TootSweet
@TootSweet@lemmy.world
- Comment on How do I get myself to actually do thing? 6 hours ago:
- Step 1: Figure out why you’re not doing thing.
- Step 2: Take steps to address the reason why you’re not doing thing.
Seems simple, and in a way it is, but in other ways it can be very difficult.
On step 1, I recommend first researching the term “maladaptive daydreaming”. Seems relevant to what you’re describing.
- Comment on Harlequin Toads 11 hours ago:
Oh man. I’ve gotta re-watch that. I haven’t seen it since I was a kid.
- Comment on Google Has Decided My U.S. Spectrum IP Address is in Mexico 1 day ago:
Bah! Ok, yeah. That’s super annoying. Hopefully they move uncharacteristically fast for you.
- Comment on Google Has Decided My U.S. Spectrum IP Address is in Mexico 1 day ago:
You sure deleting your cookies wouldn’t fix it?
Very possible it wouldn’t, but it’d be the first thing I’d try.
- Comment on Tardigrade! 2 days ago:
Tardigrade’s underwhelming skill on the micro-cello is greatly outstripped by Tardigrade’s enthusiasm.
He’s bowing on the wrong side of the bridge.
- Comment on Just give me someone to vote for who is normal 2 days ago:
- Comment on If you had a shirt made for you with QR codes, what would yours say when scanned? 3 days ago:
- Get one made that says “kick me”.
- Give it as a gift.
- You know who.
- Comment on DNA->Rna->Protein 5 days ago:
Just today, I happen to have looked into what exactly keratin is. (The stuff that makes up your hair and finger nails.) It’s solid protein, made all the more solid (and all the less water-soluble) by the presence of the sulfer-containing amino acid cysteine. And fingernails have more of it than hair. Who knew?
- Comment on Anon went to a birthday party 1 week ago:
I love when I idly wonder something about a post, click into the comments, and the top comment is exactly, specifically the answer to my idle curiosity. Cheers.
- Comment on ???? 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes the babies eat the mom too. Yes I speak from… I guess second-hand experience. First-hand would imply I was a matricidal hamster.
- Comment on Why is AI dialogue so fucking bad? 2 weeks ago:
LLMs aren’t capable of doing any better. The only reason you or anyone might think they are is because of aggressive
marketinggrifting by the very few people in a position to profit by convincing the world LLMs are basically the main ship computer from Star Trek when in fact they’re more like ELIZA. - Comment on Should I pretend to care about the lives in Gaza and Palestine? 3 weeks ago:
Username checks out.
- Comment on Smoke machine 3 weeks ago:
Me with an inclined plane: “Challenge accepted.”
- Comment on During the Obama Admin I saw a lot of the W Bush Miss Me Yet bill boards traveling the country. How come one or many people put up one of Obama that says, Miss Me Yet? 3 weeks ago:
Because Democrats are less petty?
- Comment on The progression of time 3 weeks ago:
Way ahead of you.
- Comment on 7 Eleven 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on We dunking on England again 4 weeks ago:
Exactly.
- Comment on We dunking on England again 4 weeks ago:
In her usual U.S. Pacific North-West accent: “I… don’t know where that came from.”
- Comment on Always table talk here. Is it wrong to Steal from a Major Corp without harming anyone or is it wrong to steal from a mom and pop shop not harming anyone? Both still a crime but how should i be punish? 5 weeks ago:
It’s downright laudable to “steal” from major corpos. Whether it’s ethical to steal from a mom and pop shop is an “it depends” kind of situation. (I definitely know of small local businesses in my area that are run by absolute shit-bags.) And punishment isn’t the right way for society to deal with antisocial behaviors among its inhabitants. (Not that stealing (particularly by a pro-capitalist’s definition) is necessarily “antisocial”.)
- Comment on If someone legally changed their last name to a last name a soap opera character has, how would you feel? 5 weeks ago:
Pardon me while I go change my name to “Starbuck Washburne Atreides”.
- Comment on When will gas stations start selling rotisserie chicken? 5 weeks ago:
There are definitely gas stations out there selling rotisserie chickens. I’ve never seen it. Never specifically heard of that being a thing. But there’s no way there aren’t any gas stations out there somewhere that are.
- Comment on Elon Musk 1 month ago:
Because the life-sized Hitler body pillow couldn’t fill the hole in Elon’s heart.
- Comment on My Country music collection 1 month ago:
- Comment on The two types of being high 1 month ago:
You just described me sober.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
- What makes you think it’s ending? Can you link to a particular news article in particular? I’ve seen nothing to that effect. Even the ceasefire collapsed immediately after it was announced.
- What disruptions do you think Trump got? Again, I’ve heard nothing indicating that.
- I don’t think Trump is exceedingly unintelligent per se. He’s pretty talented at manipulating people. He’s more like… extremely immature emotionally and short-sighted. And definitely not book-smart. Maybe even illiterate. Think -1 INT, -4 WIS. (Compared to, say, W. who was more -2 INT, -1 WIS. Or Palin who is -4 INT, -3 WIS. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.)
I think you’re getting downvotes because you’re saying the war is ending and Trump’s getting what he wanted out of it and nobody knows where you could possibly have gotten those impressions.
- Comment on normulize leguana 1 month ago:
It honestly seems like there may be an overall negative correlation between how safe a drug is recreationally and how legal it is to obtain/use it.
- Comment on Some cheeses are luminescent. 1 month ago:
- Comment on How come Dish Network or other satelite services. Do not allow you to create a playlist? Like if I record 5 different episodes of Sunday Morning why cant I just put it on play and it goes thru each? 1 month ago:
You can contribute that way. (Or with money, for instance.) And good on you if you do. (If you contribute in a way that’s actually beneficial, at least. I don’t mean to accuse you or anyone in particular, but of course there are low-effort PRs and such.) But it would be pretty antithetical to the spirit of FOSS to deny you the use of the software or access to the source code if you don’t. Which is part of the beauty.
- Comment on How come Dish Network or other satelite services. Do not allow you to create a playlist? Like if I record 5 different episodes of Sunday Morning why cant I just put it on play and it goes thru each? 1 month ago:
You think they give even one single fuck how much customer satisfaction you have?
Remember how folks used to say “if you’re not paying, you’re the product”? (That, of course, was never actually true. There’s tons of, for instance, FOSS software out there that legitimately has no ulterior motives or strings attached, potentially aside from copyleft obligations that you don’t try to turn FOSS into proprietary software. But it was true to a certain point.)
Well now that’s true even if you are paying. To them you’re just a revenue source to be milked. They don’t care if you’re happy. Switching to a competitor probably won’t help any, because all their competitors probably have similar problems. You might get lucky and find a provider whose issues aren’t as much of an issue for you specifically. But the headache of switching is stressful enough that shopping around may well not be worth it.
#enshittification #latestagecapitalism
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