greedytacothief

@greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scheduling is hard⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My disagreement with the show came primary from the premise that we rely more on technology than we do on people(not sure he was trying to make that point but the whole thing about loss of electricity leading to bad anarchy leads me to interpret it that way). However I also believe that with our technology we could be very close to a post scarcity world.

  We could feed everyone, house everyone, etc. at our current level of technology. Should we decide we want to increase contentment by giving people more free time we could. It’s because some people value other things that we do it the way we do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scheduling is hard⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My disagreement with the show came primary from the premise that we rely more on technology than we do on people(not sure he was trying to make that point but the whole thing about loss of electricity leading to bad anarchy leads me to interpret it that way). However I also believe that with our technology we could be very close to a post scarcity world.

  We could feed everyone, house everyone, etc. at our current level of technology. Should we decide we want to increase contentment by giving people more free time we could. It’s because some people value other things that we do it the way we do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scheduling is hard⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How much work do we actually need to do to maintain our lifestyle? I’d say a lot less than we’re currently doing. Just think about all the waste that goes into Bitcoin. What about insurance, or any number of jobs. Humans create systems (or that’s what I got out of that episode of connections) but those systems are not necessarily efficient at benefiting equally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scheduling is hard⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How much work do we actually need to do to maintain our lifestyle? I’d say a lot less than we’re currently doing. Just think about all the waste that goes into Bitcoin. What about insurance, or any number of jobs. Humans create systems (or that’s what I got out of that episode of connections) but those systems are not necessarily efficient at benefiting equally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bread mold⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So I can’t actually find anything from a quick search that tells me what “bread poisoning” is. Searches show results for both moldy bread as well as ergotism. Just about every source on the Internet tells me that eating a bunch of moldy bread should just give you a bad case of shits or vomits. But if someone is immunocompromised or has gut issues it could be worse.

  But if this was ergot poisoning that’s different and doesn’t have much to do with ordinary bread mold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you cheat in video games?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the best things in games that aren’t super polished or balanced is figuring out how to exploit the game. It gives you the same kind of feeling you get from getting to the end game in Gothic (or something like that). Getting powerful through your own skill and commitment to the game. Steady progression is good sometimes, but so is feeling progress.

  Also yeah sometimes I cheat in single player games

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If I’m remembering the original sysntesis for insulin used dogs, and it was harvest from them after being killed. It’s unjust that insulin is so expensive, but also modern production methods are not the problem here. It’s greed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to practice pretty hard to do that, it’s much easier in a journal than in my head to dialogue. Do you find it helps being mindful?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine don’t stop either, but it’s just constant words. Are your thoughts mostly images?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ancient Greeks or Chinese should have already had words for this.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people also don’t have an internal monologue. I’m probably a 3 or 4, it takes significant effort to see something in my head. But my thoughts a words and they definitely have a voice.

  I assume there is a scale for how well we can imagine every sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spongebob big guy pants okay⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there’s nematodes that we’ve blended up before, but instead you get a bunch of nematodes instead of just one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calling all Dickheads!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m about 200 pages in, it’s really good. But I wish there was a primer I could read about the themes, symbols, and historical context of the book. Just so I know what I’m looking out for. Searching for things on the Internet has gotten frustrating though. I did find the website that has notes about what all the words mean though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you beat post-work floppiness?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably not helpful but when I was roofing and at work for 11-12 hours a day, getting home and going for a short run really helped out (~4 miles). Something about that cardio gave me more energy and would guarantee I’d at least take a shower after. I think I was only running 3-4 days a week then.

  It’s also a great time to decompress, just being alone with your thoughts a little. Then for a while after your heart rate is elevated and you’ve got some extra energy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3167: Car Size⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It would probably be quieter than any of the diesel pickup trucks on the road too!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perfection⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the period that this book was illuminated in was from later when really fancy books was more of a business for the church. Usually the very early illuminated books were made by a single monk doing most steps of the process (prepping parchment, calligraphy, painting, binding, etc.) but the later books like this may have had different artists for the illuminated letters vs the borders. So there could have been one monk that just likes sea stuff and he was too good for the other brothers to tell him to stop.

  Source: mostly vibes, but I’ve dipped my toes into illumination and guilding

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plant Protection⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just remembered that shaggy mane, another dung loving species, tends to grow on leech fields or wherever septic tanks live. So I think they will just grow anywhere there’s poop, no need to be eaten.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plant Protection⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe Psilocybin cubensis evolved with this in mind, where the spores get on grass, then they do their funky thing in the cow guts. Cow poops them out and the mushrooms come out of the cow pies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, I would assume most candles are vegan being made of either paraffin or soy wax. Bees wax tends to be more expensive since it takes a long time for bees to make wax. The flame from bees wax is also smaller and less bright. Am I wrong about this assumption?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC Master Race⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is liquid cooling even worth it these days? I’ve always used air cooling and just vacuumed my pc every once and a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where is modern Punk?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s quite a few good ones in the “Breakcore” genre like “machine girl” and “femtanyl”. I’m not sure they would consider themselves punk, but I have a pretty liberal definition of punk.

  I also came across “blednost.” A little while ago, they’re pretty small. I just click on music that YouTube recommends a lot and find lots of small artists

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where is modern Punk?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I listen to lots of punk music, especially in the electronic space. But I think people want to see another hardcore movement.

  Really I see most people who actually try to make their own art as punk. The techno-fascists just want you to be complacent and consume content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨card game shop⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk, humans have lots of different smells and some are more tolerable than others. Like if you don’t sweat much (not me unfortunately) you can definitely go a day without showering. The worst human smell might be a rotting tooth though, that’s really difficult to be around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨School pickup lines are wild⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I… I would not be brave enough to drive around in a “truck” like that. Like mad props for never out growing your edge lord phase.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no! Wait I don’t watch shows anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honestly Bizarre⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that just the normal ones you find at the grocery store, or have you tried other types? I think oyster mushrooms are really good when you fry them until they are crispy. Lion’s mane is really good too, I like to make vegan pulled pork with them. The flavor of some foraged ones are also amazing like chantarell and black trumpets. Chicken of the woods also tastes and kinda feels like lemony dry chicken. There’s soooo many great mushrooms

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World would be a better place⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Excuse me, but do you have a moment to talk about ZFS and tall socks? Maybe the benefits of a tiling window manager?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Beyond that sounding tedious as fuck, how much will that actually improve workflow? Or is this one of those features that sounds good to people with C level intelligence, and the rest of us just have to pretend we’re using.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hows keto working out for you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Trying to stay young forever over here. It’s working pretty well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hows keto working out for you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mention it because I really don’t feel like an outlier. Sure it took me a couple years to get where I am, but I’ve also had a lot of setbacks from when I started as well. Obviously someone 250-300lbs is going to have a hard time since exercise is murder on their joints. but most folks aren’t morbidly obese. If you enjoy it, getting up to 5 days a week of cardio won’t take that long (3-5 months?) then you can really get into the fun long workouts. But I think the problem is that most folks don’t have something they enjoy. If exercise wasn’t playing I’m not sure I would do it, but because it is I want to do it. If anything my enjoyment and not having debilitating injuries is what makes me an outlier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hows keto working out for you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Eating in a deficit? Yes, counting calories? No. There’s times I lose weight just because of activity load. Hell I did a 3 hour bike ride on Sunday that burned around 2000 calories. When ski touring season hits I’ll probably lose a bunch of weight. I get that most folks can’t do activities like that, but there’s a lot more to fitness than just your body fat. If I loose weight due to exercise it’s usually 10 lbs but over the summer I went from 180 to 165 without thinking once about my calorie intake.