- Mossy Feathers (They/Them) ( @MossyFeathers@pawb.social ) English28•1 month ago
Why is no. 5 drinking her own bathwater? The blurry transition between her blue shirt and her neck makes it look like she’s up to her neck in water, and she has a straw.
- django ( @django@discuss.tchncs.de ) English20•1 month ago
Human soup
- zero_spelled_with_an_ecks ( @zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ) English6•1 month ago
You don’t eat soup with a straw. It must be tea.
- skyin7 ( @skyin7@feddit.org ) English5•1 month ago
She might be a Gamer Girl.
- Catoblepas ( @Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English4•1 month ago
It used to be standard in labs to pipette by mouth. Better be extra careful with the strong acids!
- Mossy Feathers (They/Them) ( @MossyFeathers@pawb.social ) English2•1 month ago
Whyyyyyyyyy. What the fuck, lol.
- Catoblepas ( @Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English5•1 month ago
From what I recall from my classes taught by professors old enough to have personally done mouth pipetting (!), allegedly it was more precise and less likely to cause cross contamination than using rubber bulbs if you did it right. Which, nobody can be perfect every time, so thank god it was phased out. It really used to be the wild west out there.
- Mossy Feathers (They/Them) ( @MossyFeathers@pawb.social ) English4•1 month ago
I’m just amazed at the idea that a chemist would put anything in a lab near their mouth. Like, even ignoring acids, there are so many nasty chemicals that are toxic on a measure of parts-per-million or parts-per-billion that I’d be too concerned about accidentally getting a molecule on my lips. I remember reading about how dimethylmercury is so nasty that if you come into contact with it your only chance of survival is to grab a butcher knife and immediately hack off the contaminated limb (that’s kinda hyperbole, but it’s nasty shit).
Then you have basically anything that contains fluorine.
Maybe those were the days before they discovered the “instantly kill you dead with a single molecule” chemicals.
- watersnipje ( @watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English4•1 month ago
It wasn’t just the chemists either! There have been incidents where people in med tech labs have infected themselves with horrible and gross disease samples 💀
- trd ( @trd@feddit.nu ) English10•1 month ago
At least number 5 is wearing safety glasses.
- isolatedscotch ( @isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de ) English6•1 month ago
I don’t know, looks like it’s just normal glasses without protection on the side
- Midnitte ( @Midnitte@beehaw.org ) English6•1 month ago
I mean, that’s just as good right? /s
- isolatedscotch ( @isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de ) English1•1 month ago
it’s better (if you have a death wish)
- RBG ( @RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ) English10•1 month ago
Uuuuuh, mixing ml and ul pipettes in the same graphic, something with that doesn’t sit right with me.
That said, 8.
- Midnitte ( @Midnitte@beehaw.org ) English4•1 month ago
What is mL but just large uL?
- smeg ( @smeg@feddit.uk ) English9•1 month ago
I just use a spoon
- skillissuer ( @skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de ) English5•1 month ago
the road not taken: glass microliter syringes
- Midnitte ( @Midnitte@beehaw.org ) English4•1 month ago
- Pandoras_Can_Opener ( @Pandoras_Can_Opener@mander.xyz ) English3•1 month ago
Once a 7 broke down and I had to improvise the 5. Not a good day.
Now which of these is the I have no energy for anything? Also 5?
- nickwitha_k (he/him) ( @nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ) English3•1 month ago
Definitely feeling about a 9 today.
- SubArcticTundra ( @SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ) English2•1 month ago
2
- Yverdrys ( @Yverdrys@beehaw.org ) English2•1 month ago
6 anyday and everyday!