Mouselemming
@Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on I'm doing my part 10 hours ago:
It’s great that you’re helping your native plants stand against the invasives, they’re like the schoolyard bullies of the backyard.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 10 hours ago:
It’s great that you’re helping your native plants stand against the invasives, they’re like the schoolyard bullies of the backyard.
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 15 hours ago:
Aha. But that sounds correctable… So not having any people assigned to checking on railroads and making sure the system recognizes them as railroads would be due to miserliness on the part of Tesla then… And might also say something about why some Teslas have been known to drive into bodies of water (or children, but that’s probably a different instance of miserliness)
- Comment on Do I need to make it anymore obvious? 16 hours ago:
Or KKKlanists
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 16 hours ago:
I’m pretty sure Tesla self-drive does a lot of stupid things you never would, too. That’s why they want you at the wheel, paying attention and ready to correct it in an instant! (Which defeats the whole benefit of self-drive mode imho, but whatever)
The fact that they can avoid all responsibilities and blame you for their errors is of course the other reason.
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 17 hours ago:
Since the story has 3 separate incidents where “the driver let their Tesla turn left onto some railroad tracks” I’m going to posit:
Teslas on self-drive mode will turn left onto railroad tracks unless forcibly restrained.
Prove me wrong, Tesla
- Comment on What's up with all the moth memes? 21 hours ago:
That does seem like it’s a meme waiting to happen, what with orbs glowing like lamps.
- Comment on Thank you for your attention to this matter. 1 day ago:
And here I was thinking it was just a bullshit crappy landlord phrase, but you’re right, it signals his whole intent.
- Comment on so this is how you catch the gay virus! 1 day ago:
I hate to be a nitpicker but…
- Comment on Too wordy a shitpost? 4 days ago:
Paring and shaving away all excess, leaving only the simplest way, is what Occam’s Razor does.
I would differ with the chart though, and say that if a razor is visible in the first act, someone’s throat will be slashed by the end.
- Comment on 8999 BC 4 days ago:
Thanks, had forgotten “atlatl,” gonna try it in NYT Spelling Bee next time it has those letters.
- Comment on First methane-powered sea spiders found crawling on the ocean floor 5 days ago:
That’s very reassuring. Wouldn’t want them in one’s own bed, they’d get fat on farts.
- Comment on First methane-powered sea spiders found crawling on the ocean floor 5 days ago:
Why “First”?
Isn’t “Methane-powered sea spiders discovered crawling on ocean floor” enough creepy for you?
- Comment on Ok smartass 5 days ago:
Well yes duh 75% is ¾ that much I got. So I guess the joke is AI wouldn’t, because it hasn’t learned to tell time, just as it’s not sure about fingers…
- Comment on Ok smartass 5 days ago:
Wtf is 7:75? That would be 8:15. Quarter to eight is 7:45.
Or am I just super old and whooshing on the joke? Maybe it’s an AI equivalent of eight fingers or two left hands?
- Comment on Does seeing daylight create an illusion of being a little more warm? 6 days ago:
When it’s been a long cold night, getting colder by the hour, and finally you see the sky start to lighten and especially when that first real ray of sunlight tips over the horizon, it may not have actually begun to warm you but the hope does make you feel a little warmer. You know it’s at least not going to continue getting colder, and in most cases it will actually be warming up for several hours ahead. Maybe that hope makes your heart beat a little faster, that would help warm you up too.
- Comment on we are not the same 1 week ago:
It’s like that, disgusting and/or exposed, because your body is trying to keep you from pissing the bed. When you start to have a dream like that, wake up and you’ll realize you need to go to the bathroom. Your own clean normal private bathroom.
- Comment on Instead of asking all my stupid questions separately, could I just get a ton of "How to Adult" type resources in the comments? 1 week ago:
I set a perpetual calendar reminder for cleaning the dishwasher filter every month, the HVAC filter every 3 months, the water filter every 5 months. My husband’s calendar reminders are to refill his meds every 24 days. Those days add up to one extra refill a year.
- Comment on An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house" 1 week ago:
If you think you need a phone, it should be a burner.
- Comment on Most American headline 2 weeks ago:
" for neglecting your child’s right to food"
So you agree that right exists? Either you’re not providing food and this doing the neglecting and also they don’t owe you anything, or you are required to provide food regardless of payment because you’re in loco parentis during the school hours. And the $450 could very likely have been used to provide food and other necessities for those kids before and after school.
If you want to charge them with neglect, you have to prove they neglected their child, not just your budget.
- Comment on Pull to enter, you say? 2 weeks ago:
They’d have much more success if they wrote “DO NOT PUSH THIS BUTTON” on the actual button.
- Comment on Calm down 2 weeks ago:
The physical inequality, just like OP’s example, always makes it more egregious.
- Comment on Calm down 2 weeks ago:
It is. You’re absolutely right. But right now nobody’s seeing anything but the 50-Foot Tall Woman, so they can’t think about your logic. Maybe see if swinging one more of those Marines into the fence will be enough to help you get control of your rage. No actually better use the Mayor, he’s an insufferable prick.
- Comment on Calm down 2 weeks ago:
Personally I would still prefer to hear chill, maybe you stumbled on that person’s trigger. Or perhaps it’s an age thing. I associate it with peers, but maybe for them it’s parents.
- Comment on Calm down 2 weeks ago:
That’s a good one!
- Comment on Calm down 3 weeks ago:
You are getting sleeeeepy…
- Comment on Calm down 3 weeks ago:
So use any one of the multitudinous other phrases available in English to actually HELP them become calmer or less agitated. Respond to the facts of the individual situation instead. “He’s not worth it.” “You’re better than this/you have been doing so much better, don’t let this set you back.” “You’re in a bad trip man, gonna have to ride it out as easy as you can.” “Chill, dude.” “Take a deep breath.” (This may be followed by one loud long scream, but that’s cathartic and may be followed by rational behavior)
Nobody, no matter how much they need to get control over their emotions and behavior, needs to “calm down”.
- Comment on Calm down 3 weeks ago:
The most incendiary 2-word phrase in the English language.
It’s belittling and aggressive and dismissive all at once.
Even saying something as similar as “get a grip, man!” has a much better chance of success.
- Comment on Australia’s bowel cancer rates are world’s highest for under-50s. Scientists wonder if the gut microbiome is to blame 3 weeks ago:
More microplastics?
- Comment on (゜O゜; 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for editing not deleting because TIL!