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ButteryMonkey

@ ButteryMonkey @piefed.social

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  • What do you think is the worst human invention?

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  • I miss the days of requesting big thick catalogues be sent to you in the mail from companies you’d want to do business with. They’d send you a catalogue once or twice a year and then stop if you don’t buy anything for a while. I think that was a good method, the same way I don’t mind seeing other things available on websites I’m buying from.

    I also don’t mind stuff like local coupon/advert mailers that come once a month or whatever, but those tend to all just be big companies advertising “sales” that always run these days, rather than anyone I’d want to try to support. But I like the idea of packaging up all the ads they want to send out and delivering them in one go. Maybe with an opt-out. All other junk mail, stuff you didn’t request, should be banned.

    And I think signage on store windows and stuff is fine, as long as it’s not an eyesore, but billboards and rooftop signage should definitely be banned. Protruding signs like that hang off the side of buildings should also go.

    Meatspace advertisements are the worst imo, because there’s very little you can do to avoid them.

  • Discord walks back age verification fears for most users

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  • This became incredibly obvious to me several months ago. I was trying to buy vape parts (coils and tanks, no liquids or batteries or anything) and the site wanted me to do a 3-D selfie to verify my age.

    First of all, absolfuckinglutely not. Second of all, metal and plastic aren’t controlled substances so there’s no reason I even should have been carded, much less asked for 3-D face scan shit.. so yeah it wasn’t FOR anything other than data mining.

  • House GOP passes sweeping anti-voting bill that could disenfranchise millions, sends measure to Senate

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  • The chaos might be enough to sow doubt when the claims of rigging start flowing, as we all know they will.. maybe that’s all they really want, and everything else is a bonus.

  • Where's sandman when you need him

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  • Oh for sure, I appreciate the effort to help :)

  • Where's sandman when you need him

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  • Age 5, yes.

    I know that’s why but explaining to other people is easier to just describe :)

  • You can 3d print this if you want.

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  • Noon is a whole different ballpark. ;) Very flexible.

  • Where's sandman when you need him

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  • Any time I get even remotely bored while needing to focus on the boring thing, I start falling asleep. I can’t help it, my brain just goes into power saving mode when it’s being forced into something completely unstimulating. I desperately wish I could harness this power, but even books about statistics or the history of the concept of zero are too interesting and will keep me up and engaged. It has to be genuine spontaneous boredom. Though the “sleep with me” podcast sometimes comes close because I can’t follow what he’s saying for more then a sentence or two at a time due to his speech patterns.

    I got in trouble for falling asleep in class so frequently they made me stand in the back of the room to stay awake.

    So that’s how I learned I could fall asleep standing up.. same exact nodding off behavior as while sitting.

  • Cats

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  • Tell that to the sensitive skin on the inside of my thighs and inner knees where my cat really likes to knead..

  • What product do you buy even though you know it's overpriced?

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  • Turbinado sugar. It’s considerably more expensive than processed white sugar, but it’s nice in coffee and when used in certain cheesecake crusts (it doesn’t dissolve and leaves a sweet crunch).

    I’m going to grow my own sugar beets this year and try making my own. I know it won’t be the same but as long as I end up with something “close enough”, I’ll be happy.

  • Would you rather have hundreds of millions of dollars and be acutely aware of all the bad things going on, or a meager yet sustainable life and completely ignorant of everything.

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  • I’d have to go with the money because I can’t see myself remaining blissfully unaware for very long. I’d like to, certainly, but it would require a level of isolation or willful ignoring of things to sustain. Or be literally incapable of noticing things happening around you. And I just don’t see any of that as a long term option without some sort of brain damage.

    But I could use my wealth to create things, ostensibly for myself, that benefit other people. Perhaps buy land and make educational farms for the surrounding communities, complete with paid educators leading gardening and cooking classes. Perhaps build and maintain libraries of various sorts or museums or parks for the public to use freely. That’s not giving it away or donating it, because I’d still own all of it, nor is it actively spent to fix the system (unless you count a lack of third spaces as part of the system, which it is technically) but it is using it for social good, which is something I want to do which means I’d be spending it on myself, technically.

  • What’s a cat behavior you secretly find adorable even if it’s inconvenient?

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  • Haha that reminds me of one of my house rules, no begging while I’m making food or I’ll stop and you can wait, and my former cat who just loved food more than anything else was for sure my enforcement.

    If the other one made so much as a peep, she’d start wailing on her to shut up.

  • What’s a food you love that everyone else seems to judge you for?

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  • A sandwich made of pancakes for the bread, both spread with cream cheese, with sliced hot dogs and drizzled syrup in the middle, then microwaved until the cream cheese juuuust starts to liquify.

  • What’s a food you hated as a kid but now love?

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  • Fish. But I hated it because it was shit preparation, and it took me a very very very long time to learn that.

  • What fictional animal do you think would be the most delicious?

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  • Blob monsters, like the gelatinous cube sort not the pulsating mutation of animal flesh sort, seem tasty, like caustic jello. Just use some acid neutralizer and mmm mmm zingy delicious.

  • Cats in motion by Léo Forest

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  • Looks like every picture I try to take of my cats when they aren’t asleep

    Very accurate cat energy

  • Cat

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  • That’s a cool cat costume for your toddler :p

    So weird!

  • First time here: What are some tips or rules I should know?

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  • Welcome! Hope you like beans!

    If you browse all, do be aware of what community something is posted in -before- you reply to it. Make it a habit to check. A lot of our communities are for minority/minority-on-Lemmy groups (vegans, trans people, women, etc), or intended to serve people from any number of countries. The posts in these specific-group-serving communities frequently show up in all, just because of the size of this place and how the system works. Don’t comment in English on the German posts which will flood your feed every morning if you sort by top, 6 hrs, and don’t have it blocked (I don’t block them cuz I’m very slowly learning bad German via memes!). Not a woman or trans person? Don’t post in the women’s stuff community. That sort of thing. These rules are usually listed in the side bar for the community, so it’s easy to check before you reply, but you can also ask if you don’t know and can’t find the answer yourself.

    Another important thing is IF you are going to use AI, whether image generation or text generation, only post it in AI-friendly communities. If you don’t know if a community is AI-friendly, assume they aren’t until you find out otherwise. A large chunk of comms and users are actively trying to avoid AI content, and most of us don’t want to read a bot post you had generated, so you’ll get downvoted for it. Downvotes don’t really matter, but they do give you a sense of how your comment is received. You should be able to disable downvotes if you don’t want to see them, I think, or it might just be a piefed feature, I’m not sure (it’s fully interoperable with Lemmy, but with better tools).

  • Trump, 79, Mixes Up Iceland and Greenland in Incoherent Davos Speech

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  • What’s considered excessive?

    Cuz there’s a lot of really amazing animated stuff out there these days that’s definitely not for kids, and some people, myself included, prefer it over live action.

    For me it’s largely because a “meh” voice talent is far better than a “meh” live-action talent, since you can’t see them. Animation is also lovely for people with prosopagnosia (face blindness) because animated characters usually look wildly different in easy to notice ways.