FireRetardant

@FireRetardant@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon describes their dream home⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Everybody wants that edge of city and country feel. It makes them feel like they don’t live in the city but they still have all the amenities a city offers close by. And thus the Suburban experiment was born and has ultimately destroyed north american cities and created an affordability crisis for housing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bros being bros⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You should make it more like 12-16hrs. What if they get drunk and high again at the same time tomorrow?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You cannot learn without failing.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or “your research results will hurt my profits, this media campaign will slander your credibility. We’ll do our own research, with blackjack and hookers, and bribed results”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trump crashing the economy, Trump dying from whatever, Vance taking over and taking credit for any kind of recovery sounds almost like its planned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are any calls without caller ID legit?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whenever I call 911, my phone notifies my that blocked numbers will be able to call for a little bit after dialing 911.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are any calls without caller ID legit?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to set my phone as a private number. I’d have to call customers sometimes to confirm times or discuss jobs, but most customers didn’t need access to my direct number and we’d rather them contact the office than contact me directly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fisk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not 100% sure but the fish kinda looks like a lingcod, also known as a burbot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The reduced speed limit should come with traffic calming relative to the speed limit. If a through road has a 20 MPH zone that area should have lane narrowing and at least raised crossings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t have to lose full control. They could be following too closely and swerve onto the sidewalk to avoid a collision with a car and end up striking a pedestrian.

  Speeders will stick out even more making them easier to spot in traffic. The reduced speed limit should also be accompanied by lane narrowing, speed humps, and other traffic calming techniques.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Higher speeds can cause drivers to lose control of their cars. People are killed on the side walks by drunk or speeding drivers frequently. Instead of blame shifting we should be taking steps to make the whole system safer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wales’s 20mph speed limit has cut road deaths. Why is there still even a debate?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “I just don’t see why the neighborhoods next to the school should also be school zones. Most of the kids are dropped off by cars anyway cause its too unsafe for them to walk” - a North American NIMBY

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also access to shaving products and accessories is getting easier. Hand held electric razors are getting smaller and can do a lot of the work before a blade makes a smooth finish.

  That said, as a male i hate shaving my privates smooth. I find the hair acts as a natural lubricant, without hair everything either gets sticky or feels slimy down there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If he tried he may accidently crush them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would he have 6 limbs otherwise?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I like to keep one around if i need to clear an abandoned mineshaft. Sometimes its worth it as a way to reroll your enchants while still getting something you can use early on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would he have 6 limbs otherwise?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If that were true, wouldn’t the bane of arthopods enchantment deal extra damage to the dragon?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some laws exist if everyone is expected to just break them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Both times I’ve ever been pulled over for speeding the road was empty except me and i was going the average speed people drive on them. 3 people doing 20 over, a cop can shrug and say i don’t wanna pick one to ticket. A single car not only sticks out as speeding more easily, but there also isn’t much of an excuse for the cop not to pull them over.

  Counter intuitively, its easier to get away with speeding when the roads are busy because you blend in. The biggest things you want to avoid when speeding and busy is agressive behaviors and frequent passing. Make it seem more casual and you will blend in with the flow of traffic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some laws exist if everyone is expected to just break them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But doing 55 in a 65 isn’t unreasonable, and 95 is pretty fast and at that speed handling can become difficult on cheap or poorly maintained cars.

  There are also conditions where 30 is what you’ll do on a highway if its a blizzard and you’re stuck behind a plow truck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some laws exist if everyone is expected to just break them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Certainly cheaper than paying for a police cruiser and all their equipment and wages. Its also less likely for the camera to be racist, be bribed, or shoot someone.

  Cars are so common and speeding ignored for long we’d probably need at least double the amount of cops to enfroce traffic if we got rid of red light and speeding cameras.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some laws exist if everyone is expected to just break them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It honestly frustrates me so much with the speed limit thing. On a societal level, speed (and differences in speed) tend to be one of the biggest factors in car crashes, so ignoring speeding is just accepting more dangerous roads.

  On a peronal level, i try to do the limit or maybe 5-10 over (20 over is the norm in my area, even in school zones). The really frustrating part is as soon as i act like everyone else a try to do 20 over i get a ticket and my insurance goes up. This is frustrating becauae it just feels as if I’m being punished for doing what most people consider to be “safe” and normal. If it was drastically obvious that 20 over is faster than the flow of the traffic, it would feel a lot less frustrating if i get a ticket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel stupid asking this. But cities and countries who have smog and a major amount of air pollution. Why doesn't the wind blow it away or move it overtime? Is there that much pollution?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are also weather conditions that reduce air flow, sometimes for days at a time, where very little wind blows and a bubble of air keeps a lot of the pollution over the city.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes on a first date⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never claimed to be embarrassed, i just claimed it isn’t my most interesting feature and don’t put it forward when meeting someone new. Id rather talk about my job or other more interesting hobbies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes on a first date⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think the poster has issues with video games, it seems their issue is I don’t prioritize sharing my gaming experiences before sharing my more interesting qualities. I guess i should just have a list of every game I’ve ever played and every tv show I’ve ever watched ready for my next first date that way I don’t “embellish” my lifestyle by saying I like to fish on the weekends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dunkin' added achievements to their mobile app⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dunkin loot boxes when?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes on a first date⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not embellishing anything. Ice fishing is a hobby I am more interested in and enjoy more than gaming. I have more good stories about ice fishing than I do about gaming. I also find it leaves more potential to further the conversation. Maybe she likes to fish on a boat in the summer, or maybe they have experiences from their childhood ice fishing they want to share.

  I am a very outdoors person and I’d like my partner to be the same, so when I meet a potential partner, i like to start by finding out if they have any outdoor passions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes on a first date⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t lie about who I am, i just put forward my more interesting qualities before admiting i play 2 hours of minecraft a day. I also don’t participate in online dating.

  I’d also rather a girl recomend we go ice fishing together as a date than play a game online as a date, so i often put forward my hobbies that are easier to do with other people, like mountain biking or going to a rock climbing gym in hopes of finding some common interests we can share in person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes on a first date⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ive met girls who spend most of their free time gaming complain things like “all he does is game, hes going no where”. Some people have dumb standards for first impressions or are just straight up hypocrites.

  That said, in our hyper competitive online dating bullshit timeline, OP should have thought of one of their more interesting skills and hobbys, even if they don’t do it as often. Something like “sometime i cook a nice dinner on fridays” or “i like to ice fish in the winter” could have gathered more interest than just games. Even sticking to the gaming genre but mentioning a weekly board game meet sounds more attractive than solo gaming. It isn’t necessarily the most fair but we gotta sell our selves even more when trying to connect digitally. There is no body language or other aspects to observe, your handful of pictures and texting is all you got to make a shot, for example, I game more than i ice fish, gaming is less commitment in time, energy, and money, but ice fishing is the more interesting and skill diverse hobby so I’d choose that over gaming for first impressions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Soviet playground! Is fun! Go play on playground while Papa reads Pushkin.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A great tag/grounders arena

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you save, we will charge you more⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Connecting infrastructure costs roughly the same to maintain regardless if 10 amps or 1000 amps is running through it. The crypto miner pays the same fee for their standard service connection then pays per Kwh just like everybody else. Other customers are not subsidizing their connection nor their power.

  By your logic, you are subsidizing anyone who uses more power than you and you are being subsidized by anyone using less power than you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you save, we will charge you more⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  An industrial facility to the scale you are refering to will likely have its own electrical substation. Either maintained by the facility itself or contracted out to the power supplier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyrim teaches a Lemmy user about fascist propaganda⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Its rumored the aldmeri dominion tries to keep the war going. Both sides are mostly made up of nords from Skyrim. The civil war helps keep the empire weak while also pitting a group known to hate elves against each other. Many stormcloaks would glady fight along with imperials if they were spilling high elf blood.