uriel238
@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Pronouns history 15 hours ago:
To be fair, I learned to be pronoun-versatile in theater and TTRPGs.
- Comment on PC Master Race 19 hours ago:
I can use keyboard and trackball on PC.
Consoles to the last are configured for right-hand dominance, and not all games support keybinding. In fact, a lot of them don’t support point-and-click either.
Also I have productivity applications on PC.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 1 day ago:
Gen X kid walked arduous hikes uphill back from school in the La Cañada foothills in San Fernando Valley, id est, the Los Angeles smog bowl from ~1975 to 1985. I may literally have lead poisoning brain damage.
I don’t know how I’d get checked. 58 now.
Curiously, I empathize with kids these days but am also extremely left-wing, and see each generation getting dismissed by the previous one as having it too easy.
- Comment on Salary negotiations are going well 🙃 1 day ago:
If you don’t expect promotion or even retention, yeah, quiet quitting naturally follows.
Spend your energy finding your next position in a competing company.
- Comment on Wrecked 'em 💀 1 day ago:
I’m reminded in Choke (Chuck Palahniuk) of the bit about why every ER in the US has a diamond drill bit.
- Comment on A strange charger 1 day ago:
It’s a play on +juice!
- Comment on todo list 2 days ago:
You better put all your eggs in one basket
You better count your chickens before they hatch
You better sell some wine before it’s time
You better find yourself an itch to scratch
– Weird Al - Comment on Black widow life 2 days ago:
Lionesses in heat will bite the nads of their male partner when he’s too tired to perform ( Narrator: She’s not satisfied even after he’s exhausted himself.)
This is actually a moment for banished males to be welcomed back into the pride, if temporarily.
Nature is just chock full of realities that don’t fit into the metaphors we want to make of it.
- Comment on Not vaccinating is child abuse. 2 days ago:
Between this and the cartoon about the kids going as the economy, the environment and the deeply divided nation, I’m openly hoping for a season of politically seasonal costumes.
- Comment on Great to see some actual progress over there 2 days ago:
It’s totally on brand for a state of Islam (like Qatar or Dubai) to commission Massive Muhammed or Great Allah or whatever, a bigger standing mechanical clock named either after God or his prophet, just to show the superiority of their culture over western culture.
I’m surprised it hasn’t happened already.
- Comment on Albania what are you doing? I thought you just made peace with Aberbaijan??? 3 days ago:
Ia! Fhtagn! Ia! Cthulhu! Ia! Nyalarthotep!
- Comment on Wendnesday 4 days ago:
Because the god Wotan would get mad.
And that’s a god you don’t want mad at you.
- Comment on #environmentalist 5 days ago:
This raises a big question of what the heck comprises city dust. Is there a microplastic element to concrete or asphalt? Is it just more tire deterioration? City dust is a conspicuously vague category.
- Comment on I'm so goddamn sick of this fat, orange, narcissistic asshole and I will celebrate when he dies 5 days ago:
I was told there’s an English lord who was so reviled that when he died they rolled a massive rock onto his grave lest he ever rise again (rumors that he dabbled in magic might have informed the decision).
That would be appropriate for Trump. Or similarly, bury him in a deep geologic repository (where we put our vitrified spent fissile fuel beneath signs warning THIS IS NOT A PLACE OF HONOR ) as a reminder of how we never want another person like him to exist.
- Comment on You finally woke up! 5 days ago:
In LOTR, all the things that needed to happen, needed to happen eventually and the Fellowship decided to get proactive about it. (Well, Frodo did, and a bunch of princes swore to champion him).
Here in the states, when I was a kid, there were things that needed to happen eventually and it was clear during my childhood (1970s) that every year we weren’t proactive risked problems in the future.
And we were all nah, kick the can down the line a decade. It won’t matter. even after the 2000 general election which was stolen by SCOTUS and the Federalist Society. By then it may have been too late. But we didn’t care.
Frodo’s super-power was proactivity. Initiative.
- Comment on FACTS 5 days ago:
I became sexually active in that window where women commonly kept their pubic hair unless they were kinky or specifically into the bare feels¹, and porn was rife with shaved offerings and French-style runways.
¹ Every woman I was around for too long would reveal that yeah, she struggle with the maintenance process, whether in-grown hairs or surprise scratchiness or whatever. Full bush is a lot easier to maintain.
So my brain associated real relationship sex with pubic hair. It was one of those signals that indicated we’re not just honeymooning or doing a one-night stand but trying to do something real.
It wasn’t always true, to my disappointment, but brains work in funny ways.
- Comment on This man is suffering 5 days ago:
I’d be tempted in fiction to make Hooters a secret line of temples to Athena the way Nike outlets are… well… temples to Nike.
- Comment on This man is suffering 5 days ago:
The good news is that some of them don’t hate their jobs, and appreciate the money and high tips without having to ride a pole.
Granted, it’s perspective in contrast to diner wait staff (a high-suicide job) and professional stripping (a high-turnover job) so still not great.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
That’s a part of my problem. My suicidality is high enough that I hope they gun me down when they come for me, and I will be strongly tempted to encourage them to do so.
I’m not going to their torture prisons where my life would be forfeit anyway. That is – to me – for certain.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
No, but I’ve seen CBT play feature vibrating the rope connected to a bound knob, so a GP medical vibrator can be used in that regard.
In my original story, the fancy vibe wasn’t for me; I’m half-ace which is probably related to psychotropic meds and low-T. Also I shoot off once in a while NP when the stars align and I have a mind to.
- Comment on #environmentalist 6 days ago:
Here in the house we have re-usable, washable plastic straws.
Out and about I’ll use the disposable straws because the whole turtle-death thing was over-exaggerated. (Microplastics from automotive tires are killing us, though. There are real great filters to be navigated)
I also just don’t eat out much, especially since the 2020 lockdown.
- Comment on Manic Stew 1 week ago:
Avolition Toast
Not a good racer.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 1 week ago:
- Comment on Two sides of the same Force 1 week ago:
This is part of the paradigm that brought us the alt-right.
- Comment on Discuss 1 week ago:
Yes, though they aren’t usually available at the concession booth in that format. Trader Joe’s has a nice basket of DC cups.
- Comment on Discuss 1 week ago:
It’s okay. I prefer dark chocolate with peanut butter rather than milk, but Reese’s gonna reese.
- Comment on You missed a spot 2 weeks ago:
I blame executive dysfunction.
Mom needed to start me with a comprehensive checklist of specific tasks. Clean the kitchen isn’t sufficient. Clean the counter, being sure to get under all the counter-top appliances is better.
Otherwise, my missed spots are due to insufficient instruction and insufficient training.
- Comment on Order two anyway 2 weeks ago:
That’s why you size-up your fries order. 🍟
- Comment on And they mocked me for my WoW subscription 😗 2 weeks ago:
When I was just a lad looking for my true vocation
My father said “Now son, this choice deserves deliberation…
Though you could be a doctor……or perhaps a financier…
My boy, why not consider a more challenging career!”
- Comment on Fuckin' beats me 2 weeks ago:
Adolph Hitler: 39 known attempts Charles de Gaulle: At least 31 attempts Fidel Castro: Fabián Escalante, former chief of Cuba’s intelligence, stated that there had been 634 assassination schemes or attempts. Josip Broz “Tito”: About 22 attempts
So, Fidel Castro by far… according to one source. That’s a mess and a half.