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@AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how normal is it to snore at 13/14 years old?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s often a sign that the person is overweight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My first thought was “How is this a boomer thing, I see people of all ages doing this.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So that's how they're made.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Most likely another fake one, by the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When they tell you "oh of course it's safe" they are lying⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand why it looks that way from good reaction, but there was nothing my dad wouldn’t have done for my mom. I’ve never seen two people who loved each other more completely, trusted each other more thoroughly, or gave a bigger priority to each other’s happiness. But apparently they had an awful lot of sex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the origin of aliens looking like humans? Why and when did it become the norm?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Several people have mentioned budgetary restrictions, which is a huge part, but there are practical considerations, regardless of budget. Even with a big budget, it’s only recently that they’ve been able to make convincing non-humanoid aliens that interact with other actors (mostly through CGI). Earlier, there were good examples of movie monsters or aliens that were done with stop motion or puppets, but not in a way that they shared the screen with the human actors in a meaningful way. Can you imagine if, say, the Vulcans on the original Trek series were wildly non-human - how silly it would have looked? The technology just wasn’t there to pull it off.

  Also, most aliens, even in books, are some variation of earth life. They’re reptile-people, big spiders, intelligent bugs, or whatever. I think that’s mostly because it’s pretty hard to envision something truly novel/new. So lots of books, movies, and shows come up with some rationale for why everything in the galaxy looks like some kind of earth life to excuse that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the origin of aliens looking like humans? Why and when did it become the norm?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say that’s more of the excuse/rationale for it. The underlying reason is hot much not expensive it would have been to do otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When they tell you "oh of course it's safe" they are lying⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sharing an overly personal story because I think it’s funny.

  When my first marriage was swirling the drain, and my wife and I hadn’t had sex for a number of months, I was visiting my parents, who were in their late 60s at the time. I noticed that my mom kept getting up to go to the bathroom, so I asked my dad if she was okay and he said she had a yeast infection that was bothering her and they didn’t know what to do about it. I told him that those were generally pretty easy, she can get a cream that will take care of it in about a week. Not much else to it other than avoid sex for a couple weeks.

  My dad looked incredulous. He said “A couple WEEKS? Like two full weeks? No sex at all for TWO WEEKS? If we don’t do that, will it go away on its own?” My dad, pushing 70, was having a hard time coming to grips with the thought of going two weeks without sex, while I was in my 20s and hadn’t had sex for four or five months.

  I remember driving home and thinking, “Well there’s something I didn’t need to think about.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't have to check the price because I know I can't afford it.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds tasty

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't have to check the price because I know I can't afford it.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I make a pretty good living and my family really loves cheese, so I buy fancy stuff pretty frequently, but I check the prices because some of them are just ridiculous. The ten to twelve dollars I spend on a chunk the size of a deck of cards or two is bad enough, but some are two or three times that price for the same amount and I just can’t bring myself to do it. I could do it, but it’s just hard to believe we’d enjoy the cheese that much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That perfect Christmas gift - a picture to hang on your wall commenorating when you wore that classy orange jump suit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who is she?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this container safe to be reheated in an air fryer?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Aluminum foil is fine in an air fryer. I don’t know about that black paint on the outside though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any relations experts?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m my late teens and early twenties, I had several occurrences of gay guys hitting on me, to the point where I started to worry that there was something about me. It seems funny to me now, but I really did have a period of wondering if I could be and was just repressing it because of my Catholic upbringing. But ultimately I realized that I just didn’t find guys attractive at all, and even the thought of kissing a guy was kind of a boner killer. So I get what you’re saying, even though on the surface it sounds funny to say you wondered if you could be gay.

  Sometime later I ended up with a couple of close gay friends, and I mentioned it to them. They said it was probably because I put out a very non-judgemental vibe and didn’t seem like a homophobe, so it probably didn’t seem risky to hit on me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bird Bath⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, well, silly me then. No, like the other guy said, it’s very stretchy. If you have your own scrotum, it’s easily confirmed. If you have girly parts, the skin is very similar to the outer labia: very sensitive to scratching, but it doesn’t hurt to stretch it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bird Bath⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think they’re asking about the stretching, but about having a puddle of alcohol on your scrotum. That was my first thought as well. Probably okay if it’s wine, but not sure about something high proof.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an obvious technical reason why the major email services (Outlook, gmail, etc) can't seem to limit recipients' from Replying-All?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When I do bcc to a big list, I describe the distribution in the email header. Like “To: all users of the xxx application” or “To: All Engineering employees at the yyy site.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't Putin receiving the same level of hate than people like Trump and Elon are?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a huge contingent, even here, who loves both those guys, but maybe more importantly, they’re supposed to be on our side. Hell, Trump is the president! Putin is the dictatorial ruler of an enemy country, we expect that he’s going to do and say stuff that’s terrible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Orange Dickhead dies before taking his oath again will sucession still be applicable? Like Vance the new pres and Johnson the new VP?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s only after the electoral college votes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young Frankenstein is not available for streaming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Heh, understandable. I’m one of the older Lemmy folks, I’d guess. I’m a software engineering manager for an aerospace company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young Frankenstein is not available for streaming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife and I moved into our first house together on Halloween, 1995, so that night we drank a bottle of champagne, watched Young Frankenstein, and handed out candy. Every year since then we’ve done the same thing to celebrate our anniversary of living together, though sometime a different movie. This year, we couldn’t find our DVD, so decided to stream it and found what you did. Apparently Disney bought it and for some reason decided not to make it available. Very frustrating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sleepy Bees⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For those wondering, this appears to be true. Most sites that say it all reference the same person, whose study doesn’t seem very scientific, but I found this much more controlled study that did indeed replicate the conclusions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This scammer pretending to be Greenpeace⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That seems high, though I guess if they’re doing it in a state with high renewable energy, that’s what they’re using. It uses a crazy high amount of energy though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This scammer pretending to be Greenpeace⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder what fraction of Bitcoin mining energy comes from renewable sources. I bet it’s teeny tiny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I fart all the time when I'm trying to sleep?!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Farting as you relax and when you bring your knees up towards your chest (common when you sleep on your side) is pretty normal. It might also be a timing thing based on when you go to bed relative to when you’ve eaten.

  You might look into why you fart so much if it’s excessive. For instance, I have an odd food intolerance called fructose malabsorption - excess fructose doesn’t get digested, so it just ferments in my intestines. If I eat a lot of it, I’ll get massively painful diarrhea, but usually I just get some gas.

  The same thing happens with people who are lactose intolerant: they can usually have some amount of lactose and they just get gassy, so some people don’t even realize they have it.

  Other things can also cause unusual amounts of gas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What positive things do you expect from Trumps upcoming four years?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why without you think I didn’t?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What positive things do you expect from Trumps upcoming four years?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For people who have 401Ks or other investments, the likely deregulation pushes up stock prices (which is why the stock market had a big bump this week). Oh, sure, those regulations help protect the environment, workers rights, worker health and safety, etc., but: image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nuclear Demonology⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reportedly he has a very worth of $50M. If that was just in investments getting 4 percent a year, that would be $2M annually for doing nothing. Kind of gross to stoop to that level for money when you have so much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nuclear Demonology⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Courting the same demographic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop whining. Do it yourself.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if that’s related to a user base that skews heavily toward techies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop whining. Do it yourself.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did, thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop whining. Do it yourself.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Completely agree. I personally I’m fine with the trade-off I made. There’s even some benefits to a smaller site. I remember on Reddit there were lots of times I didn’t make a comment, even when I had something to say, because there were already literally thousands of comments, some with thousands of upvotes, and I figured anything I said would be lost in the din. Here, if you’ve got something to say, it’s very likely to be seen.