ButteryMonkey @ ButteryMonkey @piefed.social

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2 that I know of, but that’s the majority of my social circle (not working, no family). The other people I don’t think would want to because it’s different and difficult and those are “leave everything at default” sort of people when it comes to tech, so lost cause anyway.

Both the people who do use it are there because of me, though!

My partner and I were struggling when I was android and they were iOS, there was delays that threw everything out of order, so we tried a few messaging apps that worked cross platform and I found signal and we started using it together, and my friend started using it when dating a new person because e2ee for naughty photos and stuff, at my suggestion. They were using Snapchat and I was like ummmm.. no. Don’t do that. But we use it to talk all the time now.

The good news is with all the small plastic bits floating around the environment, it’s only a matter of time until something evolves to decompose it. Tons and tons of surface area in a wide variety of environments and exposed to a wide variety of microorganisms. I mean heck even our anaerobic gut microbes are getting a chance! And plastic is basically just energy in solid form, so it’ll happen sooner or later.

The bad news is if that happens while we still use plastics, we are going to have a bad time with it.

We probably won’t even know it’s happening until it’s spread far and wide.

Personally, as a child-free person, if someone I was interested in wanted bio kids, I’d immediately stop being interested because that’s not something you can compromise on. It’s a fundamental incompatibility, imho.

It sounds like you aren’t really hurting for options, so, you know.. probably not worth the effort.

Mm frankly I’d risk the curse for mummy’s mix. It’s gotta be fucking great if what’s around now is any comparison. Like I fucking love snacks from all the regions I’ve had a chance to try (mostly, tho not entirely, Asian countries) I’d love to try some from anywhere in the Middle East or Africa, that seems pretty neat.

Pro life tip: if you don’t think you need to keep info long term, but you need it for a short time, your browser address bar works super well to temporarily keep info you have no reason to save beyond like 20 min.

You can save it if you want, but the default is to search for it and that won’t do diggity dog shit if you are looking for a company.

Aw shit this is why you get an electric mower. If the shit don’t work, move on to something that does, always.

Or another fucking game yo. I’m sure fnv isn’t worth the effort, if they can’t even keep it running..

If that applies to some autist, that’s great. I love representation.

But that’s really specific, and not at all the way any of my hyperfixations have ever worked.. ever. Unless this means finding terribly unsuitable things to learn about and just forcing them on people (which we learn to not do, often early in life which ruins a lot of our personalities….) . But we used to call those people history/sports buffs.

Is this an ableist ideal of hyper fixation? Feels like it to me.

Ah, see my toilets are always covered, my cats are indoor-only, and I haven’t had a dog in decades, so I don’t have weather worries except for my chicken friends (USDA hardiness zone 4, whooo we can’t do shit!) and whatever else.

And I don’t have the finances to marine a tank lol that shit is wildly expensive, and intensive, and I’m lazy as sin lol so freshwater plant water cubes are what I keep mostly. I have a 55 gal in the kitchen with like 5 live bearing small fish.. I’m not a fish person, I’m a “box of water with some plants in” sort of person :)

Fwiw tho my USDA zone 4 has been getting monsoon rained the last few years too.. out of season no less. Our monsoon season is winter, so we should get a ton of snow but now we just get rain all the time.

Have you ever licked one of the apple flavor salt licks?

Honestly low-key delicious and I get why large animals are into it, since their diet isn’t 90% salt already.

Yeah I think it just smells and tastes more like what they naturally expect.

And honestly works for me because I don’t have to deal with the shit that crops up in managed fountains. They get algae and thick blooms of slime bacteria/mold. Not amazing for health unless it’s a very easy fountain to clean (most are the opposite)

But have a 5-10 gallon tank with a half inch of topsoil an inch of sand, and a bunch of cute plants.. maybe some freshwater shrimp and scuds to clean up the plant waste.. you are golden for pet water because shit you can leave that for several days and they won’t dramatically reduce levels.

If you don’t have fish, a simple bubble-driven sponge filter is the way to go.

And any saliva bacteria or whatever just gets consumed by the micro and macrobiotic, rather than forming bacteria mats that offput harmful nonsense in the water.

Win-win.

For my home, no, that’s not possible. They get RO(reverse osmosis, second to distilled in purity, or third if you count lab-created) water which filters that sort of thing out. They don’t like the pure water tho, and prefer the tanks.

But in general, perhaps; that’s certainly what I taste when I drink tap water these days (have used RO for over a decade now for all my water needs except tooth brushing - what a weird term for such a weird concept…).

I have a lead pipe feeding my house so all my tanks are filled from the RO, as is all animal water (chickens, quail, cats)

Haha super dilution, but yeah I guess it would be!

I just assume they like the natural taste of it. The water I give them in a fountain is all RO, and they probably barely smell it or taste it, but the additional nice shit from plants and whatever makes the water taste fresh..?

(did you know most mammals can taste water, and it has a flavor? Humans can too if they pay attention and drink enough of it!)

Haha yeah, the tanks they can drink from are just plants an invertebrate life. Shrimp, scuds, seed shrimp. And plants.

Maybe they like shellfish 😜

Hmm good call, infinite soda hack!

Hey I have an entire roll of film that turned out like that! It was from a new camera back in like 2000, and I wasn’t used to it yet. Every pic of the event had something in it 😭 I paid for those develops, man!

As a chronic headache and migraine sufferer, those people who say “you’re just dehydrated!” really grind my gears. Maybe it’s sometimes true for some people, but lots of things cause headache. Strong smells, loud noises, bright light, stress, depression, you name it.

It’s significantly worse than when they offer weird solutions they found on Facebook, like putting your hand in ice water, or pressing pressure points or whatever nonsense, because it’s so intensely basic.. At least the weird shit has novelty going for it.

I drink an absolute fuckton of water (typically at least 3 24oz bottles daily, more if it’s hot or I’m doing effort stuff) because I’ve internalized that ableist shit that maybe it just fucking is dehydration (it isn’t, and I know this).

All that said, stay hydrated friends! It’s not a cure, but it may help prevent lots of shit!

All good, language is freakin hard, man!

All that matters is we got there in the end :)

That’s exactly what I mean.

The soda dilution by halves would have far more dilution steps to reach pure water than homeopathy.

No, I do mean more steps, because homeopathy dilutes a smaller volume of target material, they actually would perform fewer steps than dilution via halving.

You invented homeopathy! Just with more steps (literally).