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vomitaur

@ vomitaur @slrpnk.net

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  • What JRPGs have you played 2025?

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  • 100% complete playthroughs of all three of Xenoblade Chronicles 1, 2, and 3.  including the expansion packs.

    I'm a single dad and only played in my own time, and started in February; finishing all three felt like a major personal achievement.  Overall roughly 800 hours total (but again, went for 100% completion, only missed a couple of the superbosses), and finished the whole run in Dec 25th.

  • I'm about to give up my organic balcony gardening experiment. This is a cry for help.

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  • if you live in a place with a definite winter/summer cycle, then if you start with aphid & ant control early on (when it's still cooler) you'll have better luck keeping them away. I do realize it's too late in the season now for that, but it's something to think about for next year.

    a spray with neem oil + castille soap works wonders repelling ants, aphids and mites. though, judging from your photos, it might be very limited in effectiveness. i bought a large spray bottle from the hardware store, mixed up the neem oil (a couple of tablespoons?) and the castille soap (about the same amount - I have a huge bottle of dr bronner's), filled up the rest of the bottle with water, and I keep it out with my outdoor plants. I live in an apartment and the concrete steps are the only space i have to grow. every spring, most anything i grow outside will get attacked by aphids as it starts to get warm. spraying the undersides of all the leaves early in the morning kills them. do it every morning for a few days, spritzing during the day if you see them bunch up. i try not to do it longer than 5-6 days before giving a break from the neem oil. if it ever gets to that point, i take the entire pots out onto the sidewalk and using a gentle jetstream of water, I'll shoot the aphids off.

    flowering plants will generally attract hornets/wasps no matter what you do. but, if you don't bug them, they won't get aggressive usually. and even though they're al the assholes of the air, they are still important pollinators.

    diatomaceous earth works great against external pests like ants too. spread it around in a light dusting where you see them come in, that will work better than making something like a "circle of salt"... ants aren't hollywood demons haha. it'll keep out some beetles too and other critters. DE is safe around your cat too, hell, it's used in baking too.

  • Morro Peak, Jasper NP

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  • according to wikipedia, it's in Alberta Canada.

  • Punch Capitalists

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  • put the first one on my work tool cart. i gotta mess with the svg file cause i can't get it to work with my circular stickers (yet).

  • SLRPNK Community Discussion - June 2025

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  • it's so great that it's back up and running! I lurk more than anything but this is my lemmy home. muito obrigado.

  • Punch Capitalists

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  • anyone have this in a b&w format i can use with my label printer?

  • Annie Knight Gives Update Amid Hospitalization for Sex With 583 Men

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  • threatening unwanted physical harm against friends/acquaintences for any reason is morally bankrupt.

  • 🐌 Slow Software for a Burning World 🔥

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  • the website is clear as mud, for sure. maybe it's like lemmy? or mastodon? can't be sure, and the public demo doesn't make it any clearer.

    we all need to agree on a standard for 'about' pages so we can collectively reject those that look like that.

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    Genuine Question Why does it seem there is little to no government pushback of these protests compared to 2020?

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  • my guess is that they know most people aren't practicing personal security (specifically by bringing their phones and smartwatches), and it's easy to collect lists of possible dissidents when they're all in one general area and digitally trackable.

  • why aren't there any 2x5 groupsets?

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  • thanks for the extra extra. I've been cycling for my whole life, and have always done the basic maintenance myself. only recently have i felt like tackling the stuff i used to leave to the LBS.

    it's got 135mm, so i'm sure i can fit a 9-speed cassette, i've been biasing more and more to a 1x9 since reading your other comment - the end goal of this rebuild is a commuter, and my route is fairly flat and asphalt, so I don't need a lot of range in the gearing. what's currently on it is a 3x7, and I'm in the middle ring most of the time as well.

    thanks again, i'll check those resources out

  • why aren't there any 2x5 groupsets?

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  • that makes a lot of sense, thanks for explaining it so well!

    riding the extremes

    by that i meant on the lowest gear and highest chainring, for example. my rockhopper has the original biopace on it, 3x7, and the chainrings are warped; when I'm on the outermost ring and almost any of the gears, it always rubs somewhere, and I can practically feel the chain flexing.

  • bike wrench @lemmy.world
    vomitaur @slrpnk.net

    why aren't there any 2x5 groupsets?

  • Researchers In Japan Find An Alternative To Single Use Plastic

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  • tl;dr:

    According to Anthropocene Magazine, researchers in Japan have found a way to make a new paper-based material that could be an ideal replacement for some single use plastics. The millimeter thick paperboard behaves like plastic, but only when needed. It is strong, transparent, and shapeable, plus it can hold boiling water. But its most important feature is that it full degrades in less than a year once it settles to the ocean floor.

  • How Do You Go About Buying Stuff Online While Avoiding Amazon?

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  • i feel like it's important to note that this is against the ebay seller agreement, and though ebay does nothing about it if you report it after the fact, leaving feedback with a statement like "this seller drop shipped the item via amazon" helps other shoppers.

    generally, though, it's getting easier to tell: higher volume (we're talking 1k or higher, usually) of feedback with less than ~97% positive feedback, is a good first indication of some kind of reseller/dropshipper.

    personally, i started shopping on ebay to avoid amazon, so it's a supreme annoyance to have something drop-shipped or gift-shipped through them. I get why some sellers do it, but that doesn't make it right.

  • The Nissan LEAF is all grown up and better than ever: Here's our first look at the new EV

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  • 100% agree with what you said. I'm sure the new Leaf is great, but I won't buy a bigger car. I'm personally willing to compromise with the subscription lock-in bullshit, and even the current generation bullshit, but I won't at all compromise on size, so when anybody uses terms like 'crossover' or 'hybrid', then they just lost my interest.

    imagine these innovations in tech, but on a smaller car. cool, yeah? so, why isn't this happening, then, NOW? maybe because they're hiding something! or maybe because they've already compromised on something or are straight-up being dishonest about something.

  • Seems to be a habit with televangelists

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  • that's some typeface, i'm sure of it because each letter is identical.

  • Any good paid SMS number service?

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  • i use jmp.chat and love it but be aware that they have a list of banned words, and any outgoing sms (meaning that you send out, incoming messages aren't blocked) containing the banned words will be blocked.

    https://blog.jmp.chat/b/sms-censorship

  • What is something that keeps you up at night?

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  • the children STILL AWAKE running around upstairs

  • Biking in the rain: How do i protect my eye?

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  • there are a few cycling helmets that have magnetic visors. Mine is a Rock Bros, and I have a darkened visor for daytime use, and a yellow visor for nighttime (the helmet came with a clear visor). It's done just fine in snow and medium-heavy rain, but I have worried about it in very heavy rain.

    I also have a pair of goggles made for motorcycling that are made specifically for wet conditions - there's a foam gasket around the visor and air vents on the bottom. They're also large enough to wear sunglasses or prescription glasses underneath. I think they were about $30 on ebay a few years back, and looking now, similar items are pretty common.

    geet a couple of dry sacks too. Those are the waterproof bags that the open end rolls up and clips shut. I keep spare clothes in a smallish 2L dry sack on my bike.

  • It's my 54th BD, left a $83K IT job last summer, interviewing at Lowe's tomorrow. Is it weird I'm looking forward to it?

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  • as an ex-IT currently working at Lowes, they don't really give a shit about your qualifications, and probably won't even ask. passing the drug test and background check is about the only qualifications that matter to them.

  • Ask Science @lemmy.world
    vomitaur @slrpnk.net

    What happens when you push a balloon full of air into a body of water, that's in space?

  • bike wrench @lemmy.world
    vomitaur @slrpnk.net

    Can i replace the 19mm nuts on my ebike's rear axle with 18mm nuts?