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  • Evil MultifariousEvil Multifarious Registered User regular
    A lot of sites seem to suggest having the puppy in the room with you

    Has nobody done a broad, empirical study? I guess there's not really an ethical way to do that when your controls could screw up a dog forever

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  • AbdyAbdy Registered User regular
    A lot of sites seem to suggest having the puppy in the room with you

    Has nobody done a broad, empirical study? I guess there's not really an ethical way to do that when your controls could screw up a dog forever

    I mean plenty of dogs never sleep inside with people at all so I dunno about screwing it up forever, the dogs will probably be fine

    okay I guess they could end up with really annoying habits which kind of is screwing up a dog, in that the dog is fine but you'll have a hard time getting anyone to put up with it I gues

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  • AbdyAbdy Registered User regular
    edited June 2020
    we always had indoor-outdoor cats, like almost every neighbour around us

    if I would get a dog I'd like something similar. Just pattering around at their own pace. Coming to me for pets occasionally. Preferably able to eat the goddamn food that's freely available all day without me having to get up and go downstairs to shake the bloody bowl seriously I do not know why you feel the need to include "whine at the humans" as a step here, Cat, just go eat!

    anyway I guess what I'd want is an old and lazy dog that could lay around, occasionally getting up to go eat something, while I lay around, occasionally getting up to go eat something

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  • AbdyAbdy Registered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
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    as we are all being highly encouraged to have a holiday in norway this year, Ålesund.

    I forgot to add a fun fact here, apologies:

    most of Ålesund was destroyed in a big fire in 1904. It got quite a bit of aid from both norway and abroad, but most notably a lot of assistance from Kaiser Wilhelm II, who sent four warships with emergency shelters immediately and helped a lot with the rebuilding. He'd vacationed there a couple of times. The city was rebuilt in brick in art noveau style - what we call Jugend style. Hence it's unique architecture.

    Aside from being situated at a marvelously pretty site, of course. This is what it looked like before the fire.

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  • AbdyAbdy Registered User regular
    edited June 2020
    also just because I happened to be looking at historical maps over at Kartverket, map of Ålesund, 1929

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    e: 300 dpi version: https://www.kartverket.no/historiske/amt2/jpg300dpi/amt2_romsdals-amt-52_1929.jpg don't you just love maps in this style?

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  • AbdyAbdy Registered User regular
    edited June 2020
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    also while the map doesn't have to be filled in I like anybody do love a good map with lovely crinkly bits

    I constantly wrestle with this urge

    because I love seeing my setting actualized and I want to pour over every little detail and city and coast

    the edges of the map implying far off mysterious lands with little or no detail is one of my favourite thing

    maybe not the greatest idea when players can actually insist they're going to go to the city of dawn and try to cross that great eastern sea you just hinted at on the far edge of the map

    also I've changed my mind

    @Havelock2.0 if your map isn't this detailed get out of my face

    https://www.kartverket.no/historiske/general/jpg300dpi/general_4_1872.jpg

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  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
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    Every day we stray further from god

    I feel there is a light side and a dark side to food science. While the light side is like, extracting pistachio oil and emulsifying it into a cream to make dairy free gourmet pistachio ice cream, the dark side is doing

    well it's doing whatever this is

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  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    I have issues with the creation of a condiment whose appearance and packaging is readily confusable with toilet bleach

  • ronyaronya Arrrrrf. the ivory tower's basementRegistered User regular
    mm delicious toilet cleaner colour

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  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    It makes me think of "blue raspberry" flavor (i.e.: citric acid, raspberry essential oil, and sugar). It's a candy flavor that would be really gross on pancakes and and is generally overwhelming in all but small doses.

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  • AbdyAbdy Registered User regular
    I'm having blueberries on pancakes right now

    I'd be offended to my core if I put something blue on my pancakes that didn't taste of goddamn blueberries

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  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    I've blocked so many advertisers on twitter now that I exclusively get weird shit that makes me sigh, but isn't even compelling enough to tap the block button.

    Shit like reproductions of Issac Newton's journals, framed in a light box. A service that mails you 5 famous historical letters a month. Apparently the perfect gift for a father who loves history. Or necklaces that look like a photo of your pet.

    Adverts so wildly off the mark that I don't even have the enthusiasm to put them down.

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  • ElldrenElldren Is a woman dammit ceterum censeoRegistered User regular
    Sarksus wrote: »
    Brody wrote: »
    Are those actual patch notes, or did someone read some DF patch notes and try to make a Sims version?

    Sims patch notes can legitimately be quite insane, yes.

    Basically any complex procedural life simulation game gets some fucking nutso bugs and edge case scenarios

    fuck gendered marketing
  • AbdyAbdy Registered User regular
    I've blocked so many advertisers on twitter now that I exclusively get weird shit that makes me sigh, but isn't even compelling enough to tap the block button.

    Shit like reproductions of Issac Newton's journals, framed in a light box. A service that mails you 5 famous historical letters a month. Apparently the perfect gift for a father who loves history. Or necklaces that look like a photo of your pet.

    Adverts so wildly off the mark that I don't even have the enthusiasm to put them down.

    contuining my streak of feeling very primed for middle-age, lately, the first made me go "oh that sounds kinda cool actually but I dunno if I need the light box"

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  • Mojo_JojoMojo_Jojo We are only now beginning to understand the full power and ramifications of sexual intercourse Registered User regular
    You see fancy reproductions of famous science texts on Kickstarter quite often

    Homogeneous distribution of your varieties of amuse-gueule
  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    edited June 2020
    One time I got a targeted ad for an $800 toaster oven with PWM controlled ceramic heating elements, a convection fan, and a heat-camera based system to check doneness.

    Like, how dare you, come on to my feed, and offer me the exact kind of dumb, unnecessary shit I would actually buy? How dare you deconstruct my shameful buying habits with such perfection. And the photo shows a single cookie in there baking correctly, is this a fucking personal attack?!

    I blocked the advertiser in a flicker of self awareness and clarity. I still to this day occasionally look up fancy toaster ovens hoping to find this god-sent product again. Maybe so I can buy it, maybe so I can prove to myself I wouldn't. It's impossible to be sure. I won't know until I find it again.

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  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    You see fancy reproductions of famous science texts on Kickstarter quite often

    I have a reproduction of the paper that defined Parkinson's disease on my shelf

    My mum got it as a freebie from a pharmaceutical company back when NHS GPs were allowed to accept such things

    It's surprisingly high quality

  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    edited June 2020
    Blueberry purée has such a lovely, appetizing deep purple color. It's probably easy to replicate with food dyes too.

    This makes that cap'n crunch toilet-cleaner-blue syrup all the more baffling every time I scroll by it.

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  • ChuChu poops peesRegistered User regular
    i finally set up my audio interface w/ daw at my new home, after just playing unplugged for a while. i don't want to haul out a 15 foot cable every day and plug it in. i also need the audio interface accessible on my desk because it has some physical controls that must be exposed. so now i need to spend a preposterous amount of time figuring out an elegant solution to have this cable always at the ready but looking nice.

  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    edited June 2020
    Organichu wrote: »
    i finally set up my audio interface w/ daw at my new home, after just playing unplugged for a while. i don't want to haul out a 15 foot cable every day and plug it in. i also need the audio interface accessible on my desk because it has some physical controls that must be exposed. so now i need to spend a preposterous amount of time figuring out an elegant solution to have this cable always at the ready but looking nice.

    What about a cable tie and a little hook screwed in under your desk? Like on the side near the interface, maybe even hanging in a way where you can plug it in to both devices with the slack still looped and on the hook, provided you're sitting with the guitar at your desk?

    A nice $1 solution

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  • ChuChu poops peesRegistered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    i finally set up my audio interface w/ daw at my new home, after just playing unplugged for a while. i don't want to haul out a 15 foot cable every day and plug it in. i also need the audio interface accessible on my desk because it has some physical controls that must be exposed. so now i need to spend a preposterous amount of time figuring out an elegant solution to have this cable always at the ready but looking nice.

    I take it a cable tie and a little hook screwed in under your desk? Like on the side near the interface, maybe even hanging in a way where you can plug it in to both devices with the slack still looped and on the hook, provided you're sitting with the guitar at your desk?

    A nice $1 solution

    this sounds easy

    almost too easy..

  • BurnageBurnage Registered User regular
    "With flavored bits"

    Flavoured like what

    Bits of what

  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    edited June 2020
    if your desk is ikea be sure to drill a pilot hole. ikea's veneered, wood-like composite material will take a hook but it'll shatter into a thousand pieces without a pilot hole

    even if the hook is like "no pilot hole needed". yeah sure on wood. but this is """wood"""

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  • Donkey KongDonkey Kong Putting Nintendo out of business with AI nips Registered User regular
    Burnage wrote: »
    "With flavored bits"

    Flavoured like what

    Bits of what

    they're bits of flavor

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  • ronyaronya Arrrrrf. the ivory tower's basementRegistered User regular
    I wonder how the Bureau of Land Management feels about its acronym as of late

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  • ronyaronya Arrrrrf. the ivory tower's basementRegistered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    i finally set up my audio interface w/ daw at my new home, after just playing unplugged for a while. i don't want to haul out a 15 foot cable every day and plug it in. i also need the audio interface accessible on my desk because it has some physical controls that must be exposed. so now i need to spend a preposterous amount of time figuring out an elegant solution to have this cable always at the ready but looking nice.

    I take it a cable tie and a little hook screwed in under your desk? Like on the side near the interface, maybe even hanging in a way where you can plug it in to both devices with the slack still looped and on the hook, provided you're sitting with the guitar at your desk?

    A nice $1 solution

    this sounds easy

    almost too easy..

    magnets?

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  • ElldrenElldren Is a woman dammit ceterum censeoRegistered User regular
    For a fancier solution make the hook out of solid gold

    fuck gendered marketing
  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    I'm sorry that my viscous hfcs water is not the correct color for you aristocrats with your wine-red velvet raspberry syrups

    racists

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    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
  • AbdyAbdy Registered User regular
    raspberry syrup what in the world

    syrup comes from trees! It's tree juice! if you make something with raspberry in it it's bloody jam!

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  • thatassemblyguythatassemblyguy Janitor of Technical Debt .Registered User regular
    Abdhyius wrote: »
    raspberry syrup what in the world

    syrup comes from trees! It's tree juice! if you make something with raspberry in it it's bloody jam!

    On the table of the IHOP it is syrup.

  • AbdyAbdy Registered User regular
    if your desk is ikea be sure to drill a pilot hole. ikea's veneered, wood-like composite material will take a hook but it'll shatter into a thousand pieces without a pilot hole

    even if the hook is like "no pilot hole needed". yeah sure on wood. but this is """wood"""

    I asked an IKEA person about drilling holes in it and she got a very concerned and disgusted expression that told me a lot more than her answer did

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  • ronyaronya Arrrrrf. the ivory tower's basementRegistered User regular
    IKEA does sell solid wood 'butcher block' tabletops that you can slice and dice to your heart's content

    it's not cheaper than dimensional lumber definitely - actually shouldn't The Frozen Norge North have plenty of dimensional timber

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  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    japan wrote: »
    I have issues with the creation of a condiment whose appearance and packaging is readily confusable with toilet bleach

    I had this problem

    Made my toilet smell really funny

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  • HonkHonk Honk is this poster. Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    It's not like IKEA is the sole user of particle board. First guess would be particle board to solid wood ratio is about 20543:1 in furniture usage worldwide.

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  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    all of my instagram ads are now from 19 year olds with hand tattoos and bad haircuts who call themselves forex traders and all of their pictures seem to be taken inside airbnbs

  • BurnageBurnage Registered User regular
  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    Chipboard and ply will take a pilot hole and a screw fine

    The problem with ikea stuff is things like the desktops that are a weird hollow core hardboard sandwich thing

    Though drywall fixings might work

    Command strips also a good option

  • HappylilElfHappylilElf Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    Bogart wrote: »
    Guys, I’m not saying you can’t post about BLM and the developments pertaining to it in [chat], but there’s a dedicated thread where you can talk about all of this to your heart’s content.

    I feel like some people have become institutionalised by [chat] and no longer venture outside.

    people are horrible out there tho

    Are you kidding, I’m getting agrees and awesomes out the wazoo in these topical threads

    These people are generous

    Chanus revealed this trick a few years ago and despite it being revealed it's only become more and more true.

    It's kinda soured me on the topical threads tbh

  • ChuChu poops peesRegistered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    Bogart wrote: »
    Guys, I’m not saying you can’t post about BLM and the developments pertaining to it in [chat], but there’s a dedicated thread where you can talk about all of this to your heart’s content.

    I feel like some people have become institutionalised by [chat] and no longer venture outside.

    people are horrible out there tho

    Are you kidding, I’m getting agrees and awesomes out the wazoo in these topical threads

    These people are generous

    Chanus revealed this trick a few years ago and despite it being revealed it's only become more and more true.

    It's kinda soured me on the topical threads tbh

    i don't really regard it as a trick. it makes sense people would use the reactions more often- it's focused topics where people clicking on that thread are likely to be emotionally invested.

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