Pazuzu

@Pazuzu@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The original post only gave half the explanation. It’s not that lead exists in general, it’s that lead exists within zircon crystals.

  Under normal circumstances that would be impossible, zircon crystals strongly reject lead atoms as they form. There’s no way to stuff lead into the crystal lattice in the quantity we find them there. But uranium and zircon go together just fine, we just have to wait for it to decay into lead. The trouble is it takes ~4.5 billion years for just half of those uranium atoms to turn into lead. So any zircon crystal we find with half as much lead as uranium must be roughly that old

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life imitates art?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Try the audio captcha option, those usually have an actual answer it will accept. Which ironically speech to text is more or less reliably able to solve, and there are extensions to solve captchas automatically for you that way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Titta...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone that used to be tasked with clearing other people’s shit at work, here’s how you fix a clogged toilet without a plunger:

  first of all DO NOT FLUSH! Stay tf away from the handle on the toilet until the clog is cleared. shutoff the water if possible, there should be a valve between the toilet and the wall that you turn 90°. Even then there’s still water in the tank, so I repeat do not flush!

  If the clog isn’t 100% and some water can slowly drain through, leave it for a few minutes and come back. You want the water level in the bowl as low as possible. Next, fill a small trash can with hot water. not boiling, just the hottest you can get from the tap. Now dump that hot water in the toilet bowl. Be quick about it, but not so quick that you can’t stop yourself from overflowing

  The hot water and large volume helps break things up. manually pouring you can dump a lot more water in the bowl a lot faster than flushing normally will without the risk of overflowing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"looks inside, individually packaged"⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s other antidepressants that don’t do that. Mirtazapine for instance helps sleep, and has not real impact on sex. It’ll make you hungry, though. Buproprion will mess with your sleep but not sex, but you’ll have no appetite. They all have their own unique collection of side effects, well worth looking into other options if the ones from SSRI’s aren’t tolerable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"looks inside, individually packaged"⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, right. How could I forget. Systemic issues are solely the fault of us as individuals for not singlehandedly solving them ourselves

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She broke it so she could baguette properly....⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Big difference between being walking distance from groceries and needing to drive there. Bagging a few days worth of groceries is a lot faster than 2 weeks worth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just want to set a timer for MY FOOD WINDOWS WHY?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My digital timers have a ton of labeled times I’ve set for various things. One press and I’m set, and I can have multiple going at once and know at a glance which one is done or nearly so. My memory isn’t good enough to keep track of how long things take, and I lose physical notes. Having those notes all saved within a clock app attached to their own timers is far too convenient for me to do away with

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I strange for not loving Everything Everywhere All At Once?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s the only part I didn’t like about the movie, the repeat hot dog fingers and butt plugs and such felt more like a skit from robot chicken than the “what the heck is even going on” kind of weirdness I was hoping for