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- Comment on What's the worst instance of plot armour on characters you've seen in TV? 19 hours ago:
Yeah, that was one of the best parts of the show :)
They really managed that well
- Comment on Anon notices 20 hours ago:
I mean, fuck the christians, they already blather on enough
- Comment on What's the worst instance of plot armour on characters you've seen in TV? 20 hours ago:
My head canon:
He was, but didn’t know it until grief and anger pushed him beyond what he thought his limits were.
Kryptonian physiology isn’t really clear in the movies, and it’s barely given hand waves in the comics. But humans are often unaware of what their real limits are. Until we get hit with a strong emotion that bypasses our conscious minds and spurs us into action.
Supes, while extremely powerful, hadn’t faced that kind of loss at that scale before (in the movie at least). He might never have seriously tested his limits (and didn’t on screen), and may even have been scared to test his limits
Remember, supes, Clark, grew up hiding his powers, they made him different in a bad way as much as good way. Why wouldn’t he fear discovering even greater power than he thought he had?
So, whatever the equivalent of adrenaline and cortisol kryptonians have could have been the catalyst. He holds himself to a lesser power all the time because he wants to be as human as he can be. When the chemicals get dumped into his bloodstream, while his mind is reeling with grief, that self inhibition gets abandoned.
There’s even an argument to be made that when he took off, he wasn’t planning to change time, he was trying to escape his perceived failure, running to a way to avoid the grief and pain. With that, he unconsciously flees to the one direction that could give him relief, backwards in time.
Now, it’s obvious the writers meant him to be doing it on purpose, but it’s never outright said to be the case, so we can graft head canon on fairly freely.
But, even if it was clear he was intentionally time travelling (or just reversing time for earth only), that would be a power he would carefully and cautiously use. For him to have know he could do it implies he had done it before, at least once. So, supes being a fairly smart dude, but would be unlikely to tamper with causality casually. Then, with that being the case, him resetting events immediately after they happened, in a moment of grief and anger makes more sense. He was being driven to the extreme and chose to use his most dangerous power because the death toll was just too high.
So, even if we take the writer’s events that way, supes would still have had good reason to not go too fast in the initial attempt, because of the risk of it. He would have had to reach similar speeds to have caught the rocket on the first go, risking greater harm. So, he doesn’t, but the consequences of that choice hit him hard, and he abandons his restraint to save those he loves, and the world.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 20 hours ago:
I, mean its only. Natural that weerd thangs criep into comments here und their
But it’s been something increasing over time. Some of it is people just not paying attention, some of it is them relying on autocorrect and not spending the time to check what gets autoed. But, a lot of it is that people can’t spell for shit, and don’t care that they can’t.
And, to be fair, as long as the basic idea of what you’re saying gets across, how much effort is required? In your example, extreme vs extream, while one is correct, they both sound the same, and they even read the same. So if a person is just approximating the sound of the word, and never ran across it, do they have an obligation to go looking?
Now, obviously, extreme would be an unusual word to never have seen in print since it was over used in marketing for a long time. I’d expect xtreme to be the misspelling to show up. But even with a word that over saturated, does it matter?
I say no, it doesn’t really matter. Yeah, I’d still offer someone the correct spelling, but that’s just as a point of conversation rather than any obligation they have to spend their time and energy on vocabulary and/or spelling. As long as they aren’t giving me shit for having put in time and effort into mine, and it’s close enough to guess; or they’re willing to communicate about that they meant if it isn’t easy to guess.
For real, it does make my brain scream at me when I run across it. But that’s my problem, not theirs.
Seriously, not everyone cares enough to edit it up. Why should they?
- Comment on YouTube considers a daily timer for users looking to cut back on Shorts 1 day ago:
Oh, ffs, make up your damn mind.
Nobody really wanted them, but now that people are using it, you want to limit it? The entire executive roster for alphabet needs to take a submarine ride
- Comment on Anon has a female friend 1 day ago:
Imaginary and ecstatic
- Comment on Anon has a female friend 1 day ago:
Nice :)
Ngl, I was expecting mankind to get slammed at the end, but that’s even better
- Comment on Anon has a female friend 2 days ago:
I mean, obviously fictitious and elatedly happy
That being said, there really are people like that. I’ve been in that situation, and I’ve seen it happen plenty. Maybe not those exact words, but sometimes , yes “I could have you if I wanted”
There really are people that are both so arrogant as to believe they’re that “good”, and so narcissistic that whether or not you’re interested doesn’t matter.
Like, I’m not some kind of super studly dude. I’m big, and strong, but I’m also hairy, balding, have always had at least a little belly on me, wear glasses, and have a round face, so I don’t have those chiseled features that folks get wet over. But I do pretty damn good. My kind of look has a degree of popularity, and the mind inside the body makes it work. So this isn’t some kind of situation where everything is chasing me.
That being said, it is really annoying how often some shitty excuse for a human being has assumed that I would just jump in the sack with them, much less anything more. And it isn’t even the stereotypical “hot babes” either. Just women that assume that because they have a pussy, a guy is going to fall into the damn thing. You kinda expect narcissism when someone is on the prowl, looking for hookups and arm candy. But when you’re at a casual dinner party, and they’re coming at you with that kind of thinking, it’s extra extra. I mean, it isn’t always women, but the women tend to be more insistent, and more about demeaning you than men are.
When it’s guys, you make it clear you’re hetero, and it’s “oh, well then” and it almost always ends there, or with a simple “if you tried this, that might change”, and then they’re done.
But the women that think that way? It’s like they pin their whole sense of self on the idea that they can have any guy, no matter what. And, if you aren’t the classically handsome dude, you’re insulting them by just refusing to agree that if they wanted you, they could. Like, motherfucker, you’re insulting me just by saying that you don’t want me, and you’re adding in the assumption that my dick is in control of me? GTFO.
You know what’s funny though? Only ever had one stripper try that shit. Bounced gay bars and titty bars off and on for years. You’d think strippers would be more prone to that kind of thing than other professions. Not for me. I would get the whole “it’s a shame you’re such a good guy, I’d ruin you” here and there, bit that’s a whole different thing entirely.
Ran into it most with nurses, but I worked in that field more than as a bouncer, so they’re disproportionately represented in the people I would have extended interactions with.
I eventually learned to just say okay and walk away. That kind of thinking, there’s no point in arguing, and you can’t change the subject, so you just leave.
- Comment on The Simpsons: Hank Azaria on Retiring Apu, How Name Became a Slur 2 days ago:
That’s my opinion as well.
It really could have been a total win. But, hey, why do something great with a small risk when you can do something meh and lower risk while also spending less money.
- Comment on The Simpsons: Hank Azaria on Retiring Apu, How Name Became a Slur 2 days ago:
Eh, I gotta respect him for his decision.
However, not recasting the role is shitty as hell. It relegates a really cool character that helped people more than racists used it badly, and removes a very important source of representation.
- Comment on Could you grind up a loaf of bread back into a flour and make a new loaf of bread? 3 days ago:
I had to look that up, and it’s pretty cool, but what you’re getting back wouldn’t work right as an ingredient, except in some edge cases maybe. Plus, nothing I found indicated that the urea was for sure removed, which would interfere with cooking. I also didn’t see anything about the fats and what kind of shape they’re in.
It’s also not the same thing because that’s a chemical change, not grinding the egg up. Which you can do to bread too, but what your get back isn’t flour at all.
Assuming that you could use the same basic idea with bread, what you’d get is a slurry of gluten, and broken down starches. There’s stuff that could maybe be done with that, but not making bread for sure. For one thing, the yeasts consumed the sugars, converted it to gas and alcohol, most of which evaporates out by the time you slice bread. So the process is dead in the water at the start. You’d have to add back that stuff in a form that could be fermented, and that’s basically just going to be flour.
Tbh, saying that the process I saw is unboiling an egg is journalists licence at best, click bait bullshit at worst, like the whole dire wolf thing that’s been making rounds lately. Yeah, if you want to pretend that “unboiling” means something other than what the obvious assumption is going to be, that’s great. But the process doesn’t actually return the eggs did the state they were before. Pretty close, since egg proteins are relatively simple, but it isn’t like what you’re getting is the same thing as if you whipped up eggs in a bowl, which is what “unboiling” would mean to most people (and that’s the main complaint I saw on videos and articles).
The people that cooked it up (heh) even said that it’s more about being able to clean gear and get a partial return of the proteins for reuse, with the key word being partial.
- Comment on Could you grind up a loaf of bread back into a flour and make a new loaf of bread? 3 days ago:
Ehhhhh, no, not unless you really want to fuck around with the meaning of “bread”.
The end result of baking bread isn’t just flour with air in it.
The proteins change, the starches change, and you can’t just undo that by grinding the bread. I would say that anything that would undo those changes would essentially be making something else entirely, but it definitely isn’t going to be ingredients that v AC c be fermented and turned into anything resembling bread anyway.
Now, you can make loafs out of ground up bread. You can essentially grind up damn near anything edible and mix it with binders, then make it loaf shaped and bake it though. If you want to get frisky, bread pudding is just using bread to make a loaf of something. Meat loaf ain’t bread, but it’s the same basic idea as bread pudding (again, if you want to fuck with word meanings).
But there are more things than bread pudding you can turn bread into. They’re all similar, because there’s only so many binders that are edible in the first place. But they’ll have different textures than bread pudding, and pretty much any flavors you want to try.
But bread, even if you deal with things that aren’t wheat, you’re causing chemical changes at such a level that there’s no way to turn it back into something that will perform the same as flour
- Comment on Just go. 4 days ago:
Man, so close, but so far away.
Respect the format lol
- Comment on I don’t know what to do with this coworker. 4 days ago:
Well, I’m a little weirded out by the way you prioritized information. It seems like more of a personal beef because you felt the need to describe her and the way she moves before anything else.
Normally, when someone starts out with things like that instead of actual problems, their beef is one of prejudgement rather than any actual wrongdoing. Sometimes it even means that the person complaining is looking for things to find wrong.
I can’t say for sure that’s the case, but it’s definitely a weird way pf presenting what is supposedly professional.
With that said, you aren’t describing anything that would be a violation of ethics, and what little sandbagging that she’s doing may be an accommodation rather than her not doing things she’s supposed to. Not sure of your location, but employers in some places legally have to grant reasonable accommodations to people with limitations, which is not something that you would be told about because it isn’t something that’s usually shared to someone not part of that aspect of the facility’s operations.
If you feel that this isn’t the case, then follow the standard chain of command for your facility and then let it go if you intend to keep working there. Doesn’t really matter what facility you’re in, what the job is, that’s what you do.
Hell, after just a week, you don’t even know that this is the norm. There could be dozens of reasons she’s slow, or hanging back that are purely temporary.
Aside from that, what it looks like is that your facility doesn’t have enough staff to begin with. Someone with their RN shouldn’t be handling normal feeding on a regular basis, that’s what NAs are for. RNs have more specialized skills, and there’s less of them, it’s a waste to be sitting there with one patient long enough to feed them. It’s awesome that you’re willing to, and I certainly wish to hell more nurses were willing to handle business when necessary, but it shouldn’t be something you’re doing often enough to merit being bothered when another RN doesn’t.
What’s in the actual job description when you were hired? A lot of places very strictly limit scope, and she may be following those limits. Or, she may be working to standard and not doing extra because she wasn’t hired to in the first place. It could be that you’re getting shafted by administration, or that you’re doing things you aren’t expected to (which is always nice, but it doesn’t mean anyone else has to).
If she’s performing her duties to the job description she was hired for, then there’s not even an issue at all on her end.
I dunno, I’m not there, I can’t tell what all is in the background, but in my time wiping asses for money, an RN even bringing trays to patients would have been very unusual because their job was to get meds ready, set up for things NAs can’t do, and act as supervisors to the NAs on shift. Tbh, even in hospitals where NA presence tends to be lower, an RN wouldn’t be feeding patients unless there was a very specific reason to. They’ve got too many other tasks they’re responsible for.
- Comment on How long before I can sleep on my memory foam mattress? 5 days ago:
Yeah, those air mattresses last very well.
I’m on my second memory foam, and thinking about a new one just because I want something a little thicker.
They’re great, but they don’t last as long as a good air mattress. Longer than a spring one though
- Comment on How long before I can sleep on my memory foam mattress? 5 days ago:
Ahhhh, lemme count while I type.
Five in my house, two at my mom’s, one at my best friend’s, and one at my sister in law’s.
So, 9 where I was the person making the decisions and handling the process. Plus a dozen or more beyond that where people just asked pretty much what this post did, and I answered them lol.
- Comment on How long before I can sleep on my memory foam mattress? 5 days ago:
Depends on what the goal is.
You can sleep in it whenever without hurting the mattress, it just won’t be as comfortable.
However, if you’re worried about offgassing, there’s differing opinions based on the exact materials, but the worst is going to be the first 24 hours or so. If you’ve got good enough ventilation, even that’s not a hard stop limit, but it’s not going to smell very pleasant for most people.
Smell wise, at least a day, with two being where most people don’t mind whatever chemical smell is left.
But it’ll be putting out lesser amounts up to about the 5 day mark where any materials in common use will be emitting as little as they ever will on a practical level.
I tend to favor the third day myself. The smell is tolerable to me by then, though I’ll likely be a little clogged up for the first night or two after that anyway.
So, it’s really up to you at this point, it’s as ready as it needs to be to give acceptable support.
- Comment on i made this 6 days ago:
Virgin edibles are so rare these days, I’ll take what I can get
- Comment on i made this 6 days ago:
I cherish your homo genes too. Also your homo jeans, if you have them
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I’m not sure I have anything that can help you directly. Things are looking ugly as hell right now, but it doesn’t look like most people here with a green card are going to be treated badly. At least not yet.
But more in general, the way I’m coping is multi tiered.
The primary is by being ready for what I can be ready for. The secondary is helping other people be as ready as they can be (though that’s a fucking minimum right now, as I’m recovering from an injury). Third is local organization and planning, which I can do while injured at least.
Then there’s just getting on with life as best I can. I kiss my wife, hug my kid, pet my chickens, fuck around on lemmy, whatever.
That last, that’s what I’d suggest you focus on. Nobody ever has a promise of tomorrow. You could get struck by lightning, hit by a car, whatever. Worrying about the governmental shit beyond your ability to fight it if the fight pops off is pointless. Just enjoy the now, and be prepared as best you can.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Eh, yeah, a bit of a jerk.
It’s not the facts that matter, it’s how you deliver them. If you don’t focus on what the kid doesn’t have, and focus on what they’d have to do to make it, you’d get the same thing done.
If you add in that they’re expected, while still under your responsibility, to also work towards a secondary goal that’s within reach without needing a ton of luck on top of talent, you set them up to both work on their dream and have a realistic fallback plan.
Doesn’t really matter what it is, when the kid’s dream is one that they can’t make it purely by working at it, it’s our job to prepare them for the possibility of success, no matter how unlikely, as well as presenting reality.
I partially raised a nephew years ago. He wanted to be a musician or a pro skater. Talented in both (more as a musician), but both of those fields take more than ability to make work. Even skating, which isn’t mostly about who you know and what contacts you can make, you gotta bust your ass every single day practicing like a pro does, and start competing. I explained all that, showed him how to find information for himself, and said he still had to make school his first priority until he was an adult.
Well, turns out he didn’t actually like competing, so skating went to the wayside a year or so later.
He started focusing more on music, and started doing small shows here and there, and liked it. But he did hit that wall where you have to not just hustle, but have the right contacts, or make them. So he switched gears like a lot of creative sorts do and got a job he thought might be interesting in the short term while he worked at music as a secondary.
He ended up enjoying that job enough that he decided to do music more as a hobby. Still does. He still skates too, and he’s almost in his thirties now. He’s also starting his own business in the industry he liked, and went to school to get a basic business degree per my advice.
You don’t have to ride their ass, or insist that they abandon a dream. You just have to give them the best advice you can, and let them do their thing as long as they’re meeting core necessities along the way.
It’s even perfectly fine to tell them that there’s limits to what you’ll do and provide while they chase a dream; support doesn’t mean you have to let them stay in the basement with no actual source of self support on a practical level. It just means that you give them the room to get there if they can while also navigating regular life.
Hell, it’s perfectly fine to be blunt about their chances of making it at whatever. Telling your kid that he’d have to reach a level of skill that would take more work than realistically possible is fine. Telling him that he’s got an incredibly long and impractical road ahead of him if he decides to try is fine. And it’s definitely fine to say that he’s got to do it on his own merits, without any nepotism or favors involved. You can even give an honest evaluation of his skills and athleticism, though you gotta be gentle with that.
What never works is telling than that they can’t, that it’s utterly out of the question and you’ll never have their back. That’s a recipe for a kid you never get to see as an adult.
Shit, man, who says you’re even right? Get some outside opinions on the kid’s skills if you’re going to play the heavy and be sure you’re right.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yup
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Gigolo?
- Comment on Made one deadly slip 1 week ago:
My favorite cover
- Comment on What actually came first? The chicken or the egg? 1 week ago:
Trust me, when it comes down to chickens, the chickens always come first.
Why? Because they are vicious little buggers, and if you try to make them wait they will eat you.
"Oh, hello monkey, is that a treat for me in your hand? How lovely, nom nom nom. What? I took your finger with the lovely dried bug? So sorry. Oh, hello monkey, is that an open wound in your hand for me? Nomnomnom. What? I’m not supposed to devour the flesh from your bones? So sorry. Oh, hello monkey, is that a bone sticking out from where your finger used to be…
You get the idea.
So, I ban say with authority that if the egg had come first, the chicken would have eaten it.
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to seek medications for depression (in the USA), when it could be takes away for political reason? 1 week ago:
Well, the location and specific cause don’t actually matter.
When deciding what, if any, medication you should take, having a reliable supply is a major factor, and that can go kerflooie even in a perfect system if something goes wrong during manufacturing.
So, what it comes down to with depression meds, is what are the consequences of stopping cold turkey?
Some of them, if you stop with no “weaning” period, the effects can range from mildly unpleasant all the way to lethal, though the lethality isn’t like it can be with things like beta blockers where there’s a rebound effect possible.
So, if you’re in a situation where you’re concerned about sustained access to a medication, research it thoroughly before starting. Not all antidepressants are the same, so working with your provider to get on one that’s easier to come off of suddenly is a wise choice. Or, discuss the issue with them and see if they can arrange something in house if your access is dropped.
Some psychiatrists, psychologists, and mental health clinics can actually provide meds directly, in some cases. So you might be able to be weaned off safely at no cost or very low cost, if the worst happens.
There’s also the option with some medications to wean yourself off if you have a supply in place to work with. It’s going to vary a lot because the type of med matters, the delivery method (as in caplets vs capsules vs pills, etc) matters, and how long you need to wean off can be longer than whatever supply you have.
The key is to be as prepared as possible.
With all that in mind, it should be reasonably safe to begin treatment currently. Just talk it through with your provider, and go from there
- Comment on The Naked Gun | Official Teaser Trailer (2025 Movie) - Liam Neeson, Pamela Anderson 1 week ago:
I dunno, if the trailer isn’t just the only funny parts, this could be a good thing, despite it being a necromancy movie.
They aren’t just recasting the old roles, or recycling scripts, so I’m cautiously optimistic
- Comment on Antony Starr is glad ‘The Boys’ is ending: “I don’t like seeing things outstay their welcome” 1 week ago:
Yeah. On average, I usually run into a lot less snark and douchebaggery over differing opinions. When it does pop up it’s usually over hot button issues where you expect heated responses.
Tbh, even the initial few bad responses here weren’t as bad as what I’d see on reddit, but it was just really shocking, especially over a tv show.
I’m used to having disagreements be respectful and thoughtful most of the time, and not just be dismissive. Not that it’s always like that, I’m guilty of going too far on some things myself. I just have way more disagreements end with a friendly note.
- Comment on Val Kilmer, Actor Renowned for Receding Into His Roles, Dies at 65 1 week ago:
Ain’t that the truth!
If you got him talking about his art, you could end up in these long, deep conversations with him, and he was always just so damn nice.
I wish like hell the account I talked to him on the most didn’t get nuked during the protests. I can’t go back and revisit those conversations now.
The guy was just well rounded, smart, and as you said very down to earth.
It wouldn’t be accurate to call him a friend, but I liked him a lot. Like, if he had figured out where I live and had knocked on my door, I would have invited him in; there’s family members I don’t let in my door, and I’m paranoid as hell about strangers showing up uninvited.
- Comment on Antony Starr is glad ‘The Boys’ is ending: “I don’t like seeing things outstay their welcome” 1 week ago:
I’m actually okay with changes, when they don’t mess up the “spirit” of the characters, and don’t totally blow apart a plot
But, yeah, Stillwell, that’s such a horrible choice to kill him off at all, much less that way. I had quit watching, but you pick up bits and pieces anyway, and hearing that had made me glad I had already stopped