ButteryMonkey
@ButteryMonkey@piefed.social
- Comment on My morning routine in 2026 1 week ago:
See? And they want us working from home and using public transit! You can’t be efficient like that in those settings!!
- Comment on xkcd #3194: 16 Part Epoxy 1 week ago:
Would it be possible to make powdered magnets work..? Not as an adhesive, probably, although that would be pretty neat actually..
Like I know magnets are magnets because of the alignment of many many atoms, but say you powdered the magnets, somehow kept them from clumping up (because of course they would) and then applied a low-level magnetic field (or something a magnet would stick to, maybe?) to whatever you were setting the powder in, could you hypothetically make a magnetic table or something with it?
- Comment on YSK: Ranked: Minimum Wages in 50 U.S. States & 35 Countries 1 week ago:
Wisconsin sitting at the federal minimum, meanwhile the cheapest shitty apartment you can find within range of a job will eat almost your entire month take-home pay if you make min wage. Super fun living in economically repressed places!
- Comment on I can taste sounds 3 weeks ago:
Really? Neat. At least compared to the monotone I’ve got (not who you replied to, mind). I mean sometimes it harmonizes with the sound of electricity in wires or air moving through heat vents, and starts warbling, which is incredibly obnoxious, but that’s about it.
- Comment on Putting my kid on adhd meds. 4 weeks ago:
Idk about for kids, but I have a prescription for methylphenidate currently, so it’s still available, even if it’s not super common.
- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 1 month ago:
This is basically why I’m giving up collecting physical media. I have several hundred games on disc/cartridge, and consoles from most generations, but it’s really hard to find newer games on physical media these days. Most of the good ones can’t be found used, and good luck finding a new copy anywhere.
And of course all the older physical media is also getting harder to get because people are paying a lot for it now.. like I have some games in the $80-500 range that I paid very little for years ago. I know the used sales probably don’t count to this article, but you can just look at them to see what’s going on with new physical sales. They made whole consoles that don’t have disc drives, so people couldn’t buy used and bypass them making profit, ffs. Of course the physical game market is crashing. They did that on purpose.
PS5 era is the last hurrah for physical media for me, and I honestly barely even play on PS5 because there’s just nothing to get. I’ve managed to get like a dozen discs for it, and that was difficult. Meanwhile I have easily 4x that for ps4, and prior generations are even better represented. I’d like to get the current Xbox since it’s mostly backward compatible with the one before it IIUC and I have a 360, but I just have no motivation to do so.
- Comment on Parking police 2 months ago:
Maybe there’s a specific size/resolution of image you could use to make it work, if you knew the exact distance? But I’d also think this wouldn’t work..
- Comment on Parenting advice 2 months ago:
No no that’s much better.
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 2 months ago:
Random my little pony and other young kid games. Hate to admit it but even the paw patrol games are entertaining in this way.
They are short and easy, and kinda junk, nice palate cleanser, and often very cute and encouraging. You don’t know a silly morale boost until you play something that says “you’re doing great!” periodically on the easiest thing you’ve done all day. - Comment on If it were possible to travel back in time and manipulate events, we could take a book back in time and publish it before the author historicallt does... as a prank... 2 months ago:
Send down Wikipedia. Oooooooh that’d do it. And it’s probably about as close to objective as can be hoped, I know it actually isn’t, nothing can be, but it’s overall close.
- Comment on *Yawn* 2 months ago:
You saw an animal open their mouth big? Have fun.
- Comment on challenge 2 months ago:
Take a day off, or like, just quit instead.
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 2 months ago:
Why not grassroots? Let’s start the movement!
- Comment on Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs 2 months ago:
Be a great time to set up RAID storage systems mmmmmmm I cannot waaaaait to have something resembling a backup.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 2 months ago:
I wonder if this is a “Star Trek is a conservative show” sort of thing. Like he’s genuinely not smart enough to actually understand what is right in front of him.
I mean it probably isn’t, but it also wouldn’t surprise me to find out that the whole deeper meaning of the entire thing was entirely lost on such a shallow excuse for a human.
- Comment on Definitely spongeworthy 2 months ago:
Probably. Her standards weren’t that high; I’ve met my dad.
- Comment on Definitely spongeworthy 2 months ago:
Which is reasonable from what my mom told me. She agreed those were the best.
- Comment on How the Web Became Unreadable 2 months ago:
I hate bright screens. On my phone I used the accessibility options to set up a trigger to reduce white point, turned it down decently far, and it’s easily the best QoL adaptation I’ve ever made re: screens.
Only downside is it’s very difficult to tell what is in darker pictures. But because it’s on a trigger I can toggle it on and off very very easily.
I genuinely wish I could do the same thing with my tv with just a simple trigger.. I know I can alter the brightness and contrast and stuff but I’d have to mess with so many options, spread across so many sub-menus (fuck you, googletv OS, you suck super hard. Whyyyyyyyyyyy are there multiple settings menus????), to get it anywhere near what I want that it’s not really worth doing (I just crash it down to zero brightness, it’s adequate, I guess, but it’s no white point reduction..)
- Comment on Twinkle twinkle little star 2 months ago:
Do you have any links to these, or names I can look for? I’m genuinely into that sort of social norm bucking, as a comfort-in-skin-over-propriety sort of gal myself, and learning stuff (mostly any science-adjacent stuff) is my special interest - my degree and life focus is in science communication (I can’t help but infodump so I learned how to do it properly!)!
I mean naked news was(is?) super popular; why not fuck-me-branded science?
- Comment on Twinkle twinkle little star 2 months ago:
Is there a video of this talk? I’d love love love to see it if possible!
I like ladies in sparkly things being smart. I do it sometimes myself, anlong with bright colors and vivid patterns, and it’s wildly fun! Clothing doesn’t matter, so have fun with it!
- Comment on Male Mar-a-Lago face 2 months ago:
Oh my god it’s political bimboficiation.. that’s fucking fascinating.
- Comment on After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence 2 months ago:
I got pulled over the other day. The reason given was a lane change violation (which was bullshit pretense, it was right outside a very rural, but very busy, bar so this was likely actually entrapment, tho I was for sure under the legal limit - I was there to check out line dancing because I’ve never seen it before, and only had one beer in the hour I was there).
I also had a very expired registration (haven’t driven much, and didn’t realize I forgot to renew it).
But I got let off everything with a warning..? I spent days trying to figure it out because it should have been a ticket.. he didn’t even seem interested in waiting for me to dig out my insurance info (which I had, just had to get it out of my wallet).
But I have a dash cam.. and it records sound. It would have proven I didn’t violate anything, and he was recorded saying why I was pulled over so no way to flub it and say it was actually the registration all along, and thus the pretense for pulling me over in the first place was void. I’m pretty sure that’s the only reason I got off with a list of warnings rather than tickets.
- Comment on it 🆗 2 months ago:
I’m the opposite. My witching hour is the hour after I wake up. Apparently I don’t fart in my sleep so I wake up inflated like a parade balloon. I greet the morning with my very own rendition of reveille.
It used to be a big problem but my most recent partner was just like “just fart”, and then would giggle like a schoolboy every time I did, which took all the pressure off (literally and figuratively).
- Comment on Fight me 2 months ago:
I used to do it for SETI@home and a few other projects. Haven’t in a while now but maybe I will again since my server pc never shuts off anyway.
Back in the day I used boinc or some such to interface, it sort of looked like a torrent page, with progress bars on the tasks and stuff. It was kinda neat having an impact.
- Comment on similar to the word of mouth post, what game did you not expect much from but loved it? 3 months ago:
Balan wonderland. It looked like a dumb kids game graphically, and I never saw it cost more than $10 new. How good could it actually be?
Picked it up because why not, $10. And it’s actually a great little platformer with cute and engaging mechanics.
I wish the clock did something if you complete it; spawning the kings is a gigantic pain and very confusing for something that does nothing at all, but it’s a very cute little side project, so it should have had a purpose. The use of consumable costumes sucks. It should just be an unlock thing rather than needing to farm the level, since farming is just standing next to the spawn point, which is tedious and dumb. Other than those two minor complaints, it is really engaging and a lot longer than I was expecting. Lots of hidden stuff, great level design, and just complicated enough to make you think without being overly frustrating.
- Comment on sold my first painting 3 months ago:
Oh is that who is behind the painting? I was wondering.
- Comment on paint job 3 months ago:
She should have used grape or green apple so he could actually see the change!
- Comment on Smöl 3 months ago:
I wanted to listen to it, so I went looking.
And I am wildly disappointed that the only human-read video I could find is a freakin’ ASMR video. I can’t watch that shit.
The computer-read versions make it sound like it would make a great tongue twister memory sort of thing. I’m honestly a tiny bit surprised it hasn’t been done.
- Comment on At 1% 3 months ago:
At this point, I’m more impressed that there’s always someone ready to share the relevant xkcd, than I am that there happens to be a relevant xkcd for everything.
- Comment on Which one and why? 3 months ago:
3 looks like my grandmothers sugar spoon from one of those little jar and spoon sets