pishadoot
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- Comment on How can I properly learn deaf sign languages? 2 weeks ago:
Wow, really?
Can you explain more?
My experience is anecdotal for sure, but it spans a few cities/ regions of the USA. And it aligns with what my formal teachers/hearing friends in deaf families have told me.
I won’t live and die by that but from my experience deaf people are super welcoming.
- Comment on How can I properly learn deaf sign languages? 2 weeks ago:
A few ways
Easiest is to find a class in your area for beginners - colleges and hospitals are the best place to start (hospitals not because they teach them but because they generally know from referring newly deaf patients, or family members of newly deaf patients).
You really only get so much from a class though - some cultural introduction, basic vocabulary/structure, facial movements. If you actually want to really learn you need to get into the local deaf community, which depending on where you live will be huge or small.
The other way to learn is harder, but still doable. Seek out the local deaf community and go hang out at meetups (Pizza and bowling are common everywhere). Immerse yourself and self teach using online resources. Deaf people LOVE when hearing folks try to communicate so they’ll do anything they can to help you out generally.
They’re so, so isolated in normal society. Any person that demonstrates interest in communicating will be welcomed with open arms. You’ll probably run into translators and families of deaf folks that hear and speak English just fine as well.
Keep in mind that many people who are deaf from birth do not know English very well, if at all. Trying to write back and forth in English will have mixed results, but until you’re faster at finger spelling that is a good crutch, but try to shake it as fast as you can. When you first go to hang out with deaf folks bring a small whiteboard or notepad if you can’t finger spell.
- Comment on It's there any salvation for this orchid...? 3 weeks ago:
I’m not an expert but I have five orchids in the house and they’re all doing really well, so I just be doing something right - one of them was in worse shape than yours when I got it six months ago, and it’s about to bloom for the first time very soon :D
All that to say, caveat this advice with the fact that the watering method/frequency might not be 100% optimal. All the products I use are listed at the end of this post.
All my orchids are potted in orchid bark, with the slitted plastic orchid pots inside of beauty pots.
I use a water bottle and thoroughly spray every orchid once a day, generally in the mornings. I use enough water to start saturating the roots (you can tell when they start to change color from white ish to a darker color). I also make sure to get the potting medium nice and wet, but not so saturated that the pot drains freely, and I want it to be dry 24 hours later so it doesn’t mold. It’s usually about 25-30 pumps per orchid. I have tried ice cubes in the past but I really don’t like that method - very difficult to get water on all the roots.
Once weekly I do the same application method but I use a probiotic&fertilizer spray that I mix instead. I follow the quantum orchid probiotic directions to mix one gallon of liquid, and add about 1/4 teaspoon of better-gro orchid better-bloom (instead of the normal mix ratio that’s 1 teaspoon per gallon, because I apply it 4x a month instead of 1x a month as the fertilizer directions state. You can use probiotic daily if you want and it won’t hurt the orchids but you can definitely over-fertilize).
Trim the dead/dying parts, get it into some good fresh potting medium, and water regularly. Good chance it’ll come back, but it’ll look dormant for a while. If you see new leaves start to grow you’re in business! Good luck.
Potting medium: www.ebstone.org/product/orchid-bark-fine-med/ Pots (something like this): www.repotme.com/collections/slotted-orchid-pot Spray bottles: camelcamelcamel.com/product/B096LN2NBH Probiotic: www.repotme.com/products/quantum-orchid Fertilizer: camelcamelcamel.com/product/B004Z8OL12
- Comment on In a few years, new smartphones will be as big and heavy as the first cell phones. 5 weeks ago:
Adding pockets costs next to nothing.
You think this is some overlooked thing that the clothing industry never considered? That this is some secret niche that just hasn’t been filled? They don’t sell. If they did, then there would be brands or clothing lines with pockets, and marked up for the piddly cost of the manufacturing expense.
That has NEVER HAPPENED. It’s not because the manufacturing can’t be priced adequately despite high consumer demand, it’s because for all the shouting at clouds, women, in general as a consumer demographic, do not buy pants with pockets.
- Comment on In a few years, new smartphones will be as big and heavy as the first cell phones. 5 weeks ago:
“I saw it on YouTube and therefore it must be true, not basic economics”
- Comment on In a few years, new smartphones will be as big and heavy as the first cell phones. 5 weeks ago:
The clothing industry doesn’t make many clothes with pockets for women because they don’t sell. Women all complain that they don’t get pockets, but then vote with their wallets.
This is a legit example of the intended meaning of the phrase “the customer is always right.” The market supplies what customers demand, and for all the fist shaking about having nowhere to put a phone, there’s very little actual market demand for women’s clothing with pockets. Majority of demand is related to outdoor activities so you see them there.
- Comment on Palworld had to remove game features because of Nintendo lawsuit 5 weeks ago:
You’re a fool.
- Comment on Palworld had to remove game features because of Nintendo lawsuit 5 weeks ago:
“Allowing bullying”
You walk up to kids that got their face punched in on a playground and tell them to quit being a little bitch, too?
- Comment on Don't be Evil 1 month ago:
Haters on here but yeah, it’s lame.
- Comment on 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere 1 month ago:
Oh dang I remember that
- Comment on Suggestions for a top down game that is genuinely different to all the others? 2 months ago:
The game defined the factory builder genre. Everything that followed (Dyson sphere project, satisfactory, shapez, etc etc etc) came after factorio (nicknamed cracktorio because of its addictive qualities) was released.
Gameplay wise it’s a top down with some vehicles and weapons, which is not unique at all, but the core of the gameplay loop was unique and spawned an entire sub genre of build games.
For the akshuallys in the room, it is possible that there were factory line builders before factorio that I’m not aware of, but none had the depth and breadth and definitely none were as popular/iconic.
- Comment on Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey? 3 months ago:
Thank you so much!
I hadn’t really considered how much of the knowledge is local. That makes sense though, in a duh why didn’t I already think of that kind of way.
I’m not ready to get started yet but I like reading about potential future hobbies or things I just find generally interesting, such as bee keeping, so the general knowledge will be fine for now.
- Comment on Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey? 3 months ago:
Hello! I have considered getting into bee keeping as a retirement thing but I don’t know a good resource to start learning.
Are there any good online communities you can recommend, forums, etc?
- Comment on DeepSeek Proves It: Open Source is the Secret to Dominating Tech Markets (and Wall Street has it wrong). 4 months ago:
This is probably the best explanation I’ve seen so far and really helped me actually understand what it means when we talk about “weights” for LLMs.