One of the best ways to get information out of people who are hoarding knowledge is to say something so blatantly false to them that they can’t help but lecture you on why you’re wrong.
Life pro tip for friends of pharmacists
Submitted 2 months ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to science_memes@mander.xyz
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RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
peppy@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
ah yes. Murphy’s law.
Ethanol@pawb.social 2 months ago
Uhm actually, that is Cunningham’s law after Howard Cunningham, developer of the first wiki!
Murphy’s law states that “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong” smhmh.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 months ago
ಠ_ಠ
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Or of they are a nurse, ask them which home remedy is best for burns: toothpaste or powder coffee?
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Vaseline
PaintedSnail@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Get fancy and use Vicks
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yellow Mustard.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Habanero juice mixed with vicks.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
tell them to put a whole onion in their sock and call it a day
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Butter
Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Tiger balm.
ODuffer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just tell them the joke was weak, and move on with your life.
deacon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Grapefruit poultice
JuliaSuraez@lemmy.world 2 months ago
As a joke it’s perfect 😂 but also: please don’t actually do this—finishing antibiotics as prescribed (or calling your doc if you’re having side effects) is the real pro tip.
Bubs12@lemmy.cafe 2 months ago
Looks like we found the pharmacist.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If you’re ever lost in a forest, and you want to be rescued, just start building a house. Someone will magically appear to ask if you have a building permit.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In telecoma version is take a fibre optic cable with you and burry it. A backhoe will promptly arrive to dig it up.
Anarch157a@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
If you’re in the desert, start mixing a Dry Martini, an Englishman will appear to tell your recipe is wrong and his is the correct one.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Put on a pair of headphones and start listening to something. Then set about to making shelter or building a fire or something. You’ll be rescued as soon as your hands are full because someone will come along to ask you the single most inane question of your life.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We need one of these for every field.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 months ago
I bet optometrists have opinions about people who have less-than-ideal vision but don’t want to wear glasses for vanity reasons
contacts exist, but y'know ...
understandably many people don’t want to use them either - as someone who wore contacts daily for a couple of years, learning to put in contacts was kinda similar to learning to deepthroat.
janja@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Saving for
learning to put in contacts was kinda similar to learning to deepthroat
ickplant@lemmy.world 2 months ago
learning to put in contacts was kinda similar to learning to deepthroat.
I’m 💀.
I think contacts are harder though cause I still can’t put them in.
Furbag@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Got any deepthroating tips? Asking for a friend…
Draegur@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
i wonder if hearing people talk about radiation as though it’s an infection that can spread from person to person makes other nuclear enthusiasts twitch as much as it makes me…
or hearing someone imply that any nuclear reactor can explode in exactly the same manner that an atomic bomb does “by accident”.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 months ago
talk about radiation as though it’s an infection that can spread from person to person
It does if you practice cannibalism!
pivot_root@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“OK, I unplugged the computer. … No, I still hear the fans. … What? You mean the footrest? Why would I unplug that?”
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
"I would try Linux, but I’m not some command-line hacker type. I like a nice GUI and Linux just can’t compete with the big guys on that front with all the “packages” or whatever bloating up your knock-off OS.
djmikeale@feddit.dk 2 months ago
Here’s my 50 CSV files for you to create a powerbi report on top of.
As well as
How do I export the data from my report to CSV?
slappyfuck@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Don’t you dare!
Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Plumber “hot water heater”
Accountant “.02 cents”
josephc@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I know you asked for CSV but it wasn’t showing up right so I saved it as PDF. Can I send that to you?
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sends it by taking a photo of the screen, which displays part of the PDF and some questional browser tabs are clearly visible in the photo.
bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 months ago
I just had a thought, do they still put a shitload of antibiotics into animal feeds on factory farms? Doesn’t that contribute to antibiotic resistance?
Sniatch@feddit.org 2 months ago
Just another good reason to not eat animals
titanicx@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Don’t look at what being used to fertilize your fruits and vegetables. Don’t look at what being sprayed on any of those fruits and vegetables. Don’t look at any of the other pieces of the food chain.
TheBlackLounge@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
We still give them shitloads yeah, but it’s complicated. Changes have been made globally. There’s basically no risk to us. The antibiotics don’t get into our food, and the superbugs that might breed aren’t viable in humans. Wild animals still pose more risk.
Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
and the superbugs that might breed aren’t viable in humans.
But diseases jump from non-humans to humans all the time?
At least, Wikipedia chooses to spell out the sentence “Most human diseases originated in non-humans” and lists a who’s who of pandemics as such: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZoonosisOr do you mean something different?
Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Yeah, from what I understand, countries try to regulate the use of antibiotics, so that we don’t blow the most potent ones, a.k.a. new ones, right away. But on some level, we’re reliant on regularly discovering new antibiotics, which isn’t great.
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 months ago
oh my man/lass, next time you buy a tangerine have a look at the label on what they put on the skin
titanicx@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
They also have to remember that doesn’t count what gets put in the ground to fertilize that plant to make it grow.
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Course lengths for antibiotics isn’t well studied. From this article:
In fact, the optimal length of treatment in many common infections is not well studied and may be more than a little arbitrary. One infectious diseases doctor has suggested, somewhat satirically, that most of our current rules for antibiotic administration have more to do with the number of days in the week than they do with robust scientific evidence.
We have a growing and, frankly, terrifying issue of antibiotic resistant bacteria from over prescribing and longer than necessary courses.
GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
What the fuck. They told me that antibiotic resistant bacteria was caused by taking too little antibiotics. Who can I trust now???
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Over, under, and misuse have resulted in adaptations by bacteria. Which is to say, life evolves. Its too bad, and there is still a role for antibiotics in our world, but we have to trim our use of it.
Contramuffin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Realistically, most of the antibiotic resistance issues actually arise from antibiotic usage in farm animals. Turns out you get better and fatter growth if you microdose animals with antibiotics. Of course, that’s the perfect circumstance for promoting antibiotic resistance. And at the current massive scale of animal farming, antibiotic resistance spreads quickly.
But, you know, that’s an acceptable cost when you consider all the shareholder value that you create by having slightly fatter animals.
Funny thing is, antibiotic resistance is an energetically costly evolution, and studies show that as long as you drop antibiotic usage below a certain amount, evolution would actually favor deleting antibiotic resistance genes. In other words, if we stopped using antibiotics on farm animals, a large amount of antibiotic resistance would just evaporate basically overnight. Then realize that that would never happen with our current governments
shrugs@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Let me ruffle all your feathers: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6736742/
Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it 2 months ago
Where in that document does it say that patients should decide on their own to stop taking antibiotics because they “feel better now”?
This is something one can bring up with the doctor who prescribed it, but not a decision to make on feelings.
shrugs@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Where in my post did I say that patients should decide on their own to stop taking medication?
I tried to share some information, that show nothing is black and white and only because someone believes to know something, that can still be wrong.
Heavybell@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That is interesting. But a consideration for the doctor, not the layperson. Everyday people should still take the full course prescribed and hope their physician has prescribed the right dose.
shrugs@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You are absolutely right. People should trust their doctors, but doctors should also update their knowledge.
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Well that was unexpectedly interesting.
Thank you for sharing.
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
So why do you have to take rhe full thing of antibiotics? It has never been explained to me
joe_archer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is exactly the same as saying to a software developer: “I was going to ask you to write me some software to do this, but I’ll just get AI to do it instead”
AlboTheGuy@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Works great with your local autistic friend too, or anyone with any semblance of common sense
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“👍”
“Oof. I wonder what I did to piss them off?”
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Just apply some casual emotional manipulation by suggesting self harm and watch the other person trying to ensure you don’t harm yourself.
Is exactly what “Jessica Fletcher” is suggesting. Please don’t…
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 months ago
If you have any friend who is ignoring you, you don’t have a friend.
5oap10116@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If you have a friend who’s
a pharmacistnot a dipshitBronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 2 months ago
Better yet, tell them you were taking antibiotics for a “viral” infection, like a cold.
philpo@feddit.org 2 months ago
And the infectiologist and the microbiologist will then scold the pharmacist and here you go, you started a bar fight.
fuentessaige208@lemmy.world 2 months ago
test comment
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Jessica Fletcher eh. 🕵️♂️
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My blood is boiling
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I worked at a hospital for 20 years… in IT, I wanna start scolding just reading this!
this gets more then just pharmacists excited!
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Fr! Not even pharmacist, just anyone with a passive knowledge of germ theory!
Landless2029@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My elderly parents showing me clearly AI videos of a $30 robot puppy…
I couldn’t convince them it was AI. I tried to explain CGI with shit like Pixar and Disney movies but it didn’t work. NICOO puppy
That shit should be illegal.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They must have known that CGI in Pixar and Disney movies is very different from an AI-generated video and concluded that you had no idea what you were talking about based on that inaccuracy.
tetris11@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Hi there, I work in a small lab just upstairs and was wondering if it’s okay if I spoof a few MAC addresses to get wired internet and then use my personal VPN to torrent a few GB’s of films and games? I’m sure you understand
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I mean, a few GB would probably be done in a few seconds, so no big deal, just don’t seed past 1.5. The VPN actually makes it easier on the routers if there’s any NAT going on because the VPN handles managing the individual connection forwarding table.
Now if you said a few TB, that might be an issue.
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Haha! Yeah, I’m just a GP’s son and even I wouldn’t resist the urge on that one!