Manjushri

@Manjushri@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, Poem for your Sprog. I remember that one. Users like that are one of the few things I miss about Reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where do you typically leave/read reviews⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yelp is shit. I used to be a small business owner and they would call me trying to get me to sign up for a paid account strongly suggesting that they could ‘help’ with bad reviews. To me that means that businesses can just sign up and get bad reviews removed or pushed out of regular view. What good is a review site if the business can hide bad reviews?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What exactly is the reasoning behind Satan ruling Hell?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So either a new second world for unworthy creations to go when they end…

  Hey, cool! It’s The Isle of Misfit Immortals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Health Secretary Kennedy says there's 'not sufficient' proof to show Tylenol causes autism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is unsurprising. Too many people are unaware how easily you can OD on the stuff because they include it in medicines for other symptoms. Have a cold? Take a sinus medicine (Sudafed + Tylenol), and an expectorant (Mucinex + Tylenol), oh and maybe some Tylenol too for the headache.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California startup to demonstrate space weapon on its own dime⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Golden Dome is a pipe dream . It simply not technologically feasible to protect the entire country from incoming missiles.

  You probably have to shoot down missiles during the boost phase, when the warheads are still attached. For SDI, the U.S. was dealing with Soviet liquid-fueled missiles that would boost, or burn, for about four minutes. Well, modern ones burn for less than three—that’s a whole minute that you no longer have. This is actually much worse than it sounds because you’re probably unable to shoot for the first minute or so. Even with modern detectors [that are] much better than [those] we had in the 1980s, you may not see the missile until it rises above the clouds. And once it does, your sensors, your computers, still have to say, “Aha! That is a missile!” And then you have to ensure that you’re not shooting down some ordinary space launch—so the system says, “I see a missile. May I shoot at it, please?” And someone or something has to give the go-ahead. So let’s just say you’ll have a good minute to shoot it down; this means your space-based interceptor has to be right there, ready to go, right? But by the time you’re getting permission to shoot, the satellite that was overhead to do that is now too far away, and so the next satellite has to be coming there. This scales up really, really fast.

  And that’s just one of many issues. I recommend reading the whole piece. It really shows what a joke this whole concept is.

  I suspect that this is really just another way for Trump to hand billions of dollars to his buddies. Just watch. When some company is given a contract for this it’ll be a brand new company that just happens to be owned by former republican operatives or politicians. Needless to say, the company will never be required to produce anything either. They’ll just pay out all those billions to consultants and other newly created companies owned by other GOP operatives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you mean the Gros Michel banana ? It went commercially extinct in the ‘60s due to a fungus. So, yeah, probably not coming back. Sadly, the Cavendish banana is also subject to the same fungus so may also get wiped out at some point in the future.

  But Race 4 (also known as TR4 or fusarium wilt), the new version of Panama disease that started affecting crops in the subtropics in the 1980s and wiping them out, has since moved to infect crops in the Vietnam, Laos, Pakistan, India, Mozambique, and Australia. In 2019, Colombia declared a national disaster when it was discovered there. As it inches closer to Latin America, the likelihood of losing the Cavendish increases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an anti- sleep-paralysis device?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you live someplace where weed is legal, eat a quarter to an eighth of a gummy. Not enough to feel any sort of high, but it really worked well for me for work related stress.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨arborholing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Plants need us animals to turn that oxygen they produce back into carbon dioxide for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh… I’m sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FUCK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had sleep paralysis.I hate that shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FUCK⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I kept one for a while because I had read a book that claimed doing so helped you recognize when you are dreaming. Knowing when you are dreaming lets you have lucid dreams and control the elements of your dream. I succeeded once. For just a very brief time before I lost it and woke up. But yeah, the dreams I thought were interesting were a whole lot less so when I reread them later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was the fall of Rome this stupid?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Money, orgies, and pedoohelia? Why does that sound familiar?

  Embattled Republican leader Matt Gaetz who will become the attorney general if cleared by the Senate, which is unlikely, has now been accused of attending at least 10 sex parties between 2017 and 2018 when he was serving his first term in Congress.

  ….

  Lawyer Joel Leppard representing two women who already testified before the House Ethics Committee said his clients informed the probe panel that drugs were consumed at those sex parties. One of the women claimed to have seen Gaetz having sex with an underage friend up against a games table.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨United States of Autism⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Poe’s Law. Without a clear indicator, a lot of people took it as OP believing this.