ApathyTree
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- Comment on Fedi platforms designed for mutual aid 2 weeks ago:
Super sorry for the delay - life stuff got hectic
I think whatever you are planning would be perfectly fine for my needs, since I don’t need much. I was more just looking to see if it already existed but if it leads to a cool collab, that’s pretty awesome too and I’d love to use whatever comes out of it :)
- Comment on Fedi platforms designed for mutual aid 2 weeks ago:
I mean I’m down but idk how to do shit until I find a guide for it 😅
So like I’m super nervous but I’m into it.
@Darorad@lemmy.world might be into this also. Idk how mentions work but now you both got one, and I feel fancy.
- Comment on Fedi platforms designed for mutual aid 2 weeks ago:
You and @haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com would probably be good to chat about that :)
- Comment on Fedi platforms designed for mutual aid 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know how to do anything techy, unfortunately, so I didn’t understand most of what you wrote… most I know how to do is basic tech support troubleshooting type stuff 😅
- Comment on Fedi platforms designed for mutual aid 2 weeks ago:
I’m moving away from anyone that would be my neighbors, annd my friends anre anlready a bit scattered anround an 4-hour radius from my projected landing spot, but I still want to support the dispersed community I care about now, as well as being part of an underground pipeline for people to safer spaces.
Being online isn’t ideal, but it may prove to be necessary to maintain my network.
I have a few interface points already established if I need a more offline network, but if others want to contribute their goods it will get prohibitively difficult for one person to manage
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 18 comments
- Comment on Eat that ramen 4 weeks ago:
None of those things apply to me so I’m still hopeful. :)
- Comment on Eat that ramen 4 weeks ago:
I just hope my 40s suck less. I’m almost stable and my country is probably going to collapse. And then the ecosystem around us will follow suit, yaaaay…
I have some people to jointly buy land with, and a zero waste, zero emission farm plan in place to weather the storm. Maybe. If we can all get our shit together super soon… it won’t be much but it’ll be ours and we’ll defend it fiercely. It’s the American way.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 5 weeks ago:
I’m playing the original devil may cry (ps2 via emulation, so smoothed and upscaled). I’m all in on retro this month, and these enhanced games look pretty good actually.
It’s kinda short, and pretty good overall, but I really can’t recommend it. The controls are absolutely awful; static camera with frequent angle shifts, and character controls that require changing movement direction with every camera angle change, even while fighting, is just… very very bad coming from playing more modern stuff.
If it had a dynamic camera, even a poorly placed or inverted one, the game would be quite good. Instead it’s super frustrating.
- Comment on Fresh sausages 4 u 1 month ago:
Right next to a lace boutique, no less. ;)
- Comment on What games did you complete in 2024? 2 months ago:
I in the last 4-ish months played through yonder, biomutant, ni no kuni 1+2, ff7 remake (#1), balan wonderland, several Lego games, star ocean integrity and faithlessness, tandem, all the cat quest games, several “tales of” games, and a buttload more while I still had the ps+ subscription (which expired in like… August? I won’t count those cuz I had no life at the time. Still don’t but It was worse then.)
My big push at the moment is going through some of the ps3 era titles I’ve never played. I have so many games I buy and just sit on for years… I probably shouldn’t do that, but I buy used so it’s cheaper… But those unplayed games are mostly super long story focused games, so they take a hot minute to get through. I have a few upcoming tales of games, which I now own most of, star ocean, valkeria chronicles, and all the final fantasy games I never slogged through the overwhelming tutorial on and thus haven’t played.
Any games I finish, I enjoy enough to finish. I gave up pushing through bad media long ago because there’s so much more out there. I’ve been really into big story games with minimal or easy combat, but I also really like the short and simple games that you can get through entirely in 10 hours.
Tandem was a really cute one that stuck out. I got it purely because it was inexpensive. It’s a fairly short puzzle game where one character walks through a top-down view and the other is a side scroll view. You have to swap back and forth to use them both to solve puzzles. It’s not super difficult, but it is satisfying in difficulty.
- Comment on Jake paul is cooked 3 months ago:
The person on the right is from my deer friend, right?
Is it any good? I thought about downloading it for being comedy, but so many things listed as comedy frankly aren’t, and that’s all I know about it.:
- Comment on Bros smooth like saliva 3 months ago:
Idk I find this sort of response pretty fun.
I never said it would be fun for readers ;)
- Comment on Bros smooth like saliva 3 months ago:
Fun fact: the entire digestive system is lined with taste receptors, we just aren’t conscious of the flavors. They are used by the body to help determine healthy balance, and are capable of expelling waste more rapidly if they detect a problem (vomiting/diarrhea).
So in a way, you are constantly tasting your own shit. All the time. Forever.
- Comment on Facial Recognition Firm Announces Way To Punish Retail Workers, Shoppers For Forming Relationships 3 months ago:
Well, the bad news is that some tech firm wants to convert the relationship you’ve built with your favorite cashiers into something inherently suspicious. And it wants to do this because retailers are claiming people engaged in theft generally head towards employees willing to help them engage in theft
Yo I didn’t know I could just get help with my theft, wtf? Groceries could have been so much cheaper this whole time!
What stupid logic.
- Comment on Dreams come true 5 months ago:
Do they not have to pay for the privilege? Or is this not referring to academic publishing? (It’s not super clear, but context indicates academic?)
- Comment on Honey 6 months ago:
Have you ever tasted flower nectar?
I grow gladiolus sometimes, and they produce a lot of nectar, but there aren’t any pollinators for those flowers around me, so I remove the nectar myself with a syringe. There isn’t a lot in each flower, but it’s nice in a cup of tea.
It doesn’t really taste like honey, even dilute honey. It doesn’t taste like just sugar water, either, though. I’m sure each flowering plant produces a subtly different flavor, like fruit.
And indeed, honey apparently tastes different depending what the bees are feeding on. But I’d say it’s probably a mix of something bee-specific and the nectar itself.
- Comment on Symptoms of arsenic poisoning 6 months ago:
I thought you were saying the book is a bit pricy the way a tabletop art book in the $100 range is pricy. So I went to see if it was something I could justify for a friend of mine as a gift… but nope, way too expensive is 100% accurate. $620. Holy shit.
- Comment on On Bears 6 months ago:
What do you think would be the most offensive thing to say to a bear?
I just want to be prepared in case I ever need to know.
- Comment on EFF and 12 Organizations Tell Bumble: Don’t Sell User Data Without Opt-In Consent. 6 months ago:
Well now I’ve got the banana song stuck in my head… (from memory so if I got any wrong, too bad)
Charlie, you look so down, with your big sad eyes and your big fat frown, the world doesn’t have to be so gray.
Charlie, when your life’s a mess; when you’re feeling blue, always in distress, I know what will wash your sad away.
All you have to do is put a banana in your ear, you will never be happy if you live your life in fear.
It’s true, so true, when it’s in the world is bright and clear, the bad in the world is hard to hear when in your ear a banana cheers, so go and stick a banana in your ear!
- Comment on Dishwashing 6 months ago:
For me it’s this comic (also SpongeBob). It’s kinda long, but definitely worth it.
- Comment on Mildred 8 months ago:
Im super glad it works for you, same with a self-directed name :)
No need for sorrow, I think I’m just too old to see myself the way I’d have liked several decades back :)
Either way, I hope you have a wonderful night friend! I hope to run into you again :)
- Comment on Mildred 8 months ago:
There’s no name I actively want to go by, is the problem. I’ve tried with minor changes but nobody took them and they aren’t things I can just be like “this is me” because it… wouldn’t be actually? I’m envious of people who have the option to choose their own name, or how to apply it. Mine is so short there’s like 2 nickname options and I hate both. Passionately.
Best I’ve ever come up with would take a full name change (first middle last) to be worth doing. And that’s not worth doing.
I’m super glad it was effective for you, though, honestly that’s what matters. If it matters enough that you have a preference, it matters. My preference is just “anything else please” and that’s not a good option for most people, which… legit.
No judgement on your relationships, whatever works. I haven’t the energy to be weird about it :)
- Comment on Part of this complete breakfast! 8 months ago:
I literally took Latin in college for the sole reason that Latin is used in super stupid ways, and my science communication degree would be worth less without that knowledge. Because Latin-base is fully half of the science terms you need to know.
And my college was super on board with my reasoning. Wish I’d also had the mental capacity for ancient Greek, because that’s literally the other half of naming schemes.
Ridiculous.
I’m super into modern scientists giving shit pop culture names. Because holy shit is it ever more memorable than some random Latin/greek bullshit.
- Comment on Mildred 8 months ago:
I feel your pain. I wish I had a better first name or middle name to go by but I’m stuck between a shit place and a shitter place. And none of the nicknames I tried to get assigned actually worked out for me so… I either get nicknames I hate as much as the name itself or nothing. Super fun!
And if you want to change names, holy fuck, best of luck!
At least you have something you can relate to? I have never met anyone, of any gender, named Shay. I know that doesn’t necessarily help… but… it’s definitely not something I’d (as a solid middle age sort of person) consider a gendered name. Not more so than Aaron/Erin or any other neutral name…
- Comment on Mildred 8 months ago:
I low-key hope Agnes doesn’t come back… that’s my middle name… can’t stand it. I know it was my great grandmothers name, but I never met the woman… and it just feels… harsh. (Probs because I only heard it when I was in trouble, or when people were making fun of me)
Plus side, my mom got talked out of naming me “Elsbeth”, which is a very very defunct precursor to Elizabeth (which she didn’t like)… Since frozen with Elsa, that probably would have been ok, but it didn’t come out until I was in my checks release very late 20s, by which point the damage would have been done.
But hey I can’t complain too much on the naming lottery… my sister has a fully 100% boys name. Her middle name is a French version of Patrick.
- Comment on Ah, the Nordic spring. 10 months ago:
In that case, I’d recommend the sanding, then a wipe down with bleach for the algae, then primer impregnated with a fungicide like Zinsser mold blocking primer (just an epa-approved example, but decent place to start). It’ll form a barrier between the raw degraded plastic and the paint (so anything existing won’t continue to grow), as well as helping prevent molds from growing in the new paint layers.
Just wait for a really dry day to do it (much as you can, you know, or if you have a garage you can run a dehumidifier in that may work too), and let the paint dry for a long time between coats to prevent any moisture trapping.
- Comment on Ah, the Nordic spring. 10 months ago:
Probably best option is to sand it, prime it, and repaint it. Use a UV resistant paint or top coat, and should be good for several more years.
The green black gunk is probably algae, maybe with mildew (guessing you live somewhere that gets humid, or at least takes a while to dry from dew) so feel free to wipe it down with bleach or a fungicide after sanding but before you paint it.
- Comment on don't tell iceland 10 months ago:
So I’m not a biologist either but I’m going to speculate on the temp thing. (Somewhat educated speculation - science of all varieties is my jam)
Basically my hypothesis is that between insulation and size, they aren’t capable of losing heat fast enough to fall below their baseline temp, but any old temp would probably have worked fine, as long as their fats stay liquid (and for all I know that’s 36C, but that seems highly unlikely - you’d want to be several degrees warmer in case of emergency, else you’d get stiff and die for sure).
They have a nice layer of fat for insulation and that’s all well and good, but they are massively huge and a lot more spherical than most animals. So, they have a small surface area to volume ratio, and lose heat slower as a result. And because they are huge, and muscle twitch is heat generating (to say nothing of leaky heat-producing brown fat, idk if they have this, but most mammals seem to for thermoregulation), they likely produce a gob of heat internally just existing. Much like we believe the larger dinosaurs were endothermic due to sheer size (and some evidence from their bone structure).
Side note - Imagine how many calories it would take to maintain basal metabolic rate when you are losing that heat to 4C water at literally all times. It takes us about 1500-2000 calories for this function and we only lose heat to air that’s relatively close to our body temp.
I did a super quick scan of melting points of various fats, and while without knowing exact compositions of whale blubber idk the melting point, a surprising amount of the animal fats we use for cooking melt around 25-40C, with most large terrestrial animals (cow, pig, deer, etc.) falling between 32-40C (goose fat was the 25C).
If their composition hadn’t worked, though, they could have evolved a polyunsaturated fat (like fish oil) with a lower melting point.
Anyway, thanks for coming to my ted talk ;)
- Comment on don't tell iceland 10 months ago:
Plus side for squick thoughts, probably not that warm. The ocean is quite cold and things lose heat 25 times faster in water than air, so it would likely cool down considerably between being…… extruded…? And consumed.
Then again, I don’t know a whales body temp to start with, so there might be a lot of heat to lose. Idk if that’s better or worse…