LillyPip
@LillyPip@lemmy.ca
- Comment on He can feel it too 1 day ago:
There. Are. Six. Hands.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 2 days ago:
Natural yarns are almost always best for wearables. It doesn’t need to be fancy (other than ooo pretty, which is my biggest criteria, too). I’d avoid 100% polyester, or high blends.
Personally, I love knitting with bamboo blends, and they’re quite affordable. They’re not suited for everything, but many feel like silk whilst wearing like cotton. And they’re often more sustainable.
It doesn’t always wear as well in all contexts, but it’s affordable and pleasant to knit with. I’d say it’s miles better for a beginner than polyester, and often comparably priced.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 2 days ago:
It’s not considering the value of my time; a decent (actually wearable) yarn is far more expensive than most people think.
I would consider it a waste of my time to spend a couple hundred hours on a garment that’s barely wearable because it’s uncomfortable and borderline not washable. That’s what you will get with any yarn that won’t cost you over $50 in materials.
Cheap yarns are fine for beginner projects that aren’t made to be worn, but if you’re putting that much of your effort into a garment meant to be used, you should not be using bargain yarn. Your effort is worth too much to sabotage yourself that way.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 3 days ago:
Yep. Often when I wear a new jumper or whatever around people who know I knit, I get asked ‘oh, that’s pretty, did you make it?’
Lol no, that would have cost me like 5 times more. I couldn’t afford to make it myself.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 5 days ago:
I could literally live on plain potatoes for the rest of my life and I’d be fine with it. My ancestors must have been as culinarily boring as possible.
- Comment on ad block block 5 days ago:
🎼 The internet is for porn.
Why you think the net was born?
Porn, porn, porn.
🎵 - Comment on ad block block 5 days ago:
Ah. Peace at last.
- Comment on American exceptionalism 1 week ago:
Did you know your anus has taste receptors?
You’re welcome.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 2 weeks ago:
Wow. So glad this is what’s on what’s left of his mind. Not soaring prices or atrocities committed in his name. No, this is what matters.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 weeks ago:
Well, yeah. Regulations are a major part of society, and a major reason we tend to come together. Yet another reason libertarianism is misguided.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 weeks ago:
You literally can do that.
Why do people seem to think this is impossible?
What’s changed? Some parts of that life are sometimes illegal, but most people haven’t been against it like this.
What’s different?
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 weeks ago:
Well yeah, I get that. But there are plots for really cheap, but they don’t have any kind of access to water, sewage, or whatever. Plots for like 10,000 or less. That sounds like a lot, I suppose, but it isn’t. I think it’s more that people don’t understand how money works,
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 weeks ago:
Of course I do. And again, that’s my point.
People romanticise this, but it’s impossible for many reasons. You can easily try, but we have societies for a reason.
Everyone is free to do this, but good luck in practice. It’s not just hard, and it’s not just stupid, but why the fuck would you want this? It’s insane, and we’re not geared for this.
Life in the wilderness is not a Disney movie. It’s so ruthlessly difficult, that’s why society exists. We are stronger, safer, and happier together.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 weeks ago:
Yes, that would need to be the plan. One upfront payment then never paying for utilities or other things forever. That’s the only way this works.
I think this is madness, but that’s how you do this.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 weeks ago:
But you never have to pay for utilities, rent, taxes for schools or roads or services … obviously it wouldn’t be completely free.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but the ‘nobody wants to be there for a reason’ is my whole point.
It will absolutely suck for you. That’s why civilisation is better, and also why we have to make some concessions to be in a society.
There’s literally no utopia where everything is perfect. There literally never was.
If you want societal amenities, you have to pay for them in some small way, and if you don’t, your like will be very hard. Those have always been the choices.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 weeks ago:
Search off-grid properties. They exist.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 weeks ago:
You’d have to buy your own land, of course.
But you could buy a tiny plot in the middle of nowhere, not hook up any utilities or have roads, and just live off your land if you wanted.
There are small parcels in the middle of noplace that nobody wants because there are no roads, utilities, or other services.
- Comment on We can play that game too 2 weeks ago:
So many people don’t understand why we live in a society, and apparently have no capacity for empathy.
They’re free to go live in the wilderness, with no roads, no fire department, no water or electricity, no services whatever, and find out how much they’re actually benefiting from our collective.
They won’t, because though they like to complain, they’re pussies who can’t be bothered to think for 5 minutes that the fact they can read and write their snarky bullshit is because they benefitted from free education, else they’d be illiterate.
But gods forbid they pay back the overwhelming amount they benefit from society in a small way. It’s fucking infuriating.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 2 weeks ago:
Monotonous, or if you’re hopelessly stuck. If I can’t get past a puzzle or fight, and I’d otherwise stop playing because it’s not fun anymore, I’ll look up a solution. The alternative is not finishing the game and not seeing the rest of the content or story.
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- Comment on be a friend to the animals 5 weeks ago:
I stopped raking years ago, and have started seeing fireflies again.
My neighbours hate it, but honestly, I’ve never understood raking in the first place. It’s autumn, and leaves are natural. What’s with the obsession to make lawns look like artificial carpeted spaces?
The leaves look nice imo. Better than a scalped layer of dying grass.
- Comment on Are bots on lemmy? 1 month ago:
Lemmy does have value, because the demographics are a bit more focussed here compared to much larger but more mainstream platforms, not to mention that larger platforms like reddit are already so bot-infested, they start to interfere with each other. It’s so trivial to make and deploy bots now with LLMs, I’d be very surprised if there weren’t bots here.
I think the reason we don’t notice them as much here is the quality of moderation tends to be higher (on average, so far).
- Comment on Are bots on lemmy? 1 month ago:
I’m an ugly bag of mostly water.
- Comment on It's brioche knitting at the moment 1 month ago:
AI is good at some things, but terrible at creative tasks. It can make images and videos if you give it very specific prompts, but it’s awful at creative writing, for instance. It’s like a teenager who just discovered a thesaurus. Its characters are shallow caricatures, its plotting and pacing are weak, and it’s addicted to adjectives and adverbs.
It’s basically useless for anything more than emails and summaries.
It will probably get better, but right now, its writing and editing skills are abysmal. It has no soul, and it shows. And I mean the pro models. The free ones are even worse.
- Comment on transformations 1 month ago:
I could give you diarrhoea, or sepsis, or tetanus, your choice! I’m flexible and I don’t judge. I just love being inside you!
- Comment on Banana 1 month ago:
Sambo’s managed to barely survive until 2020.
- Comment on Fight me 1 month ago:
So hot.
- Comment on But why 1 month ago:
I completely agree. A couple of his books are okay, but most are long-winded, self-indulgent tosh that would have been far better if written by practically anyone else. Half the time, you can skip entire chapters and miss nothing, because he seems to think describing every minute aspect of every minor character’s life equals character development. Five pages cataloguing all the canned goods in Jimmy’s grandmother’s pantry, all the steps of her apple pie recipe, where she learnt it, how she decides which milk to buy, why the grocer moved the milk from aisle 5 to aisle 2, etc, etc, etc – none of it matters and it’s a slog to read.
It’s like he thinks more words equals a better novel. He is a better writer than a director, though.
- Comment on If it works it works 2 months ago:
Oh! That does make sense now you say it.
