southsamurai
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- Comment on Anon listens to the radio 4 hours ago:
Dammit!
Anon is totally gay, but the realness present in this text has broken my brain.
Also, that song is still fucking awesome.
- Comment on Anon's family tries to rein in grandma 11 hours ago:
It doesn’t have to be a 1:1 equivalency
- Comment on Anon's family tries to rein in grandma 21 hours ago:
It absolutely works because it’s about holding onto an emotion, not a specific expression of that
- Comment on What is the "dip"? 1 day ago:
It really was a great era for CG.
- Comment on Very water-resistant chalk for asphalt? 1 day ago:
The problem is that to get the look of chalk, you have to use something that applies at least close to the same, and nothing that would be waterfast or similarly durable isn’t going to apply the same. Like pastels, they’re basically in between chalk and crayon in the way they transfer to a surface, but you can tell at a glance that it isn’t the same effect. The livers lines look more structured, fill in the valleys of something like cement or concrete more than chalk. And asphalt isn’t much different.
So you have a few choices. First is to go with chalk and a fixative. If you’re going for something artistic, that’s your best choice. It won’t last forever, but it’ll look like chalk while it lasts.
Second is to use grease markers. They’ll still smear, but should last through rain at least. It won’t look like chalk, but it’ll still have a similar enough vibe to maybe carry it off. You’ll have a limited palette unless you make your own, but you can get similar effects with something like cray-pas. It’ll be expensive as fuck though with pastels and such, that stuff isn’t meant for big projects.
Then there’s temporary marking paints. Like the guys that mark power lines use. Won’t last forever, but it’ll take some wear before flaking off the surface. They won’t look like chalk at all, but if you’re doing something more like hopscotch lines, it’d be a better pick imo.
It really comes down to your project. Like, I used to do fairly frequent sidewalk art on my own sidewalks with neighborhood kids. They’d do their thing, I’d do something a bit more complex. There’s sidewalk chalks that will hold up being walked on lightly for a few days as long as it doesn’t rain. Better than your typical chalk you’d use on paper or a chalkboard at least. Crayola was actually pretty reliable in that regard, but the colors were all primary or pastel; so you’d have to pick up anything else as regular artist’s chalk, which is a thing at most hobby and art supply stores.
But if I wanted a section to last longer for some reason, I’d usually make my own parafin or beeswax blocks. A little cheap pigment (like tempera powder as one example), some heat and molds, you have a slightly crumbly chunk of color that won’t get rinsed away in the first rain. It’ll melt and make a mess in the summer though, so you won’t want it where you’ll walk on it much.
Tempera paint actually does decent for very temporary but more wear resistant sidewalk art. Once dry, people can walk over it a little without it being wrecked. Rain makes it run though.
Damn, I just realized I miss the fuck out of those days. Come home from work, and there’s a gang of kids waiting. Break out the boxes of chalk, and everyone is just making happy pictures all over the porch, the sidewalk, even the street if there were other adults to run interference with traffic. There usually were, but not always. Rule was that if there weren’t two adults that could manage traffic, the street was off limits.
Since it kinda turned into a thing, there were days when not only my house, but houses all up and down the street would have suns and houses and stick figures under trees all over the driveways and such.
Anyway, old man memories aside, it depends on what you’re doing.
- Comment on In languages which use complex written characters (such as Chinese's logographs), is there an equivalent to English's "text speak" shorthand? 1 day ago:
Damn, I don’t have an answer, but that’s a fucking great question. I had just assumed it would be the case, but never thought to ask about it.
- Comment on Anon's family tries to rein in grandma 1 day ago:
I mean, back in the day, Japan had gone batshit, so someone of that era holding onto a bit of hate isn’t that unusual, or even a sign of anything else.
It’s like any time when a country goes batshit; people are going to hate that country for the rest of their lives, and it may apply to the people of that country too.
You think Ukrainians are going to be all lovey dovey about Russians any time soon? Iranians about the US or Israel? Palestinians about Israel?
No, those people are going to be raging for the rest of their lives. Maybe only inside, and not every person, but if there aren’t people despising Israelis for the next fifty years, it would be a miracle. Fuck, there’s people in countries that haven’t been attacked by them that have turned from neutral or supportive of Israel into having a mad-on against the country.
Same with Russia, the US, and anyone else currently playing stupid fuck-fuck games with people’s lives. The fuck do you expect? Humans hold onto anger. It’s survival trait. “Those motherfuckers” fucked with you once, they’ll do it again. And they will, because humans are some fucked up monkeys. We tend to fuck with other people a lot. So holding a grudge ain’t exactly an irrational thing.
Don’t think you hold any?
Here’s a test: the only good nazi is a dead nazi. If you don’t agree, then maybe you don’t actually hold any historical grudges. Maybe you didn’t pick it up from the people that saw that shit in real time. But most of those people are dead now, and the world hasn’t forgotten that nazis suck.
My ass holds that grudge. Can’t pretend otherwise. Then again, I haven’t forgotten that nazis weren’t all german either. Those fucking vermin infested all kinds of places even before the war.
You think in fifty years any surviving Palestinians’ kids and grandkids will be all “oh, grandma, you don’t have to say bad things about Israelis”. Nah. Hell no. The only reason that the fake and gay people around the fake and gay granny in the text are objecting is because the Japanese got nuked and lost the war. If they’d nuked San Francisco, you really think you wouldn’t occasionally at least think about slurs towards Japanese people? Maybe not. I doubt it, but it would be surprising. There’s certainly people that hate the US for dropping those bombs, and we dropped them on the country that attacked us first.
Yeah, we gotta work to end bigotry in all its guises. But don’t pretend that the anger and hate behind some of it isn’t understandable, even if it isn’t acceptable.
- Comment on is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal 1 day ago:
Critique and analysis of a study or experiment is the default. It isn’t a religion; science thrives on repeat analysis.
- Comment on Perfect Anatomy 1 day ago:
Snanussy
- Comment on Which ia better etiquette? 2 days ago:
Understand that most meals requiring this kind of etiquette tend to not have finger foods on the same plate as loose veggies or rice. So you’re talking about a really niche thing.
I was taught that, other than bread, no food should be held in the hand while eating other food, and bread should only be used in that way with specific dishes, not as a general thing.
So, first option should be another utensil. That’s what they’re there for. It’s unusual that you would have only one.
If that isn’t present, then you would use another piece of food. You would ideally use a dry food, like toast or bread, but a breaded piece of meat served as a finger food would be acceptable if the dish is served without other utensils. It would be weird, but not unheard of.
However, you shouldn’t finger the food at all. If the food isn’t a finger food itself, and you’ve been provided a utensil, you would normally expect to just leave what can’t be scooped up with said utensil.
All of that said, the best etiquette advice possible is: when in doubt, slow down and watch your host. There’s really no situation outside in common etiquette where eating slowly is a bad thing. And, doing as one’s host is doing is equally universally acceptable. So chew well, placing your utensils down on the plate and engage with the other people. Dinner parties of any significant scope are not about eating as the primary goal. The dinner is the setting for social interactions. So, unless the host or most of the table are just shoveling it in, you have time to estimate the accepted behavior. And, if they’re shoveling it in, there’s your answer.
- Comment on What is the "dip"? 2 days ago:
Aight, just a bit of background first.
Back in that era, there was a hip-hop subgenre called miami bass. There was an offshoot of that called booty bass. The difference is largely in the stew degree of rap over the beats, and the nature of the beats. This only matters because Miami at that time was pumping out some serious club bangers. Shit you could really dance to, but would also rattle windows blocks away when played loud.
Da dip was booty bass and a dance song. Like the twist, the macarena, the watusi, the tootsie roll, and other dance fads, the songs were meant to be danced to by the very dance the song was about.
Da dip is basically a modified grind. I put my hand upon your hip (literally), then I dip, you dip, we dip. Dipping in this context is better shown than described.
It’s a dance simple enough even drunks, and white kids, can do it; but it’s able to be elaborated on by more advanced dancers. Taken to an extreme, it runs fairly close to dirty dancing ala the movie of the same name. It’s all hips and grinding of groins. In it’s simplest version, it’s a couples oriented version of a line dance.
And yes, you would indeed see people doing da dip. Not as popular as just straight up grinding on someone, but it definitely showed up when the song played, and when similar booty bass tracks would. It required less coordination than the tootsie roll or the butterfly for sure, so it saw a short degree of popularity.
- Comment on What happens if you pluck a hair thats rooted under a scab? 2 days ago:
You pluck the hair. That’s it.
If the hair was still in place after whatever injury caused the scab, then you pluck it, and the root comes out, it means the follicle was intact.
That in turn means that, assuming the motion doesn’t remove pieces of the scab, that it’s just like plucking any other hair.
That’s not uncommon at the edges of scabs. People will pull away a scab, and the hair gets pulled out because it was partially buried in the scab. But you’ll also see hairs poking through scabs at times.
That’s it. Hair comes out, end of story.
- Comment on Can all the milk replacements bubble if you blow thru a straw in it like a child? 4 days ago:
It’s both, and the ratio between them. Or that’s what I ran across back ages ago when I looked into it.
- Comment on Fun bites 4 days ago:
No, no it isn’t. Not by a big enough margin to matter anyway. The koala one takes three basic facts and misconstrues them so horribly, I think it’s worse in a way
Koalas
a small overview about the chlamydia
and it isn’t even something they causedit was from invasive species.
The reason koalas eat only eucalyptus isn’t stupidity. It’s niche evolution. They live in a place with high competition for resources. Having specialized digestive tracts and gut flora allows them to have a food source that isn’t under competition. this is a benefit, not a failure. They literally eat something that is poisonous to pretty much every other species. That is an incredible evolutionary adaptation.
Their joeys eating pap is not exclusive to koalas either. It’s not only found across the world, the exposure to the gut flora of the parent happens with most mammals, if in a less direct manner. You can even find a ton of information about what happens when human gut flora becomes unbalanced, and it isn’t very pretty. It’s just worse for koalas.
Not every species is a generalist, and we don’t want them to be.
a note on why koalas bellow so much
As with most behaviors in other species, attributing human judgement and definitions tends to be misleading. While koalas are pretty unique in the lack of mating rituals, they’re not doing it for human reasons. Nor are attempts to copulate outside of season as common as the pasta makes it seem. Besides, that’s something humans actually do share with them besides the presence of fingerprints. It also isn’t so rare in animals as to be remarkable. Copulation behaviors are used outside of mating by plenty of species for social reasons. It isn’t in koalas, but since it does increase the chances of mating, it isn’t a bad adaptation.
And the extra cerebro-spinal fluid isn’t a special ed helmet, it’s another adaptation found in other tree dwelling species. Why would an arboreal species having adaptations to mitigate risk from falls be a negative?
Yeah, I get it, the pasta is meant for entertainment, but it also spreads half truths, outright incorrect or outdated information, and skips over facts for the entertainment value. Then people read it and spout it out later as fact.
It’s just a crappy copy pasta, not anything meant to be taken as truth, but people are more dumb than koalas.
This pasta in particular isn’t the worst (the sunfish one takes the prize for being the most full of bull). Nor is it a bad thing to enjoy as entertainment. But for crying out loud people, don’t take random, unsourced copy pasta as an educational tool.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
The fuck are you smoking? Russian grown weed, I guess
- Comment on Fun bites 4 days ago:
Agreed completely.
- Comment on Can all the milk replacements bubble if you blow thru a straw in it like a child? 4 days ago:
Not all of them, no.
Most of them don’t do those nice, sturdy bubbles at all, but they’ll get close. Iirc, almond milk comes closest…
It matters in some recipes whether or not the milk substitute will have the right properties. Say, something like a mushroom cream sauce, none of the substitutes work because there’s just not duty enough fats. Milk gravy is hit or miss, with almond being the least bad choice iirc. American style biscuits, soy and almond do okay, but need extra acid to get a good rise like you can with buttermilk. But they sub in fine for regular milk in terms of texture and taste.
Stuff like that. Blowing bubbles is a quick way to test a fake milk. Or even types of cow milk, or milk from other animals. Goat milk, as an example, is so close to cow milk in terms of structure it’s an easy substitution if flavor isn’t a factor. The powdered milk you can get for long term storage or baking is no better than the usual non dairy stuff when reconstituted, and not even as good as skim milk despite being the dry parts of skim milk.
For good bubbles, you need fats. And they need to be similar enough to milk fats, so there’s a high degree of parity between a bubble test and cooking outcomes
- Comment on Fun bites 4 days ago:
They’re funny for sure :)
- Comment on How does one become a clown? 4 days ago:
If you’re wanting to do stuff like festivals, you’d probably want to find a clown school.
But doing it as a volunteer, all you really need is a suit, a face, and skills. Juggling, balloon making, card tricks, etc. Then you reach out to facilities and work out the arrangements for a performance. Hospitals can be a tad restrictive about who gets to do shows for pediatric wards, so you’ll likely want to try nursing homes first and build up a local rep.
You can also try to hook up with local sideshow type troupes. Clowns aren’t always welcome, but you can usually pick up some skills if you’re honest about it. The fire performers won’t teach you, but jugglers and magicians will usually share some basics as long as you aren’t trying to shaft them with it.
- Comment on Perpetual motion eludes us again. 4 days ago:
Need a bigger magnet.
Also, how do they work?
- Comment on Fun bites 4 days ago:
Yeah, I was the same. Just pissed me off that people took what was meant to be a humorous rant and pretended it was factual.
When I ran across tea and crumpets’ rebuttal, I saved a copy immediately.
It kinda became a thing I did. I was a mod of r/goodlongposts for a while, and the rant copy pasta would get caught by the bot a lot, so I’d post the rebuttal. I eventually wrote my own for the koala pasta, then discovered it had already been done. There’s a panda one and a mosquito one as well. I used to have one for wasps, but I seem to have lost the file at some point. Skeeters and wasps were more for those times when they’d come up as beginning being hated in general, as I never saw any copy/pasta regarding them.
But, last time I went to the beach, I actually ran across idiots wanting to charter a damn boat to go throw rocks at the things. Which was stupid on multiple levels. But it shows how bad info can spread, so I always feel justified in pasting in the better info.
- Comment on Fun bites 4 days ago:
I have been so happy that on lemmy, the copy pasta hating sunfish gets soundly criticized and rejected as anything resembling reality.
However, I still want to take the opportunity to copy/paste in the rebuttal to that copy pasta an anti-pasto of sorts. A biologist took the time on reddit to write it up, and I have it saved in markor with a few minor edits.
Sunfish
From u/tea_and_biology
Zoologist here; the majority of this is so inaccurate the guy is basically angry at a figment of his own imagination, paha. I mean there’s hyperbole, and then there’s hyperbole. Yikes!
They are so completely useless that scientists even debate about how they move. They have little control other than some minor wiggling. So they don’t have swim bladders. You know, the one thing that every fish has to make sure it doesn’t just sink to the bottom of the ocean when they stop moving and can stay the right side up. This creature. That can barely move to begin with. Can never stop its continuous tour of idiocy across the ocean or it’ll fucking sink.
Sunfish are, in fact, well understood and, though clumsy when idly basking, are reasonably accomplished swimmers when diving. They stroke their dorsal and anal fins laterally and in a synchronous manner to generate a lift-based thrust that enables 'em to cruise at speeds of 2-3mph (source), comparable to a whale shark and the perfect speed for suction feeding; ploughing straight into smacks of jellyfish and gobbling 'em all up.
Where they excel amongst fish is their ability to undergo substantial vertical movement in the water column. They possess large deposits of low-density, subcutaneous, gelatinous tissue which, unlike a swim bladder (which would otherwise change volume with hydrostatic pressure), is incompressible, enabling rapid depth changes and keeping them neutrally and stably buoyant independent of surrounding water pressure.
So, yeah, their unusual bodies are basically one big paddle, capable of putting some force behind their swimming to move over considerable distances, descending very deep, very fast.
They mostly only eat jellyfish because of course they do, they could only eat something that has no brain and a possibility of drifting into their mouths I guess. Everything they do eat has almost zero nutritional value and because it’s so stupidly fucking big, it has to eat a ton of the almost no nutritional value stuff to stay alive.
Dumb. Also incorrect. Jellyfish and other Cnidarians comprise only around 15% of their diet; they mostly eat young fish (including conger eelets) and crustaceans (pelagic crab, krill, copepods etc.), alongside squid, bivalves and other assorted zooplankton. They’re generalist predators, not jellyfish specialists like sea turtles (source).
They have a particularly rapid growth rate amongst bony fish, owing much to their unique genetics (source).
Some scientists have speculated that when they do that, they are absorbing energy from the sun because no one fucking knows how they manage to get any real energy to begin with. So they need the sun I guess.
They spend the majority of their time actively hunting in the very cold deep (usually at ~200m, but up to 600m) and, being ectotherms, therefore regulate their temperature by basking in the sun, before pursuing another dive. Think of marine iguanas basking on hot rocks between nibble trips.
And this concludes why I hate the fuck out of this complete failure of evolution, the Ocean Sunfish. If I ever see one, I will throw rocks at it.
Sunfish have been kicking about in temperate and tropical waters worldwide for around 50 million years and, until humans arrived on the scene, were overwhelmingly successful in their ecological niche. Sadly they’re under threat by human activity and human activity alone - frequently caught as by-catch; having little commercial value, like sharks, their fins are cut off before they’re dumped, often still alive, back into the sea to die. If one is to start throwing rocks at terrible creatures, perhaps one should look at us humans first.
Or, there’s The visual rebuttal, credit to u/iamnotburgerking
- Comment on When Jimmy Swaggart died I was reminded of the, "meth lines on a gay hooker's butt". When a self-hating degenerate does meth like that would it be on a butt cheek or right down in the business end? 5 days ago:
On the cheek
And it depends on the drug, butt most of them won’t absorb via the anal sphincter fast, so unless it’s just sitting there, the hooker wouldn’t get high.
You could snort a line from the crack, if the position was right though. Just need a long though enough straw. But the usual places coke or meth get snorted from are the butt cheeks, cock, and boobs (depending in the stripper or hooker’s equipment.
- Comment on Do the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few? 5 days ago:
The thing is, it’s not a blanket statement of what must be done. It’s a principle that is guided by the combination of logic, emotional control, and, as strange as it may seem, empathy.
It stands as a metric to process one’s actions and choices. The individual vulcan accepts that the needs of all vulcans as a whole are more important than their own needs. This doesn’t mean that there is no debate. It’s the framework for the debate.
As the individual vulcan weighs options, they seek to determine what is the most benefit, and therefore the greatest need. They use logic to measure opposing or contradictory options, but they also consider the non physical ramifications.
Expanded into the federation, it becomes a measure for all sapient beings, not just vulcans. And that’s where the empathy of vulcans comes in the clearest. They’ll weigh the emotional harm to emotional beings as a need that must be factored into a decision.
But it also includes as part of their culture that no single vulcan is perfect, and that logic is a tool that must be developed. They can disagree with the decisions made about what the needs of the many are. It’s just that every individual sees the logic of their own needs being secondary.
It’s an expression of the vulcan equivalent of religion
- Comment on all it takes 5 days ago:
Ngl, I’ve had sex with female friends just because they were horny and wanted something uncomplicated from someone they knew would respect boundaries. Most often, that was going down on them, which was fine by me since I always found that to be fun. Sometimes they’d reciprocate, or return the favor later on. Sometimes not, and that was fine too.
If I was bi or gay, I’m fairly sure I’d at least be willing to give hand jobs to bros.
Not all the time, every time, but at that same level of occasional where if the need is strong, but opportunity absent, why not? Doesn’t hurt anyone, and as long as everyone involved is on the same page it won’t.
- Comment on all it takes 5 days ago:
I mean damn, I ain’t gay, but if it’s worth a hundred, I’m gonna try it
- Comment on Every summer be like this 6 days ago:
Even portapros!
- Comment on Anon has a warning for incels 6 days ago:
I mean, so unreal and non hetero.
Anon didn’t even suggest incels and femcels trade virginity
- Comment on Can it take months to get over being laid off? 1 week ago:
A lot of the time, we have a lot of our identity kit tied into our work. Sometimes that also means to specific jobs/employers.
Losing that for any reason can be anything from a mild annoyance to fully traumatic. And unexpected job loss not only affects one’s self view and sense of purpose, it’s a threat to stability and survival.
So, yeah, it can take years to move past.
It’s a form of grief, though that isn’t always easy to understand, and how intense that grief is is variable even for one person in specific. But it’s not at all unusual for someone quitting a job, in a planned way, to experience loss emotionally. When the loss is involuntary, that stack, then it being unexpected stacks higher. A long job hunt after adds more to the pile.
With anxiety already part of your existence, that grief is prone to hitting harder as well as deeper.
It looks like your grief has turned into depression as well. That drained, empty feeling is your brain and mind saying it/they have hit a limit to how much they can process.
I’m going to echo the suggestion that some talk therapy would be beneficial. Processing such events in life can be difficult to do alone because it’s so hard to see things culturally clearly from the inside.
Don’t think you’re alone in what you’re experiencing. It’s a very common thing to go through.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Already Knows Your Life. Now He Wants His AI to Run It 1 week ago:
Yeah, well, I want to kick him in the nuts