Nepenthe @ Nepenthe @kbin.social

Rexxitor. Biology nerd. Roguelites, indie games, and TRPGs. Drowning in unu

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Are the munchies not a universal thing with weed, then?

I've been contentedly silent til now, but I would also like OP to know that I keep them unblocked to laugh at them. I've thought about it several times, but then you get weird shit like "ripped Karl Marx" and "Communists are a separate subspecies of human."

Well. "Extremist" and "nationalist" were never words I thought I would see attached to the phrase buddhist monk, but here we are, I fucking guess. That's a thing that I know now.

I'm about to just eschew anything bipedal at this point. Two legs bad.

Chiming in, it feels super weird to say, but in part I do like it here because I use it less. Among the things I wanted out of social media, I would not have pegged "inactivity" as an apparent plus and there's no getting around doing something else.

Does make me feel a little guilty, since I'm in essence lurking and then only every couple days when I still want this to succeed and could be offloading literally anything to make that happen. I'm just..distracted at the moment. With not social media.

I know you're trolling and indeed fuck the rest, but..buddhist monks? Pretty hard to have beef with. No pun intended.

I guess you could make the case that encouraging indifference towards suffering breeds a whole different class of sociopathy, but even then, at least they're the least destructive they can possibly be by just never touching anything.

"It wasn't about slavery!"

Texas' articles of secession name slavery as a main cause twelve times. Georgia's calls abolitionism "heresy" and Mississippi, bless them, referred to it with "a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization," before going even further with such quotes as

[The US government] refuses the admission of new slave States into the Union, and seeks to extinguish it by confining it within its present limits, denying the power of expansion.

It tramples the original equality of the South under foot.

Which I am only leaving here because somebody wrote that, meant it, and sent it off, and it is insane to read.

Fortunately for Mississippi, their constituents can't.

Musk’s cowboy “pry open the floor and electrical panels with a knife” electrocutes him

That one is a risk I'm willing to take. I had to stop reading the article for a moment to marvel at just how close we really were.

War with Canada, though? Canada. I've genuinely never heard me or any other American on any political side have one negative thing to say about Canada, and we generally view them as our little brother no matter how frustrated and superior actual Canadians get about it.

The brits would be invading America's hat, it would be a war over the rule of the monarchy, and both sides being NATO members means NATO is not really a concern.

I don't think that would ever be a thing, but if it were a thing, I really wouldn't choose to be at war with anyone on US borders. Not even saber rattling. We're very paranoid, if that's changed at all it's gotten worse, and physically touching our borders will almost certainly draw aggro.

Plus, let's be honest, Canadians aren't brown enough to be ignored. We'd sell out Mexico faster than Canada simply because the cartels are too much trouble.

I refuse to read it, but I've heard it actually has REALLY good sci-fi writing in it, which just makes the whole thing...I can't say it feels better, but I don't want to call it worse when the guy has earned being a legend

Edit: I got curious. It is real.

Unsolicited petulance like this is why, instead of being empathetic about a situation we both share, I will never not laugh myself to tears as I watch the NHS deal with its massive backlog by killing brits via slowly privatizing.

You're like the weird kid on the playground, pulling our hair because you have a crush on us

Uh. Lemme check. Yes. We're well past the "please stop killing me, it's really mean :(" stage. They know. They are choosing to jetset anyway.

If the disgustingly rich haven't shifted their focus by now, they've basically made their stance known already and stuff like this strikes me as just toying around. It makes activists feel like they accomplished something, and then it's rectified quite literally the same day and everyone continues about their business.

Wanna join in or would your parents worry?

A spokesperson for Marina Port Vell said that the boat had not been damaged in Friday’s action. “After a quick action on behalf of the security team, the incident has been corrected and the boat is now in a perfect state,” the spokesperson told CNN.

Cannot stress enough that a new paint job is not the kind of action that's going to fix jack shit. More than likely, it's barely an annoyance. Few people on the planet have not heard the message already. If you don't want them joyriding a massive yacht everywhere, remove the yacht.

Around me, in a mid-sized city? Anywhere from 25oz for $3.66 to only 8oz for $3.48

Laxatives seem to scale weirdly well, with a pack of 24 at $1.65 (sennosides - plant-based, gentle, hobby pooping) or 25 tablets at $10.99 (bisacodyl - synthetic, medically serious, competitive marathon pooping)

It's not too horrendous if you really like prunes, although I'll be totally honest and say I've spent decades almost always in the kind of financial position where that $3.66 could best be served elsewhere than on one single can of snack food.

Everyone knocks Little Caesars til they need to eat for an entire month on a single $20, and lots of people are just grabbing whatever is easy to get and the most filling so they can trudge back to their miserable hovel in peace.

But I wouldn't blame something like a laxative shortage on a generic food desert. If you can afford one, it seems like you can probably afford the other. For once.

Hey now, Leon Cooperman has given over $155 million in different grants and charities.

He just happens to have two billion three hundred and forty five million left over.

Depends on where you end up, too. There are a bare handful of prisons full of and geared towards rehabbing sex offenders, though none of those are where he's going. And low security in general, sure, they're apt to mostly ostracize them rather than risk extending their own sentence. High security, you're gonna want to go into protective custody as quickly as possible or gamble on whether or not your skull is ventilated.

Protective custody was where Masterson was being held back in June anyway while awaiting a verdict. I see no real reason he'd be moved out of it, so I'm sure he'll mostly be bored.

You have to register to post on the original version of a thread, correct. But federation essentially just trades continually updated copies of the same thread back and forth between different servers. Which is how you're reading this. I'm not even using Lemmy at all, much less lemmy.world specifically. I'm on kbin, and here I am commenting.

Kbin.social has received and delivered unto me a copy of this thread and informed lemmy.world I've commented something in response. Lemmy.world has added that to their version of this post, and now it's in your notifications.

Similarly, when servers block each other, they're really just no longer updating their version of a thread with content from people on Blocked Server. They can still comment as well as any third party can. You can still comment. But neither of you will see each other. You were technically never even in the same thread to begin with. It was a copy handed out to both of you, and now their copy's had your name deleted.

It takes some mental yoga and for me actual crayons for someone non-tech inclined to get their head around it when every site has always been cordoned off from everywhere else, but the idea is more like...having one of Reddit's many defunct apps, that you just happen to have to sign up for.

You could use Apollo and I could use Boost, and those were different things with slightly different interfaces and user capabilities, but both of us would have been using them to access reddit and talk to one another. I didn't have to download Baconreader to see and interact with people using that. It would have been miserable if that were the case.

As long as my server is able to find a community in order to subscribe to it, or properly sends and receives information, I get the exact same content you get. Which inherently means I can also pick up and move anywhere else if I stop liking my specific server, and at the very worst I'd just have to spend several minutes re-subbing everywhere.

This isn't to say there are never issues with jank between servers, to be candid. There always will be a few, I think:

• Servers have to be informed that others even exist before they'll start pulling content from there, so they can be a bit sparse when they're just starting out.

Meaning there's this catch-22 where Lemmy.world has been repeatedly breaking under the continual weight of hundreds of thousands of users for months, but rectifying it by joining a very tiny one can be utter tumbleweeds. Discovery strikes me as one of the bigger drawbacks to the fediverse as a whole.

• Here and there an image post has rarely come through from another server without the actual image attached to it, or a post simply won't federate to my server for no particular reason. The Baldur Gate 3 community is particularly making me sad atm now that I've realized there are more posts on the community's home server than the ones that I'm seeing.

I'm not gonna act like there wouldn't ever be some of that going on that you might experience if you moved somewhere unlucky, and it could be sensible to compare the feeds of your favorite subs from different servers to see if the content on each is identical. But I'd bet you already are experiencing a bit of it and just haven't realized you missed anything.

Really, the FOMO is negligible for me and pretty easily something you live with. Certainly when the other option is to make 15 different accounts to access the exact same place, for fear of not seeing three whole posts.

I know, I've really been meaning to and then I forget, and then I remember, and then I forget again. I've never heard it mentioned except in glowing terms. Not really the nihilism, though.

Knowing just barely enough about it in the first place to even have a vested interest, I think maybe I'm too prone to being sad tonight and I'm just gonna shelve it atm and go back to my personal bg3 hell. One should at least have stuffed shells or something, if they're going to feel more apathetic about humanity than I already do.

The saddest part of this was that I'm so used to the creationists' approach to covid that before finishing the headline, I genuinely assumed it was a woman trying to rid themselves of every ounce of their own DNA in a bid to outfox the government.

That's where we are right now. Were I correct, I would not have been fazed. I always loathed that movie with everything in me, but I think it's because I saw it as meaning to entertain rather than to warn.

Prepared for what during a nuclear war. There is nobody they could fire on that's less militarily prepared than they are themselves. I'd be shocked if anyone actually remembers to think about them except when they saber rattle. And even then, it's not in a worried way like they want. I find myself cheering on every threat like a doting uncle at the special olympics.

I'd originally intended to make the joke that North Korea is like if Canada had a goatee, but Canada has allies.

Cat rent is a running joke in my household, because none of us honestly know where the fuck all the loose change is even coming from otherwise. She's such a thoughtful baby. That, or a little whore.