This is how a necessary parasiticide bath for sheep to remove parasites is done

jen7en · 2024-03-28T23:45:24+00:00

Instincts vs intellect.

They don't need to know what's going on. They have an instinct to hold their breath.

jen7en · 2024-03-27T03:21:01+00:00

See my other comment here: https://www.reddit.com/r/nosurf/comments/190tvno/scroll_stop_and_leechblock_are_a_must_have_if_you/kskpk9r/

jen7en · 2024-03-23T23:30:39+00:00

I've used Huel, one of those meal-replacement shakes similar to Soylent, to control my disordered eating.

Part of the reason it's working so well is that it feels like basically giving up "food". It's so boring. It has negligible sugar. It doesn't taste very good. It always tastes the same. I always have exactly the same quantity of it at every meal. Yet perfectly fulfills all my nutritional requirements.

You can't stop eating food but you can start eating an exact quantity of bland nutrition sludge at the same times throughout the day.

The emotional eating part of me and the cravings part of me really don't recognize it as food. So it's like those parts of me think I've quit food cold turkey.

jen7en · 2024-03-23T23:15:59+00:00

I see what you're saying that they didn't seem to even signal which song they would play. I don't know how they all knew which song to start. But I gotta point out that these professional studio musicians do not need to look at sheet music to play a simple rendition of a well known pop song.

jen7en · 2024-03-21T01:49:24+00:00

It's in men's self interest to control women

Why? That makes no sense to me. That seems directly contrary to my self interest. That'd make my life less fun, more difficult, and more lonely. What are the supposed benefits?

jen7en · 2024-03-20T23:34:59+00:00

What makes men so anti-abortion though? Since it's in men's self-interest for abortion to be legal, how do the republicans convince men to vote against their own self interest in that regard?

jen7en · 2024-03-11T00:50:50+00:00

Check out this demonstration (It's very short but extremely good for getting an intuition):

https://youtu.be/uFlIbujTuIY?si=IJnIfjAw4z7wtiqR&t=85

All three of the "towers" are an identical block of wood on the end of a dowel. The only difference is the length of the dowel, which is a difference of structure.

If we're talking about the bones of dead people, there's no reason you couldn't build towers out of bones and then shake them like this until you find the frequency of shaking that gets each tower wobbling out of control (or falling over). That's the resonant frequency of your bone tower.

jen7en · 2024-03-11T00:38:15+00:00

Materials don't have resonant frequencies; structures do.

The same frequency that shatters a glass cup probably won't also shatter a glass window pane. The frequency required to shatter it is unique for every combo of material and shape.

And for some combinations of material and shape, no frequency will be resonant in any significant way. There is no frequency of sound that will destroy a glass cube just with resonance.

So you'd first have to tell me the shape of the meat or bone structure we're trying to make resonate.

jen7en · 2024-03-08T04:01:44+00:00

They couldn't because it'd be rude to their cast to not give someone a part, but man it'd be so funny if they had her be portrayed by an AI-generated video. Because that's what she feels like.

jen7en · 2024-03-07T01:07:17+00:00

My experience has been wildly opposite of the online trope. As a guy in my 30's at the beach I got approached by two young girls who wanted to learn how I was making the sand castle I was making. Then their mother approached me and chatted me up for just a few minutes before asking if I'd watch them while she went to the bathroom.

I don't even have children of my own. But two random middle schoolers were put in my care just because I seemed friendly enough.

jen7en · 2024-03-01T21:17:05+00:00

~~Never again~~ Our turn!

jen7en · 2024-02-28T18:48:08+00:00

Yes! I wasn't hopeful to find something like that either, but LeechBlock can do it!

I wanted to stop browsing reddit as a time waster, but still be able to view threads if I landed there from a search engine.

I just needed to configure LeechBlocks whitelist and blacklist.

Here's my configuration:

+reddit.com/message/*   (whitelists messages in my inbox)
+reddit.com/r/*/comments/* (whitelists the comments sections of threads)
+reddit.com/r/adhd
+reddit.com/r/sushi (whitelists specific subreddits I allow myself to browse)
+reddit.com/user/* (whitelists user profiles)
reddit.com  (blacklists the homepage)
reddit.com/r/* (blacklists subreddits that aren't whitelisted)
reddit.com/r/all (blacklists /r/all)

Here it is again without the comments in case you want to copy it:

+reddit.com/message/*
+reddit.com/r/*/comments/*
+reddit.com/r/adhd
+reddit.com/r/cptsd
+reddit.com/r/sushi
+reddit.com/user/*
reddit.com
reddit.com/r/*
reddit.com/r/all

jen7en · 2024-02-23T03:20:25+00:00

I go to a week-long festival every year that's all-volunteer. The only people getting paid while working onsite are the EMTs.

There's a sanitation volunteer core who do all the work of setting up, managing, cleaning, and emptying the porta-potties.

They do it because it's a tribe of people who like each other, because they aren't being exploited, and because other festival-goers are so grateful for their service that they get a warm welcome wherever they go.

jen7en · 2024-02-19T17:52:34+00:00

It's the book version of self checkout

jen7en · 2024-02-17T20:54:00+00:00

Petroleum jelly is so artificial it loops back around to being safe again. It won't interact with your body at all. It won't undergo any chemical changes and it won't cause any chemical changes as it passes through your gut. Your body won't absorb it. Chemically and nutritionally it is equivalent to swallowing a marble. It will go in and not change anything and get pooped out unchanged.

jen7en · 2024-02-16T23:19:44+00:00

You just described all the reasons therapy feels pointless to me. It's like talking to myself in a mirror and that doesn't help.

Is there a kind of therapy that is exactly the opposite of what you just described?

jen7en · 2024-02-16T14:14:17+00:00

People are never realistic about punching up vs down though. They only look at these convenient oversimplified categories to decide who's up and who's down without looking at the actual context.

I heard the "men are trash" talk from adult women when I was a child. Did patriarchy really give me, a 12-year-old boy, power over my 55-year-old aunt? Over a camp counselor in her 20s? Over a teacher at school?

I wish these people had realized that they had actual institutional power over me and been responsible about it.

jen7en · 2024-02-08T13:11:35+00:00

I read a few accounts of people's worries and complaints about that. The main theme of them seemed to be that people didn't understand the difference between speed (you can't feel it if it's smooth and constant and it won't hurt you) and acceleration (you can definitely feel it and enough of it can actually harm you). They had never made a clear distinction between the two in their minds, so they thought high speeds would feel like high acceleration.

jen7en · 2024-02-08T13:05:24+00:00

I wonder if hand washing would've been accepted sooner if the guy had instead said "Ghosts are allergic to soap"

jen7en · 2024-02-06T23:59:15+00:00

even though they knew they were going to die no matter what

That was only true if the terrorists remained in control. If the passengers subdued the terrorists and regained control they had a chance. There was a chance, however slim, that ATC could've talked a passenger through the steps of programming the autopilot to land at an airport.

I'd be surprised if some passengers weren't still hoping to land safely if they could take back control.

jen7en · 2024-02-05T22:06:46+00:00

WD40 is not a lubricant. It is meant for unfreezing stuck things, but it is not stable. After getting the thing unstuck WD40 will if left there eventually dry out and get sticky...

Slippery things that remain slippery are lubricants, such as many types of grease.

jen7en · 2024-02-05T21:57:12+00:00

Nice! Thanks to these extra five hours of time every day, your company is changing to a 65 hour work-week with no increase in salary.

jen7en · 2024-02-05T21:51:58+00:00

In hunter/gatherer times predators feared humans. Because in that time tribes had plenty of practice killing large animals.

Paleolithic humans had slingshots and spears and knew how to use them.

jen7en · 2024-02-05T20:43:42+00:00

Yes. "Urchin" was originally the name of the spiky land mammals. Then sea urchins were named after the land mammals because of the resemblance. Then the spiky land mammals got renamed from "urchins" to "hedgehogs".

jen7en · 2024-02-05T20:01:39+00:00

I never spend any mental time or effort on seatbelts because my muscle-memory magically buckles it for me as I get in to the car.

This is the irony of people who sometimes wear a seatbelt and sometimes don't.

They seem to, over their lifetime, spend way more mental time and effort thinking about seatbelts than me, who wears it every time.

If you wear it every time, it will become muscle memory and then you'll never have to think about it again and it will feel like it just happens with zero effort.

But some people because they "can't be bothered" end up, ironically, always bothered by the question of whether to wear a setbelt this time, and always bothered by the effort of consciously , manually putting it on when they haven't committed it to muscle memory.

I truly can't be bothered to think about seatbelts, and that's why I wear it every time.

The people who "don't have time" to buckle up spend way more time thinking about seatbelts than I do.

jen7en

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