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Catoblepas,

How tf did you get that out of a comment about going to therapy and getting professional help?

Catoblepas,

I think the key phrase there is with someone who knows what they’re doing, ie a therapist. A lot of things people are dealing with feel insurmountable without someone who understands mental health helping you to break it down and figure out what you can change (or not). That’s an oversimplification obviously, but if it was simple nobody would need therapy.

Catoblepas,

You have to get married to begin with to look divorced. He looks “tell her a fake name and leave the state when the pregnancy test comes back positive.”

Catoblepas,

It’s because bigots will blanket down vote any and everything in queer instances.

Try holding a conversation when posts are all sitting in the negatives and nobody sees them unless they go directly to the community and sort by new.

Catoblepas,

Obviously that’s a much bigger problem and I don’t doubt it happened a ton. From the user standpoint of someone trying to just use the community, it’s incredibly disheartening (especially if you have no IRL community to reach out to) to post, have a post go to 0 or negatives within minutes, and then ignored. When I still used reddit I would frequently see posts from people asking why everything was downvoted so quickly, which probably just encouraged the people who were doing it.

Catoblepas,

The amount of polar bear shit in that building must be incredible.

Catoblepas,

I grew up in a very Southern Baptist town, and the shit people would believe was wild. I swear to god there were 15-17 year olds learning for the first time in high school anatomy class that men don’t have one less rib than women…

Catoblepas,

You could also just say legos, because the only reason the company cares about it is to prevent genericization of a term that makes them money.

Catoblepas,

Also, they love to eat it. Protein is protein.

More than 10,000 research papers were retracted in 2023 (www.nature.com)

The number of retractions issued for research articles in 2023 has passed 10,000 — smashing annual records — as publishers struggle to clean up a slew of sham papers and peer-review fraud. Among large research-producing nations, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Russia and China have the highest retraction rates over the past two...

Catoblepas,

Absolutely wild that 1 publisher was responsible for around 80% of the retractions.

Catoblepas,

How to wipe her ass on toilet paper when poop gets stuck to it instead of the goddamn carpet!

Catoblepas,

You do not have the ability to determine whether or not the person getting their groceries shopped for by someone else is “lazy” or disabled. It makes you angry because you think you are accurately perceiving laziness, but you are just making a guy up to get angry at.

Catoblepas,

This honest to god looks like a shitpost, I love it.

Catoblepas,

I am dealing with a combination of a shitstorm of overreaction and my own stupidity 🥲

I sent my niece and nephews a small gift from ebay. I usually message my sister to let her know to expect a package, but this time I just forgot to and got busy with other stuff. So yesterday comes around and I get a call from her saying that getting a hand addressed package to their kids from an address they didn’t recognize freaked them out so much that they called the cops, who called the seller to find out who sent it.

Obviously they calmed down once they realized it was me, and I felt really bad about it so I messaged the seller on ebay to apologize for the inconvenience… only somehow without knowing how the goddamn interface on ebay works I managed to flag the message as a CANCEL ORDER REQUEST. So then I had to immediately message him again and be like haha oops no sorry not a cancel request! I don’t know how to ebay!

Just kill me, I’m so embarrassed 😭

PS: if you are wondering if my sister and her husband are extremely sucked into the far right news sphere where everyone is trying to kidnap their kids with fentanyl… the answer is yes.

Catoblepas,

Update: the seller was very understanding and chill about it. 👍

Catoblepas,

Reusable hand warmers might be practical for you. They stay warm for hours through a chemical reaction, and you reset it by boiling it.

Not the same as a whole body warm, but better than nothing. Sorry you’re having to deal with the cold.

Catoblepas,

If your food is unevenly heated it’s probably because you need to adjust the cook time and power settings. Heating it longer at a lower power setting will let the heat spread more evenly.

Alternatively, check your microwave’s wattage. I always have to adjust microwave instructions to be about 10% longer because my apartment’s microwave is weaker than companies assume the standard microwave is.

✨ May better heated microwave food await you ✨

Catoblepas,

Flat as fuck, stupid as shit… This screams Florida to me too.

Catoblepas,

They also have enough bots to compete with those tshirt bots. Fuck, just seeing the name pisses me off.

Catoblepas,

Buy a $10 oven thermometer and check your oven rack positions, sounds like it’s running way hotter than intended. If you have a convection oven the cook time may need to be adjusted.

Catoblepas,

Also ruffs (a kind of shore bird). They form groups so males can fight for mating rights, and for a long time scientists thought the female-mimics looked like females so they can sneakily mate. But it turns out that all the other birds probably know they’re male because females are more likely to join a group that has a female-mimic!

Femboys are just sexy, nature agrees.

Catoblepas,

… you gotta defund my friends?

Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data (www.404media.co)

ChatGPT is full of sensitive private information and spits out verbatim text from CNN, Goodreads, WordPress blogs, fandom wikis, Terms of Service agreements, Stack Overflow source code, Wikipedia pages, news blogs, random internet comments, and much more....

Catoblepas,

“Just ban everyone from places with legal protections” is a hilarious solution to a PII-spitting machine, thanks for the laugh.

Catoblepas,

Lol.

Catoblepas,

FFVII has what is probably the most memed on graphic onscreen murder in the whole franchise. As graphic as you could get with those polygons anyway.

Catoblepas,

Sea lioning is like gaslighting. Very useful concept, extremely overused as an accusation by people who are mad about something.

Catoblepas,

Trans men aren’t more accepted or tolerated, a huge portion of the fear mongering about trans youth is about “cutting off healthy breasts” and “ruining their fertility.” Literally just look at the cover of Irreparable Damage.

I’m trying to not be a dick here but this is a fairly large point of trauma for me: what do you imagine happens when a trans man shows up in a doctor’s office, possibly without a legal name change, almost certainly marked as female in their system? Because I can assure you it’s not that you get totally respected and treated as a normal dude.

Trans men are threatening to patriarchy by virtue of being “women” who do not stay in their place.

Catoblepas,

I was taught to use milk rather than water, but that’s basically right. Butter doesn’t hurt either if you’re making it without cooking sausage first, but the sausage might have enough fat on its own.

Catoblepas,

Is there a stair version of a Norman door? I feel like I’ve seen a story about every president stumbling or falling on those steps. They must be particularly wily, for stairs.

Catoblepas,

Pact makes clothing from organic, fair trade cotton. The only thing I’ve bought from them is boxers, but they instantly became my favorite underwear I’ve ever had because it’s SO soft and comfortable.

Side note, I found this company because they had my white whale: a multi pack of jersey knit boxers that is actually 100% cotton instead of having half the pairs be polyester.

Catoblepas,

Having grown up in the rural deep south, this feels like more of a description of blue state Republicans than red state Republicans.

You can clearly see that plenty of states have Republicans that care about LGBT issues. In Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, and West Virginia, less than 1/3rd of Republicans think homosexuality should be accepted. And it’s not like all the other states are blowing them out of the water. A majority of Republicans/Republican leaners believe gay marriage being legal is somewhat or very bad for society. Less than half believe it is acceptable for gay people to raise children. And that’s not even touching trans issues.

Catoblepas,

I feel guilty even getting groceries the day before Thanksgiving because it’s already so busy! It’s so gross how many businesses make people work on holidays.

Catoblepas,

Wait til they get to the surprise wasp body parts!

Catoblepas,

I grew up in the south, so I drank a LOT of sweet tea. Now I stick to hot herbal teas and spice teas in the fall and winter. I never could get used to cold teas that aren’t sweet!

Catoblepas,

Wasn’t horse power intended to represent the average energy output of a horse over a working day, rather than a brief maximum?

Catoblepas,

Surely that’s Ted Cruz, the Zodiac Killer?

Catoblepas,

‘Cockroach’ encompasses a wide range of species, the majority of which have no interest in living in a human’s home, and contribute to the work of decomposition on the forest floor. Many smaller predators also eat them.

Catoblepas,

I’m on board with that 👍

Catoblepas,

If it’s about size of time unit surely it should be 2023/11/20?

Catoblepas,

Don’t think my bank will like it if I date forms with that.

Catoblepas,

How do you decide what the second will be, when you start writing it or when you finish?

Catoblepas,

Nope.

Catoblepas,

ChatGPT is OK at summarizing popular, low specificity topics that tons of people have already written a ton about, but it’s terrible at anything else. When I tested its knowledge about the process of a niche interest of mine (fabric dyeing) it skipped completely over certain important pieces of information, and when I prompted it to include them it basically just mirrored my prompt back at me.

Which has pretty much summed up my ChatGPT experience: it just regurgitates stuff I can find myself, but removes the ability to determine if the source is reliable. And if it’s something I’m already having trouble finding detailed information about it usually doesn’t help.

Catoblepas,

Dunno if this is default lemmy behavior but you can filter keywords on Voyager (and I’m sure other clients).

Catoblepas,

If your ability to live a good life is affected by random internet comments about general world topics it is in all seriousness a good idea to speak with someone about that.

Catoblepas,

I saw some godawful ad for I don’t even know what where they just said “it’s giving.”

Catoblepas,

Why would an article about top surgery (double mastectomy) feature trans women?

Catoblepas,

$25k when? Because that’s like $130k in the 70s. Not enough for me, but chance dictates someone was eventually going to be bribable.

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