Even free samples?

Taskmaster is such a good show. I discovered it earlier this year and it’s a great show to binge.

It’s subtle, so really listen to the lyrics

Edit: Actually, think it’s too close

Don’t forget about the banning of indoor smoking in public places. God the 90’s were a horrible time for that although it was winding down.

I had a friend who used the same name. Doesn’t seem like a common name so I thought I’d check.

You don’t happen to use this username on Steam, do you?

Holy shit that’s a great bot!

There was a paper back in December about a new class of antibiotics being discovered thanks to the use of Deep Learning.

This looks like a decent writeup about it, the paper itself is not open access

This is very welcome as it has been a long time since the last new class of antibiotics was discovered. Here’s a good paper that talks about the timeline of antibiotics

It’s been a little while since I took the AMR course, so I’ll let the papers speak for themselves instead of trying to quiz myself here on Lemmy.

I’ve been around the AMR space for a while, but only as a collaborator. Have helped do some bacterial assemblies and help find methods of detecting ICE. I’m a bioinformatician so I get to jump onto a bunch of different projects.

AMR is scary and not really in the public knowledge of upcoming issues. I think about it every time my son had an infection while he was very young and hope he didn’t get a resistant strain.

Hrm, Sundar Pichai took over as CEO 9 years ago. Weird coincidence.

Parenting tip: Teach your kids that Charisma isn’t a dump stat. Works in real life too.

Haha, unexpectedly wholesome!

Do they fuck everything, or get fucked by everything? How that half orc came into existence wasn’t a good time for everyone.

Not really a money saver, but I’ve been buying shampoo and conditioner bars. They often come in cardboard or paper wrapping instead of plastic containers like regular shampoo and conditioners. I enjoy the reduced plastic waste, and they don’t take up as much space in the shower.

Go Fact Yourself is my favorite podcast. It’s a quiz style podcast where two (usually minor) celebrities come on the show and answer questions about 3 topic they choose for themselves that they are an expert in, but outside their field of work.

It’s very interesting to hear these successful people talk about things they’re not really known for, like the music they love, or a movie or sometimes niche topics like marathon running.

Now the really interesting part is they bring on special guests who are experts in the chosen topic to award the points. The guests that they get for this are the real treat of the show. First, you have someone showing off about how much they love a topic, then they get someone really involved to give great in depth details! For instance, someones topic was the Evil Dead movies, and the special guest was Bruce Campbell! He was so awesome to hear talking about the movies. The experts are almost always awesome, from movie directors to the songwriters for Frozen, to book writers on the topic, they’re almost always amazing to listen to.

There are a couple of other segments of the show that are also well done. There’s a “what’s the difference” round that always makes me think. Like, what’s the difference between a graveyard and a cemetery? Or what’s the difference between roasting and baking?

The hosts are great fun too. J. Keith is the master of punny segues, and Helen Hong is a pretty good co-host. All in all, highly recommended!

You need to know where the wooden studs are first because drywall is only easy to punch between the studs.

The stairs in the movie don’t line up either. Always bothered me.

Oh right, sorry. I kinda forgot about that.

My most recent read through of WoT was while falling asleep. Those sections were fucking boring even then. Most of the time I would remember 10-15 minutes worth and then rewind to what I remembered the next night. During the slog I didn’t even bother sometimes.

You and me focus on different things while reading a book.

No problem. It was a random find at the library for me. I was looking for the next Wheel of Time book, but it was out and these Conan books were right there. I picked them up and loved them.

Actually, I’ll put them next on my re-read list.