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A button fly’s what?

That’s probably true regarding the dangers; but as far as I’ve ever seen, it doesn’t link to the etymology of it at all. Batty or similar things have a fairly established record. Batshit is less than a hundred years old as a term for crazy, and has solid origins in print that aren’t related to that.

I mean, a pond filter and pump will do the job fine. Wouldn’t even need chlorination tbh. If it stays running at a high enough volume, nothing harmful is going to set up shop before you’d need to replace the water to begin with. It isn’t impossible for a nasty to build up, but the risk is really low once you’re turning a small volume of water over fast.

There’s online calculators for water turnover rates. Plug in the volume of your pool + a little extra for the system, shoot for a 4-6 x a day minimum, and afaik, you won’t even have mosquito larvae.

But, being real, you’re going to be losing a ton of water from splashing and evaporation anyway, so filtering is a lot of expense for something that’s likely going to be used maybe a couple hours a day at most. You’ll have to have that pump running 24/7. In a small system like that, you’ll also be doubling the amount of work.

I’d just dump it into the barrel as is once it gets low and dirty, chlorinate that, then filter for particulates as you go, moving it back and forth to the pool however. It’ll cost way less, and do the same job.

Did you comment in the wrong place?

Your comment is talking about resolution, and the post is about YouTube throttling speeds, not resolution of videos.

I suspect you were trying to respond to a comment instead of making your own top level comment, though I’m not certain.

In any case, if the comment is in the wrong place, now you know. If it isn’t, well, it may help to know that it’s out of place thematically.

Edit: I think this comment https://midwest.social/comment/18120563 is where you intended to respond

Well, I’m not going to play the “it depends on the writer” card.

But it kinda does apply, even among people conveying their real life experiences. And, to forestall arguments, it doesn’t matter if it is objectively real or not, assuming they aren’t lying, they’re relating their lived experience. Whether that is a delusion or hallucination is irrelevant to this matter.

See, if you start off with the assumption that ghosts either exist, or are a form of shared delusion, then some things can be taken from that.

First, that anyone seeing a ghost is a minority because seeing them isn’t a common occurrence. Second, that regardless of anything else, the first ghost seen isn’t random. Third, that if a ghost can communicate at all (which is not a part of all reports about ghosts), it has limited time to do so.

With those probabilities in mind, if you see a ghost, chances are that it is there for a reason, that you seeing it is for a reason, and that it has to use its time with you to achieve a very specific goal.

Why would the racist ghosts start off saying “now, I’m racist, but hear me out”?

It’s that simple. Unless a ghost is haunting only a given grouping of people, there’s no benefit to expressing their racism at all. If they are haunting a race, then there’s still no need to outright say it; they’re acting on their racism and don’t care if anyone understands their motivations.

It isn’t just those, but horses and bulls have the biggest poops most people will ever see. So using them as reference for giant piles of unpleasant things makes sense.

Now, batshit? For one, have you ever been near where bats stay? The smell is so fucking intense.

But, bats are also known to flit around in a way that’s erratic when you rarely see their entire flight path. So they have a reputation for being less predictable, or a little crazy. At least that’s my understanding of how bats got referenced for someone being easily distracted, weird, or crazy. You know, “that old lady is a little batty, so don’t be surprised if she forgets to pay you”, or “that dude has bats in his belfry”.

How that got linked too batshit, I’m not certain. Back when I looked it up, the sources we have now didn’t exist., which ima go look the etymology of it up and see if there’s something newer to me. If there is, I’ll come back.

Nah, nothing new. Only thing that I saw this time was batshit probably coming more as a variant of bullshit, with a similar meaning, and then getting tangled up with the idea of being batty. So, in terms of how it would be used, a crazy person isn’t bullshitting because they think what they’re spewing is true, so it’s batshit instead.

Also, I noticed apeshit out there as well. Meaning to lose one’s shit in a violent way. Which, apes tend to look like they’re going apeshit as a dominance/threat display, but tend to not carry through as often as humans do

Nah, they’re so your wine bottles can coast on tables.

Seriously, that’s what they started as.

Using them to protect tables came later

Man, I’m so with you.

We got into it by accident too. I’d been around chickens when I was younger, but never our own, so it’s a totally different experience.

Our little trio is a source of infinite joy and entertainment. Only reason we don’t have more is being at the physical limit of what we can take care of. I’d have a yard full if it were otherwise.

Hypothetically, I don’t have a limit st the high end, and the low end would be based more on the individual, but no younger than eighteen.

In reality, chances of finding someone in their twenties that would mesh well with for dating is unlikely, so thirty-ish is a more realistic lower age.

Upper end is less restricted for dating, but on a realistic level, I’m not going to enter a relationship with someone that’s into their seventies just because of life span probability after that.

Luckily, I’m happily married, so I don’t have to worry about that shit. But I’ve never cared about ages for dating, since dating is essentially “trying on” someone for a more committed relationship. It makes it worth interacting with people that are less likely to be compatible on a surface level, when going into it with the knowledge that it’s probably going to peter out anyway, so the risks of it having a high price are lower.

Seriously, every relationship has difficulties. You can’t predict what’s going to arise over decades of being together. So limiting options by age ends up being arbitrary. While I never went looking for people far away from my age, anyone old enough and developed enough to understand what a relationship is was the determinant.

Now, on a practical level, once you’re out in the work force, chances are that you’ll be interacting with people from their mid-to-late twenties up to their sixties. So you aren’t going to end up dating outside of that range often. To date someone you have to meet them, and communicate often enough to ask them for time outside of whatever scope you meet them in. So I never really dated outside that range at any point. But I wouldn’t have rejected the possibility if it came up.

I dunno, I just don’t see age gaps as a problem.

I dunno that it’s cut and dried.

Me? I’ll sleep through storms and music and loud cars. But if you even tiptoe into my room, I’m awake and usually already moving by the time you’ve taken a few steps.

However, different people cause different levels of response. My wife and kid can usually get close to the bed, maybe even reach out to touch my leg. My best friend is the same way. My dad, and my best friend’s husband I wake as soon as whatever it is that my brain recognizes is in the room, but I’m not on edge the way I am with anyone else.

My dad is similar about sounds outside the house, he’ll snore through a hurricane, and has. But if you speak his name quietly outside his door, he’s awake and talking to you, ready to move if he needs to.

My wife though? Fuck me, she sleeps hard. I have had to shake her awake more than once.

The kid is more like my dad with their name being called, but they also wake up to any loud noises outside. They will, however, sleep through an entire conversation right outside their door.

I believe the reason is that our brains filter senses all the time, awake or asleep. Everyone filters a little differently. So it makes sense that we’ll all pick up habits of filtering things our brains have learned are low priority, but rouse us for higher priority things. What’s crazy to me is that those filters don’t always make sense.

Well, in my defense, I think my inner thoughts are horrible.

Like, the one about hamsters. Nobody wants to see that.

Rarely, because I have decent self inhibition, even online.

But yeah, definitely things leak

Only reason I don’t sleep with my equivalent is that I’ve already had to fix it five times.

The blanket that was my childhood blanket is so fragile it’s not even possible to mend it.

But the pillow my grandmother made for me, that sucker was made of polyester scraps. Which, for all that’s bad about polyester, the stuff lasts. So, over forty years later, I’ve replaced the filling three times, and resewn it fully twice, plus one partial resew. I tend to replace the filling any time I do a major repair, but there’s been three times I needed to specifically refill it.

Back when she made it, it was filled with that loose polyfill stuff. I’ve swapped between cotton, polyfill, shredded foam, and shredded memory foam.

I don’t sleep with it any more, like I said. But it’s right here beside me.

I had even specified being buried with it, but swapped to wanting cremation, and that’s not going to work with the pillow.

See, that’s asparagus tricking you into thinking that is how it grows, by crafty memeing. When we (and by we I mean all right thinking asparaguys humans) know it isn’t.

Walk away.

People want to troll. Don’t feed trolls.

There’s a few factors.

First is genetics. Not everyone has the same base level reaction to peppers and/or capsaicin. And it can be either of them causing intestinal rebellion. Some people just don’t respond well to even sweet peppers.

Second is habitation. The more spicy stuff you eat in general, the more your body adapts to it.

But, there’s also variances in mucosa. Our guts, the colon in specific, opportunists produce snot. It’s essentially the same as what coats your throat and sinuses. Not exactly the same, but the same basic ingredients and purpose. Separate from how you respond to the food, and how used to it you are, some people produce more than others.

In your case, I suspect that you have a higher resistance genetically, and produce mucous in your gut that protects you from the irritants that spicy foods have.

If you also have a healthy gut biome going, it’ll add a layer of resistance to things being over stimulated.

And that’s what causes the diarrhea and cramping for most people. The chemicals irritate tissues, so your body treats or like an emergency. That means to increase bowel motility and flush the guts with water. Which means squiiirt.

Well, you run into the trouble of “help with what”

We do still have plenty of treaties, and the allies that go with them. So long as we don’t break those treaties, those allies are likely to provide the kind of help they cover.

If you mean “help us get rid of the fascists”, nobody yet because the fascists haven’t been stupid enough to try and export it in ways that violate treaties, so it’s an internal matter.

Even if the US devolves into civil war, don’t expect to see external military assistance being provided to any sides involved until and unless there’s no other choice.

However, there’s a good chance that US refugees would be welcomed to some degree in most of our allied nations. If refugees could get there. Canada would only take so many, and would otherwise have to play adoption agency, which they might not be willing to do. Same with Mexico. You might see some people fleeing via water, but where would they go that would either accept them or help them to other nations that would?

So, we aren’t without help. It just might not be the kind of help you want.

With all of that in mind, chances are high that at least some of our allies would try to get assistance into the country to back whatever factions they support. Dunno if that’s help or not, but it is what it is.

Eh, culture bleeds. It mixes at the edges.

Since lemmy in specific was meant to be reddit with less overt rejection of left wing subject matter, there’s so many similarities that they’re going to have a lot of overlap in the kinds of people that want to use them.

Then, since lemmy was initially populated by ex reddit users, you run into the foundational culture being essentially the same. Each wave of r/efugees after that causes a fresh mixing, followed by some of those leaving and the rest adapting more towards lemmy culture norms.

The lack of ability to just r/ random words helps weed out low effort shit like woosh and thathappned. So you already have a discernable decrease in empty headed snark. There’s still plenty of it, and lemmy has its own population of assholes that snark in a different way.

I don’t know I’d call it an accent really, since it isn’t quite the same thing, but I know what you’re talking about.