Rentlar
@Rentlar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on In racoon we trust 1 day ago:
It saves space in landfills.
This can’t be stressed enough… a huge proportion of landfills volume is material that otherwise could have been composted.
- Comment on Why are there so many german communities on Lemmy? 6 days ago:
A huge group moved from ich iel subreddit (meirl but almost like 196 in practice)… most german redditors were there. The main German instance was called feddit.de but the frontend and database got very messed up. The main admin was MIA so feddit.org was made instead.
- Comment on Why don't Americans use electric kettles? 2 weeks ago:
They are not universal but reasonably popular in Canada.
- Comment on Th EU iniative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!! 3 weeks ago:
To address your first point. Yes it applies to other software, this initiative applies to games because the “buying a license to allow them to remove your purchase” practices have been most prevalent in gaming.
Extending the scope too far will bring in more opponents than allies and muddy the discussion. Getting a decisive answer here will inform laws on how other industries should be regulated in separate but parallel legislative processes.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I think the state legislature and governor will be more of a hurdle to clear than council. Since in US and Canada, most municipal powers are rooted in state/provincial legislation, they have the ability to override or veto, sanction or outlaw anything the city tries to implement. Gov. Hochul is an establishment Democrat so I expect some efforts to water down the most radical policies, but aside from her characteristic flip-flopping she won’t try to put herself in the way of city politics.
- Comment on Not for me, tho 3 weeks ago:
I’d think four times: 4:20, 4:35, 7:20, 7:35
- Comment on Air Jordens 3 weeks ago:
Since when were 3 basketballs allowed in the game at once?
- Comment on The 11foot8 bridge opens another big can 4 weeks ago:
It’s the same moving company as the one that had crashed 10 months before!
- Comment on Jigsaw Trolley Problem 4 weeks ago:
Hoping to select the door with a goat, that will headbutt the switch for me.
- Comment on Officials Concede They Don’t Know the Fate of Iran’s Uranium Stockpile 4 weeks ago:
I called it:
- Comment on It's the dream 4 weeks ago:
Yeah it happens a lot. At my job people are given 40 hours (or more, without overtime) of work to be done, and then call meetings that eat up into those hours, so ending early gives people back the time the meeting took away from them.
- Comment on If one were so inclined, could you take your plot of land, parcel it up into 1-meter-squared (or smaller) sections, and sell each of those sections to different people/companies? 4 weeks ago:
cardsagainsthumanitystopsthewall.com
C.A.H. did something similar ish, crowdfunded a vacant plot along the wall and hired an eminent domain expert lawyer to stall the process if wall was to be constructed there.
I think contributors were given a recognition that they helped buy 0.00067% of the land, it wasn’t officially subdivided between the contributors nor were they given a share.
- Comment on Just lost internship at general electric 4 weeks ago:
But those are ouchie fire lamp
- Comment on How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time? 5 weeks ago:
Going backwards in time, they had metal and brass containers, before that they had wooden buckets and barrels, ceramic pots, carved out animal parts or fruit of plants.
Before farming, probably a good portion of the water early people subsisted on was from the food they ate. (Berries and fruit, fish, meat, etc.) Water might pool around rocky areas after rain, even if there was no stream nearby in a pinch.
- Comment on What happens to the content if an Lemmy instance shuts down? 5 weeks ago:
So if a brand new instance is started, it does not retroactively receive any content from other servers. Only ones that were connected by a link at the time content was posted will have a copy, essentially.
To know which posts will be kept on different servers, look up your own username, e.g. lemmy.ca/u/TrivialKin@lemm.ee
- Comment on RIP Thomas 5 weeks ago:
The bear known as “The Boss” is up there in animal hall-of-fame: mountainsandtreasures.ca/the-big-boss-bear-of-ban…
- Comment on Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone. 5 weeks ago:
The best bike infrastructure in the GTA is no match for the stupidest drivers in the GTA.
On the other side of the country, here in Vancouver, a couple times a year you get a car that decides to turn into the separated bicycle lane.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 5 weeks ago:
Some people are addicted to sugar to the point where every beverage must be sweet flavoured.
I have water, but othertimes I am sugar addicted so I want a different beverage.
Also I have had tap water in various places across Canada. Most are decent, some are especially delicious, some have awful after tastes and even smell weird (sulfur or chlorine). If that stuff runs to your home I can understand why people prefer bottled water, tea or soda instead of tap water.
- Comment on If youre bi do you have to prove it? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD, Internal Emails Show 1 month ago:
Note: article is from Sep 2023, so yes it is related, but not necessarily that they had used it to cover anything related to this weekend’s events.
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 1 month ago:
New set of knife, new set of knife, new set of knife…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Just give yourself plenty of time (arrive 3 hours before departure or earlier). Review your flight number and look at the screens every half hour to reassure yourself you’re at the correct gate.
- Comment on First as tragedy, then as meme 1 month ago:
Спасибо, товарищ )
- Comment on alternatives to lemm.ee? 1 month ago:
If you want the Lemmy experience pre-Reddit exodus minus the communism, this seems like the place. Lemmy was less than 200 people at one point, look how we’ve grown.
- Comment on Is lemm.we actually shutting down? 1 month ago:
(my local version of the recruitment thread, in case the original lemm.ee post link becomes inaccessible)
- Comment on How to hold onto a subway pole 1 month ago:
That’s what I call making use of Nature’s gift.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 1 month ago:
Your comment highlights one of the difficulties I find with going between treating someone exactly as you would anyone else, while also dealing with particular sensitivities or sensibilities of that person. Even trying to describe how to be less offensive, includes wording that can sound offensive to some, justifiably so based on experience.
But all in all, I think most people will recognize good faith efforts and accept quick apologies and corrections when we make mistakes. We’re not perfect.
- Comment on U.S. Cancels Contract With Moderna to Develop Bird Flu Vaccine 1 month ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I think if you want more sympathy from Lemmy, you’d frame it more like “Hell yeah, someone published a video on how to pirate my videogame!! If you like it it’s on Steam/itch/GOG/wherever too”. Your screencap being fake or not.
- Comment on I can't believe this is a real article. Just wow. 1 month ago:
Lol. But the overall point is, regardless of whatever you believe in, the common theme of moral teachings is to be good to others, not how many hours you should work or how many times one should be beaten for a transgression. Anything else gained from religious text or tradition is a speculative interpretation brought from the ancient to the modern context, and should be taken and understood as such.
