rbos
@rbos@lemmy.ca
Canadian, sysadmin, trans rights are human rights, puncha-the-nazis, cats are pretty great, GNU Terry Pratchett.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
I have one but I do find it a bit difficult. Maybe the fine chain ones would work better for me.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Trying to avoid microplastics. I have yet to find a scrub brush that isn’t plastic bristles. So i use dishcloths.
- Comment on In racoon we trust 1 week ago:
I am more or less neutral on most recycling. Separating metals us a good idea, glass pretty neutral (it’s basically a rock and expensive to crush and recycle - much better to reuse). Separating plastics is probably worse than useless.
Separating organics, however, has immediate benefits. It’s so nice having trash that doesn’t stink to high heaven, and it almost eliminates the raccoon and rat problem. Municipal compost is one of the best public investments imo. Yes, it can be gross, but it concentrates the gross and makes it much simpler to deal with.
- Comment on Smart option 1 week ago:
Make bigger coins. Toonies are still useful.
- Comment on Real milk proteins, no cows: Engineered bacteria pave the way for vegan cheese and yogurt 1 week ago:
Sometimes! Lactose is not easily fermentable, so it leaves residual sugars and a unique silky feel. Mostly in darker beers, like milk stouts or chocolate porters.
- Comment on Real milk proteins, no cows: Engineered bacteria pave the way for vegan cheese and yogurt 1 week ago:
Lactose has a specific mouthfeel in beers, so I buy it would change cheeses dramatically.
- Comment on Anon wants robux 1 week ago:
Mitchell & Webb. Sketch show.
- Comment on mood 1 week ago:
Could be a sour fruit beer. Or a radler.
The beer category containeth multitudes.
- Comment on Reddit bought a giant ad in Paris, urging young french people to create an account 2 weeks ago:
Neither do I, but I am vindictive and someone in Paris was rude to me once!
- Comment on Reddit bought a giant ad in Paris, urging young french people to create an account 2 weeks ago:
Would that be true for Parisians?
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 3 weeks ago:
If someone drive a truck full of money up to my house, I’d be hard pressed to say no. See Notch and Minecraft.
- Comment on We'd like to welcome our newest Student to Hogwarts, Hun-Gary Mc'Spud. 3 weeks ago:
Amen. About the only thing that unites Quebec with the rest of Canada is a mutual distaste for the French.
- Comment on We'd like to welcome our newest Student to Hogwarts, Hun-Gary Mc'Spud. 3 weeks ago:
The Anglo-Dutch wars. William of Orange landed troops in London in 1688 and took the throne with Mary II. It’s more complicated than that, but it was a whole Thing. Charles II died, leaving James II in charge, but Catholicism was on the way out, and conveniently, William of Orange, a Protestant, was married to Mary II.
The undercurrent of anti-Dutch sentiment started back then still has remnants in the language. See “going Dutch” “Dutch courage” “Dutch treat” “Dutch uncle”. :)
- Comment on We'd like to welcome our newest Student to Hogwarts, Hun-Gary Mc'Spud. 3 weeks ago:
Have to capture the Dutch-Canadian.
- Comment on We'd like to welcome our newest Student to Hogwarts, Hun-Gary Mc'Spud. 3 weeks ago:
Fun game. Hmm. Hans Van der Windmill.
- Comment on Fuck Fahrenheit 4 weeks ago:
That is a weird argument. TBH there are only like six ACTUAL temperatures: fucking hot, hot, warm, cool, cold, fuckin’ cold. Everything else is paperwork and doesn’t really inform your day to day. The difference between say 30 and 29C is maybe undoing a button on your shirt.
- Comment on Fuck Fahrenheit 4 weeks ago:
One quibble - it fully ignores humidity, as does C. The subjective feel of a climate doesn’t depend only on temperature. 50% humidity at 10C is very different from 50% at 30C.
- Comment on Fuck Fahrenheit 4 weeks ago:
Subjectively? I only really think there are like six temperatures. Fucking hot, hot, warm, cool, cold, fucking cold. My clothing choices change at each stage of that scale.
Just because F encapsulates that in a positive integer 1-100 scale doesn’t really make it appeal to me. C feels much more natural, more human, because you’re not dealing with ludicrously small increments that don’t matter for day to day use, and the 0-30 captures almost all temperatures you’re going to actually see day to day.
It irks me that people are trying to turn their personal prejudices and habits into like, objective universal laws.
- Comment on Fuck Fahrenheit 4 weeks ago:
There are very few places that experience -17C and 40C for that to be really useful. And I don’t get it at all. 0 is cold, 30 is hot. Not a difficult concept.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 5 weeks ago:
I’d check for native species of clover, which is invasive in most of Canada.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 5 weeks ago:
Do you run a BBS?
- Comment on It is what it is 5 weeks ago:
It’s great for testing a site when you’re not sure whether the issue is because you’re logged in or there’s some cached data.
- Comment on Spaceballs 2 | Announcement 1 month ago:
That would work too. Lots of great potential choices.
- Comment on Spaceballs 2 | Announcement 1 month ago:
So, Jack Black as Barf?
- Comment on It burns! 1 month ago:
Thank you! I love it
- Comment on respect dandelions! 2 months ago:
Dandelion leaves (blanched) are good in salads and pestos.
- Comment on Anon saved Portugal last month 2 months ago:
If I do an amazing job and the company ships another 10k widgets, I don’t see an extra dime.
- Comment on Minecraft will finally let you craft saddles instead of hunting for them 2 months ago:
Yeah. I’ve had a craftable recipe for saddles since a couple days after they came out on my minecraft server. Recipes that make players generate square kilometres of useless terrain chunks searching for items drive me batty.
- Comment on Anyone? 2 months ago:
Yeah, no kidding. I bought several so they’re usually nearby. If I chew on them, it’s game over, angry red swelling for a few days. I can usually hold off pong enough to get to the clippers. Usually.
- Comment on Anyone? 2 months ago:
Sure. That works preventatively. Once you have the peeling, best to clip and sanitize.