the_abecedarian

@the_abecedarian@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's play this game again⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is amazing and should be in a tabletop rpg session

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's play this game again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Telekinesis

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 for me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What, no formalwear option?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world was a nicer place before the advent of leaf blowers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  fair enough. It's another reason why grass doesn't make sense to me -- it's so incompatible with the landscape unless you put in the effort to make it habitable. Maybe there's a type of ivy that would have an acceptable max height instead?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world was a nicer place before the advent of leaf blowers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have lived in suburbs, subdivisions, and city neighborhoods with green space. People (or their landscapers) use leaf blowers in all of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world was a nicer place before the advent of leaf blowers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They're loud, they kick up dust, and they happen at intermittent times based on when the neighbors do it. they also use fossil fuels. Loud mowers are annoying, too! If you -- heaven forbid -- want to keep your windows open and feel a breeze, you're going to get all of that noise and maybe even some of the dust.

  I understand that we have to clear sidewalks and driveways so that accidents don't happen. People usually don't have so much sidewalk + driveway that a broom or something wouldn't do that job quickly. But then we have to blow the leaves off the lawn, too? I know that your HOA will kill you if you don't, but doesn't it seem silly to remove the leaves from a lawn, then buy and put down commercial fertilizer, when the leaves would have biodegraded into new topsoil? To spend so much time watering a lawn to keep it alive when the leaves would have shielded it from the sun? Why are we spending so much time, money, water, and effort to maintain sterile grass lawns? We can have beautiful outdoors spaces without being slaves to an HOA enforcing what plants we grow.

  I understand that it's really the HOAs these days that are a big part of the problem. A good number of people in my HOA-less neighborhood have diverse plants in front of their homes. They look fantastic, they seem to take way less maintenance (I never see them mowing, watering, weeding, fertilizing, etc), and ofc they're much better for the environment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn't know about this technique, thanks!

  You can also season the whole pan once and the nonstick effect will last a very long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What's quicker: searching bad info sources online or searching better info sources at the library?

  Also OP didn't say it had to be quick

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  your local library is also a great option

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tolerating them is a form of support. They make spaces unsafe for others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Telepathy will be real once we master brain computer interface⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So ready to have my brain messages harvested for ad targeting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse Corporate Sabotage⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They will try to fill instances with bots, propaganda accounts, etc. They'll DDOS them. They'll try to get them shut down at the hosting level or cut off their donations by having credit card companies blacklist them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decentralization Scoring System (v1.3)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Very cool! For the user scores, are you using monthly active users, total registered users, or something else?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Channel Directory - Discover new content!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for this list! There are some fun suggestions here that'll help me get into peertube, but Russel Brand is a conspiracy theorist and far-right pundit, recently charged with rape & sexual assault. Suggesting you delete him from this list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should visitors to a country (tourist / visa-holders / people staying temporarily) have the right to criticize the government? When should an immigrant have the right to criticize the government?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It's just an excuse. They want to get rid of him because they don't like his politics and he's an activist. Whether the state categorizes you as a citizen, resident, tourist, undocumented, etc. should have nothing to do with your right to speak out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can add self-driving to non-Teslas via comma.ai's "openpilot": an open-source, LiDAR-based dashcam module⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  but please don't