ApathyTree

@ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even the worst among us sacrifice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly just having the bed be dinged and/or dirty is plenty to me.

  It’s absurd the number of trucks I’ve seen where the bed liner looks brand new, never used, on a 5-10 YO vehicle. No body damage, not even a scuff on the tailgate.

  Sure it IS possible to regularly use a truck as a truck and be so careful as to not cause any damage, but it’s incredibly unlikely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You know this is gonna happen.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The halo effect is a real problem.

  Society needs to move on from the belief that beauty is a blessing from the gods. But its been a problem since forever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On the show Mr. Robot, just started watching I'm on episode 9, are all the hacks or whatever actually possible in real life?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as they can find some “cause”, then you’re fired and ineligible for unemployment benefits.

  This is a common misconception, and everyone should apply for unemployment if they lose their job for any reason.

  They need an actual good cause, like actual damages to the company or something, and they need to be willing and able to back up their claim that you are ineligible, or the unemployment offices will side with you and award it anyway. They generally favor employees over employers in decisions, because they know the bullshit companies do to not pay out.

  Lose your job? Apply. You have literally nothing to lose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You gotta try #19⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My ex liked the 6-7 range while I like the 2-4 range. We were thus incompatible and broke up after the umpteenth time they made it “for me” the exact same way they did for themselves.

  (The last bit is a joke, the first bit isn’t)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has an epic weekend⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Epigenetics are exactly that, things you are exposed to after birth which impact gene expression.

  I’m not aware of any epigenetic disorders, as such, but the field of epigenetics is pretty new, so I wouldn’t rule it out entirely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A million baby monitors and security cameras were easily viewable by hackers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure my cameras are easily viewable by hackers.

  Thats why I have one in the chicken coop and one in the yard to also check the chickens, and nowhere else.

  If they want to watch awesome chicken footage, be my guest. Can’t say I’d even blame them, my ladies are awesome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Often⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “I hope that helps” is my way of not getting fired for saying “go fuck yourself; you should have read the documentation I made sure we link to copiously, that happens to have been written and compiled entirely by me, and if you’d even looked at it you’d know how big of an ass you are”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Im a weekly showerer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and I’ve also tried stuff like conditioner washing (co-wash), mostly when I did fun dye colors, to preserve the color. But my threshold to feel gross is honestly low enough that my hair feeling nasty is my shower habit trigger, else I simply wont do any self-care. So while it’s technically an option, it’s not one that works with my self. :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Im a weekly showerer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I shower 2-3 times a week in the middle(-ish) of the day.

  Showers make me sleepy so can’t do early mornings. I have very long, straight, and thick hair that takes hours to air dry, and refuse to use blow dryers, so night is right out else I end up with a really shit bed-head curl situation…

  The sweet spot is mid-morning or around lunch, when I get sleepy anyway, given an hour to half-dry, then put up in a french clip bun, so when I take it down for the evening, it has a nice open curl. I never use the pretty, but it makes me feel very pretty every night.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You just need silicone lube. You have to wash that off with soap. Works very nicely.

  Also a dream for shaving your nethers, as again it doesn’t wash off easily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile: parrots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  While I still don’t know what that thing is, this is much better. The edit makes it look like some VR headset holder or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maturing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, thats exactly what i want to avoid, things that are good enough that even without being addictive, i want them. I wont even grow poppies for poppy tea because I’m afraid i will become low-grade addicted to it as a result of simply not being in constant pain for a change (fucked up thing to consider, but true as someone with chronic pain). My mom made me promise to keep her oxy after she passed because it was much harder for me to get pain treatment than it should be, but it just made me throw up (same it did to her, but we assumed it was the cancer), so i gave it to a friend who needed it. I know myself and i -really- like escape. It used to be books, as a kid, but now its all sorts of things. Because i can.

  Mostly i want things with low addiction (physical or psychological) risk, ideally also somewhat beneficial, and no or very low chance of bad experience, because my brain does that anyway. Also kinda has to be fairly easy to get without a shady middle-man, because i don’t know people and buying shit on tor isn’t appealing to me at all. The hardest thing I’ve done was extacy cut with meth, and i listened to my druggy ex and boofed it (our slang for bum-hole administration, tho i learned later i should have shoved it in my vagina instead, thats way way better for drug absorption due to the sheer quantity of blood vessels and the moist environment, to the point that it used to he a common medical application in hospital). Honestly, i loved it, and would exist that way forever if i could. And thats the problem. I’m glad i don’t have easy access to it now. Id like to use it again in controlled therapy settings, as long as they’ve got some good beats and highlighters on hand. But as a result of using it, techno gives me anxiety now. Used to really love it. So even in mild ways the best of things can fuck with you.

  I don’t really struggle with drugs other than alcohol (and thats a weird one because i just fall out of use, same as weed, after months or years of heavy use), but thats mostly because i don’t use anything else particularly addictive because i don’t trust myself. Actually, because i know what I’d do. I seem to fall out of alcohol use when my mental state improves to the point i don’t need a crutch. But until then, its bad. Ngl. And weed just stops being fun periodically, so sometimes i take years-long breaks even though it’s good for my pain.

  Im super interested in drugs, though. Like genuinely id love to try them all with no risk. I used to read bluelight just to imagine how it felt. I want VR to work for me because that feels like a mild trip (makes me hella nauseated, so no dice until holodeck exists).

  Im glad you’ve come out the other end of it reasonably intact, sounds like :) And thank you for sharing your experiences with me, for my edification :) i genuinely appreciate it. If you want to share more, even about other substances, id be interested in reading it, to live vicariously through you :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maturing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Im going to save this but it sounds like those aren’t just various strains of mushies? and idk if id go out of my way to obtain drugs i cant cultivate myself. I like the idea of mushrooms and i have spores and stuff, just not motivated to grow a new batch.

  Ive seen extracts of mushies, called “crystals of the gods” which is a dumb name but the only extraction method ive found, and thats what I want to try, because its supposed to completely get rid of the body problems associated with it, though not the enhancement of your natural mood (in my case mostly anxiety)

  Im kinda afraid of human-made or refined drugs, tbh. What if i like them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maturing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Solid, I’ll keep that in mind, thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maturing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never done acid but I did shrooms twice and haven’t had the balls to try again.

  The first time was ok, but the second time, come-up anxiety was so intense I spent the entire trip throwing up, shitting my brains out, and having a panic attack. I can’t do that again, but I’m still full of anxiety, so… nope.

  Someday id like to try an extract, I’ve heard the mushroom itself is where the anxiety and gastric discomfort comes from, but yeah I’m just not really motivated in case thats wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon Promotes Shrimp Farming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah fungus, but also the sludge sometimes forms a crust on the top inch or so of whatever you dump it on, especially if you do it repeatedly or your water is super sludgy (like my turtle filter produces some crazy sludge). It can also end up with salt buildup, not necessarily sodium salt, but just any sort of residue that builds up and crystallizes. An occasional soak and rinse will clear all that stuff out, and leave you with reasonably clean coir once more.

  As for the fungus, that’s super normal, but if you want to avoid it potentially being a problem, you can pick up some soil amendment that contains beneficial fungus (the sort that works with plant roots to increase nutrient and moisture absorption, rather than trying to consume the plant) to outcompete the nasty stuff you don’t want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon Promotes Shrimp Farming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you pick up coco coir (an inert medium for hydroponics when plants need a bit more rooting space) you can dump that sludge right over top to water whatever plant you have growing in it.

  If it ends up getting kinda gross, take it outside and hose a bunch of water through it to rinse it, good to continue. But mostly it just causes the coir to break down a bit faster than it otherwise would, so this is basically like adding compost continuously.

  Doesn’t work for every plant, but does work for a lot of them! I have potatoes in such a setup right now, and it’s pretty swanky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but if nobody knows who anyone is, how do you know who to let in?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cake is finger food. I like feeling my food whenever possible before it goes in my face hole. It adds to the experience to me, especially licking my fingers after. Very… natural feeling. Also a lot easier, usually. Social norms be damned, I’m not stabbing leafs with metal spikes, I’m picking them up with my monkey hands like evolution intended.

  But more important than my love of tactile sensations, I’m just not huge on refined sugar. Usually 1-2 tbsp for my ~6 cups of coffee, if I have coffee, and that’s it, so cake is well too much sugar for me to eat any faster than pinch by pinch without getting queasy. Might as well play with it while I’m there. Icing usually has a great texture (tho the increased use of palm oil in place of actual quality oil/butter leaves an oily film on my fingers -and mouth- that I don’t care for), and the variety of cake options are great to explore digitally as well, prior to orally. I find angelfood fascinating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s using an expiring session-based anonymous “account” for interactions, how would you ban someone? Or allow rooms to be restricted, for that matter?

  Like I like the idea, I just don’t understand how both things can be true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨relatable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The sleep with me podcast works similarly, he modulates his tone and volume such that it’s nearly impossible to actually follow when it’s set quiet, but you pick up just enough to keep your brain from thinking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wanted: Sanitation workers. Existential hangups a plus.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why most of them these days refer to themselves as sanitation engineers or whatever else. Sounds better to the uneducated and judgmental masses, and is more accurate anyway.

  Current society puts so much emphasis on appearances and not nearly enough on what jobs are actually vital to social harmony. Trash collection and other sanitation jobs -should- be high-prestige high-paid jobs, simply because of how crappy they are to do and how indispensable they are to social functionality. There is no universe in which being a sportsball coach is more vital to society than sanitation work, yet sportsball coaches at almost any level are paid far better and have far more prestige. Instead we collectively treat sanitation workers like shit, mock them for doing a dirty job we certainly wouldn’t be willing to do, without which we would all die quite horribly from infections and disease…

  Me ex’s dad was the mechanic for the city dump. Not just collecting trash but crawling under and fixing the very dirty trucks used to collect it. He was an odd duck and would salvage all sorts of stuff, but his very gross very dirty job kept 25,000 people from living in filth. That’s super important. Especially since we’ve largely forgotten how to live without constantly generating waste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Digital is already sold out of hard drives for all of 2026 — chief says some long-term agreements for 2027 and 2028 already in place⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I rebuilt my pc just a few weeks before the ram explosion (replaced cpu, mobo, ram, and cooling), only thing it doesn’t have upgraded is graphics card, but the one it has is …… eh… ok for now until I can afford to pick something else up. Also definitely glad to have made that decision. And probably will be with my storage choice too, once it’s hindsight. I just hate spending money.

  So yeah, thanks, that helps. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Digital is already sold out of hard drives for all of 2026 — chief says some long-term agreements for 2027 and 2028 already in place⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Heh, yeah, I’m assuming hard drives are going to do the same thing graphics cards did… get wildly expensive and never come back down, even if they could. With that in mind, this sounds like a good option.

  Also I currently have no backups, and this much extra space fixes that handily. So it was sort of needed and something I was considering anyway.

  I’m trying really really hard to convince myself I made the right choice here. 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Digital is already sold out of hard drives for all of 2026 — chief says some long-term agreements for 2027 and 2028 already in place⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just picked up 40tb for exactly this reason. I was already considering an upgrade, but was planning like 16 tb. But with this news… Might as well get it while I can at prices I was expecting to pay anyway, even if it’s more than I really had budgeted for it…

  (I got refurbished drives, so this wasn’t like several grand or anything, came to $570 on Newegg for surveillance drives)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Performance enhancement⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know, I was making a joke

  :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Performance enhancement⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So they are tripping balls during fitting?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yum⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are these things tiny or is there just a weirdly large bowl for display to make them look like cereal for… reasons…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God's Property⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does that include the 8 up by “moves” in the preceding paragraph?

  I assume the gilded superscript numbers are verse numbers, I know at least that much of biblical format, but then there’s that 8.