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ButteryMonkey

@ ButteryMonkey @piefed.social

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  • Back in 1993 Amtrak ran trial runs with European high-speed trains, Sweden's X2000 and Germany's ICE, here is a well made documentary about the event.

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  • My state had it all lined up and funded and everything decades ago, and a republican came in and scrapped the whole thing. For no good reason.

    It would be operational by now and would have connected all the major urban areas in the region. 45 min trip instead of a 5 hour drive.

    I will never not be salty about that. Because all we got instead are busses that take 4x as long as driving -and- cost a lot.

  • Whats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?

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  • Black olives, and red onions sliced about 1/4-1/8 inch or so thick. I’m sure really thin would work just as well, but I can’t vouch for it because I’ve not had it. Diced onions work well too, and white onions will do if red aren’t available.

  • Lemmings who still don't want to use AI, why?

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  • I used it way back when image generation was pretty new.. I used it to generate some muse-type stuff for a project I have in mind. See what it was capable of and what the hype was about.

    It’s really really bad. I had to save dozens of things that I’ll need to piece together into the cohesive whole I’m looking to paint. But that’s ok because it’s going to be multiple iterations so I need to make it myself anyway.

    I could get much better examples now I’m sure, but it’s only for rough models, especially mythical being body proportions (I’m not super artistic, I need examples) and it just doesn’t need to be good in all ways to be good for specific parts of the whole. Plus I really don’t want to pollute my own vision with the average of everyone else’s. That defeats the purpose of making art.

    I will probably continue to not use it; image searches that omit AI would do just as well for what I need. Lots and lots of real humans have made art of these things in the past. It’s just unnecessary.

  • Whats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?

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  • Try pineapple, onions, and olives. Same sort of thing; sweet, savory, flavory. My go-to.

  • What are some common things people buy that you would never buy?

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  • When I swapped to powder it was because I could buy a jug of All free and clear (cheapest brand for hypoallergenic that I could find) for $12. I don’t recall how many loads it did, but I could get the powder online, which was at least the same number of loads but probably way more, same brand same fragrance free formula, for $4.75. They don’t carry the powder in most stores around me, I assume because it’s so much cheaper nobody would buy the overpriced liquid. Same with cheap dish powder; just not available.

  • Sort your trash!

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  • I’ve got a similar set.

    Fun fact; you can get a set of like 12 metal straws pretty cheap, and at least the set I got came with silicone mouthpieces, so if you forget one somewhere you can just throw a new one in!

  • This is me_irl

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  • Omg I don’t remember posting this..

    My stairs were sanded down years ago, never got around to re-coating them (tho that’s partially because 3 corner treads need to be replaced and I just don’t want to do it)

    My windows were replaced a decade back and still don’t have interior trim.

    I put in hardwood floor, but never put new baseboards in.

    I installed a furnace and new ductwork, but never fixed the run to the front room (it was ripped out a long time ago, and needs a new flex line, but I’ll have to take out part of the living room ceiling to install it I think..)

    The list just keeps going and going.. someday I’ll finish at least a few of these things!

  • Helpful fact

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  • For my cats I started saying “light!” Before I turn on the lights.

    I got my partner to start doing it to.

    It is now just a polite thing to so, for all living things, to say “light!” Before turning it on to give time to prepare (I’m very photophobic, and sudden bright light is very painful for me)

    (I do similar when I’m going to make a lot of noise; “I’m gunna make some noise - here it comes!” But that’s mostly for the cats)

  • Seriously... We really don't need anything else right now.

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  • Looks like the deya village ruins in botw/totk

    Now I’m gunna go play one of those.

  • How much sleep do you get a day and how much would you like to get a day?

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  • Thanks! I’d prefer more stable income that doesn’t kill my body for being broken, but this will do in a pinch. I can work on stuff when I’m feeling well, and nobody judges me when nothing gets done as long as I take care of my animals. And who knows maybe I’ll end up with enough surplus to sell to neighbors or something! There’s a year round farmers market near me that moves indoors over winter; surplus/preserved goods could easily be sold there or something similar.

    As for Minecraft, I tried it many years ago, and granted my pc at the time could barely run it, but that super open sandbox stuff isn’t really for me; I’m not a particularly creative person in the way that game needs.

    Stuff like rimworld and oxygen not included is more up my alley. Sandboxy but considerably more goal-oriented base building/exploring, with clear progression.

  • How much sleep do you get a day and how much would you like to get a day?

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  • Yeah, I live in town on 0.2 acres. I’ve got a small flock of chickens, and a hydroponic garden in the works to use the entirety of my basement year round to provide most of my fresh food needs, and hopefully that of one or two people important to me, once it’s in full swing (it’s a very old house and the foundation is leaky, there’s not a lot I can do about it other than embrace it due to how it was built).

    I don’t have a big yard, so the chickens have the bulk of it, and I can’t use the remainder for growing stuff because it doesn’t get direct sun, but I do better with controlled conditions like hydro anyway. I hate weeding, and the guesswork of watering dirt.

    So far the garden consists of a sprout and seedling station (for eating and growing), several varieties of tomatoes and peppers that will be producing soon, some beans, peas, 2 types of mushrooms (grown on shredded cardboard), some herbs, and some asshole strawberries that hate me and refuse to grow. When I get the aquariums set up to breed guppies or minnows for my cats and turtle, (my neighbor was throwing out 3 55gallon tanks so I took them) I’ll be adding leafy greens and whatever else in an aquaponics setup.

    I also keep colonies of crickets, mealworms, and a worm composter, for feeding the birds and making compost tea for nutrients.

    I’m currently testing a bucket method for growing relatively large quantities of root crops in small spaces. I’ve had the idea for a while but I’m finally motivated to see if it works, and what it works for. If it does I’ll probably end up posting instructions on here somewhere. Probs slrpnk. Few months before I get results, or don’t, on the first round.

    I wanted to sell this place and buy 40 acres with a shitty house, build up a real hobby farm/homestead, but everything started getting uncertain right around when I started looking, and I got real nervous about putting myself into a more precarious position, so I’m kinda stuck making this work for now.

  • How much sleep do you get a day and how much would you like to get a day?

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  • Usually somewhere between 9 and 12 hrs (disabled and not working for someone else, but have a micro farm to maintain).. it feels like such a massive waste of time because it’s never enough to feel rested. I used to go with the 4-8 hr thing and that was worse but the anxiety early in the morning really kept the energy up. And then led to panic attacks as an alarm clock. Woo was that fun for 3 solid years.

    I don’t think any amount of sleep is enough, really (since childhood I've always tended to sleep a lot when my brain finally slows down enough), but I do know too little is super super bad for me.

  • Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck?

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  • The Cube Rule of Food Identification

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  • The Cube Rule of Food Identification

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  • This is what it comes from, and this meme is a poor cut of the rules and logic, probably for space reasons.

    A salad with croutons is nachos.

    https://cuberule.com/

  • In hindsight, how much did you like your younger self? If present-you met your younger self (say, age 10) from an alternate timeline, do you think you could be friends?

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  • I genuinely don’t like being around kids or teens, they make me uncomfortable, so I wouldn’t like my younger self. Also I was a horrible child, according to my mother throughout my childhood, so.. yeah.

    I’d help my 10yo self, but I wouldn’t take myself in and raise her or whatever; I’m far too negligent for that (why I’m sterile), and having had a negligent single parent myself, I have no interest in passing that experience down. Alternate me deserves better than I could provide. It would be a more frustrating version of my own shitty childhood if I did it - at least my own mother wasn’t physically disabled. And she only had the ‘tism (undiagnosed but almost certainly where I got it), where I have adhd and the ‘tism, as well as a slew of physical issues (headaches, back pain, digestive issues, bad joints, etc.) that would mean I can’t be fully present for a kid, even myself.

    But I could probably mentor myself; I know where we fuck up and why, and if I could prevent that suffering (not necessarily change the way our life shakes out, but take away the negative feelings about it that took me decades to work through and are still a problem sometimes), I would like to. I think if I’d had some sort of supportive role model who wasn’t arms-length (seriously I have no memories of being hugged as a child, but lots and lots of being punished..), I’d probably have turned out way less of a disaster.

  • similar to the word of mouth post, what game did you not expect much from but loved it?

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  • Balan wonderland. It looked like a dumb kids game graphically, and I never saw it cost more than $10 new. How good could it actually be?

    Picked it up because why not, $10. And it’s actually a great little platformer with cute and engaging mechanics.

    I wish the clock did something if you complete it; spawning the kings is a gigantic pain and very confusing for something that does nothing at all, but it’s a very cute little side project, so it should have had a purpose. The use of consumable costumes sucks. It should just be an unlock thing rather than needing to farm the level, since farming is just standing next to the spawn point, which is tedious and dumb. Other than those two minor complaints, it is really engaging and a lot longer than I was expecting. Lots of hidden stuff, great level design, and just complicated enough to make you think without being overly frustrating.

  • Should sneakers with lights in the sole exist for adults?

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  • It is, there used to be a place around me that catered to adults for bouncy inflatable things.

    $10 and some mushrooms and it was an amazing time.

  • What's yours?

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  • Gimme your top 10 series, maybe your top 10 “you probably haven’t heard of this” if you like.

    I pretty much only watch animated (prosopagnosia makes live action considerably more difficult to follow) and am always on the hunt for good new (to me) stuff.

    I’ll give you a list in return based on what’s on yours!