Signtist
@Signtist@bookwyr.me
Formerly /u/Signtist@lemm.ee
- Comment on We thought it would be free forever 13 hours ago:
I was very lucky my family had a Mac growing up. I fell for just about every scam as a kid.
- Comment on North America contains some of the longest continuous decididous forest records on the planet. 1 day ago:
At least apologists, yeah. The amount of people who I’ve seen say “Yeah, the Epstein files are concerning, but…” has killed any hope I had that they might come around someday. Instead I’m all in for getting kids into politics early enough for them to form their own opinions instead of those of their parents.
- Comment on didnt do it 1 day ago:
I wake up at 5 for my workout simply because I’m a morning person, and I like getting it out of the way first thing. It’s also a nice, calm time, which helps me rest more effectively between reps. Plus I’m still half asleep when I start, so I skip over the feelings of “I don’t want to do this,” since I’m already doing it by the time I’m awake enough to have those thoughts.
- Comment on The Art of Surrender 3 days ago:
Live in America
Have enough money to become immune to legal repercussions
Do whatever you want, knowing you’ll never have to face any sort of real punishment for it - Comment on Wasted potential. 3 days ago:
Just grabbed a couple albums from the Tejon Street Corner Thieves the other day - good stuff! I’ll have to give those other bands a listen as well!
- Comment on Dumb stance 1 week ago:
In what way?
- Comment on Dumb stance 1 week ago:
Morality is subjective, and as a result moral condemnation carries no weight to anyone but those who already agree with the condemnation. Condemnation isn’t meant to directly change the behavior of those who disagree, it’s meant to spur those who agree into taking action to combat what they view as immoral.
- Comment on Me watching someone on Lemmy getting cooked for having the same opinion as me: 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I understand that frequently arguing with people isn’t ideal, but if you’re not field testing your opinions against someone who’s actively trying to disprove them, then how can you really know they’re right?
There are plenty of things I was sure about until someone argued with me well enough to make me think harder about it and come to a different conclusion. Isolating yourself with only people who agree with you is convenient, but stifling; community is uncomfortable.
- Comment on College core: you sit in the class for attendance then go home and teach yourself 2 weeks ago:
Man, I’m glad it wasn’t like this for me. I went to school in the middle of nowhere North Dakota and nearly all of my professors were active and attentive. My genetics class was the only one where the professor was phoning it in, just reading the textbook as a lecture, but me and the other students complained, and he got replaced with another much better professor a few weeks into the semester.
- Comment on My friend Charlie is back.... 2 weeks ago:
This trick has become a reflex for me, to the point where I barely even wake up when I get a Charlie horse in the middle of the night, since I start flexing my foot automatically when I feel it coming on.
- Comment on Anon wants to live on Super Earth 2 weeks ago:
A lot of people I’ve met would honestly happily take a 50% chance to be sacrificed to ensure that those who aren’t chosen live a happy life. I have no doubt that they’d think that right up until they’re actually chosen, then they’d scream bloody murder about how unfair it is.
- Comment on Me with my first edition harry potter 3 weeks ago:
I had a lot of nose bleeds as a kid, so my sister would never let me borrow her books because I’d always give them back with drops of blood on random pages.
- Comment on Frying chicken? Taking a leak? It's a mystery. 🤔 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Straight up spiritual 3 weeks ago:
I keep people guessing. Need something big and heavy? Try my dick! Need something short and thin? Try my dick! They both make my wife roll her eyes, so I might as well use them.
- Comment on Horrorposting 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, doing my best to hold back the incoming splatter while desperately trying to scan the crinkled-up receipt that I haphazardly stuffed in my pocket on the way to the bathroom because I didn’t think it was important sounds like such a traumatizing experience that I’d probably never eat there again, and would be a lot more likely to result in the mess that caused the policy in the first place.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Poor air didn’t stand a chance…
- Comment on Makes you think 🤔 🦵☕️ 4 weeks ago:
Yup. A lot of guys, especially teenage boys, would say that the left picture is normal, and the right picture is “saggy.” They’re the same people that look at a woman wearing plenty of makeup and say “You look great without makeup!” and when she’s not wearing makeup say “Woah, are you sick or something?”
It’s such a common occurrence on the internet that I honestly think the people who are “confused” about the post are just pretending not to know about it to appear even more separated from the idea than simply disagreeing with it.
- Comment on Did your wife ever go home to mother? January 19, 1949 4 weeks ago:
This is the “great” that the hats are referring to.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
From what I understand, her previous relationships had all been transactional, where the guy made her feel like she owed him for every nice thing he did. She’s still working on allowing herself to receive without feeling a sense of debt.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
My wife hates giving blowjobs, to the point where she doesn’t even want me to go down on her since she feels bad for not wanting to reciprocate. It’s like, I don’t do it because I want to get something in return, I just want to make you feel good, haha!
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 5 weeks ago:
I spent a good few hours every day on a dating site, making sure to really read through profiles and think of something interesting and engaging to talk about. I might’ve just been lucky, but I got a good amount of responses despite my less-than-ideal looks. Found one girl I clicked with, and 9 years later she’s now my wife.
- Comment on Go ahead, take one 1 month ago:
Got a huge bag for Christmas one year and ate the whole thing in a few days. The inside of my mouth was white with canker sores for a good while.
- Comment on The green lean mean killing machine 1 month ago:
The damage is permanent on a cellular level - the affected cells will either die, or in the case of radiation exposure, can become cancerous instead. If you got a small enough exposure, and immediately sought medical attention to remove the toxin from your body in the case of amatoxin ingestion, then only some cells will be affected, and maybe your organs can continue functioning and eventually recover after the affected cells die off. If the damage is significant, you might survive if you get a liver transplant and dialysis, since the liver and kidneys are the most affected due to their role in filtering and removing toxens.
- Comment on The green lean mean killing machine 1 month ago:
It’s not just similar, it’s the same symptom - they both kill you through damaging your cells’ ability to create proteins, radiation through damage to the DNA itself, and amatoxins from deadly mushrooms through blocking of the cell’s ability to read DNA to create mRNA, which is necessary for protein synthesis.
- Comment on Me in my home office at exactly 5:01pm everyday 1 month ago:
That was an issue for me as well when I started working from home, but I was able to slowly start getting myself to do things on my own, instead of needing to tack them on to preexisting commitments like going to work, which has actually helped me out a lot. The trick was for me to do the smallest possible thing, and ramp it up incredibly slowly. I started working out again by literally doing one sit-up a day. For weeks that’s all I did, but eventually I moved up to 5, then to more, and added more exercises until now, where I’ve got a whole weekly routine.
I did the same thing for other chores that needed doing, and it’s been long enough now that I can just decide to do something that I need to do in the moment, instead of always saying “I’ll do it after work,” which would always turn into “I’ll do it after work tomorrow” when work actually ended. It makes outings more fun, too, since they’re not always filled to the brim with all the things I was putting off doing.
- Comment on everyone agrees 1 month ago:
I like that people like dogs - they deserve a good home and loving owner - but they make me nervous. I was almost attacked by a dog on the street as a kid, and my dad had to take the bite instead to save me. 2 other kids in my family have been bitten by dogs as well, both times by dogs they had spent a significant amount of time with, but that suddenly got triggered by something out of the blue and attacked. I just can’t trust that they’ll always be friendly, and even one second of aggression is enough to cause some real damage.
- Comment on BIG (like Americans) IF TRUE 1 month ago:
Yeah, annatto is a traditional cheese dye, but outside of the US cheddar doesn’t often have much annatto if any, so it’s not usually died orange. Here’s a video of someone making a marbled cheddar cheese where one part has annatto and the other doesn’t, so you can easily see the difference in the final product.
- Comment on W for Uncle Ted 1 month ago:
Pretty sure that was the joke - a guy randomly trying to kill people did more to punish members of a pedophile ring by complete happenstance than the governmental body whose job it’s meant to be to do so.
- Comment on Always works and tastes better 2 months ago:
My dad’s got that exact style that he uses when camping. I didn’t drink coffee, but he says it’s great.
- Comment on Retro Gaming is a Playground for Billionaires and Nazis 2 months ago:
Well, the work I did last month made my company over 4 million dollars, and my salary earned me about 7k. That’s a normal salary for my position, but if you and a partner made that much money together and they took 99.8% of the share, it’d feel pretty scammy, right?
I’m not sure how much money my ISP, electric company, grocery store, or hospital make, but I can imagine that they have a similar issue where the people doing the work get way too little of a piece of the pie. We consider it normal because it’s so prevalent, but it used to be that the CEO and other executive suite members had a much smaller piece, allowing for everyone else to get relatively more.
Sure, the higher-ups always took the biggest chunk and always will, but at this point our economy is entirely based on the idea of extracting as much wealth from the people generating it as possible, which is definitely a scam.