ReluctantMuskrat
@ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Is no place safe for me??
- Comment on Sea Level 5 weeks ago:
While a novel idea, a leap month would throw the concept seasons and therefore agriculture off significantly. Relatively predictable seasons and being able to track our place in it with calendars was a great help to agrarian communities, helping them know when to plant and harvest most effectively.
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 1 month ago:
I’m surprised to see so few of us actually. Thought this was more common.
- Comment on I didn't verify the headline. 2 months ago:
Worse than that… they’re probably researching if they can reverse this and make their neighbors racist
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 2 months ago:
Thankfully no. I think they’re more like 5.5-6% currently. Back in 2020 I managed to get a 2.375%.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 2 months ago:
No, it’s just some exaggeration to make it even more ridiculous. As if 50 years isn’t enough.
What’s really awful is when you see how little the payment lowers between a 30yr and 50yr mortgage with current rates. It’s not nearly as big a difference as you’d think.
- Comment on And now I'm reminded I have two of these to repair. 2 months ago:
This particular model I have in my house. Only ones I’ve ever had that take 2 AA instead of 1 9V battery. And when you open it + and - indicators aren’t easily determined so take note before you remove the old batteries or you’ll be struggling, which is no fun at 3am when you’re barely awake, standing on a short stool and your eyes are full of gunk.
- Comment on mercy merci 2 months ago:
They are not bugs that will eat your food though, which was the point I made.
- Comment on mercy merci 2 months ago:
I had one plop off the ceiling onto my shoulder while I was working a few weeks ago. Took a pic and sent it to my daughters to remind them spiders are our friends and then took him off my shoulder and put him on the ground.
My philosophy… if he’s surviving in my house, he’s eating bugs and providing a service.
- Comment on mercy merci 2 months ago:
Spiders are keeping your house free of bugs that will eat your food if they find it. They’re working hard and get little thanks.
- Comment on Discuss 3 months ago:
Explain… what chocolate is spread on bread? Or do you simply mean hard chocolate sandwiched in the middle?
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 3 months ago:
You won’t go low on vitamins if your carnivore diet incorporates organ meat. Most people don’t want to do this however. Liver isn’t terribly popular, kidneys and other organs even less so.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 5 months ago:
Your explanation doesn’t seem to match Wikipedia or what Google’s AI summary says on how Scoville’s are calculated. It’s essentially a parts per million capsaicin x a scale.
In any event I can say the 2022 One Chip challenge and eating a dried Carolina Reaper seems about the same to me. Only did the chip once but I’ve done reapers a couple times and they’re certainly hot, but I’ve never struggled with anything hot. Doesn’t bother me in the restroom either like so many others… not sure why. The one time I did the gummy… way hotter than a pepper or the One Chip. Not even close. Wouldn’t recommend to anyone that found the chip or a straight pepper an issue. And the gum? Like I said it’s devious in how much capsaicin you’re forced to swallow while trying to get to the place to blow a bubble. About 5 minutes after completing the challenge my stomach started to feel like there was a balloon inside it. Told my wife I’m either gonna have a monster burp or I’m gonna puke and then the evacuation started. I’d do it again probably if I had someone doing it with me just to be entertained by their reaction, and to see if my stomach would respond the same way again. Wouldn’t recommend to anyone that hasnt challenged themselves at extreme levels already though. The one I ate was no joke.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 5 months ago:
I’m not sure how the Scoville system measures it exactly since of course no pepper or anything else is going to be pure capsaicin. Is it based on the number of milligrams of capsaicin within a serving or what? Certainly a tiny sliver of Carolina Reaper is different than eating the whole thing but it’s considered a 2.2M pepper regardless.
In any event I’ve eaten straight reapers and done the 2022 One Chip challenge - the blue tongue one - without issue. The Lil Nitro gummy is way, way hotter than a reaper or the One Chip challenge, and the Trouble Bubble seemed about the same as the Lil Nitro gummy and its the only thing I’ve ever eaten that got a reaction out of me so I wouldn’t call it BS. Can your taste buds really distinguish between an unnatural 9M or 16M scoville anyway? The gum is devious in that you have to chew it a long time to get the sugar out of it and make it pliable enough to blow a bubble. You make and swallow a lot of saliva filled with lava during that time. I’m sure that’s what made me puke. Whatever it’s rating should be - if the 16M is inaccurate - there’s nothing mild about it. I can guarantee you eat it and you won’t call it BS. 😄
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 5 months ago:
There are worse experiences.
One Chip challenge was no big deal to me. 9M Scoville Lil Nitro Gummy was much hotter but I did it without regret. 16M Scoville CaJohns Trouble Bubble bubble gum felt like it was roughly the same heat as the gummy. I completed the challenge blowing a bubble, but soon after started puking lava. There was regret. 😄
- Comment on Anon describes experience 6 months ago:
This is such a strange and irritating limitation of an other great OS.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 9 months ago:
I knew there was a reason I love 'em so much!
- Comment on shrimp colour drama 9 months ago:
I don’t have it but one of my kids does. She sees colors with certain numbers and letters. Certainly doesn’t seem to have a downside for her and in my reading I haven’t heard of a sensory overload issue. Is this strictly related to the synesthesia or perhaps synethesia exaggerating an existing autistic or ADHD issue?
- Comment on shrimp colour drama 9 months ago:
Your description of hearing shapes and colors sounds a lot like someone with synesthesia, a rare condition that’s seems to have no downsides and only benefits.
- Comment on Skill issue 9 months ago:
That summary may also explain why some men are so insecure about women earning more money than them too.
- Comment on fair treatment 9 months ago:
I’m old and first played paintball before masks were a thing… we just wore goggles. This was mid-80s. I got shot at very close range right in the jaw. Took a perfectly round, paintball-sized piece of skin off, my jaw immediately swelled and with the red paint splattered all over my face, I looked like a crime scene. 😄
Masks were a great addition to the game.
- Comment on Anti-acknowlegements 10 months ago:
You are indeed!
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 10 months ago:
Not for the billionaires, no, though they probably have several homes and lots of acreage and still pay significantly more than you and I. Better the wealthy pay more even if it’s not going to scale precisely.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 10 months ago:
And the bigger the chunk, the more they owe.
- Comment on At the airport. The TSA thought my daughter's Hello Kitty carry-on was suspicious. [More in body.] 11 months ago:
You might know this already but if not, people who have TSA Precheck don’t need to remove their laptops or take off their shoes. Sometimes TSA guys will remind people of this in the precheck scanner line. It’s not always super clear which scanner line is the precheck line vs regular though and perhaps you were hearing the precheck instruction instead.
- Comment on Anon airs out 1 year ago:
I know what fuck means too. Read the first sentence again… “all these early examples” are expressions referring to being lazy, with later meaning to include blunders. It was never actually an expression that suggested someone was fucking a dog or a degenerate, but instead just a vulgar expression of someone being lazy.
- Comment on Anon airs out 1 year ago:
Whether the action was feeding, walking, or fornicating, though, all of these early examples were used to mean “to loaf around” or “to waste time” (dogs have often been associated with laziness, as in the expression “dogging it”). Later on, possibly around World War II, “fucking the dog” and its euphemistic equivalents took on a secondary meaning of “blundering.”
- Comment on Anon airs out 1 year ago:
The origin doesn’t include actually having sex with a dog though. “Fuck the dog” was just an expression for being lazy and “screw the pooch” simply makes it more palatable.
- Comment on Would you ever have the nerve to do THIS? 1 year ago:
Why would you send an invitation to the unrelated “rich assholes” at all? Asking for a gift from people you don’t like just to somehow guilt them into “sending us expensive shit or a decent chunk of change” proves you’re just an asshole yourself, just not a rich one. It’s a “dick move” no matter who you send it to.
- Comment on Anon tries programming in Java 1 year ago:
Even if you, the programmer, are a complete fucking moron, by god javascript will try to make your program run as long as possible.
I mean it might not work as intended but it’ll run and not complain!