JillyB
@JillyB@beehaw.org
- Comment on conditional soap 1 week ago:
That makes so much sense I’m mad I didn’t think of it first. I’m so used to brushing a juicy knot into my hair and picking it apart for a minute.
- Comment on conditional soap 1 week ago:
👀 brushing from the bottom up, you say.
- Comment on conditional soap 1 week ago:
I don’t necessarily mean more maintenance as in more washing/conditioning. I mean that you have to more carefully consider what your hair needs. You actually need to wash your hair more often with short hair since the grease has less room to spread out. When I was growing my hair out, I knew I didn’t want to look like the long-haired metal-head with a big frizzy mess. I gradually started washing it less and conditioning it more. Now I don’t condition but I oil it after washing. That seems to keep the split ends at bay and give some nice locks without too much greasiness. If I still washed it every time I showered like I did with short hair, it would look like brittle shit.
- Comment on conditional soap 1 week ago:
Are you suggesting that 6-in-one product has fewer chemicals?
- Comment on conditional soap 1 week ago:
When your hair is short, you can wash it with Gatorade and it’ll look acceptable. The longer it is, the more you have to maintain it. I’m a guy who grew his hair out.
- Comment on conditional soap 1 week ago:
-my neighbor who is into essential oils
- Comment on Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards 1 week ago:
Pitching them as cowards implies that they are afraid to do what they want. I think they actually don’t have any sense of morals at all and are happy to signal that they are on board with American fascism.
- Comment on You have to be orchidding me! 1 week ago:
Disclaimer: not qualified to talk about this with any degree of authority.
I thought species were most commonly defined as naturally producing viable offspring. Animals that can produce fertile offspring but only in captivity were lumped in with mules and other hybrids.
I’m now reiterating the disclaimer that I shouldn’t even be allowed to speak on a public forum about this subject. It’s amazing I haven’t been arrested.
- Comment on You have to be orchidding me! 1 week ago:
Do they do that naturally?
- Comment on Internet picture of a monkey 2 weeks ago:
Just because beanie babies exist in the real world doesn’t make them valuable. The NFT bubble was similar to the beanie babies bubble.
- Comment on Vince Zampella, video game developer behind 'Call of Duty' franchise, killed in Ferrari crash 3 weeks ago:
I am morbidly curious
- Comment on Glass 4 weeks ago:
Then add the slurry to the beef stew
- Comment on Why are there so many bloody roguelikes or roguelites, and what really makes a game roguish? 1 month ago:
Man I wish we had better terminology for this type of game. Roguelike and roguelite give the same energy as “Doom-clone” for every fps in the 90s. Later we called them FPS games. That genre has since been refined into tactical shooters, arcade shooters, milsim, etc. Meanwhile, we’re still stuck calling all games that have randomized runs “rogue-likes”. Being pedantic about the definition doesn’t make this situation better.
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 1 month ago:
TBF, most land predators can’t even survive in water. The real perfect predators are dolphins. They were in the water, left it, and returned just to show us they still got it.
- Comment on fashion trend 1 month ago:
This is a very funny image
- Comment on Just how? 2 months ago:
When I owned a Miata, I almost put a yellow triangle flag on the radio antenna to make it look like an RC car.
- Comment on So much... 2 months ago:
I interpreted this to mean that you need to learn a lot of math in order to have a career in astronomy. I don’t think OP thought it was possible to actually go to the star and math was the limiting factor.
- Comment on CNC 2 months ago:
Babe, you got a Haas? I said I wanted to try CNC, not this Fischer Price Tinker Toy shit.
(I don’t actually hate on Haas but I know they’re often more light-duty than some other options.)
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I’ma throw up
- Comment on 2 months ago:
That’s macaroni salad. Never heard it called mayonnaise salad.
- Comment on California startup to demonstrate space weapon on its own dime 2 months ago:
North Korea is the only one that could fall under that category. It just seems like a ton of resources to throw behind a tiny fraction of the nuclear threat to the US. Couldn’t we station boost-phase interceptors in South Korea and/or Japan for a whole lot cheaper? An anti-satellite capability is much easier to get than a nuclear ICBM. If they can make a nuke, they can take out a satellite.
Ultimately, Golden Dome is a wunderwaffe. The Trump administration is excited about it for the same reasons the Nazis were excited about their military vanity projects. It’s hard to discuss it purely in it’s own merits without also considering the reason it is being pursued. It isn’t being pushed by top people in the military or Pentagon. It’s pushed because some high up fascists saw the Israeli Iron Dome and were like “we gotta have one of those, but BIGGER, and make it GOLD”. It’s an aesthetic marketing halo project for MAGA fascism.
- Comment on California startup to demonstrate space weapon on its own dime 2 months ago:
The second key is, in order for it to be viable, you need enough of them in space to actually have the impact that you need.”
This is the part that makes Golden Dome non-viable IMO. Golden Dome is attempting the holy Grail of ballistic missile defense: boost phase intercept. The idea is that the missile is slowest, biggest, and easiest to detect and track immediately after launch. Golden Dome is attempting to place the launchers in orbit.
The problem is every satellite takes a predictable path, so the launching country could just wait until it’s not overhead and launch. This means you need a bunch of satellites in a spaced out orbit so there’s always one over the launcher. And you need that for every potential launch site. And most nuclear capable countries have road-mobile ICBMs, so you need enough to cover the whole country. The launching country could just knock out a satellite to punch a hole through your defenses and then launch in the brief window. So now you need redundancy. But every redundant satellite you place can be countered by one extra anti-satellite missile. Anti-satellite missiles will always be cheaper to build than satellite-based interceptors. China has 110 nuclear ICBM silos in one field in the desert. Are you going to be able to shoot down 110 missiles launched at the same time from the same area?
The author makes it sound like Reagan-era Star Wars was infeasible but now it’s fine because of technology. I really don’t think the fundamental economic issue has been resolved. It would take these satellites becoming much cheaper to deploy or some kind of counter to an anti-satellite missile.
- Comment on WATER BENDING ACTIVATE OR SOMETHING IDK IVE NEVER WATCHED ATLA 2 months ago:
I think it’s moreso the quality of the toilet that determines if it gets clogged. It could be something about American toilets that makes them susceptible or something about your place’s toilets that makes them immune.
- Comment on Name a game that you found SO FUN, but no one talks about it anymore. 2 months ago:
Me and my friends used to get high and play geometry wars on the 360. Lots of fun passing the controller around to see who can get the farthest.
- Comment on Hardest version I've seen yet 2 months ago:
Disturbing the cat results in no attacks. It just means that the peaceful cat gets woken up from their cute nap, which is bad.
- Comment on It just plain doesn't work, please stop telling people to do this 2 months ago:
Is this how I debug my phone?
- Comment on Oh god oh fuck 2 months ago:
It’s a blue-ringed octopus, which has one of the most potent poisons known. The person handling it could easily die.
- Comment on Switch 2 continues to break US launch sales records, selling more in its first three months than PS4 | VGC 3 months ago:
It feels like there’s only two new games
That’s all Switch 1 needed in the beginning (Mario Odyssey and Breath of the Wild)
- Comment on It’s official: EA is selling to private equity in $55 billion deal 3 months ago:
I doubt it. The Saudi-Arabian monarchy doesn’t invest in things because they want to make money. They do it for power, image, and influence in the world. They just threw a lot of money into the E-sports world cup in Riyadh. I think they’re buying what’s needed to make Saudi-Arabia a gaming hub. They’re doing the same thing with sports and racing and all sorts of entertainment. For that reason, I doubt they’ll strip EA for parts. All of the competitive games that EA makes will suddenly have tons of prize money and developer-backing for competition and E-sports. And the final big event will always be in SA.
- Comment on It’s official: EA is selling to private equity in $55 billion deal 3 months ago:
Co-op/freelance > small business > large single-owner business > publicly traded business > private equity business.
The hordes of faceless shareholders is mostly regular people’s retirement accounts. It’s still a net-negative for society, but now it’s not even helping someone retire comfortably. With Saudi Arabia involved, that means it’s also going to be laundering the image of a monarchy.
A few years ago everyone was talking about how crown prince Bin Salman ordered the brutal execution and dismemberment of a journalist. Now the E-sports world cup is in Riyadh.