deranger
@deranger@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Get a smiley for driving too fast 2 days ago:
It’s an arrow.
- Comment on Where did Captain Planet go when he flew away? 3 days ago:
Captain Planet has to go off and use his prostate massager so he can bust so hard he’s reduced to his constituent elements.
- Comment on The IT Crowd: Jen has been transported 3 days ago:
It says “speaking in Italian” on my pirated copy.
- Comment on I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this? 4 days ago:
I think probably because there’s no sensory input and I’m just there floating in the darkness with only my breathing and heartbeat. It’s not like the whole time I’m in the tank I’m tripping, but I have had some psychedelic adjacent experiences. Not so much the visual and auditory hallucinations, but rather the psychedelic thoughts. Pondering the nature of my existence, fleeting moments of feeling cosmic and eternal, that sorta thing.
I wouldn’t recommend psychedelics to everyone but I’m glad I’ve dabbled. Those in a stable mental state would probably have a worthwhile experience eating some shrooms and sitting down in the woods.
- Comment on I feel my life is empty. Is there any way to stop this? 4 days ago:
Someone once said to me that from a Buddhist perspective they’re not helpful because they provide a one time view rather than a continual shift in mindset.
That’s true, but you can take that experience and apply it to sober life. You don’t need to take acid all the time to appreciate psychedelia, but a few trips help broaden the horizon so to speak. My memories of psychedelic experiences sometimes return to me quite vividly when floating in a float tank.
- Comment on Is it possible to get/train a carrier pigeon today? 4 days ago:
Encryption is illegal over Ham Radio in many jurisdictions.
To be clear, encryption is not illegal per se. Obscuring the meaning of a message is what’s illegal. You can encrypt radio traffic if you have the keys posted somewhere so that anybody could decrypt the transmission. If you obscure the meaning of a message in plain English by using code words, that’s illegal.
- Comment on Those damn woke corners. 5 days ago:
Don’t forget Watkins Glen:
- Comment on Deny it? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Deny it? 1 week ago:
what’s white and hinders you from eating
cocaine
- Comment on OSHA is woke 1 week ago:
It kills me that the CSB has little (no?) authority to enforce their findings. All they can do is make recommendations.
- Comment on OSHA is woke 1 week ago:
That channel kicked off my interests in disasters of all kinds. I think it’s a good hobby to have these days, I don’t see the number of disasters decreasing as time progresses.
- Comment on What determines whether something is small enough to regrow on a mammal? 1 week ago:
Our repair functions stop doing their job well as part of senescence. Increasing the chance and speeding up the development of tumors.
Those repair functions working better than normal is one of the hallmark signs of cancer, specifically telomerase being reactivated. Senescence is anti cancer, not pro cancer. You know those HeLa cells that are immortal? Cancer cells. Having a time limit or replication limit on cells through senescence is a great way of limiting tumors.
- Comment on Crisps. 1 week ago:
Yeah topside having the seasoning is normal. Plenty of articles and posts about flipping the chip.
- Comment on What determines whether something is small enough to regrow on a mammal? 1 week ago:
Mammals can’t de-differentiate cells back to progenitor stem cells, so their ability to heal is limited.
- Comment on Always go go go. Never no no no. 1 week ago:
I don’t disagree, but I’m not going to do the fall back asleep thing in 9 minute intervals. I’ll just set a second alarm for 15-60 minutes later, or just forgo the second alarm entirely and pass in and out of consciousness for however long I want. I hate the sound of alarms, so hearing that every 9 minutes isn’t going to improve anything.
I never hear anyone talking about how much they enjoy spamming snooze, only complaints. At least for me, quitting snooze buttons fairly early on seems to be a wise decision.
- Comment on Always go go go. Never no no no. 1 week ago:
Stop hitting snooze and just change your alarm to later. Own that shit. If you’re going to be lazy then go all the way lazy.
I don’t understand how lying there in a semi conscious state, dreading the start of your daily existence, is better than sleeping for that same amount of time.
- Comment on Co-op campaigns are a rarity these days, and that should change 2 weeks ago:
Portal 2 co-op is dope.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 5 is getting released in PlayStation 5 3 weeks ago:
FH is more arcade than simulation compared to GT, very different feeling games.
- Comment on Does Gmail have more spam now? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think so. I’ve had the same gmail address since 2004 and I don’t notice it being particularly bad right now. It comes and goes in waves.
- Comment on Isn't having your own domain name for email very bad for privacy? And how do you pick a good domain name that doesn't sound goofy? 3 weeks ago:
you know nobody is reading your emails
Can’t they be read by someone who’s compromised whatever server the other person is using? Since email isn’t encrypted, couldn’t anyone who picked up the traffic on the way to your server also read that email?
- Comment on Would you like to finance your hot chocolate with a loan set at 69% apr? 3 weeks ago:
Kids items have been cheaper as long as I can remember. I guarantee a restaurant you’ve been to has had two identical items at different prices, or things that are cheaper and you get more of the thing. The only thing modern about this is taking a screenshot of your cart.
- Comment on Should have seen it coming 3 weeks ago:
I thought the innovative part was using more efficient code, not what it’s trained on.
- Comment on Think this is a realistic prediction or just being used to hype up investors? 3 weeks ago:
Yep my first thought of this is as a technicality. One day every pixel displayed on your monitor has passed through some sort of upscaling or frame generation.
- Comment on The basics should be affordable. Yes even eggs. 4 weeks ago:
Drugs are cheaper at least. The price of an eighth of weed has not changed at all for me since 2003, despite inflation, and quality is massively improved.
- Comment on Yep, you did. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on What are some actual good *sour* sour candy? 4 weeks ago:
I think that’s probably a good thing. I’ve eaten so many warheads the skin started to come off my tongue.
- Comment on Is there a name for the smell or sensation experienced right before dawn? 5 weeks ago:
Ever shined a powerful flashlight or laser around and seen all the particles floating in the air? You can also see them sometimes with a particularly bright sun beam coming through a blind. While these probably aren’t spores, it does illustrate how much stuff you’re constantly breathing in. There is no escaping. You’re part of life, there’s billions of organisms on you and in you at all times, and they’re fighting for survival too. There’s no escape. The only reason you survive is because of your immune system, and that’s why AIDS patients and severe burn victims just die despite nothing particularly “wrong” happening to them.
- Comment on The cost of college in USA makes no sense anymore 5 weeks ago:
To me, that job listing is a red flag and I’d not want to have that job if the bullshit is starting before I even apply. It’s probably only going to get worse if that’s the start.
If I really did want the job, and I knew they were outright bullshitting, I’d not feel bad about bullshitting them back.
- Comment on The cost of college in USA makes no sense anymore 5 weeks ago:
5 years experience required for a programming language that had only even existed for 2 years
If this is the level of bullshit on the job listing, do you actually want that job?
If yes: if they’re bullshitting, why don’t you?
- Comment on The cost of college in USA makes no sense anymore 5 weeks ago:
I have a 4 year degree and it has never advantaged me, ever.
You didn’t learn anything at school?
I went to an engineering school, switched majors to biochemistry, and I work an IT job now. My education was invaluable despite being overwhelmingly inapplicable to my current field of work. I learned so much and was exposed to so many people of a similar mindset. Easily one of the most important things I’ve done in life, just from a life experience standpoint.
What advantage do you expect it to give you aside from what you learned and showing you can complete a bachelor’s program?
