BubbleMonkey
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- Comment on I need to wake up early 2 days ago:
You sound like you don’t have adhd, which makes routines like that a problem. I do, which is why I don’t recommend things with short battery life.
I’m just saying that not everyone is great with “one more device to charge every day” when all they need is a vibrating alarm and there are options that don’t require that.
- Comment on I need to wake up early 2 days ago:
If only the battery lasted more than a day, day and a half tops…
I’ve had numerous watches, just because I need an alarm on me for medications (ranging from cheap $30 models, through Fitbit/athletic watches, up to the Apple watch), and they basically all have the vibration feature. The Apple Watch has probably the worst battery life of any of them I’ve tried, and I’ve tried really hard to extend it…
Some of the really dirt cheap ones you pair with the watch, set the alarms, then unpair (because they are cheap Chinese brands with all sorts of tracking if you use the app), and the battery on the watch is good for like a week. If you want to keep the shitty app running, or have a spare device to pair it with, you can change alarms on the fly.
Either way, I wouldn’t recommend an Apple Watch to someone who just wants a vibrating alarm. They are not good for that single use, unless you actually want all the other stuff it does and are fine with the crap battery life. Same with any major smart watch. If all you need is an alarm, they are super overkill and just one more thing to keep charged.
- Comment on My favorite photo from my vacation! 5 days ago:
Ships can absolutely be beached without being up on shore though. So in the water.
Because they are super heavy and can thus run aground further out than a small boat might. They are beached, meaning they are stuck in sand of a beach, but they aren’t on the beach, and are wholly within the water. Because that definition had “especially” and not “only”, thus it can go out further than what we would traditionally label as a beach between high and low tide.
- Comment on Cursed Milk 5 days ago:
This is my absolute favorite thing about the internet.
People doing harmless stupid shit and telling everyone else about it.
Seriously, the best, because then I don’t have to try it myself.
- Comment on Are trailers revealing too much again nowadays? 6 days ago:
The first trailer felt like the sort of thing I could watch - I feel like I have an idea what the movie is about but don’t even know what their voices sound like.
The one you linked is the reason I go out of my way to avoid trailers for literally any media that I might actually like. It spoils enough (even if it isn’t all of it) that it really ruins the media for me.
I’d like to see a trailer that’s made entirely of outtakes (and I don’t mean where they bust out laughing while delivering their lines, more like ad lib, or scenes that got cut or whatever). It’d probably have to be for some sort of comedy, but like “this didn’t make it into the movie, you’ll have to watch it to see what did”. I feel that wouldn’t really spoil the movie, and would still give a decent idea of the thing…
- Comment on Fire Witness 1 week ago:
Oooooh a rabbit with predator teeth, that’s an alarming thought… maybe that’s the rabbit from holy grail. Would explain a lot.
- Comment on Peter Jackson Working on New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Films for Warner Bros., Targeting 2026 Debut 1 week ago:
Heck yeah, and you could still call it lord of the rings if his thing is to blow smoke rings. Maybe even just once per episode, so as not to be weird.
- Comment on Living 1 week ago:
Oh yeah, ants I don’t fuck around with. They get liquid bait whenever I see one inside. Fruit flies also get traps (red wine in a glass, cover with plastic wrap and poke some holes, add a drop of dish soap to the wine to break surface tension so they fall in and drown)
But harmless insects/arachnids are fine by me. I grew up in an old house in the woods, catching snakes and bugs in brush piles with my cat. It’s sort of what I expect living to be like, honestly.
- Comment on Soup 1 week ago:
That’s true.
- Comment on Living 1 week ago:
Huh. Ngl, that’s super weird, but I’m sorry that’s your experience, because this harmony thing I’ve got going on is pretty sweet, and I wish it for everyone. Tho the random bumblebee that finds her way to my living room 2-3x/yr perplexes me…
So fun story about symbiotic living, because why not :)
I inherited birds when my mom died. I did not want them, I hated having them, because it felt very wrong. She got them as hatchlings and neglected them like she did her kids for the three years she had them. But I took them in and tried to hand train them, at least take good care and all, got them a huge flight cage, three times the size they had, did my best. I did eventually, after getting them comfortable interacting with hands, surrender them to a rescue because they were only 8, I have no experience raising, training, or handling birds, and conures live up to 35. Frankly I get too many migraines to have parrot sex happen in my home for another 20+ years. IYKYK.
When you have birds, you almost always have pantry moths. And then you have them forever. And they get bad. Toss everything and start over bad.
So I wisely thought I’ll get a praying mantis ooth (only a three pack??? They only have 500-1500 eggs each, why not. What’s the worst that could happen?) and hatch them, then release most of them since they are “introduced native” to my area, and let the rest go in the jungle of my living room plants, and see what happened.
Well… they hatched, and the hatchery tank wasn’t secure enough so half escaped right away, to be eaten by spiders, cats, or just each other. The other half I mostly threw outside, kept about 100 and let them go in my living room plants. Praying mantises of this species can’t fly until their fifth molt, and only if female, so I had time.
Not my best idea. Eventually there was just one left, and I took it outside.
But then I found trichogramma wasps purely by chance in some random large scale farming blog about pest control (circa 2012) while definitely searching for exactly that sort of solution, and they actually did a great job clearing out the moths. I know that sounds like bullshit, given the story above, but this whole thing is 100% true and I’m not releasing dangerous or creepy wasps into my home, even if mantids were fine. They are stingless obligatory parasites, they lay their eggs in the moth eggs, the larva eats the egg and hatches already fertile to implant more eggs. They are one of the smallest winged insects known to man, roughly the size of a grain of sand, and when the host species dies off in an area, so do they. When released outdoors they can supposedly reduce a moth or other target species infestation by 95%, so imagine the potential inside!! They are all female and hatch with fertilized eggs ready to be laid, interestingly, because they harbor a specific gut bacteria that makes them all self-fertile and female. When given antibiotics they -spontaneously produce males!!!- how cool is that???
I released 15000 of them every month (about three inch square of eggs) during summer months for two years, because they have a relatively long reproductive cycle, and they couldn’t be shipped in winter. My moth problem went away while I still had the birds. It was amazing.
So now every time I hear about people who have birds I tell them about it, and I bought them for a year for the rescue I gave mine to, and they were thrilled to get rid of the problem. Because nature already figured it out :)
And I’m a super gigantic huge nerd now for bio solutions to common issues we use chemicals for! And biomimicry! Amazing!
Totally not bullshit proof citation: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichogramma
- Comment on Soup 1 week ago:
Admittedly I don’t know much about cryopreservation (looked into it many years ago as a curiosity) but my understanding, and the article says the same, is that they clinically die first and then it’s a rush to preserve them before too much breakdown happens. Since it’s quite expensive, most people only preserve their brain or head, which is removed before being frozen. I’m not sure legally they would be able to do this pre-death, since the harvesting/preserving would directly cause death as we currently understand and classify it, and assisted euthanasia of any flavor is illegal in most places.
- Comment on Living 1 week ago:
Literally never, no. Occasionally they hang from their silk and get close, but not super often.
But my spiders know me. They see me every day and know I’m not gunna bother them even if I see them (I even talk to them sometimes) so they give me a wide berth as well. They mostly hang out where I can’t (or won’t) reach, which works for me. Only downside is cleaning up webs a few times a year.
What kind of spiders are crawling on you? That’s pretty unusual from what I understand, unless they just blow down on their silk or whatever? Or maybe you have a lot more spiders than I do and they just hide better ;)
- Comment on Touchy 1 week ago:
As long as you only want to touch it once, you can!
- Comment on Soup 1 week ago:
That sounds like slaves with extra steps, so that tracks with my thoughts.
Tho that seems like a massively dystopian waste of resources when they could just build robots, which surely they will be able to do if they can reanimate humans.
So yeah, that’s likely.
- Comment on Soup 1 week ago:
I certainly don’t think a utopia is the only option and even have a bit in there about non-utopian societies.
Utopian societies that are post-scarcity are just the most likely to have the resources and desire, and even then I’m not seeing it as realistic.
And how are you going to incentivize something decades or centuries down the line? I’m not seeing that one working either.
- Comment on Soup 1 week ago:
You know I love the idea of cryostasis, and the idea of reanimating people after death is great.
But why the fuck would future humans bother bringing all these people back, even if they could? Even if they have a utopian society free of scarcity and inequality, they would be bringing back mostly rich people who lived in a super different and bad time and have literally nothing positive to contribute to the utopian future, since they were a large part of the problems of today in the first place. Plus the vast majority of them are almost certainly elitist assholes who nobody in a utopia would want to be around.
Maybe it would be a humanitarian thing, but if these people are dead and frozen there’s no real imperative to do this to end suffering or something. Or I guess maybe bringing them back to try and figure out what the hell their damage is that they felt ruining everything was a better option than working toward the betterment of all… but they’d only need a few brains in vats for that, no bodies, so sucks to suck, cryofolks.
If future humans don’t have a utopian society, the only real use for people from so long ago that I can come up with would be research subjects or slaves. And frankly there are easier ways to go about getting those…
So I see no possible future where people who cryopreserve get brought back en masse. Even if it’s entirely possible to surmount the technical hurdles.
- Comment on Living 1 week ago:
I have a super old house that has these in it, along with spiders and other various creepy crawlies (nothing dangerously venomous in the area, save one spider species I’ve never seen, which only produces mild tissue necrosis).
I really don’t mind them -certainly not enough to do anything about them- and the cats like chasing them in the middle of the night, so whatever.
But man, on the rare occurrence I go to the bathroom in the middle of the night and see one in the red light of the nightlight, skittering across the wall with a quickness, scares the bejesus out of me. Every. Damn. Time.
- Comment on Voyager 1 1 week ago:
They get doom to run on it.
- Comment on Anon is a mastermind 2 weeks ago:
I don’t. And it’s really rude of you to assume I do and try to give me advice based on that incorrect assumption (that was strongly hinted against in what you replied to) and nothing else. I have hypertension through genes. I’ve been on a low sodium diet most of my life and medication since I was 19, when I was in the military and in the best shape of my life. I’m mid 30s now. I grew up with a great diet, and active lifestyle, so eating something moderately unhealthy now and then isn’t actually a risk, but that unknown salt absolutely is.
So like… don’t be all weird when “more than 60%” is a miss with roughly 40%. And maybe just keep it to yourself either way because even if you are right? You don’t know what they do or don’t know, or what issues they have around their health. It’s none of your business and you almost certainly aren’t helping anyone.
- Comment on Anon is a mastermind 2 weeks ago:
Low sodium foods are a legitimate health need for a lot of people -myself included since my teens through no fault of my own- and you don’t fuck with people’s health.
Just because some people abuse the system doesn’t mean you punish people who are just trying to survive. Same with allergies.
But hey I’m glad to know being born with crap genes makes me an asshat. That attitude is what’s wrong with the world.
- Comment on kissies 2 weeks ago:
You wash your face regularly throughout the day? How much dos your skin hate you?
- Comment on They lied to us 2 weeks ago:
Broth, surely.
- Comment on You can travel just a 100 thousand years at the speed of light and already gross the galaxy. The Andromedan mind cannot comprehend 3 weeks ago:
That is bleak…
I mean I’m into it for the “as much as things change they stay the same” aspect, but I’d rather we rest with solarpunk than cyberpunk.
At the same time, because I’m not familiar with the media, I hope it’s meant to be billions of light years away or a physically impossible universe. Unlikely the galaxy would be able to maintain a spiral being close enough to see dominating the night sky in an average system, since both have huge gravitational fields and frankly galaxy merging is super interesting advanced physics… (no I’m not fun at parties ;) )
Idk. I’m big into sci fi, and big into real science, and most of that is cyberpunk dystopia… and I kinda get it because I’ve met people… people lead you to dystopic thinking. Because people suck.
But man I could see the solarpunk utopia just as easily, yet it doesn’t tend to make a compelling story…? It does but mainstream producers aren’t into it… maybe because they think it’s unlikely and unrelatable… and cyberpunk is likely and relatable… 😔
- Comment on Just received an irl shitpost from a random text. 3 weeks ago:
Ooh I haven’t gotten one of those. I mostly get fake job scams, and those are boring.
I’d probably text them back and play along, but super stupid. What’s WhatsApp? How do I install that? Hello? Billy??? Billy where are you??? Why did you get a new number Billy??? Where’s your phone, are you in trouble???
- Comment on You can travel just a 100 thousand years at the speed of light and already gross the galaxy. The Andromedan mind cannot comprehend 3 weeks ago:
Someday far in the future when the two galaxies start to “collide”, someone is going to come across this tiny piece of meme data and be very confused.
Would work well with the Magellanic Clouds though. Itty bitty dwarfy-boos!
- Comment on I am the thing that goes *thump* 'Fuck!' in the night 3 weeks ago:
I mean personally I fail to see how this whole… thing… is better than like… adding a half inch or whatever to each of the stair rises in the flight on the way up… as long as it doesn’t surpass 7 3/4 inch per-stair rise, which I imagine this doesn’t come close to just by the way it looks, you could probably kill a lot of that weirdness with just super basic alterations…
No, I think this hazard was a conscious decision, or at least the architect who drew it up sucks.
I’m surprised it meets code tho, tbh. This is just begging someone to tumble down the stairs in the middle of the night.
- Comment on Thanks AT&T! 4 weeks ago:
You’re right about cyber insurance, I wasn’t thinking about that, and should have put insurance in quotes.
What I was referring to is when they just set aside some money for the inevitable lawsuit or fine, and do nothing about it.
- Comment on Thanks AT&T! 4 weeks ago:
That is very likely already the case, let’s be serious here. Our companies, especially the ones with really firm mono- or duopolies, give absolutely no fucks about protecting citizen data, they just have insurance to cover the damages.
- Comment on nailed it 4 weeks ago:
Those pivoted feet show they spent a lot of time on this rendition. I actually really like it. It’s a lot more interesting than just seeing a standard limp-dick standing silhouette.
- Comment on Bags of barely holding onto consciousness 5 weeks ago:
If life worked this way I’d be set.
But not like a rodent storing shit…