SolarMonkey
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- Comment on China's latest flying car prototype showcases a breakthrough in urban air mobility, offering a glimpse into how low-altitude flight could soon integrate with everyday transport. 3 days ago:
I would hope that by the time something like this launched to the general public, it would be a service rather than an expected purchase. Like self-driving-flying taxis.
It doesn’t make sense to have everyone owning their own when they will probably be largely autonomous to avoid issues with individuals driving them (not that everyone owning a car makes sense either, but I digress), so the maintenance shouldn’t be an issue either.
- Comment on It happens... 1 week ago:
I haven’t had quite that interaction, but I’m equally blasé about it. It’s literally just part of life.
“In the past year have you had thoughts of suicide?”
broad gesture if you haven’t you probably aren’t paying attention… but I’m apathetic, not active. Not that it would matter because when I was actively suicidal it took 6 fucking months to be seen by you chucklefucks…
They always get that concerned face and I have to reassure -them-… like no it’s fine this is just normal for me…? I live with chronic pain, I live with chronic poor-ness, it’s just chronic life (and not the fun drug kind, even). I’m not into it, but I’m not actively thinking about doing anything about it, either. Doesn’t mean I want to be resuscitated if shit happens, tho… and I don’t… (any more chronic issues would be probably one too many, and then I’d get active…) I even know exactly what probably painless method I’d go with, because suffering is dumb. And it’s something I can act on quite literally any time I want with zero effort on my part other than going to the store, so that I’m still here is a great sign!
My current doc (Va changes my doctors every couple years) was the absolute first, out of dozens of people I’ve told that to, who was like “ummm… that’s actively bad… so what is your mental health plan? (Told her I don’t have one, other than suck it up) I’m going to give you an open-ended referral to some outside groups who may be more able to help you, especially on short notice… I get why you don’t trust our mental health… so if you ever want that, just send me a message and I’ll put in the referral for you. Also here’s a list of non-profits that aren’t directly affiliated who may be better suited to help you…”
Fwiw, whatever it is in your life that causes these things, I hope they stay at or below active-planning level. If you ever want someone totally random to vent to, my DMs are open, and I’ll reply with commiseration rather than gaslighting you about things not being that bad, because… well I get how pointless that would be 😜
- Comment on “It Wouldn’t Be Surprising If, in Two Years’ Time, There Was a Film Made Completely Through AI”: Says Hayao Miyazaki’s Own Son 2 weeks ago:
I’m going to watch it anyway, so there.
But as a brain cleanse, try little Emma. It’s not amazing, but it’s cute as hell. Itty bitty humans smaller than sentient racist livestock.
- Comment on "Sorry I can't read" 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had my uterus inflated with saline for a specific screening ultrasound. They inserted like maybe 10cc, 5 at a time, so not a lot of volume, and obviously it was liquid. I’ve never been pregnant or anything, and I’m not sure if that would make a difference, but that was the single most painful experience of my life. And I get migraines and have major back problems.
So the thought of not only penetrating the cervix (which is bad enough) but then having something solid enter the uterus (the logical conclusion of penetrating the cervix)? Holy gods no.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 2 weeks ago:
I felt that way about blitzball in final fantasy 10 (I think). Never finished the actual game.
- Comment on Not today 4 weeks ago:
The trick I’ve found over years of people-Ing as the person working is to always end with a statement that can either be turned back with ”you too!” without being awkward, or warrants something other than an autopilot response.
Thanks for stopping in, have a great night
Enjoy your meal and if you need anything just let me/us know
Don’t forget to tell your friends about us, and have a great day
Etc.
That way it’s totally fine for them to autopilot the pleasantries and they won’t feel cringey after.
- Comment on Which game is it? 5 weeks ago:
Definitely mine too. It doesn’t even run faster than 1x… which is sucky slow but my own fault for having too many livestock animals to support my ~60 pawns… (peaceful gets very out of control if you let it) but now I have an outpost mod and as soon as all my kids are adults, most of them are gone.
- Comment on Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon 1 month ago:
I mean, I would too, just to see if the moon is special.
I mean look, scientists (and random bored people) for hundreds upon hundreds of years did the same thing. Tasted things, consumed things to see what they do…
Has anyone smoked the moon yet? No. So we don’t actually know. We can speculate it does nothing, but we don’t know.
Maybe snort moon dust? Probably more practical.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 month ago:
I switched thermostats due to the old one failing, and getting a basic smart thermostat was required for a hefty rebate that basically made it free… and the one I have now, the app thought my not-major-brand phone was a tablet. I couldn’t hit the button to turn down the heat, only up, because it was cut off due to scaling.
So yeah, requiring apps for interface is bad. Even if you are willing to use it there’s so freakin many various versions of android that it’s guaranteed to not work properly for a whole swath of people, mostly those on budget devices.
- Comment on Dont worry everyone, this is just an example. Rick Astley has not given us up. 2 months ago:
I think that’s the one inverted color pic that is still widely recognizable by basically everyone, while not being someone particularly famous in a widely applicable way (Einstein and Marilyn Monroe are the only other two I can think of with iconic enough single-frame images to be able to be likewise recognized, but I’m open to other examples!)
- Comment on Nice try guy 2 months ago:
Yeah because the economy is totally great right now and finding work that pays the bills is super easy!
— things said by people who are out of touch
Even when the economy was good, it took months to find new employment if you have to have any sort of standard (like minimum income above the minimum wage threshold). Most people right now can’t afford to be out of work for months.
Maybe your area was good, maybe your skill set is in demand, maybe you have zero standards or requirements to support your family, whatever it is, your experience is not at all the standard, and it’s much more likely you just have survivor bias. That’s when you say “it was easy for me, it should be easy for everyone!” While everyone else is struggling.
- Comment on YSK in the U.S., you can buy produce directly from black farmers and they will ship it to you. It can cost less than your supermarket and will piss off people in power. 2 months ago:
My state (big ag state) has a whopping 3 and 2 of those are hemp. The one that isn’t just hemp doesn’t have an area listed, just the state.
I mean I’m glad there are any… but yeah, not a super great resource for some areas lol
- Comment on Sunning 2 months ago:
At least they don’t have to worry about sunburn because that can’t possibly be a comfortable or easy position to maintain for long periods of time…
Imagine a sunburned anal sphincter… shudder
- Comment on We've increased our subscription from $9.99 to $29.99 a month 2 months ago:
One of the later red dwarf episodes has this. The ship gets upgraded to m-corp, and as registered crew lister is the only one impacted.
- Comment on Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated 2 months ago:
I think you give them too much credit. As long as it doesn’t actively hurt their numbers, like x, it’s just part of the budget.
- Comment on Moap 2 months ago:
Featured in the… super amazing movie Waterworld (1995)
- Comment on Poll: What's the cross-over between fans of Trek and solarpunk? 2 months ago:
If you haven’t already, you should check out some of the communities over on slrpnk.net, we’ve got stuff from urban development to farming to transport to aesthetics :)
- Comment on California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy 2 months ago:
I considered mentioning the angled slide-down option, cuz that does work for a lot of applications, but I feel that having it slide off the panel face in a heavy sheet would be bad for it over time, cause scratches and stuff that scatter light and reduce efficiency. Maybe reduce it more than it would be reduced by heating it while it’s snowing heavily, or at least cause it to need replacement or servicing more often.
- Comment on California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy 2 months ago:
The snow problem isn’t really that much of a problem if you build for that in mind.
All the panels need is a small heat strip running through some part of it, maybe even behind the panel, added as aftermarket options, to melt it as it falls, and some sort of sensor to only kick heat on when it’s needed. They have things like that for led traffic lights already, so it would really just be repurposing something that already exists.
Sure that uses some electricity, reducing the overall efficiency, but 90+% of the year it’s not actively snowing hard enough to need to kick the heat on, so that’s a minimal loss.
- Comment on Bloodletting recommended for Jersey residents after PFAS contamination 2 months ago:
Haha well I guess at least you get an excuse for something you (hopefully) enjoy.
No disability is fun, and for what it’s worth I’m sorry that it’s a thing you have to find a way to manage. I imagine it’s rough. I have my own disabilities that… we get by, eh?
Thanks for answering my questions though, I’ve not met anyone in that position, but it will absolutely factor into how I interact with people in the future, so thank you for being open :)
- Comment on Bloodletting recommended for Jersey residents after PFAS contamination 2 months ago:
Nice, do you do that just to help keep it in check, or do you have other methods?
- Comment on Bloodletting recommended for Jersey residents after PFAS contamination 2 months ago:
How ironic.
But really tho, people with high iron are good for blood donation because a lot of people are low and they more readily pass the screening tests for donation.
- Comment on Bloodletting recommended for Jersey residents after PFAS contamination 2 months ago:
Do you donate blood to do this or…?
- Comment on I’m much more excited for Avowed after hearing the team say that what makes RPGs special is “missable content” 4 months ago:
That’s cool, I just don’t care for having the same story with minor tweaks repeatedly told. Personal preference thing I guess; I remember too many of the details between plays, and find that to be not so fun. Same reason I have to wait years between re-reading my favorite books, or watching my favorite movies.
I love big exploration games, I love finding stuff and fully exploring the world and storylines. I don’t love repetition. That’s tedious to me, like grinding to level up.
Idk personally I want to be able to fully explore everything in one go and know I haven’t missed anything major, because it’s going to be a long time before I can play it again.
But different games exist for different people so meh :) I’m glad that these things work for you.
- Comment on What are you brewing? 4 months ago:
I haven’t brewed in a while and all my yeast cultures died on me, so… I’ve been thinking about getting more standard ale yeast (probs just the cheap dry stuff) and just brew up all the old shit that’s probably no good anymore but is better than tossing it… what’s the worst that can happen, right?
I’ve got stuff for like 6 different brews… such a waste if I don’t use it…
And then when I have my shit together again I’ll go back to making my fancy “found fruits” tart/sours (it not at all fancy, but it is economical, and often well received)
- Comment on I’m much more excited for Avowed after hearing the team say that what makes RPGs special is “missable content” 4 months ago:
I really dislike missable, important content. Especially when it’s for achievements and stuff. (I like achievements/trophies; they give me a good external motivation to play more cuz woo I’m doing good! I also enjoy 100%ing games)
There are far far too many games out there for me to be enthusiastic about replaying them. Ever. If it’s a gem that really catches me, sure maybe, but it will be a solid ways down the temporal line. I have too much of a backlog.
I get that it’s just a different way to play and stuff, and I totally get the different story options and all, but that’s not much of a feature, imho. It’s just a really obnoxious thing they do. If it doesn’t break achievements, fine, have your missable cutscenes or whatever, but if it does and you expect me to play through 5 times to fully complete the game because it has 5 endings you need to play wholly differently to get or whatever, I probably won’t unless it’s quite a spectacular game worth another 100x(n) hours for a slightly different story experience. I’ll play it once, see that I have only 20% complete, look up why, find that there’s tons of missable shit, get unreasonably annoyed, and never touch it again ever.
- Comment on Always happy when the holiday cactus flowers 5 months ago:
Mine hasn’t quite bloomed yet, it’s still young and only has 4 buds (last year had 2)
But the white one is putting out huge flowers like crazy (also hasn’t actually bloomed yet, first year it’s flowering, and it has dozens)
They should be opening within the next few days/weeks idk.
- Comment on BIOMES 5 months ago:
Wow it didn’t even occur to me that paludariums were so named because that’s the type of ecosystem they are mimicking, rather than some guy named Paul invested a cool-style terrarium/aquarium merger… (example below)
TIL!
- Comment on How to avoid having cat hair all over my floor every 2 days? 5 months ago:
My trick to not having fur on me is wearing permanent press and other sleek fabrics (spandex blends, silk type feel, or otherwise just smooth). They tend to be less… sticky? Less clingy for hair anyway. And if not those, then very fuzzy fabrics that absorb the hair until it gets washed (comes out in the dryer) or blends in and becomes part of the fabric.
My couch is covered with a microfiber blanket with the less fuzzy side up (one side is that pilling type of soft fuzz, that side is down, the other side doesn’t pilll and has space between the fibers) and the cat hair sort of sinks into it and comes out in the wash. It’s not perfect, but it works super well for me.
- Comment on Asshole Lab Rat 5 months ago:
I’m guessing Henrietta Lacks, since she’s probably got a bone to pick with the research community as a whole. I bet she’s got some special accommodation with the universe to be brought back constantly as a stream of lab animals, just to fuck with the data.
Revenge is a dish best served confusingly.
