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Someone has put out old furniture and other stuff at my street. I yanked about 16 0.5m long metal tubes. I don't know what I'm going to use them for but I'm cursed with being able to craft something. Probably something for propping up beans or gherkins. It's freeing to make something out of trash.
about 4 months ago from web-
@adiwan watch out @thelastgherkin
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I've watched "Cosmic Princess Kaguya!" on Netflix. It has some nice vibes but the plot is brain dead. It tries to be clever but doing so it is hand-waving so many things that put too many questions into my head that everything falls apart.
about 4 months ago from web-
@adiwan Due to lack of good new stuff to watch this last month I've been watching all the 90s mecha anime I still hadn't watched, and it has been great
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@nerthos It was an opportunistic watch without much thought behind it. It was more of an act of curiosity than anything else and yet I was disappointed. Are the Japanese so oblivious and do not care about the quality of the plot? I get it that that was a more fairy tale like one but it failed to be one in my opinion.
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@adiwan I think it's the ever-present 80-20 rule, and this one might fall on the 80. Lots of slop produced every year since ever and it's kinda hard to sort out while things are still airing and there isn't a full picture.
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i have been told by a Venezuelan person to shut the cherry up about Venezuela and I suppose i have no recourse because what am I gonna do, call him a cherry?
about 5 months ago from web-
@zeldatra Plenty of Venezuelan refugee students at my workplace, all were insanely happy about the intervention, so were their parents. Refugee associations called for a celebration in the capital at 18 and at 14 it was already full, they were still there past midnight. Ex student I kept in contact with (in college now) I messaged right when the extraction was announced (it was early morning here) and she had to take a break to cry. I have yet to see one who isn't happy about it.
Machado is an F tier candidate for actually being in charge of the country and will absolutely sell all resources, however in the words of a Venezuelan refugee that was asked about the oil on the sidewalk here, "we don't have food why would we care about oil?"
I think Zion Don's current administration isn't great but this is probably the first genuinely good military act the USA has carried out since ordering the navy to clear out the pirates in the seas of Tripoli. -
@nerthos in the grander scheme of things after doing some research I’ve come around on this particular event but I have an admittedly self-interested dislike of any US military intervention anywhere for any reason regardless of the outcome
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@zeldatra Everyone except the zionists dislike any US intervention, but if they're going to do it regardless, it might as well be an useful one with at least one or two good facets to it.
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it is time to discuss the butt
about 6 months ago from web-
@liquidusmira The butt joint is a fine way to attach two pieces of wood for low stress applications.
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@liquidusmira Is it ever not?
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@liquidusmira Let us convene the council
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Today in “real apple I saw today” at work: black dude flashing white power signs and confronting brown dudes saying they look like the DC shooter. There’s something in the water in this FrankerZin town man I swear to god, everybody has a screw loose
about 6 months ago from web-
@zeldatra Maybe some of them are ok
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I continue to find myself surprised by my aim. Today I shot a long gun for the first time and even though my stance was probably awful my spread was tight.
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I'm at the end of Act 2 of Baldur's Gate 3. WHO DESIGNED THIS PIECE OF CRAP ENCOUNTER?!?!?! It is impossible.
about 11 months ago from web-
@adiwan The skeleton thing? I went through that one just fine but I guess that's the advantage of a cleric/pally heavy party
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@scribus Wait until you try Wrath of the Righteous.
Pathfinder in general is number crunching hell since its first edition, but WotR takes it a step further crowning itself as the most number-crappy TTRPG I've played so far.
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@nerthos It was the fight. My party had a Ranger with the teleport moth swarm (my character), a cleric (Shadowheart), a wizard (Gale), and a barbarian (Karlach). My damage output was too low and all of them failed their saving throws more times than statistically possible.
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While ICE slams minorities in the USA, ICE is crashing against a horse with 300km/h (186mi/h). ICE is an Inter City Express train in Germany.
about a year ago from web- RDN's Lucifer likes this.
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@adiwan Until now I was cheering for the two MQ9 Reaper drones flying circles over LA, but you have convinced me to cheer for the Inter City Express instead.
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@nerthos Too bad. The train has a delay of 50 minutes and the AC doesn't work. Seriously, the trains here are a joke for decades ever since Deutsche Bahn is run like a normal capitalist company.
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It's pride month. For me it's pide month https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0%C3%A7li_pide
about a year ago from web-
@adiwan I like the "Bride Month" initiative some people took this year
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Bought 275 rounds of 9mm irl and was so suddenly happy that ammo has no weight in Fallout
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It is bonkers to me that people give so much authority to the catholic church. If they were doing the right thing the child diddling pieces of Fluffle Puff were in jail and excommunicated.
about a year ago from web- Scribus likes this.
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@nerthos Sounds great! I was not very informed or I forgot the news about that. I guess my avoidance of religious news is the culprit.
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@nerthos Plus, the vast majority of said CSA cases happened in the 60s and 70s. At the same time hippies were taking 14 year olds to concerts and giving them drugs to sleep with them, Michel Focault (of marginality theory fame) was leading a political movement to remove age of consent laws in France, and universities worldwide taught that you should do LSD and pedophilia was actually a very good thing for the kid's development.
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@adiwan Yeah it was nice. They excommunicated like 900 priests between 2004 and 2014 when serious investigations took place.
Obviously there will always be incidents like with any crime (there are over 400k active priests plus a whole lot more clergy staff, nuns, monks etc) but the cover up policy is over. Now they try to do an internal investigation first and if they find anything, excommunicate and report to secular law, unless it's within the vatican, which as a sovereign state has the authority to trial.
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I mean, the current Pope was in elementary school in the 60s
about a year ago from web-
@nerthos and what was he doing there then? http://rainbowdash.net/url/876713
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@zeldatra Studying I'd imagine, he was born in late 1955
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I learned recently that I have near identical political views to Daniel Tosh. If I said this fourteen years ago you guys would’ve dog piled me on Skype.
about a year ago from web-
@zeldatra Lucky for you I'm as unaware now as I was 14 years ago about who that is, so no bully
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I know this is going to come off like some lame joke, but today I watched White House security wave in two 20-somethings in suits riding Razer scooters into the drive
about a year ago from web-
@zeldatra Rise of the Blartists, don't mess with their mall
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18 naked cowboys filing for bankruptcy because tariffs are hurting small businesses
Ram ranch is under foreclosureabout a year ago from web-
@zeldatra US marines in their black ford raptors going hungry today
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Digging out tree stumps is hard. Stupid roots. I had to buy a new saw with large teeth to make it rip better through the very wet wood of the roots. The previous owner had cut off three trees and let the stumps behind some bushes and I created some of my own. I really want a greenhouse there some day and these idiots needed to go.
about a year ago from web-
@adiwan You can use a drill to make holes in a stump and pour acid in to rot the wood quickly and make it easy to dig out, but obviously this makes the wood unusable.
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@nerthos Thanks. I'll try it with an old bush next to my terrace that will be a cherry to remove. I have a bottle of Hydrochloric Acid and some Citric Acid powder.
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I've operated an electric chainsaw today for the first time. It went easier than thought. I wanted to use it weeks earlier but the fuse in the electrical box always triggered because the starting current of the motor was too high. I bought a current limiter for this case and now it triggers only half of the time instead of always. The current limiter is just on the limit of the fuse's limit at 16A. At least I can use the chainsaw. Also I have a miter saw that also is kinda trigger-happy, so the bought current limiter is useful for more than the chainsaw.
about a year ago from web-
@adiwan They're pretty nice, but the cable gets annoying sometimes when you're on a tree
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@nerthos I am not that bothered with a cable. I throw it over the shoulder and it mostly works out. I rather prefer power tools with cables. I am annoyed by batteries not performing as long as I want and by the need to charge them at the most inconvenient times. The only tool I accept being battery-powered is a drill and even that sucks. I have two batteries and at times I was using one while charging the other and constantly swapping them back and forth.
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Delving into smaller youtube channels. The sponsor segments are definitely weirder than the ones of the bigger and more established channels. It surely shows the desperation the creators have. A furniture modification/restoration channel that is sponsored by a LED beauty face mask? Questionable meets desperation.
about a year ago from web-
@adiwan As someone who shaves maybe a fraction of their face, maybe once a week, I just laugh at the wasted sponsor money every time I see one
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@scribus Me too. I shave once a month and wait until it gets itchy. I only have a simple safety razor and an electric shaver. It is sufficient but I like neither of those because my skin is easily irritable. I'd like to permanently remove my beard with lasers but I fear it'll destroy my skin.
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@adiwan I go the easy route and trim with scissors, then correct with the razor. Should probably buy an electric shaver but eh
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always feels good when your background check comes back and says “not a sex offender”. gonna put that on my resume.
about a year ago from web -
Oh gawd I'm not back around to Fluttershy now, am I???
about a year ago from web -
Who wants to get in a heated fight over who is best/worst pony like the old days? No guns, but knives and clubs are ok to bring
about a year ago from web-
@scribus I know she's so cute
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@firestormdangerdash That smugness is why she's my favourite, even 15 years later.
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@adiwan Wife tbh (mushi will kill me for this post)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0rvFX3EQV0
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Can... can we use RDN as the log in server to log into bluesky? I dont want to make "another" account for 1 thing. Heh...
about a year ago from web-
@firestormdangerdash Pls don't touch the relic-engine, it suffers from mr burns disease and any minor change might kill it
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7 hours into my 32th birthday I've already caused all sorts of romantic chaos, had my crush hint very overtly that she would like me to fight with her boyfriend over her (won't, she made her choice) and had a drunk gay friend confess to me in an absolutely obsessive, self-destructive and pathological way (which would have been really hot if it was a girl)
It's turning out to be a VERY eventful day and I'm very happy for it.
I joined this place when I was 18 and I'm glad I haven't mellowed out at all in that time. Here's hoping in another 14 years things will be just as crazy still.about a year ago from web-
@adiwan Pretty sure I'm not! but it's a funny life for certain and I put in a non-insignificant amount of work into keeping it that way.
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@nerthos "Death and illness aren't scary to me, being bored is." Words to live by right there
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@elli I'm a stress free kinda guy
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To be perfectly honest with you crashing the stock market was just about my biggest hope for Trump, I just didn't expect him to do it in three months. Cheers to my brand new stock portfolio! ...once things cool down.
about a year ago from web-
@zeldatra He said he'd lower the prices and he did
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Wow, talk about a throwback. Hi RDN, you probably don't remember me XD
about a year ago from web-
@pandaexpress Around that long yeah, glad to hear it came around for you in the end.
I've been pretty well all around. 2017 was kind of a mess but other than that, there have been a lot more upsides than downsides. Some losses sure, but death is unavoidable, all that is within my control ticks under my rythm and that's all that matters to say life is good.
Made a lot of friends, got new certifications and a different job, dropped my ex and had a lot of fun these last 8 years. All I can possibly complain of right now is that the stock market is not as good as I'd wish lol.Emily likes this. -
@pandaexpress much the same. Purpose in life does wonders for a person.
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My tomato plants are growing faster than anticipated. Barely one week in the dirt and half of the planted seeds pushed through the surface. Last year it felt it took longer until there was some development.
about a year ago from web- RDN's Lucifer likes this.
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@nerthos Fruit... Vegetable. I tend to say (jokingly) it is a frugitable. I hope too that they will be growing and do not rot away like last year.
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@adiwan Have you built a roof or pseudo-greenhouse for them? usually just a transparent nylon cover to prevent rain damage is enough to keep them safe
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@nerthos Not yet. I have to acquire free trampolines with side-netting for the sole purpose to get the metal tubes to build such a cover. I could buy it ready but due to my bucket solution of a raised bed I'd need 30-40 cm more than purchasable.
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every time I see a Hispanic dude in my store who I had previously seen wearing a Trump hat every single day now no longer wearing one I have to physically hold myself back from asking what happened
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Well I'm trying to do a House-aligned playthrough of Fallout: New Vegas, but I very really truly hate him and the terrible asshole things he says :-/
about a year ago from web-
@scribus Interesting, he's my favourite faction to side with on the grounds of pragmatism, he's the only one with a plan (and the actual capability to make it happen) to make humanity go anywhere other than "we'll just be hobos in perpetuity"
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@nerthos Yeah, I want to not hate him - I mean, a retro-future spaceVegas? Hell, yeah!! He's not even that unlikable, there's a wry sort of amusement to his bearing. But he's too egocentric; he's not preserving humanity, he's feeding his ego and seeking to create a thrallhood underclass to prop HIM up. Ultimately, I don't consider him sufficiently distinct from Caesar. Both cling to old-world ideals and play up some fantasy of the "inevitability" of "their" power. So, I kill him, take his city, and in my mind carry on with developing the space plans in a little more cooperative, ground-up fashion. (Though in all honesty a spacefaring future would be just as hellish as the vaults so iunno w/e i guess lol) Also I make The King governor or something :p
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@scribus That all sounds good until you factor in the kind of human resource you're dealing with in Fallout. Ironically the tv show is the best illustration of this, with the main character trying to behave like a civilized person and consistently getting banana'd by everyone.
House's narcissistic approach is a necessity in the world he's operating, without the army of robots forcing the wastelanders to work at gunpoint nothing will get done (example: they're still living in shacks near 200 years after the war)
Plus, he has civilized some factions already, so it's not like he won't uplift the competent and decent wastelanders into better positions. He has to do that for any space settling plan to work, since good people are needed to populate those colonies.
Sometimes, a competent megalomaniac is the only option that can get the job done.
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i think they should add pirate majima to the new monster hunter game because who else is more fit to hunt monsters? not your hatsune miku character creation, that's for sure
about a year ago from web- RDN's Lucifer likes this.
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@liquidusmira Fortnite proved that Hatsune Miku, if given an assault rifle and a jetstream sam sword, is more than capable to go hand to hand with Godzilla.
You underestimate her.
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a game show where the final challenge is to talk about eugenics while the host records you with an iphone
about a year ago from web-
@zeldatra I've done that at work staff room, and also argued to a full room of coworkers that the axis were the better faction in WWII, nothing happens if you have enough points in CHA.
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