EponymousBosh

@EponymousBosh@awful.systems

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: The Lethal Danger Of Combining Welding And Brake Cleaner⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OK but the point of ChubbyEmu videos isn’t “this thing is GOING TO KILL YOU,” it’s “look at this weird thing that happened and the toxicology behind it,.” In fact, he goes out of his way to reassure people that these things aren’t likely to happen in the videos where viewers might get anxious, like the cases involving leftovers. There’s been a couple videos where he’s straight-up said “this was a freak accident.”

  More generally, the fact that the events aren’t likely is part of what can make case studies valuable; i.e. “this sequence of events is highly unlikely to happen again in this specific way, so let’s examine it closely and see what we can learn from it.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is just the Minecraft coordinates system and it sucks. “OK I’m at the coords, where’s the–oh fuck, it was -3002, 108 not 3002, 108.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've recently turned into a blocker.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I block pretty freely, on all social media. Being both trans and religious means that people on any part of the political spectrum might think I’m subhuman, and I don’t see the point of engaging when that’s the case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to survive by eating only through your ass? (Serious.)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Boooooooo.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you ever feel full and hungry simultaneously?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to get this sometimes. Turnes out my body doesn’t process fructose well. Look into FODMAPs if none of the other suggestions work for you (usually the FODMAP thing requires an elimination diet, I just lucked out due to weird circumstances)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have anxiety and I’m also into horror. I dunno if it’s helped, but I don’t think it’s made anything worse at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A real question about trans athletes and records⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, the 200m freestyle, the 500m freestyle, and the 1650m freestyle, huh? Did she ever compete in anything else, or were those numbers perhaps cherry-picked to make the situation look more dramatic than it actually is? Because if you look at her results holistically, she’s a very good swimmer, but she’s clearly not dominating 100% of the time the way she’s been portrayed.

  At the NCAA competition where Thomas won one (1) race that conservatives cried and shit their pants over, a cis woman named Kate Douglass set 18 new records. Lia Thomas set zero new records. And crunching the rest of the numbers bears this out: she was a good swimmer before and after transition, but she’s not some unbeatable powerhouse that cis women have no chance at winning against.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come glasses for hyperopia/farsightedness (reading glasses) are there on the shelves, but glasses for myopia require a prescription?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve used EyeBuyDirect before and they were alright. It’s been a couple years tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anyone have personal experience with industrial tourism?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been to at least one distillery and a hydroelectric dam. These days, your best bet is probably to just check the website of wherever it is you wanna go to.