[-] zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 month ago

Or it's just not funny and adds nothing to the conversation. Extremely low effort garbage deserves down votes.

[-] zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 months ago

I shared this in a comment recently and I'm wondering if it led to this post.

Eat less meat, please! Not asking anyone to be vegan, just eat less meat.

[-] zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 23 points 2 months ago

The people on lemmy are college kid level extremist on literally everything and it would be funnier if it weren't so exhausting.

[-] zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 20 points 3 months ago

Saw N4ZGUL today in Colorado! Driver looked exactly like I expected.

[-] zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 18 points 5 months ago

He's a Colorado hater though.

[-] zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

“Early in the Reticulum-thousands of years ago-it became almost useless because it was cluttered with faulty, obsolete, or downright misleading information,” Sammann said.

“Crap, you once called it,” I reminded him.

“Yes-a technical term. So crap filtering became important. Businesses were built around it. Some of those businesses came up with a clever plan to make more money: they poisoned the well. They began to put crap on the Reticulum deliberately, forcing people to use their products to filter that crap back out. They created syndevs whose sole purpose was to spew crap into the Reticulum. But it had to be good crap.”

“What is good crap?” Arsibalt asked in a politely incredulous tone.

“Well, bad crap would be an unformatted document consisting of random letters. Good crap would be a beautifully typeset, well-written document that contained a hundred correct, verifiable sentences and one that was subtly false. It’s a lot harder to generate good crap. At first they had to hire humans to churn it out. They mostly did it by taking legitimate documents and inserting errors-swapping one name for another, say. But it didn’t really take off until the military got interested.”

“As a tactic for planting misinformation in the enemy’s reticules, you mean,” Osa said. “This I know about. You are referring to the Artificial Inanity programs of the mid-First Millennium A.R.”

Anathem by Neal Stephenson

[-] zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 20 points 7 months ago

Honestly why are humans even there to make these decisions? It's a train

[-] zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 20 points 8 months ago

By Buffy rules, the protection only exists if the person living there feels like it's a home. So renters would definitely have protection.

[-] zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 20 points 8 months ago

Hooters? Tilted Kilt?

[-] zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 18 points 11 months ago

I like making things. I'm mainly into making costume props and decorations. Basically I'm into making interesting things exactly once, learning a bunch of lessons on what to not do, but never do it again. I'm not a skilled wood worker or metal worker. But! I bound a book myself, coffee stained it, and made the cover out of sewn together leather scraps. It's a Necronomicon. I made a lightsaber almost entirely out of junk from ReStore (mostly plumbing parts). I made an EL wire tree with a dried tree branch about 6ft tall, a spool of decent gauge metal wire, and 50 10ft EL strands. Sanded and painted toy guns. Made a James Webb looking wall decoration out of black foam board, gold hexagons, and an NFC tag. Semi related, I modified an IKEA table to be a vaulted board game table where the tops mount on the wall via French cleat and it has cup holders to keep drinks out and away from spilling on the inside of the table. I have 3D printed some minor costume bits. Made a bunch of wizards wands out of paint, hot glue, and chopsticks. Made a float lamp (tie a bunch of annoying knots around a sphere). Currently trying to modify toy Poke Balls to have a functioning LED button but I really hate soldering.

I'm a programmer by trade so I also tinker with Home Assistant far too much. I have a jellyfish lamp with an RGB bulb that tells me the weather when I wake up. Just made an LCARS (Star Trek UI) dashboard for decoration.

[-] zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 year ago

Cocktails. I'm purely an amateur home bartender (I work in software development) but I'm better at making cocktails than most paid bartenders in the city, including a number of the ones working at craft cocktail bars I've been to across the country. I make my own syrups, creams, infusions, carved ice, and dehydrated fruit. I've recently started using an iSi whipper to make foam toppers; beer foam for old fashioneds, tropical foam for Mai Tais. My avocado orgeat is awesome. Fat washing with coconut oil is easy and makes Campari and cachaça amazing. I've hosted many parties in the 15-28 person range, as well numerous smaller cocktail nights, so I have experience creating thematic menus and then prepping and serving the drinks all night.

I have a ton of knowledge about spirits in general, both breadth and depth. Most bartenders and even mixologists don't even know what baijiu is (let alone tried each aroma), know the difference between soju and shōchū, or why soju is rarely made with rice. My rum knowledge is where I've specialized and I can recommend multiple bottles of each type (Smuggler's Cove categories or Minimalist Tiki's) in varying price ranges, what cocktails they are best for, and the subtle differences between each bottle within its own category.

I'm a perfectly average programmer though.

[-] zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 year ago

Literally my entire wall is either:

  • extreme tech industry junk
  • asks
  • cats

I would love some diversity but everything I've subscribed to is either the above, or dead.

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