toadjones79

@toadjones79@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I stop having expectations at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, deciding that everyone around me is an incompetent imbecile has been quite freeing. I don’t care what anyone thinks of me. I am always pleasantly surprised when they do a good job. And I am extra vigilant, take responsibility for the safety of those around me at all times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has a patent office ever refused to grant a patent to something on the grounds it was too obscene?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no idea. It may have even be n a false claim. But I do believe the government can pay claim to a patent if it wants to. Like, if you invented a new kind of bomb, like say you figured out how to make a device that could create a decent amount of antimatter in a second row two, specifically loaded into a warhead, I’m pretty sure the government would take that from you and all your research. And it would be illegal to publish the design.

  But I’m no lawyer and am merely guessing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has a patent office ever refused to grant a patent to something on the grounds it was too obscene?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I knew of someone who had a patent for a device that attached to a forklift to aid in large scale floor remodeling (scraped up old vinyl flooring). The US military used Eminent Domain to steal that patent and use it for military operations (still just remodeling old floors, not even for combat operations).

  I don’t know any more specifics about it. (I have a feeling there were more details that would have made that more understandable). Just that they can take a patent if they feel they need to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sometimes I wish it was real⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I am religious, and for me he’ll is sort of where we already are. Like, heaven is more a concept of achievement, like being healthy and balanced. Hell is the regret for what could have been, and was always open to you.

  As far as the political Christianity that has overtaken republican politics, I think most of it is what Jesus was talking about when He said nothing angers God more than claiming you are a follower of Christ for the vanity. They (the Republican party) do not represent the teachings of Christ in any way at all. Not one part of their platform was taught or encouraged by Christ. (Except a very misunderstood adaptation of race politics that ignores Christ’s actual words regarding it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheers lads⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Long story. But basically I took a few of my friend’s friends out on rented snowmobiles at night and we all shared a bottle of jägermeister. My friend was a 30 year old mother of two with a husband in jail for violating a restraining order she had on him. Her two friend had recently had a threesome with her. (I chose not to have sex with her months before despite her throwing herself at my 18 yo self). This resulted in them getting into an argument, and I decided we should all leave. On the way back, mistakes were made (the two stopped suddenly in the middle of the trail to argue and I overcorrected to avoid them) and she fell off and hit her head. The two dicks sped off leaving me alone in the woods with an unconscious woman, who’s brain resorted to animalistic screams and flailing arms, holding her head/neck at an angle so she didn’t stop breathing. Some time later we were found, then the cops and paramedics arrived. I was sober by then, so didn’t go to jail. But she got life flighted half a state away and spent a month in the hospital.

  I sort of changed my life after this. I don’t really think of this as the moment it all changed. Rather it is other events (finding a belief in God and wanting to become a better person as a result) that precipitated those changes. But truth be told, I probably would have continued to go downhill if not for this incident. Typing that all out made me realize just how messed up my life was back then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheers lads⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A very long time ago I was a stupid young man. I got a little drunk and ended up putting my friend into a coma for a week (on snowmobiles). That was the last drop I ever drank. It’s been over 25 years, but I will never forget how invincible I felt, and how foolish that feeling feels every time I think back on it. Don’t mess around with this shit. Like ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What vacuum should I buy for 66% carpets in 140sqft condo? Sub $500⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Shark Vertex. I landed in the AZ2002 a couple of years ago and it has worked extremely well for our home. Same carpet percentage, and we have a dog. Poodle, which has hair instead of fur, but we still end up with a lot of hair from regular grooming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think about it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fairly common knowledge. Even portrayed in movies like Kuru and Seven Years in Tibet. Unfortunately the whole thing has been wrapped up in lots of misinformation. The Tibetans have both accused China of atrocities and claimed that they didn’t happen. Outsiders looking in on this could argue that they were trying to appease the Chinese to maintain the paltry religious autonomy granted by the Seventeen Point Agreement. Here is a link to a PDF from the Tibetan Bureau in Geneva listing their atrocities. It is worth noting that even these claims are impossible to verify. The Chinese government has worked tirelessly to scrub the world knowledge base, and most search companies are more than willing to cooperate with such large governments with huge resources. Additionally, sensationalism is equally attractive, meaning it is easy and tempting to over report and exaggerate war crimes.

  But the simple fact remains that May Zedong openly opposed religion and claimed that his annexation of Tibet was a “liberation” from what he called “religious oppression.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think about it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not even true. Like not even close. The Chinese liberation army forcing Tibetan children to murder their parents to “liberate” them from “religious oppression” is one example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of the most realistic fictional movies ever made?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I got called to Minnesota to serve two years as an LDS missionary back in 2000. I absolutely loved the place. But my first day was I was stationed in Brainerd MN, and my apartment was on the edge of a frozen lake. I took a picture of it, and colored in the old brick BBQ to look like a wood chipper with feet sticking out of the top, and a large red stain across the ice, and sent it to my sister. That picture sat in her cubicle for years after that. I can’t think of that scene without thinking of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha. Not what I meant but I guess it works too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a sci-fi book a while back where all humans were gone, and all that was left was a thriving android civilization expanding across the solar system. The main character was built on the base of a sex bot, and had the ability to set the speed of her hair growth, and color. At one point she gets tied to some tracks (a city on Mercury that traveled around the planet) to be eliminated (she was a spy) and ends up getting away by forcing her hair to grow at a rate so fast it came out weak and easy to tear. Super weird book, but I thought of it when I read the comment I was responding to. And yes, on/off was part of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At this point I think I would⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Who the hell thought that anyone wouldn’t download a pirated house? How out of touch do they need to be?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The Taxer-in-Cheif can be a moron at the same time that corporations rape our wallets without either of them excusing the other.

  Prices are set by graphing a demand schedule and the supply. You graph how many sales you will get at each price point (sales go up as price goes down). Then you graph how many a company will produce at each price point (the more it costs, the less they will be willing to make/risk). The point where those two graphs intersect is the equilibrium. Which is the best price to charge. Taxes shift the cost, increase the price where they intersect.

  Digital is weird. Iirc, the risk is more in pirating. The more copies that exist, or the easier they are to access, the more pirated content will be out there. Don’t forget to include shareholder profits in cost, and the cost of other parts of the business (like a beloved endeavor that doesn’t turn a profit, Costco hot dogs for example).

  I’m not an economist and welcome any better explanations or corrections to this. It’s been a while since I took that class. But I love the topic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sneezing/snot production. Sure, it can feel amazing. But the sudden urgency to stop everything I’m doing and focus on my nose or risk a disgusting eruption of green mucus all over my face in a public setting is something I could do without.

  Also, I’m waiting for someone with medical knowledge to come in here and mention Prions or something else silently devastating to the body.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to 22 hour work shifts, with twenty minute breaks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just have the ability to control how fast it grows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man, buying anything is going to absolutely suck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to be clear, most of us aren’t even remotely surprised. We have been losing our voices telling the idiots we live and work around that this isn’t stupid as hell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was supposed to pick him up from preschool today? Whoops.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Iirc that was the back page of a MAD Magazine. They used to publish tons of fake magazine covers like this so you could flip the last page around and make it look like a real magazine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You probably brighten peoples' day in ways you probably don't even know, just like this one lonely maga!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know, right?! I can only imagine how utterly disappointing reddit is to MAGAts. Probably about as disappointing as it is to the rest of us lemmings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will We See Restrucutred UN in Near Future?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You started out strong on your first half. But we don’t need war, we need wise leadership. The power really is in the voters here. But decades of infighting (in each nation) over political stances have allowed scumbags to control all our nations’ UN interactions. We need to eliminate veto, or extend it to a three or four nation minimum (you need three nations voting to veto to block something) that is available to all nations.

  Down voting because war is always stupid and no one should ever sell the lie that innocent people need to suffer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you want to send me a toad pic every day?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll think about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love cheese. 🧀 Do you love cheese? 🧀😄⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are many really, really good cheeses in the US. Obviously we don’t compete over the same cheeses, like we aren’t trying to best the Italians’ zizzonas (yes, that’s a linguistic double entender). But Wisconsin is the origin of Colby (which a fresh Colby is my personal favorite) and has perfected quality mass produced cheeses (Colby, cheddar, mozzarella mostly). The local favorite is fresh cheese curds. They deliver them, still warm, to vendors like grocery stores and seven gas stations. They sell out within an hour, usually, so people have to plan their timing to get any without making a special trip to any of the half dozen local cheese producers in any given area. I think we produce a lot of American cheese, but we don’t eat that crap. Here is a picture of just about half the cheese at a grocery store in Green Bay. The prepackaged sliced cheeses and stuff take up another whole aisle.

  The East and West Coasts are good at more complex cheeses. And Wisconsin imports them in bulk and processes them for individual sales (cut and package) on a very large scale due to an unusually high demand for cheese here. Making it easier and cheaper to get really great cheese in Wisconsin than .most anywhere else in the country. Also, although I don’t drink, most wisconsinites can drink most Europeans under the table, which is extremely unusual as I wouldn’t make that claim for most of the world. There are a lot of signs in bars in Germany and England barring people from Wisconsin from entering drinking competitions there for a reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love cheese. 🧀 Do you love cheese? 🧀😄⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I live in Wisconsin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans, How do you pour soda into a cup with ice without the soda going flat?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cold soda, pour a short burst of soda over the ice to “rinse” it and prevent the texture of the ice from stripping the carbonation (same thing that happens when you put mentos in soda). It also fills the glass with as much carbon dioxide as possible, displacing the oxygen. Then tip the glass slightly and pour against the glass and between ice cubes about half way, rest for just a second (not completely) and finish pouring.

  Ice from a home freezer is completely frozen, but a dedicated ice maker for restaurants or gas stations will have ice that is still wet which makes this far easier.

  The absolute easiest and best way I have found is a Qarbo bottle. Which is a brand of home carbonator that allows you to carbonate any liquid and slowly release the gas. I will fill it with ice and soda, then recarbonate it before shaking it while pressurized.

  Yes, I’m an American.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I will not elaborate⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I got a silent Gen dad, and a boomer mom, and I am a younger Gen x. No, I’m definitely not. Most of Gen X had silent Gen parents. Most millennials had boomer parents. Obviously there is some bleed over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I will not elaborate⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that went right over your head. No one is blaming millennials here. That’s just the string of events that led us here. I didn’t say anywhere that millennials did any of that. Seriously you guys are just as easy to trigger as boomers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I will not elaborate⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I will not elaborate⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Late Gen X. I’m an outside watching boomers and millennials duke it out like a drunken bar fight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I will not elaborate⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t argue with that. But as a late Gen X, I graduated highschool at the time when my age was the wealthiest generation in human history. The politics that led us here is not just Boomers fault. Millennials, Gen X, and even the Silent Gen have blame here too. We were all too happy to see Clinton continue Reagan’s pandering and then felt shoehorned into most of this by the 911 attacks. The economy collapsed and then Bush’s policies totally saved us… for a few years. Then the recession hit and the Bush era legal changed wrecked our ability to regulate our government officials leaving us vulnerable to corporate slavery.