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- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 4 days ago:
My wife, a keen gardener of heirloom tomatoes, says it’s because the varieties that sell commercially are bred for long shelf-life and nothing else.
- Comment on How do I get over fear of cooking? 5 days ago:
I’ve started a fire in the kitchen. Not by messing up, but by using a toaster built in the 1950s and designed to toast bread as a secondary function to killing you. It was thirty seconds of horror, and then things were okay. The toast was in the sink under a stream of water and the toaster was unplugged.
It’s important to realise that even if a fear comes true, things will be okay. Get a kitchen-suitable fire extinguisher. Learn to use it. Don’t use death as an ingredient like I did. Understand that even if things go wrong, you’ll fix it. Your ability to deal with shit is bigger than the shit you have to deal with.
- Comment on What is your pet peeve in 2024? 2 weeks ago:
I wish we could be as certain about ‘read’.
- Comment on What is your pet peeve in 2024? 2 weeks ago:
Last week I texted my wife “I desire chicken” and Autocorrect tried to change it to "I desire children. I don’t, Autocorrect. In either sense! What sick game are you playing…?
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 2 weeks ago:
Okay, now explain to me which is the best Star Trek captain and why anyone who disagrees needs to die by cheesegrater in a three-day ordeal.
🙂
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 2 weeks ago:
Some people here take themselves way too seriously. Not every conversation needs to be an argument.
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 3 weeks ago:
It costs about $10,000 US to get a kilo of payload as far as Low Earth Orbit. I’m not sure this is going to scale up.
- Comment on What do you call your first cousin's child? 4 weeks ago:
I have several first cousins I’d like to have removed. But I’ve always known their kids as my second cousins.
- Comment on How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality. 1 month ago:
Here’s an interesting related factoid - your eyes are constantly making tiny micromovements called saccades. During these movements, you don’t received any visual information. Your actual view of the world comes in stuttering fits and starts. You don’t notice this because your brain literally invents what you think you’re seeing during saccades. It’s good enough not to get you weeded out of the gene pool.
- Comment on The 42 year old new hire at your job confesses to you that he has had 48 different jobs in his life. What is your opinion on that? 1 month ago:
That’s going to depend a lot on context. Did he travel the world for five years, working a different temporary job at each stop? Or did he repeatedly get fired for pissing in the boss’ in-tray?
- Comment on When we started burning coal it was called the industrial revolution. Was there a name when we started burning oil? The car revolution? 1 month ago:
You’re not wrong, but your response doesn’t contribute much to answering the question.
- Comment on Would it be weird if I took something my neighbor put out for trash? 1 month ago:
It wouldn’t be weird, but talk to your neighbour first.
- Comment on What interesting things can I do with my home WiFi network? 1 month ago:
Oh god, Net Send.
At one point it was my job to track down and upgrade old PCs that had been moved by users. To my delight, I found that Net Send was enabled on all the org’s devices. I had the bright idea to use it to pop up a message on the affected PCs asking them to call me and provide a location. I copied a script from an old website and modified it to work with a list of hostnames. It, uh, worked - but while I was testing my script I ran it without commenting out the line that sent the message to all devices on the subdomain.
I turned my phone off for the rest of the day.
- Comment on Have you shared your own posts from platforms like this (or Mastodon) with others you know offline (besides your partner)? 1 month ago:
No, but it wouldn’t bother me if people I know IRL see them and recognise me. It’s happened a couple of times before (on Reddit).
- Comment on how do I accept that a doctor earns more than double what I do? 2 months ago:
I believe he also had to go through the hell that is residency, I didn’t believe nurses do.
Nursing education never ends. All the nurses I know are a bit loopy from the constant need to retrain and recertify.
- Comment on Ok so coffee is made from coffee beans. And beans are *also* made from beans. Why is nobody making, like, black bean coffee? 2 months ago:
Maybe!
- Comment on Ok so coffee is made from coffee beans. And beans are *also* made from beans. Why is nobody making, like, black bean coffee? 2 months ago:
But not /c/nostupidanswers.
- Comment on Ok so coffee is made from coffee beans. And beans are *also* made from beans. Why is nobody making, like, black bean coffee? 2 months ago:
How bad are the toxins? How sick will they make you?
- Comment on Ok so coffee is made from coffee beans. And beans are *also* made from beans. Why is nobody making, like, black bean coffee? 2 months ago:
Because we’re not criminally insane.
But since we’re on this fascinating topic, here’s a Youtube video about other things people have tried to substitute for coffee during the American civil war. (Hint: not beans.)
- Comment on Would a surgical puncture to the skull relieve a pressure headache? 2 months ago:
The thing all those patients have in common is that they are dead.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Anyone with cold symptoms will be propelled away from you at speeds high enough to fracture human bones. Carefully consider how you’ll use this power.
- Comment on What the fuck happened to YouTube!? 2 months ago:
You’ve discovered enshittification. Bad luck.
- Comment on Who/what are racists according to UK protests? Why are they protesting? 3 months ago:
Outnumber a fascist ten to one and he tends to remember his manners.
- Comment on How are you? 3 months ago:
I’ve had some bad luck recently, but things seem to be looking up now. I try to look on the bright side - this has been a timely reminder of how great my life usually is.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Because unjustified criticism is annoying and justified criticism confronts us with our flaws.
- Comment on What is a stupid question? 3 months ago:
“Is that a real gun?”
- Comment on How common of a name is Ghislaine? 3 months ago:
In my country, New Zealand? Almost unheard of. Sounds Welsh to me.
- Comment on Is everyone so depressed now partially because modern science has probably proven there is no god / afterlife? 3 months ago:
Science is a tool for answering questions about the physical world. By definition, it can’t provide complete answers about things outside the physical realm.
- Comment on Last Minute Basking 4 months ago:
So it’s not just human hands that AI fucks up.
- Comment on When was the last time you made Jello? 4 months ago:
One of my wife’s friends had just had a kid. He’s in highschool now.