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redshirt posted:Thinking of a food web diagram (anyone know of existing templates please point me to them) showing the input of daily sunflower seeds into a bird feeder, and thus into the larger food web. The gray squirrels that feed on the ground for example, and then the animals and birds that feed on gray squirrels, etc. This diagram could also show connections to trees and the overall forest, if you can show how a healthy bird and animal population directly benefits trees and other plants, fungi, etc. 
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Whoa. And then some kind of explanation of calories in/out, or percentage of calories. AKA impact on the foodweb.
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Had to put cumaceans right next to the sea squirts eh
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bird with big dick posted:Had to put cumaceans right next to the sea squirts eh god made the world and he doesn’t make mistakes 
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thinking to fly down to Mexico for some dental work on the CHEAP
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AARD VARKMAN posted:thinking to fly down to Mexico for some dental work on the CHEAP canada is phasing in a federally funded dental care program and people are PISSED due to muh tax dollars
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its wild to see people love universal health care from OHIP and in the same breath say "but my employer provided dental insurance? ftw????"
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:canada is phasing in a federally funded dental care program and people are PISSED due to muh tax dollars it's very cool how teeth are somehow considered basically non essential parts of your health by insurance. Thanks to genetics I'm looking at a bunch of implants in the coming years and they're insanely expensive apparently 
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like all british peoples, canadians have a natural love of austerity
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thinking to maybe go work at the 4th largest gamma irradiator in the world
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MrQwerty posted:thinking to maybe go work at the 4th largest gamma irradiator in the world los Alamos?
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AARD VARKMAN posted:los Alamos? nah it's a private company, they do aseptic cleanroom/medical product sterilization with their cobalt source i don't really have the degrees to get paid paid at Sandia or LANL, nor am I willing to start doing things like constant random UAs (again) and polygraphs lol the second my dad put in his request for early retirement (3 months early lol!) after Sandia stole all his PTO, they polygraphed him one last time MrQwerty fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Feb 17, 2024 |
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Feb 17, 2024 20:24
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That seems cool. And you might get some superpowers.
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:That seems cool. And you might get some superpowers. Or cancer
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MrQwerty posted:nah it's a private company, they do aseptic cleanroom/medical product sterilization with their cobalt source lmbo i interned at oak ridge for a summer but no polygraph thank god actually when we toured one of the nuclear research storage areas the guy in charge of the whole thing (safely storing various dangerous materials) said he got his degree from ITT Tech so maybe you do have all the degrees you need lol
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AARD VARKMAN posted:actually when we toured one of the nuclear research storage areas the guy in charge of the whole thing said he got his degree from ITT Tech so maybe you do have all the degrees you need lol before they got in trouble ITT were supposedly a good school, my dad hired quite a few people who'd go on to become no-poo poo rocket scientists from ITT and my tech at Sennheiser was an IPC3 Trainer slumming it there, because he graduated from ITT and then a year later they got scandalized and Intel refuses to hire anyone with a degree from there now. Trust me, though, everything I've done the last decade is engineering or engineering-adjacent and an ITT degree is less of a joke to that crowd than a history degree from a state school. Chemo drugs to nuclear ovens would definitely be an interesting career progression as far as my cleanroom skillset goes, though. MrQwerty fucked around with this message at 20:35 on Feb 17, 2024 |
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I don't understand why the polygraph stuff?
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government background investigators have a natural love of polygraphs
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Hollismason posted:I don't understand why the polygraph stuff? Sandia and LANL are extremely defense-related national labs
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Ah okay I see. What kind of questions though would they ask you? ARe you a spy? Are you a foreign agent? That sort of stuff?
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Hollismason posted:Ah okay I see. What kind of questions though would they ask you? ARe you a spy? Are you a foreign agent? That sort of stuff? I've had to do interviews with FBI agents for a few friends' clearance reviews and they generally focused on my relationship to them, timelines of our relationship, and pointed questions about finances, drug and alcohol abuse. I'd imagine polygraphs follow the same lines. They're basically putting together a risk assessment on how easy it'd be to buy poo poo you know and/or have access to from you/compromise you into a position where you would sell info. Polygraphs are horseshit compared to actual human intel, but those guys fuckin' love 'em. MrQwerty fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Feb 17, 2024 |
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They ask about stuff that could be used to blackmail you. Used to be they’d ask if you were gay or a communist or had money trouble. Now they ask if you’re a trump supporter or have ever said the n word.
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The last clearance check FBI agent I met with was a very attractive woman around my age, we got coffee at a Starbucks and then I corroborated my entire history of smoking pot in college with my buddy (as I was told to do), my knowledge of his two tours in Iraq and general military career, how we met and why we continue to be friends, how close I am with his family, and that he generally refuses to touch alcohol and has no gambling problems that I'm eminently aware of. poo poo went off without a hitch for him, so MrQwerty fucked around with this message at 22:11 on Feb 17, 2024 |
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Hollismason posted:Ah okay I see. What kind of questions though would they ask you? ARe you a spy? Are you a foreign agent? That sort of stuff? it’s mostly a deterrent to keep from wasting resources investigating people who are sketchy enough to get freaked out by a polygraph. beyond that, if something has already come up during the investigation that you haven’t disclosed in your paperwork, they’ll ask about that to see if you own up to it. if something comes up later during the investigation they’ll pull you in for another polygraph for the same reason it’s not at all like being like grilled by the cops
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the worst part by far is they have you on a continuous blood pressure arm tourniquet, my arm was hurting so bad after a few min don’t know how they get a good reading on anyone when you’re that uncomfortable
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Bad Purchase posted:the worst part by far is they have you on a continuous blood pressure arm tourniquet, my arm was hurting so bad after a few min They don't. https://www.apa.org/topics/cognitive-neuroscience/polygraph Visions of Valerie fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Feb 17, 2024 |
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Bad Purchase posted:the worst part by far is they have you on a continuous blood pressure arm tourniquet, my arm was hurting so bad after a few min yeah, the polygraph doesn’t do poo poo. the discomfort is the point
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TrashMammal posted:yeah, the polygraph doesn’t do poo poo. the discomfort is the point yeah its just a really hardcore HR interview
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TrashMammal posted:yeah, the polygraph doesn’t do poo poo. the discomfort is the point yup
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Elite spy trick: It's not a lie if you believe it.
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I've never had to take a polygraph. ...not that I would need to for some reason. 
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i know it’s a junk test, but what i mean is even the useless stress metrics they gather are tainted when the subject is already in discomfort before they even ask if you’re a terrorist. it’s not just a bad test, it’s also bad methodology that would ruin any test, good or bad.
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Anybody had a job interview where they just wail on your balls with some wooden spoons for about 45 minutes while they ask you your sexual history and drug use?
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Hollismason posted:Anybody had a job interview where they just wail on your balls with some wooden spoons for about 45 minutes while they ask you your sexual history and drug use? yeah, i graduated from the citadel
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Making a Greek style salad with pork loin. Just made some tzatziki to eat with pita to go with it. Hell yeah!
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