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- Comment on 23 hours ago:
The Sydney Opera House is famous for having an 8-lane suspension bridge connect directly to its mezzanine level.
- Comment on Discuss 1 day ago:
A bar of Hershey’s, you can really taste the butyric acid that forms during their unique process. In a Reece’s cup, the high sugar content of the filling (it’s not really even peanut butter) overpowers it. I actually like Reece’s but Hershey’s is a last resort chocolate.
- Comment on FUCK 1 day ago:
A couple years of working on it. Lots of “intention” work, going to bed with the idea that you’ll be lucid this time. Find things in your dreams that ONLY happen in dreams, use these as cues. The more you deepen these thoughts, the more likely you are to, one day, go “Oh I’m dreaming!”
The first time lasts maybe 1-2 seconds before you forget you’re dreaming again. But each time you do it, it can get longer and longer, and then you can try things, like flying or fantasy sex.
- Comment on FUCK 1 day ago:
You can learn to lucid dream. Most everyone I assume. Once you do, you can establish different places or scenes where you play things out regularly, and then you start being able to remember things a bit better, because it’s like you actually went on a visit to this place, there’s something to keep jogging the memory onward to “what I was doing last night.” I can tell you what my past few years of dreams have been like as they gradually shifted and changed, but that’d be very boring.
Even with lucid dreaming, there is an element of randomness, and a big part of that is “today’s consolidated memories” so expect those things to come up as plotlines, sometimes in very amusing ways.
These days I don’t take control but I do still have the places, so it’s interesting seeing my subconscious resolve things in these places. Lot more other people in my dreams now, reflective of my improved mental health and social connectedness.
- Comment on Caw caw 2 days ago:
If you let your toenails go past a point, they’re just going to stay that way, your toe adapts to the shape and it’s never going to look like a young person’s toe. Hell my 2nd toenail is shaped like a tent for some goddamn reason. On both feet. Whatever. The days of foot fetishists coming at me are over 😂
- Comment on A roundabout 2 days ago:
My state is installing them everywhere despite people not knowing how to drive (only state in the union without compulsory driver’s ed). So it’s very common to enter a roundabout and have another car go the wrong way, because they wanted to go left.
I just sit with my horn depressed until they back up. Sometimes it takes a while.
- Comment on A roundabout 2 days ago:
Eh, put that bumper back on, bit of clay bar, it’s as good as new.
- Comment on Oh god oh fuck 4 days ago:
You’re supposed to list the thing that’s killing you the most first, it’s kind of a rule. But I suppose this guy thinks he’s too good for that too.
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 4 days ago:
Spotify’s personalized stations kept me hooked for years but it was surprising how fast I got used to creating stations based on individual songs or artists in Apple Music, and eventually I do think I’m go back to having a music collection again, but it’s going to take time out of my week to collect and organize music again… in my 40s time is no easy feat
- Comment on wax on 6 days ago:
It’s bees all the way down
- Comment on I c it! 6 days ago:
You can make a hole with your fingers and see the patterns of very bright lights above you, stadium lights etc. It’s just a vertical camera obscura. I remember the 90s solar partial eclipse really well because I was riding home from school, the leaves and even the spokes on my bike projected moons everywhere, it was completely magical.
- Comment on Sorry, guys, it's just not happening 1 week ago:
So I’m getting our nonprofit ready for Pride, which is in October here.
One of my board member’s sister apparently makes the best “cream pies” ever, and they wanted to know if we could fundraise on them.
Of course we can’t sell them without a food handling license, so we’d have to give them away.
Which is how “Queer Men Give Out Free Creampies to The First 50 People” came to be.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 1 week ago:
Homer Simpson shooting TV to turn it off.gif
- Comment on Just reach out 1 week ago:
It was 10 years ago so “back in those days” would actually work better.
- Comment on soda 1 week ago:
Office workers are off so service industry jobs are fully staffed. I’ve never seen a gas station closed for labor day.
- Comment on This should be true 2 weeks ago:
It’s fun that instead of figuring our shit out and funding the government together, we just developed regulations around shutdowns.
- Comment on THEY'RE EVOLVING 2 weeks ago:
Or even grosser melt them with a wet rag :(
- Comment on THEY'RE EVOLVING 2 weeks ago:
Full of spiders.
I hate cleaning these up because they’re fucking spider piñatas. Yeah the spiders are dead by then, but just, fucking eww.
So there are 2 on my porch that desperately need to be cleaned up, anyone?
- Comment on What's your test for people? 2 weeks ago:
We have a group that can be a dozen people easily, but sometimes it’s like a clown car of people wandering in after we sit down, so they have to drag more tables and more tables in, reorder the tickets, etc. Last time 16.
- Comment on What's your test for people? 2 weeks ago:
It’s fun to have a friend who’s been a waiter for 30 years, he just openly narrates the service and how good/bad they’re doing (usually “look at how hard they have to scramble because you assholes came in late”)
- Comment on They're coming. 2 weeks ago:
I moved to Armadillo territory 10 years ago and sadly I’ve never seen one alive, only roadkill confirming their presence. The tarantula are the same way. We’re just not in the places they frolic most of the time, and if we are, they hide.
- Comment on This Plastic Mr. Fantastic 2 weeks ago:
It’s because we allow property and the homes that sit on it to be a speculative market. We encourage it. The only way for property values to be high, well, it’s a supply and demand thing. If you glut the market with anything, you drive prices down. And people whose entire retirement is built on that won’t be having it, let alone the conglomerate owners…
China is trying to steer into the opposite with laws against it. Not sure how well that’s working, but they can acknowledge the issue at least.
- Comment on Jeebuz Rode A Velocirapture 3 weeks ago:
So chickens are out of the question
- Comment on Say it slowly. 3 weeks ago:
Also “I never said he licked my asshole” can mean I implied it heavily.
- Comment on bred 3 weeks ago:
Why did I watch it all the way through tho
And I had to watch an ad for ketamine before it, this timeline is weird.
- Comment on Hotdog, egg, and pickle bunt aspic 3 weeks ago:
Ooooh you have to do a double pour to get that angle, and remember to use an old throwaway gun if you’re going to do a gun aspic, it’s a 50/50 chance it’ll ever fire right again. You can reuse the gun in another aspic tho
- Comment on What even is money at this point 3 weeks ago:
People keep making the point that in the worst of the depression, they were giving away tableware to just get people in the stores.
The CEO of McDonalds is currently lobbying the White House to raise the minimum wage. Saying there’s a “two track economy” and point out stratification. Curious.
They’re noticing they squeezed us too hard, not just as consumers but as a class. To the point where it’s eating their sales now. So they’ll adjust it just high enough that we keep bleeding for them.
Breadcrumbs.
- Comment on *A clean colon is like driving on a country road on a sunny day...* 3 weeks ago:
My elderly neighbor doesn’t exactly follow rules. She had a colonoscopy earlier this year. They sent her home because she “wasn’t clean.” She had to repeat the process later, and I can’t imagine she was a Sunny Country Road, but they at least completed the exam that time. I am still mortified for her, my first colonoscopy was last year, I spent a full day on the toilet prepping. Nearly slept in the bathtub.
- Comment on NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE 3 weeks ago:
I have yet to find a way to explain to my dog that he must not veer off the sidewalk lest his paws get burnt.
I love the assumption there though
- Comment on NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE 3 weeks ago:
Ugh we have people doing that in our neighborhood and it’s godawful. I think they think they’re “xeriscaping” but this is Arkansas and the incredibly hot sun makes those rocks too hot to touch or stand on (for my doggo), kills the plants that are planted near it, etc. But they aren’t going to admit their mistake and undo it.