@Knickknack @realChem I graduated in chemical engineering back in '83 and found myself in wastewater treatment consulting. I gradually transitioned to industrial wastewater and then hazardous waste remediation. It was a good gig! Retired in 2001, so it has probably all changed quite a bit. Good luck to you!

@Knickknack I volunteer with openaircollective.cc - focused on carbon dioxide removal, speaking of emerging sectors. It is all volunteer, and a good way to follow the burgeoning climate change mitigation realm. I'm using a lot of what I learned over the years in business to develop a wiki there: https://openairforum.org Come by some time!

@DocMcStuffin fwiw, this is NOT news, why is it in the NEWS feed on the fediverse?

@CadeJohnson@slrpnk.net @cybermatrix I was able to connect from my mastodon account, too, by the way.

@Dee @0x815 brilliant! NSA should simply create a whole slew of lemmy instances . . . oh, maybe they did! 😀​

@realChem I retired from being a chemical engineer in the environmental remediation of hazardous wastes and petroleum. Went sailboat cruising, and stopped along the way to teach high school chemistry four years. Now I volunteer with OpenAir Collective working on CO2 removal (from atmosphere, not point sources - later is called "capture" instead of "removal" for some reason). Without chemicals, nothing would exist!

@saltylefty fwiw, this is not NEWS, it is some internet dude's opinion about <something>. Fediverse subscribers to the news feed see this out of context and say wtf

@setsneedtofeed this is not news! This is ?? You are destroying your "brand" - who wants to subscribe to this?

@sensibilidades @realChem MOFs are hot

@ghostalmedia why is NEWS boosting this sort of content? It is a comment (no doubt profoundly wise) out of context and is just clogging up fediverse feeds.

@sockrates @CadeJohnson@slrpnk.net Thanks, I forget to mention that essential www. sometimes! Glad you were still able to find it.

@RobCornelius You are on to us! Obviously too smart by half! So, look, send me a DM with your financial data that I can pass along to our Nigerian attorney; and they will be in touch to get you a share of the next ten million. But ixna on the amsca talk - VCs might be listening. The next share might be a little small, momma needs a new yacht.

@bug well, it turns out lemmy and mastodon are not quite as compatible as hoped. I subscribed to a lemmy community from mastodon, and every comment to every news items shows in Mastodon as though the community owner boosted it. I mistakenly thought the comments were being boosted by moderators of the news community - totally my bad. I have unsubscribed now until some day when they fix that (for each news item I was getting that I wanted, I was also getting about ten comments - out of context in time order - with the rest of my feed; not a good user experience!)