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Criticalhit_jk t1_jcniy9o wrote

Reply to comment by 0002millertime in Heavy workloads make employees feel a greater need for a break, but new research finds they may actually discourage employees from taking breaks at work despite causing high levels of stress, fatigue, and poor performance. by Wagamaga

And this, despite overwhelming evidence that shows they could be making more money if only their employees were well rested, well fed, well clothed, well homed and well educated.

You hear it alot, but it's always true. The cruelty is the point. They don't care how much they have - after a certain point increasing your buying power is meaningless after all. It's about having more than you and they'll go out of their way to stomp on the heads of anyone treading water to keep you there. They like how it feels

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Ishidan01 t1_jcn3oqw wrote

Reply to comment by Ribbys in Heavy workloads make employees feel a greater need for a break, but new research finds they may actually discourage employees from taking breaks at work despite causing high levels of stress, fatigue, and poor performance. by Wagamaga

You wait, robots.

Your manual says change filter A every 500 hours, change tubing B every 1000 hours, replace pump motor C every 10,000 hours?

Nah. Do more with less, we can't afford the downtime to be changing filters.

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Forgind1 OP t1_jcn387a wrote

Reply to comment by TequillaShotz in Regulatory T Cells Mediate Proper Healing in Damaged Distal Tissues by Forgind1

Are you asking about the abstract I put in another comment? The authors labeled Tregs in the gut and saw them appear at the site of injuries; disabling them early (by a genetic knockout or antibiotics) impeded proper healing. You can draw your own dietary conclusions, whether that be eating healthy foods or probiotics; the paper just pointed to oral antibiotics as potentially hazardous.

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ceruleanpure t1_jcmybpu wrote

Reply to comment by RigelOrionBeta in Study finds patient-friendly prescription labels improve medication adherence: More than 100,000 people die each year from not taking medications as prescribed by universityofga

  1. I have had MD prescribe stuff for patients, that, as I’m typing the order in the computer, the computer has a hard stop and I have to chose a different timing or strength. This results in a call back to the MD to argue about policies for patient safety.

  2. Sometimes we do get an order for “one a day or as needed”. The computer ALSO hard-stops this. It’s either a “scheduled med” (once per day) or a “prn med” (as needed). You cannot have both; the system won’t let you.

So; whereas sometimes docs and sometimes pharmacists do make mistakes; I’m more likely to blame the computer system for all of the hard-stops and system policies that cannot be overridden. Don’t get me wrong!! Hard stops are good when they catch something stupid dangerous, but they are also annoying for easy/okay overrides.

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ZmeiOtPirin t1_jcmxtmz wrote

Reply to comment by Georgie___Best in Loss of Menin helps drive the aging process, and dietary supplement can reverse it in mice by geoxol

>Evolution on the other hand isn't an entity with foresight and planning.

A true statement so often absent-mindedly repeated, it actually interferes with some people's understanding of evolution. The metaphor reflects reality better than the nihilistic assertion that nothing matters in evolution.

> In that sense nothing is a flaw or feature. It's literally just survival of the fittest.

Yeah and what I've been telling you is that the fittest species are those that utillise death rather than some immortals. Being immortal is actually pretty bad in terms of the long term fitness of a species.

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WaterDragonGirl t1_jcmsimw wrote

Reply to Heavy workloads make employees feel a greater need for a break, but new research finds they may actually discourage employees from taking breaks at work despite causing high levels of stress, fatigue, and poor performance. by Wagamaga

It gets even worse if you work as a nurse or day-care worker. Because you know the moment you take that break you overburden your co-workers and put the people under your care at risk.

I had to take a break yesterday from my daycare job, because I'm sick, pregnant and had to take care of my even sicker family. I had to take that break fully knowing I wouldn't be paid for it and that I would spend the next day fixing whatever my useless last minute replacement screwed up.

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matycauthon t1_jcms5z2 wrote

Reply to comment by RigelOrionBeta in Study finds patient-friendly prescription labels improve medication adherence: More than 100,000 people die each year from not taking medications as prescribed by universityofga

Sounds like you go to poorly ran pharmacies or your prescription is written that way and your doctor for whatever reason doesn't change it. I've never had an issue like that in any of the states I've lived in.

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