blindsight

@blindsight@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Me too!

  I hate working with other people’s spreadsheets.

  Or my old spreadsheets.

  The worst is “can you just add a small feature” to a huge, sprawling, mission-critical, often reused spreadsheet.

  But I love how quick and powerful it is to spin up a new spreadsheet to analyze something or clean up messy data!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re also used as cleaning tips for small/targeted applications, especially when you don’t want lint from a Kleenex or paper towel lingering. Makeup application/removal and electronics cleaning, for example.

  I think (not a doctor) the ear thing is because if you go too deep you can cause some serious damage, and they can make wax buildup worse by compacting it. If you stay close to the ear opening, and do circular motions to swipe wax away, and clean your ears often enough that you don’t get dense wax build up, and don’t “double dip” to introduce potential pathogens, then I think they’re pretty safe to use? But that’s too many caveats for lots of people, so I think ENTs often deal with people damaging themselves with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With Star Wars, they didn’t even do the main film franchise well. Episode 7 was okay, but 8 was such hot garbage I read up on why and found out there was no overarching plan for the trilogy, and different directors for each. No wonder they pulled a J.K. Rowling to completely change the rules of their own systems to meet the needs of the (bad) plot, and shit all over their own franchise. Skywalker might as well have been given a Super Time Turner to save the day in 8.

  Disney Star Wars films are bad fan fiction, not canon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo bans Switch 2 owner after they played used Switch 1 games — decision eventually reversed after 'proving innocence’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The Wii U is fantastic. Lots of great games that run smooth as butter on the Steam Deck without any fancy setup required.

  Oh, that’s not how it was marketed? Weird. That’s the first I heard of it…

  /s but not really.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arts & STEM⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ngl, that’s a pretty good persuasive essay. Since the OP gave the prompt, it also took creative risks with an essay topic that is original, and doesn’t just parrot the consensus opinion on a well-trodden topic.

  I’d give this a really good grade up to grade 11.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Justin Trudeau resigns as Canadian prime minister - live updates⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Longest I’ve been out of Canada is a week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Justin Trudeau resigns as Canadian prime minister - live updates⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Proroguing Parliament for 2½ months to pick a new leader isn’t a good look for the Liberals on this one, but I can see why they went for it. That’s a lot of news cycles for things to cool off before a likely election.

  I doubt it will be enough to keep the anti-trans bigot party from winning a majority government, sadly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watch. It.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Epicly long light novels are like that, too. Like in xianxia, they’re weak and looked down upon, but, due to [secret hidden ultra advantage], they advance quickly until they can defeat the bullies. Which brings them to a new tier of power where they’re weak and looked down upon, …

  Some series do a good job of expanding the scope of things so politics start playing a bigger role, and they interact with people multiple tiers above their power for more continuity/scope, and/or move to new worlds/environments with entirely new structures, etc.

  Others just do the same thing over and over again. Most do both, lol.

  I find I can’t binge the same thing for more than a few weeks before I need a “palate cleanser” series before going back.