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ButteryMonkey

@ ButteryMonkey @piefed.social

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  • 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.

  • it's not actually like email

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  • Yeah, I get it. You more techie people tend to assume everyone does what you do, and that’s fine, but totally unrealistic overall. I’m not nearly as techie as you probably are, but more than your average user, and tbh the barrier here is pretty high already, even without those assumptions of capability.

    If they won’t do the work on other platforms, they certainly won’t here. Y’all need to stop pretending they will. It’s not doing any favors I’m sorry.

  • it's not actually like email

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  • Hypothetically yes, but I only ever accessed fediverse through non-apps briefly before I swapped to the app. I was part of the Reddit app-based exodus. That was the whole reason I came here; to support app devs.

    If it’s not reflected in apps, lots of people will never see it. That’s all. I can go out of my way to see it but I don’t see it in my normal interface. Voyager is still working on full piefed support

  • it's not actually like email

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  • I must be missing something because I only see two main comments on that post and the sub comments.

    I’m on voyager app tho so that’s likely a limiting feature even tho it’s supposed to be working on that comparability.

    Can you show me a screenshot of what you meant to show?

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • You can 3d print this if you want.

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  • Noon is a whole different ballpark. ;) Very flexible.

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    Another one for today

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  • I like going through all the posts like these so I can tag people who whine about how men have it so hard or whatever incel nonsense they spout to derail. I always end up with at least 5 new users tagged (across a spectrum of descriptors). They just.. there are so many of them.. everywhere..

  • Where's sandman when you need him

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  • Any time I get even remotely bored while needing to focus on the boring thing, I start falling asleep. I can’t help it, my brain just goes into power saving mode when it’s being forced into something completely unstimulating. I desperately wish I could harness this power, but even books about statistics or the history of the concept of zero are too interesting and will keep me up and engaged. It has to be genuine spontaneous boredom. Though the “sleep with me” podcast sometimes comes close because I can’t follow what he’s saying for more then a sentence or two at a time due to his speech patterns.

    I got in trouble for falling asleep in class so frequently they made me stand in the back of the room to stay awake.

    So that’s how I learned I could fall asleep standing up.. same exact nodding off behavior as while sitting.

  • Cats

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  • Tell that to the sensitive skin on the inside of my thighs and inner knees where my cat really likes to knead..

  • What's wrong with society

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  • I’m not a librarian, but my friends have realized I won’t die on a hill unless I can prove I’m right with citations. If I’m not super sure I’ll qualify things with “if I recall correctly” or “I’m pretty sure” while actively looking the thing up, and will say “nope sorry I was wrong/only partially correct, here’s the context I was missing”

    I can now lie to them and, as long as I’m confident about it, have them 100% believe me. I wouldn’t do that, ofc, or I world have already and they wouldn’t be so trusting, but I could.

  • What product do you buy even though you know it's overpriced?

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  • Turbinado sugar. It’s considerably more expensive than processed white sugar, but it’s nice in coffee and when used in certain cheesecake crusts (it doesn’t dissolve and leaves a sweet crunch).

    I’m going to grow my own sugar beets this year and try making my own. I know it won’t be the same but as long as I end up with something “close enough”, I’ll be happy.