Apathy Tree

What important event did I miss this week, worthy of a meme?

Have not watched Buffy, no. But I believe you fully. Just didn’t think it was a big deal for voice but… at the same time I’m quite face blind so muffling and costumes don’t usually impact my ability to recognize someone. So it’s low-key amazing to me the lengths some people go to

Oh really? It makes that big a difference?

What does this mean a mouthpiece? I assume something to adjust the way they talk vs the output but can someone give me some sort of example of a difference of like… what does it do?

OMG I need it.

I need to paint the core set I have now, though… (yes I’ll play it, but I wanted it for the minis)

You must have missed the part that says I’m not really serious.

That makes me feel better, thanks!

Lol

I love this, but it bothers me for reasons I can’t properly ar-tic-ulate.

(I took the joke presented in the syllables, but I’m kinda serious)

I like that you like sharing memes, because I’ve come across them enough to think you are a community unto yourself.

I like sorting by new to report garbage and interact with things that would otherwise die, also to help Lemmy grow! It’s lonely in new but… i get to report a lot of weird stuff… so there’s that 🫠

Omg you are an actual person. Every time I see your username under a post I, for whatever reason, think it’s the community name.

I’ve seen a lot of your posts I think 😅 thanks for what you do! 🫡

(No it didn’t register that I replied to you until I went back to look… I don’t really -see- usernames)

A peeve of mine is the term “pet peeve”. 😅

If something bothers you so, why the fuck would you keep, nurture, and tend to it as a pet?

I propose it change to haunting peeve, because you don’t want it, can’t get rid of it, and it exists regardless if you think about it or not.

😁 (I’m not super serious about this, but “pet peeve” really does low-key bother me)

I love my swing tops tbh. They work just as well as capped bottles, except a lot easier to do. I struggle with my capper, and swing tops are just… flip down the lock. The swing top bottles I use are grolsch, which is beer imported from Germany, and they stay sealed well enough to cross the ocean 😜. The glass in swing tops tends to be pretty thick specifically for reuse, so bottle bombs don’t really happen, instead you get fountains when you open over-carbonated beverages.

If you have some already and the gaskets are still good, the next time you brew a batch, fill a few and test them at different times (2 weeks, 1 mth, 4 mths, whatever timespan you normally go through) and see if they hold up well for you.

If your friends are good about returning bottles (most of mine are) it’s really nice to have an easier system.

You’d have to replace the tape or box, and if you have a decently large setup (bottling every month or whatever) that can get old, so I get it, but I’d probably use a clothes pin and laminated label myself in that case.

Hey OP, nicely done! Can be used for a bunch of other stuff, too, like garage sale labels!

On a home brewer side note, have you considered getting some swing top bottles? They are super easy to reuse, way less work or waste than even capping reused bottles (just the initial spend and then gaskets every few years), great option for the stuff you’ll drink yourself (you’d probs still want to bottle stuff to give others tho, swing tops are an investment), and you can use them for other fermented beverages like kombucha if you like.

If grolsh beer in the swing tops is available near you at all, you can get a bunch of that, and reuse those bottles. In many places that’s the cheapest way to get swing top bottles, not even including that there’s beer in them. I have 3 cases worth of them 😁

Honestly, with a conquest driven society, wouldn’t surprise me. Human history is full of examples, even today.

I’ve thought about this a lot. Not this specific thing, but Klingon culture generally.

Like their culture is all about death in battle and glory and honor… so sure maybe they don’t have doctors (those redundant organs help a lot) but what about farmers and cooks? What about builders, bankers, literally anything other than warriors which are necessary for a society to function?

If nothing but death in battle is worthwhile to pursue, how does their society not entirely collapse? Or is the focus on battle a newer shift on their society, now that they have access to other societies to do the grunt work?

You know… I never really put it together but there really is not much interpersonal conflict between those blessed with the post-scarcity society… tensions, sure, but not a lot of really meaningful or lasting conflict, and certainly not what you’d expect from a large crew living together semi-permanently. you see it more with those outside the federation (I also just assume the entire federation is post-scarcity utopia, but that does make the outliers confusing to me personally).

I guess that could be as much to “neutralize the prior story” as to build up that post-scarcity is just better, but there are too many big arcs for that to be a reasonable explanation…

Fuck. Makes that four unattainable needs from those series. (Space travel, replication, holodeck, post-scarcity society. Plz don’t ask me to pick one 😅)

I guess there’s a reason I’m into solarpunk…

Yes, really.

Maybe you are spending more than I am on your TVs, but even after it became more common it still wasn’t standard apparently. It wasn’t something I looked for or knew to look for, being one of those things that isn’t really a selling point for most people and all.

The only reason I even know mine doesn’t have it is video games, I just found out a few months back, and frankly I just set the gama high within the game and call it good. Been doing that for many many years. The whites are more blinding than they used to be but that’s about it. Frankly I assumed the problem was with the backlighting.

I just assumed the media issue was, in fact, a media issue (which it -abso-fucking-lutely is-! If you need a special [even if common] TV device format to correct for your shit production quality by default, ya dun fucked up your production, that’s on you, not the people watching it) and went about my day oblivious as always. :)

Tons of people don’t have HDR yet. It takes a while for tech to spread, especially when it’s not something many people are gunna go replace a several hundred dollar device for, nor is it necessarily a selling point when shopping for new TVs.

I thought my 4k smart tv was new enough to have it by default since I bought it in 2019, but it doesn’t.