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- Comment on Car sales manager sacked after standing up to rude customer wins £21,000 8 hours ago:
It doesn’t deserve a firing, and I’m very glad they sided with the manager, especially one protecting his employees from an abusive customer. How far do you have to push your mechanic for them to start making assertions about your character?
Incredibly annoying that the company also paid the customer off, but it’s good they see there are consequences for insisting your staff take abuse.
- Comment on Baby's not letting you off the hook 3 days ago:
@brem@lemmy.world is looking at this like thirteenth century Swabia ( pages 3-4 of the PDF aaaaalllll the way at the bottom/pages 95-96 in the document itself).
Or here
- Comment on May not buff out 4 days ago:
Juck around and tind out
- Comment on Loosing my religion 6 days ago:
There’s the one about a fan, but that’s also kind of about a girl
- Comment on [Korean] Police officer accused of destroying evidence in son’s murder case 1 week ago:
It’s wild that you’re just allowed to destroy evidence that a relative committed a crime
- Comment on Rough sleeping decriminalised as Vagrancy Act finally axed 1 week ago:
The government has repealed the archaic act, which was first introduced in 1824 to deal with soldiers on the streets following the Napoleonic Wars, after years of campaigning from Big Issue and other homelessness organisations.
I grew up at a time when homeless people were frequently determined to be Vietnam veterans, and I thought it was because of the draft. Then as a young adult, I saw an episode of The West Wing with a homeless and presumably traumatized Korean War veteran and realized that this had been going on longer than I knew.
I really wasn’t expecting to see evidence of it from the napoleonic wars, but to be fair, I bet there were Punic War veterans who struggled to readjust to life in peacetime.
- Comment on ‘Degrading’: why did a US fighter pilot avoid British trial after strangling a woman in England? 2 weeks ago:
There are too many snippets that are ridiculous, you should really read the article, but here are a few:
The jury – who heard the case in April this year at RAF Lakenheath, the largest US base in Britain – was a panel of eight air force officers.
All were stationed on the same base as Wulfson. All were men.
The panel’s president, equivalent to a jury foreman, was the chief of the squadron that maintains the jets flown by Wulfson. Another panel member had been acquitted of sexual offences at a court martial several years earlier.
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In his opening statement, [defense attorney] Bilecki confidently asserted: “This is a play for money,” saying his client had been “set up for money”. Steele repeatedly denied this. She said she had applied to the scheme – and had still not received a decision – to cover loss of wages arising from difficulties going back to work after the assault.
The prosecution described Bilecki’s theory as absurd. By his closing submissions, he seemed less confident in this aspect of his case. “Do I know if she’s doing this for money? I don’t know,” he said.
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Due to specific requirements under US law, the intimate images and report detailing the forensic examination of Steele’s vagina shortly after the alleged assault were not admissible as evidence.
- Comment on Sir Keir Starmer resigns as prime minister 2 weeks ago:
No worries, it’s kind of a silly question, because there’s definitely no “ideal” version of this ban, but these bills have such significant propaganda associated with them, I’m interested if there are other big problems that are more hidden.
- Comment on Sir Keir Starmer resigns as prime minister 2 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, maybe I wasn’t clear. I’m well aware of the privacy concerns and that’s the main reason I don’t support these bans.
The person I was responding to suggested that they could be implemented without privacy infringement, but they still didn’t support them, so I wanted to know their reasoning.
- Comment on Sir Keir Starmer resigns as prime minister 2 weeks ago:
Then can I ask why you’re against the ban? We know that social media has a negative effect on children, we know they have particular difficulty stopping use on their own, and we know that kids are very often more tech savvy than their parents, so a ban from the parents won’t necessarily be effective. My primary concern with bans has been the privacy incursions, but if that’s out of the equation, it seems pretty similar to age-based tobacco, marijuana, alcohol, or gambling restrictions to me.
I’m well aware that politicians try to make these bills seem reasonable though, so there’s a good chance I’m missing some of the consequences. I can also understand (though respectfully disagree) if you’re just maintaining consistency and you’re also against other age-based restrictions.
- Comment on Lifeguards 2 weeks ago:
Ooh, next you could match cops against firefighters!
- Comment on Anon tries to break the ice 2 weeks ago:
People definitely do interpret customer service as flirting though
- Comment on Anon tries to break the ice 2 weeks ago:
I think he means she’s processing his items at the cash register
- Comment on Anon is a child prodigy 3 weeks ago:
Very dependent on what they’re jacking off to, unfortunately.
- Comment on Turkish Delights 3 weeks ago:
They sound so good in the narnia series, but then you remember they were written during rationing and Lewis’ taste had probably adjusted enough that he was happy about any kind of sweet.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I did ask him about it and he admitted it, but if he had done it with his own brain, it would have been worse, because we went over it in class a bunch first and he was capable of it then.
It was totally pointless though, because the homework was for extra credit. Luckily, I didn’t have to pursue it further, but there are some programs that would have expelled him for it. I can understand that, but I don’t think things would be much improved if he got expelled for it.
I just told him to stop being an idiot, because he’s not learning anything and the other teachers are probably better at spotting it. He was relatively dismissive at first, but he really didn’t learn very much German during a study abroad year, which is actively difficult to do. Now that they’re leaving, he’s realized that he didn’t get much out of the year, academically. Not a big deal, but he’s going to delay his graduation and see some minor consequences. Hopefully it’ll get his head on straight.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I had a student give me handwritten homework for German class. He’d written directions, and there was no instance of the word “left,” but the word ”remaining” was in every other sentence. It was very obvious
- Comment on It's honestly fine, you're overthinking it! 3 weeks ago:
I talked in depth with a doctor friend about this, and there’s a chance it works, but it’s most likely just your immune system and you paying more attention to keeping your feet dry
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Babies trapped women far more than marriage could
- Comment on WOMEN. 3 weeks ago:
If anyone disagrees, I’d love to hear your reasoning, because this is now stuck in my brain.
I don’t want to become stupider, but if I had the choice between finding out today that my IQ is and always has been 70 and that it is and always has been 170, I’d be much less disappointed in myself with the former. Obviously, if I could then learn how to harness it, that would be different, but it’s not like I haven’t been trying my whole life to do well and use my talents.
- Comment on WOMEN. 3 weeks ago:
Nah, that would be great news. Being dumber than anyone you’ve ever met makes you less responsible for things like climate change and political violence than the people around you (morally, at least; you’re probably literally more of a cause, because you’re more likely to be right wing, but if you’ve already jumped that hurdle, maybe you aren’t). Plus, if your own life is a wreck, it feels better to blame an inherent limitation than something you could change, if only you had the discipline. If your own life is great, you’ve overcome a serious obstacle and should be proud of yourself.
- Comment on It's honestly fine, you're overthinking it! 3 weeks ago:
I had a housemate who insisted the best way to treat his athlete’s foot was to piss on his feet in the shower.
- Comment on Fitness experts: You can't out-exercise a bad diet......The entire U.S. military: 4 weeks ago:
I went to a community folk dance and fell in love, then started dancing for fourteen hours a week. I went from a BMI of 25.5 to 19 and lost forty pounds within four months, at which point I started to worry and eat to bulk up, but I literally could not eat enough food to gain weight back.
Then the pandemic hit and I gained a lot of weight the first month, until I adjusted my diet. I don’t dance anymore as a negative side effect of my very positive international move, but I do now get enough exercise to relatively easily adjust my food intake to gain, maintain, or lose weight when I want.
- Comment on [politics] she never recovered 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know who that is, but it’s incredible nominative onomatopoeia. She does look like a fucking Punsie
- Comment on Pizza 🌟 4 weeks ago:
It’s also partially just the truth of supply chains. I’m from the US, but live in Germany and the peaches here are simply always going to be more expensive for a worse peach (I’m sure somewhere in Italy or Spain can produce good peaches, but I haven’t had them yet).
- Comment on Pizza 🌟 4 weeks ago:
Slutty spaghetti
- Comment on Wait bro, what if?????? 4 weeks ago:
That’s a reasonable opinion, and I honestly don’t know how to determine why I like the songs I like, nor do I feel qualified to identify a good beat (I was in the percussion section of my middle school band class for three years, but I’m a special case of nonmusicality, and nothing sank in), but there are a couple of Beatles songs with strong beats that occur to me. Maybe Love to You or Eight Days a Week, though the former is a more driving beat, imo.
Definitely don’t feel obligated to listen to music you don’t like, though please. I’m not a huge fan of the Beatles, I just grew up on them and find many of their songs enjoyable (if you ask me, Octopus Garden should be erased from our collective memory, though).
- Comment on Wait bro, what if?????? 4 weeks ago:
The Beatles were any good
George Harrison was a Beatle, and he was objectively a great musician.
I’m also personally obligated (happily so) to like Paul McCartney, because he befriended my cousin while he stayed at Sloan Kettering and taught him to play the guitar (my cousin was already skilled with string instruments, so he picked it up pretty well) over a period of months before he died. I’m not aware of him publicizing that (and my cousin was a rando in his late twenties- definitely too young to die, but not young enough to make a great news story, given that he was unmarried and had no kids) or getting any personal benefit from it other than being able to increase joy in a horrible situation.
So at least 2/4 (or 2/5, if you’re a Pete Best fan, I guess) are/were good in some way.
Plus, at least Blackbird and Eleanor Rigby are great songs IMO, but that’s less objective.
- Comment on Wait bro, what if?????? 4 weeks ago:
I can’t tell if you’re joking, but the one in “believed” now seems off and the one in “life” definitely seems right. I can’t quite tell about the other two, especially with how weird the I in “if” is generally.
- Comment on Rotund 4 weeks ago:
He looks like Alf
