oatscoop
@oatscoop@midwest.social
- Comment on "bird watching" goes both ways 1 day ago:
My mom had a rooster that hated me. He wasn’t super aggressive but would attack after warning me if I didn’t leave quick enough.
I solved the problem by repeating “I’m going to pick you up” while chasing him down and catching him. I’d wrap him up in a towel, take him inside, and we’d watch “How it’s Made” while I pet and talked to him. He hated it.
After a few days of that he mostly left me alone. If he started puffing up I’d just tell him “I’m going to pick you up”: he’d instantly deflate and run away making unhappy noises.
- Comment on Funny how android used to be what we now call FOSS 1 day ago:
I just bought a pixel 8 off of eBay for $100 to address “Google getting my money”.
And in the USA our options are limited when it comes to a modern, decent smartphone with an unlocked bootloader. The relevant consumer protection laws the rest of the world has don’t exist here because our politicians are bought and paid for by the telecoms.
- Comment on Some cheeses are luminescent. 2 days ago:
She’s has a doctorate in philosophy.
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 1 week ago:
Clearly you need to spend more time around Joe Rogan watching dude-bros. There’s also several of them on supplemental testosterone: “The doctor will tell you that your level is normal but they’ve been secretly lowering the ‘normal level’ over the past several decades. If you want I can give you my doctor’s information.”
My theory is reincarnation is real and I was a horrible person in my previous life.
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 1 week ago:
Firehouse in the USA: “right leaning straight white guys that watch FOX news” is over represented. We also work 24 hour shifts and thus cook 2 meals a day a work. Inevitably that means I get to experience whatever stupid diet shit the manosphere/RFK Jr. is pushing. Keto, carnivore, "MORE PROTEIN, etc.
My go-to response is “I don’t do fad diets”: they get hilariously defensive.
- Comment on Metaverse inventor Neal Stephenson says VR goggles are dead 2 weeks ago:
PC VR is amazing, but still the number of worthwhile full feature games is still small. Meta is just claiming VR is dead because their game library is shit, the metaverse was a joke, and their headsets are privacy nightmares.
I love VR and still gave away my quest 4 and deleted my account. I’m waiting on the Steam Frame to release.
- Comment on Gitlab compared with Facebook 2 weeks ago:
Facebook has been handling false account suspension appeals poorly, whereas GitLab doesn’t.
- Comment on It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology 3 weeks ago:
Makeup isn’t, though. We all just need to get down with the clown.
Brb, buying FIZZ 34.30 -0.26(0.75%) 🠳
- Comment on Number 1 🏥 3 weeks ago:
There’s greed (particularly with overpriced private ambulances) but ambulance are legitimately expensive to operate in the USA.
- Comment on Number 1 🏥 3 weeks ago:
It’s unfortunately legally required to transport someone that’s not A&Ox4.
It’s annoying when we know someone really doesn’t need to go, but if we don’t the responders are looking at losing their job, license, a lawsuit, or even being criminally charged.
- Comment on Number 1 🏥 3 weeks ago:
EMS can not force you to go to the hospital anywhere in the USA unless you’ve been arrested, are suicidal, a danger to others, or aren’t oriented to “person, place, time, and event”.
If you’re none of the above you can tell whoever is saying “you have to go” to fuck off.
- Comment on Valve compares its loot boxes to Labubus in lawsuit defense 3 weeks ago:
Any useful definition of gambling needs to take into account its potential and actual scale of addiction, along with degree of harm.
“Is it technically gambling” is far less important than those aforementioned aspects.
- Comment on Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next 4 weeks ago:
blahaj.zone
I’m afraid that you’re well past any hope of removing Arch from your life. The best that can be done is managing your install. I suggest sequestering Arch to an old Thinkpad to slow its spread.
- Comment on Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next 4 weeks ago:
… the offical linux shop I understand that Linyos Torovoltos grew up under communism and originally couldn’t legally sell Lunix – but the Soviets lost the cold war.
I’d rather spend a few bucks for a legitimate copy than risk installing some virus infested illegal version I found on some sketchy website.
- Comment on It's literally science 5 weeks ago:
That sounds like a lot of work …
Are you sure there aren’t easy solutions that only involve spending money and not effort? Maybe a pill or expensive chair?
- Comment on Bacon off the menu for Peppa Pig family show in Grimsby 1 month ago:
I glad to see Peppa Pig is adhering to the proud British tradition of traumatizing children with horrifying real-life interpretations beloved animated characters.
- Comment on Nice horsie! 🐎 1 month ago:
Selective breeding is no different than natural evolution in how drastically it can change an organism given enough time and the right selections for “fitness”.
So you could produce a domesticated, tame zebra – but waiting on and favoring the right mutations would take a very long time and be prohibitively expensive. It’s possible, but not realistically feasible.
- Comment on Anon gets nostalgic 2 months ago:
Music was about joy?
In fairness, I’m not sure those genres are “hipster”. Though Death Cab for Cutie is and most of their songs are depressing.
- Comment on Norway anon pirates 2 months ago:
Can I interest you in a NAS and an old laptop running debian plugged into a TV, with the Ethernet cable running to it duck-taped to the wall?
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 2 months ago:
I’d say the seasoning is different enough to call it a distinct thing, though the cooking method is identical. Like New York vs Chicago tavern style pizza.
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 2 months ago:
Boston baked beans with pork belly also deserves a mention.
- Comment on I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings 2 months ago:
It was called a McCormick Reaper.
- Comment on Internet picture of a monkey 2 months ago:
In defense of pet rocks: the highest they were ever sold for was the modern equivalent of $24 and nobody was pretending they were worth more.
- Comment on France seeks to ban social media for children under 15 3 months ago:
“parental controls”
Yeah … I was the kid that knew how to bypass those and “helped” other kids out in that regard.
- Comment on France seeks to ban social media for children under 15 3 months ago:
Or making it illegal to pass a stopped school bus.
Actual “protect children” laws don’t get talked about because absolutely nobody has a problem with them.
- Comment on Journalists convinced a AI Vending Machine Things to give them free stuff like a PS5 3 months ago:
I imagine some of the “guardrails” the AI was set up with involved emphasizing that it’s a capitalist since the goal is to make money.
“Free stuff is still capitalism” is a workaround.
- Comment on There is software/a technology company/a game named after most of the elements in the periodic table 3 months ago:
Still used by Garmin InReach SOS/communicators
- Comment on I dunno 4 months ago:
Don’t ask anyone over the age of 45 how they remember resistor color codes …
- Comment on I dunno 4 months ago:
8 5 - 5 * 2 + CR .
- Comment on Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’ 4 months ago:
“AI” has become synonymous with “Generative AI”
