ApathyTree

@ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨RIP to Universe #342, hope they’re doing well without me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨RIP to Universe #342, hope they’re doing well without me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If we tried harder some other fluid might be included…

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hopeposting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  drive-by-hugs

  Have a great day!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skill Issue 😓⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 🥱⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Goes well with the jar of bees

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Also literally known as the Horror Frog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sacrifices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the reminder that I need to order trichogramma wasps to fix my moth problem again. Downside of keeping my quail inside; moths infest very easily. Upside, i learned years ago that trichogramma wasps (stingless egg parasites) are cheap and work like a dream on pantry moths, plus they are so small you’ll never see them (like moving sand)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well damn. Glad he's dead.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How was it? Delicious?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meow meow meow⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The book Cat Sense by John Bradshaw is a good read (you can probably find a free pdf thats complete, and years ago I uploaded the audiobook to audiobookbay, but this preview will do for not linking to amazon).

  He got around the problem of cats not doing cat things in a lab by just, you know, having cats at home and observing their behavior. Sure, its only a look at domestic cats for the most part, but its a great read anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guerrilla plantfare⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you dig down about 2 foot (or several inches lower than the lowest root you find) and install a rubber barrier, it wont be able to spread to you anymore :)

  You could use brick or stone but if any cracks exist or form it’ll eventually find the way through, where that’s significantly less likely with a solid sheet of rubber

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guerrilla plantfare⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Should add sunchokes/Jerusalem artichoke in there somewhere, as they are food. I don’t think kudzu is? Lets replace that one.

  Sunchokes spread like crazy as long as they have full sun, and are super difficult to eradicate, but are thwarted by being planted in sunny clearings in densely wooded areas. They can’t spread into the shade.

  Make the land difficult for development, but useful for the community!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rather than go cold turkey you can quit smoking by restricting the times that you can have a cigarette⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The urge never went away for me, I vaped 0% for several years. It’s the habit that’s addictive for some people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even the worst among us sacrifice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.