Ah, it’s fine. RAM’s cheap.

Wait, what now? Oh. Oh dear.

We’re ranking danger here. I’d much rather be in the room with dilute peroxide and vinegar than with chloramine or chlorine.

The dose makes the poison. At the concentrations you’d get from household precursors, it would be fine.

Now, take glacial acetic acid and treat it with high-concentration peroxide? Now you’ve got something there. But most people don’t have easy access to either.

Chloroform is the third most dangerous thing on that list.

I understand you’re not coming from a place of malice. But consider that not understanding why something is important is not a great reason to consider it unimportant if, nearly universally, experts consider it important.

dorks

Some of us use the Kelvin scale on a nearly daily basis in our jobs that primarily focus on sweating the small details.

This image is a reference to things like this, where you send dry (containing low water content) solvent through a column of activated alumina to make it even more dry.

It doesn’t really work as well with some solvents. The one I used in grad school had DCM, toluene, THF, and acetonitrile. If we needed dry DMSO, DMF, DMAc, acetone, MEK, or alcohols they had to come from a sealed bottle.

Same problem as in 2016. Everyone assumed they’d beat Trump. Their main opposition would be in the primaries, because nobody would really vote for him, right?

Wrong, twice. And as bad as the first term felt, this one has been so much more catastrophic.

I am once again begging people to not post headlines that start with “Trump, 79,” that doesn’t end with. Well. You know.

Lol good luck getting boomers to look at grey text on light grey backgrounds

I used to work at IBM. This guy is a classic case of manager brainrot and has filled the top few tiers of the company with the same. The only reason they make money is the rank and file know how to feed them trendy bullshit that makes them feel smart, which happens to also be a good way of separating other companies’ dumb C-suite types from their money.

But even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every once in a while.

Well, first it’s fire.

Graduate students famously never make mistakes (like including their own hair in samples) and also never smoke weed. So that couldn’t be it.

A redneck missing half his teeth can make meth in a Gatorade bottle in a Wal-Mart bathroom. I could probably figure it out. But that would be pretty bad for my career.

As an actual professional organic chemist, ironically, these make my eyes hurt.

Reusable

Let’s save that term for hardware that’s demonstrated reuse in operational flights. So far, I think it’s only Falcon 9, New Shepard, and Electron that have launched paying customers on a reused booster.

In this case, they tried to weaponize the law against an enemy and it didn’t work.

Let’s see what they do next. Do they drop it? Does he suddenly fall down some stairs or shoot himself in the back of the head three times? Basically, are they wannabe fascists or the real thing?

Well, my rocket can get 250 tons to LEO. It’s also just a CAD model but like 75% of these are too.

SpaceX was founded in 2002, and announced Falcon 9 in 2005. By 2010 they launched, in 2013 they started propulsive landing experiments, and in 2015/16 they landed on a pad / a drone ship. About 13 years from founding to reuse, and ten years from F9 announcement to reuse.

Blue Origin was founded in 2000, declared first stage reuse a priority in 2013, announced New Glenn in 2016, launched in early 2025, and landed in late 2025. 25 years from founding to reuse, and 9 years from NG announcement to reuse.

I guess the difference is that SpaceX was making money in those intervening years, and Blue was content to, uh, do a lot of simulations I guess.

I am once again begging people to not post headlines that start with “Trump, 79,” that doesn’t end with. Well. You know.