bss03
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I’m also on Mastodon as hachyderm.io/@BoydStephenSmithJr .
- Comment on Let me be *perfectly* clear... 3 days ago:
CW: Visible notochord.
- Comment on sussvival instinct 4 days ago:
ISTR you can do the sieve thing with true living sponges, too. Life on earth is wild. I wonder if it will be considered mild once we find some interesting life off-planet.
- Comment on Anon is smarter than a genius 2 weeks ago:
Toes untouch the overpass soon he’s water-bound. Eyes locked shut but peek to see the view from halfway down.
A little wind, a summer sun a river rich and regal. A flood of fond endorphins brings a calm that knows no equal.
You’re flying now, you see things much more clear than from the ground. It’s all okay, or it would be were you not now halfway down.
Thrash to break from gravity what now could slow the drop? All I’d give for toes to touch the safety back at top.
But this is it, the deed is done silence drowns the sound. Before I leaped I should’ve seen the view from halfway down.
I really should’ve thought about the view from halfway down. I wish I could’ve known about the view from halfway down—
– “The view from halfway down” by Alison Tafel (excerpted)
- Comment on Anon is smarter than a genius 2 weeks ago:
Ramanujan did pretty good, just died young.
- Comment on You guys have to end it 3 weeks ago:
Eh, I had to take my Saturn (previous vehicle) to the dealer several times. The car before that was ruined by a “shade-tree” mechanic, so when I lived in the same city as the dealer I preferred that.
I’m with you on right-to-reapir tho. It would have been better if the diagnostic methods and parts were available from other than the dealer (and maybe they were and the local guy just didn’t want to mess with it, doesn’t do a lot of EVs at his shop). But my experience with cars is mostly that dealers have that advantage whether you go electric or not, and I prefer electric.
Still let me know if I can do something to improve right to repair for me or others.
- Comment on You guys have to end it 3 weeks ago:
IME, (2019 Volt) maintenance costs are lower with a PHEV. I have needed to take it to a dealer to deal with a OBD2 code that neither I nor my local mechanic could resolve, but the replacement part and labor was reasonably priced.
- Comment on Anon plays a prank 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, one of the setbacks is that I have to spend more time at home with my disabled family member, so I couldn’t make it to the gym as frequently.
I have gotten stuck at some “plateaus” before, and this ~100kg is one I’ve been at before. It took me nearly 3 months of discipline to break through it last time. I have to quit cheating as often, and not give up again.
- Comment on Anon plays a prank 3 weeks ago:
My profile indirectly discloses that. I don’t think it matters much for the story, but I am a cis white male.
- Comment on Anon plays a prank 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m still obese. I almost got down to overweight, I was within 3kg, but… I’ve had/been some setbacks. By height + BMI, I should be targeting 165lbs. / 75kg, but I’m still finding it impossible to stick to a diet that provides a calorie deficit. (I have in the past, but don’t seem to now.)
My physical health is better by basically any metric. I encourage anyone that is overweight to lose it.
- Comment on Anon plays a prank 3 weeks ago:
When I was 330 lbs. (150kg) it would take me 30 minutes to walk a mile, and I would be post-exercise dumb for at least 30 more. You don’t want to the post-exercise dumb for class (taking or teaching).
Now (225 lbs. [~102kg]), it would still take me about 15 minutes to walk it, tho at that pace my HR wouldn’t significantly increase, and I might decide to take the bus instead, if there’s any sort of weather.
- Comment on 1987 4 weeks ago:
I think we still have one of those plates in the cabinet. It’s not in normal rotation, tho.
- Comment on Anon sees a happy couple 5 weeks ago:
Many people share their home with others. They would still shower to the nice.
While a daily shower is overkill, and there are other ways to deal with it, most people need some sort of bathing routine as part of basic skin care: removing accumulated dust, dorr, sebumb, sweat, etc. from the skin, particularly joints/folds/crevices.
- Comment on Anon sees a happy couple 5 weeks ago:
Attempting to avoid triggering negative feelings (e.g. disgust) in the people around you is part of #1.
That generally requires #2, but might not depending other actions and niche situations.
- Comment on Basic courtesy 5 weeks ago:
There are some of you out there that really can’t return the cart. Maybe it’s your own mobility issues; maybe it’s children, animals, or something else that you can’t lease unattendend in the vehicle; maybe you just ran out of spoons picking up your medical supplies; whatever reason–I got chu, fam.
When I turn around to return my cart, I always look for stragglers and bring them back. I’m forever alone, but healthy, so getting carts back to their “home” is the least I can do.
- Comment on A balanced diet is important 5 weeks ago:
(Sorry if the NSFW spoilers don’t work; I tried.)
::: NSFW My boyfriend seem to prefer eating pussy. ;)
(I don’t have a boyfriend or a supply of pussy.) :::
- Comment on Would this be a red or green flag? 2 months ago:
I vote red flag, since it’s sound like something I would do. (Definitely something I did in secondary school.)
- Comment on Trømp 2 months ago:
As a Berniecrat, I’m been advocating for making the US more like Denmark for decades.
A shame that it took an attempt to erase the sovereignty of Greenland to make this meme. 🤪
- Comment on This is in a small convenience store where you can buy food things and heat them up while in the store 2 months ago:
Never tried it myself. I did provide clean urine to a friend, but I think their plan was just to wear it in/near their crotch long enough for it to warm up.
I’d imagine microwaving might work, as long as you didn’t do it too long. But, I don’t know if there’s some ions or proteins in urine that are more sensitive to microwaves than other heating methods.
- Comment on This is in a small convenience store where you can buy food things and heat them up while in the store 2 months ago:
Someone probably tried to heat “clean” urine to pass a drug test.
The war on drugs killed my convenience store burritos.
- Comment on Why do games like Minecraft require a launcher? 2 months ago:
One executable updates the other and vice-versa. Like Robin Hood and Fryer Tuck defending one another.
That’s far from the only approach, too.
- Comment on Elon Musk Is a National Security Risk 2 months ago:
Trump is a National Security Risk, of course he brought a few with him.
- Comment on Mental health 2 months ago:
Yeah, inner work was my intention last time I tripped, but instead I ended up vegging out and getting annoyed at my trip mates. It was a waste of time and materials.
I don’t know if there will be a next time to try to do better.
- Comment on Oh well... 2 months ago:
There are plenty of places where they don’t lie to you about PTO benefits, pay, and have some group insurance plan/program.
- Comment on Just because you're a slob at home do you have to be an inconsiderate slob in public 3 months ago:
Agreed. Feet look clean and healthy, and if they were removed from shoes, I can guarantee they have less foreign matter on them then the shoes they were removed from, so I’d prefer them on the seat cushion rather than the shoes. If they were removed from shoes, they might be sweater and have more bodily products in general than the shoes they were removed from, but I doubt the seats on public transit are going to long avoid sweat and skin.
Some people’s insistence on covering all body parts at all times in public makes no sense to me.
- Comment on Need those unit conversions 3 months ago:
In Contact (I can’t remember if the movie, book, or both), they counted out things in terms plank lengths and quarks / leptons.
- Comment on When you die, what do you want to be done with you? 3 months ago:
I think you can have a POV without having a body, and you can “be somewhere” based on your POV rather than your body.
But, I also think that probably not the only reasonable guess at what the uploaded experience is like.
- Comment on When you die, what do you want to be done with you? 3 months ago:
If it is possible for the mind to survive the death of the body, I also think uploading would be fine. It’s a risk to be sure, but not having a body would actually address a lot of my current disappointments.
If resurrection is possible, I’d like to think the death could be prevented. But, I’ll take it if uploading is not available and death of the body is still inevitable.
- Comment on When you die, what do you want to be done with you? 3 months ago:
Any parts that can be used to improve a human life should be used that way. Then any parts that can be used to improve animal/plant life should be used that way. Then the rest should be disposed of in the manner that consumes the fewest resources.
But, I’ll be gone; you guys can do whatever with it; I won’t care.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 4 months ago:
II think it’s entirely possible the world is fucked. Climate crisis won’t come during his 2nd administration, but the 4 years we lose in national and international regulation is going to make it impossible to prevent.
It’ll be slow, but before 2061, I expect the death of the global Internet, and global shipping, and most air travel. Electrical grids will fracture or fail and the pieces used for smaller (at most regional) grid. Cities won’t be able to maintain the sewer pumps, and Cholera will start killing people again. Gas lines will stop maintaining pressure.
I don’t plan on sticking around that long. My BP has always been bad, so I figure just indulging my vices will make this no my problem, and I don’t have a partner or descendants.
If you prefer not embracing despair, I suggest looking into how you and your dearest can survive without infrastructure. Local food production, local power and medicine production. Don’t count on supplies you can’t retrieve within a day of travel, and don’t count on the state to maintain roads. “Solarpunk” might be a good search term. Also, might prepare for unpredictable shifts in the local climate, like preferring indoor growing.
If anyone has data that says we can avoid climate collapse with no new national or international regulation before 2029, I’d love to hear it. Please.
- Comment on Subway 5 months ago:
I would have preferred Mr Mayo