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Mahnax

Mar 16, 2016 18:16

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1746-8361.12128/abstract

Mahnax

Mar 1, 2016 01:54

@IͶΔ In training. Undergraduate.

Mahnax

Mar 1, 2016 01:54

@MετάEd I have 250g of that in my lab, no need to make it.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:35

I'm off to go synthesize some [NiBr(Mes)(dppe)], so you folks have a good afternoon.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:33

Daycare is a mess, and I doubt we'll see it cleaned up nicely anytime soon.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:32

Full, and still outrageously costly for the average family.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:32

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 That's so frustrating. Getting more daycare money won't do anything when all the daycares are full.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:31

It's unheard of. Completely ridiculous.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:29

Still a pretty big gaffe either way.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:28

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I've heard it was pretty sloppily done—might have just been a mistake.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:26

Prosperity Bonus

The Prosperity Bonus, also nicknamed Ralph bucks, announced in September 2005, is the name given to a program designed to pay money back to residents of the Canadian province of Alberta as a result of a massive oil-fuelled provincial budget surplus. Alberta Premier Ralph Klein announced that each person in Alberta would receive $400 sometime in January 2006. This represented $1.4 billion (20%) of the $6.8 billion surplus. The money was not taxed by either the federal or provincial governments. All Albertans who were residents of the province as of September 1 and filed a 2004 tax return with the...

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:26

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Was it in 2005/6? Was probably Ralphbucks.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:26

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Remember RalphBucks? LOL.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:26

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 That's right! Alberta's going to hell in a handbasket and we'd better separate quick!

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:23

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Yeah. They're on the upswing now though. It happens every few years—people get upset about Greedy Socialists Stealing Our Oil Money and Shipping it To Québec, and go to meetings, and maybe have a protest sometime.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:22

Fun fact: I serve coffee to one of the writers of that article almost regularly.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:22

If you want to read a crude Vice article about it, here you go.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:22

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Ever since we got an NDP premier and a Liberal PM, the Separatists are on the rise. Not in serious numbers, but still.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:20

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 you heard much about the albertan seperatist movement? Hilarious stuff.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:17

@KitZ.Fox Ding ding ding.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:16

@KitZ.Fox He is. He had dual Canadian-American citizenship until 2014, when he renounced his Canadian citizenship.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:15

@KitZ.Fox That's what his Wikipedia page is telling me.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:14

Also, should I do organometallic or computational chem next year?

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:14

@KitZ.Fox His mother was a citizen of the US at the time, so it's been ruled A-OK.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:13

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Shocking. And apparently, his childhood home is inhabited by an elderly socialist.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:12

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Oh, nice. BTW—did you know that Cruz is from Calgary?

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:12

@KitZ.Fox I know. Just being facetious :)

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:11

@KitZ.Fox Someone threw a shoe at him, so I reckon it did.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:11

I'm a fan of Sanders' political history. Protested segregation in college. Cool kid.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:10

@KitZ.Fox Jeb could barely get a sentence out, and a coherent one was simply out of the question.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:09

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Damn!

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:09

Personally, of the two Dem. nominees, I'm not really in love with either. Slight preference for Sanders, I think—not on board with Clinton's vote for the Iraq war. I'm hoping for a Jeb! comeback so that the GOP is swiftly defeated when election day rolls around.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:06

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I've seen predictions both ways. I think that in the endgame, a Trump nomination would result in a Democrat presidency, regardless of the Democrat nominee.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:04

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Exactly. On one hand, a president can't just do whatever they want. On the other, a president is still very powerful. Ted Cruz is no bundle of roses either, on another note.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 19:03

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I've heard the argument that a Trump presidency would open a lot of people's eyes to the brokenness of the system.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 17:48

Gotta run, but I'll be around. Take it easy, folks!

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 17:48

Super cool.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 17:48

I'll take a look. I perused the open positions… wow. You guys have some really high-level stuff going on.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 17:46

The genetics stuff is something I could see myself doing, but it would mean a pretty big change from the current path I'm on. But that's what happens in grad school.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 17:44

Or was, rather.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 17:43

The black menu bar is doing something funky.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 17:42

The website is spiffy!

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 17:41

Woah. This is so cool.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 17:38

Sent!

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 17:37

Though I prefer to use my uni address now, I'll email you.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 17:35

Would you mind sharing a website? If not, I understand. I am curious, though.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 17:33

@KitZ.Fox Cool! I love that sort of stuff. I wish I'd taken more Biology in first year so I could take a genetics class.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 17:32

Oh, and if anyone's interested, you should be able to read the full-length article here.

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 17:31

What do you folks do specifically?

Mahnax

Feb 29, 2016 17:30

That sounds right up my alley :) Still a few years away though.

Mahnax

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