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- Comment on I would personally just treat whatever direction I'm facing at the time as North and go from there. 3 days ago:
While I’m sure there is learned effort, I do feel like there is something inside my brain that just has a connection to north somehow. Kind of like how ducks and geese know which way to travel when migrating. I can’t really explain it well.
- Comment on I would personally just treat whatever direction I'm facing at the time as North and go from there. 3 days ago:
I have a similar experience when I go a city in my state - St. Paul. If I go downtown for any reason, I always feel a bit uneasy walking about and I didn’t know why for the longest time. I finally found out that the streets in the downtown aren’t laid out on the cardinal points-- They were laid out on a slight bias due to being right up against the Mississippi river. And that makes me a little uncomfortable when looking down a block of buildings or from one street to the next at an intersection. It’s always a little bit wonky feeling.
- Comment on I would personally just treat whatever direction I'm facing at the time as North and go from there. 4 days ago:
What? You don’t have an internal compass that keeps you oriented? For some reason I seem to be a lucky person that just knows which compass direction I’m going no matter where I am. And it’s a very weird and frightening feeling if I do get disoriented. I had some pain meds after a surgery that did that to me. Flushed them damn things down the toilet after the first 2 I took.
- Comment on The Divine Dick 1 week ago:
The gods were omnipotent to humans, not always so much to other gods perhaps. In polytheistic religions the pantheon was often comprised of siblings of some sort. But the top god, like Zeus or Odin, where all seeing and all knowing if they wanted to be. But they often did didn’t really care that much as long as they were fat and happy.
- Comment on Mushrooms 2 weeks ago:
I think Hammond and May are actually real life friends of Clarkson. And that generation tends to not abandon a friend because of social pressure. Personally, I would have a beer with May and Hammond anytime and anywhere. But Clarkson would be a pass for me.
But who knows, they are all actors and are pros at being what they are not.
- Comment on Mushrooms 2 weeks ago:
The shaggy mane mushrooms like growing on a hillside in my yard and not at the bottom!
- Comment on Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey 2 weeks ago:
Whelp, I ain’t helping the cause. I might be running Fedora on both my computers, but I can’t be bothered to game.
FreeDoom isn’t a game, it’s a lifestyle
- Comment on The Divine Dick 2 weeks ago:
I would assume since gods are omnipotent, their dicks are always the perfect size for the situation. Or perhaps they are inconceivably huge. Since they seem to like swinging them around so much.
Pronouns? God don’t need no stinking pronouns. God got dick.
- Comment on American house 2 weeks ago:
I would disagree a bit as a traditionalist. But, I’m fine with changing tastes.
- Comment on American house 2 weeks ago:
Well maybe only half of them are loaded. Have you priced ammo lately? It’s getting more and more costly to fill a high capacity magazine these days. Let alone that many!
- Comment on American house 2 weeks ago:
We have a dremal at home…
- Comment on American house 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think anyone has ever accused HiPoint of ever manufacturing and marketing anything as a compact firearm. This is the company that will literally sell you a Yeet Cannon…
- Comment on American house 2 weeks ago:
Another Person of Culture and Class I see. I too have a Sig P365XL.
Though I prefer my Remington New Army for most things.
- Comment on American house 2 weeks ago:
Poor photographic skills. Were are the holed socks or bare feet in the picture? You need to either turn in your HiPoint or destroy that picture and take a proper photograph!
- Comment on Oh fuck no 2 weeks ago:
Personally, I like feck a bit more. It ain’t the spelling, it’s the intent and context.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
And that’s where you want to put them down-- the local and state elections. Controlling the house and senate is FAR more important than POTUS. Because the house and senate make the laws and write the checks.
- Comment on Pretty sound reasoning here. 2 weeks ago:
One of my favorite westerns of all time!
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 3 weeks ago:
He ran the ferry boat across the Styx to the underworld and had a 3 headed dog…
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 3 weeks ago:
That’s a crunchy mom?
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 3 weeks ago:
I agree about the name being horrible, but parents are going with more and more, let’s just say ‘unusual’ names, spellings and pronunciations these days. I’ve got a Grandson named Charon. Socially, it hasn’t really been a bonus for him.
- Comment on The Atoms Family 3 weeks ago:
Before the radiation poisoning.
- Comment on Pee posting? 3 weeks ago:
My question is-- What did you learn from this?
- Comment on Get good. 3 weeks ago:
I won’t argue with your thought. I’m certainly no accredited expert either, just a dad that, along with my wife, raise 4 daughters and pets - mostly working hunting dogs.
My take is that baby talk is impossible to do in a loud and angry voice. And is always done in a soft and gentle tone. I have noticed that when training dogs, I’m a fan of Spaniels, that if you are speaking in a loud voice and that has angry tones, they will start to separate from you and watch you closely. Because ain’t no one wants to get yelled at. It’s kind of similar to loud sharp barking I suppose. Cats though, are generally arse holes and just don’t care…
When our Daughters were newborns, they started to make just sounds after about a month. So baby talk was was pretty much just making intelligible sounds back at them in a soft and soothing tone. As they started to actually learn and use “real” words, less baby talk and far more normal speech is used by parents I think. But children are also smart enough to know the different between the baby talk when playing peek-a-boo with daddy and then need for normal speech at other times.
I certainly don’t see baby talk to infants and small children as an issue except in rare disfunctional family situations.
- Comment on Anon loves sunny days 3 weeks ago:
So you chose poorly the one time. It often happens to the young and dumb - that’s why you got hired. I had a similar situation where I didn’t get paid either. I took the guy’s semi tractor and trailer and kept it until he paid me.
I’ve done construction work building pole barns over a 3 state area and then I did some road construction running heavy equipment. They always paid overtime after 40 and travel expenses when needed. With road construction the pay could vary depending on if it was for township, county, state, or federal though. The hours almost always 50 to 70 hours a week. Because there was always the next job waiting and a deadline looming to get it done with heavy penalties if you missed them. So OT was never an issue.
- Comment on Anon loves sunny days 3 weeks ago:
You’ve never been on a construction job site meeting a deadline have you? Been there, done that, got the tan, and I wasn’t an undocumented immigrant.
- Comment on Anon loves sunny days 3 weeks ago:
Try 10 to 12 hours outside working. If you work outdoors, you ain’t doing no measly 8 hours as a rule.
- Comment on Get good. 3 weeks ago:
It’s one thing to use baby talk with an infant, (hence the baby talk moniker), and another to speak that way to a child that is actually learning to form words and construct a sentence.
Use whatever voice you prefer with your pets. Dogs actually enjoy the soft sounds of baby talk. A bit of brilliant manipulation of humans by the dogs.
- Comment on Get good. 3 weeks ago:
Having been a teacher for a few years, yes talking all day loud enough to be heard over a classroom is very tiring. But I tend to have a voice that is powerful and carries well.
Even though I’m retired, my Wife still asks me to “Use your inside voice please” sometimes.
- Comment on The 1900s 4 weeks ago:
I think 60 is the point when you realize you are actually starting to get old. You begin to realize that you really can’t do the things you used to do. And the things you still do - you do slower and for not as long. Your hair is grey or starts falling out quite noticeably. Your body actually hurts just getting up in the morning. You go to bed earlier. Maybe you fall down because your balance wasn’t as good anymore. Possibly a friend or peer dies from a heat attack. A Grandchild or two happens. AARP, (American Association of Retired People), starts sending you letters.
You are now truly and officially old.
- Comment on The 1900s 4 weeks ago:
Pro Tip for GenXer’s: There is a point in life when you need to pick a Doctor that you like enough to die on. That will be the doctor that will take you through the last years of your life. And treat all those little miserable ailments like high blood pressure or urinary issues. Long term medical care, while it’s often something that might not kill you outright, It will demand a lot of monitoring and medication to treat.