AnarchistArtificer

@AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's the truth⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s so good. I moved somewhere with a large Chinese community, so items like this are stocked in my local supermarket. I had heard about it and assumed it was overhyped, but after trying it, I see how versatile it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the living dead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well damn. I wasn’t expecting to be adding a new book to my reading list as a result of this thread, but y’all’s enthusiasm is such that I feel I have to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thoughts??⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is only tangentially related to your story, but you reminded me of an old maths teacher who had a PhD in maths and once upon a time, had applied to work at an accounting firm. As part of the interview, he was told that he would have to sit a numeracy assessment. He responded “you do know I have a PhD in maths, right?”. They sympathised with his point but told him that everyone had to sit the test, as a matter of course.

  So my maths teacher goes and sits their silly test, and he scores so well that they accuse him of cheating! I can only assume that this debacle broke him in some way, because it wasn’t long after this that he started teaching. It’s a particular kind of weirdo who has a PhD in a subject and decides to teach teenagers. He was probably one of the best teachers I ever had (I wonder if I can find contact information for him to tell him that)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thoughts??⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. I learned a lot of bioinformatics stuff from the ground up, because I was learning python at the time, and found it super useful as practice. Years later, I discovered rosalind.info and cursed the fact that I hadn’t had access to that when I was learning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deserved? Poll inside⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “I became sexually active at 26 after folks from the kink community noticed my nerdy vibe, and they schooled me in some basic human interaction.”

  Solidarity fist bump. My own experience was somewhat different, but there is the common ground of learning communication skills on a lag, and learning from a niche community of lovely weirdos

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At least the crippling depression isn’t mixed up with the wire. A functional organisation system isn’t a substitute for a will to live, but an inability to find the right tools would certainly not help

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s AI bot adds a ridiculous anime companion with ‘NSFW’ mode⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No sexy man companions? Psh. And they call us man haters

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How long have you been biking for you to see these changes? I.e. what is ‘lately’?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are probably games or other media that you love that the average Stardew Valley fan wouldn’t click with. You’re not missing out, you’ve just got other stuff you enjoy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can fix her⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hooking up with one of the staff? Yikes

  I don’t deny that you may have dodged a bullet, but I feel like the staff of a psych ward hooking up with patients is hella fucked up. Even if both people are adults, I think consent in that context is pretty dubious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just.....why?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am enjoying saying “Log back in to continue your Oral B brushing experience” in my best “customer-service/salesperson ad lady” voice. Like the kind of tone that’s so soullessly saccharine that it gives AI vibes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft EULA demanding consumers destroy delisted games adds fuel to Stop Killing Games movement⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems like the relevant section in the Ubisoft EULA says

  “Upon termination for any reason, You must immediately uninstall the Product and destroy all copies of the Product in Your possession.”

  I read this wording of this to be stricter than the BG3 example you shared, because the BG3 one seems to be saying “if you don’t agree to this EULA (or if you agree, but later terminate that agreement), then you must uninstall the game”. Whereas the Ubisoft one seems to include Ubisoft terminating the agreement, rather than just the user. That’s just my interpretation of these snippets though, as someone who is not a lawyer. It’s possible that the BG3 EULA also includes other parts that would mean similar to what people are unhappy about on the Ubisoft EULA

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft EULA demanding consumers destroy delisted games adds fuel to Stop Killing Games movement⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “A torrent is never dead, it’s just waiting for seeders”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Really?!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t typically experience imposter syndrome.

  However, it is my understanding that the majority of people I know seem to experience imposter syndrome (likely influenced by the fact that my social circle is mostly academics)

  Thus I seem to be the odd one out in this respect, paradoxically causing me to feel like an imposter for not experiencing imposter syndrome.

  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A sex worker friend told me that he had some homophobic (male) clients who didn’t seem to be gay, but frequented male sex workers. This confused me, but he explained that it seems to be part of a convoluted humiliation kink thing, rather than attraction.

  For example, I know a subby guy whose domme makes him kiss her feet. She does this because he finds feet gross, and thus ordering him thus is a humiliating and submissive act that he ultimately finds hot. This association has become strong enough that even outside of the specific context of scenes with his domme, he finds the prospect of footplay arousing, whilst simultaneously still being grossed out by feet. He finds the paradoxical vibes of this hilarious, and indeed, reports that it’s one of the things he finds fulfilling about kink play.

  In the case of homophobic straight men who have gay sex, it’s far more psychosexually complex. However, one plausible angle of it is that some men may actually just want to be pegged, but conservative attitudes may mean that being fucked by a woman with a strap-on is perceived as more taboo and transgressive than being fucked by another man.

  Another bizarre example my friend relayed to me was an instance of a man who engaged in gay sex as a form of self-harm that was felt to be deserved due to being insufficiently masculine. In this scenario, the homophobic client was topping. The guy apparently seemed to believe in a sort of “conservation of masculinity” in penetrative sex. For example, let’s say that any act of penetrative sex (anal or vaginal, it matters not) contains a total of 10 arbitrary units of masculinity. In this guy’s ideal of How Sex Should Be, the penetrative partner would contain all 10 units of masculinity, and his partner, with 0 units of masculinity, would be the mostly womanly woman to ever woman. However, this dude was pretty insecure in his masculinity, and he would probably rate himself as having only 6 units of masculinity. This is sufficient for him to feel comfortable being the one who penetrates his partner, but by the principle of conservation of masculinity, this would mean that “balanced” sex would involve a partner with 4 units of masculinity.

  I don’t intend to kink shame anyone, but frankly I find this bizarre, because it sounds like this guy is genuinely quite disgusted by having sex with another man (and likely not attracted to men either), but feels even more disgusted by the prospect of feeling insufficiently masculine and having sex with a woman. It’s like the gay sex is a punishment for not attaining the impossible ideal of hegemonic masculinity. I asked my friend if it wasn’t more likely that the dude is just gay and has a heckton of internalised homophobia to work through, but he was pretty sure of his assessment. I’m told that the job involves a surprising amount of “I’m not a therapist, but I’m the closest thing you have to one, so let’s talk”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Little Shoutout⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only water when the soil is dry at least an inch deep. When you do water, water thoroughly, until water is freely coming from the drainage holes in the bottom. An optional way to water thoroughly is to let the plant pot stand in a tray of water for half an hourish (I use an inch or so of water). This is called “bottom up watering”

  Make sure that any pot you use has drainage holes. A common mistake beginners make is to plant directly into decorative pots that have no drainage holes. This is bad because when the soil doesn’t have enough chance to dry out between waterings, it leads to root rot. You can still use a pretty pot if you want, just make sure that you have an inner pot with drainage holes that you can take out of the exterior pot when it’s watering time. (The decorative exterior pots can be useful for causing things to tip over less).

  Finally, don’t assume that succulents or cacti will be happy in bright, direct sun. They can still get scorched.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please remember to spread the word about this :(⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t it only work if you then return to a lower altitude? I wonder how long the benefits last for.

  Now that I think about it, I don’t actually know how this even works. Well I know what I’m going to go read about next.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please remember to spread the word about this :(⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  100% of people exposed to oxygen die.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alley cat lunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “My grandma once served my grandfather his breakfast in an ash tray because she was so sick of him putting out his ciagrettes on the plates.”

  Ha, this is an excellent story

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨url.town: a a catalog of interesting and useful links⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve not used it, but I’ve heard a lot of good things about Helix

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As neglected as the 7 button on a microwave⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Seeing your reply in my inbox reminded me that I got up to get some ice-cream, but forgot again en route to the freezer. On the bright side, it means I still have ice-cream in my freezer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hades II - The Unseen Update Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Multiple new scylla songs too, Supergiant are spoiling us.”

  Awesome. I love how catchy the Scylla songs are

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As neglected as the 7 button on a microwave⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for reminding me that I have ice cream in

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people hate drinking water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Perchance do you have autism and/or ADHD? I ask because I experience the same thing as you do, and for me, it feels like it derives from my autism/ADHD. Like, sometimes the first cue that I am severely dehydrated is that I get a headache. I get a similar thing with hunger, where I could legitimately go for multiple days without noticing I’m hungry if I don’t get reminded that food is a thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hope i don't get downvoted for this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I find the wide variety of ace experiences super interesting. For my part, I’m bi and also demisexual (and I have been working hard at practicing not ace-erasing myself).

  An example of the interesting variety I mean is how libido and attraction aren’t necessarily coupled, and also that even besides those factors, there’s a spectrum of ace attitudes towards sex. I had a friend who had a high libido, but was also quite sex-repulsed. That is to say that she masturbated plenty, but had no inclination towards sex. This caused some tension when she entered into a romantic relationship with an allosexual woman who had some difficulty understanding an ace person being both sex repulsed and high libido (though tbf, my friend was learning how to navigate the line between enjoyable cuddles and unpleasantly sexual stuff. She also tried to fit into the model of aceness similar to what you describe, but she found that her discomfort with sex was such that it made her feel less close to her partner (in contrast to how our sex-ambivalent ace friends had described their experiences).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica Is Coming To Android/iOS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The early-mid game is one of my favourite gaming experiences of all time. It’s usually the most part of a survival/crafting game, but I was surprised by how well Subnautica was peppered intrigue.

  As you and many others on this thread have said though, a mobile port seems odd. Even if the UI were reworked, I can’t imagine that players would be able to feel the same sense of awe that I associate with the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I discovered my partner was an undercover police officer sent to spy on me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The legal battle was a civil suit, based more on the violations of Kate Wilson’s human rights, than on the legality of actions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black Mirror AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Markov Babble” would make a great band name

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For the little guys.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, I didn’t expect to get a soundtrack accompaniment to my science meme. I really enjoyed this, thank you for sharing it with us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yep⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This image saved my life once: [image] (slrpnk.net/…/89e6fccc-0aea-4791-8f53-27a24ef51fe5…)

  Image description: Roughly written graffiti on a wall that says “I’m fucking fed up and tired and I want to die but living is the most punk shit I’ve ever fucking done”