SolarMonkey
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- Comment on Barbers HATE this one simple trick 6 days ago:
Bullshit.
Bezos can’t cut his own hair. He can’t see that far up his own ass even with all the mirrors in the world.
He probably spends more to be bald than it would cost to get all new hair.
- Comment on Ok, I'll pay you the 1995 price 6 days ago:
There’s a place near me that I don’t go to very often, and almost never if I’m alone. They have great food and it’s pretty cheap, but they don’t have WiFi.
That normally wouldn’t be a problem, because I rarely use any of my cell data, but it’s a super old building full of interference and I can only get cell signal if I happen to get one of the 3 seats within 10 foot of the front windows.
If I do go by myself, I get weird looks for bringing comic books or video games and just existing by myself, but there’s nothing else to do while waiting for food so…
- Comment on Keep going 1 week ago:
So you are telling me I should have stayed up until 6:05AM, rather than going to bed when I physically couldn’t handle doomscrolling anymore at 6:04?
Why wasn’t there anything good in the prior 12-24 hrs? What kind of casino is this, to not give me even a teeny tiny dopamine hit to keep me coming back?
- Comment on Spidey Senses 1 week ago:
That gave me a good chortle. Thanks for making my thought funnier 😊
- Comment on Spidey Senses 1 week ago:
Honestly was just the first example I could come up with, but the fact remains that a lot of things do consider ants to be harmless because they aren’t, like, hunting those things. Especially other small arthropods.
I’m sure there are some hunting ant species, but most of them aren’t.
- Comment on Spidey Senses 1 week ago:
Consider: the goal isn’t for predators to be fooled, but prey.
Lots of things consider ants totally harmless, like aphids that gets farmed and stuff. Perhaps it’s an adaptation to throw those things off.
- Comment on Spidey Senses 1 week ago:
Arthropods, man. They have two ideals and everything goes toward them.
- Comment on OH, THE HUMANITIES! 1 week ago:
When I was working on my degree (science communication; half science, half linguistics and communications courses), I had the choice between making it a B.S. or B.A.
I went for a B.S. Guess I chose wrong. I figured it was all BS anyway…
- Comment on Time to redraw America's borders in a way that finally makes sense. 2 weeks ago:
We’ll smuggle you out.
I feel like any major restructure like that would require some sort of open border policy, even if temporary, simply because people have never had any reason to not move…? And if we Balkanize with closed borders from go, well that’s for sure going to cause conflict.
- Comment on All hail the immortal cleanse 2 weeks ago:
Ax the lotl of them.
- Comment on What do you call your mom (Or moms what do your kids call you) 2 weeks ago:
I use “my mother” for the same effect, but she died when I was in my early 20s.
I sometimes wonder if we could have made things work, or if I could have figured out stuff for both of us (we know I had adhd from my dad, but I’m pretty sure the autism came from her, and that was a post-death discovery)
But then I remember how hard she was to live with and that I probably wouldn’t have grown the way I did… so maybe I wouldn’t even know I’m autistic at ~40…? Idk, I wouldn’t be who I am today if she was still around though, that’s a certainty.
She never wanted kids. When I was 16 she told me all about how my sister was the product of marital rape and I was the planned companion for the rape baby she didn’t want… cool… my life in context.
Well my sister fucking hates me and always has (because she was the golden child, first born to a woman in her 30s, hallelujah!), so that worked super well. We haven’t spoken in almost 20 years now, my sister and I. Born 11 months apart. Wish she’d just had an only child, tbh.
I got one good thing from her though: perspective. She clearly didn’t want kids and I know how that turned out when she had them, and I also don’t want kids, so whenever anyone pushed back on my choice to get my tubes tied in my mid 20s, I was like nope. “What if I regret not having them? Fine I regret lots of things I’ve chosen to do or not do, but what if I’m like my mom and regret having them? There’s no solution to that… And I know how it turns out…”
- Comment on Where are they? 2 weeks ago:
You could put some sort of tall flowering thing under it, like irises, daisies, daffodils, etc. that come back every year from a bulb. Seed shells don’t matter if you can’t see them, they just break down into fertile soil for the flowers :)
- Comment on Melon-chicken-Aspic 3 weeks ago:
I feel like maybe the chicken should be stuffed with spicy peppers, and the aspic as well, because when it comes out of the pit roast and gets cut into, it’s going to be really small and can just sort of ooze into everything else, or make a sauce for everything else, like whoever finds the watermelon sauce bowl wins the banquet because everyone’s looking forward to the sauce and that gets the meat cut nicely into and nobody quite knows where to find the melon you see. Bc they don’t know how it went together.
Epic.
- Comment on Melon-chicken-Aspic 3 weeks ago:
I think an ostrich probably has a large enough internal cavity to put a watermelon into. And then you can put that into a llama, and put that into a bison, and make the worlds most epic gamy pit roast.
- Comment on Melon-chicken-Aspic 3 weeks ago:
That makes me want to try watermelon fried in butter…
I have watermelon in the fridge… hmm…
- Comment on What TV series has the best intro song or sequence? What TV series have the worst intro song or sequence? 1 month ago:
I’m a huge fan of shows that just have a title splash screen and play the intro credits unobtrusively over the first 1/3 of the show.
I always skip intros, if I can, mostly because I binge stuff and those intros can be minutes long, serving absolutely no purpose. I especially hate when they are 10 minutes into the episode, and I have to wake my keyboard up to skip them.
- Comment on Gives a mom a reason to live 5/5 1 month ago:
Ok but fr fr I have a chair thing like that (no tube ofc) and it’s the most ridiculously comfortable thing you could ever want to sit and be lazy on because if you fall asleep it’s still comfortable af. (It’s not a beanbag, it’s full of polyfill and foam block)
Add alcohol to it and you’ll never get up, even if you don’t like wine.
- Comment on Draw an arrow to each temperature 1 month ago:
Yeah, but that’s not one of the “options” in the list. If you misunderstood what was going on, the closest option is 29 increments, because 0-1 is the first and 29-30 is the last.
It makes sense in a misunderstanding and making a logical guess sort of way. That’s how I took tests, too, and it works way more often than it doesn’t.
- Comment on Anna-mazing pun 1 month ago:
Yes!
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- Comment on Anna-mazing pun 1 month ago:
I can hear this picture.
- Comment on Grinding all ways 1 month ago:
I spent longer than I care to admit trying to figure this out… and I’m still not confident I got it right.
Are they saying they don’t date so they can work more (bread), the same way they get bread instead of coleslaw (arguably worth a lot more)?
- Comment on What was she thinking when she did this? 1 month ago:
I’m super fun at parties, too! ;)
- Comment on What was she thinking when she did this? 1 month ago:
Have to disagree that it’s not a one-person hairdo. It’s a simple French braid. If she had the Barbie lay across her head with the legs pulled back so it was bent at the hips, she could very easily have done it herself and then positioned the Barbie, assuming she can French braid. You’d only need a couple rows of the braid in to hold it securely, at which point standing it back up would pull the legs closer together and tighten everything up so she could finish and have it held securely.
(Source: had Barbies and can French braid my own hair)
- Comment on Onion be onioning again 2 months ago:
It doesn’t. It takes soap to get silicone lube off.
- Comment on Onion be onioning again 2 months ago:
Skill issue.
Use silicone-based lube for water play.
- Comment on Here kitty kitty 2 months ago:
Domesticated is a bit of a stretch. 😜
They tolerate us, and maybe often love us, but would not hesitate to survive without us.
- Comment on Unfair is what it is 2 months ago:
Popping my sternum in public is the highlight of existing some days. It’s loud, and alarming.
I learned I could do it a decade back but it takes a super specific position that took me many more years to work out so I could do it on demand. Feels amazing.
My hyper-flexibility is probably to blame for it, but it’s super fun :)
- Comment on Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game 2 months ago:
Thanks for taking the time to write all that out for me! I appreciate it and I’ll look into some of those!
Have a great day, friend!
- Comment on Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game 2 months ago:
Out of those I’ve devoted a ton of time to rimworld and oxygen not included, are any of the others on your list similar, or others you’d recommend for someone who likes them? I tried dwarf fortress but I found it to be… not my bag. I didn’t get very far into it tho.
(I do like mods, so that’s an ok requirement)
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 2 months ago:
I had a similar problem with ocarina of time (and lemme tell you having to run around in not one but multiple times was a… blast…)
It was the first Gannon fight where you shoot the paintings… I’d never played a Zelda game before and it took me ages to give up and look it up (thankfully this was after the internet was born, and walkthrough sites were all over)