you're here, you've already met the partner you should've stayed with.
ok how do i maneuver myself into a situation where i experience at least a little excitement about the prospect of going on a date with somebody? is there something wrong with me.
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am I the only person who didn't know that if you have two children of the same gender with the same partner, there's a 90% chance the third child is going to be the same gender . like five different parents in stem have told me this is an informal fact.
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10x bigger aquatic tank from his basement paleontology lab and set it up and transferred the turtle. three weeks later the turtle almost twice the size and then I returned the turtle in the larger tank to the neighbors who were shocked and checked the markings to make sure it was.
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adults over 40: does the creeping omnipresent feeling that you'll never catch up on everything ever go away.
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yo what the fuck is with couples who get divorced within the first two years of their babies life, lowkey that should be illegal.
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-you already have an infallible irl social support network & then it can just be a fun whatever. I'm not saying log off, I'm just saying building that basic skeleton of people (who would take you to the ER, who give you honest! advice) is worth its weight in polonium (2/2).
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regret to inform you all that when martin shrkreli started bullying biotech executives for never actually having done any benchwork (even though he hasn't) or ever having held a pipette, he actually hit at the absolute heart of dysfunction in the industry.
Heartbreaking: The worst person you know wrote an amazing paper predicting this
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@maiab it was really just the "some day" part that struck me like she said it in a way that made it sound 20 years away- just think people should take concrete steps towards their goals earlier than later. a famous female scientist who was known as the first female to a significant.
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@program_counter idk a lot of men my age don't actually want children and from how a lot (not all) of men treat women as disposable I'm kind of far more happy I have significant savings/exited one of my startups and have no children at 30 rather than the opposite.
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many of the things we do now to set up subsequent generations for success will in fact be futile and funny in light of however the strange future forms. outside of education & money tbh.
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what's your favorite way that you made money illegally in the past. in college the bookstore would buy used books that matched the isbn for half the price they sold them so I just bought them on ebay and amazon for far less and the bookstore gave me ~$60 for every $10 I invested.
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there is not a single weapon that doesn't make an absolutely excellent dog name. think about it.
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regular reminder that if you're doing two hours of cardio every day, actually actually watching what you eat, and are still 50 lbs overweight- you need to see an endocrinologist.
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not a single zoomer in my lab (8) has ever used a dating app. how are the zoomers dating . are they dating?.
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kinda creeps me out how the entire harris campaign feels like an antidepressant commercial.
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one thing I wish I had prepared for when I was younger was how genuinely I was going to feel and mean the most cliche sayings like "I'm so sorry for your loss" when those contexts arose and how hard it would be to find other words to convey the same depth of expression.
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genuine conversation I just had with a new friend on her manager:. me: "is she a middle aged white woman" . friend: "yes". "does she have a husband or kids". "no". "does she have a partner of any kind?". "nooo" (multi-syllable). "is she overweight or obsessively fit?". "fit".
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overheard a man on the subway say he went to therapy for seven years for five days a week for 45 minutes a day with the same therapist and I've never been so certain that I'm an entirely different species of primate.
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oh did you unnecessarily politicize what should have been objective scientific research during a time when we desperately need reproducibility and rigorous progress? yeah, you deserve to say goodbye to that.
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when I met the dude I've been with for 5 yrs, he told me I was the only girl he had ever slept well next to & I didn't have the heart to tell him it's a skill where you pull away slowly and then stay very still and give them a lot of space. I let him think that I was just the one.
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wasn't bryan johnson mormon with a mormon (~consanguinous) wife? he should have a dozen progeny to harvest replacement organs from.
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at a certain point you have to realize a lot of non-technical "intelligence" is actually just schizophrenic pattern matching for phenomena that aren't actually there. chomsky, freud, foucault etc. it's cute and quaint but fundamentally useless and frequently misguiding.
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jewish boyfriend told me if anyone brings up israel palestine at work to just say "wow that's crazy!" and nothing else and wow that's crazy!.
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"monogamy isn't natural" . NEITHER WAS FIRE. NEITHER WAS CLOTHING. NEITHER WERE VILLAGES . NEITHER WAS FARMING. NEITHER WERE CASTLES . NEITHER WERE WEAPONS. NEITHER WAS COOKED FOOD. NEITHER WAS WRITING. NEITHER WERE BOOKS. NEITHER WAS CURRENCY, SPICES, TRADE, MICROSCOPES ETC.
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how do you get over the emotional sadness of squandering your youth.
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THINGS I DIDN'T EXPECT TO DRASTICALLY IMPROVE MY QOL BUT DID:.-liking the tap water at my place .-having a shower I like showering in.-full size fridge.-three separate rooms!!!.-absolute silence .-six floors to walk up.-the cheapest rent.-a newer place.-a way safer neighborhood.
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the heavy metal contamination in trader joe's foods + the microbes in their frozen food from no cold chain is in fact wrecking your enteric & actual nervous system. they really do have no quality control, it is upton sinclair's jungle.
hate to break it to u but ur actually not bisexual and u also dont have adhd. ur diet of 90% prepackaged items from trader joes is making u that way.
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I've just seen some terrifying data and if you value your life, or the lives of those around you, you need to get in good shape by the end of the year.cardio, strength, everything - you need to be prepared if you want to survive.
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it feels mildly fucked up to watch the medical advice given to mothers be completely different to almost opposite to that of the medical advice that medical practitioners actually follow when they themselves become mothers . like a clinician on our team straight up doesn't.
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one thing I'd tell all dudes considering fatherhood is don't underestimate how wildly deficient any education- public or private- will be for your kids & if you want them to have advantages in life it's up to you to supplement their schooling with the vast majority of knowledge.
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what practices in our modern era do you think will be the lobotomy of the future (hailed as a breakthrough at the time, received a nobel etc but then everyone realized was pretty much just early death).
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@Millenial_quips yeah she also told me I NEEDED to go on SSRIs for my morose ways . she pressured her daughters husband to do the same thing and he hung himself on his first week on SSRIs. the black box warnings are no joke!!!.
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I probably would not have moved to NYC had I known how much outside-of-unit laundry would govern my entire life.
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a good friend of mine got her nose done/rhinoplasty at the end of undergrad and tells me now in her late 20s it always smells like yeasty cheese and are women around the country living this hellish existence constantly smelling microbial life where it should not be.
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this isn't at all an accurate description at all. he became a neurosurgeon and realized brain chip/BCI tech was never going to work due to immunology and also that preventive healthcare matters way more than treatment for emergent issues- which patients did well with spinal
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like the confident presumption that I'm good at my job is what really threw me but also $70k still feels like millions and I can easily live off of $25k in any major metropolis . my top salary was $110 and over six figures is when imposter syndrome am-I-elizabeth-holmes kicks in.
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one time a male friend and I in seattle both matched with the same girl on hinge whose job was procuring meat for whole foods and we were both excited to take her out and get all our meat supply chain questions answered only to find out she was a vegan.
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my parents would have literally pulverized me, your child is ngmi in the real world.
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everyone on the planet gets an inaccurate view of Austin so here goes from an "austin native":. -it's hot.-you're going to need sunscreen.-the social scene is drinking .-it's really just a college town full of kids going through cringe greta thunberg phases.-the traffic is.
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British tourists are consistently frightening in appearance while most Australians outside of the overweight could be movie stars.
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