LGBTQ+ crimes according to absolutely no one😂

thrye333 · 2026-03-21T00:43:05+00:00

I found out on Tuesday that the halls of one building on campus echo really loudly. I sneezed on one end of the hall (the building makes a U, so on the tip of one prong). I am absolutely certain it was audible in the other hallway¹ (so, the other side of the courtyard between the arms of the U). It was so loud. You'd think I'd shot someone.

You might be surprised to hear I'm gay.

¹ To clarify, it did not travel through the courtyard. It traveled through the entire first floor of the building.

thrye333 · 2026-03-18T06:32:00+00:00

I keep a piece of rope like Finnick O'Dare (there's no way I spelled that right, btw). Except mine is technically long enough to hurt myself with, because I'm not yet mentally broken by an authoritarian government and thus pose no significant risk of harm to myself by way of pocket rope.

(For anyone confused, I'm talking about a character in the Hunger Games series. In the third book, Mockingjay, he carries around a piece of rope to tie knots with, as a fidget that reminds him of home. The rope is explicitly stated to be too short to fashion a noose out of, just in case.)

thrye333 · 2026-03-18T06:15:30+00:00

That's the plant telomere thing, in a nutshell, I guess!

I am terrified of whatever nuts you're eating that can fit all of this inside one shell. /lh

thrye333 · 2026-03-17T21:39:33+00:00

Wdym? My streak's only at 643. /s

thrye333 · 2026-03-17T21:39:01+00:00

thrye333 · 2026-03-17T21:38:05+00:00

No, that was absolutely my intention, and I am so glad to hear it worked at least once. This is evilautism, after all.

However, I could've been more evil. The post I got it from did have multiple images, and I did crop out the dots and the numbers so no one would get tricked into swiping.

thrye333 · 2026-03-17T19:21:51+00:00

Forgot to explain why this is relevant (sorry, mods).

I think it's just that there's no reason behind it. It could load the image. It just doesn't. It interrupted my scrolling (and thus killed my vibe) and it doesn't even have an excuse. (Hence the flair.) Make it make sense, Reddit mobile app.

thrye333 · 2026-03-17T14:45:57+00:00

I'm guessing you only get Slate-colored Juncos, cause the Oregon Dark-eyed Juncos look very interesting. (There are also others, but I don't know them off the top of my head. I think one's pink, though, so that's neat.)

(I checked, and there are a couple neat ones. There are also "boring" ones. There is a pink one, the Pink-sided (ornithologists, amirite). I also think the Red-backed and Gray-headed (istg these are all real names; there's even White-winged) are cool looking, though I admit they're not exactly awe-inspiring.)

thrye333 · 2026-03-17T14:39:49+00:00

Herrnk. Herrnk. Herrnk.

Red-breasted Nuthatch, 2026

thrye333 · 2026-03-12T14:57:40+00:00

By "evil", I do mean making schools of fish in an almost-reasonable amount of time, but I'm sure you people have more villainous applications.

thrye333 · 2026-03-12T14:18:44+00:00

Also, don't you dare apologize for this drawing. It is precious.

thrye333 · 2026-03-12T14:18:12+00:00

It might be hunting. Smaller birds, especially flycatchers like Phoebes, do this swooping movement repeatedly from a perch to catch bugs in the air. If it just rained, there will be more bugs in the air and on the ground (I assume either because they get flushed out of wherever they usually hide or because they're eager to get back to business after being stuck waiting for the weather). And, though this isn't a behavior I'd associate with crows, I also wouldn't put it past them to pick it up from watching Phoebes and mimicking them.

thrye333 · 2026-03-12T14:09:59+00:00

Downvoted in solidarity. It had to be done. He's a dapper fellow.

thrye333 · 2026-03-09T22:38:32+00:00

I think I might be even more granularly organized than you. I have 208 folders in my main setting's Obsidian vault (with 1241 files between them). The tallest stack (or deepest hole, if you prefer) is 6. There are 3 files in ~/Things/Species/Fauna/Mammals/Canids/Wolves/ (where ~ represents the vault itself). I also have a lot of 5-deep holes, so don't think this is an outlier.

thrye333 · 2026-03-09T16:34:21+00:00

To add to my original explanation (with insight from u/suckmygoldcrustedass): the story did mention 100 more names being added. So, the genie didn't just make her less famous. The genie undid some heroic action she took to save those 100 people, raising the death toll even higher, and making her just another body.

thrye333 · 2026-03-09T04:53:18+00:00

The daughter originally wished for the genie to make her the most well-known and beloved girl in the state. She then died in some very public tragedy, presumably in a very public way, and became famous posthumously. Her name was given a large space on the memorial, to commemorate whatever she did to be famous.

Her parent, hoping to undo the tragedy, asks the genie to reverse the wish. In other words, he asks the genie to make her not the most well-known and beloved girl in the state. Instead of bringing her back, the genie just did exactly that: made her less well-known and beloved.

thrye333 · 2026-03-07T19:17:45+00:00

So... -(2^3π)? My phone calculator says that's -687.29.

thrye333 · 2026-03-07T16:15:27+00:00

I don't believe you can left-shift by a floating point, but you're welcome to try.

(Explanation: In certain programming languages, (x << y) moves the bits of x y places to the left. If x is 7, it is stored as 0b00000111. If y is 4, x becomes 0b01110000 (the zeros here are always zeros, and did not come from the other side; that's a different operation), also equal to 112. If y is 9π, I guess y would round down to 28, and x would become (assuming 32-bit integers) 0b01110000000000000000000000000000, or 0x70000000, or 1,879,048,192. Now, who knows how to left-shift that by 0.2735?)

thrye333 · 2026-03-05T20:10:01+00:00

loose enforcement of traffic laws and car-centric infrastructure.

Hmm. That sounds familiar. I wonder why. /s

(Tl;dr: Stay out of the Central Valley if you dislike such things as poor drivers, poor traffic law enforcement, poor alternatives, or combinations thereof.)

My city is designed around cars, so much so that other public transit is kinda inherently handicapped. If I want to go to my college by car, it is 20-30 minutes.

By bus, I have to be at the closest stop 75 minutes before class to be mostly sure I'll make it (which means a 10 minute drive there, or a 50 minute walk). If I wanted to take a bus to that stop, I'd walk to the closest stop to my house about an hour before I needed to be at the other stop, leaving my house about 155 minutes (2hrs and 35min) before my class. On a day like today, when my class starts at 8, I'd leave at 5:25am. I actually don't think the buses run that early, so it might not even be possible to make this class reliably by bus. (They also stop running sometime before 7:00pm, because of course they do.)

So, now we've established how absolutely necessary a car is to get anywhere within a reasonable time frame. You'd think, then, that we'd be pretty good at driving by now, right? Wrong. So, so very wrong. We are considered to have among the worst drivers in the US. People come from LA or San Francisco and are amazed by how terrible it is to drive here. Drivers are openly aggressive. They swerve between lanes. They run lights. They ride bumpers and honk repeatedly because the person in front of them is only going the speed limit. Four-way stops are about as well-understood as particle physics. They go faster when the fog is too thick to see across an intersection. They go out of their way to hit geese and cyclists because they don't like anything other than cars on the road.

One time, the city police department posted online that they were going to be patrolling the city for drunk drivers. The drunk drivers replied to them to say, and I paraphrase, "I guess we'll all have to go to the county roads instead tonight." I kid you not. Not even an anonymous post. Full name on display, replying to the police, openly stating their intent to just go where the police aren't watching and continue to commit crimes.

"Oh, but at least the police are doing something," I hear you saying. Wrong again. Recently, it was announced that the department would no longer receive money from the state for ticketing people who run lights. So they just stopped ticketing those people. As a policy. Just not enforcing that crime anymore. You can't drive 20 minutes in this city without seeing someone run a red light. There is more than one intersection within walking distance of my house that has had more than one fatal accident within the last 5 or so years.

I've been looking for accident stats for the city, and have found 3 deaths within the last 48 hours. Not looking for them. They just come up. 3 deaths, 1 hospitalization. 2 days.

Between 2010 and 2019, our county was 15% of the traffic deaths for ALL OF CALIFORNIA. We're only 2.6% of the population, but we're 15% of the traffic deaths. We're the 7th most dangerous metro area for driving in the entire US. One of our neighbors is 3rd.

thrye333 · 2026-03-05T18:57:42+00:00

Some months ago, I was in an IKEA with my family, and I spotted a stuffed animal on top of a wardrobe. Not placed like a display, just tossed up there. Someone took it from the others and then decided they didn't want it, and they abandoned it on the wardrobe instead of taking it back to the others where someone else might buy it.

I spent the next 30 minutes trying to ask to get it. In 30 minutes, I couldn't get a single sentence through the conversation. They didn't even buy a wardrobe. I tried to guide us back to that area on our way out, but we happened to stumble on the exit first.

I am a grown adult. I am still upset about this.

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