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[Evidence Inconclusive] Germ Blaster

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    Remember kids, when making graffiti, always cite your sources.

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      It looks like a mouth, it needs eyes.

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    The hand dryers that promise you bacon are LYING BASTARDS!

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    Include the publishing year in your reference.

    • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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      My vandals get a zero if they don’t use MLA citation.

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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      That’ll cost them two points off their grade on the paper, shame

  • Valmond@lemmy.world
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    Is this true? Seriously curious.

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    Funnily, that’s not really true. Such studies showing that exist but are sponsored by… paper towel companies

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      Fucking dystopian late stage capitalism… Every fact is not actually a fact cause it’s sponsored by corporate interests

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      Yes, and the ones that show air dryers to be healthier are funded by… hand dryer manufacturers.

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        Someone should fund independent research.

        • ZeffSyde@lemmy.world
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          I went for a whole month drying my hands with only independent research and the results were similar to using paper towels.

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          I remember someone tested this, and the bacteria was found in a wider area.

          Either way bacteria is everywhere and we got immune systems.

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    I particularly hate those airblade things even more than regular air dryers. I like that they’re faster and typically not as gross and warm but they are designed in a way where you feed your hand in to a narrow gap with powerful air jets in front of and behind your hands in this gap. Your hands are not a completely uniform symmetrical shape, so the jets buffet your hand around and they inevitably touch the parts of the device where the jets are located, right where everyone else has had the same thing happen. It grosses me out.

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    Yet, the best hand dryers are still your trousers

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      Zero waste and zero bacteria spread, truly perfect.

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    I’ll just leave this here:

    Hygiene associated with the product has been questioned in research by the University of Westminster Trade Group, London and sponsored by the paper towel industry the European Tissue Symposium

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      It’s ok to be cautious, but if the data is accurate then it doesn’t matter much.

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    Why are there germs on your hands right after washing them? Didn’t mythbusters already test it and concluded that they are only bad when people don’t really wash their hands.

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      Yes.

      The followup question is “how many people think getting their hands wet without soap is sufficient hand-washing” and the answer is not terribly comforting.

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      that they are only bad when people don’t really wash their hands.

      Well, yes.

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    It’s insane we keep using those things after covid. They’re fucking disgusting.

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      But they’re the most hygienic! The advertisement says so…

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        The writing was on the wall.

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    How can it spread germs if the germs are 99% gone after having washed your hands with soap? We’re assuming people aren’t washing their hands properly, right?

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      Some microbes will survive the hand washing process, and need to be removed by drying. Those Dyson air blades collect germs from water from washed hands and the toilet environment, then blow the germs around. It’s gross.

      Also, Mr Dyson is a fucking dick.

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    But I thought all the piss sterilizes them.

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    All air dryers are trash, always have been.

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    Every few years either the paper towels or the dryer spreads more germs, depends on the mood you know.

    Edit: Seems like Big Paper™ sent their goons /s https://www.ajicjournal.org/article/S0196-6553(11)00967-9/abstract

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      Going to need to see your citations for that assertion, sir.

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        https://www.ajicjournal.org/article/S0196-6553(11)00967-9/abstract

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          Cool.

          From the conclusion:

          This may have implications in some industrial and clinical settings as well as in immunocompromised individuals.

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      Downvoted for lack of source

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