Carl

@Carl@anarchist.nexus

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bring it back⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Japan actually made me laugh, simply because the entire country somehow walked all the way around to the other side of the continent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 761 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I very distinctly remember the “just wander and figure the details out later” feeling of adventure from my first time playing. As a noob, I carted most of the starting gear (basically everything that exists on your toolbelt now) just in case I needed it while I was out and about. Because I didn’t have a good idea of the map yet, (and the game map at the time didn’t give you a “You Are Here” marker) so I didn’t want to find myself lost in the middle of nowhere without a tinderbox or fishing net.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube won't let me search for music by musician unless I remove the word "naked" from her name⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A while back I sent my buddy a TikTok with the comment “this fucking killed me” and got an “if you are thinking about hurting yourself, here is the suicide prevention hotline” automated warning in the chat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CAH at it again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  TL;DR it’s six paragraphs just fucking read it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On fire⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Point to where the “No Politics” rule is.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re correct about the first part. The intent was for the devil’s part to be technically correct, but discordant and forgettable.

  The call and response was because they were references to other famous tunes. Fire On The Mountain was an old folk tune. House Of The Rising Sun was an old folk tune. Etc… They were meant to be familiar and melodic snippets that people from his area would recognize, to contrast the devil’s forgettable solo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disc drive needed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw some post the other day by a teenaged girl, saying something along the lines of “y’all are mixing up the Challenger explosion and 9/11. There’s NO WAY teachers actually turned the classroom TVs on to watch the towers fall. You millennials didn’t watch it happen live.”

  Oh girl, we absolutely watched it live.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨greeting a CEO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you see a guillotine and immediately assume it’s for you, maybe you should reconsider some life choices. Because the vast majority of people would see a guillotine and go “oh that’s fucking cool” instead of assuming it was there specifically for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You merely adopted smash bros⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sort of. It’s the Hyrule Castle map in Super Smash Bros. Melee. So the map is based on a Zelda game, but the screenshot isn’t from a Zelda game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just introduced the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act — a bill to guarantee at least two weeks of paid vacation to every full-time worker in America. Over 90 other members of Cong…⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, my employer requires FMLA paperwork for any medical absences longer than 2 days.

  Anyone who has ever had to do FLMA paperwork knows exactly how obscene that is. My doctor’s office charges for FMLA paperwork specifically because it’s such a chore. Which means that if I need to be out sick for longer than a few days, I have to pay my doctor’s office to fill the paperwork out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just introduced the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act — a bill to guarantee at least two weeks of paid vacation to every full-time worker in America. Over 90 other members of Cong…⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d argue we should start taking pages out of the right’s playbook. Start with hilariously unachievable numbers to drag the Overton window towards the left, so that your actual desired number seems more reasonable in comparison.

  Basically, if you only want 14 days, start by listing 28. Then when the final bill that congress is voting on only has 14 days, you’re able to say you reached across the aisle and compromised.

  Conservatives do it all the time. They’ll use conservative talking heads and influencers to float extreme ideas, and begin normalizing them. So that the conservative lawmakers can then start introducing more tame versions of the now-normalized insane ideas. Basically, drag the Overton window towards the right, and now your extreme policies don’t appear as extreme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arizona teas at $1.59… we used to be a proper country.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My local grocery store sells them for 89¢ per can. The gas station in the same parking lot sells them for $2, or two for $3.50.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do posts continuously end up "*Permanently Deleted*" here?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It can also mean that a mod removed the post. There was a dust-up in one of the self hosting communities a while back, when people were complaining about users deleting their “I’m having a weird issue with this setup, any tips” types of posts after getting answers. People were even talking about rules to ban repeat offenders.

  Turns out, a mod was deleting the posts and citing a “must be about self hosting” rule to say that they should be posted in a tech support community instead. But since the mod wasn’t active 24/7, the posts were often deleted after they had already been answered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It probably depends on where you live. If you’re really anywhere outside of the south, it can fit any of the southern states. Mississippi, Texas, Florida, Arkansas, etc… Basically any state that fell prey to the Southern Strategy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie game bundle saving buyers over $1,000 in support of laid off developers has raised over $100,000 in three days⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a few games in here that would be worth the purchase price by themselves. All together, it’s a really solid bundle. Reminds me of when Humble used to actually have good bundles…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ciao⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A user who shows up every time her mental health takes a dive. She inevitably ends up shitposting about whatever her next horny escapade is going to be, or what she just did. The stories are often fairly wild, so lots of users tend to debate about the veracity of the posts. She apparently gets around fairly well. Lots of “I’m about to take three dicks in the middle of the woods” type of posts. And then she’ll delete her account when she gets her mental health in check. Then she comes back a few weeks later when she gets bored, and the entire cycle repeats.

  She’s a sort of resident novelty, like the old Unidan, Gallowboob, Shitty_Watercolour, etc that were staples on Reddit at one time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ciao⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m fully convinced that my user tags are some sort of Violet death-noter. Every single time I finally give her a user tag to be able to recognize her new account, she deletes her account like a day later.

  I tagged her like two days ago. And then yesterday she posted about deleting her account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's one cliche "Moral of the story" in media that you hate more than anything else?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally this:
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there anything I can do about the humming of an LED?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My housemate didn’t believe that his TV whistled. It was so loud I could hear it inside my car as I was pulling into the driveway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The perfect date⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Beat me to it, except I’d do yyyy-mm-dd because some OSes throw fits about having slashes in file names. Way better than the “Group Project-final FINAL v3 PAUL USE THIS ONE.file” versioning system that people seem to use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Spoiler 👁️⃤⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or he just didn’t pay attention in class when it was taught. A lot of students treat history as irrelevant. It doesn’t help that a lot of public school history teachers are the equivalent of a dad watching World War 2 documentaries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon thought it would be a good idea to not include subtitles in a film made entirely with sign language.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Second Screen Viewing, yeah. Basically, Netflix is dumbing down their scripts so people can understand the plot even when it’s just playing on their second screen while they do other stuff. Apparently our attention spans have shrunk so much that people can’t even be expected to pay attention to the movies they put on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shot in the dark here, but consider L-methylfolate supplements. It’s the methylated form of folic acid. Your symptoms line up extremely well with someone who is suffering from non-methylated folic acid, due to a mutation on the MTHFR gene.

  Basically, your body can’t use folic acid as-is. It needs to methylate it with an enzyme (turning it into L-methylfolate) before it becomes biologically available. And there is a gene mutation that causes you to stop producing that enzyme, the same way you become lactose intolerant when you stop producing the enzyme to break down lactose. It usually happens in your late 20’s or early 30’s, so you’re right in expected timeframe for it to happen.

  It’s not on most doctors’ radars, and testing folic acid levels on a blood test won’t help, because you probably have plenty of folic acid. Your cells simply can’t access it. So it tends to fly under the radar.

  The gene mutation is especially common in people who are AFAB, autistic, or Irish. I know because my wife is all three, and has the mutation. You can buy supplements on Amazon. Most people with the mutation take about 15mg of L-methylfolate per day, but suggest starting with about half that in the morning. It will likely keep you awake (and maybe give you a headache, oddly enough) at first, so start with just taking it in the morning, then once you’re used to it you can take a second one with dinner. Then you can simply move up to taking the full 15mg in the morning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you people read books?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of my reading is done via audiobooks these days, simply because I can listen while doing other tasks. I can wash the dishes, vacuum the house, etc, and those things would normally prevent me from reading. But with audiobooks, that isn’t a concern. Once I started listening to audiobooks, my annual book count went from ~12 to +60. Simply because I don’t have enough time to dedicate just to sitting in one spot staring at pages.

  For visual reading, I tend to use my kobo. I got particularly lazy about bed-reading though. I got a gooseneck mount. It attaches to my headboard, and holds my kobo wherever I want. Combine that with a Bluetooth page-turn remote, and I can comfortably lay in bed and read without even needing to keep my hands on the ereader. In terms of comfort, the clip and remote are the two single greatest investments I ever made, and they fundamentally changed the way I think about reading in bed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Little blessings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Cashless” as in “the park and vendors don’t accept cash”. Meaning if someone wants to use cash, they need to use an ATM to deposit their funds onto a card. Pretty common these days in arcades too. You deposit funds onto a play card.

  The point is that instead of maintaining cash for dozens/hundreds of machines, the company is able to consolidate all of their cash into two or three machines. So now the maintenance costs are drastically lowered, as you’re not constantly emptying and repairing dozens of cash handling mechanisms. In comparison, a card reader is extremely simple and will work nearly indefinitely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And Miss The Opportunity To Tap That Ass?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, The Hobbit was primarily written to be a children’s bedtime story. The fact that adults latched onto it was sort of an accident. Tolkien was primarily a *linguist*, not a *writer*. He developed several fake languages, and wanted an excuse to use them. So he did a ton of world building, just to have a reason to write song lyrics in elvish and dwarven.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please critique this in terms of its raising awareness of the less aware. It's old news to us, but will it help people wake up a little?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This would be better as a series of posters. It’s too busy for one poster, and people won’t actually read anything. Create a punchy logo to put on all of the posters. This will help create consistency and grab attention. But then move the right column to a separate poster, and reduce the word count in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't politicians during a hearing let the person they are questioning actually answer questions and speak?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also worth noting that each congressperson only gets a certain amount of time to ask their questions, otherwise hearings could stretch pretty much indefinitely. So a hostile witness can run the clock out by rambling, while avoiding answering the questions they don’t want to answer. That’s why “reclaiming my time” is such a common thing to hear in these hearings: the congressperson is saying “they’re rambling instead of answering the question I asked, so I’m pausing my timer and reclaiming the wasted time they spent rambling.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You may be dealing with vaginismus, which is a condition where the vaginal muscles involuntarily tense up in anticipation of insertion. It can make sex (or any other kinds of insertion, like tampons or pelvic exams) extremely painful, because you’re stretching the tensed muscles the same way a muscle cramp would.

  It’s largely considered a psychological condition, because it is typically based on anxiety surrounding the insertion. And that anxiety can quickly become self-perpetuating, as pain from insertion will likely cause future anxiety. Therapy (and practice) can help alleviate that anxiety, which can alleviate the tensed muscles, which alleviates the pain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Stephen Colbert had The Colbert Report did the right ever realize he was doing a parody of them?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally Poe’s Law in action, but applied to real life where the sarcasm is extremely apparent.