CentipedeFarrier

I only do this when I’m reasonably sure we disagree and it will potentially start an argument. I enjoy explaining things to people and figuring out how to get them to understand. It’s communication skills, and I practice them frequently.

Biting my tongue, though, is so so so hard. Very worth it, especially in public, but so so hard.

Yeah, I’m not arguing with that, just with the claim that they update instantly. Never said anything about anything else, and don’t plan to :)

I’ve heard they actually take a while to update, like a couple of minutes, due to being super-cheap e-ink screens, but I have no way to personally confirm this.

Horizon zero dawn future coming sooner than anticipated.

I’m almost 40 and still ride my shopping cart through the parking lot whenever it’s heavy enough to hold me. Life is too short to grow out of fun.

I know for a fact this isn’t right but it’s probably close enough to work. About 30-32 years for infant 1, and infant 2 doesn’t work with this approximation at all, but I’m so long out of physics classes that I don’t know how to calculate it properly. But it was fun to try!

My work:

The voyager crafts launched in 1977 and cleared the heliopause in 2012 and 2018. Your proposed infant 1 is going 1km/s faster than voyager 1 (17km/s) which cleared in 2012, and 3km/s faster than 2 (15km/s) which cleared in 2018.

Voyager 1 took 35 years, voyager 2 took 41 years, meaning that 2km/s different amounts to ~6 years, or 3 years per 1km/s

Subtract that 3 years from the time it took for voyager 1 because your infant is moving 1km/s faster, and you get about 32 yrs. Add in some wiggle room because it’s not exactly linear, and 30-32yrs.

This approximation totally broke down with infant 2 due to the scale of difference in speed, and had it getting there before it launched. If you take the same 3 yrs/1km/s, and multiply it by 16, which is the difference between the infants’ speeds, you get 48 years, which would put it there before it launched based on voyager 1 taking 35 yrs. 🤷🏻

Whenever I do something noisy like use the vacuum or blender, I yell across the house “I’m going to make some noise now, ready? Here it comes!” And then turn on the thing.

As a result, they usually don’t even leave the room if they are in with me. They don’t get freaked out, and just go to the top of a tree and watch.

Have done so for decades with about a dozen cats and it has worked with all of them so far. I also give warning when I’m going to turn on the light, because it’s polite to not blind anyone, animal or human.

Same thing with the ps5, most of them aren’t disc systems, they chose that to kill the resale market. They chose to be glorified computers with drm and destroy the value proposition for any but people who don’t have the knowledge or desire to PC.

I have games I’ve never even played from ps2 era that I bought for $5 used that are worth hundreds now for whatever reason. It’s dumb, but that’s what collecting physical media does. And you can’t do that with files. You can try, but it doesn’t work.

I don’t anymore, ps5 was my last and I barely use it. It wasn’t worth buying, but I use my ps4 incredibly heavily.

I used to do console because it was easier. You know a game put out for a system is compatible with your hardware. You don’t have to fiddle with things to get them to work properly, much less well.

It used to be a decent value proposition. It was worth it enough that I’ve had every non-handheld console for decades. The games would be sold cheap used, they always worked, and used consoles were cheap. If you stuck with the secondhand market you could get a system and like 20 games for the price of buying the system and one game of $50 value new. But you could also resell the games if needed for some reason. It was an investment, and it definitely paid off. My collections is worth almost 10 grand now, and I certainly didn’t spend half that much on it, when each game was $10 or less.

Those value propositions changed when physical media stopped being the main thing. Now used games sell for near what new ones do, because they just didn’t make that many. And why would they continue to make them when everyone downloads?

So now your question is valid, but it didn’t used to be in the same way.

99 red balloons as well imo.

So can something heavy that depresses one of the directional keys.

Or at least that used to work, been a few years since I tried it.

The brain stops developing at age 23.

No it doesn’t. The brain continues to develop and change throughout the lifetime of the organism.

No worries, those services are pretty hit or miss for me as well.

Thanks for the link, I’ll watch this later today :)

Do you have a link to it? I don’t think I’ve ever seen it, so idk what to look for.

They probably do that when one plays all the way through because people let shit continue to play without being there, and they can count that as an impression and get paid for it if they just inject a bunch of them to an active but unmonitored stream. The fact that you actually sat through it is completely irrelevant to them. Most people would have closed it out or went back in the video to whenever they left, which would likely reset the ad serving instruction.

Speculation, of course, but the sort of fuckery every big company is doing these days.

Also, creators don’t really get money from ads. Don’t feel bad for skipping them. Sponsorships and direct donations are basically the only ways creators make anything worth making on YouTube. Many creators will tell you as much themselves.

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Just house a colony of crickets in your living room and it stops being a problem! I did that for a while and it was awesome. Reminded me of rural living. (Fed to chickens, wasn’t just for kicks)

More seriously, there’s a volume reduction treatment available for tinnitus, something I’m actively seeking right now and go in for later this month for tone matching. Might be worth looking into for you as well. It seems the mechanism behind it is just stimulating those frequencies regularly at a volume you don’t consciously register, so the receptors aren’t searching for phantom noise all the time. So if you can tone match your noise (probably professionally), you can mix it into a low volume band on whatever music track to stimulate those hairs. And it’s supposed to make everything quieter so you can tolerate it better. Idk yet if that’s true, when I’ve listened to a tone that’s close it stops being so loud so I have to think it is, but might be worth a lookie loo for you as well :)

That’s super unhealthy to actually do, but what were the hallucinations like, emotionally? They sound like fever dream scary stuff, which most hallucinations are not at all.

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$15/hr still isn’t a living wage in most places, just for the record. It’s better than server wages for sure, but it’s not stable-life-level income.