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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 235 points 6 months ago

Someone needs to learn about cumulative effects.

[-] Glowstick@lemmy.world 114 points 6 months ago

Sommeliers spit out the wine that they tell you to drink. Very suspicious. /s

This is such a dumb trope that keeps getting repeated in memes. Dosage size matters.

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 47 points 6 months ago

I think 99% of the people sharing the meme understand it is a joke.

[-] WamGams@lemmy.ca 33 points 6 months ago

Its a joke here because we don't have an anti-vax community.

If this was Facebook, this meme would be sex and candy for that crowd.

[-] Lobreeze@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

I smell sex and candy, yeah?

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 12 points 6 months ago

I think 99% of the commenters don't

[-] teft@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

I think 99% of statistics are made up on the spot.

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago

I think you're 99% maybe right

[-] ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

It's not a very good joke.

[-] rainynight65@feddit.de 5 points 6 months ago

Jokes can still be dumb and unfunny.

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 4 points 6 months ago

Most dumb things are unfunny.

Sometimes seemingly dumb things are funny because they make you think a little bit and realize that it seems weird to someone who doesn't understand the context. This one is actually clever because without knowing the context of cumulative effects would be confused by the tech hiding behind a safety shield while telling you it is safe. The humor requires seeing it from someone else's perspective and having the knowledge of why it seems contradictory.

[-] XEAL@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

Hopefully...

[-] HubertManne@kbin.social 39 points 6 months ago

thanks. I was not sure how to respond to this. I suspect they understand that doctors or more likely the nurse or tech would be exposed to dozens of xrays a day instead of less than one a year but you never know.

[-] lugal@lemmy.ml 27 points 6 months ago

This is the internet. You never know if people are serious and if they take you seriously and sometimes not even if you are serious yourself

[-] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago

Also we probably shouldn't tell them about background radiation.

For the curious a chest X-ray is about 0.02 mSv where your annual dose from background is about 2.4mSv, but this easily can be twice this if you live at high altitude or in an area with a higher level of radioactive minerals. Or if you are very lucky somewhere where both are a problem.

Hell airline crews are classified as radiation workers because the higher doses of cosmic radiation puts them over the threshold of on job exposure .

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 6 months ago

after the 4th opinion, and a leg grows out of your chest

"Couldn't find any broken bones but we were alarmed to find a leg growing out of your chest."

[-] Sakychu@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

People are upset when I throw a single pebble but when I throw a hand full they suddenly get really mad 🤷‍♀️

[-] Phlogiston@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Is it cumulative? Or is it probability — which of course goes up if you shower yourself in radiation multiple times a day?

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Radiation is not a matter of chance, but a matter of how much.

[-] metallic_z3r0@infosec.pub 8 points 6 months ago

Every day, your body will probably generate at least one cell that would be cancerous if it wasn't for your immune system. If that probability goes up slightly as a result of mildly increased radiation that day, it likely won't overload the immune system's capacity to deal with it. If it is overexposed to radiation, eventually the greater probability of cancerous mutations exceeds the immune system's capacity.

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[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 181 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Imagine you're a bartender, and every time someone orders a shot, you have to take one too. One? Totally fine. Two? No problem. A hundred? You're gonna want a bucket (or a lead shield) to dump that shot (or radiation) in

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 16 points 6 months ago

That's what grenadine is for!

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 23 points 6 months ago

My friend, you have just revolutionized the field of radiology

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 8 points 6 months ago

Ahhh you know, just doing what I can to help wherever I can.

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 114 points 6 months ago

Tbf they are taking a lot of X-rays throughout the day with multiple patients. You’re but just one of them.

[-] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 82 points 6 months ago

Eat one meatball sub and you're fine.

Eat 20 meatball subs a day, 5 days a week, for your entire professional career? Not medically advisable.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

You're not the boss of me!

[-] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

I just said medically advisable, I fully support your right to eat as many meatball subs as you feel is right for you.

[-] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 57 points 6 months ago

*Rad techs/radiographers

Also. 1 x-ray no biggie. 10000 x-rays real shit.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 37 points 6 months ago

Cause for you its probably your only xray for that year.

For the doctor its probably the 50th, of 500, that day.

So they go behind shielding to protect themselves from their massively higher than yours exposure.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

So you're saying it'll hurt you a bit. But as long as it's not a ton of bits it doesn't really matter.

[-] thomasloven@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago
[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 32 points 6 months ago

And they give you a lead vest to cover Your balls, but nothing to cover your head.

[-] Neon@lemmy.world 36 points 6 months ago

It's actually really logical.

Your Balls constantly store and generate new DNA, which can easily be destroyed by X-Rays. Your Brain doesn't really.

So your Balls are really vulnerable to X-Ray, while your brain isn't

[-] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 months ago

Also: where pee is stored. And we can't be irradiating that, or have we so soon forgotten?

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[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 12 points 6 months ago

Gotta protect vital organs.

[-] Dearth@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Bones block x rays better than the thin skin around your nuts

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[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

They stay back as much for radiation protection as for protection from screaming patients being twisted into pretzels for clearer shots of your scoliosis

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 6 months ago

everyone has already covered the obvious here, but another important protocol for dealing with radiation, particularly the spicy kind. Is to incur as low a cost of exposure as possible. I.E. if you don't need to be in front of the spicy particles. Don't be.

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