fiat_lux @ fiat_lux @kbin.social

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Ugh. I believe them already. It's sealed for my protection. I get it. It says so nearly 100 times. I don't check the seals for syringe marks first either, or the factory's latest cleanroom maintenance logs. Just let me in, I already paid the extortionate entry fee.

Seriously though, I wouldn't mind so much if they always were just paper I could poke a finger through at the end. Sometimes there's another super stretchy thick plastic layer under that which resists everything but blades. I don't want to keep a knife in my bathroom, but I'm getting to the point where I've thought about it.

Other than slight annoyance when things are hard to open, it’s better.

Sure, if you are not experiencing the symptoms of medical conditions. Especially the conditions that led you to be opening the bottle in the first place, that's when it's especially insulting on top of the additional pain/fatigue the situation generates.

It's not even that I don't like seals. I love the caps and covers on the tins and bottles and jars of food in my kitchen. I even love recyclable ziplock bags, and there are flimsy takeaway containers out there that are literally watertight. I just don't like seals that are poorly made. There are products with usable seals out there, I know this first-hand. I've used them. I use them everyday.

Even then, not everything we consume has to be Fort Knox just because someone tainted a product intentionally or accidentally in the past. There are product recalls for various problems everyday and yet I've avoided getting ill from my groceries my entire life. I'm fine with buying my bread in a paper bag, I don't need them to start using hermetically sealed boxes with padlocks.

And honestly, there are so many points in the production lines of most things where someone has the opportunity to stick their dick in something, that I just can't dedicate the energy to entertaining that possibility on a daily basis. I also can no more verify that the last burger I ate was made by someone who washed their hands, any more than I can verify that the tomatoes I'm buying to make ketchup for homemade burgers weren't grown using human faeces and picked by slaves. And I say this as someone who has some immunity issues: There are just too many vectors for various kinds of contamination than you can imagine, let alone reasonably safeguard against - you have to pick and choose to battle the most likely to occur or kill you. I do not battle the possibility of penis in my products. I just don't have that kind of time.

We have the technology. This situation literally doesn't need to exist for anyone ever. And yet it's clearly common as fuck.

Thanks for the recommendation! I will try him out right now.

Lol, no worries. Food ones always seem to work better too, but as soon as it's medications or supplements, they use the shitty ones or the over-secure ones. We should get the peanut butter and Pringle's manufacturers in the room with the pharmaceutical industry and make them talk.

I hated the design of that too, so very much.

The irony of that being true for my ADHD medication bottle is not at all lost on me. It's like a tiny extra "fuck you".

Oh man, the edges got all crunchy. They look even better!

You can just see the two shredded sections on the edge where I was deliberately and carefully trying to include all layers and they just tore off instead. I don't know if this is a technique thing, but if it is, I would love to know what I am doing wrong, because it happens to me all the damn time.

The bond between the seal and the jar is stronger than the bond between the layers of the seal. So peeling it separates the layers and leaves behind the thin papery final seal layers instead of removing the whole seal.

Admittedly this is better than the seal on one of my medications. It removes in one pull... if you can find and pull the tiniest sliver of edge of the seal, because they leave zero overhang.

I appreciate you.

I'd love to see them fried up and served, they look great! I appreciate the novel presentation, I wonder how well it holds up.

I laughed and then felt sad. You're entirely right!

Is there something about the word "porn" that actually communicates "really pretty pictures of something but without any human creations" beyond its Reddit meme usage? Because it doesn't for most people.

Also, not all community rules and objectives need to be in the name and URL. The word "porn" in URLs is problematic for users sitting behind state or corporate internet connection though. Be kind to your local network administrators!

To add to this:

List of lists of pejorative terms for people

It includes lists for men, women, lgbt+, disability, age, ethnicity, religion, location. The severity of the terms is varying and arguably location-dependent.

For example, while I (probably) wouldn't use the word "wanker" in a formal professional large meeting in my current workplace without it being somehow contextual, almost no Australian or New Zealander in that company would blink an eye if I said it casually at lunch. But when I worked in the education sector I used the personal rule "if I don't want it written on my gravestone, I shouldn't say it", because teachers have subsonic and lightning-fast swearing detection reflexes, even when they're not at school.

To be frank with you, humans are the weakest security point in any system. Even if you did somehow (impossibly) 100% secure your device... you’re literally sending everything to X other family members who don't care about security anyway and take zero preventative measures. That's sort of the point of a chat app. All they would need to do is target your family instead of you to get the exact same info - this is how Facebook has everyone's telephone number and profile photo, even if they don't have an account. And if it's a WhatsApp data breach... well. Your family is just one in a sea of millions of potentially better/easier targets.

If there's anything interesting about your family chats that is actually secret info, it probably shouldn't be put into text anywhere except maybe a password manager. Just tell them not to send passwords or illegal stuff or security question info via whatsapp. It's all you can realistically do in situations like this.

We literally cannot keep all information private from everyone all the time, you have to pick and choose your battles. And even then, you'll still lose some, even if you're perfect.

I wish I slept as well as this looks.

Fair, I can definitely see it in that context. When I'm in the mood for an hour long atmospheric meandering background noise journey, I find the Shenzhou album by Biosphere a good bet, amongst others of his work. (I seem to have a thing for Arctic Circle rural desolate ambient soundscapes?) It's repetitive enough to be unobtrusive, but I don't feel like I'm listening as much to modern elevator music like I did with the other track.

Onion tube is an instance of invidious. It's an alternate frontend for YouTube, and as such isn't a federation thing. My limited understanding is that it just queries youtube via API, but I've not delved into the source code to confirm that.

I'm a big ambientish electronic instrumental music listener, and I thought the track name was amusing so I went and checked it out. I got halfway but it's not doing much for me.

It started out with some almost Rue the Whirl by Boards of Canada vibes which I'm a fan of, but it doesn't seem to go very far and seems to focus on whether it sounds OK in that moment rather than as a full song journey. I'll pass, but good for him for doing whatever the fuck he feels like.

One of my favourite 10min instrumental songs for comparison, which sort of shows what I mean by journey. The peak hits around 5 mins in Moya - Godspeed You Black Emperor.

I'm always confused why people think the rich are the ones who will go to Mars. It would be a huge dampener on their lifestyle, and risky ensuring supply lines. There are no ski resorts, yachts, or big game hunting ranges on Mars!

No, they won't be the ones going. They want to send the rest of us in order to outsource the more damaging production 1 step further. Just like we have Ugandans deal with our fast fashion waste and social media moderation now, but even further out of sight and out of mind. It will be an economic and/or literal prison colony. The island bunkers are just a stopgap until they can find a way to not share the planet with as many plebs ruining their view.