D61

joined 5 years ago
[–] D61@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

First COVID shot my spouse and I got... nothing but some injection site soreness.

Every shot since has knocked us out for at least 24 hours. The flavor doesn't seem to matter.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

thinking-about-it

Dune but Paul is adamantly against wearing a still suit in the desert.

 

... but I finally did it.

For whatever silly reason, I decided to play the 2005 version of Space Rangers ( a kinda difficult game on its easy mode) on its hardest difficulty setting and after a handful of bad starts and one very loooonnnng good run I managed to finish.

To celebrate I will use this emoji

spoilerkkkonfederacy

And as penance I will start reading Capital Volume 1 as linked by comrade Vampire in their "get in nerds we're reading all volumes of Capital" reading group.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Wanna exercise? Fuck you. You'll be too tired from work and your work schedule won't allow you to keep a live routine with enough free time to maintain an exercise schedule.

Wanna eat food that doesn't kill you? Fuck you. You won't have time in your day or money in your wallet to buy proper food let alone the time to cook meals.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nobody asked for a Caddyshack 3 to be made. ground-pog

[–] D61@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

God's an unfalsifiable claim, so there really isn't anything that could test that hypothesis.

Pretty much any scientific test/discovery that counters anything in a religious text whose adherents view the text as completely truthful and literal. But sciencey stuff might not have much of an effect on religious folks who view their texts less literally.

But anyways... heliocentrism, germ theory, gravity, evolution through natural selection, probably a huge chunk of the field of archeology, plate tectonics, radiometric dating, probably the written language at various points in human history (but that's not really a discovery), trans species organ transplants, decoding DNA, direct genetic engineering, CRISPR, radio telescopy.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

You mean unfalsifiable claims right?

[–] D61@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Those were achieved through direct action!

The Direct Action: fash-bash , idf-destroyer , anti-thatcher-action

[–] D61@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Outside of a handful of franchisee markets, KFC Canada hasn't had pork products on the menu since the Double Down was a thing over a decade ago.

I was about to ask, "What pork products?" brace-cowboy

[–] D61@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

He also wrote on social media, later adding, “Note to liberals; I’ll accept ‘Gay Pride’ when you accept ‘White Pride.’”

fash-bash

[–] D61@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

It might have something to do with the Korean war never officially ending. There's just been a very very long armistice.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

Accelerationists approve of this message.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

jumping from pillow to pillow

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by D61@hexbear.net to c/badposting@hexbear.net
 

I'm out here touching grass and enjoying the sunshine.

Watching the fireflies at night and dragonflies during the day.

You ever seen somebody high five a dragonfly? I have, its fucking amazing.

Look at that rock. That's a fucking cool assed rock!

What kind of rock is it? Fuck if I know, but its cool as hell.

What's going on in that tree? I hear some rustling. Hey! Its a squirrel, up there doing squirrely things.

See whats going on with those flowers? They're out here getting all pollinated by bees and shit.

Holy fuck! Look at the size of that grasshopper! That fucker is HUGE.

 

was just a mistranslation and the word was actually supposed to be "Doomocracy" and we were always just supposed to vote for the most wrong candidate or policy possible?

thonk

 

150+ pounds so far (that I need to get put in the freezer) and probably another 100 still in the tree.

 

Pay is less than my old job.

Hours are less than my old job.

Two more work days a week than my old job.

Zero supervision and I'm in a building completely alone for 3~7 hours (depending on the day).

But at least its not temporary (until its decided that the office isn't "economically feasible" and I wind up out of work again). So I guess that's something.

I wonder how long it will take me to get settled so that I can get back into reading again? thonk

Its about the only thing that's got me low key excited. Been too long since I was able to read any theory related books without my tired brain just shutting down.

 

A comrade posted about this USA federal program a while ago. So I spent a few days looking into it.

Website was fairly clear, making an account was no problem, site function is pretty good (no hanging pages, dead links, etc). There's a link to a page where you can put in your city/state or zip code and it gives a <100% accurate list of businesses that participate in the program. (So if you already have a service provider and they aren't listed, call their customer service number and ask if they participate in the Affordable Connectivity Program. Two of the local telecoms that service my area participate, and their customer service people absolutely knew about the program and seemed genuinely happy to let me know what I needed to do.)

It took a day or so for the ACP site to tell me I was approved. The first page after logging in to the site has your "Application ID" right there for you to see. This is the magic number to give to your ISP. I contacted my ISP about midway through the billing cycle and gave them the info they wanted. They didn't contact me to let me know when the discount was going to be applied but it showed up as a 30 dollar credit on my next full month's bill. Which dropped my current internet bill down by 77%.

So, its all very :hexbear-retro:, so far.

A new internet service just came out to my house today to finish running actual fiberoptic with ~100Mbps up/down (compared to my original provider with 15/1... which is ... :downbear: ). From the ACP site's FAQ page, the credit is transferable to a new ISP and all I think I needed to do was just give the new ISP the Application ID number. So I've started the process with the new ISP and get to wait to see if I understood the program's directions for transferring the credit correctly.

So at the very least, if you're already on some government assistance, this should be a breeze if you want to try for it.

I didn't look at the part of the application process for people who would need to provide more documentation for income verification. So I don't have any useful things to say about that.

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