ButteryMonkey
@ButteryMonkey@piefed.social
- Comment on Yes this year is going to be really good and productive 1 week ago:
My favorite no-notice rage quit (tho I’ve done it several times) was when I worked for a call center dealing with big money warranty stuff. People frequently tried to get the warranty extended to cover whatever, even though it was an extremely generous warranty anyway. My mom had died a few months prior, and of course I got the minimum legally acceptable bereavement time. Three days I think. Maybe a week.
On her birthday, I had to work, and I fielded a call by someone who was giving me some sob story about how she couldn’t possibly have followed up on the warranty in the last three years since the problem started because her dad had a stroke. They were now two years outside of the warranty period, and this was the first contact we ever had with them.
I was like look, my mom died a few months back and you know what I did the next day? I paid my bills like an adult because they were due. Today would have been her birthday, and I have to work because that’s what adults do. If you can’t get your shit together in three damned years, you deserve to pay to fix it yourself. Get bent and don’t try to guilt trip people when you don’t know what they are dealing with.
I hung up on her as she stammered some objection, logged out of everything, took my badge and parking pass, slammed them on my supervisors desk, said “you’ll probably want to review my last call.” And walked out.
- Comment on Sleep well 2 weeks ago:
My embroidery machine is really old, like 30+ yrs, with very basic programmability, and it can do stitches in multiple directions. It has a foot plate thing that moves the cloth as needed, and it works pretty well.
I have to imagine a newer more advanced one would be capable of something like this, tho would probably need to be simplified somewhat.
- Comment on meal 2 weeks ago:
Fuck you for calling me out like this.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
🤷🏻 you do you fam.
I’m under no delusion that people aren’t tagging me if their platform allows it. I just don’t care, because it’s a nice way to keep track of who is who and what they are like, the way faces or voices work in person. If someone wants to tag me as an asshole, or whatever, they will.
I try not to be one, of course, but I have zero control over how people perceive me so I don’t really care.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s not a blocklist, it’s just information tags.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I like going through all the posts like these so I can tag people who whine about how men have it so hard or whatever incel nonsense they spout to derail. I always end up with at least 5 new users tagged (across a spectrum of descriptors). They just.. there are so many of them.. everywhere..
- Comment on Ţ̴̭̪̥̒̽̋͋̿̄́͊̾̌̓̀̔͝͝͝͝ͅh̵̬̙̩̞̻̰͇̠̭̦̊̽̆̓̍͆̑̓͌̓̋͊e̶̢̡͍̪͕̥̤̬̋͂̑̈́̚̕ͅͅ ̵̛̛͖̌̀́̌̑̃̆͆̈́͒́̌̕̚͠ǵ̸͎̩̭͒̎̉̈́̌͂̇o̸͇̗̙͖͋̚v̵͖̫͕̔̽́̋̀̋̈́̉͌͋̽̈́̓͑̚͝͝e̵̙̦̬͇̭̍̏͊̃ř̸̭͈̼̱̤̻̏̎̚n̸͍̰̠̆͆́̓̚͘͝m̷̏͂̕ͅẹ̸̡̨͎͉̲͍̝̲̌̿̽̔͊ͅṉ̶̬̠̱̩̔̌̈́̒̋͘ 3 weeks ago:
Why do the dead pixels leak down like that, but not everywhere?
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
If ice wasn’t meant to go up your ass, it wouldn’t freeze into such perfect insertion shapes. Plus you don’t need a flared base, just patience.
- Comment on stand out from your competitors 3 weeks ago:
You’d still need to put the stuff in plastic, those bags are mesh. They are really cheap though, so there’s that.
- Comment on Taste the flavor 3 weeks ago:
Ooh I get to be that guy!
Acktachully, your entire digestive system is lined with taste buds! They aren’t hooked into your normal sensory awareness, so you don’t taste your own digestive juices the way you taste your mouth, but they are used for sensing things like spoiled food and spice! Those receptors can trigger ejection of material if it’s bad enough (diarrhea/vomiting, depending where in the tract it sensed bad stuff).
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’m in your boat. I don’t even change my clocks for DST anymore. It doesn’t really matter beyond a ballpark what time it is most of the time (and keeping to standard time means my animals’ schedules don’t get messed up every 6 months). If there’s an appointment or something that I need an actual time for, I have my phone with tons of alarm options so it’s fine.
I haven’t set my stove clock in ages, tho I get why it has one since I can program it to start at a certain time, but beyond that appliances shouldn’t even have always-on displays. What’s the purpose other than wasting electricity?
- Comment on do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs? 3 weeks ago:
I have chickens, and whether or not I like the taste and smell of eggs is wildly dependent upon the eggs and preparation.
I worked at a chicken hatchery in high school and was traumatized by what we called “poppers”, which are eggs that rot inside with the shell fully intact, wherein any contact with the shell causes it to explode. It took me over a decade to eat eggs again. And I still won’t eat anything like quiche, omelets, or even just plain scrambled eggs. I find them gross for whatever reason.
But a sunny side up or an egg salad or something? French toast? Egg bread? Breakfast bagel bombs? Sure.
- Comment on Eep 5 weeks ago:
Interesting. Now that I think of it, I don’t think I really have different personalities with different people. I don’t have that much energy. I might be more outgoing with some groups than others, but that’s a matter of volume rather than a different tune. Maybe that’s why people keep saying I’m “genuine”?
- Comment on My morning routine in 2026 5 weeks ago:
See? And they want us working from home and using public transit! You can’t be efficient like that in those settings!!
- Comment on I can taste sounds 1 month ago:
Really? Neat. At least compared to the monotone I’ve got (not who you replied to, mind). I mean sometimes it harmonizes with the sound of electricity in wires or air moving through heat vents, and starts warbling, which is incredibly obnoxious, but that’s about it.
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 2 months ago:
This is basically why I’m giving up collecting physical media. I have several hundred games on disc/cartridge, and consoles from most generations, but it’s really hard to find newer games on physical media these days. Most of the good ones can’t be found used, and good luck finding a new copy anywhere.
And of course all the older physical media is also getting harder to get because people are paying a lot for it now.. like I have some games in the $80-500 range that I paid very little for years ago. I know the used sales probably don’t count to this article, but you can just look at them to see what’s going on with new physical sales. They made whole consoles that don’t have disc drives, so people couldn’t buy used and bypass them making profit, ffs. Of course the physical game market is crashing. They did that on purpose.
PS5 era is the last hurrah for physical media for me, and I honestly barely even play on PS5 because there’s just nothing to get. I’ve managed to get like a dozen discs for it, and that was difficult. Meanwhile I have easily 4x that for ps4, and prior generations are even better represented. I’d like to get the current Xbox since it’s mostly backward compatible with the one before it IIUC and I have a 360, but I just have no motivation to do so.
- Comment on Parking police 2 months ago:
Maybe there’s a specific size/resolution of image you could use to make it work, if you knew the exact distance? But I’d also think this wouldn’t work..
- Comment on Parenting advice 2 months ago:
No no that’s much better.
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 2 months ago:
Random my little pony and other young kid games. Hate to admit it but even the paw patrol games are entertaining in this way.
They are short and easy, and kinda junk, nice palate cleanser, and often very cute and encouraging. You don’t know a silly morale boost until you play something that says “you’re doing great!” periodically on the easiest thing you’ve done all day. - Comment on *Yawn* 3 months ago:
You saw an animal open their mouth big? Have fun.
- Comment on challenge 3 months ago:
Take a day off, or like, just quit instead.
- Comment on Definitely how it went for me 3 months ago:
Apart from the front panel connectors on a motherboard, of course. Those fiddly little bastards can get straight to hell.
I’m so excited to understand what this means! (Just did my first ever build… or rebuild I guess using a case from 2012)
I mean I’m not excited excited, because yeah fiddly little bastards.. single pin connectors on that scale should be illegal.
- Comment on Not impressed 3 months ago:
Then why is the mushroom (that we see) called the fruiting body?
It’s obviously a fruit.
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 3 months ago:
Why not grassroots? Let’s start the movement!
- Comment on Back in 1993 Amtrak ran trial runs with European high-speed trains, Sweden's X2000 and Germany's ICE, here is a well made documentary about the event. 3 months ago:
My state had it all lined up and funded and everything decades ago, and a republican came in and scrapped the whole thing. For no good reason.
It would be operational by now and would have connected all the major urban areas in the region. 45 min trip instead of a 5 hour drive.
I will never not be salty about that.
- Comment on Definitely spongeworthy 3 months ago:
Probably. Her standards weren’t that high; I’ve met my dad.
- Comment on Definitely spongeworthy 3 months ago:
Which is reasonable from what my mom told me. She agreed those were the best.
- Comment on Twinkle twinkle little star 3 months ago:
Do you have any links to these, or names I can look for? I’m genuinely into that sort of social norm bucking, as a comfort-in-skin-over-propriety sort of gal myself, and learning stuff (mostly any science-adjacent stuff) is my special interest - my degree and life focus is in science communication (I can’t help but infodump so I learned how to do it properly!)!
I mean naked news was(is?) super popular; why not fuck-me-branded science?
- Comment on Twinkle twinkle little star 3 months ago:
Is there a video of this talk? I’d love love love to see it if possible!
I like ladies in sparkly things being smart. I do it sometimes myself, anlong with bright colors and vivid patterns, and it’s wildly fun! Clothing doesn’t matter, so have fun with it!
- Comment on Male Mar-a-Lago face 3 months ago:
Oh my god it’s political bimboficiation.. that’s fucking fascinating.