TheDoozer

@TheDoozer@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks for coming to my TED talk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Them and millipedes are allowed if AND ONLY IF they stay either out of sight or up in the corners. If they crawl across my bare foot they’re done.

  I went away for two weeks once, and afterwars went to the unfinished portion of my basement at the time to find the aftermath of an absolute warzone. Some yellowjackets (I think) had burrowed their nest through the wall, and there was an epic battle between them and the cave crickets (of which there were WAY more than I had thought). There were dismembered corpses absolutely covering the floors. And from what I could tell, you know who seemed to be the victor?

  The millipedes. There was ONE millipede body amongs the masses of cave crickets and yellowjackets. And each of the others weren’t eaten, just ripped in half.

  For the next year, we didn’t hear or see a single cave cricket, and that entire nest of yellowjackets was just… gone. But the millipedes… they flourished.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨opportunities⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Pro tip for you:

  Ask for Cocoa Fudge with your Heath Blizzard instead of chocolate sauce. Even better, Cocoa Fudge with a small splash of cappuccino. Makes it way better.

  Source: was a store manager of a Dairy Queen (20 years ago)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bird leaf⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In English, orange is essentiall “orange red,” as in “red like an orange.” Prior to oranges making their way to Europe, the color we refer to as “orange” was red, or yellow-red. Hence people with orange hair being called “red-heads.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨women⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither of those articles supports what you are saying. The first one, about sexual assault, says in big, bold letters that men are less likely to report sexual assault. The argument was not that more violence is committed against men (sexual assaults at the very least are obviously not), it’s that men are less likely to report it when it happens, which is exactly what your article said. It also said women under-report. But just because women also under-report doesn’t mean they under-report at a higher rate than men.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously. There is no reason to believe in something that not only isn’t proven to exist, but can’t. That argument could be applied to nearly anything.

  Vampires? Can’t prove they don’t exist, so may as well believe in them.

  Fairies? Same.

  Flying spaghetti monster? Prove it doesn’t exist.

  Like, I don’t want to know people’s religions, and I’m not so arrogant as to think I have all the answers, but I just can’t stand the “you can’t prove XXXX doesn’t exist” argument.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go ahead, take one⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I still get infections in my mouth if I have more than, like, two in a sitting. And then my mouth hurts for a week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Incel propaganda in my music app⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like the middle-aged guy that I am, because it keeps suggesting lawncare, forging (“can I melt and cast himilayan salt rocks?” He did, it was fantastic), silly engineering (“I’m going to see if I can 3d print a rifle that will make a nerf dart break the speed of sound…”), dnd (I don’t even play dnd, and i still enjoy the videos), and Jon Stewart. And… a weird mix of civil rights people showing bad behavior of police, and police supporter showing bad behavior of people (honestly both are entertaining, because police are awful and so are people).

  But it doesn’t even try for that right-wing bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumerism ahhhhh moment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I had the choice of the Yaris or another car, I would choose the other car. Because driving that car would make me at least low-level angry for the time I had it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some absurd scare tactic to not allow women to vote⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting that allowing women to vote created a situation where women felt it less absolutely necessary to get married. Because after a while, their voice had to be considered when discussing bills like prohibiting banks from refusing bank accounts, home loans, and credit cards to women.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumerism ahhhhh moment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Yaris ads did this to me. I got so pissed off by their “It’s a car” commercials that I absolutely despised the product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My father the tween literary critic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A book that I got as part of a birthday present when I was in middle school had a passage where a man’s long-lost sister (who was part monster, but was painstakingly described as very attractive) told him that either he had to impregnate her the old-fashioned way, or she would simply get a syringe, extract sperm from his testicles, and impregnate herself that way to create, if I remember correctly, a monster that would end the world or something. It was labeled as “Young Adult” level.

  So, like, probably something like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Start-up idea⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you take inflation into consideration, high quality products still exist at about the same price. Its just that there are now MUCH cheaper options now.

  I think the Sam Vimes Boots Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness plays a part as well:

  The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. … A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. … But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socio-economic unfairness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why is the beginning on the left and the end on the right?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Swinging with right hand, holding with left (for right-handed people). So you can see what you’ve done so far as you go, just like writing with your right hand from left to right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck, can I have a do-over?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The best thing I have learned to do with age is embrace the awkwardness. You do something ridiculous and awkward, you laugh, call it out like it’s something funny for both of you, and then you move on.

  “Gow’s it hoeing? …wait… that’s not right. Hoooow’s… itt… gooooiiing… there we go, nailed it.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside me there are two shit takes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Both are yes but also no.

  Each person is responsible for their own actions and choices.

  Also, often systemic issues make certain behaviors far more likely, and rather than suggesting there is something inherently wrong with a person or group of people who have made those negative actions or choices, we should address the issues that contributed.

  If a person beats their kids, saying they came from an abusive household does not absolve them, but if there has been a culture of ignoring (or encouraging) child abuse, addressing that would go a long way toward reducing child abuse in the next generation, for example. But the person who abused their kid still deserves the punishment they get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clothes too dirty for the closest but too clean for the laundry⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use command hooks on the wall. It feels more orderly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't waste your time debating them just keep away from them⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Back when I was at university, I was in the band, and there was one guy in my section that was super annoying, and who couldn’t talk with a person without squaring up to them (and then talking at them).

  One time my best friend (also in the section), in the middle of the guy’s sentence with a bored expression on her face just… turns and walks away as if he had stopped speaking.

  The rest of us were thinking “wait… we can do that? I didn’t realize that was an option.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Follow this advice for a happier 2026⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Zeus: Wow. Just… rude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this even a question?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, you weren’t kidding. I was expecting a cop car, not six.

  To anyone looking, you have to get the corner/mid-intersection shot to get the mess of police. If you’re just going up Pine, it looks pretty benign.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨genius⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Got that Alaskan Airframe and Powerplant license, I see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give me some good ones⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.”

  -Malcom Reynolds, CAPT.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neither do I, Mr. Raccoon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that it is unfortunate that he got shanked, as he was convicted and appropriately sentenced for the murder he committed. That is as it should be.

  Shank the ones that get away with it, not the ones in jail for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"autism didn't exist back in my day"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s hilarious, I worked with the guy in the video who bro-ed out with a wrench in his pocket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"autism didn't exist back in my day"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in helicopter maintenance, so reading this I was thinking, “yeah, and?”

  It makes any task so much faster when you know exactly where the thing you need is.

  The metallurgy is important, too, because different things corrode at different rates, and in contact with different metals.

  Incidentally, that part in Big Hero 6 when Wasabi has his tools lined out, with every part and tool accounted for, I thought his shop area was well maintained and appropriate, especially working with such dangerous technology. Then they tried to portray him as mildly OCD or something, and I just thought everyone else was wrong. And Go-Go just grabbing a tool without checking it out was completely inappropriate and poor tool control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨there's actual 🌽 in cornucopia⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the horn of a goat that Zeus broke off when he was a… child? God-child? Whatever. It was magical and provided an endless supply of food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over the past 5 years, police in the U.S. have killed over 9,000 people⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, they could have at least had a picture of Vegeta.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got a little drunk last week gave money to a cult. Again.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  American Civil Liberties Union, and I’m not sure what they’re on about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even if you develop the worst type of dementia imaginable, please find a way to always remember the events of 11/13/25.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Much better way to organize. It’s how a lot of my files start:

  YYYYMMDD-Name-Document-signed

  So much easier to keep track.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Truth is way more fucked up than fiction⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the man who has openly declared since the 2000s that democracy is a mistake and that he wants to destroy the United States and European countries to establish city-states, each governed by a different corporation (fiefdoms), on our ruins

  Wait. Did dude read Snowcrash and think “yeah, that future, that’s my utopia!”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are we still talking about cars or back to bodies?