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ButteryMonkey

@ ButteryMonkey @piefed.social

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  • Yes this year is going to be really good and productive

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  • My favorite no-notice rage quit (tho I’ve done it several times) was when I worked for a call center dealing with big money warranty stuff. People frequently tried to get the warranty extended to cover whatever, even though it was an extremely generous warranty anyway. My mom had died a few months prior, and of course I got the minimum legally acceptable bereavement time. Three days I think. Maybe a week.

    On her birthday, I had to work, and I fielded a call by someone who was giving me some sob story about how she couldn’t possibly have followed up on the warranty in the last three years since the problem started because her dad had a stroke. They were now two years outside of the warranty period, and this was the first contact we ever had with them.

    I was like look, my mom died a few months back and you know what I did the next day? I paid my bills like an adult because they were due. Today would have been her birthday, and I have to work because that’s what adults do. If you can’t get your shit together in three damned years, you deserve to pay to fix it yourself. Get bent and don’t try to guilt trip people when you don’t know what they are dealing with.

    I hung up on her as she stammered some objection, logged out of everything, took my badge and parking pass, slammed them on my supervisors desk, said “you’ll probably want to review my last call.” And walked out. That call wasn’t why I quit, but it was the catalyst.

    Edit: apparently this posted as a top level comment.. it was meant to be a reply to the chain about no notice quitting.. my bad

  • All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat

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  • Yeah, honestly they have needed to be changed for years now, what with all the data breaches and stuff.. Pretty sure everyone’s info was leaked ages ago. Nothing has been done because this is how the people in charge want it.

  • OH GOD YES

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  • If you think of your energy like water filling the spoons, the point when you start to get grumpy or tired or whatever might be when you’ve run out of spoons and are trying to hold your water in your hands. You can still do things, but it’s harder.

    I hope the whole thing is helpful for you :)

  • OH GOD YES

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  • It’s a way to communicate how much energy/capacity you have available to do things. It was originally developed for the chronic illness community and has been adopted more widely since. People with chronic conditions use a lot of energy just to exist, so they have less for what people consider normal stuff like socializing or going to run errands.

    Basically you start each day with a set number of spoons which represent quanta of energy that you can put toward tasks for the day. Some things may take you more than one spoon, like appointments, and some things will return spoons, like relaxing for an hour or something.

    Some chronic conditions mean you have a different number of spoons available on different days. Like for me when I overexert one day, I’ll have less to give the next.

    these links will have some more specific info for you, in case my writing isn’t super clear :)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_theory

    https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/full-catastrophe-parenting/202403/what-is-spoon-theory-and-why-is-it-important

  • OH GOD YES

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  • As part of the chronic illness and neurodivergent community who knows mostly other people in the disabled/chronic/neurodivergent community:

    The more people who use spoon theory, even if it “doesn’t apply to them” (which it does. We all have finite energy, non-disabled/divergent people just have way more spoons to start each day), the more people who understand what the fuck we are talking about when we use it.

    This is a bit like sign language. If we could get everyone to use it regardless of need, the people who actually need it would be doing just great.

  • Sleep well

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  • My embroidery machine is really old, like 30+ yrs, with very basic programmability, and it can do stitches in multiple directions. It has a foot plate thing that moves the cloth as needed, and it works pretty well.

    I have to imagine a newer more advanced one would be capable of something like this, tho would probably need to be simplified somewhat.

  • What advice or tips do you have which sound like nonsense but really work?

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  • So the cure for hiccups is milkshakes..

    Who knew?

  • ICE Masks Up in More Ways Than One (Feds could be in your group chat)

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  • I honestly just assumed that was happening anyway. Good to get it in public eyes, though.

  • What do you think is the worst human invention?

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  • I miss the days of requesting big thick catalogues be sent to you in the mail from companies you’d want to do business with. They’d send you a catalogue once or twice a year and then stop if you don’t buy anything for a while. I think that was a good method, the same way I don’t mind seeing other things available on websites I’m buying from.

    I also don’t mind stuff like local coupon/advert mailers that come once a month or whatever, but those tend to all just be big companies advertising “sales” that always run these days, rather than anyone I’d want to try to support. But I like the idea of packaging up all the ads they want to send out and delivering them in one go. Maybe with an opt-out. All other junk mail, stuff you didn’t request, should be banned.

    And I think signage on store windows and stuff is fine, as long as it’s not an eyesore, but billboards and rooftop signage should definitely be banned. Protruding signs like that hang off the side of buildings should also go.

    Meatspace advertisements are the worst imo, because there’s very little you can do to avoid them.

  • The WHOLE system? Do you promise?

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  • I think this is probably the one and only time I could get behind slave labor, since it’s explicitly allowed in exactly this way (absolutely should not be, but maybe the rich wouldn’t support that anymore if they saw this happen, and we could get rid of it). Keeping them alive on the public dime with no hope for them being rehabilitated isn’t a great option, but I’m not a fan of death penalty either. That’s too easy.

    I say we put them to work on projects to support marginalized communities, especially shit jobs nobody else wants to do. No pay, no perks, just labor in service of the public they wronged. Maybe have them cleaning chemically-damaged sites so they can be used for something good. That sounds good since they directly profit from pollution now.

    Quietly move them from place to place so they can’t stay in contact with other powerful people, and maybe that would do it.

  • Discord walks back age verification fears for most users

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  • This became incredibly obvious to me several months ago. I was trying to buy vape parts (coils and tanks, no liquids or batteries or anything) and the site wanted me to do a 3-D selfie to verify my age.

    First of all, absolfuckinglutely not. Second of all, metal and plastic aren’t controlled substances so there’s no reason I even should have been carded, much less asked for 3-D face scan shit.. so yeah it wasn’t FOR anything other than data mining.

  • House GOP passes sweeping anti-voting bill that could disenfranchise millions, sends measure to Senate

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  • The chaos might be enough to sow doubt when the claims of rigging start flowing, as we all know they will.. maybe that’s all they really want, and everything else is a bonus.

  • meal

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  • Fuck you for calling me out like this.

  • "i am shocked at how many people don't have an actively hostile relationship with advertising"

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  • You have it good my friend. Language is powerful.

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    Another one for today

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  • 🤷🏻 you do you fam.

    I’m under no delusion that people aren’t tagging me if their platform allows it. I just don’t care, because it’s a nice way to keep track of who is who and what they are like, the way faces or voices work in person. If someone wants to tag me as an asshole, or whatever, they will.

    I try not to be one, of course (tho posts like these do fallow my fuck field, so none grow and I have none left to give), but I have zero control over how people perceive me so I don’t really care.

  • Dun worry fren, I will save you! 🐢

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  • Only time I’ve ever witnessed them being handled was when we had someone come onto our property to trap them. We had hundreds in a 7 acre man made lake. Big problem for our ducks and stuff, so we wanted to thin their numbers.

    Dude let my 9yo self accompany, and it was pretty neat. Learned to set and bait the traps and how to handle them.

    He didn’t touch the shell at all, he gave them a short section of stick to bite and hold, and grabbed them by the tail. They only needed to be moved from the trap into the barrel, so that was fine. Idk if one would trust that to move them much further.

    In a single trip around the traps, we’d usually get 20 or so full grown turtles. He ate them, so he was thrilled with free turtle, and we were thrilled to make the lake safer, also for free.

  • With all the awareness and all the money given to curing cancer how come we never hear about scientists making at least incremental steps to cure it?

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  • You should look into the cancer vaccine.

    Basically it’s a therapeutic vaccine (like rabies vax, it’s given after you’ve got the problem), that tells your body that specific cancer cells are foreign invaders. I don’t know a whole lot about it, and my info is somewhat outdated, so I’ll be reviewing the info I’m linking more closely when I have more time. There are also some prophylactic, or preventative, like the HPV vax, which is obviously the end goal but not necessarily possible for all cancers.

    It is still in progress, and often, from what I understand, needs to be made for each patient and the specific cancer cells they are growing, but if it works for wherever they try it on, there’s your cure.

    Below you’ll find some citations but bear in mind this is a pretty new development.

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11834487/

    https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/types/immunotherapy/cancer-treatment-vaccines

  • Where's sandman when you need him

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  • Oh for sure, I appreciate the effort to help :)

  • Where's sandman when you need him

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  • Age 5, yes.

    I know that’s why but explaining to other people is easier to just describe :)

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    Another one for today

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  • It’s not a blocklist, it’s just information tags.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    ButteryMonkey @piefed.social

    What valuable resources are out there for men to learn about themselves?

  • Linux @lemmy.world
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    Bazzite install not working (black screen when accessing bootable media)

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    How long did it take you to get used to glasses?