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ButteryMonkey

@ ButteryMonkey @piefed.social

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  • I don't have a CS degree, but my first real experience with college was in an English course (that I ended up testing out of, along with all other English courses, but which was designed to bring students up to speed for college) going “oh my god they let functionally illiterate people into college now.. is this even worth doing?”

    And the answer was ultimately no, financially-speaking, but yes from a personal perspective. Sounds like CS has the opposite conclusion; not really worth it from a personal perspective, but worth it from a financial perspective.

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  • I have a similar relationship with my neurologist. I’ve been seeing him for over 15 years for stabby appointments. That is to say I get something like 60-80 injections every time I see him. He isn't in a position to give me tests, but he does use the things I say to help his other patients.

    Its botox injections for migraine, and he’s one of the first people to pick up doing it, so he's seen some shit. Nothing I say surprises him at all, unless its FUN. So early on when my skin was still reacting to it big time, i told him i sort of liked that I looked like a klingon after my appointments, and thats what I always told people because I needed to go to a brewery after to make the pain suck less.

    Im also almost always on board to be a training pin cushion for residents. So much that if the resident doesn't understand what I’m offering them (a willing participant to their education; a unicorn), he just says “if you are ready to practice injections, she’s offering, and she doesn’t flinch”.

    Because I’m used to it. I try not to flinch because that’s worse. I’m pretty upbeat about the whole thing. And I recently found out he has patients who scream about it every single spot. Holy fuck. I can’t imagine being that sensitive. So now i understand why he admitted to his existential crisis to me. (“I feel like I’m going to hell for causing people such pain as part of my job” he’s retirement age or older, so understandable thought)

  • Deathbulge #281

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  • I’m a quite short woman (two standard deviations from average!💪🏻) and met this guy who was like considerably shorter than I am, had to have qualified as a little person, since I’m only a couple inches too tall to qualify myself, and he was quite attractive. I don’t generally find men aesthetically pleasing.

    You mean to tell me it’s just because I finally got a good angle???

    (Jk, he was an objectively attractive tiny king, with a personality to match)

  • There is another.

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  • I’d heard of that one and somehow ended up with whiskerwood instead, which is mice ruled by cats. Its still pretty early early access, but very cute :)

    Thanks for the reminder!

  • The implication of that

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  • Usually both, at least in my region.

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  • Super fair and was mostly and idk situation o just know what we see as motion they typically don't and so was a bit confused.

    All good think we are on the same page :)

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  • Ima have to try and see how they react.

    But chickens process 120-200 fps so I don't think that'd do the job to show them motion. (Which makes sense, they fly and have to dodge stuff in flight at high speeds)

    I may have been mistaken about what hz refers to..? Not sure. Don't… think so..? I know its refresh rate, i just don't know how thats different.

    Also fwiw some movies seem jittery to me.. so maybe we need more than 24 as a normal allotment. :)

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  • Hmm.. my chickens are very spoiled but they aren't “have their own tv” spoiled… yet…

    Im not sure how much good a tv does with birds though, they see at over 120hz, to our 60hz so most of what we see as motion on tv they see as a series of still images

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  • I had woodpeckers bang on my siding next to the window to let me know the suet was bad for about 10 years.

    It was steel siding at the time, and they left several nice dents.

    As much as I’d love to keep feeding them, I had my siding replaced by insurance with vinyl (unrelated issue) and don't really want holes all up it… so i weaned before it was replaced. Just attending their demands less frequently.

    Hasn't been an issue in the last year.

  • Used EV sales spike alongside gas prices

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  • I just got a used ev. I needed something else because my car was having issues that would be expensive to fix, and wanted an ev anyway, so the decision wasn't at all motivated by gas prices, even though the timing was. I didn’t want to wait and have used car prices skyrocket to the point i couldn't afford one.

  • Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing — Colonies surged 15-fold

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  • I feel that strongly about native bees and honey bees cause problems for them so.. yeah. I’m big on native wildlife. Fuck invasive species.

    Honeybees are not native where I am, and somehow we have so many crops that supposedly rely on them or they would fail entirely, how is that not invasive agriculture? People truck bees across the country to support these crops.

    I’m not saying they can’t produce honey from native flowers, they can but that’s entirely beside the point, and that’s also competing with native bees, of which there are hundreds of species.

  • Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing — Colonies surged 15-fold

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  • I don’t like honey so the things I do will be 100% to support non-honey bees because they are far far far more valuable than invasive honey bees ever could be…e.

    I love my native bees. Especially mason bees. I love that they can’t be commercialized. I hate that people don’t care about them because they can’t be commercialized and that’s the whole reason my yard is mostly wild.

    Fuuuuuuuck honey and the damage it causes the natural ecosystem. Fuck importing plants and making them work through invasive agriculture. If something can’t grow because we can’t keep the bees here because they aren’t native here…. TOO FUCKING BAD! Import it, don’t ruin the ecosystem trying to make it work.

  • Top US Fema official claims to have teleported to a Waffle House before

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  • First you have Waffle House, then you stay up until the donut shops open at 4 cuz let’s be serious that’s only another half hour at this point. You get too many donuts, because who doesn’t want copious amounts of sugar and fat on a stomach full of alcohol? Also because you are drunk and they all look good. Then you crash, maybe with a half-eaten donut in your hand.

    As a bonus, you wake up to something some people consider a breakfast food.

  • Was the world always a fucked up place?

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  • My local grocery carries deposit-bottle drinks of some varieties (mostly milk and soda, both of which are produced locally, sometimes tea and other drinks), so they are still around in some cases. I’m also a big fan of grolsch beer because it comes in nice swing-top bottles that are great for use as a home brewer, or for making sauces or whatever you may like them for. The beer itself isn’t that good imo, but it’s basically free with the purchase of bottles, as that’s basically the cheapest way to get swing-top bottles of that size.

    Very importantly, only the one grocery store carries the glass bottle soda, though there are 4 others within a 10-minute range. So it’s entirely possible that there is somewhere near you that has it and you just aren’t aware of it.

  • I'll see myself out

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  • I can’t speak for lasers, but if you want to try something less permanent but -much- cheaper, to see how well it works for you or how you like it before you commit to laser, pick up an IPL device (intermittent pulses of light). It works similarly, but if you stop using it for a long time, the hair eventually grows back. Mostly.

    Once you get it to the point that it’s not growing anymore, which is like 2-4 months of use as directed by the device itself, depending on your hair/skin combo and the strength of light you use (which in full fairness, it does start as a several-times-weekly commitment) you only need to do spot treatments every few months, which I understand is something you have to do with laser anyway every 6-12 mths, this is just a bit more frequent. If you stop using it entirely, you’ll start to get noticeable regrowth after about 6 mths, but it could stay thin for years. I have some places I stopped doing and they are still noticeably thinner and finer than places that never got treated at all, 5+ years on.

    The one I bought was like $125 usd a decade back, so they can be pretty affordable, and might be all you ever want to use since you can do it on your own time.

  • Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US

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  • If you, as a passenger, notice no difference in service, because they still find someone to cover the ride in the big pool of potential drivers who aren’t women who only drive for women, does it actually matter if some of the drivers are personally refusing to serve you? Have you actually been discriminated against by the service? Would you even know it happened? I doubt it.

  • I'd like to ask everyone, which movie have you rewatched more than three times?

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  • I’ve watched a lot of movies more than 3 times.

    12 monkeys is the movie I’ve seen most, though, coming in at multiple dozens of watches over the years. It’s easily my favorite. It kicked off a new way of thinking for me when I was an impressionable young teen, and has largely held up in terms of watchability.

    The tv show based on it couldn’t have done a worse job of holding my attention, though. So that was disappointing.

  • Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US

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  • There is. It’s substantial, but much more subtle than on Reddit. Slurs and outright sexism usually get you banned pretty quick here, so it’s largely just the casual sexism left, but it runs pretty deep. And it’s been here at least as long as I have overall (my oldest account is about 3 yo). In the original wave, the shitty population drove off the vast majority of cis female users within 6 months, which is a huge part of why the demographics around here are so heavily skewed toward men. This is also why the women’s communities, which all died out and were resurrected during the second Lemmy population boom, are so heavily policed to shut men down.

    You can tell we have such a population because all posts like these about women getting anything at all, good or bad, always, without fail, have an absolute glut of comments. If you then take the time to read all of them, a solid percentage are very clearly motivated by sexism. Now, commenters are obviously self-selecting, so it’s impossible to say in absolute terms, but of the people who choose to comment on such things, and generously leaving out any comments that may just be poorly worded, I’ve typically seen between 10 and 30% of the comments have such motivations, depending how old the post is and how much visibility it got. It’s not always the same people, either, it’s different shitty people most of the time. Downvotes also flow like wine if you challenge those comments, or call out the trend.

  • All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat

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  • Yeah, honestly they have needed to be changed for years now, what with all the data breaches and stuff.. Pretty sure everyone’s info was leaked ages ago. Nothing has been done because this is how the people in charge want it.