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- Comment on Anon is a paramedic 1 day ago:
That scene in The Princess Bride
Do you hear that, Fezzik? That is the sound of ultimate suffering. My heart made that sound when Rugen slaughtered my father.
The actual sound is indescribable. It hooks into some primal part of your brain you didn’t know existed until you experience it. I have seen overcrowded, chaotic Emergency Departments full of hardened nurses and doctors drop into 5 seconds of complete silence and inactivity.
The worst is when a mother sees the body of their dead child.
- Comment on i'm fucking devastated but there are no exception 2 days ago:
I don’t buy that line of reasoning.
Other people say the same about minority groups and it’s bullshit.
- Comment on i'm fucking devastated but there are no exception 2 days ago:
There are legitimately good Christians and Christian churches, the problem is they actually practice all the “woke” bits in the new testament.
They’re humble, empathetic, and quiet – so they get drown out by the human garbage that also call themselves “Christian”.
- Comment on Be the problem money can't fix 1 week ago:
Aren’t the yachts those orcas are sinking relatively small sailboats?
- Comment on Sick of this shit 1 week ago:
I worded it badly and did edit my comment.
I’m not trying to demean anyone: I don’t think there is anything negative about being trans or transitioning. They know that about me and give me shit about it constantly. The shit they say about trans people is horrifying.
So when I gently and supportively ask how theirs is going they really don’t like it – but fuck them, the hypocrites.
- Comment on Sick of this shit 1 week ago:
I work with a lot of guys into (or adjacent to) the “I’m deeply insecure about myself” part of the manosphere. Testosterone supplements, sildenafil, meat heavy diets, etc.
I usually ignore it, but sometimes they start pushing that stuff or talking down to me about it. The easiest way to shut it down is playing off their insecurities.
“I’m already a man, I don’t need gender affirming care.” Followed by periodically asking them how their transition is going and if they feel like a man yet.
“Why? My dick works fine, but I’m glad you found something that helps.”
“I don’t do fad diets.”
- Comment on insert mental health condition here 2 weeks ago:
In the USA, got diagnosed with ADHD and prescribed meds. Start to finish took 3 weeks. I have good insurance and live in a civilized part of the country – the difference between states (and even parts of states) when it comes to healthcare is stark.
We had to move one of my elderly, infirm aunts to Michigan because the Texas healthcare system is a bad joke if you’re on public aid. She almost certainly would be dead if she stayed.
- Comment on Anon needs a job 3 weeks ago:
30k/year job.
That’s what I did, but a good small starter home was $100 – I bought one for under $50k and fixed it up. A decent used car was $5k.
$30k is poverty wages in most places these days.
- Comment on "bird watching" goes both ways 1 month 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 month 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. 1 month ago:
She’s has a doctorate in philosophy.
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 1 month 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 month 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 months 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 months 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 2 months 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 🏥 2 months ago:
There’s greed (particularly with overpriced private ambulances) but ambulance are legitimately expensive to operate in the USA.
- Comment on Number 1 🏥 2 months 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 🏥 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 3 months 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! 🐎 3 months 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 4 months ago:
It was called a McCormick Reaper.
