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Dharma Curious (he/him)

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  • xkcd #3151: Window Screen

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  • I love woodworking, and many years ago when I first trying to get some tools together, with very, very little money to my name, a friend of a friend gifted me a bunch of stuff, but it was all metric. My speed square was the only non metric tool I had (I'm in the States). Took me forever to find a metric speed square I could afford. Lol. It suuuuuucked doing the conversion for everything. Lol

  • Anyone else live somewhere that has had people joining in a WiFi naming joke?

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  • No community in jokes, but mine used to be "MailOrderWifi" and I had a neighbor who's wifi name was "OnlyGaysStealWifi" with no password

  • xkcd #3151: Window Screen

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  • Square in carpentry is used a little differently. It includes rectangles, and is more about the corners being 90 degree right angles. In fact, a carpenters square is a tool that is triangle shaped!

  • What's a small thing that made you happy today?

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  • Two things, quick one first: how do you play music on your phone if you're scrubbed in? Like, can you touch your phone?

    More important one:

    That's so fucking awesome. Medical professionals like you really help the freaked-out among us.

    Not the same level of thing, obviously, but I have a bad phobia around blood draws. I don't like shots, but I can deal pretty well. But blood draws just fully freak me out and I don't know why. Same reaction I'd have if you tried to have me a black widow spider. The worst part of it, for some reason, is the location. It hurts less in the crook of the elbow, but psychologically, that's the worst spot for me.

    Had to get blood drawn today, and my PCP and all her nurses know how I am with this. I take it like a big boy, but I'm fully seething on the inside. I don't freak out or panic, but I sit there and just have to close my eyes and make myself breathe, because I will legit forget to breathe.

    Today, two nurses came in, and one kept me talking the whole time. Random shit. Talked about tattoos and car trouble and bills. Complete distraction technique, and it helped so much. The pain isn't the issue, and other places have offered numbing spray. I mean, sure, that's nice. But that isn't the problem. The problem is that my fight or flight is kicking in. This doctor and the nurses get that, and they went the extra mile. It was amazing.

    Sadly, I'm going to have to change doctors soon. I'll really miss them.

  • xkcd #3151: Window Screen

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  • Screened in my brother's porch a few years ago. Had to basically make 5 of these. In theory, they were all gonna be squares. One giant one that's like 12x7 feet, a smaller one that's 12x4, a tall one 2x7, et cetera. Not a single one was actually square. It took us days.

    I fully support this addition to the novel prize categories

  • What ruins porn videos for you?

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  • That's a fair point. Lol. I do prefer shaved, or at least trimmed, but in porn I don't mind hairy so much. I don't care for it in real life when it's in my mouth, though. Hairy balls are unpleasant in the mouth

  • What ruins porn videos for you?

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  • Spitting. It grosses me out so bad when people spit in each other's faces or mouths. Ugh.

    Professional porn is also unappealing. Anything that feels fake.

    When guys refer to their body parts by female terms (like a guy saying "fuck my pussy," "make me pregnant" et cetera).

    When they are clearly on meth

  • What ruins porn videos for you?

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  • See, I watch gay porn, so that under view with balls is actually super hot. Lol. And I quite like the pile driving/jackhammer fucking in real life, so that doesn't bother me, either. But I don't like professional porn, I like amateur stuff. And the fake moaning suuuuucks

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  • So you're going to let those infinite people on top stay tied to the track and starve to death slowly‽

  • Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice

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  • Without having read it myself, perhaps they mean 5% of total usage. So the gas generation is built to be able to handle 2/3rds of the power demand, in case of outage as a backup, but in normal operation will only contribute 5% of the energy demand. That way, in the event of a failure of the renewable energy source for whatever reason, or a failure in the batteries, the gas can kick in and keep the servers online while cutting disposal operations that represent 1/3 of the total.

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    Biocomputers powered by human brain cells

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  • Edit: I wrote this to be funny, but it came across as genuinely pissy and makes me look crazy. Leaving it for posterity, but it's meant as a joke.

    Fuck you mean "save?" Please, for the love of all that is holy, don't take the matrix from us! Let us have a matrix, we can all live in there and not worry about the climate or the gas clouds. Heck, I'm pretty sure they can just reincarnate us when we die, so we never even have to lose our family members. The machines were doing us a kindness and Neo came along and fucked it all up. I'll take my 1999 existence over the shit show of the truth any day.

    And that's without even going into the fact that I fully believe Agent Smith lied when he told Morpheus that the matrix couldn't be a paradise. Smith is an unreliable narrator at best.

  • What's your favourite kind of restaurant?

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  • A double beta decay restaurant is just filled with aging bottom-bottom couples looking for a third

  • Use this science wisely.

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  • I showed it to my brother who's flavored straight vanilla and he didn't get it, either. I'm glad to know we're not alone. Lol.

  • Use this science wisely.

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  • Yeah, same. I chalked it up to the homosexuality, but I'm not sure after reading some of the comments.

  • TIL about the largest labor uprising in history: The Battle of Blair Mountain, when the US military was deployed against 10,000 WV coal miners

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  • That's a real shame about the web boards. I miss real forums :(

  • What in your country/area is totally normal but visitors get excited for?

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  • Here's a fun little story about the first time we saw black squirrels.

    We had just moved to Norfolk, Virginia. My mom is driving through Norfolk, Virginia. Have you been to Norfolk, Virginia? Norfolk, Virginia is heavily African American. Heavily. We are white.

    My mom is driving, downtown Norfolk. It's very heavy traffic, we're going slow. It's one of those areas where you worry about someone randomly starts cleaning your windshield, or if it's late at night you might you may worry about carjackings. We do not have air-conditioning, and our windows are down.

    My mom sees a group of black squirrels for the first time in her life. And she yells out "OH MY GOD THEY'RE BLACK! THEY'RE ALL BLACK"

    I swear to you, I have never seen turn so pale so quick. She looks around and sees that lots and lots of people walking around have, indeed, heard her.

    Luckily, traffic was moving fast enough there wasn't too long of an awkward time with the people on the street.

    Given the reaction everyone has to black squirrel I'm pretty sure the folks on the street knew why she'd yelled, but we didn't know that at the time. Lol

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  • Former smoker, current vaper. I know inhaling anything other than clean air isn't good for me, and I know nicotine addiction isn't good. I plan on quitting, and I'm making decent progress to that point.

    But it bugs the shit out of me when people try to act like it's worse than cigarettes. It's not. Shitty Chinese vapes marketed to kids that we don't know the ingredients of? Sure, ban em. Black market vapes made in some dudes garage with oil? Absolutely track em down and end that man's whole career.

    But properly made, regulated vape juice in a rebuildable tank? Leave me the fuck alone. Please. Please do not take the thing that has helped millions of people quit smoking!

    Can you link me any decent articles to help the next time someone says some dumb reactionary shit?

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  • I don't look like bubbles! 😭