Sterile_Technique
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- Comment on Sounds interesting. Would definitely like to try it out 1 day ago:
‘lol-butt-plug’ aside, bass is as much about how it feels as how it sounds. I wonder if bass generation from a rectally inserted speaker would cause that booming/fluttering feeling you get in your chest at a concert.
I mean… It’s a testable hypothesis at least. For science!
- Comment on Existential dread 1 week ago:
This actually brings back memories, lol.
So I’m a surgical tech- I set the OR up for surgery before a case with all the supplies and instruments that specific case calls for; am the surgeon’s bitch during the operation; and tear down once it’s all done. When I first started this job, I had to write up a case report on every new surgery I did to show familiarity with the anatomy we were working around and be able to anticipate the types of instrumentation we needed, and getting info for those case reports was kind of a pain in the ass. Everything is either directed at patients (lots of detail on preop, “and then you’ll be asleep for the surgery” and lots of details on postop), or to the surgeon, which goes into WAY more detail than I needed using terminology I didn’t understand.
Enter YouTube. One of the best ways to get that data was to just look up a recording of the surgery on YouTube and just write down what I saw.
I’m also a nerd, so when I wasn’t looking up videos on surgery, I was looking up videos on things like physics or sci-fi.
Turns out that did some weird things to YouTube’s algorithm… it basically poured ‘surgery’ and ‘weird nerdy shit’ into the same cup, and started making some of the most fucked up video recommendations I’ve ever seen… one of which was a video of a guy giving anesthesia to a cockroach with ice water, and then sticking a diode or something into its little roach brain that connected to a circuit board backpack like the one shown in the OP. He could then use a remote to stimulate two different parts of its brain or something, and if he did this while it was running, it would reliably turn left or right, so… remote control cockroach.
Tbh, the pic on the OP might actually be from that same video.
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- Comment on What's a TV series you've tried repeatedly to get into, but can't? 2 weeks ago:
There are some clips with the laugh track removed, and they really illustrate how not funny that show is. It’s just a long slew of broken conversations with awkward pauses.
I have the same opinion of any show that relies on a laugh track - if you have to trick my brain into laughing because ‘everyone else is doing it’, then your shit isn’t funny.
- Comment on You really have to reach back to remember how THIS worked in your car 2 weeks ago:
64gb USB stick filled to the brim with pirated music. No skipping, no ads. This is the way.
- Comment on What's a TV series you've tried repeatedly to get into, but can't? 2 weeks ago:
Medieval fantasy. The similarities may end there, but the point is it’s a mediocre medieval fantasy that leans heavily on tits to keep the audience watching.
- Comment on What's a TV series you've tried repeatedly to get into, but can't? 2 weeks ago:
Game of Thrones. It was like a less interesting version of Lord of the Rings, with a few mins of porn sprinkled throughout each episode.
My take away was that if you want to watch LoTR, then watch LoTR. If you want to watch porn, watch porn. But pouring both into the same cup doesn’t make it good. …which is apparently an unpopular opinion.
- Comment on Every news article about the internet be like 2 weeks ago:
I mean, the internet is used 1) for cat videos, and 2) to spread massive amounts of misinformation, which has recently caused a surge in popularity of neonazis, particularly among Gen Z according to exit polls, and one of the first things the nazis took aim at was porn sites.
So… OP isn’t even satire - that shit happened word for word.
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- Comment on Madame Gasket 3 weeks ago:
Our boy’s all grown up! :'-)
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, as a stopgap that just releases out of nowhere for the sole purpose of building hype for the actual Witcher 4, kinda like how Bethesda did with their random vault dweller mobile game, I’d be all for it.
Bonus points if it’s 16 bit.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 3 weeks ago:
There were multiple endings depending on the choices you make throughout the game. Same for the two DLCs.
The ‘good’ endings were in the base game she confronts the winter and succeeds, returns to Geralt as a father figure, and lives on as a witcher. Then in the Blood & Wine DLC, Geralt basically retires in his own vineyard.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 3 weeks ago:
They need to release a fake “Witcher 4” that’s just an older Geralt moping around his vineyard bitching about how his knees hurt. All of his quests would be things like pestering his workers about how badass he used to be, going to town to return a watermelon to the fruit vendor because of a mushy spot he didn’t notice when he purchased it, shit like that.
All the while, the townsfolk would slip idle chatter about crazy shit that Ciri’s doing off camera.
- Comment on Star Citizen’s new cash shop offerings provoked fresh pay-to-win and predatory monetization accusations | Massively Overpowered 4 weeks ago:
Start Citizen looked so fucking cool when it was announced like 15 years ago. Since then it’s dipped lower and lower every single time new info comes out.
Like, the hopefully dumbasses that got burned initially like my dumb ass did with No Man’s Sky, I kinda get… but how the absolute fuck are they still getting sales?? Are there seriously still people that don’t know it’s a scam?
- Comment on It's My Nature 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on For reference 5 weeks ago:
Banana for scale?
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 5 weeks ago:
It was posted 8 years ago, so slightly easier to gather up those relics then.
If I had to guess, the guy might have worked IT for a school or something that went through a modernization, with all the old tech going to the dumpster; got the idea and jumped on it.
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 5 weeks ago:
On the off chance you haven’t experienced the Floppotron:
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on this post is just 42kib 5 weeks ago:
I mean… if we reeeaaally wanna carbon date ourselves…
- Comment on My playlist, everyone 5 weeks ago:
Getting Falling in Reverse vibes.
…also this thread needs more links!
- Comment on My playlist, everyone 5 weeks ago:
…don’t leave us hanging, what did the bartender say?!
- Comment on Ancient 5 weeks ago:
“Back when I was your age in the late 1900s…”
- Comment on I don't know who The Rizzler is and Im not interested. 1 month ago:
50s dude could uno-reverse card that shit by breaking out the slang from his own teen years. Get all the gens conversing this way in one thread just for pure chaos-sake.
- Comment on Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company 1 month ago:
I want teamspeak and vent
xFire. God I miss xFire. It was better 10 years ago than any service before or since.
Iirc Yahoo frivolous-lawsuit’ed them out of existence. Q_Q
- Comment on I see you 1 month ago:
Hey a dopamine hit is a dopamine hit. Someone liking your post enough to upvote it is basically getting an internet first-bump. It’s not much, but getting that approval from people does feel good.
…we all have the super-power of literally administering a tiny dose of dopamine to nearly anyone in the world.
- Comment on This is so strange! Usually, they wait 15 days to elect a new Pope. We could be seeing history in the making. 1 month ago:
- Comment on oh yeeeeeee 1 month ago:
The real shitpost is always in the shitpost.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 US price won’t increase after tariffs, but accessories will cost more 1 month ago:
- Comment on nature is music 2 months ago:
Where I disagree is that someone having a quote from a religious thing is invalid, when it’s not actively pushing to convert. Just kinda existing showing religion is there. But I guess we just have different perceptions of what passes for “down-your-throatism”.
I mean that’s something we can explore… the post is about some of the cool euphonic examples you can run into in nature or space. The top level comment I took issue with just popped in out of the blue with ‘yay god!’ …like, does the Quran or Bible or w/e say anything about the sound of the cosmos? By all means, share that - it’d relevant to at least some extent, even if it isn’t scientific.
Another approach - role reversal! Let’s say you’re really into knitting and you find some cool new design that you wanted to share with the internet; so you do. Then I pop in and say “Man, that reminds me: isn’t Satan just the coolest?! Freedom from tyranny and all that - everything just reflects back on what a quality god he is!” …your reaction would probably be akin to “…what the actual fuck? What does that have to do with knitting?” So even if I was a satanist, that wouldn’t be an appropriate time to bring it up; nor could I accuse you of being anti-satanist for pointing that out.
But that’s what I mean by religious down-throatism. I’m not calling for a ban on religious content, I’m asking that religious people use the same discretion you would with any other topic. Like, I really enjoy old-school RPGs, Symphonic Metal, Indian food, (and, and, and,) but that hypothetical thread about knitting isn’t an appropriate place to post about any of those either.
I’d wager that vast majority, if not all, of the negative response this comment chain started with was from that angle. As opposed to targeted religious bigotry, which is not and should not be tolerated.
- Comment on nature is music 2 months ago:
My beef is with religious down-throatism. I don’t care if it’s Islam, or Christianity, or Satanism, or the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
If you want to talk about your favorite ghost story, make or visit a community for it - it has no place here.
