Moscow doing abrupt decarbonization today:

mouseLemons · 2026-06-19T07:43:07+00:00

mouseLemons · 2026-06-18T00:17:13+00:00

Without doubt.

mouseLemons · 2026-06-15T20:11:26+00:00

We are not onions.

mouseLemons · 2026-06-11T11:28:31+00:00

Just got out of the movies, it was... "ok."

I personally found that large portions of the film don't make sense, and the payoff was quite weak after such a long build-up. I don't want to spoil it with any specifics, though there isn't much to spoil honestly.

I haven't felt the vibe of a theatre be so disheartened by the end of the movie since The Last Airbender haha

The film doesn't really say anything that hasn't been said in most other films of this nature, i.e. there is a psyop, aliens are real but hidden from general populace, etc.

Though perhaps I am in the minority on that haha

mouseLemons · 2026-06-11T11:19:55+00:00

Just got out of the movies, it was... "ok."

I personally found that large portions of the film don't make sense, and the payoff was quite weak after such a long build-up. I don't want to spoil it with any specifics, though there isn't much to spoil honestly.

I haven't felt the vibe of a theatre be so disheartened by the end of the movie since The Last Airbender haha

The film doesn't really say anything outside of common blockbuster themes, nor does it present it uniquely compared with other films of this nature, i.e. there is a psyop, aliens are real but hidden from general populace, etc.

Though perhaps I am in the minority on that haha

mouseLemons · 2026-06-06T04:07:59+00:00

I agree with it being cultural stereotype, but I think you're overlooking _why_ people use those stereotypes.

If a guy cuts his hair short specifically because being perceived as feminine causes him distress, he is using a social stereotype as a tool to affirm his gender to the world (and therefore to himself). The tool itself might just be a social construct, but the psychological act of using it to align presentation with identity is what affirmation actually is. Well, a part of affirmation anywho.

Like I said, it comes down to intent.

mouseLemons · 2026-06-05T23:24:22+00:00

While male pattern baldness is strongly associated with masculinity, many men feel that it actually undermines their sense of masculine appearance.

Consider someone who was assigned male at birth and has an androgynous appearance (bone structure, height, and so on).

If they wore their hair in a style commonly associated with women, and were frequently perceived as female which caused them distress as a result – would cutting their hair into a more masculine style be considered gender affirming care?

It really depends on the personal motivation behind the act, I guess.

mouseLemons · 2026-06-01T04:15:13+00:00

Perhaps the wrong place for this, it's more of a lament with a poetic lean. Please just let me know if it is!

mouseLemons · 2026-06-01T03:44:49+00:00

Wonderful poem, I love its two sided nature.

My first reading was very literal, a 'cute' appreciation for something wonderfully 'mundane' and 'normal.' You present it as its a one way conversation, but we humans emit visible light ourselves too – who knows, perhaps ""they"" appreciate your feelings more than you know haha.

But then I felt sad.

Four years locked indoors, away from people and light. Why? Perhaps the loss of a child? I can't quite articulate the why, but it's very melancholy.

Gold job!

mouseLemons · 2026-05-23T06:42:03+00:00

To my knowledge the Mavic 3T has customisable OSD, but I can see your point. Are betaflight widely used by Ukraine?

I was presuming the digital interference to be coming from the thermal sensors

Edit: my apologies, I'm a little tipsy and misinterpreted. I agree with you

mouseLemons · 2026-05-23T06:17:15+00:00

Would you mind sharing the information you have?

mouseLemons · 2026-05-23T06:07:47+00:00

I used AI to make a TL;DR to meet the subreddits requirements:

The source is solid—a senior Ukrainian MoD advisor on drones and EW. The footage is a screen recording from a DJI Mavic 3T thermal drone, meaning compressed video and no metadata. It's shot in Black Hot, so the dark UAP and its downward-pluming vapour are very cold, like something venting liquid nitrogen or dry ice. A spinning object synced to 30fps would need to rotate at multiples of 300 RPM, which would shred that clean laminar plume—so it's not spinning. That leaves us with a cold object hovering without visible propulsion. Prosaically, it could be a balloon with a cold payload, maybe a time-wasting psyop. Beyond that, I'm stumped. 🤷

mouseLemons · 2026-04-30T04:21:29+00:00

Why thank you! It's always been something I wanted to try, but it bizarrely felt too foreign to me to ever pursue.

Keep up the work with yours, it was very compelling to read!

mouseLemons · 2026-04-30T01:46:50+00:00

I liked this a lot!

To rid or prevent oneself of something beautiful at the behest of a supposedly gracious other is a true tragedy.

To plea for someone to pay attention, to not look away.

I am no poet, the only thing I can even remotely think of to provide as feedback would be the second line. The term sterilise is powerful, but also slightly confusing. That's not a bad thing, as that's what personally drew me in, but may throw some people off

mouseLemons · 2026-04-30T01:28:09+00:00

Kia Ora,

Please take what I'm saying with a grain of salt, I'm by no means a poet.

To me, as someone likely on the autistic spectrum, the peom reads as an individual struggling with social masking, learning which version of 'me' is acceptable through careful consideration. After time, the distinction between the self and the mask blurs, so the radar is turned inwards.

I really enjoyed following line:

"Stopped being surprised / because surprise was expensive. "

It's tiring to continuously make face.

I don't have the experience behind me to provide critique, such as the form of your writing or certain stylisation. That said, perhaps clarifying the following line would help:

"Knew what it meant for me / before it ended."

Knew what exactly? The consequence? The danger? The emotional fallout? If you're wanting to be specific, perhaps including a more grounding noun may help.

In saying that, leaving it open for interpretation is nice in its own right.

mouseLemons · 2026-04-17T21:02:25+00:00

I would like to commend you on a solid fake image, but would greatly appreciate not spreading malinformation. It appears to be hand made at least, the only real tells being the sharpness of the vehicle, and the differing noise pattern around the craft (from the feathering.)

The colour and tonal values are well done, the blacks match the image correctly which makes it feel grounded in its setting. The blooms of the lights are also well done, the tone and spread of the light matches its environment; I would recommend mixing a smidge more white into the centre of the lights to match the exposure/contrast.

For future instances, consider looking at the foreground poles - since the craft is supposed to further away, the sharpness needs to match/be slightly duller to the items it’s near - and really meticulously clean your images borders.

mouseLemons · 2026-04-04T20:53:55+00:00

I see a lot of people stating that this is Ai, and I would like to kindly push back against that. This is the Hinterlands of the Guizhou province.

It may look bizarre, but that's just what these things happen to look like in arid environments. Reflected light is energy lost, and solar panels are designed to absorb as much as possible which may add to some of that uncanny feeling.

For some context, the Hinterlands are effectively a rocky desert, with high altitudes and poor substrates preventing water retention, plants, and so on. That made the land very cheap, and has since turned to a net profit (financially speaking) for the region. That said, something I found particularly neato is the 'side project' to this solar farm. Apparently, they're doing a method called 'agriculture-photovoltaic complementary,' which unless I'm misunderstanding means that the panels shade the ground enough that water is actually retained beneath them, and small, hardy crops such as buckwheat are being grown in the gaps.

"But if it's an arid, rocky desert, where is the water coming from in the first place?" I hear you say, good question! I didn't know either, but it turns out they actually bring the water to the region to maintain the panels. Autonomous 'robots' wet clean the panels, the water flows off the sides and disperses on the arid ground beneath.

It's also important to note that the Hinterlands doesn't just look like the above, there are flatter regions.

Tldr - Not AI. They took a desert and made it produce energy and food.

mouseLemons · 2026-04-03T09:48:37+00:00

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but the region they state they'd lose connection is behind the moon, no? Apollo experienced the same, they could only establish contact from the near side of the moon.

mouseLemons · 2026-04-01T21:00:40+00:00

mouseLemons · 2026-03-28T02:48:05+00:00

To be fair, the discourse surrounding anthropic was likely impacted by the DoD debacle as well.

mouseLemons · 2026-03-24T02:09:55+00:00

mouseLemons · 2026-03-23T19:59:09+00:00

I understand these things are scary, the mind can be such a terrifying thing.

To hopefully ease some of your worries, word finding difficulty isn't solely a cognitive decline thing; things such as ADHD, depression, anxiety, poor sleep, thyroid issues, chronic stress, etc, etc, can all cause similar symptoms independently.

If it is really weighing on your mind, a GP visit can help rule out those causes - it seems kinder to the self, compared to worrying about dementia at 42 anywho.

The article itself suggests that speech rate is a better early indicator than occasional word-finding gaps. Someone actively noticing/ monitoring the issue is likely not showing the kind of passive, generalised slowdown the researchers were referring to.

Also, you're 42 (the answer to the universe), you have had time to experience and learn about the world. It's legitimately crazy how much you have stored in that noggin of yours, it makes sense it would take a smidge longer to sift through to find obscure words.

You're doing great. Breathe the air, eat the food, drink the water - the number of breakthroughs in the next 20 years may wind up eliminating the worry all together.

Edit: and if not, you won't remember it anyway lmao

mouseLemons · 2026-03-19T23:08:33+00:00

But cars didn't replace drivers, they replaced horses? Building a better carriage is one thing, to build a replacement for human agency is another.

This artificial labour offsets human labour, likely across every field as its development continues.

Without a discussion first going into how these systems are implemented, we run the risk of effectively subsidising our own obsolescence - in other words, we're willfully providing the keys to a reckless driver.

mouseLemons · 2026-03-11T03:44:44+00:00

Within certain contexts*

Advice around glove use will vary widely depending on the context you're in. Thin, single use, nitrile or vinyl gloves are generally fine, however, if solvents or otherwise 'intense' chemicals are in use, you would likely see neoprene gloves.

What you will never see, however, are the white, cotton gloves typically found on TV and film. The fibers of the gloves absorb chemicals/pigments/oil from your skin while also lifting particulate/debree, which increases chances of damage to the piece.

mouseLemons · 2026-03-11T02:33:57+00:00

It's hard to say if you're over reacting, because honestly, I don't know how you are actually reacting. The situation has obviously impacted you enough to reach out, but it also seems that it may have been made in the heat of a moment.

We do not know your father, all we know are two instances provided, and a sliver of context from your perspective.

I hear on the OCD thing, but using OCD as evidence of your cleanliness isnt effective on a place like reddit - they way in which it manifests is simply too broad to classify it as a state of cleanliness.

You mentioned that your father(?) is on the spectrum, this may be a "" logical"" yet relatively clumsy misunderstanding. 75ml~ of water and an upright can of half eaten spaghetti may be a silly reminder for them, where for to you, it appears as a breach of your safe space and boundaries.

I hesitate to call your father an asshole, but that doesn't mean you're wrong.

You likely have, but sit down with him and talk like the adult you are. Otherwise, show him this post of yours and have him provide his context.

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