weariedfae
@weariedfae@lemmy.world
- Comment on How many songs are about Courtney Love? 6 days ago:
Don’t throw it all away.
- Comment on Hardcore 6 days ago:
That’s pretty dope.
- Comment on Lightning bugs 1 week ago:
Their decline has been so sad. I moved somewhere with fireflies in 2007. The first year they were everywhere. The second year less so and they were completely gone by 2010. I always tried to leave longer grassy areas for them but they were just… gone. It was so so so sad. I didn’t grow up with them and that first summer was enchanted and magical.
I have great memories of walking down the road on a hot night with thousands of slowly blinking balls of light. The person who lives in that place now probably doesn’t even know that fireflies are supposed to be in the area.
- Comment on those curves 1 week ago:
Ooh I think I could find my way back to one in the Midwest.
The great lakes have some crazy stuff, man.
- Comment on CWD 1 week ago:
Fucking prions, man. Scarier than most diseases. Remember kids: in a survival situation it’s okay to eat most of a Long Pig or a cow but don’t eat the brain. You just never know.
- Comment on I'm a Ferrari 1 week ago:
This hits too close to home.
It’s like…you spend like a solid couple of days grabbing EVERYTHING tangentially related. But you just end up reading the one old paper on your thing, the biggest semi-recent papers of sub-subjects 1 and maybe 2, and then whatever was last published about your thing.
It’s not good practice but like… there are so many relevant-enough-to-cite papers.
- Comment on My friend's boyfriend's therapist said that he is an abuser who is trying to look like the victim. What does this mean? 1 week ago:
Oh god it’s the ghost of online relationship past. Apparently kids are the same 20+ years later.
In my experience, yes those are red flags, and this is NOT a good situation. You mentioned his age but not hers but I’d bet dollars to doughnuts she’s younger than him.
Listen, I know from personal experience this relationship is a bad Idea and Aunt Weariedfae says get out and do not feel bad about it. She’ll realize later how manipulative it was. That the power balance was way out of whack. What controlling behavior is. I think he did your friend a kindness by straight up admitting he wouldn’t visit instead of scheduling trips and canceling last minute over and over.
I’m sorry your friend is in this situation. I also don’t think your friend may listen to advice about decoupling. But maybe she’s smarter than myself and my friend who also went through the same thing around the same time. Hopefully she is.
- Comment on damn this rocks gay. good for them. good for them 2 weeks ago:
Am geologist. No one I’ve ever worked with or been in a class with has cared. I didn’t think I’ve ever heard anyone even snicker. Although we’re in USA which spells it dike.
I have seen a Gen X straight white man have to correct someone’s spelling and then stammer over explaining that spelling it ‘dyke’ has another meaning here but is the way it is spelled in Europe.
- Comment on Whiskered Conjurer 2 weeks ago:
This is super cool, I dig it!
- Comment on Carnivores 2 weeks ago:
Apparently the term is reserved for sponges that aren’t filter feeders but are kinda sticky like velcro and catch stuff that way.
- Comment on Productivity 2 weeks ago:
This is a cubicle-worthy comic.
- Comment on i have become the gis 2 weeks ago:
The way they handle ArcOnline and licensing (esp. roles) is god damn fucking bullshit and I wish a plague upon the person who thought it up.
- Comment on i have become the gis 2 weeks ago:
Surprisingly easy to pick up if you know Arc. I can’t switch to it entirely but I’ve made red relief maps in it and I’m really impressed by some features.
- Comment on i have become the gis 2 weeks ago:
It’s the entire reason I stopped having even a dual boot with Linux on my machine.
- Comment on i have become the gis 2 weeks ago:
After being forced to Pro I would be staring at this with nostalgia and sadness. A decade of work to optimize what I need out of it and I had to start all over with a laggy, crashy POS that constantly forgets my damned pinned tools.
RIP homie.
Pro did make my output maps better though, I will say that.
- Comment on NOW GIT! 2 weeks ago:
Damn, my bird knowledge fails me. Too many rocks up in my noggin’.
I don’t get it. :\
Is it a situation like “Mommy mommy, chicken mommy!” from Milo and Otis?
- Comment on Caption this. 2 weeks ago:
Radula are rad.
That’s not a caption, just an observation.
- Comment on salmon 2 weeks ago:
Is it all salmon species? I stumble upon dead salmon after spawning all the time during field work and I’ve never seen one that looks like that. They usually look like the top photo.
- Comment on Italian herbs and spices 2 weeks ago:
That’s great! Ratios are a bit off but we are talking about food, there’s no 1:1.
I think the wafer makes sense as the mantle, the chocolate as the oceanic crust and the hazelnut as the continental crust.
- Comment on Italian herbs and spices 2 weeks ago:
Um actually,
The inner core is solid, the outer core is liquid, and the mantle is kinda…solidish-slushy-sorta.
So the earth is like one of those fancy cherry cordials with the 2 fillings?
- Comment on Academic job talks 2 weeks ago:
Oof.
Just master’s out and tapdance away from that nonsense.
Join us in the work force with options like: (a) high salary but 50+ hr weeks and you’ll either thrive or want to kill yourself in 2 years, or (b) pennies and prestigious temp jobs because they literally can’t make permanent positions because their budget is not under their control, or © run your own business like literally everyone else in a saturated market for a niche job! Make sure you are prepared for liability and the possibility of getting sued.
It’s fun…out here…in not-academia.
- Comment on Another hit to physical media as Target lays out plans to ditch in-store DVD and Blu-ray sales 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah! I remember that was a big deal back in the day. It’s funny the things you forget about until someone reminds you. Good call!
- Comment on How much do people still follow media reviews today? 2 weeks ago:
I feel like I’ve whooshed something. I didn’t know if they were including video games, TV shows, books, etc. or if they were restricting to movies since that used to be the default thing reviewed.
- Comment on How much do people still follow media reviews today? 2 weeks ago:
Ok but like… what media?
Just movies? I haven’t read a review in years. I know from the trailer if I want to see it or not. Maybe I’ll stumble upon a video discussing something about it and become intrigued or turned away.
I do seek out reviews of video games because it is usually a significant cost and I want to make sure it’s something I’ll like. Both print and video.
- Comment on Fossil prep 2 weeks ago:
:( aw man don’t think that. You know it was super fragile and it is not like you did it on purpose.
Also you could display the pieces ‘exploded’ and it would be dope AF.
- Comment on trails 2 weeks ago:
No way, I can’t imagine getting to see echidna in the wild. Hot dang, Australian wildlife is so cool!
And scary. Sorry, I’m an American and we’re pretty much constantly told the most horrifying stories of Australia lol.
- Comment on trails 2 weeks ago:
For real?? Like, in the wild or at a zoo? Either way THAT’S AMAZING (genuinely)!
- Comment on trails 2 weeks ago:
Is the pixelated purple flower fireweed?
Nevermind, I thought I could narrow it to a region based on the plant but it’s got a wide ranging habitat.
- Comment on trails 2 weeks ago:
Sounds nice! I’m envious 😄.
- Comment on Another hit to physical media as Target lays out plans to ditch in-store DVD and Blu-ray sales 2 weeks ago:
Truth. I haven’t been thrifting in a while but at least where I am Value Village/Savers has a pretty good supply to stock up on now before they get scarce.