[-] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 3 points 4 days ago

If they’re going all in AI then they’re gonna have to do better that their barely adequate Rovo chat feature.

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I've often wondered who my Great Grandma was. She was such a wonderfully sweet old lady by the time I met her, with a beautiful 3 story Victorian home in Belleville, IL, even though the 3rd floor was off limits because it had gone beyond disrepair. I can recall her house, and just the certain way it smelled, like old oak in the sun. It's what gave me my love for Victorian houses.

She lived so far away from us that I only got to meet her a handful of times. She raised 3 sons I think solo after her husband passed. They all went to war - Korea or Vietnam. She passed away when I was 12. I often wonder what it was like for her living widowed, raising her children during that time. Sadly, any letters or artifacts she may have had from that period are long gone.

It is with this thought that I had the revelation that, perhaps our descendants will have an easier time discovering who we were. The fediverse in particular, seems to be a place where profiles will live on, regardless of whether an instance fails over time. Though I do like to write, this is sadly, not so with some former websites I used to frequent and a lot of what I've written has also now been lost to the test of time.

If we were to leave our handle somewhere in our final documents, then someone could eventually peruse the profile and learn who we were. Perhaps by then there will be a way to bubble up the more personal anecdotes to the surface, and maybe the best memes as well.

[-] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 86 points 9 months ago

Isn’t the reason that plants invented caffeine in the first place was precisely to ward off pests, particularly arthropods? And it’s just cool as shit that it does other effects to mammals other than killing us?

Don’t you dare try to take away my coffee.

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That's why hot sauce makes it taste better.

[-] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 106 points 11 months ago

Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage! Rage! Against the dying of the light!

[-] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 69 points 1 year ago

This is the way. The idiots have been coddled for generations. They need to have the experience of their teeth rotting out for themselves.

[-] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 89 points 1 year ago

You spelled ruin wrong.

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Possibly with tents numbering in the tens or hundreds of thousands. And that became such a halting thought that I forgot to rinse the shampoo out of my hair.

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We live in an interconnected world. As an American, I’d like to know some ways that I could purchase goods, in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Canada and Mexico, and still avoid the tariffs.

[-] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 83 points 1 year ago

Let it motivate you to go vote. You are not alone, even if you live in a deeply red area.

Every person who votes helps tell the story that the majority of this country rejects a crazy person leading our country.

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The Annals of History
An image of three books.

  • The first showing a picture of Barack Obama titled "The First Black Man President."
  • The second showing a picture of Donald Trump titled "Racist Fascist Demagogue."
  • The third showing a picture of Kamala Harris titled "The First Black Woman President."

Novels need both protagonists and antagonists. Let's tell the great novel of America that we would be proud to read to our grandchildren.

[-] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 165 points 1 year ago

Democracy Dies in Darkness indeed.

[-] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 85 points 2 years ago

I don't visit Twitter, how do I stop hearing about every little toxic bullshit line Elon has to say?

[-] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 166 points 2 years ago

It still bewilders me why we are even having this conversation. The guy tried to overthrow our government. The government of the people, in accordance of our constitution. If that’s not the definition of treason I don’t know what is.

[-] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 146 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Because it's fore-fathers ya dolt! Do I have to explain everything?

I also appreciated this particular nugget in the article:

While Harris has not personally given birth, neither has any other occupant of the White House.

[-] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 137 points 2 years ago

A modern day Cincinnatus, the Supreme Court just made him a consul and he just chose to go back to being a common man for the good of the republic.

If this plays out, he’ll go down in history books as the man who sacrificed himself to save Democracy.

[-] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 158 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

A general rule is if it has pores instead of gills, you’re probably in the clear.

Except for that one in Europe, that shit will megadeath you.

In all seriousness, the general rule I’ve heard for foraging wild unknown things is:

  • cut it open and rub it on your skin, wait an hour, if it gives you a reaction, stop here.
  • touch it to your lips, wait a while, if it gives you a reaction, stop here
  • touch it to your tongue, wait a while, if it gives you a reaction, stop here
  • chew a bit and spit it out, wait a while, if it gives you a reaction, stop here
  • swallow a small amount, wait a few hours, if it gives you discomfort, stop here
  • if you’ve made it this far, it’s likely ok, do so at your own risk tolerance

Roots are generally OK, particularly if you have access to double boil them.

For mushrooms:

  • pores are generally safer than gills
  • don’t eat it if it’s bioluminescent
  • don’t eat if it oxidizes quickly when you cut it open
  • don’t eat it if it bruises blue or red
  • learn how to detect what a bolete is. Boletes are generally safe, unless it breaks one of the rules above
  • Slime: Just say no.
  • make sure there’s not a mushroom growing on your mushroom. Double the mushroom is not double the fun.
  • learn what a destroying angel looks like, even when it’s young. Appreciate it from a distance, but give that fucker 5 feet of space at all times.

I am by no means an expert. I’m just a rando guy from Appalachia with some wild ass Russian buds and we do some funky shit down here. Take everything I say with as much trust as you give to anyone on the Internet.

When in doubt, take it to an expert and even then, consume at your own risk tolerance.

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Looking on a relief map, the Iranian plateau and the Himalayas look oddly similar

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