ImplyingImplications
@ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Never change, Internet. Check out his new title 6 days 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. 1 week 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 1 week 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
No way!
- Comment on What is stopping the vice president from ever murdering the president? 2 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
and then you die.
- Comment on What do you call your first cousin's child? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Vital Statistics 4 weeks ago:
Poor little British man
- Comment on Fall Cooking 5 weeks ago:
We gotta convince the non-canadians this is how maple syrup is made
- Comment on Why are people impressed with SpaceX? 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks ago:
I was a funeral director and got this question a lot.
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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.
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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!
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- Comment on What bug is this? 1 month ago:
Guinea Bee? Bumble Pig?
- Comment on The finger cleaner 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Rattle 'em, boys!
- Comment on Bethesda, you just entered the no flight zone 1 month 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] 1 month ago:
To save you and others a click. It’s describing anyone who acts like the sealion in this comic
- Comment on California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it 1 month 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.
- Comment on Haven't you people ever heard of building walls around the pool first? 1 month ago:
I chimed in with “Zerpa stamby imba bweb”
- Comment on oh shit 1 month ago:
“It wasn’t me”
- Comment on This shit hurts 1 month ago:
Dogs with fricken laser beams attached to their eyes
- Comment on How can you make sure the ashes you get after a loved one dies is actually theirs? 1 month ago:
I was a funeral director in Ontario, Canada. The law here is that the contract you sign with the crematorium will have a cremation number which will be stamped into a metal disk and that disk will be placed with the remains. After cremation, the disk will be in the cremated remains. People who receive the cremated remains can check that the number on the disk matches the number on the contract they signed.
This system stops honest mistakes but nothing stops people from intentionally swapping disks. Say a funeral home worker is filling urns with a batch of cremated remains they recieved from the crematorium. They accidentally put remains A into the urn for family B and remains B into the urn for family A. The worker should swap the remains…but swaping the disks is easier. Most people I’ve worked with would do the right thing but the system still relies on people being honest.
- Comment on Sony’s Concord reportedly cost $400M to develop | VGC 1 month ago:
…on what?
- Comment on Amazon's system marked an item I returned a year ago as not received and charged me for this return, but the chat bot already knew they had received it. 2 months ago:
I pull my credit report yearly. The ISP was never on it. Even if it was, after 7 years accounts are removed from your report.
- Comment on Amazon's system marked an item I returned a year ago as not received and charged me for this return, but the chat bot already knew they had received it. 2 months ago:
I had an ISP do the same when I moved out of an apartment in 2016. I still get calls from a collection agency. The number is blocked but if I check my “blocked calls” log it’s been nearly every weekday for 8 years.
- Comment on Concord Director Steps Down As Studio Behind Historic PlayStation Flop Waits For Sony's Decision 2 months ago:
It’s crazy that they released it. They had early access and preorders and those only attracted something like 1,000 players. This is a game that had a $100 million budget. So few players during the early stages should have told the studio to cancel it while it was still in production. Apparently they thought they’d release it and would just jump from 1,000 players to 100,000 overnight with no changes.
- Comment on Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc. 2 months ago:
In the “other references” they link to the bulbapedia article for Pokemon box so I figured thats what the whole thing was about, but yeah it does read like accessing data on a server
