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- Comment on WHAT IF WHAT IF 4 days ago:
But we also prioritize research where we suspect/hypothesize differences, so I think even if all research was published it wouldn’t necessarily be a normal distribution.
- Comment on What a relief! 4 days ago:
I was born in the nineties and just moved to France. It’s a real struggle.
- Comment on Twinkle twinkle little star 1 week ago:
Science memes is more than just memes to make fun of things. It’s all things science and fun/wholesome.
- Comment on People who rely on their phones/computers to tell time probably forgot or didn't realize that a Daylight Saving Time-Change even happened, some might've forgotten that DST existed at all. 2 weeks ago:
I was very confused why I woke up so early until I spotted my microwave in the late afternoon.
- Comment on What do they do with aborted fetuses? 2 weeks ago:
i imagine cremating fetusses is one of the lesser emotionally traumatizing things hospital workers have to deal with every day.
Also, if the fetus is big enough to be (near) viable and the abortion happens for medical reasons or in case of stillbirths, I hope/expect parents are given the option for a proper burial.
- Comment on What's the best way to ease getting back in shape after years of little to no exercise? 2 weeks ago:
I had this during covid and free home workouts videos helped me out a lot. Started with just a yogamat (or towel) doing easy beginner friendly workouts of only 15-30 minutes. No need to go out, noone sees you and there are apartment/small space/downstairs neighbour friendly options. I used the fitnessblender workouts and the sense of accomplishment at the “workout complete” screen is magical.
- Comment on hmm breakfast 2 weeks ago:
The choice is lung cancer and heart disease or diabetes and heart disease. At least us europeans die looking good /s.
- Comment on If this has been asked recently just link it no need to be mean, because I am emotionally sensitive right now. Thank you for your attention to this matter. 2 weeks ago:
Why does the GOP need to remove the “illegal imigrants”? They are often hardworking individuals with similar or lower crime rates than the average american. What the GOP and ICE are doing right now is illigal and akin to human trafficking. From the outside looking to the US it looks more and more like they are treating immigrants as germany treated the jews at the start of the second world war.
- Comment on Which fly came first? 5 weeks ago:
I agree. I also imagine fly for insects comes from abbreviating “flying bug” or something like that, so also came after the verb to fly.
- Comment on why do they force you to take the 3 national subjects in egypt? 1 month ago:
I agree, we had the same mandatory courses in the netherlands, although religion was more like religious studies where we learned about all the different religions.
- Comment on what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace? 1 month ago:
I have recently moved to france and have been learning french for the last few years (long before moving). I still have difficulty with lunch conversation and after speaking to everyone outside of work in french I appreciate it so much that I work at an international place where everyone speaks english, even though that is also a second language for me. Imagine how tired your colleagues are at lunch after not speaking their own language anywhere but at home and appreciate that you are capable of helping them a little bit by speaking english.
- Comment on Shh 1 month ago:
And we don’t throw pipette tips in the ocean, we throw them in the biohazard box. While not better for the environment, at least we don’t choke baby turtles.
- Comment on "Veni Vidi Veni" would be a great name for a strip club or brothel. 1 month ago:
I came, i saw, i came.
- Comment on Awooga 2 months ago:
I don’t think that that many women want bigger boobs. I have more friends who dislike having big boobs vs small boobs.
- Comment on No brainer 2 months ago:
5 and then make stuff where the switches are all miniature toasters.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 2 months ago:
I am very familiar with medical terms and even I ask the doctor to write down the specifics of my diagnosis when I want to seek a second opinion.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 2 months ago:
But FTD is used by people to talk about frontotemporal dementia.
However, it isn’t an acronym, but an abbreviation. Abbreviations are generally not much easier to remember and even more meaningless to normal people. The reason they wouldn’t use the abbreviation in the documentary is because abbreviations are generally considered even more complex to both remember and understand than ‘long’ words. Only when a loooot of people know and talk about a disease does an abbreviation or other name become mainstream enough (thinking about flu for influenza etc) that it actually becomes useful to have the shorter name. Even at a conference about brain diseases you would only use FTD after giving the full term first so people know what you are talking about.
But yes, if Bruce goes to a clinic and says he has FTD they will know what’s up (or google the abbreviation).
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 2 months ago:
Isn’t teflon a brand name? Not standardized, just capitalized.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 2 months ago:
But who does the patient need to communicate it to other than health professionals? Other people should be satisfied with a phrase like “dementia that causes me to behave different and/or have difficulty speaking” otherwise they are just going to have to look up the disease anyway.
FTD is a rare disease (meaning less than 65/100000 people get it in their lifetime) and there are thousands of rare diseases. Who do you propose should come up with simple names for all of these, teach these to all medical professionals and make sure all info online gets both the descriptive and simple name attached?? There are enough issues with terminology in the medical world as is, trust me.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 2 months ago:
I would counter that the medical term is descriptive. Tell anyone with medical/medicine-related education someone has frontotemporal dementia and they know what is going on with the patient and what bodypart is affected. We can simplify with just “dementia” or a simpler term but you loose the specific meaning. Just like cancer is a two syllable simple word but a proper diagnosis includes way more information and has a more difficult term related. Equally, while the layman may prefer teflon and benadryl, the chemical/scientific name tells a trained person exactly what they are dealing with without having to look anything up, and does not suffer from different names across languages/borders. You cannot force simpler names as they will not be used in the medical/scientific community, so only if a disease is common enough to enter most peoples vocabulary will they come up with simpler terms or remember the term easily.
- Comment on Out of 10. Be specific! 2 months ago:
I immediately downvoted this fork… then scrolled back because I hate the fork, not the post. -238/10
- Comment on Cutting sucks 3 months ago:
If you were never fat, why are you trying to lose 20+ pounds?
- Comment on The nursery rhyme "monkeys jumping on the bed" gives children the impression that you can just call your family doctor who will pick up immediately. 3 months ago:
Same in the Netherlands.
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 3 months ago:
None of the accusations have been proven false though. (As far as I know)
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 5 months ago:
Will the height be adjustable? Otherwise the sitting thing will be either way to low or poking the backs of most people.
- Comment on There should be something like a flea market where hobby gardeners go to share sprouted seeds 6 months ago:
Our local library has a table with young plants for exchange. I love it!
- Comment on Does anyone else feel guilty or very depressed after accomplishing anything? 6 months ago:
I used to feel bad about reaching milestones and “succeeding at life” because I was mourning a friend who could not reach those milestones with me. Therapy helped a lot.
- Comment on A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data 6 months ago:
It might be hard for them to find someone who is both fluent in english AND knows the field well enough to know vegetative electron microscopy is not a thing. Most universities have one general translation help service and science has a lot of field-specific weird terms.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 7 months ago:
Ouch… aged three years in a single day.
- Comment on American and British English spelling and pronunciations 7 months ago:
I will spell out aluminium, but when I have to pronounce it I go with aluminum.