LillyPip

joined 2 years ago
[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago

Contact them. Flood their inboxes, chats, and phone lines.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Time to buy a ham radio?

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Did you know your anus has taste receptors?

You’re welcome.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 21 points 4 days ago (4 children)

What’s the over/under on Polio for 2026?

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I was in that scene in the 80s. Been thinking about it a lot lately, it’s hard.

Bon Jovi’s crew had a designated chaperone, and I thought that was weird at the time. It was cool, though. I do appreciate it now. They wouldn’t allow the drugs or the sex – some roadie crews had that, and others didn’t, there was none of that (eta: the really bad stuff) in my circles, but I heard about the bad ones. I was like 15 at that time.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago

Wow. So glad this is what’s on what’s left of his mind. Not soaring prices or atrocities committed in his name. No, this is what matters.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Anyone else see a red circle at their feet, or is that just me?

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Well yeah, I get that. But there are plots for really cheap, but they don’t have any kind of access to water, sewage, or whatever. Plots for like 10,000 or less. That sounds like a lot, I suppose, but it isn’t. I think it’s more that people don’t understand how money works,

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Of course I do. And again, that’s my point.

People romanticise this, but it’s impossible for many reasons. You can easily try, but we have societies for a reason.

Everyone is free to do this, but good luck in practice. It’s not just hard, and it’s not just stupid, but why the fuck would you want this? It’s insane, and we’re not geared for this.

Life in the wilderness is not a Disney movie. It’s so ruthlessly difficult, that’s why society exists. We are stronger, safer, and happier together.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yes, that would need to be the plan. One upfront payment then never paying for utilities or other things forever. That’s the only way this works. You don’t need income, because you live on rabbits and fish and your garden. If your house burns, you put it out with buckets from your stream. You build your house yourself by cutting down trees.

If you get sick, you either die or you don’t.

I think this is madness, but that’s how you do this.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

But you never have to pay for utilities, rent, taxes for schools or roads or services … obviously it wouldn’t be completely free to purchase the land.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yeah, but ‘nobody wants to be there for a reason’ is my whole point.

It will absolutely suck for you. That’s why civilisation is better, and also why we have to make some concessions to be in a society.

There’s no utopia where everything is perfect. There never was.

If you want societal amenities, you have to pay for them in some small way, and if you don’t, your life will be very hard. Those have always been the choices.

 
 
 

Sometimes when seafood has fermented or not been salted at all, in street food, it tastes sweet. It shouldn’t, because usually fermented fish tastes bitter, but after a while, it begins to taste sweet.

Why? What’s the chemical change that makes this happen?

Lots of very northern fermentation methods make it taste this way, but why?

 
 

Use case: sometimes I want to see my own comments in context – which is why, I assume, the ‘View parent’ option exists, but sometimes I also want to see it in the context of the whole post, for similar reasons.

In this case, I’ll tap ‘View post’’… and then lose all context, because my comment disappears into a sea of thousands, and I can’t find it again. Having the option to colour my username (like is done with mods and OP) would be very helpful.

Use case 2: sometimes I happen upon a post that I had commented in, and that post exploded after I’ve made a bunch of other comments in other posts, so I don’t want to sort through that post to see how my comment compares to the general consensus. It would be nice if I could easily see my own comments without mentally breaking the conversation flow to read every username (my brain has been trained to mostly ignore them, since that’s largely irrelevant to the conversation). Highlighting my own username would allow me to read a conversation I know I contributed to without subconsciously looking for myself between each comment. Yes, I know my own writing, but my brain still wants to do this, and it’s very slightly distracting.

Cheers, yours is literally my favourite app. Thank you for your hard work!

 

If so, does that ever ruin a scene for you?

 

I haven’t seen this with alphabetical characters.

e: here’s the comment:

https://lemmy.ca/post/50654491/18661961

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by LillyPip@lemmy.ca to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
 

That’s not what I mean….

I was just listening to a biologist podcast about tardigrades and learnt we've been subjecting them to all the extremes to see what they can tolerate: super-fast speeds, radiation, you name it we've done it to them...

Think if super-advanced aliens did this to us. Oh. Oh god. 'How much velocity to squish us?' 'How much sound to shake us apart?'

Suddenly anal probing doesn't seem so bad.

e: ‘we’ll stick an appropriately-sized thing into an orifice that seems made for that’ sounds downright friendly by comparison.

 

It’s really good at making us feel like it’s intelligent, but that’s no more real than a good VR headset convincing us to walk into a physical wall.

It’s a meta version of VR.

(Meta meta, if you will.)

 

This may or may not be associated with music stands or equipment. I can’t remember.

I just emptied and re-did my music/video room, and found this bracket in a small box with no labels or anything. I can’t remember what it’s for. I think it’s either audio or video related, but it doesn’t seem to match any of my mic or equipment stands, though it might be. It’s devoid of any branding or part/serial numbers. No markings of any kind.

It folds like this:

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More pics:

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There’s a sliding mount screw on the bottom:

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Thanks!

(Sorry for poor lighting, MacBook Pro 15” for scale)

 

We all know WD-40 works for making things move when they’re seized, but it also works better than anything for getting rid of all traces of adhesive left behind after peeling off stubborn stickers from things you buy.

It works on nearly all surfaces* – even coated paper! (just be sure not to leave it to soak into the paper.)

Instead of peeling slowly for ages with your fingernail or doing that peel-stick-peel-stick thing for half an hour, soak a paper towel in WD-40 and dab it on the offending sticker remains, wait a few minutes, then wipe off. (*if on coated paper, don’t let it soak, just gently rub it.) Clean the item afterwards to remove the oil left behind.

*it’s best to test a small area first if the object is painted or porous, and be careful with items meant to be food safe, because WD-40 is obviously not food safe.

This is something I wish more people knew, because soooo many manufacturers and retailers put stickers in the worst places and with near-permanent adhesive. I hope this helps you!

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by LillyPip@lemmy.ca to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world
 

Took me a while and an AskLemmy post to figure this out, since I initially thought Lemmy was auto-modding commenters (which kinda made me panic), but this is what I see:

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I am the only mod in this community, and others aren’t seeing this flag everywhere, so commenters aren’t actually modded.

Is this a bug with Voyager or with my instance?

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