Sterile_Technique

@ Sterile_Technique @lemmy.world

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Fuck AI lemmy.world

"The most developed Non-fictional language that isn't used by any life (or system created by said life) native to this solar system."

It'll either return the magic equivalent of a 404 error, or I get some absolutely ground breaking confirmation / become a human Rosetta Stone to get a jump on first contact!

2d ago

People with the gene that makes cilantro taste like soap: What do you mean by "Cilantro tastes like soap"? In what way does anything taste like soap?

I'll do what works. Requesting they don't add it on the basis of preference results in a plate full of cilantro about half the times I attempt it. Sending it back generally gets it corrected on the next attempt, but not only does that force you into the awkward position of asking to send it back, it also leaves you at a table full of people eating their meals having a good time while you just sit there and wait. Around the time the rest of your party is done eating, your food arrives, and now everyone else of waiting for you.

Fuck it. Cilantro will kill me. Please prepare the food with the appropriate sense of urgency. Idgaf if it gums up the line - that's the result of them not having their shit together countless times previously. The alternative gums up my entire evening, and I've dealt with that enough times.

That's also on them if they don't take other allergies seriously. They're not my fucking doctor - if I tell them I have an allergy, then I have an allergy. Nearly anything can be an allergen, and their job is to accept that information at face value, not audit the diagnosis.

2d ago

BIG (like Americans) IF TRUE

Americans associate the orange colour with cheese

We used to. Lately it's more an icon for fascism.

2d ago

BIG (like Americans) IF TRUE

Murican here. Our food needs to be color coded or we get confused.

Now if you'll excuse me, I had an X-ray and some ibuprofen at an ER two years ago, and if I miss another payment they'll put out a warrant for my arrest - off to my side hustle! (top and/or bottom hustle still available, if anyone's hiring!)

2d ago

Follow me for more shitty diet tips

...I mean, this isn't automatically bad advice. Kinda depends on the quantity and frequency of the alcohol vs calories. If you're having a glass of wine at the end of an otherwise nutritionally well-executed day; vs going apeshit with candy, soda, chips, etc - but not drinking; the former is definitely the better of the two. Recognizing and leveraging those kinds of patterns are key to making some new change into a habit.

Especially if you treat this as a stepping stone to develop some good habits while weening off of bad ones - for that to work you need to tolerate some degree of bad ones as you dial them closer and closer to zero.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

3d ago

People with the gene that makes cilantro taste like soap: What do you mean by "Cilantro tastes like soap"? In what way does anything taste like soap?

Sterile_Technique @lemmy.world 3d ago

I've always thought soap was the wrong comparison, but I definitely have the gene that makes it awful.

Cilantro is loaded with acetyl groups, and sensitivity to those is what defines the taste. Soap is also full of acetyls, but different ones I guess? What hits much closer to target is stink bugs. The gunk they secrete to make their distinctive stink has many of the same acetyl groups as cilantro.

With our sense of smell tied so strongly to our sense of taste, you kind of know what something tastes like just from getting a whiff, with a few exceptions (looking at you, vanilla extract... you fucking liar).

Anyway, a more accurate comparison would be that cilantro tastes like stink bugs. Or specifically, cilantro tastes like the smell of sink bugs.

I can stomach dishes with cilantro in them, but it just stings through everything. No matter how little was put in, it tastes to me like somebody over-cilantro'd the dish.

Same. The taste of cilantro ranges from bad to intolerable. If there's just a tiny bit of it in there, it tastes only mildly bad; scale it up and the dish is ruined in a hurry.

Pro tip:

You've probably already noticed that "please no cilantro" will fall on deaf ears when placing an order at most restaurants. "I have an allergy to cilantro - please make sure there's none in my food." will get you MUCH better results.

If faced with skepticism, give them the spiel about acetyl groups and that those are the source of the allergy. Your symptoms are itchy sensation on the tongue, soreness on the roof of your mouth, constriction/wheezing in your throat, and nausea that kicks in later.

You'll be amazed how rarely they 'forget' not to defile your meal with that rancid shit.

4d ago

Games you fell out of love with.

Yeah like I said, it sounds like they've done a lot to try to turn their product into something closer to what they advertised, but that doesn't excuse their initial deception.

If they were a car dealer or something, and advertised a souped up 2026 Ferrari, which their customers enthusiastically ordered en mass; only to realize upon delivery that they received a 2007 Honda Civic with the Ferrari logo sloppily painted onto the side, they'd be in jail. Because it's a videogame, the legal system didn't give a fuck, so they just let it slide, but what they did was 100% false advertising. They didn't just bite off more than they could chew, they stated clear as day that it contained a plethora of features that it simply did not.

Their decision to later send a series of free Honda-to-Ferrari conversion kits was a nice and extremely unexpected gesture, but doesn't absolve them of their initial crime.

4d ago

Games you fell out of love with.

No Man's Sky, near it's release. Starting out it felt pretty novel, and finishing that first repair of your ship, getting inside of it, lifting off, looking up at a distant planet in the sky, and just fucking going to it all without a load screen... I cannot overstate how insanely epic that felt!!

...and then the player experience hit a brick wall as you realize more and more clearly that the game you bought doesn't come close to the game that was advertised. Ya done got scammed!

Word is they're done a shitload to correct that last paragraph, but dude, that initial wound still fucking stings.

4d ago

"I am going to punch you" - Proud of this kid! Nothing more American than punching Nazis! True patriot!

Nothing more American than punching Nazis!

Nonsense! ...don't forget about shooting and/or bombing Nazis!

Punching them is but a gateway drug to patriotism.

4d ago

Germs are scared of me!

That man is a personification of disease. Of all the things for him to be in charge of, it's public health.

4d ago

What's the stupidest thing someone has ever done in front of you?

But maybe some patients don’t fully understand the dangers of having food in their digestive system when going under anesthesia.

100% it's that. I've heard patients say it's just a power trip from the doctor, or because the nurses want your stomach empty so they don't have to clean up if you vomit. Some people have a weird interpretation of what "NOTHING BY MOUTH" means ("No I didn't eat - all I had was a handful of crackers / just one pancake / just coffee / etc")

Pre-op instructions are really bad about conveying why we give that instruction, which is a complaint I've made at every hospital I've worked at. So then the patient gets to the OR, and we're trying to give that lesson verbally, but they've already broken the instruction at that point. Easily the #1 cause of cancellations when that comes to light; but we do get the occasional moron who thinks we're just fucking with them or something or decides its worth risking their life instead of dealing with the hassle of rescheduling... there's some confirmation bias too: this might be the 4th surgery they've had where they ignored that instruction. Ate a full breakfast every time and nothing went wrong, so it becomes like a game to them. Then on #4 the odds catch up to them and suddenly they're digesting their own lungs.

I wish they'd have to watch like a 1m video animation showing what happens. The long list of do's and dont's gets understandably overwhelming.

5d ago

What's the stupidest thing someone has ever done in front of you?

Sterile_Technique @lemmy.world 5d ago

One of the most important verifications before surgery is to make sure the patient didn't eat or drink. We can't just superman-vision into their stomach, so we settle for asking them.

Ya guessed it: one guy lied about not eating breakfast that morning. He aspirated (threw up into his own lungs) shortly after the anesthesia meds kicked in.

The following several minutes were an absolute shit show. He was still alive when they wheeled him out of the OR, but he went straight to ICU, I'm assuming to get him on a vent. Never got an update after that, so no idea if he survived.

If you're gonna get surgery, don't lie to your team.

5d ago

Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification

Sterile_Technique @lemmy.world 5d ago

push-to-talk

That is a must-have not just for me, but any other fucker in the channel who doesn't want to be muted.

I don't want to hear the fuckin darth vader breathing, dorito crunching, parents arguing, dog barking bullshit on the other end of the mic.

5d ago

If a time travel device was real what would you say to the person who controls it?

Sterile_Technique @lemmy.world 5d ago

"...try to do it before they film Home Alone 2 - that way you can save a piece of our childhood as well as our country."

6d ago

Millions of student loan borrowers aren't repaying their loans — and defaults are up

Sterile_Technique @lemmy.world 6d ago

I think the goal is to ruin the rock's credit score, or put it into collections, or drive it into crime, etc.

Never forget the cruelty is the point. All of the baffling, hypocritical, batshit fucking stupid things Republicans do on the regular, all suddenly make sense when you consider that they don't actually give a shit about enriching the country, their constituents, or often even themselves: their intent is solely to do harm to some outgroup.

7d ago

Sick days

Sterile_Technique @lemmy.world 7d ago

IIRC George Jetson was canonically born in 2022.

So... we ARE living in the Jetsons timeline... you and I were just born in the Jetsons slums.

7d ago

A chatbot entirely powered by humans, not artificial intelligence? This Chilean community shows why

Sterile_Technique @lemmy.world 7d ago

It still bugs me how our vocabulary just immediately goes out the window to market this shit.

NOTHING is powered by AI. And unless some poor fucker's cranking away on a standing bicycle turbine or something, it's not powered by humans either. It's powered by whatever's giving their grid power - solar, wind, nuclear, dinosaur juice, that shit.
Humans grouped up for the purpose of taking and processing client requests isn't a fucking 'chat bot', it's a call center. This concept isn't new or novel in any way.
Even "AI" itself has become synonymous with 'computer generated'. Intelligence that's artificial still only exists in science fiction/fantasy. We've been misusing this term well before shit like LLMs existed - calling shit like NPC pathing in a videogame "AI" which is also stupid... but lately we'll slap an "AI" sticker on anything with an algorithm. We even moved the goal posts on this one with the new term "AGI" but I guarantee that one will be marketed into meaninglessness in the near future too.

This post is powered by my phone's battery and last night's dinner.

1w ago

I was quite out of the loop, but it sems like TeamSpeak 6 is now a full fledged self-hostable Discord alternative? TeamSpeak 6 Is Back: New Design, Screen Sharing, and More