Monument
@Monument@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on the world 18 hours ago:
They did read my memoirs!
- Comment on Dear Faith II 5 days ago:
A friend once revived an email riddled with misspellings and grammatical errors from her boss that critiqued her (appropriate) use of exclamation points. Specifically, that appearing cheerful was not professional.
Some people just like to be miserable.
- Comment on Dear Faith II 5 days ago:
They’re in there. You don’t see them?
- Comment on lemmy is my stream of consciousness diary and the posts my entries 1 week ago:
A long time ago, someone said something really useful to me about oversharing online:
“I would like to fuck you, but I’m afraid you’ll write about it on your LiveJournal.”And on that day, I became a lot more selective about what I shared online. At least when it relates to others. I’ll tell you all about my childhood trauma.
- Comment on we're all a little gay inside 2 weeks ago:
My old apartment used to be set up in just such a way that after a midday shower, you would see a small Brocken Spectre’s centered around each of your eyes when you looked in the mirror. It was honestly kind of terrifying. The first time I noticed it, I wondered if I’d finally lost it.
Glowing circles around your black eyes in a fogged mirror.I think that means I have the opposite of a pot of gold in me.
- Comment on Modern problems require modern solutions 2 weeks ago:
I’ve begun to use nonsense statements, made up words, and random vocalizations to make the bots think they couldn’t help me. That usually gets me to a human faster.
- Comment on my bf says sleeping with your balls out is the male equivalent 2 weeks ago:
My circulation is terrible. I’ll have cold feet and hands while my core is too hot. Sometimes I will move the blanket so it’s over my feet and arms but my body is just under sheets. I need a blanket that is like a reverse vest.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I cannot!
- Comment on 3 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Unimpressed. It’s not 7:20.
All that engineering and they didn’t get the time right.
- Comment on Bioindicator PSA 5 weeks ago:
It indicates other things, too!
- Comment on no eggs were harmed in the making of this video 1 month 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] 1 month 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] 1 month 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 1 month ago:
I thought cats domesticated themselves
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 1 month ago:
To be fair, I’m one of the 10,000, so it was novel to me!
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 1 month ago:
Are you saying wheat domesticated early man?
- Comment on They are German, of course. 2 months ago:
Science vs religion, baby.
- Comment on Pizza styles 2 months 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 2 months ago:
I think the joke is that might be AP style pizza.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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?