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My husband's immediate response: "what about all the men who have licked the salt lamp before me?"

spoilerIt's extra funny because he didn't care about how much of a ho I was.

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    How do men make themselves look older? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
    [–] -1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

    Clothing is a good bet. Someone who's more up to date on fashion trends may have better advice but button-ups are usually like $5-10 at thrift shops. Any color of plaid with the sleeves rolled up and the top 2 buttons undone is casual enough for most situations.

    And if you can grow a beard but it's slightly patchy, see a barber or cosmetologist that does brow and hair fill-ins with henna. It'll be a little pricey the first time but ask and pay attention to how they apply it based on your needs then just buy the henna yourself. It's temporary, won't hurt your skin, and will get you through the next few years until you can grow a fuller one. It also helps to have it uniformly trimmed and 'edged up.' You'd think cutting it would make it look patchier but the trimming will prevent long wispy hairs accentuating the shortness of the patches and having it edged up will give better contrast against your skin.

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    What drink tastes awful but somehow people still act like it's amazing? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
    success rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    [–] 1 point 1 day ago* (1 child)

    Most anything when you program in the right Pavlovian triggers. Essential / scent oils make some of the best sensory triggers for a trained somatic response because they're so varied and you can usually pick a super specific one so you're less likely to trigger it randomly in everyday life.

    Literally just meditate or do something low energy but flow state where your heart rate is low while running it through a diffuser. Do that at least 3 times a week, but ideally daily for a few weeks. Then you can start carrying some saturated swabs in a small sealed container and just whip them out and sniff them when you need to calm down a little. You do have to make sure you keep meditating / chilling to the scent more than you use it for distressing situations because otherwise it becomes programmed more to the distress.

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    Nuh uh in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
    What's a relatively mundane task you've seen someone perform with professional 10k hr smoothness and precision? in c/ask@piefed.social
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    What's a relatively mundane task you've seen someone perform with professional 10k hr smoothness and precision? (sh.itjust.works)
     

    cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/67815568

    Storytime: a patient came into my unit with a controlled medication (I don’t remember what maybe oxy? Ativan?). Per policy, I was waiting for the pharmacy tech to come up, verify my count, and take it down to their safe. It might take a minute, so I got my count done and left the medication in its destined serial-numbered bag, visible on camera on the counter in the med room.

    When I count pills, I fold a clean sheet of printer paper into a tray, with the sides folded up into lips. The four corners make little diagonal ears. I sort the pills into piles of five with a clean spoon to make them easier to count, then use one of those diagonal ears to funnel them back into the bottle. I got somewhere in the 50–100 range.

    The pharmacy tech comes up. She has a specialized tray (they usually look something like this) with a cylindrical, prescription-bottle-sized funnel that snaps down over one side, and some other carefully designed features to facilitate this exact task. The equipment itself was interesting but not the really cool bit.

    She pours the bottle out onto this specialized tray, but she doesn’t need to group the pills. She literally just eyeballs the 50–100 random splatter of pills that falls out onto her flat tray and immediately calls out my exact, carefully tallied count (which I had not yet told her).

    She then, in one fluid motion, tips the tray just enough to slide them all down into the funnel side, slaps the funnel closed over them, and tips whole tray up and down so the contents of the funnel fall down into the bottle. We complete the sign-off and seal the bottle in its security envelope.

    I’m frequently reminded that nurses are kind of the Swiss Army knives of the healthcare system. I can do 90% of the ancillary staff’s jobs in a pinch, but it’s WILD to watch the fluidity with which each of those tasks is done by someone who does that one specific task all day long.

    What’s a super-specialized skill or talent you’ve seen that completely impressed you?

    What's a relatively mundane task you've seen someone perform with professional 10k hr smoothness and precision? in c/ask@piefed.social
    Nuh uh in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
    [–] 14 points 1 day ago* (3 children)

    Hint: it's mostly toxic masculinity about a man letting (possibly another man) touch his balls or butt. Also your man boobs can get cancer whether you've got em or not (technically all of you got em whether obesity has offered them some extra adipose or not, hence the cells available to possibly cause cancer).

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    What's a relatively mundane task you've seen someone perform with professional 10k hr smoothness and precision? (sh.itjust.works)
    submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by to c/ask@piefed.social
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    Storytime: a patient came into my unit with a controlled medication (I don’t remember what maybe oxy? Ativan?). Per policy, I was waiting for the pharmacy tech to come up, verify my count, and take it down to their safe. It might take a minute, so I got my count done and left the medication in its destined serial-numbered bag, visible on camera on the counter in the med room.

    When I count pills, I fold a clean sheet of printer paper into a tray, with the sides folded up into lips. The four corners make little diagonal ears. I sort the pills into piles of five with a clean spoon to make them easier to count, then use one of those diagonal ears to funnel them back into the bottle. I got somewhere in the 50–100 range.

    The pharmacy tech comes up. She has a specialized tray (they usually look something like this) with a cylindrical, prescription-bottle-sized funnel that snaps down over one side, and some other carefully designed features to facilitate this exact task. The equipment itself was interesting but not the really cool bit.

    She pours the bottle out onto this specialized tray, but she doesn’t need to group the pills. She literally just eyeballs the 50–100 random splatter of pills that falls out onto her flat tray and immediately calls out my exact, carefully tallied count (which I had not yet told her).

    She then, in one fluid motion, tips the tray just enough to slide them all down into the funnel side, slaps the funnel closed over them, and tips whole tray up and down so the contents of the funnel fall down into the bottle. We complete the sign-off and seal the bottle in its security envelope.

    I’m frequently reminded that nurses are kind of the Swiss Army knives of the healthcare system. I can do 90% of the ancillary staff’s jobs in a pinch, but it’s WILD to watch the fluidity with which each of those tasks is done by someone who does that one specific task all day long.

    What’s a super-specialized skill or talent you’ve seen that completely impressed you?

    if you can't take the heat, get out of the rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    get yourselves some maid already in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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    this is a pro-spider comm btw (thelemmy.club)
    submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [M] to c/gnostic@sh.itjust.works
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    You know what animal kills the most humans (other than other humans)?

    Mosquitos by way of malaria.

    You know what animals kill mosquitos?

    Bats, lizards, frogs, toads, and spiders.

    Roaches, fleas, bedbugs, termites, and ants are other common household infestations that those spiders in your walls would love to (help) keep under control for you (when it comes to ticks we gotta talk about chickens but that's a whole different post).

    Understanding the material world you've been subjected to means understanding which organisms in this simulation are actually on your side.

    This has been a public service announcement.

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/52665422

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    What's an oddly specific 'blessing' / well-wish in your line of work? (sh.itjust.works)
     

    Working healthcare, I tell all other healthcare / first responders "I hope you have a boring shift" (every once in a while a younger person objects, but they are almost immediately hushed / corrected by their senior coworker).

    But it occurs to me that many office / sedentary workers might not find this to be a blessing. What would I say to a desk worker that might be equivalent?

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