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- Comment on Park benches don't "open" until 10am 1 week ago:
Some people need to hit rock bottom to get the right motivation, others just need a chance to get back on top. We shouldn’t accommodate the former at the expense of the latter.
- Comment on Park benches don't "open" until 10am 1 week ago:
It’s a lot easier to get sober if you have housing and basic needs covered.
- Comment on Doorless showers just make a mess and everything ends up wet 2 weeks ago:
And I’m saying the code is there independently of doorless showers. The code was like that way before doorless showers were a thing.
In fact, if your shower has a door and the only drain is inside the shower, you are required to leave a gap under the door to allow water to flow into the shower.
- Comment on Doorless showers just make a mess and everything ends up wet 2 weeks ago:
It’s still code if your shower has a door. It’s not unusual to stick your washing machine in the bathroom, and even if you don’t, the toilet could always overflow.
North America is really the only place I know of where bathrooms are not required to be waterproofed throughout.
- Comment on Doorless showers just make a mess and everything ends up wet 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t checked the code in every country, but I do know it’s code in Norway, and you see a lot of the same building techniques in the rest of northern Europe.
Why do you think it is not code?
- Comment on Doorless showers just make a mess and everything ends up wet 2 weeks ago:
That’s still worse than just having a door. The squeegee helps, but it’s not perfect, and I hate stepping on wet/damp floor after drying my feet. I mostly see that style in hotels or bathrooms which are too tiny to fit a proper shower. Whenever not space constrained, I’m pretty sure they’re just there to save money.
Building code in most if not all of northern Europe require bathrooms to be a proper wet room, meaning waterproofing and a drain for all parts of the bathroom. This means either having two drains, or to allow water to flow from the rest of the bathroom to the shower. Guess which alternative is easier and cheaper to do?
- Comment on Yes, I use Debian stable. How'd you know? 2 weeks ago:
They exist with a round dial as well. Personally I don’t measure my tire pressure, ever. My car will tell me if one is low, and I’d go to a gas station to fill them to spec. Although lately I got a little compressor which goes in the cigarette lighter, which just lets you enter the desired pressure. I use that for the car, bikes, footballs and whatever else needs to be pumped to a given pressure.
- Comment on Brilliant‼️ 2 weeks ago:
Pretty sure you can sort by activity. Also, most stuff on here was on a different platform first.
- Comment on Well if that isn't just about the most evil thing you could openly admit to doing. 2 weeks ago:
Where “bad teacher” is “teacher who taught the kids critical thinking and science so they started asking uncomfortable questions”.
- Comment on You must have an internet connected smartphone to eat 3 weeks ago:
Probably bundled a whole chromium like every other app.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 4 weeks ago:
I understand them (and even if I didn’t I could work it out from context), but it absolutely wrecks my reading speed, since I basically have to sound it out in my head instead of just reading the word. I hate SMS-style phonetic abbreviations for the same reason.
- Comment on Men are generous 5 weeks ago:
I’m not a member of either populace, but as far as I can tell from online discourse the male tinder experience would depend heavily on how hot they look.
- Comment on modern classic 5 weeks ago:
Pretty much all untreated wood turns grey when exposed to prolonged sunlight?
That being said, I don’t like that look in flooring. On a weathered fence or log cabin it’s fine.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 5 weeks ago:
Which they will. It’s a very obvious thing to do. If any of them wanted, they could lower their prices independently of any such law, but they don’t, because they want their margins high.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 5 weeks ago:
If a bill requiring 10% discounts at self checkout comes into law, they will all think the same thing: Increase the prices so the price at self checkout is the same, and people have to pay extra for a cashier.
The only way to realistically encourage corporations to reduce their margins within the current system is by establishing an alternative which is cheaper, and thus acts as competition which pushes the price down. So basically what Mamdani is doing with city-owned grocery stores.
The same goes for housing. Provide decent but simple housing at low rates, and the slumlords will either need to lower their margins or compete on quality instead.
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 5 weeks ago:
Our car is white because that’s what they had in stock when we needed a car. I don’t give a shit what color my car is as long as it can fit and move my family and my stuff.
- Comment on IRJ 1 month ago:
I’m not discussing the post. I’m making a general observation while responding to a statement in the comments.
- Comment on IRJ 1 month ago:
Ridiculing it is fine. Going “How can you confuse Iran and Japan” or treating it as the definitive proof that his mind is cooked is weird.
- Comment on IRJ 1 month ago:
Someone talked to him about Japan right before, wires got crossed. Biden did the same thing with some head of state, and people overreacted to that, too. Of all the dumb shit he says, this is a weird thing to make a big deal of.
- Comment on Same day shipping 1 month ago:
Yeah, and most of the time when you trip on a curb, you don’t die. Doesn’t mean we can’t talk about the fringe cases.
- Comment on Same day shipping 1 month ago:
Meanwhile, other people jump out of a plane with a broken parachute, land in a haystack and escape with a broken leg and some bruises. It’s wild how the human body can be so resilient and fragile at the same time.
- Comment on You can't argue with his logic 1 month ago:
You’re right, I was thinking of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
- Comment on You can't argue with his logic 1 month ago:
In my experience, each flavor of Christianity handles this a little differently. IIRC the reason the Mormons are extra aggressive about hounding your door is because they consider it an obligation to spread the good word, while there are other groups who just stay out of your business entirely.
WRT the quote, there’s very little talk of heaven and hell at all in Lutheran churches in my experience, just as an example. Although I have only been exposed to the Norwegian state church, which is pretty laid back about most things, so your mileage may vary with other Lutheran churches.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Complaints about the AI art aside., I really don’t understand the joke here. Do I just not know enough about stamp collecting and all the stuff this comic equates to it, or is the joke written by AI, too?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It’s an ad for prostitution. Brand new user, only ever posted this.
- Comment on Just wash your hands or something after, Junior. 2 months ago:
Literally every chore I give my kids would have been faster and easier to do myself. Saving time or effort is not the point of the exercise.
- Comment on East Asia 2 months ago:
You can visit North Korea. They assign a guy to you to make sure you only see the approved stuff.
- Comment on East Asia 2 months ago:
I’ve never been to Mongolia and have no connection to it whatsoever, but Yuve Yuve Yu somehow fills me with national pride on their behalf anyway.
- Comment on Very normal and safe 3 months ago:
I don’t know, I’m not that deep in Excel lore. But sometimes things change.
- Comment on Very normal and safe 3 months ago:
You can certainly use AI to generate the function and paste it in, but that is not what
=COPILOT()is for. You could just have any other LLM do that.