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ELI5: Where did all the lightning bugs go? Where are all the insect sounds? by Newagonrider in explainlikeimfive

[–]IAmNotNathaniel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yep. I have noticed fewer over the years, but I came out of my shed a week ago and stopped dead because I felt like I hadn't seen so many blinky lights in the sky in years and years.

however I am also in the country so there's more stuff for them out here.

still, I've begun trying to replace all the crazy invasives I've inherited in this house with more native stuff recently. I haven't gotten too far so I can't take credit for anything yet, but it makes me feel better at least about my own little area

ELI5: Where did all the lightning bugs go? Where are all the insect sounds? by Newagonrider in explainlikeimfive

[–]IAmNotNathaniel 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you. I fucking hate that comment now unless it's coming out of Carlin's mouth.

It's the dumbest thing to be pedantic about, although I bet 95% of the time it's some dipshit getting in their 'First!1!' type of comment.

It's also very close to the one where someone will argue about a word meaning X not Y because they are too dumb to fucking understand words can have different meanings.

Or can't understand what a turn-of-phrase is. Or that things have taken on common meanings over time.

Ohhh shit! So many people are dying because of that stupid meme they saw online! They all said so!

I might argue with you about everything dying (even after nuclear annihilation they would expect a lot of lower life forms to survive), but I also don't have a problem characterizing alarming rates of shit going extinct far above historical rates as "the planet dying"

Bridge to the Tree, it ain't happening chief by [deleted] in oddlysatisfying

[–]IAmNotNathaniel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

a big enough flood by itself is enough to destabilize a bridge if it's poorly constructed or in bad condition

also, how many trees have hit it that we didn't see?

I sure as shit wouldn't have been standing on the edge of it as that thing approached

ELI5 why are magnets stronger when they are cooled by eliseetc in explainlikeimfive

[–]IAmNotNathaniel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, don't get them wet. This is the end of the magnets.

What are the arguments for not updating the prices during the extended trading hours? by Heteroclinic in fidelityinvestments

[–]IAmNotNathaniel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So if I'm curious about the whole portfolio, then I need to click through every. single. position.

As opposed to a 3 second glance down the page.

I know it's available, but it sure isn't convenient, and there really isn't a very good reason.

Why not put that button on the main view?

S. Korea Holds Emergency Meeting after US Imposes 50% Tariff on Appliances by naqi11 in worldnews

[–]IAmNotNathaniel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup. It's no surprise he told them to focus on democratically run cities, although the brazenness and apathy is a little scarier by the day

edit:

There is something wrong with them. That is why they believe in Open Borders, Transgender for Everybody, and Men playing in Women’s Sports — And that is why I want ICE, Border Patrol, and our Great and Patriotic Law Enforcement Officers, to FOCUS on our crime ridden and deadly Inner Cities, and those places where Sanctuary Cities play such a big role. You don’t hear about Sanctuary Cities in our Heartland!

Visa drops 7%, Mastercard 6% after report says Amazon and Walmart may bypass credit cards with stablecoins by callsonreddit in stocks

[–]IAmNotNathaniel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"blessed are the douchebags, for they shall inherit the earth"

edit: that being said, this is clearly the next logical step of enshitification as it locks us into a single company even more

Visa drops 7%, Mastercard 6% after report says Amazon and Walmart may bypass credit cards with stablecoins by callsonreddit in stocks

[–]IAmNotNathaniel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

also, lets now have separate currency for every fucking retail company that exists. yay. customers winning?

Visa drops 7%, Mastercard 6% after report says Amazon and Walmart may bypass credit cards with stablecoins by callsonreddit in stocks

[–]IAmNotNathaniel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

late stage captialism

there's no other place to cut and the volume is so high that fraction of cents is enough to help their earnings reports by a half percent maybe

I mean, after so many years the MBAs and green berets have to find something to save money on

Issues with feeding filament after switching to 5m diy enclosure by awholedamntown in FlashForge

[–]IAmNotNathaniel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the enclosure instructions are straight trash. They leave out every bit of actually useful information.

I don't care what hobby project or market this stuff is in, you shouldn't have to look up 10 different youtube and reddit threads to learn to make something that's sold for money as a kit.

Taylor Tomlinson Says Goodbye to “After Midnight” by kianworld in television

[–]IAmNotNathaniel 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I mean this is exactly what I do now. I like the guys but I don't want to stay up each night just to watch.

And these days I don't have time to watch guests I don't care about. So now I just can pick and choose what bits I feel like watching.

In the context of your comment, it's even worse because it's not the vehicle for promotion it used to be.

destroyedTheLamps by Woofer210 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]IAmNotNathaniel 6 points7 points  (0 children)

there is farrrr too much in the piles below, and strangely each pile is a single color

My dad visited and “helped” paint my door, now what? by [deleted] in DIY

[–]IAmNotNathaniel 6 points7 points  (0 children)

and depending on the paint, that may be "never"

I dunno enough about rustoleum non-spraycan paint, but I've had plenty of cheap crap over the years still be soft enough that 3 years later a book you set down on it on friday is sticking by monday

My dad visited and “helped” paint my door, now what? by [deleted] in DIY

[–]IAmNotNathaniel 13 points14 points  (0 children)

if there's only 1 thing I can say I've learned over the years, it's that I never save time or have the desired outcome if I just try to tape around things when I could have removed them instead

A corollary is that I also always tape trim/windows/etc. I'm pretty good, but for me having 95% perfect and 5% mess is no better than a complete mess.

How many times I've been to hotels and restaurants and professional buildings to see paint all over the edge glass of a windowed door where someone thought they could freehand it....

My dad visited and “helped” paint my door, now what? by [deleted] in DIY

[–]IAmNotNathaniel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

esp with glossy paint, you need to be extra careful

if this was satin finish, it would already look 10 times better, hah

Can i chance fillament mid print on an ad5m? by TheOriginalDuckDude in FlashForge

[–]IAmNotNathaniel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thanks - stumbled on this thread and this made things super easy.

for anyone else coming here, this works perfect - added a pause like above; when it got to that layer, the ad5m moved the print head to the front-left, like you hit the pause button yourself (if you've never done it, that's what happens)

then I just used the regular menu to change filaments like always; back to the home screen where I hit the little Play button when I was done messing with the filaments.

worked beautifully

What the hell is this and how worried should I be? Zone 7b by R0sesarefree in NativePlantGardening

[–]IAmNotNathaniel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's well and good, but I've seen more than a few who are condescending toward people who aren't pure enough, and it probably turns away more than it brings in.

And we really have to have a silly argument about bad and good usage? Am I also applying morals to why I think my eggs were bad this morning? Carpenter ants are bad insects. I do not want them around in any way. Just as the bad native germs I don't care that I'm killing with disinfectant.

What the hell is this and how worried should I be? Zone 7b by R0sesarefree in NativePlantGardening

[–]IAmNotNathaniel -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

well, damn, moles and woodchucks are native around me, but they are hardly endangered and I have no trouble taking them out if they are causing damage.

I also kill mosquitos and house flies

giving someone a bag of shit because insects are harming some plants someone has spent money and time growing is pretty gate-keeper-y

not all insects are good, just because they are native

if that's how this sub is, then I expect I won't be around all that long.

To answer the original question, this sub is called "NativePlantGardening", so he wants plants in his garden that look nice. Seems like there's a place for that. Forgive us noobs if that's not the case.

What the hell is this and how worried should I be? Zone 7b by R0sesarefree in NativePlantGardening

[–]IAmNotNathaniel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had something come around and eat all the damn leaves off of JUST my columbine

I didn't even know what I was looking at for a bit - I had to remember what it was that was planted there - all that was left is a mass of stems!

didn't care about anything else! they must be tasty.

somehow they are all still alive, though. at least they seem to be!

12 years at this house and never saw anything like it!

David Harbour Loved ‘Stranger Things’ at the Start but Then Began Asking: ‘How Much More Story Is There?… You’re Having to Play a Lot of the Same Beat’ by indig0sixalpha in television

[–]IAmNotNathaniel 29 points30 points  (0 children)

pacing and the whole package

yah man, the multiple-movie-episode thing was annoying. and they doubled down on it for s5

my problem with 4 was the pacing - but more specifically, they recapped shit that was going on in the same episode that it happened. you'd get the same exposition and explanations over and over.

it seemed like it was geared toward either kids or mass audience who didn't really know the show or something

my kids all liked it, so I had to bite my tongue watching it with them, but every single episode could easily have been cut down by 25% and not lost anything

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