tunetardis
@tunetardis@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Is it just me or do Lemmy communities tend to skew left wing? Why might this be? 2 weeks ago:
I think people here tend to question and fact-check posts and comments a lot, which is a healthy thing. Now some say reality skews left, in which case could it be that the right have left because the left is right?
- Comment on Why isn't jerking off more valorized as an easy dopamine hit that's also literally good for you? 3 weeks ago:
literally good for you
I actually asked my family doctor at one point about the health effects of masturbation. She said that as a guy, if you are not otherwise sexually active, it’s good for the prostate to keep the plumbing working down there.
- Comment on Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training 1 month ago:
We need to watermark insert something into our watermark posts that watermark can be traced back to its origin watermark if the AI starts training watermark on it.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 2 months ago:
Well since we’re nitpicking, a kilogram is a unit of mass, not weight. So unless by “kilo” you meant kilonewton…
- Comment on Could a bird propel a skateboard by flapping its wings? 2 months ago:
I don’t see why not, though I bet it can’t go as fast as a turtle on a skateboard?
- Comment on Low tech DHCP 2 months ago:
1st reaction: lmao 2nd reaction: hey wait, this is pure genius!
- Comment on how serious is a slightly chipped front tooth? 2 months ago:
Do you just see white along the crack? Nothing darker? In that case you’re probably fine? I chipped my front tooth when I was a kid in the stupidest accident ever. I was playing some game with friends outside and started laughing so uncontrollably I hit my tooth on a stone fence. It didn’t even hurt but my friends were like “dude!”
The dentist repaired it with some sort of fake enamel-looking stuff which lasted a number of years before falling off. They did it again and it fell off again. Eventually I was like you know what? Let’s just leave it this time. It’s not causing me any grief.
Anyway, as middle-aged guy, I have lost one tooth from infection at this point, but it had nothing to do with the chip. It was a gum infection that led to a root canal and eventually they had to remove the whole thing. I’m contemplating whether to get an implant but again, it doesn’t really bother me that it’s missing? It’s pretty far back.
For future reference, if you ever see a pussy white looking mark on your gum a little above the tooth, that’s an abscess and do get that shit looked at pronto. It’ll probably hurt and let you know it’s there though.
- Comment on Who owns the servers for Lemmy? 3 months ago:
Accounts, yes. Posts, not necessarily. I joined during the great Reddexodus, when the influx caused several instances to go down temporarily. What I recall happening was the communities that were mirrored to other instances still had accessible posts and comments, but they were essentially frozen? Like you couldn’t contribute any more to them without the host instance coming back online.
I think the way it works is if you are the first to subscribe to a community from a non-local instance, its content gets synced to yours, which adds some resilience in case that the remote instance goes down. At least that’s my impression of how it works.
- Comment on Why does the film press talk so much about box office income? 3 months ago:
Ok sure. The grapevine effect. I’m trying to think of how often I’ve seen a movie on a friend’s recommendation. I guess it happens from time to time?
One thing though is that those same entertainment people love to talk about the opening weekend. Isn’t that a bit quick for the friend effect to kick in? I realize that in this day and age of social media, word can spread rapidly. But I for one am not the sort who would just drop everything to go see a movie immediately based on a friend recommending it hours earlier.
- Comment on Why does the film press talk so much about box office income? 3 months ago:
I try not to read too much into it. The box office income is obviously important in terms of what sort of films may get produced in the future. If a movie flops, it will be unlikely to get a sequel, but more broadly, the whole industry may pivot towards one genre or another depending on recent successes.
But I often wonder about entertainment columnists who write things like “They really liked this film over in China but not in North America.” How good an indicator are box office sales of how much people really enjoyed a film? The reason I ask is based on my own viewing habits. When I feel like going to a movie, I look at what’s showing and think ok, that looks pretty interesting. I might read a review or watch a trailer, but at the end of the day, I’m taking a risk that I will like it. I may or I may not. And either way, it is unlikely that I would see it again at the theatre.
So I guess what I’m saying is that for me, at least, a ticket purchase is not an automatic vote of confidence that I think this film is great. But maybe I’m not a typical moviegoer, introvert that I am? Maybe the normal pattern is you see it with a couple friends, and if you like it, you gather more friends and see it again and again? If that’s more the way it goes, I can understand why box office sales would truly correlate to a film’s worthiness. But if more people are like me, it could just be that the movie was really hyped up and people decided to go see it even if they come out of there going wow, that sucked. But they still paid for the ticket regardless, which reflects well on box office sales.
- Comment on Are humans the only animal that wipes things off? 5 months ago:
Same in Japanese. araiguma translates as washing bear.
- Comment on How should I wash dishes/surfaces in contact with raw chicken? 9 months ago:
Oh right. Now that I think of it, it’s often somewhere near the back of the store, so you have to go past everything again to get to the checkout. Clever.
- Comment on How should I wash dishes/surfaces in contact with raw chicken? 9 months ago:
It’s weird but I can’t think of the last time I bought a raw chicken? My wife did the math at one point and concluded it was cheaper to buy bbq from like Costco, cut it up, and toss it into whatever. And that’s not even factoring energy costs to heat up an oven or anything. It is literally cheaper, at least where I live, to buy a pre-cooked chicken than raw. It makes no sense I know?
- Comment on Is this it? Is there anything more to life, am I missing something? 10 months ago:
I would bring this up next time you see your doctor. Sounds like a mood spectrum thing which could slide into depression? I’m not an MD though, so don’t take it from me.
- Comment on Does anyone *not* love using their bidet? 10 months ago:
I can only think of 2 downsides to our bidet:
- Ours attaches to a regular toilet, and it does make it harder to clean particularly around the jet mechanism. Someone needs to invent a bidet for cleaning bidets.
- Going anyplace without one now makes me hate life.
- Comment on Is it possible to eat in such a way that you'll never have to fart? 10 months ago:
All I can say is don’t take metformin if you’re worried about farting. Otoh I’ve been reading that it’s something of a wonder drug that extends your life expectancy and quality of life, though perhaps at others’ expense where the latter is concerned…
Otherwise, I do know of a Japanese folk remedy that involves cooking any bean dish with some kombu–a type of hard dried seaweed not to be confused with the rather faddy kombucha, which I think is made from mushrooms or some kind of yeast? You don’t even have to eat the kombu but toss it aside like a bayleaf, though it is edible. Then again, there is always beano.
- Comment on Does a cat ever wonder why humans feed them? 11 months ago:
I think it depends a lot on the individual cat? In my experience, their attitudes towards humans can vary quite considerably.
Some are more aloof and independent and see their human as a source of food like you say.
But then I think about our current cat. He’s a rescue who’s clearly been through a lot on the streets. When I come home, he just wants to climb onto me and head butt and do that slow blink thing. He wants this more than food, even, which is a first for me.
When we were adopting him, we fostered first for a couple of weeks before he had to go in for a surgery, and in the week or so when e was boarded, the staff said he was wailing every night wanting to go home. So he had clearly developed an attachment to us that transcended simply wanting any human who provides food and shelter.