Hobbes

@Hobbes@startrek.website

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I shan't⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you meant to post this to !dontdeadopeninside@lemmy.ohaa.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a house advantage in a "double-or-nothing" coin flip game?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They have a 50/50 chance each round. Doesn’t matter how many rounds they’ve won.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this normal?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think vinegar is bad for your washer’s seals. Same for dishwashers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so sorry. Thank you for taking the time to share and for your kind words.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for your kind words.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t fight for him. I didn’t even try. When I called his oncology doctor and left a message, I heard back from a nurse and got no information. And further, the nurse said tzxhat the doctor doesn’t speak with family of patients and wouldn’t be calling me back. I should have taken my rage at that obviously fucked response and done something, whether it be forcing him to talk to me, or finding another oncologist. But I didn’t. I just receded into myself and did nothing. Every single day I drove to the hospital over and over again, I’d pull over and cry before I got there. But I was so paralyzed by my fear about what was happening that I didn’t turn it into action. I just asked for a nicer chair in the hospital room so I could hang out for hours on end with my dad as he died. He would have done everything in his power to help me, and for some reason I was such a scared little shit that I didn’t think to become the caretaker of my dad, who was always my caretaker. He needed me and I failed him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I seriously appreciate your response and your willingness to be vulnerable in sharing your own loss. I am sorry. I’m so deep in sadness that I am having a hard time processing anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know why I’m sharing this. I am just a piece of shit and sorry for contaminating a good ST thread with my own BS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He also raised me on Star Trek, if that helps bring it back to why I’m here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just as an aside, my dad died horribly after 6 months of cancer gradually destroying him and everything he’d worked so hard for. He was one of the most fit people I knew until that. He grew up skiing and was a junior patroller at 15 in colorado. By the time I was born, he was patrolling as a doctor and took me everywhere he could, and when he couldn’t, he just told me to go to the patrol shack and wait. Anyways, I was with him for those last 6 months, but I curled up in a ball and did nothing to try to make his doctors do anything or find alternative treatment options like the Mayo clinic. I just curled up in a ball of fear and anxiety and did nothing. I was just paralyzed. My dad would have gone to the ends of the earth for me, and I didn’t even try to save him. I don’t know how to live with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are literally dozens of us! Dozens!

  (but seriously, I constantly read posts from people about how they need star trek to make them feel ok enough to fall asleep. Or even just the thrum of the Enterprise-D’s warp drive).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And no need to tell me how fucking stupid I am. I am well aware. I just wanted to share my love for this episode. I recently became aware of how I completely failed my dad and sat by while he died of cancer, so no need to pile on any more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Detmer & Owosekun Were Missing From Star Trek: Discovery Season 5 Explained By Showrunner⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That explains the story they used to explain in universe, but not why they chose not to have them on the final season.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you search for honest product recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve even find magazines available through Libby and my local libraries. I haven’t checked CR, bit mine has cook’s illustrated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Soup⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wooooosh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Soup⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did they get their money back? I didn’t read the article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What happened?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What produced the old dead channel tv static audiovisuals on tvs?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cosmic microwave background. You are seeing the big bang.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question about "redshirts"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Add I think that sheds some light on it. Lots of positions were not red like enlisted officers white engineering uniforms, so it was really only all red for officers. If there highest ranked are red, then they go back to multiple colors, it would make sense for the command cluster to keep red.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are pipes used in plumbing more than hoses?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hoses are much more useful if they can bend and be coiled up. Pipes usually are quite hard to bend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can we see the Milky Way if we are inside of it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool. I was trying to figure out if there was a bovine with the root word Andromeda in it. Because there are dromedary animals. But even do that only got me as far as one Galaxy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can we see the Milky Way if we are inside of it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Which other galaxies are named after milk?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question for software developers: how do you organize your To Do list at work?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A mix of Obsidian for myself and OneNote for team stuff because it’s what they all use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First (I repeat, first) test of menstrual products using actual blood published last week (I repeat, last week)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Much appreciated!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a more politically conservative part of the fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That that is why you got blasted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between roasting and baking, since they are both referring to cooking something in an oven?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This comment section is amazing.

  TL;DR Most people don’t know. The people who do know disagree with the other people who also know. There is a disconnect between whether we are talking about oven settings, temperatures, sauces, covers, dry heat, open flame, vegetables vs meat, the list goes on…

  What a lovely chaotic discussion!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between roasting and baking, since they are both referring to cooking something in an oven?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m aware of what broil is. I burn stuff I’m broiling all the time because I’m forgetful.

  It’s bake/roast that is at issue here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a more politically conservative part of the fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What I meant is that not voting against Nazis/conservatives in a two party system is almost as bad as voting for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a more politically conservative part of the fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  r/conservative mods handed out bans for anyone even asking a legit question. Conservative arguments aren’t fact based, so any good faith argument is seen as an attack and the only defense is to reject it outright. I don’t know how good moderation can be applied to that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between roasting and baking, since they are both referring to cooking something in an oven?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My oven also has broil. No idea.