Sterile_Technique
@Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 3 days ago:
Fortified short grain white rice… hit up Costco or Sam’s, or your local Asian market, and you can score a 20 lb bag for like $15 which comes out to literally a few cents per meal. (well… pre-tariffs at least… nowadays idk)
From there, add beans, or eggs, or chicken broth, or literally almost anything else: shit off the clearance wrack, from the food pantry, w/e. If it’s a meat or veggie, it’ll go with rice. In the case of the pantry, if you’re not actually sure what it is, it’ll still probably go with rice. Got a bag of spicy cheetos you forgot to close and now it’s all stale? Don’t throw that shit away, smash it up and throw it in with your next batch of rice - now it’s spicy! (I’ve done it - texture’s a little weird, but otherwise came out better than expected). Rice is ridiculously versatile.
Disregard the hate for white rice being nutritionless junkfood - it is, but when money’s that tight, you don’t give a fuck. The fortified rice mitigates that a bit, and in my experience is usually cheaper. It’s a starting point: add what you can to make it less shit; and even if it’s a meal of just straight rice, that’s still better than an empty stomach.
- 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 3 days 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 3 days 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 3 days ago:
Some semi-matte olive paint and that mofo could have a Warthog.
- Comment on What are you ladies doing tonight 3 days 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! 5 days ago:
Can’t argue with the results.
- Comment on He can't keep getting away with it 5 days ago:
mystical powers
LSD.
Otherwise, sounds plausible.
- Comment on When HR has to even ruin the company Halloween Party 6 days 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? 6 days 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? 6 days ago:
Anovaginal fistulas are a thing. 🤷♀️
- Comment on reaction 1 week ago:
…what even is that, technically speaking? Lasagna? Calzone maybe?
- Comment on #environmentalist 1 week 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 1 week 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 They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you? 2 weeks ago:
Life’s too short to spend on grinds that aren’t fun. Cheat in a 1-shot-kill gun, and it becomes a good Star Wars movie.
- Comment on Good luck with that 2 weeks ago:
Um, technically no one died, your Honor.
- Comment on hows keto working out for you 2 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 2 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 I've recently turned into a blocker. 2 weeks ago:
That accounts for a good chunk of the blocks as well.
This is one of those one-bite-at-a-time projects - just hit a few on each visit, it adds up.
- Comment on I've recently turned into a blocker. 2 weeks ago:
I hardly ever block individual posters, but communities, I’ve blocked 936 of them at the time of making this post. Sports, porn, anime, or furry shit are all block on sight. Plus a handful of randoms that I’m just not interested in.
I’ve finally got All where it’s pleasant to browse. Takes some doing, but worth the effort if you want to customize your feed reductively vs actively seeking out and subscribing to communities.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 4 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 US govt shutdown begins after Congress fails to reach deal 4 weeks ago:
…please send help.
- Comment on Same for me 4 weeks ago:
Sigmund Freud has entered the chat.
…or a Pastor.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Different flavor of stupid, but not mutually exclusive to the previous poster’s complaint. There are a lot of shit factors compounding off of each other that culminated with Trump’s victory and today’s dumpster fire - each hold a share of the blame.
- Comment on Nearly 3 in 5 American workers say they're behind on retirement savings. The other two are working until they drop dead 5 weeks ago:
If I’m in a good mood, my retirement plan is to go skydiving.
If I’m in a bad mood, might try to take a few Nazis down with me.
- Comment on Autism has been announced! 5 weeks ago:
They’re evil, not autistic. Don’t give actual autistic people a bad name.
- Comment on Lies, all lies 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 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!!”
