Apathy Tree @ ApathyTree @lemmy.dbzer0.com

I aim to be more human. I aim to be less apathetic as a human. Apathy grows

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There was a period of time, way back when, in which personal computers were relatively common in households, but repair services basically didn’t exist in most places. Computers were still expensive, and not really useful enough that you’d just go buy a new one when it broke, you’d either fix it or hope someone you know could show you how.

That was a time of “learn or don’t use it” (we had a pc we couldn’t use for 6 months until we figured out how to fix it) and it’s sad that it was so short, because only a very specific age group of people grew up with that pioneering mindset. Since then it’s gotten more “user friendly/foolproof” (locked down and hidden) and the knowledge of how to do stuff with it is becoming more rare on the whole.

I always sort of expected that generations younger than mine would be more tech inclined (inner workings, not just using it) but they really aren’t due to how so much of our modern tech is just.. not approachable, locked, or hidden.

I’m glad it’s not just me being unable to get ai to produce decent fins/tails.

It’s so bad at them!

I replaced all the windows the first year I lived here (they were shitty wood single pane double hung, and I used to work for a door and window company so it was an easy call), but left the storm windows for the extra airspace. The doors/windows aren’t drafty, the structure of the house itself is, especially where different materials tie together. I can’t see light through any of it but I can feel the air movement. Arguably worse. It’s just settled over time, and come apart at the seams. (I can relate)

I need to remove all the siding and exterior insulation, reseal, seal the foundation, reinsulate, and reside it to take care of the problem. Which is going to be very expensive, and why I haven’t already done it. I’m looking at roughly 1/5-1/4 the total I paid for the place to do this.

This isn’t a small draft issue, unfortunately, it’s a huge one. I’ve already done all the small stuff cuz it’s so expensive to not.

Awww this makes me miss Waffle House. Vaguely.

All of my experiences with Waffle House have been either drunk or nostalgia (literally only two options, as I haven’t been at one in 10+ yrs but experienced my first under 25 years ago), and both are passable. At least your drunk meal doesn’t cost much. And if you are sober you don’t expect much.

But when you go sober, for nostalgia, in a region you don’t normally frequent, they get actively upset at large (pay for the job, not based on check) tips. Left $10 on a $10 tab somewhere in Kansas, because fuck those people work hard, and they made absolutely certain I meant to leave that in cash. They seemed actively uncomfortable with it.

Such a weird dynamic for a country that allows/requires tipping. But they are so used to poverty wage that anything that isn’t is unbelievable. Man that’s so sad.

I hallucinate too, ai. It’s ok. It happens. It doesn’t make you any less a self-aware entity.

Granted, my hallucinations don’t impact anyone else other than answering “did you hear that?” (No) Or “do you smell peanut butter?” (Also always no), but it’s pretty common for humans to hallucinate (even if most people who do won’t admit to it because it’s socially linked with major issues like schizophrenia), so maybe that’s why our ai does it.

That was sort of my thought too, but nowhere in nature would our brains be exposed to vibration over long periods of time, and I know that concussions that don’t meet the clinical definition lead to brain damage.

I couldn’t really find much on the impacts on the brain of vibration specifically, but I have seen experiments where vibration was added to a semi-solid, and it liquified because the weak “cell wall” analogues dissolved. I know that’s a totally different mechanism, but it got me curious :)

🤮 yes all of those also.

Much cuter and smaller than Pygmy elephants, buuuuuuut

They are so cute!

I’m not super upset by legal acquisition if it’s not available here.

Thanks! It’s on my list now. I’m actually excited that it’s foreign media but not anime. (Anime is fine, but sometimes you don’t want the sameness)

Is it any good?

I’m always on the hunt for new stuff!

I thought hellyeah was a different band?

I can’t wait for the IRA to actually go into swing as far as the incentives for efficiency upgrades and electrification for residential properties are concerned.

I own a super old house and I’m not at all well off (bought in 2013, because I needed somewhere I couldn’t get evicted from, and my disability covers most of the mortgage, but I don’t have stable employment) so taking care of weatherproofing is way outside of my budget.

My house is drafty af, being 140 years old and not super well maintained, and we get cold winters - yearly average temp here is 40f. If I keep the heat at 60, which is a temp at which my hands and feet go numb if I’m in it all day, my heat-only bill is like 150/mth (which is still high) at 62 it’s $200+\mth. 65 it jumps to 300+, and heaven forbid I go with 68, cuz that’s well beyond 400/mth.

Sure that saving for myself would be great, but my house is heated with gas, so it would also reduce emissions, and that’s sort of the point. It would also free up a bit of funding for economic stimulation (what with spending a small fortune on heat every year). Win-win.

I think you may be fundamentally misunderstanding the std treatment coverage ;)

Reminds me of armored gorilla from one punch man.

Probably far fewer than never had the opportunity to realize they could be great in the first place.

If greatness is one in a billion we have 8 (boy would the richest like us to believe that!). If it’s one in 100 million (I’m bad at math. I think it’s like) 80. Or if it’s one in a million, that’s 350 in the US alone. I’m inclined to lean toward the later, after all, if there aren’t a lot of greats waiting to be called up, how the fuck did we beat the odds by such a large margin??

Legit didn’t realize until this news came out that windows didn’t have that same sort of “lawl, yes, I know what I’m doing and accept it might break my shit if I’m wrong” override access… but then I stopped using windows at 7 and only started again with 11 when my Linux beast died. (Temporary and migrating off already!)

I never really used cmd on windows, everything was gui… but I prefer terminal to gui on Linux (idk why, maybe just because it’s different and feels more in control. Also verbose logs are sexy).

I also don’t blame them because sometimes that’s the only real dopamine hit they get from their entire month’s paycheck.. and that’s wildly depressing.

There’s a lot of ~65k houses in Indiana, as well.

I live in a low cost area and that’s about the only place I could move to come out ahead if I sell. Because houses there cost what I paid in 2013 for roughly equivalent places.. but they don’t get much weather, and I’d rather ride out the climate catastrophe in a water rich region than a wanna-be desert..

This is basically my strategy as well but I give them a number I’d legit be willing to sell for, currently it’s 3x what I paid for it, as-is with a required waiver on inspection.

It’s the top for the range of what I could sell my house for if it was in prime condition with the current markets, so it’s not unreasonable. Prime condition it absolutely isn’t (it needs several thousand worth of fixes, in addition to the several thousand I’ve already done on this cheap pos. It’s 140+ years old. It has problems), hence the waived inspection and as-is clause.

If they still want it, I’ll sell. It would save me tons of money getting it saleable.

But they never call/text back… not ever..

Apparently top of market price for the property plus “as is, waived inspection” will get them to leave you alone… and if you’d be willing to sell for that and they go for it, you win. They know you know your shit, so aren’t worth bothering, and you win if they go for it.

Me too. I could have sworn I relocated after my tour of duty, but I guess not..

Wait, is dental care health care? (I mean obviously it is health care, it’s literally part of your body… but it’s never counted as such, and that’s where 30/50 of my problems are..)