Sterile_Technique
@Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
- Comment on Americans will find a new way to ruin their tastebuds every single day 2 days ago:
Sweet flavors are nothing on wings.
I wouldn’t expect to actually enjoy wings that get the sweet from koolaid, but fuck it I’m down to try a bite.
- Comment on Stay on the designated path 2 days ago:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggressive_mimicry
We are prey.
- Comment on Report: In Western Countries, 41% of the Jobs Done By Young People are at Risk Disappearing Due to Automation 5 days ago:
Sounds like the problem there is more with shitty dictatorships. Leave it to a few evil assholes to ruin a good thing. But even in best case scenario of giving everyone the freedom to use the entirety of every day the way they want, it’s going to be a very, VERY mixed bag. There will be folks who literally spend the rest of their life watching TV or some other form of idle entertainment, but if that’s how they want to spend it, more power to em. I’d guess the majority of folks would engage in some form of arts just to have an outlet for creativity. Relatively few would turn to academics and pursue research for the sole sake of finding answers; but even that relative few would count for something… I think most important would be the kinds of things people study. Today we have a TON of talent wasted on finding clever new ways to blow each other up, or enshittifying the web, or perfecting the psychology of advertisements… if those people were all focused on, say, climate change… then we might not be in the whole planet-on-fire situation we’re in now.
Speaking of, we’ll probably be extinct before we figure out how to pull our political heads out of our asses anyway. Humanity actually living up to its potential is locked into the “wouldn’t it be nice if…” category.
- Comment on Report: In Western Countries, 41% of the Jobs Done By Young People are at Risk Disappearing Due to Automation 5 days ago:
Social good. If work stopped being such a demand, boredom would start to be an issue, and outside of just leisure entertainment part of the solution would be ushering folks to a field of study that interests them would lead to an explosion of research and breakthroughs. That shouldn’t come with a barrier to entry: folks who want to spend their time doing that should be enabled no questions asked.
- Comment on Report: In Western Countries, 41% of the Jobs Done By Young People are at Risk Disappearing Due to Automation 6 days ago:
This should be good news. If automation can free us from spending two thirds of our waking life on ‘the grind’ then fuck yeah! Do it!!
It’s time for UBI, free healthcare, and free education, to name just a few.
- Comment on Ripperonis 6 days ago:
The range on Blink is OP AF.
- Comment on Amazin 6 days ago:
Wait a minute, I’ve seen this logic before…
- Comment on Good news 😊 1 week ago:
In their defense, that’s still better than most news.
- Comment on break the cycle. dont remember. 1 week ago:
So far my strategy with the Krebs Cycle is to shove the most basic parts of it into my short term memory, and tactically skip the rest of it to focus on other material.
It’s shown its face in two classes so far, and that strategy got me through them. Couple more and I’m done with nursing school, so I have high hopes I’ll never have to mess with it again.
- Comment on Scientists Find an ‘Alphabet’ in Whale Songs 1 week ago:
You might be interested in some of Dr Irene Pepperberg’s with. She worked a lot with parrots specifically, and pretty showed that they’re capable of an actual working vocabulary, not just mimicry.
- Comment on Internet comments 1 week ago:
Hold up, so the dude whining about the whole “preoccupied with could, never thought about should” was just talking out of his ass?? We’re literally biblically obligated to clone those raptors! YES we should!
- Comment on Internet comments 1 week ago:
Depends on the topic. Like when cloning comes up, people tend not to Bible thump; instead they explain that we shouldn’t do it because they saw a movie about a fully automated theme park featuring dinosaurs.
You know… evidence!
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
Naw it’s more like “we did something we knew would make you incredibly uncomfortable; but now that you’re screaming we’re worried about the neighbors hearing it and we don’t want the cops called on us, so we’ll back off until a more opportune time.”
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
Getting abusive parent vibes from the language of Sony’s post.
- Comment on gottem 2 weeks ago:
I’d take that memory with a grain of salt. Part of the anesthesic effect is that you don’t remember shit. A common concern patients voice when they roll into the OR is “shouldn’t I be asleep for this? I’ve had X# surgeries before and I’ve never been awake for this part…” But they probably said the same thing on their second+ surgery: you’re always awake when you roll into the OR, you just don’t remember the few minutes leading up to going to sleep cuz of the drugs.
That said, some people do have a resistance to some part of the effect: you might have been one of them, and are remembering traces of the experience like the pain of the propofol; but where that pain occurred could have gotten blocked out, so your brain just picked a spot.
Unless they placed your IV near your crotch, which would be super, super abnormal.
But yea I wouldn’t put much trust in the accuracy of memories immediately surrounding general anesthesia. It fucks with your brain, hard.
- Comment on gottem 2 weeks ago:
The placebo effect is honestly pretty wild. There’s a common false understanding that placebo = scam, but if you can achieve a therapeutic effect via thinking that you’re going to achieve a therapeutic effect, then… cool!!
The opposite is also true, called the “nocebo” effect. I’ve noticed this in the OR a lot depending on our anesthesiologist, specifically when they’re administering the propofol (the IV drug that knocks you out). Unfortunately it’s an irritant, so I’ve seen a few different approaches to try to get ahead of the sensation of pain, including warnings like “This can hurt initially - that’s normal!” but I think tends to backfire, cuz you’ve just set the expectation of pain, and those patients seem to a much heightened experience of pain. This is opposed to saying things like “You might feel a warm sensation in your IV” which seem to reduce the nocebo effect.
It’d be cool to do a study on this action specifically.
- Comment on The choice is yours 2 weeks ago:
Idk if there have been enough case studies to draw any conclusions on the third point with a reasonable degree of certainty.
Get me clip board, I’m heading to the NICU.
- Comment on Bill Nye Explaining Exothermic Reactions to Science Deniers 2 weeks ago:
I could see myself getting hooked on a science-heavy equivalent of John Wick.
Chemist turned extremist turned serial assassin using unorthodox but scientifically sound methods.
…wait that’s just Breaking Bad isn’t it… I want more Breaking Bad.
- Comment on EPIC personality test. Which personality are you?!? 3 weeks ago:
If I have to ever sit through that shit again, I’m stealing your technique.
- Comment on EPIC personality test. Which personality are you?!? 3 weeks ago:
What it’s meant or actually useful for, vs how it’s used in contexts like employment are significantly mismatched.
It’s like understanding what a framing hammer is supposed to be used for and how to do so properly and safely, only to turn the news on and learn that the general population is somehow convinced that they’re for eye surgery; and thousands of ER visits later, from dumbasses who DIY’d that shit and popped their eyes, the general population has learned… not a damn thing… they’re still bashing their eyes apart with framing hammers.
- Comment on EPIC personality test. Which personality are you?!? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah… I’ve been rejected from jobs for not popping an “ENTJ” or whichever fucking Harry Potter house their overgrown facebook quiz was supposed to sort me into. People -with authority- absolutely horoscope em.
…with that anecdote in mind, I maaaaay be a tad biased.
- Comment on EPIC personality test. Which personality are you?!? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve only known a handful of psych students, but even as students they knew enough about the Myers-Briggs to recognize it as pseudo-science bullshit. Sad to hear that’s not universal.
- Comment on EPIC personality test. Which personality are you?!? 3 weeks ago:
Basically a consolidated version of the Myers-Briggs test, which is basically astrology for middle-managers.
- Comment on Truth and facts 3 weeks ago:
Geometrically, that all adds up.
- Comment on Climate Doom Is Out. ‘Apocalyptic Optimism’ Is In. 3 weeks ago:
Orchestra on the deck of the Titanic vibes.
- Comment on What a life to leave your children 4 weeks ago:
…I had to.
- Comment on Decades of taking it 4 weeks ago:
As We Know It
Naw, that world legit ended. The question is: for better or worse? The world we know is also ending, and poses the same question.
- Comment on I miss vegetables 5 weeks ago:
No - it comes with a seasoning packet, a pouch of crispy fried onions, a chili paste packet, oil (sesame?) packet, and some kind of sauce packet that looks like soy sauce but doesn’t taste like it… /shrug.
For best results, save the fried onion until JUST before you eat it, and sprinkle it on top - stays crispy that way.
Also if you put an egg in the water as soon as you put the pot on heat, it’ll be perfectly soft-boiled when the noodles are ready.
- Comment on I miss vegetables 5 weeks ago:
Pretty sure I’ve seen that at our local Asian market. Will grab some the next visit.
- Comment on I miss vegetables 5 weeks ago:
Some fuel for the instant ramen debacle going on here:
Not quite restaurant quality, so don’t get your expectations too high, but this here is the absolute king of instant ramens.