Thanks for saying this. There’s literally a gay sex shop called One in Ten in my city, for this reason, that’s been around forever.

Lol, was waiting for this comment. DeX gang rise up.

(It is OKish)

Which in turn took a freighter, or so the song goes.

My most common recommendation is campus-fm.com, which is a frontend for listening to a bunch of North American college radio stations. Wide net but may help you find various shows whose programming you dig.

Oh, for sure - didn’t mean it as if you did, and apologies if my comment was interpreted that way. Meant to lend more emphasis to the it was an error bit.

It’s an error, but one that 100% should not have happened. Traceability of embryos and donor materials is a huge deal in the IVF world for a number of reasons, including avoiding scenarios like this.

I’d be curious what the results of root cause investigation would yield. IVF practices is one of the reasons I find the current U.S. government fuckery with the FDA chilling (aside from, ya know, stuff like food safety). What little oversight there is in that industry is at risk. Imagine this scenario, but with HIV positive materials. Ugh.

My favourite part about this is the Spiderman cartoon is technically CanCon.

Gimme an M! Gimme an L! Gimme a T!

What’s that spell?

I shoot birds at the airport.

You, my friend, need an adventure. Any adventure, even if it sounds small and dumb.

I creeped your post history (sorry) - did you end up taking that bus trip you talked about a few months back? If so, what was that like? If not, any reason why you feel you shouldn’t do it now (or soon)?

I’ve felt like you before, at least the way you’re describing it. My solution was mundane adventure - walk a stupid amount to a place you could easily get to by car. Strike up conversations with strangers by leaving your phone alone re: directions/things of interest/etc. unless absolutely necessary. Set yourself some boon to obtain - a beer at Pub X, a meal at place Y, whatever - and make the journey a little less convenient/a little more scenic than you might do by default.

The above isn’t for everyone, obvs, but take the idea of an adventure or ‘quest’ and see if anything strikes you. It can be as grand or mundane as you want it to be.

Just one option among others.

I really, really want to believe this - but ever since my city’s downtown core got locked down by people who weren’t able to differentiate between federal and provincial jurisdictions, at the behest of people who originally claimed they wanted to overthrow the federal government, it’s hard.

The appeal to nationalism that was present in that event does cut both ways, though. sigh Interesting times…

Anyone got a bead on what the right-wing meme machine is saying about the current affairs re: Canada right now? Most recent thing I saw was a Geordi Laforge meme comparing the tarrifs with the carbon tax.

Lol, I literally got called out for reading Infinite Jest on a bus. Wasn’t a flex, the bus was just my primary reading time on weekdays and it was on my ‘to finish’ list.

Agreed that I probably looked like a jackass.

Only vaguely related, but for anyone interested, the National Canadian Film Day website has a decent database of Canadian films (or at least Canadian enough that they’re getting promoted as Canadian): https://canfilmday.ca/films/canadian-film-collection/

Really need to sit down and watch Slash/Back, the trailer looked pretty cool but missed it in theatres. Lots of my favourite films in this database (love me some Black Christmas, Cube, Videodrome, Goon, Fubar, Hobo with a Shotgun, etc. - though it’s noted my taste is questionable at best).

canuxploitation.com is worth checking out too, though with that same poor taste caveat.

Bro, I still want Hit Somebody even though I know, in my heart of hearts, it’s never coming…

Probably - thought about it harder anyway (see: actually read stuff), and the closest you can probably get to what I was thinking about with your average smartphone is disconnecting and terminating all connections to the antennas.

Let’s be real, though - if I actually intended to use something like this, it’d for sure be something cobbled together using an SBC like the Pi Zero.

Let me preface this by saying that, compared to your average Lemmy user, I am not a technical person. What stuck in my head was removing the radio and comms tech completely - no cell radio, no wifi, no GPS. Literally just make it an average cellphone sized offline tablet, where you’re adding stuff only via the USB port or SD card slot.

Assuming this were possible/actually worth it, would probably need custom firmware to actually make it useable anyway. Just taking an off the shelf smartphone and using a custom launcher would likely be the more practical route, but I’d be more interested if it was offline only from a pure hardware perspective.

But I digress - I just thought it was funny to see this when it seriously was the “What if?” that made it hard for me to get to sleep the other day.

Literally couldn’t fall asleep last night, thinking about how much I’d want this and how hard it’d be to neuter a cellphone to make this.

watches Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter on repeat, out of sheer spite

Holy shit - thank you. I knew there was stuff that happened at Oak Ridge but didn’t know any details.

Damn…

Bro, share a link if you can, PLEASE.

This sounds like Donald Ewen Cameron’s work, but somehow even more fucked up than what I’ve heard about re: him to date. I absolutely need to know more.