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@ ApathyTree @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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  • Wall of sorrow

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  • I sleep sideways/diaginal on my bed about half the time at this point because I have a cat who likes to lay between my legs, and that only works for a short time for me. So when I move, I just lay differently so she doesn’t get up, and I’m still comfortable.

  • Sadly this was build to late to have been part of Nasa's Satellite Automatic Tracking Antenna Network (SATAN)

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  • Those are wonderful and I love them so much.

    This is what happens when nerds get to name things.

    It becomes highly problematic when it comes to the medical field and genetics, tho, like imagine telling someone their fetus is going to die because they have a sonic hedgehog mutation.

  • You get an unlimited supply of a single item to survive post-apocalypse. What are you choosing, and why?

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  • No silly that’s brawndo! Gatorade just isn’t there yet you see.

  • Fucking read receipts

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  • I’m with you on this. I have very few notifications enabled, and read receipts are off on my end (except signal, where like you I only have 2 contacts, and I don’t mind them knowing that I flaked to hell on replying, because they are also neurospicy or intimate partners, and we just have a sort of understanding that as long as we are still close, it’s fine to leave stuff until you can handle it.)

    It’s really liberating. I can read texts and then set them back to unread so I know I need to follow up, but nobody else knows I’ve even seen it.

    I genuinely wouldn’t be able to turn off notifications tho, not entirely.. I absolutely do not look at my phone enough to see the badges. Even with notifications on and set to re-alert 3x, I miss a ton of shit because I try not to use my phone much anymore (I doom scroll too much and video games are better for my health even if they are full of war crimes and sort of fucked morals like rimworld.

  • If you were in a room with your own pet and 99 identical pets, how would you pick out your pet (aside from calling their name)?

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  • All cats.

    If it was my old boy, omg I’d love to have 100 versions of him, but the test would be if I sat down, the cat immediately on my lap is probably him, but to be sure I’d bring in some random stranger and sit them down and see if the same cat goes to them immediately. He was the absolute friendliest cat on the face of the earth, even thought the mailman was there for him!

    As for the girl I had at the same time, I’d put down wet food aplenty, and then put a pizza box in the very middle of the table with ham in it and see which one could, and wanted to, get it open. She fucking loved pork for whatever reason, and she was smart enough to understand that knocking a food box off the table would get it open very nicely. I lost a lot of leftovers to that bitch.

    My current cats.. they would yell at me and disappear. So no idea. I’d probably put my quail cage in the room and see which ones don’t give a shit about the birds. That’s probably a good clue. Tho the fact that they would be fighting everyone would also be a good clue, that would not be a happy time. They can’t even stand small wildlife by the door..

  • What’s the darkest part of yourself that you’ve never told anyone? (Mine is in the comments)

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  • True, but I kept two and got another 6 adopted out (two litters, I have one cat from each, and there were some losses, as these were barn cats)

    And all of them turned out happy and friendly expect the ones I kept : /

    As did several half siblings (there’s like 3 baby daddies in the group and 4 mamas, so the kittens were consistent across about a dozen litters - melanistic tabbies (voids with stripes) gray tabbies (gray with stripes) and regular tabbies)

  • What’s the darkest part of yourself that you’ve never told anyone? (Mine is in the comments)

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  • Since nobody else seems inclined to share the deep darks of their life, I will.

    Due to a childhood of neglect, I tend to ruin baby animals left in my care. Not because I want to, but because I’m not nurturing at all. Not even a slight tiny bit. I keep them alive and unharmed just fine, that I can do. But that’s about all I’ve got.

    I’ve had a few cats that I’ve acquired as kittens and by the time they hit adulthood they hate everything. The first time I didn’t realize it was me, and I had a cranky bitch who hated everyone and everything but me.. for 16 years.. after the last time I know it must be me. Because cats from the same litter went to my partner and theirs are super nice and friendly, and mine.. one gets so upset seeing other strange cats that she misplaces her aggression and goes after her sister until her sister pees herself running away. It fucking sucks, and I wish I was better for them.

    The dog I got as a puppy was poorly socialized, as well, but I wasn’t able to keep her past the first year (pitbull in an apartment, but she was just friendly as hell, not mean or aggressive)

    My quail were about ready to see me as mama, same with the chickens, even nestling in my hands to fall asleep, and now they don’t like me.. (that one is probably a reach-down problem, they like me a lot better when I reach in at them instead of down from above, but still)

    So except where necessary, like farm animals, I avoid getting babies. I’m sterile for this reason as well. I don’t want to pass on my fucked up neglected childhood, even to animals.

  • What was the last image you saved from the internet?

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  • What's your favorite thing that anyone has done out of pure spite?

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  • https://getchipdrop.com/

    Totally completely unrelated to anything you said. Just a hookup between arborists and people who need an entire dump truck load of free wood chips unceremoniously unloaded in their driveway at a random future time.

  • Making a Love Potion to Use on Someone

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  • So just an absolute rage of hormones and oxytocin? Sounds miserable to me, but I’m ace-aro so what do I know?

    You can get an oxytocin nasal spray, right now, to enhance your bonding if you so choose.

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  • Aww I’m super glad to hear it improved your day, and you’ll be able to find it again in the future!

    I get the same reaction to it, I think it’s the use of flat melancholic notes scattered throughout, such as in the refrain “I’d like to make myself believe, that planet earth turns slowly”. For me anyway. I love that sort of upbeat but sorrowful sort of thing. It gives me intense frisson (aka aesthetic shiver, aka that chill down your spine when something hits just right).

    The sound of silence covered by Pentatonix also gives me mad frisson every time I hear it. And for the same reason I think.

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  • Someone just jelly of my amazing taste in nearly-20-year-old music, probably 😊

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  • Biotech uses fermentation to produce milk proteins without cows

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  • I’ve tried really hard, and sampled many brands, but other than soy in lattes sometimes, I can’t stand plant based milk in my coffee. Some of it is fine stuff for other uses, or even just drinking, but it just doesn’t come close to the flavor I like as part of my wake up routine. And if my coffee isn’t good it sours my whole day, just a bit.

    I’d love to have something that tastes like milk and feels like milk and does the job of milk, but is vegan.

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  • Unlike in real life, this bee is going home to accolades.

  • TOR asking to run snowflake to help Iranians with internet access

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  • Welp.

    I watched several videos in addition to those and feel both better and not, I do understand the simplified analogies in the linked stuff, and they are helpful, as were some of the related content.

    I kinda sorta understand the technical stuff, sort of. I’m not in a tech field or anything..

    I’m going to keep it there regardless of the negative hype because you never know when I’ll need others to do the same. Im not doing anything wrong so it’s whatever.

    I’m up to 10 :)

  • Fuck the rules

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  • Depends how you make it. I use medium for my French press.

  • Friends

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  • This came up as a plot point in some other animated show, and for the life of me I can’t figure out what it was..

    Like the realization that they were hurting so many people so they could survive and save the world or whatever it was.. and it just killed them inside..

    (And I’m fairly certain I’m not thinking of Rick and Morty, although that does sort of happen as well.. and I don’t think it was bojack horseman either..)

  • TOR asking to run snowflake to help Iranians with internet access

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  • Thanks for this!

    Well I spent the time between when I posted and when you replied looking into various things related to tor, legality, and snowflake more specifically, as well as a bit after your reply since you gave me a couple extra things to look into.. (like if there’s a risk of running alongside self-host software like Plex and jellyfin, I didn’t find anything about it so I sort of assume it’s fine..?)..

    I didn’t see anything overly bad other than if you yourself use tor, maybe, so took the plunge and.. have had a whole two connections already, so yay, I’m a snowflake!

    I feel slightly better about myself, like when I started using BOINC crowdsource computing for research in the early noughties. :)

  • All childhood vaccines in question after first meeting of RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel

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  • Oh idk about that.. parents are willing to pay an awful lot in treatment in hopes of keeping their kid alive..

    I think they need both, short and long term profits, you know?