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- Comment on Car crashes have killed and seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year. Only one of these things is treated as a safety crisis in the media 2 weeks ago:
Why does the absolute number matter? Why does the rate matter?
The claim is that cars and guns are equally deadly in Chicago, with the observation that gun deaths are reported more.
If this is 3 people or 30 thousand people, the critique is the same.
If this is 1 in 10 million people or 1 in 10 people, the critique is the same.
- Comment on US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives 2 weeks ago:
While I’m sure that some are just cosplaying as Christians, i have no doubt that there are true believers there. I mean, RFK doesn’t believe in germ fucking theory, so we know that being crazy is no hindrance from getting power. Is it really so hard to believe that Americans elected Congressmen who believe the earth is 6000 years old?
- Comment on Corporations are saving the planet! 3 weeks ago:
In the Netherlands plastic waste is mostly burned, I believe.
- Comment on Corporations are saving the planet! 3 weeks ago:
I remember when cans used to have tabs that tore off. These were changed to the current model, where the tab stays attached after the can is opened.
People complained that they couldn’t drink properly with the new tab design. I guess they either figured it out, died, started using a glass, or gave up drinks in cans completely, since I haven’t heard this complaint in decades.
Anyway, I hope you figure it out, comrade! Good luck!
- Comment on Just one more 4 weeks ago:
Could be here?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I stopped shopping at Best Buy in the 1990s when one store asked me to leave. I was writing down some prices so I could do some comparison shopping.
- Comment on Anon likes trains 4 weeks ago:
It depends on what you mean by “shorter distances”.
Going from Amsterdam to Paris by train is about the same time as going by plane, and actually a bit faster if you show up to the flight two hours early as recommend.
- Comment on Anon likes trains 4 weeks ago:
Not always. Flying from Amsterdam to London is cheaper and faster than taking the train. The train is usually sold out because people still prefer it, but…
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 1 month ago:
Sort of. They can be, but are not always.
- Comment on Anon considers LASIK 1 month ago:
My kids both use night lenses. It’s awesome.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 month ago:
I’d take that power.
- Comment on How I discovered my partner was an undercover police officer sent to spy on me 1 month ago:
“It is important to note that since Mark Kennedy’s deployment there has been enormous change in undercover policing, both in the Met and nationally, and I want to be clear that this case in no way reflects modern-day undercover policing.”
Press X to doubt.
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: "Working from home makes us happier." 2 months ago:
When IBM senior management was asked by a staff member for data supporting their RTO policy one of the managers literally said, “I’ve managed teams before. I don’t need data.”
- Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy 2 months ago:
The 1980s were before the DMCA. In those days if you bought an expensive piece of electronics both seller and buyer expected that you owned it.
- Comment on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail 2 months ago:
The article is not very clear, but my interpretation is that this is about the e-mails sent from Proton Mail, not users being able to access the Proton Mail web site.
A VPN won’t help you if the server for the recipient of the e-mail drops the e-mail.
So, basically imagine that all Internet service providers in India have to block any e-mail from @proton.me and not deliver them. I think that’s the idea.
- Comment on It really is just reddit <3 2 months ago:
Charge your phone! 😉
- Comment on Although i love it 2 months ago:
Fun fact:
Broccoli and cauliflower (and more), “are all actually varieties of the same species, Brassica oleracea: cauliflower, cabbage, kohlrabi, Brussels sprouts, Chinese broccoli, and collard greens.”
- Comment on Has a patent office ever refused to grant a patent to something on the grounds it was too obscene? 3 months ago:
It’s also possible that the military had been using such a device for decades and it was actually prior art that invalidated the patent, but this was lost in the retelling. 🤔
- Comment on You are not living in reality if you do not see the huge difference between THEN and NOW 3 months ago:
Forgotten as usual. 😉
- Comment on Luxury bones? In *this* economy. 3 months ago:
Debt is not a force of nature. Money is owed to someone.
- Comment on New side hustle just dropped 5 months ago:
Fixed that for you:
Capitalization Breeds Innovation
- Comment on What's the deal with Signal? 5 months ago:
This feels so weird to me. I don’t know anyone who has used SMS for communication in many years.
- Comment on Putting the die in diet 5 months ago:
I don’t think that you’ll get scurvy in the 3 days of this diet. 😆🍋
- Comment on [Elon Musk] January hasn't even ended and we already have the Photo of the Year. 5 months ago:
I can understand the confusion. Dutch does combine words, but not normally with the enthusiasm of German. So seeing verkeizingbijeenkomst in the caption might have confused you. 😉
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
For real. US history is replete with supporting dictators, military coups, and so on.
- Comment on It shows you love them 6 months ago:
In the Virginia mail-in voting instructions it is very clear that you are not to show anyone who you voted for. I guess I’m not surprised if other states do not have that, since voting rules are so haphazard in the USA.
It may be illegal to show your vote, exactly to prevent people in an unequal power relationship from pressuring you to vote in a specific way.
- Comment on It shows you love them 6 months ago:
I know that you mean well, but you seeing your mother’s vote is exactly why mail in voting should be the exception. Voting booths exist so that votes ate secret, which is how it should be.
My mom hates Trump since she thinks he’s crude, but I’m 99% sure that my dad voted for them both by mail in votes.
- Comment on Mildly McInfuriating 6 months ago:
Yeah but some prices double and the 2024 bar is less than 2× as high, other prices that are also double have 2024 bars more than 2× as high. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on If God is all powerful and created human. How come God in endowed with human emotions? Shouldn't he or she be beyond that? 6 months ago:
God literally says that he is a jealous god in The Bible. Hardly beyond emotion!
- Comment on There are some downsides to marriage 6 months ago:
As you did when you made the decision decades ago.