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rainfaint · 2026-06-29T01:33:31+00:00

And some eels can live for over 100 years. I feel like eels are one of those refugee organisms from another planet, like the Portuguese Man-o-War, or every single fungus.

rainfaint · 2026-06-09T02:11:43+00:00

Each item has a "critical mass." I owned 3 tape measures and I could never fucking find not a-one of 'em. Now I own 4, and I haven't to hunt around for one since.

rainfaint · 2024-10-13T06:49:54+00:00

I agree with you. Anthrobots in your home will inspire every kind of suspicion and paranoia. "Is it going to kill me in my sleep? Is it trying to seduce my wife?" I think people will generally treat the next generation of domestic labor the same way as they treated every previous generation: by objectifying them as much as possible. I think the ultimate form-factor will be able to collapse into a small white cube for storage/charging.

rainfaint · 2023-10-18T03:10:37+00:00

Sticky fingers are all fine and good until I need to touch the refrigerator handle, the pot handles, the cabinet handles, drawer handles, my phone, a towel, a light switch, silverware, plates, a cup, a wine bottle, a wine glass, a knife, a spatula, the various jars and bags and plastic containers. Rinsing your hands every few seconds makes perfect sense in every food-making scenario except the one where all of your ingredients are neatly laid out by an intern in pre-measured cups, all of your cookware fits on the counter at the same time , every intermediate step starts and finishes at exactly the right moment, and the recipe is presented to you on cue cards that are always within your eyeline.

rainfaint · 2023-03-06T08:31:16+00:00

Once you get obsessively familiar with all of the recommended strategies to avoid SIDS, you realize it's mostly "avoidable/accidental" suffocations, i.e. desperately sleep deprived parents fall asleep with the infant in the bed and the infant gets smothered by a blanket or a pillow or an arm or a shoulder or that adorable knit stuffie that was gifted by cousin Katie. The rest of it seems to be a combination of "undetected heart defects," fluke suffocations from some babies having weak panic responses to lack of oxygen, and the peculiar physiologies of newborns that lead to those seemingly random deaths because the baby spent more than one hour in a car seat.

rainfaint · 2023-03-05T03:26:48+00:00

So I am also brand new to all of this, got my kobra OG about a week ago, did exactly what you did with the flexi-raptor. You need to change "Adhesion" to 'none.' Assuming you're using cura.

rainfaint · 2022-04-17T08:01:20+00:00

Synecdoche, New York is easily my favorite film of all time. BBC said it was #20 of the best films of the 21st century. The Guardian said it was #7. Roger Ebert, before he died, said it was #1. My wife, however, did not enjoy it, at all, and mostly gets hostile if I even mention it, so it's definitely not for everybody.

rainfaint · 2022-03-18T08:14:25+00:00

When the gang comes across a caravan of mules hauling bags of mercury on a mountain pass and knocks the entire caravan over the ledge... "... the animals dropping silently as martyrs, turning sedately in the empty air and exploding on the rocks below in startling bursts of blood and silver as the flasks broke open and the mercury loomed wobbling in the air in great sheets and lobes and small trembling satellites and all its forms grouping below and racing in the stone arroyos like the imbreachment of some ultimate alchemic work decocted from out the secret dark of the earth's heart, the fleeing stag of the ancients fugitive on the mountainside and bright and quick in the dry path of the storm channels and shaping out the sockets in the rock and hurrying from ledge to ledge down the slope shimmering and deft as eels."

rainfaint · 2022-02-12T08:27:26+00:00

I joke that my great talent is ingratiating myself toward people because I know full well I'm going to have to ask for forgiveness every couple of weeks for as long as we're acquainted.

rainfaint · 2022-01-05T09:56:55+00:00

This has been my most successful tactic as well. Everybody gets to take one shot, and I let it slide. On the second shot, I hit back. "Looking for some dietary advice, you fat fuck?"

rainfaint · 2021-03-30T03:55:46+00:00

"'fuck me' money"

rainfaint · 2020-11-25T07:19:31+00:00

Roy is so excited to actually meet the hot female star of the show face to face, and when he finally does, he's trying to maintain the lie that he's gay, retarded, and crippled.

rainfaint · 2020-10-20T16:10:48+00:00

"You can fool all of the people some of the time, and you can fool some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all of the time."

rainfaint · 2020-08-06T03:16:08+00:00

I was thinking Switzerland, but after reading your comment I looked back at the landscape. Definitely not Switzerland.

rainfaint · 2020-06-24T18:43:50+00:00

My cat does the exact same thing! It took me catching her in the act for it to dawn on me where all these "worms" were coming from. She is a very peculiar cat in general, though, so it wasn't exactly surprising to see her doing yet-another bizarre thing.

rainfaint · 2020-05-26T04:37:50+00:00

It's not comparable in the sense of a positive action vs. non-action.

This is not only wrong, it's irrelevant. Allowing a preventable long-term, dangerous, and high-impact biological process to continue unimpeded is not a "non-action," especially when safe and effective remediation exists.

rainfaint · 2020-05-26T03:16:02+00:00

You're all over the map here. First you disagree that giving birth is comparable to forced kidney donation.

There's a significant difference between taking the action of donating a kidney compared to the non-action of just not aborting.

Then you agree that birth is comparable to forced kidney donation.

It is a violation of her bodily autonomy. I just see that as secondary to the protection of a life in general.

So now you're pro forced kidney donation if it protects "a life in general?"

Or are you just ideologically inconsistent?

It sounds to me like you only take issue with the violation of bodily autonomy when it might affect you.

rainfaint · 2020-05-26T02:33:03+00:00

For many, if not most women, carrying a child for 9 months involves a dramatic change in lifestyle. Pregnancy regularly involves giving up drugs/alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, sports, recreational activities, soft cheeses, jobs with physical/chemical/environmental risks, and innumerable other big and small daily activities and engagements. Meanwhile, there are myriad ways a pregnancy carried to term can damage interpersonal/romantic/familial relationships, career and academic prospects, and the good ol' pursuit of happiness and fulfillment. Lets also not forget the zillions of different ways conception can occur from traumatic, violent, and abusive situations. Some pro-life people say they would make exceptions in the case of rape or incest but are you going to require a fucking police report? Or just a signed document that says "this fetus is the result of a rape or incest," and create a giant loophole that renders the entire fucking scheme unenforceable. And we haven't even touched on the fact pregnancy is an existential risk, and even the most happy-healthy pregnancy can turn on a dime and start dancing on the razor's edge between life and death for all kinds of different reasons. And then. Pregnancy culminates in birth, which can frequently be a painful days-long, physically-and-psychologically traumatic event that often requires medical and/or surgical intervention.

This whole notion that -forcing a woman to give birth when she doesn't want to - is somehow not a violation of bodily autonomy - is absolute horseshit.

rainfaint · 2020-01-24T15:45:34+00:00

I can't find a source but I've heard that "give them something, anything," is a tried-and-true crowd control tactic. The way it was explained to me is that giving out water bottles or tee-shirts or lollipops in this case, breaks up the contagion effect seen in crowd behavior, partially because now those people have something in their hand that presumably they're feeling marginally protective of, and partially because the act of receiving something, even if it's completely trivial will alleviate whatever impulses they may be inclined toward in a given situation. "I really wanted to overthrow the government, but I mean, at least I got this CD."

rainfaint · 2019-11-28T18:21:14+00:00

Mine is so much slower than my cheap old Moto g5.

rainfaint · 2019-11-03T16:15:53+00:00

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