WhiteOakBayou
@WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world
- Comment on POV you and your buddy are transcending the illusion of spacetime but a stranger walks over to ask for directions 10 minutes ago:
I was riding a bus once, which was rare at the time as I usually took the street car, and i had taken some acid earlier and was coming back from a 4ish mile walk from the river to a flag store and at the bus stop this guy starts talking and showing me the slingshot he has. He’s telling me all about the different kinds of slingshot and some weird stuff too but the whole time be is shooting dried beans across the street. He’s like a sniper. He’s calling out letters on signs across the street and just nailing them without breaking conversational stride. The bus came and I got on and he didn’t. He wasn’t even waiting for a bus, he was just excited about the slingshot I guess.
After I got on the bus I sat in a double seat by myself and my friends took similar positions. A lady got on at the next stop and sat next to me. She was a French expat who, at the advice of her psychiatrist, was riding the bus and practicing having conversations with people. She told me all that immediately upon sitting down. Then we had a pretty normal conversation for what felt like forever but could only have been 15 minutes.
- Comment on But I am mighty!! 6 hours ago:
Yeah, my experience jibes with that too. I wear sunscreen everyday and I feel like I’m pretty conscientious but I end up getting red by the end of the day often. The problem with it, i find, is that it’s time consuming to do one’s exposed skin properly or it involves another person. I’m either working or recreating outside so I know I miss applications due to impatience and inattention. I switched to pants, hats, and long sleeves for outdoor living the past decade or so and it’s a huge improvement. Just sweatier.
- Comment on But I am mighty!! 14 hours ago:
Reapply q2 hours and every time you use a towel. I don’t think most sunscreen is advertising all day Protection.
- Comment on Developing a self-hosted alternative to Google Keep 1 week ago:
How well keep syncs lists between users is the only reason I can’t pull my wife from it and migrate fully to joplin. That and the drop from list on checkbox behavior.
- Comment on The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull, a disputed femur and a bitter feud over humanity’s origins 1 week ago:
Great article. I’m on team Maccharelli
- Comment on I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days 1 week ago:
I had an hp laptop with a locked bios and there was a red flathead screw near the ssd that unlocked it.
- Comment on Reappraisal of the Geologic Time Scale: Evidence for a 6,001-year-old Earth 1 week ago:
Clicked thinking it was legit. Good find OP!
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 1 week ago:
Yeah, I went straight from rif to jerboa. I tried the other early apps but they were all very “cardy”
- Comment on I’m very good at math and would like health insurance. What is the easiest option? 1 month ago:
Not to do it once but to do it for hour after hour whole tournament leaves a lot of room mistakes! That’s what separates the wheat from the chaff.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
All we can see is his haircut (he’s lined up fine), his glasses (nothing obvious) and his shirt (odd). I think it’s a jump to say a make over will do this man more good than not wearing a shirt that says “I want to have sex with the youngest woman I legally can.” Which comes off like minimum wage thinking, sort of how they’d pay you less if it were legal.
- Comment on Biwatt releases 4.5 kWh sodium-ion battery - Energy Storage 1 month ago:
Very cool. I’d like to be that remote one day.
- Comment on Biwatt releases 4.5 kWh sodium-ion battery - Energy Storage 1 month ago:
They may struggle to reach price parity for a set up where space and weight aren’t limiting if you’re getting a full 5 years or whatever out of your batteries. I never did with lead acid but maybe I’d take care of them better if they ran my house!
Do you mind sharing your reason for using a battery bank to power your house? Is it solar or a backup charged by the grid? - Comment on Biwatt releases 4.5 kWh sodium-ion battery - Energy Storage 1 month ago:
A lot. My use case is off grid camper living. We live in a camper about 4 months a year not counting weekend trips and vacations. Lead acid batteries have to be minded and hate being discharged below 50%. The lifepo4 batteries have a super low self discharge rate, don’t need any minding and can be discharged down to 15% or 10% before they start degrading. I would need 400 Ah of leadacid batteries to equal the 200 Ah I have now.
So weight and space savings, no maintenance, harder to damage. I definitely recommend. - Comment on Biwatt releases 4.5 kWh sodium-ion battery - Energy Storage 1 month ago:
I can’t answer the why but there was a warning sticker on my new lifepo4 batteries with similar limitations. So not chemistry dependent.
- Comment on The pipeline 2 months ago:
It’s nice that they microwave your food for you.
- Comment on The pipeline 2 months ago:
One step above nuggets if you’re lucky. Nuggets in Buffalo sauce at cheaper places.
- Comment on *dies of cringe* 2 months ago:
Who is first picture? I know jd Vance, the pope and Pam.
- Comment on If trump shaved his head and didn't wear any makeup do you think you would recognize him? 2 months ago:
The question was if someone removed their makeup also not just shaved their head. For the question and answer to match the people in my response must be people who normally wear makeup.
- Comment on If trump shaved his head and didn't wear any makeup do you think you would recognize him? 2 months ago:
I don’t think I could with anyone except my wife and even that would take a minute.
- Comment on Toilet seat detects atrial fibrillation 2 months ago:
That sounds like a Holter monitor with more steps.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Your dad is swole but has odd proportions
- Comment on Did ChatGPT come up with Trump’s tariff rate formula? AI chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok all return the same formula for reciprocal tariff calculations, several X users claim. 2 months ago:
Elude
- Comment on Everybody thinks of Do-Re-Mi, but it's Lonely Goatherd that really slaps. 2 months ago:
I watch this movie about three times a week currently. Usually just the first half because my kids fall asleep before intermission. The first hour/hour and fifteen minutes of this movie is just banger after banger. All Gas No Brakes until after favorite things but a case can be made that Do Re Mi ends the spectacular run of songs.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
In the sterile text fields that compose the internet, you can’t hear the slide rack sound that precedes every American utterance.
- Comment on Is it possible to eat a toxic amount of culinary herbs/spices? 3 months ago:
Parachuted some and mixed some with milk. I wouldn’t recommend. Nothing worth possibly dying over.
- Comment on Is it possible to eat a toxic amount of culinary herbs/spices? 3 months ago:
IIRC when I took it recreationally itwas many many grams to get to the hallucinations part. It was hard to stomach. Unless the safety profile is pretty narrow I’d say it would be difficult to complete suicide with nutmeg.
- Comment on Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups? 3 months ago:
End up like AOL and get big enough to buy time Warner and make a lot investors very rich? I feel like your downplaying the success of aol. Last I heard that whatever was left of them in Yahoo was supposedly still making money.
- Comment on Didn't believe what I was seeing 3 months ago:
The anchor points are usually in the bed or the side of the stake holes. On my truck (half ton dodge) none of the places to tie on to are visible.
- Comment on I've set up docker services behind nginx proxy manager so they're accessible with https, but the http services are still open. How do I close them? 4 months ago:
Can you access the http ports from outside your home network?
- Comment on The fact that some humans can shove an entire large pizza inside themselves is both amazing and terrifying 7 months ago:
Km