Posts by jovialthunder@xoxo.zone
(DIR) Post #AJ5KfBda9F1rrAUFOa by jovialthunder@xoxo.zone
2022-05-03T15:26:20Z
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But he was helped by the locals, found the root, bagged two of them (remember these are BIG), and loaded them onto the top of a bus... which were promptly stolen and he only got one back by bribing a policeman.
(DIR) Post #AJ5KfCpJj60hXqz8KG by jovialthunder@xoxo.zone
2022-05-03T15:29:15Z
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(they stories say they were stolen, but remember he's here Indiana Jonesing these native plants without a license for transport across international borders... so who's really the thief)
(DIR) Post #AJ5KfE2pCMPRK2JR1E by jovialthunder@xoxo.zone
2022-05-03T15:29:16Z
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Anyway, he gets a single 50 pound tuber back, renders it into syrup, makes the largest batch of progesterone the world had ever seen — selling this ONE batch of potato-goop for millions of today's dollars.
(DIR) Post #AJ5KfEsw4c5pveh3FA by jovialthunder@xoxo.zone
2022-05-03T15:29:17Z
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Now usually the way this story goes is: he patents it, founds a US-based corporation, and makes its fortune by exploiting the biodiversity of other countries.
(DIR) Post #AJ5KfG2XmNNBVkCErI by jovialthunder@xoxo.zone
2022-05-03T15:29:18Z
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But he was convinced that it made more sense to, y'know, do the processing where the yams grow instead of lugging these huge things halfway across the world. His collaborators (proto-Pfizer) were like "um lol no Mexico doesn't have a pharmaceutical industry so rasicm rasicm"
(DIR) Post #AJ5KfHNUnxj7f10U9g by jovialthunder@xoxo.zone
2022-05-03T15:29:18Z
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The article doesn't say why he persisted (maybe from his experience with how hard it was to transport the damn things?), but it was enough that Marker ditched proto-Pfizer, didn't patent shit for them, and moved to Mexico to find collaborators there.
(DIR) Post #AJ5KfIOb1MCWoiWsVc by jovialthunder@xoxo.zone
2022-05-03T15:32:07Z
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Long story short, since hormones were like liquid gold, it ended up kickstarting the Mexican steroid industry and the institute of chemistry at the largest public university in Latin America.
(DIR) Post #AJ5KfJnRoRfrA5AEsq by jovialthunder@xoxo.zone
2022-05-03T15:32:07Z
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Oh, also he stopped being the only one in the world who knew how to do the process (talk about modern alchemy) after getting into another fight with his partners and left behind a lab full of unlabeled ingredients and no instructions.
(DIR) Post #AJ5KfKvdbTosfm0IHw by jovialthunder@xoxo.zone
2022-05-03T15:32:08Z
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The poor chemist the partners brought in to clean it up had to basically reinvent the process from whatever he had left behind.
(DIR) Post #AJ5KfMyC0x3H0HDMY4 by jovialthunder@xoxo.zone
2022-05-03T15:32:09Z
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Marker eventually retired to a private life of commissioning reproductions of 18th-century silversmiths' work and nitpicking the pieces by spending a lot of time in museums looking at the originals.
(DIR) Post #AJ5KfOSMUGmJc8KyDA by jovialthunder@xoxo.zone
2022-05-03T15:51:44Z
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I dunno whether to valorize the guy since his previous work was for fossil fuels, and I can't tell from these sources if his motivation was for justice & accessible medicine or being petty & starting fights with business majors... but thanks for letting me have boobs, at least.
(DIR) Post #AJ5KfQB45Y8Ax4GBWq by jovialthunder@xoxo.zone
2022-05-03T16:17:11Z
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Anyway tl;dr
(DIR) Post #AJ8DVTtNJ2gNN7B8KG by jovialthunder@xoxo.zone
2022-05-05T01:17:39Z
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Wow being on twitter makes me feel bad
(DIR) Post #ANy6Hxv2Ib2d2Fqd6W by jovialthunder@xoxo.zone
2022-09-26T21:06:27Z
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Look at this cool bug I found! (katydid, missing a leg but seems to be doing OK)
(DIR) Post #ARXqMp0Jvt6VGrb4T2 by jovialthunder@xoxo.zone
2023-01-11T20:39:35Z
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@zhuowei what are their demands
(DIR) Post #AaXm0PfHDphxsnJASO by jovialthunder@xoxo.zone
2023-10-07T20:09:08Z
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PSA #portland Kaiser covid vaccines are available again — they were out a few days ago but I was able to just schedule an appointment.
(DIR) Post #AbgeeBco7ByWIq0Ha4 by jovialthunder@xoxo.zone
2023-11-11T03:16:56Z
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Lancer Tactics progress gifs and dev vignettes: https://wick.itch.io/lancer-tactics/devlog/634012/portrait-maker-dialogue-bubbles-working-towards-a-vertical-sliceFt. a picrew-style portrait maker, recolor system via shaders, our localization pipeline, and an attack fx previewer tool.#godotengine #indiedev #gamedev
(DIR) Post #AcJJfxOWjI4mVkDfJg by jovialthunder@xoxo.zone
2023-11-29T19:09:26Z
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Spend all morning sketching out pathfinding strategies for bonus movement abilities before giving up in favor of changing the game mechanics. Sometimes #programming means you don't write a line of code and result of the better part of a day is deciding to seal off a pathway. #gamedev
(DIR) Post #AdJo3G0d1UgYWMHVD6 by jovialthunder@xoxo.zone
2023-12-30T00:12:26Z
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I am equal parts excited and afraid to announce that Lancer Tactics is moving to 3D maps, despite me having never made a full 3D game before. It looks too good to ignore and solves a buncha problems. Also I'm convinced will not be too big a swing to switch to because I've been doing an AMAZING job at keeping game logic separate from view.New year, new dimension!Full update here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wickworks/lancer-tactics/posts/3996281 #GameDev #IndieDev #LancerRPG
(DIR) Post #AjLTacRxSS0azDBLv6 by jovialthunder@xoxo.zone
2024-06-27T07:03:49Z
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@foone amazing, big "thank you for playing Wing Commander" hack energy (https://www.wcnews.com/news/update/16279)