Well played, OP. Well played

I grew up with these and although my mom came from a family that left Ohio pretty recently, sometime around my 5th birthday she gave up trying to explain that they were called buckeyes and just started to call them peanut butter balls. They’re delicious, no matter what you call them.

There’s no point to that story, but I just felt like sharing. (and I think there’s a typo in your title, which you can totally edit and fix)

Black Mesa is the organization, IIRC. I had it in my head that the research facility was near Los Alamos, NM, but that might just be because I associate any theoretical physics research in a desert with Los Alamos.

I can’t find the difference

It’s an N-methyl group (one extra carbon attached to the nitrogen).

Love, your friendly neighborhood chemistry prof

Just to add some actual useful knowledge, amphetamines are a subset of psychoactive compounds called “phenethylamines,” the effects of nearly all of which get more potent when you add a methyl group onto the nitrogen (often times as much as 10x more powerful, IIRC).

I had one out of my kids’ Halloween candy a few months ago. Trust me, no you don’t.

Some things are better left as memories.

Thankee sai

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think they should be in equal footing. I’m just saying that it’s worth remembering that a healthy dose of skepticism and analysis of the baked-in assumptions is valuable in many fields, and pointing out how otherwise reasonable people can end up voting conservative based purely on a single unexamined assumption.

Edit: and I always appreciate a relevant SMBC link, especially one that properly recognizes the power of chemistry ;)

You and I may have had a very similar conversation back on that “other” site, lol. At least that’s where I first heard about the “social contract” model as a way to explain why it’s not a paradox at all.

Well said.

I think the only way to really get around it is by trying to be respectful to people who have different beliefs from your own, as long as that respect goes both ways of course.

Absolutely. This brings me to my favorite philosophical topic in recent times, The Paradox of Tolerance, described by Wikipedia as:

The seemingly self-contradictory idea that in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must retain the right to be intolerant of intolerance.

Really, you’ve probably already heard this before, and I only bring this up because it seems like it’s always relevant these days and because it was first described by Karl Popper, who was one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century.

Ultimately, with spiritual premises, people can come to faulty or unpredictable conclusions even with sound logic, and that somewhat unnerves me.

Definitely.

Although, to be completely fair, as toxic as I believe theistic religions to be, religion and politics are far from the only areas with this problem. Cosmologists, trained philosophers, mathematicians, engineers, and physicists all suffer from this same issue. Something as basic as assuming the universe is finite vs. infinite leads to drastically different conclusions in a wide variety of fields, and there’s a decent argument to be made for each contradictory assumption

Defining your initial and boundary conditions properly has a huge impact on your results, even if you do everything else right. Edit: so it’s even trickier in areas where we don’t know what the initial or boundary conditions are

As someone formerly in the same boat, I think belief in the Abrahamic religions makes it hard to identify with the plights of others, because if you believe in a just, loving god, then “those people” have the religion and hardships that they do for a reason (and the reason is usually either “it’s part of God’s plan” or “they made bad decisions”).

When you base your entire worldview on a faulty premise, you can use sound logic to get all the way to libertarianism without a problem. Once I reexamined and discarded my belief in the Christian god, it was like flipping a switch; I went from douchey religious Libertarian to bleeding-heart socialist almost literally overnight.

So…Daisy Dukes, yes. Hat, no.

I propose to rename this variant of Godwin’s Law “Spez’s Law”

False. You can always eat cheese while you sin

It’s just unusual for people who aren’t anthropologists or historians working with a preservation society to have a personal collection of artifacts from such a vile group.

This is why I’m highly suspicious of anyone who is too interested in the American Civil War.

And historians in general. /s

Svante Arrhenius was the fucking man.

Thanks, I got it figured out. I think it was just that the non-local instances were only showing posts made after I subscribed, so it took a bit before there was enough content to show up

Bro, turn off When the Kite String Pops, ur scaring the hoes.

As a college chem professor, the reason for this is nearly always cheating.

“Hmm, you got the right answer with the wrong method, and your friend that you sit next to every day used the right method and got the same exact answer as you, down to the rounding? Haha, what are the odds??!?”

Zero. The odds are zero (within sig figs).

I freaking hate most bugs, mostly the ones with hard chitinous bodies.

I feel you, friend. I know the importance of bugs in the ecosystem, both extended and local. I will leave any small spiders and bugs I find in my house alone (other than ants, because stay out of my fucking kitchen, that’s why).

But anything large or chitinous enough to “pop” or “crack” when I squish it just makes my skin crawl. In fact, I literally just had a shiver run down my back from typing this.

I think this is the answer, because this morning in Liftoff I’m seeing posts from all of my subscribed communities.

Thanks for the insight!

I tried that in Liftoff and Jerboa, but I’m only seeing posts from lemmy.world, no matter how I sort, so I figured I was doing something wrong.

Maybe it’s just a bug or maybe it’s because I just added a bunch of non-local communities this afternoon and they haven’t gone through yet. I’ll try on a desktop tomorrow and see if everything’s cleared up.

Thanks for the help!