BubbleMonkey
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- Comment on Absolutely deranged 4 months ago:
Oh, yeah no it’s not the cable, it’s the receiving port on the device itself. Sorry for the confusion :)
- Comment on Absolutely deranged 4 months ago:
TIL my external hard drives use micro 3b. I didn’t realize that was a standard… figured it was a proprietary to prevent using the wrong cable…
- Comment on Absolutely deranged 4 months ago:
I’ve had it with shoddy c ports on various devices, including a phone (thankfully had wireless charging also). The connection pin thingy breaks off pretty easily, and causes the same issue you described for several weeks/months ahead of the actual breakoff, where it has to be in exactly the right position (and wiggling it to hit the right position obviously exacerbates the problem).
I’ve actually bought some magnetic chargers for the more fragile electronics, so I never have to put strain on the port…
- Comment on In Search of Power, Texans Ask: Are the Lights on at Whataburger? With no working outage tracker from the Houston area’s main electricity provider, people are turning to the chain’s map of what's open 4 months ago:
I lived in Houston during hurricane ike back in like 2008 or whatever, and it wasn’t a super strong storm or anything, but power was out for over a week where I was in Pasadena. My downstairs neighbor and I built a bonfire on our apartment sidewalk to cook up all the freezer/fridge stuff that was thawing it going bad, and invited everyone around to partake. The cops showed up because of the fire, saw it was contained, told us to be careful, took an offered beer, and shot the shit for 20 min.
I remember going with the neighbors to get bottled water, I’m still not really sure how they heard about it, and it was an all day event to stand around in a shade-free line waiting for the tiny aid package. Fruit, bread, and a case of water. Not like we had anything else to do, but still.
Frankly I don’t blame people for getting power where they can. Utilities there really are absolute nonsense. And with smart phones being a literal lifesaver now, in addition to just providing -something- to do while power is out, I am not actually terribly surprised.
- Comment on We're coming for you 4 months ago:
Iirc part of the reason for sterile releases is to shift the populations. So for example they release them for malaria-carrying sub-populations but leave intact clean populations to fill in the niche.
There’s also some experimentation with releasing fully fertile specimens that have a specific gut bacteria which makes them unable to carry some of the diseases impacting humans, and is passed down to the young.
- Comment on gaudy and not my vibe 4 months ago:
I tracked down the house I lived in until I was 5. I have lots of pictures of it in its glory and I remember it fondly.
It was an old 1800s school building that my parents converted into a house. Very cool building, lots of old-school charm (hehe).
Finding it was a huge mistake. The present owners don’t even live in it, they built a house just to the side of it and use the old structure as support for solar panels, and probably storage for the junk sprawling over the property. Which… I’m down with solar but it’s so sad to see something with so much history, charm, and character… absolutely ruined in under 30 years.
- Comment on Progress happens with every death 4 months ago:
Oh… umm… well have a good time with that, I guess… 👍
- Comment on Progress happens with every death 4 months ago:
I mean… No offense or anything but I really don’t care if I mis-spell a brand name. It’s super unimportant in the grand scheme of things. It’s… all just stupid marketing anyway, and if they cared, they would have used a smarter spelling.
What I am concerned about is calling oneself stupid and a nazi (of any sort at this point) while actually being neither.
Please be kinder to yourself. It’s ok to be pedantic, but just say that instead :)
I also have things that make me unreasonably annoyed. It’s ok to have those things :)
- Comment on VA-11 Hall-A devs’ next game is a modern successor to horror strategy classic Parasite Eve, and that has me unreasonably excited 4 months ago:
Oh man, parasite eve was so frustrating, but such a good game!
Is it considered strategy because of the (vvvvvvvvvery) limited ammo/supplies? I… wouldn’t have pegged it that way, personally, hence the question.
Idk if it would be my cup of tea these days, but I’m kinda excited to try it either way :)
- Comment on 🥲🥲🤡 4 months ago:
It suggests that art and literature are worthless, and if you have such a degree you’ll be working fast food, known as among the worst jobs (low paid and nobody has a lot of respect for fast food workers).
- Comment on Progress happens with every death 4 months ago:
This is basically the reason we have artificial sweeteners, too.
Some dude was trying to make/do something, and labs were sort of “lol everything is safe” back then so he like… had a sandwich… and noticed it was sweet… so he just sort of tasted all the stuff he was working with and found aspartame, I believe.
I believe the same is true for fabreeze, the underlying chemical mechanism was an accidental discovery because the researcher’s wife noticed he didn’t smell of cigarettes. It never caught on tho because it, naturally, has no smell, and you become blind to smells you are constantly exposed to, so until they added perfumes (fabreeze as we know it today), even tho it worked, nobody cared to use it. I wish I could actually find it unscented… the scented shit stinks and gives me headaches.
- Comment on Student Loan Borrowers Owe $1.6 Trillion. Nearly Half Aren’t Paying. 4 months ago:
Ooh I’m in the half not paying, woot woot!
I haven’t even needed to recertify that my income is too low to have a payment (which it is, but not the point). They just sort of extended it again. Which is great, because it means other people also likely got that break and aren’t paying even if they “should be”.
- Comment on Freeloaders 4 months ago:
It’s often both because funneling! Yay!
- Comment on What's up with all the "___punk" stuff? 4 months ago:
Yes! Ok that probably helps a lot. Because I’ve seen a HUGE rise in _core (cottagecore, goblin core, Forrest core, witch core, etc. and that’s just here on Lemmy)
I hope that takes off more and leaves Punk behind so it can fit better. :) I’m sure the distinction exists for a reason.
And yeah steampunk is sort of the odd duck in what the other major __punk actually hit, but I did have some friends waaaaaaay back when steampunk was brand new, big into it, and they took it all the way to the social changes necessary for never evolving past the Industrial Revolution… so I’m probably heavily biased by that (then again in highschool they had canes, waistcoats, and top hats, and basically cosplayed as English gentlemen all the time so… probably not an ideal sample!)
- Comment on What's up with all the "___punk" stuff? 4 months ago:
I probably have explored furry punk to some extent - any game/cartoon in which the main character is a non-human animal technically counts for that, I should think. Bonus if they are anthropomorphized. But it’s not called furrypunk afaik, or I’d probably throw that in too.
Beyond that I have no idea what those things even would be. Tho the current state of the US is very meat based so I think you’d have to go vegpunk on that one, at least where I’m at, for it to be an alternative option.
- Comment on What's up with all the "___punk" stuff? 4 months ago:
Isn’t factorio just pixel art? I wanna say 8/16 bit but it certainly is not that :p
Fwiw my only experience with factorio is that dude who made a working computer, built his own optimization, and ran doom on it (very very very slowly) so I’ve only seen it in that one video.
- Comment on What's up with all the "___punk" stuff? 4 months ago:
I tend to agree with that sentiment. Hence the confusion over everything being __punk.
- Comment on What's up with all the "___punk" stuff? 4 months ago:
I’m probably equally old so yeah that’s sort of how I envision it as well.
That helps, actually, more than one might expect.
- Comment on What's up with all the "___punk" stuff? 4 months ago:
When I think of __punk, I think about it having a whole -way of life- change, not just an aesthetic change. Cyberpunk incorporates all of the dystopia of deeply embedded tech and stuff. Solarpunk is the whole “living with nature” ideal, even steampunk had to reimagine how things would work (tho admittedly that’s way more of an aesthetic than the other two imho).
So it’s basically a meaningless term then? That’s disappointing. I really want to explore other… hypothetical options I suppose.
- Comment on What's up with all the "___punk" stuff? 4 months ago:
I mean I get that it’s used that way, but that doesn’t address what I want to know - are these “more than aesthetic”, or is it watering down what punk means by being applied too broadly?
I’m tend to think it’s the latter, because while the three I called out specifically are an aesthetic, they are also “alternative present/future” in a rebellious and/or politicized sort of way. They are sort of “what if?” Or “this would be good/bad/interesting”.
I don’t think the others really have that quality, but I’m not deeply involved with anything that would really help sort it out. So here I am :)
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- Comment on Looks like paradise 4 months ago:
🎶outdoor… Wisconsin 🎶🎶
- Comment on Can't get that metallic taste out of my mouth 4 months ago:
It’s not true for any piercing, so no.
The jewelry should be non-reactive metal, and thus doesn’t have a distinct flavor. Unless you’ve never tasted anything cooked on stainless, in which case you might notice it.
But likely? No.
- Comment on Ironing 4 months ago:
I did that in the military. They were less keen and some shit hit some fans or whatever. So I got me some safety pins for my neckline and they shut the fuck up and my millennial self rejoiced.
- Comment on Snail Girl Summer ☀️ 4 months ago:
Most terrestrial snails are hermaphroditic, so boys can also be snail girls, if they want :)
- Comment on Unrealistic Body Standards 4 months ago:
- Comment on New ‘Detective Work’ on Butterfly Declines Reveals a Prime Suspect 4 months ago:
I’m like 90% certain my area doesn’t do that, simply because there’s a river straight down the middle of the town, and we have a lot of conservation programs (some funded through property tax) and stuff as a result. Plus the river itself (a superfund site) has been a cleanup project for decades, so they have to be pretty careful.
But I may be wrong. Who knows. If they do spray, it certainly isn’t helping knock down the mosquitos. Or gnats. So many gnats.
- Comment on New ‘Detective Work’ on Butterfly Declines Reveals a Prime Suspect 4 months ago:
I have milkweed all over my town lot. Haven’t really seen too many monarchs tho, and no caterpillars or cocoons so far (years)… might have too much residual chemical from other people using stuff even tho I don’t.
Kids seem to like it, the adults in the area don’t care for it much though ;)
- Comment on fruit 5 months ago:
My preference is pineapple, black olives, and onions.
The black olives give the same salty as meats, so it works out quite nicely. I’m not typically into spicy pizza, but onions and pineapple go nicely together when cooked, imho.
- Comment on The current state of auto insurance: shit that belongs on a shady Kickstarter from 2013 5 months ago:
Well now you are just moving the goalposts with that “does she put it in the back” nonsense.
Again, her purse is always in the same spot when she’s either driving or the passenger sitting shotgun. How are they going to sort out her data when it’s almost always in the same spot?
And the same for anyone else with that habit. Or who uses the passenger seat to hold their bag.
