SolarMonkey
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- Comment on 👴☝️I did that 1 day ago:
Sounds like something chef would sing.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I wouldn’t be able to take a selfie of my back without a mirror or the timer function, either, so thats normal I think. Frontal selfies aren’t too hard though.
You might benefit from a selfie-stick, or learning to use the timer on your camera app, they really help if you aren’t already accustomed to the hand contortions required to selfie with phone alone.
Otherwise it’s a weird and uncomfortable balancing act where you frame the phone with your index finger up the side, pinky supporting the bottom, two middle fingers holding the back, and hitting the photo button with your thumb.
Examples:
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I think what a lot of people don’t realize is just how many shots are needed to get that one good one. Especially if doing it yourself.
I sent a really classy-looking black and white (because it evened out my skin and made the lace look extra nice) once, and it took me about 40 tries to get one I liked enough to send it. It took awkward positions, my arm got tired af, and if you’d been there in person it looked dumb as hell. Arms in weird places to hide them, legs bent funny, you get the idea. I had to try numerous poses to see what worked and didn’t, and it took about 45 minutes.
I’m by no means a photographer, I’m by no means a model, I’m not even a sexually-inclined person, but I am stubborn and persistent, and I’m introspective enough to know that if I think it looks nice and classy, most others will too.
I think that’s why women tend to have artistic photos and men tend to look like the swamp thing. Dude nudes tend to be the first pic they take, quality be damned. And often in dirty mirrors (do guys not know how to hold a phone to take a selfie without a mirror?).
- Comment on Handy tip 2 days ago:
Or is it that auditory hallucinations are strongly associated (not clinically, just the way they are always talked about) with bad mental health problems like schizophrenia, which makes them taboo, so people choose not to talk about them, even to doctors?
I get auditory, gustatory, and olfactory hallucinations all the time, due to chronic headache and migraines. Wish I got visual ones too, just for the variety, but alas. I hate peanut butter so so much (my most common hallucination is the smell or taste of peanut butter). My auditory hallucinations aren’t usually voices talking, though, they tend to be cats meowing or chickens yelling, because that’s what I hear most frequently in my daily life, so that’s what I’m trained to listen for.
- Comment on Handy tip 3 days ago:
Probably Hypnogogic hallucination, which is a normal and common transitional phase between wakefulness and sleep characterized by vivid hallucinations incorporating any/all senses.
- Comment on Just don't 3 days ago:
Mostly because they have nothing better to do than vote, so politicians cater to them pretty heavily.
- Comment on I'll be two seconds, I promise! Thank you so much! 4 days ago:
It depends heavily why i feel they look scary, ime.
Purely aesthetic? Probably chill; you don’t put on an intimidating aesthetic to become an abuser, that’s stupid and counterproductive. Bad vibe? Probably not chill.
Then again people apparently find me, tiny little person I am, intimidating and I’ve never understood why. Guess I need to whip out the chanclas. Live up to it. Not Hispanic in the slightest, but if men are already intimidated…. 🤷🏻♀️
- Comment on I'll be two seconds, I promise! Thank you so much! 4 days ago:
I try to time my bathroom breaks with an empty glass. Then all I have to do is let people around me know that I’m coming back, so they don’t offer my spot to random assholes.
I trust some people sometimes, but depends on the place and who is sitting next to me. Big biker dude who’s wildly intimidating but doesn’t give me any bad vibes? Ill chance it if they are with a group and there aren’t reasonable looking ladies nearby (part of the group and i trust the group a lot more). Intimidating biker dudes genuinely tend to be good people, idk why, but they do. Moreso than your average pickup driver, for sure. Maybe because motorcycles tend to be community-based activities? Idk. Any insight would be helpful.
- Comment on Applied statistics 4 days ago:
It’s still wild to me that many parts of the developed world simply don’t use screens on windows.
But from what I can tell its also mostly places where people don’t even have AC because it simply never gets that hot.
Must be nice. (I don’t have AC yet, but I’m an outlier in my area, and I hope to add it this year because a heat pump would be an absolute blessing even if I still need to use my gas furnace as backup)
- Comment on Stay hydrated 1 week ago:
I have lead pipes feeding my house so I installed an RO unit shortly after moving in, and frankly, treated tap water just tastes bad to me now. I know it’s fine to drink, technically, but ungh. Yuck.
If yours has a tank and you maintain the system yourself, do make sure to clean it out yearly. I was not aware, for many years, that you need to bleach the tank periodically to prevent pathogen growth, but yes you very much do and it is very important, so do make sure you look into how to do that for your specific system. :)
- Comment on Mint 1 week ago:
I have chocolate mint and I find its not as hardy as other varieties.
It does really well with fairly wet and shady conditions (I had it under my elevated rain barrels and it did great, but didn’t spread beyond that) and poorly otherwise (since moving the rain barrels and exposing it to constant sun, it doesn’t want to grow much at all, much less spread).
Idk how much that’ll help your quest, but perhaps it will :)
- Comment on Wild Ones 3 weeks ago:
If mine are any indication, they’ll go hunting for bugs before they start scratching at stuff or eating plants. Even when I give mine pulled weeds the first thing they do is look for bugs on them. Those are the real prize.
They have an amazing eye for slight movement, and are quite good little hunters (they really like catching mice as well). If you don’t give them time to destroy everything.
As a bonus they poop while they eradicate, and they do some mild scratching of the surface which is good for the soil.
- Comment on Literally shitposting 5 weeks ago:
It also helps (when combined with a tiny amount, like 1/64 tsp, of bone meal) with chronic diarrhea. I had a cat who was sick for a long time and his food needed both in order to firm up his stools enough to express his anal glands naturally.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
That was amazing and made me rethink not watching that show… I have it but had no interest in it. Now I have slightly more than zero! Yay! Positive numbers!
- Comment on I'm good, thanks! 5 weeks ago:
This kind of shit is why I refuse to let people talk negatively about their own skills when they try to compare themselves to the more impressive parts of me. Idk how different their lives are than my own was, but there are lots and lots of things that are totally expected of adults that I can’t do because of how fucked up my childhood was. A couple glowing beacons of brilliance in the muck and mire don’t actually make for a well-adjusted person.
I ain’t done shit with the smarts I’ve got. You might not have the capacity to learn three foreign languages (of different roots, because I found that easier) simultaneously, but who cares? I can’t hold down a job (in any language) to save my life. Sure you might not be able to plan out an entire self-sufficient homestead, but I bet you can actually make moves toward your goals, whatever they are! I can’t, I’ve had the same goal for 30 years and have made minimal progress toward it, other than long long long lists of things that I want to do. I can’t even form proper bonds with people because my childhood taught me to trust nobody but myself, so I’m lonely and isolated.
The truth is we are all a series of strengths and weaknesses based on the environments in which we are raised. I struggle daily with left and right, but I’m masterful with learning new highly technical information well enough to teach lay-people. I can’t tell time on analogue clocks, but I’ll bust out calculations for close-enough answers to weird physics questions, because I find it interesting. The best experts in one field are the worst novices in most others.
All this to say: try to be kind to yourself for the places your education and childhood failed you. They weren’t your fault, and aren’t something you should feel shame about, even if you do make efforts to bring yourself up to speed. There have been various trials of random nonsense bullshit over the years (like the US’ current spiral into illiteracy due to doing away with phonics) that have fucked up generations of people, and those people, just like you, are doing their best with the shit cards they were dealt. We have no control over how we were nurtured, if we even were. And thats ok. It’s part of your story, what makes you the you you are today. You’d be someone totally different if you’d gotten more math and less jesus, and maybe that someone would be better in some ways, but they’d probably be worse in many others.
- Comment on Real 1 month ago:
I don’t have 1.6, so no.
I’m sure most of the mods I use would be either available or obsolete, but I’m not interested in doing all the work it would take to upgrade everything, and I don’t really feel like I’m missing out.
Maybe someday I’ll make a whole separate setup for 1.6 and have both, but no time soon.
- Comment on This is your brain on drugs 1 month ago:
I tried it once, and found it to be intensely lacking in any sort of… well anything.
My brain told me everything was tiny, and I heard a whomp whomp whomp whomp for a few minutes and that was it. It tasted like smoking grass clippings over a campfire, and I went “well its a fun plant to grow but I wont be harvesting it again”
- Comment on Real 1 month ago:
Yeah, I want it purely for aesthetics. I like generating 100% of the planet, and sending colonies to far-flung places via dev mode instant travel to settle in isolation, so I spend a decent amount of time looking at the world map. It just bothers me when it’s mostly land. It’s ugly, imo, and you get fewer interesting land/climate combos, even with expanded biomes. Also one of my mods adds things washing up on the beach, like organs, so I’m a big fan of ocean-adjacent tiles.
Honestly I haven’t gotten the new DLC, and probably wont, so I don’t really know anything about the space stuff. I have way too much time and energy invested in my collection of mods and don’t have any interest in doing it again (I manage them manually because I don’t use steam, so updating/replacing a thousand mods is a big project)
I’ve been playing whiskerwood on and off, its in early access and runs for shit on my crap windows computer, but it’s all islands and it seems they’ll be adding more to water navigation (last patch I installed added ferries and boat docks, and that was a few months ago). I enjoy that sort of thing too, but I don’t think rimworld really needs it.
- Comment on Real 1 month ago:
So thats where rimworld got the shitty planet generation from. Seriously, I want big contiguous oceans. Not like I can use the vast majority of the planet anyway.
- Comment on CONSTANTLY being one upped by Uncle Ronnie 1 month ago:
Probably this
- Comment on what? 1 month ago:
- Comment on dyk 1 month ago:
Clara is a brunette, I just want to clarify that in case people get really confused. :)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Not really, no, though there are logging operations and they sometimes ruin large swaths of land by planting shit like a whole forest of pine where there used to be a healthy mixed forest.
This area is pretty heavily wooded yet, though. The fields that are here are old, generations back stuff with more natural boundaries, rows of wind-break trees between fields and the like, swampy areas left in field corners. We aren’t really adding new farmland here either, in fact there are incentive programs to reforest former farmland.
We do pull stuff out if we are developing the property, sure, but otherwise no, most land is left pretty natural.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
That happens in parts of the US that actually have those things, just not in the super flat bits that don’t have anything interesting in them to use as a boundary to begin with. Kinda hard to break things up by rivers or ridges or trees when there aren’t any there naturally. But near me, that stuff is super common as boundaries for fields for exactly the same reason.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Image Am I a joke to you?
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 2 months ago:
Or you could live in a less urban area, specifically one where transplants are less common than people who grew up less than 30 min away. People who never left their home town, whose friend group also never left, still have all their friends from school and don’t need or want more. They don’t really want to be your friend even if you do click. You can meet them out dozens of times and have running jokes when you see each other, but they’ll never go out of their way to make or keep plans.
Everyone who moves to my current area says basically the same thing about how difficult it is to make friends here. People much more commonly get their friends hired with them than make friends with new people who get hired, so even that hasn’t been a super fruitful endeavor. Only people I’ve managed to make lasting friends with have also been from elsewhere and struggled.
That’s not to say people aren’t nice and welcoming, they are, they just aren’t welcoming into their social circles.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Wild, I refuse to go to packed restaurants because my experience will be markedly worse… my favorite time is between 2-4, because everywhere is dead then.
To each their own, I guess.
- Comment on All fight no flight 3 months ago:
I’ve got heritage breeds, olive eggers and buff Orpington, and they fly just fine. The Orpington have really fluffy pants on, but both breeds are pretty lean (not really meat birds, more cold-hardy egg layers) and have no issues taking flight. They even fly across the yard for snack time, or when they spot a hawk/eagle.
They aren’t likely to be flying any significant distance, since they prefer running and staying home where they’ve got a good deal, but they could if they had to.
- Comment on The college-to-office path is dead: CEO of the world’s biggest recruiter says Gen Z grads need to consider trade and hospitality jobs that don’t even require degrees 4 months ago:
I went to a taphouse like this. You were issued a lanyard with an rfid chip in it that was linked to your tab. You’d scan the chip on the tap you wanted, and pour as much or little as you like into your glassware of choice. It had the price listed on the description screen for each tap, and would charge according to what you poured, down to a pretty small amount, because you control the tap handle. Want to try a small splash for a quarter? You can!
So yes it absolutely can scale larger. This place has I think 50+ taps, and because they only needed a few people for staff for dozens of tables (they had a limited cold food menu or it could have been one person easily), the overhead seemed like it was pretty low.
We went at an off-time, but they said they stay pretty busy on weekends and stuff.
- Comment on Bread mold 5 months ago:
I bit bread like this once and I can still vividly taste it.
I’ve accidentally eaten various kinds of mold several dozen times in my life, and in some cases I could barely tell. Slightly dirt flavor. That’s the dangerous mold.
I was also in my 30s when I found out some people don’t know what mildew smells like. They know the sour smell in clothes, but don’t realize it’s mildew. My partner was one such person, and they -still- don’t care but that smell drives me bonkers.
Unrelated because I didn’t eat them, but it reminded me of the time I made cookies (specifically Russian tea cookies, aka snowballs) and put them directly in the freezer without letting them dry out, and it was humid enough in the container that months later when I went to eat one, they had tiny adorable mushrooms on them.
