Sterile_Technique

Sterile_Technique, 11 hours ago

This should be good news. If automation can free us from spending two thirds of our waking life on ‘the grind’ then fuck yeah! Do it!!

It’s time for UBI, free healthcare, and free education, to name just a few.

Sterile_Technique, 11 hours ago

We need to stop giving Trump (and the other neonazis that have surfaced in his wake) the village-idiot or bat-shit-crazy pass and treat him as though his actions are lucid and calculated. We can assess the state of his brain during autopsy. Until then, he’s a traitor and domestic threat to the United States, and we should treat that threat as seriously as its consequences merit.

Sterile_Technique, 12 hours ago

Wait a minute, I’ve seen this logic before…

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/da36ad12-e73b-4bb9-a1c2-f0ac74385b31.jpeg

Sterile_Technique, 11 hours ago

The range on Blink is OP AF.

Sterile_Technique, 3 days ago

So all the AI enshittification of Google results was just 4D chess all along!

Sterile_Technique, 3 days ago

It’ll herd users to the new product. It’s like when reddit enshittified its mobile web page to move folks to its app. Both reddit; but they shot themselves in one foot to shift weight over to the other foot.

Sterile_Technique, 2 days ago

Sorry, initial post was meant to be more cheeky than anything else: Basically saying AI folks like OpenAI have seriously damaged the quality of Google’s search results, and in doing so established demand for a new search option… and now they’re announcing a competitor to Google.

One foot (google) was shot to shift traffic over to the other (whatever this new shit is). Wasn’t meant to imply Google is in on it… the reddit analogy might just be muddying the waters, but the analogy was reddit as a company to search engines as a category.

Sterile_Technique, 2 days ago

Well no… but also yes!

Sterile_Technique, 3 days ago

In their defense, that’s still better than most news.

Sterile_Technique, 3 days ago

So far my strategy with the Krebs Cycle is to shove the most basic parts of it into my short term memory on test day, and tactically skip the rest of it to focus on other material.

It’s shown its face in two classes so far, and that strategy got me through them. Couple more and I’m done with nursing school, so I have high hopes I’ll never have to mess with it again.

Sterile_Technique, 3 days ago

I wish we had an org that was what TST claims to be.

www.spaghettimonster.org

Sterile_Technique, 3 days ago

Skyrim mods really are a thing of beauty.

Sterile_Technique, 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/774042f4-f19d-49d3-9d3c-f1e348803bae.png

Neck is the last of that guy’s worries… his shoulder is dislocated as fuck!

Edit - Looking closer, I think his radius and ulna might be flipped too. Yeah this guy’s not having a good day.

Sterile_Technique, 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

You might be interested in some of Dr Irene Pepperberg’s work. She worked a lot with parrots specifically, and pretty well showed that they’re capable of an actual working vocabulary, not just mimicry.

Edit - Damn there were like 5 mis-auto-corrected words in like 2 sentences. Apologies to anyone who tried to read that and thought they were having a stroke.

Sterile_Technique, 5 days ago

Depends on the topic. Like when cloning comes up, people tend not to Bible thump; instead they explain that we shouldn’t do it because they saw a movie about a fully automated theme park featuring dinosaurs.

You know… evidence!

Sterile_Technique, 5 days ago

Hold up, so the dude whining about the whole “preoccupied with could, never thought about should” was just talking out of his ass?? We’re literally biblically obligated to clone those raptors! YES we should!

Sterile_Technique, 6 days ago

Getting abusive parent vibes from the language of Sony’s post.

Sterile_Technique, 6 days ago

Naw it’s more like “we did something we knew would make you incredibly uncomfortable; but now that you’re screaming we’re worried about the neighbors hearing it and we don’t want the cops called on us, so we’ll back off until a more opportune time.”

Sterile_Technique, 7 days ago

Overbooked. This is the airline industry we’re talking about.

Sterile_Technique, 8 days ago

Try to identify your local ethnic/cultural organizations, and follow their events schedules.

There are pretty large Indian and Vietnamese populations where I live, and they each have an association to share their cultural highlights with the larger pop. The Holi and Festival of Lights celebrations (Indian) and Lunar New Year (Vietnamese) were all an absolute blast and had amazing food.

Good way to get intel on your local organizations is to hit up the respective restaurants/grocery stores from whichever cultures are well represented in your area - look for pamphlets and ask the staff.

As a pasty white dude who’s only recently started tuning in to events like that, everything feels very new and unique - highly recommend!

Sterile_Technique, 8 days ago

I know Bethesda has been historically pretty chill with modders… but every time I see an update on Skyblivion I worry they’re gonna pull a Nintendo and fuck the whole project.

Sterile_Technique, 9 days ago

The placebo effect is honestly pretty wild. There’s a common false understanding that placebo = scam, but if you can achieve a therapeutic effect via thinking that you’re going to achieve a therapeutic effect, then… cool!!

The opposite is also true, called the “nocebo” effect. I’ve noticed this in the OR a lot depending on our anesthesiologist, specifically when they’re administering the propofol (the IV drug that knocks you out). Unfortunately it’s an irritant, so I’ve seen a few different approaches to try to get ahead of the sensation of pain, including warnings like “This can hurt initially - that’s normal!” but I think tends to backfire, cuz you’ve just set the expectation of pain, and those patients seem to have a much heightened experience of pain. This is opposed to saying things like “You might feel a warm sensation in your IV” which seem to reduce the nocebo effect.

It’d be cool to do a study on this action specifically.

Sterile_Technique, 8 days ago

I’d take that memory with a grain of salt. Part of the anesthesic effect is that you don’t remember shit. A common concern patients voice when they roll into the OR is “shouldn’t I be asleep for this? I’ve had X# surgeries before and I’ve never been awake for this part…” But they probably said the same thing on their second+ surgery: you’re always awake when you roll into the OR, you just don’t remember the few minutes leading up to going to sleep cuz of the drugs.

That said, some people do have a resistance to some part of the effect: you might have been one of them, and are remembering traces of the experience like the pain of the propofol; but where that pain occurred could have gotten blocked out, so your brain just picked a spot.

Unless they placed your IV near your crotch, which would be super, super abnormal.

But yea I wouldn’t put much trust in the accuracy of memories immediately surrounding general anesthesia. It fucks with your brain, hard.

Sterile_Technique, 10 days ago

No no no - humans are closest to chimps, and if their current state is any indicator of the evolutionary path we broke off from, we descended from a bunch of clever but violent assholes, which says a lot about our current state

Orangutans are chill as fuck - get that evolutionary juice flowing and step aside to make way for Earth’s real master race!

Sterile_Technique, 10 days ago

BB

You misspelled “Vladimir Putin’s”.