I like to think that you enjoy living dangerously to the extent that there are one or two deeply entertaining pictures, and this truly is random.

Roll the dice, good sir

Only a psycho physicist would help build the sorts of Serious Apparatus a psychophysicist wants.

Source: I know the physicist who helped Weisel and Hubel build their Serious Apparatus.

(Trigger warning: if you like cats, don’t look this up.)

The problem is desensitization from the high level of existential risk tolerance presently needed for just day-to-day life

Honestly, unsure. It depends on whether I can make it out. Many questions between now and then, which hopefully will be answered on the soon side.

I am amused by the idea of “useless plutonium”, presumably bought from some shady 2-bit back alley plutonium dealer.

Do you have a backpack keg with an IV feed?

It's real. I've had Kumis, of both the Horse and Cow variety. It's genuinely not bad. Like sparkling Yakult taken another step...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumis

Everyone in my lab fights Noodles...

This is a wonderful idea. I will have to find some appropriately large snakes for the coming defenses in my life.