Catoblepas
@Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Cheeky 3 days ago:
I don’t disagree, but being egg bound sounds about as bad as dying in childbirth.
- Comment on Cheeky 4 days ago:
Sometimes they will die because they can’t puke. Also broken legs are usually fatal even with vet care.
- Comment on Backyard Baseball 97 has been released on steam! 4 days ago:
Wow what a blast from the past, I remember having to help my sister play this game when she was little.
- Comment on What bug is this? 5 days ago:
And I’m STILL seeing his content after leaving Reddit??
- Comment on Replacing an old mini fridge 1 week ago:
Where do you live that they can’t be called mini fridges? I’m in California and Home Depot sells them here as mini fridges. It does say that it’s thermoelectric, but you have to look for it.
- Comment on Replacing an old mini fridge 1 week ago:
I actually watched that a few days ago, main takeaway I got from it was NEVER use a mini fridge with a thermoelectric cooler rather than one with a real compressor.
- Comment on At what point when learning a new language do someone become bilingual? 1 week ago:
I’ve legitimately never heard polyglot used to mean “speaks two languages”, I thought it meant “speaks three or more languages.” I can understand it being useful to have a specific term for people raised with two languages from birth/very early childhood though.
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- Comment on UFO 1 week ago:
Really wanting to post this in reply to the guy on my Nextdoor neighborhood who is always posting about UFOs when we live near an active airport and can easily see launches from a nearby AFB, lol
- Comment on Installation 2 weeks ago:
Normal person reading that: particle accelerator from TEMU
Me: oh god, there are TEMU particles??
- Comment on What are the pros and cons to buying a smart watch from temu? 2 weeks ago:
For me, hourly movement reminders and medication reminders without having to constantly keep my phone in my pocket has been a godsend. Keeping track of my heart rate (especially while asleep) has also been great for being more aware of when my PTSD symptoms are acting up. I’m also never going back to a sound based alarm instead of a vibrating one, no idea if regular watches have that now too or not.
- Comment on 👁 👁 2 weeks ago:
It is if you live in a part of the world that is dark for months at a time during the winter, like reindeer do.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’ve only taken an ASL class at the high school level, but facial expression is an important part of signing and adds tone to what you’re saying, so that by itself isn’t really a red flag. He seems to be moving quickly through specific signs rather than just sort of flailing around like fake translators usually do. I can’t understand any of it, but if I had to guess I’d say he’s probably a real translator.
- Comment on I hope you don't have any plans this evening. 3 weeks ago:
(snatch is a euphemism for vagina)
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 5 comments
- Comment on biodegradable 5 weeks ago:
Have protected sex even if you only have access to non-biodegradable condoms, getting antibiotic resistant chlamydia isn’t going to save the planet.
- Comment on What a 160-year-old theory about coal predicts about our self-driving future 5 weeks ago:
Even if you perfectly solve crashes (doubtful, definitely not something that exists right now), the problems of microplastic pollution from tires and emissions from electricity generation are non-trivial.
- Comment on How many squirrels do you think you could take in a fight to the death? 5 weeks ago:
Everyone who thinks they could take a huge number of squirrels should consider what the jaws of a squirrel look like, how they were made for cracking open hard nuts, and what they could do to you if even one had it in its head to really hurt you:
I don’t think I could take more than a couple at a time, even if they weren’t coordinated in any way.
- Comment on 1337 5 weeks ago:
Why even lock it if the code is on the door?
- Comment on August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget. 1 month ago:
Bake in metric and rejoice when recipes actually work!
- Comment on It all floats.. 1 month ago:
Poop will sink unless it has enough fiber, gas, or fat (all lighter than water) in it to make it buoyant. Sinking is the norm for me.
- Comment on What are some ways to see the back of your head without others' help? 1 month ago:
Get a handheld mirror, and use it in conjunction with your bathroom mirror. Or use your cell phone to take a picture of the back of your head, using a timer if it’s too awkward to hit the button.
- Comment on What is the safest way for a partially disabled person in the USA to use prison for food and shelter as an alternative to dying homeless in a gutter on a cold rainy night? 1 month ago:
I’m sorry dude, I’ve had a lot of family members go through the wringer trying to get disability as well. The one and only person I’ve ever known to get it first try was dying of cancer. The system is made to make people give up when they’re least able to fight it, it’s sickening.
I’m not familiar with any of OC so I’m not going to be any more helpful than a Google search on that front. But oh man, do I hear you on what the lack of sleep from pain does to you. I feel lucky I’m able to get 6-7 hours most nights, minus time spent waking up and trying to get comfortable. Thank fuck Ikea makes comparatively inexpensive foam mattresses. If you aren’t on gabapentin already, it helps with nerve pain and makes a decent sleep aid.
Are you familiar with the idea of pacing? It’s a strategy recommended for patients with ME/CFS to prevent triggering relapses, and I’ve found those ideas to be a useful way to manage chronic pain as well, on the preventative end.
Good luck man, I’ve been dealing with this shit for over half my life at this point. It sucks and it’s hard and it’s not fair and we might actually be living in one of the worst countries to be dealing with chronic medical issues. If you feel like wanting to scream and beat someone bloody over it, well, to me that’s pretty understandable.
- Comment on What is the safest way for a partially disabled person in the USA to use prison for food and shelter as an alternative to dying homeless in a gutter on a cold rainy night? 1 month ago:
I’m sorry you’re going through all that, I’m living in LA and also disabled from spinal issues so I’ve experienced a lot of what you’re talking about as well. I’ve basically resigned myself to ‘smoke weed all the time’ being the extent of medical management of my pain, because doctors can’t/won’t do anything else for me without potentially making other problems worse. Back problems are awful and not having any concrete answers is just about as bad.
What part of LA are you in, roughly, if you’re OK sharing? If you’re able to ride public transit I’d be happy to search around to try to find more resources near you.
In addition to getting arrested being dangerous, sleeping on a jail cot is probably going to be absolutely godawful for your back, at least as bad as sleeping in a doorway. If you’re sleeping on the ground outside you at least have some control over your environment, compared to jail.
- Comment on What is the safest way for a partially disabled person in the USA to use prison for food and shelter as an alternative to dying homeless in a gutter on a cold rainy night? 1 month ago:
Ideally you want to go to a shelter first, because if a shelter is dangerous or unclean you can just leave (unlike jail). If you can’t find a shelter that has space for you, the next best thing is to sleep somewhere visible but somewhat sheltered and out of the way. Church doorways are ideal since if they find you they will usually offer you help rather than call the cops on you.
If none of those avenues are available to you, hit up your local library. If they don’t outright have a social worker on staff they’ll know how to put you in contact with one and help you with applying for benefits that can at least keep you fed, and will hopefully know how to most effectively get you in line for housing.
- Comment on Choose your fighter, chatters. 1 month ago:
From what I recall from my classes taught by professors old enough to have personally done mouth pipetting (!), allegedly it was more precise and less likely to cause cross contamination than using rubber bulbs if you did it right. Which, nobody can be perfect every time, so thank god it was phased out. It really used to be the wild west out there.
- Comment on Inuit Otter Amulet 1 month ago:
I’m always super curious about how to interpret art from artistic traditions very different than the ones I’m familiar with, thanks for sharing!
- Comment on Choose your fighter, chatters. 1 month ago:
It used to be standard in labs to pipette by mouth. Better be extra careful with the strong acids!
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 1 month ago:
I’m pretty sure I know who you’re talking about, and I regret to inform you he (or his ideological twin) made another alt a couple of days ago. I dunno if he’s been banned on the instance yet or not, he was banned from blahaj more or less immediately.
- Comment on Peer review 1 month ago:
Did peer F get murdered for indicating they were going to reject the paper? 🔍🧐
