ApathyTree

@ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is "American posing as a Canadian" a real thing?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yoooers can for sure. It’s such an uncommon accent (there aren’t that many people in the UP and northeast Wisconsin to begin with, and most people who grow up there don’t leave or travel all that much) but so close to stereotypically Canadian that it threw me the first dozen or so times I heard it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨9/11 Conspiracy: what REALLY happened?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Any two adults on one of those things would have that happen. It’s inevitable. Adults have a much higher center of gravity, and are heavier in general, than kids, for whom the equipment is scaled and for whom the spring resistance is set. It starts to fall over, and keeps going until someone loses grip, at which point the other person is launched regardless of relative weight differences. Its all about that spring.

  This is an “adults on kid stuff are funny” thing. Doesn’t have to be more than that. Any adults who fuck around on playground equipment should have a general understanding of this, what with it being a near universal experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Which came first, the background or the cameras?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We still fight demons⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This cant possibly be someone on lemmy

  We do beans here.

  We di good gut health.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkmate Dad⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why cbt (therapy, not to do with testicles) didn’t work for me.

  Autogaslighting. Can’t do it, get nothing from it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Maps has Ads now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well shit, I do that with google maps anyway (only one that seems to work decently for me, but they don’t need to know specifically where I’m going.)

  Does it have the “avoid highways” option? I have an EV now and I started to avoid highways as a result, and then I realized its just so much more peaceful and hardly takes more time, and now all my driving avoids highways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grug Stonethrow would want this for you⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  According to my game stats, I’m a much better survivor than any of my ancestors.

  Checkmate, dead people!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When the lunacy of the absurd job application finally puts you over the edge⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I got frustrated and eventually just skipped any that did this. If my resume isn’t sufficient, why do you accept it at all? Just don’t take the resume, or don’t take the form. Pick. Not both.

  Not worth it. The places that did this never called me anyway. Never.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon likes cooking⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So am I!

  I can do housework and even some major projects now and then, and it makes me hurt, sometimes to the point I can’t get out of bed, so then I don’t do more work for a few days, until it feels better, rinse and repeat. Amazing!

  Jobs with any sort of physical component just constantly aggravate those pains, day after day, until I break down completely. Super fun stuff! Even sitting at a screen all day aggravates the upper back problems after a couple months! No ergonomics or physical therapy have fixed that, yet. If I could find a fully remote job that would probably work for a while, but those are hard to land. So here we are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My hands are filthy, burned and calloused so hers can be filled with chicken nuggets.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I went to vote in the primaries recently and flipped off the flock cameras all along the way because it was the first time I’d passed them in a while. I was fully expecting to get a ticket for the double-bird and not having my hands on the wheel. Instead, I went for a walk two days ago to discover all the flock cameras have been removed. My town ended the contract!

  They are considering other options, however… A rose by any other name still triggers allergies… So I’ll for sure be looking for when city halls are happening. I guess I’ll also be going around town talking to locals about it, same as I did when deflock.me first dropped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Vancouver Police⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had this user tagged as “anti-science troll” for ages.

  Last time was from just a comment chain under a post but it was just as bad as this whole thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Last game I played was surviving the aftermath, which is a survival base builder sort of thing. So I’m just a standard regular person with meh traits.

  The amount of fucked depends on what context I’m spawning in. In reality? Meh. In the game itself? Vaguely fucked, bring more fucked as the population grows. In another reality with different rules and stuff? Ultrafucked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gottem⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to make something like this for my place, maybe a few, but I’m afraid of them being vandalized because I live in a conservative area.

  I’m considering killing two birds with one stone by making it clear that they are under surveillance… by the people across the street who have a ring camera, and those are part of the law enforcement network.

  Also I’m basically always home so not that much of a concern, really.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, but theres really nothing to be done about it short of rebuilding both flights entirely, and I’m not even sure that would fix them. The problem is the way they are built; the stairs to the second floor turn a corner, and the triangular stairs in said corner narrow to the point on the inside corner that it drops immediately 3 stairs down if you miss-step, and the miss-step is like a third of the stair. Incredibly dangerous, and I hold the rails for dear life every time.

  The back stairs from the addition just aren’t even. They all have different rise because they needed to meet into three already-existing floors - main floor, back door at ground level, and basement floor, and they had to turn 3 corners to do that. I’ve tried to math out a way to make them even and I can’t. I’ll still have substantial differences between sections.

  It’s a very old house full of very bad choices that can’t really be fixed without major overhaul. I’ll probably hire someone at some point to see if they can fix it, if I can ever afford that, but I’ll probably bite it on the stairs well before that happens :) I’m planning to paint the quarter rounds with glow pigment to help delineate the stairs in the dark, and add some glowing non-slip tape to the bullnose, but thats about the best I’ve got, and it won’t really help that much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t have this in the shower.

  The stairs, however, have probably done me in dozens of times. I frequently say “how have I not died on these stairs yet??” As I nearly slip once more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Theft⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If we tried harder some other fluid might be included…

  Either way it’s not money, or even valuable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hopeposting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, thats what Doug Forcet, the guy in the good place who understood the system and was trying to maximize his good points, was supposed to represent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been a very wet summer around here⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  drive-by-hugs

  Have a great day!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skill Issue 😓⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I’ve always done, wait until the shift is nearly over and be like “just saw this, hope it all worked out!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon can't escape⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Napping is the factor in my control.

  Im on prazosin for nightmares/night terrors and it works fine for my full sleep cycle (because I take it before bed, probably) but it doesn’t seem to apply to naps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon can't escape⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This sort of thing is exactly why I don’t take naps anymore. It happened a few too many times and it’s genuinely a horrible experience. Incredibly vivid. I got the sensation I could feel my actual body being unable to move. So no more naps no matter how tired I am.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Hunt for a Job Has Never Been Worse. These Applicants Are Fighting Back.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oooh so sorry, the payout is done by pre-paid card, and the minimum payout for the card is $5. So you only get paid if nobody else does!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wxyz so overrated 🥱⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I like wxyz in french. I took french like 30 years ago but the alphabet was sticky due to the last bit.

  (This is phonetics/pronunciation, ofc, same melody)

  Doobluh-vay (double v), eeks (x, but you saw a mouse), eegrek (???), zed (zed sounds much cooler than zee, which ironically sounds more French to me)

  Hands down the best part of the French alphabet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1 trillion in value in a month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Companies aren’t required to go public in the first place so it’s a rather moot point. They actively choose to be in the situation where they are beholden to shareholders.

  If you owned a company you could just, like, not go asking rich people for money to grow or whatever (what IPO is, basically) and grow naturally on your own merits. Then you don’t even have to worry about what kind of votes people might have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enough to make your GF pop⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Goes well with the jar of bees

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Also literally known as the Horror Frog⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably the evolutionary arms race between rapey males and females. Males have long corkscrew penises that inflate rapidly during copulation to fill the tract of the female. Females, what with their desire to choose mates and all, have evolved corkscrew vaginal tracts with dead ends and stuff that spirals in the opposite direction. Forced mating frequently ends without insemination, as a result.

  I am genuinely unsure of the mechanism by which successful mating actually happens, considering the anatomical arms race and all (maybe it’s like dolphins, which have a similar problem. Female dolphins have a false vagina and can choose where the male’s sperm goes by changing her tail position), but they seem to be able to reproduce, so it is what it is, and I’m not super keen to look it up at the moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The various stages of cooking experience⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I vibe as well, the one exception being making bread in the bread machine, and thats mostly because its old and sucks and if I don’t use very specific weight-based measurements it fails and falls. Still edible but disappointing. I genuinely do not have the capacity to make bread any other way, I’ll forget about it or wait too long or whatever else, 1000% guaranteed, but I am in the market for a newer machine, maybe better features, maybe a cooking coil that doesn’t turn every loaf into a thick-crumb dark brown, even on light crust setting loaf.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I live for the shareholders, the politicians, and to pay for my parents retirement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Both of my parents died, one in my early 20s, one a month or so ago, and the day after each was just beautiful. One in early December, one in late spring, but both deaths were followed by clear sunny skies after days of bad weather.

  That was, the first time, the most offensive part of the grieving process for me; my world stopped, the world did not, and I paid my bills the next day because that’s what the world not stopping means. The second time it was actually nice, I’ve had a lot of time between the two to sort out my feelings and beliefs on existence. The world didn’t stop just because mine did, and that’s ok.

  This oblate spheroid we call home will continue to turn no matter what we do. Life will almost certainly find a way to overcome the bullshit we are doing, we just wont be here to see it, same as we probably wont be here to see our great grandkids have their own kids.

  I just hope we die out or get our shit together before we trigger a runaway greenhouse effect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck yea bro!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Keeping them held snug against the body over a lifetime, reduces sagging near the end.

  Interestingly, this was thought to be the case for breasts, as well, but up to a certain size (at which point support becomes necessary) its best to leave them be other than specific activities like exercise, because it forces muscles and skin to tighten to support them which keeps them from sagging longer. It’ll still happen, of course, either way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to lose weight⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The way I eat pomegranate is like popcorn meets sunflower seeds.

  Take a few of the pearls, pop them in my mouth, break the water balloon with gentle chewing that doesn’t break the seed, suck out the juice, spit the seed.

  Pom is a flavored water fruit rather than a chew and swallow fruit. You don’t miss much leaving the pulp behind (and I’m not talking about the white rind) because theres not much of it to begin with. Its ideal for brainless time like watching movies. The prep is pretty easy, too, since the pearls tend to fall off pretty easily into a bowl, perfect for mindless snacking.