Sterile_Technique
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- Comment on I always wondered why hotel rooms had bibles 2 days ago:
I see religious shit randomly littering the hospital I work at. People put fliers in waiting areas or on window sills. Couple whole-ass bibles. Lately it’s been the little plastic jesus emoji looking toys.
I put all of them in the trash.
We have a fucking chaplain, if our patients want to see that shit they can talk to him. Hitting people with religious nonsense when they’re at their lowest is predatory and should be illegal.
- Comment on Good luck with that 6 days ago:
Um, technically no one died, your Honor.
- Comment on hows keto working out for you 6 days ago:
Fair enough! Keep this in the back of your head though if you ever become critically injured or sick - daily caloric requirement goes up when you’re recovering from something, so yours specifically might be even higher than that already-higher-normal.
There comes a point where eating anything just feels gross cuz you’re already stuffed, so you’d have to start being strategic about meal/snack timing, and prioritizing high calorie foods and drinks. Hopefully your team would have access to your history in that situation, and account for that shit from square one, but YOU are your best advocate, so don’t be afraid to prod them if needed.
…and sorry lol, been doing a fuck ton of nursing school homework the past few weeks, so my brain is still in nurse mode when I hop on Lemmy. You’re basically an NCLEX question! :P
- Comment on hows keto working out for you 1 week ago:
the more I shit
I mean that’s still ‘calories out’ if you’re not actually absorbing them. Guessing you’ve already done this if it’s been a life long thing, but just in case, you might want to hit up a gastrointestinal doctor - there are conditions that cause usable nutrients to literally just go through you. You may having one of those - and if yes, knowing which will give you a path to fixing it or working around it.
Then again, 5’2 at 100 lb is only just a hair into the underweight range. If you feel good where you’re at, maybe fuck it.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 2 weeks ago:
I’ve worked with doctors who believe this shit. When this all kicked off, they immediately discarded their education to entrance the Fox dogma.
Area of study is definitely not the issue.
- Comment on Same for me 3 weeks ago:
Sigmund Freud has entered the chat.
…or a Pastor.
- Comment on Autism has been announced! 4 weeks ago:
They’re evil, not autistic. Don’t give actual autistic people a bad name.
- Comment on Lies, all lies 4 weeks ago:
Started a YouTube Music ‘radio’ list based on Avenge Sevenfold’s ‘The Wicked End’ in the operating room a few weeks ago, and after a couple hours of the algorithm digging its own rabbit hole, it phased itself out of that kind of alternative rock in favor of The Hu and viking sea shanties and just weird shit leading to weirder shit.
Fuckin loved it. Doc wasn’t a fan; circulating nurse thought it was funny and refused to change it. 10/10.
- Comment on Lies, all lies 4 weeks ago:
Sugaan Essena (Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order)
For those who haven’t played it, they’re featured as an actual in-game band. They pop up a couple times, but here’s the intro:
- Comment on Uh oh lol 4 weeks ago:
It’s the doppler effect, but with light instead of sound, and for the same reason.
Thing emits sound/light waves at a constant rate: sound/light waves hit you at a constant rate.
Thing continues to emit the same sound/light at the same rate, but starts to move toward you: sound/light waves hit you at a faster rate, causing the sound/light to turn higher-pitched/bluer.
Thing continues to emit the same sound/light at the same rate, but starts to move away from you: sound/light waves hit you at a slower rate, causing the sound/light to turn lower-pitched/redder.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
The bullshit generators we call ‘AI’ don’t assume, and aren’t frantic: they just regurgitate an output based on as much bullshit input as we can stuff into them.
The output can be more or less recognizable as bullshit, but the computer doesn’t distinguish between the two.
- Comment on Every time I make biscuits from a can 5 weeks ago:
I could have sworn there was a mod for one of the GTA games that replaces the model/skin of the grenades with can of biscuit dough. You’d throw it, it’d roll and do nothing for a sec, then there would be no actual explosion, but that muffled splat sound the cans make and so dough squeeze out from the seams.
…but the everything else responded normally as they would to a grenade; so a can of biscuit dough popping would still send people ragdolling away from it, cause cars to explode, etc.
Maybe it was just a parody gif someone made and not an actual mod? I can’t find it. Q_Q
- Comment on spidermanpointing.jpg 5 weeks ago:
*knife splits entire scene*
“…and it IS cake!!”
- Comment on Save the day 1 month ago:
Poor buddy probably thinks he’s getting a juicy grape.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 month ago:
Now that was just sour.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 1 month ago:
AI sexbots are already here. “AI” has become a synonym for just “artificial”, the “intelligence” bit seems to only be there for marketing purposes.
- Comment on Always so loud 😒 1 month ago:
Fortunately you don’t need to!
Upon sneeze initiation of non-voluntary inhalation and the iconic “Ah-” you can consciously react with a valsalva maneuver
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of the airway by retracting your tongue up toward your nasopharynx - try it now while exhaling, and if done correctly your exhale should be fully blocked and you’ll feel a slight pressure increase in your head. Doing this after that inhalation portion of a sneeze will similarly block the “-choo!” half, keeping the air and slurry of snot and pathogens all internal, at the cost of making yourself subtable to the consequences listed in OP’s article.*
not to be confused with a valsalva maneuver of the GI tract, which can cause hernias and a vasovagal response that dips your blood pressure and can make you pass out - Comment on Frick 1 month ago:
With increased size comes a reduction in mobility, increased difficulty in reproduction and maintenance of life. And an increased perception in them being a threat.
A car sized spider would be pretty much immobile, and by that size, a tactical target that would be fairly easy to hunt to extinction.
The bigger the better.
- Comment on Frick 1 month ago:
Counterargument: the big ones are much easier to notice and squash. It’s the tiny fucker that just slipped under the collar of your shirt without alerting you that you need to worry about.
I’m sure that itch you just felt was all in your head.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 1 month ago:
I can’t believe two Kennedys were assassinated, and this guy isn’t one of them.
- Comment on Prove your humanity. 1 month ago:
I made that mistake several times, but iirc it was always a recoverable error. When I stuck that hot loop into the agar it would sizzle, which would tell me I just murdered every bacterium that loop touched; so resterilize actually allow it to cool this time, and repeat the botched step in a slightly different location to pass through a section of bacteria that I hadn’t just dropped a nuke on.
…which is probably shitty technique, but it got me good enough results to get good enough data for class.
- Comment on 👁️🐽👁️ 1 month ago:
More like a giant alveolus. But inside out. With a giant sphincter in the middle. That poops light.
- Comment on leading ai company 1 month ago:
Grok is evolving
…as measured by the number of slurs it tells to minorities, or what?
- Comment on Prove your humanity. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Prove your humanity. 1 month ago:
Pretty much. It’s like a little wire loop - sterilize it with a bunsen burner, let it cool, then take a swab from your source specimen and drag it into your agar for that section 1. Sterilize it again with the burner, cool, then drag through the last couple lines of 1 to get region 2. Repeat for 3 and again for 4. The sample size of individual microbes gets exponentially fewer each time - done correctly and region 4 is dotted with individual cells, which you leave alone for a while to incubate, then come back and start making your observations like how it’s interacting with the agar, what color, texture etc; smear it onto a microscope slide, see how it responds to different stains, it’s shape, it’s arrangement… then start checking all those findings against known properties of different microbes until you find a match.
- Comment on Prove your humanity. 1 month ago:
Visual breakdown for anyone interested:
- Comment on Prove your humanity. 1 month ago:
Normal flora can become pathogenic if it finds a way to a part of your body in which it doesn’t normally reside. For example, E. coli is NOT pathogenic when it’s in your lower intestines; different story when it finds a way into your bladder. …and even within the normal ‘home’ of a microbe in question, if your internal chemistry or immune system get out of whack, sometimes that resident flora can get out of control. This is basically ‘opportunistic pathogens’ in a nutshell.
So… every square.
- Comment on Got a six-pack for me and the boys 1 month ago:
I’m half tempted to try it again on the suspicion that the can I found just wasn’t a good batch. I ain’t above being fooled twice.
- Comment on Got a six-pack for me and the boys 1 month ago:
All the memes about those things got me interested in actually trying them. Turns out those light-blue packaged ones are a pain in the ass to find in the US - eventually spotted in the European section of a ‘world foods’ type grocer. Now I’m excited to dive in: not expecting magic or anything, but this much hype on the internet is founded on something surely.
Even made toast to eat em with to get the full experience.
They tasted like… beans. They’re just beans. Nothing special about the flavor or texture. On toast they taste like beans + bread.
You fuckers had me so pumped for that shit, and they’re just fuckin’ beans.
3/10. Sated hunger and curiosity. Nothing else.
- Comment on Mammals that chose ants and termites as food almost never go back - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
Taking a moment to recognize the insanely thorough formatting on that comment. I didn’t even know Lemmy comments could look that clean. Well done sir.