marshadow

@marshadow@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am required to pay taxes to the US government, not elon musk running a fraudulent government agency, why should I pay?⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  For being a low-key menace. www.cia.gov/static/…/SimpleSabotage.pdf

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am required to pay taxes to the US government, not elon musk running a fraudulent government agency, why should I pay?⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Because not paying your taxes will draw attention from what remains of the system. I’m not thrilled about paying taxes to the dead and looted corpse of our government, but it’s better to stay under the radar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Killer robots’ are becoming a real threat in Africa.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The acronym “Laws” is a little too on the nose. I’d ask whether anyone involved in the development of these has seen the documentary film Robocop, but clearly they have and thought it was a great idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the least suspicious way to get OTC meds through airport security?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A pill organizer, if the original containers are too large (or too numerous) to be practical. I’ve only flown domestic USA, but security has never bothered me about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not only is this not how anyone writes, I do not understand why anyone would want to read anything that sounds anything like this⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you do, fellow humans?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Elder Millennial here. I think I just have that “eww pedostache” reaction because, when I was young, such mustache styles were common among middle-aged men who hadn’t updated their styles since the '80s. Some of those men were creepy, so the mustache style became associated with creepy old men. And of course, teenaged giggling among ourselves about “eww pedostache!” really cemented the association.

  I’m pretty sure our parents had the same initial reaction when we brought aviator glasses back into fashion. We’ll get over it, the cycle continues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10 years ago, a person would be insulted for filming a video in portrait instead of landscape. Now, old landscape videos are being cropped and resized to fit in a portrait player.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I still don’t like vertical videos. My natural field of view is landscape and portrait feels crowded and stressful. Also vertical videos have to be watched 2-3 times to see everything, because the person filming has to pan the camera so much, and they usually move too quickly. It’s like everyone forgot that a phone can be rotated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaving the bidet on "feminine" mode is the female equivalent of leaving the toilet seat up.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  According to my urogynecologist, who specifically instructed me to always point my shower wand downward when washing my nethers, spraying water can indeed push bacteria up there!

  It may only be dangerous for the subset of women who have problems requiring a urogynecology specialist in the first place, but better safe than sorry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, that’s sweet of you. <3 Things are much better for me now that I’m out of that line of work, so I do my best to stand up to trashy customers on behalf of the people who can’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This kid is way too young to be taking verbal abuse from customers. I remember being 19-but-looked-15 and grown-ass adult customers calling me stupid and useless, and generally speaking to and looking at me like I was a piece of dung stuck to the bottom of their shoe. People who thought I was a literal child behaved this way. Not to mention all the perverts. Kids shouldn’t be working customer service, not in a world where adults have such disgusting behavior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who have time management skills let the clock become an intrusive thought so they develop an obsessive compulsion with being aware of the time.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty common for people with ADHD to be able to play video games for a long time, because games are designed to make the brain pump out dopamine.

  Up to you whether to get an assessment, ofc, but time blindness is a really common symptom. Your OP and others’ responses sounded really familiar to me.

  Example, I recently had an argument over what a habit is. The other party claimed it’s something you do without thinking about choosing it, like muscle memory. Which I still insist is bullshit because everyone knows a habit is when you feel weird not doing the task, and the urge to avoid the wrong feeling makes you remember the task and outweighs the urge to be lazy. (Apparently this isn’t how it works for normal people?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who have time management skills let the clock become an intrusive thought so they develop an obsessive compulsion with being aware of the time.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you considered getting evaluated for ADHD? (One of us, one of us!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I stop hating children?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was also expected to be very quiet and perfectly behaved, and have also struggled with resentment toward rowdy children as a result. Even now, at 39 years old, I sometimes want to retaliate with an Aztec death whistle.

  Therapy can be really helpful in learning to deal with that resentment. If possible and reasonable, so can talking about it with your parent(s).

  Several years ago I said to my mother, “I’m feeling angry right now because I’m thinking about that loud kid we saw in the store today and remembering how I had to repress myself as a child.” Then we had a really productive conversation about the pressure to defy stereotypes about poor parents, being a parent with unrecognized and unsupported neurodivergence, and sensory issues.

  I hope you’re able to dissolve a significant amount of your resentment, too. In the meantime, there’s a kind of reusable earplug that reduces noise just a little bit so you can still have a conversation (can’t remember the brand name though).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is eating potato chips better than nothing in terms of pure nutrition and wholesomeness?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They have calories (energy) which your body needs for defending itself. So eat all the simple carbs you want, if that’s what you can stomach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans were lucky that it worked out that bigger dogs generally are less mean.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Little dogs are mean because shitty humans think “aw he’s so itsy bitsy I don’t have to train or discipline him at all!” Totally ignoring that (a) a dog needs maintenance discipline to be emotionally secure, and (b) aggressive little dogs are unhappy little dogs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Free returns disappearing from retailers | The era of free returns — an essential part of the rise of online shopping — is ending⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So companies will stop lying in the sizing charts, right? Right?

  If the sizing chart says size M fits a 28” waist and the size M is actually 32” in the waist, their lying ass should pay the return shipping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone drink instant coffee anymore?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not me, but it’s great for baking (a bit of coffee makes chocolate taste more chocolatey) and making nutrition shakes palatable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix shutters its DVD rental business, marking the end of the red envelope era⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sucks. I liked using it to watch seasons of shows instead of signing up for multiple streaming platforms. Off to the high seas, I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix shutters its DVD rental business, marking the end of the red envelope era⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah they’ve announced considering it a few times over the past several years but haven’t followed through until now.

• ⁨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:

  Fair enough, and I didn’t mean to imply that everyone should. It’s totally understandable to decide the juice ain’t worth the squeeze.

• ⁨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 enjoy VR gaming and I get motion sickness.

  The trick is to slowly acclimate, which takes patience and body awareness. Play for a short amount of time, pause the game when you start to feel slightly warm (or ideally just before that point), and go do something else for 20 minutes or so. With time, the play periods will get longer and the rest breaks will get shorter. Eventually you may stop needing the rest breaks.

  A couple caveats: my sample size is 1, a hiatus of more than two weeks means retraining again, and you have to be firm with yourself about stopping on time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How hard can you concentrate?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have extensive practice in straining to force myself to concentrate. Much like moving one’s bowels, pushing hard doesn’t necessarily result in better output.