I desperately need your distraction

My husband and I figured out we have autism together, too. ❤️ suddenly it all made sense why we felt so much safer with each other than most of the other people in our social circle and had such an instant rapport. Our first date was supposed to be a very normal 2-3 hours but instead lasted 36. 😂🥰

I also really appreciate that she and I are of different generations, so we often have different, complimentary views and experiences

I bet you two have the best conversations!! 😍🥰

I have often admired the knowledge you demonstrate in your comments /c/technology etc, so she sounds impressive. Isn't competence hot??? 😂❤️ mine is a mechanical genius, and it is still a sexy marvel every time he magically fixes a thing someone brought to him as dead junk. I've been watching it happen for 20 years, and it's still amazing.

I'm so glad she found Hexbear and brought you with her. You are a delight. ❤️ thank you very, very much.

Ngl, you seem like the type to rate food by whether it's bussin' or not...

How was it? The idea of a giant cheez-it inside a crunch wrap feels like maybe it's a little much, but I could see it being awesome

🎖️🏅🏆🥇

I LOVE THIS 😂🤩 hell yeah, that is cool as fuck

Here's a couple of photos of some emus I encountered once upon a time. I was in a vehicle and they kinda dashed by fairly quickly so I didn't get a chance to take some really good shots but it was neat to see them in the wild.

!!! I DID NOT 🤩 omg, thank you for rectifying this gap in my birb knowledge

That fucking dance!! 😂 I do a very similar kinda thing when I run up all silly on somebody, kinda sway my whole deal and shuffle feet a bit

maybe I've been an emu this whole time 😀

thank you ❤️

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As much as I can love a person I've only interacted with on an Internet forum, I love you. I don't even know what else to say right now in reply to this - I'll read it again in the morning and maybe be able to be more cogent and say something better - but this was everything I wanted in a response when I made this post, and I just don't even have the words to express how much it means to me that you were able to give me the thing I needed but couldn't perfectly articulate a request for. I have needed someone to do that my whole life.

😭❤️

"thank you" doesn't even begin to cover it

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idk how to tell you how much I love this. I think the world of you, and I am so fucking beyond ecstatic to see you getting the love you deserve. I am so glad you met, too ❤️I'm so happy for you!

thank you very much for sharing this beautiful brightness with me ❤️

these are beyond perfect ❤️ thank you very much

its also (surprisingly) nice in red tea

Oh, no , chili with mint is a separate thingie, I just wanted to test how hot and cold food feels together.

Figure chili would be too weird in a cookie. Although black pepper might work

I’ll keep you updated

Nah usual ginger cookies, but because I have a small oven, I have to bake in 3 goes, so I try some stuff with them

Love it!

Its important to stick around so you can help others out! Also helps when you're feeling bad to remember the good things you've done

You are quite welcome, and I agree being outlived by Genocide Joe and 9/11 Architect Cheney would be a cruel cosmic joke to be sure. Hang in there, good things DO happen occasionally, and our side needs all the comrades we can get.

Chapter 25: General Law of Capitalist Accumulation... elaborates mainly on the idea of reserve army of labor...

Have I traveled much? As a child, a lot, and this isn't my first time to Southeast Asia? (I actually have family in the Philippines)... I don't know what to do if I was there... perhaps get involved with any Makabayan organizations there and better myself in the mother tongue...

No problem!

It took a lot of time, and a lot of change. A few years ago I had a really bad job, no friends, and no family nearby to speak of. I had moved far away for a job for a fresh start, with no safety net. Conditions were unsafe, working hours were long with no overtime, and higher-ups were abusive. I had no safety net, so I stuck with it for a while to escape it.

Eventually, I met my partner while working there, a true sweetheart. I found a new job, we moved to a new city, got another fresh start, but this time I had a better career and a safety net. Things got better, got back to cooking and reading, and really was able to feel content.

Basically, a whole lot of luck, and the willingness and ability to get out.

One thing I want to stress is that there were several times where I felt hopeless and with no way out, but time passing really does change everything.

As for Malenia, she is a boss in Elden Ring, haha. I've had a bit of extra time lately and wanted to finally play it. Beat her last night, finally!

A clear cut case of me not wanting to over explain, so I under explain

A "mob" in minecraft is all the non player characters/entities. cows, chickens and pigs are all passive mobs, creepers, zombies, spiders and skeletons are all hostile mobs. There's more, but those last 4 are what this farm "spawns" (they just appear out of thin air). Mobs all have their own spawning conditions, but these four need somewhere dark, on a solid block, and somewhat close but not too close to the player. There is also a cap on how many hostile mobs can be in the world at any one time. We exploit these mechanics by building in the middle of an ocean. This ensures mobs can't spawn in caves or other areas on the surface, slowing the farm. The place for the player to stand is way up in the sky, so nothing can spawn in caves under the ocean We have multiple platforms stacked up for them to spawn on, and then have a machine periodically place water, to flush the mobs down the kill chamber where they die from fall damage.

The filtering out part is going to sound complicated, but is actually very easy to build. First I should say that creepers drop gunpowder, which is the main thing we wanted from this farm but my friends build the farm wrong (creepers have subtly different requirements, for example zombies and skeletons need a full two blocks to spawn in, but creepers need more like 1.9 blocks. If you place trap doors on every block mobs can spawn, you will block zombies and skeletons from ever spawning. Unfortunately we missed a few spots so we get a few of those.). Gunpowder has two main uses, rockets and tnt. Personally I never use tnt but one of my friends was insistent that we have some separated out. Rockets are incredibly useful. When you fly with an elytra its more of a glide without them to boost you along. With the rockets you go way faster, and can fly up instead of just gliding to the ground. Obviously flying everywhere is more fun and faster so we go through a lot of rockets.

Anyway to filter the gunpowder out we have all the items (string, bones, rotten flesh, and the gunpowder) through a line of hoppers. Hoppers are a block that take items from one place and move them to another place, like another hopper, autocrafter, or a chest. So we have this line of hoppers, that will take all the items and underneath is a hopper that only has gunpowder in it and can't move the items anywhere because it is powered/"locked" (funny how that works isn't it, usually things only work when powered). So it can't move items from itself, but can still pick them up. When it grabs one more item, it triggers a comparator (just a little redstone component that detects how many items are in a hopper or chest). This is linked up to unpower the hopper for a brief moment, letting the locked hopper release one item. This line underneath now only has gunpowder. I take that to a bunch of chests to store it in, and then once all those chests are full it takes the gunpowder to the rocket making part of the farm. Also a quick note, the unfiltered items (rotten flesh, string, etc) just get put in some other chests or discarded if those are full. They weren't the focus of the farm (we actually took a few steps to not get any, but alas).

Whew! That was a lot of information. Hope I didn't lose you. Let's talk about my snake for a minute before I talk about the rocket half, which I am very excited to talk about because it was all my own design.

I'm kind of terrible with names

Anyway (my god I can talk, right?) She's around 6, I've had her for about half that. I bought her from a breeder who was moving out of state, and couldn't keep everything so she was already an adult. Most of the time when she's out, she's wrapped around my arm or someone else's. I will put her on the ground and let her wander around for a little bit every time I get her out, but there's a lot of places for her to get lost (hide, in her mind) and once she does she isn't going to come out willingly. Once they have found a little crevice or hide for themselves, they go from "oh let's explore" mode to "I am hidden, and will stand my ground against anyone who wishes to take me from my safe space" mode, so that's a bit of a problem

Wow I love talking about snakes. Let's see... we had just finished sorting the gunpowder from everything else, and bringing it to the sugar cane farm. The sugar cane is harvested automatically by a flying machine. I have some observers (another redstone component, this time it powers when a block "updates" [which can mean a lot of things, in this case its when the sugar cane below it grows]) that trigger the harvesting. It triggers both the collection system (a hopper in a minecart which loops around under the sugar cane), and the flying machine to break it all. Honestly I don't understand how it works well enough to explain it, but its two pistons pushing and pulling each other and it just works. The hopper minecart unloads all of the sugar cane it picked up and the flying machine returns to the activation mechanism.

A hopper takes the sugar cane and puts it into an autocrafter. A comparator measures how many are in there, and when it hits three sends a signal to craft it into paper. This paper is then combined with gunpowder to make firework rockets. I use comparitors to make sure both are at least somewhat stocked and if they both are, that generates a pulse to make the crafter spit out rockets. I wired it up to repeat this pulse until it runs out of either ingredient, then it shuts off. I know it sounds like the lamest part but getting it to loop properly with the timings and not triggering more then its supposed to (if you trigger the crafter at the wrong time, or put too many items in you can get the wrong output which would fill the firework/rocket chests and look ugly) was really challenging

I have always thought of them as like ancient Chinese fireworks, having them be sugar powered makes them even more low tech then that and I love it.

I probably should have specified what kind.

Mostly I do classical because I am just learning. By coincidence of their form, the jazz pieces I know how to play don't sound as interesting with it.

The specific problem is that it's somehow not calibrated to handle polyphony correctly, so when you have just one note, it comes out fine, but when you have multiple they sort of crowd each other and it creates distortion, with more notes being more distorted. Because of that, when a song has, to use the example that has the best effect so far, a monophonic melody but then the accompanying notes vary in number, the melody gets more and less distorted and it adds a new dimension to the song. With the songs I play, which tend to be mildly positive, it tends to sound very somber in an almost mocking way, partly because the soundfont is that of an organ to start with.

I haven't actually scratch built a model in a long time. Last one was an airplane that was really fun to fly! I challenged myself to build it as light weight as I could so it flew extremely slowly. I could just about walk behind it! It looked kinda like this:

I've also built an rc car from a kit which I had a lot of fun doing, and I have my eyes on another one I want to build! But I want to start building the plane first cause that's been a long time coming of imagining it.

Little bit of Path of Exile, Astroneer, Lethal Company. I used to play a lot of Valorant with my friends but my life immediately got better when I quit that game entirely

Hah, I guess I don't consider them pranks, but I like to do video calls with my friends I'm not officially out to while wearing full make up just to see if anyone says anything

They never do. Although, they've seen me in dresses and shit lol

Bootstrapped myself from NEET Linux nerd to RHEL infrastructure nerd with the help of a relative.

I am a little scared of being deepsouth wihout the funds for a decent gun, but very excited about the work itself.

It's a blessing and a curse, but my cat loves drinking from the bathroom sink and tub. At this point he has me trained to turn it on for him. As for miniatures, I am currently working on Malifaux. It's more budget friendly than Warhammer at this point and it's a skirmish style, making for games that don't take 2 hours. I also never intend to go back to playing Warhammer given how they temporarily got rid of Tomb Kings. That Mummy/Skeleton army is super rad and honestly fun to play if you want to tackle people with chariots all day. Hope you're doing better today. Every bit counts, even the emotionally drained days that follow the roughest of times.

This is the recipe I used though I veganized it and modified it a little, mostly a couple more spices (seasoning salt and nutritional yeast) and more crackers and whatever regular, bug cracker I could find. It's a pretty simple recipe, especially if you just microwave the (soy) milk instead. Tastes really good.

https://www.tastinghistory.com/recipes/cornchowder

Elden Ring is definitely up there for hard games, yeah. Hardest games I've played are Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts, true ending Mr. Gimmick, The Guardian Legend, Dark Souls 3 DlC, Zelda 2, F-Zero X, and then Elden Ring is near the top if that although there are so many variables and stuff you can do that with the right info a lot of that difficulty can be dulled. I tried it before for like 50 hours with no outside help and gave up/lost interest, this time I'm using a spoiler-free guide and finding it much, much more enjoyable and doable.

Oooh there's loads, black myth wukong, stalker 2, space marine 2, metroid 4, monster hunter, doom, death stranding 2. Loadsa games.

You got any games or media you're looking forward to?