Kyle_The_G

@Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨check urself b4 u wrek urself⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re regulated health professionals, its like how we can’t work on a family member or friend, it introduces bias. Its just the law and I understand why. I don’t think doctors can self-diagnose either, they need an appointment for someone else to do it just like everyone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨check urself b4 u wrek urself⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  no in med lab its super illegal to perform diagnostic tests on your own samples, you have to jump through the same hoops as everyone else and trust the system to handle it. In research/experiments its a little more relaxed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I spent years in a research path core and am just wrapping up my med lab certification, it amused me when they hired actors to come to our program and we role-played dealing with angry pathologists, fuming nurses ect… Most of my clients have been MSc students or MD/PHD conducting research. they might be experts in their field and conduct these brilliant studies then stumble right at the finish line because sample collection was bungled or something ruined during extraction. I’ve seen some “interesting” DIY fixation and processing protocols to save a little money that did the same thing. I always feel so bad but most people are willing to learn and work with us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in pathology (research, transitioning to medical) so that was my frame of reference here. Its my job take the samples given to the lab and turn them into slides for analysis but tue results are only as good as what I’m given in the first place (crap in, crap out). same with blood draws, urines, anything improperly collected no longer properly represents the thing it came from. Then I have to tell the client that…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨check urself b4 u wrek urself⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If its medical I’m pretty sure its illegal to work up your own samples. if its research… why not?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are they even doing this, the grass wasn't even that tall⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  my parent’s neighbour likes to bring out the whipper snipper at 9:30 sunday morning when we’re trying to have coffee and chill out, it sucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prove your humanity.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This plate is stressing me out lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden Ring on Switch 2 Is a Disaster in Handheld Mode - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I main staff in one hand and ROB in the other and its worked out well. I’m in the DLC now most of the way through and only got stuck a couple times. I did a shitload of grinding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden Ring on Switch 2 Is a Disaster in Handheld Mode - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just use magic its great, you can one-shot many bosses with the kamé kamé ha glass cannon build.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  shirts vs skins. who is who?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jump on in.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  formic acid is also a rapid fixitive and decalcifier. We use it to treat bones to make them softer for histology so we can slice them into 4um cross sections (thats how microscope slides are made, then we stain them with pretty colours)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 396 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  just did, thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 396 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  good call. I’ll wait for a few more games to come out then maybe pull the trigger later. I’m busy going through a catalogue of unplayed games like ace attorney and luigi’s mansion (I’m playing couch coop with my significant other through the stories of games we found on sale).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 396 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard its “slow” compared to past mario karts. Care to comment on that? I’ve also been holding off on a switch2, I just can’t justify the upgrade yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♀️⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I owe my master’s degree to that website

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dogs need love too⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m usually still pretty functional but theres the odd strain that takes 20 points off my IQ for 4 hours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We will all be slaves⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  fair enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We will all be slaves⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  this isn’t a shitpost… I agree its insane but not a shitpost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every damn time.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mice are excellent models for many diseases but not all. When possible we study cell culture, then mice, then humans and there are rigorous ethics committees that require justification for the study, we don’t just do these studies for no reason. Their metabolism and physiology is pretty similar to ours, which makes them useful to study inflammation, cancer, diabetes and other malignant/metabolic/genetic disorders. They have a 21 day gestation period and research mice are essentially all clones which eliminates genetic variability as a factor (making them excellent for reproducibility in a timely manner)

  some drawbacks include the spine, they’re haunched which makes it difficult to study something like scoliosis, we do this in zebrafish actually. Also I believe they have some mild immunological differences like ratio of circulating white cells and bone marrow differentials and minor differences in some proteins. Basically anyone doing these studies has years of training and really knows what they are doing, they would not be allowed to conduct them unless it was absolutely necessary to answer a specific question. Mouse work is a lot more complicated/interesting than this but I think I’ve made my point for now.

  Source: wrote a portion of my thesis on justification of using an animal model for obesity research, then an 8 year career in a pathology core/phenotyping lab.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The virus she told you not to worry about.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  micrometer scale is massive for viruses, thats the size of a small cell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting a little nature⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  starlings like to drop their shit in our pool but stop when the hawks/flacons start flying around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expand North! So much room up there.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its pretty cool city with great food and terminally bad traffic problems. Source: live there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With Battlefield 6 beta queues stretching around the block, a "substantial increase in server capacity" should just have helped⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Too bad, can’t have anything nice these days!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With Battlefield 6 beta queues stretching around the block, a "substantial increase in server capacity" should just have helped⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  are you serious?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  lol, the ps5 controller alone is enough reason to purchase over the xbox. I have both and games are just more fun on the PS5, its better in every way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With Battlefield 6 beta queues stretching around the block, a "substantial increase in server capacity" should just have helped⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  anyone wanna share if its any good? I wasn’t into BF1 and skipped 2073 entirely but I used to adore bad company 2 and 3/4.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's 2025, the year we decided we need a widespread slur for robots⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  replicant

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Domino’s Pizza profits dive as people cut back on takeaways in UK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Overpriced and bad quality, thats why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I discovered the USB boot by accident and thought my laptop bricked for no reason!