BanMe

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plant Protection⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve spoken to the mushrooms about this several times, they get us all in the end anyway so they think it’s funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨grindr dump (in post body)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The world lost untold weirdness when Craigslist took down their personals section, cause that’s where my down dirty girlfriends were getting the dick back in the day. You could go on and have your pick of dozens of guys in an hour. Generally they were real guys. Most were awful but they found some diamonds in the rough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨exam cheating⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep I work in a law school and AI is actually being adopted very quickly, we have courses on it. But no one intelligent is offloading their thinking to it, because exams are serious business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  BRETTS_NISSAN has just sent you an unsolicited dick pic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sushi delivery⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Had a persian friend who would make tahdig all during Covid and I definitely ate more than I needed to.

  And we have places here that serve fried sushi rolls, they are good, but no fried stuff after 40.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My collection is growing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Between the size of the drill and the constant adjusting of torque I really prefer hand tools here. You can feel when the screws and cams are in place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My collection is growing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No no no. Throw that away, first thing you do. Have a driver set with every size Allen key, you insert bit into a screwdriver handle and it ratchets. No more bloody knuckles, or pulling it out every turn because your key hits another part. Makes furniture go together so much faster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Babadook enjoys some wine⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also if you’re hosting a party just assume it’ll happen because people have multiple parties and/or going out to the club to get laid, they aren’t going to come drink wine and then go home and get into costume…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  June beetles will get on your screens and vibrate, making a creepy noise people sometimes think is a cicada.

  We have mockingbirds that, when they become sexually mature, scream in atonal bleats all night long. You can’t chase them off, they’re in the trees and roofs. So you just lie awake, imagining a drone that could automatically fly around and shoot them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a minor to moderate amount of tomfoolery in construction⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Handles like 25x as much traffic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨card game shop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. I developed eczema and soap/chemicals are not my friend, I will forgo deodorant in the winter and use it lightly during the summer - you’d be surprised how little you really need - but I am checking with people about it regularly. I had a friend tell me I smelled like “outside” which made me realize the crystal deodorant wasn’t working right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LEARN YOU PIECE OF SHIT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some time ago I created an autocorrect to change (the d word) into “fuck” which is very problematic when the subject of our fowl friends comes up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well. Artificial flavoring is typically identifying 1 or 2 compounds that occur within a fruit, whereas the fruit has dozens of these compounds. Imagine what artificial apple flavoring is to green apples - that’s what Runts is to the Gros banana.

  You can still get the Gros in some places but it’s not grown at scale, has to be isolated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manic Stew⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dissociation Twizzlers which is definitely on the list of drag names now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking math...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes and no, other day I was trying to figure out 17% of a number like 65, and I’m like “Oh it’s just 65% of 17!” Which really wasn’t helpful.

  It works with small numbers on one side tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Sydney Opera House is famous for having an 8-lane suspension bridge connect directly to its mezzanine level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discuss⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, put that bumper back on, bit of clay bar, it’s as good as new.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh god oh fuck⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s bees all the way down

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I c it!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Homer Simpson shooting TV to turn it off.gif

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just reach out⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was 10 years ago so “back in those days” would actually work better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨soda⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Office workers are off so service industry jobs are fully staffed. I’ve never seen a gas station closed for labor day.