Catoblepas
@Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on They're trying to charge Luigi with terrorism! Imagine that! 2 days ago:
I just saw that! At the time I was making my comment I thought, “or they add federal charges,” but I didn’t think it was going to happen. Shows how useless it is to outlaw the death penalty on the state level when the federal government can selectively apply the death penalty in state level cases.
- Comment on Bat Feces Used to Fertilize Cannabis Is Linked to 2 Deaths 3 days ago:
New fear unlocked!
- Comment on "You can't have our trash because we don't have a way to charge you for it" 3 days ago:
Did you talk to whoever picked up the phone or a manager? A manager should be able to deal with the code issue, while a cashier probably couldn’t. If it was someone that could fix it and just refused or didn’t care, that’s indeed infuriating
- Comment on They're trying to charge Luigi with terrorism! Imagine that! 4 days ago:
The death penalty is outlawed in New York, isn’t it? Not that he can’t have an “accident” or some shit in prison.
- Comment on How do you voice chat without bothering roommates? 5 days ago:
Even just doing this on the portion of the wall directly behind your computer will help, if you don’t want to/can’t afford to do all your walls.
- Comment on feral naming 2 weeks ago:
I’m a soap-taster, unfortunately, but it smells really good to me!
- Comment on feral naming 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never noticed an ant smell, if I had to guess I’d assume it’s some different chemical I’m picking up on from the pill bugs.
- Comment on feral naming 2 weeks ago:
This is a weird question but everyone else could smell these, right? Like a weird bitter, musty smell. That post about people smelling ants a while back made me wonder what other bugs not all people smell.
- Comment on Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too 2 weeks ago:
That’s a reasonable concern. For context, from their 2023 financial report, they spend $391 million on everything they do; even if you add all those salaries you posted together, that’s still about 99 cents out of every dollar going where you want it to go.
I don’t disagree that it’s an obscene salary, but for the most part that’s how the big charities work in the US. You have to either go with small, local charities or shrug and accept that around 1% of your donation will go to someone getting overpaid. It sucks!
- Comment on You don't need to answer this 2 weeks ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_murder
So were all the people who died from denied care so he could buy a yacht or fourth house or whatever.
- Comment on deez nuts 3 weeks ago:
Sadly it seems like the philosophy PhDs getting the real cash from YouTube are the ones that peddle extreme misogyny and other various bigotries, eg lobster man.
- Comment on billions & billions 3 weeks ago:
The ultimate townies, ona universal scale.
- Comment on back to the ocean we go 3 weeks ago:
They made a TV show out of it on PBS!
- Comment on Fashion is cyclical 3 weeks ago:
And then the younger orcas won’t get why it’s ironic and will think it’s actually cool and wear them sincerely, and it will slowly become unfashionable again. Until another 30-40 years pass.
- Comment on Bat Drip 3 weeks ago:
I’m glad you got seen by a doctor!
- Comment on Bat Drip 3 weeks ago:
A bat being active during the day and colliding with you is very abnormal behavior. If rabies exists where you are (this includes the UK for bats) see a doctor ASAP. Like, I wouldn’t go to bed without doing it. It’s possible for you to be bitten without feeling it because of how small they are, and disorientation is a sign of rabies in bats.
It’s totally fixable even if it did have rabies and bite you, you just have to go get a (normal, NOT in the stomach) post-exposure shot.
- Comment on Would Kamala Harris have won the 2024 election if Latinos didn't shift hard to the right? 3 weeks ago:
The percentage of all Latino voters going up between 2020 and 2024 doesn’t necessarily mean there was more turn out from Latinos; if the voter demographics have shifted between 2020 and 2024 so that Latinos make up 1% more of the population, then they are still turning out at the exact same per capita rate as before, as a group.
Which sounds like a short time, but that’s a small shift and plenty of people turn 18 every day.
- Comment on I do not want to do anything. Is this addiction? 4 weeks ago:
This is a good avenue to go down, before assuming mental health. I’ve had some vitamin levels through the floor and just felt like shit. It would have been very easy to misdiagnose as solely depression.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I hate Aoplops and Also Blobsiles! 😡
- Comment on Is it possible to use an Android device entirely as "black box" (without touching it looking at it)? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know if this is still the case, but I know years back iPhones were preferred by a lot of blind people just in terms of accessibility. Digging through accessibility settings, it looks like you can use Voice Control to tell it to open Lemmy, and VoiceOver to read all the text on the screen without touching it. I don’t know about the example you added to your OP, adding phrases it would need to interpret seems more like a Siri thing (which I don’t use), do I don’t know how well that plays with Voice Control.
I wouldn’t rush out to buy anything unless some Android people confirm it’s not doable. Apple does have people that know the software working at their stores, so they could tell you specifics for sure. And check that I’m not totally wrong, lol.
- Comment on Is it possible to use an Android device entirely as "black box" (without touching it looking at it)? 5 weeks ago:
Someone who knows more about how to/if you can do this on Android will have to answer the specifics for that; I know on iOS you can use custom voice control actions (along with default voice control phone navigation mode) to do more or less what you’re describing. I’m surprised if Android has no accessibility features that work similarly.
- Comment on Is it possible to use an Android device entirely as "black box" (without touching it looking at it)? 5 weeks ago:
Sorry if I’m overlooking something obvious here, but you’re basically asking about accessibility features, right? Whatever settings and features blind users use should let you navigate without looking at it.
Although I will say you probably would need to get used to listening to text at a very high speed to use it at the speed you read.
- Comment on ‘Not a Scam 😂:’ Caitlyn Jenner Is Being Sued For Memecoin Securities Fraud 5 weeks ago:
If you needed a trans person to come tell you this is not okay: hi! Here I am! Don’t do this. All it does is advertise that you view using someone’s correct name as a privilege that can be revoked for bad behavior.
- Comment on Discord admin gets 15 years for “one of the most significant leaks” in US history - Ars Technica 5 weeks ago:
Although Teixeira asked Discord members not to share the documents, an investigative journalism group, Bellingcat, found that Teixeira’s friends spread the documents widely, first to other Discord servers, then to Telegram, 4Chan, and Twitter (now called X).
What’s the saying? Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead?
- Comment on I swear to god 5 weeks ago:
But in a centaur, the human torso is placed where the horse neck would be. If it was the torso that was replaced they would look more like satyrs.
- Comment on I'm surprised it hasn't been taken down yet ...well maybe not that surprised 1 month ago:
I think admins should do whatever is necessary to comply with their local laws, and that’s all I’ve got to say about that.
- Comment on Did something about mass produced ice cream change like 10 years ago? 1 month ago:
The Mayo Clinic has a good overview here that explains about the different types of fats
- Comment on Did something about mass produced ice cream change like 10 years ago? 1 month ago:
Hydrogenated Oil == Trans Fat
Just as a point of chemistry clarity, partially hydrogenated oils contain trans fat, fully hydrogenated oils do not. Partially hydrogenated oils are no longer GRAS by the FDA and shouldn’t be in any commercially sold foods, except the amount that occurs naturally in foods like butter.
Fully hydrogenated oils still have saturated fat so it’s not like it’s healthy, but it’s not as bad as trans fat.
- Comment on "Florida is a conservative Christian state" 1 month ago:
There are other programs for other regions too! I wish I’d known about it when I was in college.
- Comment on "Florida is a conservative Christian state" 1 month ago:
Not to pressure you to leave if it’s not feasible for you (I’ve so been there), but in case you haven’t heard of it: the Academic Common Market program, run by the Southern Regional Education Board, may be an avenue to get out of Florida while staying in college.
Hang in there.