wonderingwanderer
@wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
Wherever I wander I wonder whether I’ll ever find a place to call home…
- Comment on I choose hating your job in unconventional ways. 10 hours ago:
That’s the price if you buy five or more…
One to four jars is 8.49 each…
- Comment on Weird... 12 hours ago:
I agree that everyone should be capable and willing (and allowed) to defend themselves. As someone who was bullied my whole life, and often got in more trouble for defending myself than I ever saw my bullies get in, that’s a particular pain point for me.
But let’s not kid ourselves. Even if it’s in self-defense, the media would paint it as “radical left psycho-terrorist acting violent,” so it should only be considered as a last resort, back-against-the-wall, do-or-die sort of action.
- Comment on 12 hours ago:
I spent days in my youth contemplating how I would evade that thing.
Ultimately, I determined that my best bet was to fly halfway around the world and have sex with a prostitute. Then fly back home.
The thing would start by following me around the world, which would take a long time for it to catch up. But that just gives me enough time to grow complacent and let my guard down.
But by having sex with a sex worker, not only do I get the thing off my back, allowing me to travel back home, but the sex worker would also have sex with other customers, meaning the thing would go after them, or anyone that the other customer has sex with before it reaches them. And even if it managed to get everyone all the way back up that chain, chances are in that time the sex worker would have sex with someone else and the process would start anew. Especially if it’s in a sex tourism location, where clients come and go from around the world.
Based on the time it takes for that thing to go to and from all the various locations, it think it’s safe enough to let my guard down and forget about it and just hope that it never comes back to me. At least as long as that sex worker lives.
- Comment on 12 hours ago:
Proxima Centauri is only a handful of lightyears away, and it has planets in inhabitable zones.
Doesn’t mean there is life there, but it’s promising. A space probe sent there, once it arrives, could still fathomably send signals back to earth that could be conceivably used by human researchers.
Of course, if fusion-based acceleration becomes feasible in the next few decades, it would arrive long before any probe we try sending now. So there’s the trade-off…
- Comment on 12 hours ago:
This feels like the montage at the end of the film that showcases all of life’s beauty that we took for granted in one final feel-good moment as the earth proceeds to get ripped apart and destroyed by completely avoidable and human-originated causes…
- Comment on Weird... 13 hours ago:
When right-wingers go postal, they get labeled by the media as lefties and we catch all the flack. Our only defense is the truth, that those killers were right-wingers.
When left-wingers go postal, it gets blown up on the media and generalized as the entire left and reflects poorly on left-wing causes as a whole.
It’s lose-lose, but I don’t mind letting the right-wing tear itself apart while right-wing extremists do the dirty work of taking out their rival right-wingers.
It’s an election year. Our best out is a decisive electoral victory, which is looking likely as long as there’s no fuckery behind the scenes (yes, I know that’s a big if). Let’s not tarnish the image of the opposition as long as that’s still a chance. Too much is at stake to lose the advantage in the court of public opinion.
If they rig or cancel the election, then yes that will be the final trigger that activates the third and fifth sentences of the Declaration of Independence. But if we lose the election because we had poor trigger discipline and didn’t have the patience to wait for a more advantageous position, then that’s on us…
- Comment on Weird... 13 hours ago:
Who?
- Comment on Weird... 13 hours ago:
Isn’t it ironic?
- Comment on Anon Promotes Shrimp Farming 1 day ago:
Nice loaches
- Comment on Anon Promotes Shrimp Farming 1 day ago:
My 75 gallon freshwater tank requires very little in filter cleaning and water changes thanks to a good cleanup crew, lots of surface area for bacteria, deep-ish substrate, and lots of plants.
(Emphasis added).
Yes, deeper substrates can support more beneficial bacteria, but without those plants it wouldn’t be enough to replace frequent water changes. That’s kind of the whole point. And the wallsted method does include deeper substrates than usual.
Also, you don’t want your substrate to be too deep, because it can cause anaerobic bacteria to bloom, and those aren’t the kind you want.
That sump filled with chaeto sounds like a cool setup though, especially with the inverted day/night cycle
- Comment on If you're fond of restoring 30-year-old PCs, but then you see some old PC parts being obliterated by scrappers just to get small pitiful pinches of gold. 1 day ago:
There’s gold in them thar boards
- Comment on Anon Promotes Shrimp Farming 1 day ago:
Snails can eat leftover food waste so it doesn’t decompose in the water, but they still excrete waste of their own so it doesn’t completely eliminate ammonia. Filter feeders can help prevent algal blooms, but many have precise requirements that aren’t compatible with most tank set ups.
There is something called the wallsted method though, and the concept is to use a planted tank with low bioload and enough plants to consume the ammonia that’s produced. It doesn’t work for every setup though, it’s more of a niche thing that requires a bit of planning to pull off
- Comment on Replication crisis, my arse 2 days ago:
I don’t need humor, I just need unspoiled tuna.
- Comment on Replication crisis, my arse 2 days ago:
I’ll eat tuna from somewhere that doesn’t give me bad tuna…
- Comment on Replication crisis, my arse 2 days ago:
Okay, but they can focus on experiments designed to determine whether gravity is caused by quantum mechanics or relativity or something else. They don’t need to drop bricks on their heads just to prove newtonian physics…
- Comment on Replication crisis, my arse 2 days ago:
Good science starts from the body of evidence we already know, creates a plausible hypothesis, and then tests that hypothesis to see whether it can be disproven.
We don’t say “hey, maybe gravity isn’t real so to be unbiased I need to assume it’s not and test every other possibility before determining what keeps making these bricks fall on my head every time I throw them up in the air”
No need to reinvent the wheel for every experiment.
- Comment on Replication crisis, my arse 2 days ago:
You mean the tuna and the house sauce weren’t the two variables this guy tried isolating first?
He literally tried removing rice and all the vegetables before thinking “hmm, maybe it’s the tuna or the sauce.”
What a loon. He deserves every one of those awful shits.
- Comment on oh ok 4 days ago:
To be fair, if someone’s using a chatbot on trivia night, they deserve to get wrong answers…
- Comment on Am I too late? 5 days ago:
I’m pretty sure that’s Johnny English, and the youtube title is wrong
- Comment on Wonder what their cousins liked to snack on... 6 days ago:
That’s either a really big banana or a really small alligator…
- Comment on Am I too late? 6 days ago:
I think that was Johnny English…
- Comment on wir suchen dich‼️‼️🗣️📢📢 1 week ago:
That’s not a valid comparison at all, and it’s not pedantic to point that out no matter how preemptively you claim that it is.
Bilapial ≠ lapiodental! It’s not that hard to understand.
The entire similarity between K and the German Ch is based on them both being velar (and unvoiced). You’re crafting a strawman by focusing on the “fricative and plosive” manner while ignoring that the sound is made at the same place.
S and T are almost a better comparison because they’re both technically alveolar, but that ignores the fact that S has a dental component. Try making a T sound and then an S sound without moving your teeth. It won’t work.
- Comment on wir suchen dich‼️‼️🗣️📢📢 1 week ago:
Well it is close, though. A velar fricative versus a velar plosive. Both unvoiced.
- Comment on Coffee ☕ 1 week ago:
Learning about computer science and finding all the subtle jokes embedded in the naming conventions is peak. These nerds had humor!
- Comment on Am I too late? 1 week ago:
It’s like that scene from Mr. Bean. Or was it Johnny English?
- Comment on RuneScape's monthly membership now costs as much as a World of Warcraft subscription as Jagex announces its second price hike in less than 2 years 1 week ago:
200 hours was in reference to the main storyline.
There are also side quests, guild quests for dozens of different skills, and all sorts of other activities beyond questing. Plus several expansions. You really won’t ever run out of things to do in FFXIV…
- Comment on RuneScape's monthly membership now costs as much as a World of Warcraft subscription as Jagex announces its second price hike in less than 2 years 1 week ago:
Lets federate it (if it hasn’t already been done)
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 1 week ago:
Jensen Huang has all the GPUs, he can probably play games where each character has its own dedicated GPU and every atom and molecule of the environment is rendered in real time with a hyper-realistic physics engine, with built-in AI that plays for you so that even your idle pastimes are automated giving you more time to WORK AND PRODUCE VALUE FOR THE OWNER-CASTE.
“This game only needs two GPUs to run, what’s the problem?”
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 1 week ago:
“The consumers don’t know what they want. I, the CEO, know what the consumers want. And the consumers want to give me money!”
- Comment on Can't get better than this 2 weeks ago:
A rug would really tie the whole room together