ImplyingImplications

@ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The vast majority – around 96% - had a death deemed “reasonably foreseeable”, due to severe medical conditions such as cancer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's big with all the kids, they're calling it "Karting"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Make sure to add “…in Mario Kart”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why dont hackers just do white-cap hacking and figure out loopholes in valuable companies' stuff and use their fiduciary duty as a legal basis to compel patronage of their services?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most hackers are responsible. Hackerone is a site where anyone can sign up and start claiming bug bounties for reporting vulnerabilities. They claim to have 2 million active hackers. Just like anything else, the people breaking the law are in the minority and probably resorted to it after trying to make money the legal way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨itch.io was taken down by Funko because of some automated brand protection service⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems like it was a DMCA takedown request. Anyone can submit these to content hosters and the hoster has to follow the process, which typically means removing the content until it can be proven that it isnt violating copyright. The problem isn’t the takedown request, but that it was given to itch.io’s registrar instead of itch.io itself. It’d be like asking to takedown youtube from the web because someone reposted your video on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨shoe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I enjoy not being able to tell if something was made to be funny or made to satisfy someone’s fetish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should Germany aquire nuclear weapons?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you. It makes me lose hope for the future of humanity everytime I read comments saying we should remake the mistakes of our past. If we had nukes in 1914, the world would have ended because the Archduke of Austria was shot.

  The Archduke of Australia, a title that doesn’t exist anymore, was the heir to rule Austria-Hungary, a country that doesn’t exist anymore. He was killed by a Bosnian because he didn’t like being a part of Austria-Hungary. Bosnia would later become a part of Yugoslavia, a country that doesn’t exist anymore. How many nukes would have been launched to save these meaningless titles and borders?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canadian Town Fined and Mayor Sent for Compulsory Education After Failing to Hoist Pride Flag⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From the Tribunal’s decision. It was ruled that voting against displaying a pride flag is not necessarily discriminatory. The mayor, however, stated his reason for denying the request was because there isn’t a straight flag. It was ruled his decision was based on sexuality, and therefore, discriminatory. The other councilors who voted against the resolution were fine.

  [51] However, Mayor McQuaker’s remark during the May 12 council meeting that there was no flag for the “other side of the coin … for straight people” was on its face dismissive of Borderland Pride’s flag request and demonstrated a lack of understanding of the importance to Borderland Pride and other members of the LGBTQ2 community of the Pride flag. I find this remark was demeaning and disparaging of the LGBTQ2 community of which Borderland Pride is a member and therefore constituted discrimination under the Code

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s Friday, Black Friday, Everybody Go Shop on Friday⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wikipedia says she had released 25 singles and 3 albums and since Friday and none of them even got close to the same success. Having rich parents must be nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reversed roles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A child will ruin your future! Why aren’t you having children?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never change, Internet. Check out his new title⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The first round was the only hope Tyson had. By the third round he was just standing there eating punches. The fight ended with Tyson landing something like 18 punches in an 18 minute fight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do gangs "jump in" new recruits? Or is that just for movies and tv shows? If so why do they do that kinda seems anti productive.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Steven Hassan was a former member of the Moonies cult that obtained a PhD in psychology after being deprogrammed and has written books on the psychology of cult recruiting. Interestingly, he points out that the same tactics are often used by organizations that aren’t cults. I highly recommend reading one of his books!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Withdrawal is going to make people go mad⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately the Jones Act means shipping from Hawaii to the continental US requires the use of a shipping vessel constructed in the US, flying the US flag, and entirely crewed by US citizens which makes the shipping costs expensive as fuck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CNN panel stunned into silence as Republican pundit tells them the 'unadulterated truth' about Trump's election victory⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re just regular people who get up and go to work every day and are trying to make a better life for their kids, and they feel like they have been told to just shut up when they have complained about the things that are hurting them in their own lives

  This applies to everyone. It applies to the immigrants Trump wants to deport. It applies to the trans people Trump wants to deny care to. It applies to the people Trump wants to jail for being enemies within. Trump badmouths people trying to live their lives literally on a daily basis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hose⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No way!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is stopping the vice president from ever murdering the president?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The action would have been done as vice-president, not president. Vice-presidents are held accountable. This is why Trump got in trouble for defamation of E. Jean Carroll.

  He defamed her as president and called it an official act. The case was put on indefinite hold. Then he said the same things while he wasn’t president. A new case was brought against him and he was found liable. Then, Carroll’s lawyer asked the original case to be resumed arguing that Trump’s statements couldn’t be an official act of the president since he performed the same action while he wasn’t president. The courts agreed and resumed the case and he was found liable again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if you quit a job you didn't like or was toxic, didn't the financial hit scare you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The requirement for a steady paycheque is what keeps everyone working in terrible conditions. I’m lucky enough that I’ve always had a lot in savings and it has come in handy a few times. Twice I’ve walked off a job and never went back after failing to negotiate proper working conditions with the boss. Both times I burned through about $10,000 in savings while searching for a new job. Almost nobody has that much saved up. If they did, terrible bosses would lose employees on the regular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brazilian Wandering Spider⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  and then you die.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you call your first cousin's child?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  First cousin once removed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vital Statistics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Poor little British man

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fall Cooking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We gotta convince the non-canadians this is how maple syrup is made

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people impressed with SpaceX?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember an interview with a former NASA engineer that said NASA would never be able to do anything near what SpaceX (or any other private company) can do. The reason given is that SpaceX spent billions after billions on what were essentially very expensive fireworks until they finally achieved a breakthrough. A breakthrough that wasn’t a guarantee. Even Musk himself had said he would have eventually closed SpaceX if they hadn’t achieved something and it would have been a multi billion dollar failure. He, and everyone else really, got very lucky.

  Imagine NASA asking taxpayers for another billion dollars after blowing up the last billion with no guarantee this next billion would produce anything but another explosion. How many times would the public foot that bill? Not even once. Not while people don’t have healthcare and homelessness and hunger exist. The government can’t justify it and that’s just how it is. The only way we get space travel, with our current system, is to hope someone with a lot of money is willing to bet it on a breakthrough. It sucks but the problem isn’t Musk, it’s the system that makes us reliant on billionaires for nice things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What metrics are deoderant companies using to calculate their "72hr protection" numbers?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It becomes false advertising when you prove them wrong in court. Few people want to do that so most ads are bullshit. Even if they do get proven wrong, the settlement money is typically peanuts to the impact their ads have on sales. Red Bull paid $13 million for their tagline of “red bull gives you wings” while making several billion a year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I wanted to die in a viking funeral, like getting put on a boat and set ablaze while I am in the middle of the see can this be done? Or is it even legal?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was a funeral director and got this question a lot.

  1. That’s not how vikings had funerals. The only Norse who had that type of send off is Baldr, son of Odin, in Norse mythology. Real Norse were cremated or buried. Important people had huge burial mounds since they’d be buried with a lot of their possessions. In reality, if you burned a boat with a body on it, the result would be a charred decaying corpse floating back to land in a day or two. A ship doesn’t have enough wood to completly burn a body and bacteria in decaying dead bodies produce gas which causes dead bodies to float.

  2. It is possible to “bury at sea” depending on the area. The Canadian government charges a significant amount for a permit to do so and it comes with a lot of conditions like a weighted and sealed casket and being dropped far enough from the shoreline. I’ve heard they make the process as difficult and costly as possible as a way to discourage the practice. However, there are no restrictions on scattering cremated remains at sea!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What bug is this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Guinea Bee? Bumble Pig?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The finger cleaner⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was a private investigator for 20 years so I’ll use my unique skillset to help you out for free. The website URL is watermarked on the top and bottom of the video in large font.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oxford Study: Those Dastardly Video Games Are Good For Improving Your Mood⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, my friends play it and I’m often roped into playing it with them. My advice: The game is greatly improved if you disable all forms of interaction with other players. Chat is muted by default now, but I’d also recommend muting pings and emotes. No form of interaction is ever positive in that game.

  Even then, their matchmaking algorithm seems to be designed to hand an easy win to one team and just switches up which side you’re on enough times that you won’t quit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't mind me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rattle 'em, boys!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda, you just entered the no flight zone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a lot easier to accept when you absolutely know the people who made your favourite series are gone.

  Source: Metal Gear fan

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To save you and others a click. It’s describing anyone who acts like the sealion in this comic

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t own anything you purchase on Steam

  Games sold on Steam are not required to use Steam’s DRM. There are lots of DRM free games on Steam. Steam is only required to be installed to purchase/download them but not to run them. After download, the game files can be copied and ran on any computer without any verification.