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Due to poor planning on my part, I'm going to run out of coffee before more discretionary funding becomes available.

Boo.

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Jonathan Lamothe

@Todd on :mastodon: ain I'll survive. I'm not out quite yet, and I can switch to tea for a few days.

At least all the essentials are covered.

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Looks like I had just enough to mix up another pitcher of cold brew. I'll probably have enough after all.



The fun part about having a partner who's just starting to get into anime is explaining what "fan service" is.

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@shapr
Unexpectedly? One of the first things I learned was that my parents wouldn't let me watch the cartoons my older brothers watched.

That reason was explicit lewdness and graphic violent views of the world. Pretty sure when I got to violate those rules, my first intro was Akira. Not a huge fan of fan service, I'm in for the bleak apocalyptic stories.

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@shapr
If anyone hasn't seen Red Line yet, you're missing out terribly. Even if a racing anime sounds boring, don't skip it.
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@TanekRune
Next question, how do I get subtitles for media that doesn't already include them?
I have much to learn!
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@Shae Erisson @TanekRune I've found that most media already has subtitles, bit there's always opensubtitles.org

Unfortunately, the subtitle files often need a little tweaking to get the synchronization right.

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@shapr

What they said. I'm quite technologically repressed due to being addicted mostly to the chatroom side of the internet, unfortunately.

For anyone looking into Redline, Tubi had it free for a while and either the subtitled or dubbed versions seemed great for voice acting.




medical

Well, booked my first appointment with the new doctor today. Haven't had my records transferred because I don't have $200 just sitting around for the digitization fee at the moment. Hopefully he'll be willing to renew my #ADHD meds using the previous prescripiton bottles as sufficient evidence of their necessity. I really don't want to jump through those hoops again.

It's not like I'll die without them or anything, but my life will get a lot harder.

#ADHD
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medical

@Shae Erisson I do plan to eventually pay the fee to have the records transferred. That should help quite a bit. It's just that the supply of meds won't hold out that long.

I should've gotten my act together sooner to take care of this, but you know... ADHD. 🙃




Tried the whole green/blue test that people have been talking about. Problem was that it kept giving me colours that were neither. I couldn't answer the questions.
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For me, turquoise is green.

You should answer the questions as if those where your only two color words, so that any color they can possibly show you is either "green" or "blue".

But, *of course* most of the colors they showed me I would *actually* describe as "cyan", a common color from my CGA roots.



I just put a loaf of #sourdough bread that I've been working on all day in the oven. Just realized that I forgot the salt.

I've made this mistake once before. It'll still be edible, but damn it makes me angry with myself.

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I do that - I’ve taken to weighing out the salt at the same time as the other ingredients and putting it in cup on top of the bowl while the flour autolyses. That means I HAVE to move it before kneading. That _generally_ works…



I love making (and subsequently eating) #sourdough bread, but it takes so long to make.
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@Justin To #НетВойне Fortunately, most of the time it takes is just waiting on it to proof, so it doesn't prevent me from doing other things in the meantime.
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Sometimes I just want bread now, and I can't convince my starter to be quick enough. At least the process doesn't take that much physical effort.
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I really wish I could just make it on a daily basis, which would be super satisfying and the right timing for everything.
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@justinto This one is essentially what I do, but I also add in grated cheese both into the batter and on top of the batter once it’s in the loaf pan. But the cheese isn’t needed.

kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/c…



There's a family member that Katy and I had cut ties with about a year ago because he's toxic. Today Katy extended an olive branch and we were immediately reminded why we made that decision in the first place.

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Ugh, I'm sorry.

Toxic family is hard to endure, hard to break away from, and hard to be reminded why we broke away from them in the first place.

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I’m sorry to hear that. I’ve been there and done that — and it’s more difficult than many people realize. But cutting that kind of toxicity out of your life is necessary sometimes.


I've been working through some #soroban exercises try to actually become reasonably proficient in its use. Interestingly enough, I'm doing much better with multiplicaiton/divison than I am with the addition/subtraction questions, but that's because the latter involve summing a column of values rather than just multiplying two numbers. There are more places to screw up.

Still, these questions seem designed to deliberately screw me up with things like multiple carries, changing the value on a rod just to immediately revert that change, etc.

Still, it's probably that way for a reason.



meta

I don't want this place to be a "Twitter replacement". I came here (in the pre-Musk era) because I wanted something better* than Twitter. The fedi certainly has its shortcomings, and we need to work to improve it (especially regarding the treatment of marginalized people), but Twitter should not be the yardstick we measure ourselves by.

* "Better" is of course subjective.



Ah, jackhammer guy is back...

Yay. 💀



I am neither for nor against AI, mostly because it's essentially a meaningless word. What does bother me is the number of people who are shoehorning it into their products because investors lose their minds and shovel boatloads of money at them.

It's not that I have a problem with fools taking other fools' money; I'm just really sick of them trying to sell me their magic beans.

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Better joke: AI is the word love in Chinese

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cult (Mormon) stuff

My father was going through a bunch of stuff in my old room and came across my old temple clothing (among some other of my stuff). He brought it over.

I wonder what I should do with it.



Why do people have to keep reinventing DRM? There's no good way to do it.

Just stop.



...and that's another thread ignored that I should've known better than to participate in in the first place.

One of these days I'll learn.





Thought we'd come up with a life hack to keep the dishes from piling up: just buy the minimum necessary, forcing them to be washed regularly.

This works until you accidentally break a dish. 🤦‍♂️

Edit: typo





I've never liked peaches. The texture of peach fuzz on my tongue makes my skin crawl, but nectarines are possibly the best fruit in the world.
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I eat peaches with the skin on, but usually rinsing them and rubbing them with a paper towel gets most of the fuzz texture off, since I'm also not a big fan of that
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@lori I find the only thing that does it sufficiently for me is peeling them, and that seems like a lot of work when nectarines exist. 🙃
@lori
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yeah lol i'd absolutely eat nectarines before i'd peel a peach

Unless I'm going to a farmers market where they have the good shit I end up buying nectarines more than peaches anyway just because supermarkets tend to have dogshit peaches but okay nectarines.




Pulled the plug on the trip early. @Benny just wasn't having it. Fortunately, we came prepared for such a contingency.


And, time to turn my phone off again to enjoy the trip instead of scrolling social media (which I can do at home). Also, I only have so much battery. 🙃



Fun fact, the cat can slip out of his harness when spooked by a passing car. We're hanging out in the tent with him until we can sort out this logistical wrinkle.
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So I think that when I took off after Benny when he got loose I got into some poison ivy/oak. I'm normally careful about such things, but I had to be quick to catch him.

I washed my arms immediately after and slathered them with afterbite (which I figured was the most useful thing we had on hand) but there was some itchiness/rash shortly thereafter. Fortunately Benny seems to have been unaffected.

Could've been a lot worse.



Well, we forgot to bring bug spray. Rookie mistake, but it's been a while. Ran off to the nearby pharmacy to pick some up, then we'll finish setting up camp.


Doing some last minute checking of the #camping gear for our trip tomorrow. We haven't touched any of it in like six years. I was sure the batteries in our lantern would be dead. I tested them and they're fully charged. I'm impressed.
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@負けヒロイン ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 These were cheapo dollar store batteries too.

Mind you, it's a simple enough device where "off" actually means off, not some low-power standby mode.

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Ugh, I hate that. My current EDC flashlight has a parasitic drain like that, so I have to keep the tailcap partially unscrewed so the battery isn't dead when I actually need it.







Lately when I wake up in the morning there's a 50/50 chance that the internet has died during the night and I need to reboot the modem.

This is not good when you're self-hosting stuff from home.



Okay, finally took the plunge and just booked a #camping trip this upcoming week instead of waiting for everything to just fall in place. We haven't been camping since before COVID.

I've got to go through all our gear to make sure everything's still in working order.

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Just for fun, I decided to look into how to use an abacus the other day. I have no practical use for this whatsoever, it was just something I was curious about. Learning this of course made me want to buy an abacus. I know myself well enough to know that while it would probably be an inexpensive purchase, it'd only end up collecting dust on a shelf within a week.

Then I thought about programming a virtual abacus that I could then play around with. I know this to be an absolutely absurd idea, but that absurdity only kinda makes me want to do it even more.

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So it's fun to use and all, but it's way too easy for a fumble with the keyboard to mess the whole thing up.

Besides, now I'm looking into soroban-style abacuses (abacii?) They seem more interesting. I'm probably going to break down and actually buy one.





Just started down the rabbit hole that is the Japanese electrical system. At a glance, it actually seems to make the North American system look sane. That's an impressive feat.

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