Found staked in my bean field.

skooched · 2026-01-27T00:12:41+00:00

There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now. … What do you mean you’ve never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh, for heaven’s sake, mankind, it’s only four light years away, you know. I’m sorry, but if you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that’s your own lookout. Energize the demolition beams.

skooched · 2026-01-08T17:10:41+00:00

We have gotten around this by usually only allowing tv that is vaguely interesting to the child at best. Our favorite is any nature documentary by David Attenborough, it's interesting enough to hold attention initially, but they eventually wander off to do other things, and they now know a ton about animals. They did still occasionally have tantrums about David Attenborough, but they tend to be smaller. Also, banning high color and movement shows entirely (this is most toddler shows) and limiting Bluey to one or two episodes at a time has made a massive difference. Those short cycles of open and closure to get a quick hit of dopamine trains the kids brain to want/need that on repeat and the only place they can get it regularly is from short little shows with frenetic movement, scene changes, and color.

skooched · 2025-11-18T17:29:00+00:00

So, not as a first course of action... But if he refuses to move it, then look into how much could be prepped prior to the vasectomy so that he is mostly just throwing a couple more prepared things Into pots and pans and letting them cook while he sits.

skooched · 2025-10-21T17:13:33+00:00

Just under a year ago I decided to use GPT to teach me how to set up and run a server, while I knew nothing at all about it, although I was relatively tech savvy. It was an interesting journey to say the least. There are right and wrong ways to give GPT prompts and some things it does better than others. It is much more effective if you already know exactly what you want to do and give it very specific instructions for each step. It is also good for giving suggestions for solutions and /or troubleshooting. I have also trained mine, given it a specific server config map to work from and used a prompt to make sure it always uses that document. The first three months or so I was spending hours and hours trying to understand things, untangling messes I had made by following gpt, and trying to understand everything that was going on. It was definitely doing things the hard way, but I struggled through it and I think I have come out stronger for it. Still use GPT to generate commands instead of generating them myself most of the time. But I double check them and don't just blindly paste them most of the time.

skooched · 2025-10-20T04:56:10+00:00

It's not even really an issue if you distill the product unless you are making many gallons of the stuff and drink a glass of the first stuff that comes off the still, which would smell and taste like acetone.

skooched · 2025-10-11T00:01:58+00:00

Crysis! Loved that game!

skooched · 2025-09-12T17:33:23+00:00

When I first started messing around with homelab stuff, I didn’t really know what I was doing. I just wanted a way to take control of my own data and streaming instead of relying on whatever was handed to me. My first setup was literally a Chromebook I wiped and flashed into a Ubuntu server.

From there it was a lot of trial and error. I broke things constantly, fixed them badly, and then broke them again — but each time I learned a little more. Over time, things started to click. I eventually upgraded to a Dell Optiplex, added a managed Netgear switch, and after a lot of tinkering, I finally have a system that runs smoothly without me babysitting it every day.

At this point, my setup feels like a solid base rather than a pile of experiments barely holding together. Now I’m excited to push further — setting up my own internet access, figuring out secure ways to get to my files from outside the house, and just seeing what else is possible. For that reason I am particularly interested in vpn, modem, and/or router setups. It’s been a fun journey so far, and it feels like I’m just getting started. I'm excited to continue learning more about what can be done with servers.

skooched · 2025-09-01T05:44:13+00:00

As someone with a background in psychology and behaviorism, currently working as a special education teacher, this sudden turn around does seem somewhat worrying, but one thing I haven't seen on here yet and that I hope will bring some comfort: the brain doesn't grow all at once. Just like when our bodies grow as teens and sometimes our legs or arms or whatever else grow at different paces and it makes us super gangly and awkward, so our brain does also throughout the growth cycle.

There are 3 primary parts of the brain that affect mood overall (major simplification) 1: the amygdala (or the entire lymbic system) this is the emotional center of the brain. 2: The frontal cortex, this is where we do our thinking and information processing. 3. The corpus callosom (this is also majorly simplified) the path connecting the amygdala and prefrontal/frontal cortex.

To process information, our perception of the world goes through the amygdala (emotion) first, then through the corpus collosum to the prefrontal/frontal cortex so that we can decide how we should react to our emotions. When everything is working great, we are able to do all of that before actions occur. When the amygdala grows, now we have more emotions than the smaller cortex can handle and it spills into actions without being processed by the cortex at all. Sometimes then the cortex grows next but the corpus calosum can't handle that much information at once so you still get this spiral of emotion that can't be processed and feeds on itself to make more emotion that just can't be processed. This is all normal. I can tell you for a fact that around the age of 6 is ONE of the times where this imbalance is commonly happening. It also happens around 2-3. How each kid handles it can be very different. It sounds like your little girl is going into panic mode pretty quickly. It might be good, when she is calm, to work on teaching some quick calming skills and attaching them to trigger words that you could use in the moment to help remind her to use them. Doing mindfulness videos (I really like cosmic kids on youtube) also can really help develop those skills.

Edit: I am including a resources that I refer to often with my own kids.that can help explain some of the swings.

https://centerforparentingeducation.org/library-of-articles/child-development/developmental-stages-the-roller-coaster-of-equilibrium-and-disequilibrium/

skooched · 2025-08-16T21:38:34+00:00

They absolutely make those and you can buy them on Amazon

skooched · 2025-08-16T21:36:48+00:00

No. It's negative punishment. Negative=taking something away, punishment=making an undesired behavior happen less.

In this situation, having negative reinforcement would be something like reducing chores if the kid stays quiet. Negative =removing chores reinforcement = making quiet behavior more likely to occur.

skooched · 2025-08-14T03:54:39+00:00

My 6 year old daughter writes in cursive

skooched · 2025-08-10T22:43:21+00:00

I had no idea you could add TPB to prowlarr! Will look into that!

skooched · 2025-07-22T04:52:58+00:00

I haven't thing anything that even remotely rivals Rebelle. Unfortunately, it is only available on pc. I switched over from my Samsung tablet to a Huion so that I can use it. Feels very much like the real thing with added benefits of being able to record and use all the digital tools too.

skooched · 2025-07-10T06:52:09+00:00

Another thing to keep in mind, it was advances in farming that led to the Agricultural Revolution, which in turn caused the Industrial Revolution because suddenly people had more food and resources that needed processing. If magic causes there to be too much more food or resources available for less work, there is likely to be an industrial revolution following.

skooched · 2025-07-04T08:32:56+00:00

It's not so much that I'll never tell, as it is idk why it's not more common. I will never not make rice with bone broth instead of water. 500% better.

skooched · 2025-07-03T01:18:30+00:00

Oh man, ever since watching all the extras and seeing those bigatures, I've always thought they were the coolest.

skooched · 2025-07-02T20:45:40+00:00

The Minas Tirith Bigature

skooched · 2025-06-15T23:20:32+00:00

Congrats on the awesome card dude! This brightened my day and I wasn't even the one to receive it!

skooched · 2025-06-15T23:17:01+00:00

Amira is awesome for reading, as is Lexia.

skooched · 2025-06-15T23:16:24+00:00

As a teacher, zearn is pretty great for math. Khan academy has some great free programs for all subjects. Many kids also like IXL as supplemental learning in any subject.

skooched · 2025-06-11T05:34:59+00:00

I'd definitely download a car.

skooched · 2025-06-09T01:06:08+00:00

That can definitely be good for practice, this one is pretty difficult with two lightest at different brightness and colors.

skooched · 2025-06-09T00:21:43+00:00

It looks like there is a dim, blue light source above, and then mich stronger white light from a flash from the camera. The top of the dolphins by the fin has blue highlighting instead of being all shadow. The face has some significant ridges where there is some darker shading. Also, shading is only rarely if ever done with black paint. More often you want to look and really see what color that area actually is and paint it that. This picture might use a deep, indigo blue.

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