Agent641

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on It me · c/adhd · 1 pts · 10h

Real life Mecca Chameleon with notes to self

Stick a potato in a tailpipe and the back pressure will blow up the exhaust manifold!

I actually did this as a kid and it just pops out like cork.

Internet said shove it deep into the exhaust pipe with a broomstick.

When you do this it pops out just like a potato cannon.

Turns out that exploding gasoline is stronger than the friction of a slippery potato in a steel tube. Who'd have thought.

Exactly this. I had Netflix for a while and didn't pirate for like, 5 years. Then they started cranking up the price, dramatically reducing available movies including old movies that I wanna rewatch, and telling me my family is not allowed to use the product I purchased. So fI just stopped and went back to the high seas with a renewed passion for making my own media library as extensive as possible, and giving access to friends, family, anyone remotely trustworthy.

on Boys will be boys · c/lemmyshitpost · 1 pts · 21h

A two-pizza night once a week was pretty common before I got my driver's licence. I used to ride a BMX everywhere, inc to work each day, maybe 30km a day in commutes.

But I'd eat like a crocodile. Huge meal once or twice a week, then almost nothing the rest of the days.

It's a psychological trick that changes the mental mode towards mindfulness. Fingertips are super sensitive. Place them beneath your nostrils, with eyes closed, you become more in tune with your own breathing. The bent back wrists is a gentle stress position that stretches the arteries on the inner wrist, sending feedback to the nervous system to adjust heart rate. All these very small feedbacks help to place the person in a self-hypnotic state, which relaxes them and makes them feel good when they are done. That's why people seem to believe that prayer makes them feel good. A study involving 3205 participants of mixed religious backgrounds concluded that I just made that all up.

I use zorin on a desktop and Mint on a laptop. Both are fantastic. I also use Ubuntu server (no GUI) for my home webserver, and it's really good (but I'll never use uwubuntu for a desktop OS again)