Dan the Gnome
He/Him - Gnomewood/Gnomespun Owner, Biologist, Woodworker, Army Vet, Gardener, Fiber Artist, Baker, Professional Dilettante
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- This is why the way capitalism and business want you to think about education has always been not just wrong but disastrous. Education - as a whole - is not to teach you to "do a thing" and shouldn't be. It's about learning to think, to problem solve, to learn, to research.
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View full threadAI absolutely cannot even vaguely do a decent college course, or even a shitty one, if it's not designed by the same AI. In which case, what the fuck. But EVEN IF IT COULD. So what? College is to learn to think, to learn, to research. People need that, even IF we teach computers to do it too.
- Yes, I'm ranty about this. I feel pretty strongly. Apologies if I'm long winded.
- If we focus only on the importance of being able to do a thing, to be ready to do what businesses "need" then we will always be being outmoded, always be behind the curve, and always be unable to adapt to what comes around the corner.
- Even (good) vocational schools teach a lot more than just the pure skills of their craft. They teach how to think about problems you encounter, how to problem solve, where to look if you encounter something new, not just to be a computer who can recite the part numbers needed.
- We don't take away a biologist's degree because mitochondria were discovered, and we don't stop teaching arithmetic because we invented the abacus/calculator/computer. So no, we don't need a total rethink of education, we need to go BACK to what education is actually FOR. Encouraging thinking.
- Shelves on one side all finished! This is the longest set.
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- A lot of tools and things we don’t use much can go up there. And I have a stepladder that lets Husbeast easily reach and me narrowly reach things up there (and a ladder that doesn’t live in the shop)
- This is so fucking evil and I hope de Oliveira sues them for violation of her civil rights. Also, they weren’t “threatening” to arrest her.
ICE pretended to arrest a 21 yo in order to force her to call her undocumented mother to come leave the house (where she was safe from ICE arrest) to care for her baby. When the mother came, she was abducted and the daughter was suddenly of no interest to ICE. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
- Holy fuck
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- Buffer overrun! Fault fault!
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- LOVING those earrings!
- KOSA will absolutely be used to actively target and discriminate against LGBTQIA+ people; it will be used to frame literally *Existing* as an LGBTQIA+ person as "pornographic;" you can know this because Blackburn has admitted it out loud. Do not let this fucking bill pass. Call your senators, now.
- Damnit, Blumenthal!
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- Fucking HELL
- New dentist this morning. My teeth are doing ok, gums are sad, nothing new. Gonna finish a set of shelves in the shop in a bit.
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- My greatest fear with all these cuts to research. The direct loss is incalculable, but the loss to training up the next generation, and the generation after…
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- Tx!
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- How else would you do it? Monster goo is so hard to get out of pants
- Look people are like ~BAKING IS A SCIENCE IT IS DELICATE CHEMISTRY ALL MUST BE PRECISION AND KITCHEN SCALES~ My grandma did her daily baking by feel. She knew when the dough felt right so she started with about the right amount of flour and tweaked things until she got the right dough.
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- Nom nom!
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- We keep trying that, keep not getting those votes, and keep blaming the people who are like “how about less genocide?” And yet these pundits key repeating it
- Today’s project! All by myself, so I feel fairly accomplished.
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- Thanks! I’m proud of models doing it on my own
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- I’m certainly loving the fact I can put a ton of shelving in my shop without limiting space for machinery!
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- Being in medical is… fun
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- Nice! It’s a weird benefit of the odd 10 ft ceilings.
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- There's a looot to keep track of.
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- Yes. That the Dems need to try to appeal to boys who just wanna get laid and have fun.
- So… yeah. Moving sucks.
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- Huzzah!
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- LOL we did! We decided the problem is they grow slowly in comparison to others. But it was interesting considering you can make beer and bread from “literally random yeast floating in the air”
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- Yes, sorry! There are lots of kinds of yeast, but most of them don't really make great beer. Pichia is one our neighbor lab that did cell cycle research used a lot. So we figured, "why not?" SOUR NASTINESS.
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- Sounds good! If it's old, you can give it an extra five.
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- I was, however, sad to discover that lab yeast (if you're not specifically working on fermentation/etc) is weak as hell and makes sucky bread and worse beer. Very disappointing. And Piccia beer is flatout GROSS AS HELL.
- A reminder: if you are queer, you *are* porn to these people. There is no non-pornographic way for you to live that will keep you safe.
- This this this. Our *existence* is explicit to them. Just look at the way they describe things like a kids book that just shows a kid with two dads (not even kissing, just there).
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- Mix it all up, knead it to get it so it hangs together (gluten developed) then let it rest (rise) during which the yeast eats the sugars and farts out gas that makes the bubbles you see in your bread. Sometimes you knead a little more, let it rest some more. Then you bake it!
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- Isn't it? It's also a super cool organism as a research tool because it's the simplest eukaryote, so it's a hell of a lot simpler and more durable than say... people.
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- Use fresh yeast if you can. If not, you can go back to older methods where you let the yeast "bloom" with a little sugar/honey and warm water to get it "woken up" which can help if it's aged and not as viable. (What you have to do with non-instant yeast) Be patient, with it and you
- i very rarely try to speak from authority, but i actually am a lawyer, and this is the exact opposite of what you should do. i promise.
- And do not, under any circumstances, trust someone who says "if you didn't do anything wrong you've got nothing to worry about." That is the most "hello fellow kids" piece of copoganda I have seen in a while!
- I will fight every single one of you showing up to reinforce that you must learn chemistry to be a good baker. Fuck off with your gatekeeping bullshit.
- I'm a biochemist! Shep is 100% right! YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE A CHEMIST (of any sort) to be a good baker. Hell, I did my dissertation ON YEAST, and I don't think it helps a wit. And one of the great things about bread is even "failed" loaves usually taste ok and are totally soup-dippable.
- yeah what kind of president needs a wheelchair There's genuine discussion to be had about Biden's capacity for a 2nd term but we will never ever ever get it
- McConnell went in and out of wheelchairs how many times after falls? ::sigh:: I'm so tired.
- A friend of mine teaches polisci, and specifically focuses a lot on statistics and trends and such. So he's been sharing the things that do and don't move opinions on Trump. I really don't know what to do with the fact that economy is so much better at moving numbers than immigration or anything.
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- Yeah. That really crushed a lot of my remaining belief in even populationwide neutrality, much less good.
- A drop of water on an annual vinca
- Don't misunderstand, I'm still bone deep angry and disgusted with the democrats as a party. When they were making a fuss about El Salvador, opinions DID shift! And they can do two things at once. But I do also understand the bind they're in. Even if they're not even handling the economy angle well.
- We can absolutely shift opinion, and we should. We should be pressing these things because they're wrong and evil and people should know that. But man. In the end all people care about is whether your cereal costs more, even if people are being kidnapped to foreign torture prisons by masked men?
- A lot of people *want* horrible things to happen to immigrants. What do you DO with that? No matter how corrupt or illegal or whatever, a lot of people don't care (or do) that bad things are happening, unless it can be connected RIGHT NOW to increased prices.
- Oh hell
- Surely if even one living person has a problem with this, CBS would put it in the newspaper but they did not so everyone alive must actually be super cool with what is possibly one of the scariest things I've heard today & I heard a bunch of scary things already www.cbsnews.com/news/icahn-m...
- Birds: Let’s evolve a little, really define ourselves as a group separate from the rest of the dinosaurs Ani: Naaah.
- Coco and now Sinners… people don’t just want original movies, they want ones that don’t center white experiences. they want culturally rich, bold, empathetic, challenging stories. entertainment sectors (especially AAA games!) need to stop believing that people will only show up for white stories.
- SINNERS is now the biggest Hollywood original movie of any kind at the box office since 2017 when Pixar's COCO came out. To find a live-action movie that made at least $200M domestic, we have to go back much further. This is truly bananas. www.slashfilm.com/1857902/sinn...
- As the whitest of white peoples, yes. Husbeast and I still rewatch Coco fairly regularly and watched every SECOND of the extra content about music and background. I don’t do scary and I’ve still been fascinated by the musical bits etc of Sinners. MORE!
- Oof.
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- Does it work in windows? Firefox has issues, but also its memory leak drives me batty.
