southsamurai @ southsamurai @sh.itjust.works

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Damn, I just like warm feet and ankles, but ngl, those do look fierce

Look, a hand job is a hand job

Yeah, the optimistic people in the field might have the rosy outlook to say in about a decade currently, but they'll usually kinda start mumbling if you try to pin them down on it.

Only person I know that's keeping up with the various attempts to regrow or replace teeth as a professional has said we might see the very first wave of it around maybe 2040ish, if everything goes well, with early trials sometime after 2030ish. And even getting them to be that predictive was with the promise to never quote them by name because "there are so many steps between what's going on and human trials that could fail or go wrong, shit is still science fiction to me"

Shit, if you think you're mad now, wait until you run into someone that's still running that line of bullshit in 2025

As a southern man, I absolutely love this meme

Afaik, and I've looked, there's no single "varmint" that is more or less likely to carry rabies.

Unless you consider opossum a varmint, they do have a lower chance to carry it, but I've never thought it them as a problematic species in the same way as other critters that share spaces with humans. Like, most possums aren't going to eat your chickens or your cat, they aren't predators in that way, and they don't eat crops with any regularity. They'll eat the hell out of eggs or small birds, but even that isn't a super common thing because they have to be short on food to go where humans are active like you would be if you raised chickens.

But the usual suspects, raccoons, foxes, coyote, that kind of critter don't have any special proclivity for it, or unusual physiology to reduce infection rates.

I went digging after we had a local "invasion" of coyote years ago, and then again in 2023 when we got chickens. Wanted to know if there were any I should be more trigger happy towards in that regard, and there isn't.

Thing is, if one or another of the usual varmints is at a high population in your area, the chances go up that they'll have a reservoir of it because there's more proximity, and more of them out there messing with other critters that might infect them. But it isn't because they're a fox or whatever, it's about population density. Iirc, and I didn't dig too deep, foxes got a reputation for it because their habitats overlap with so many other species that more people saw foxes with rabies, but it didn't represent anything unique to foxes.

Once you start asking for money, you run into risk. Most of the time, publishers and other rights holders don't mess with fanfic, but when they do, it's almost always because someone made that mistake.

Tbh, it doesn't even matter how much you lift in that regard. You could win the resulting lawsuit over your mouse with gloves named Brickey, but you've still had the hassles, and you can't predict with full certainly which IP holders are going to be aggressive like that.

Most likely, they'd cease and desist you first, but that's not a guarantee.

I'd just leave it as being for your kids, and if you want to share it, don't even ask for money at all.

Kinda

The problem is that you have to either divest identifiable parts of the original, and do so in a way that's so severe it essentially becomes something other than fanfic; or you have to be doing custom writing on commission.

You aren't going to get many commissions for standard fanfic though, so I hope you're good at erotica.

Sadly, the market for that collapsed hard about fifteen years ago, and the prices dropped you insulting levels as well.

Regular fanfic, at best you'd get a trickle. Erotica, believe it or not, used to be a niche for not just fanfic, but in general for writers willing to do a one-off. The problem was/is that it's a one time sale, no royalties. You do the job, hand it over, collect the final part of the pay, and that's it.

Unlike regular fanfic, the erotica fanfic, you could charge serious bucks because it was a seller's market.

Like, typically, if you're getting 50 cents a word for your custom writing, you're doing very well indeed. On average, you're looking at under half that. But custom erotica? A dollar plus per word was not rare. At one point, I wouldn't waste my time for anything under that, it just wasn't worth my time, even if all they wanted was something quick and easy.

You get a request for something novella length, and you're looking at some decent chunks of change, with the right customer. You gotta think, a novel can be maybe 50k words at the low end. Novellas are less than half that, but still over 15k words.

You have to back off on your per word rate with bigger stuff like that, but $10,000 for a decent length, multi chapter story happened back then. You get a customer that really likes your work, and you might get requests for that level of thing yearly, or twice a year, with requests for shorter work thrown in between. The car I have now, I bought off the sale of one of the longer pieces I did, but it wasn't fanfic.

But nowadays? You aren't getting that. Nowhere close. There's too much free out there, even if the quality is lower than you'd get with someone that's practiced at the craft. Last time I got a request, it would have come out to five cents a word, and that's a fucking joke. Not worth the time and effort, even for a short story a few pages long.

You might be able to set up on patreon and get a trickle going though. I don't personally know anyone making a living that way, but it apparently can be enough to be worth doing in your spare time, if you'd be writing anyway.

Damn, I can hear the wheezing from here

That's a lotta fucking Newports

I don't think you understand what automod actually did. Nor what the currently available lemmy version does.

Probably tool making.

It would take time to get back into it, but I was turning out decent knives, spear points, and arrowheads for a while there. Nothing that would blow anyone's mind as art, but pretty enough and usable.

One of those things I did just because I wanted to see if I could, and it turned out to be really relaxing and enjoyable. Arthritis took the enjoyable and relaxing part away, so I stopped, but on a survival level, I could get the job done well enough to make up for being a bottom tier hunter.

The fuck did anyone expect?

Man, are you crazy?

You have to know that asking this is just begging for abuse.

That resonates a lot for me :)

Here's the thing.

It shouldn't be stigmatized, and it shouldn't be something that's any of anyone else's business beyond being an interesting fact about a person. Just one more nugget to find.

There's no single right answer for everyone.

Families are fucking complicated. Some of them, you could happily live together your entire life. Others, you might need a giant house and you'd still have friction. Some, you don't even want to be in the same state, much less share a house.

It is, however, true that as the number of people in a group increases, the work required to maintain healthy relationships increases exponentially.

If there is not parity between those relationships, it multiplies the effect. Which means that everyone involved has to be willing to adapt and change over time for things to stay hair and healthy. When that isn't the case, the household is going to split in some way or another, and that usually means someone leaving is essentially necessary.

Think about it. Two people that love each other have work to do to maintain their relationship, be it romantic, friendship, parent/child, siblings, whatever. You add a third person to that, and instead of one relationship you have 4, not three. Because each individual relationship exists, and now the three way one does.

Now, think about two people starting a family. Say they only have one kid. The kid becomes an adult, with adult needs, responsibilities, wants, and habits. If the parents keep treating them like a child, dissonance will occur in most situations.

Now, have that child get married too. You've now got 4 individual relationships to maintain, the original triplet, the new triplet with the spouse and parents, plus a triplet with each parent, the child, and the child's spouse, then the quartet.

That's a shit ton of work. You've got all those people having to compromise, adjust their habits and remember boundaries. That's not something where everyone is going to major the optimum decision every single time. It's impossible almost, though if everyone puts in the effort roughly equally, it can be maintained for a lifetime.

Now, the second couple have a kid. Map out those connections and the level of difficulty spikes hard.

But, as hard as it is, if you find someone that's living in shared space, people still assume there's something wrong with the younger adults involved. And there may be, but it isn't a certainty the way people assume it will be.

There's benefits and drawbacks to every option when it comes to how a family lives, be it centralized, spread out, or fully disconnected.

Now, I've done all of that. At various points, I've lived with my sibling and parents as an adult; we've all lived apart as individuals, we've lived as duos (though not in every combination), and I've had two partners that lived with me during all of that, and a best friend that was there through damn near all of it, and his husband for a while, plus my kid in the mix.

At various points, different people owned the house, even though it's been the same house that I grew up in for most of that. It was originally my dad as owner, with my mom having her share of that as a spouse. Then they divorced, and my dad got the house and my mom got a big check. She still lived here, but that's a separate thing. Then my dad fucked up, and me and my best friend bought it. Now, I'm the only one on the mortgage.

The dynamics of that meant that the "power" shifted as ownership did because at the end of the day, whoever is on the mortgage/deed has final legal responsibility, financial responsibility, and that means having final say on some matters, no matter how democratic everything else is. That creates an extra dynamic on top of all the others.

I can tell you for sure that it takes work, hard emotional work, to navigate every iteration of that. When that work isn't being done by everyone, shit can get bad fast.

But it's also amazing. The amount of good in it is mind boggling if you take each family unit being apart as the goal that is the only measure of success. When everyone is clicking along, and there's equity between everyone, gods it's beautiful.

Just on a practical level, everyone with income had more left over than they otherwise would have, and none of us have ever had to face the bad times alone. We've had each others back more times than I can even count (I tried, and I kept remembering more until I gave up, and I was creeping on triple digits where the level of support was part of at least one of us making it through).

And on the emotional level? It can be chaotic, yeah, but if you don't know the goodness of being able to just hug your dad any time you want to because he's just in the other room, I'm sorry. Right now, I can go hug my dad, and don't have to leave the house. He'll laugh, and ask what's up. I'll say "nothing, I just love you", and then we'll get teary eyed and he'll say it back, and then we go about our days.

It isn't for everyone. But gods damn, it sure as hell isn't a bad thing to try either

Could be lol

Eh, it worked for me the best back when I was new to Linux, and I've never tried anything that was better, just different since then.

I went through the usual Ubuntu experiment, but their baked in DE at the time was just unpleasant. Tried manjaro? I think, it's hard to recall if that was before or after that initial flurry of trying things out. But there were a half dozen that got suggested back on the Linux for noobs subreddit when win10 came along amd I was noping out.

Mint did the trick. Cinnamon as a DE did what I wanted, how I wanted it. It came with the stuff I needed to get started, and the repo had the stuff I wanted without having to add anything. It worked with all my hardware without jumping through hoops.

I've tried other stuff and like I said, nothing better, just different, so why screw around?

Tbh, that's also how I feel about pretty much everything I tried though. If I had run into one of the others that happened to "fit" the same way back then, I'd likely still be with it because there's really not a ton of difference in day to day use between any of them. The de matters more in that regard, imo.

I mean, I don't find it hard to believe that some dude started a cult and then his followers kept exaggerating his stories for years after he was dead.

Eh, I get the rule. On the surface, it seems stupid because the subject of rom options is pretty integral to privacy

However, discussion of roms tends to always devolve into what amounts to fanboyism at some point. You end up with a lot of "yeah, but" and "but they are/aren't" that covers the same ground every single time, and users have to wade through the bullshit to get to anything useful.

It's the same conversation every time, so you reach a point where it's better to just outright ban rom/os so that other issues aren't drowned by that.

It's damned if you don't damned if you do, there's no good choice, so you make the choice that's less hassle on average