sanity_is_maddening

@sanity_is_maddening@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Built to last⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, thank you for the heads up. I got excited at the prospect of restoring it. I like to restore stuff when I can. Usually is more wood related items. Sad to hear this, but thank you for informing me though.

  Maybe I’ll just have it like it is. I’ll call it a “sepia vintage” look as a cool spin to pretend I’m not jealous that others got better and more durable plastic for the same price as me.

  Cheers and thanks again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Built to last⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow. This has to be one of the most phenomenal hacks that someone has presented me in a long time.

  I had no idea of this.

  Thank you very much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Built to last⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  No. No smokers. And the console was stored in the original box in a closet. Not in the corner collecting dust. So it must be the plastic it was used somehow. Sad. I always really liked the Dreamcast look. And it is still one of my favorite controllers after so many years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Built to last⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Is anyone else’s Dreamcast yellow now?

  I bought it in the year it was released and it was used quite a bit (euphemism) back then. But I dug it from the closet it was stored in and now is yellow. Remote control and all. All the consoles stored along with it still look the same. All the older ones looking the same as they always were, but Dreamcast decided to have that “we’re fucking old” moment with me. Haven’t tried turned it on out of fear of mortality being the next reminder it has in store for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Sex for rent’ is illegal in the UK. Why are thousands of people still affected?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Because as long as the risk of coercion isn’t higher than the risk of homelessness, creeps will continue to do it because odds are in their favour. If you are in that precarious of a situation, and ending up on the streets in the cold and the rain is a larger possibility than the creep who exploits that precariousness to “get some” who might only get a slap on the wrist or dismissed in the courts as a possible outcome, this becomes the most probable outcome.

  Most would say… call the police and ask them to listen in to these creeps “negotiating” their chances of sex after iniatially proposing them. No recording. Direct line and called in as distress in the form of coercion.

  I agree, but… most people are still afraid of what people who are capable of these heinous propositions are still capable of doing to them after being exposed. Fear of retaliation. Added to the the fact that they’re still not gonna know where they’re gonna live.

  Yes, this requires much more attention. And not just in the UK. Everywhere.

  But I also need to say this… if nobody is under coercion, I have zero problems to the agreements that people come to on their own terms. It’s a tough and shitty world out there, and I’m not gonna shame anyone for making offers to get by or to get a roof over their heads. If both parties have no issue, neither do I.

  But if there’s coercion. That’s the same as rape. Plain and simple.

  If not, have fun and no need to bother anyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people collect stuff?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a nice little gem of a video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Irish literary star Sally Rooney pledges UK TV fees to banned pro-Palestine group⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Given the viewing numbers that "Normal People" and "Conversations with Friends" got and get, this is a great way to use Brittish Public State Money to send a giant middle finger to the State.

  Bravo.

  I only presume that now adaptations of Sally Rooney novels are not going to be greenlit at the BBC anymore. And the existing shows are going to vanish from broadcast schedules and the BBC online platform. Right?

  And I don't see MUBI picking it up given their strict ties to Israel.

  So... yeah, shitty world we have.

  But bravo to her nonetheless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Revealed: Yorkshire Water boss was paid extra £1.3m via offshore parent firm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, you don't need to "grow up". You're right in feeling the way you do. Growing up in relation to that sounds like giving up. If anyone needs to grow up or give up is the people destroying Nature and people's lifes just so they can get more tokens in a rigged game that always benefits them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real milk proteins, no cows: Engineered bacteria pave the way for vegan cheese and yogurt⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep saying for a while that Precision Fermentation is the future. Because if it isn't, that probably means there isn't one.

  Using the lowest trophic level possible to grow our sustenance directly is the only way to ensure the least destruction possible. Which ensures the most environmental and ethical efficacy. As there should never be anything to distinguish between them in the first place.