Sterile_Technique
@Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
- Comment on Frick 23 hours 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 1 day 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 The second amendment referred to militias, not individuals 4 days ago:
I always got the impression that the ragtag gun toters vs the actual military was just a strawman kind of thing. If arming civilians is presented as a means to keep the government from going full tyranny, the route wouldn’t be conventional war between the two, it would be targeted assassinations of a handful of individuals who enable the tyranny. If confrontation with the military is even on the table at all, it’ll be via guerrilla tactics, not an open test of power.
But even playing devil’s advocate and taking those pro-gun points at face value, that argument breaks down when you look at characters like Trump: the government has gone tyrannical, but rather than stepping up to take out the tyrant like the 2A nuts have wet dreams over, they’re all too busy trying to suck the tyrant’s micro-penis to realize anything is wrong.
…then again, US current events are a single mustache short of being a copy and paste of the Nazi’s rise to power to power in 1920’s germany. The people who would benefit from being armed right now aren’t the ones who are armed. Encouraging them to change that feels like dumping fuel onto the fire of an already flaming dumpster, but if you’re one of the metaphorical Jews in the US, you might want to make yourself equipped to drop a few Nazis.
Also the intention of the constitution’s authors is also kind of moot. The constitution is amendable and was intentionally made to be a living document. Then vs now are barely comparable, to include the needs and challenges. Firearms are no exception. The power, availability, and social impact of guns are an entirely different animal than at the time the constitution was created.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 5 days ago:
I can’t believe two Kennedys were assassinated, and this guy isn’t one of them.
- Comment on Prove your humanity. 6 days 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 Research shows ‘compliment sandwich’ no longer effective 1 week ago:
Pretty sure everywhere calls it that. The article emphasizing it by renaming a sandwich for the bread and not the contents in the middle is just a lack of creativity.
- 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:
- 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:
- 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 AI lovers grieve loss of ChatGPT’s old model: ‘Like saying goodbye to someone I know’ 1 week ago:
Lol. Reminds me of a dialogue chain in Fallout 3 or 4 where one of the Brotherhood dudes finds out he’s a synth, so you kill him. Later ask his buddy if he misses him, and the dude says something like “That’s like missing a toaster. We don’t have time to mourn lost equipment.”
- 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 Almost half of adults say they are ordering kids' meals. Here's what's behind the trend. 1 week ago:
Stop giving McDonald’s your money. They ran two PR campaigns for the Trump regime, firmly establishing themselves as enemies to the US and everyone/thing else on this planet.
There are a thousand other options to satisfy your craving for a greasy heart attack.
- Comment on US | Military Preparing Attacks on Mexican Cartels 1 week ago:
Aw cool. I’m sure this won’t be used as a warning excuse to pause things like voting cycles.
- 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 Do you have any bad habits ? 2 weeks ago:
Full time employee / part time nursing student here. The amount is caffeine I consume to make it through a day with both work and school is almost surely shaving years off my life. If nothing else, my sleep schedule is an absolute dumpster fire.
Work is day shift, class is nights… So I’ll crack open a can of Monster at like 6pm at the start of class.
It’s dumb as shit, but I can’t afford to not be wide awake during class.
- 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:
- 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... 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think White Castle Sliders need much of a transformation to land at heart disease.
- Comment on Trump admin to reinstall Confederate statue toppled by protesters 3 weeks ago:
Protestors:
- Comment on Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations 4 weeks ago:
Now I’m going to refuse to purchase one even harder!
