DirigibleProtein
@DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone
- Comment on What would I need to do to successfully paint with my own menstrual blood? 3 days ago:
Mix with egg whites to make gouache and it’s likely to last for hundreds of years.
- Comment on What is this called? 3 weeks ago:
On your shoulders…
- Comment on Have there been any major changes noticed in countries that have recently split? 4 weeks ago:
My parents emigrated in the late 1950s. After the Berlin Wall came down, they returned to Germany as tourists and noticed that former East Germans spoke a noticeably different dialect to West Germans, my father said it was similar to the difference between British English and North American English, but the change had come in only about 30 years.
- Comment on How long before I can sleep on my memory foam mattress? 4 weeks ago:
Did it come with instructions? We left ours for 24 hours and it was fine. YMMV
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 4 weeks ago:
People are lazy, they get so many emails each day, they couldn’t be bothered reading messages properly. I have turned into a cynical annoying person and write emails with large clear action points like this:
Hi, I have some comments and questions.
Please answer 2 (two) questions so that I can proceed with my part of this work. Without an answer to both, no more work will be done and the project will be on hold.
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1. Yes or no- Does this mean that the flibbertygibbet must be completed first?
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2. You need to provide further information on the doohickey because there is not enough detail for me to be able to goober the whatchamacallit
And then keep forwarding the original email every day until I get the required information. When the boss asks why no progress has been made, I can show him the email trail asking for information.
Cover your ass, keep adding the same questions until you get an answer.
- Comment on Are any calls without caller ID legit? 5 weeks ago:
Government departments, hospital, many companies regularly call me with “No Caller ID” and then seem surprised when I don’t answer.
If it’s urgent, they
willshould leave a message (instead they keep calling and complain that “it’s hard to get hold of me”).I actually just got a new phone number because I was receiving literally hundreds of spam calls, text messages, and voicemail messages on a foreign language, every week. I have “Silence unknown callers” switched on. Only my contacts can get through. If anyone else doesn’t leave a voicemail, send a text message, or email me, then it’s not urgent and I won’t even try to follow up.
- Comment on What kind of CAPTCHA is this? 5 weeks ago:
This is not a captcha, it’s a trick. Don’t do it.
They copy malware into your clipboard and try to trick you into pasting that malware into an environment that will run it.
Delete/ignore and move along.
- Comment on Other than Canada and Australia, which countries are best alternatives to traveling to the USA? 5 weeks ago:
New Zealand
- Comment on how tf do you warm up plates? 1 month ago:
Put it in the oven on lowest setting
- Comment on What are some slow acting poisons? 1 month ago:
- Heavy metals: lead, mercury
- Arsenic in small doses over a long period
I don’t know of any plants, but I do know that the leaves of nightshades (potato, tomato, eggplant, capsicum, tobacco) are
poisonoustoxic in large doses. - Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
In this specific case, pharmacy or doctor. In the case of surgery, ask about social assistance at your hospital.
- Comment on Did anyone else learn that "a group of cats is called a Whisper?" 1 month ago:
Never heard of a whisper, but never heard of a lot ofthese either (some sound made up by five-year-olds).
- Comment on What happens to all the used guns? 1 month ago:
“They aren’t bio-degradable. Only the dead are bio-degradable."
- Comment on Best ad blocker for ios browser Safari? What would you suggest? 2 months ago:
I’ve just started using Adguard and it seems to work well. Blocks YouTube ads too.
- Comment on Discussion Thread: Wednesday, 5 March 2025 2 months ago:
Our dog loves in the night garden. I think it’s the bright colours. Sometimes we’ll watch an episode with him as a treat.
- Comment on What happens if I eat a box of paper clips before an MRI? 2 months ago:
You’ll get a big surprise!
- Comment on What's this thing stuck on my dirty underwear? Is it a piece of undissolved tide pod? 2 months ago:
Left a tissue in your pocket? Maybe the detergent got caught in a fold and didn’t get a chance to get rinsed out?
- Comment on Is there any handbooks for warning lights on cars/machinery 2 months ago:
Dunno man, sorry. I haven’t worked in construction sites for more than 30 years, I wouldn’t know where to look either.
- Comment on i took an iq test and it was nice and i took my time doing it but the answer was 86, is that bad?? 2 months ago:
The results of IQ tests vary from country to country, from city to city, and depend a lot on socio-economic, educational, and cultural background. They can be a good bit of fun but aren’t consistently reliable. I wouldn’t worry too much about it.
- Comment on Is there any handbooks for warning lights on cars/machinery 2 months ago:
On the outside? There’s almost certainly a standard for your country and industry. For example, nsw.gov.au/…/RMS-45070588-Flashing-lights-and-sir…
- Comment on conflicted about my coworkers' overpunctuality 2 months ago:
What was the question again?
- Comment on went to the local food bank today 2 months ago:
Thanks for letting us know. Are you ok?
- Comment on What really separates a PC from a server? Mainly the hardware, but I guess software too. 2 months ago:
Technically, only intent.
I can run a samba or plex server, for example, from my raspberry Pi, my desktop pc, or my laptop. These can all be considered servers as well as desktop PCs.
I could, in theory, buy a secondhand rackmount server from eBay and run it at home as a “desktop” pc with windows or Linux.
More practically, hardware architecture that provides redundancy and continuous uptime. A commercial enterprise server could have multiple hot-swap hard disks in a raid array, redundant and hot-swappable power supplies, and something in the back of my mind tells me that even RAM and CPU can be hot-swappable in some models (am I thinking of IBM power or did I imagine it?).
The advent of cloud and virtual machines could work towards making hardware redundancy and continuous uptime obsolete, but there are cases where servers on premises continue to be used and preferred.
I hope that others will correct me and add further information.
- Comment on People complain that it's poor design that humans eat and breath through the same pipe(throat). Are there any animals which don't though? 2 months ago:
Don’t dolphins and whales breathe through their blowholes?
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 months ago:
Waiting for a repeat of Jan 6 from the other side, or a civil war, or the sovcits to take over, or all of the above, or some other unknown catastrophe.
Whatever disasters may or may not have come about due to “bad” presidents in the past will pale in comparison to the events of the next few years.
- Comment on Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet? 2 months ago:
Because phone numbers are more complicated than IP addresses.
- Comment on In the 1985 movie Teen Wolf, when Scott Howard turned into a teen wolf, would he have had a human penis or a wolf penis? 2 months ago:
Asking for a friend
- Comment on people who drink, how long do your hangovers last? 2 months ago:
im not gonna drink much after this for a while
Haha, famous last words
- Comment on Why are there silly license requirements? 2 months ago:
Why isn’t there a license to have a kid? With an exam to make sure you’re going to look after them properly?
- Comment on people who drink, how long do your hangovers last? 2 months ago:
When I was young and regularly drank to excess, they used to last until mid afternoon.