TheRealKuni
@TheRealKuni@lemmy.world
- Comment on Home Depot 1 day ago:
I loaded a deck joist into my Scion tC when I realized one of mine was rotten (while replacing the boards). I put it through the sunroof into the “trunk” (it’s a hatchback) and drove home like a majestic blue unicorn. It was beautiful.
Got home and my neighbor said, “You could’ve asked!” while gesturing to his pickup truck.
I said, “I wanted to see if it would work!”
- Comment on How come LED Light Bulbs only last for about 2-3 Years? 3 days ago:
I’d be shocked if there aren’t.
- Comment on How come LED Light Bulbs only last for about 2-3 Years? 4 days ago:
- Comment on How come LED Light Bulbs only last for about 2-3 Years? 4 days ago:
Technology Connections seems to think they’re better and last longer, and I trust him implicitly.
- Comment on Oxygen 4 days ago:
Nah. Takes more delta v to get the evidence to the sun than to throw it out of the solar system.
- Comment on Why do phone manufacturers use in-display fingerprint readers instead of fingerprint readers on the power button? 5 days ago:
In my experience iPhone FaceID works fine at night, with brightness all the way down. It shines infrared at you (you can vaguely see some light red emitting from next to the camera, some bleed from the infrared) and then captures that with the camera. It might also use LiDAR, I’m not totally sure. It even unlocks while I’m wearing my CPAP, believe it or not, because since the updates to make it work with masks it pays more attention to the area around the eyes.
- Comment on Why do phone manufacturers use in-display fingerprint readers instead of fingerprint readers on the power button? 6 days ago:
I will admit when I went to the Dark Side I was shocked by how much I like Face ID. I do miss having the in-screen fingerprint reader when I’m wearing a mask, SOMETIMES, but even that has improved in the time I’ve owned an iPhone.
But yeah, on my OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition and OnePlus 7T Pro 5G McLaren Edition (damn I loved those phones so much) the in-screen reader was excellent.
- Comment on Neuronita 6 days ago:
I can’t find Saddam Hussein.
- Comment on He's on a mission of knowledge 1 week ago:
“You’re an idiot, J.D.”
- Comment on Condiments 1 week ago:
This is delightful.
- Comment on What interesting things can I do with my home WiFi network? 1 week ago:
If you can someone do it to the CEO’s private jet for his 1,000 mile commute to work a few times a week that’d be cool.
- Comment on When and why did democrats begin supporting fracking? 1 week ago:
US presidential elections aren’t about swaying your base. They’re about swaying very specific swing states.
The electoral college means pushing to the center is the only way for progressives to win an election. Conservatives can generally do what they want, they have an inherent advantage in the electoral college.
Giving up the chance to make small change because you refuse to compromise only means that, within the system we have here, we end up backsliding. Every small improvement is hard won, and giving up means dramatic losses.
It’s a shit system, but it’s the system we currently have to work with.
- Comment on The heart wants what the heart wants 1 week ago:
I’ve been trying to figure out the recipe so I can put it on everything.
- Comment on The heart wants what the heart wants 1 week ago:
It is great, but I prefer it with steak. And ALWAYS extra creamy jalapeño sauce!
- Comment on The heart wants what the heart wants 1 week ago:
The steak BREAKFAST Crunchwrap is the greatest thing.
- Comment on How do you set up wake up alarm and not miss it ? 2 weeks ago:
There is an app called Sleep As Android that I used to use. You put your phone on your bed next to you and it tries to determine what level of sleep you’re in. You tell it when you’d like to get up and if it detects that you’re in a lighter stage of sleep within a certain amount of time before that, it triggers the alarm. You’re then more likely to hear it, and more likely to feel rested, than if it went off like, twenty minutes later.
Also played nice with WearOS watches.
- Comment on Bread 2 weeks ago:
That’s fair! Whatever works for your situation.
- Comment on Bread 2 weeks ago:
I use the twist-and-tuck and the fridge in combination. Works well. When I worked at a restaurant we did the twist-and-tuck, but never needed to refrigerate bread because we went through it fast enough.
- Comment on Bread 2 weeks ago:
That’s why I live that chaotic neutral life.
- Comment on Bread 2 weeks ago:
You’ve never ended up with stale or moldy bread? I’m envious.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 3 weeks ago:
equivilating
I think the word you’re looking for is “equating.”
“Equivilating” is not a word.
“Equivocating” is, but it means to deceive without lying by creatively telling the truth, to seem you’re saying one thing while really saying something else. This is an art form if you play a lawful good face character and your DM says you aren’t allowed to lie.
- Comment on That's a big burger 4 weeks ago:
Flerfs can’t understand scale, they can’t understand 3d space, they can’t understand distances, they can’t understand pretty much anything. The world is scary for them, they deserve our pity AND scorn. If only they paid attention in school
They certainly deserve our pity. They’re lonely people who were never great in school and now get to think they’re smarter than others AND have found a community that accepts them.
Unfortunately the very pressures that made them susceptible to the flat earth movement and other conspiracies are the same pressures that keep them from accepting that they’re wrong. “Scorn” probably isn’t a useful tool, even if it feels like the right one (and they absolutely deserve it).
The Socratic method would be far more effective. Continue to ask them questions, accepting as a given that they’re intelligent people and treating them as such. Innocently interrogate them, with genuine interest, about the things they are saying until they reason themselves out of their positions.
But this will only work if they’re someone you know, most likely. Otherwise they’re likely to shun you the first time they come across a question that truly shakes their position.
- Comment on That's a big burger 4 weeks ago:
There’s a fascinating documentary, Behind the Curve. It talks about how, for a lot of these people, it began with the thrill of having some secret knowledge that others don’t, and then found they had a community and felt included for the first time in their lives (for some of them). That sense of community is really important to humans, so now, just like religion, there is more binding people to the movement than just the hidden knowledge.
(If I’m remembering correctly. I may be conflating it, it’s been a while since I watched it.)
- Comment on Different strokes 4 weeks ago:
Literally a Weird Al song.
- Comment on Wise man 4 weeks ago:
(Not so) fun fact, the answer to this question changes if you’re a Young Earth Creationist.
Obviously the egg came first, because ancestors of modern chickens were laying eggs long before they resembled chickens.
But YECs say that the chicken came before the egg, because they were created as adult animals. And they’ll tell you this with confidence.
Source: grew up a YEC surrounded by YECs.
- Comment on Flyswatters 4 weeks ago:
Could be! If I recall correctly a properly snapped towel breaks the sound barrier. That mini sonic boom is probably pretty disruptive to a little fly!
- Comment on The Sam Vimes boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness 5 weeks ago:
That is essentially the car version of the Sam Vimes “Boots” Theory of Economic Unfairness.
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
-Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
- Comment on I feel like a flashbang went off in my head, so the only question that I can think of is, "What now?" (Details in body.) 5 weeks ago:
I feel you on this fear, but that fear can be aired in therapy. Therapy is ENORMOUSLY helpful. And, not to play the What-If game, could potentially have salvaged your romantic relationship had it been brought in earlier. (I do not say this to make you feel shitty, but so anyone else struggling may see it.)
My wife and I started therapy at the first of our communication problems. We figured we have our car in for regular tune-ups, why not our marriage? And our therapist was thrilled. He said he wished more married couples began the process when they still got along well, because it’s easier.
But it’s definitely worth it even late in the game. Getting an outside, trained perspective on navigating the issues you have as a couple can dramatically improve quality of life. Even if you never expect to be romantic partners again, it can make you work better as a team for the reasons you mentioned.
I cannot recommend couples’ therapy enough.
- Comment on Colorblindness check! 1 month ago:
if she were XY in this scenario, wouldn’t that mean that she’d pass that trait along to her kids as well?
I could be wrong, but I don’t believe XY females (Swyer syndrome) produce eggs and thus cannot bear their own children.
But a colorblind XX woman who can bear children would give birth to colorblind sons and, if the father of the child is also colorblind, colorblind daughters.
- Comment on Science saves lives 1 month ago:
Man, they’re all a fav. I’m finishing up a full read-through, and until The Embuggerance every book seemed better than the one before it. Even after The Embuggerance they’re still excellent.
GNU Terry Pratchett