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 3 weeks ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to science_memes@mander.xyz
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RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
peppy@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
ah yes. Murphy’s law.
Ethanol@pawb.social 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
ಠ_ಠ
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Or of they are a nurse, ask them which home remedy is best for burns: toothpaste or powder coffee?
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Vaseline
PaintedSnail@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Get fancy and use Vicks
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yellow Mustard.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Habanero juice mixed with vicks.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
tell them to put a whole onion in their sock and call it a day
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Butter
Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Tiger balm.
ODuffer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Just tell them the joke was weak, and move on with your life.
deacon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Grapefruit poultice
JuliaSuraez@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 weeks ago
Looks like we found the pharmacist.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
We need one of these for every field.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Saving for
learning to put in contacts was kinda similar to learning to deepthroat
ickplant@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 weeks ago
Got any deepthroating tips? Asking for a friend…
Draegur@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Don’t you dare!
Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Plumber “hot water heater”
Accountant “.02 cents”
josephc@lemmy.ml 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 weeks ago
Just another good reason to not eat animals
titanicx@lemmy.zip 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Let me ruffle all your feathers: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6736742/
Dekkia@this.doesnotcut.it 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 weeks ago
You are absolutely right. People should trust their doctors, but doctors should also update their knowledge.
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Well that was unexpectedly interesting.
Thank you for sharing.
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago
Works great with your local autistic friend too, or anyone with any semblance of common sense
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“👍”
“Oof. I wonder what I did to piss them off?”
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
If you have any friend who is ignoring you, you don’t have a friend.
5oap10116@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If you have a friend who’s
a pharmacistnot a dipshitBronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 2 weeks ago
Better yet, tell them you were taking antibiotics for a “viral” infection, like a cold.
philpo@feddit.org 2 weeks 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 weeks ago
test comment
victorz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Jessica Fletcher eh. 🕵️♂️
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My blood is boiling
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Fr! Not even pharmacist, just anyone with a passive knowledge of germ theory!
Landless2029@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago
Haha! Yeah, I’m just a GP’s son and even I wouldn’t resist the urge on that one!