meyotch
@meyotch@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Help me out: which looks better for the Duck - the neck tie or the bow tie? 1 week ago:
If i were choosing a duck to be the new mayor, definitely the necktie.
If I were looking for a duck with whom to party, bow-tie in the convertible all the way to the liquor store and back.
- Comment on The Great Decentralization: What happens when sprawling online communities fracture into politically homogenous, self-governing communities? 1 week ago:
I have an image of a certain mentally lazy older relative being confronted with anything slightly challenging. The degree of hand wringing and play acting to avoid a few minutes thought and perhaps looking ignorant was always over the top.
Since the world has many many people like that, there will probably end up being a handful of large ‘instances’ that seem ashamed of the fediverse’s ‘complexity’ (like Bluesky) and they will pretend to be their own thing, so as not to freak out the squares.
I am somewhat glad Lemmy instances get ignored in this discussion. I want to be surrounded by the better, smarter and more challenging voices such as I have found here.
Is it an information bubble? Damn right it is. Lemmy is my refuge from and group therapy for preparing to contend in vain against the daily grind of human cupidity and stupidity.
- Comment on What the hell 2 weeks ago:
It WAS on the test, yesterday.
- Comment on If me and a bunch of my lemmy friends got on a yacht. Went into international waters what could we get away with legally and what would still be illegal? 2 weeks ago:
No power in the ‘verse. But a large billboard out your best window might do it.
- Comment on Delicious bulk relief 2 weeks ago:
The chalk is surely non-toxic. The various pigments are another story. But still I am tempted to try them.
- Comment on What happened to this place? It used to be cool. 3 weeks ago:
Those beans are woke.
- Comment on Tawny Newsome Says Live Action Star Trek Workplace Comedy Will Explore Life Outside The Federation 3 weeks ago:
I want to see more of the Neo-transcendentalists and their society. I love the bisexual swinger vibes, but I also understand why Andy Billups bugged out and joined starfleet.
Sometimes you just want to clean a plasma coil without all the drama.
- Comment on Remember the iconic paintings of The Last Supper? This is what it would look like if it happened today 4 weeks ago:
Judas! You are on mute!
- Comment on Diamond market 4 weeks ago:
I want a stone so un-natural that the mineral is named cthulite.
- Comment on ‘Lower Decks’ Series Finale “The New Next Generation” Review, Plus Mike McMahan Interview 4 weeks ago:
Well, they have effectively compartmentalized the damage to canon with the rift stuff.
Without spoiling too much, let’s just say I agree with Cool Boimler on this one.
Still it’s a fun romp and I like the riffs and easter eggs. Give us more!
- Comment on Should we create a new political party in the US, specifically for shitting on the rich? 1 month ago:
I do not accept homework assignments at this time.
I’m too busy shitting on rich people.
- Comment on Should we create a new political party in the US, specifically for shitting on the rich? 1 month ago:
Because PSL does not seek to get people elected, I question their usefulness as a revolutionary force.
- Comment on Should we create a new political party in the US, specifically for shitting on the rich? 1 month ago:
Exactly!
- Comment on Should we create a new political party in the US, specifically for shitting on the rich? 1 month ago:
Then it’s a dumb revolution. No new human system can arise that doesn’t use remnants of the old. Observe the current revolution happening in the united states. The MAGA fuckers are putting their cronies into positions everywhere, with the clearly stated purpose of destroying our current system.
A revolution that envisions a clean start untainted by what came before is the revolution of a naive child.
- Comment on Should we create a new political party in the US, specifically for shitting on the rich? 1 month ago:
I have to agree I find PSL disappointing. In their long history they don’t seem to have put even a dog catcher into elected office.
- Comment on I live in the green part 1 month ago:
Colorado has a good set of policies that support consistent and long term public funding of outdoor recreation, such as trails and parks. The level of connectivity among local and regional trail systems is very good and always improving.
- Comment on DnD 1 month ago:
Lkke Kleenex and Xeroxes for tissues and photocopies, DnD is now the generic term for tabletop analog RPGs. All the wizards of the coast can suck on that fact.
- Comment on Neil Breen: how a filmmaker with no skill became a cult hero 1 month ago:
He has to show his ass to sell this movie!
- Comment on Give us your best infodump. 1 month ago:
It averages out to Charlie Day in Pacific Rim, combined with Charlie Day from It’s Always Sunny explaining his conspiracy.
- Comment on What are the best anti-work movies? 1 month ago:
Mr Waturi is the unsung hero of that film. As a supporting actor, he nailed the tone of the film by personifying the rank stupidity of corporate thinking.
He can definitely do the job.
- Comment on What do you create? 1 month ago:
Also a fair point. My devices did not need to last indefinitely and I found the gaffer tape to be very forgiving when prototyping, allowing removal and replacement as I worked out the kinks.
- Comment on What do you create? 1 month ago:
I’m living on an old farm with lots of junk.
So naturally I am building an 8 foot tall wind-driven kinetic sculpture of a Wendigo.
I bought a welder and a cutoff saw. All the materials are retrieved from the trash gully that every respectable high desert property must have.
It’s a form of cope and even ritual magic for me. Embody the spirit of hoarding and greed so it is vulnerable and can be imprisoned, that sort of vibe.
It will take all winter to finish it. The rebar armature is flexible and bobs in the wind. I will add sun bleached oak branches to give it flesh.
- Comment on What do you create? 1 month ago:
I recommend you try gaffer tape instead of duct tape.
Advantages:
- Remains flexible and removable forever.
- Looks nicer, a cool matte black or manynother colors.
Where I get off making this recommendation:
I needed a light-excluding bellows for a photographic project. I made one using black illustration stock and gaffer tape. It worked extremely well on the first version and held up to hundreds of cycles of extension/compression. My application was sensitive to pinhole light leakage and there was none.
It would have lasted longer but that was the end of that project.
My two cents. I love DIY stuff!
- Comment on Lifestyles of the Bronze Age Famous 2 months ago:
Woah there, Mr Deep! I see the way you are eye-banging that cephalopod.
- Comment on Do PhDs HAVE to use Dr? 2 months ago:
As a PhD holder who has worked in healthcare, I really couldn’t use the title doctor because the chance for confusion with a medical practitioner is too high. That’s fine by me, I only use the title on rare occasions such as when speaking publicly in my area of experience. Please just call me Meyotch.
- Comment on A national movement to organize Amazon takes off. 2 months ago:
Break them up and nationalize the parts. Give the cloud stuff to the library of congress, they can build a permanent digital archive. Give the delivery side to the USPS.
- Comment on Home Depot Orders Corporate Staff to Take 8-Hour Retail Shifts 3 months ago:
I know more than them.
- Comment on Love is love 3 months ago:
Tina Belcher is my spiritual guide on this issue. Nothing wrong with a little erotic friend-fiction becoming reality.
- Comment on Jean-Claude Van Damme: the muscles from Brussels five best movies 3 months ago:
Jean-Claude Van Johnson deserves to be on this list, perhaps as a sixth best-comeback honorable mention.
- Comment on BEAM 4 months ago:
That poor crab
