southsamurai

@southsamurai@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electricity explained⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pressure!

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's called fashion, sweaty, look it up⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is putting black beans in my chili a bad idea?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As everyone has essentially said, ain’t no such thing as bad beans for a chili. And that goes for stuff you might not think of as being good in chill. But I’ve cobbled together chili out of some seriously depleted pantries over the years, and I swear that any legume I’ve run across has worked, to some degree or another. Only question wound be the best prep for a given bean.

  No bullshit, ive done it with limas, lentils, and peas at various points in time, and they all worked fine. Different, yes, but still quite nice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did Saturday Night Live get so cringe?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yo! Worthers have always been bomb!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did Saturday Night Live get so cringe?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not improv like it used to be?

  Dude, it’s sketch comedy. It’s always been scripted, it’s just that it’s okay to go off script as needed. It’s been that way since the beginning.

  I mean, not every cast member is actually good for sure, and that’s been true since the beginning too. But that’s totally different from what you’re saying.

  I’m with you that weekend update has been the most reliable part of the show since Che and Jost have been the chairs though. Imo, the best or second best WE hosts in the entire run (depending on exactly which era of the various WE teams you look at, but I’d say Che and Jost have been the most consistent).

  And, while I think the term cringe has been so over used that it’s time to bury it, SNL has largely been about being cringe the entire time. To do live sketch comedy, you have to embrace being stupid and awkward. Not every bit is going to hit, so you gotta commit to all of them and that means a ton of cringe is inherent to the process. I mean, fuck, the Shannon/O’Terri/Ferrell era was intentionally cringe on purpose so often it kinda defines that era.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Being real, the guy is one of the most wholesome musicians in pop culture.

  I’m not even a fan of his music (except maybe circles), but anything and everything I’ve seen the guy say or do is just so damn nice. He’s always staying positive and respectful to people.

  I mean, unless I’ve missed something, the meme is just based on his looks, and that’s pretty fucking stupid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is it a stupid idea to become a Physician Assistant if you're a Registered Nurse, tired of it and 46 years old?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not stupid at all!

  Though I’ve heard that the path to being an NP is faster from RN than switching to PA. Might be worth looking at.

  Worst case scenario, you end up having to job jump between PA and nursing until you find a job that lets you settle into a specific practice/position. Which is harder in middle age, but isn’t prohibitive imo.

  From the patient side of things, an NP or PA with practical experience as a nurse is like gold. An MD might have more education and a broader knowledge base because of that; but nobody can match the hands on, dedicated skills of someone that’s done what you’re proposing. The best providers I have ever had in twenty years plus of disability have been the ones like that. You’ve not only been there and done that, you could teach all of it purely from experience.

  So stupid? Hell no! The only stupid part is that the industry is so fucked that an experienced nurse wants to stop doing that job. What you’ll bring to the table is going to help people. That’s never stupid. It will be a harder road for you in some ways (though not as physically brutal as nursing for damn sure), but at least it will be different.

  If you decide to go that route, good on you :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lady Parts is Bugs.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Jokes aside, this is great news for sex!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We all know crack was introduced primarily to black neighbor hoods. Why them? Why not people in the Appalachians? Or in Asian neighbor hoods all over the west coast?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking through the answers so far, I think the only thing not covered is why not the po white folk or other groups.

  The simple answer really is that they aren’t black, because when it comes right down to it, any excuse they found to target black people would have excluded other groups except by accident.

  But, that misses out on the other factor. The Appalachians aren’t a hotbed of protest and opposition. Folks up in the hills are too poor, too spread out, and too disconnected from external policies on a national level. There’s simply no need to destabilize those communities because they’re not a problem to the people making laws and decisions.

  Same with the asian populations you asked about.

  Black folks in cities have an advantage that rural people of any color don’t. Numbers in concentration. Even a minority can be a disruption to oppressors when there’s enough in one place. So keeping that population off balance becomes a priority for oppressors. That it’s black people in the U.S. is largely a matter of detail because the same principle would apply everywhere, with any given minority population being a target where that population group is a potential difficult to enforcing power. Like the rohingya or uyghur peoples as recent examples that were in the news.

  Now, being real, black people across the world have been oppressed and abused for hundreds of years. So pretty much anywhere they exist, they get shit on in some way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minneapolis considers legalizing adult bathhouses and venues that allow sexual activity⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s cold up there. Only way to survive is stay inside and fuck for heat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UwU🥺👉👈⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, wait wait!

  You can’t just drop the fact of working polymer heat dissipation and not go deeper

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In reference to kitchen wrap (aluminum, paper or plastic), do you prefer to tear up against the lid, or down against the box?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer to use what’s on the box, no matter what its orientation. That’s because the box usually has a cutter of some kind built in, and the position varies between brands of a given wrap.

  Now, I have noticed on average that when the cutter is on the box under the lid (and thus you’d pull down against the box) I get less tears and fucked up edges overall, regardless of quality or brand.

  So I guess that’s my preference overall if I could wava a wand and make them all the same

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The forest guy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ook?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you feel about a 25 year old dating a 46 year old?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  None of my fucking business.

  See, that’s the thing about people being grown-ass adults. They get to decide what does and doesn’t work for them.

  And, despite people that want to knee jerk the matter, there’s less difference between those two ages than there is between a 21 and 25 year old.

  Personal development is heavily front loaded. By the mid to late twenties, most people are who they’ll always be. Friendship, romance, whatever. The only real barrier to age gaps are cultural touchstones and a handful of probable experiences (like job stuff, kids, etc) that aren’t even guaranteed to not be present.

  Folks just get all het up over it because they’re morons that can’t look outside of themselves long enough to realize that their motivations and concepts towards other people aren’t actually universal.

  Two consenting adults are just fine, and nobody else has an opinion that matters about them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does one who doesn’t have a ‘home’ choose their team?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, even after we got a team close enough to count as home, my choices have always been arbitrary . Mind you, I don’t really get into team sports, but it’s always fun to have a team for casual conversation.

  When I was a kid, it was the Jets, the Eagles, the Vikings or the Bengals, depending on the year and my mood. For us football, obviously. All based on their uniforms or logos. As an adult, it’s the Ravens. I just like their logo better.

  Celtics for basketball, just because I liked Larry Bird back in the day.

  Hockey, it’s the Rangers for no reason other than the name sticks in my head

  Football/soccer, it’s Arsenal. Because it’s easy to remember.

  Baseball, I tend to go with whatever Sox team pops in my head, or the Dodgers.

  Past that, I couldn’t name a team for other sports tbh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it wrong of me not giving a shit when cops get killed? They signed up for the job know what it entails. Same with Firepeople. I feel bad 4 families but no one gives a shit about Nurses or DRs?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wrong, no, absolutely not.

  Not giving a shit isn’t inherently wrong. Can’t be because nobody has enough inner resources to give a shit about everything. I don’t give a shit about large swathes of the human population by dint of my give-a-shitter being defective from the beginning and having worn down significantly over the years.

  Like, I don’t want bad to happen to anyone lest it be being hoist by their own petard. You know, fuck around and find out. I have enough shadenfreude in me to appreciate someone fucking their own shit up by being an asshole.

  But even “innocent” people getting wiped out by floods or whatever, I just don’t have the fucking spoons.

  So, even the best cop in the world, 1000% what a cop should be instead of what most of them are, it just ain’t a big deal. Soldiers, or any other job where there’s danger inherent to it as well. That actually goes for my fellow medical folks too tbh. There’s some things where the assumption of risk is there, and when the risk eventually happens, it sucks, but I lack the energy to be upset when there’s just so much fuckery in the world that people don’t agree to.

  Unless there’s malice involved in why you don’t give a shit, who cares? Hell, even if there is malice, as long as you don’t try to make it happen, who cares?

  Empathy is not an infinite well. How it gets spent is only partially voluntary. So if there’s some segment of the world that just isn’t on your concern list, it’s fine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you give the fae a false name which others would identify you as, can they still use that false name to control you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, as always, it depends on who’s telling the story.

  Generally, one’s “true name” is the same thing as they were named at birth, if you’re a real human in our world. There are exceptions though! And yes, one of those exceptions is trans people. However, in real world terms, if a person has never internalized their birth name for any reason, then their true name would be up for grabs, in that they could choose or otherwise a true name of their own.

  Now, that is largely based on real world occult practices. But real world occult practices differ, sometimes significantly. There’s some branches of ceremonial magic that hold the birth name you be the true name. Others that it’s a chosen magical name that is never told to anyone, and a third “public” magical name is used for rites and rituals. So it isn’t like there’s only one way of thinking about this stuff in those belief systems.

  But what about the fey/sidhe/fairies or other supernatural entities in fiction (and yes, there’s a difference between literary fiction, mythology, and religious or spiritual beliefs in the real world. IDGAF if any given person wants to partake in those beliefs or not, they are different from fiction in several important ways that are off topic beyond saying that).

  Well, that’s when it comes down to the author/writer.

  A lot of writers of things set in our world, even when it’s a fictionalized version that works in a different way, tend to base their choices off of whatever mythology they’ve run across, then adapt that to their writing. So you run into a couple of different answers.

  Mostly, they go with the birth name being the true name. There’s exceptions, but it’s the dominant trope. In some cases, the birth name isn’t enough, it’s the exact way a person says and thinks their name that makes it true. Iirc, that’s part of the Dresden series if you want a specific example.

  That idea is where words carry more than just definitions, and names are more than just some random phonemes. The process of how we (or the characters) take our name and etch it into ourself through thought and speech is what makes it a true name. It’s a really neat idea tbh. Have you ever noticed that sometimes a mom or dad will say their kid’s name slightly different? Minor changes in inflection or emphasis.

  Plus, everyone sometimes says a name different. Your mom using your full name with stress in her voice hits harder than your friend introducing you to someone. And that’s different from the DMV (or equivalent) person calling your name as next. The words are the same, but the energy is different.

  So, the way we think of our name, inside, is ours in a way that nobody else can ever be exactly right unless we teach it to them. The way we speak it is different as well, but a supernatural entity in a story can overhear that part easy enough.

  Which all means that there’s no single answer to your question, but it’s still a damn fun one :)