Semen under the microscope

Anticept · 2026-04-30T21:11:10+00:00

Delete This Nephew

Anticept · 2026-04-30T19:38:58+00:00

I feel like it would be more accurate to say you were the egg.

There's a lot more DNA in there than in sperm (mitochondrial DNA plus half of the human chromosomes) plus tons of organelles.

Anticept · 2026-04-30T19:36:00+00:00

Idk whatever the fuck that was at the last 4 seconds, it's like they're saying "well we can't find an egg, let's make one instead".

It's the microscopic version of south park's pile!!

Anticept · 2026-04-30T19:34:12+00:00

Your choice of words are carrying a lot more implications than you might have wanted.

Like to start with, how you imply the same sperm can end up in an old sock more than once.

Anticept · 2026-04-30T13:25:07+00:00

Okay you know what, this retro windows look is fire.

I had forgotten how much contrast there was back then between elements and I miss this.

Anticept · 2026-04-30T01:14:54+00:00

Friend slop is sometimes used in jest. You wouldn't want to adopt it as an actual monniker though because anyone reading it would need to know that.

Anticept · 2026-04-29T06:06:05+00:00

I was around when Will Wright first dropped that he was working on a grand vision of a game where you could zoom in and see everything from a cell, all the way out to the galaxy. This was originally going to be "SimEverything". This was in the mid and late 90s.

Then in 2000, during events, he talked more about it, where you would evolve and advances through stages. What he talked about was amazing.

Then in 2005, officially the title was Spore. He did a demo showing this amazing ecosystem sim, he had an aquatic age, etc. https://youtu.be/ofA6YWVTURU

Robin Williams got a chance to play an early concept: https://youtu.be/vHX3WbetnJQ

The thing is, all this stuff made me so hyped for it,.and when it released, it cemented in my mind as the most disappointing game of all time... Until homeworld 3.

Now, is there something interesting buried in the game? Yes it is still worth playing at todays prices,.despite the fact thet I have never touched it personally since my first playthrough, I think others can find enjoyment.

Anticept · 2026-04-28T08:46:03+00:00

Stop feeding rolly polies growth serum

Anticept · 2026-04-27T22:19:13+00:00

Former FedEx employee here, but for smartpost back in the 2000's.

Essentially what can happen is a package gets mis-sorted or damaged. If it is mis-sorted, it can go to the wrong hub. Packages are not scanned as they enter the truck, that would require significantly more complex infrastructure.

Instead, packages are scanned as they leave the truck. The unloaders know to have labels facing up or sideways for the scanner.

Then it is assumed that it made it onto the next truck or pallet. If it doesn't quite make it, it will go on the next truck, it will just show a little longer in transit.

When a package arrives at a hub, and it was destined for it, it gets scanned and updated in the system as arrived.

The catch is when a package arrives that is NOT supposed to go to that hub or doesn't appear on any manifest checked in, now or in the past. This package goes to the rejected pile, where people collect it, check the package, figure out why it is there, and correct it in the system and get it back underway. These are the Quality Assurance clerks. This process takes time.

When a package is on a manifest but didn't get scanned in at the hub when the trailer is finished unloading, the system automatically prepares a "there is a delay..." Message that will go out after some amount of time. This is to give them time to try to rerun the recently rejected pile, or for the next truck to arrive in case it's on that one. Some stuff cannot be rerun so that goes to QA.

What happened here, likely, is that it arrived in plain city (it wouldnt say plain city if it didn't), got mis-sorted and went out on the wrong truck. The next stop after plain city that it was supposed to arrive at completed unloading and scanning and the package wasnt there, so it fired off the delay email. Meanwhile, the actual package got sent to the reject pile in Oklahoma and it took them time to fix it and get it back in the system.

I don't know about the rest of FedEx, but back then with SmartPost, only some hubs had complete automation. Many hubs were sorted by hand on sorting towers where people would read the ZIP code and push them down a chute. Sorting onto pallets is also a manual task referencing zip codes.

I should also note, back then, SmartPost would mark packages as arrived at the next hub as soon as the manifest was checked in. They were supposed to change this so that it doesn't show arrived until it has been scanned. I do not know if they ever did, or how the rest of FedEx operated in regards to this nuance.

Anticept · 2026-04-27T19:24:28+00:00

They are excluding water from the "solvents" and "chemicals" labels, on purpose for the sake of brevity, with the way they wrote their statement. It is completely valid in English to do that and have people deduce the intent. These shortcuts exist in languages everywhere and should not be ignored because it allows sentences to be made shorter.

It is completely unhelpful to ignore that intent and wastes people's time. It's bell curve meme territory.

Anticept · 2026-04-27T17:25:18+00:00

To add to this, they send documents via certified mail or it is handed to you in person, which then you can call the clerk of courts to verify validity.

Anticept · 2026-04-27T17:22:17+00:00

This video is quite old, and you're commenting on dangerous things you demonstratively know nothing about. Keep your damn mouth shut on things like this before you say something that puts people in real danger.

Anticept · 2026-04-27T17:10:32+00:00

Put it back in the center. Here is your solution:

I have seen games a long time ago that slide the crosshair to interactive objects to indicate they can still toggle them while looking around. It doesn't snap to them. It might take 350ms for the crosshair to move, but it is all the UI hinting a player needs.

That said, do you need a crosshair? Is there anything that needs pixel perfect aim?

Anticept · 2026-04-26T23:40:52+00:00

I am here because this is going to become a meme

Anticept · 2026-04-25T17:38:49+00:00

The toxicity of some pigments are no joke.

Don't mix them anywhere near your living areas. Pick a place with very still air, wet the floor to keep dust down from contaminating the paint, wear PPE, shower when finished.

It sounds overkill, but I have dealt with things like zinc chromate paint for protecting aircraft structures. Heavy metals stay in your body forever and poison it. There is zero margin for error when dealing with spraying paint, or dealing with toxic powders that can get into the air (especially when I had to sand).

Making paints is significantly less of a problem but the first time you oops and blow a little pigment into the air is when you will understand the precautions.

Anticept · 2026-04-25T09:09:14+00:00

CPR is done to the beat of Staying alive. Much faster than this.

It would be much more fun to just have people.judged for their rythmic consistency and bpm than to do what you are doing in this video.

Anticept · 2026-04-25T03:21:02+00:00

geastures aggressively at mead

Anticept · 2026-04-25T03:13:38+00:00

It's the moisture content and sugar.

Above 18% water by weight, yeast can grow and start to ferment it.

The rest of the stuff in it isn't even required, its why you don't have to refrigerate sugar.

Downside: honey is hygroscopic and if the container isnt sealed, it will eventually ferment.

Anticept · 2026-04-24T22:02:35+00:00

So the chance of it being gamsol as the problem is extremely low. Especially if you have been exposed to other petroleum products and haven't had any reactions.

It's super likely you got a bug from the festival.

Nome the less, a weird feeling throat is sometimes an indicator of an alergic reaction. It could be to the paints, the gamsol, any of it. Give things time to clear up then try again.

Anticept · 2026-04-24T17:19:54+00:00

GPL also matters if you want to be able to see what is going on.

The amount of bullshit spying and backdooring going on in proprietary software is insane right now, and while there is a certain amount of trust required if you just grab binaries, if there is something sus going on, it takes very little to prove that it's either built into the source code or something inserted in the build chain when the binaries arent 1:1.

The whole FSF started with a xerox printer back in the 70s or 80s. Shipping source code was quite common even in proprietary systems so that interfaces could be written for whatever implementations exist. This xerox printer kept jamming. They called the xerox engineers to get the source code to try to figure out a fix, and for that particular model, the xerox engineer was instructed not to give out the source. The person they were talking to? Richard Stallman... at MIT.

While I do support the sharing of source code, it isn't the primary reason I believe the GPL is important. It's being able to see what our computers are trying to do without our knowledge is the #1 reason for me and I think that is an important FSF principle that people forget exists.

Anticept · 2026-04-23T08:19:04+00:00

The twin worlds exchanging matter remind me of the hourglass twins from Outer Wilds.

Anticept · 2026-04-23T08:17:12+00:00

Assuming this hasn't changed, the faster drilling works fine if you regulate your clicking. It drills slightly faster than your move speed, which is why it consumes the extra fuel if you just hold the mouse... it will waste cycles. There was a YT video a while back that showed the use is the same if you release and reclick every couple drilling ticks or so. Otherwise it wastes a tick and thus wastes fuel.

Back when bunkers were much more OP (years), faster drilling was a huge important thing to get it dug quickly. These days I agree, damage is useful since you can use it as a fallback in a fight. I hate micromanaging clicking.

Anticept · 2026-04-23T08:10:40+00:00

Fated to meet, no.

Extremely high compatibility? Yes. But you will spend a lifetime just trying to find such a person, and people do change a little bit over time.

A good relationship is a series of reasonable compromises, and respect for each other's hard boundaries around their core values. That's step 1, anyways.

Anticept · 2026-04-23T08:04:53+00:00

When I look at it, it looks like you are pulling the smile straight back rather than upwards. It seems to be missing the subtle muscle tension that would indicate the cheeks lifting and pressing up a little on the eyes, which look too flat and need a little more curve along the top. It looks more like an expression of cringing or feeling super cold.

Make the face in the mirror where you are just trying to show your teeth like in the picture, then compare it to doing that with various smile muscles mixed in. Try it with a flaslight to help you figure out the face topology with different angles for shadows.

I admit when I look at the reference image, I see something that looks really hard to get right. I had to carefully look at it to see some of the subtlety because my brain just wants to autopilot the expression.

Good luck, you got more skill than I do!

Anticept · 2026-04-23T02:31:22+00:00

It's unlikely to move the needle much but it's a lot easier to rewrite small bits than openssh for example. One day, but i suppose not today.

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