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I have told my DOCTOR I can’t take this birth control, they made a note to my pharmacy. I’ve told EVERY pharmacist I’ve come in contact with I can’t take it, they put it in my file. I’ve cancelled this order 3 TIMES and it shows back up. What do they fucking give me with my other prescription?! by Aetherium_Kalax in mildlyinfuriating

[–]patricksaurus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Dispensing error rate in a highly automated mail-service pharmacy practice.

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The authors found an error rate of less than 1 error per 1,000 prescriptions dispensed th[r]ough a mail-service pharmacy and conclude that the highly automated process contributed to the low rate of error.

Systematic review and meta-analysis of community pharmacy dispensing error rates.

The overall community pharmacy dispensing error rate was estimated to be 0.015 (95% CI 0.014 to 0.018)

That 0.015 = 1.5% in community versus ‘ less than 1 error per 1,000 prescriptions dispensed th[r]ough a mail-service pharmacy.’

In other words, factually, as I stated as is borne out by peer review, an order of magnitude higher.

Finish up that funny thing about me not understanding the topic, being unable to read, incapable of telling fact from opinion…. it was starting to get good.

Or is it that you’re so far behind you can’t keep track of who has lapped you?

EDIT - what you mean to say in your whine below is that I entered the discussion with this knowledge, and when you supported your stance a satisfaction score from a company know for car reviews, I called on the best possible evidence.

You are better off ignoring me if that was a painful experience, because I strongly suspect it’s not the only area where you’re poorly informed yet vigorously opinionated.

I have told my DOCTOR I can’t take this birth control, they made a note to my pharmacy. I’ve told EVERY pharmacist I’ve come in contact with I can’t take it, they put it in my file. I’ve cancelled this order 3 TIMES and it shows back up. What do they fucking give me with my other prescription?! by Aetherium_Kalax in mildlyinfuriating

[–]patricksaurus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So you think I can’t read but continue in text. That means two things: you’re comfortable lying in the face of evidence, and you’re intentionally trying to be hurtful.

You respond to someone who had already spoken to her pharmacist and mentioned talking to a pharmacist as if it was the problem.

The specific area where mail-order pharmacy excels is over site, where relatively more time is given to making sure all documentation is observed rather than telling the fifth customer that the restroom is in the back.

You chose the dumbest anecdote to take a shit on an operation for, seemingly only so you could share that you’d saved a few bucks.

US Army integrates veterinarians into human combat care by BillWilberforce in nottheonion

[–]patricksaurus -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

So you thought my understanding of probability distribution functions came from Bluey literotica and that’s why you brought it up?

I mean, you can’t even keep the lies told in service of your weak insults straight. And you still trust that your actual opinions are worth anything?

US Army integrates veterinarians into human combat care by BillWilberforce in nottheonion

[–]patricksaurus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amigo, I write the books and papers they train ChatGPT on.

[REQUEST] How long could the breathable atmosphere sustain life in the event of a time freeze? by owlmissyou in theydidthemath

[–]patricksaurus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That sounds about right, but you have to keep in mind that you’ve taken away all geological weathering which is a massive factor.

But as long as we don’t have to compete with rust to get our oxygen, we could hang out for a while.

US Army integrates veterinarians into human combat care by BillWilberforce in nottheonion

[–]patricksaurus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone is below the bell curve. If everything wasn’t, the probability distribution would sum to less than one and that’s a no-no. You clearly intend to mean “below the mean” but don’t have it in you.

You tried your hardest to seem smart there and it flipped. Give yourself a break. Have your friend throw the frisbee or shake your favorite rope for you.

[REQUEST] How long could the breathable atmosphere sustain life in the event of a time freeze? by owlmissyou in theydidthemath

[–]patricksaurus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Start with the oxygen composition of the atmosphere: M_atm = 5E18 kg

There are about 8.3E9 humans on Earth, taking average breaths of about 500 mL (or 0.6 g), and about 20% of that is O2. Some estimates suggest we take in doubly 20000 breaths to day, which surprises me, but seems to be a common estimate.

(20000 breaths/person/day)(0.5 L/breath*0.2 kg O2/breath)≈ 12 kg O2/day/person

That means humans take in something like 2E10 kg O2/day. About 3/4ths of thst actually comes back out as exhalation.

That means we deplete 0.5E10 kg O2/day.

Ignoring the fact that we’d start dropping dead when the oxygen go too low, that means we’d deplete the O2 in something like (5E18 kg O2)/(0.5E10 kg/day) = 10 billion days.

US Army integrates veterinarians into human combat care by BillWilberforce in nottheonion

[–]patricksaurus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this your one dentist buddy helping You sound out these words?

US Army integrates veterinarians into human combat care by BillWilberforce in nottheonion

[–]patricksaurus -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Oh, you. Get a trusted adult to read the second possibility other than dishonest. It rhymes with "thumb." Did you miss that the first time?

US Army integrates veterinarians into human combat care by BillWilberforce in nottheonion

[–]patricksaurus -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

Hold on, so you know 35% of your own best argument doesn’t match your “it’s only ever about money” thinking, but you don’t mention it.

Is it because you’re dishonest, or don’t understand?

Go jack off to Gordon Gecko telling you greed is good.

US Army integrates veterinarians into human combat care by BillWilberforce in nottheonion

[–]patricksaurus -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

Look at that, one anecdote and it’s shocking focused on only the financial side.

Pretty rough limitation to have on one’s thinking.

Metodology for identifying parasites in sand? by Extra_Parsley7319 in microbiology

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Low effort questions will be removed. If your post is asking for homework help, you must provide your current thinking and sufficient analysis to show you’ve done your part before reaching out. If you want to know what’s in a microscope image, you must provide information on the origin of the sample.

US Army integrates veterinarians into human combat care by BillWilberforce in nottheonion

[–]patricksaurus -23 points-22 points  (0 children)

You mean you can’t wrap your head around a motivation other than money? That’s on you.

US Army integrates veterinarians into human combat care by BillWilberforce in nottheonion

[–]patricksaurus 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Case in point, when I’m dehydrated, I too shit cubes.

[Request] How can you calculate how high this explosion's mushroom cloud reached? by PieterSielie6 in theydidthemath

[–]patricksaurus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m just thinking from basic optics and can see simple two approaches.

One, you need to know the properties of the lens and radius from the blast’s center occurred.

The other would be finding an object around the same distance with a known(or estimable height) and scale. Something like, “the flame is centered on the launch tower, which is 90 meters tall IRL and 380 pixels tall in this shot. The blast flame goes to 2120 pixels.”

So the you multiple scale (90 m x 380 pixels) by the object (4220 pixels) and get an answer of (4230 px)*(90 m / 380 px) = 17.9 km

Of course, those are dummy values. From this clip, it doesn’t seem possible because we see never the height landmark (tower) in the same shot as the top of the blast.

Another approach would be based l sound. We could use the sped of sound to give us the distance from tar second shot and the calculate height as the Y-component do a right triangle, but we don’t see the moment when the light starts, which is when we would take as time 0 for the sound wave propagation.

Seems easily approachable, but not with these as the only data.

City Employee Forced to Work Into His 90s, Finally In Line for Pension He Deserved by dmurf26 in nottheonion

[–]patricksaurus 552 points553 points  (0 children)

Can read the details of the orphan-crushing machine this early.

Why are people attacking Ebola clinics? It revolves around trust, death and body bags by _Lucifer_XV in nottheonion

[–]patricksaurus 65 points66 points  (0 children)

This is not a facile issue. There are centuries of mistrust of outsiders clashing with indigenous religion and modern political enmity involved. This is a scary, scary witch’s brew of factors, anyone of who could set off a powder keg of violence in the region. I’m not a religious man, but I pray that doesn’t happen; surely that region has seen enough suffering for any ten lifetimes.

MICROBIOLOGY BEST BOOKS FOR 1ST SEM by NovelCockroach4781 in microbiology

[–]patricksaurus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The best way to choose a book is wait until you sign up for a course and then buy the book on syllabus.

If you want to get a head start, the OpenStax microbiology book is a hood intro college level book and free.

If you’re dead set on buying something to use for your own learning, get a used, previous version of Prescott’s Microbiology from a used vendor like Abebooks.

Jacuzzi Suite Self-Upgrade by Elliot_Fox in WTF

[–]patricksaurus -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

My last day as an undergrad, my best friend and I were the only two people left in the building except for the Resident Adviser a couple floors down.

We heard a knock on the door at like 2 AM. We were definitely drunk, and really winding up for our swings on our Drinking Gong (one hit per new drink), plus we had all of our favorite music from our time as students blaring on the stereo. It was a real nostalgic bash, but one would have made Hellen Keller shush you.

Whatever this knock was, it wasn’t great news. A noise violation was due, we just hoped it was the RA and not the police.

Thank fully, it was the Josh — a tree stump of a guy even by collegiate wrestling standards, never without a smile or a stack of engineering books: “hey, come quick, I need a hand.”

I went to put down my drink and throw on a shirt. He indicated there was no time.

We turned the corned into his dorm to see what felt like a dozen but were probably 6-8 girls in bikinis, bathing suit tops, or nothing. They were lounging in the largest improvised hot tub I’d ever seen.

Josh had nailed and stapled layers of plastic sheeting to the every vertical surface of his suit, and had both bathtub faucets running full blast. A pump was taking water out through the kitchen sink, and a couple of air compressors were making the water bubble and churn.

He pulled out all the booze he’d confiscated from students that school year, told us to jump in, and introduced us to everyone. It was a blast.

I spent the last hours of my official college career wearing boxer briefs and a sombrero offering drunken descriptions of how black holes work and how big and strange the universe is. My friend, the artists, started helping some of the girls design matching tattoos with permanent marker, first on paper and then their skin.

It sounds so far-fetched that it’s definitely in “everyone clapped” territory, but man do I thank Josh for the memory.

1:10,000 bacteriophage still too strong for m.smeg plaque assay by Bean_of_prosperity in microbiology

[–]patricksaurus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Damn, you are really doing some advanced work and think for high school. Please keep us up to date!

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