Dvixen

@Dvixen@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sugar vs baking soda to neutralize acid in canned tomatoes?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always added a carrot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First I was asked politely to not swear, even if I was not a customer facing employee.

  Second time I was cautioned was because I’d switched to swearing in another language. Manager thought it was hilarious, but they still knew I was swearing.

  I spent the next five years being increasingly creative with how I swore. A temporary (and loud) revert to English swearing when I was in a workplace accident was kindly ignored due to circumstance.

  There was no third warning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So bad it was actually entertaining⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a place like this in Vancouver, no idea if it is still there.

  The Elbow Room. “Food and service is our name, abuse is our game!”

  They weren’t kidding. One of our group asked for water, he got told his legs worked and he could get it himself. The food was amazing, although we did get told off for not finishing our plate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did people poop before smartphones were invented?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully through their buttholes, not through their fingers and mouths.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magnavox Odyssey2 is here!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks good!

  I had the Odyssey (with overlays). Regret giving it to a collector before I moved continents, I’d love to get it hooked up and working!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Regain Control in my ass⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cure for me - in my arse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you do it yourself and it looks like you did it yourself lol⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t stress about it. There are plenty of professionals unclear of the concept of smooth.

  I’ve just finished repairing the professional drywall plastering around our house, you could see the seams from every angle. I spent longer than I like to admit fixing those seams so they weren’t visible when we painted.

  Worked every second or third day on any given wall, so I knew things were dry. Also life wouldn’t let me speed run the mudding and painting.

  Happy with my newly painted wall, I’d laid tape out so I could paint the window trim and when I took off the tape, the original paint and plaster job that ran along the drywall seam came with it.

  Took the putty knife and was able to flake off most of the seam.

  I had to do the plastering and painting again, and by the time I’d finished redoing my work, I was ready to hunt down the tradies who did the work when the house was built and have a polite chat with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gloves should be a requirement to keep in a glove box.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or driveways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This Hour Has 22 Minutes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus, help me! - No!⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a colony of them off the coast of northern BC. It was started about twenty years ago for a study.

  Granted, they are plastic and nailed down, but hey, who cares about details.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Facebook did it as well, maybe a couple years after opening up to the non university crowd. Neither FB at the time or G+ years later gave any thought that their no pseudonym policies put someone’s safety at risk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has google stopped working for finding anything?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have noticed this. I have a few searches that I do regularly, and over time I’ve watched the results get less and less relevant for the same keywords.

  One of the more recent searches was for a set of data I had been building. I had the keywords from my notes, and when I went to search for it again, using the same keywords that found it the previous times, it was no longer a result. I knew the dates of one event in particular, so I narrowed to that, and still google served me results for ten years before the specified date range. A bit more fine tuning, and Google continued to serve the same results, all not even remotely close to what I was after.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that chiropractors are not medical doctors and "Systematic reviews... have found no evidence that chiropractic manipulation is effective"⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I go to a sports physiotherapy group. Much better results when the goal is to help me recover so I don’t need to come to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that chiropractors are not medical doctors and "Systematic reviews... have found no evidence that chiropractic manipulation is effective"⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to see a chiro, stopped while I was pregnant after he ‘treated’ PGP. (I’m hypermobile, and pregnancy made everything ready to dislocate.) Daily pain went from 5/6 (manageable, barely) to a 9 and severe mobility limitations.

  I was slowly moving, but able to move before that appointment. Could barely walk, and climbing stairs was not happening for months after.

  A physio realigned everything, and I walked out of the first appointment and could take stairs again. Ended up at a specialist dealing with the aftermath of that chiros treatment.

  Physiotherapy is my first stop now, and I will never set foot in a chiropractor’s office ever again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Path of Exiles. Been many years since I last played, so it’s pretty much a new game to me.

  Also playing Sea of Thieves, but not as much as I’d like - it’s boring sailing solo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in the group that gets violently sick using VR. It also induces blinding migraines. Oddly, I don’t get car/air/seasick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s big Windows 11 update drops on September 26 with Copilot AI baked in⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Window key + Shift + S

  Select only what you need.