Sterile_Technique
@Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
- Comment on Law 5 days ago:
Contrary to popular belief, it appears hips actually do lie. This changes everything.
- Comment on Hello darkness my old friend 5 days ago:
The cochlea and semicircular canals are absolutely wild. It’s all just squirting fluid over a patch of tiny grass, and boom, that’s your sense of hearing and balance. One of the coolest bits of anatomy we’ve got.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 1 week ago:
Tech-idiot, here, but Linux-curious and running Windows 10 with an ardent refusal to change it to 11.
I know there are a ton of different versions of Linux, ‘Ubuntu’ and such, but I don’t know jack about any of them… which would you recommend that’s best suited to someone who’s only ever used Windows? Looking for the most idiot-proof option. Gaming and office style work are primary use.
Emphasis on the idiot proof. I am really anxious about switching from fear of jacking up my computer, but am so sick of Window’s bullshit… probably as good a time to dive in now than any point going forward.
- Comment on What are you ladies doing tonight 1 week ago:
What did it for me was the bugs. Those little fruit-fly fuckers… they love sugar, and those taps are a concentrated source. Until someone turns it on, and they get blasted off the tube and stuck onto the sticky inside surface of the cap, where they die and continue to get blasted with concentrate, so there’s this membrane of soda residue, dead fruit flies, and mold.
…infact the taste you’re referencing might legit be rotting bugs if it has a kind of rancid protein flavor.
I wonder how many of those fruit flies get blasted straight into people’s drink vs onto the edge of the cap, where they’re just sucked up through a straw and drank by a customer who’s none the wiser.
Nom nom.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 1 week ago:
Some semi-matte olive paint and that mofo could have a Warthog.
- Comment on What are you ladies doing tonight 1 week ago:
Worked at a fast food place ages ago, and I remember cleaning the caps of each fountain of the top image: they were pretty horrific. Another poster mentioned mold… they’re not exaggerating. They were probably the second-nastiest surface in the restaurant, second only to the floor of the bathrooms.
Now, I’m under no illusion that the Cloa-Cola dispenser is actually sanitary, but it’s gotta be better than the other model.
- Comment on Gotta get those tickets! 2 weeks ago:
Can’t argue with the results.
- Comment on He can't keep getting away with it 2 weeks ago:
mystical powers
LSD.
Otherwise, sounds plausible.
- Comment on When HR has to even ruin the company Halloween Party 2 weeks ago:
Did you hit her with “Oh I’m sorry, I’m sorry - I thought this was America!”
- Comment on Didn't workout for me, do you guys have other advices? 2 weeks ago:
That wasn’t meant to be taken too seriously, lol. I’d guess the odds of enough semen making it through the fistula and then through the normal path to result in a successful conception are… about zero.
- Comment on Didn't workout for me, do you guys have other advices? 2 weeks ago:
Anovaginal fistulas are a thing. 🤷♀️
- Comment on reaction 2 weeks ago:
…what even is that, technically speaking? Lasagna? Calzone maybe?
- Comment on #environmentalist 2 weeks ago:
Just hang their drink on the IV pole, spike it with a line, and put the other end in their mouth!
- Comment on I always wondered why hotel rooms had bibles 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Um, technically no one died, your Honor.
- Comment on hows keto working out for you 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 5 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 1 month ago:
Sigmund Freud has entered the chat.
…or a Pastor.
- Comment on Autism has been announced! 1 month ago:
They’re evil, not autistic. Don’t give actual autistic people a bad name.
- Comment on Lies, all lies 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
*knife splits entire scene*
“…and it IS cake!!”
- Comment on Save the day 2 months ago:
Poor buddy probably thinks he’s getting a juicy grape.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 2 months ago:
Now that was just sour.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 2 months 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 😒 2 months 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
*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
