• 11 Posts
  • 917 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: January 16th, 2024

help-circle








  • JasonDJ@lemmy.ziptoScience Memes@mander.xyzScience wins again
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    40
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 days ago

    It’s actually not uncommon. People expect and manifest symptoms all the time.

    What side effects a drug would be likely to cause, the pharmacologist likely knows long before ever giving it to a human. When the human reports side effects that the drug is unlikely to cause…that human was probably a placebo.



  • 25 years before 2019 was 1994. Killing Barney was all the rage back then.

    I remember seeing a game being demod at a computer fair around that time. It was Doom, but with the enemies graphics replaced with Barney characters.

    I think I was 9 at the time…right age for both hating Barney and loving Doom (at least in the mid 90s), and I was enamored with this game.

    My parents wouldn’t let me buy it though.







  • JasonDJ@lemmy.ziptoLinux@lemmy.mlTroubleshooting help
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    edit-2
    12 days ago

    Reminds me of when I was getting pissed off that, on my work computer, Windows would randomly close Teams Windows and browser tabs, exactly every 59 seconds.

    Till I found out that the windows version of caffeine hits the F15 key every 59 seconds by default. I had previously set up PowerToys to map an “extra” key on my keyboard to do Ctrl+W. That “extra” key actually turned out to be F15.


  • Maybe you’re wired different. I skimmed the whole thing twice, specifically looking for the directions section, knowing how it should look. I missed it the first time…I thought the joke was that there weren’t any directions, or they were hidden on a page 2.

    Maybe my ADHD mind?

    I definitely get what OP is saying tho. Having an unknown and changing number of warnings, before the directions, in the same typeface as the directions, could make it more dangerous.

    Ideally there would be a color-coded label system for different types/severities of warnings, and the direction clearly printed above/near the top. Having all the warnings first didn’t make me read them, just the bolded parts, looking for the directions. Directions are the most looked-for thing, they should be in an obvious place.

    This is like the drug companies following supermarket logic, putting the milk in the back corner of the store hoping you impulse a bunch of stuff on the way. But instead tricking the customer into learning something, the customer says “all this science shit is boring and scary sounding” and they go get the raw milk from the farm stand because that doesn’t “need” warnings.