janus2

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[–] janus2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago

blasphemy. they're powered by tiny crabs

[–] janus2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think it's more likely that the consistent quality is a side bonus from most of 3M's customers being other corporations, not individual consumers

If 3M only sold painter's tape to the public, most of the public will buy it whether it's crap or not because most of the public only needs to put up with painter's tape occasionally

However if a large commercial real estate company who goes through palettes of painters tape suddenly has to start ordering 1.5x as many palettes because some of the tape is defective, they'll threaten 3M with cancelling a multi-million-dollar contract that will hurt 3M's quarterly spreadsheets.

That is until inevitably someone at 3M gets the idea to start producing a cheaper "consumer grade" painters tape and then everyone who doesn't have a relative in building maintenance who can swipe a pro grade roll for you is SOL

[–] janus2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Old Bay seasoning
batteries (when I have to use disposables)
Command hooks

[–] janus2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

holy shit i thought i was the only one
all other cheese curls taste greasy and overseasoned in comparison

[–] janus2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

depending on what you're taking it for those 10 minutes can be worth it

[–] janus2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 71 points 1 year ago (1 children)

also as far as we can tell most food safe plastic isn't even safe 🫠

[–] janus2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

That's a fantastic talent. Creativity is one thing but quick improvisational creativity is a whole other level

For monologues: do you do ok improv-ing dialogues? If so maybe you could trick your brain by thinking about how a monologuing character is kind of having a dialogue with different parts of themself

[–] janus2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Good on you for just casually getting a computational physics degree without inherent math talent... like holy shit that's impressive!

I have also cried over coursework on linear algebra as well as electricity and magnetism :') Brutal stuff.

[–] janus2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

With math, is it arithmetic that gives you trouble or the actual symbolic manipulation of mathematics?

I am hot garbage at keeping track of numbers but turn those fuckers into letters and (at least for me) it's off to the races. Then I just convert everything back to numbers in the last step before jamming it all into a calculator. This method saved my ass in 400-level biochemistry courses. (Annoyed the shit out of the grad students grading my exams, I'm sure...)

You may be better at "math" than you think :]

[–] janus2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-12460-6

Here's a pretty recent paper on this. I only skimmed it but boy does this seem wacky. It is in Nature, though, so I guess it's at least somewhat serious...?

 

Something you're just good at with minimal effort and/or you learned much more quickly than average.

For me, it's paper snowflakes. My brain just seems to effortlessly figure out what cuts to make to the paper wedge to make it turn out exactly how I want it. Largely useless, but good fun and was a much-needed ego boost when I was a kid :]

[–] janus2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago

I would rather watch console output I don't understand scrolling by too fast to read than some dumb spinning dots >:[

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