grysbok

@grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in an academic library and we’re always worrying about evening and weekend coverage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Itch.io are seeking out new payment processors who are more comfortable with adult material⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Amex and Discover: “We exist, too!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you rather unionize or buy some videogames?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, you can look up what property someone owns, generally in the town or county records. It’s just if you own a property there’s a good chance it’s also your home.

  I didn’t get these mailings back when I rented. Confounding factor: I was in a different union. Same employer, though.

  So, you can look up the private address of most homeowners in the states I’ve lived. Usually these records are online, sometimes not. If you want to obfuscate your ownership of a property there’s some weird stuff you can do with having your home owned by a corporation and then you own the corporation or something. I don’t think that’s commonly done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you rather unionize or buy some videogames?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a public employee, so my name is a public record. I own a home, so my address is a public record.

  I’m not sure how they know which union I’m a member of, though. There’s at least 3 on campus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you rather unionize or buy some videogames?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a public employee in a union and we get these types of anti-union propaganda mailed to us from the creeps at the Freedom Foundation.

  Save money and celebrate your rights! Public employees save an average of $900!

  There’s an “I want to leave the union” postcard filled out and attached, addressed to my union leaders.

  That one was St. Patrick’s Day themed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨kingdom come⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Captain Crunch-style cereal box with “technically all berries”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UwU brat mathematician behavior⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  [Lapsed] mechanical engineering gang checking in. I was also surprised. Though, tbh, I think it came down to personal preference of the professor more than field-wide consensus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you guess, chat?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TBH, I have a small personal massager I use for my face. Vibrating the sinuses helps make all the mucus and gunk move, like jiggling a ketchup bottle. It helps my sinus headaches.

  But yeah, they knew.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a 7-hour work day and a 5-day work week. I make less than I did at my previous (8.5-hour/5-day) job, but I’m much, much happier. Highly recommend working less if you can swing it.

  I do agree that coordination is a PITA. But, 7 hours is doable and it’s not like I’d be actually productive for an extra hour a day. My brain goes to mush.

  Some of my coworkers work longer days and take every a day off every other week. As long as they work 70 hours a biweek they’re good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the e-reader you would buy if you were in the market?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I do like my older Amazon Paperwhite, but I’m bookmarking this thread for when/if it no longer functions.

  I’ve got it in airplane mode and don’t intend to reintroduce it to the Internet. I can load books from USB just fine and have no need for the Amazon ebook ecosystem.

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

  Sometimes discoloration of water is just it being full of air. My HOA’s backup water well is like that. It’s been tested and is fine to drink, but it’s incredibly cloudy until it’s sat for a few minutes.

  Also, if you’re on well water get it tested. Even if it was fine when you moved in, things change. Maybe the new farm down the road’s fertilizer is leaking in to the ground water. You won’t know unless someone tests.

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

  The water at my office smells like chlorine. It’s dreadful. I wouldn’t even use it to make coffee, I fill up a nalgene at home and bring that in. My home water is well water and tastes a tad high iron, just the way I like it. (HOA regularly tests the water and it’s always within legal limits, yay.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes social connections are hard to figure out, especially if you don’t have experience making connections or positive examples to follow.

  I suggested visiting the local library and seeing if there’s any meetups. Do you have other suggestions?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know your insurance, location, or financial situation, so the following might be totally irrelevant.

  If you have a primary care doctor/physician, they should be able to get you antidepressants. You don’t need a specialist. You might even be able to have a telehealth visit, instead of going in-person.

  I hope things smooth out for you. BTW, my therapist says carbs are good for short-term stress. Ice cream and chocolates help.

  Also, maybe look into if your local library has any meetups? Mine does a regular knitting/crochet circle (if you just show up, you’ll probably find friendly folks happy to teach you to make a dish cloth), book club, grown-up crafts a couple times a month. Might be good to get out of the house and meet some friendly faces.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ads when you’re pumping gas⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I try to only get gas at one specific local gas station that doesn’t do ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Talented child artist⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TBF sometimes you just learn about animal genitalia, no matter what your field. For example, I acquired a working knowledge of snake hemipenises as assistant archivist of a herpetology collection. They didn’t warn me about that in library school.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Talented child artist⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know some of those characters! 🥰 (I’m on the “N” column in my hiragana learning app)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Talented child artist⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear furry art is lucrative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is lemm.we actually shutting down?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Flashback to when the creator of lemmy.world/c/the_pack was looking for mods. I volunteered with

  I’m also a shitty mod and will disappear for weeks at a time. I only have experience modding a small subreddit and have no familiarity with Lemmy’s mod tools. Feel free to hit me up.

  I passed the vibe check and now I’m exactly as crap a mod as I said I’d be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does one use an electric toothbrush?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some/most electric toothbrushes have built-in timers to help you give each quarter of your mouth equal time, so you don’t rush. Some will vibrate in a different/angrier way if you brush too hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve taught literal toddlers that my dog needs his alone time when he’s in his crate.

  A 10 year old should be able to understand that sometimes people just don’t want to play/talk. Maybe wear headphones or some other very visible indicator that you’re not social right then?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You just want a break sometimes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m team pour-over coffee maker. It goes in the dishwasher every now and then. All parts are visible, so I know if it looks groddy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can US citizens do to fight/prevent their country enabling genocide?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  True! Let’s encourage them to work towards goals that seem attainable and worthwhile.

  Sometimes, just small changes can make a big difference to the individual. I used to take the elevator to my 5th-floor office. Now I take the stairs. The only conscious change to my routine was converting from carrying a bag/purse to carrying a backpack–I carry the same amount of stuff more comfortably, and so the stairs don’t seem daunting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can US citizens do to fight/prevent their country enabling genocide?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And “fit” doesn’t have to mean “able to run a marathon”. That might not be achievable for you. Even minor improvements can be big, though. For example, I have lower back pain. It sucks and I do not recommend it.

  I’ve started physical therapy. It’s two 30-minute sessions a week, plus 10 minutes of homework stretches every day. My pain is much less than when I started.

  I feel much more able to do things like long trips to the grocery store. Before, I’d sometimes have to beg off and lie down in the car and let my partner finish the trip.

  Anyways, fitness. It’s good. YMMV, PT might not work for you, I am not a doctor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you read and understand this passage?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but it was a slog. My summary:

  the weather was dreadful, some high muckety muck is back from Michaelmas break. The scene is in London. All the people and critters in the street are covered in mud. The ground is slippery with mud (and probably horse crap, but we’re too polite to mention it). OMG the weather sucks, very wet and dreary. Everyone’s in a bad mood. Did I mention it’s wet and icky and muddy and the weather is bad?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do children address a non-binary parent?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I had to carefully word my dad’s obituary to not gender me–I wasn’t out yet, but it would have added more pain to the event if I’d been misgendered in it. Luckily, I have a sibling, so I able to rework the first draft from “survived by his son ___ and daughter ___” to be “survived by his children __ and __”.

  Anyways, if I had a kid I think I’d just go by my name, or any nickname they came up with. I called my binary parents by their names so it doesn’t feel weird to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forced to lie on a questionnaire⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy, Sharkey, and YouTube for me. I’m on Facebook, but less than an hour a week. A friend posts a weekly “how’s everyone doing?” post and I usually comment on that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤙 hang ten 🤙⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not share it with teacher?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously. We don’t even know how old the poster is, just that their dad is 48.

  I was 20 when my dad was 48. I was in college and was only ‘home’ over the summers and winter break (when the dorms closed). My brother was 15. I don’t think it’d be reasonable to tell either of us to move out just because the adults in our lives were a tad indiscrete.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. I wouldn’t interrupt their fun, but I’d mention it to my dad some time when the girlfriend wasn’t around. I’d send an email or text if I felt too embarrassed/shy to say anything face-to-face. “Hey, Dad. Just FYI the walls are really thin in this apartment and I can hear what you two get up to.”

  I’d also look into earplugs. Earplugs + bone conductive headphones could be a good work around. I’m a fan of Shokz, but other brands exist.