Sterile_Technique
@Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
- Comment on YSK that no form of United States ID, no matter how valid, guarantees protection when ICE decides you look like an immigrant. 5 days ago:
Historically, complying with Nazis does not actually yield the promised safety. Arm up, and shoot first.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 5 days ago:
We don’t have the spine for a civil war. Closest thing we’ll feasibly see are a few targeted political assassinations. Things will get kinda noisy after that in a bickering kind of way, but most of us won’t even remember it by the following Monday. It’ll fizzle out.
- Comment on It's not an addiction! I can stop whenever I want! 6 days ago:
Listening to an NCLEX review lecture as I’m scrolling… They’re talking about addiction, and gave the whole “I can quit anytime I want” example of denial… AS I was scrolling past this post.
That was uncanny.
10/10
- Comment on YSK: listening to audiobooks and reading books both activate the same language related areas of the brain 1 week ago:
Pure anecdote, but my personal experience suggests that reading vs listening do not activate the same part of the brain. With textbooks specifically, reading assignments never seemed to do me much good - I’d read a page, really giving it my attention, but then make it to the end of the page and realize I have no idea what it was talking about like 3 paragraphs ago.
Enter the age of digital textbooks and text-to-speech software - fucking godsend for me, even when it’s the shitty Microsoft Sam style voice. Listening to the material instead of reading increased retention quite a bit.
Taking it up another notch, doing them both simultaneously was the clear winner. If I listen to a reading assignment while following along visually reading the text, it’s like a one-and-done and ready to take the test at the end of the semester with no further studying.
I discovered this superpower near the end of highschool, and it has absolutely carried me through everything since - if you think you might be an auditory learner, give it a shot!
- Comment on no training award 1 week ago:
On one hand, yes… but on the other, I think that’s part of why they’re so successful. We constantly give Trump and people like Trump the village idiot pass - we don’t take them seriously because we wave off their malice as just stupidity.
If Trump actually behaved competently, he’d have been in prison ages ago.
…it’s the fucking Darth Jar Jar theory, but it’s happening in real time.
- Comment on no training award 1 week ago:
Oh he was trained. This shit wasn’t a fluke. We’ve reached “Nazis patrolling our streets, executing civilians on the president’s orders” stage of US collapse. This will continue until people start shooting back.
- Comment on Scientists retrieve RNA from an extinct animal, marking a first in genetics research 3 weeks ago:
Clone it. Don’t let some cheesy dinosaur movie tell us what to do.
- Comment on 🎵 It means something something... 🎵 4 weeks ago:
Heart warming story of a royal toddler who noped the fuck out after being caught up in a political murder scheme, met two stoners, became a stoner himself, and kinda just did nothing but be a stoner until his ~20s when he was finally swayed to put the blunt down after his toddler-crush just randomly shows up one day and fucks him.
They just don’t make wholesome movies like that anymore. <3
- Comment on There's ads on an apple 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on It will trickle down any second now 5 weeks ago:
If works like a piñata - if we beat it open with a club, only then will its contents trickle down.
- Comment on Big Brother Is Watching Your Online Criticism of ICE Crackdowns 1 month ago:
Sup, ICE. You’ve done such a good job emulating your rolemodel from the 1930s/40s with the mustache, I think you’ve all earned a fast-track in that career!! Just skip right to the end and go ahead and feed yourself that bullet! Remember not to aim perpendicular to your throat - that’ll just punch a potentially nonfatal hole: instead aim it up toward your brain!
You are a traitor not just to your country, but to all +of humanity: your legacy will only ever be that of a villainous cautionary tale.
Best of luck with the go kill yourself! 💖
- Comment on Science confirms futility of chasing waterfalls 1 month ago:
- Comment on Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users 1 month ago:
Depends on what we mean by smart. Lemmy seems to especially attract the IT crowd, which in itself represents a huge swathe of specialty knowledge… which I can’t claim to be part of, but hey, medic checking in! But with reddit’s variety of topics to include… I mean, pretty much everything, since that website is massive: I don’t think they have any kind of knowledge deficit in a general sense.
Where Lemmy really shines is in stamping out the bigotry, not just in policy but from a direct community response: drop a post with some racism or sexism or w/e and you’ll be swarmed by posts telling you to fuck off and don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out. And I love it! :D
So, smarter? Fuck if I know. Significantly less evil? Fuck yeah!
- Comment on Best vertical games on Android? 1 month ago:
The different types of Gameboys and most of their games emulate really well on a smart phone. I prefer playing them in landscape orientation for the larger display, but portrait mode gives a more accurate recreation with the screen on top and buttons on bottom.
I’m out of touch with what the latest best options are for emulators and where to source your ROMs, but if you ask around in communities focusing on things like piracy, they’ll point you in the right direction.
Recommended to use a VPN for any downloads.
- Comment on Feeding my family alone is expensive. I can't afford to feed all of y'all. 1 month ago:
Potluck style is the way to go. In addition to what the other posters have mentioned, you get better food that way too: people cook the dish they have the best recipe for. People who are shit cooks can host or clean or w/e.
Get the best everyone has to offer.
- Comment on Dead mosquito proboscis used for high-resolution 3D printing nozzle 1 month ago:
Mosquitoes are an exception to the values typically exhibited in veganism.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’ 2 months ago:
…our governing hierarchy is just a long list of who’s blowing who, isn’t it?
- Comment on Evolution at its finest! 2 months ago:
Hypothesis: this is actually a safety way to ride due to cars seeing you as much more of a threat and therefore giving you MUCH more room than normal.
- Comment on Energy drinks 2 months ago:
- Comment on POV: 2 months ago:
We’re basically a reverse jelly fish piloting a meat mech.
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 2 months ago:
What it does a screen in my fucking fridge do any good for me?
What else are you going to play Doom on?
- Comment on The PP Police 2 months ago:
GOP: Genital Optics Police
- Comment on iSweep 2 months ago:
Yea but I can do that without a robot.
- Comment on iSweep 2 months ago:
Right? Even if that’s a really suboptimal use of one of those, that’d be a great way to show them off if nothing else.
If I was in the market for one of those things (which… hell no!) and I entered an outlet for them and the first thing I see is a clean floor with one of the little fuckers buzzing around? Fuckin sold. (except hell no)
- Comment on Law 2 months ago:
Contrary to popular belief, it appears hips actually do lie. This changes everything.
- Comment on Hello darkness my old friend 2 months ago:
The cochlea and semicircular canals are absolutely wild. It’s all just squirting fluid over a patch of tiny grass, and boom, that’s your sense of hearing and balance. One of the coolest bits of anatomy we’ve got.
- Comment on UK's rival to the Tim Tam can no longer be called chocolate 2 months ago:
I live in the USA now, and you can buy Tim Tams here, but Trader Joe’s and Aldi both have store brand imitation Tim Tams too.
Fellow murican here - was not aware of either of those. Will be on the look out!! …even if they are subpar.
Coworker got me addicted to Tim Tams ages ago, and they’re a pain in the ass to find here.
- Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice 2 months ago:
Fortified short grain white rice… hit up Costco or Sam’s, or your local Asian market, and you can score a 20 lb bag for like $15 which comes out to literally a few cents per meal. (well… pre-tariffs at least… nowadays idk)
From there, add beans, or eggs, or chicken broth, or literally almost anything else: shit off the clearance wrack, from the food pantry, w/e. If it’s a meat or veggie, it’ll go with rice. In the case of the pantry, if you’re not actually sure what it is, it’ll still probably go with rice. Got a bag of spicy cheetos you forgot to close and now it’s all stale? Don’t throw that shit away, smash it up and throw it in with your next batch of rice - now it’s spicy! (I’ve done it - texture’s a little weird, but otherwise came out better than expected). Rice is ridiculously versatile.
Disregard the hate for white rice being nutritionless junkfood - it is, but when money’s that tight, you don’t give a fuck. The fortified rice mitigates that a bit, and in my experience is usually cheaper. It’s a starting point: add what you can to make it less shit; and even if it’s a meal of just straight rice, that’s still better than an empty stomach.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 2 months ago:
Tech-idiot, here, but Linux-curious and running Windows 10 with an ardent refusal to change it to 11.
I know there are a ton of different versions of Linux, ‘Ubuntu’ and such, but I don’t know jack about any of them… which would you recommend that’s best suited to someone who’s only ever used Windows? Looking for the most idiot-proof option. Gaming and office style work are primary use.
Emphasis on the idiot proof. I am really anxious about switching from fear of jacking up my computer, but am so sick of Window’s bullshit… probably as good a time to dive in now than any point going forward.
- Comment on What are you ladies doing tonight 2 months ago:
What did it for me was the bugs. Those little fruit-fly fuckers… they love sugar, and those taps are a concentrated source. Until someone turns it on, and they get blasted off the tube and stuck onto the sticky inside surface of the cap, where they die and continue to get blasted with concentrate, so there’s this membrane of soda residue, dead fruit flies, and mold.
…infact the taste you’re referencing might legit be rotting bugs if it has a kind of rancid protein flavor.
I wonder how many of those fruit flies get blasted straight into people’s drink vs onto the edge of the cap, where they’re just sucked up through a straw and drank by a customer who’s none the wiser.
Nom nom.
