StupidBrotherInLaw
@StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world
- Comment on The myth of "consensual" choking 2 days ago:
BDSM can skirt some safety lines. It’s generally easy or at least quite obvious how to be safe if you know what you’re doing, so ignorance or extreme behavior are usually what get people in trouble.
The more minor incidents do make for great stories if you know anyone who works in A&E. “I tripped and fell on a courgette.” Sure you did, love.
- Comment on The myth of "consensual" choking 2 days ago:
I think it depends on how close to full choking you get. Gentle to moderate, broadly dispersed “chokingesque” pressure is fine as it doesn’t significantly interrupt blood flow. Using enough force or concentrating force to occlude the carotid arteries is asking for trouble.
Not only is there the risk of ischemic brain damage, the carotid sinus, located where pressure is often placed, is prone to arterial plaque formation due to increased turbulence. Disrupting those plaques can break them loose, causing a stroke. That’s how a mate of mine lost much of the use of his right arm, though I suspect he wasn’t getting choked out. Never asked though.
- Comment on 'None of these people have ever made a game,' BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk says of game industry executives: 'They just don't know how it works' 2 days ago:
Hard agree. MBA programs can teach legitimately helpful skills, but I think those with MBAs should have primarily advisory roles as businesses should be run collectively by their employees.
- Comment on Hello my urine angels. 😇 3 days ago:
It cut my toilet roll expenses in half!
- Comment on life hacks 4 days ago:
I do this because I can’t be trusted not to eat all the ice cream in front of me. My wife locks the other half in the freezer.
- Comment on Hello my urine angels. 😇 4 days ago:
Fulling, urine collection, the Roman urine tax, Titus Flavius Vespasianus, and the Flavian dynasty. That link sent me on quite the trip down the Wikihole.
- Comment on Hello my urine angels. 😇 4 days ago:
If you’re a bird it’s really both.
- Comment on Let's keep it simple 5 days ago:
My brain really wanted this to be a limerick.
- Comment on First of all, rude 1 week ago:
Or are you high maintenance and in such profound denial that you’re adamant you’re truly low maintenance?
- Comment on 'If you can’t show your game to the world without fearing it’ll be cloned, something’s broken' says Moonlighter studio on its canceled demo 1 week ago:
If something built an Automatic Lock Picker 3000…
Just an interesting tidbit: something similar to this already exists. It won’t pick any lock, but it makes picking the majority of locks dead simple.
- Comment on Drink up 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely, you just need to account for missing fat if the recipe calls for a significant quantity. I just toss in some extra vegetable oil to compensate.
- Comment on Drink up 2 weeks ago:
Iced roach cream made into a roach milkshake using even more roach milk, topped with whipped roach cream.
- Comment on "How long is this supposed to TAKE!" ~King Julian 3 weeks ago:
That’ll start to turn around in a few months once manufacturers lose that easy AI money.
- Comment on Recession indicator, what do you call this dish? 4 weeks ago:
The catch for brown rice is it’s one of the few whole grains that turn rancid fairly quickly. Don’t buy 50 pounds unless you can subdivide it into vacuum sealed bags with oxygen absorbers, lest you end up with 48 pounds of rancid rice.
- Comment on Is gud 4 weeks ago:
If you ate 50 of those kind of olives, you’ll definitely want an STI check, maybe a lawyer too.
- Comment on Is gud 4 weeks ago:
Best of luck. Hope you have one of these.
- Comment on Anon reflects on a mistake 5 weeks ago:
“Oi! Bruv! Sis needs help, she got stuck cleaning the oven!”
🤮
- Comment on Did I discover a fake conspiracy theory? 5 weeks ago:
Mate, this place is full of Americans.
- Comment on If French people are strict about eating on a set schedule, then when do waiters and cooks eat? 5 weeks ago:
This post is so American that it gave me heart disease.
- Comment on Bound to Isaac 5 weeks ago:
I’ve known women who go by Alex. Maybe it’s a… clitcumber? Cucumberis?
- Comment on People Noticed Democrats Enjoying Violence. New York Times Says It’s Just ‘Free Speech’ 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on That’s just unrealistic… too few poop breaks. 1 month ago:
Working in the US, I was salaried and they absolutely fucked employees from both ends on the deal. We weren’t paid hourly yet were expected to work a minimum number of hours, then were expected to work more hours without compensation as needed, and it was needed often. Every salaried employee I have met without interest in securing a promotion put in the absolute minimum amount of time and effort possible.
- Comment on That’s just unrealistic… too few poop breaks. 1 month ago:
I worked as a consultant for years and yeah, exactly this, and more! One thing knowledge-based consultants do is reuse old work but bill clients for a flat rate instead of hourly. It’s less than paying for new work, but usually much more than the hourly cost if they were billed for just the time required to update the material.
I recycled old work constantly. For a well-paying, reasonable client, I’d often only bill for the time required to update the work and comp the rest. Last minute, minor updates were free within reason. Penny pinching, uncooperative clients got paid full price and I’d bill the rush rate to the minute for last minute updates. On average, great clients paid less than the ones trying to strangle a deal out of me.
- Comment on Dominos using AI for ads. 2 months ago:
If you’re ever in Bologna, Piedra del Sol has legitimate Mexican food. Finding a place with freshly made tortillas and proper margaritas was a pleasant surprise.
- Comment on Brilliant‼️ 2 months ago:
I unfortunately drove Uber for a bit back in the late 2010s until I got tired of being sexually harassed. Drivers do get paid the cleaning fee, but the rideshare services were becoming increasingly stringent about paying it. The issue was threefold.
People would soil vehicles then dispute the cleaning charges with their credit card, so Uber would be out whatever was paid to the driver. Last I knew, this was a maximum of $225, but capped at $80 if the driver did the cleaning. Good luck finding a professional cleaner that charges less than $225 for cleaning seats smeared with vomit or feces.
Next, drivers would fake vomit or feces and file a report, causing their prior passengers to be charged a cleaning fee.
Ultimately, the ride share services tightened up their methods for both charging and refunding these fees to the detriment of both drivers and riders because they’re soulless, capitalist pig fuckers that only care about profit.
- Comment on This homeless character, who doesn't go to the gym and survives on junk food, somehow weights 300lbs of pure muscle 2 months ago:
Maybe he has that mutation like some whippets.
- Comment on Buying new electrical outlet, and the grounding are just a decoration 2 months ago:
No, they’re suggesting that selling a three pronged extension with disconnected ground is illegal. It is illegal and with good reason. A grounded device with a faulty ground can kill someone.
- Comment on Tbh I get it 2 months ago:
Guv, then do I have something for you.
- Comment on No one spells "lose" anymore 2 months ago:
I miss when the Internet was full of grammar Nazis instead of actual Nazis.
FTFY. I hope that helps.
/s
- Comment on Play games with your neighbor to sink even lower! Canada rules! 2 months ago:
Plus their little pal Israel. I saw a meme making a case for the biblical ark being built in North America. Perhaps we could convince Bibi and his cronies Israel should actually be in the American Midwest. We’ll see how many Yanks support Zionism when so-called ‘settlers’ are killing their neighbors and taking their homes.
