That's hilarious!
MeowZedong
joined 2 years ago
True story or joke?
If you're cold, they're cold. Let the lions inside.
There are entire industries that profit from people being imprisoned. The more people incarcerated in a location, the more that location can charge.
All other things aside, there is very much a profit motive.
Pour it in a proper waste container with a label and hand it over to EHS if in a lab. If not, do what another commenter said and let small amounts evaporate in a well-ventilated place.
Large volumes are something you should contact local waste disposal about. This usually isn't free, but sometimes they have certain times of year they'll take them for free. Large volumes are ~ >1L.
Our hoods have a solvent trap at the front in case of large spills, it's a stainless steel grate covering a large, high surface area secondary steel trap below. Ngl, I pour smaller amounts of pure volatiles in there to evaporate. Usually < 10 mL. Small volumes with dissolved solids get dumped in the glass waste container in the hood to evaporate before disposal too.
Not the best practice, but the pragmatic approach.
Larger volumes go to proper waste containers. Local EHS mostly just dilutes things before pouring it down the drain. Not much we can do about that, so I opt for greener solvents from the beginning wherever possible.
I’m running arch on mine.
Ah, that's probably why you like it. I'm talking about a Win 11 machine managed by our institution. I'm sure if I could get away from how we have Win 11 setup, I probably would only complain about the power location and the weight, but those are very minor.
You really like them? I got issued one for work and am not a fan.
The power button on these things is in the least intuitive spot and I've had lots of weird driver issues causing hardware to fail intermittently. Specs look good on paper, but the experience has been really lacking. The moment I can swap, I think I will.
Sometimes everything is paid for by the research group, including salaries, and utilities and facilities management is also charged back to the group by the university. The way those funds are allocated varies by institution and some are stingy as fuck, running "like a business."
They usually don't know about institutional indirect costs and how they often run around 50% of the research funding in the US.
For those not in the know, that's an extra 50% that you need to add to the funds you apply for that will just go to the college to use for whatever they want. Research groups often don't see any of this invested back into their facilities and grad students often need to apply for their own external funding to make a high enough wage just to scrape by.
Yes. I think it was pretty wide-spread.
Therefore they can continue to extract more from people than before. When you default, the amount owed increases significantly (doubles?).
This means more people are stuck with high payments and are required to work to continue to survive, less people getting retirement or other benefits, a larger workforce that is essentially captive to their debt and can be more easily manipulated because they are worried about making ends meet more than other things.
I see plenty of benefits for capitalists in a wide variety of industries if more people are beholden to more student debt.