xmunk
@xmunk@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Why Titles Are Written Like This? 6 days ago:
How to Respond to a Question on Title Capitalization: A Brief Commentary
It isn’t normal to capitalize every first letter… it’s normal to capitalize nearly every first letter.
- Comment on Was Donald Trump ever cool? 6 days ago:
I think it’s a great idea not to idolize strangers. You say you liked Elon but folks in tech have always known he’s a piece of shit and some of his oldest “friends” (i.e. Thiel) fucking loathe him.
Wealth, generally, fucks people up so it’s good to avoid the wealthy and famous as a default rule…
Why not appreciate people around you, friends, family, your mail folk - these people are much more impactful on your life and their kindnesses in your times of need have the potential to be life saving.
- Comment on Why did/do sites such as the pyramids in Egypt or the Roman colosseum end up in an abandoned state, only to be "rediscovered" later? 1 week ago:
The pyramids mostly take care of themselves - most of the Roman sites were destroyed because people needed stone, and its easier to get pre-quarried stuff than dig it out of the ground yourself.
Our reverence of past architecture is a pretty modern trend - and the amount of work it’d take to keep repainting and gilting these ancient buildings is unreasonable if they aren’t useful.
The materials being repurposed is pretty awesome though, it sucks to lose old buildings but being able to reconstruct where stones from a given ended up going and them receiving care and maintenance in their new homes is better than the material being outright destroyed… and it helps weave history into our everyday lives.
One interesting debate you can follow right now (ish, it’s mostly been settled) is the repatriation of totem polls that were stolen from Haida and Coastal Salish peoples… there was a debate about trying to preserve them in museums or returning them to the tribes where they’ll serve their purpose and weather away to nothing. A takeaway from this discussion is that, if you have nothing else, it’s not a bad idea to try and preserve items so that future people can appreciate them… but there are also active totem carvers alive and passing on the knowledge today - it’s better to provide funding to keep the artform alive.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I toast a shot of Salmiakki to that.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I naturalized to Canada and call myself Canadian.
- Comment on What's so important about keeping military operations secret? 1 week ago:
A few things
- If it’s an operation you end up not committing to you don’t want the infamy of having planned it.
- Advanced knowledge of the strike may allow the target to reposition to avoid or oppose the strike.
- Persons involved in the strike may be endangered due to the association.
- You look like fucking ass clowns.
- Comment on What do you do if you encounter a skunk? 1 week ago:
Walk away from them until they feel comfortable enough to leave.
- Comment on Why can’t HVAC be made smarter? 1 week ago:
Most HVACs thermostats have a target temperature range and can toggle heating and cooling to stay within that range - usually with some minimum range logic to prevent constant swapping.
This is also a classic modern house problem. In areas with wild temperature sways like what you’re describing traditional house building would include hacks to capture and retain the cool air in the morning and shed as much excess heat as possible during the day.
When we lived in Puerto de la Santa Maria we’d throw open windows to create a cross breeze in the mid afternoon and keep the air flowing (assuming it didn’t get too cold) into mid-morning at which point we’d seal off the east facing windows and draw curtains over the windows and doors to keep the heat out - swapping to full enclosure as it got to just before lunch time - then opening east facing windows and leaving the west shut util it was time to start the cycle again.
It was unbearably hot in direct sunlight during the hot months but the house stayed cool - especially with thermally conductive tiles and stone being the primary exposed surfaces. As long as you properly cycled the house you could keep it comfortable and it was easy to adjust by airing it slightly less or letting more heat in.
Wooden houses with huge sliding glass doors in direct sunlight that have no shades or curtains can’t do this, however.
- Comment on Redditors told me to go to a therapist but I can’t afford one nor pick one from thousands available. What now? 1 week ago:
That is not everything wrong with the 21st century - that’s just Reddit being a toxic platform. Sociopaths get off on inflicting pain - their comments aren’t about you, they’re doing it for self gratification.
- Comment on Can Christians, Muslims or Jews worship or pray to pagan gods? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe the Jewish faith has kept to that but Christians have a long tradition of practicing syncretism and priests were happy just to get a Danish king to say “Hail Odin the all father and Freyr’s might and uh… also the Christian God I guess.”
- Comment on Can Christians, Muslims or Jews worship or pray to pagan gods? 2 weeks ago:
Yes. Do whatever the fuck you want.
- Comment on Does not the constitution say something one should not be charged or something to vote? If so then why does my home state charge 50$ to get a regular id to vote? Is that no illegal? 2 weeks ago:
It should be illegal but Roberts doesn’t give a shit.
- Comment on My Dog Buddy just turned 4 years old yesterday. I flew home for it. And we give him all kinds of snacks and treats all day long. Question is. Does he actually know its his B-Day or just we are..... 2 weeks ago:
There’s no bad reason to give your puppy love and attention.
- Comment on i somsone who isn’t dyslexic lexic? 2 weeks ago:
Instructions unclear, I have become a lexer and now am in need of a parser and linker.
- Comment on Do you think the US will actually log its national parks? 2 weeks ago:
Instructions unclear, his corpse now has a hickey.
- Comment on Do you think the US will actually log its national parks? 2 weeks ago:
Yes I do. But I think the logging will mostly take place in the unvisited and ecologically important part of parts while the parts of parks intended to receive visitor will remain “pristine” until the whole ecosystem collapses when the wildlife die off.
- Comment on Is there a google extention that lets me resize any textbox on any website? 2 weeks ago:
You could absolutely just stash it in tamper monkey or another script helper.
I’m glad it worked!
- Comment on Is there a google extention that lets me resize any textbox on any website? 2 weeks ago:
If you’ve gotten the box bigger you may want to try passing a larger number in like
font-size: 16and keep upping that until you’re happy. - Comment on Is there a google extention that lets me resize any textbox on any website? 2 weeks ago:
Not quite, once you have adjusted it to your liking you’ll want to copy the changes you made but you’ll also need to somehow identify how to find the tag to apply them to. It’ll usually be a class or Id reference that you should be able to view in the right panel while inspecting that element. Figuring out how to target then proper element is likely going to be the most difficult part of this task, unfortunately, and it’s entirely dependent on how that specific site was built.
- Comment on Is there a google extention that lets me resize any textbox on any website? 2 weeks ago:
The answer to your question is what you thought it was - CSS - someone may have pre-written the CSS for your specific use case but CSS really isn’t that scary and is pretty easy to bullshit your way through. The easiest way to play around with it is to right click the page element you’re interested in and click
Inspectyou should the be able to manually increase the width (though you may have to try fiddling with the parent element or its parent etc…). The site will reflect your changes in live time and persist as long as the tab is open - the custom CSS extension is useful since it would allow you to persist those changes if you reload the page or open a new tab. - Comment on Do new US Tariff on Steel/Aluminium apply only on the metal weight or on all the engineering work to design the metal part ? 2 weeks ago:
Oh we’ll still have metal engines outside the US. If your wooden engine has issues like instantaneous explosion please contact your local president.
- Comment on Not trying to choose a side but when did Dems become well wussies? They Have FDR, JFK, OBAMA, Clinton, under their belt. The Reps have Reagan. How come the Dems don't fight fire with fire anymore? 3 weeks ago:
Obama was a huge wuss. He came in on promises of change and did nothing but continue to placate corporations.
- Comment on How can a military buy fighter jets that the seller has kill switches for? 3 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure it isn’t true and assume Trump misunderstood a general explaining gleefully that since the US manufacturers repair parts any country at war with America would quickly find its fleet inoperable due to the immense constant maintenance required for these planes.
But, the President claiming there is a kill switch should cause all purchasing countries to cancel their orders - if such a switch exists then there’s a backdoor somewhere in the software and the US sucks balls at espionage so if it exists China knows how to trigger it.
- Comment on would getting back with an ex be a bad idea? 3 weeks ago:
There are billions of humans. Why the fuck you want to try again with one of the few people you know don’t work?
- Comment on How was this old "no hands pushup" viral video made? 3 weeks ago:
Calves? I do my push ups with only my toes.
- Comment on low iq in love with high iq person, is that bad?? 4 weeks ago:
IQ is bullshit. If you love each other you love each other.
- Comment on What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of? 4 weeks ago:
Unless you formally revoke your citizenship you’ll be required to file for taxes for the rest of your life.
- Comment on Why do i see so many americans obsessed with the concept of "this is a thing that [Ethnicity] does" 4 weeks ago:
As an American that moved to Canada it was eye opening that a lot of racist Canadians direct the energy Americans point at black folks toward Native Americans. Canada absolutely has a problem with some deep seated racism.
- Comment on what’s with some adult tv shows using tiktok speak/“brainrot” or acting like the example below, wouldn’t this approach work better with children’s shows? 5 weeks ago:
In the 90s we had “See you on the flippity flip” - it’s almost certainly genuine and talking to folks in the language they more commonly use because that’s how pop culture pops.
Eat my shorts!
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Go back to sleep and wait until someone says “Wake the fuck up Samurai” - that’ll be a markedly better world to wake up in.