NathanDerWeise
@NathanDerWeise@feddit.org
- Comment on 🤷♂️ → E 3 days ago:
Oh that sounds right up my alley, thank you.
- Comment on Sure, why not 1 week ago:
Ayy, you come here often?
- Comment on Bene Gesserit 2 weeks ago:
Apparently they are qualified medical professionals. Doctors and nurses are writing to the state asking them to not involve medical professionals in the process.
- Comment on Bene Gesserit 2 weeks ago:
You’re right. I always get them confused.
- Comment on Bene Gesserit 2 weeks ago:
Of course the state is being withholding on details, but there’s a few things that could have happened, possibly simultaneously (Note: my source is listening to NPR):
- The injections took an awfully long time compared to normal. The medical staff performing the injections have been accused of not being properly trained/qualified. Perhaps not all of it was actually injected into the veins? Witnesses reported that she was singing after the first injection.
- The older, more reliable sources of the drug used (phenolbarbital) now refuse to sell it to Tennessee prisons. The source of the drug may have been unreliable. Perhaps it wasn’t as potent as advertised.
- The drug can apparently expire/get old, reducing the efficacy to some degree. There is no guarantee they had a fresh supply.
It’s worth noting that as of yesterday, she was reported as being on a ventilator at the hospital.
Also I just wanna add that the wrestling character in the picture is (I believe) The Undertaker. The actor is now the mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee. This is a very Tennessee post.
- Comment on Is importing stuff from abroad free from sales tax? 4 weeks ago:
I think it depends on your state? My state says online purchases pay sales tax regardless of where the order is coming from. I imported something from Germany and the retailer automatically added my state’s tax.
- Comment on Are Nintendo first party games first developed in JP before EN? 4 weeks ago:
Only tangentially related to your question, but it wasn’t until Gen 5 of Pokémon that French, German, Italian, and Spanish started getting their own direct transactions from Japanese instead of being translated from the English translation.
Technically not a fully first party game either.
- Comment on SBA #242 Sins and Virtues 4 weeks ago:
Do you make these yourself? Are they quotes from something?
- Comment on Life is hard 1 month ago:
I had kinda thought it was from my breath, but I never really looked into it. Could be all three?
- Comment on SBA #228 Sins and Virtues 1 month ago:
What does SBA mean?
- Comment on Life is hard 1 month ago:
Huh, that makes sense. I was wondering what caused that buildup slowly over time.
- Comment on Dokimon Quest is free on Steam due to Aug, 26th. 1 month ago:
Top option isn’t free, but the third one is. FYI.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
They both agre horribly in just five years.
- Comment on Is it just the norm now-a-days for grocery stores to have lots of stuff on the shelves that's past the best-by date? 2 months ago:
Insight from someone who used to work in retail. Also, my husband currently works at a grocery store. In fact, he regularly gets asked to travel to other locations to find and discard out of date food.
There are two main factors to food on shelves being in date:
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It needs to be stocked properly. That is to say, old stuff needs to be pulled to the front, and new stuff needs to be put behind it. It’s worth noting here that the correct way is more difficult than the easy way (just putting new stuff in front).
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You need employees to regularly check items on the shelves to ensure they are still in date.
And that’s really it. You’re noticing more out of date stuff, because every major retail store in the country is cutting staff to save money. You cut staff, and what you are left with is fewer employees who aren’t as well trained. They cut corners while stocking, and they do not have enough time to properly check dates later either.
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- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 2 months ago:
Most Americans get two weeks off a year, if they’re lucky. There’s no way to make this “outside your day job.”
- Comment on Get your copy today! 2 months ago:
It’s “advance copy,” because you’re getting it in advance of the release date.
- Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take 2 months ago:
The “emphasis whiskers” are a dead giveaway. Plus I’ve seen multiple AI generated posters with this exact color/font scheme. You’re gonna keep seeing it over and over now that you know what to look for, unfortunately.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Do you have high blood pressure? Just throwing this out there, maybe sleep apnea? If blood pressure is normal, that’s probably not it.
- Comment on I wish our politicians were this interesting 2 months ago:
I have no idea why an agnostic lesbian who is married to a brown woman would ever want to support a far-right party, but here we are.
- Comment on I wish our politicians were this interesting 2 months ago:
Ugh, of course. Guess I misunderstood that part.
- Comment on I wish our politicians were this interesting 2 months ago:
Gay German politician, Spahn, recently resigned after announcing that he and his husband had a baby via a surrogate mother from the USA.
Why? Just a few years ago he supported legislation that made surrogate motherhood illegal in Germany. (Technically, using a surrogate mother from another country wasn’t illegal, but the whole point of the law was his party of Christian values said it was immoral.)
Not really sure what he thought would happen.
- Comment on Just terrible ☺️☺️☺️ 2 months ago:
It’s water based, so maybe know things better.
- Comment on Just terrible ☺️☺️☺️ 3 months ago:
This is so wrong.
Astroglide isn’t particularly good for anal. You need something thicker, like KY Jelly.
- Comment on Suck my 3 months ago:
And nuss nougat means nut nougat, as well.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima ‘really sad’ about PlayStation killing discs, ‘frightened’ for future of ownership 3 months ago:
Sorry to kind of ignore your question, but I think it misses the point.
Even with only the partial game data on the disc, the disc still held the rights to the game. Therefore, the rights were transferrable. That is to say, you could still sell your disc and it would have value to the next owner.
When you are forced to buy the game directly from the PlayStation store, your game license is no longer transferable. You can’t sell your old games, and you can’t buy used games from someone else.
- Comment on How has Apple tricked so many people into believing that they "just need to get another Apple product"? 3 months ago:
Yeah. I kinda meant this as more of a joke. I stand by it though. I still think it’s funny.
- Comment on How has Apple tricked so many people into believing that they "just need to get another Apple product"? 3 months ago:
Think about the average person. Now, remember that half of all people are less intelligent than that.
As of last year, approximately 57% of US Americans were iPhone users.
I think I’ve said enough.
- Comment on Are products "for curly hair" supposed to straighten hair, make them more curly, or just formulated not to effect the curl at all? 3 months ago:
Products for curly hair are designed to minimize the negative effects of curls (such as frizzyness) while attempting to accentuate the curl.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a product for straight hair other than maybe a straightening iron (and mists, etc. designed to be used before/after ironing), which does indeed iron your hair in an attempt to make it straighter.
There are two exceptions to this: a permanent (“perm”) solution does actually make your hair more curly. Despite being called permanent, it only lasts a few weeks or months. The opposite of this is called a hair relaxer. It’ll make your hair more straight for a similar amount of time. Both of these are more harsh chemicals, and people generally go to a salon to get them done professionally. There are also home versions sold.
In summary, read the entire package before you use it on your hair.
- Comment on Sweetpeas 3 months ago:
Pretty sure he studies pea plants. But he first described the ideas of dominant and recessive genes.
- Comment on PC Games like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 4 months ago:
Wait wait, I remember. It was a combination of the load screens and the combat. Combat felt unfair. I even looked up guides. And every time you died… Load screen. Very long load screen. I even tried turning down graphics to a minimum to improve load times. Didn’t help much.