FuglyDuck
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is Heliobiology considered legit or a pseudoscience? 15 hours ago:
You asked the same basic question yesterday.
Didn’t like the answers? It’s still junk science today, too.
- Comment on What can I put on a street lamp to stop the light in one direction? 1 day ago:
firebomb?
naw. that’s a bit much. a .22 lr and some target practice will do the trick.
(but seriously, maybe just invest in some decent black out curtains.)
- Comment on How do I tell my co-workers I'm not attending a wedding without creating drama? 2 days ago:
Step one- the coworkers need to fuck off. Start with a polite, but firm “it’s none of your fucking husiness” and get less polite the more they push.
Step 2, if your brother is trying to weaponize your coworkers, tell him to fucking stop. If he’s just coming around, be somewhat more polite and still tell him to stop. If he switched to “I’m just visiting [the coworkers] your manager probably would like to know- ex employees still coming round is never a good idea even if they left amicably.
Step 2b (or maybe step 3) tell your brother that you don’t want to be drawn into whatever is going on with him and your mom, and that’s why you can’t go. If he’s continues trying to pull you in, you can tell him to fuck off too.
It sounds a lot like your brother has issues with boundaries. Set your boundaries and enforce them. Also don’t let your mom pull you into it on her side, either.
- Comment on Do dogs actually like having their belly rubbed or do they just know we really like to rub their bellies? 3 days ago:
So… like if we’re talking running her Buthole… that might the the gland acting up. She might need some relief. (Very stanky relief.)
That said, my bro’s muppet likes to have scriches delivered just above her tail.
- Comment on How are wireless mice these days? 4 days ago:
I like my glorious o2 mouse. It’s wireless, charges off USB-C, and can be plugged into the computer and used while off (while also charging.) It’s charge lasts for a bit more than a week.
- Comment on Bill Gates: People saying AI will create more jobs don’t understand what’s coming 4 days ago:
This how you know Microsoft is behind on forcing AI into everything.
- Comment on For those of you with LineageOS and rely on F-Droid/FOSS apps, how do you make extra money without gig apps like DoorDash? 5 days ago:
For what little it’s worth, here you can’t have a felony conviction and legally work in corrections (or even as a security guard.)(though a lot of desperate security cos will ignore that until they get shut down for not running/ignoring the background checks.)
- Comment on Has Family Feud ever gone back and given someone an answer they got right? 1 week ago:
But what kind of wood? Generic shop class sawdust? Pine (yellow? White?), Cedar. Juniper.
sandalwood is very specific, and of course “yeah that’s what they meant”…. Because of course they meant the right answer. If the right answer bad been cedar, I bet they would have meant that instead.
- Comment on Would taking a tbs of olive oil before each meal lower the GI of everything else you eat? 1 week ago:
It might give the squirts. It anything serious-like. But enough to be uncomfortable. (It can soften stool if you’re constipated, but it’s not a strong laxative.)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Depends on my mood.
Also on what’s nearby
- Comment on A powerful Canadian politician wants to remove all bike lanes in Toronto. Doctors say it's a dumb idea 1 week ago:
They don’t just save lives. They do, and that’s the important thing. But they also make traffic better for everyone. including the dumbass that wants to remove them.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The irony.
You’re an ass.
I read your post. From your post, I inferred people are telling you that you don’t get to tell them how to spend money. Because that’s what you’re bitching about.
Which it’s a very obvious inference then, that they’re complaining about you telling them how to spend their money.
You’re also wrong about the current causes of inflation, in the us at least, most of it’s from corporate greed, not demand.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yes. We did.
It’s not the kind of statement people just drop, almost always is it a direct reply to people telling them how to spend (or not spend,) their money.
That’s why there’s a distinction between “my money” and “your money” and “other people’s money.”
You don’t get to decide what I place value on; just as I don’t get to decide your values for you.
- Comment on If you replace the beef patty in hamburger with a think slice of ham does that make it more or less a hamburger? 1 week ago:
The no sand in sandwich is only because the FDA actually had clout at one point….
- Comment on Can you open up an unmanned store in the US and will it stay in business or close down? 1 week ago:
Vending machines.
You’re looking for a vending machine.
- Comment on when doing laundry... while switching it over from washer to dryer...you find a sock on the floor that didn't get washed. If you put it in the dryer with the wet laundry will it come out clean? 2 weeks ago:
You ever hear of that thought question “Does soap get dirty”?
if the sock did get clean, then the stuff making the sock dirty… went somewhere. I submit that not only did your sock not get clean, it made the other clothes not clean, too.
- Comment on Can I break my sense of taste? 2 weeks ago:
Strong mint can absolutely knock out other flavors for a time.
I also knew a guy who had cancer (thyroid? Don’t quote me on that,) that the treatment knocked out his sense of taste. Everything except flour.
- Comment on Is the census mandatory in the US for both citizens and tourists? 3 weeks ago:
they don’t count tourists. Or at least, not foreign tourists. if you live in the US, you’re obligated to be represented on the census in some way- every household is expected to fill it out once, so if you live with your parents, Also you can chose to not answer questions, but they’ll do what they can to fill them in. (including potentially making shit up.)
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
How does that change anything in any meaningful way?
The difference between the hot tap and the cold tap is peanuts compared to the difference of hot tap to dishwasher’s hot.
It’s not even all that more efficient- unless you ignore the water heater’s energy use. There is, though some reason to hook up to the cold side any ways- water heaters can get nasty and the water in them is soaking in that nastiness.
- Comment on What are some good, independent news outlets that are reliable? 3 weeks ago:
I like the daily beans podcasts with allison gill and daina goldberg. They do a podcast and a few other things… they’re great.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
The dishwasher has a booster that brings to steaming- much hotter than your full-home water heater should be set to.
I wouldn’t worry about it. The difference in efficiency is negligible.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
More recycled Nazis shit.
This is so gross, and these people don’t even realize what they’re doing.
- Comment on Why do we assume paper towels are sterile, or at least clean? 4 weeks ago:
We almost never actually need to sanitize anything you come into regular contact with.
And if you’re freaking out about microbes and fecal matter, don’t ask what you’re breathing in with every breath you take.
- Comment on How do industries that provide goods like lumber or livestock maintain output when their goods take a long time to develop but get used/processed in a short period of time? 4 weeks ago:
there’s that, too. a lot of it depends on what’s being farmed, and how much regular deamand there is for it.
- Comment on How do industries that provide goods like lumber or livestock maintain output when their goods take a long time to develop but get used/processed in a short period of time? 4 weeks ago:
They stager their crops.
Basically, it takes 20-30 years for a yellow pine to reach harvest. So they have lots of (huge) tracks that are growing, each lot is planted in sequential years- one lot is planted while another is harvested
- Comment on If you take a water balloon filled normally at the surface of the ocean and take it down, like 100 meters would it deflate due to the higher water pressure? What if you popped it? 4 weeks ago:
Depends on how much air is in there with the water.
Water itself is incompressible so the balloon won’t shrink that much, but there’s some air in there so it would shrink a bit.
The balloon’s popping action comes from being filled and expanded. It’s an elastic, so if something breaks it, it snaps back.
The only way that wouldn’t happen is if there was mostly air in there, and you went to the appropriate depth where that air was compressed down to its original volume.
- Comment on Would moving/shifting in the 4th (spacial) dimension be fatal? 5 weeks ago:
Hate to break it to you. But you are moving through time. Every second.
Without time, if you weren’t moving through time, nothing could change, and the rate time flows is different for each of us… it’s complicated and I’m far from the best person to explain it, but time is not like a fourth axis that everything gets placed on, even if that’s kinda sorta how we model it.
- Comment on Could you make a maglev marimba that would resonate for longer than ordinary models? 5 weeks ago:
what if you created a cradle for the keys, similar to the bands they float on? maybe something like a cloth tube (as for making the binding on a quilt,) capped off with 2 ball bearings. I suspect it won’t be any better than the current arrangement, but it might be.
- Comment on Could you make a maglev marimba that would resonate for longer than ordinary models? 5 weeks ago:
There are arrangements of magnets that can levitate a steel ball bearing a certain distance above it. You could then imbed the ball bearing in the tone board.
There’s two problems I see. First, it would require some fairly strong magnetic fields to achieve, and secondly, anything that’s going to keep your tone board constrained at the appropriate position is going to dampen the vibrations.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I mean, sure. Maybe. Probably?
But can you imagine anything more terrifying than a multi-ton Canada goose charging and honking at you?