chiliedogg
@chiliedogg@lemmy.world
- Comment on Tru 1 hour ago:
I love the concept of having negative money in a bank account. When I was younger, dumber, and poorer, I’d look at my bank account and think, “Man, all I need is another $220. Then I’ll finally be flat-out broke.”
- Comment on I'm doing my part 1 day ago:
It’s essentially banned in Vegas because cocktail waitstaff would riot.
- Comment on Supermarkets destroy food if it doesn't sell. We can always feed the world. We just don't. 1 day ago:
Supermarkets should be able to write off the expenses (transportation, stagging, etc) related to donating soon-to-expire foods to food banks. And not just normal income deductions, but actual direct deductions from taxes. That is, if you spend $1000 loading and shipping expired food to the food bank, you pay $1,000 less in taxes.
Truly incentivize giving food to the poor.
- Comment on Good point 1 week ago:
If it was legal, it wouldn’t exist because all the sharks would be dead.
- Comment on Lort 1 week ago:
Is he praying or hiding from a school shooter?
- Comment on Nature > Modern Technology, return to monke 1 week ago:
Maybe they need their hands to vault over the back fence?
- Comment on Aerosol 2 weeks ago:
Everywhere you went felt like a bowling alley.
- Comment on Guerrilla plantfare 2 weeks ago:
When I was in Alabama, my whole life felt like it revolved around 1 rule:
“Don’t turn your back on the Kudzu.”
- Comment on The ride of a lifetime 2 weeks ago:
Never turn your back on them. If one gets in the house just drive away and start a new life.
- Comment on Well done, all of you! 2 weeks ago:
It’s not about making sure I’m close. It’s about not increasing the traffic issues.
If you’re working so hard to keep multiple car-lengths of distance in congested traffic, you’re required to travel slower than traffic. The lane you’re in travels more slowly for anyone behind you.
Yeah, people in the next lane over can pull in front of you and relieve traffic in that lane, but that just results in more lane switching in front of and behind you, leading to more fender benders.
- Comment on Well done, all of you! 2 weeks ago:
You try to keep 3 car spaces in front of you. Someone pulls in front of you, so now there’s only 2 place spaces. So when traffic starts moving again, you stay still and wait for there to be 3 spaces. Then somebody pulls in front of you, so there’s only 2 spaces in front of you, so you stop and wait for there to be 3 spaces in front of you.
Everybody behind you is going slower now because you won’t match the speed of traffic.
- Comment on Mr Incognito 2 weeks ago:
Get really into 3D printing like I did. Then all your cheap-looking plastic crap can actually be expensive office kitsch in disguise.
- Comment on Im pretty sure Charlie Kirk would have called for your execution 2 weeks ago:
Is that users or cooks?
I do not know, but I’ve been told meth labs smell like cat piss.
- Comment on Well done, all of you! 2 weeks ago:
That just invites people to keep pulling in front of you, and now you’re driving slowly while the lane in front of you is moving faster, and you’ve become the traffic jam.
- Comment on That's a no 2 weeks ago:
That’s faster for everyone though. While they’re using the low-traffic lane, they aren’t taking up more space in the backed-up lane. It’s the people switching early that are the assholes.
This does not apply if it’s an exit. Then they’re just driving in the wrong lane.
- Comment on bummer 2 weeks ago:
That’s really not fair.
Every day, campus resource officers bravely send kids through the criminal justice system and fuck up their entire lives for minor infractions.
- Comment on Anon is incompatible 2 weeks ago:
I do have a 2-ended USB drive with A and C and it’s glorious.
- Comment on He's an arborist 2 weeks ago:
Because it’s oak-wilt season, right?
- Comment on Hello 911, it's me again 3 weeks ago:
Upgraded to box wine?
- Comment on They just made the winning bid 3 weeks ago:
I review bids for government frequently. The requirement is to accept the lowest bid that meets all the requirements. The thing is, if the requirements aren’t written well, it can be a very, very bad deal.
For instance we bid out for a janitorial contract where the bid did not include refilling cleaner bottles from the dispenser in the janitorial closet, so we had to accept a bid where that wasn’t included, and they charged us $60 every time they topped off the bottles.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Tell that to devs. Motherfucking Slay the Spire 2 runs like dogshit on my 1st-gen ROG Ally.
- Comment on that's some fucking aerodynamics bro 3 weeks ago:
RVs also have shockingly little weight capacity on the roofs. The walls are super thin, mostly foam, and there’s no structural support in the middle because that’s where the people go.
- Comment on Anon is a paramedic 3 weeks ago:
I’ve lost several people to suicide. The hardest was a good friend I’d known for years and who had been my roommate one summer.
That one was 25 years ago and it still hurts.
- Comment on i'm fucking devastated but there are no exception 3 weeks ago:
When I was a preacher I did a sermon based on that episode. It’s such an accurate picture of a teenager finding a social group that happened to be at church. And Hank accurately calls out how shallow that kind of social faith is.
At the end of the episode, Hank pulls out a box of crap from fads Bobby had been into and talked about how he didn’t want Bobby’s spirituality to end up in that box.
For millions of people, church is basically a club where they meet with their friends, and since the church is still the most racially segregated place in America, that’s a problem.
The “Christian Club” mentality is what allowed the rise of the religious right, when churches should be vocal about justice for the the sick, the poor, and the foreigners.
- Comment on GOAT 3 weeks ago:
Their falling out was literally about Epstein recruiting one of Trump’s underage “locker room attendants.”
- Comment on Stay inside 3 weeks ago:
I remember having working joints and an obedient spine.
Those were good days.
- Comment on Lefty tax 3 weeks ago:
Absolutely.
When I was a retail manager any manager like that would have been out the door. Their job is to make it possible for the floor people to do their jobs, and part of that is protecting their staff from asshole customers.
Even when our people screwed up, we didn’t tolerate abuse of our staff. If the customer has a legitimate complaint they can be civil about it. Otherwise they’re welcome to leave. Even from a pure business perspective, you can’t tolerate abuse. New staff costs more than assholes spend.
- Comment on Cultural impact 4 weeks ago:
The end action sequence was just the end action sequences from the first 2 films stacked on top of each other.
The thing is, it was still visually gorgeous, and I loved watching it in the theatre. Avatar is eye candy, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
Oh - and I do think the idea of trees with shared root systems forming a planet-wide distributed consciousness is actually pretty awesome sci-fi.
- Comment on what’s your best “nitric acid acts upon trousers” moment? 4 weeks ago:
Friend thought water on a grease fire was only bad because some flaming grease would get washed away, so threw a bucket of water at a grease fire from a fish fry over a big concrete patio. He thought it may spread, but that it would be something he could then stamp out pretty easily.
And that’s how he learned the ignition point of oil is way higher than the boiling point of water and that steam explosions are exciting.
Fortunately, he mostly missed with the water, so singed eyebrows (and probably stained pants), were all the damage.
- Comment on Money Saving Tips 💰 5 weeks ago:
Fuel efficiency rules are idiotic now. The automakers used to classify everything as a truck to get around fuel efficiency regulations. The PT Cruiser being classified as a truck was the last straw, so the regs were changed beginning in 2012 to base fuel economy off of vehicle footprint to keep automakers from reclassifying vehicles. But that change had the consequence of effectively outlawing small trucks. Suddenly a sedan has less-strict economy standards than a compact van or truck.
Notice how the small truck segment disappeared in 2012, and when the Ranger came back in like 2018-ish, there were models of it larger than older F150s? It’s because the manufacturers learned they could just make the trucks bigger to get around standards.
It’s also why around 2021/2022 all the compact cargo vans (NV200, Transit Connect, ProMaste4 City) were discontinued. The regulations essentially outlawed small vans designed to haul heavy loads.