shalafi
@shalafi@lemmy.world
- Comment on fight fire with napalm 9 hours ago:
Nope. The sun moves around, sunup to sundown, and changes over the seasons. There is one small spot by my house the sun never hits.
As I said, I’ve planted it in my own forest, light is killing it. And if you don’t want it around? A light tug will completely uproot it.
- Comment on Hulu quizzing about the ads played 9 hours ago:
Throw in an ad blocker like a Pi-hole. Life changing. FFS, $10 a month on AWS and you can spin a Lightsail instance, or roll your own on a toaster.
- Comment on Hulu quizzing about the ads played 10 hours ago:
Perhaps you’re a bogon emitter like my wife?
Learn more here:
- Comment on People who live in hot climates, how do you deal with the heat? 13 hours ago:
Water, inside and out. Dune (the book) had a great quote about the best place for water is inside you.
Humans evolved to deal with heat, and yes, later cold, but our roots are in Africa. So many ways to cool with water, you find strategies that work.
Staying small is huge (heh). The square cube law is a thing. If you took my skinny hide and spread it out on top of a tall fat man, it would be fairly close. But our volume would be drastically different.
- Comment on People who live in hot climates, how do you deal with the heat? 13 hours ago:
NW Florida here. Lived in Chicago for two years. I’ll take the heat thank you very much. I won’t die if left outside.
- Comment on Why is it when I watch a movie at home? It seems like I have to go deaf just this way. I can hear the audio of somebody speaking compared to the explosions and other special effect sounds? 13 hours ago:
Same! My wife speaks better English than she hears. And like you, I’m hooked on CC.
- Comment on RuneScape is planning on introducing Black Mirror inspired membership plans 14 hours ago:
Simple strategy. You lose the low value customers, retain the spenders. Less cost for infrastructure, employees, all that.
They’re likely cutting it too close with the cost, but what do I know, I don’t pay for jack.
- Comment on Saviour 16 hours ago:
OP means people won’t believe Trump initially called for the ban. And they’re right.
- Comment on Hulu quizzing about the ads played 17 hours ago:
I have one TV for my PC monitor and one for, well, TV. Both hardwired to the network, no external network access. Wrote a quick PS script to switch from one to the other or both, made it into an EXE with buttons, très chic. Everything streams off a crappy USB drive “RAID” array. OpenVPN server with Digital Ocean, hosted in Amsterdam, $6/month. DONE.
I’m not on some crusade against capitalism, I simply choose not to participate in bullshit like this.
tl;dr: STEAL YO SHIT.
- Comment on Hulu quizzing about the ads played 17 hours ago:
People say stuff like that and I’m like, what’s the actual law? “It feels bad so it’s probably illegal.”
This particular brand of bullshit is so new I doubt there’s any legislation out there. Maybe an existing consumer protection law could be bent to fit?
- Comment on If I strapped a weight to a tortoise, could I train it go relatively fast? 17 hours ago:
Sure you’re not thinking of turtles? I’ve seen them haul ass, but never a tortoise.
If you’re mother has them, I’m sure you said what you meant, but still, never seen one scoot booty.
- Comment on Based Red Dead 22 hours ago:
It’s so social media AI doesn’t block the image. Yeah, that’s our world now.
- Comment on Are you getting read for Valentine's Day? 22 hours ago:
I did. Took French solely because all the hot chicks were in that class and the dumb jocks and cheerleaders were in Spanish.
Pro tip: You can whisper anything French in your girl’s ear and she’ll positively vibrate. I’ve often used, “Eat my beef raw.” because that’s about all I remember.
- Comment on fight fire with napalm 23 hours ago:
Never understood the problem with English Ivy. It only grows in the shade, you can see the line along my house where the sun never hits.
Never seen it in the wild, can’t imagine. And if you don’t want it around, rip it up. The root system is extremely shallow, couldn’t be easier to kill.
Planted bunches of it year before last at camp. It’s all either dead or barely hanging on.
- Comment on Always a fan of simple instructions on how to do everyday things 1 day ago:
If you lean in, she’s leaning in, faces close, DO IT.
If you find a girl with her face closing in, I promise you, she’s more likely waiting on you to make the move. DO IT.
One of my favorite lines was from Dostoevsky: “She was greatly moved (?) by his daring.” Something like that. Finally hit me. Yeah, women like a man who is bold.
That’s not a license to be a jerk. That means to be decisive.
“But what if she didn’t want me to kiss her?”
Then she wouldn’t have put her face so close to yours. Women aren’t clueless.
- Comment on Always a fan of simple instructions on how to do everyday things 1 day ago:
LOL, no. 19/20ths of y’all aren’t autistic, at all. The younger gen just got fucked over:
old.reddit.com/…/for_those_who_worklive_around_te…
I’d suggest everyone take a deep dive on those comments. See what you take out of it.
tl;dl: GenZ isn’t inherently fucked up, but they got fucked up. READ. IT. ALL.
- Comment on Now you know why your wife gave you a can of WD 40 1 day ago:
Oh fuck right off. It’s a joke ad that never existed.
Want some real toxicity? Here:
Did that picture make your pussy hurt?
- Comment on Always a fan of simple instructions on how to do everyday things 2 days ago:
Who has to ask permission for a kiss?!
“Uh… can I… um… you know… uh…”
I’ve had enough girls give me that, “STFU and kiss me you idiot” look, which closely resembles the, “WTF is he waiting for?” look. Can’t image the look I was asking first.
- Comment on Digital driving licences to be ‘put on phones this year’ 2 days ago:
I got a ticket, in my canoe, for not having my registration paper. The registration number and expiration tag are on the side of the fucking boat. I think the cop was annoyed that I had my license for having a trolling motor on hand, had to nail me somehow.
Think on that, we have to keep two pieces of paper available on a canoe. Had to print them on waterproof paper.
I would have known it was required if the water pig had asked for it when she pulled me over last year.
America’s uptight about “papers please, comrade”.
- Comment on Digital driving licences to be ‘put on phones this year’ 2 days ago:
I don’t even need an ID at my credit union’s drive thru. They look at their camera, they look at their computer, it’s me, done.
- Comment on Typical from my so called imaginary friend 2 days ago:
I read this in Spock’s voice.
- Comment on "Jokes on you, I'm into that shit" 3 days ago:
Yep!
Only mammals have the nerve receptors to feel the heat.
Herbivores grind the seeds up. Plants don’t want that.
Birds, who can’t sense the heat, happily eat the pods and poop the seeds everywhere.
- Comment on Anon gets rid of crackheads 3 days ago:
$20 was worth more 20 years ago, and I had a 1-room apartment. She was making ~$10/hr. Fair pay for cleaning work in 2003, with my supplies.
tl:dr; Get off your fucking high horse.
- Comment on Anon gets rid of crackheads 4 days ago:
Recording?! What is this, amateur hour?
- Comment on Anon gets rid of crackheads 4 days ago:
You joke, but the crackhead hooker next door to me in Chicago would clean my place, top to bottom, for a 20 spot. Wouldn’t dare steal anything because I was good money for a regular rock.
- Comment on Fortune's Run development put on hold because the dev is going to prison 4 days ago:
Next time you want to bitch about everything Trump taking legal years:
My case is about 5 years old now, I have been going through the legal process the whole time I’ve been working on this. I have finally been found guilty and sentenced, and I’m going away next month.
In other news, legal insurance is about $26/mo. Arm yourself. (And it’s not just for suing people or defending criminal charges. Having a legal opinion a phone call away, or a letter written, can be a huge thing.)
- Comment on Anyone have success trapping live insects? I feel like this should be easy, but I have no ideas. 5 days ago:
Also, the pet store crickets are pathetic, tiny and malnourished. Love some advice on best practices!
If anyone has springtails to spare, I’ll gladly pay for them, shipped to NW Florida. Been wanting to get back into breeding those.
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- Comment on Anyway to erase the permanent marker so I can reuse this? 5 days ago:
This is why woman can’t estimate length. They’re shown 3" and told it’s 6".
- Comment on Why does it seem like Americans have become so hateful and destructive in the past years? 1 week ago:
[Here’s your answer on Trump.](How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind)cracked.com/…/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-t…
Still as true in 2025 as it was in 2016.
