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  1. Had my first time a militant vegan was commenting on my post on bluesky. Shouldn't have replied to them. It baffles me that they cannot frame their interaction in a more positive light like saying that other products might be better and be positive to try more. Guess that's the Internet in a nutshell.

    about 6 days ago from web
    • @adiwan I didn't want to look into the person's profile but I did it anyway. As suspected the person is as stereotypical of a militant vegan as it can be. Their personality is fully based on spreading veganism by being a dick to everybody and guilt-tripping for eating dead animals. Cool bro. You found an interesting hobby.

      about 5 days ago in context
  2. FBI reports that the man who bombed the fertility clinic in Palm Springs had access to bomb-making material, wonder how they figured it out

    about 8 days ago from web
  3. I equip my TI-83+

    about 10 days ago from web
  4. What if school classes were RPG classes in a game? Having a party of students that is composed of a physics student, a foreign language student, a history student and a religion student could be for example a fantasy equivalent of a wizard, a bard, a rogue, and a cleric.

    about 10 days ago from web
  5. 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 month ago from web
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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.

      about a month ago in context
    • @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.

      It was a plainly insane era, objectively the most predatory and abusive of the XX century except for maybe Weimar Germany.

      about a month ago in context
    • @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.

      about 23 days ago in context
  6. 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 month ago from web
  7. In a moment of 2000IQ clarity, one of the students zapped his phone's charging port with a lighter electric igniter and killed it
    Immediately after, he asked me if doing so was harmful for the device
    I love my job

    about a month ago from web
  8. I find that the screen keyboard on my phone seems to be more or less of a piece of crap depending on what app or field I'm typing into, but in no case is it unlike trying to speak with one's tongue cut out and jaw wired shut. I hope there's a Hell bad enough for Steve Jobs.

    about a month ago from web
    • @scribus One thing he did was good: kill off the Adobe Flash plugin. It was a lot of trouble security-wise and performance on PC and especially mobile was atrocious. My HTC Desire Z could run Flash but more on paper than in practical terms. Also this move has eradicated Flash websites. They work now as good as they did back then, not at all.
      Despite of that I agree to everything you said.

      about a month ago in context
    • @adiwan OK yeah, Flash did need to go, but we still could have kept physical keys!! :p

      about a month ago in context
  9. 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 month ago from web
    • @adiwan They're pretty nice, but the cable gets annoying sometimes when you're on a tree

      about a month ago in context
    • @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.

      about a month ago in context
  10. 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 month ago from web
  11. I need to find me a good IE punk bar

    about a month ago from web
  12. 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 month ago from web
  13. Strongly heating up the remaining red jalapeno made them bearable. Beating heat with heat. I put them on a pizza and they were not so bad. Degenerating capsaicin with heat is the key. The sauce I made a little while ago was never heated so much or long to break down the hot stuff. Fresh and uncooked will never enter my digestive tract ever again.

    about 2 months ago from web
  14. right wing grifting is too hard man, you gotta get up on time and sit in front of a microphone for two hours each business day to record a podcast where you just read outrageous headlines on your smartphone and that is just too much work

    about 2 months ago from web
    • @zeldatra Soo... In essence I think it is pretty much like this: "This outrage is outrageously outrageous! Meanwhile, the truly outrageous thing is nothing to worry about. And now to our outrageous sponsor who profits from outrage with this new outrageous product for a new outrageously expensive price! Now buy that thing to fight the outrage!"

      about 2 months ago in context
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  15. One jalapeno in my salad got me the wrong way. I cut it too small to remove it, too much salad to toss out. I ate through all of it and with enough ranch dressing it got less of a sting.
    The current Jalapeno plants are dying, so this season I will plant only one or two and give them more care. Currently my 4 Jalapeno and 1 Cayenne are putting out weekly one or two ripe deep red chilis. Maybe I should collect them when they are still green.

    about 2 months ago from web
  16. Working for a project in northern Germany. Every morning it begins with everyone greeting with "moin". It is not a abbreviation for "morning" but it is an old lower German word for "good" and "pleasant".

    about 2 months ago from web
  17. I've grown weak. My capsaicin resistance is barely existing.

    about 2 months ago from web
    • @adiwan Sure you haven't just grown stronger peppers?

      about 2 months ago in context
    • @scribus I have one Cayenne plant and 5 Jalapeno. They don't bear a lot of fruit but right now I am plenty served by them. I planted seeds for their replacement, as they are supposed to be living about one year. I don't get cold sweat or anything but their hotness can be slightly overwhelming. Maybe I need them to cook for a lot longer. They were basically fresh when I put them into the sauce. As of now I wouldn't go eating any hotter stuff than that.

      about 2 months ago in context
  18. The other day during Steam’s little demo showcase I downloaded a few demos. Today I tried out “Promise Mascot Agency”, a cute little open world mascot management sim/casual collectathon where the bulk of the gameplay is driving around in a Kei truck and talking to sentient mascots. Also the main character, completely by coincidence, is an ex-yakuza voiced by Takaya Kuroda (Kazuma Kiryu).

    about 3 months ago from web
    • @zeldatra After the great dissolution finding work is hard. The orphanage needs the money. Also it is funny that the main character is named "Michi". After Suzuki Taichi and Joryu, Kiryu named himself after a mascot.

      about 3 months ago in context
  19. 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 3 months ago from web
  20. 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 3 months ago from web
  21. Today I planted tomato seeds and put them into my tiny greenhouses: Purple Sunrise, Malina, Arancia, Jolie Coeur, Marmande, Tscherny Prinz, Japanese Crab, Ananas Noire, Black Krim, Tigerella. 5 seeds for each in case some of them don't grow. I want to keep only two of each, rest will be gifted.

    about 3 months ago from web
    • @adiwan Rainbow spaghetti time!!

      about 3 months ago in context
    • @scribus I hope this year the yield will be big enough to fill a cooking pot at once for tomato sauce. Last year was horrible due to rain and infections. Soon I want to grab some free trampolines with side-netting in order to create a simple roof above the plants to prevent damages from rain. All I need are the vertical pipes. Free trampolines are always there. Right now there are 8 in my region.

      about 3 months ago in context
  22. Urge to dig out my paperback copy of "Watership Down" rising......

    about 3 months ago from web
  23. Pirate Yakuza beat. Despite how silly it is it may actually be up where with Yakuza 7 and Yakuza 0 as one of my favorite stories in the franchise.

    about 3 months ago from web
    • @zeldatra It is probably the most "straight-forward" story of the franchise. It is still convoluted to a degree but it is simple enough. It is not my favorite story but it was still highly enjoyable.

      about 3 months ago in context
  24. My pirate Majima was basically the default but with Yakuza 0 hair. My Hawaii Majima was the default but with black dress trousers and his signature steel-tipped shoes.

    about 3 months ago from web
  25. It's unhinged one-eyed man time!

    about 3 months ago from web
    • @adiwan i was confused on why people were saying it was out already today until i realized that the release date was Japan time, even the one given by RGG's western accounts. Neat!

      about 3 months ago in context
    • @zeldatra Yeah. I had to look up a few times. Thankfully Steam displayed the remaining hours until release. I had prealoaded it yesterday, however minutes after the official release it wasn't able to start because my Steam client wasn't aware of the release. A restart of the client fixed it.

      about 3 months ago in context
  26. Preordered the upcoming Like a Dragon Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii. I'm such a RGG simp.

    about 3 months ago from web
  27. I almost crashed my car. I was driving on the Autobahn while it was heavily snowing. There was so much snow that snow was piling up and it was only feasible to drive in the tracks of the other cars. I got caught up in the side of the tyre tracks and was skidding and slipping left and right so much I almost spin out. Luckily my experiences with racing games could avoid that by steering against the skidding direction.

    about 4 months ago from web
  28. Children should play a bootleg console at least once in their lives. A good 'ol famiclone. A NES on a chip or anything that promises 99999999 games in one but they are repeats or just start at a different level. This kind of disappointment and wonder is a unique brew of an experience that is both cheap and rich in questionable fun. A lie with an upside. Bonus points if they are actually rom hacks with the weirdest promises.

    about 4 months ago from web
    • @adiwan As a child I had an N64 controller that you would plug into a tv and it would load up 900 NES and arcade roms, probably less than a hundred of which were unique games. Kids today now can get handheld that do the same thing on Temu, everything is properly labeled, the emulators don’t run at half speed, sometimes they play like PS2 games and Fluffle Puff, you can load your own on an sd card… it just ain’t the same.

      about 4 months ago in context
    • @zeldatra For some reason I stumble upon reviews of those emulation machines and even now they are not always delivering the proper performance to even run NES games at a smooth performance. PS2 games, even PS1 and Dreamcast are a joke. There are only few exceptions where they run well enough for an enjoyable experience. The famiclone I had in the 90s was a weird "handheld" one. It was a big black "Game Gear"-like case without a screen that plugged directly into a AC/DC adaptor and it needed to be connected with a RF coax cable to the TV. It really sucked as over time both power and TV plugs on it got loose.

      about 4 months ago in context
  29. Printer manufacturer C-suiters aren't actually human and do not fall under the protection of law imo

    about 4 months ago from web
  30. Whenever I read "Avatar" I'm always disappointed when it is about James Cameron's crap.

    about 4 months ago from web