ArcaneSlime
@ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Migrating here (or maybe keeping both) from @ArcaneSlime@lemmy.ml
Will put an eternal curse on your enemies for a Cinemageddon invite.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 5 hours ago:
ADHD.
- Comment on 'tis the season 19 hours ago:
There’s a smile on the flea, on the fly, on the wart, on the frog, on the bump, on the log, in the hole in the bottom of the sea.
This is the second “hole in the bottom of the sea” reference I’ve made on lemmy in as many months, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened twice.
- Comment on To Get a Man’s Attention, Meow Harder | In a small study, pet cats greeted male owners with more vocalizations than they did female caregivers. 1 day ago:
Men cannot give care of course, they’re incapable of feelings don’t ya know.
- Comment on Insulin 2 days ago:
Ah well that’s good, at least there appears to be some options.
I’ve heard of clandestine labs making patented insulin and selling it cheap too, and I’m all for a good grey market.
- Comment on Insulin 2 days ago:
Ah, so you’d need to know your dosage for that type beforehand, and if you didn’t know it you can’t just wing it. Still though, might be beneficial to know that for emergencies like this because it sounds preferable to certain death.
There should be a little chart your doc gives you at diagnosis (or something, spitballing here) that lays out the dosages you’d need for X, Y, and Z brands so that if say you use X and they’re out (or your kid freezes it or something) you can just consult the dosage chart and get Y for now.
- Comment on Insulin 2 days ago:
Is there any reason a diabetic has to get the newer patented formulas instead of the old one that the pic talks about which is regularly sold for around $25 a vial in the US without insurance?
I know the new stuff works faster and you don’t have to worry about your diet as much so I’m sure it’s much easier, but why would you have to die instead of just managing your diet and using the $25 stuff for a month in this emergency situation?
Don’t get me wrong all medicine should be free and stuff but like, why die instead of switching to the cheap stuff and dietary management for a month?
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 6 days ago:
Tbh I’m not surprised, I do think that SOA was forced to be inclusive, but they have been for years now and so they’re probably used to it.
Conversely Girl Scouts not only were never pressured to be inclusive, they’re actively shielded from having to be inclusive. You think they’re sexist when a girl wants to join you should see how they treat boys who want to join!
Also worth noting, the whole reasoning behind forcing the Boy Scouts to allow girls was “because the girl scouts sucks.”
Personally I think the correct answer was either:
A) Boy/Girl scouts merge, they’re both now Scouting America and everyone can join. Could even expand it to adults that missed out as kids and want to learn survival skills or want to hike and camp with other adults (separate units of course from the kids lmao, but I’ll shoehorn in a healthy “third place” for adults any chance I get). And keep selling the Girl Scout cookies but call them Scouting America cookies now.
B) Nothing. Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts remain limited to their respective genders, and if “girl scouts sucks” then it is their responsibility to improve and make it not suck. Leaves NB out to dry though, and could get weird if someone wants to transition but their Scout Credits don’t transfer with them.
But we got neither, instead we got “the boys do not deserve their own space but the girls do” which is a little weird to me (though entirely too common.)
I am glad however that you were able to go with the less toxic option, and I do still love Thin Mints, I just wish they’d have taken option (A) instead of option (D)ouble Standard.
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 1 week ago:
time.com/…/organizations-not-for-men-only/
There’s also the Scouts formerly known as Boy (“Boy Scouts” no longer exists, it’s now “Girl Scouts” and “Scouting America” now.)
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 1 week ago:
That’s not the weird part (beyond being by nature exclusionary so if you think that is weird then I guess there’s that) but rather the semi-public-but-not-really aspect, personally were I to have a woman exclusionary forum, it wouldn’t be out in the open but something more controllable like a discord server (preferably without the privacy nightmare but I have no will to create this space and prefer places where all are welcome so I haven’t done much research on where I’d create that.)
Just seems like inviting unnecessary conflict and work for the mods, unless that’s the goal I suppose.
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 1 week ago:
I think your stats are a bit skewed, it’s likely more than 1% of the entire population (internet or otherwise) that are women, trans women, or NB. (I know you’re speaking entirely too hyperbolically rather than literally, but)
I mean, just in the US alone:
The total population of United States is estimated to be 332.39 million with 164.55 million males (49.50%) and 167.84 million females (50.50%). There are 3.3 million more females than males in United States.
I find it hard to say that 3.3mil more women than men is “99% men all the time,” sounds like it’s closer to 50.5%.
As for them having their own community, idgaf really, have fun, but also:
It’s definitely a double standard, and fraternal organizations are often met with just as much hostility and discrimination suits (ex: Boy Scouts were pressured to allow girls, while Girl Scouts not only never faced the same pressure, those leaning on Boy Scouts to br inclusive actively defend Girl Scouts as a male exclusionary space, and I cannot grasp the cognitive dissonance that takes). Personally I think we need to pick a lane as a whole either direction, it’s either fine or not to have exclusionary orgs and comms like that, no double standard, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
Also I think it’s somewhat of an invitation for problems to have your exclusionary non-public community in public. Should prrooooobably just have something more secure that people won’t constantly stumble into, but if one has fun with constant moderation I suppose it’s a good way to feed one’s addiction. Seems like it’d get old, personally.
It’s especially ridiculous to me to make someone’s demographic the subject of a post, while barring that demographic from participation (at least on that post.) I guess I get it, it’s like talking shit behind someone’s back instead of to their face, which is a lot easier, but it is telling that if you replace the demographic in question with any other of your choosing, the problems with the practice would become glaringly obvious.
That said if they want to be exclusionary, reactionary, and complain about an entire demographic without them there to speak their side? Well I’m used to it, you should hear the shit my uncle says, so I say have fun, fuck it.
- Comment on Is it bad if I'm 31 and I feel genuinely sad and empty that a mythical creature isn't real? 1 week ago:
Is it Mothman? Cause he’s not evil, he warns, he’s nice!
- Comment on Is Baofeng flagrantly lying to the FCC and endangering users? A deep dive 2 weeks ago:
Not gonna lie it sounds like it’d be very cool for about 2s if that happened. Y’know until I died and stuff, but glowing radio! /jk
Nah I figured if I was going to be literally burned it would have happened by now lol, I was mostly kidding on that part and also offering my hands on expertise that I haven’t been burned yet at all.
But yeah if they haven’t realized I’m using a baofeng on totally legal freqs yet something tells me they won’t find spurious transmissions. Still though, while I’m a fan of breaking dumb rules I’m also a fan of following the ones that make sense and I wouldn’t want to actually cause anyone issues, so while I may be running it on a redacted frequency (maaaaaaaybe at .5w higher than the fcc would like) I’d like to do what I can to make sure it doesn’t cause real issues for people (and so far it seems it has not, but maybe I need to analyze the spectrum.)
- Comment on Is Baofeng flagrantly lying to the FCC and endangering users? A deep dive 2 weeks ago:
I’m about to become very unpopular around here I’m sure, but I use a baofeng uv5x3 daily and have not been burned by it yet. Am I gonna turn into a feral ghoul?
Haven’t noticed any spurious transmissions, then again the closest thing I have to a spectrum analyzer is a flipper zero and I haven’t tried to use that (idk if it would work for this anyway.)
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Then tell Epic and Infinity Ward/Treyarch (or whoever cranks those out like Madden games now) about it. It’s their fault these games are not supported on linux by requiring kernel level anti-cheat instead of server side anti-cheat.
Take Destiny for another example, runs perfectly fine on linux, until Bungie permabans your acct for playing on linux.
It’s not linux’s fault, it’s the shitass companies refusing to be good at things.
- Comment on "Ahahaha! I am on-line once again! Tremble, world, before my electric heating coil of doom!" 3 weeks ago:
As Seen On TV®™
- Comment on Discuss: 4 weeks ago:
The Yi qi.
- Comment on How can a US state block porn? 4 weeks ago:
Tbh I agree with them on that, bans don’t work.
But also I say the same to them regarding the ones they do want. Just because they’re hypocrites doesn’t mean I have to be!
Ban bans lol.
- Comment on How can a US state block porn? 4 weeks ago:
As you’ve accurately identified, they can’t. Best they have is say “nooo you can’t” and hope sites comply out of pure fear. Even if they could, VPN.
They also completely bungled prohibition, drug prohibition, and the states with restrictive gun laws are bungling that. And women from the anti abortion states can still get out of state abortions.
Bans don’t actually work, especially when there’s already an abundance and the banned thing in question is easy to produce.
- Comment on I'm blue ba da ba da dee da ba dieee 4 weeks ago:
Monotremes
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Tbf I think it’s just a generalized term for anything like that, including egg salad, macaroni salad, any of those “‘salad’ but it’s really just shit mixed with mayo and served cold” type dishes. No I don’t have more examples because I hate them all.
- Comment on ANTI PEE PAINT 5 weeks ago:
I’ll piss right on the ground, fuck it. Der Strom lässt sich nicht aufhalten!
- Comment on egg time 5 weeks ago:
I know of such a man. Makes a convincing argument too, that I’ll be wholly unable to properly articulate, but my dumbed down understanding is that (in addition to other things) the “feathers” could be decomposed collagenous fibers from the skin of dinosaurs rather than true feathers, and we’re not actually sure even though feathers are the pushed theory. And he also doesn’t believe in flight evolving ground up, but rather trees down, basically not from creatures jumping away from predators but from them gliding away to another tree. His theory being that one actually works well to get you away from predators while the other would be less likely to be successful and more likely to get eaten before passing on the genes. Also something about the Yi qi.
Idk if he’s right, but tbf idk if the other people are either, who knows.
- Comment on Why don't police use rubber bullets instead of live rounds? I get if someone is holding a loaded weapon. But wouldn't a rubber bullet have the same effect with out putting holes in another person? 5 weeks ago:
And they do also use bean bag guns sometimes, but typically when they’re using the taser or bean bags they’ll still have lethal cover.
- Comment on I'm 5, who are you?? 1 month ago:
I’m the leprechaun.
- Comment on itsfoss promotes hyprland on instagram!? 1 month ago:
Ah that’d make sense, thanks! Idk why I can’t find the info anywhere online, it has to be in the fedora docs somewhere!
- Comment on itsfoss promotes hyprland on instagram!? 1 month ago:
Ah so that’s why flashy line, am already logged in to KDE. I guess when I log in the system auto switches me from tty1 login to tty2 KDE? But then why does tty7 have the same flashy line, both can’t be login, can they?
- Comment on itsfoss promotes hyprland on instagram!? 1 month ago:
Fucking thank you so much I’ve spent the last hour trying to find this out lmao, but I couldn’t find it by searching “what is fedora tty1” for some reason.
I tried tty2 (as all online advice says to try): nothing. So I tried tty3, and it worked! But then I tried to switch “back” to my GUI using tty7, blinking cursor. Fuck. Went back to 3, tried 2 and breathed a sigh of relief as I saw my GUI lmao. But then began the quest to learn why are tty1 and 7 different.
So, tty1 is SDDM, can I ask what that is? I see:
SDDM is a modern graphical display manager aiming to be fast, simple and beautiful. It uses modern technologies like QtQuick, which in turn gives the designer the ability to create smooth, animated user interfaces.
But uuhhhh… what? I see no graphicals only the blinky cursor. And is tty7 that also?
- Comment on itsfoss promotes hyprland on instagram!? 1 month ago:
Got it now! For some reason, the internet seems to think my GUI is on tty7, but it’s on tty2, and on tty1 I only get a blinking cursor, but on the rest (besides the GUI) I get the “sysname login:” prompt. I’m sure this is a fedora thing but I can’t find out why it switched, or why tty1 shows up different.
- Comment on itsfoss promotes hyprland on instagram!? 1 month ago:
You limey buzztard!
- Comment on itsfoss promotes hyprland on instagram!? 1 month ago:
Tbf I’d take a pic of the command, or failing that, write it down, before switching.
My issue is “am noob, how login? And how switch back?” Lol. This post made me realize I need to learn how to do that now before I’m faced with a situation where I have to, so that’s good!