southsamurai

@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homiesex is not real⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, if your homie isn’t giving up the booty the same way you did, are they really a homie?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should I do after discovering a collection of baby spiders in my home?⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re done.

  Nothing you can spray into a vent is anything you want to spray in a vent.

  Not that it’s necessary or useful. Most spiders disperse fairly quickly anyway. There are species that share space, but there wouldn’t be thirty of them moving across your ceiling, they’d be holed up wherever they live and you wouldn’t see them.

  For real, even the pesticide was a waste of time and money.

  Don’t be wiping down your vents with stuff like that. That’s a horrible idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lesbian sheep⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Not surprising considering how many human lesbians do the same thing when interested in another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are bradycardic orgasms (orgasms experienced while suffering bradycardia) real?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve got it backwards.

  What happens is that the orgasm occurs and then the heart rate drops.

  If you’re suffering bradycardia from an event of some kind, then you aren’t likely to become aroused, much less have an orgasm. Can’t say it’s impossible, particularly with some of the odd reactions meds can cause, but it’s highly unlikely with any of the typical causes of a slow heart rate that one would be said to “suffer”.

  Mind you, a non emergent low heart rate isn’t a barrier to orgasm, but I don’t think you were asking about normative ranges, or when the pulse is just low from a non important cause (say, post meditation).

  Typically, a bradycardic orgasm is referring to what happens in the body post orgasm, though the name obviously implies otherwise. It can start during orgasm, since it’s not exactly prohibitive, but that’s less common that it starting after.

  Orgasm causes multiple cascades of body and brain reactions. One possible outcome of that is a deep relaxation that’s actually akin to a meditative state, or like some stages of sleep.

  That post orgasm relaxation usually doesn’t drop heart rate low enough to be called brachycardia, but the basic mechanism is the same. Hell, it’s not even that rare compared to stuff like sneezing fits, or difficult to control emotional outbursts. All kinds of weird shit can happen post nut. Nose bleeds, hallucinations, temporary paralysis etc.

  Bradycardic orgasm isn’t dangerous by itself. If accompanied by other symptoms, it can be. The two big ones would be dizziness/disorientation and chest pains. The chest pain might be a sign of other cardiac issues, and would need to be checked out immediately until and unless a cardiologist gives the all clear to ignore it.

  Dizziness, by itself is only a concern if it doesn’t fade quickly, or it comes with enough disorientation to make the person prone to trying to get up and move around before things settle back to norm.

  If it causes fainting, then that’s something that needs an immediate trip to a medical facility to be safe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a person were paranoid about a potential food shortage in the next two to three years, what should they stock up on now?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well preserved, high nutrient density stuff. You want the most bang for your buck.

  Imo, MRE type supplies are going to be a good backstop, with the usual beans, rice, and canned veggies being your foundation. Keep multivitamins on hand, along with water purification/filtration/purification options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If refusing to see your dying parent "wrong"?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wrong is such a loaded term. And the text of your post shows why. It’s linking “wrong” with a specific set of traits. Then, there’s the follow up question that’s kinda fucking weird, but that’s a different issue.

  So, for something to be “wrong” it has to violate some set of standards that set limits on “right”

  And there is no single, universal consensus on the obligations of an adult child to their parents. It’s all situational. Abuse would only be one factor in trying to determine wrongness. Same with it being unforgivable or not. Cold would be about the Indian internal emotional state and is separate from the other two.

  So, here’s what it comes down to. If the choice is made in a vacuum, fully on the basis of the convenience of the child of the dying person, you’d be pushing into a wrong by most moral and ethical systems. But if there’s other reasons, it can push things back into being acceptable.

  I personally don’t hold that being “bedside” for a death is inherently a good act. It can be worse for everyone involved. The same is true for the concept of a final goodbye. It isn’t inherently of benefit to anyone. It can be. And, very often, it ends up being the wise decision because you only get one chance at it. But it absolutely isn’t inherently right, the way something like feeding a starving person is likely to be. It’s a choice. One that has to be weighed situationally.

  I still tend to say that for most people, that final visit is likely to be more beneficial than negative, even though it can be traumatic. That’s even true when abuse is a factor. Closure has become a bit of a trope, but it really is a net positive. Part of death is that it can be difficult to really accept the fact of it if it happens “off screen”.

  Being there, seeing the reality of it adds weight to the fact of the death that makes it real, even if it isn’t for the final moments of death.

  Now, celebrating death? I tend to think that if someone is celebrating the death of a parent, there’s a significant reason. Usually either that the parent was fucking horrible, or that the child is. Celebrating death can be more neutral in theory, but in practice it’s never a good look.

  Fwiw, I’ve been bedside at deaths. More than I should have. It hasn’t been my parents yet, but some close family. A lot of patients as well. I can’t say I regret any of them I was there for. But I regret not having been there for some that I missed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Given dogs' propensity for sniffing other animals' buttholes and piles of other animals' shit, do their noses and sinuses have specialised bacteria/antibodies that protect them infection?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Luckily, there’s really not many pathogens that cross from poop to the airway.

  Then, the sinuses and the mucous orifices produced there are part of our immune systems, as well as dogs’.

  From there, the lungs have a similar level of defense, so the chances of sniffing a bunghole resulting in a disease are extremely low.

  Even with direct nose-to-anus contact, there’s very low risk. The stuff that grows well in the colon and poop just aren’t evolved to set up shop at the other end, and vice versa.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fission⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Witch! Heretic! What strange magic is this?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit Reposting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno.

  On one hand, fuck reddit.

  On another, if a given poster is also mildly annoyed at the subject matter enough to repost, then isn’t it still their post here?

  Or, on the third hand, if scrollers are popping in to talk, doesn’t it serve the same purpose as a legit original post?

  I would, however, on the fourth hand like to see it explicitly stated that just linking to reddit ain’t cool. Because it ain’t. Copy paste the post so nobody has to go there to enjoy it here.

  On the fifth hand, I suggest speaking to a geneticist because having five hands for a human is plain strange.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fission⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it safe to assume that fission in a complex organism would actually transfer learning?

  I’m not confident enough in my grasp of it to say either way. That being said, the geek in me that writes fiction can see the brain duplication ending up with two newborns, or two individuals with bits and pieces of the established pathways of the parent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You spin me right round baby⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Spin is how a particular particle be vibin’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is Alexander the Great so great he gets that name, but not so great that just “Alexander”doesn’t disambiguate him?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All the other Alexanders are just imitating

  !look, there were already great answers, so there was room for a joke one!<

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the US so into Israel?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t forget it. Just left it at religious compatibility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the US so into Israel?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Man! That’s a can of worms!

  Entire books have been written on the subject.

  The U.S.and Israel have a tangled history going back most of a century at this point.

  The short answer is that there are enough historical, religious, and cultural ties for the two countries to be allies long term. Since the us, and by extension NATO, needed a place of projected power in the region, and there was an opportunity to make that happen, Israel happened.

  And, being real, Israel has mostly been a reliable ally since its creation as a country. It’s hard to point to a time when Israel didn’t fulfill its expected role in the relationship.

  As such, it’s really no surprise that when both countries have leadership that are absolute fascist pricks, that the governments would go whole hog in supporting each other.

  Again, that’s the disgustingly short, over simplified version. I don’t have enough interest to turn it into an essay, nor even a discussion, just wanted to drop my take on the matter in a simple way since I didn’t see anything in other comments to just upvote and support with a subsidiary comment as being super close to the way I would say it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Possibility of translating the messages of dogs, cats, and other pets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The other pets part is more likely to be useful.

  It’s not that cats and dogs aren’t vocal, they are. Cats in particular supposedly are vocal for us, but don’t use sound with each other hardly at all.

  Dogs are vocal with each other, and us.

  The problem is that the level of complexity involved in their sounds is not just low, but only tiny part of their overall communication. Body language is way more important with cats or dogs. They communicate with their entire body, of which vocalizations are maybe 5% of the total. A bark, as example, can mean a handful of things by itself, but to know what they’re saying, you have to see the entire dog.

  Trying to translate dogs and cats off of vocalizations only would be like trying to translate English using only adverbs.

  That being said, I would put maybe a teeny bit of hope for dog vocalizations to be reliably translated whereas cats I wouldn’t believe it possible at all

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electricity explained⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ph , ampere waifu, let minute me be your voltage simp!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why will a cop arrest you if your in a ridable mower going down the street drunk? How is that a DWI when while you may be drunk you will not hurt anyone?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why will they arrest you? Because that’s what cops are for: enforcing the laws of the government.

  Why is operating a moving vehicle drunk against the law, even when it’s slow? Because even a skateboard can be dangerous to others when not operated with care. Since being drunk reduces your ability to operate anything with care, the more dangerous the moving vehicle, the more justification there is to regulate it under dwi/dui/owi type laws.

  A riding mower is already an inherently dangerous machine, when operated sober and in the intended manner. Hundreds of pounds (and even more kilos) of weight, moving at a reasonable speed in your own yard can fuck shit up. Take it on the road where it isn’t supposed to be, get drunk, and now you’ve got the ability to kill someone else.

  So, while cops poking their nose into shit and being tools of the state ain’t cool, if you’re out drunk and doing anything but walking, somebody should intervene. I don’t necessarily think that the default for something like a lawn mower should be a criminal offense on par with operating a car or motorcycle, but it definitely merits the person being secured away from said mower and cited with some kind of societal measures to reduce the chances of it happening again.

  In other words, if you can’t act like a responsible adult, you get put in time out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it actually annoying when clients fall asleep while getting tattooed?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, I don’t have much coverage.

  But, the stuff I do have, I went into a kind of tr ance after the first few minutes and even drooled at one point during my biggest.

  The artists were very nice about it, even if they were bothered. Never had a complaint, instead got compliments on a being a great canvas. So I figure if I ever get more, I’ll just give them a warning and let them decide what to do about it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would write something extensive, but I don't wanna end up writing incoherent stuff, especially since I sometimes rely on AI to write stories for me. What should I do?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only time ai is useful for writing is if you are the only one to read it. As a form of self entertainment, it’s whatever. But as a tool to create? Worse than useless. It isn’t even a good copy editor at this point; none of the models out there are good enough at that to be any better than doing it yourself.

  If you really want to write, accept that you are going to suck. Everyone sucks at writing. Ideas? We can be great at that with no effort.

  But writing is a craft. You don’t just grab a brush, some paint, and expect to be Renoir a week later. You don’t grab a hammer and saw and expect to have a nice piece of furniture a week later.

  But people seem to think that writing is going to be different. Yeah, there’s talent involved; inborn ability to process language in a useful way is a big asset. Having a genuinely creative mind where ideas just pop up all the time is a huge asset.

  But they ain’t shit without both practice and criticism. See, unlike more visual crafts, you can’t have any success at self critique. Not that you should rely on that with painting or whatever either, but at least you can look and see if the end results match your vision in a glance. So to get better at the craft of writing, you need readers, and you have to be willing to listen to what they say, even if it turns out they’re wrong.

  Writing, real writing, is not learnt in a week, a month, a year. Even with all the natural talent possible, all the workshops and creative writing classes out there, your first finished story is going to suck at least a little. The craft of writing takes no less time to master than what it would take to become a black belt at a serious martial arts school. Years at a bare minimum.

  My advice? Go over to !writingprompts@literatue.cafe

  Every day, every single day, go back and respond to one prompt. Just one. And start as far back as it goes. If whoever posted responds, great. If not, spend the first week or so reviewing what you wrote and thinking about how to make it better.

  If you respond to each and every prompt there, and by the end, you aren’t able to be coherent at all, give up. But i suspect you’ll reach coherency fairly fast as you go back and fix what you fucked up.

  I’d also advise that you don’t edit your responses. Rewrite each one as a fresh comment, so you can track what you’re doing, and anyone interested can give feedback as you adjust.

  Now, nor every prompt is going to spark an idea for you. That’s what craft is for. That’s how you learn craft: writing shit despite not being inspired. Wrangling words into order and sense is a skill. No better way to do that than writing shit that’s boring as hell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I remove bird poop from cement and/or metal surfaces?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pressure!

  That’s exactly the kind of job a pressure washer is for

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's called fashion, sweaty, look it up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao! Good point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I submit a question to /nostupidquestions/ and I get downvoted does that mean my question was actually stupid or is it a paradox?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In general, I think people run into confusing exactly what is and isn’t the kind of stupid that’s right for this place.

  Questions can be perfectly valid, but not really something you couldn’t ask anyone, any time, and get a deciding decent answer, so those get down voted a good bit.

  Then you run into posts that are really more shittyasklemmy territory. They’re essentially jokes that neither deserve nor can be answered in a useful way.

  There’s also the ones that are word salad that get down voted because nobody knows what the fuck is being asked.

  Your most recent one fell afoul of not really being a question as much as it was a rant in question form. Which never goes over well here (I always down vote those, personally). Still answered in that case, but it really wasn’t in the spirit of the C/, so I felt it worth the vote down.

  You had previous questions that were great, btw. It was just that one that rang funky.

  I can’t speak for everyone, obviously, but thats my take on the trends of heavily down voted posts.

  The ones that are genuine questions that wouldn’t be easy to ask and get answered irl or in most online spaces, those are the ones that tend to get up votes and plenty of responses

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's called fashion, sweaty, look it up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shit, did I step into a troll?

  If so, you got me good lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you were in Jail would you stick withe bible or be interest in other religions?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, I think weed is too hard to get in jail, and bibles as rolling papers aren’t as good as people think

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's called fashion, sweaty, look it up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is completely irrelevant to that group because the process by which an animal recognizes that is and isn’t “food” is partially location dependent. If you took one of them out of their territory at birth, raised them in a different one, they’d learn different food spectrum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's called fashion, sweaty, look it up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is the shittiest possible interpretation of the situation.

  People act like animals can just magically decide to eat new things. It doesn’t work like that. It’s the same as that stupid koala meme where people whinge about them not eating things put down in their territory.

  That’s not how it works, at all. Animals, humans included, have instincts that drive them with it comes to what is and isn’t food. And even humans can turn down things that are technically edible while starving, because they don’t know it’s edible, and we do have the ability to reason out ways to safely try unfamiliar things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The person who mounted a spice rack into the fucking studs so a fridge won't fit there⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just screw it.

  Start with some wine, maybe a back rub. Get it all relaxed and then just slide into it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is putting black beans in my chili a bad idea?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it may have been, yeah. I know I first heard it back in the eighties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prolly won;t word this correctly. But when did the idea of a woman subservient to a man begin? And how come it seems its lasted longer that most relgions?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding, and it is completely casual, layman level understanding, is that patriarchy started around the birth of property and inheritance.

  There’s plenty of evidence (that someone already linked to a layman’s level article) showing that our earliest societies didn’t have gendered hierarchy at all, and that it wasn’t all patriarchal when it started.

  But for the most part, the control of women was only a useful thing once the need to have control over inheritance became important. If you don’t have land or wealth to pass on, then there’s really no point to one sex/gender being dominant to another. There isn’t a point to it in that regard in my opinion, since I don’t view biological offspring to be more worthy of inheritance than otherwise, but some people did care, especially when leadership came with a great deal of ownership as well.

  Afaik, that’s when patriarchy became something that was etched into laws and religion. When the leadership, and thus ownership, was passed down, and the passing went from father to son. When that’s in place, controlling reproduction becomes paramount, and to control reproduction, you have to control women since while you couldn’t prove who someone’s father was way back then, it was hella hard to fake who gave birth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is putting black beans in my chili a bad idea?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You know the difference between a garbanzo bean and a chickpea?

  !can’t pay fifty for a garbanzo to bean on my face!<

  Jokes aside, yes to both, though the jelly bean would be flavor specific like any oddity would.

  People do add sweet things to chill, and it works rather well. This includes things that are within your typical jellybean flavor range. Pretty much any jelly would be fine in small amounts (and pepper jelly really is one of those “secret” ingredients that folks love to pretend isn’t obvious). When that’s the case, a standard jellybean is going to be okay in similarly small amounts. I’m dubious that licorice ones would work, but I have been exposed to chili with anise before, and it wasn’t horrible.

  I definitely wouldn’t want bubblegum flavored jellybeans in my chili, but the rest? Eh, I’d be down to try them.