RobotToaster
@RobotToaster@mander.xyz
- Comment on If I wanted to make and distribute videos without profit motivate, but also with no or minimum expensive, what would be the best platform? 4 days ago:
Didn’t they abandon decentralisation a while ago?
- Comment on how do you separate your clothes and linens to avoid fabric degradation and bleeding? 5 days ago:
I’m a little obsessive about this myself.
Usually I have
- Dark colours, woolens, and delicates
- Stuff I think could run (raw denim, etc)
- Whites
- Light colours and stuff I don’t care about fading, which can be washed either way.
While most non-colour detergents don’t contain bleach any more, they contain optical brighteners that absorb UV and emit white light, to make whites look “whiter than white”. This can make dark colours, and especially blacks, look dull grey. Other than that you don’t usually have to worry about most colours, especially after the first wash. There are exceptions to this, such as raw denim which runs like crazy. You can also get “colour catcher” sheets for peace of mind that stop runs.
Usually I use a non-biological delicates wool detergent for dark colours, woolens, and delicates, which I wash together, on a wool cycle. It doesn’t hurt to wash something more delicately than it’s supposed to be washed, and it means I don’t need to do as many loads. Sometimes I’ll throw light colours in with this if I have room. Anything “runny” I’ll wash with like colours, at least for the first few washes.
Whites, light colours, and stuff I don’t care about looking dull like towels gets the cheapest own brand biological detergent.
If you have dark coloured bedding you may want to get biological colour detergent, I don’t.
- Comment on Are there humans who require heating lights like pet reptiles? 1 week ago:
Charles Mountbatten-Windsor
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 1 week ago:
My understanding is by medical standards, the evidence is pretty low quality, which is why GnRH agonists aren’t approved by the EMA, MHRA, FDA, or NICE for gender dysphoria.
It highlights a wider issue in medicine though, the obsession with randomised controlled trials, which is basically the only evidence the GRADE method considers “high quality”. We are seeing exactly the same problem with MDMA assisted therapy, any therapy where blinding is difficult is dismissed by the medical establishment. NICE dismissed (es)ketamine for depression for the same reason. Add to that the fact that GnRH agonists are off patent, so there’s no incentive for industry to fund studies.
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 1 week ago:
except for use in clinical trials
- 77-year-old activist faces return to prison because her wrists are too small for electronic tagmorningstaronline.co.uk ↗Submitted 1 week ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s pretty depressing that by modern standards the Lewinsky affair, and even Watergate, would be considered a normal Tuesday.
- Comment on Should we create a new political party in the US, specifically for shitting on the rich? 1 week ago:
Yeah sure, so they can rig their primaries again.
- Comment on Since Syria goverment has fallen, do we have any inkling of what will replace it? 1 week ago:
Islamofascists worse than what it’s replacing.
- Comment on Why are Republicans struggling in Swing State Elections? 2 weeks ago:
I once read that socially conservative but economically left wing voters are quite a large group, but usually get very little representation. It’s just a guess, but it makes sense that those people would vote for AOC on economics while tolerating her on social issues. On the other hand economically right wing democrats like Kamala would have zero appeal to people like that.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 weeks ago:
In an ideal system the jury would decide the sentence, and give him one day community service (time served).
- Comment on If you speak a second language better than your native language, would you describe your second language skill as "native" or "fluent"? 2 weeks ago:
Depends how badly you speak your native language?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
He was basically resurrected from hell, so probably there.
- Comment on alpha 2 weeks ago:
That’s the cutest pseudoscience I’ve ever seen.
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 3 weeks ago:
I had to look that up, it’s the Spanish spelling? I didn’t realise. It’s commonly misspelled by native speakers.
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 3 weeks ago:
bourgeois, the spelling is bourgeois.
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 3 weeks ago:
The truth is often crass.
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 3 weeks ago:
Well, that’s one way to reduce, to quote Sir Starmer, “the benefits bill blighting our society”.
- Comment on Gloves and Boots Very Budget 3 weeks ago:
I’ve not worked in a cooler, but I know for cold weather military surplus “mickey mouse” boots used to be cheap and warm.
- Comment on Under Trump will anything happen to my brothers Social Security Disability? He is 42 and draws it for mental illness. 3 weeks ago:
Depends on the time of day.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
People with depression and other mental illnesses who aren’t capable of making that decision will use it. It also makes it a lot easier to argue for cutting mental healthcare and other suicide prevention measures.
Honestly as someone who’s struggled with depression for 20 years, and had a couple of attempts, the idea that the government may just decide there’s no problem with me yeeting myself is terrifying.
- Comment on Under Trump will anything happen to my brothers Social Security Disability? He is 42 and draws it for mental illness. 3 weeks ago:
It’s impossible to know, he’s a bit of a wildcard.
The one redeeming thing about right populists is that they generally want to be popular, so it’s perhaps less likely for him to do it than a more “conventional” republican.
- Comment on CENSORED!!!!!!!!!!1 3 weeks ago:
Okay, but now I really want to read the rest of the paper to see what R’lyehian incantations it contains.
- Comment on If a word can have as many meanings as we assign to it. Can was assign every meaning to one word? 3 weeks ago:
fnord
- Comment on flouride 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, by this argument lead in the water isn’t a concern.
- Comment on Not logged into lemmy.world when entering from google 4 weeks ago:
I’ve had a similar issue with the instance I use, it appears to be a Lemmy bug mander.xyz/post/17665646
- Comment on If trump appointments someone that doesn't last as long as Anthony Scaramucci do we measure that in fractional moochies or do we abandon the mooch system because it failed us? 4 weeks ago:
We’re going to need a conversion chart of international units, 5 moochies = 1 truss, etc.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
If it isn’t really obvious he died of natural causes, whoever becomes president will have a lot of pressure on them to abolish the CIA.
- Comment on Thames Water supply ‘on knife-edge’ with £23bn repairs needed 4 weeks ago:
Yet they plan a massive shareholder payout telegraph.co.uk/…/thames-water-plots-2bn-sharehol…
And paid over £7bn in dividends in the past theguardian.com/…/in-charts-how-privatisation-dra…
- Comment on Would there be any merit in the idea of NATO waging a "benevolent war" (for lack of a better term) against Ukraine? 4 weeks ago:
At best you’d end up with the Cuban missile crisis in reverse.