SoleInvictus
@SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on ‘It’s about redemption’: Peter Molyneux says Masters of Albion will make up for decades of ‘overpromising on things’ 1 day ago:
I actually forgot about this clown. The Elon Musk of gaming.
- Comment on Banana 5 days ago:
A tie between the Gros Michel and the Cuban Red. I was staying with a friend in Hawaii when I went on my banana bender, but both look to be intermittently available for delivery online at Miami Fruit.
- Comment on Banana 5 days ago:
So get this. Have you ever had Runts candy? If you or any other readers have, then you’ve likely noted that the banana candy just doesn’t taste right. That’s because it’s based on the original mass production banana, the Gros Michel, AKA the “Big Mike”. That’s a proper banana. Cavendish is shit but it’s the only type most people have eaten. They’ve eaten shit. Banana shit.
The following may not apply to you but may for others:
Saying you hate bananas when you have only tried cavendish is like saying you hate beer when you’ve only tried warm, flat Keystone Light.
- Comment on Banana 5 days ago:
There are SO MANY bananas, but most people have only eaten the Cavendish. Awhile back, I got a box of assorted bananas from a farm that specializes in growing unusual fruit. I ate about twenty pounds of bananas in three weeks. So many fucking nanners spread across my entire kitchen countertop for weeks, ripening in stages.
My life has been a lie. Yours too. We’ve all been hoodwinked. We are getting fucked, and not in the good way, because Cavendish is a straight up garbage fruit. There are tiny tart toothsome Thai bananas, chunky Cuban, alluring Apple, beauteous burro, pleasurably plump Pisang, orally outstanding orinoco, mouthwatering Mysore, and the gustatorily magnificent Gros Michel, the OG mass production bananer, which was replaced by Cavendish in a mycological midlife crisis (I’m drunk and if I was a dinosaur, I’d be a tiny tenacious thesaurus tenuisi). Plus more. So many more. Fucking. Bananas.
They all taste like bananas, but each is a little different, some more than others, but they all had more taste that those Cavendish fuckers. So get fucked Chiquita, Dole, and Del Monte. My banana bread sucks because of y’all.
- Comment on Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition - Reveal Trailer 6 days ago:
HDR?
- Comment on But why 1 week ago:
I can’t agree more. I enjoyed his earliest works some, but he quickly hits his “stride” and falls into his characteristic writing pattern, making every book more or less the same novel with interchangeable variations on the same plot points.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 1 week ago:
I have awful acid reflux and have an adjustable bed frame. Having the top half slightly raised is a life saver since I can raise it for worse reflux and lower it for better sleep. I just use a remote, though. Doing it on an app through the internet is just stupid.
- Comment on It's not? 1 week ago:
That’s a fair request. Just keep in mind that you asked for this. You asked!
My partner has an Amazon account that we occasionally use for purchases. A few months back, I saw this absolutely bullshit item listed for a stupidly high price, so I left it a brief but scathing review. After hitting submit, I had an invitation to join something I’d never heard of before: Amazon Vine.
I learned Vine is a program where sellers can offer up “free” (I pay income tax on the estimated value) things to people in exchange for reviews. Honest reviews. Never before have I handed out so many one- and two-star reviews and they love me for it. I get three things per day with a maximum value of $100 each. It was really cool at first! I picked up all those weird little gadgets that I had to considered buying but never really wanted enough to spend the money. Eventually, though, I ran out things I wanted, plus the looming tax debt was growing, so I decided to be more strategic about my acquisitions.
One thing I frequently saw was dildos. Some days I saw more dicks than a urologist. Oh, and the variety! Double sided, single sided, with and without suction cups. With and without balls! Big, small, long, short, thick, and thin. White, black, brown, pink, green, red, orange, blue, and clear. Monster dicks, dog dicks, horse dicks, dragon dicks, an alien dick that lays eggs, a dick coming out of a rose, a rose that looks like a dick, a 16" dick with a bendy internal skeleton (it has a knee!!!), a dick with an electric clit nibbling mouth, an octopus tentacle, a monster tentacle, even a multi-lobed, size graduated ass blaster. The best part? They all have a tax value of $0. No tax! 100% free dick! So now I have the dildo bucket: a bog-standard 5 gallon bucket full of dildos. I try to nab as many dildos as I can each day to fill the bucket.
When you have this many dildos, the world is your fuck oyster. When my partner or I unbox a new shipment, we prank each other with them, hiding them throughout the house. They hid a 12" black dildo somewhere two weeks ago and I still have no idea where it’s at. Just the other day, they refused to wake up from a nap on time. Dildo to the face! They woke up. I made a tasteful succulent arrangement with a big black cock right in the middle. Friends or family coming into town? Give them the gift of a dildo forest hiding in their shower, 30+ suction cup dildos gently swaying in welcome. I plan to hide a dildo up my neighbor’s truck’s exhaust pipe - don’t worry, we’re friends. Potato launcher? Cock cannon! The possibilities are truly infinite.
- Comment on It's not? 1 week ago:
As someone currently collecting a massive number of free Amazon dildos*, I can authoritatively concur with this statement. If I had a nickel for every “silicone” dildo that is actually TPU… well, I’d currently have $1.15.
*for purposes of mayhem, not actual use.
- Comment on Why doesn't anybody get notified about warrants for their arrest? 2 weeks ago:
This is correct. Story time!
A friend of mine was arrested due to a warrant from an unpaid traffic violation ticket for driving without proof of insurance. It wasn’t paid because the ticket was dismissed after they later showed they did have insurance, but this was not recorded in the proper system.
Five years later, they were arrested after being pulled over for a burned out brake light. They spent most of a day in jail. Luckily, they kept proof of the dismissal, otherwise they’d have been held accountable for the government’s mistake. No compensation was provided for their time in jail and missed work. Murica!
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 3 weeks ago:
You’re just another shill for big juice, Pulptastic.
/s in case it’s not obvious
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 3 weeks ago:
They’re probably thinking about glucose, which is the sugar in “blood sugar”. You’ll die without it, but it’s created endogenously in the liver and kidneys.
- Comment on I can't find a single decent bedtime story online. 90% of the articles are AI slop. 3 weeks ago:
I seem to recall a real snoozefest about a guy named Warren Peese.
- Comment on Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out. 4 weeks ago:
I can’t even get one of my cats past intermediate algebra, and the other keeps confusing the Kronecker delta with the partial derivative delta. I’ll keep trying, I won’t fail them.
- Comment on Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out. 4 weeks ago:
This will totally dox myself to anyone who might be in or know someone in an old friend group.
I’m a very furry person - I joke that I put the hair suit in hirsute - but at least it’s soft! Years upon years ago, I had a one night stand with my then future partner’s (now ex’s) best friend. It was bad. Really, awkwardly bad. The kind of bad where I woke up the next morning and, instead of trying for another go, groaned inwardly because they were still there, a living reminder of how bad it was.
I took out my phone and hastily messaged my best friend, asking her advice on politely dealing with this. Unbeknownst to me, my guest was awake, messaging my future partner. She described being barely awake in the early morning, petting my cat. I didn’t have a cat or any pets. As she became more aware, she realized she was petting my chest.
Apparently some humans think I’m a big stupid cat too.
P.s. She also thought the sex was awful.
- Comment on Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out. 4 weeks ago:
LIDAR. Cats don’t even have the concept of it.
- Comment on BREAKING NEWS: We did it, guys! 20 poptarts! 4 weeks ago:
A shitpost so wholesome, of such quality, it has become a compost.
- Comment on Would-be City of Heroes successor, Ship of Heroes, decides to launch the MMO with a $45 price tag and a $15 monthly subscription and it's, er, going about as well as you'd expect 4 weeks ago:
Especially if someone gets to assassinate Lord British again.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 5 weeks ago:
Depending on the concentration, it would hurt as it’s a bit of an acid, plus ATP outside of the cell is one of the mechanisms that drives inflammation, but it won’t give you extra energy or anything.
ATP is used to transfer energy more than store it, more like a wire than a battery. The average adult has about 250g of ATP in their body (for my fellow Americans: about one rather chunky hamster) but it’s recycled about 200 times a day, so would require 50kg (6 watermelons or two average labradoodles) if it was used and discarded.
ATP has been around since the beginning of life or near enough, and evolution is a deranged, cat-piss-soaked hoarder that makes use of whatever is already lying around, so ATP also does several things beyond energy transfer. This also means where ATP is allowed and in what quantity is fairly controlled. To that end, there’s a class of enzyme called ectonucleotidases that’s found on the outside of cells. One of the things it does is keep the level of circulating ATP and things like it low, so whatever was injected would get chopped up pretty quick.
- Comment on Steady 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I have sleep apnea and my SpO2 drops into the eighties once or twice a night.
Central apnea: fun for the whole family.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 5 weeks ago:
This is why partially why fiber helps with bulking and pooping. Fiber is “fiber” because it’s made of things we can’t digest, but our gut microbes can. One of the byproducts of their utilizing it is SCFAs, short chain fatty acids. These confer various benefits like reduced inflammation and enhanced mucous production, which helps you drop a deuce.
Feeding your microbes also means you grow more of them, which makes your turds bigger and easier for your intestines to push along.
Yet another fun fact: ruminants like cows ferment otherwise indigestible plant matter in their guts, breaking it down and growing absolutely huge quantities of microbes in the process. Then they digest those microbes. That’s how they get enough protein. A cow is a mooing, shitting house of horrors if you’re a microbe.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 5 weeks ago:
Friendly neighborhood microbiologist here. You’re right except for one thing: most cells can use sugar directly through anaerobic respiration. Mitochondria allow aerobic respiration, which utilizes oxygen and is far more efficient, albeit a bit slower, and produces carbon dioxide as its end product.
Fun fact: ever wonder where your weight goes when you lose weight? CO2. You literally breathe most of it out.
I can get as nerdy as you want if anyone has any questions.
- Comment on Wobble wobble 5 weeks ago:
It depends on the speed and size of the centrifuge, the mass of the load, and the magnitude of the imbalance. Someone else mentioned an ultracentrifuge, typically a large, washing-machine-like device that can spin larger loads at high velocity. The amount of energy released if they become significantly unbalanced is pretty huge: they have a containment layer, but some could kill you if the load got through and hit you.
On the flip side, I may have intentionally ran unbalanced microcentrifuges a few (many, it was many) times as a grad student because I was too tired and lazy to make a counterweight. I just held it down with fairly firm pressure and it was fine. That’s not very good for its bearings, though. Sorry lab manager!
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Same here with different nonsense. Oh well.
- Comment on Anon dates a 19 y/o 5 weeks ago:
For real. When I was 24, I dated a 19 year old for like two weeks. They were really nice and interesting, but ultimately the age gap proved to make a relationship unviable. I can’t even imagine a nine year gap at that age. Gross.
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 1 month ago:
And Empress is gone, though they were pretty toxic so that’s no big loss for me.
- Comment on Good luck! 1 month ago:
You can rent the space for only $1600/month in San Francisco!
- Comment on Practice makes perfect 1 month ago:
Fuck yeah it does. I learned better emotional regulation and how to analyze, form, and deconstruct arguments thanks to Reddit’s general argumentative douchebaggery. Now I’m an even more insufferable prick than ever!
- Comment on Anon hires a goth chick 2 months ago:
This is a really common sentiment. Humans are social apes but many cultures have severely curtailed what kind of touch is considered appropriate.
I highly recommend hanging with cats. When I was younger, I volunteered at a cat rescue. Friendly cats are almost always down to be pet and to rub their furry little faces all over you. It’s hard to feel as lonely when you’re hanging out with your cat buds, and the rescue cats need friends too.
- Comment on when ur higher than sagan 2 months ago:
They should be fine anyhow if homeopathy really works. They just need to take a little train material, serially dilute it to 10⁻²⁰ strength, then take it with sugar pills. Train immunity!
