I'm a Demodex folliculorum and I'm currently dating a Demodex brevis so I'm somewhat of an expert. Our host is pretty gross and rarely showers which has made the real estate in this area really expensive. We've been trying to move to another host but the opportunity hasn't come up yet. Anyway, to answer your question, we have scuba gear.
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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It's so good to have diverse voices to hear from.
Thanks for the insight, Greg.
I think this is the dude who stole our lawnmower!!
I did steal a lawnmower from a fellow lemming, and they were from @lemmy.world, but I think it was a different @UndulyUnruly
That smell. I recognise that smell. It’s the smell of pants on fire.
I wish Lemmy would grow to the point when these Reddit moments of "I'm a dermatologist, and actually...” happen as usual as they happen on Reddit.
Hey at least we're at the point where people are asking the questions! Literally three days ago nobody needed to summon a dermatologist.
Literally three days ago nobody needed to summon a dermatologist.
As a nerd with regular cycles of bad skin from dermatitis since my teen years I doubt nobody in a community of nerds needed to summon a dermatologist, but we may soon hit the sweet spot of being big enough to have specific expertise in comments without people lying for clout or karma farming!
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That used to be the case on reddit. These days you have to scroll through hundreds of lame jokes to find an actual discussion.
As far as I notice, puns are an important aspect of English-speaking culture, so I understand that and I'm ok with that. At least for me this "actually..." moment is always worth the scrolling effort :)
There's a time and a place and it's not just wherever you can shove one in.
It's just the nature of a completely open and well known forum, I am okay with that. If I want a more edifying conversation, I would look elsewhere anyway.
The complete openness to thought both beautiful and disgusting is what provides value to reddit, and will eventually provide value to Lemmy. It will be even better on Lemmy because instances that are aligned or adjacent can remain "friends" or federated so the users van easily maintain their echo chambers and create accounts to explore outside of them.
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Half the time they were lying anyway :(
I am an expert on the little bugs that live on your skin. Swimming for extended periods not only doesn't harm them, it makes them stronger. Try to limit swimming to 2 hours or less or they may become strong enough to take over control of your body!
Actually the chlorine in our water supply is creating seven different super bugs right this moment that are resistant to everything!
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Only half?
Hey now, we can just lie and pretend to know what we're talking about, just like most on Reddit! 🥳😉
It will happen one day… hopefully soon
I’m seeing that, for technology stuff, which is the first step.
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As another user pointed out, most bacteria and other microscopic forms of life don't really "breath" in the way we think of it. Often they just absorb oxygen from their surrounding environments.
They can be washed away, killed by chlorine (pools), or killed by salt imbalance (ocean). However it's really hard (read near impossible) to kill them all, and even if you did they exist in our environments naturally and from other humans as well as on things we've touched recently. So they repopulate quickly.
There are some arguments that Sodium Laurel Sulfate kills "good" bacteria on our skin.
I never realised how much I really want to know the answer to this question.
Yea, I wanna know if I'm committing genocide every time I shower or not. 😈
Shower, probably. Part of the function of soap (and scrubbing) is to dislodge dirt and bacteria, so it gets washed away.
So you're either committing genocide by killing them outright, or forcefully relocating them from your body. (also why 99% soap generally doesn't matter too much compared to regular soap)
Doesn't the nature of subsurfacants rip apart most bacteria? That's what I have always been taught, but my mother supplemented a lot of my education and I have learned she hasn't always been 100% right... although neither were my textbooks l... so I guess flaws all around
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Showering does kill mites and bacteria that are all over your body. They’re quite resilient though so you’re never really rid of them.
I am not a microbiologist. However I do know that bacteria are pretty resilient, and most pathogens and parasites can live for at least a few hours outside of a host. Plus your skin is really not all that smooth at a microscopic level, there are all sorts of little nooks and crannies to hold onto.
Drowning wouldn’t really be a concern for them, imo, but additives like chlorine are specifically meant to be disinfectants.
Now hear me out:
What if you jumped through a tall fire, naked, a few times? Nothing so fast as to actually burn you, but enough to make you hairless.
I'm fairly certain that would kill quite a bit of the microbiome.
Ah, you're a gentleman of logic, I see.
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Actually though. How are the little guys in my eyebrows going? I need to know
May I suggest relocating to a warm, soapy box?
I would expect the chlorine in a swimming pool or the salt content on the ocean to be a bigger problem for the microscopic life on our bodies.
Some do other don’t. Bugs/bacterias are resilient.
Those were the days
This is so nasty and interesting at the same time
And we become a graveyard of little bugs
Nightmare fuel, thanks
I used to wonder the same thing about lice. I think it depends.. but yeah no idea.
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