JohnnyEnzyme
@JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
- Comment on How animals communicate to work together across species boundaries 13 hours ago:
And trees, too!
- Comment on Why are we so afraid of cockroaches? 2 days ago:
Haha, true, Drumpf is only a 2nd-gen immigrant… not so German anymore.
Bonus points for learning about “potato noises!”
- Comment on Why are we so afraid of cockroaches? 2 days ago:
The American / German ones are the ones that reproduce very fast and can take over very quickly.
Especially the ones with botched, blond hair transplants that keep getting elected by an army of doofuses.
- Comment on How many donations worth of ten grains of rice does one need to live healthy for one day? 2 days ago:
Wow, that site’s been up for almost 20yrs, now. It’s pretty fun, and helped me do a little bit of language-learning over the years, but is nowhere comprehensive for such a thing. Still, it’s casual fun, and seems to be legit:
- Comment on Is piefed or blahaj down? not been able to get on it today or yesterday 2 days ago:
Wow, how does that work?
I thought for sure a PF acct was necessary!
- Comment on Is piefed or blahaj down? not been able to get on it today or yesterday 2 days ago:
You’re actually using it as a Lemmy user posting to Lemmy communities? oO
- Comment on Is piefed or blahaj down? not been able to get on it today or yesterday 2 days ago:
PieFed absolutely has a post scheduler, which I use all the time.
By the same token, OP’s posted ~1100x across 11mos on their Lemmy acct, so it seems quite possible they’re using some kind of Lemmy scheduler. Since you say it’s not in Lemmy proper yet, I’m guessing they might be using one of these:
https://github.com/RikudouSage/LemmySchedule
https://github.com/stevenvergenz/lemmy-scheduled-post-bot - Comment on Is piefed or blahaj down? not been able to get on it today or yesterday 2 days ago:
I’d done posts in advance
Oh, does Lemmy have a scheduler, now?
- Comment on Finally sitting down to rewatch Beam Me Up, Sulu. The Blu-ray has extended interviews. 3 days ago:
I’m watching it here:
https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/200261747/s05-e31-the-encounterIt does have some ads here and there. It also might be on DailyMotion, ad-free.
- Comment on Finally sitting down to rewatch Beam Me Up, Sulu. The Blu-ray has extended interviews. 3 days ago:
I’m just now watching his Twilight Zone episode. Intense stuff…
- Comment on is our battery/junk drawer dangerous? 5 days ago:
Generally catastrophic failures happen when a battery is damaged
I’m not a chemist or ‘battery scientist,’ but I understand that Li+ ion cells can indeed be heavily damaged without showing any outward traces of such. That is, internal filaments can build up over time, and a damaged cell can be at risk when charging (as you note above, I believe).
That said, there may be associated swelling that tends to indicate such damage, but I’m not sure that’s always true. A cell with a cheaply-made casing would be a combined risk.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Japanese audiences and just Japanese groups of people in general are quite a unique beast, and not really a great reference point for comparison, IMO.
- Comment on The Picard Video 4k 6 days ago:
Did you see the one (above) with the original music synced in? Because I think it helps a lot.
- Comment on The Picard Video 4k 6 days ago:
Would you believe me if I told you that Captain Picard sang and danced the song “You’re Adorable” right on the bridge of the ol’ NCC-1701D?
"That’s impossible!" I hear you saying…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZNs-9Jr5TI - Comment on Is there music I haven't heard because I only speak English? 6 days ago:
Glad you found it useful!
I will say, though– just because the songs are handpicked doesn’t mean that they’re necessarily good songs. However, the genre tags help a lot with that kind of thing.
- Comment on Is there music I haven't heard because I only speak English? 1 week ago:
Get your arses in here, peoples!
!nonenglishmusic@piefed.social - Comment on How do you vet a person asking to be a mod? Unlike others don't want to read their entire post history. How come pretty much no one is asking to be a mod on c/askhistorians? 1 week ago:
I’m someone who can contribute constructively to select historical discussions, but that’s the extent of it. I’m also spread too thin to mod / contribute at yet another community.
So at this point, I wish y’all good fortune in this endeavor, and meanwhile I’m indeed formulating an upcoming Q for you all, as I have time.
Still, I’m wondering if maybe you might throw this out to r/history, r/AskHistorians or other platform (with their permission), asking if anybody’s interested in contributing here. It might be worth a shot, anyway.
- Comment on How do I re-establish peaceful relations with a family of crows? 2 weeks ago:
It isn’t, of course. I’m pretty sure I was aiming for “naturalist” there, but yon ol’ brain fog kicked in.
- Comment on How do I re-establish peaceful relations with a family of crows? 2 weeks ago:
They usually get a chuckle or two, so it’s all good.
- Comment on How do I re-establish peaceful relations with a family of crows? 2 weeks ago:
It’s kind of like sharing a living space with someone– good to put in a little effort to get along and be flexible rather than get off on the wrong foot and potentially antagonise them.
- Comment on How do I re-establish peaceful relations with a family of crows? 2 weeks ago:
Just as an amateur naturist, based on what I’ve read, I’m thinking it would probably be useful for you to be proactive here and make friends with these intelligent animals, not just get along with them.
So I’d recommend doing a little research and following up, which I’m thinking might involve leaving them out some kind of preferred food on a regular basis, that kind of thing.
- Comment on Would the US (if not the entire world) be better if that kid didn't break in to Harambe's enclosure over in the Cincinnati Zoo back in 2016? 2 weeks ago:
To what, exactly?
You’ll rarely find a better link to the total “This Is Fine” arc that covers Harambe. - Comment on Would the US (if not the entire world) be better if that kid didn't break in to Harambe's enclosure over in the Cincinnati Zoo back in 2016? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Is MMA and UFC "somewhat" rigged like boxing was in the Don King era? 3 weeks ago:
There’s all kinds of gamesmanship going on in plain sight. The size of the octagon can be altered to benefit a title fighter’s style, legitimate contenders are passed over all the time for more profitable matchups, the UFC brass can put a lot of pressure on a fighter to compete on a certain card or else they’ll be punished in various ways, and fighters who are continuously committing violations and and/or are just legitimately terrible people can be treated with kid gloves, like Jon Jones. To say nothing of fighters routinely gaming drug tests and so forth.
As a long-time MMA watcher, I do think it’s very rare to see someone taking a clear dive, so I’ll give credit to the UFC for not indulging in that, but otherwise they’re a deeply-disturbing org that routinely rips off their fighters, not compensating them fairly for the accumulated brain damage.
I became a fan almost 20yrs ago, and now I can barely stand the UFC. And Dana White truly is a despicable human being who routinely lies and bullies people around him, such as members of the press.
- Comment on Do you stay on vpn 24/7 or turn it on whenever you need it? 3 weeks ago:
Ah, okay. I guess plenty of podcasts and sponsored stuff do include those.
I’m just using vanilla AdBlock for non-Chrome browser to view mainly shorts. Thanks for explaining.
- Comment on Do you stay on vpn 24/7 or turn it on whenever you need it? 3 weeks ago:
You’re seeing ads on YT? oO
- Comment on So, has age verification really become the new normal? 4 weeks ago:
Yes, but I’m not just talking about porn, and I do think some sites enforce age checks regardless of local or international law.
But… that’s just an impression, and I haven’t done anything remotely like a full test, so far.
(see the sibling comment)
- Comment on So, has age verification really become the new normal? 4 weeks ago:
But don’t you still have to pass various websites’ internal checks in order to access their protected NSFW content?
A VPN far as I know is useful for avoiding regional restrictions when it comes to content viewing.
- Comment on Why do I lose my temper if I'm blocked from a community or by a user? 4 weeks ago:
We all have our basic reactions, s’all good.
- Comment on Why do I lose my temper if I'm blocked from a community or by a user? 4 weeks ago:
Don’t take this the wrong way, but it’s probably arrogance.
How could someone ’not take that the wrong way?’ Mate, that’s a hell of a rude leap right there, and I’d never just assume that shizzle.
Fact is that internet structures (as with all other aspects of civ life) are filled with people inordinately ‘drunk upon their little bit of power,’ who tend to enjoy the trip of using it for their own ends, not strictly because of whatever the place is nominally supposed to be about, and how it’s supposed to be moderated.
That all said, it’s entirely possible that OP has indeed engaged in toxic behavior in such places, just that so far they we don’t know about such?
Anyway, like others here have suggested, here’s a recco to just treat all this stuff as mainly a big bag of us casuals interacting. Very few people are putting much on the line or risking their reputations, so it’s probably good to think of all this as consisting of a healthy proportion of fun, casual bullshit talked amongst a big group of strangers, each from their own situations, with their own motivations & priorities.
Altho, yes– for sure, to me, one of the AWESOME things about our collective group chats are the number of functional experts and fascinating people, contributing to our talk. And me, I’m not fully off of Reddit, but the ‘Reddit experience’ (which now includes The Fediverse) in general has seriously leveled me up in all kinds of ways. (bah, as long as I don’t doom-scroll, godamit…)