LillyPip
@LillyPip@lemmy.ca
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 3 days ago:
I miss bag milk. :(
So jealous.
- Comment on Every Christmas I make sure to include a special message from Santa's little helpers. 1 week ago:
Aw. I was thinking this is perfect for under the placemats at truck stops.
You sabotaged my vision,
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 1 week ago:
Natural yarns are almost always best for wearables. It doesn’t need to be fancy (other than ooo pretty, which is my biggest criteria, too). I’d avoid 100% polyester, or high blends.
Personally, I love knitting with bamboo blends, and they’re quite affordable. They’re not suited for everything, but many feel like silk whilst wearing like cotton. And they’re often more sustainable.
It doesn’t always wear as well in all contexts, but it’s affordable and pleasant to knit with. I’d say it’s miles better for a beginner than polyester, and often comparably priced.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 1 week ago:
It’s not considering the value of my time; a decent (actually wearable) yarn is far more expensive than most people think.
I would consider it a waste of my time to spend a couple hundred hours on a garment that’s barely wearable because it’s uncomfortable and borderline not washable. That’s what you will get with any yarn that won’t cost you over $50 in materials.
Cheap yarns are fine for beginner projects that aren’t made to be worn, but if you’re putting that much of your effort into a garment meant to be used, you should not be using bargain yarn. Your effort is worth too much to sabotage yourself that way.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 1 week ago:
Yep. Often when I wear a new jumper or whatever around people who know I knit, I get asked ‘oh, that’s pretty, did you make it?’
Lol no, that would have cost me like 5 times more. I couldn’t afford to make it myself.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 2 weeks ago:
I could literally live on plain potatoes for the rest of my life and I’d be fine with it. My ancestors must have been as culinarily boring as possible.
- Comment on ad block block 2 weeks ago:
🎼 The internet is for porn.
Why you think the net was born?
Porn, porn, porn.
🎵 - Comment on ad block block 2 weeks ago:
Ah. Peace at last.
- Comment on American exceptionalism 3 weeks ago:
Did you know your anus has taste receptors?
You’re welcome.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 3 weeks ago:
Wow. So glad this is what’s on what’s left of his mind. Not soaring prices or atrocities committed in his name. No, this is what matters.
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 weeks ago:
Well, yeah. Regulations are a major part of society, and a major reason we tend to come together. Yet another reason libertarianism is misguided.
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 weeks ago:
You literally can do that.
Why do people seem to think this is impossible?
What’s changed? Some parts of that life are sometimes illegal, but most people haven’t been against it like this.
What’s different?
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 weeks ago:
Well yeah, I get that. But there are plots for really cheap, but they don’t have any kind of access to water, sewage, or whatever. Plots for like 10,000 or less. That sounds like a lot, I suppose, but it isn’t. I think it’s more that people don’t understand how money works,
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 weeks ago:
Of course I do. And again, that’s my point.
People romanticise this, but it’s impossible for many reasons. You can easily try, but we have societies for a reason.
Everyone is free to do this, but good luck in practice. It’s not just hard, and it’s not just stupid, but why the fuck would you want this? It’s insane, and we’re not geared for this.
Life in the wilderness is not a Disney movie. It’s so ruthlessly difficult, that’s why society exists. We are stronger, safer, and happier together.
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 weeks ago:
Yes, that would need to be the plan. One upfront payment then never paying for utilities or other things forever. That’s the only way this works.
I think this is madness, but that’s how you do this.
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 weeks ago:
But you never have to pay for utilities, rent, taxes for schools or roads or services … obviously it wouldn’t be completely free.
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, but the ‘nobody wants to be there for a reason’ is my whole point.
It will absolutely suck for you. That’s why civilisation is better, and also why we have to make some concessions to be in a society.
There’s literally no utopia where everything is perfect. There literally never was.
If you want societal amenities, you have to pay for them in some small way, and if you don’t, your like will be very hard. Those have always been the choices.
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 weeks ago:
Search off-grid properties. They exist.
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 weeks ago:
You’d have to buy your own land, of course.
But you could buy a tiny plot in the middle of nowhere, not hook up any utilities or have roads, and just live off your land if you wanted.
There are small parcels in the middle of noplace that nobody wants because there are no roads, utilities, or other services.
- Comment on We can play that game too 3 weeks ago:
So many people don’t understand why we live in a society, and apparently have no capacity for empathy.
They’re free to go live in the wilderness, with no roads, no fire department, no water or electricity, no services whatever, and find out how much they’re actually benefiting from our collective.
They won’t, because though they like to complain, they’re pussies who can’t be bothered to think for 5 minutes that the fact they can read and write their snarky bullshit is because they benefitted from free education, else they’d be illiterate.
But gods forbid they pay back the overwhelming amount they benefit from society in a small way. It’s fucking infuriating.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 4 weeks ago:
Monotonous, or if you’re hopelessly stuck. If I can’t get past a puzzle or fight, and I’d otherwise stop playing because it’s not fun anymore, I’ll look up a solution. The alternative is not finishing the game and not seeing the rest of the content or story.
- Comment on YSK that americans can now deduce private jet expenses from their taxes 4 weeks ago:
The cost of the plane is trivial compared to upkeep, hangar rental, fuel, and myriad other expenses.
Sure, you can buy a plane for cheap, if you plan to keep it at your house somehow and never intend to use it.
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- Comment on If God was real (just go with it), then how he's portrayed in the Bible might not even be how he actually is. 1 month ago:
Uh… yeah?
ALL those stories are based on previous stories.
I’m really not sure what your point is.
- Comment on If God was real (just go with it), then how he's portrayed in the Bible might not even be how he actually is. 1 month ago:
This doesn’t tell you anything if they were all derived from earlier stories – which, it turns out, is actually the case. We have the earlier stories as proof, in many cases.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 1 month ago:
It’s a good thing trump isn’t dumb enough to think US debt is easily solved by printing more money, right?
Wouldn’t that be crazy?
(I really hope this isn’t something he can actually do. It shouldn’t be possible, but neither should a lot of things he’s done.)
- Comment on Are bots on lemmy? 1 month ago:
Lemmy does have value, because the demographics are a bit more focussed here compared to much larger but more mainstream platforms, not to mention that larger platforms like reddit are already so bot-infested, they start to interfere with each other. It’s so trivial to make and deploy bots now with LLMs, I’d be very surprised if there weren’t bots here.
I think the reason we don’t notice them as much here is the quality of moderation tends to be higher (on average, so far).
- Comment on Are bots on lemmy? 1 month ago:
I’m an ugly bag of mostly water.
- Comment on Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn’t worried about Elon Musk’s Grokipedia: ‘Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now’ 2 months ago:
It’s not about making something useful. He and a few others are cloning everything any of their cult might use to further fence them in from external information and entertainment.
They’re having a harder time in entertainment, because artists tend to be more liberal, but they’re gaining ground there, too. After a certain point, they’ll just radically censor everything else.
- Comment on transformations 2 months ago:
I could give you diarrhoea, or sepsis, or tetanus, your choice! I’m flexible and I don’t judge. I just love being inside you!
