blackbrook
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- Comment on lemmy irl 2 days ago:
At first glance I thought that was a giant plate of pancakes with a giant pat of butter on it.
- Comment on Eep 2 days ago:
FWIW masking is also associated with ADHD.
- Comment on How to avoid bird droppings while birdwatching 2 days ago:
Man, I don’t know where he got it, but that it requires a tripod to smoke, is pretty impressive.
- Comment on Utopia 6 days ago:
Think outside the baahhhhx!
- Comment on I was there... 1 week ago:
Ditto in US. It was at least an opt out thing and referred to as getting an “unlisted number”, I can’t recall if there was a charge to do it.
- Comment on I was there... 1 week ago:
I can’t speak for others, and I’m not sure I ever make that particular typo (espec swipe typing on phone), but I’ve noticed that I sometimes make typos that don’t particularly make sense to me… I’ll write a similar word that I would never actually confuse with the word I wanted…is not a homophone, is not a letter adjacency typo. I think the brain just works differently than we expect sometimes…
- Comment on Well, bye 1 week ago:
Or they’ve decided to go to bed and don’t want to start a conversion.
Or they are like me and past a certain time, they just don’t want to have any social interaction, no matter with who.
Back in the day, pre-internet and texting, a lot of people used to have the idea that it is rude to call somebody after some particular time in the evening. Personally I’d be down with this convention relating to ALL forms of communication.
- Comment on Every time! 1 week ago:
Yeah I get what you said. Like you, I rarely reboot my Linux machines. I was agreeing with you in not getting the meme.
- Comment on Okay now what if I show you this image and tell you it's an actual conversation between me and my brother? 2 weeks ago:
Depends how fast you shower and how low flow your showerhead but a shower can easily use more water then a bath.
- Comment on Every time! 2 weeks ago:
I (another Linux user) also don’t get this.
- Comment on Dumbasses 2 weeks ago:
“Opposite” and “different” are not the same thing.
- Comment on Does smelling your food while you cook it make it taste bland? 3 weeks ago:
I have never experienced this as a problem. However one does learn to compensate for differences between the eating experience and the tasting-while-cooking experience.
For example, when it comes to heat (chili heat), I’m cautious, knowing that what is tolerable for a taste, may not be tolerable for a whole meal since the heat tends to build as your eat. I also adjust for my audience’s taste, for example if I think they can take less heat then I can, or like things less salty.
- Comment on Omg 3 weeks ago:
It can only be destroyed by throwing it into the heart of Mount Doom. Or other volcano.
- Comment on WAT DA 3 weeks ago:
That each bigger bear is also standing forward of the smaller ones and with it’s hind legs hidden behind them exaggerates how much bigger they are.
- Comment on How about the digestive system? 4 weeks ago:
Quite true. It is also important to know the limits of the precision you are going to be getting.
- Comment on How about the digestive system? 4 weeks ago:
You seem to not be getting that words can have multiple (even if related) meanings. When some science or other discipline takes a common word and defines it really precisely for their purposes, that doesn’t change the definition of the common word for all usages and mandate that all lay people use it only with that discipline’s more precise definition.
- Comment on How about the digestive system? 4 weeks ago:
But it’s a good definition if you are, say, putting a thing into each indentation. That’s why the two definitions are different.
- Comment on Yes I know it doesn't work like that 4 weeks ago:
No you make the whole drill out of potatoes, duh!
- Comment on Natural Insecticides 5 weeks ago:
As I do more reading though, I find warnings that many dish detergents will harm plants. Some people do spot tests, but buying a commercial insecticidal soap is safest. I guess I’ve been lucky, maybe because I use a crunchy natural dish detergent that is pretty mild.
- Comment on Natural Insecticides 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know what you consider regular soap, but my understanding is that liquid soaps typically have potassium, bar soaps may use either. But I was using the term pretty loosely, people often make homemade insecticidal ‘soap’ with dish detergent which isn’t technically soap at all. Any surfactant tends to kill insects by compromising the waxy coating that keeps them from drying out.
- Comment on Natural Insecticides 5 weeks ago:
You can just make a simple soap solution to spray them with. Look up home made insecticidal soap.
- Comment on Contadont deny it. 5 weeks ago:
So someone added a “t” and switched in a mammal body and head? I feel like I’m still missing something…
- Comment on Meanwhile Ball 1 month ago:
Yeah maybe. Or maybe it’s all a Freemason conspiracy, including the Wikipedia page!
- Comment on Meanwhile Ball 1 month ago:
Well, plastic lined cans, though i’m not sure that affects the thermal properties significantly. And beer coozies exist for a reason.
- Comment on 1.2 Å 1 month ago:
I’m taking a moment to appreciate it right now.
- Comment on Gravity! 1 month ago:
Ha! I am no different than she wrt things like my neighbors cars!
It frequently amazes me what people don’t absorb or remember, like whole sentences of a 4 sentence email or text message. I’m not under any illusion that I am exempt from this, but what we see and others miss is of course more apparent to us.
- Comment on Gravity! 1 month ago:
This is really fascinating to me. Do you mind my asking, with no intended disrespect, how intelligent your wife is? And did she have any kind of unusually isolated situation for much of her life?
- Comment on Oechslegrad 2 months ago:
45 degrees in time is about 1:08
- Comment on botanical latin 2 months ago:
They are all pronounced ‘throatwobbler mangrove’.
- Comment on fragile masculinity 2 months ago:
Just grow an unkempt beard and wear overalls.