Smokeydope
@Smokeydope@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 5 days ago:
Since we are talking hypotheticals, an ideal scenario would be a nearly completely renewables approach where each household is its own self contained energy production center equippef with solar arrays, wind turbines, thermoelectric generators. Various means of production. And have either propane or diesel as a backup. Most importantly a big battery array for storing energy long term during bad weather.
Most household electrical wiring is redone for DC transmission and all consumer appliances possible are run straight on DC for optimal efficency. Energy efficent heat pumps for cooling and heating. energy efficent cooking appliances like induction heaters. Electric cars that act as backup battery banks would be awesome.
Humanity simply does not “stop” because we run out of non-renewable electrical energy. We did fine enough before the industrial revolution, the Amish do fine now, backwoods countrymen do fine now, and renewables + energy efficent consumer devices have improved a bunch.
- Comment on Lab Assistant Jobs 2 weeks ago:
Your centipede would be drone striked and the jumbo-wumbo gun research would be used to fuel a new division of the military industrial complex before NATO ever got a chance to add it to the no-no list.
- Comment on Responsible Adults 2 weeks ago:
You eat this mandelbrot set right now mister or theres no desert for you!
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 5 weeks ago:
I am a hippy nature person who tries to be merciful and kind to plants or insects. The sole exception is mosquitoes. Those fuckers want to take my blood and dont settle for one serving if they get the chance. Were in a biological armrace and so far we’ve been loosing. Let’s see how they like being fucked with.
- Comment on #STOPIT 1 month ago:
No, thats impossible. I just saw her and the kids last week. This is the last case I swore to crack before we head off on family vacation. Image
- Comment on #STOPIT 1 month ago:
Sandy Loam. Who is she and why can’t I reach her?
- Comment on Anon gets a pizza 1 month ago:
Hey hey people.
- Comment on Anon takes the welding pill 1 month ago:
- Comment on Has Google Search gotten so much worse in the last couple of weeks? 2 months ago:
I am glad to have helped you out@angrystego hope you enjoy searxng! Paulgo is an excellent instance choice for first instance.
- Comment on Has Google Search gotten so much worse in the last couple of weeks? 2 months ago:
I used to a hater of Kagi but honestly its a damn good alternative search engine. I still prefer a good searXNG instance but if you haven’t try it out. Here’s my simple guide on search engine alternatives
- Comment on The best part is the name 2 months ago:
Dear lord FlyingSquid I could handle the unhinged Trekkie rants but taking a picture of a monitor or TV screen instead of putting in the extra legwork to screencap? You’re not just unhinged, you’re a phoney. A big phat low-effort phoney!
- Comment on Wild times in a wild world 2 months ago:
Lol when I read their comment I also thought “Okay Biff Tannen”
- Comment on Wild times in a wild world 2 months ago:
Cheating? I didn’t think the geneva convention had a section covering time-based warfare. Damn.
- Comment on Wild times in a wild world 2 months ago:
It depends on how far back you go and who you contact about he incident and the evidence to solidify the claim. 9/11 could have been stopped relatively easily with a few days notice to national security. The air force could have shot both planes out of the sky. Just call the civilian deaths a tragic casalty of terrorism and use it to help fuel the war. The twin towers could have been shut down that day.
But you’ve gotta materialize right in front of the commander in chief, bring a mountain of carbon datable evidence like news papers and original classified docs, and hope that you don’t get brained on the spot before you make your case.
As for covid, you probably can’t stop it but maybe better warn and prepare world governments so they can get their population ready through subtle conditioning like trying to get wearing mask be a fashon trend or advertising bidets heavily as the new rich yuppie thing to show as a status symbol.
- Comment on How do you set up wake up alarm and not miss it ? 2 months ago:
Layer it so that you have 5 alarms 5 minutes apart. You might miss the first or second but generally your ass is up by the 5th
- Comment on Socialism 2 months ago:
You have the wrong community, this is crazy people Facebook material
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 2 months ago:
Dude did it never occur to you that you can manually add custom search engine into Firefox?
Settings>search>manage alternate search engines>add search engine
- Comment on M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable 2 months ago:
Wow reading through these comments makes me a little sad. Looks like all the effort I put into that that simple search engine guide was in vain.
- Comment on obesity 3 months ago:
Just wanted to give some input as someone who dealt with lifelong obesity. As a fat person, some people just don’t like to face the music or give themselves an honest look in the mirror. They don’t want to call a spade a spade. Changing around words to describe things in more complex and softer language doesn’t change the situation any, it just helps you psychologically cope with your own insecurities.
The same with playing the blame game on outside factors like genetics and disability. Blaming everything you can but yourself and your own choices and failures and unaddressed mental insecurities. Thats not a fat person thing though, thats a general human being thing I tend to see in most groups of people one way or another. Its easier to believe you never had a choice, than to own up to the consequences of your failures.
When you have fat rolls, and stretch marks litter your stomach, and you look more like a slug than a human being, and you need help wiping your own ass or a bigger toilet to support the weight, when you have to go shopping at specialty close stores (before amazon) just to find a size that fits, and you have no self control or desire to change your habits to stop the self destructive spiral, thats obesity. Regardless of arguments on BMI or CICO or genetics or whatever else, you’ve got a serious problem that needs addressing or it will destroy you slowly but surely.
“At least I’ll die happy!” my type 2 diabetic father would always gleefully tell me as he shoved another tasty cake in his mouth. I don’t think they ever did make him happy though. He had mental health issues he never worked through in life. Instead, he relied on the temporary relief of junk food for pleasure, eventually having his addiction dominate and guide his existence.
As for me? I’ve gone through cycles of gaining and loosing 100 pounds. Right now im on a downward trend, lost 40 pounds this year. Hope to loose another 40 by this time next year. I gain the pounds during cycles of extreme depression, and loose them during cycles of great determination and self-agency. Our physical well-being is tied to our emotional and spiritual well-being. Self destructive cycles are much easier to enter when you feel nihilistic and out of control of your own life.
How do I loose weight? I don’t eat. Simple as. I eat one meal a day, if that. Maybe snack on some dried preserved nuts and fruits once or twice.I drink water and lemon juice. Maybe this is a little unhealthy but I try to imploy some anorexic type thoughts like “Im strong enough, I can withstand the hunger for another hour or two. Lets sip on some water and endure it.” Often the hunger is boredom disguised. Its hard, im hungry every single day most of the day. But I see the results of my conviction when I step on the scale expecting it to raise 5 lbs and seeing it drop 10 lbs. I look at myself in the mirror, examining my stretch marks and folds to remind myself of what im doing it for, and the price ive already had to pay for my insecurities and failures to control myself.
The physical act of loosing weight is hard and requires self-control over a very long time often multiple years. The mental act of introspection and reflecting on what lead to your obesity often requires analysing the roots of your negative aspects while confronting those past traumas. That requires a mental strength and intelligence many people lack. At the end of the day, its easier and feels nicer to twist words and point fingers than fix your own problems.
- Comment on 🦍 😁 ❔ 3 months ago:
- Comment on CFCs 8 months ago:
I wonder how many people will see this and not know its a quote from Futurama
- Comment on Chemistree 8 months ago:
A favorite thing to do was stare at trees while tripping. They are an excellent visual study of a way natural objects arrange themselves fractally, some neat mathematics behind their geometry. One of my most profound experiences involved a telepathic communications between myself and a divine consciousness connected through my favorite tree in the backyard.
- Comment on Congratulations 8 months ago:
- Comment on Plastic tea bags 8 months ago:
Tire dust? Tires are generaly made from a kind of rubber, not plastic. A great majority of micro plastics that end up in enviroment and in your body are shed from plastic fabrics. If you’re really worried about limiting plastic consumption check your clothing tags for polyester and nylon. Return to cotton, hemp, and linen.
- Comment on What's wrong babe, you barely touched your hot dog bologna cake 10 months ago:
Katie I think we need some black bars over that cake
- Comment on Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her 10 months ago:
Okay, you got me thats a good one
- Comment on Go on, just one more crevice. 11 months ago:
Glad to see that the isekai industry is booming and reviving tourism to these places
- Comment on What are the best features of Lemmy that aren't available in Reddit? 11 months ago:
This also seems to have the effect of people getting less salty at being down voted, on reddit I noticed the trend of people verbally expressing salt at even a single down vote editing their whole comment to go “and to the brainlet sheeple soyjack who down voted me I’d like you to know yada yada”
Here I notice less people throwing a verbal tantrum over the idea not everyone likes their opinion. Whenever I get the occasional down vote barrage at a spicy opinion I think “ah well can’t win em all, guess maybe my opinion might be a little shit” not “HOW FUCKING DARE YOU YOU TROGLODYTES”, well okay maybe its the second one 1/6th of the time for a few minutes I reserve the right to get salty at petty bullshit on Thursdays and Saturdays 7-3
- Comment on And this is why I no longer have cable. 11 months ago:
Nickelodeon gave Fred their own TV show+movie and YouTube bankrolled some popular creators to make a few YouTube red originals, that’s about as far as I can think of
- Comment on A genre of Country Music... 11 months ago:
The more time goes on the more he looks like meatcanyon’s depiction of him
