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- Comment on Horny🧠 9 hours ago:
So, basically: always horny. That scans.
- Comment on Horny🧠 10 hours ago:
I thought it was the opposite: dangerous situations kicked the hormones into overdrive?
- Comment on can't unsee it 15 hours ago:
Oh, sorry about that.
- Comment on can't unsee it 15 hours ago:
I love Lemmy. It’s a place where you can post a comment and not know if you’re going to get a vitriolic anarchist taking exception to how you said something, or a detailed, clinical clarification of a point.
On Reddit, you get only the first thing. I live for the second.
- Comment on can't unsee it 15 hours ago:
Ok, but: your mom’s a QT.
- Comment on can't unsee it 15 hours ago:
Related: I know that incest is currently a popular fetish, but I discovered a long time ago that if a girl looks too much like my sister its an immediate turn-off. It did take me a little while to connect why I found so many models, who seemed to be popular, so unattractive.
I don’t think I’ve ever meet anyone who looks like mom, so that hasn’t been an issue. My wife resembles no-one in my family.
Freud claimed all men want to marry their mothers. I haven’t found this to be commonly true, and now I don’t trust “daddy issues” being common, either.
- Comment on Couldn't have said it better 15 hours ago:
My wife is 2 inches shorter than I (6’) am. When she’s feeling girlie, she can snuggle up, but in 4 inch heels her legs go on forever and she towers.
She’s got the best of both worlds, and consequently, so do I.
- Comment on It’s the little things 4 days ago:
I liked it through the last season I watched, which was there season after the big gap. 5, I think? I don’t watch a lot of TV, and I don’t fanboi very well; was that after he left?
- Comment on It’s the little things 4 days ago:
Would capillary action still work, or does it depend on surface tension? I’m thinking about superfluids. Would the water stop at covering the floor?
- Comment on It’s the little things 4 days ago:
- Comment on My mouth suffers for the noms 1 week ago:
What is that? A squirrel? Chipmunk?
- Comment on Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it? 1 week ago:
Most of the people who get into trouble in the water and need to be rescued already know how to swim. My point wasn’t that they should be afraid of swimming, it was book learning isn’t going to help, and what they read in a book is going to be the first thing to go if they do panic. Which is likely what will happen if they read a book thinking they’re learning to swim and then go try it.
Go to a pool. Get in the shallow end and practice putting your face under water. That’ll be far more useful than reading about how to do a breast stroke.
- Comment on Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it? 1 week ago:
Well, yeah. But they could also skip the books; the practice will be much more useful.
You can’t watch your form in a mirror, in a pool. Well, Elon and Bezos probably can, but most normal people can’t. So you can’t tell how you’re doing, if you’re trying to actually swim well. Having an instructor, or even a friend who knows a little about swimming would even be better than any amount of book reading.
I’m all for book learning, but I doubt many people learned to ride a bicycle by reading a how-to first.
If they’re going to spend time trying to learn to swim, that time is better spent in a pool, than reading about it.
- Comment on Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it? 1 week ago:
Based on some real-world knowledge, no.
For example, there’s this class that military helicopter pilots take as part of training for surviving water landings. They have the body of a helicopter which can be dropped into a big swimming pool. The pilots strap in, they’re dropped into the pool, and they have to unbuckled and exit the helicopter.
So many people fail this, repeatedly. Scuba divers are in the pool just to extract the people who can’t make it out. The issue is that when you panic, you tend to stop thinking rationally; it’s why swimmer lifesaving is so dangerous - a panicking swimmer will do anything to save themselves, including grabbing the lifesaver and trying to climb on top of them, which can result in both people drowning. In the pilot case, people panic and can’t unbuckle themselves, straining against the restraints to get out, until they have to be rescued. Even if they start well, trying to unbuckle, if they fumble at the restraints, they can panic and then they stop trying to unbuckle. Even though the helicopter is only a cockpit and a bay with big van-style doors, people panic and get lost trying to get out; they just can’t find the bay doors, and have to be rescued. For these night tests, you can’t see which was is up, and people panic and forget to take time to orient, and swim toward the bottom of the pool, and have to be rescued.
All of the theory in the world can’t protect you from panic; the only thing that helps is experience. You do it enough that you get used to it and have confidence that keeps the panic at bay.
Studying isn’t enough, because the first thing that goes when you panic is your ability to think rationally, and the OMG way to prevent panic is confidence, and that’s developed through experience. It’s why teaching always includes homework: you have to exercise the knowledge for it to become second nature.
- Comment on Safety Razors are amazing 2 weeks ago:
Have you tried hotter water? And maybe not drying off? Especially with foam and gels - lather is mostly air, which isn’t a lubricant. If you lather with your face wet, you’ll get less foam, but that’s a good thing. Foamy may look nice, but especially with those canned foams all it does is add more air.
- Comment on Safety Razors are amazing 2 weeks ago:
I have two recommendations before you jump into a brush and soaps. Have you tried a shave cream like Creamo? They’re not the only brand, but they (re)popularized creams, and they’re still my favorite.
I can get as nice a shave with a brush and solid soap, but it takes far longer and I can’t say it’s any better. I do use a brush occasionally just for the ritual, but it takes much longer so most days I just smooth on a cream.
Do you do any prep? What do you use for after your shave? While I like the bracing feel of an astringent, my skin prefers an after-shave cream. I’ve tried numerous pre-shave rituals, but the easiest and best results is a (really) hot washcloth on my face juuust before applying the shave cream.
Hope you find a combination that helps!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
… true. You were clearly talking about how the “root” was constructed. If the root were random, a weakness would still be inherent in having the root exposed means all your accounts are potentially compromised, but the social hacking wouldn’t be as much of an issue.
I skipped over the root generation, as it’s just a useless twist on an older process. “Useless” in that I don’t think it adds any value to construct a root from favorite things. It’s no easier than just memorizing a single 12-character random string and then adding per-site suffixes, which is how I first heard this described a decade ago.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
You’re getting a lot of flak, but this is sort of the plot of Soilent Green, without the twist. With explosive population growth, it’s not an impossible scenario.
What’s the question, though? Is it possible? Sure, anything is. Why insects, though? There are plenty of other sources of protein, and today vegans (for whom eating even insects is streng verboten) can build healthy diets, even if they have to work a little harder and be more conscious about it. Insects would be yet another level of inefficiency in the system: it’s nearly always most efficient to get nutrients from the most base layer, plants (or fungus, whatever). If all you’re going for is pure efficiency, plants do it all. You may want to kill yourself just to end the culinary misery, but we’re not taking about pleasure or quality of life, only efficiency and base dietary needs.
- Comment on Is their any evolutionary benefit to the sneezing reflex when looking at a bright light source, or is it just an evolutionary glitch with no purpose? 1 month ago:
Ok, but: you describe what glitches are in detail, which wasn’t the question. OP clearly understands the concept behind evolution, despite using imprecise terminology.
You seem confident that there’s no benefit to the light/sneeze reflex: why? Is that an authoritative answer, or just your opinion? Do we know the mechanism behind the reflex, and can we trace it to an origin, like the recurrent laryngeal nerve?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Isn’t every system vulnerable to social engineering hacks?
- Comment on The sun is killing off SpaceX's Starlink satellites 1 month ago:
Hee hee
- Comment on The Gull Dimension 1 month ago:
“Mine?”
- Comment on Amazing Fact of the Day 2 months ago:
That’s fantastic. One of the best moments in my life was discovering a comprehensive archive of Apple ][ game images. So. Many. Games. So many, sometimes it’s hard to find a specific one if you remember the game but not the name.
- Comment on Amazing Fact of the Day 2 months ago:
The games on those old computers were better, too, proving you can’t make something good just by throwing power at it. Emulators are popular for a reason.
- Comment on Listen and 2 months ago:
Oh. Oh, have I got a story.
When Star Wars came out, I was 11. It was making a lot of noise, and my mom kept trying to convince me to go see it, but we’d driven by the theater and I was convinced - convinced - that it would be boring, and refused. Of course I did end up going, and spent the summer in the theater; this was before they kicked you out and made you buy tickets for each showing. I ended up seeing it 16 times in the theater, that summer.
Anyway, fast forward a couple dozen years and I’m watching an 2001, and I notice that it was originally released and advertised as being in “stereophonic sound.” Checked with mom, and she confirmed that they had taken me to see 2001 in the theater at some point, and I realized that I must have recognized the “In Stereophonic Sound!” on the Star Wars billboard and made the association that that meant “boring.”
- Comment on Blue Interceptor 2 months ago:
Yup! Space melons. Or, more likely, cylinders. They seem to be popular.
- Comment on Blue Interceptor 2 months ago:
Wings… in spaaaaaace. The retconning justifications are always colorfully inventive.
- Comment on demon named racecar 2 months ago:
People named “Bob.”
- Comment on The Home Depot tax at work! 2 months ago:
I’m not! But I like very close to them, and the hardware stores around here usually have at least some Robertson.
I do prefer Torx, but failing that I’d chose Robertson.
- Comment on The Home Depot tax at work! 2 months ago:
Oh, yeah. Phillips is dominant in the US; patents and marketing. Except on the Canadian border, where Robertson bleeds over a bit. But Torx is slowly making gains; franchises like Ace carry them. There’s just not as much variety as Phillips yet. Even looking online, the only way you can get some types is by going to contractor sites where the options are buying 1,000 or more of the thing; I need, like, 2 screws to fix my door hinge. Places like Amazon US doesn’t carry Torx door hinge screws.
I was taking to a guy at Ace a couple of years ago, and he was saying that Ace was slowly switching to Torx inventory - more baskets were being dedicated to Torx screws every year. The conversion is just very slow.
