ArbitraryValue
@ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Future 2 days ago:
I wouldn’t mind being able to start my washer remotely - I want it to run while I’m not home because it’s noisy, but I don’t want the wet laundry to sit all day like it would if I started it and then went to work.
- Comment on Anon needs a good response 1 week ago:
I consider myself very, very lucky that my ex-wife and I did not have any children.
- Comment on Anon needs a good response 1 week ago:
Yeah, that’s the problem. Once I married a woman I had known for six months, because that whole time she was crazy about me. I was the center of her world. It felt great - I wasn’t used to getting a lot of attention from women, and here was one literally begging me to marry her. I went for it. But for whatever reason (maybe God thought it was funny) there are people out there who flip between over-the-top loving someone and over-the-top hating him, for no external reason. My ex-wife kept the crazy under control before we got engaged, but after that about a couple of times a week she would flip out. I ended up divorcing her after six months of marriage - the last straw was when on my birthday she flipped out because I wanted to celebrate with my family and not just with her. Normal social interactions don’t prepare you to deal with a person like that.
- Comment on The difference is real 4 weeks ago:
Well, criminals generally don’t like law enforcement officers…
- Comment on Why conservative men repeatedly crash Grindr 5 weeks ago:
But what about the people with strongly felt but incoherent world-views, like the ones who voted for Sanders before voting for Trump? They need memes too!
- Comment on What the fuck is going on with Iran and what will happen next? 1 month ago:
I think that most Trump voters support isolationism symbolically. They want a leader who prioritizes them rather than perceived others, but they don’t actually have a strong opinion about specific foreign policies per se. Attacking Iran does challenge that symbolism, but in the absence of direct effects on their own lives, their trust in Trump’s established “America first” reputation will go a long way.
- Comment on Anon blows his dad's mind 1 month ago:
Do male mice have nipples? Why?
That was my take-home exam from a somewhat eccentric developmental biology professor back when I was in college. I remember that the answer is no (although they still have mammary tissue and can get breast cancer) but not why.
- Comment on spoopy figs 1 month ago:
Most vegans do. The general idea is to avoid exploiting animals, but the wasps are living out their natural life cycle.
- Comment on Fascism bad. 1 month ago:
I’ve seen some interesting discussion of this linked to the idea of survive/thrive strategies. Is the world a dangerous place that calls for avoiding risks and protecting what you have, or is it full of opportunities and calls for exploring and being open to novelty? Neither inclination is fundamentally wrong. But I’m not sure how to reconcile that with modern “rightists” who want to burn down the system and aren’t conservative in the lowercase-C sense.
- Comment on seize the means of burger production 1 month ago:
When my family came to the USA from the Soviet Union, one of the weird things about the experience for us was how friendly retail staff were. Brighton Beach in NYC is a neighborhood with a lot of Soviet immigrants, and you can still go there and experience retail staff glaring at you because you’re creating more work for them by coming into the store.
- Comment on Anon is a scientist 1 month ago:
The dog would be fine. It takes a huge amount of chocolate to hurt a dog - I was freaking out once when my dog ate some chocolate but I learned that a 30 pound dog would have to eat an entire full-size Hershey’s Bar in order to experience any symptoms at all (and they would be mild and temporary).
- Comment on I am an amateur propagandist. A hobbyist. Enthusiast, if you will. 1 month ago:
Netanyahu’s sons did serve in the Israeli military, although how much danger they were actually in is unknown to me.
- Comment on The hooch causing hallucinations just becomes a vicious cycle 1 month ago:
DIME MYSTERY
20¢
Nothing is sacred.
- Comment on Anon hangs out with a coworker 2 months ago:
Hah for a while I slept on the floor because I didn’t care enough to get a bed. Furniture is mostly for when you want to impress guests, and so if you never have guests… The one exception is my recliner - it’s the classic kind with a lever on the side to raise the footrest and it is perhaps the most comfortable thing in the world.
- Comment on Anon looks back 2 months ago:
Seriously though, even as an adult I don’t know if I did or not. Why did she do that?
- Comment on The classics 2 months ago:
I wish it told me what the title of the deleted video was, so that at least I could know what I was missing.
- Comment on Anon looks back 2 months ago:
Everything is temporary - some relationships last longer than others but they all end, at least from old age. If there can’t be worth in a temporary relationship, there can’t be worth in any relationship.
- Comment on Anon looks back 2 months ago:
One time when I was in my early teens, I was teasing my sister and her friend and that friend suddenly lunged at me and bit me on the arm, hard. I had tooth marks and a funny feeling for the next few hours - a girl had touched me, with her mouth!
- Comment on -16 °C here, puppers, so same 2 months ago:
When I first got my dog, it took me a few days to notice that the reason he wasn’t asking to go outside as much in winter was because he was sneaking into the unused bedroom and pooping there.
- Comment on Someone should really do something 3 months ago:
I used to work at a company involved in breast cancer screening, and one of the skills I learned on that job was how to say the word “breast” without giggling. It was a small startup so we had some interesting people, including a woman who, when discussing how the machine worked, would just grab one of her own breasts through her shirt and start poking it.
- Comment on FFFFFUUUU 3 months ago:
We reached peak meme back then and it has been all downhill since.
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 3 months ago:
But both sides sound as if they have done real science, so a basic understanding of how science is done won’t be enough to tell them apart. The only difference between the two visible to an ordinary member of the public is that one side represents “the establishment” and the other side doesn’t.
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 3 months ago:
I don’t agree with this. The stuff written by, for example, the “vaccines cause autism” people can sound as sophisticated and authoritative as any textbook. A high-school education isn’t going to help someone judge it according to its merits. The problem is a collapse of trust in authority rather than a lack of basic knowledge.
- Comment on How often do you change your towels? 3 months ago:
- Comment on Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card 3 months ago:
I’m really annoyed by this as well, but why do you jump from that to concluding that the government should ban it? I don’t see any reason why the stores should not in principle be allowed to do it.
- Comment on He was HUNGRY 😓 4 months ago:
Sexy legs dragon.
- Comment on Damn 4 months ago:
Clearly he’s out of practice.
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 4 months ago:
Not really archaic - if this was valuable stuff washing up on shore, the law would still be relevant.
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 4 months ago:
Members of the British government have been calling for strong efforts to ensure the shipping company and its insurers will pay the costs of the cleanup. Seatrade, which operates the vessel, said its insurers are fully engaged in the process…
- Comment on Who shops at small businesses? 4 months ago:
I do wonder about stores like that. According to a friend of mine who worked on the household staff of a very rich family, they did buy extremely expensive stuff in boutique stores even when much cheaper alternatives were almost as good (or even equally good, I suspect) but how many rich people like that are there?
