EnsignWashout
@EnsignWashout@startrek.website
- Comment on Why did our friends stop posting on social media? 1 day ago:
I text my friends. I assume that everyone else just thinks I died.
- Comment on Why did our friends stop posting on social media? 1 day ago:
The move between seeing “your brother in law took the kids to the zoo” to “your brother in law liked this trash article” was such a jarring transition.
It was awful.
“Oh, look. He’s a little bit racist. Now I get to know that. Thanks Facebook.”
- Comment on Off topic 1 day ago:
Exactly! If I’m not clutching the mute button for dear life, an I really having a relaxing movie night?
- Comment on Off topic 1 day ago:
Yes. It’s been a few years since I countered a video game that didn’t have separate volume sliders for dialog, for music, and for all others sounds.
- Comment on RPGs that are optionally pacifist? 1 day ago:
I see you subscribe to the Wolfwood school of pacifism: “I didn’t kill anyone!”
- Comment on nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore 2 days ago:
Yes. Web apps existed before JavaScript.
- Comment on What are you doing when you call someone, don't leave a voicemail or text, they call you back right away but you don't answer? 1 week ago:
Exactly. My phone is for texting and calling out. Receiving calls is an unfortunate bug.
- Comment on What are you doing when you call someone, don't leave a voicemail or text, they call you back right away but you don't answer? 1 week ago:
Perfect score. Social obligations fulfilled: 100%. Words spoken: 0. Emotional energy cost: 40%.
- Comment on Pittsburgh Will Be Transformed Into "AI Hub Of World" With $75 Billion Investment 1 week ago:
To me it sounds deeply stupid to bet on the future of the overhyped pleasant answer machines.
But uh… I would still take their money, of course.
- Comment on 'Our Hearts are Heavy, Yet Rejoicing': Pastor and Bible Teacher John MacArthur, 86, Passes 2 weeks ago:
For anyone else deciding how to feel about this:
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
nobody just breaks out in song when they get dumped, for example.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
You’re one of today’s lucky 10,000!
- Comment on Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later? 2 weeks ago:
If you want my advice, talk to them constantly as if you are the narrator, and smile and make eye contact at every opportunity.
This is great advice.
I’ve always done this, and my kids all started talking surprisingly early.
But my motive is just that it calms them.
Some baby fussiness comes from insecurity, and I find that a running narration makes them more relaxed about being set down and returned to - that kind of thing.
Basically they get the same comfort from my narration as I get from leaving the TV running when I’m alone in the house.
I don’t know (or worry about) if it really makes any serious long term difference - but it was occasionally convenient as heck when they could tell me what they wanted a bit earlier than I (or anyone) expected them to.
With my last kid, I felt more brave and also mixed in some singing, and think they are more musically inclined because of it.
- Comment on Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later? 2 weeks ago:
You’ve shared the real life hack.
My kid was born with a love for the opening theme to “Star Trek: Enterprise”, because we were bringe watching it while the kid was in the womb.
Playing “Faith of the Heart” came in handy when the kid started teething.
- Comment on If You Want Me To Support You, Form A Union 2 weeks ago:
Worth adding - let’s all shop from unionized businesses whenever possible. There’s strength in solidarity.
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 2 weeks ago:
a) I would not be driving a car with my child in it if I was so tired that I would forget I had a child. The fuck?
I hope you’re thankful for a lifestyle where you have that option. We should all strive to build a world where everyone does.
- Comment on My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased. 2 weeks ago:
I’m sorry you went through that. I’m glad you got your trapper keeper, though.
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 2 weeks ago:
I felt the same, until I had my first lousy sleeper. After a month of lost sleep, I couldn’t remember my own name sometimes. I read once that sleep deprivation is effectively brain damage, and after that experience, I believe it.
- Comment on Baby dies after California mom leaves him in car to get lip filler on 101-degree day, police say 2 weeks ago:
The left shoe trick - throwing my shoe in the car next to the kid - probably saved my kid’s life more than once.
The kind of parents who have these tragedies are tired ones. Which is most parents with small children.
- Comment on Just trying to scan my TPS reports 3 weeks ago:
It still is, it’s a standard for imaging devices.
Oh, thank you. I had forgotten that!
And also a nightmare.
Yes. Now that the memories are coming back, I do notice most of them aren’t very nice…
- Comment on Just trying to scan my TPS reports 3 weeks ago:
It’s an acronym: T.W.A.I.N.
“Technology without an interesting name.”
And… That’s all I remember about it, at the moment.
Well, also that it broke often, and threw weird errors like the one pictured.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 3 weeks ago:
There’s no industry pressure to be on Gamepass, yet.
Microsoft doesn’t willingly lose money on something unless they think they can make it into
a market distorting rent extraction hellscape.something very profitable later. - Comment on Thanks to the "you need to buy a new PC for running W11" bullshit, scammers are selling ewaste at full price to inexperienced people 3 weeks ago:
Sorry. We need to learn to ask nicely.
Please upgrade to Linux?
sudoupgrade to Linux?RunAs -Adminupgrade to Linux? - Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Uh… So no gift. Got it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Just tell him respectfully, sometime.
As a parent, myself:
- I totally don’t mind if my kids tell me they can hear me. I appreciate knowing our communication lines are open.
- I am still going to continue having (probably still loud) sex in the house. Unless my kids fully paying a roommate’s share of the costs to run the home, they’re still kids, not roommates.
- I’ll probably buy the kid some nice noise suppressing audio headset as a shopping surprise, sometime soon.
- Comment on The Oscars officially don’t care if films use AI 2 months ago:
That sounds entirely reasonable.
- Comment on Keir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 says 2 months ago:
I’m constantly amazed that this is a hard subject for people. As the golden rule says:
“I’m not going to reach into your pants, without an invitation. And I prefer no one reach into my pants, because we barely know each-other. Whatever someone tells me is in their pants, I’ll take their word for it, as long as they haven’t flashed me in public. Also, shitting in practically transparent stalls is awful for everyone, and showering with strangers sucks. Let’s all just do less of both.”
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 3 months ago:
Great analogy.
I think it’s fair to tweak it and leave that second library with full accountability for the lack of desirability.
Domain names don’t start out undesirable, they build their reputation from the content and users.
So it’s like building a second library in a perfectly nice spot, and having that library attract people who dump pollution into the surrounding area, making it undesirable.
- Comment on What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good? 3 months ago:
Ooh, neat.
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch her own ‘uncensorable’ social media platform 3 months ago:
Any politician launching their own media network is a reprehensible piece of shit.
Prove me wrong.
Counterpoint?
Obviously I don’t have any examples here. I’m sorry if I got anyone’s hope’s up I hope this was a brief, fun, moment of mystery for a few of us.
