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- Comment on Anon plays Persona 5 3 days ago:
So do you just play on Xbox where you can jump between titles and have it save your game state?
- Comment on Very thankful 6 days ago:
lol yeah, what’s next? Are benevolent pixies going to distribute it throughout the forest too?
- Comment on Oxygen 1 week ago:
The more you know! 💫
- Comment on Oxygen 1 week ago:
Powerful oxidizers are dangerous stuff!
One I’ve learned about recently (and used) is potassium permanganate. One of its uses is for improving water quality in fish ponds. It oxidizes basically all organic matter. It can simultaneously knock out algae, bacteria, parasites, hormones, and other excess organic waste. And the pathogens it kills can’t build up resistance to it like they would an antibiotic or poison, so it can be used preventively without creating stronger bugs. You can’t really build resistance to BURNING outside video games.
But that also means that if you add too much, you can just as easily sterilize all life in a body of water, including fish and anything else you want to keep.
AND it means you need to be careful when handling it. If you burn your eyes or your lungs, it makes them stop working!
- Comment on Platypuses 1 week ago:
A full English breakfast ain’t shit once you’ve had the full platypus breakfast!
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 2 weeks ago:
That’s true, but I would amend it to say that the EC and our stupid FPTP system, plus the bias of the senate, are what’s keeping the entire Republican Party relevant.
The rabid and mean stupidity is what is keeping Donald Trump in particular in the race. The establishment might actually like to get rid of him and get back to “money good, human well being bad” like God intended, but they could not get away with it yet.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 2 weeks ago:
Judging by some of my distant acquaintances it’s something along the lines of HURR DURR GASOLINE WAS CHEAPER 8 YEARS AGO. They focus on a global commodity of all things.
Seriously, the only stuff I’ve seen from them that even approaches a policy comparison rather than “lol black lady is a ho” caliber stuff revolves around money. And some of that might actually be a valid discussion if it were correct and if it weren’t for the absurd amount of other issues.
It’s just a low-information team sport, regardless of how insane reality is.
- Comment on Rip 2 weeks ago:
You haven’t lived until you’ve experienced the thrill of watching an air bubble go down the tube and in through your IV!
It’s not super dangerous in a normal IV unless it’s a lot of air, fortunately.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 2 weeks ago:
I think they mean that 2/3 is close to but still not quite as big as 1/4 since 4 is bigger than 2 or 3.
- Comment on MSc Mansplaining 3 weeks ago:
We should all be decent, empathetic, and compassionate enough people that the demographic breakdown doesn’t create a negative effect like that.
I’m one of the many cis dudes here, and I just cannot get offended when it gets pointed out that other dudes can be assholes. Or that other Americans can be assholes. Or other humans, for that matter.
- Comment on ‘Who dreams this crap up?’: Kevin O'Leary slams new rule that allows employees to ignore their bosses after hours 3 weeks ago:
It’s a lose-lose situation when somebody sees money and assets as the end goal rather than as one of the various tools we use in trying to find a comfortable enjoyable existence.
- Comment on DuckDuckGoose 4 weeks ago:
Yep, now with having my pond chores zen time and being able to enjoy the end results, I think I fully understand what gets people into gardening. I’ve just been forever obsessed with aquatic life.
- Comment on DuckDuckGoose 4 weeks ago:
Oh no, the microbiology guy I’m talking about is beyond full time with his farm. He’s there 7 days a week when he’s not traveling to shows.
And that’s just taking care of the fish and growing them out, not breeding them. He imports from Japanese breeders.
As for breeding new babies and selling them, it’s certainly possible but there probably isn’t a ton of profit in it. Any time I’ve thought about it I’ve thought two things: I don’t want to deal with rando customers and I don’t want to turn my happy peaceful hobby into a job.
- Comment on DuckDuckGoose 4 weeks ago:
I have taken a half step in this direction and it’s improved my life greatly.
I still have a normal job, but my Covid project back in 2020 was to finally put a koi pond in my back yard. I spend way more time learning and thinking about it than keeping up on tech shit. And the job I have now is great - I’m not trying to escape from it or anything.
The best part is that even the guy I bought my recent koi from has a microbiology degree. He’s properly living the “x farmer” dream, but that “job” is much more than a 9-5.
- Comment on Thanks to science, men can now locate the clitoris with micrometer accuracy. 4 weeks ago:
Like so many things in life, actually giving a shit and genuinely trying gets you like 80% of the way there.
And assuming you do actually care, you can’t see communication as a weakness.
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 4 weeks ago:
Ooh I still haven’t tried this. I wonder if it has any issues with Skyrim VR.
- Comment on Anon is a soyboy 5 weeks ago:
Finding a reason to completely disregard not just the ideas but even the humanity of huge swaths of other people is conservatism 101. Just give in to your most base tribal tendencies, and “know” that all those good-sounding ideas are in fact wrong and evil because they’re coming from the wrong/lesser people.
When you can’t argue against ideas, argue against the people saying them. See if ad-hominem attacks will work on people. (narrator: they did)
- Comment on My new company let me join the union on my first day, within their onboarding app 5 weeks ago:
I’d say we have a general problem in the US with certain people and legal entities constantly acting in bad faith but still having their words taken seriously.
I’m sure it’s a human issue across the globe, but we seem to be especially bad about it when it comes to rich people and corporations.
- Comment on Don't joke about daddy 1 month ago:
Having a callous disregard for the problems of other people only until it affects one of YOUR people is conservatism 101. Empathy is not valued in their world, unless it’s for one of their whitelisted types of humans.
- Comment on Found These on Etsy 1 month ago:
“Well we will never get THAT smell out of the cushions”
- Comment on 8 Minutes 1 month ago:
I’m 0% an expert in this, but I think they move at light speed all the time. Light is “affected” by mass only indirectly, since the light travels in a straight line through local space but space itself is curved by the mass.
- Comment on 8 Minutes 1 month ago:
Yep. Imagine you’re off in space such that you, the sun, and the earth make an equilateral triangle. The sun disappears, then after 8 minutes you see it disappear. Then after ANOTHER 8 minutes you see the earth go dark, because that light had to cover two of the 8-light-minute long legs of the triangle.
- Comment on 8 Minutes 1 month ago:
Yeah I think infinite is the wrong word for them to use there. Maybe call it maximally fast? Like it goes as fast as possible no matter your reference frame, but that speed is limited by the speed of causality. The photon has 100% of its skill points in speed through space and 0% on speed through time.
- Comment on Kids 1 month ago:
I guess I’m here, and being the fun nerdy dad is kind of my whole shtick.
Maybe we need a DadAdvice community. Who needs free non-binding advice about random shit?
- Comment on Kids 1 month ago:
This is just your “one of today’s lucky 10,000” moment.
- Comment on Science is Magic 1 month ago:
Your third paragraph hits on something I had to realize in my “how to enjoy existence” journey. Put simply, don’t discount meatspace. Sometimes your brain needs those experiences even if you think you don’t. Plus with any current or near future technology, consuming media about a place is not the same as being there. There is no comparison vs the data throughput of all of your senses, even before you get to the social/cultural aspect and being able to interact.
I’m in the US and have coworkers in Europe along with the ones local to me. We talk almost every day, and interacting with them led me to learn a bit on my own about their area, culture, etc.
I’ve also gotten to visit a couple times over the past couple years, and yeah like I said there’s no comparison. You get a lot of the vibe for a place in all that extraneous data your senses are always generating. Just seeing how the people carry themselves, and the different ways various mundane everyday stuff is done, it all incrementally builds into a more cohesive experience.
- Comment on Dutch toilets 1 month ago:
I’ve always known that our stall walls in the US were shit, but then I visited Sweden and saw how truly horrible we were.
Over there, there are no men’s rooms or women’s rooms. There are just several doors each to a private bathroom and so it doesn’t matter who uses which one.
I’m sure our “single room with flimsy stall dividers” design is the cheapest, plus it’s not as convenient for all the drug addicts and homeless people our society creates, so it will never change.
- Comment on Olympic casual GigaChad 1 month ago:
He has to synchronize his breathing with that swinging pendulum before he can time his shot.
- Comment on Why do we put up with this crap? 1 month ago:
a thing of the past for poor people, anyway.
- Comment on Tell him yours 1 month ago:
Ooh, are we playing 20 questions to see if we can narrow down to your fursona?
Are you into… Digimon?