ButteryMonkey
@ButteryMonkey@piefed.social
- Comment on Yes this year is going to be really good and productive 11 hours 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 1 day 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 3 days 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 6 days ago:
Fuck you for calling me out like this.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days 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] 6 days ago:
It’s not a blocklist, it’s just information tags.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week 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 week ago:
Why do the dead pixels leak down like that, but not everywhere?
- Comment on stand out from your competitors 1 week 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 week 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 week 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 1 month 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. 1 month 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 months ago:
Probably. Her standards weren’t that high; I’ve met my dad.
- Comment on Definitely spongeworthy 3 months ago:
Which is reasonable from what my mom told me. She agreed those were the best.
- Comment on How the Web Became Unreadable 3 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 3 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?