Sterile_Technique

Sterile_Technique, 2 hours 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, 12 hours 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, 39 minutes 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, 1 day 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, 2 days ago

Idk if there have been enough case studies to draw any conclusions on the third point with a reasonable degree of certainty.

Get me clip board, I’m heading to the NICU.

Sterile_Technique, 2 days ago

punch

That’d probably do the trick, too.

Sterile_Technique, 2 days ago

BB

You misspelled “Vladimir Putin’s”.

Sterile_Technique, 2 days ago

1. Does AWOL mean something other than “Absent without leave”? Cuz that’s a weird way to describe a computer algorithm.
2. …aight so I’m definitely not a theologist, but… according to christianity, or catholocism specifically… is there actually any rule against using gatorade for a baptism? I’d assume it just says “water”, but there’s water in gatorade. Sure there’s also other shit in gatorade, but there’s other shit in tap water too. Even distilled water isn’t going to be 100% pure.

And if gatorade’s cool, where do they draw the line? Could you baptize a baby with honey? Or drop a steak onto the kid’s face (there’s water in those too!). Does it even have to be liquid water? Like what if you just threw some icecubes at the kid, or blasted some steam in its face??

So many questions!

Sterile_Technique, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

the idea of “washing”, or “being washed”, so solid water or water in solids would not count.

You could make a solid (HA!) argument for exfoliative or percussive removal of debris from the kid’s head via scraping or knocking the nasty-bits free via the holy projectiles.

Sterile_Technique, 2 days ago

“That’s not piss.”

• Alter boy

Sterile_Technique, 2 days ago

It’s better, cuz it’s got electrolytes.

It’s what souls crave!

So like, ice X at 60 gigapascals and -120 °C?

What’s the worse that could happen?

Sterile_Technique, 2 days ago

We’ve been through our share of "no way"s.

Sterile_Technique, 2 days ago

Are you kidding? She’s one of Putin’s top performers.

Sterile_Technique, 2 days ago

Boebert … Greene

Wait, aren’t those the same person who occasionally dons glasses and changes her wig/nametag?

Sterile_Technique, 3 days ago

Even taking it at face value, who cares?

Kids do dumb shit. Always have, always will.

If identifying as seasons gets the creative juices flowing or gives them a harmless source of entertainment, then more power to em.

Sterile_Technique, 3 days ago

The Aladdin live action remake was shat on mercilessly by the internet, but I thought it was a fun, true to the spirit of the original while introducing a few new ideas to keep it interesting, and (imo very respectfully) stayed out of Rob William’s lane by not trying to recreate his genie. And Will Smith did a great job with his version.

/shrug

Sterile_Technique, 3 days ago

Oh wow. Already wasn’t a fan of Razer cuz their build quality went to shit, but this plants them firmly in malice territory.

Sterile_Technique, 2 days ago

I may have gotten lucky, but their first gen Naga was the best mouse I’ve ever had. Their stuff now feels like a happy-meal toy in comparison.

Sterile_Technique, 2 days ago

I got their first gen Naga and it was outstanding. Idk if I just got lucky, but it straight up felt like something engineered and built by NASA. Their products since haven’t come close to hitting that bar.

Sterile_Technique, 3 days ago

Fill. The. Holding. Cell. With. Wasps.

Sterile_Technique, 3 days ago

I need to pick up some fireworks for when that traitor finally dies.

Sterile_Technique, 3 days ago

It’s not a loop, it’s just a really, really long shotgun.

Sterile_Technique, 4 days ago

No person dead is GOOD.

I mean… there are definitely a good handful of people who’s final theft of our oxygen will mark the world becoming a slightly better place.

The absence of evil is good. When people use their life to be evil, their death is good.

I’d personally draw that line well before the entire career field of law enforcement, but to each their own I guess.

Sterile_Technique, 3 days ago

I meeaaaaaaaan… billionaires tho.

Sterile_Technique, 3 days ago

Naw you’re good. I have a bad habit of just typing as I think. The ellipses as a pause was the pause in my thinking between topics, which is very much not how an ellipses is supposed to be used. You responded appropriately taking my post at face value.