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- Comment on Jailed teacher, 28, sued by teen boy she raped after ‘heinous sex acts’ destroyed his faith in God 4 hours ago:
…destroyed his faith in gOD
Well, you wouldn’t have expected a silver lining from the SA but there it is.
- Comment on is it weird to have your own religious beliefs system 1 week ago:
Literally every religion except the first one are formed via this method.
- Comment on Hotel and Apartment Pipe (Poop) Question 1 week ago:
The reason it wouldn’t collide has something to do with an element of the network of pipes that I haven’t mentioned yet.
First, all pipes have a pitch or slope. That’s to ensure that the flow only goes in one direction. Secondly, pipe joints have a “sweep” to them, meaning the joint directs the the waste to go in a certain direction when intersecting another pipe.
The fitting in the image below is called a sanitary wye(Y). Imagine that your toilet or sink would be the source of the waste and would be connected to the 2” side. You can see which direction this would direct the waste and each connection to the trunk would be directing the waste in the same direction. For this reason, your flush would never collide with another, instead it would be like you both would be speeding along in the same direction and just kind of blend together if they happened to meet in the pipe at any time.
Pressurized plumbing does not have these sanitary features, they just have hard angles with no sweeps because the pressure is what pushes the water to your faucet. Drain lines lack this force so everything is handled by pitch and flow guidance in the form of these joints.
- Comment on Hotel and Apartment Pipe (Poop) Question 1 week ago:
All of the waste pipes in a complex/hotel will eventually make it to the same pipe but not right away.
As an example, each apartment complex block would have a structure of 3 inch pipe at each toilet that eventually ties together at a larger diameter pipe. Each pipe from each block would eventually feed into yet another larger diameter pipe until eventually, it feeds into the main sewer line.
Your poops won’t “collide”. since they are all headed the same direction when they meet in one pipe, they simply line up in a queue on their way to the main sewer.
These pipes and sewer line aren’t always full of water. They only have something flowing when someone is doing something so in an apartment complex, there’d always be some flow(toilet, sink, dishwasher, washing machine, tub/shower) but the pipe’s diameter is caluculated to always be large enough to handle the largest likely need and still have room to spare.
- Comment on Could I theoretically grind up one of those pink salt lamps and use it to season my food? 2 weeks ago:
Simply the fact that there’s no restriction on how they handle it. They can coat it in something that keeps it from dissolving in humid environments, they can store it among other products that could harm you they don’t have to follow any of the steps required to keep something pure, things like that. Although it’s sourced from the exact same location as himalayan salt for cooking, it’s path to you is vastly different(and less expensive to the manufacturer).
- Comment on Could I theoretically grind up one of those pink salt lamps and use it to season my food? 2 weeks ago:
You definitely can but its not food-grade so perhaps take that into account.
- Comment on I got permanently banned from r/shadowBan after I suggested using Summit/lemmy while OP was shadow banned 3 weeks ago:
“Obey Reddit’s TOS” lol
- Comment on What’s a reasonable tip for a barber? (America) 3 weeks ago:
Super cool story.
- Comment on What’s a reasonable tip for a barber? (America) 3 weeks ago:
20% is more than reasonable for a barber’s tip. Unlike wait staff that don’t make a living wage, barbers usually make a more fair wage and the tip is an honest “thanks for taking care of me” and not a “Here’s some money so you don’t starve”.
- Comment on What’s a reasonable tip for a barber? (America) 3 weeks ago:
But that wasn’t his question.
- Comment on Is there a ranting or venting community? 3 weeks ago:
How about “Offmychest”?
- Comment on I hate Android! 3 weeks ago:
I disable power management on the apps I use often and never run into the issue. Perhaps that might help create a less frustrating experience for you.
- Comment on It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History 3 weeks ago:
Who could have possibly foreseen this?
- Comment on It's becoming widely accepted that it's not safe to put pictures of your children on social media... (cont. in post) 4 weeks ago:
Perceived freedoms, similar to the US gun situation. Many Americans feel that the second amendment gives them the right to own any and all weapons, regardless of capability without restriction and any law proposal that comes up that may infringe on that totally unfettered right is met with hostility and uproar.
People aren’t viewing it in terms of safety, they are viewing it in terms of freedom.
This issue is made more egregious by the method in which they are proposing to “protect the children” with many methods completely stripping everyone online of their privacy. Many people, myself included, will die long before they upload an ID to anyone online for the privilege of visiting a website.
- Comment on Is Buying a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS Pre-Installed Dangerous? 4 weeks ago:
I would opt to install myself but “dangerous” is a relative term. Its definitely more dangerous than installing yourself since you can’t verify their install source or process. You can factory reset when you get it but again can’t validate the Rom used as the reset image.
If risk is a concern of yours, I’d buy used and install yourself. Not only will you save money, you’ll know you installed from a legitimate source.
The install is so easy for graphene, Theres so little risk of messing up. It takes less than 10 minutes.
- Comment on Shooting And Explosion At ICE HQ Building In NYC 4 weeks ago:
I get all my unbiased and informative news from bird. makeup.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think anyone should try to convince you, fear it if that’s your jam.
- Comment on US Government Official refuses to answer basic question 5 weeks ago:
If he were an outlier, it would be something funny but the issue is rhe staggering number of the pieces of shit.
- Comment on Nine out of ten bestselling novels in UK have one thing in common: a woman is murdered 5 weeks ago:
The trend was highlighted on Instagram by the author Wendy Jones, who wrote: “So 84% [sic] of the books people bought and read in the UK this week involved a woman being murdered for entertainment. What is going on here?”
It looks like the majority of the authors are women so it seems to me that perhaps it’s a sociological statement by the authors.
- Comment on My Local Public Tennis Court Requires Online Registration 5 weeks ago:
Are there no other courts available to you? We live in a very rural area but we go to the highschool to play on the weekends/evenings. It’s free and unlocked as opposed to the gym where we have to check in inside to get a key.
- Comment on Hypothetically if I found a suitcase of money by the side of the road, is there a legal way to claim it on my taxes? 5 weeks ago:
From Turbo Tax:
Found property and money is considered taxable income and needs to be reported on tax returns. Both cash and tangible property are taxable, and the fair market value of the property should be reported. It’s important to document the discovery of found property and keep detailed records of any subsequent sale or transfer of ownership for tax purposes. Donating found property to a qualified charity can be a way to lower the tax burden.
So yes, you claim found money on your taxes. As for the legality of keeping that money, that would never be a blanket correct answer, it would always depend on the particular conditions in each instance.
https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/general/what-to-know-about-taxes-on-found-property/L9BfdKz7N
- Comment on What is a good delta between indoor and outdoor temps using only ventilation? 5 weeks ago:
It feels like roughly 120 buttholes outside.
- Comment on What is a good delta between indoor and outdoor temps using only ventilation? 5 weeks ago:
Since fans don’t cool the air at all, simply move it, you’re goal should be to take air from the coolest part of the house to the warmer parts. Your 4* difference would exist with or without the fans. Rather than worry about that metric, I would concentrate on getting the moving air to where you’re at so it will give you the sensation of being cooled via the moving air.
- Comment on If I stick my head out a car window or a gust of wind hits my face it's like my throat closes and I can't breathe. How come motorcycle riders without helmets don't seem to have this problem? 5 weeks ago:
It’s the same as being unable to breathe the first few seconds of submerging yourself in water while wearing SCUBA gear. Your brain is overriding your normal action of breathing but doing this multiple times teaches your brain that it’s not unsafe so that involuntary response diminishes over time until it simply doesn’t occur.
- Comment on Voyager app for Lemmy 1 month ago:
Correct, because it wouldn’t know in which community to put the post. Once you navigate to a community, it will offer the option and place your post in that community.
- Comment on Voyager app for Lemmy 1 month ago:
When using voyager, if you are in a community that you’re allowed to post, clicking the three dot menu at the upper right of the screen will bring up a flyout with “Create Post”.
https://i.postimg.cc/7ZxpLRRc/signal-2026-07-08-09-55-54-375-002.png
- Comment on Request to be made a mod for an inactive instance 1 month ago:
Just a heads up, you’ll want to edit your title to “inactive community”. In it’s current state, you’re asking to be made mod for the entire lemmy.world instance.
- Comment on What's gunna to happen when the American Federal Government starts prosecuting people for owning powerful computer hardware and software? 1 month ago:
Not a stupid question but pretty silly to think anyone could answer this with anything more than an uninformed wild-ass guess.
We’ll build robots out of our microwaves and refrigerators to start an uprising?
- Comment on Your phone is about to stop being yours. 1 month ago:
FTFA:
Worse: this flow runs entirely through Google Play Services, not the Android OS.
Everyone running a privacy-based AOSP like Graphene try to keep your giggles to a minimum.
- Comment on RadioShack Used to Sell Kids This Madness (Amateur Radio Adjacent) 1 month ago:
Oh, I remember that well, it was one of my favorite toys, if I remember it correctly though, I wasn’t very successful at making it do what it was supposed to do.
