Omgpwnies
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- Comment on Yup 4 days ago:
There’s still combustion byproducts in vape, just less
- Comment on Yup 4 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 weeks 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.
- Comment on What's the best way to tell a kid that their dog died? 3 weeks ago:
I had to deal with two of my grandparents dying before the first dog I remembered died. She was hit by a car; my parents woke us up and sat us down in my sister’s room. They told us gently that she was hit by a car and was killed, that she wouldn’t have felt any pain.
We were, of course, upset about it. But, the simple, direct, and gentle delivery of the news I think gave less distress than the lies that other parents would tell.
- Comment on today's massive sunspot looks like a dancing gorilla cmv 3 weeks ago:
Harambe disco
- Comment on SNSD the GOAT🫶 4 weeks ago:
If you had that chance, are you saying you wouldn’t?
- Comment on "Sober" 4 weeks ago:
I can buy everything I need to make alcohol in the baking aisle at any supermarket. It won’t be very good, but it would be booze.
- Comment on Some things were better in the good old days 5 weeks ago:
I bought a french door fridge specifically because the design makes it so that my dog can’t get the door open. I figure the energy leaking from the door design is far less than the energy and food loss of the door being left open all day while I’m at work because my adorable idiot wanted a snack.
- Comment on po-tay-toes 1 month ago:
by saying it’s French name “pomme de terre”… basically dirt apple
- Comment on Despite recent advances, it's still possible to identify AI slop if you know what to look for. 1 month ago:
Poor thalidomide baby on the left getting roped into AI slop…
- Comment on Despite recent advances, it's still possible to identify AI slop if you know what to look for. 1 month ago:
one of us
one of us
gooble-gobble, gooble-gobble
one of us
- Comment on Reporting an absence 1 month ago:
they’re duplexes/townhouses, that’s two separate dwellings. the picture is taken from a similar building, it would be one of those windows in what you called a hallway. The bricks look fine. Where you see a smaller brick that looks out of place, it’s actually turned 90 degrees so the brick extends into the structural wall behind it and ties the facade to teh structure.
- Comment on 13,492% sudden interest increase in local Alabama news station 1 month ago:
so… cousin? second cousin?
- Comment on rules 1 month ago:
They’ve been observed to use fish and other stuff for … relief, so I guess the answer is “not necessarily”?
- Comment on Firearm Advice 2 months ago:
recoil also tends to pull high (if you’re not anticipating), so a groin shot if pulled would just end up centre mass instead, where a head shot would be a whiff
- Comment on Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong? 2 months ago:
If your love of gobbling cock also helps you enjoy the taste of healthy food, then I do not see the problem :D
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms 'Project Helix,' a Next-Gen Xbox That Can Run PC Games 2 months ago:
Always has been :) they’ve all used a modified windows kernel starting with NT on the OG and the latest are up to win11 now
- Comment on That's why I say hey man, nice shot 2 months ago:
I had read that his wife had some condition that needed health care, and if he were convicted and removed from office, she would lose that coverage. However, because he killed himself before that, she remained covered under the government plan being his widow.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Serious Ben Shapiro energy for sure
- Comment on Make sure you know what your kid is getting themselves into 2 months ago:
Trying to maximize is only part of it, the other really big thing with legalization and commercial growers is consistently predicable and measurable strength.
I usually prefer edibles, which were not really a thing the way they are now. I can go to a store or online and order a pack of edibles in a very wide range of concentrations, all lab tested and certified and each piece is incredibly consistent.
The same goes for flower; a grower can produce a crop and tell you exactly how strong it is, and I can take that information and use it for consistent dosing. There’s really no guesswork or wondering if the “super strong bud” is actually that, or not at all, or “I took one puff and I can now smell sound” strong. You are right though in the amount of the latter that is produced and just how strong it’s getting, but that does seem to be plateauing somewhat.
One good thing about high % weed though, is if you’re simply using it to get high and smoking it, it’s a lot less volume to have to smoke, which is overall way better for your throat and lungs.
- Comment on Australians banned social media. Now they are worried about teenagers going outside with e-bikes 2 months ago:
and 25km/h isn’t super fast on a bike either, at least not for someone in reasonably ok shape and a bike that’s somewhat configured for cycling on roads.
- Comment on The cops pay Anon a visit 2 months ago:
Use a live Linux ISO that can run entirely in memory, and run step 3 in an infinite loop. Take the USB with you and leave the PC running.
- Comment on How accurate is this? 3 months ago:
Likely not real ice cream, but the cheaper (and more common) ice milk - it has a lower fat content, so more water, and in certain conditions ice crystals do form into small chunks.
- Comment on Noooooo 3 months ago:
Most of the time, they didn’t even try. I’ve copy/pasted their exact question before and the answer was in one of the top 5 articles.
- Comment on Noooooo 3 months ago:
9 times out of 10 it’s a stupid question that they could have typed into Confluence to get the answer though. I gatekeep all of these requests with
“Sure, I’m fairly busy now, but lets schedule something for a little later today when I have some time. In the meantime, can you put your question in the chat here in case I need to look something up? Thanks”