SomeAmateur
@SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 5 days ago:
Yup we shoud normalize gardening and canning. It’s a thing my grandparents knew. Their families survived times of world wars, dust bowls and the great depression. They probably didn’t have much choice in the moment but even when times got better they kept up a wonderful little garden. Kid me didn’t get why they didn’t just buy the things they needed.
I love the conveniences of modern farming and I use it every day. But like all big industialized systems they can be fragile. Covid was a huge problem for a lot of indistries and thankfully farming wasn’t really one of them. But if it was countless people would have struggled.
I’m not really a prepper or anything crazy but I don’t want to forget the lessons learned just a few decades ago- gardening is great and worth the effort.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 5 days ago:
You can have both and it doesn’t need to compete with industrial farming.
But it lets you grow the stuff you want how you want and eat it fresh without taking days and trucks on a highway to get it to you. If it didn’t have a positive impact why did they push victory gardens so much in WW2?
It feels good, teaches valuable skills and gives you healthy things to eat. It’s more than simply therapeutic.
- Comment on Ripperonis 6 days ago:
Lol just imagine thinking you’re going on a sweet spontaneous date only to realize you’ll be blasted by hurricane force wind for hours
- Comment on Another day another dollar 1 week ago:
It would be kind of interesting (and probably terrifying) if it acted like our wind tho
- Comment on Just asking questions 1 week ago:
I’m not a fan of phrase “trust the science” without any further explanation. Like okay we obviously don’t know everything in your field but you can at least attempt to explain like we’re 5. Otherwise it’s just “trust me bro, you’re too dumb to understand” and that’s not good for everyone.
- Comment on Old comic, more relevant than ever 1 week ago:
Lol go for it just send me a screenshot of the slide!
- Comment on Old comic, more relevant than ever 1 week ago:
Yeah it’s been improving over the past few months. It’s hit or miss though
- Comment on Old comic, more relevant than ever 1 week ago:
I ran that through Bing AI real quick lol
- Comment on Soup 1 week ago:
Inside Out was inspired by an exec sneaking a peak at his head (jk)
- Comment on Academic Rizzlers 2 weeks ago:
Hans get the flammenwerfer
- Comment on can't stop won't stop 2 weeks ago:
If they get married it might be altar history
- Comment on party poopers 2 weeks ago:
I would say immediately before lunch. After makes me sleepy
- Comment on The horrors we've unleashed 2 weeks ago:
Ah I’m dumb thanks!
- Comment on The horrors we've unleashed 2 weeks ago:
funny af but why put this on science memes?
- Comment on Political Science 2 weeks ago:
Now that’s a proposition I can get behind 🤝
- Comment on How often do you use the small pocket inside your jeans pocket (if you have it) ? and what for ? 3 weeks ago:
All the time now! When I bought my flashlight (Sofirn SC-21) I learned that it fits perfect so that’s where it goes now
- Comment on Caption this. 3 weeks ago:
How the airbenders were destroyed
- Comment on Who decides when the US goes to "war" 4 weeks ago:
Right and when was the last time that process was actually followed?
- Comment on What's a small cleared space in a forest where people can live called? 4 weeks ago:
That movie with the snakes on a plane?
- Comment on it works! only 99.99$! 5 weeks ago:
Google results vary per person because of all the ways data is collected and assumptions are made about what you’d like to see. I believe the term is filter bubbles.
Idk if anything has changed since but a high school teacher showed us this in a computer lab. She gave us an exact phrase to type in and the search results. They were similar enough to be useful but had significant differences in what the first page showed.
- Comment on it's literally happening 5 weeks ago:
Outer Wilds Soundtrack Begins
Oh no
- Comment on Have you ever seen coal in real life? 1 month ago:
That’s where I last saw it, my very old neighbor had an equally old farmhouse. The road had natual gas put in decades before but she still had a small pile of unused coal she used to use
rip mary you were the sweetest
- Comment on How do you keep your homes clean? 1 month ago:
As a wise friend once said about home repairs “It’s easier to keep up than to catch up”
You can do a lot at once, you can do a little all the time but either way you have to clean regularly to stay on top of it.
- Comment on Apex predators 1 month ago:
Standard Issue Cats have the best camo. I’m curious about black cats though. In human scale camo black tends to stand out and makes annobvious silhouette even at night. But some black outdoor cats do really well at hunting, even in wide open meadows
- Comment on degree in bamf 1 month ago:
They could have simply said “post doc”. Race/gender adds nothing to the story and is unneccesary. Like they said if it was any other combo of race/gender it would be seen as racist so why add it?
- Comment on Fucking finally! 2 months ago:
I’d be down
- Comment on Swoon 2 months ago:
EDF! EDF!
- Comment on Beware: beyond lies an infinite, timeless void from which there is no escape. 2 months ago:
Death Star designers avoided lawsuits with this simple trick!
- Comment on What's the point of American police saying "Show your hands" after they shot a man? 3 months ago:
I agree. That’s the thing with the use of force continuum though, you aren’t obligated to go step by step. If you have pepper spray, a baton and a gun and someone is kicking your ass to within an inch of your life you can go straight to gun.
- Comment on What's the point of American police saying "Show your hands" after they shot a man? 3 months ago:
I saw a body cam video of a female officer confronting a (probably homeless) dude hopped up on drugs. She was on her own in this situation without backup which was fucked up in it’s own right but this guy just keeps walking towards her closer and closer. Eventually she draws, warns him she’ll shoot if he gets closee and ends up firing twice.
This guy took two rounds to the chest at damn near arms reach and didn’t even fucking blink. He turned around, walked to a corner, layed down and died there iirc