spongebue
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- Comment on My Local Public Tennis Court Requires Online Registration 2 weeks ago:
I’m not seeing anything about it being an HOA park either
- Comment on My Local Public Tennis Court Requires Online Registration 2 weeks ago:
If it’s tall enough to keep tennis balls in, I’d rather not 😬
- Comment on My Local Public Tennis Court Requires Online Registration 2 weeks ago:
If there’s a unique code for the gate as OP says, it sounds like it is otherwise locked
- Comment on Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small? 2 weeks ago:
I mean, that’s just an issue of notation. OP could have just as easily meant 0.10 but chopped off the trailing zero out of habit.
- Comment on Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small? 2 weeks ago:
I think that being impaired with anything above 0 is illegal. You could be at .06 but have such a low tolerance that it affects you pretty badly and get cited for it. But 0.08+ is automatically considered impaired, no matter how good your tolerance may be, if you get tested at that level.
- Comment on Why in America is .08 the legal limit for drunk driving? How come it's not an even 0.10? Who decided at what level being drunk starts? Then 4 beers of 12oz's is 0.08 why is it that small? 2 weeks ago:
All things criminal are illegal, but not all things illegal are criminal. Speeding and other traffic violations are illegal, but they’re not criminal. Overstaying your visa (most common form of illegal immigration) is, IIRC a civil violation but it’s not a criminal one either.
That said, I don’t think what the initial post said is entirely true either and will make that a separate reply.
- Comment on Non-stick pans? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been very curious to try nitrided carbon steel, but am having trouble finding one that’s dishwasher safe 😔
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
He also lives in a low cost of living area
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
He didn’t, but now that I think about it he has another business still in the industry (don’t want to be too specific) and that may help too. Really not familiar enough with his businesses’ finances to say 🙂
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
One of my old Internet friends from years ago did, and got very involved in the industry. He seems to be doing very well for himself, but I’ve seen him comment on a Facebook post where people were saying you can only become a millionaire by starting a laundromat if you started off as a billionaire
- Comment on Has anyone ever actually had their vehicle tabs stolen? 4 weeks ago:
I had my plates stolen several years ago, if that counts!
- Comment on I went to a zoo today 5 weeks ago:
With such a strictly utilitarian outlook on life, I bet you’re a joy at parties. Why even bring one of your favorite foods to share when that’s supposed to be the host’s job?
- Comment on People who work in medical offices, has anyone ever called to verify a doctor note for work or school? 1 month ago:
There are quite a few exceptions built into HIPAA. I’m sure there would be something as you describe, but also there are things like if a crime occurred on the premises of the provider (or whatever) and they think they recognize the person in their security footage as a patient, they can give that information to law enforcement (as one would expect with non-healthcare organizations).
Another is that if someone is talking with a patient in a double room with only a curtain separating, someone overhearing the conversation is considered incidental and not a HIPAA violation
- Comment on What does non-gui mean ? 1 month ago:
There’s also voice user interfaces! I’m not sure if it goes by another name, but blind people have their own way of using a phone, plus there’s a lot of voice control when driving or using Alexa and the like
- Comment on Would you want to be Michael Jackson-level famous? Why or why not? 2 months ago:
I’m a white guy who went to a wedding in rural India. That attention alone got to be a bit much after a few days.
Also, I would have to be stupidly careful about pretty much everything. Hackers would actually think to target me AND could have an incentive to do so knowing I’ve got money (gained by fraud or blackmail if I’m not careful). In my current life I go to clothing-optional places pretty regularly (not a sex club or anything) and that would pretty much have to stop.
Just let me be rich in a way that nobody knows it, preferably not even my own friends.
- Comment on Why is AI dialogue so fucking bad? 2 months ago:
the dialogue sounds awful
The dialogue sounds truly, truly awful
the dialogue is unbelievably repetitive
repeat the same lines
🤔
- Comment on What do you think realistically would happen the moment we meet extraterrestrials? 2 months ago:
Trying to overcome language barriers, probably.
- Comment on tech never works for long 3 months ago:
Well, I’m not talking about cameras. I’m asking about my oven not because I think I shouldn’t care about it, but because I genuinely want to know why I should. Like, I can’t imagine some algorithm is saying “guys, this guy set his oven to 350 an hour before dinner, we got him!”
- Comment on tech never works for long 3 months ago:
What time you usually cook, so the best time to show you other advertisements
I guess I can grant you that they would learn that I eat dinner around dinner time, maybe a little later than most but also not abnormally so.
or if you’re in the store once super targeted customer by customer pricing gets implemented (it’s already in place in many locations)
I’ve seen that stores want to be able to adjust prices based on time of day or whatever, and my store has mostly switched to eink price labels so it’s a matter of time… But per person? How are they supposed to offer one price to me and another to someone reaching for the gallon of milk at the same time?
- Comment on tech never works for long 3 months ago:
Honest question though: what of real value can a company gain by knowing that I turned my oven to 350, or that I switched my air conditioning on? Assuming app permissions match what’s needed and I’m not giving up my contacts or whatever. Or is that a more common issue than I realize?
- Comment on How would society look like with no companies at all and every single thing is free? 3 months ago:
Remember when toilet paper disappeared from store shelves because a respiratory virus was making its way to everyone? Eventually people realized they had toilet paper, the factories kept producing it, and the shelves recovered and we all agreed that was stupid.
Now imagine nobody has a reason/reasonable way to make their own toilet paper, and whatever toilet paper is available is up for grabs.
Now imagine that with pretty much everything else.
- Comment on What's the deal with people liking old devices? 3 months ago:
You sure about that? 👀
- Comment on What's the deal with people liking old devices? 3 months ago:
I find a lot more “soul” in older electronics. So many devices today are a minimalist thing with a touchscreen (or worse, thing controlled by your phone), probably designed to force you into a subscription. At least consumerism from a few decades ago operated by innovating to make you want to buy a new product, rather than designing it to be a trap.
Going back to the “soul” bit: I recently bought a Bang and Olufsen Beosystem 2500 (look it up) for my office. It’s a stereo from the very early 90s that cost thousands of dollars in its day. It sounds amazing, and has little touches that just make it cool. Like motorized glass doors that are motion activated, with warm accent lighting when the unit is on. The tape player didn’t work when I bought it, but I was able to replace the belt and now my childhood Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego soundtrack tape is playable again!
- Comment on Do RICH people of color ever get harassed by ICE? 4 months ago:
For what it’s worth, off duty cops who aren’t white were getting harassed by ICE in the Minneapolis area. Little different than class, but still something.
- Comment on Avocado. Is it really so untasty or I am doing something wrong? 4 months ago:
At least in the Americas, you don’t buy avocado for sweetness. It’s basically a replacement for fat (with fats of it’s own). Think turkey bacon avocado, for example: turkey is a leaner meat, avocado supplements that, and bacon adds flavor and saltiness.
If you must get something sweet out of it, I’ve had good luck mixing it with a sprinkle of sugar, a splash of lime juice, and a little hot sauce if you want to be frisky.
- Comment on BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games (Demon's Souls/Shadow of the Colossus remakes) 5 months ago:
BREAKING
- Comment on Is it really dangerous to fall sleep in the bath? 5 months ago:
It’s a battle of evolution: we lost our ability to do that, but have a decent reflex to catch ourselves from danger. It’s why I don’t fall off a bed. Even when that bed is a hammock on top of a tree.
- Comment on Is it really dangerous to fall sleep in the bath? 5 months ago:
Cool! I’m not entirely sure because I know little about it, but you may have actually brought up a valid point! It’s a shame we had to climb a mountain of snark and smartassery to get to that possibility.
- Comment on Is it really dangerous to fall sleep in the bath? 5 months ago:
Can you wake up?
- Comment on Is it really dangerous to fall sleep in the bath? 5 months ago:
In Korea they say not to leave a fan running overnight. Why? Because it will blow the oxygen away and you’ll suffocate.
Doesn’t mean it’s true.