Thorry84
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- Comment on This used book that I bought for 12£ on the internet was apparently previously bought from Oxfam for 1.99£ 1 day ago:
You chose to buy it at that price. What does it matter what the original price was or how much the seller made? You thought the price was fair, had the choice to not buy it or buy it somewhere else.
This isn’t like scalpers buying up items, creating artificial scarcity and driving up prices for profit. This is just plain old capitalism.
Presumably the price also included shipping and handling fees, since you bought it online. So in the end the seller probably made just a couple of quid, he deserves to get paid for what he does no?
- Comment on How would you decorate this room? 2 days ago:
Sideways ceiling fan goes brrrrrrrrr
- Comment on Country music 3 days ago:
Shows picture with mostly international waters on it.
- Comment on The History of Tetris World Records [by Summoning Salt] ~ a 1 hour documentary 4 days ago:
I love Salt, but man his videos are getting way to long. I put the speed at 1,25x for any of his videos and the pacing is still perfectly fine.
I’ve heard people enjoy his videos with some drugs and I get it, it sounds super chill. But this length is a stretch for me, it could be half the time and lose basically nothing. And this is coming from a guy who enjoys long format videos like hbomberguy.
- Comment on Huh? It's not that big 5 days ago:
It’s young folk speak for ass.
Stick out your GYAT for the Rizzler.
I think the origin is people saying GYAT when they see a nice ass and then GYAT just became ass.
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 6 days ago:
One of the most important ones is this one: …europa.eu/…/stemming-tide-beach-litter-2018-09-2…
This was the basis for the decision to mandate the caps be attached to the bottles, since they found a lot of caps and less bottles. This would indicate a lot of caps get separated from their bottles, which this change should mostly fix.
The other was an interview with this guy: zwerfinator.nl I can’t find the interview, no idea why, but he hasn’t published the results yet (no idea why, it was scheduled to be published I think, but somehow got delayed). They were saying the new pfands really helped and the number of bottle caps have gone down. But this is highly depended on the location. For example a lot of research is focused on beaches, where there is obviously often a large delay between the deposition and the collection. In city centers this time is often much shorter, so the impact of changes are seen faster.
So sorry to disappoint, it’s too soon for a peer reviewed study diving into this. Also with all the other changes the EU has mandated on litter and single use plastics, it would be hard to quantify which implementation has what effect.
But my thinking was: There is for me good data showing this is an issue (which I was doubting) and the solution seems solid enough. Other changes like pfands on small bottles and cans have made a big impact (research is available for this, for example open.overheid.nl/documenten/…/pdf). And the people doing the research say they’ve seen results that it works. So that was enough to convince me.
If somehow the caps being attached doesn’t lead to less caps in litter, that would be a very interesting result. Without a doubt the EU would change the regulation to fix it, depending on why they think the change didn’t work. But this would not lead to the caps being like they were in the past.
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 6 days ago:
So sorry, I read it a couple of weeks ago and it changed my mind. Just thought I would share. I’ll try to find what I read later, I can’t find it on mobile and search engines suck these days.
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 6 days ago:
I can’t find it on mobile right now. It was a preliminary result, because the attached caps haven’t been required that long. Also most countries have implemented extra pfand systems for small plastic bottles, which also helps. So it’s tricky to say which regulation helped most.
But there are plenty of sources of how many bottle caps there are in the streets and oceans. And how harmful they are to animals who think the small bright things are food.
It also makes sense, instead of the bottle and the cap becoming seperate pieces of trash, it’s now a single piece. So it reduces the number of pieces if not the volume of trash.
Also for people from the US where bottles are shredded and caps typically not recycled. In Europe the caps also don’t get recycled, but instead removed. The bottle is then checked for leaks and defects and if it passes it’s cleaned and then reused. Actually recycling plastic is hard, so this way a bottle can be used at least two or three times.
You don’t get your pfand in many cases if the cap isn’t on, as well as the label many times. This isn’t so much needed for the recycling but important for the whole process. For example groceries are required to take in bottles, but are allowed to limit this to bottles they sell. So the barcode om the label is checked for this purpose. The label is removed in the recycling process. The cap is required to motivate people to return those and not have them turn into litter. It’s also a hygiene thing for the people handling the bottles, often there is liquid still in the bottle and without the cap it comes out during handling.
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 6 days ago:
Yes I hate them as well, they always get in the way and putting the cap back on is super annoying.
However, since these bottles were introduced data has shown they work. Bottle caps were one of the most found items in trash picked up from the streets. The number of bottle caps has gone way down since these were introduced.
So I’ve accepted them. Can’t argue with data. I’ve never returned a bottle without a cap in my life. I’ve never thrown away a cap separate from the bottle. But turns out the world is full of psychopaths who throw the cap in the street. Probably the same kind of person who throws their trash by the side of the road from their car. Fuck those people.
- Comment on Never Forget 1 week ago:
The whole criminals getting job offers has never been true and will never be true. For many of such jobs you aren’t qualified if you have a criminal record, even small offenses disqualify you.
- Comment on Dawkins 1 week ago:
in a mirror, you can kiss yourself, but only on the lips
- Comment on Me too! 1 week ago:
I got my copy today and going to watch it this weekend, hope it’s good.
- Comment on 2x2 lumber at Home Depot is now 1.28x1.28. Nominal size is supposed to be 1.5 1 week ago:
That’s why the standards specify the moisture content of the wood as well as the dimensions. This is even the case for US standards.
- Comment on Me too! 1 week ago:
Yeah it’s called Perflurorocarbon emulsion fluid, that shit is fucking crazy
- Comment on Me too! 1 week ago:
How does the CGI hold up in 4K? It looked like shit to begin with, so I can’t imagine it does.
Still one of my favorite movies though, the CGI doesn’t matter.
- Comment on Me too! 1 week ago:
I still can’t believe the rat actually breathed that liquid. I for sure thought that was a dead rat when I first saw it.
- Comment on Official 30th Anniversary Poster for 'The Crow', Returning to Theaters May 29 & 30 - any fans of it here? 1 week ago:
I remember hating it at the time. It was all hyped up around the death of Brandon Lee and didn’t live up to the hype. Everyone I talked to back then said the regretted going to see it. It wasn’t a bad movie, but the marketing was just terrible.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
You are not wrong. I am vegetarian for about 15 years and I’ve literally have had a father of a friend yell at me. He was telling vegetarians aren’t real and if anybody would actually not eat meat for a couple of months they would die because they would be missing vital nutrients only found in meat. He was yelling at me to stop telling lies and be truthful.
- Comment on sweet dreams 2 weeks ago:
It would be fun to see the planets zipping around in random locations in their orbit. And if you kick one hard enough, it pops over to another orbit and emits a huge ass photon when it pops back.
- Comment on Half Life 3 2 weeks ago:
Agreed, but that’s not how a studio looks at IP. Any IP is only as good as it’s most recent content.
- Comment on Half Life 3 2 weeks ago:
Half Life was always about pushing the boundaries of gaming. The first Half Life with their combination of story telling in a 3D shooter environment was absolutely at the sharp end of the field at that time. If you’ve seen the Black Mesa documentary you’ll know why HL2 was such a hit and how it was revolutionary at that time. After that they did some DLC, but Valve wasn’t happy with what they were doing. It wasn’t groundbreaking, it was just creating content for the sake of content. As they didn’t need any more money from creating games, they opted to not create HL3. It wasn’t till VR became more mainstream they again tried to do something at the sharp end of the field, by creating HL Alyx.
I don’t know what would prompt them to ever make a HL3 if such a thing even exists.
- Comment on Half Life 3 2 weeks ago:
Duke Nukem Forever was the victim of this (among other issues). Expectations were so high, by the time it finally released it couldn’t do anything but be an absolute failure. It still sold well, because of the hype, but the game was total trash and ruined any chances of a new Duke Nukem for a long time. Part of it is also internal, the game gets delayed, people get hyped up and voice their expectations. The devs hear those expectations and see their game doesn’t live up to it and delay the game to make it better. It’s an endless race you can’t ever win.
- Comment on Medieval Doomsday Weapon 2 weeks ago:
A longer stick would be preferrable
- Comment on neptune 2 weeks ago:
Diamonds aren’t actually worth that much. It has a very troubled history involving exploitation and slavery among other disturbing subjects. The price is kept artificially high by a huge cartel and good marketing saying artificial diamonds aren’t as good as the “real” diamonds. In reality artificial diamonds are better in every way, but I guess it’s the slavery that adds that je ne sais quoi.
- Comment on That same classic rock 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Microsoft open sources MS-DOS 4.0 3 weeks ago:
Dosbox runs just fine on a Raspberry Pi or similar
- Comment on Bugs me when audiobook series do this 3 weeks ago:
Voice actors are busy sometimes, it happens.
I’m still mad about what Amazon did to Ray Porter on Bobiverse 5. Ray said he was super busy and might not be available, they pressured him to finish the reading on schedule anyways. Then somebody at Amazon decided the release date is going to be September 5th. So there was no reason to put Ray on a deadline and could have just let him figure out his own schedule.
- Comment on tremendous 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Putin Orders Russian Tech Companies To Somehow Make Competitive Game Console In 3 Months 5 weeks ago:
Sorry guys, we’re under dictator rule now. We should be getting some food coupons next week, otherwise we’ll starve. If only xxx_Epicl33tGamer69_xxx didn’t let us down in the big game last night. Oh well, such is life.
- Comment on Animals 5 weeks ago:
It’s never lupus
