southsamurai @ southsamurai @sh.itjust.works

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Awww yeeeeahhhh!

Dude, do you think I'm just driving around looking to fight geese? Why the hell would I be wearing gear like that to go fishing?

Also, you're talking hypotheticals. I'm talking about geese I've actually dealt with. I'm telling you, when a goose is up in your grill, flapping, kicking, and pecking, you aren't going to be landing precision punches. Your eyes will either be closed, or they'll be damaged to some degree, and if you do land a strike of some kind, it's a well feathered bird that's in the air.

You don't punch something like that and hurt it at all. What happens is you move it a little because it's got very flexible bones and joints. Now it's more scared and angry.

What works is taking a full arm swipe to knock it away, then leaving.

Ffs dude, I know this is a casual conversation here, but how many geese have you ever been attacked by?

Oh, no way am I going near a snapper in the water. hell no

Now, on land, I've had to move some off of roads before, but on land they aren't as agile. They're fast in the water though

I'm going to copy/paste my response to a similar comment:

You know, people underestimate how difficult it is to grab a goose that's flapping and pecking at your head

You can't keep your eyes open, unless you just enjoy having them poked by feathers or beaks. That isn't about pain, it's about the reality of eye injury being a very bad thing.

There's tricks we used in jujutsu that make use of that reflex. You make fast movements towards the eyes, particularly if you can get close enough to make air hit the eyes from the movement, and the eyes are closing, period. You can be ready for it, watching it come, and you'll still at least blink. It isn't voluntary.

Sure, you could stand there with your eyes closed, waiting for a chance to grab the bird that's battering you. It isn't going to kill you, it can't unless it gets really lucky and catches your carotid just right. But, while you're groping for that neck, you're getting your face bruised and scratched up. Punching or slapping doesn't do anything because they just move with it.

So, it's easier to give the bird what it wants: you away from its nest.

You know, people underestimate how difficult it is to grab a goose that's flapping and pecking at your head

You can't keep your eyes open, unless you just enjoy having them poked by feathers or beaks. That isn't about pain, it's about the reality of eye injury being a very bad thing.

There's tricks we used in jujutsu that make use of that reflex. You make fast movements towards the eyes, particularly if you can get close enough to make air hit the eyes from the movement, and the eyes are closing, period. You can be ready for it, watching it come, and you'll still at least blink. It isn't voluntary.

Sure, you could stand there with your eyes closed, waiting for a chance to grab the bird that's battering you. It isn't going to kill you, it can't unless it gets really lucky and catches your carotid just right. But, while you're groping for that neck, you're getting your face bruised and scratched up. Punching or slapping doesn't do anything because they just move with it.

So, it's easier to give the bird what it wants: you away from its nest.

Edit: because I don't have the patience for malarkey.

It I had wanted to kill a goose, I could have drawn my firearm or a knife and done so. And yes, that would count as a win in some people's minds. But in my mind, the point wasn't to just kill birds for attacking me near their nests, even though I wasn't previously aware said nests existed. You live in farm country, sometimes you fish at farm ponds. Sometimes the local critters get frisky.

What you don't do when you have the privilege of fishing on private land is go around shooting anything at all, or killing the wildlife without express permission.

I wasn't hunting down a goose for some kind of grudge match. To the contrary, had I known ahead of time that geese has nested near the pond, I would have fucked right off, left them alone and found somewhere else to fish. But, you can't always see a nest on a casual look around. Hell, generally, the cows were more on my mind since they enjoyed pushing people in the water unless you spent the day scratching their itches for them.

I'm kind of amazed that anyone wanted to turn this casual and funny comment chain into a dick measuring contest, but here we are.

Bold of you to assume I'm not going to go Voorhees on both of them, have an apple as desert and save the second apple for later.

Obviously, I'm not going to eat the other two people. Without cooking them. And with the apple cores, I can make a lovely sauce to go with

Animals I have beaten in a fight:

Feral dogs.

Feral dogs likely mixed with eastern coyote. I cheated though, I shot them.

Animals that have beaten me in a fight:

Geese.

A catfish (in my defense, it was massive and the fight was in the water. On land I would have won)

Humans.

Animals I have run from rather than fight:

Hornets.

Bears. Black bear, we startled each other, then I left a trickle down my leg while I ran.

A big pack of dogs. Wasn't armed, and saw them coming.

My record is not exactly impressive

\m/

Yeah, it is usually better at gaming. Same with bazzite. But older machines can be so damn finicky that it's rolling the dice if it isn't something known to work on the same or similar hardware.

Good thing is that it's relatively easy to switch back. A pain that it's necessary, but easy enough

Racism existed before slavery. It just changes focus and details in different places at different times. Might not be "race" based in the way we have today, based in arbitrary skin color lines, but prejudice against a given group absolutely is a human failing.

Slavery was as much a product of racism as it was a generator of the current brand of racism that exists in the US. Well, slavery in this context, I'm not well enough versed in older forms to be confident in how much of those were built on the same kind of prejudice. For all I know, Roman slaves may not have been taken based in prejudices the way Africans in specific were during the cross Atlantic slave trade. But those Africans were absolutely considered lesser before the trade got going. And that was absolutely a major factor in the slave trade's origins.

Robots, you might have reduced or eliminated the slave trade, but it wouldn't have done a damn thing about racism. There's always some group that's going to be a target, and the sheer arrogance of European colonizers would have found even more emphasis on anti-native racism than what they had to begin with. Or the Irish, or the Chinese, or whoever else ended up being at the bottom of their perceived scale of humanity.

You won't see the end of racism until we see the end of race mattering at all, and even then you won't eliminate the underlying drives that generate racism.

I don't think there's any distro that's perfect on every machine.

I have an ancient desktop I sometimes piddle around with. I'm talking twenty years old at least, and it could be more. Most distros work okay on it, but mint, even older versions of it, don't do as well as plain debian or manjaro. My mom's old box that I also screw around with (heh) is great on ubuntu, and mint, but not on others.

So it isn't just you, but it doesn't necessarily mean it's the distro being bad in general.

I'm always disgusted by how badly people pronounce Illinois.

It's ill-in-wah ffs

Nah, man, it was working in both directions for a while. I wanna say at least as far back as 2019 for sure, because I got blocked by accident by someone I know irl, and couldn't see their stuff when logged in, nor could they see mine

I wouldn't say it looks bad tbh. Very simple for sure, but that's not a bad thing

Not the way I've ever had avocado toast.

Are there a lot of differences out there that I haven't run across? Legit, I've never gone looking for regional variations or whatever.

The first way I had it was so good I haven't changed it significantly. Avocado, chunked up and gently mashed with some lime, salt, pepper, and sometimes finely diced onion. A poached egg or two on top. All that on toasted rye.

Sometimes we'll swap out the rye for homemade sourdough. Sometimes we'll add some minced garlic to the avocado, and/or sprinkle some paprika on the egg.

Basically, it dresses up the avocado without fully turning it into guacamole.

Document everything. And avoid the hell out of her. It's impossible to predict how turning anyone down can go, so the safest course of action is to not turn her down, but to never go near her again

Ikr? I'd hang that in my living room in a hot second

I covered that by stating that there are multiple usages of addiction. I'm aware that addiction, dependence, and the medical issues each brings is a complicated one. There are nuances to all of it, but they were tangential to what OP asked.

Also, depending on who's talking about it and in what context, physical addiction may or may not be a thing. All addiction comes with changes in the brain and body. Even something as seemingly non physical as gambling has a physical component, and people may experience withdrawal symptoms, no matter how they stop.

One aspect of why that happens is dopamine. Every addiction I know of has some degree of dopamine release as a part of the overall disease process. Though, disorder may be a preferred term to disease. The experience of losing a dopamine trigger is part of what triggers withdrawal. It's why even non addictive substances like antidepressants can still cause symptoms on cessation. Though I would argue that dependence on a medication that can cause withdrawal symptoms meets the standard to call addictive. I've seen people engage in the same behaviors that someone addicted to illegal drugs will engage in, in order to stop those symptoms and gain access to at least a similar drug if not the exact same one.

Like I said, tangential to the OP' question.

If you can moderate, it isn't really an addiction. At least, not by the strict definition. If you use it more colloquially, sure.

But addiction is a compulsion that is acceded to, despite consequences, by the more common usage of the word. If you can resist the compulsion, then it hasn't reached that level yet.

I mean, a lot of this kind of discussion depends on exactly how someone defines a term, right? Addiction has multiple usages, so there's no single answer.

I'd say a good frame of reference would be that there's a difference between dependency and addiction, with addiction being more defined by a lack of ability to resist compulsion. Dependence would be more along the lines of having the compulsion at all, be it to an external chemical or an internal factor. It kinda rolls together the more clinical definition with the looser versions.

Now, me? I've been full on addicted to nicotine by any usage of the term. Cold turkey wasn't possible. Moderation was only possible short term. But, I've taken opiates off and on for years without developing a dependence at all, though that's partially because I hate the damn things and only take them when my pain levels are out of control. Yay chronic pain?

That's still a benefit of Android. As long as you have the apk of an app, there's usually a good chance it'll keep working.

There's even a patched version on xda of Swype that lets it work on most devices, even though it no longer matches minimum android versions in the last official apk. It's kinda funny, my phone still runs it fine, and it's on 14, but I have a tablet on 13 that it won't allow it without jumping though hoops that are a pain in the ass (but that's Samsung, and they're dicks about a lot of stuff).