• @[email protected]
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    839 days ago

    I dunno if it is intentional, but there’s a an additional layer of humor in this for me:

    Where I live, there’s a company called Labcorp and they are basically the de facto company for pre-employment and random drug testing. I’m sure they do more than just drug tests, but drug testing is about all non-medical folks know of the place.

    • Final Remix
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      199 days ago

      Yup Yup LabCorp crew represent! They steal a lot of my blood on behalf of my doctors.

    • @mkwt
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      129 days ago

      I went to labcorp for a while when I needed monthly blood draws for my doctor.

    • @RebekahWSD
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      99 days ago

      I have to get blood drawn every 3 months, and can go to either labcorp or the doctors office.

      Which is technically also labcorp, or at least it’s somewhat affiliated with them. I think it’s the only blood game in town!

  • @ChickenLadyLovesLife
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    359 days ago

    I used to hang with some behavioral psychology grad students (the type that follow the practices of B.F. Skinner and operant conditioning) who were researching the effects of various drugs on pigeons. We were drinking in their lab one time and there were about thirty white pitchers sitting on a table; eventually I noticed that they all had little white, twitching tails sticking out of them - each one contained a pigeon face-down waiting to be put into the testing chamber. I asked them how they managed to get the pigeons into the pitchers and keep them there and they just laughed. They took me into the cage room and showed me how they just opened the cage door and held up a pitcher and the bird would fly like a rocket straight into it. Sometimes they went in so hard they would knock themselves unconscious.

    There are some obvious ethical issues with animal experimentation, but as a certified druggie myself their lives didn’t seem all that bad.

    • @drunkpostdisaster
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      149 days ago

      They should use seagulls instead of pigeons, fuck seagulls.

      • @shneancy
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        139 days ago

        seagulls are spirits of mischief and chaos, i’m pretty sure they’d intentionally fuck with the data

        • @reinei
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          38 days ago

          Only if it meant more cocaine because it needs to be redone…

  • @[email protected]
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    349 days ago

    Any of these cocaine button studies planning on moving to human trials soon? Asking for a friend.

    • @ZoopZeZoop
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      9 days ago

      None of the ones I know about. IRB is never going to approve that. Impersonate a masque macaque and you might have a shot.

      Edit: Fixed my autocorrect.

    • @OlinOfTheHillPeople
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      139 days ago

      I think so Brain, but if you replace the ‘P’ with an ‘O’, my name would be Oinky, wouldn’t it?