ApathyTree

ApathyTree, 2 months ago

I’d answer the phone if I knew it was a cute bat. You can sell me a warranty with your adorable little bat voice, that’s cool. I won’t buy it but you can sell it lil dude!

ApathyTree, 2 months ago

The ghostery addon does that whole decline process automatically, and also randomizes data that is mandatory to use the site, to help hide who you actually are. I never see these popups anymore, and I have cookies set to clear on browser close, which I do at least once a day to clean up whatever’s left over.

ApathyTree, 2 months ago

That one’s super risky tho. I have about 50/50 on stomach acid intrusion.

Have you ever sneezed away your nausea? That’s a good one. Bewildering, but I’m not arguing.

ApathyTree, 2 months ago

I’m so curious as to why you think us/canadian toilets don’t flush if you pour water into the bowl…

ApathyTree, 2 months ago

Ok, but siphonic systems still flush just fine if you pour water into them…? I’ve been doing it my whole life. Like even if you just pour water from a pitcher at a normal rate it’ll eventually hit a pressure point and flush itself (assuming there’s no clog). If you do it from more than a foot above the bowl it flushes basically instantly.

ApathyTree, 2 months ago

I’m not really sure how I feel about this…

On the one hand if they are spending more than they take in to handle cash, that’s obviously broken, so the move is logical… but aren’t there alternatives that don’t disadvantage people who don’t have plastic options for whatever reason?

Like idk, making them free to enter and paid for entirely by business taxes or something, the way they should be? I realize they are basically self-funding by charging admission, but that is still an unfair barrier on public enjoyment of a public good. And so unnecessary.

ApathyTree, 2 months ago

Good, let’s make that happen sooner.

ApathyTree, 2 months ago

Well that’s not where I was going with that, but you aren’t wrong…

ApathyTree, 2 months ago

My partner streams my Plex to their whole house by way of some sort of coax input device. I’m not really sure how it works but it uses the house’s cable lines to stream whatever from an hdmi device (in this case an rpi) to a unique channel.

Works great everywhere and for every device plugged into it, except a 9-ish year old Samsung tv. On that, the audio cuts out for a half second every 30 seconds or so. Without fail. No change to the picture, and an older Samsung tv handles it fine. We’ve tried everything we could find - including heavily tweaking Plex, and rebuilding the rpi entirely - short of replacing the tv, no dice.

Interestingly, no other stuff through that rpi on that same configuration has problems on that tv, so like we can load the retropi and play games and the sound works fine. It’s really just that one app, through that one method, on that one tv. So weirdly specific.

ApathyTree, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

With maggots.

Whole mess.

Whoa, man!

Weaponized masturbator?

Sorry couldn’t help myself :D

ApathyTree, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Nuclear isn’t really a solution, it’s a stop-gap measure as we transition fully to renewables.

I love nuclear, but there’s a lot of waste product and it’s very difficult to dispose safely. They need to be on geologically stable ground in areas not prone to natural disaster, which is harder to find than you might think. The materials used for it are limited on earth, and the output can’t be scaled up/down to meet grid demand. The plants themselves are much safer than they used to be, but there is still some risk of catastrophe, especially in older plants (those being shut down). Maintenance can also be risky.

They are a good solution to replace dirtier options until cleaner ones can be made in quantities needed for full renewable, but should not be the end point.

Also they may be carbon free in daily operation, but cement is one of the leading causes of carbon emissions, so constructing them is still super dirty. Mind, any other traditional power plant (coal/gas) will have the same problem, just want to be clear that it’s not carbon free.

ApathyTree, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I have Skyrim vr for ps4 and I really want to play it but it makes me sick… you do actual walking not teleporting, i believe it has a sway, and the background environment movement is just… 🤢

It’s actually been the reason I haven’t put in most of the other vr games I have… I will eventually but I need a new setup (stationary bike or treadmill with a harness or something to trick my brain) to help with the nausea before I’m willing to disappoint myself again.

I also really want horizon vr, but idk if it would do the same (haven’t looked into it), and I don’t really want to get a vr2 if the setup change above doesn’t work…

ApathyTree, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I’ve played some vr games, just not many on psvr. There’s a local vr arcade where I’ve played a few things, and I briefly tried out a couple downloaded psvr games, Skyrim is just the one I really want to play and it’s mentally holding up wanting to play the others (which are iron man, doom vfr, and vr worlds, all of which I expect to have similar issues. I also have Rick and Morty and that one’s ok, just not really that engaging)

I made it maybe 5 minutes into skyrim, so I literally have only had a problem with walking so far lol. I’ve dealt with motion sickness of various sorts my whole life, and considering that the problem with this is specifically visual walking-type motion without actually feeling like I’m moving (like being a car passenger) and I already have a treadmill (and stationary bike if the treadmill doesn’t work) and can rig up a sort of harness for it, I’ll take my chances and go from there. I played a shooter with auto movement at an arcade and just bouncing between my feet was enough, but threw me off balance since vr and all.

The ones that teleport your location or don’t really have you move through the environment much/fast are pretty good and don’t make me uncomfortable, even with looking around. The psvr tracking isn’t great, though, and Skyrim specifically seems like it was just mapped into vr, not really designed for it (because that’s probably the case). That’s probably a big part of it.

ApathyTree, 2 months ago

Those look like pepperoni sliced into chip shape… which I guess is technically pizza flavored… :p

ApathyTree, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

It’s season 14 of the 2005 reboot. The pre-2005 stuff is “doctor who classic” now, and there’s I think 26 seasons?

ApathyTree, 2 months ago

I’m really interested in the different reactions of the two litigious guys… (in all of it of course, but especially that)

Kaechele admits the museum has amassed a “large file” of complaints over Ladies Lounge. But apart from the current case, only one other complainant has sought formal redress.

“Like Jason, he felt it was sexual discrimination and wanted access for men. And when I said, ‘well, men can’t come in’, he said ‘then why should I have to pay the same amount if I don’t get to experience the artwork?’ And I said, ‘you do experience the artwork, because the rejection is the artwork’. And he understood that and he appreciated it and he dropped the case.”

The one understood that his discomfort with it was the point, and something women have experienced throughout their lives, and was willing to listen and learn. And the other, still suing, still feels entitled to women’s spaces. Because of course. Lots of men like that.

I’m curious how this will play out, even though I’m not from your country :p This whole article just felt really good in a lot of ways.

ApathyTree, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

You know what else monitors my activity levels and provides calorie intake suggestions and food suggestions based on that and macro/micro nutrient levels?

My body, via hunger and food cravings. And it’s free! (for me)

And I can 100% guarantee this little device isn’t going to know what I’m actually in the mood for, so it will literally never be what it suggests… Plus my fridge is sad single person fridge half the time - most of my food is dry goods (which it has no ability to track), and I get what produce I need when I need it or it goes bad.

Samsung: “You have beer, milk, ketchup, mustard, hot sauce, sweet chili, and jelly in your fridge. Make it a soup I guess? I can’t work under these conditions! I’m going to order you real food and then tell you to cook it.”

Me: “No samsung, I don’t feel like cooking today, that’s why I don’t have any food to make.”

Samsung: “Did I stutter?”

Real talk tho, their smart TVs aren’t even any good -regretfully I have one-, which doesn’t build confidence for their even-more-niche smart stuff, why would anyone want all this other trash?

ApathyTree, 2 months ago

That’s why I said for me, but I can see my word placement wasn’t great, and probably not clear. Such is life.

I’d never trust a company trying to sell you an overpriced product that monitors your purchase and consumption habits to get you to spend even more on ordering services or whatever nonsense their fridge does, to give better advice than a persons own body, even when said body is not working properly with signaling, or has been otherwise hijacked by empty foods… I’d sooner trust even the worst malfunctioning body than this nonsense.

ApathyTree, 2 months ago

The thing I saw a while back showed It was tiered, I think 5 tiers, based on karma, with the last wave of people getting the offer being those with like 5k or some ridiculously low number basically meaning they offered it to nearly everyone.

If they had sold the shares with the first few waves it wouldn’t have gotten to the low karma users, which probably means it wasn’t well received.

ApathyTree, 2 months ago

So does that mean we probably have brains of other preserved and possibly extinct species…? That would be pretty neat.

ApathyTree, 2 months ago

That just means you need to have something more to offer them than money. Women want a partner, not a provider. They want someone they can talk to, who will treat them as an equal and defer to their expertise when situations call for it, but challenge them to learn and grow when it’s called for. Partnership is mutually beneficial. And they want this regardless of the culture/country they come from.

They want to be treated like equal people. If you can do that you’ll be just fine, I promise the bar is super low globally. You’ll find the right person for you if you treat them like people; that’s all they are and they like being treated that way.

ApathyTree, 2 months ago

That’s super weird. Thanks for answering :)

ApathyTree, 2 months ago

The first half of the video is just the one looking at the other one like “well, did it kill you or not?” And then there’s a cut and you see that no, it’s fine! :) let’s all have noodles!

ApathyTree, 2 months ago

You can do what I did most recently.

I said “you have a special going on, so I want flower up to the limit for the special, good fun stuff, nice variety, preferably heavy on couch-lock weed. You can mix and match and I’ll just pay for it.”

Works out really well. I didn’t have to pretend to give a shit about their claims of how it tasted or what it would do (“smoke” and “high” respectively, per usual), didn’t have to pretend I cared what the names or blends were, like just give me weed please and thanks. Like my dealer never gave me options?? Just give weed, here’s money. I don’t want to talk to you about the weed just sell it to me before this is uncomfortable.