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- Comment on 2 days ago:
I get most of my stuff from Facebook. Since most of you refuse to go there, it really keeps my content fresh 😁
More seriously, since most of my stuff is from non-profits and photographers, it’s still the number one place these people share their stuff since it’s free, easy, and has a built in wide audience.
Other than that, I look for owls in the Google news page once a week, I look up old research papers or read books, I volunteered at a rehab clinic to learn more and get photos and stories, and I go to events and talk with people that work with owls.
I think the most important thing is that I’m genuinely interested in the subject, so even if social media vanished tomorrow, I would’ve stop doing anything I do to source content, I just wouldn’t be posting. I just post because I think you guys will like it and hopefully donate or volunteer yourselves.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
This is the main resistance I see. I thought I’d be boring in the beginning. I didn’t know much about the subject I began to post about. But from continuing to interact, I learned more about the subject, and I learned what the people I was talking to liked more or liked less.
If you’re just being yourself and talking about things you’re interested in, you’re gonna be fine. People here are pretty chill, so if you’re not spouting outright lies or antagonizing people, there isn’t anything to worry about.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
I don’t know how those people do it. Putting out stuff every day for one community keeps me as busy as I’d want to be.
- Comment on Everything is awful because the people who went to business school figured out how to fuck us over as hard as possible. 3 days ago:
I was in college in the late 90s and remember being in Intro to Business. One of the exercises we had was something about looking at a list of applicants and choosing who to hire. The teacher had looked over everything and got disgusted and read a bunch of replies in front of the class. The answers were basically all about who seemed to be the most exploitable at the advantage of the fictional company, ie who would work overtime they didn’t want to but they had family to support, etc. He couldn’t believe that people were looking at business that heartlessly.
It really gave me a bit to think about, and I remember that more than anything else from that class, but it seems a lot of others really felt they were on to something, since that seems to be how things played out. Maybe my teacher was too idealistic or this was still just Reagan era economic policy kicking in, but it does feel like this is the kind of business world we’ve built since then.
- Comment on [Discussion] Which character is the cutest for you? 6 days ago:
I can’t get enough Anya Forger, of course. Those facial expressions! 🥰
Plus she’s so fun, derpy, has a power that is way too OP for her, yet she still manages to help everyone else save the day. And her relationship with Becky, Bond, and Damian are all so adorable as well. I enjoy every moment she’s on the page/screen.
Tama, (O-tama) the dumpling girls from One Piece has also left a mark after catching up with the anime. She’s so innocent, yet brave through so many scary situations, and I liked how she made real friends with the giant beasts of Wano and actually made friends with some of the former Beast Pirates, especially Speed/Horselina.
All the girls from Tomo-chan is a Girl, Do It Yourself, Yuru Camp, Super Cub, and Diary of our Days at the Breakwater I remember loving as well.
- Comment on Looking for a good Lemmy mobile app 2 weeks ago:
Summit is peak!
- Comment on Dry Shampoo is the teenage girl equivalent to teenage boys' Axe Body Spray 2 weeks ago:
Just tried dry shampoo for the first time yesterday actually. I’m a male in my mid 40s who started growing my hair out about 2 years ago and it’s to my shoulder blades now.
I have electric heat, hard water, and somewhat dryish hair so I try to use shampoo just twice a week if I can help it, so as to strip a minimum amount of oil from my hair and keep it from frizzing all over. It works pretty well, but by day 3 it is pretty heavy and there are spots that look greasy and don’t feel great or look good.
I’ve been sick as hell this week and have been falling asleep at random times. So I woke up yesterday after falling asleep before showering. I had time to shower, but having long thick hair takes a long time to dry, and part of my work is outside, and since it’s around freezing here, I didn’t want to have a wet and heavy head of hair outside while I’m already sick.
So I looked in the wife’s rack of hair stuff and saw dry shampoo. I said if this isn’t what this stuff is made for, what is? And I shot my head all over with it. My hair was still heavy and not the best feeling, but man, did it look a ton better than it did before using the dry shampoo! In some ways it even looked better, as the heavier hair can style better, but it usually isn’t visually appealing, but with the excess oil absorbed, now it did look good.
It got me through the day looking kempt and professional, and while I fell asleep immediately when I got home again and still haven’t washed it, if I had to leave home this second, it’d still be passable. Again, it doesn’t feel like the best hair ever, but it will fool everyone else if need be.
So while teens may overuse it and it is no excuse for a shower, I don’t see how the owner of the hair would be fooled into thinking it’s clean instead of just dry and manageable. If the high school girls have gym or sports, I bet they would have some of this so they can freshen up after activities and to not look or feel gross while being constantly judged by other teens.
As a guy who had quarter inch hair for most his life, none of this ever made sense to me either, but now trying to learn how to care for long hair, it is such a complex thing! You’ve got to learn your body chemistry by testing all these things so you know how to keep your hair looking nice when it’s super hot out or humid or windy. Hair snags hurt, and frizz is a bitch if you’re trying to look presentable. So until you live it, try not to get too judgy. Using this stuff isn’t fun, but for people that want to have long hair, these products exist because people need and want them to make hair care better for themselves.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 1 month ago:
I just recently got a PZ2 driver from Vessel for my Honda. It was remarkable how nice it was to use compared to a Phillips screw and driver. I felt so much torque could be applied while the grip stayed rock solid.
Also learned PZ screws are often used in cabinetry, and lo and behold, all my kitchen cabinet do in fact have that tell-tale X mark to indicate they are Pozidrive screws.
I’ve still not had the opportunity to use a square drive Roberston screw, but would still like to use them for something one day.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 month ago:
At this point they’ve been doing it long enough, if you haven’t blocked them, then you’re seeing them because you want to rage about it.
Seriously, other than the thorn, sxan’s comments are just regular stuff, nothing antagonistic or unusual. Go annoy people that have obviously commented without reading linked articles. That’s the real crime!
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 month ago:
Using thorn: 100 years dungeon!
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 month ago:
Lemmings: Screw corporate social media! Here we can do as we please!
sxan enters chat
Lemmings: Kill them!
- Comment on Spy x Family Season 3 debuts first teaser trailer ahead of October 2025 release 4 months ago:
So elegant!
- Comment on is there is any Lemmy server that care about privacy(does not require email), Does not impose limits on community posts like my current instance and does not have high amount of restrictions? 5 months ago:
Hah, I figure I do bother some people with my block of posts, but 1) I put all my posts up and breakfast so people have all day to ask me questions and I have all my down time at work to answer them so you get quick replies before you forget you even asked something, and 2) if seeing 3-5 owl photos is a row is that big a deal, congrats on having no real problems! 😜
I really do feel that way I do it is an advantage for anyone who develops a real interest in the content. It works for me in a way that it isn’t a burden to do it every day, and you get my mostly undivided attention to reply to you.
- Comment on Can shoes be made in the US without cheap labour? 5 months ago:
Even Keen only assembles 9% of its shoes in America.
To my knowledge, and as somewhat reflected in the article, they’re not even really made in America, but this is mainly just where foreign manufacture pieces are assembled.
The article does address that a little more, showing Keen is working on trying to source more US made parts, but due to the limited manufacturing here and its increased labor cost, that’s a challenge.
I’m on my third set of Keens, and they are far and away my favorite work boots. I’ve had one of the higher end non-US ones and 2 US ones. They’ve all been amazing, but the width of my most recent pair feels like it was made on a narrower last, but it’s also my first leather pair, so they may just need more break in.
- Comment on Do you care about up/down votes? 6 months ago:
Yay! Validation! 😁
- Comment on Do you care about up/down votes? 6 months ago:
It lets me feel like my time here is being useful if I get the upvotes. I try to limit myself to positive/fun/helpful posts or adding additional facts from other articles to someone’s post of I feel more info is needed to get a full story, so if people reply or at least upvote, it feels like it was worth adding my contribution. If my humor/help isn’t needed or wanted in a place, I don’t want to both waste my time and annoy people.
- Comment on Yakuza 0 Director’s Cut’s new scenes will give fans “refreshing” sense of closure, according to cast 6 months ago:
I don’t know if I need this, as I felt everything was done pretty well as it was in 0 and Kiwami 2, but since all the characters and actors are so good with these roles, I definitely want to see it.
I’d be a bit annoyed if this isn’t eventually a free patch to the PlayStation, and I don’t know if I’d pay for it, but having this a Nintendo exclusive permanently seems an odd decision.
- Comment on Philips debuts 3D printable components to repair products 6 months ago:
Oh wow. I had no clue there were so many that inexpensive now. Thank you!
- Comment on Philips debuts 3D printable components to repair products 7 months ago:
Huh… I watched a basic review on it and that seems somewhat intriguing. It looked faster than expected, decent basic features, and he says parts availability is good. I may have to put this on the wishlist… Thanks for the tip!
- Comment on Philips debuts 3D printable components to repair products 7 months ago:
I check periodically, but I don’t see anything within an hour of me. It’s a shame, as I’m in the more populated part of my state, between the biggest and third biggest cities and I read about these places and feel I’d really enjoy them.
I have a milk frother for example, that burned out its stupidly non resetting thermal fuse because it got put on the base, something bumped the start button with nothing in and it burnt out. I’d love to have someone show me how to locate that bit and replace it, but I dunno where to go for that.
Same with the 3D printer. I can afford one, but at this stage of life I’d rather someone give me a hands on run through and give me some of their wisdom from experience than me playing around and getting frustrated until I get it right.
- Comment on Philips debuts 3D printable components to repair products 7 months ago:
Thank you! I’ll have to keep that in mind! It seems like a thing that would be useful to have access to. There are always little things where I think it would be cool if the local library or hardware store had a printer for things that don’t seem like they’d be worth shipping but nice to have like pen refill adapters for instance.
- Comment on Philips debuts 3D printable components to repair products 7 months ago:
That was my first thought, but it seems easier to run a few thousand more off the assembly line and make the original part than I’d think to have at least one person develop an adequate 3D part for an items that wasn’t originally designed to be 3D printed.
Even for a relatively simple item like the trimmer guard shown, as someone who used those on their whole head for many years, they need to have decent rigidity coming from a number of angles so it cuts evenly, so someone needs to design a decent print, find what types of stock provide the right durability, flex, etc.
So it’s doesn’t sound that free for them or quick, but it’s much cheaper than distribution for a bunch of random parts that may never get used.
I’m curious to see long term effects if this catches on. Will more original parts be made with 3D printing if they need to design prints anyway?
The big downside is even if this were available, I don’t have a printer. I don’t know anyone with one. I don’t know where I could go to (?) rent time on one. So to me at the moment, this is as useful to me as no available replacement part! 😅
- Comment on MyAnimeList Acquired by Gaudiy Inc. 7 months ago:
Anyone have an easy migration tool they recommend if we want to move/backup our lists to somewhere else?
Is AniList the best similar tracker?
- Comment on What is your favorite Fediverse specific creators? 7 months ago:
Glad you enjoy all the different owls!
I did join up with the local rehab center this year. After promoting it every day, it didn’t feel right if I did not participate directly myself. Last year I also had another commenter tell me the community got them to join their rehab center, so we’re making a small positive change in the world.
I’ve been learning a lot there and get to see many adorable animals up close. Here is our newest owl patient:
- Comment on Fishing games? 7 months ago:
The spearfishing minigame in Y6 was way more fun than I’d expected it to be!
- Comment on Fishing games? 7 months ago:
My whole family played the heck out of Super Black Bass! Probably the best fishing I’ve ever had in a game.
- Comment on are there bots that downvote every comment users have? 7 months ago:
Part of me has wanted this for a long time. The other part of me wants to forget I now know about it.
At least the handful I checked seem to be random, so likely accidental, but I can see this driving me crazy.
- Comment on Anyone know of any active alternative communities? eg goth, tattoo, punk etc. 8 months ago:
I don’t want to have to deal with the mod stuff, exactly like OP said. I’m just here to promote owls, conservation, and wildlife rehab. I do have a great mod that lets me do pretty much anything I want and will do stickies and banner changes and such for me, and I just keep giving good content.
- Comment on My Lemmy instance where 80% of the most generic posts are deleted 8 months ago:
I do look to have made it to your feed now! It deleted my 3 posts that were photos with short blurbs and kept my news article that is mostly text.
We rarely get the meme type posts, but if your setup is looking at anything like text:photo ratio, that could be doing it.
I have most meme communities block myself, so I understand how overtaking they can be to a feed. 😁
I’m interested in what you’re doing because I am interested in news and politics, but it would be nice to get rid of most of the garbage US news and the dupe posts, and let a better variety of news come in. I’ve gone to keyword blocking, but while I have “Trump” blocked, I’d still like to see things from other countries about their responses to his actions., for example.
- Comment on My Lemmy instance where 80% of the most generic posts are deleted 8 months ago:
I was curious what would happen to the ratio of political posts, specifically Trump/Elon, to other communities, but it feels >= the amount as All on lemmy.world.
None of my superb owls look to have made it through, but I didn’t see them removed in the mod log. We’re a pretty large community, so I’d have thought some would have gotten through. I don’t recall if I saw stuff from any of the animal comms.
