knight_alva
@knight_alva@lemmy.world
- Comment on I feel like it was on purpose 1 day ago:
Can’t be sad about being poor if you just stop wanting things.
- Comment on choice 2 weeks ago:
Help me step bro I’m stuck in the washing machine!
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 2 weeks ago:
Not great. Thanks for asking.
- Comment on King forgot his crown 2 weeks ago:
It is materially different because a person with dementia can’t legally advocate for themselves so it is easier for an action against them to be considered a crime.
- Comment on King forgot his crown 2 weeks ago:
I’m down to 28 now. Apparently some of them saw this thread …
- Comment on King forgot his crown 2 weeks ago:
Fraud in the sense that the guy is lying and profiting from it, sure. But the common / google definition of a word and the legal definition/ application of that word are two completely different things.
- Comment on King forgot his crown 2 weeks ago:
I mean the article itself is apparently satire so yeah.
- Comment on King forgot his crown 2 weeks ago:
I’m no legal scholar by any means but I think in America this would be a civil suit not a criminal case unless the amount of money involved was tremendous.
I won’t even try to guess how it would shake out in Japan.
- Comment on King forgot his crown 2 weeks ago:
Your grandma having dementia changes the formula a bit.
- Comment on King forgot his crown 2 weeks ago:
As I said in another reply, my thinking is thus:
It’s a poor definition because gift exchanges are strictly voluntary and non-reciprocal engagements. I’m not saying what he did was ok or even legal in other contexts. My only point is that I wouldn’t consider this fraud because the victims were not compelled to give. This isn’t a Nigerian prince scam where the victims were promised greater returns at a later date. These victims gave with the expectation of monetary loss.
- Comment on King forgot his crown 2 weeks ago:
It’s a poor definition because gift exchanges are strictly voluntary and non-reciprocal engagements. I’m not saying what he did was ok or even legal in other contexts. My only point is that I wouldn’t consider this fraud because the victims were not compelled to give. This isn’t a Nigerian prince scam where the victims were promised greater returns at a later date. These victims gave with the expectation of monetary loss.
- Comment on Perspective 2 weeks ago:
Old carpet will show wear as people kick / drag against the backs of the steps. This is especially true for cheaper construction where the steps don’t have the typical overhang.
- Comment on Perspective 2 weeks ago:
At the top-left corner of the image we see a support bracket for the hand rail. The orientation of this bracket only seems to make sense if we are at the bottom of the stairs looking up at the mattress. The shadow cast by the mattress also looks like the light is above and slightly closer to the camera.
If we were at the top looking down, that would imply that the hand rail brackets were sideways instead of being vertical, and that the light was mounted on the wall instead of the ceiling. I have seen stranger things in construction but it would still be strange and unlikely.
- Comment on King forgot his crown 2 weeks ago:
Hoping that isn’t real because that’s kind of an f-ed up definition for fraud. Also, what a legend.
- Comment on Anon likes a thing 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s a right place / right time sort of thing. I have never gone back and rewatched an old favorite without regretting it. Things that meant a lot to me at the time just hit different from a different head space, and revisiting that old space just makes the flaws more noticeable.
- Comment on It was inevitable 2 weeks ago:
The brand name is far from the point here but why bother when “grumble grumble America bad” is an option.
- Comment on Fitness 3 weeks ago:
Nope! Just a single hole they do all of their business through called a cloaca. Birds are like this too (because birds are reptiles)
- Comment on I'm very Jesus-like 3 weeks ago:
Memes about the suffering of the innocent don’t actually help either. If your feeds were just a firehose of misery you are ultimately powerless to change, all that would do is hurt you.
I’m not saying we should be ignoring the wrongs of the world. All I’m saying is that there is a time and a place for moths.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
If you were talking about someone else, you would probably say something along the lines of “everyone deserves to be loved” so when you start being down on yourself, just remember that though means one of two things:
Either you really are somehow the worst human being who ever lived and somehow the first who truly doesn’t deserve to be loved, or your brain is just being mean right now.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 1 month ago:
So you are fiscally irresponsible and you are proud of it? Good to know…
- Comment on I can't hear them 1 month ago:
My god! He’s done it!
- Comment on WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee 1 month ago:
I respect your opinion. I don’t feel the same.
- Comment on WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee 1 month ago:
Valid. I just lack general faith in the practice of voting with your wallet. My default assumption is that it takes an unreasonable amount of persistence and coordination, and that the majority of people either don’t know or don’t care about whatever issue is being considered.
- Comment on WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee 1 month ago:
Remember when apple started getting dinged for programming their batteries to fail artificially and making them unnecessarily hard to replace just to force more people to upgrade?
Mark my words. That trick is coming soon to a Tesla near you.
- Comment on WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee 1 month ago:
Renting forever sounds like a nightmare. They already took housing from me. I don’t want to keep losing things.
- Comment on WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee 1 month ago:
I’m the sort of person who enjoys doing things myself when it comes to my car. It isn’t just a tinkering hobby to me. My car is a huge source for feelings of safety and control. Theoretically, I could tear down and rebuild almost everything on my car with a socket wrench set. Obviously it’s more complicated than that and as other people have mentioned there are some modern combustion cars that are massively complicated just to stop people like myself from getting into them. EVs on the other hand are way easier to lock down because the whole power train is basically a black box connected to a battery and operated by an app. Sure the breaks and wheels are the same but nearly everything else is either black boxed (motor and controls) or gone completely (transmission and drive train)which makes the car as a whole less fixable / modable. This makes me feel less safe having to rely on one.
- Comment on WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee 1 month ago:
Yes, exactly! We are just going to see more of this as time passes and I hate it. Idk what I can to about it other than buy cars that do less of this. Not that my one purchase every other decade really matters.
- Comment on WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee 1 month ago:
The difference between wall-e and eve makes me think of cars. How old and even some modern combustion cars are built well and engineered to be highly modular and user serviceable. EVs are highly proprietary. They rely on closed systems that can’t practically be serviced without special equipment.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m NOT a fan of fossil fuels at all. I just don’t like how cars have been slowly morphing into proprietary unreliable cellphone-like commodities, or how the push towards EVs seems to be accelerating that trend.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 month ago:
Complete control over time. I can stop, start, speed up, slow down, skip forward, skip back, and rewind.
- Comment on Is this a tumbleweed? 1 month ago:
It is if you’re in Florida.