Sterile_Technique

@Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frick⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t believe two Kennedys were assassinated, and this guy isn’t one of them.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prove your humanity.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Grok is evolving

  …as measured by the number of slurs it tells to minorities, or what?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prove your humanity.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prove your humanity.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Visual breakdown for anyone interested:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prove your humanity.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please bro⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  defining what AGI is

  What AI was before marketing redefined AI to mean image recognition/generation algorithms or a spellchecker/calculator that’s wrong every now and then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please bro⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What are we going to call actual AI when AGI starts being bastardized by marketing the way “AI” was before it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beyond Beef? Impossible Beef? I Can't Believe It's Not Beef?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Beet. It even makes more sense as a play on words than ‘beef’ anyway, in the context of an argument.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now I finally get it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Iirc Oregon or Colorado legalized pot and gay marriage at virtually the same time. I remember the memes of a freaked out preacher yelling “NO NOT LIKE THAT!!” lol. Good times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: WASH YOUR HANDS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That makes a ton more sense - thank you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: WASH YOUR HANDS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …what’s actually making the cysts radiopaque? I wouldn’t have guessed tape worms or the damage they’re doing to soft tissue to be anywhere near that visible on x-ray

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: WASH YOUR HANDS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, that’s a good a selling point as any.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Makes sense⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice! This was my first one - definitely had me scouring the entire image once I started noticing the weirdness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Makes sense⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be more concerned about the flying saucer critter eyeing them down.

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  …or the lit stick of dynamite a few feet away from the dude’s head.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Southern USA core.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you know Alabamans refuse to have sex in the ‘doggy style’ position?

   

  They never turn their back on family!

  🥁 🥁 🛎️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My 'murican life...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think White Castle Sliders need much of a transformation to land at heart disease.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mice⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Millennial here. I’ve never heard it either. /shrug.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bird based storage⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One standard murmur.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bird based storage⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …well, now it’s an animated .gif but each frame is a separate bird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bird based storage⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Starlingk*

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THIS happens way too often⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Get in the habit of composing your emails in a specific order. My preference is:

  Write the title, upload attachments, write the body, choose the recipient(s).

  Doing the recipients last in particular gives you that extra few seconds to consider all the other elements so you can realize and correct any mistakes before hitting send. I used to do shit like send w/o attachments or send to the wrong/not all of the intended recipients all the time, but following the same order has basically idiot-proofed it against myself.

  10/10, do recommend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨well?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can barely afford rent!

  Well… the good news is you can stretch your income a bit further with spaghettification!