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Submitted ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • RogueBanana@piefed.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I know q-tips aren't safe or whatever but man it feels too good to stop.

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    • Zink@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, I am not going to contradict any doctors when it comes to the risks, but for my ears and the way I do it, I haven’t ever hurt myself and my PCP says my ears are completely clear at each checkup.

      I think I’m fortunate to have pretty light thin wax though.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They’re perfectly safe. Just pinch it towards the end you’re using, can’t do too deep that way.

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      • RogueBanana@piefed.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I do try to be very careful but sometime overdo it a bit going a bit deeper but not to a point of permanent ear damage. Hopefully...

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    • sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I bought metal earwax spoons. Sure, q-tips feel great and all, but pulling the clod of wax actually responsible for the itch is divine

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      • RogueBanana@piefed.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I am way too scared to use one lol. Certainly wouldn't trust myself to use it but maybe I should give one of those services a try.

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    • ExtremeUnicorn@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What do you mean, not safe? I always thought “do not use in your ear canal” was just a joke they wrote on the packaging. Like, actually good one, what else are you gonna do with it?

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      • Worx@lemmynsfw.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Makeup removal or cleaning babies, according to the packaging

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      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Supposedly they can pack the earwax together which can be an issue.

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      • TeddE@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Q-tips aren’t meant to go in the ear the same way adult novelty toys aren’t meant to go in the butt.

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      • blindsight@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They’re also used as cleaning tips for small/targeted applications, especially when you don’t want lint from a Kleenex or paper towel lingering. Makeup application/removal and electronics cleaning, for example.

        I think (not a doctor) the ear thing is because if you go too deep you can cause some serious damage, and they can make wax buildup worse by compacting it. If you stay close to the ear opening, and do circular motions to swipe wax away, and clean your ears often enough that you don’t get dense wax build up, and don’t “double dip” to introduce potential pathogens, then I think they’re pretty safe to use? But that’s too many caveats for lots of people, so I think ENTs often deal with people damaging themselves with them.

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  • NelDel@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Electrical engineers hate OrCAD, seriously. I keep a spare file on all of my work computers collecting when I see someone on line saying OrCAD sucks. Brings me comfort when the program crashes for the 5th time that day

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  • PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Eye doctors hate bungee cords. Be careful with those! ER doctors hate 4th of July.

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    • Usernamealreadyinuse@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ER Docters hate

      • "well it started 6 months ago… And since then it is more or less present" -> why are you here?
      • everything firework related -> you really thought it would be cool to make a firework bomb?
      • old people that are dropped by family members on a Friday night and claim the maggots just appeared like 10 minutes ago -> really?
      • people who, after a complete workup expect miracles -> really?
      • (drug induced) aggression -> look I am trying to help you here dude
      • recurrent psychiatric patients that are not treated properly or untreatable -> hey you again, same medication? Wow you were here 7 hours ago…

      … I think the list might go on and on

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      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thank you for your service

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  • tfed@infosec.exchange ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @fossilesque i hate phone calls :aneodog_bongo:

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  • thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    sysadmins hate end users because end users suck.

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    • harmsy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The hate is as old as computing.

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    • banazir@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This brought to mind a collection of asshole admin stories from the early internet. With a bit of googling, it was The Bastard Operator From Hell. God, I haven’t thought of those since the 90s. I can’t believe I could even recall something like that.

      Anyway, fuck users.

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      • clif@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I just referred to the BOFH in class last week.

        … Nobody caught the reference but it made me happy.

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      • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That thing spawned so many fucking great memes before they were even widely called that

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      • JonsJava@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They are still ongoing!

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    • Bashnagdul@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hear hear

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  • CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Geologists and biologists hate people who stack rocks

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    • AOCapitulator@hexbear.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      biologists too?

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  • 58008@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Psychoanalysts hate those blotchy black & white images of my mother’s pussy giving birth to my father who is wielding a knife with my name written along the hilt. “Stop bringing these fucking drawings in here!” she yells. God forbid a man have hobbies.

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    • Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re fascinating.

      Going through your profile, I just had to upvote your comments.

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    • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This was just calculatingly unhinged

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    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      😶

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  • MeatPilot@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Photo editors:

    Image

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    • kamen@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Some of this is absurd, but I feel like a lot of it is tongue-in-cheek stuff or just “let’s see how far we can push things into ridiculousness before your grandma notices that something’s off”.

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    • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Enhance! Just keep enhancing!

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    • dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      youtu.be/EMBkWtDAPBY

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      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I need to sit down and actually watch Red Dwarf sometime. Like I did once watch the first few episodes when I was a teenager but I was way too young to fully appreciate it

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      • P1k1e@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        RED DWAAAAAAAAAAAAARF!!!

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  • mmcintyre@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Truck drivers hate “four wheelers” because they don’t know how to drive.

    When they’re not in their semi they generally drive a four wheeled vehicle their very own self, presumably being hated on by other truck drivers.

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    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Drivers hate everyone else on the road.

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    • Pazuzu@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      eh, other truck drivers aren’t much better. biggest takeaway getting my CDL was realizing just how low the standards are to drive a truck

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      • obsoleteacct@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I used to do fleet management. It’s so bad. I never would have believed how many people take clearance signs as suggestions.

        And the drivers test should include a “show me where the truck driver can and can’t see you” portion.

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      • pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’ve always wanted to drive a semi so this may be good

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  • djmikeale@feddit.dk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Data (dwh) people hate Excel

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    • MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      dude you can hate but 80% of “data” still.on excel. I’m in my third global company and people still control things on excel. and 5% power bi (some from excel) hahahahaha

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      • djmikeale@feddit.dk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yep, that’s true haha.

        It’s perhaps not so much Excel, as much as it’s just the symptom of a lot of bigger issues: working without version control, without column validation or access control, limited documentation (not necessarily better in data warehouse but at least the functionality is easily accessible), limited automated testing, etc etc.

        If only they could keep their data for themselves, then ok. but no no, we have to ingest it, and do work on top of it in dwh, and it just breaks so often due to a variety of different stuff.

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      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Wait you mean your organization doesn’t use some ludicrously expensive hosted database solution or 3 to aggregate data then instead of natively working with the data in that database it gets exported and transformed on a local machine which may or may not havd backups then ask the database people about weird data quirks coming from the local transformations performed on the data

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    • MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As someone who used to work with “large” (to normal people; 10k-60k rows up to maybe 70 columns) datasets in Excel exclusively, I also hate Excel.

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      • blindsight@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Me too!

        I hate working with other people’s spreadsheets.

        Or my old spreadsheets.

        The worst is “can you just add a small feature” to a huge, sprawling, mission-critical, often reused spreadsheet.

        But I love how quick and powerful it is to spin up a new spreadsheet to analyze something or clean up messy data!

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  • SoyViking@hexbear.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Academics hate eachother

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lmao true

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  • RoabeArt@hexbear.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Auto mechanics hate Fix-a-Flat, especially if a customer forgets to let them know their tire is ful of the stuff when it comes time to replace it.

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    • Mobiuthuselah@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We had a local shop owner killed when airing up a tire with fix-a-flat. His wife ran the shop after his death and she did not mince words when someone asked why the shop wouldn’t patch their tire that had fix-a-flat.

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      • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        We had a local shop owner killed when airing up a tire with fix-a-flat.

        How? Was he working on an industrial tire or something?

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    • ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I feel super sorry for whoever has to do my next tire change, the previous owner of my vehicle (just purchased otherwise it’d already have had a tire change) was using fix-a-flat for top ups so the didn’t have to lug out the air compressor.

      I have no idea how much goo is in these tires, but I can only assume they look like the aftermath of a ménage et troi with 3 “Slimers” from ghostbusters.

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      • RoabeArt@hexbear.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Why do people do shit like this lmao.

        I’m surprised they could even put anything in the tire even after the first treatment. FAF by its nature seals holes, and usually the valve stem gets clogged as a result (the idea is to replace the tire after using the stuff, since it’s meant to be an emergency repair).

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  • psycho_driver@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    RFK?

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    • MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Can confirm, but if it wasn’t him, they’d go out of their way to find someone just as bad.

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  • CloutAtlas@hexbear.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Orthopaedic doctors hate chiropractors

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    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I work in orthopedics and rehabilitation…for the most part the majority of chiropractors are harmless. If the patient believes a chiropractor is helping manage their pain, I don’t really care about the efficacy of the practice. Plus, most chiropractors are risk adverse enough to know not to work on areas where hardware has been installed.

      If we’re sticking to the format of items or activities that are a reason for a lot of our appointments… Ladders, motorcycles, bad drivers, trampolines, and electric scooters and diabetes are probably the top contenders.

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      • CloutAtlas@hexbear.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Huh, my friend absolutely abhors chiropractics. But I guess also all the family members who don’t listen to her and instead waste money to get their spines fucked with

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  • floo@retrolemmy.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Orthopedic surgeons, hate motorcycles

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    • PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But transplant surgeons love them 😇

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  • rhel@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ENTs hate Q-tips?!

    That doesn’t make sense to me. But, then again, you are very small.

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    • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      People sticking Q-tips in their (E)ars and to a lesser extent, (N)oses and (T)hroats.

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      • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’re absolutely correct, but op is making a joke about Ents from LotR. A cheeky little pun, if you will.

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    • Psaldorn@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      HROOOM

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    • TheKracken@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Image

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  • SirSamuel@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Locksmiths hate WD-40

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    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How do they feel about Ballistol?

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      • SirSamuel@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Never heard of it, but I use Tri-flow and Houdini liberally. If Ballistol doesn’t leave a residue it’s probably fine

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    • korazail@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      not a locksmith, but…

      One of those candidates for ‘worst memorable phrase in history’ is the old “duct-tape for things that move and shouldn’t and wd-40 for things that should move and don’t”.

      WD-40 isn’t a lubricant. It often works to get something un-stuck, but then you need to still clean and lubricate the parts to keep it working.

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why this one?

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      • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I imagine it gunks up the lock mechanism. I have had to eventually replace locks I used it in.

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      • clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        IANAL, but people use it on squeaky hinges and knobs and locks, but it sits in the mechanism and collects dust. It turns into a gummy mess eventually, which is the last thing you would want in a lock.

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  • Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Teachers hate AI

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  • twice_twotimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Linguists hate grammarly

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  • Argurotoxus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Glass manufacturers hate bubbles.

    A lot.

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  • Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Metrologists hate Analysts

    All you have to do is rinse the LC with water my guy…

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  • Duranie@leminal.space ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Massage therapists hate spray tans.

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  • Saleh@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Structural engineers: fire, water, air and earth. They are like the Anti-Avatar

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  • BierSoggyBeard@feddit.online ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I dunno, geologists kinda love everything.

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  • icelimit@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Teachers hate parents.

    Vice versa

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  • shatterling@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Trauma specialist Doctors hate e-scooters

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  • McMonster@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    IT people hate computers.

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  • Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    lab techs hate improperly collected samples. The people who collect those samples often in turn hate lab techs.

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  • figjam@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    pulmonologists hate vapes

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  • janonymous@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Game developers hate players. They keep breaking our beautiful games and optimizing the fun out of them!

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