Dasus
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- Comment on Add it to the pile of reasons to hate 'em 5 days ago:
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 5 days ago:
Don’t spiders actually sort of rather drink their prey than eating it? We digest food inside us, spiders just vomit up shit onto paralysed prey that liquifies it so the spider can just sort of slurp it up.
So I wonder how he’ll do with a turtle. It’s easy enough to imagine on a fish, but…
- Comment on Bestbuy decided to use fucking **DOORDASH** to deliver my order, I couldn't cancel it. Today I was supposed to get it, and I saw the driver stealing the package after marking it as delivered. 5 days ago:
Compared to other systems, seems like it’s pretty high.
Universal basic income would discourage crimes like that.
If I had to get a car in SF, I think I’d go for a small hatchback so you can see into the trunk, if it’s that bad.
- Comment on Bestbuy decided to use fucking **DOORDASH** to deliver my order, I couldn't cancel it. Today I was supposed to get it, and I saw the driver stealing the package after marking it as delivered. 5 days ago:
The lockers usually have surveillance around them.
So you’d go there, open up an empty box and it would be incredibly easy to show who stole it. Plus even if there wasn’t surveillance, you could film yourself opening the slot, which would then show an empty slot.
So yeah, it does make a difference. The package is never left unattended, it’s never “up for grabs” by anyone.
That being said thieving and whatnot is comparatively rare in Finland anyway. We’re #1 in the wallet drop test. edition.cnn.com/travel/…/least-honest-cities
- Comment on Bestbuy decided to use fucking **DOORDASH** to deliver my order, I couldn't cancel it. Today I was supposed to get it, and I saw the driver stealing the package after marking it as delivered. 5 days ago:
super rare occasion
The problem is so ubiquitous , they’re commonly known as “porch pirates”.
“~Two million packages go missing every day, 90 000 in New York alone”
And the video is five years old.
- Comment on Bestbuy decided to use fucking **DOORDASH** to deliver my order, I couldn't cancel it. Today I was supposed to get it, and I saw the driver stealing the package after marking it as delivered. 5 days ago:
other American was right, they’re really not as common a
He most certainly wasn’t.
He was practically denying that it ever happened, when it’s common as pickpocketing. Meaning more common in some places, less so in others, but definitely a known and existing issue.
- Comment on Bestbuy decided to use fucking **DOORDASH** to deliver my order, I couldn't cancel it. Today I was supposed to get it, and I saw the driver stealing the package after marking it as delivered. 5 days ago:
Oh yeah, they’re exceedingly common here.
Usually placed inside commercial buildings like stores etc, there are a few just outside as well. They’re quite thin metal so I assume in some places in the US someone would just take a crowbar to a whole station, but if it’s inside a building that’s gonna be much harder.
- Comment on Bestbuy decided to use fucking **DOORDASH** to deliver my order, I couldn't cancel it. Today I was supposed to get it, and I saw the driver stealing the package after marking it as delivered. 5 days ago:
Here you’ll need to have an ID or at least a driving licence (which isn’t technically an official ID, but is accepted as such in most places outside banks and whatnot) to go and pick up your shit.
Well, not anymore, as lots of them go to the automats and then you just require the PIN.
And depending on what sort of package you’re getting in the mail, you can sometimes give your package id to a friend who can pick it up, but they’ll need an ID of their own as well so it’ll get registered who picked up the parcel.
The US is a lot vaster but one still imagines people wouldn’t mind picking up packages from the nearest grocery store they use, if it meant that their shit can’t be stolen?
- Comment on Bestbuy decided to use fucking **DOORDASH** to deliver my order, I couldn't cancel it. Today I was supposed to get it, and I saw the driver stealing the package after marking it as delivered. 5 days ago:
I mean I only need it to be there.
I genuinely don’t even know which part of a pizza you wouldn’t trust. Is it like the restaurant or the driver or your neighbours? What are they gonna do aside from swiping your pizza?
- Comment on Bestbuy decided to use fucking **DOORDASH** to deliver my order, I couldn't cancel it. Today I was supposed to get it, and I saw the driver stealing the package after marking it as delivered. 5 days ago:
I remember like 6 years ago chatting on Reddit to some American about how the system of just leaving packages at the door is unsafe as fuck and I would never trust it with anything more expensive than a pizza.
Here there’s delivery points and automats in pretty much every grocery store. So you can have shit delivered, but unless it’s something massive (or delivered food), people rarely do. You just get a notification on your phone and pick up your package from the point you chose to prioritise. Sometimes it can be full and you have to pickup a package from the next point over, but they’re all over the place so.
The American went on a huge rant about how porch pirates are rare as can be and how it would be beyond frustrating and a waste of time to pick up packages from your nearest grocery store.
- Comment on How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time? 6 days ago:
Really?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterskin
Also, there was an ice age. Not everyone lives in scorching climates. Theres fresh water around me 247/365. As waterskins are somewhat recent probably, in terms of evolutionary history.
- Comment on British woman laments Brexit rules that would stop her Italian husband moving to UK 1 week ago:
It’s essentially a punishment for daring to fall in love with someone who isn’t British/Irish
OR rich.
Which makes it worse.
“We’re racist, but if you’re rich, we’ll overlook it”
- Comment on British passenger in seat 11A survives India plane crash, reports say 1 week ago:
Yeah that sort of luck is hard to believe, but so is winning the lottery. But it usually happens to someone.
Honestly, for him, I hope he was drunk. Otherwise, or even if he was, he’ll have fucking hard trauma forever. But studies show that you’re more likely to survive accidents and get less mental trauma if you’re drunk. (Although being drunk is often the cause for accidents, so discounting that…)
Anyway, incredible luck in such misfortune
- Comment on British passenger in seat 11A survives India plane crash, reports say 1 week ago:
Leaving a comment here for someone to reply to with more information
- Comment on What was life like for the "average" person living in Nazi Germany 2 weeks ago:
I’ve often thought about it.
Generally probably you just slowly learn what not to say or do to not get in trouble and keep your head down and hope you get through it.
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOsQDFuB3bqczBIz-a66Nv…
Colditz is a nice show. The Kommandant isn’t a Nazi, but a member of the Reichswehr, and often finds himself in the difficult position of doing the right thing or following orders.
It’s a bit more nuanced than when Finn in the new Star Wars shows changes sides from the empire to the rebels and two seconds later is blasting his former mates accompanied by loud “yee-haas”.
- Comment on Microbiota 2 weeks ago:
Took me a while to realise it’s because Trump administration is aggressively scrubbing anything to do with “diversity”
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- Comment on think the predator is badass 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on think the predator is badass 2 weeks ago:
It used to be “the thing” in early 2000’s or around there.
Sudden flashback to Pepsi X as well.
They’re definitely not there just he taught the simpler form was taken. Simplicity and minimal design is not what was in vogue in the noughties.
These young’uns don’t get it, amirite
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- Comment on Leaves have evolved at least twice 🤔 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Leaves have evolved at least twice 🤔 2 weeks ago:
“Son, if you’re interested in biology, you’ll have to learn to understand that the definitions of terms are rather… loose.”
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on I'm sure it's just a coincidence that everything that can be wielded against them either just isn't implemented (good mod tooling) or doesn't work properly (user/instance blocking) 3 weeks ago:
Don’t forget davel@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 3 weeks ago:
Depends on the species, to be fair.
Love me a nice bit from a fresh deer corpse.
- Comment on why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't? 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t provided medical advice.
I’m saying that pain that is neuropathic is often treated with Gabapentin, which in the long run, is healthier and safer than self-medicating.
Thus if OP looks up what neuropathic pain is and gets concerned, they should call a doctor and tell all this. Which is when the actual medical advice will come.
You can give people information about medicine without giving them medical advice.
- Comment on why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't? 3 weeks ago:
Uhm, I don’t think I did.
You shouldn’t take strong prescription drugs willy-nilly.
- Comment on Becoming a veterinarian is hard 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I guess it would be challenging to say the least to find a prostate on a seagull.
- Comment on Captcha 3 weeks ago:
That’s not a footpath, it’s a clearing or a small road even. You can’t see the footpaths in winter, they’re about a foot wide if that.
30 meters “at best”? Nah bruv. Maybe in the summer for that specific place, but as there’s a ton of birch there and such an open place, it’s probably a photo from the edge of a clearing on the side of a field or something. You don’t get birch in most of the forests, it’s just pine, and pine doesn’t really have branches on the low part of trees. So in a pine forest, you’d see way further.
tips and tricks for surviving the coming collapse
Teaching Finns how to fight in wintery forests? We’ve a saying for that; “älä yritä opettaa isääs nussimaa”.
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, they ban the sale of items which shouldn’t be eaten, so there’s none for the consumer to choose, even if they wanted to. I mean obviously I’m referring to somewhat edible things, and not saying that everything that isn’t edible is banned.
Depends on where you live, but yeah, I imagine drinking dangerous chemicals isn’t necessarily illegal in itself. However I know there is a law in Finland saying you can’t sell like methanol from gas stations to ppl “if you suspect it’s going to be consumed”, because some drunks mightve done that in the past.
Not really a problem, but just remember such a law existing.
