Oh, no need, I already have strategies to help ground my reality thanks to the hallucinations. I think it’s mostly a result of being aphantasic, so the only things I see are real, other than when dreaming. Coupled with intensely vivid imagery it just feels real.

But my dreams are pretty calm and mundane these days, since I started taking meds for nightmares, and take place in easily recognizable (as dreams) locations. The struggle is more the interactions with friends, waking feeling like I wronged them. But I’ve learned how to handle that.

I appreciate the concern though :)

That’s a really disquieting sort of hallucination, where you just sort of feel things are wrong. Or different. I’m glad you recognize them as unreality.

I have a really active dream world that I genuinely struggle to distinguish from waking real life, so I kinda get how troublesome that can be.

Are there sizes you do generally like?

For me, the computer towers are across the room so I use cheap wireless battery mice and a nice wireless keyboard. I use rechargeable AA for the mice, and they last a pretty decent amount of time. I had a lot of rechargeable AA and AAA already. The keyboard has built in rechargeable battery and can swap inputs with a button press so I just have the one for the towers. If I turned off the backlight it would hardly ever need charging, but since I like the light, it needs a charge every few days of actual use.

For my laptop, which isn’t across the room, I still use a wireless mouse because I just have them. I can also have one mouse tethered to two dongles and use the same device for two PCs that I don’t have on at the same time, so I do that between the laptop and the gaming pc.

I was not taught both, but I try to use both when I post stuff on Lemmy, for the sake of readers. I typically have to look up the conversion.

Beyond that, I’ve started baking in metric because my super-precise scale handles it nicely, and there are an absolute ton of metric weight-based recipes but not a lot in imperial. Volume-based baking is just bad. It never turns out consistently. Volume is ok for cooking, not baking.

I also use Celsius for temps in games because that’s usually the default, but not meatspace because everything around me is presented in freedumb units. I don’t really have a preference between the two, but I’d just love if we switched to kelvin. I’m a big fan of scales that start from 0. It’s not even remotely practical for everyday use, but it IS precise!

You, maybe, someone else, maybe not.

They put in a lot of flags like that, of varying obviousness, to filter out as many people as possible who would be savvy enough to not fall for the scam overall. It’s not just one clue, it never is.

Sure, but if nobody knows who anyone is, how do you know who to let in?

Cake is finger food. I like feeling my food whenever possible before it goes in my face hole. It adds to the experience to me, especially licking my fingers after. Very… natural feeling. Also a lot easier, usually. Social norms be damned, I’m not stabbing leafs with metal spikes, I’m picking them up with my monkey hands like evolution intended.

But more important than my love of tactile sensations, I’m just not huge on refined sugar. Usually 1-2 tbsp for my ~6 cups of coffee, if I have coffee, and that’s it, so cake is well too much sugar for me to eat any faster than pinch by pinch without getting queasy. Might as well play with it while I’m there. Icing usually has a great texture (tho the increased use of palm oil in place of actual quality oil/butter leaves an oily film on my fingers -and mouth- that I don’t care for), and the variety of cake options are great to explore digitally as well, prior to orally. I find angelfood fascinating.

If it’s using an expiring session-based anonymous “account” for interactions, how would you ban someone? Or allow rooms to be restricted, for that matter?

Like I like the idea, I just don’t understand how both things can be true.

I certainly didn’t mean to imply anything else, it’s a rare gene after all, just that there are an absolute ton of eggs produced daily and I bet if you were to incubate all of them you’d have a lot more fertile than you’d think. Not a lot of people out there incubating eggs (or letting their chickens do it) from cock-free flocks to see what happens, you know?

I’ve started buying quality athletic gear rather than regular clothing wherever applicable because of exactly this. I used to blow through socks so that was the first thing I replaced, and since switching to ski socks, not a loss in several years now. Don’t even feel particularly worn in. Shirts lose form more slowly, seams come apart less often, the elastic components don’t disintegrate nearly as quickly because it’s made to withstand frequent washing, etc. and the fabric itself tends to feel better, higher quality, because it is. Plus most of it is stretchy, which is a win for my comfort needs.

It definitely costs more, and limits options, but I don’t have to waste time and money down the line to replace it. That’s worth a lot to me. And because of how they are put together, with a minimal number of seams held flat with elaborate stitching, I just need to find a cute setting for a design on my ancient early 90s embroidery machine, and I can repair them good as new with minimal actual effort.

And then for tears and rips, I’m a big fan of visible mending, where you embroider or patch over the entire rip and lean into it having obvious use. It reminds me of kintsugi, which I very much like.

I have my main phone browser set to automatically request the desktop version of whatever I visit, so I haven’t run into this. Does it happen a lot?

Parthenogenesis is natural, an adaptation for adverse conditions, typically caused by a specific gene (or genes perhaps, the research is pretty young yet). If it happens and they tend their nest like they want to, it’ll hatch and be female.

Most chickens won’t produce self-fertile eggs at all, and those that can don’t always produce fertile eggs either by my understanding, so most of them will just be wasted. But if you get a specific breed that’s known for it the chances are much higher.

Not necessarily, no. Chickens are capable of parthenogenesis, or reproduction without a male, tho it’s fairly rare.

It would probably happen a lot more if we tried incubating all the unfertilized eggs we have them produce every day, but they take longer to mature and are smaller on average than chickens born from sexual reproduction, so it’s not really worth pushing for from a husbandry standpoint.

Wild, that’s roughly the size of the houses around me, just maybe a couple feet taller. That’s a lot of energy.

🤢 mix it 50/50 with milk??? 🤮🤮🤮

The sleep with me podcast works similarly, he modulates his tone and volume such that it’s nearly impossible to actually follow when it’s set quiet, but you pick up just enough to keep your brain from thinking.

Can’t regret what you don’t remember, it’s just random gift time all the time!

I sort of feel that way but I still enjoy some of them on the lighter side, but complicated af in other ways. I’m not smart enough for full automation in most of the games I play, because I’d wildly complicated, but I do enjoy very much learning how game mechanics work, so as long as I can go sufficiently far without any automation, or at most very basic automation, I very very slowly add it in many many hours after I’ve gotten sucked into the game. Usually not until several new games have been played, and dramatically fucked up because I can’t manage everything manually.

But stuff where automated base building is the main focus so everything else is kinda slow and painful… I try to like it but it’s all just too much and also not engaging enough.