Atomic
@Atomic@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Life pro tip for friends of pharmacists 1 week ago:
As far as I’m concerned, “threatening” to use your own body in an attempt to raise antibiotic resistant bacteria, is self harm.
You don’t have to agree. That’s fine.
- Comment on Life pro tip for friends of pharmacists 1 week ago:
Yeah. So we agree that she’s threatening self harm (minimum) to solicit a response from someone. Emotional manipulation.
I’m glad we managed to argue our way to what we already concluded from the start.
- Comment on Life pro tip for friends of pharmacists 1 week ago:
If you are promoting antibiotic resistant bacteria in your body, is that not self harm? I sure think it is.
Not all self harm is cutting, starving, or suicide.
- Comment on Life pro tip for friends of pharmacists 1 week ago:
What you just said, is that stopping the treatment early is detrimental to the human race. Did you perhaps mean the opposite?
Otherwise I’m not sure why you’re trying to argue with me that one should fulfill their treatment plan. I already agree.
I’m not attributing malice. I’m calling it for what it is. Emotional manipulation, intentional or not is beyond the point.
- Comment on Life pro tip for friends of pharmacists 1 week ago:
Just apply some casual emotional manipulation by suggesting self harm and watch the other person trying to ensure you don’t harm yourself.
Is exactly what “Jessica Fletcher” is suggesting. Please don’t…
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 1 month ago:
This is one of the rare cases where I don’t disagree with Trump.
But they could just call it what the rest of the world call their sport. “American Football”.
It has their favorite word in it. America.
- Comment on I support this 1 month ago:
Yeah? You’re supposed to put it down after You’re done.
I’m not gonna thank someone for flushing the loo after they’re done either.
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 1 month ago:
You don’t need a unified theory of why animals have binocular vision.
The biggest threat to a primate isn’t always felines, it’s often other primates. Judging distance to your target is a very beneficial trait for survival if you need to fight them. Which means if you need to survive other primates, it is beneficial to be able to judge distance to other primates. Even if you’re not a predator.
Gorillas might be herbivores. But they are excellent at fighting eachother. And a dead gorilla can’t reproduce.
- Comment on We'll just ignore that 1 month ago:
I am not.
- Comment on We'll just ignore that 1 month ago:
It is what happens when you live in a country where the only type of sexual education is watching porn.
- Comment on hmm breakfast 2 months ago:
How in the hell do you smoke coffee? Please, tell us your secrets!
- Comment on "I used to be with it" 2 months ago:
You have headphones and a car? Disgusting consumer behavior, you just NEED to have the latest technology don’t you. I ride a horse and use my voice to sing if I want to listen to music.
I don’t even have a phone because they are A: stupid, and B: sending letters in the mail work perfectly. My horse is 13 years old and I do most reshoeing. Never had a new horse.
- Comment on "I used to be with it" 2 months ago:
Good ol alcohol 120%
- Comment on "I used to be with it" 2 months ago:
Are you manufacturing your own CDs and tapes, or are you buying them as a consumer?
Good job not being a consumer I guess.
- Comment on I'm in danger 2 months ago:
Don’t be ridiculous. It’s never lupus.
- Comment on Just in time 3 months ago:
I hate to break it to you. But if you were born back then, you wouldn’t be a knight. You wouldn’t be an explorer. You’d be a peasant. Working your farm from birth to grave.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
What do you mean? 0118999881999119725 3
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 3 months ago:
Electricity works by moving electrons from point a to point b.
There are different ways of acomplishing this. Easiest is to have an electrolyte between zinc and copper. Kids use a potato for their science class. Volta used cloth soaked in saltwater.
Which is also why call it “Volt” and “Voltage”
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 3 months ago:
I’m bias, but Sly Raccoon is such a great series. I thoroughly enjoyed it growing up. I see you have Sly2 in your image. I would suggest starting with the first game and move up from there.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 3 months ago:
Students. Students make them that way. It’s no coincidence that most older teachers feel like they’ve checked out.
I did substitute teaching for about two years. I got to see a lot of my old teachers, Some classes were wonderful, a true joy to teach. Others, not so much. I can understand why some people, as you say, mentally check out. It’s a coping mechanism. They were not all the same people I remember. Maybe part of growing older. Maybe part of years of difficult students sucking out all the joy of teaching they had in them
- Comment on Is there a drink with taste of energy drink without caffeine? 3 months ago:
I’ve seen concentrate with energy drink flavour. I tried it. Tastes like generic energy drink.
Just mix it with water.
- Comment on Shh 3 months ago:
I just love how you think I’m presuming too much, only to in the very next sentence assume I think removing plastic straws being the end of the road and final solution.
And since I according to you, presume too much, did you want me to spend less energy on, literally, making straw-men (plural), like, scare-crows? Or did you mean that I should spend less energy on figuratively, straw-manning.
I would assume the latter but you are, literally, formulating the former. Either way. I’m not doing either of those things.
- Comment on Shh 3 months ago:
Ah yes, the good old, “It’s not the #1 problem so why bother doing anything”. It’s that wonderful kind of attitude that simply doesn’t get anything done, ever. Because there’s always a bigger problem.
The only ones focusing on one thing like plastic straws, are people like you. The rest of us moved on
- Comment on Shh 3 months ago:
I’m not ignoring anything. But if you want me to cover every single issue and aspect of various types of trash management, it’s gonna be a god damn university essay, I don’t even think lemmy would allow so many characters in a comment.
Peoples “unmindfulness” is responsible for every single piece of garbage you see around you. When I walk down the road and see a bag of crisps laying around. That’s because a person just tossed it. And no. I’m not ignoring corporate waste or pollution, criminal or otherwise. But that isn’t the topic right now.
This specific post was making fun of the straw bans vs other single use plastics that are seemingly fine. straws vs pipets used in labs. And what I said was that pipets are not being littered around every corner of the globe. But straws are. That’s why movements to ban such implements are ongoing. That’s why we have movements to ban single use plastics like straws and cutlery, while a plastic shampoo bottle is still “fair game” since they’re not typically just tossed in nature.
That doesn’t mean I’m just ignoring everything else. We also didn’t talk about how armed robberies are bad. But I can assure you, I’m not ignoring them, they’re just not the topic at hand.
- Comment on Shh 3 months ago:
And observations of landfills or unrecycled stockpiles doesn’t vary by location?
The idea was to try and remove plastic waste that people tend to just throw away without thinking much of it. Lab students don’t exactly take pipets with them and throw away in a ditch. But unfortunately, way too many people just throw away single use plastics like straws, cutlery, cups, “paper plates”, etc.
- Comment on Shh 3 months ago:
All you need to do is walk on the side of a busy road and look in the ditch to see what people just throw away.
It’s not a lot of shampoo bottles, but tons of plastic cups and accompanied straws.
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 4 months ago:
You’re an idiot… we’ve had patents since the 15:th century…
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 4 months ago:
Yes you generally do need to involve a business partner that has the means to produce the product in any meaningful capacity.
Or, if we go by what you want. They don’t even have to partner with you. They’ll just start making it themselves and push you out of the market because there’s absolutely nothing that would prevent them to.
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 4 months ago:
Patent law is the foundation of which our entire civilisation rest upon. I can agree it can be flawed and/or exploited sometimes.
But only a useful idiot would want patents to not exist at all. It’s the only thing that protects your innovation from being stolen by those with means to outproduce you.
It’s literally there so when you invent a new product, others (wealthy companies) can’t just steal your design and flood the market with cheaper versions due to the fact that they can mass produce it.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 4 months ago:
Every country have criminals and guns. The difference is how available they are to the general public. And what type of guns.
Anyone in the US that isn’t a convicted felon can buy a handgun as soon as they turn 21. And there are very few laws on how you’re required to store them.
Compared to Europe where it’s incredibly rare for an average citizen to have access to a handgun.