Contramuffin
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- Comment on plump pumkins 2 days ago:
How does that work? Selective breeding? Fertilizer? Growth hormones? New growing techniques? What is it that’s allowing these pumpkins to get bigger and bigger?
- Comment on ANTI PEE PAINT 2 days ago:
Like Wii Tanks, but with pee. Fun to play with your friends!
- Comment on Remedy CEO Tero Virtala steps down after nine years 4 days ago:
I liked Control but Alan Wake was a sludge. Its age really shows. That being said, it wasn’t necessarily bad enough that I couldn’t tank through the game, but if Control were in lower A tier, Alan Wake would be upper C tier
- Comment on Have you done US district court jury duty? What CAN I bring with me to the courthouse? 5 days ago:
State, I think?
- Comment on Have you done US district court jury duty? What CAN I bring with me to the courthouse? 5 days ago:
It seems the rules are different for me than for you. I brought my backpack with my laptop. I did work during breaks. Or used my phone. I just made sure all electronics were off when in the court room. And I’m pretty sure I brought my water bottle too. The one thing that the security did enforce was my pepper spray, which I had to remove and hide in a bush outside. I’m not sure if that helps at all.
One thing you can do is to leave your laptop/things in the car. You can leave the building during breaks and then just come back into the building before the session restarts. That was what most of the jury did during breaks during my time
- Comment on [USA] Is "there are ICE agents roaming the streets" a good reason/excuse to avoid going outside? Or is it just a part of reality that you have to learn to accept? 1 week ago:
My gut instinct is that your mother may be wanting something else but doesn’t know how to put it into words. Not to say that she right, but I can definitely relate to that emotion.
Speaking as a person who is close to someone who is depressed, there is a sort of mental drain and negativity-by-diffusion associated with being near someone who is depressed, and it’s really difficult to put into words. I can know full well that depression is a clinical illness and that the other person can’t help it, but I will still get frustrated over their inability to match my energy.
If your depression and anxiety are as limiting as you say they are, it may be a good idea to talk to a therapist and get some medicine for that. Speaking from my own observations, you can definitely fight depression, but only to a small extent. Severe depression and anxiety are debilitating to the point where you will need medicine just to get close to what a regular person might feel
- Comment on Any advice for me a guy turning 18 yo old?? 1 week ago:
In a similar vein:
Get a fire ladder if you’re not living on the first floor
But seriously, learning to use a fire extinguisher needs to be emphasized more. I stopped a fire from becoming serious because I was trained to use a fire extinguisher and I put out the fire quickly. My partner didn’t know what to do and she just handed the fire extinguisher to me. If she were there alone, the building could have burnt down. Or at minimum, all of our possessions could have been damaged.
It’s easy to learn, but YOU NEED TO LEARN
- Comment on Any advice for me a guy turning 18 yo old?? 1 week ago:
The biggest advice I can give you is, you need to try to be social. It’s easy to hang out with friends in high school because everyone’s locked into the same building every weekday for 6 hours.
Once you’re an adult, you no longer have that limitation. Even college is more of a “go to class for 2 hours a day then leave afterwards” type of experience. It’s certainly liberating to not be forced to be someplace for long periods of time, but it also means that the primary reason that you hang out with your friends (ie, because they’re already there with you) is now gone. It can make for a very lonely experience.
You need to go out of your way and actively maintain your friendships. Make plans to meet up at least once a week or something. Otherwise, you won’t really get another chance to make deep friendships
- Comment on Can mental health medication change nature of dreams? 2 weeks ago:
My girlfriend said that her dreams got more vivid and serious once she started taking her meds
- Comment on Being a 22-year-old virgin or being 22 and never having been in a relationship is something to be shameful about. 2 weeks ago:
You are fundamentally wrong. Look at any high schooler and try telling me with a straight face that they get pussy.
It takes all their energy to not be completely consumed by TikTok brainrot, do you really think they have the social competence to be able to maintain a serious relationship for long enough that they have sex?
I can tell you with absolute certainly that at max 2 people in my entire high school cohort actually lost their virginity in high school
- Comment on tag yourself 3 weeks ago:
Split between wild card and corner cutter (start from one corner and expand outwards to form a triangle)
- Comment on How could I order a package without my parents finding it? 4 weeks ago:
Not all fungi are saprotrophic, and there’s definitely different degrees of unsanitary. I wouldn’t want my stuff being grown in untreated human waste
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- Comment on smol 4 weeks ago:
Or maybe Hearthians are just small. Would make sense why gravity is so weak
- Comment on How do you introduce the Fediverse to other people? 5 weeks ago:
I would not talk about the technical aspects of the fediverse at all. Most people genuinely don’t care and they’ll immediately ignore everything else you say if you start talking about what federation is.
Instead, the best introduction is to talk about what they will directly experience if they use the fediverse. I would say something like, it’s basically reddit/twitter, but with no ads and not run by a corpo.
- Comment on 2 OP 5 weeks ago:
I’m going to need some source for this
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 5 weeks ago:
Shooting is like driving a car. A baby could do it. Few can do it safely.
Using a gun is really easy. And I suspect school showers aren’t particularly concerned about safety, so that’s not an issue for them
- Comment on Evolutionarily speaking, wouldn't premature ejaculation be considered the desired trait? 1 month ago:
On the first point, I read the original paper. It was wild and shouldn’t be taken as fact. The authors modeled a 3d penis and vagina and showed that the penis is able to scoop out paste from the vagina. They then interpret it as that it’s “possible” for the penis to have evolved the way it has to scoop out rivals’ semen.
The obvious counter to the claim is that anything can be used as a shitty scooping spoon if you try hard enough.
Also, note that that woman would need to have some wild body counts if she’s having sex so often that she doesn’t even have the time to let the previous guy’s semen drip out
- Comment on Awooga 1 month ago:
Skimmed the article. It happened over 6 months, starting from 1 week post-vaccine. Started with a tingling feeling. Patient grew from B size to GGG. Breast reduction was performed to reduce the size to DD, with further reductions being discussed at the time of publishing
- Comment on The Activist’s Dilemma: Extreme Protest Actions Reduce Popular Support for Social Movements 1 month ago:
Perhaps not that surprising. It’s the same currency that politicians use. You earn and spend support to keep yourself politically afloat. What this really means is that a good activist should have a healthy “income” of support, meaning that they need to do outreach in equal or greater measure than they do large political actions
- Comment on What strategy would you use to estimate the number of hazelnuts 1 month ago:
Find a cup that is similarly shaped and sized, fill it with hazelnuts and then count it manually
- Comment on Mmm... 2 months ago:
Don’t be comforted. Sacrificing mice is still extremely cruel and is the reason I specifically don’t work with mice.
Animal protocols require you to use 2 methods of killing to ensure the mouse is dead, and I’m assuming the decapitator is meant to be used as the second method to ensure death.
The first method of killing often involves gassing mice with CO2. This takes several minutes, and the mice definitely know that they’re getting gassed. After some time, they start panicking and scurry around the chamber looking for a way to escape. After a bit more time, they get weak and collapse. This is typically when you do the second method of killing. Some protocols require you to stab the heart with a needle and drain the blood. Some require you to snap their neck (like in the movies, except what the movies don’t show is that the mouse flails and twitches when you do it). Some require you to inject with ketamine (ok, this one isn’t so bad). And I guess now there’s a decapitator that lets you just cut the entire head off.
Even among researchers, there’s a pretty sizeable number of people who don’t want to work with mice
- Comment on Caption this. 2 months ago:
They’re putting chemicals in the air to make the friggin’ spiders gay
- Comment on Real Talk 2 months ago:
That’s why you change the color of any temporary text so that you can really see if there’s any left
- Comment on i just think they're neat 2 months ago:
It probably has to do with weight. Pottery is pretty heavy and I assume this gourd, when hollowed out, isn’t
- Comment on Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots) 2 months ago:
I get why the ending to 2017 Prey might have been annoying, but I honestly thought it was very in line with the themes present in the rest of the game. The more time has passed, the more I’m satisfied with the ending. That being said, IMO the only right ending is
Spoiler
to murder everyone
- Comment on Sup, guise. 2 months ago:
You freeze mammalian cells by dunking them in LN2? I’ve… never heard of anyone do that. I’ve always put them in either a Mr. Frosty or a styrofoam conical holder (makeshift Mr. Frosty)
- Comment on Soup of Theseus 2 months ago:
This used to be a pretty common practice. It’s called a forever soup
- Comment on After 18 years, a surprise Half-Life 2 update makes it once again possible to beat a honking train on Highway 17 2 months ago:
My speculation? They’ll call it HL4 and then just say that HL:A was technically HL3
- Comment on sardonic soup 3 months ago:
Dose makes the poison. Most bitter flavors (that you eat) aren’t really meant to discourage you from eating them, it’s really meant for insects.
Plant: I will make an unappetizing flavor to prevent myself from getting eaten
Humans: finally, some good fucking food