CouldntCareBear
@CouldntCareBear@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 6 hours ago:
Amen. You have to stay away from that toxic commercialisation. It messes with your brain and stalls your progress in any hobby.
I think one of the best things about arts, crafts, sports, music and the like is that it has a built in resistance to that kind of commercial takeover. Having good pens will not make you better at art, good shoes won’t make you better at soccer, a fancier gym won’t give you bigger muscles. These things come from hard work, perseverance, dedication. You can’t buy skill no matter goes much money you have, I love that.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 7 hours ago:
Any art or craft or sport is pretty much free when you weigh up the hours vs the outlay required.
Except skiing and motorsports. That eats money.
- Comment on London venue ‘appalled’ after antisemitic imagery allegedly screened at Primal Scream gig 6 days ago:
I never said it was.
- Comment on London venue ‘appalled’ after antisemitic imagery allegedly screened at Primal Scream gig 6 days ago:
Did I say that?
- Comment on London venue ‘appalled’ after antisemitic imagery allegedly screened at Primal Scream gig 6 days ago:
That’s a very good point. And the flag kinda sums up Israel’s strategic conflation of anti Israel with anti Semitism.
I’m guessing from the phrasing of the article that this was the Star of David outside of the flag. Which I think is asking for an accusation of anti Semitism and could have been easily avoided.
- Comment on London venue ‘appalled’ after antisemitic imagery allegedly screened at Primal Scream gig 6 days ago:
Never heard of an opinion piece? Reporting people’s takes on a situation is very much part of journalism along with factual news.
When it’s done well, it can be really powerful and informative.
- Comment on London venue ‘appalled’ after antisemitic imagery allegedly screened at Primal Scream gig 6 days ago:
I’m sure it was anti genocide/ anti Zionism they were going for but they fucked up by using the Star of David. That pretty clearly targets the religion not the country.
- Comment on Do not recommend. 1 week ago:
I think that was potassium-permanganate and sugar. It was one of the saner recipes ( who really wants to blow their face off or smoke banana skins ) with somewhat easily available ingredients.
It was legit. But the temperature window between melting the ingredients together and igniting it was very narrow. We did what your friend did, we made the smoke bomb and also set it off in one go.
Your friend must’ve been in a while ton of shit.
- Comment on Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server" 2 months ago:
and none of it is indeed by search engines. No one else will ever be able to Google their problem and find the answer. All the useful knowledge put into a box and buried. It’s just awful.
- Comment on The Epstein Scandal Finally Takes Down a Politician 2 months ago:
Are you talking about anyone in particular?
- Comment on The Epstein Scandal Finally Takes Down a Politician 2 months ago:
The deputy prime minister was forced to resign just last week. The only higher position than that is PM.
- Comment on Lush temporarily closes all UK stores in 'solidarity with Gaza' 3 months ago:
removepaywalls.com/…/lush-cosmetics-gaza-stores-c…
I’m not your personal Google, why don’t you look for yourself.
- Comment on Lush temporarily closes all UK stores in 'solidarity with Gaza' 3 months ago:
theguardian.com/…/lush-closes-all-its-uk-stores-i…
Right at the end of the article.
They also closed their uk stores so their staff could attend the 2019 climate rally in the UK. They genuinely seem to be a good corporation.
- Comment on Lush temporarily closes all UK stores in 'solidarity with Gaza' 3 months ago:
Yes they are still paying staff.
- Comment on Anyone else notice this?? 3 months ago:
£2k. And £50 a year for a chimney sweep.
- Comment on Anyone else notice this?? 3 months ago:
Pretty sure heat pumps have higher maintenance costs as well.
Fire is dirt cheap, that’s why a good chunk of the world still uses it as their principal source of cooking and heating. They’re not doing it for the vibes.
Hear pumps are great, they have many advantages but cost is not one. Hopefully that’ll change.
- Comment on Anyone else notice this?? 3 months ago:
A heat pump is £10k to buy and install, that ain’t cheap. In fact that would buy me enough wood to heat my house for 50 winters.
- Comment on WTF is this ad in my recording app 6 months ago:
Yeah, they have some kind of formula that looks a bit like this… Something weird, something quasi-sexual, and actual products all mixed in together.
I get ones that always have something that looks like (but on closer inspection isn’t) sex toys or BDSM clothing or nudity. Stuff like that.
But I have to say, it definitely works on me, I’m like wtf is that, and then spend a good 30s decoding what it must mean.
- Comment on KFC drops pledge to stop using ‘Frankenchickens’ in the UK 1 year ago:
I remember this being announced to a big fan fare… And now it’s being quietly dropped. Shame on them. 1%? They didn’t even try.
- Comment on ‘Slow Horses’ Renewed for Season 5 at Apple TV+ (EXCLUSIVE) 1 year ago:
Good news. Awesome show so far.
- Comment on Players voted for some of the worst choices possible in the Steam Awards 1 year ago:
People vote for the game they recognise a good deal of the time.
- Comment on Environmental protester halt the world championship in cycling... one of the best alternatives to fuel driven transportation.... 2 years ago:
Do you mind? I’m trying to be righteously infuriated over here.