Scary https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2702407/

https://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2021/05/prokaryotic-organelles-yes-there-are-such-things.html a blog post on prokaryotic organelles the entire blog is pretty neat if you're interested in bio stuff

>>96 E.T. Jaynes' The logic of Science A logic -> bayesian probability -> information theory angle of statistics. Absolutely love the way it ties everything together from that standpoint, possibly start with Shannon's A Mathematical Theory of Communication for the information-theory intro to entropy if you aren't familiar with the idea. I was a bench scientist forever and it really bothered me no one could adequately explain why we use certain things, like assuming the t or normal distribution for data without much reasoning. The principal of maximum entropy provides and easy answer (assuming a finite variance, the normal distribution is the maximum entropy distribution to assume) and it just fit so nicely.

so there's this funny DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4628(19981205)70:10<1939::aid-app8>3.0.co;2-g "Investigation of Alkaline Hydrolysis of polyethyelene terepthtalate by differential scanning calorimetry and thermogravimetric analysis" no idea how calorimetry works and why ppl use it but that's not what matters this paper was made by happas in the past century and can be summarized as "we tried to recycle plastics, it works" the plastic is called PET and it's basically 1,4 butanediol and terephthalic acid and 1,4 butanediol metabolizes into GHB inside of your body in a few minutes which makes GABA stuff in your brain spin right round insanely fast way better than alcohol and those red mushrooms so yeah if you don't like brewing or despise alcohol you can still easily fuck up your brain at home using plastics and toilet cleaners though hydrolysis takes a lot of time 10 grams of PET can take you like six or eight hours i recommend speeding things up by adding a bit of ethanol as a catalyst to your NaOH solution (KOH decomposes 1,4 into an unfunny glycol ) oh yeah there's also that terephtalic acid it's not "toxic" but there are lots of it you may want to remove it and most of the other nasty stuff by adding sulfuric or hydrochloric acid until the participate won't stop forming (stop as soon as it forms or you will burn your stomach) it also looks really cool you just one little drop and lots of crystals appear the participate is the nasty stuff just filter it out through a toilet paper and throw it away well it's kinda useful for other things maybe leave it 1,4 can be easily converted into GBL and then GHB but only the letters change effects are the same (and GHB is a salt while others are liquids) there was that one cool paper on dehydrogenation of 1,4 that yields GBL but i kinda lost it in my file directory labyrinth oh and yeah i just did some math 10 grams of pure PET will yield around 3/4 grams of 1,4 which is like two doses for non-tolerant people also some PETs have some brominated stuff that makes it hard to burn and that's really bad because ingestion of brominated things leads to a horrible death from cancer and it's almost impossible to filter those brominated things out so check how well your plastic burns before using it maybe i'll make a proper step by step guide later yeah i guess i will parody that asuka's meth lab webm someday too lazy rn

>PET >it's basically 1,4 butanediol and terephthalic acid oopsie woopsie i made a fucky wucky so yeah plastic that's actually a 1,4 butanediol and terephthalic acid is called PBT and you should use it instead PET will yield some 1,4 but most of it will be 1,2 and 1,3 fuck i should proof read what i write

>>157 Where can I find these drugs

Here's a cool study on the historically accurate passion of Christ. https://www.apu.edu/articles/the-science-of-the-crucifixion/

>>156 I knew PET was de-polymerized to regenerate the TA for new PET or alkyd resins (varnish), but that sounds like a too cumbersome way to make GBL (using "hot copper" like acetone to acetaldehyde) compared to just oxidizing THF (a common solvent).

>>96 https://n0thanky0u.neocities.org/giveuponlife/

>>512 This article is retarded. "The world isn't perfect so only eat slop and don't have friends and never go outside. Never be productive or do anything worthwhile, just waste away in your room." What a pathetic way to view life. If you fall for shit like this you deserve to die a disgusting loser. Don't act like your weakness and inability to handle the cards you are dealt is some sort of intellectual realization. Shame on you for even posting this here.

>>513 if you think you can live your life without constant affirmation or material gain that means you havent even tried, whether you plan to cope by pursuing interests or building a family, and unless you were BORN in the conditions to access affirmation and material gain you will NOT get them. in this world you are either swimming or drowning, there is no ideal of "happiness" to be achieved, perpetrator or victim, it is perfectly reasonable for somebody to refuse to interact with a system that has set them up for failure.

>>512 i am the other inflammatory guy holy shit, did you make this? Because the guy who wrote that is a genius, I wish I could live at the bottom of the barrel, who gives a shit goddamnit, but I am from the west and I can only assume that I would be systematically oppressed even worse somewhere else (somehow, I will not get into my personal situation) It also seems like less of a choice that you can just make one day, and more of a choice that you make throughout your life and when it hits that you are at the bottom of the barrel, again, you are either swimming or drowning

>>512 >>513 It's not really that novel of an idea. there's this guy called Diogenes, and let's just say he encountered the same philosophical conundrum but he got over it.

>>512 Not meant to be taken literally i hope anarchists will often take an issue here "society is using search for meaning against you" and rail against it in a comically exaggerated way reminds me of bob blacks writing

>>517 its good that they do, accelerate.

>>512 There is way more non-material wonder to existence, all that phenomenology and ontology and metaphysics and truly paranormal phenomena - but, life is just like it's described in there. I do not agree with what the author is asking or proposing. Clean your room, wash yourself, give yourself the precise quality nutrition your brain deserves. It's always better to be an elite grade NEET. >>513 It's everyone's individual fault they're not being omnipotent, for sure, and I'm not being sarcastic. But what you'd be omnipotent for? Actually, don't answer that, I'm not a genie. The bigger premise is that there's a presumption that "anything is worth it and that living doesn't go on as inertia, with something like suicide takes too much experienced effort" (I call myself dumb cattle over being driven by inertia I do not identify with and disintest in the extreme effort needed to stop it completely). Choosing which hobby to take, which job to get, which city to move to is juggling the inertias. Actually, it sounds already great if you're not under risk of death, especially imminent death. This only says it's only as good as long as some urgency doesn't interrupt anything. With urgency of incoming death, I had seen that both surviving unscathed and instantly dying are win-win, and the gruesome death or disability are the complete failure of luck and fortune with only one way to deal with them for real. You can outplay any card hands you want, I don't see any value out of whatever good birthright opportunities and victories and rewards are possible in this world, or at least in this era.