ThePyroPython
@ThePyroPython@lemmy.world
- Comment on dating profile 5 days ago:
No it says he’s an artist, clearly this is high-quality artisanal cheese.
- Comment on Always the cat! 5 days ago:
He’s trying to be an elite HackerCat but right now he’s just a ScriptKitty.
- Comment on *Yawn* 1 week ago:
- Comment on *Yawn* 1 week 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 week 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 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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:
- 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).
- 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.
- 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... 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Ay! Lancashire finally gets acknowledged in a meme! Suck it Yorkshire, we got one now!
- Comment on Fucking genetics 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 5 weeks ago:
Given that it’s Northampton, I’m in favour of this population reduction strategy.
- Comment on What happened? Huh? You lil bitch? 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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] 5 weeks ago:
Having interacted with the British public on a regular basis, I can confirm: they don’t know owt!
- Comment on Physics! 5 weeks ago:
Oh boy, just wait until you hear about zero-crossings and phase-lock loops.
- Comment on Physics! 5 weeks ago:
Let’s not forget they’re fiddling strange multi pronged metal sticks, muttering about impedance matching, in a giant spiky room with large metal doors.
- Comment on If people don't trust climate science, how will we ever get them to change? 1 month ago:
Sorry to quibble but that line was delivered by Goldfinger not Dr. No.
- Comment on British citizens serving in the IDF can now be tried for war crimes in the UK 1 month ago:
Nope they’re just wind socks that blow in the direction of public opinion and private interests.
- Comment on Mid Career Marine Biology 1 month ago:
Why would an assassin go after a Marine Biologist? Does OP happen to be Dirk Pitt?
- Comment on Dog attacks are still rising - even after the XL bully ban 1 month ago:
Anyone who wants an animal as a pet that is more of handful than a goldfish, hamster, or rabbit needs to pay for a license to own it.
I have known too many people that own a dog(s) that they can’t take care of properly due to work or other life circumstances.
The fee will go to the local authority to offset the cleaning of dog shit they have to do. The fines still remain in place.
I’m trying to think of other irresponsible actions from other types of pet owners, but I can’t think of any.
Please comment below or I ammend my proposal to being dog-owners only.
- Comment on Pubs could stay open until early hours in move to boost UK growth 1 month ago:
Honestly, I support this.
Pubs are constantly getting squeezed out by competition from supermarkets and whilst I’m not a big drinker or even a regular at a pub, it’s a part of British culture that should be preserved.
HOWEVER, if we’re talking about legal reforms to preserve pub culture, there’s many other issues that need addressing.
Examples include: Brewery-owned pubs being one of the worst types of franchise business for squeezing “owners” out of every last penny and having a ridiculous amount of control on how the pub is run even if the Landlord/lady has other ideas about how it should be run.
The power of brewerys over the pubs they control needs to be weakened.
It’s fairly easy to convert a pub into a single residencey and little to no planning permission is required. It’s impossible to return a former pub back to being a pub even if the community consents. Given that pub is short for “Public House” when more of these were vital parts of the community, said community should have first right-to-buy dibs to keep it going for the community.
Freehouses should have lower rates and brewerys should not be allowed to pressure freehouses into dropping that status in exchange for not paying exorbitant prices for produce.
Weatherspoons and StoneGate need to be broken up and the Franchise model needs replacing with a Cooperative model.
And as a last example, repealing the ban on gambling games and replacing it with more sensible regulation. E.g. games cannot allow the house to take a cut of winnings, must be organised by a regular patron, limited to a single night of the week, with a simple one page from registering with the gambling association so the appropriate authorities are aware, and a limit on the monetary value per round.
That last one is two fold:
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Small friendly bets on card games in pubs is less likely to drain gambling-prone people’s income than a betting shop and comes with an inbuilt support network.
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Smaller “don’t-take-the-piss” events and clubs with a light touch of regulation is much better for keeping the peace and not causing social problems than letting large corporate betting shops swallow the high street whole along with desperate and addicted people’s money to a tax haven.
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- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 2 months ago:
No, I AM PIZZAIUS!
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 2 months ago:
It’s not an expensive hobby to get into, I did my first game in about 10 years, enjoyed it so much that I got hyperfixated and went all in because I know I love this hobby.
£110 for Airsoft rifle £180 on starter clothing (undershirt, shirt, trousers, imitation plate carrier, ammo pouches, pistol holster, gloves, mesh eye mask, and large bag to shove it all in) £40 spent so far on BBs £40 for first site session (outdoor woodland) £20 for second site session (indoor CQB) £40 for third site session (outdoor abandoned base) £50 on a piccatiny rail mounted torch with pressure pad
Petrol costs travelling to sites, food, drink not included, I’ve so far spent £480.
Having said that, I have nothing else to buy right now so that’ll last me a good while.
Whilst I’m not in the shit financially from this spending spree, DON’T DO WHAT I DID, that was a bit reckless of me.
- Comment on whats your dumb purchases? 2 months ago:
So I might have gotten into Airsoft before my paycheck has arrived… Sorry wallet, you’ll feel better in a few days time.
- Comment on I'd read that 2 months ago:
Would that make Deckard a Can Opener?
- Comment on Do you truly believe that this is a human being? 2 months ago:
You misspelt his middle name.
It’s Charlie “human fountain” Kirk.
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 2 months ago:
Once a month.
It’s actually become a bit of a self-care routine because I go to a Turkish barbers who’ll also do ear hair burning off (nowhere near as intense as you’re imagining), noise hair waxing, and a hot towel cut-throat shave.
I actually like the sensations from them all and I walk out feeling clean and fresh, gives me a monthly little boost of confidence.