DakRalter
@DakRalter@thelemmy.club
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- Comment on Solution for the Trolley Problem 4 hours ago:
I knew, even as I wrote it, that a trolleybus was beneath their contempt.
- Comment on AAAAAHHHHH 7 hours ago:
I used to buy mealworm for the garden birds, and I can confirm this warning is needed. I used to get told off by one bird if I took too long giving him his worms.
- Comment on Solution for the Trolley Problem 7 hours ago:
What if all the passengers were billionaires?
- Comment on Het Pijnstillersparadijs: Europese Zelfbeheersing vs. Amerikaanse Pillenfeest 1 week ago:
Depends, I guess. It does nothing for period pains with me, but when I burst my ear drum last month, it took the pain from excruciating to manageable.
- Comment on The g spot is in the ear canal 2 weeks ago:
I got my ears vacuumed the other day at the ENT clinic. Unfortunately I’m one of those people that gets a lot of wax build up. Copying the grown ups using cotton buds to clear the wax just meant I was constantly getting ear infections as a kid. As an adult, I’d get wax build up, I’d try olive oil as my GPs would always recommend, only that would make it clog up more and muffle my hearing. Then the only way to get that big plug of soggy wax out was either to fish it out with a bit of screwed up tissue or a cotton bud, or to blast it with the power shower to dislodge it.
I finally perforated my ear drum in September from an infection that went to the middle ear. Anyway, I got my ears vacuum cleaned on Thursday and was told by the ENT doctor to use a pharmaceutical grade olive oil spray (not drops) every day forever to stop the wax clogging. So let’s hope that works.
I think I was given peroxide based ear drops once when I was 12 or so, but it made my jaw swell so much I couldn’t even eat.
- Comment on Cycling will be more dangerous due to council clampdowns, say campaigners 3 weeks ago:
Yes! I was in Walthamstow last week and the difference between their cycle lanes and my area is like night and day. A proper delineated cycle lane, separate from both the road and the pavement. Compare that to my area where the cycle lanes abruptly cut off and are just a line of paint separating them from the pavement, therefore pedestrians walk all over it and I have to use the bus lane to cycle. Walthamstow is like cyclist heaven.
- Comment on Cycling will be more dangerous due to council clampdowns, say campaigners 3 weeks ago:
Man, that sounds rough. I hope you’re okay now. I suppose the rider got away?
Those delivery riders with their often illegal e-bikes are a scourge. They’re like that in London too. I’ve seen them on pavements with their throttle modded bikes, even though we have both a bus lane and a cycle lane.
- Comment on The EchoChamberinator 9000! 3 weeks ago:
I thought the term was trumpanzee, but then I suppose that’s insulting to chimps.
- Comment on 🧿👄🧿 y'all need to step up ur game 3 weeks ago:
👁🗨🫦👁🗨
- Comment on Hey we got your pics pay up! ASAP! 1 month ago:
I’ve been getting those warning emails for like two years, maybe more. Probably more actually. I just ignore them, my photos still work even if I don’t use them anymore.
- Comment on WITH ads? Fuckin awesome coupon, thanks! 3 months ago:
Disney has asked a Florida court to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the husband of a Long Island doctor. The lawsuit claims that Dr. Kanokporn Tangsuan suffered a fatal allergic reaction after eating at a Disney Springs restaurant despite repeatedly informing the waiter of her severe allergy. Disney is calling for the lawsuit to be dismissed because her husband signed up for a one-month trial of the Disney+ streaming service years prior.
What the hell. I hope the judge tells Disney where to shove their arbitration clause.
- Comment on Stop wasting my time 3 months ago:
Isn’t banggood legit? I know the name looks suspicious as heck (well, if I didn’t know better, I’d think it was an NSFW site), but I remember Atomic Shrimp using it for legit purchases. I’d never use it though. I think it’s in the same stable as Ali express and that sort of thing.
- Comment on Just why?? 3 months ago:
Yeah I’ve had a couple of customers outright wrap their hand around mine as I handed them their change. It’s creepy and invasive. If it happened enough times, I’d just start putting everyone’s change on the counter.
- Comment on Average Amazon user intelligence 3 months ago:
Definitely more than five years. About ten years ago is when I saw it.
They will happily keep up unsafe products, why do they care about this?
- Comment on Average Amazon user intelligence 3 months ago:
Yep, at least ten years ago I went to reorder some electric toothbrush heads, went to my past purchases to find the same ones, only to see the listing (with my review for the brush heads still there) had a completely different product.
December will be my 4 year Amazon-free anniversary. Screw that site.
- Comment on Far-right thugs throw rocks at Filipino NHS nurses on way to work 3 months ago:
It’s definitely Bill Gates with his 5g microchips!
- Comment on I, too, like books. 3 months ago:
oldenglish.info/advpronunciationguide.html
English used to be phonetic, it’s just people started changing the way they pronounced vowels, but the spelling stayed the same. For example, both the k and the gh in “knight” used to be pronounced.
- Comment on All junk 3 months ago:
Even here, some like Oxfam will save the more valuable stuff to sell on ebay. I worked at two charity shops back in my twenties, so I got to the good stuff first haha. The Baldur’s Gate was lucky because another customer was going to buy it for her son, but changed her mind when she saw the age rating, and I was like, bagsy this!
- Comment on All junk 3 months ago:
I got my D&D Basic box set from a charity shop, £2.50. There’s one going for over £150 on ebay right now. Got my Baldur’s Gate box set from a charity shop too for £2.50. I also got Flash 4 (I think) for a couple of quid, it was selling second hand on amazon for about £200, but I was an anxious, clueless kid and was too scared to sell it.
Yesterday I got some squishmallows for my niece at £1 each. We still get the good stuff here.
- Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way 3 months ago:
No worries. Good luck!
- Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way 3 months ago:
When I say laminate, I just mean the rolls of sticky back plastic. I don’t know if it’s called something else in your part of the world.
It’s the stuff we used to use to protect our exercise books at school. Acid free sticky tape (scotch tape in the US?) will also work for smaller stickers, just make sure the sort you use doesn’t yellow.
I did test the brand of vinyl paper I used with water and it did hold up. I’ve only had it on my bike for a few months, but so far it doesn’t seem to have yellowed or faded. I probably should have cut out the sticky back plastic to be bigger than the sticker though.
- Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way 3 months ago:
What type of printer/paper do you use? I find cheap photo paper works well for high res on my inkjet, although it can fade if you leave it in the sun. I’ve been using vinyl sticker sheets for customising my bike and it seems to be holding well, but I did laminate them with sticky back plastic first.
There’s also the sellotape trick, but that only works for laser printers and you obviously can’t print white.
- Comment on Speed 4 months ago:
Ah you beat me to it. I was taught this an my child seat training course at work, it’s true.
- Comment on Speed 4 months ago:
Boring fact for the day. The real reason for the baby on board sign isn’t for other drivers, it’s so if there’s an accident, the emergency services will prioritise the cars with the sign. So if you want priority in an accident, you know what to do.
- Comment on Cyclists are dying on our roads at an alarming rate - why don't we care? 4 months ago:
One thing I’ve learnt from my 15 minute cycle commute is to assume everyone on the road is an idiot.
Drivers: happy to kill you for a second off their journey time.
Cyclists: same, as well as thinking red lights don’t apply to them. They’re happy to kill both themselves and their fellow cyclists and pedestrians.
Pedestrians: have a death wish. You don’t need to look if you can’t hear an engine.
I was on a bus once when they were still constructing the cycle superhighway in my area (a waste of time since it’s just full of pedestrians), and despite the warning signs saying narrow lane, don’t overtake cyclists, the driver couldn’t be bothered to wait and ploughed right into the guy, he went flying. And the driver didn’t even stop until a full bus stop later.
- Comment on Cyclists are dying on our roads at an alarming rate - why don't we care? 4 months ago:
The amount of times I’ve had bus drivers not able to wait 2 seconds for me to pass the bus stop, and then pull in, almost pushing me into the kerb. I really need to get a helmet cam. Black cab drivers can be bad offenders too.
- Comment on Civilization's been nice, but I think it's high time we admit we're long past its peak. 4 months ago:
en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Landlord…
The irony, right?
- Comment on People are just now finding out that there are 27 letters to the alphabet 4 months ago:
See my post to the reply above yours :)
- Comment on People are just now finding out that there are 27 letters to the alphabet 4 months ago:
Sorry, I forgot to put the last paragraph as a quote.
- Comment on People are just now finding out that there are 27 letters to the alphabet 4 months ago:
Wasn’t that a misconception and they both make either of those sounds?
