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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • NegativeInf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Remember kids, when making graffiti, always cite your sources.

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      On the bathroom stall:

      Here I sit all broken hearted,

      Came to shit and only farted.

      Then one day, just by chance,

      Tried to fart and shat my pants.

      • Anonymous
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  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It looks like a mouth, it needs eyes.

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      • joyjoy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        And some lipstick.

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    • todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Disgusting!

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  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The hand dryers that promise you bacon are LYING BASTARDS!

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    • CluelessDude@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Just keep your hands there long enough

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      • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You must become the bacon you wish to see in the world

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    • M33@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      D’oh!

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  • mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Include the publishing year in your reference.

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    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      My vandals get a zero if they don’t cite with MLA.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’ll cost them two points off their grade on the paper, shame

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  • Korne127@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Funnily, that’s not really true. Such studies showing that exist but are sponsored by… paper towel companies

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    • Karjalan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Fucking dystopian late stage capitalism… Every fact is not actually a fact cause it’s sponsored by corporate interests

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      • infinite_ass@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Half the words are automatically capitalized when I text. Because they’re part of a corporation’s name.

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    • GiveMemes@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes, and the ones that show air dryers to be healthier are funded by… hand dryer manufacturers.

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      • RQG@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Someone should fund independent research.

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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Good time to share How to use one paper towel (to thoroughly dry your hands in a public restroom).

    Shake. Fold. It really does work.

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    • UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      that was a nice watch, but more times than not I just use my pants

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      • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I try to use your pants too, but you walk really fast.

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    • Mango@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Eyyy I love this guy!

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    • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Glad you posted it, this dude is oddly compelling! One of the few talks I remember and actually act on regularly…

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    • oldfart@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The next person in line breathing in your neck dries your neck as an added bonus!

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    • averyminya@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Can’t watch at the moment; is this the guy who says to shake 7 times before you dry?

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      • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        12, but I do 7 or 8 usually.

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  • Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I particularly hate those airblade things even more than regular air dryers. I like that they’re faster and typically not as gross and warm but they are designed in a way where you feed your hand in to a narrow gap with powerful air jets on front of and behind your hands in this gap. Your hands are not a completely uniform symmetrical shape, the jets buffets your hand around and it inevitably touches the device where the jets are located, right where everyone else has had the same thing happen. It grosses me out.

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    • srestegosaurio@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And also incredibly loud too.

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And they don’t dry as well, and the air moves faster so whatever is living in the water drops on your hands (depending really on how thoroughly you wash your hands) gets flung further, spread better in the space

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    • nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah after the first two times trying to use them and my hands got blown into one of the sides i said fuck it, I’ll use my shirt if no paper towels are available.

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      • JoseALerma@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Japan doesn’t have paper towels or air dryers in their bathrooms.

        Why?

        Because everyone carries a handkerchief to dry their hands. They even sell them at airports when you land.

        I’ve been trying to bring back the handkerchief in the States, but not as many places sell them

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  • BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yet, the best hand dryers are still your trousers

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    • derpgon@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Zero waste and zero bacteria spread, truly perfect.

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      • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Denim is naturally anti-microbial

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    • kriz@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Pants dry, trees die!

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Is this true? Seriously curious.

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    • Mannivu@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Unfortunately it is very much true.

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      • daddy32@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        This is not hot air though, so the cited source does not apply.

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      • Artyom@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        They used a jet air dryer, those are the shitty ones that spray everything everywhere. Of course it’ll be worse. I’d like to see how a dyson air blade hold up under that kind of test.

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  • omega_x3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Why are there germs on your hands right after washing them? Didn’t mythbusters already test it and concluded that they are only bad when people don’t really wash their hands.

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    • Bassman1805@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes.

      The followup question is “how many people think getting their hands wet without soap is sufficient hand-washing” and the answer is not terribly comforting.

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      that they are only bad when people don’t really wash their hands.

      Well, yes.

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Do you ever watch people wash their hands? Many wet them then dry them. A few rub a little soap around them. Nearly no one does the full hand wash method recommended by health organisations (where each finger is individually washed)

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      • FarceOfWill@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        To be fair they probably didn’t rub each individual finger over their disgusting body parts while in the toilet.

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  • blind3rdeye@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I just wish people would know how to use paper towels so that they don’t end up wasting huge piles of them for nothing. 1 sheet is enough. You don’t need 5. Do it like this:

    • After washing your hands, brush excess water off each hand using your other hand. Your hands should not be dripping wet when you reach for the paper towel.
    • Take a single paper towel. Don’t scrunch it up, and don’t just clasp the towel. Use all parts of the paper towel to deliberately wipe your hands. The paper towels are quite absorbent. They don’t need to be 100% dry to remove the water from your hands.

    The end. If you do this, your hands will not be wet. You will not need a second paper towel.

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    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You missed something. You gotta fold the paper in half. The capillary action will trap more water in between the folded halves than it could unfolded.

      The Shake & Fold method. There was a Ted Talk!

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    • 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I mean if you need two or three, that’s still way better than grabbing 20.

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    • Frozengyro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yea, wouldn’t want to use 2 sheets. But like that stuff grows on trees.

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      • blind3rdeye@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Funny joke. But yeah, the creation, distribution, and disposal are not free - even if they are created from trees. Using two sheets isn’t a big deal, but why use double what you need?

        Anyway, I’m not trying to say we need to be super-frugal with our paper towels. I’m really talking about people who just keep grabbing more and more of them until their hands are dry. I’m sure we’ve all seen bins overflowing with barely-used paper towels. We don’t need that.

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  • daddy32@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’ll just leave this here:

    Hygiene associated with the product has been questioned in research by the University of Westminster Trade Group, London and sponsored by the paper towel industry the European Tissue Symposium

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    • Kbobabob@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s ok to be cautious, but if the data is accurate then it doesn’t matter much.

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      • leverage@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Also, how is their research any worse than the one sponsored by Dyson, who is trying to sell overpriced hand dryers.

        Anyone who has ever seen one of these more than a few weeks old knows how disgusting they get because cleaning crews were never trained to clean them. I’m assuming that isn’t considered in Dyson’s version of the research at all. There’s one in a bathroom in my area that is covered in mold.

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  • Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This has been debunked btw. Fwiw, there is a huge behind the scenes fight between big towel and big airblow.

    I’m not kidding. But basically drying via air is much more hygienic in actuality.

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    • Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      As long as you use soap at the very least. How can you blow germs around if you just killed most of them?

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      • filcuk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Trouble is a lot of people are gross and will do the wroom wroom to make people think they washed their hands, or just wash poorly in the first place.

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  • zephorah@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    My biggest issue is the decibel level. I can hear, for now, but the decibel level on those things makes one of my ears feel like it’s being blasted out of my skull and induces ringing.

    I use the paper because it doesn’t hurt my ear.

    Yes, I’ve seen a doctor, it simply is what it is and my only recourse for that ear is to wear ear protection. In any public restroom, apparently.

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    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      My daughter is extremely noise sensitive and can’t handle the noise of those either. After a really rough 2 hour drive involving 3 gas station stops because she refused to even try to use one due to the auto-flushing toilet my wife suggested “making an app to track public bathrooms with air dryers and autoflushing toilets” and I’ve been debating if I want to start tagging every public bathroom I visit on Open Street Map with the toilet flush mechanism and existence of air dryers. And if i did so I’d probably also mark what changing table amenities are available and if there’s more/less changing table amenities in the womens’ or mens’ rooms.

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      • uniquethrowagay@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Time to get some good noise cancelling headphones for your daughter

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      • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Can you use osm to do that? How do I mark free parking spots and street parking spots as well?

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      • polarpear11@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I would use that app.

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      • zephorah@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You can buy boxes of moldable foam earplugs which can do very well for noise blocking. Individually wrapped in pairs. They carry well in a back pocket. Those work if you’re ok with the sensation of something in your ears, don’t have ear tubes, or some other contraindicated condition.

        An aesthetically pleasing pair of full muffs can also work. Sometimes kids need their environment dimmed, and the muffs can work rather well.

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    • Delzur@vegantheoryclub.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They absolutely are loud. I avoir them as much as possible even though I don’t have ear issues (yet, I gguess)

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  • Sabata11792@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Are you calling the air powered piss blasters gross?

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    • dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Pneumatic urinator

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  • riodoro1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s insane we keep using those things after covid. Their fucking disgusting.

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  • BigBrainBrett2517@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    How can it spread germs if the germs are 99% gone after having washed your hands with soap? We’re assuming people aren’t washing their hands properly, right?

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  • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    But I thought all the piss sterilizes them.

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  • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I mean sure, but!

    … It trains everyone to make the silly nyaa anime catgirl poses with our arms and hands.

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  • oldfart@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It sucks that the only device that works spreads germs. Will humanity ever find a hand drying method that not only dries hands but is also safe?

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  • BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Wilcox et al were working in a hospital setting and just found that the air bacterial counts were higher around hand dryers than around paper towel dispensers, which doesn’t establish whether the hand dryers are actually a source of bacteria. A more recent meta-analysis found mixed outcomes. So both the sign and the graffito need to revise and resubmit, ideally with a more comprehensive survey of the published literature.

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  • yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Every few years either the paper towels or the dryer spreads more germs, depends on the mood you know.

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  • BmeBenji@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I kinda got that sense from the moment that “AirBlade” sprayed all my germy hand water up into my face

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  • WhyFlip@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    All air dryers are trash, always have been.

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  • rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Paper towels can be recycled

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  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I can’t fathom how those dyson piece of shit blade hand dryers were chosen at so many places instead of like a Columbia Vortex.

    Those nasty ass dysons near guarantee you touch the inside of them, all while misting water back up towards your face.

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  • infinite_ass@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    UV kills the germs. They should install lamps. Added bonus everybody gets tan hands.

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  • BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    tried using one of those hand dryers and it made my hands smell terrible

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  • M33@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Noted. Thanks OP

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Inconclusive sauce here: mander.xyz/post/21607221/15388187

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