dandelion
@dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on There should be a "last used combination" faucet handle for sinks so you don't have to balance hot and cold everytime during winter 2 days ago:
oof, you caught me red-handed, USian here 😭 <greatest country on earth she says between sobs>
- Comment on There should be a "last used combination" faucet handle for sinks so you don't have to balance hot and cold everytime during winter 3 days ago:
would love indexing and numbers on my handle
or just go full Japan and incorporate a thermostat
- Comment on SipsTea 3 days ago:
good job sweetie, I’m sure you’ll make an excellent bottom 😊
- Comment on Why does American media (and to an extent the American public) seem to only focus on one issue at a time? 3 days ago:
I’m not an expert in media or journalism, so don’t take me seriously, but my speculation is that because American corporate media is for-profit and competing for attention, when something is new and getting attention, everyone competes to grab as much of the attention that issue generates as possible, creating a fear of missing out for those who don’t try to monetize the new thing.
- Comment on SipsTea 3 days ago:
google “bottoming”
- Comment on If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save? 4 days ago:
right!? it’s a terrible question, I wouldn’t want to choose, and I would hate whatever anyone came up with
(I hate what I came up with!)
- Comment on If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save? 4 days ago:
which makes me think you could use Garry’s Mod to recreate TF2, so maybe that would open up a slot …
maybe the committee would actually look to preserve game engines first and foremost, and then count on recreating other games from that
if I had to pick I would at least try to preserve Source, Unity, and Unreal … HPL Engine (Amnesia, Soma, etc.) is pretty unique, but it might not have enough cultural relevance - depends on whether we are prioritizing diversity in our top 5 picks, or just going based on commercial success & popularity …
- Comment on If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save? 4 days ago:
why!? I’m not sure that game makes me hate myself as much as it makes me hate the game - most of the time it’s just bad luck when I die … once I git gud it’s like slowly accumulating power until I’m god, and then it’s just so delightful and satisfying - that game is just so psychologically brilliant that way
- Comment on If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save? 4 days ago:
how could I forget noita
- Comment on If every video game was to be destroyed but you had the chance to save five games, what would you choose to save? 4 days ago:
- Garry’s Mod
- Starcraft
- Team Fortress 2
- Minecraft
- Skyrim
that’s already five - which one of these shouldn’t be saved?
maybe Age of Empires 2, Stellaris, or Civ V instead of Starcraft?
maybe Oblivion, Morrowind, or Fallout 3 instead of Skyrim?
maybe Terraria, Stardew Valley, or Factorio instead of Minecraft?
maybe Counter-Strike, Half-Life 2, or Insurgency instead of Team Fortress 2?
This is an awful choice, a committee would have to decide this …
we’re really going to let all these games die?
not to mention gems like Stanley’s Parable, Disco Elysium, and Beginner’s Guide …
this question is evil, and I hate everyone’s answers.
- Comment on 🔥🔥🔥 1 week ago:
deliberately misinterpreting “fuck X” as articulating a sex-negative attitude is so non-serious and shows such bad-faith 🙄
are you just upset that you didn’t have anything to offer, and this seemed clever to you?
either way, I’m blocking you for your bad faith; I am happy to waste time engaging with serious people, but I have no time for your silliness
- Comment on 🔥🔥🔥 1 week ago:
fair enough; I tend to just click “reconnect” a few times, it usually only takes a couple tries
but good point about not visiting reddit, lol
- Comment on 🔥🔥🔥 1 week ago:
btw, they don’t successfully block all VPN users; using mullvad you can just reconnect until you’re on a VPN server that isn’t blocked (in case you still want to access Reddit with a VPN)
- Comment on 🔥🔥🔥 1 week ago:
hm, I hear you - but I think that would have to be embedded in the context of the meme; it’s not like anyone knows you are a “cocksucker” in a non-pejorative sense; homophobia is what makes the meme successful, and I don’t think anything changes from the fact that you happen to be creating or sharing it
basically the homophobia is in the audience that interprets and receives the meme, the meme succeeds because it plays on that homophobia, and so the meme is “homophobic” in that sense
I have trouble imagining these memes being shared and being popular gay communities I’m a part for that reason - the audience might find the implication that sucking cock is itself wrong as homophobic and uncomfortable
it should be clarified that when I point out the homophobia, it’s not meant as some attempt to cancel the memes or indicate loyalty or protection to Trump, instead I’m just trying to point out reactionary threads that remain, the way misogyny and homophobia are common even in anti-Trump sentiment
- Comment on 🔥🔥🔥 1 week ago:
this is a premium comment, no notes
- Comment on 🔥🔥🔥 1 week ago:
to be blunt, I don’t believe you
if you call someone a cocksucker, it’s obviously intended as an insult
telling me actually you think sucking cock is totally fine and it’s actually just about the hypocrisy of the cocksucker is not believable - that’s not why these memes succeed, people are just enjoying labeling Donald Trump as a cocksucker in a pejorative way
- Comment on 🔥🔥🔥 1 week ago:
Not every joke involving gays, are bashing at homosexuality.
I do think jokes where the entire joke is that Donald Trump sucks dick is intended to be funny because homosexuality is taboo and sucking dick is considered bad, not just to Trump, but to people in general.
- Comment on 🔥🔥🔥 1 week ago:
it’s too good not to be a joke 😅
- Comment on 🔥🔥🔥 1 week ago:
still homophobic tho, conservatives are just the wrong people to be calling it out (and if anything conservatives are the ideal target audience for the homophobic memes, since they are the ones most likely to be bothered by their Daddy being a closeted gay)
- Comment on Goddamn it, Gary 2 weeks ago:
cannabis finally helped me grok the Kline bottle, took a lot of visualizing and mental exploration but I got there
- Comment on Found these growing in our indoor herb planter 4 weeks ago:
they are L. birnbaumii, there are no other look-alike mushrooms that are that size and color, and the fact it’s growing in your potted plant is just confirmation.
The caps can be appear smooth. You should google the species name and look at amateur photos, you’ll see some that look like yours.
- Comment on Found these growing in our indoor herb planter 4 weeks ago:
+1, came to say this
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I have a “security blanket” too, but it’s a pillow I was given as a small child.
I’ve also felt ashamed for sleeping with it, it feels like it makes me infantile or not grown up, so I put it in a closet for many years. The past year or two, though, I’ve realized the comfort is more important to me than feeling ashamed, so I sleep with the pillow every night, usually I hug the pillow and sleep with it against me. It’s one of the few such comforts, and nothing else comforts me like it - even other pillows or plushes I have tried.
- Comment on Best offline resource for mushroom identification? 1 month ago:
lol, the main way I identify mushrooms is with books - I don’t know any serious mushroom people that use apps, it’s all about taxonomic keys and using books to identify.
This is region specific - but look for identification guides for your region: en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_books_about_mushrooms
In North America I highly recommend Alan Bessette’s books if you are serious about this.
You should find a local mycology club and join them - they will know what books to get for that region.
- Comment on After a year of dormancy, we finally have growth! 2 months ago:
such a cool plant I’ve never heard of - thank you for introducing me to it!
- Comment on I am interested in mushroom/fungi local names 2 months ago:
usually my books do have the common names listed (and usually there are many common names) along with the scientific name
- Comment on 2 months ago:
weird, to be fair, my experience has been mostly with Amanita ocreata, the destroying angel - I’m not in Europe and I’ve never interacted with Amanita phalloides in particular.
Also most of the time I have interacted with them when they were mature fruits, I have found them when still in their volva, but I didn’t notice any difference in smell (or even notice if there was a lack of smell, etc.).
I suspect when cooking them, it could mask the smell and taste as well. Most of the deaths are from East Asian immigrants mistakenly assuming the mushrooms here are like the ones at home, and they mis-identify and then harvest & eat the Amanita spp. instead of what they thought they were harvesting (I actually don’t know the mushroom they mistake it for that is found in Asia).
The main risk of the Amanita spp. for me is just that i eat stinkhorn eggs and puff balls, and sometimes truffles - so it’s important to verify you aren’t digging up the early fruiting phase when the Amanita is still in the volva - but it’s easy to tell by cutting it open.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
tbh they smell awful, I wouldn’t want to eat one
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 2 months ago:
clit.
- Comment on The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home. 2 months ago:
it’s unpaid labor either way, it’s a bit arbitrary to say owning a car and commuting for a job isn’t time and money spent for the employer in your capacity as an employee