blackbrook

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[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 5 points 3 months ago

But that very impulse is inimical to making friends. You make friends by being open to making friends, and by being interested in other people, regardless of whether they are 'friend material.'

You shouldn't even be assuming you know or can predict what makes someone friend material for you. One can be surprised.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 7 points 3 months ago

Keep trying. When you visit the ER, you are seeing individual people. Some people are better or worse than at their jobs. Some care more or less, have different biases. Keep trying until you get someone who takes you seriously. Try different hospitals if you can, some are on average better or have ER rooms that are less overwhevlmed. Be insistant that your problem is serious and getting worse.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Millipedes or centipedes? I always used to get the names backwards, but centipedes are the nightmare fuel one (to my mind), lighting fast and all legs. Millipedes, the legs are less dominantly noticeable an I think of as more of a forest-floor, under-a-log kind of thing.

I just found and smashed a couple of centipedes in my house the past couple days. My reaction is instinctual and violent. It freaks me out to wonder what they've been eating to get so large.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It would probably be worth installing steam natively and see if makes a difference. From what I read certain machines and certain games can show a noticeable performance penalty using a container.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 4 points 4 months ago

People think are a lot more rational than they really are. We are wired to very easily start responding something as if it were a living being, develop a relationship with it, start caring about it. We do this with fictional characters, dolls, stuffed animals, etc. , nevermind something designed to mimic one convincingly in real time.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 7 points 4 months ago

A dyson sphere doesn't happen all at once.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

I think as a kid, I'd have found this scene funny without really getting it. I'd probably be OK with my kids seeing it, if I had kids.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Don't felt tip pens work by capillary action?

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 5 points 4 months ago

No, really? Reading a document like means you have to believe one of two things: either there is a massive collusion and conspiracy between a ton of different groups against this individual, with a lot of bad actors, or this is a very troubled individual giving a very distorted and paranoid portrayal of what is going on, someone whose behaviors constantly create conflict.

I know nothing about this individual, this app, or any of the history here, but that is the choice I get from reading this, and one of those two options should seem pretty obviously a lot more probable.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

So the first guy bought it for 100, suggesting the price used to be 100, and all those purchases may not have been crazy.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

All this concern about particles when breathing in whole pencils is the most dangerous of all!

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 4 points 4 months ago (10 children)

Can we still buy one of the special space pencils? Were they low-dust or something?

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