Monument

@Monument@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I cannot!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t smell ants, and cilantro tastes soapy. However, I do have dry earwax and my armpits don’t smell. (Which is just spurious information to your hypothesis.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is a really cool clock⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unimpressed. It’s not 7:20.

  All that engineering and they didn’t get the time right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bioindicator PSA⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It indicates other things, too!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨no eggs were harmed in the making of this video⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, it’s likely the DOGE cuts haven’t shown their impact just yet.

  Of roughly 30 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration workers dismissed in February as part of Musk’s campaign to shrink the federal workforce, many were in the “office of vehicle automation safety,” — Car safety experts at NHTSA, which regulates Tesla, axed by DOGE

  Personally, I’m sort of hoping for the same karma as when Elaine Chao was secretary of transportation and let Tesla roll out an untested and confusing shifting system, which later helped kill her sister.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Having just read a comment about someone who actually went through the process of having a kid by employing stuff like cycle and fertility tracking, scheduling both sex and abstinence, as well as other not-fun stuff, your comment made me think of taking the kink to an extreme, where instead of lots of rambunctious boning, it was a couple nerds doing intense and fruitless science to find the optimal way to impregnate someone that was impossible to impregnate. (Unless they start looking at the mating habits of bedbugs, but that’s a third, separate, entirely unhinged thing.)

  I mean, I’m pretty sure I know which interpretation you meant. But brains are weird and I’m sleep deprived.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who isn’t going to have kids and doesn’t want them, I still get the growing old alone concern.

  It’s not that I would have wanted children to take care of me, but that I don’t trust the social safety system in the U.S.
  Even if things are going well, it’s still a terrifying proposition. My first job ever was as a dietary aid at a mid-level retirement home, and while some of the people there were thriving (namely the folks who somehow managed to go into the home with their partners), the majority were a study of what happens when the ability to live exceeds the will. It was a formative experience.

  And why I’m in therapy and desperately scared that between neurodivergence and trauma, that I’m not going to be one of those really social old people with friends everywhere that care for them and keep them company. Although I think it’s not a given that kids will automatically be there for you as you age, I can see the appeal of doing what you can to hedge your bets. It’s a terrifying world out there, and we only have each other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks about wheat⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought cats domesticated themselves

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks about wheat⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, I’m one of the 10,000, so it was novel to me!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks about wheat⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you saying wheat domesticated early man?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They are German, of course.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Science vs religion, baby.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pizza styles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s too socialistic by the standards of capitalists and has been run out of most cooking schools. It’s occasionally taught as an ‘alternative’ recipe, but for some reason, despite rendering a better pizza, it’s never widely adopted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pizza styles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the joke is that might be AP style pizza.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need to vent about plastic milk jugs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In the U.S. milk comes in half gallon and gallon measures, which look like your 2L and 3L containers, respectively.

  Sometimes you will find milk in waxed paper cartons, but that is not the norm. (It’s very common, however, for dairy products that are often bought by pint and quart — typically half and half, heavy cream, or coffee creamers.) Our fancier non-dairy creamers tend to be in tetrapaks, with less expensive (or at least distributed in higher volumes) creamers in plastic bottles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to understand credit scores⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In another comment, someone mentioned that it’s not just repayment of interest that profits credit card companies.
  Even if you pay all debts monthly before interest can compound, the CC companies still charge processing fees to merchants on a per-transaction basis (which merchants either pass directly to consumers or indirectly through higher prices). They still get their cut, even if you don’t see it on a line item.

  Recently I had house work done. The contractor offered to charge me 5% less if I paid with cash or check instead of credit card.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 2025 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog | Defector⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s okay! You can buy an upgrade to use a stainless steel milk tube! 😒

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 2025 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog | Defector⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It also has you pour coffee syrups into a little plastic dispenser so you have to clean that, too.

  It appears there’s some sort of cleaning mode where you let the machine heat water into to a specially shaped tub that fits across the drip tray, where you also stick the siphon end of the milk tube. But it looks like the dirty milk water is ejected into the drip tray tub, so your wash starts off with clean boiling water before beginning to reuse cooled, dirty water.

  Also, what’s the wisdom on encouraging customers to keep dairy at room temperature? You know people are just going to forget the dairy container on their counter. It’s like they tried to stand out but all their features add more complexity and failure points than solved problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Diced Giant Steak⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My local fancy grocer has bins of loose spices, including salts of various colors and descriptions. A few years ago I was curious and did a bit of a deep dive on their supplier, to be disappointed when I learned that all their special salts were artificially colored. Their salts, reflecting geographic names, were named so because the company named the colors after the location – not because the salts came from those locations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Haha yes yes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When asked a question.

  Interesting idea! I’ve CC’d 2 additional people for their thoughts and linked to a reference page on the intranet that no one will read.

  Everyone nods at one another until their heads fall off. No one does any work or makes any decisions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The shop app says my package will arrive tomorrow but it hasn't even moved from its start point in Hong Kong yet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Misleading post. OP bought a teleporter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The shop app says my package will arrive tomorrow but it hasn't even moved from its start point in Hong Kong yet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve long humored the idea of ballistic fried chicken.
  Fired from a giant cannon, friction cooks it to perfection on its way to you. Sadly, the math and materials science just aren’t on my side. You’d need to be very precise to avoid overcooking, or accidentally pulping the chicken with too high of a muzzle velocity (because then you just have a soup gun). And like, you’d have to have some sort of sabot that disintegrates into edible spices.

  Even if you could figure out delivery (and not wind up with it arriving embedded with smog or STARLINK satellites) there’s still the matter of receipt without destroying homes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, don’t join the mob blindly. Do your own research. The above information was gathered from one internet search using the available context clues from this post.
  It did not take very long and was easy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The sources for this video indicate the person wearing the armband:

  • Harassed a black man on a bus.
  • Walked around downtown Seattle for an hour dressed that way.
  • Had several verbal confrontations with passerby who commented on his clothing.
    Source 1

  • Several 911 calls were placed about this man attempting to instigate fights.
  • The man declined to file a police report after the police did appear.
    Source 2

  For at least an hour at any point leading up to this, the person wearing the armband could have taken it off and stopped interacting with others. To my knowledge, the person who was punched has never spoken to media to explain why they were dressed as such, despite the massive internet fame of the video.

  Do you still feel uncomfortable? Do you know in your bones if the person deserved it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can you tell from this photo alone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tiny Batman is not taking the divorce well. At first he thought losing the tiny mansion and being forced to downsize from Twayne Manor (Tiny Wayne Manor) out in the burbs to this high-rise apartment would put him closer to the action downtown. A refreshing life change after all that’s happened.
  However, his neighbors yell at each other all day long while he’s trying to sleep, and seem to have even more sensitive hearing than him during the nighttime quiet periods. He can’t rush out the door because every slam or even loud footfalls seems to trigger a call to building management. He’s even gotten calls about his scanner radio being too loud, no matter how softly he plays it.
  Most nights he just sits on the balcony, quietly listening to the scanner and drinking. Anti-suicide netting makes it impossible to just glide down to street level with his bat wings and the elevator takes so long that by the time he gets to the Tiny Bat Mobile, most vics are dead and the perps are long gone. More and more, he just turns the radio off, drinks until he staggers over to his pee spot, and then stumbles over to fall asleep with his back against a stack of bottles - he knows they’ll keep him safe from the memories that are trying to sneak up on him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FACTS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can gay people still be gay, or is this like a colonizer situation where the straights realized the gay identity is valuable, so now the gay people lose access to the gay identity and have to become Oklahoman?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’ll just be over here…⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well first, I was on drugs at the time.
  But second, you don’t think that wide nose with the flared nostrils, the hooded eyelids, and the smarmy smile that screams “I have no respect for humanity” makes them resemble each other?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’ll just be over here…⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Creepy resemblance.

  The altered cat photo accompanying this post appears atop a post about Alexander Acosta, who bears a striking resemblance to the altered image.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy DB Cooper Day to those who celebrate!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh.

  Here’s a Popular Mechanics article that’s exactly one year old: A Secret Parachute in the FBI’s Possession May Have Finally Solved D.B. Cooper’s Identity

  And here’s the FBI’s web page over it, which notes they diverted resources to other investigations in 2016, but specifically names McCoy as a suspect: D.B. Cooper Hijacking

  As far as updates go? I only have sardonic comments about what the FBI is to these days. But I don’t think they are going to work on this one anytime soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨monumentale⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no memory of this place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon shops for diamonds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Both of us depart from our families, and didn’t want to be in a position where we could have a parent or sibling try to “pull rank” about some medical decision, or have to worry about assets.