ButteryMonkey
@ButteryMonkey@piefed.social
- Comment on Astronomers reported that they identified an extremely powerful cosmic explosion as powerful as a billion suns only after seeing its delayed "echo", rather than the initial blast itself 6 days ago:
The scientists were able to track the origin of this explosive event to a small, bright *galaxy* located around 1.7 light-years away. The galaxy has an irregular structure and is in the midst of intense star formation.
Methinks they fucked up their distance units here. 1.7 light years is really close cosmically speaking. That’s closer than Alpha Centauri, which is 4.246ly away and the closest non-sun star to earth…
So I wonder where it ACTUALLY was. I’m guessing they forgot “million” in there.. 1.7 million light years away is far far more likely, but with magnitudes of 10 billion suns, it could very well have been 1.7 billion light years away, as that would put it much earlier in the universe when those ultramassive stars and systems were more common.
- Comment on Is school cafeteria food in America trash? 6 days ago:
I looked forward to canned green beans in school lunches. We only had frozen growing up and the canned were just a whole different thing.
Fortunately that hankering didn’t last very long, because canned veggies are so so much worse than frozen in every way.
But we mostly brought our lunches from home, until halfway through high school when we started buying our own food for lunch with after-school-jobs money.
- Comment on There are people in first world countries with only 1 hard drive 1 week ago:
Meanwhile, I just picked up 40tb of new drives to add to the ~30tb I currently have, between 3 desktops and 2 laptops.
- Comment on I don't have money to pay premium to not see ads. What in the world makes you think that I have money to buy what you are advertising me? 2 weeks ago:
I see ads for beans all the time here on Lemmy, they are just disguised as memes.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 2 weeks ago:
If you, as a passenger, notice no difference in service, because they still find someone to cover the ride in the big pool of potential drivers who aren’t women who only drive for women, does it actually matter if some of the drivers are personally refusing to serve you? Have you actually been discriminated against by the service? Would you even know the difference? I doubt it.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 2 weeks ago:
There is. It’s substantial, but much more subtle than on Reddit. Slurs and outright sexism usually get you banned pretty quick here, so it’s largely just the casual sexism left, but it runs pretty deep. And it’s been here at least as long as I have overall (my oldest account is about 3 yo). In the original wave, the shitty population drove off the vast majority of cis female users within 6 months, which is a huge part of why the demographics around here are so heavily skewed toward men. This is also why the women’s communities, which all died out and were resurrected during the second Lemmy population boom, are so heavily policed to shut men down.
You can tell we have such a population because all posts like these about women getting anything at all, good or bad, always, without fail, have an absolute glut of comments. If you then take the time to read all of them, a solid percentage are very clearly motivated by sexism. Now, commenters are obviously self-selecting, so it’s impossible to say in absolute terms, but of the people who choose to comment on such things, and generously leaving out any comments that may just be poorly worded, I’ve typically seen between 10 and 30% of the comments have such motivations, depending how old the post is and how much visibility it got.
- Comment on Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner 4 weeks ago:
I wonder, if that was done, how much energy would be transferred from the atmosphere (condensing water vapor transfers a huge amount of energy as heat), and what impact that might have on climate instability. I also wonder if there’s a way to transfer the heat energy to somewhere “safer”, like underground.
And if these could be used in places that aren’t as bone dry, even better. I mean all the big powerful storms have been bigger and more powerful because of all the extra moisture in the air.. if we could throw these everywhere, pull some of that moisture out, and use it to supply portable water instead of drawing from reservoirs, that seems like it might be a many-win option.
- Comment on Yes this year is going to be really good and productive 5 weeks ago:
My favorite no-notice rage quit (tho I’ve done it several times) was when I worked for a call center dealing with big money warranty stuff. People frequently tried to get the warranty extended to cover whatever, even though it was an extremely generous warranty anyway. My mom had died a few months prior, and of course I got the minimum legally acceptable bereavement time. Three days I think. Maybe a week.
On her birthday, I had to work, and I fielded a call by someone who was giving me some sob story about how she couldn’t possibly have followed up on the warranty in the last three years since the problem started because her dad had a stroke. They were now two years outside of the warranty period, and this was the first contact we ever had with them.
I was like look, my mom died a few months back and you know what I did the next day? I paid my bills like an adult because they were due. Today would have been her birthday, and I have to work because that’s what adults do. If you can’t get your shit together in three damned years, you deserve to pay to fix it yourself. Get bent and don’t try to guilt trip people when you don’t know what they are dealing with.
I hung up on her as she stammered some objection, logged out of everything, took my badge and parking pass, slammed them on my supervisors desk, said “you’ll probably want to review my last call.” And walked out.
- Comment on All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, honestly they have needed to be changed for years now, what with all the data breaches and stuff.. Pretty sure everyone’s info was leaked ages ago. Nothing has been done because this is how the people in charge want it.
- Comment on Sleep well 1 month ago:
My embroidery machine is really old, like 30+ yrs, with very basic programmability, and it can do stitches in multiple directions. It has a foot plate thing that moves the cloth as needed, and it works pretty well.
I have to imagine a newer more advanced one would be capable of something like this, tho would probably need to be simplified somewhat.
- Comment on meal 1 month ago:
Fuck you for calling me out like this.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
🤷🏻 you do you fam.
I’m under no delusion that people aren’t tagging me if their platform allows it. I just don’t care, because it’s a nice way to keep track of who is who and what they are like, the way faces or voices work in person. If someone wants to tag me as an asshole, or whatever, they will.
I try not to be one, of course, but I have zero control over how people perceive me so I don’t really care.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It’s not a blocklist, it’s just information tags.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I like going through all the posts like these so I can tag people who whine about how men have it so hard or whatever incel nonsense they spout to derail. I always end up with at least 5 new users tagged (across a spectrum of descriptors). They just.. there are so many of them.. everywhere..
- Comment on Ţ̴̭̪̥̒̽̋͋̿̄́͊̾̌̓̀̔͝͝͝͝ͅh̵̬̙̩̞̻̰͇̠̭̦̊̽̆̓̍͆̑̓͌̓̋͊e̶̢̡͍̪͕̥̤̬̋͂̑̈́̚̕ͅͅ ̵̛̛͖̌̀́̌̑̃̆͆̈́͒́̌̕̚͠ǵ̸͎̩̭͒̎̉̈́̌͂̇o̸͇̗̙͖͋̚v̵͖̫͕̔̽́̋̀̋̈́̉͌͋̽̈́̓͑̚͝͝e̵̙̦̬͇̭̍̏͊̃ř̸̭͈̼̱̤̻̏̎̚n̸͍̰̠̆͆́̓̚͘͝m̷̏͂̕ͅẹ̸̡̨͎͉̲͍̝̲̌̿̽̔͊ͅṉ̶̬̠̱̩̔̌̈́̒̋͘ 1 month ago:
Why do the dead pixels leak down like that, but not everywhere?
- Comment on stand out from your competitors 1 month ago:
You’d still need to put the stuff in plastic, those bags are mesh. They are really cheap though, so there’s that.
- Comment on Taste the flavor 1 month ago:
Ooh I get to be that guy!
Acktachully, your entire digestive system is lined with taste buds! They aren’t hooked into your normal sensory awareness, so you don’t taste your own digestive juices the way you taste your mouth, but they are used for sensing things like spoiled food and spice! Those receptors can trigger ejection of material if it’s bad enough (diarrhea/vomiting, depending where in the tract it sensed bad stuff).
- Comment on do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs? 1 month ago:
I have chickens, and whether or not I like the taste and smell of eggs is wildly dependent upon the eggs and preparation.
I worked at a chicken hatchery in high school and was traumatized by what we called “poppers”, which are eggs that rot inside with the shell fully intact, wherein any contact with the shell causes it to explode. It took me over a decade to eat eggs again. And I still won’t eat anything like quiche, omelets, or even just plain scrambled eggs. I find them gross for whatever reason.
But a sunny side up or an egg salad or something? French toast? Egg bread? Breakfast bagel bombs? Sure.
- Comment on My morning routine in 2026 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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. 2 months 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 3 months 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 3 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 3 months ago:
No no that’s much better.
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 3 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... 4 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* 4 months ago:
You saw an animal open their mouth big? Have fun.
- Comment on challenge 4 months ago:
Take a day off, or like, just quit instead.