grasshopper_mouse
@grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world
- Comment on Have a good trip 2 weeks ago:
As a woman, I’ve always been kinda jealous of a man’s ability to just piss wherever, whenever. I mean, they do make these, but I’ve never used one because it kinda seems like you piss in there and it it’ll just end up all over your entire yoni, which just sounds like a mess.
- Comment on What is the "dip"? 2 weeks ago:
My parents let me watch this when it came out. I was 8. RIP cartoon shoe.
- Comment on How to find custom Lego builds with instructions? 2 weeks ago:
Other random LEGO question: Is there any website that I can upload a picture of something to it, and it will create LEGO instructions/create a piece list for me? I’d really love to have/build a LEGO version of The Ark starship from The Transformers, but I don’t think it exists.
- Comment on Does the "White Power Ranger" seem like an odd title? 2 weeks ago:
Wasn’t the white power ranger the green power ranger first, or am I misremembering the story (it’s been a while, sorry)?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
1 with socks in the winter and 2 in the summer.
- Comment on What's the deal with gasping? Is it an inherent reflex? Is it learned? Did I desensitize myself to the point of not gasping anymore? Do you gasp? Do certain groups of people gasp less commonly? 3 weeks ago:
If I’m startled, like a jump-scare or something, I’ll likely gasp, but if I see a car accident or someone falling or something explode, I’m far more likely to say “Oh shit” than gasp.
On a semi-related note, I really hate the people (mostly women, sorry ladies, and I say this as a woman myself) who scream when something bad happens, but the bad thing didn’t happen directly to them, they are just witnessing the bad thing. And they scream anyway. I hate that shit.
I think it’s some animal instinct thing leftover from our primitive days that’s supposed to draw attention to the bad thing? But at this point in our evolution it just feels like that person is drawing attention to themselves and away from the actual issue.
- Comment on Any Engrish-like community in here? 3 weeks ago:
Uhh, you mean like this? https://engrish.com/
- Comment on How to get rid of swollen batteries? 4 weeks ago:
Oh I’m thankful for the replacement, I’m just not thrilled with now having to find a way to properly dispose of the faulty one.
- Comment on How to get rid of swollen batteries? 4 weeks ago:
They didn’t offer that, they only offered a replacement.
- Comment on How to get rid of swollen batteries? 4 weeks ago:
Not to hijack your question, but I’m in a similar situation where the Anker power bank I use to charge my phone got recalled because it can apparently cause fires. Lurking here to see how people respond to your question, because I know I shouldn’t just throw it away, and none of the battery recycle places around town will take it because it’s been recalled.
- Comment on Spicy food never affects my gut and everyone thinks it's really weird. How unusual is this and what could be happening to explain why spicy food doesn't affect me? 5 weeks ago:
I’m worried this is happening to me right now. I’m in my mid-40s and lately the day after all the spicy foods I usually consume have not been pleasant. Is there no fix for this??
- Comment on Good luck, mom 5 weeks ago:
My cousin’s mom was a BEAST at Tetris on the original Nintendo back in the 80s.
- Comment on What was life like for the "average" person living in Nazi Germany 5 weeks ago:
There’s a book called The Black Eagle Inn by Christoph Fischer that kinda delves into this. I read it because I was interested in the same thing in terms of the “average” person living in Nazi Germany, but man it was a slog to get through and it’s only 300 pages. I don’t know if it’s just poorly translated or what, but the writing is awful. I’m sure there are better books out there, but you might want to give the book a try.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Please refrain from doing anything for this delicate snowflake in the future, he doesn’t deserve your time.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I never played Oblivion, only Skyrim, which I loved. Is it worth buying the remastered edition, or is it gonna be so similar to Skyrim that it’s not worth the money?
- Comment on Just a pic of two besties 2 months ago:
Well, TIL
- Comment on Does anyone else feel guilty or very depressed after accomplishing anything? 2 months ago:
This is interesting to me because in the moment after accomplishing something, I feel great about it. It’s only after time has passed that I look back at that accomplishment and my collective accomplishments throughout life and think to myself “omg, I haven’t done anything, I’m such a loser”, when I have in fact done plenty of things. I have no idea where that thought process comes from. I am not afraid to succeed; I have had to work hard for some, but not all, of my accomplishments. Maybe it’s a “comparing myself to others” thing?
- Comment on An oldie but a goodie 2 months ago:
Back when my brother still lived with my mom, he, a full-grown adult, had a set of four square whiskey stones made of metal that he kept in the back of the freezer that he would add to a glass of whiskey every now and then. One night my mom texts me a picture of the whiskey stones while he’s not in the house with “I FOUND THESE IN THE FREEZER!” “ARE THESE DRUGS???” “WHAT IS THIS??” Like holy fuck, are you serious? Yeah, sure, they’re drugs, Mom. Cubed metal is all the rage on the streets these days. You just swallow them whole and get high as fuck.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 3 months ago:
It would be interesting to see if it’s ever happened in the past, for sure. I too assumed it was due to poor education, but the three people I mentioned (my old boss and the 2 new coworkers) all came from different areas of the U.S. and are each in different generations (1 Boomer, 1 Gen X, 1 Millennial), so they all have very different backgrounds/education experiences, yet they ALL struggle to read anything longer than a single sentence. It’s infuriating. I try to be patient, because hey, we all have our thing we suck at, but it’s honestly a little scary that they and so many other are out there not following directions simply because they can’t read them.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 3 months ago:
Reading comprehension has gone down the tubes. I dunno if it’s from people watching too many TikToks and their attention span can’t handle reading more than one sentence anymore, or what, but I have definitely noticed a change in people’s ability to read and understand the content of what they just read.
Where I work, my old boss never wrote anything down, did not like to communicate via email, and insisted on phone calls/verbal meetings instead. When they announced they were taking a new job, we begged them to create an SOP of all the things they did with detailed instructions because NONE of it had ever been written down. We were told no, they couldn’t do that. No explanation other than “I can’t.” And I’m convinced that they simply couldn’t read, or could BARELY read.
So I created the SOP instead, detailed as hell, everything in one place. Sections, subsections, hyperlinks, it’s all there. 2 new employees come into the office, I’m supposed to train them. I do, and I show them the SOP, tell them “everything you need to know is in this SOP”, so that AFTER I train them, they can reference it.
They never reference it, ever. They ask me how to do the things they’ve forgotten instead. I just point them to the correct section in the SOP and tell them to read it. BUT THEY DON’T READ. It’s insane! How do they get by in life in general!?
- Comment on am i insane? 3 months ago:
I’ve had the same experience, though only for about the past 10 years, and at 45 now, it’s more like there’s a single day in any given month where the crazy depression/dark thoughts and rage at the simplest stupid shit occurs, and by now I’m able to stop in the moment and recognize that it’s just temporary, and it always resolves itself in an hour or two. I can’t wait for menopause to hit and for all this shit to be over.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Gross
- Comment on Do people really think setting up domestic manufacturing in the USA is easy? 3 months ago:
I think the supply-chain issue is often forgotten about. Sure, we can open manufacturing businesses here to make whatever, but where do people think the materials will come from? Do they think we’ve had all the materials we need to manufacture goods here in America all along and we just haven’t been because everything is cheaper to make overseas? Just look at this list of major exports by country. Does the US have SOME of this stuff? Sure, but enough to make enough goods for US consumers on a regular, as-needed basis? No way. We will need raw materials, and there won’t be enough to go around.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Take this with a grain of salt, but this is ICE’s (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) definition of human trafficking and is of course open to interpretation:
“Human trafficking is a global crime that trades in people of all genders, ages and backgrounds and exploits them for profit. Human trafficking generally takes two forms: sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age; or the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage or slavery.”
https://www.ice.gov/features/human-trafficking
Interpol’s definition: “While there is a clear distinction between human trafficking and migrant smuggling, they can also be linked. Human trafficking occurs for specific purposes, such as sexual exploitation, labour exploitation, forced criminality, and organ removal, among other forms of exploitation. Migrant smugglers take advantage of people who want to leave their home countries to escape poverty, conflict, and crises, or simply want to seek a better life. Even if irregular migrants generally enter into the journey voluntarily, they are often exposed to significant risks, including that of being trafficked, kidnapped or dying in transit to their destinations.”
https://www.interpol.int/en/Crimes/Human-trafficking-and-migrant-smuggling
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
But this will make the cost of eggs go down!/s
- Comment on Is it normal for high sugar contents like in cake icing to make my uvula tickle? 4 months ago:
Ugh, it would be awful lol
- Comment on Is it normal for high sugar contents like in cake icing to make my uvula tickle? 4 months ago:
Me too and then I was like, have I been missing out on some sugar-related sexual experience this whole time!?
- Comment on The classic cycle 6 months ago:
:(
- Comment on The classic cycle 6 months ago:
…Zavala, is that you?
- Comment on Sleep well tonight 7 months ago:
One or two pieces, sure. A whole fucking cabinet? No thanks.