ThePyroPython

@ThePyroPython@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give me some good ones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Best one is to respond to something they say with “Oh that’s quite interesting” in the flatest tone possible, then move the conversation on to a different topic or exit.

  Works particularly well on Americans because in American English “quite” is an amplifier modifier but their brain will be confused by the flat (not sarcastic) tone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Wagon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you ok mate? Do you need a cup of tea and a lie down?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Wagon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The only guys who’d get mad at this either have some unresolved homophobia or are generally avoidant of touch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ben swag...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This meme is old enough to start puberty…

  Ow my bones!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sweet ancestry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah that’s a common question about ethnicity usually an optional question filled out in case there’s some legal process in the future trying to determine if there’s underlying discrimination from poor treatment/service to a specific group when a legal complaint has been lodged.

  I’m talking about the weird obsession some Americans have with determining what % of their genes originated from other countries.

  The closest it’s gotten for me is usually a conversation about family history which most of the time is usually “A country on my father’s side and B country on my mother’s side”. But they’ve never broken it down into percentages before like it’s some sort of eugenic recipe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🎵 It means something something... 🎵⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Timon and Pumba must volunteer for every UK mental health phoneline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sweet ancestry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly don’t know anyone but Americans who do this. Has anyone else encountered someone white who wasn’t American boast about their mixed “genealogy”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Massive disruption’: UK’s worst-case climate crisis scenarios revealed by scientists⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So temperatures will drop by an average of 6 degrees and sea levels will rise by 2 meters freezing and drowning all the reform voters that inhabit the dilapidated former tourist coastal towns?

  Excellent! I’ll keep my engine running then.

  Because an environmental collapse making these cunts suffer is apparently easier to implement than stopping a dozen rich fuckers from hoarding all the wealth, causing socioeconomic problems, which leads to people voting in these fascists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Santa is working on those lists⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They want to be his “nughtmare” before Christmas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suddenly all of Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this like the breans thing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are ultimately only so many damn angles, okay!?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get what you’re implying but in the literal sense you’re wong.

  Both men and women have a single primary sex characteristic: the equipment between one’s legs.

  Just getting a close up picture of any set of equipment is ok but it doesn’t show the whole package.

  The rest are secondary and girls have been constantly listing things like really liking buttocks, arms, shoulders, chest, eyes, smile. If you want to take better spicy pictures, think about how to frame other physical attributes as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fawlty towers?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Track 1: 'Tis a silly place

  Track 2: Fuck tha Rabbit!

  Track 3: 8 Fall (into the Gorge of Eternal Peril)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s a simple trick:

  Apply misogyny and sexism /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dating profile⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No it says he’s an artist, clearly this is high-quality artisanal cheese.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always the cat!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s trying to be an elite HackerCat but right now he’s just a ScriptKitty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Yawn*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, whilst you can’t “swallow” it, the term is still used for teaching first aid courses, because it’s memorable and having people memorise proceedure correctly is more important than grammatical correctness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Yawn*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The tounge muscle is always tensed one way or another. Whilst it wouldn’t slip all the way down your gullet to be digested in your stomach it when fully relaxed, which only happens when unconscious (not asleep) there is a risk that it can slip back and block your throat passage. This phenomenon is known as “swallowing your tongue” on the multiple basic first aid courses I have attended as a thing you check for when rendering first aid to someone that’s unconscious: check for blocked air passages and remove visible blockages including the tongue if it has slipped back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Yawn*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also you’re all now aware that your tongue is never fully relaxed in your mouth.

  If it was, you’d swallow it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can do anything at Zombocom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I am so conflicted about this meme; on the one hand I’m in awe at this bodge into the RCA port and on the other the caption made my eye twitch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you beat post-work floppiness?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a good dozen of great suggestions in the comments here for tips to sort out various things like cooking, etc. (I have saved a few for myself later).

  So instead I’ll offer some meta advice for making these things feel effortless:

  1. Find the paths of least resistance and chain them together.

  Look at the additional activities you want to add on to your day before/after work and figure out what is the most effortless way to trigger starting one activity when the previous one ends.

  For example, back in April I wanted to start going to the gym regularly so I did three things: put together a gym bag with enough sets of gym clothes for the week’s exercise, keep that gym bag in my car, and joined a gym as close to my place of work as possible.

  By doing this I was able to build “going to the gym” into my commute home from work. I have managed to keep up the habit of three gym sessions a week since then (with the occasional miss due to illness or other life events getting in the way).

  2. Make the good habits obvious and the bad ones obscure.

  I struggled all my life with something so basic; remembering to brush my teeth both in the morning and at night. So what I did last year was use the IKEA peg board thing and found some holders for my toothbrush and toothpaste. That pegboard is right next to my bedroom door so I have to walk past my toothbrush whenever I leave the room as a visual trigger to go brush my teeth.

  Think about how you can position physical reminders in your space to do the activities you want to do.

  Or use your phone’s calendar/to do list app of your choice to book in reminders to nudge you into getting started.

  3. Just five minutes to get started and if necessary do the bare minimum badly.

  Whenever I’m feeling tired but there’s a task that needs doing I ask myself “will this take five minutes or less?”. If the answer is yes, then I just do it there and then.

  If it’s something that will take more than five minutes to complete to 100% then I say to myself “ok I’m tired but I’m just going to do five minutes of it and see how I’m feeling then”. This works out great for the gym example. Today on the way home from work I was knackered but I told myself to just do the five minutes as the bare minimum. Once I’d done a few minutes of exercise I felt like I was achieving and then pushed past the five minutes for a good 30 minutes before deciding that was enough for today.

  And yes, there have been days when I literally just did the five minutes and stopped. But that didn’t matter, because I still completed what I set as the bare minimum. Those minimums still get me closer to my goals and therefore they’re still a win. So long as I’m getting just one more of these little wins over losing (i.e. not going to the gym) then the progress keeps stacking and the good habit continues to form.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2³² will get interesting...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do I get the feeling this kind of logic is used by modern day economists to justify inflation?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need a superwholock style community for these three shows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ay! Lancashire finally gets acknowledged in a meme! Suck it Yorkshire, we got one now!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking genetics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  THANK YOU! I’m slowly getting a widow’s peak and desperately want the full Riker beard before I lose my hairline. I’ll see if can get some of that stuff!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't have nice things⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just that, it’s the whole system.

  The human brain has a perception rate of motion up to 300 frames per second and visual data up to 1000 frames per second. Now it’s non-sensical to think of the human eye and brain like a CMOS image sensor and CPU because they simply do not run on the same principles but for the sake of argument we’ll take the upper limit of 1000 frame per second because the brain relies on an intuitive sense of hand-eye position that needs to be processed unconsciously for it to react fast enough to environmental stimulation.

  So that’s 1000 times a second minimum (1kHz) for the whole VR system to measure the change in relative position of the controller to the headset in 3 spacial dimensions, 5 degrees of freedom, the acceleration of that change, packet up these numbers, transmit them via a radio link to the headset, unpack that data in multiple processing threads all waiting for their sprint in a CPU core, get repackaged for other threads a dizzying amount of times, be used in calculations for the game’s physics engine, which then produces graphics data shoved through a HUGE buffer to the GPU before that sends the appropriate electrical signals to 100,000 of nanoscale LED lights to shine into your retinas.

  So yeah, it might suck a bit of power and it’s a fucking miracle that GNERATIONS of engineers around the world have contributed incalculable hours of their lives to ensure that your beat saber or goon session last just slightly longer than your stamina!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great to see some actual progress over there⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also the Rochdale Herald.

  Rochdale makes Northern Post Industrial Shitholes look like Star Trek San Francisco.

  Source: grew up around there, the trains(and then Trams) run twice as fast through there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Didn't workout for me, do you guys have other advices?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Given that it’s Northampton, I’m in favour of this population reduction strategy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened? Huh? You lil bitch?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ship GPS, Transponders, Sonar, weather information from a data feed, and the large scale deployment of sea monitoring bouys allowing us to observe and measure storms and rogue waves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why supermarket prices really became sky high in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that poorly implemented price controls would be a bad idea because without proper considerations you end up with bread queues for crops or what we have currently for the energy market where the government is forced to cover losses from unsellable wind power because the energy companies don’t want to turn off the gas baseline so they can charge the highest electric rate possible.

  Trying to wrangle market forces is nigh on impossible which is why the most effective ways to incentivise and deincentivise economic activity is through tax-breaks and raising taxes respectively.

  An example would be a land tax and a brown-field rebate. You want to stop property developers from buying up land just to sit on it waiting for the value to increase so that more housing and infrastructure can be built so you implement a land tax to stop them from sitting on said land and do something useful with it. At the same time you don’t want them to be paving over an easy to develop on green space when a brown-field site would be much more preferable so you give them some rebate money to cover additional clean up costs before development work can begin.

  We already have effective economic tools before us to leverage the speed that a free market can move at by giving them a very clear preferred direction by influencing profitability indirectly.

  So I don’t see how opening a chain of stores that provides basic essentials that would compete on the open market is akin to price controls or the fall out from it.

  Large chain supermarkets like Tesco, ASDA, and Aldi put enormous pressure on farmers to reduce the purchase price per tonne by leveraging their huge market share. If you don’t want to agree to sell to Tesco at the price they negotiate, fine, but you’ll struggle to shift that volume that Tesco would buy to other suppliers.

  This is why owner-operator farmers, despite being wealthy in terms of land can see little income financially from the sale of their crops and produce. This is also why they’re slowly selling off land for housing development or selling the whole farm to a larger international farming conglomerate who can compete on the same scale of supermarket chains like Tesco.

  This is not good for food security, which is going to come under further strain from climate change as yield prediction will become increasingly harder.

  So why not create a nationalised retainer that can buy these goods for a better price per tonne for the farmers and sell them at or slightly below market rate to the consumer because they’re not beholden to increasing supermarket shareholder value quarter on quarter?

  With that massive financial pressure gone all they have to do is price goods to cover the costs of buying produce, distribution, and all the usual overheads (wages, etc.).

  This way the corporately operated supermarkets either have to compete on price and offer better deals to farmers or find a different way to add value.

  It’s the same logic behind Great British Energy just with food security rather than energy security.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why supermarket prices really became sky high in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  • Supermarket bosses and shareholder greed.

  I’m with Zack who wants to do what Mandini is proposing: start a Nationally owned supermarket chain.

  British farmers get paid fairly and consumers get lower prices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Having interacted with the British public on a regular basis, I can confirm: they don’t know owt!