chapotraphouse beef_curds • 2 weeks ago • 96%

Kindly reply with pleasing images of other ancient beasts.

chat beef_curds • 2 weeks ago • 98%

I was sitting out front today, and neighbor1 came up and was excited to tell me neighbor2 got an eviction notice on her door. She was smugly happy to tell me all about it, because she hates neighbor2 because she doesn't cut her grass enough and doesn't socialize (literally, that's it). I wasn't picking up on the energy at first and I reacted just being like "how awful, I hope she's ok." Neighbor2 is a working mom with a daughter, but neighbor1 is like "I don't know how you could fall behind on rent." Anyways, neighbor1 eventually shifted her energy when she saw I wasn't matching it. But it's weird she even thought I might. It's just so fucked, because it's not a rich neighborhood, and all of us have probably gotten an eviction notice before. I guess I'm just venting. Really feeling the cruelty in the world lately.

transenby_liberation beef_curds • 2 months ago • 100%

Say someone wanted to fill their bunker with HRT in case all trans healthcare in the US was blocked at some point, what would be the best way, and best resources for figuring out how to do that? These would be emergency backup, so wouldn't need to be a perfect regimen with injectables and progesterone. From what I've read so far, for estradiol you'd want to store precursors, because those can store indefinitely, unlike vials or even pills. But I don't really know where those come from, or how you go from precursor to something that can be ingested. I would appreciate any resources that could fill that in for me. I haven't really looked into t-blockers or t at all yet, because that wasn't as relevant to me. But if anyone's picked up any info on that, I'd love to know how it that would be done too, from a community support perspective. I know our UK siblings are broadly dealing with this already, so I'd appreciate any input you have. Sorry if there's already a megathread around for this somewhere already. I missed it. (I'm not really sure what the boundaries of what can be discussed here. But for that reason, I'll just mention that this is research for cozy post-apocalyptic videogame about a trans woman with no access to healthcare because her warlord is pretty shit. It's hyper-indie and not even on itch, and the art is all in pastels, and has the best fishing minigame you'll never play. I definitely want REAL WORLD practical resources though for my research. Realism is key to the ludonarrative experience I want to deliver.)

chat beef_curds • 5 months ago • 100%

Youtube has been serving me [videos](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddTV12hErTc) of [these gadgets](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TitZV6k8zfA) that are like "personal AI assistants" for people who want to carry around an extra device that is just chatGPT with a voice prompt. It's a super weird niche because we already have phones that do the same thing. It just seems like maybe they're just kickstarter scams for gadget nerds who are bricked up over AI. Anyways, every time I see one of these things, my cursed brain goes immediately to "god, what if I was dating someone and they had just gotten this thing after having preordered the kickstarter 6 months ago. Now they're trying to find every possible excuse to use it in order to justify getting it." We're at a restaurant and he's like, "what are the best qualities in a carbonara," or whatever. Please help me escape this mental prison. Why am I doing this to myself?

chapotraphouse beef_curds • 6 months ago • 100%

Edit: this is probably the wrong thing to focus on, but I'm increasingly upset they didn't do the alpha transparency right on their profile pic. It's 2024 ffs. More evidence this is boomer fueled.

games beef_curds • 6 months ago • 100%

No looter items (blue shells, bullet bills, stars, etc), and you're only allowed to shoot shells backwards.

chat beef_curds • 7 months ago • 100%

I spent my morning productively: arguing on the internet with people who are defending the pig who drew the gun on Bushnell and ordered him (the downed man who was on fire) to the ground. Whenever you argue long enough with people who defend the state backed death squads, they always come back to the same thing: "you don't know what it's like out there, you think you wouldn't make the same mistake?" They always say that shit like noooooo one else has ever experienced emergencies and violence. A ton of people are in jobs where wild stuff happens regularly, and we don't start blastin: EMTs, social workers, anything to do with directly caring for folks in bad situations. Besides which, there were other people there who DID act normally, and called out the guys drawing guns. It makes me sick that people can shut off any perception or judgement when looking at this stuff. I don't want to go into detail, but one of the proudest moments of my career is saving a guy on fire. You know what I didn't do? I didn't pull out a gun like a coward. A lot of people will freeze, and that's normal, but pulling a gun is psychotic. But people will act like any other reaction is impossible. Of course, I don't whip out my history in that context because it wouldn't make a difference and no one would believe it. But like, I guess I'm just venting here because I'm working through my own stuff. They just always talk like cops are the only people who deal with crises, and that the cop-science answer of "shoot at everything that twitches" is the best answer because they're the only ones with that experience.

technology beef_curds • 7 months ago • 98%

www.youtube.com

I remember watching one of Lunduke's video at some point, not knowing he was a massive transphobe antivax weirdo.

askchapo beef_curds • 8 months ago • 100%

Or really any other company that jerks you around for profit? Real question. Every single time I interact with my healthcare, they drag me through some maze of processes where they're just waiting for some minor clerical error so they can deny a claim. Then like, they'll "screw up" and deny a claim through multiple rounds of review, only to approve it 6 months later after sucking away weeks of my life fighting it. The maze they set up has me going to places multiple times, and getting turned away because X doctor isn't in Y system because it's two separate systems that are not meant to go together, but they were the cheapest options so my insurance will only cover them. I actually need a better way to cope with this because I'm putting off healthcare because I dread the fight. And whenever I'm fighting it, I'm just picturing myself trying to fight claims when I'm fighting cancer on chemo or something and I just don't know how I'd manage. How do you all manage? (if you even have healthcare at all)

They just all have to start with "ummm ackshully"

doomer beef_curds • 8 months ago • 100%

(from babylon 5)

chapotraphouse beef_curds • 9 months ago • 100%

It has 2 versions 

food beef_curds • 10 months ago • 100%

You ever try something ridiculous in the kitchen that worked out? I ask because I just reduced a bunch of red wine and put it into my ketchup bottle. It's actually pretty good. It did about what I expected and gave the ketchup a fuller body.

chapotraphouse beef_curds • 11 months ago • 100%

Just an intrusive thought i've been having.

chat beef_curds • 1 year ago • 100%

I'm looking for queen size. Here's the best I could find so far:  Any ideas what else to look for?

askchapo beef_curds • 1 year ago • 100%

I'm not sure this happens irl. Is breakfast in bed a real thing or just tv? I don't want crumbs in my bed.

christianity beef_curds • 1 year ago • 100%

ingrate. my sister is mad at me now.

urbanism beef_curds • 1 year ago • 100%

Real question, I'd like to hear takes. For years I lived in the same place so I knew how to get around. I also got around on bike/foot/transit. I rarely needed a navigation app. But I recently moved to a new area, and the logistics of the move required me to get a car. With all the new places to learn, I started leaning on google nav more. But every time it makes a route for me, it seems like it's fighting against city planners. It will constantly direct me through little 1 way streets through residential neighborhoods if it thinks it can save .1 mile or 30 seconds. As a concrete example, in my neighborhood the city planners have set up one road as the obvious exit, all the other roads have no lights or restrictions on turns. Navigation never uses that route, and prefers darting across lanes of traffic and turning during times it's not allowed. My partner and I joke about how many uturns it suggests. There's a route I sometimes take where it suggests I make a 270 degree turn off a highway exit across 4 lanes of traffic. In short, google drives like an asshole. It makes erratic decisions. And it routes people down roads that aren't meant to carry lots of traffic. I'm sure there's some counterargument that this kind of navigation is load balancing and more efficient. But to me, I feel it makes things unpredictable and less pleasant to exist in a neighborhood. is there any consensus on this stuff?

chapotraphouse beef_curds • 1 year ago • 100%

m.youtube.com

If this is a repost, lmk, i'll delete

chapotraphouse beef_curds • 1 year ago • 96%

Please vote (with your dollars)

chapotraphouse beef_curds • 1 year ago • 100%

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