LifeInMultipleChoice
@LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
- Comment on Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting? 1 day ago:
A gang is just a group of people who organize around a set of rules or beliefs and is considered to be illegal because they are operating outside the limits set by the current regime. Let’s use the Taliban as an example. Some people called them a terrorist organization that was by intents and proposes a gang. So when they are now called the Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan, and are recognized as the government leaders of Afghanistan, they no longer are performing illegal acts, because they make the laws. If an organization turns to seize control we change the name from gangs to rebel groups. Then rebel groups to government.
- Comment on Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting? 2 days ago:
That’s not all of it. But a government is just a gang as well. If you don’t pay taxes, you’ll be met by goons. Sure it’s more “civilized” but that’s only a mask to ensure people aren’t trying to overthrow them all the time. A Mon boss a monarchy are functionally the same are they not?
- Comment on I did not look up how progressive lenses really work before getting some. 4 days ago:
So as someone who’s mid 30s and was proscribed contacts at 18 and had one blow back into my eye while on a motorcycle, then another crack (probably from my misuse) and irritate my eye real bad, and just give up on wearing anything. At what age would you say I should draw a hard line of making sure I get something so my eyes will adapt properly. I still passed the eye test at the DMV, but it’s gotta be close. Somehow I don’t think my distance has gotten worse from 18-35 because I can still read text on street signs and captions on TVs.
Just figured I’d ask because your talk about 42 vs 60 adapting to lenses, or if I could just keep ignoring it and adapt when I do get glasses eventually.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 5 days ago:
I’ll meet you half way, we’ll not suggest you pay tips on taxes, but you will pay a $2.99 dining room fee to use our facilities. You can avoid this by doing pick up with a $1.99 convenience fee.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 5 days ago:
Yeah, what’s likely happening here is that the Tip numbers were told to calculated off the subtotal intentionally. So say you buy a “happy hour” drink and it is $3 instead of $6, they tip is calculated before the “discount”.
Their machine could have actually been wrong, but using a total before discounts seems more likely.
- Comment on Steam Banned A Horror Game Before It Could Launch, So Now It’s Free 1 week ago:
Oh cool, I wasnt sure about how much space and stuff it’ll take, I’ll book mark this and check this weekend maybe. Thanks for the info
- Comment on Steam Banned A Horror Game Before It Could Launch, So Now It’s Free 1 week ago:
How do you like the game so far?
- Comment on Why is land/sky so cleanly split between mammals/birds? 1 week ago:
Ducks seem to go and nest to lay anyways. Stick around one spot for up to 15 days of shitting out eggs, then sit for another 30 days waiting for them all to hatch. Sit rotate eggs sit barely leave. Then teach to swim etc before they do the whole flying away part
- Comment on No blowjobs please 1 week ago:
Do you sneeze when looking at a bright light? If not you can smell some ground pepper. I’m afraid that’s all it’ll take for me these days.
- Comment on True Motivation 1 week ago:
The numbers vary but most all agree about 50% of the homeless population were orphans. Studies also find that between 1/3-1/2 of orphans become homeless when they turn 18 and leave the shitty social network that clearly doesnt adequately help them be ready for life outside those places.
Those numbers will only get worse as well keep shifting more money to the upper class and cutting social safety programs.
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 1 week ago:
Just the list
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 1 week ago:
Here I was glad to see Trump didn’t insist on making it rose gold they didn’t have to change the name
- Comment on Yeasty 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t the water running just break it up and dissolve? Also the temperature outside in a metal dumpster is likely a lot better for proofing than down a drain in the ground with added water. At least I hope, because I know water/flour cakes up and is a pain to clean sometimes
- Comment on Yeasty 1 week ago:
I agree, but man flour has gone up. It’s probably around $1 for the 3 cups of flour and yeast to make a dough now. Even still, their losses are minimal compared to what they expected to make. Wish they’d just bake the over proofed bread and send it to a shelter though. May not be the best bread but just roll it into loafs real fast and it’ll taste fine
- Comment on Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS 2 weeks ago:
Only if you forget to return
- Comment on Social media has turned to s🔲t because of all the censoring 2 weeks ago:
There was something about the sensor ship being there that made me finally question why they were called rubber maids.
- Comment on Payment Processors Are Pressuring Major Gaming Vendors to Pull LGBTQ+ and NSFW Titles 2 weeks ago:
Can I subscribe for advanced sin stories
- Comment on And nothing of value was lost 2 weeks ago:
If we are taking it seriously, that lady is lucky to be alive let alone able to open a car door at a BAC of .42. Secondly if she was at a .42 and looked that well put together when they let her out of the drunk tank the next morning it’s just not fair.
- Comment on bird based storage 2 weeks ago:
Damn I didn’t see you said this, I just posted the QR elsewhere in the comments when someone asked for an iPhone killcode
- Comment on bird based storage 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on ultra high iq 2 weeks ago:
Ah, never bothered taking an IQ test, seemed like a waste of time. Thanks for the response!
- Comment on ultra high iq 2 weeks ago:
When people tell me they like people with brown eyes (as someone with brown eyes) I have always presumed they are lying but just want to flatter me. It’s a stupid thing in my end I’m sure, but it still happens to me
- Comment on ultra high iq 2 weeks ago:
I’m still wondering what mensa means… I thought it was a like a flat hill.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t remember his eyes always being pink, strange
- Comment on Laptop dreams 2 weeks ago:
I think I was more just trying to figure out the anatomy. Like I questionsed, their eye is the camera? So does that mean they are opening the screen, and why do they have multiple cameras. Then I realized phones have a bunch now and I haven’t looked at laptops in a long while so it could very well be that they have 2 and I don’t know. That said. Now I’m wondering if some have 3 cameras top left, center and right. So the left and right can capture a 3 dimensional images/video.
- Comment on Laptop dreams 2 weeks ago:
Who said it’s being pulled out when the laptop chooses? Just means it comes out when the laptops owner chooses, and then it comes out nicely when they release the bar
- Comment on THIS happens way too often 2 weeks ago:
Damnit, I hate to defend Microsoft, but that’s an office thing as well, might just be there webmail and certain versions of Outlook apps though, I try to avoid using them these days. But did a lot of service desk support 2018-2022. So people were always asking for the damnedest of things. The number of com add-ons disabling do to start times, pst files not being allowed in OneDrive, view settings fucked up, pst’s uploading to the online archive and missing files is enough to make you want to never have to have outlook around.
- Comment on THIS happens way too often 2 weeks ago:
This is the one thing that Microsoft did that was probably good, and I never used because I was always so arrogant that I would think to myself… “I’m not going to forget attachments” and then poof… That fuckers gone and your looking for the recall button you never enabled.
You had to enable it because basically all it did was delay the send of the email for x amount of time you set. Always had it off, regretted it about 3 times at work and each time I told myself… You’ll never make that mistake again. And left it off
- Comment on She's a keeper 2 weeks ago:
Haven’t watched that show much, I was thinking that was her daughter from another dimension. Far less lines being crossed there haha
- Comment on She's a keeper 2 weeks ago:
Ah, that woud make much more understandable
