[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 146 points 2 months ago

Seems like it's very specifically chosen to preserve distances and reduce distortion along the longitude lines closest to China. Perhaps it is useful in that capacity but it introduces distortion for the entire rest of the world.

I guess it really puts the 中 in 中国 (中 means middle, 中国 means "middle country" and is the Chinese name of China)

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 141 points 2 months ago

Lots of people are giving you good answers given the context you've provided in this post. However, I glanced at your post history and saw that recently you've had an outburst at another employee where you shouted at them. It's likely that your coworkers are looking out for themselves and trying to avoid setting you off by interacting with you as little as possible.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 141 points 6 months ago

Reminder that VLC is on F-Droid

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 142 points 6 months ago

any other examples like this?

A WWI veteran got kicked out of art school and now Israel is bombing Palestinians.

1
submitted 7 months ago by bionicjoey@lemmy.ca to c/30rock@dubvee.org
[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 182 points 7 months ago

This exact thing happened with my cousin. We were staying at a cottage with his family and he had a day where started really enjoying catching frogs and yeeting them against rocks to kill them for some reason. He must have killed like 30 when his mom found out. Then she explained to him that frogs are living animals with mommys and daddys of their own and my cousin suddenly became so traumatized he cried for hours.

9
submitted 7 months ago by bionicjoey@lemmy.ca to c/trees@lemmy.world

Hi there, I'm not a member of this community (only a very sporadic user myself) but figured it would be a good place to ask this question.

The TLDR version is: My lady friend OD'd on edibles and is still a bit sick a day and a half later, is there any good remedy to help her get back on her feet?

Longer version below:

The girl I'm seeing recently had a downright awful experience with weed. She hasn't ever used before (she tried smoking once but didn't inhale properly so no high), and I expect she probably won't try it again any time soon.

On Friday night she was hanging out with some friends and decided to try an edible since her friends were having some. Her weed literacy isn't great, and she didn't know that edibles hit different, nor that they take a while to kick in. She was also on an empty stomach since we had a dinner date in a couple hours and she often skips lunch at work, and on top of all that she's on the smaller side, so less bodyweight.

She only had a third of what her friends took, but ended up being super unwell. I'm talking throwing up multiple times, bad vibes (crying, saying she didn't want to go to sleep because she would die in her sleep), and acting irrational (kept trying to leave her friend's house because she didn't want to be late for our date).

Her friends texted me from her phone as it was happening because she was insistent on leaving and they wanted to let me know it wasn't happening. I told them about the thing with black peppercorns and apparently that (plus telling her not to worry about standing me up) helped enough that they were able to get her to fall asleep.

She ended up sleeping and being nauseous for basically the entire day yesterday and I only heard back from her this morning.

Anyway, that's all just the loredump. My actual question is, is there anything that can be done to help someone feel better when they are recovering from OD'ing on edibles? She's still not feeling 100%, probably from throwing up and panicking so much. I know for someone who is badly hungover from alcohol there are all sorts of folk remedies that at least work as a placebo if not as an actual cure. Just wondering if there's some equivalent for weed. I want to do something nice for her since I think she must feel awful about missing our date.

18
submitted 8 months ago by bionicjoey@lemmy.ca to c/videos@lemmy.world
26
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by bionicjoey@lemmy.ca to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

This started a few days ago. I've been getting texts from friends with iPhones in the wrong order, and seemingly they are getting mine late. So I texted a friend whose grandmother was in the hospital yesterday, and her conversation with me looked like this. These texts from her arrived around a minute apart each. I think the intended order of them is fairly obvious. It's worth noting that every time I send her a text, the read receipt line under the text shows a little clock for a few seconds or more, which I think means it hasn't been recieved by her phone yet. Also worth noting that I had a conversation using the same stock messaging app with my mom yesterday who has an android and I don't think we had any such issue, but that may have actually been RCS.

Anyway, here's the example. It's not the only example I've had with her or with another iPhone-using friend in the past couple days.

Me: Hey, how's your day? Any updates about your grandma?

Her (a few hours later): I feel relieved

Me: does that mean you got good news?

Her: how was your day?

Her: yeah

Me: my day was good, (proceeds to describe what I did that day)

Her: my family feels relieved too

Me: what was the good news? Your grandma is okay?

Her: Hey $bionicjoey, I didn't get much sleep last night but I just heard that the doctors say my grandma is out of danger.

Edit: I texted her last night saying something weird was going on after that exchange, and then this morning at about 7:30 AM I texted her saying "let me know as soon as you get this". She just texted me at 2:30pm saying "I just am just now seeing your texts"

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 154 points 8 months ago

You're allowed to return home anytime you want. Just walk your character into their bedroom, tuck them into bed, save, exit to the main menu, and delete the save. Congratulations, you have just completed the alternate ending to Pokémon.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 133 points 8 months ago

Valve are well within their rights here. This isn't new content or transformative. It's literally trying to remake the same game using the same engine. These devs knew they were playing with fire. Never come between GabeN and his hats.

37
submitted 9 months ago by bionicjoey@lemmy.ca to c/jerboa@lemmy.ml

Back in my days on Reddit, my favourite feature was the ability to hide individual posts if I had downvoted them. It made it easy to hide things which I didn't want to see or felt shouldn't be seen

12
submitted 9 months ago by bionicjoey@lemmy.ca to c/ottawa@lemmy.ca

Mercato Zacconi's owner says business 'unfairly targeted' by AGCO inspector

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 163 points 10 months ago

New from Apple: the iCockring

19
submitted 10 months ago by bionicjoey@lemmy.ca to c/videos@lemmy.world
[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 152 points 10 months ago

On Lemmy, there's no good reason. But they may be carrying over habits from other sites where there is harsh censorship of non-advertiser-friendly language

7
The Summer of Pokémon Go (www.youtube.com)
submitted 10 months ago by bionicjoey@lemmy.ca to c/videos@lemmy.world
[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 187 points 10 months ago

Could be Pakistani. The most Indian-hating person I ever met was a Pakistani guy.

401
submitted 10 months ago by bionicjoey@lemmy.ca to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Seriously this was very surprising. I've been experimenting with GrayJay since it was announced and I largely think it's a pretty sweet app. I know there are concerns over how it isn't "true open source" but it's a hell of a lot more open than ReVanced. Plus, I like the general design and philosophy of the app.

I updated the YouTube backend recently and to my surprise and delight they had added support for SponsorBlock. However, when I went to enable it, it warned me "turning this on harms creators" and made me click a box before I could continue.

Bruh, you're literally an ad-blocking YouTube frontend. What kind of mental gymnastics does it take to be facilitating ad-blocking and then at the same time shame the end-user for using an extension which simply automates seeking ahead in videos. Are you seriously gonna tell me that even without Sponsorblock, if I skip ahead past the sponsored ad read in a video, that I'm "harming the creator"?

94
submitted 11 months ago by bionicjoey@lemmy.ca to c/risa@startrek.website

I assume that of course we are posting the iconic Lower Decks character who is Peanuthamper's father.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 141 points 1 year ago

By "people" you mean Linus Sex Tips

30

How exactly do the Klingons justify using cloaking ships, a strategy which necessarily involves sneaking up on an enemy and catching them unaware? Wouldn't sneak attacks conflict with their notion of honour?

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 179 points 1 year ago

Ublock Origin. The amount of people going through life exposing themselves to ads is tragic. It's so unhealthy and most people aren't aware that there is a simple and free way of protecting yourself from the psychological warfare that corpos use against society

47
submitted 1 year ago by bionicjoey@lemmy.ca to c/rpg@ttrpg.network

The party finds a secret door. Not knowing what's on the other side, they send the fighter in first. The fighter pushes open the secret door. As it swings forward it pushes aside a corpse on the other side that apparently died trying to pry open the secret door and escape from the next room.

The fighter steps over the corpse, walks into the room, looks around, sees there are no enemies immediately attacking him, and says to the rest of the party "come on in guys, looks like it's safe in here!"

view more: ‹ prev next ›

bionicjoey

joined 1 year ago