Depends on the use case. I default to my 1L Nalgene or my metal 0.75L generic metal bottle I got at a museum for daily use whilst sitting at my desk at work. For hiking, I prefer the larger capacity Nalgene (I think 1.75L), and possibly an additional 1L for longer hikes. For cycling, I have a couple squeezy plastic bottles that fit nicely in my bottle cage.

I do like the idea of a glass bottle with the rubber/silicone guard thing and thought about getting one, but decided to stick with Nalgene when I had the replace my old 1L.

…so basically Metal Gear Solid with fewer steps and some comic relief.

A version of the Matrix where Neo is a pigeon.

Oh hey, I have this too! Except it doesn’t feel like “just sometimes”

Yeah I switched to lawn chair a few months ago because I kept seeing these stories about Nova’s parent company. I like it just fine—i haven’t had the issues you have (thankfully)—but there are a few features I miss from nova. Oh well, I’d rather have the peace of mind than the minor feature.

Yes, I think it’s okay to enjoy whatever it is you enjoy so long as doing so doesn’t harm others or yourself. I also think it’s important to be mindful what it is that makes you feel like there’s a moral quandary, and it’s also worth considering if the media you’re consuming is the work of a group of people or a single individual.

For example, I really enjoy the movie Chinatown, but Roman Polanski is a piece of shit. I don’t think his shitness diminishes the quality of the movie because it was acted well by Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway; the writing is incredible as is the cinematography; and credit where credit is due, Polanski directed the movie masterfully. He’s still a child rapist piece of shit though.

I’m happy with the work I do—I find it rewarding personally and the inkling of a possibility that it might be useful one day for any number of biological applications is exciting.

Unfortunately, I am entirely replaceable, compensation is meh for the level of education, and society as a whole does not place much value in basic sciences so career prospects are bleak (and this was BEFORE the current administration).

I use polident to clean my Zojirushi container.

Ooooof I forgot how great Newsroom was. I also really enjoyed West Wing.

How many are there for the newest Hulu seasons? A little part of me wants to see the new ones, but the end of the comedy central reboot was so cathartic I don’t want to spoil it.

• Futurama all the way up to the end of the comedy central reboot; I haven’t seen the newest ones.
• 30 Rock
• Fargo
• Derry girls
• The Last of Us
• Broadchurch
• Slow horses
• True Detective S1, 3, and 4.
• Rome

Edit:my original format was awful. Sorry about that :/

I took an astronomy class when I was an undergrad. We had a scene-by-scene breakdown of all the stupid shit in this movie.

I’m a biologist/bioinformatician—a lot of my presentations require some schematic representation of the analysis or pipeline.

I tend to build simple pipelines with PowerPoint and add animations (makes it easier for me to talk through step by step). If it’s complex, I build parts in some other thing (R, illustrator/Photoshop), and animate the PDF/PNG in.

Equations I try to avoid because most of my audience tends to gloss over them. On the occasion that I’m talking to more computational folks, I’ll build the equation elsewhere, export it as an image, and animate it in with annotations.

Again, I’m a biologist and present mostly to biologists, so some of this may seem stupid or nonsensical to folks in other fields.

Wish granted. FM 105.3 will air the pledge of allegiance 24/7 recited by the most symbolically patriotic person in america—Donald J Trump.

There are no ad breaks, no subscription fees. Just pure, uncut, America.

For streaming music on my desktop I just use YouTube with an ad blocker and just look for playlists of artists I like. i don’t stream music from my phone so I don’t have any suggestions there.

In terms of the original topic: alternatives to adobe and office suite are too obtuse for me to use. This is more of a me problem—my productivity takes a hit from the learning curve and that isn’t worth it for me.

I use Transmit on my MacBook, which IMO is much better than CyberDuck and FileZilla. The UI for both of these programs are dated and confusing. I wish WinSCP can be ported to macos, but I highly doubt that’ll ever happen.

I much prefer the native terminal on macos than the alternatives that people use (e.g., iTerm2). I don’t get much of a benefit from switching to an alternative, so I don’t see the point. I’m sure someone with different needs finds them useful though.

The Apple mail also seems to be the most functional email client, but I’ve only tried outlook, eM, and thunderbird. I still use Outlook because I need to keep my personal and work email separate. On my Windows machine I use thunderbird currently but considering switching back eM…

There’s probably more that I can’t think of right now.

A few points worth clarifying:

As another user pointed out, pseudoscientific journals and predatory journals aren’t the same. As you pointed out, pseudoscientific journals are generally easy to identify because they have a very clearly stated agenda typically. This means they will publish anything that places their ideas in a favorable light and are generally not objective. They tend to push garbage “science”.

Predatory journals are journals and publishing firms that have what is effectively a pay-to-play scheme, where authors are enticed with minimal peer review at relatively high publishing cost. Meaning, any crappy study can/will be published so long as the authors pay the publication cost. There’s a list online (Beall’s List) of what might be considered predatory.

Now, I will also point out that the authors paying is not what makes this unethical and damaging to science. The vast majority (if not all) scientific publishing is contingent on the authors paying the publication cost and these costs are going to be especially high in open access journals (e.g. PLoS, which is not predatory). These costs are only incurred when the journal agrees to publish after getting positive recommendations from reviewers. Predatory journals forgo the review, and simply publish.

Fraudulent work (i.e., faked data) is likely to be present in any reputable journal, albeit at low frequencies. I say “low” because science is increasingly moving toward an open data model of publication where the raw data sets associated with study must be available publicly, including code used to produce results. While there aren’t loads of people reanalyzing published datasets, the possibility that someone might could be enough to deter most people from making shit up.

I wouldn’t let the Wakefield example spoil the wealth of good studies that’s been published at the Lancet. At this point the only people giving that study any credence are Brain-worms and his ilk. A better bet is to look for retractions issued by the journals. This typically happens in the event of fraud, non reproducibility, fundamental flaws in the study, etc.

Source: I’m an academic scientist and actively publishing.

Tldr: look at Beall’s list for predatory journals; don’t worry too much about fraud in reputable journals; look for retractions if you’re really worried.