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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

This is what we're training LLMs on.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 31 minutes ago

"AI," what should I do about being constipated?

Painfully stretch your rectum to gaping in order to accommodate your constipation.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Hey Alexa, please examine my rectum

[–] [email protected] 6 points 54 minutes ago

We have finally found The Forbidden Knowledge

[–] [email protected] 2 points 37 minutes ago

See i have IBS so i already knew this as i experience it first hand weekly.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

This lady claims to be an expert but doesn’t even mention the poop knife?!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 hours ago (23 children)

The poop knife is irrelevant until and unless one plans to flush, which this question did not ask.

Also, why do you assume the nurse is a lady?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 hours ago

TIL my butthole is a PlayDo’h Fun Factory…

[–] [email protected] 87 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Reddit certainly did have it's moments, didn't it?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago

have its* moments

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

I'll always remember the kid who broke both his arms and his helpful mom.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 minutes ago

Between that and Colby, you have the full spectrum of Reddit sexual encounters.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 minutes ago

I prefer putting whores before descartes.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 hours ago

Was that because of the same reminders over and over, every other thread?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

"Bill Nye, the Endoscopy Guy"

[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 hours ago (8 children)

I don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve had moments of pure despair as I feel like one’s gonna tear me in half.

A real porcelain shatterer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

I ended up occasionally chugging about half a liter of water before going, because this started happening.

That seems to actually do something very useful when I think I've not had enough water prior, but I don't actually know the details of how the body moves and uses that water. It intuitively feels like 2-3 minutes should be too short of a time-span to start doing useful work, but it still seems to work.

In general not using piddly little 0.2l glasses and instead keeping a large glass or bottle with me isn't just helpful, it's vitally important. I simply can't get by occasionally drinking small glasses of water. Other than the first day I'd resolve to start drinking more water again, I never went to fill them up enough times to actually get sufficient hydration for my size.

Additionally, I've learnt to feel my hydration on my lips, if they're dry I need a drink. But I am an unreliable, irrational actor. I don't always pay enough attention, or stay on top of things even if I notice, so I'm likely to resort to desperately chugging water again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 minutes ago

Chiming behind the lemming who said the water a few minutes prior going won't do anything. It certainly won't do absolutely anything no matter how much you drink. Once the bowel absorbs the water, adding more water to your body won't restore moisture to the stool.

What probably happened in your case is simply peristaltic movement, some people are more sensitive to it. So chugging a generous amount of water stimulates your gut tissues and encourages things to get moving along.

Going back to the water - of course if you stay hydrated and keep things hydrated it will help. But you cannot rehydrate a stool just by drinking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 55 minutes ago

Just eat a handful of sugar-free gummy bears every morning before you leave for work and it will be so super easy to poop and clockwork regular.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

The way I understand it is that your colon will work harder to reclaim water if you’re dehydrated, so staying hydrated will help keep stool softer overall. That said, rehydrating while constipated (or immediately before a bowel movement) won’t make a real difference since the water has already been absorbed from the stool and it can’t add it back.

I would imagine your drinking lots of water before, if you do it consistently, is probably just contributing to your overall hydration which makes it easier next time.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

Excuse me. I have to go take care of something.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago

Taking a shit while I read this. Also, jesse-wtf

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 hours ago

There's nothing about that paragraph I didn't like!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

Very fitting to my current um, situation

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 hours ago

That's nice, dear.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 hours ago

Putting the Shit in ShittyLifeProTips.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

just hold your poop in

But now, from a medical professional, so you know it’s legit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago

Now that's one shit experiment to figure something specific out.

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