RegalPotoo
@RegalPotoo@lemmy.world
- Comment on How come hotel check-in time is always 3-4? 1 day ago:
Sorry, typo - early check in/late check out
- Comment on How come hotel check-in time is always 3-4? 1 day ago:
Booked a hotel yesterday that offered early check in and early checkout options for an additional charge
- Comment on Why Are Rap*** & Ped** Protected In Jail? 3 days ago:
Idk, why don’t we just throw murderers out into the street and let them get lynched by an angry mob?
Cos justice means that people who have done horrible things get treated better by society than they treated their victims. Because the goal of justice is rehabilitation not retribution.
- Comment on Anon makes money 5 days ago:
The bike thief is probably less likely to go to the police? Idk
- Comment on Anon doesn't like any web browsers 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been using it regularly since (I think) one of the 0.9 Betas that came on the CD bundled with a magazine I got from my local library.
Literally never had to deal with issues OP is dealing with
- Comment on Can I Put it in my Ass? 3 weeks ago:
Heavy metal poisoning will kill you slowly, as opposed to the rather more immediate sensation of catching fire while getting severe frostbite
- Comment on Can I Put it in my Ass? 3 weeks ago:
Natural (unenriched) uranium isn’t especially radioactive and while there is plenty of exciting chemistry that could happen, none of it would be quite as immediately exciting as what would happen if you tried to freeze oxygen solid enough to make a dildo
- Comment on Can I Put it in my Ass? 3 weeks ago:
The biggest step forward since the invention of teledildonics
- Comment on "Batch cooking" how do you store meal for the second half of the week ? 3 weeks ago:
Like don’t leave it out at room temperature for hours - bacteria die above 60C and go dormant below 4C, so you need to minimise the amount of time the food spends in the “danger zone”
- Comment on Let π = 5 3 weeks ago:
Idk, if you want to test people on how they understand formulae and order of operations without letting them just punch it into a calculator. The actual math isn’t hard, but if you don’t get substituting values into an equation then it’s not trivial
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
If you keep following this logic, this ends up in a pretty shitty ableist place.
If the person does survive they are going to have a pretty serious disability for the rest of their life - that would suck, but saying that we should let them die cos they’d be better off dead than disabled really devalues people who live with disabilities that they ended up with through bad luck.
- Comment on Showing appreciation for hard work. 4 weeks ago:
Anyone have an actual citation on this particular fact?
- Comment on Is there a standard/preferred list order for non-alphanumeric characters? 4 weeks ago:
This is the technically correct answer, and like lots of things is waaaaay more complicated than you’d expect.
- Comment on Anon factory resets 4 weeks ago:
Take it out/blow on it/put it back in
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 4 weeks ago:
As a software dev who has lost weeks of his life dealing with timezones, leap days, daylight savings time, date math and other associated nonsense I fully support this being the way the world is. I don’t want to go through the transition to get there though
- Comment on snek id 4 weeks ago:
Tiktok has some super arbitrary automatic filters that look at description + ORC text in the video and will black hole anything that matches certain words.
Like anything, there ends up being folklore about what words trigger the filtering (cos there is no public list) so people end up censoring stuff that might actually be fine, but it’s hard to know for sure
- Comment on Uncle brian... I get you now 4 weeks ago:
My wife’s aunt is in the process of doing this at the moment. Seems to be systematically working her way through each branch of the family tree causing drama, slinging insults, trying to pit people against each other, and just generally being awful until people get fed up with her nonsense and disengage - at which point she’ll find some other branch to go all “woe is me/people are so mean/everyone is against me”, then rinse and repeat.
Depression, alcoholism and narcissism are pretty powerful, and anyone trying to help gets themselves a first class ticket on the drama llama express
- Comment on magic beneath the forests 4 weeks ago:
Pando is the heaviest iirc
- Comment on Please hold 5 weeks ago:
Bonus: you have bacon to bribe the facilities/IT person with when they come round looking for blood after the breaker pops for the 5th time today
- Comment on This is what peak performance looks like 5 weeks ago:
I know a guy with what sounds like a similar condition - in his case most of the colour receptive cells in his retinas are fucked, it’s a genetic thing that ment they didn’t form correctly in the first place. Not really anything you can do surgically, it’s not like cataracts or stigmatism where the retina is ok but the light isn’t reaching it correctly.
He wears highly tinted sunglasses cos it turns out that those colour cells are also really heavily involved in adjusting your iris to ensure you get the right amount of light, so his eyes adjust to changes in brightness much slower than normal which can be physically painful if he (eg) turns on the lights in a dark room
- Comment on How does South Park get away with trashing identifiable people? Are they sued often? 5 weeks ago:
As others have pointed out, US first amendment laws generally protect shows like South Park because it’s generally understood that the characters in the show that resemble real people are parodies, and the show runners aren’t stating a fact that the real person said or did a thing in reality.
Funnily enough, the UK has much stricter laws about defaming people - the country has a strict class system, and it wouldn’t do if poor people could embarrass rich people - there is a significant carve out for “vulgar abuse”. If I was to go on TV and (for sake of example) called Boris Johnson three shit-stained jugs of fetted piss wearing a trench coat, that would be ok, because people understand that to be a euphemistic insult, not a literal statement of fact. If I went on TV and said that he was a drunk, that wouldn’t be - unless I can prove that he is an alcoholic, he could sue me for libel. The outcome of this is that an equivalent show to South Park could be made in the UK, it would just have to be utterly filthy
- Comment on Life? What do you mean? This ain't life, it's surviving 5 weeks ago:
youtu.be/MBRqu0YOH14?si=TaIXS6ZYiRF1EE4J genuinely changed my outlook on life a bit
- Comment on United Scams of Assholes 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, key money is explicitly illegal in NZ - the only money you are allowed to collect is a bond of no more than 4 weeks rent (which has to be lodged) and the first weeks rent in advance.
The most common form of shady dealing is that the law requires that tenants leave the house in a “reasonably clean and tidy state” - landlords and the tenancy tribunal don’t typically agree on what “clean and tidy” means, so “oh, when we did the hand over inspection we found some places you didn’t clean absolutely spotless so we had to hire a cleaner and want to take that out of your bond” - if you question or challenge it they typically withdraw the claim because you were such a good tenant and just this once and not at all cos they are bluffing and know the tribunal would immediately tell them to get bent, but that requires you to a) know your rights and b) be willing to call them on it, and people are typically neither of those things.
Landlords will typically also add something to the rental agreement or whatever requiring you to have the carpets professionally cleaned before you leave - the tribunal has repeatedly held that this is unreasonable to require and as long as the carpets are clean then the landlord doesn’t get to dictate how they were cleaned. Doesn’t stop letting agents asking to see a receipt.
- Comment on RIP in pieces 5 weeks ago:
Don’t forget that he also didn’t found Tesla
- Comment on United Scams of Assholes 5 weeks ago:
This is literally how it works in other parts of the world - do you guys just have to trust that your landlord isn’t going to decide that they’d rather just keep your money at the end of the lease?
In NZ, the landlord is required to lodge the bond with a government agency, and in cases where there is a dispute a special court will adjudicate and issue binding orders as to how the money is to be divided.
- Comment on Next on the hydraulic press channel! 5 weeks ago:
Where I live, for that kind of incident the employer would be obligated (as in, $50k worth of fines and likely criminal charges if you don’t) to report it to an independent investigator to determine who was at fault; the person cut the lock would be liable for a fine, and the employer would have to prove that they adequately trained the employee before allowing them to work in a high risk area, or the health and safety officer and company directors could be found criminally liable
- Comment on Next on the hydraulic press channel! 5 weeks ago:
Is there a charge for “attempted negligent homicide” or something? You did something so catastrophically stupid that was all but guaranteed to kill someone except you got lucky, but you still should end up getting censured so you don’t roll the dice on someone’s life again
- Comment on If hot air rises, why is it colder at the top of a mountain? 5 weeks ago:
Fun fact: the temperature of space is actually thousands of degrees, but you would still freeze to death without protection.
(The actual answer is that atmospheric pressure is just as important as temperature in determining how “cold” something is)
- Comment on This grocery store charges a hefty handling fee and asks for a tip when using online ordering. 1 month ago:
Por qué no los dos?
- Comment on car insurance 1 month ago:
Learning to drive as part of high school is a super American thing that is really indicative of your attitudes towards driving and car ownership