WhiteOakBayou
@WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world
- 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? 1 day ago:
The law of supply and demand. If the demand starts to outstrip the supply the price will go up to compensate and reduce the demand. At the local level, imports can fill supply gaps. Demand isn’t really constant. The word used to describe it is elastic. For trees, they cut down however many they are going to. Replant, move to the next patch the next season and so on.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Is this bait? In what world is this transphobic? You could replace the punchline with any conspiracy and keep the joke. It isn’t punching down because the joke is at the expense of people who believe this not at the expense of people who are trans.
- Comment on I want to make a seafood boil but don't want to boil all the flavour away in a vat of water, would it turn out alright if I simmered it all in a bit of butter and old bay, spoon basting often. 5 days ago:
As a substitute for water. I’m not very creative with food so seafood stock would be used in seafood gumbo and chicken stock in jambalaya, rice and gravy or chicken and sausage gumbo.
- Comment on I want to make a seafood boil but don't want to boil all the flavour away in a vat of water, would it turn out alright if I simmered it all in a bit of butter and old bay, spoon basting often. 5 days ago:
You can continue to cook down your used boil water to make a seafood stock. Throw in your shrimp and crab shells for maximum flavor. You shouldn’t be wasting too much seasoning either way though. I usually do a sack of crawfish in a pot that is not that much bigger than the sack. You only need a lot of water if you can’t heat the water quickly (like using a stove instead of a gas burner)
- Comment on Anon reads nihilist philosophy 1 week ago:
Yes me too. But that same baby born in Gaza could be born 15 miles away and live an entirely different life. That is the whole point. The gazan child is not essentially a victim by virtue of being born in Gaza. The gazan child is likely to be a victim not because she has to be (is essential to her nature) but because someone has chosen to victimise her. What modern people miss is that that distinction was lacking for the first couple thousand years of philosophical thought.
- Comment on Anon reads nihilist philosophy 1 week ago:
Existentialism is a response to essentialism though. It isn’t that life has no meaning but that people can be free to choose the meaning and path of their lives. An acorn can only become an oak tree but a person is not born with their future path preordained. The idea is existence before essence instead of essence before existence.
- Comment on k spoon 1 week ago:
Great recommendation. Slow and sludgy is the right vibe for sure
- Comment on People who get "happy ending" massages, is there like a common keyword or process? 2 weeks ago:
For him the keyword was “Management, another please.” I don’t know if that’ll work for most people.
- Comment on not even once 4 weeks ago:
It is as psychedelic as dmt it just isn’t pleasurable at all. On breakthrough doses your awareness is altered but you aren’t intoxicated like on the classical psychedelics. It is a hard one to explain but you are disassociated in the regular sense, the ego death is real but not in the numinous way of serotonergic drugs. I was once a square wheel on a truck. And I lived a whole life that way. I remember way more of what happens in my salvia breakthroughs than in my dmt ones. I think the dmt ones would be just as unpleasant though if dmt wasn’t itself pleasurable.
- Comment on Could I theoretically grind up one of those pink salt lamps and use it to season my food? 4 weeks ago:
I’m sorry everyone is advising against it. If you need a pink salt itch scratched they make big blocks of salt the size of cutting boards to season steak (or something I guess, I think it’s a solution looking for a problem) but they are food grade so buy five of those, stack them into a cube (bottom face is the table) and put a flashlight inside the box and go to town!
- Comment on How do you people read books? 5 weeks ago:
I use it hold on to the device more securely and so I only need one hand not as a stand to prop it up on a table or anything.
- Comment on How do you people read books? 5 weeks ago:
Something like this
- Comment on Company truck with hands holding soil and a plant. 5 weeks ago:
It’s cvs with their crop and zoom again!
- Comment on How do you people read books? 5 weeks ago:
If you are turning into a hunchback try holding the book at eye level instead of where you have to look down. I like those stick on stands, usually the ring ones, on my devices so I can do it one handed
- Comment on Gotta shit the right way 5 weeks ago:
This is how I was potty trained. I did not know that until one day I came home and my mom had my son sitting backwards. She said it helps little kids not fall in. Look at me putting toilet seat adapters in the bathroom like a fool!
- Comment on Anon is 23 5 weeks ago:
If you really want to know how I can help with some of it. I started a business last year. I am a skilled laborer by training but my business isn’t in the same field. The main steps are:
- Go to your Secretary of State website
- Start your LLC (maybe something else but LLC covers most things for most people)
- Get your ein from the IRS website
- Use whatever monies you (proprietor) have to buy equipment, advertising, whatever. Save your receipts.
- When you file your (personal) taxes deduct everything you spent money on that is common and appropriate for your business.
- Get all the money you spent back. Now you have the things you bought plus they money you spent on it.
- Try to profit the second year and hopefully not have to use your (personal) money anymore.
- Once you get to the point your revenues exceed your costs try not to embezzle from yourself (LLC.) the tax code favors businesses to the point that stealing isn’t really necessary.
That’s a general idea of how it goes. It cost me $75 I think and took a week for the SoS to approve my filing. I did all of the paperwork on my phone and it took less than an hour total. How to make money from a business is another topic but if you got a good idea or marketable skill don’t let the official/legal part put you off.
- Comment on How to summon a group of gym bros (100% working tutorial 2026) 1 month ago:
I’m stating that being grossly overweight with a normal to low bf% is still bad for one’s heart. ~20% is the high end of lean for adult men and the prefix “sub” means under or lower.
- Comment on How to summon a group of gym bros (100% working tutorial 2026) 1 month ago:
There is no way those guys walking around at 6’1 300 lbs and sub 20% body fat are not taxing their hearts more than a similar height person of normal weight/bf%.
- Comment on At this rate, it will never end 1 month ago:
That is a funny joke and I’ve heard others like it but I guess I just don’t know enough about boats to understand why it’d be so terrible.
- Comment on At this rate, it will never end 1 month ago:
I know it should set off alarms when there are always sailboats for sale relatively cheap but I struggle to resist the urge to buy a cabin sailboat I can sleep in. In my imagination it’ll be like an RV but in the Gulf.
- Comment on At this rate, it will never end 1 month ago:
Five or six months of people to hang out with on the water, every now and then an hj from some bored girl while her friends swim and then you get six months to chill and recuperate to prepare for next year’s socializing season. Almost makes a boat seem worth it.
- Comment on What is the deal with Caitlan Clarke and pretty much the whole WNBA is against her? She drains 3 pointers like I never seen and they treat her like ruffing up a man. Shouldn't they congratulate her? 2 months ago:
She was out a lot of last season so you can compare with that
- Comment on This has gotten out of hand and I demand satisfaction. 2 months ago:
Candlejacked
- Comment on Why is it almost every cease fire or deal made in the Middle East everyone adds a little fuck you to the Kurds? Just like the MoU screwed them. As far back as I think Nixon was fucking over them. 2 months ago:
Painfully funny
- Comment on "Go outside and touch some grass"... The Outside: 2 months ago:
It’s gross but I think the stroad is still liminal space as it is between the origin and destination (defined places) for most of the people pictured.
- Comment on So unfair 2 months ago:
They are generically called “bats” if anyone is looking to buy one for their dugout.
- Comment on So unfair 2 months ago:
Gen z will never appreciate the ditch and woods porn. Its like guys were throwing the mags out of their windows. Always a wtf thing for me when I’d come across it.
- Comment on It's like salting a slug 2 months ago:
He tries to celebrate pride with an AI picture of cheerleaders shaped like guys from the men’s adventure magazines of the 50s and everyone makes fun of him
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Do you look like that too? Maybe your parents are just anti chav and these guys are close enough to trigger their reactions.
- Comment on Anon went to a birthday party 3 months ago:
Definitely can’t beat that!