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  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    So, for some updates: I've been on vacation. Visited a ruined castle supposedly haunted by "a dog in the shape of a rooster". I guess it barks, because they somehow got to know there's a dog on the inside. No, I didn't meet it. I guess I just didn't get anywhere near the treasure it's supposed to be guarding.

    Also, turns out there are Italian brainrot plushies. When I saw Ballerina Cappucina in a cafe, I thought it's a cute in-joke, but soon I began to notice more and more of them until I realized souvenir shops are really full of all kinds of them, I just didn't recognize them the first time.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    i'm also traveling

    there's labubu shit everywhere
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    A fireworks factory's warehouse exploded nearby. No known deaths, but several injuries and a bunch of lost homes.

    Well, it wasn't nearby at all, but the pressure wave still could be felt here.
  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    Incidentally I had heard of it just today.

    In other news, TIL the Chernobyl exclusion zone is full of evolved radioactive wolves, but the huge catfish in the cooling pool are just big.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    big because of radiation or big because they simply eat well
  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    That's the point - they naturally can grow so big on their own if left undisturbed, and all that the place does for them is let them live undisturbed. The wolves also are not mutated, it's actually just plain natural selection. As in, genes were already there and those wolves that took being all radioactive all the time badly have died off by now.
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    My mother has passed away.
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    Could you guys do yourselves and me a favour? Next time you have the chance, if they're still with you, talk to your parents, tell them how much you love them, that you are thankful for what they've done for you and that you are sorry for whatever hardship you've made them go through.
  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    Fuck.

    You have my condolences mate.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Very sorry to hear that, Stormtroper.

    I should probably say what you've suggested to my parents, too. Can be awkward, though...
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    Thank you very much, guys. It means a lot to me.
  • lrdgcklrdgck
    edited 2025-10-10 08:11:31
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    I almost got an accordion for free and now I'm pissed. Guess next time I see an offer like that I'm not gonna hold with calling till morning.

    (edit: I posted the above here since it was the thread where I posted minor life updates... kinda didn't think how it looks right next to Storm's post. I feel awkward. Sorry guys.)
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2025-11-02 07:57:52
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    btw, i've heard that those lamps that supposedly attract mosquitos are kinda useless, here's another mention i ran across on social media:



    ...well it doesn't seem to be embedding fully, so here's the second paragraph:
    @skyfaller @mycrowgirl Sounds like I just should disassemble these so no one else gets the same idea.

    "Day said tests at the UF/IFAS Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory in Vero Beach show that thousands of beneficial insects -- not mosquitoes -- are the main victims of the electric devices. Out of some 10,000 insects destroyed by one bug zapper during a one-night test period, only eight were mosquitoes."
  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    A student told me I look like a certain rock star. Certainly not what I'm used to hear, believe it or not. Told him however I might look, I'm not into heroine. There was also that awkward moment when the kid seemingly felt it necessary to explain who the rock star was. I mean, think of Kurt Cobain - the dude might not be quite a household name now, but he's not all that obscure either.
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    edited 2025-11-06 03:45:51
    (edit: I posted the above here since it was the thread where I posted minor life updates... kinda didn't think how it looks right next to Storm's post. I feel awkward. Sorry guys.)

    It can't be helped, that's what the thread is for after all.

    ^^ Unless I'm thinking of a different kind of zapper, those kill lots of flies too which in something like a grocery store are not beneficial insects.
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    TIL chicks have a concept of number line and it also goes increasing from left to right: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015Sci...347..534R/abstract . Weird that the ordering is a natural thing in chicks but not in humans.
  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    Weird that the ordering is a natural thing in chicks but not in humans.
    Well first of all it's "women", and second, they're human too!

  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    So, recently I've been fooling around with systems modelling as part of my job. Today I figured I'd try setting up a simple guns-versus-butter model where you choose how much of your funds you use for armaments and how much for generally growing the economy. To this I added random enemy attacks based on a ratio of your armaments to theirs, and your wealth to cart off.

    Funnily enough, in most of the varieties of my model, it was the most profitable to give just barely enough to armaments and dump the rest into economy. Turns out when economy grows faster, you get more funds into armaments at a lower ratio, than at a higher ratio with slower growth. I guess that's because it's faulty, assuming exponential growth of the economy, but I've got a feeling there might be some lesson in it.
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    Merry Christmas, everyone!
  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    (If I don't have anything of merit to say, would it suffice if I just say "same"?)
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    belated Merry Christmas

    early Happy New Year
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    Happy New Year!
  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    Happy New Year! I'm certainly looking forward to all the sad s#!t the new year will bring.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Happy New Year!
    I'm certainly looking forward to all the sad s#!t the new year will bring.
    dangit
  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    Looks like I called it. My bad, guys.
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    It's okay, I forgive you, but please don't do it again.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2026-01-03 21:48:51
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    *looks at box of chocolates labeled "Feliz Navidad"*

    December 25: "feliz navidad, feliz navidad, feliz navidad, prospero año y felicidad"

    January 3: "...pendejo año y chupa lo"



    i was debating whether or not to post this because there's an actual Spanish speaker here who will probably tell me I've got it wrong.

    that said, there's an actual Spanish speaker here who can tell me how to make it better. so we can more effectively insult the state of the world.
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    Remove the space in "chupa lo" and it's fine, although I'd change it altogether with something like "fatalidad".
  • lrdgcklrdgck
    "you duck spawn, refined creature, you try to be cynical, yokel, but all that comes out of it is that you're a dunce!!!!! you duck plug!"
    It's a better fit for Spanish language thread, but since you're bringing it up here, how much do you guys notice dialectal differences in Spanish? Like, do you guys have it like you see someone post on the internet and are like, yup, this guy is from XYZ?
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2026-01-04 14:59:08
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    Things I'm aware of so far:
    1. different regional indicators on various Spanish word definitions when I look them up in Wikitionary
    2. ceceo vs. seseo vs. distinción (a pronounciation difference for s and z sounds, whether they're pronounced like th in English)
    3. voseo vs. tuteo (the choice of second person pronouns)
    4. some people seem to speak Spanish with very few s sounds; they just seem to glide over them. I've heard that this is characteristic of Cuban Spanish.

    But I don't really know these things well, I just know *of* them, and I definitely can't really tell these when I read posts on the internet.
    Stormtroper wrote: »
    Remove the space in "chupa lo" and it's fine, although I'd change it altogether with something like "fatalidad".
    Hm, yeah, that's a more effective parody.
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