Contramuffin

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Felt the need to carve a pumpkin this year, and so attempted to depict my favourite video game spooky guys⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Gives a strangely similar vibe to seeing the slide reels. Pretty cool!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨plump pumkins⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How does that work? Selective breeding? Fertilizer? Growth hormones? New growing techniques? What is it that’s allowing these pumpkins to get bigger and bigger?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ANTI PEE PAINT⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like Wii Tanks, but with pee. Fun to play with your friends!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remedy CEO Tero Virtala steps down after nine years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I liked Control but Alan Wake was a sludge. Its age really shows. That being said, it wasn’t necessarily bad enough that I couldn’t tank through the game, but if Control were in lower A tier, Alan Wake would be upper C tier

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you done US district court jury duty? What CAN I bring with me to the courthouse?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  State, I think?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you done US district court jury duty? What CAN I bring with me to the courthouse?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems the rules are different for me than for you. I brought my backpack with my laptop. I did work during breaks. Or used my phone. I just made sure all electronics were off when in the court room. And I’m pretty sure I brought my water bottle too. The one thing that the security did enforce was my pepper spray, which I had to remove and hide in a bush outside. I’m not sure if that helps at all.

  One thing you can do is to leave your laptop/things in the car. You can leave the building during breaks and then just come back into the building before the session restarts. That was what most of the jury did during breaks during my time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[USA] Is "there are ICE agents roaming the streets" a good reason/excuse to avoid going outside? Or is it just a part of reality that you have to learn to accept?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My gut instinct is that your mother may be wanting something else but doesn’t know how to put it into words. Not to say that she right, but I can definitely relate to that emotion.

  Speaking as a person who is close to someone who is depressed, there is a sort of mental drain and negativity-by-diffusion associated with being near someone who is depressed, and it’s really difficult to put into words. I can know full well that depression is a clinical illness and that the other person can’t help it, but I will still get frustrated over their inability to match my energy.

  If your depression and anxiety are as limiting as you say they are, it may be a good idea to talk to a therapist and get some medicine for that. Speaking from my own observations, you can definitely fight depression, but only to a small extent. Severe depression and anxiety are debilitating to the point where you will need medicine just to get close to what a regular person might feel

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon shops for diamonds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You might be thinking of cubic zirconium, which is another replacement for diamond. That one is softer, but my understanding is that it’s still quite difficult to scratch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can mental health medication change nature of dreams?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My girlfriend said that her dreams got more vivid and serious once she started taking her meds

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tag yourself⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Split between wild card and corner cutter (start from one corner and expand outwards to form a triangle)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How could I order a package without my parents finding it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not all fungi are saprotrophic, and there’s definitely different degrees of unsanitary. I wouldn’t want my stuff being grown in untreated human waste

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨smol⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or maybe Hearthians are just small. Would make sense why gravity is so weak

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you introduce the Fediverse to other people?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would not talk about the technical aspects of the fediverse at all. Most people genuinely don’t care and they’ll immediately ignore everything else you say if you start talking about what federation is.

  Instead, the best introduction is to talk about what they will directly experience if they use the fediverse. I would say something like, it’s basically reddit/twitter, but with no ads and not run by a corpo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 OP⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to need some source for this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do school shooters know how to use guns?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Shooting is like driving a car. A baby could do it. Few can do it safely.

  Using a gun is really easy. And I suspect school showers aren’t particularly concerned about safety, so that’s not an issue for them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Awooga⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Skimmed the article. It happened over 6 months, starting from 1 week post-vaccine. Started with a tingling feeling. Patient grew from B size to GGG. Breast reduction was performed to reduce the size to DD, with further reductions being discussed at the time of publishing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What strategy would you use to estimate the number of hazelnuts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Find a cup that is similarly shaped and sized, fill it with hazelnuts and then count it manually

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mmm...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t be comforted. Sacrificing mice is still extremely cruel and is the reason I specifically don’t work with mice.

  Animal protocols require you to use 2 methods of killing to ensure the mouse is dead, and I’m assuming the decapitator is meant to be used as the second method to ensure death.

  The first method of killing often involves gassing mice with CO2. This takes several minutes, and the mice definitely know that they’re getting gassed. After some time, they start panicking and scurry around the chamber looking for a way to escape. After a bit more time, they get weak and collapse. This is typically when you do the second method of killing. Some protocols require you to stab the heart with a needle and drain the blood. Some require you to snap their neck (like in the movies, except what the movies don’t show is that the mouse flails and twitches when you do it). Some require you to inject with ketamine (ok, this one isn’t so bad). And I guess now there’s a decapitator that lets you just cut the entire head off.

  Even among researchers, there’s a pretty sizeable number of people who don’t want to work with mice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re putting chemicals in the air to make the friggin’ spiders gay

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real Talk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why you change the color of any temporary text so that you can really see if there’s any left

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i just think they're neat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It probably has to do with weight. Pottery is pretty heavy and I assume this gourd, when hollowed out, isn’t

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I get why the ending to 2017 Prey might have been annoying, but I honestly thought it was very in line with the themes present in the rest of the game. The more time has passed, the more I’m satisfied with the ending. That being said, IMO the only right ending is

  Spoiler

  to murder everyone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sup, guise.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You freeze mammalian cells by dunking them in LN2? I’ve… never heard of anyone do that. I’ve always put them in either a Mr. Frosty or a styrofoam conical holder (makeshift Mr. Frosty)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Soup of Theseus⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This used to be a pretty common practice. It’s called a forever soup

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Name him.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bouba

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 18 years, a surprise Half-Life 2 update makes it once again possible to beat a honking train on Highway 17⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My speculation? They’ll call it HL4 and then just say that HL:A was technically HL3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sardonic soup⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dose makes the poison. Most bitter flavors (that you eat) aren’t really meant to discourage you from eating them, it’s really meant for insects.

  Plant: I will make an unappetizing flavor to prevent myself from getting eaten

  Humans: finally, some good fucking food

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does a guy become his most confident around women?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If this is how you treat men, then the OP appears to be one of the smaller problems that you may have

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does a guy become his most confident around women?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The best thing to do is to not see gender. Treat women the same way that you treat men. I mean that in the most literal sense, not in an “equal rights” sense (though you definitely should make sure that’s true as well).

  Do you know the uncanny valley? It’s the idea that things that appear close-but-not-quite human are offputting. Something similar happens in social conversations as well. People are very good at subconsciously detecting subtle signs of incongruity between your tone, body language, and spoken words. For instance, if you are nervous but act blasé. There will be subtle signs, like in how you phrase sentences or your tone, that will be noticeable, and people will think that you are hiding something. And people may find it strange and offputting.

  It’s the same reason why pick up artists appear creepy - people can detect that their intentions and worldview don’t match with their exterior façade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hence, the qualification that I’m referring specifically to his pattern of behavior, not beliefs. More specifically, I’m referring to his obsessive, rigid hyperfixations. The abuse is entirely on him.

  Interestingly, I have a family member who is almost certainly undiagnosed autistic, and he acts very similarly to what is described in the OP, even down to the “I know better than the experts” rhetoric. The vast majority of autistic people aren’t like that, but it is interesting for me to note the similarities between these 2 people.