Sterile_Technique
@Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hand loaded and goated 1 day ago:
Don’t do this.
Use a rifle instead - you can stay at a much safer distance.
Oh, uh… In Minecraft. Modded, ofc.
- Comment on BIG (like Americans) IF TRUE 3 days ago:
Americans associate the orange colour with cheese
We used to. Lately it’s more an icon for fascism.
- Comment on BIG (like Americans) IF TRUE 3 days ago:
Murican here. Our food needs to be color coded or we get confused.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I had an X-ray and some ibuprofen at an ER two years ago, and if I miss another payment they’ll put out a warrant for my arrest - off to my side hustle! (top and/or bottom hustle still available, if anyone’s hiring!)
- Comment on Follow me for more shitty diet tips 4 days ago:
…I mean, this isn’t automatically bad advice. Kinda depends on the quantity and frequency of the alcohol vs calories. If you’re having a glass of wine at the end of an otherwise nutritionally well-executed day; vs going apeshit with candy, soda, chips, etc - but not drinking; the former is definitely the better of the two. Recognizing and leveraging those kinds of patterns are key t making some change a habit.
Especially if you treat this as a stepping stone to develop some good habits while weening off of bad ones - for that to work you need to tolerate some degree of bad ones as you dial them closer and closer to zero.
Perfect is the enemy of good
- Comment on Games you fell out of love with. 5 days ago:
Yeah like I said, it sounds like they’ve done a lot to try to turn their product into something closer to what they advertised, but that doesn’t excuse their initial deception.
If they were a car dealer or something, and advertised a souped up 2026 Ferrari, which their customers enthusiastically ordered en mass; only to realize upon delivery that they received a 2007 Honda Civic with the Ferrari logo sloppily painted onto the side, they’d be in jail. Because it’s a videogame, the legal system didn’t give a fuck, so they just let it slide, but what they did was 100% false advertising. They didn’t just bit off more than they could chew, they stated clear as day that it contained a plethora of features that it simply did not.
Their decision to later send a series of free Honda-to-Ferrari conversion kits was a nice and extremely unexpected gesture, but doesn’t absolve them of their initial crime.
- Comment on Games you fell out of love with. 6 days ago:
No Man’s Sky, near it’s release. Starting out it felt pretty novel, and finishing that first repair of your ship, getting inside of it, lifting off, looking up at a distant planet in the sky, and just fucking going to it all without a load screen… I cannot overstate how insanely epic that felt!!
…and then the player experience hit a brick wall as you realize more and more clearly that the game you bought doesn’t come close to the game that was advertised. Ya done got scammed!
Word is they’re done a shitload to correct that last paragraph, but dude initial wound still fucking stings.
- Comment on Sick days 1 week ago:
IIRC George Jetson was canonically born in 2022.
So… we ARE living in the Jetsons timeline… you and I were just born in the Jetsons slums.
- Comment on Save as PDF 1 week ago:
I mean, fucking with a PDF isn’t exactly arcane knowledge, even after it’s been signed. It’s just cumbersome and tedious and requires counterintuitive actions like pressing Ctrl+P instead of Ctrl+S.
If their purpose is to be secure, they’re shit at their job.
- Comment on Save as PDF 1 week ago:
Sounds like screen readers need some improvement.
- Comment on Save as PDF 1 week ago:
Open Office? Libre Office?
- Comment on Save as PDF 1 week ago:
Critical temperature = user friendly. TIL.
- Comment on Save as PDF 1 week ago:
Open Office? Libre Office?
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 1 week ago:
Anyone remember xFire? It was better 15 years ago than Discord ever was or will be.
…damn I miss that shit. They were litigated out of existence by a frivolous lawsuit from Yahoo. This is why we can’t have nice things.
- Comment on Save as PDF 1 week ago:
Tech muggle here.
Could we just get rid of PDFs and switch to word docs and spread sheets instead? I know this will likely cause a slurry of consequences, especially in professional circles, but have you considered: fuck it.?
K thx bye.
- Comment on Taste the flavor 1 week ago:
Feeling the heat comes from your capsaicin receptors, which are fortunately distinct from taste. It’s more of a pain receptor.
- Comment on Taste the flavor 1 week ago:
…I’m actually quite thankful my anus doesn’t have taste buds.
- Comment on Who farted? 3 weeks ago:
Surgical tech here! This is one of those ‘prank the new guy’ jokes you see in the OR. I’ve seen play out almost verbatim to the OP a couple different times.
Original OP may well be quoting Scrubs, but I’d wager this prank predates Scrubs by a hefty margin too.
“Go get me a jug of elbow grease” kind of shenanigans.
- Comment on It's not an addiction! I can stop whenever I want! 4 weeks ago:
Listening to an NCLEX review lecture as I’m scrolling… They’re talking about addiction, and gave the whole “I can quit anytime I want” example of denial… AS I was scrolling past this post.
That was uncanny.
10/10
- Comment on no training award 5 weeks ago:
On one hand, yes… but on the other, I think that’s part of why they’re so successful. We constantly give Trump and people like Trump the village idiot pass - we don’t take them seriously because we wave off their malice as just stupidity.
If Trump actually behaved competently, he’d have been in prison ages ago.
…it’s the fucking Darth Jar Jar theory, but it’s happening in real time.
- Comment on no training award 5 weeks ago:
Oh he was trained. This shit wasn’t a fluke. We’ve reached “Nazis patrolling our streets, executing civilians on the president’s orders” stage of US collapse. This will continue until people start shooting back.
- Comment on Scientists retrieve RNA from an extinct animal, marking a first in genetics research 1 month ago:
Clone it. Don’t let some cheesy dinosaur movie tell us what to do.
- Comment on 🎵 It means something something... 🎵 1 month ago:
Heart warming story of a royal toddler who noped the fuck out after being caught up in a political murder scheme, met two stoners, became a stoner himself, and kinda just did nothing but be a stoner until his ~20s when he was finally swayed to put the blunt down after his toddler-crush just randomly shows up one day and fucks him.
They just don’t make wholesome movies like that anymore. <3
- Comment on Science confirms futility of chasing waterfalls 2 months ago:
- Comment on Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users 2 months ago:
Depends on what we mean by smart. Lemmy seems to especially attract the IT crowd, which in itself represents a huge swathe of specialty knowledge… which I can’t claim to be part of, but hey, medic checking in! But with reddit’s variety of topics to include… I mean, pretty much everything, since that website is massive: I don’t think they have any kind of knowledge deficit in a general sense.
Where Lemmy really shines is in stamping out the bigotry, not just in policy but from a direct community response: drop a post with some racism or sexism or w/e and you’ll be swarmed by posts telling you to fuck off and don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out. And I love it! :D
So, smarter? Fuck if I know. Significantly less evil? Fuck yeah!
- Comment on Best vertical games on Android? 2 months ago:
The different types of Gameboys and most of their games emulate really well on a smart phone. I prefer playing them in landscape orientation for the larger display, but portrait mode gives a more accurate recreation with the screen on top and buttons on bottom.
I’m out of touch with what the latest best options are for emulators and where to source your ROMs, but if you ask around in communities focusing on things like piracy, they’ll point you in the right direction.
Recommended to use a VPN for any downloads.
- Comment on Feeding my family alone is expensive. I can't afford to feed all of y'all. 2 months ago:
Potluck style is the way to go. In addition to what the other posters have mentioned, you get better food that way too: people cook the dish they have the best recipe for. People who are shit cooks can host or clean or w/e.
Get the best everyone has to offer.
- Comment on It's always about dat math 2 months ago:
I’m not actually sure what the normal etiquette is there. The only time I ever get take out is from a mom-and-pop Thai restaurant that’s one of those hole in the wall places, and I tip the fuck out of them cuz I want to support them.
If you’re talking like a fast food burger joint, then yeah fuck that.
- Comment on It's always about dat math 2 months ago:
Millennial here. I cook most of my own food. Have never and will never use services like door dash, cuz I don’t want to pay extra to give some stranger unmonitored access to my food. I will tip when I eat out, even though I hate it - for fuck’s sake just factor the tip into the price of the food… my whim as a customer shouldn’t determine if someone else’s employee gets a fair wage.
Anywho, I don’t think that’s horribly uncommon for my generation - most of us can’t afford to eat out more than once or twice a month, if that.
- Comment on Evolution at its finest! 2 months ago:
Hypothesis: this is actually a safety way to ride due to cars seeing you as much more of a threat and therefore giving you MUCH more room than normal.
- Comment on Energy drinks 2 months ago:
