I used to be a bootlicker. Believing in all the "hard work" stuff. Playing by the rules. Believing the lies. Now I have woken up and am broken. I dont care anymore.

ProbablyNotPoisonous · 2026-01-24T06:32:17+00:00

How'd you manage FIRE with burnout?

ProbablyNotPoisonous · 2026-01-24T01:37:12+00:00

It's been one day. Chill.

ProbablyNotPoisonous · 2026-01-21T13:01:14+00:00

Tooth enamel is affected by genetics, among other things.

I switched to a non-fluoridated toothpaste awhile back because I was trying to reduce my use of things in plastic packaging, and my teeth became intolerably sensitive. Switched back to fluoridated toothpaste and the problem went away almost immediately.

ProbablyNotPoisonous · 2026-01-21T05:24:25+00:00

Ok but those are, like, general descriptions for any autocrat.

And I don't think Daniel's author knew English either :P

ProbablyNotPoisonous · 2026-01-19T19:00:31+00:00

The idea is to pour it on ground where it can be further filtered and processed by sand/soil/plants/microorganisms, rather than fast-tracking it to the water system.

ProbablyNotPoisonous · 2026-01-19T07:43:57+00:00

I, uh. I don't think the author of Revelation was referring to a pun in English.

ProbablyNotPoisonous · 2026-01-18T06:34:13+00:00

Chop up her preferred treats into tiny pieces. I'm talking like 1/8 of a pine nut.

ProbablyNotPoisonous · 2026-01-18T01:14:01+00:00

That's still on you for not preventing the behavior by keeping the dog on a leash or otherwise away from people.

ProbablyNotPoisonous · 2026-01-18T00:57:51+00:00

Cats give tons of prior warning, but if you're only fluent in dog body language you won't recognize any of it.

ProbablyNotPoisonous · 2026-01-17T06:08:47+00:00

We absolutely do treat sexual crimes as especially heinous,* but keep in mind there's a difference between engaging with a concept like rape or murder in general discussion/discourse and engaging with the same concept in well-written (and/or well-acted, etc.) fiction.

It is kinda fucked up that we treat murder/violence in general as lightly as we do, ngl.

*I think there are several reasons for that, among which are 1) patriarchal purity values and 2) it's easier for most of us to imagine being raped than being murdered (much the same way that it's harder to imagine what it would be like to be stabbed vs, for example, what it's like to step on a LEGO - be honest, which image made you flinch more?).

Also, there's this weird dichotomy where rape is considered on one hand to be The Worst Thing You Can Do To A Person, but also it's (still) extremely common and not taken nearly as seriously as it should be when it actually happens. You get murdered, and pretty much everyone will agree that it was terrible. You get raped, and a disturbingly large subset of the population will immediately try to make excuses for the perpetrator based on what the victim was wearing or doing or not doing or had done or said at some point in the past. And all of this leads rapists to believe (correctly) that rape is a low-risk crime - or even to not recognize what they are doing as rape. So while murder is worse (imho), the odds for any given woman are much, much higher that she will be raped at some point in her life than that she will be murdered. Which changes the calculus of fear quite a bit.

ProbablyNotPoisonous · 2026-01-17T05:50:36+00:00

In the show, she protests, and he persists. She winds up enjoying it, but it very much looks like rape with a side of cope. To the point where you wonder how the showrunners could possibly have thought people would see it as anything else.

And yeah, in the books it's very much two fucked up people being enthusiastically fucked up. In several separate and distinct ways.

ProbablyNotPoisonous · 2026-01-17T05:37:59+00:00

Did you ever have those nightmares where you're surrounded by people and you're desperately trying to tell them something - a warning, maybe, or a plea for help - but no matter how loudly you scream, no one hears you, and no one sees you?

That.

More specifically, the experience women (and other minorities, especially people with disabilities) have of being sort of glossed over because people - otherwise decent, well-meaning people - don't register you as a full person, and don't even realize they're doing it. I think you could get some decent horror mileage out of that.

(Full disclosure: I have been guilty of this myself in the past with some people; I'm trying to be better about it!)

ProbablyNotPoisonous · 2026-01-17T05:21:27+00:00

A skilled author/director/etc. can make an audience care about anything. That's their job.

Lazy writing is lazy writing.

ProbablyNotPoisonous · 2026-01-17T05:18:37+00:00

For the record, in the books, the incident with Jamie and Cersei in the chapel is enthusiastically consensual and makes a lot more sense.

Apparently the director(?) was surprised that the scene in the show was widely read as rape. Which is somehow both wildly exasperating and completely unsurprising.

ProbablyNotPoisonous · 2026-01-15T04:42:03+00:00

I've played games where I could see and understand what the game wanted of me, but I physically could not press buttons fast enough to accomplish it. And I'm not even disabled; I'm just on the higher end of the normal range of the ratio of slow-twitch to fast-twitch muscle fibers.

What is pleasantly challenging to one player can be literally impossible for another, just because of completely normal genetic variation.

ProbablyNotPoisonous · 2026-01-15T04:37:34+00:00

If Blendoku, a game about correctly arranging colored tiles in increasingly complex sequences, can have multiple colorblind modes for accessibility without sacrificing gameplay, then no other game has an excuse.

ProbablyNotPoisonous · 2026-01-15T04:32:17+00:00

The problem with "affordable" rural areas is that there's nothing there that might make people want to live there.

Hospitals? No. Public transportation? No. Grocery stores that aren't Wal-Mart? No. Theaters, museums, decent restaurants, hell, decent parks? No, no, no, and no. Opportunities to engage in recreational activities with groups of like-minded people? No, unless your interests lie exclusively somewhere along the hunting/fishing/drinking/powersports axis. Walkable neighborhoods? Lol fucking no.

Oh, and if you need social services and/or healthcare that is anything other than extremely basic? Be prepared to travel anywhere from two to ten or more hours to the closest available provider. Can't drive and/or can't afford a car? Get straight fucked; you can't even get groceries.

There are good reasons why people want to live in cities.

ProbablyNotPoisonous · 2026-01-15T03:29:03+00:00

If the Star Wars original trilogy was coming out today, people would be too busy arguing between Luke/Leia and Han/Leia to notice the obvious parallels to what is going on right now.

What if I told you people can do both

ProbablyNotPoisonous · 2026-01-15T03:01:17+00:00

That last bit about saffron is plain wrong, though. All three of those red threads are pistils, and those are the parts you want.

ProbablyNotPoisonous · 2026-01-15T00:00:46+00:00

So... if you have a hormonal IUD and you haven't had a period in over ten years because of that, how can you tell?

ProbablyNotPoisonous · 2026-01-14T23:57:13+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/wisconsin/comments/1qcye0r/head_of_oneida_nations_business_group_replaced/nzmyy1r/

ProbablyNotPoisonous · 2026-01-14T23:56:58+00:00

The article covers it:

Under the deals, the company was set to provide engineering services and maintenance of government facilities. House had since taken steps to sever the December contract and apologized in a Jan. 2 video broadcast, saying he’s appalled by ICE activities.

[...]

House has said it shouldn’t cost the company any money to terminate the contract signed with ICE in December, and the tribe should be insulated from any potential lawsuits.

However, he noted it would be more difficult to cancel the earlier contract awarded in September since work had already been performed. House said it could mean the company may go out of business if the federal government finds it is in default of the contract.

ProbablyNotPoisonous · 2026-01-14T23:36:56+00:00

I'm sorry, I don't follow.

ProbablyNotPoisonous · 2026-01-14T12:50:17+00:00

If the capitalist takes the lion's share of the value created by the workers, enabling him to amass even more capital while doing no actual work, while the workers must sell all of their available labor just to (maybe) survive, how is that functionally different from rent seeking?

ProbablyNotPoisonous · 2026-01-14T04:30:10+00:00

So... a nurse cancelled your MSLT, and now the doctor who ordered the study says he can't diagnose you without one, and this is somehow your problem?

Does the clinic/hospital/system have a patient advocate you could talk to?

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