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[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 minutes ago

Same. I got a Switch so my partner and I could play games with their sister. It collects dust as it turns out my partner has no interest in learning to play games and I can play modded Switch games with better graphics on my PC.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 15 hours ago

Grind/blend the tiger nuts in water. Pour all of it into a cotton bag (like people use for Greek yogurt) or cheese cloth over a bowl, then squeeze the hell out of it until all the tiger nut milk is out. I still use a cotton bag, but cranking it with a press is WAY easier, faster, and more effective.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 19 hours ago

This one is great but it's not healthy at all. It's a one-way ticket to Diabetesville:

https://www.muydelish.com/traditional-mexican-horchata/#recipe

The kind that is good for you is the original, Spanish recipe using tiger nuts. This is the recipe we use:

https://www.alphafoodie.com/homemade-tiger-nut-milk-horchata-de-chufa/

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

It's not hard to make and the tiger nards version is really good. We bought a fruit press so I can make it even more easily.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Luckily, that is extremely unlikely. Even if we were to burn all the fossil fuels on Earth, we wouldn't even get close. Venus is 42% closer to the sun and has an atmosphere that is about 97% CO2 (compared to Earth's 0.4%) and a bit over 90 times denser. Fun fact: the atmospheric pressure on the surface of Venus is the same as 900m underwater on Earth. Shit is soupy AF.

To hit Venus numbers, we'd need a greater than 50% increase in solar luminosity combined with an approximately 2,200,000% increase in atmospheric CO2. That means going from about 3340 gigatonnes of atmospheric CO2 (based on current estimates) to more than 73,000,000 gigatonnes (7.3 × 10¹⁹ tonnes). It's a staggering increase that is impossible without a massive outside input, like half the earth's crust splitting open and blasting out CO2.

Even if we were to substitute methane entirety for CO2, being a 28x more potent greenhouse gas, that still requires an additional 2,600,000 gigatonnes (2.6 × 10¹⁸ tonnes) of methane. Earth's atmosphere in its entirety is only 5 × 10¹⁵ tonnes.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I think you nailed it. There are definite upsides to macOS, especially for less tech savvy users, but they gouge the hell out of the denizens of their walled garden.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I don't think the biggest concerns about Windows are about functionality. It works perfectly well and even has some neat features. I'm using Linux and I miss the sys + v for clipboard history. The biggest gripe themes I see are the loss of privacy coupled with increasing sales pressure for everything Microsoft.

Edit: I looked it up, of course there's a Linux equivalent to clipboard history. Added!

Yeah, in my early twenties, and we called it the shit house due to our eventual exposure to copious amounts of human feces. Not exaggerating. Ahead is a long, shitty story with a landlord so cartoonishly evil that I might not believe it if it didn't happen to me.

It was great when my ex and I moved in - a cute, if small, two bedroom daylight basement, and the landlord was a really friendly guy. No warning signs at all. The landlord paid us well to do repairs and improvements and we felt like we really lucked out. A few months in, we came home to find the place reeked of sewage and there was a puddle of water in the laundry room, backed up from the floor drain. We called the landlord who sent out a plumber. The plumber snaked the line and got it to drain. Yay! We mop up, get paid for it by the landlord, and life continues.

A month or so later, we come home to find the whole place flooded. We had several inches of sewer water in most of the apartment. We had been gone for a few days and apparently the neighbors did all the laundry. We call the landlord who apologizes profusely, says he'll replace any damaged items, and said he'll get a plumber out. We stay at a friend's place for the night.

The next morning, the water is still there. We call the landlord to ask WTF is going on. He testily explains it was late on a Saturday when we called, that he's not going to pay night and weekend fees, and the plumber will be there the next day, on Monday. We reiterate that there's literally standing shit water and that we can't live in the house. He relents and agrees to send them same day. The plumber snakes the line again, while griping how he told the landlord YEARS AGO this would keep happening unless he replaces a double 90° juncture some idiot did when DIYing the main line.

We call the landlord, tell him what we learned, and ask why he didn't fix the issue if it has been known for years. Shockingly, he goes absolutely ballistic on us, aggressively going on about how the maintenance of his property is none of our business, that it was inappropriate to ask the plumber anything and that he'd be firing him for talking with us, and that he liked us as tenants but that was changing. We explain the place needs to be professionally cleaned, having been steeped in sewage for days. He refuses, telling us to clean it ourselves.

What. The. Fuck.

We realize we're now in a hostile situation with a mentally unstable landlord. We had eight months left on the lease and we were both up to our ears in schoolwork. My ex refused to move because she is a moronic pushover, so we stop doing any work for the landlord and refuse to communicate with him except in writing or email, for which he mocks us in every email "for having our feelings hurt". We eventually get him to send in his handyman who does a wholly insufficient job cleaning the floor. He keeps saying he'll reimburse us for damaged furniture but keeps making excuses for why he needs another week after week after week. I want to talk to a lawyer but my idiot ex still wants to do nothing until at least the semester ends. She claims she can't handle the stress.

We talk to the upstairs neighbors and find out this is a common occurrence and why the last tenants left. We learn they've been fighting him for months because the door to their oven will just fall open unless they prop something against it. They have two small children and it's a huge hazard. They send him a demand letter and he evicts them. We drive away new tenants for a month by posting about it online and simply letting prospective tenants know what had happened when we see them. Eventually a new family moves in after the landlord slashes the rent.

A bit later, we go out of town for a week and come back to 6+ inches of water in the entire place. There's literally a few pieces of shit and toilet paper floating in the kitchen. We inform the landlord, who says a plumber will be out the next day. We demand same day, he says they'll see us tomorrow. Unbeknownst to my idiot ex, I talk with a lawyer that day who says the best they can do is a letter demanding they remediate immediately and cancel our lease (we lived in a conservative state with landlord friendly laws and basically no renter protections). I accept, letter is sent and delivered the next day.

The landlord mocks me by email for contacting a lawyer, but agrees to let us out of the lease. We soon find a new place and begin moving, but have to pay a double deposit because my ex had bad credit and we wouldn't let the property manager contact our current landlord. We calculate prorated rent on the shit house and send it in. He fires back a blistering email about how he agreed to let us leave early but we still had the pay for the entire month. I talk to the lawyer who tells me the landlord has no standing. I tell the landlord to go pound sand. He responds threatening to sue us and goes on in great length about how he knows we don't have much money and he'll destroy us with legal fees "when he wins and we have to pay for his team of lawyers". Dipshit ex folds again and just pays without asking me first. We give up on getting him to reimburse us for furniture - I want to sue for all of this but ex says she needs to put her education first and can't handle it.

Epilogue: ex and I soon break up when she demands we immediately have an open relationship or she's leaving. It later comes to light she had been fucking a mutual friend for awhile. I still keep tabs on shit landlord - he's a slumlord in a different shitty conservative state. I've been married for ten years and my partner would destroy someone like that landlord. Big upgrade.

I'm surprised they even used it. It doesn't make sense.

Size queen with a hyperspermia fetish. Nothing wrong with that, it takes all kinds.

What I'm curious about is how do they know the size of a horse's load? You don't just stumble across that one day at the farm.

Dude. Dude. Watch the movie, it's so good. I rarely watch movies twice and I've seen it three times.

Yeah, I had a WTF moment too.

 

I just had three "very special" Craigslist experiences in a row and wondered what everyone else deals with when selling things online.

 

Manul

 

Manul 1-9.

 

cross-posted from: https://sub.wetshaving.social/post/2498731

Deadlines

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/60653809

me_irl

 

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/25795394

LIVE!

 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/17732397

Rule

 

Hey look, me again! Just like we need community rules, we also need moderator guidelines to set expectations for our behavior. As with community rules, we want everyone to weigh in on them since this is a community for all of us. Here's what we have, let us know what you think:

Moderator Guidelines

  • Don't be mean to users. Be gentle or neutral.
  • When in doubt about whether or not a user is problematic, send them a DM if you have the time and energy.
  • Don't waste time debating/arguing with problematic users.
  • Assume the best, but don't tolerate sealioning/just asking questions/concern trolling.
  • Ask another mod to take over cases you struggle with, or when things get personal.
  • Ask the other mods for advice when things get complicated.
  • Don't perform too much moderation in the comments, except if you want a verdict to be public or to ask people to dial a convo down/stop. Single comment warnings are okay.
  • Send users concise DMs about verdicts about them, such as bans etc, except in cases where it is clear we don't want them at all, such as obvious transphobes. No need to notify someone they haven't been banned of course.
  • Some users are stupid and focus on pedantry and technicalities. If you struggle to deal with such users, send them to another mod.
  • Explain to a user why their behavior is problematic and how it is distressing others rather than engage with whatever they are saying. Ask them to avoid this in the future and send them packing if they do not comply.
  • First warn users, then temp ban them, then finally perma ban them when they break the rules or act inappropriately. Skip steps if necessary.
  • Use neutral statements like "this statement can be considered transphobic" rather than "you are being transphobic".
  • Remember you are a voluntary moderator. You don't get paid. Take a break when you need one. Perhaps ask another moderator to step in if necessary.
 

Hiiii everybody! We need rules to keep the place from going off the rails and your mod team would like you to give them a review and let us know what you think. We're going to implement them now as a temporary ruleset so I'll slap them into the sidebar shortly, then make amendments based on commentary. Here's what we've got:

Community Rules

  • Be nice. Assume others have good intent (within reason).
  • Block or ignore posts, comments, and users that irritate you in some way rather than engaging. Report if they are actually breaking community rules.
  • Use content warnings and/or mark as NSFW when appropriate. Most posts with content warnings likely need to be marked NSFW.
  • Most 196 posts are memes, shitposts, cute images, or even just recent things that happened, etc. There is no real theme, but try to avoid posts that are very inflammatory, offensive, very low quality, or very "off topic".
  • Avoid AI generated content.
  • Avoid corpoposting.
  • Avoid misinformation.
  • Avoid incomprehensible posts.
  • No prejudice such as transphobia, racism, ableism, etc.
  • No threats or personal attacks.
  • No spam.
  • No tankie, nazi, or any other authoritarian behavior.
  • No genocide denial.
 

Everyone, we need to spruce the place up, so we wanted to reach out to you all for submissions for the icon and banner. Here's the idea: submit icons and banners (SFW please). I'll leave this stickied for 72 hours, then we'll pick the most popular of each by upvotes.

I couldn't find specs on icon dimensions, but it appears icons are square and tend to look best at least 256 x 256. Banners tend to be...rectangularish. Here are three banner examples: ( 1 ) ( 2 ) ( 3 )

As always, let me know if you have questions.

 

I'm kinda regretting not naming it oneninesix, but here we are. I guess I love letters.

~~To anyone wondering what's up, I did this on my phone while out in the "big city", so I'm still waiting to get home to do anything serious. I have a few ~~suckers~~ really nice people who volunteered for modding along with me. Anyone else who is interested, drop me a line. I'll be picking mods when I get home in a few hours. Sorry for the wait and I'll do my best to put out any fires in the meantime. I didn't think this would take off!~~

For those wondering, here's my take on moderating the place.

  1. Moderation is to facilitate an experience for its users in line with the goals of the community and the instance. It's not to push a personal agenda, give you a bigger hammer in debates, set up a digital fiefdom, etc. You certainly can and should include your mod experience on your dating profile, though. Unilateral decisions are not cool except in a few situations, like if 100% of your userbase is usurped by literal Nazis.

  2. 196 exists to be a place where you post something (often but not always something goofy) when you visit. I know not everyone does and that's fine - I still love you. These things can't be offensive or hurtful, though, especially not intentionally so. Unintentional vs intentional I believe is a HUGE distinction and needs to be considered when moderating.

  3. ~~LBJ~~ LBZ exists as an inclusive, (relatively) judgment-free zone for gender-diverse folks. I intend for us to uphold that here. I say relatively judgment free because there will be people looking to start shit and mods and admins are going to have to judge their actions, but only their actions.

If you wanna be my modder, you gotta get with my bullet points...or argue persuasively why I should amend them (but that part doesn't fit the tune).The three big things I'm looking for otherwise are diverse viewpoints, if you can remain reasonably impartial, and if you can say you're sorry. The last is huge for me. As a mod, you're going to mess up. I used to mod on Reddit and I certainly did! I find it's important for maintaining the community's respect to be able to admit when you made a bad call and what you'll do to avoid it in the future.

@ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone, pointers would be welcome as I think you do a great job.

Community feedback is encouraged and welcome, just be aware I'll be a little slow to respond for a bit.

PS: wow, I really DO love letters!

Edit: Corrected point three, damn autocorrect! Believe it or not, we're not an inclusive community in LBJ's corpse.

Update 20/1/25: We're replete with mods for now! Thank you all who reached out. I'll start pulling these stickies as they get irrelevant, I'm just a full disclosure kind of person so I want people to know what is/has been going on.

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Guess I'll Start Rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 

Starting with the time-honored tradition of copying a meme I just saw.

I'll nuke this community if we get 196 back (edit: if the community agrees to nuking, fuck unilateral decisions)

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