Omgpwnies
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- Comment on Which is it Lemmy? 1 week ago:
Of all the days to be literate…
…
I’m glad this is one of them
- Comment on Why is gun violence lower in Switzerland than in the US? 2 weeks ago:
120.5/100 == 1.205, it’s the exact same number expressed differently. However, 1.205 implies that everyone has at least one firearm, which is not true. 120.5/100 implies that if you go to 100 random people and count all their guns together, you’ll end up around 120 guns on average.
- Comment on Philosophy has peaked. Checkmate atheists 2 weeks ago:
Weird from a cultural perspective where any sort of non-medical interference with a corpse is frowned upon, so we’re trained from a very young age to find any of that stuff icky/morbid. Other cultures may not have that same aversion.
Kinda in the same vein as we in North America have a very conservative opinion on being naked in public where other cultures couldn’t care less.
- Comment on Philosophy has peaked. Checkmate atheists 2 weeks ago:
So then if I consent to someone fucking my corpse after I’m gone, it becomes morally OK for them to do it.
- Comment on "it only takes one slow walking person in the grocery store to destroy the illusion that you're a nice person." 2 weeks ago:
Same people that come to a dead stop in an entryway.
- Comment on The store that sells them is not dumb enough to use them 3 weeks ago:
It takes me a fraction of the time to sweep/vacuum/mop the floor compared to my robot, but the difference is the robot takes a fraction of my time since I can start it and let it run with the odd bit of maintenance and sometimes rescuing it when it gets trapped or sucked up something it shouldn’t.
It’s not a panacea, I still have to ensure that the area is fully clean except for the sweeping and mopping portion. However, as long as I keep up on that part, I can let the robot run overnight and have clean floors in the morning.
- Comment on not getting it™ since 2024© 3 weeks ago:
“best friends who slept in the same bed probably because it was cheaper to have only one bed”
- Comment on Saving (2) 3 weeks ago:
That’s been the case for about as long as corporations have existed.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 weeks ago:
Trump is evil and stupid, someone worse would be evil and smart, and there’s plenty of those around.
- Comment on Before the revolution 4 weeks ago:
There are large areas of the US where simply taking a bus is impossible without also having to drive a long distance to the nearest station. There’s also the fact that it’s a pretty sizable country, so someone in SoCal or thereabouts is looking at a multi-day trip if they’re not flying, which then adds the cost of hotels, cabs to/from the hotel if the stop has no transit nearby, etc.
- Comment on It's always the ones you expect 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
When the studio stops hosting the game to download, the license key is worthless.
- Comment on What's a word for "I actively endorse it for others even though I dislike it”? 5 weeks ago:
That was one of my favourite non-serious subreddits.
- Comment on [politics] racist rammers 1 month ago:
Trucks in general, the ridiculous shit people have said to me because they see me getting in/out of my truck, and their face when I tell them off is something else.
- Comment on most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman 1 month ago:
Given the amount of hate a certain purple-coloured-username person gets around here, this statement is quite accurate.
- Comment on Engine auto-off 1 month ago:
yeah, I just anticipate when traffic will start moving and let off the brake enough that it starts but doesn’t roll a couple seconds before I think I’ll need to go
- Comment on Title 1 month ago:
Something about someone the size of a fridge being able to outrun most amateur athletes can be a little unsettling for sure.
- Comment on Title 1 month ago:
Not to mention many of them are easily as big as the sumo wrestlers.
- Comment on Just me and my cement truck 1 month ago:
Every bunker will be built by people who won’t be invited to live in it. The locations of all exits, vents, water supplies, etc. won’t stay secret for very long.
- Comment on that's some fucking aerodynamics bro 2 months ago:
That’s as far away from a gas station it can get before it has to turn anround and go back to fill up again
- Comment on How men are different than women 2 months ago:
Some ML is gonna whine that Yakko (rightfully) called Taiwan a country…
- Comment on My son job lowered their hiring wage instead of raising it. 2 months ago:
Unless the existing staff
break down and can’t do enough work to keep the place runninggo on strike, management don’t care. - Comment on Yup 2 months ago:
There’s still combustion byproducts in vape, just less
- Comment on Yup 2 months ago:
Smoking also produces a host of other chemicals, and like tobacco, plenty of harmful ones. It may not be a cannabinoid issue, rather a reaction with some combustion byproduct.
I’m not a doctor, so feel free to disregard any of that :)
- Comment on Its a circus and we're the clowns 2 months ago:
yep, all of my “career” jobs have been gotten through referral or direct recruitment from my network of former co-workers. All of my BS application/interview experiences have been for the sort of job that just needs a warm body in the seat.
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 2 months ago:
It’s more likely that a company will get a van or cube/box truck (think U-haul), that has all the equipment and stuff, and the rest of the workers just take their own transportation to the job site. Virtually any time I’ve seen a company-owned pickup that wasn’t kitted out for a task, it was for the boss.
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 2 months ago:
I like that GM brought back the Avalanche’s midgate for their electric Silverado, but I wish that was available on more trucks. Default configuration is a short-bed family hauler, but you drop the midgate and it becomes a 2-seater with an 8’ bed.
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 2 months ago:
A truck is only slightly more expensive to produce than a sedan when all costs are taken into account, but can be sold at a higher price.
The main difference between a truck and a sedan is a few hundred pounds of metal. Both have the same cost in labour to manufacture, as well as equivalent R&D cost. In some cases, trucks have lower R&D because they aren’t expected to change as much from year to year, so the engineering cost of re-designing parts/panels/etc. just isn’t there.
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 2 months ago:
Regulation (in a way) is exactly how we got into this situation. CAFE was meant to enforce emissions standards, but the way it was written meant that making a bigger vehicle resulted in a lower fuel economy requirement. The Chicken Tax essentially stopped foreign trucks from being able to compete in the US market, which meant that Ford/GM/Dodge got to create an oligopoly.
- Comment on What's the best way to tell a kid that their dog died? 3 months ago:
We have a somewhat different take on it - Santa is real. For kids, Santa is that person that brings you presents and treats and stuff like that. But the ting is, there is a person who does all that, so for that kid, you are Santa, even if they don’t know it.
When each of our kids would eventually ask ‘Is Santa real?’ we would tell them that Santa is real - it’s everyone doing something for someone else and only expecting their happiness in return. It’s the parent that stays up late and carefully lays out all the fancy presents and treats, then sits back to take in the joy from the kids in the morning.
Then we ask if they want to help be Santa; I’ve not gotten a ‘no’ to that question.