chiliedogg
@chiliedogg@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hello 911, it's me again 23 hours ago:
Upgraded to box wine?
- Comment on They just made the winning bid 2 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 4 days 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 5 days ago:
Their falling out was literally about Epstein recruiting one of Trump’s underage “locker room attendants.”
- Comment on Stay inside 6 days ago:
I remember having working joints and an obedient spine.
Those were good days.
- Comment on Lefty tax 1 week 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 1 week 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? 2 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 💰 2 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.
- Comment on Gold 2 weeks ago:
Any way you slice it gold would be less-valuable.
Asteroid mining is good for resource gathering, not accumulation of wealth. And even then it’s much more useful for resource gathering for use in space than on Earth. If you can launch once, then mine, process, and use the resources without having to do more launches and landings it’s much more efficient. Then you’d start manufacturing in space to further reduce the amount of required launches.
- Comment on Depluralize 2 weeks ago:
He’s not actually one of the 3.
- Comment on Depluralize 2 weeks ago:
That’s actually the name of a horrible film that’s shot like a mix of a TV pilot for a 3 Musketeers series, but with a bunch of 90s-style Hong Kong fight choreography.
- Comment on Depluralize 2 weeks ago:
Self-love?
- Comment on 4 rules of firearm safety 2 weeks ago:
I used to be a gun salesman.
One day I’m in the back mounting scopes and a customer’s rifle gets delivered to me with the rings and scope. First thing I do it go back out front and have the customer shoulder the rifle so I can see where his eye sits.
I then spend time carefully mounting and leveling the scope, use the bore-sighter to get it zero-ish at 100 yards (enough to hit paper - then the customer finishes at the range), and it’s looking real good.
Last thing I do it work the action to make sure everything still has clearance, and a chrome-plated 300 Win Mag cartidge comes out of the gun.
That gun made it through the firearms check-in, at least 1 other sales guy, to me, back to the customer, and back to me again. We’re supposed to check the rifle every time, and that round made it into the gun. Closest I can figure is people weren’t working the action all the way, and at some point one of us did after seeing the silver color thinking it was the mag follower, and in the process loaded the chamber.
My asshole was puckered for a solid day, but it also spoke to how effective the rules are. Even though multiple people fucked up, following the rest of the rules kept it from actually being dangerous.
- Comment on try out my AI agent bro, it'll change your life bro, I swear... 3 weeks ago:
And the handles are on shafts that are long enough you wouldn’t want a handle.
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 3 weeks ago:
I loved my S10. It was the best vehicle I ever had.
I bought it in 2005 for $3,000 with 42k miles on it because the previous owner’s dad was a drunk and kept rubbing the side of it pulling in and out of the driveway. I didn’t care that the paint looked bad, and I drove that truck for 11 years. I sopd it when the engine gave up the ghost, but kinda wished I’d just paid for the repair instead of buying the Colorado, which I was never really pleased with.
I’ve loved the NV200 though. I teach scuba as a side gig and it makes a great dive gear hauler.
- Comment on amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity 3 weeks ago:
If a company is publicly traded it’s evil because their business model depends on infinite growth. If you’re an investor in a publicly traded company that nets 1,000% profit year over year, your stock may still be effectively worthless because stability is bad for traders.
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 3 weeks ago:
Correct. I meant the Colorado, which they took off the market for the 2013 and 2014 models to redesign as a larger truck. Ford did the same thing.
That was a particularly dumb error on my part, BTW. I owned a 2001 S10 and 2012 Colorado. Now I own a 2020 NV200.
If I buy a car, it apparently gets discontinued soon afterwards.
- Comment on Anon goes back to Windows 10 3 weeks ago:
Because it doesn’t matter if 95% of the software you use works fine on Linux or Mac if you need that last 5% tondo your work.
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 3 weeks ago:
In 2012 the federal fuel economy standards were changed to no longer consider the classification of vehicle, but just its footprint. So suddenly a Corolla had less-strict fuel economy requirements than a small truck.
So the Ranger, Dakota, S-10, etc were all discontinued, and manufacturers learned that the easiest way to meet fuel economy standards was to make the vehicles bigger every time the requirements increase.
It’s also why around 2022, every small cargo van (NV200, Transit Express, ProMaster City) stopped being produced. It’s also why the Maverick has the “standard” model as the hybrid while the one you can actually find at the dealers is the “upgrade” traditional engine.
- Comment on load bearing worm 5 weeks ago:
This is why I’m a geographer. I get to gleefully embrace my role as generalist who fanboys over real science.
- Comment on You okay babe? 5 weeks ago:
How else are we supposed to pay oil companies and Monsanto massive subsidies to encourage them to keep participating in their wildly profitable businesses?
- Comment on You okay babe? 5 weeks ago:
No - they just pretend taxes are lower to justify not using the tax money responsibly to provide social services.
Between federal income tax, social security, and medicaid my taxes come out to about 40% off the top. Then I have to pay state sales tax, local taxes, and in many states people also have to pay state sales tax.
- Comment on Amazon started hiding ratings for some products 1 month ago:
My favorite example is the Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act, which requires manufacturers to honor warranty on products that you or a third party have worked on in the past unless the manufacturer can prove that the specific malfunction for which you’re seeking warranty service was caused by the previous repair or modification.
- Comment on Open Carry Loophole 1 month ago:
I usually use a summoning circle drawn from the blood of carrier pigeons.
- Comment on Miss me 1 month ago:
Yeah - the old, retired people wasting money on slots is definitely a thing, but another side of the market are people who are desperate and don’t see any way of elevating themselves out of poverty except to win big.
And gambling companies are 100% willing to take advantage of those people and take whatever they have.
- Comment on Wing boy 1 month ago:
They’d better be for turning the page.
Because eating wings with chopsticks is like putting ice in milk. It ain’t right.