darreninthenet
@darreninthenet@piefed.social
- Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 2 weeks ago:
Surely the best response the Democrats could say is “if we win the midterms we’ll use Trumps financial plans to give you all 5k”… Trump can hardly then criticise it, it takes away the advantage of the bribe and if they win the midterms they can then declare “it was all bollocks there is no trillion dollars left lieing around to hand out”
- Comment on Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small? 2 months ago:
Some countries take it further and anything above a tiny amount (like 0.02) will get you a criminal record… although usually at such small amounts it’s just a fine and/or points on your licence, using bans and prison sentences for higher levels (like the US levels you describe).
This to me is the right approach - it’s long been proven that even regular drinkers suffer an impact on reaction times and anticipation with even a small amount of alcohol, so it really should be zero tolerance. I can’t think of any other situation where you’d be allowed to control a two ton piece of metal at 60+ mph around other people, houses, cars etc without having proper control.
- Comment on Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small? 2 months ago:
What’s the practical difference between illegal and criminal in the US? To me, a Brit, they are the same thing.
- Comment on When Other Games Chased Polygons, Blade Runner Chased Atmosphere 3 months ago:
GOG has it - https://www.gog.com/en/game/blade_runner
- Comment on How often do you change your towels? 8 months ago:
When they start to bend and crack
- Comment on As Microsoft bids farewell to Windows 10, millions of users won’t 11 months ago:
Ditto… just yesterday I went all in and wiped my drive to put Mint on, decided not to bother with a halfway house or dual booting.
Apart from some minor hardware driver issues, so far so good!
- Comment on Can mental health medication change nature of dreams? 11 months ago:
I used to take an antihistamine called loratadine before bed and it started giving me horrendous nightmares, so yes meds can definitely affect dreams. Doc moved me onto a nose spray called Avamys and they went away (and the spray was more affective anyway)
- Comment on CrankBoy - the original Game Boy game emulator for the Playdate console (my article) 1 year ago:
Cranking...
- Comment on OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’ 1 year ago:
- Comment on OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’ 1 year ago:
It did for me 🤷🏻♂️
- Comment on OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’ 1 year ago:
FWIW, ChatGPT 5 gets this correct
