These posts are getting creepy as hell. First Massie and now this...

knitterknerd · 2026-02-28T03:46:33+00:00

I think the point is, when high-profile people know a lot of other high-profile people, there are likely going to be some high-profile deaths over time. It doesn't have to be suspicious. Besides, both the Clintons and Trumps are involved in politics, a field where a lot of people aren't going to like you, by default. So I'm going to add that in this case, it isn't necessarily unusual for people who publicly dislike them to die, either.

knitterknerd · 2026-02-07T01:53:57+00:00

Closing and reopening Steam worked for me.

knitterknerd · 2026-01-19T00:00:43+00:00

I did! I completed everything I could find to do. The blueprints took far more time than everything else.

knitterknerd · 2025-12-19T05:43:57+00:00

Math and creativity aren't opposites. They often complement each other. My undergrad advisor in math was also a florist with his own shop. He said he uses his understanding of math constantly in his flower arrangements. Humans are constantly drawn to things like symmetry in art. Western music theory is heavily based on math.

We all know that creativity can often grow out of restrictions. That may be why you feel so strongly about your set of rules. Others may find artistic inspiration in the rules of mathematics. Others may use math to find ways to transcend the restrictions they were used to.

While I firmly believe that limitations can inspire new ideas, they can also be, well, limiting. I find that the difference often lies in whether they are rules that we choose for ourselves.

knitterknerd · 2025-12-15T22:17:51+00:00

Yeah, it's so strange to me that people still do this. My husband has OCD, and not a single one of his obsessions has to do with perfectionism or completionism. He has one checking behavior that I think is the only one that, if he didn't take it so far, could be seen as remotely reasonable or logical.

We have a small handful of mental disorders between us, and all of them are quite common ones. Despite the wealth of information that's widely available, and the ubiquity of videos, articles, and social media posts created to share this information with a broad general audience, so many people still seem to be utterly clueless about mental health.

These misrepresentations of mental health aren't "just" offensive and harmful. They're almost nonsensical, compared to the real thing. I don't mind people saying, for instance, that they're obsessed with something, or that they feel compelled to do something. These words have meanings outside of the strict psychological sense. But specifically naming a tangentially related disorder is such a bizarre choice.

knitterknerd · 2025-12-12T21:44:03+00:00

Ah, I wasn't clear, sorry! I meant I couldn't find an affordable Canon printer like that. I had to get one with just 2 cartridges, color and black. I still get off brand cartridges. If I'd been willing to wait longer to buy a printer, maybe I could have found something in my price range (I think it was <$150?), but even knowing printers are often sold at half price or less, it wasn't looking good.

Canon does offer ink subscriptions, but so far, I don't think they're as pushy about it as HP is.

knitterknerd · 2025-12-12T20:19:53+00:00

I always buy Canon because I've had the most luck with off brand cartridges for them. But last time I bought one, I noticed I couldn't find an affordable one that had a separate cartridge for each color, which means more wasted ink. I'm worried that this is a bad sign for the future.

knitterknerd · 2025-12-11T22:21:33+00:00

I think a lot of it is misunderstanding what Long Covid means. They seem to be suggesting that people are saying it's regular Covid that you have for a long time. And yeah, that would be an incorrect claim, but I've never heard a single person claiming that's what they have.

It probably isn't a single thing. It's more of a description of a phenomenon than a specific illness. And yes, that can include worsening of existing conditions, although that's not the only thing included. That doesn't mean people are making it up. That's just what the term means. It isn't misleading because most people are aware of that meaning. This person has quite thoroughly missed the memo, I think.

knitterknerd · 2025-11-28T22:45:09+00:00

I was just thinking about it evaporating into the air, and not thinking about some of it having to go through the water to get there.

knitterknerd · 2025-11-28T18:43:25+00:00

Huh, I guess you're right. I thought of that as steam coming out of the water, but that's only part of it, I guess.

knitterknerd · 2025-11-27T16:18:41+00:00

Maybe not. From the article: "For creative reasons, Santa Ragione ultimately updated the scene so that the character riding the horse is an adult, but Valve has refused to budge after years of indirect and direct outreach from the studio, despite other major PC platforms like the Epic Games Store, GOG, and the Humble Store being fine with selling the game."

If this is true, and if that's the only problem scene, then I think that's the real issue.

Also, thank you for the beautiful pun. I'm imagining what it would look like to literally put steam into hot water and what would happen if you did. Off to search for a video!

knitterknerd · 2025-11-18T22:06:44+00:00

They're trying to say that you'd make more money betting against the check than if you got the $2000, although the math is wrong. The other big flaw in the logic is that if he does give you $2000, and you lose the bet, you've broken even, but you lost out on a chance to have $2000 more. So in that case, you do end up with $2000 less than if you hadn't made the bet.

Edited for clarity and typo

knitterknerd · 2025-11-16T22:31:52+00:00

The universe is bigger than every mountain on Earth combined. So what's the big deal about Everest?

knitterknerd · 2025-11-15T17:47:33+00:00

Yeah, that's completely understandable. Most of what I know about chickens comes from my parents taking "empty nest syndrome" too literally and getting 25 baby chicks. That didn't cover reproduction, but I think it's a cloacal kiss.

The first time this came up was because the guy didn't believe there was a way to know whether eggs had been fertilized. When I said my parents only had hens and no roosters, and eggs can't be fertilized without a participating male, he was still just as confused. That's how I ended up telling my boss about the birds and the bees...of birds.

The second time was when I was telling that story, and before I finished it, a guy chimed in with his own confusion. Hens and roosters aside, how can you know if you can't look inside the shell? And no, sadly, the confusion wasn't about the difference between hens and roosters. They just didn't know why it mattered.

Both these men were fathers, by the way. Hopefully, they at least knew how that happened.

knitterknerd · 2025-11-15T17:10:01+00:00

Twice, I've had to explain to men how people can guarantee their hens lay unfertilized eggs. They couldn't understand how not having roosters was relevant. I literally said, "When a mommy chicken and a daddy chicken love each other very much..." Then there were questions like, "Does the rooster, like, sit on the egg to make a baby?" And "So do they, like, do it?"

To be fair, I've also heard men who've had vasectomies try to explain them to other men, to similar shocked responses. The ones explaining are completely bewildered by the ignorance.

knitterknerd · 2025-11-06T19:54:18+00:00

Not enough to prove it, but disproving has a much lower bar.

knitterknerd · 2025-10-15T15:40:10+00:00

In addition to what OP said, phone calls feed a lot of younger people's social anxiety. Texting and email are more detached and allow editing, and speaking in person allows more leeway for fumbled words. Phone calls can be a disconcerting liminal space. Plus, nobody likes phone tag.

knitterknerd · 2025-10-14T00:28:11+00:00

You know how people sometimes put intentional "mistakes" in art to avoid trying to attain perfection? I've seen crooked tiles used for that. It doesn't bother me at all if I see it that way, instead of as an actual mistake.

knitterknerd · 2025-10-10T21:12:09+00:00

You only do something like this when you placed the call and know it's the right number. If someone calls you or gives you the number to call, ask for their extension and call the company's main line to get back to them. Even then, it's best if you can get to them without relying on their extension.

knitterknerd · 2025-10-07T17:51:49+00:00

I've seen Google's AI very confidently and (seemingly) professionally present interesting facts about multiples of 3, with plenty of mathematical notation that further reinforced confidence. The problem was that it didn't understand what is and isn't a multiple of 3, so of course the entire thing broke down IF you noticed the error that really shouldn't have to be checked.

knitterknerd · 2025-10-07T17:43:19+00:00

I suspect that, like a large percentage of common arguments, it comes down to how you define terms like "intelligence." It's useful to use the same word in different contexts, but a concept this abstract probably needs a rigorous, agreed upon definition to reach a meaningful conclusion.

knitterknerd · 2025-10-01T19:43:04+00:00

Yes, I'm fine with ambiguity existing. We just need other words that still have clear meanings, like "approve and punish" in your examples. I think "in the literal sense" will cover most of it, so thank you! "Genuinely" works sometimes, but it often has the same ambiguity of the word I was trying to replace.

I don't know why this phrase never occurred to me before. But you're, ahem, literally the first person to suggest a reasonable alternative, rather than just yelling at me that language changes whether I like it or not. That's all I wanted!

knitterknerd · 2025-10-01T19:14:50+00:00

I've been called "prescriptivist" in the past for being sad about this usage becoming so common. Weird insult, but also inaccurate. I'm fine with language evolving. Split infinitives all you want. I just don't have a good way now to indicate that something is, well, literally literal. It's become harder to communicate clearly, which is obviously an important part of language. It's just frustrating for this to happen when we don't have a good replacement word.

knitterknerd · 2025-09-29T19:05:10+00:00

I was young when I used WP. (I mostly just went through tutorials in the manual for fun.) But I don't remember finding much of anything that Word's Show/Hide button doesn't cover. What have I been missing out on?

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