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- Comment on Anon creates a mystery 8 hours ago:
The gun is going to come down somewhere. Gravity is a bitch like that. So, coastline, and make sure the winds are out to sea. Not just the surface winds, but also the winds aloft. When the gun does eventually come down, it is still going to be connected to the balloons, and will be floating at the surface for days. A balloon mass this large could attract attention. You’ll want some kind of water soluble string to drop the gun and ensure it sinks.
As it ascends, the balloon cluster is going to show up on doorbell cameras. The noise of the gunshot is going to draw witnesses with phone cameras. At the very least, you need a moonless night. Fog bank and low ceilings can help. Definitely don’t want to try this during the day.
- Comment on If I am speaking aloud and say I wish someone would kill so and so. And another person does it. Am I on the hook for murder? How would I defend myself in court? 10 hours ago:
I think we’re saying much same thing. If she isn’t fed into a woodchipper, saying “she should be fed into a woodchipper” is obviously hyperbole, not incitement.
If she is actually fed into a woodchipper, it’s not obvious hyperbole anymore. Someone hearing you say “she should be fed into a woodchipper” and actually acting on that statement is pretty much the definition of “incitement”.
Technically, the prosecutor has to prove that your statements were proximal, and that you reasonably believed they could induce the act. But, the jury is weighing that proximity and belief with 20/20 hindsight and video of the mangled corpse.
The definition of “outlandish” is subject to reality. It is much easier to describe a possible outcome as “outlandish” when it has never occurred before. It is much harder to describe that same scenario as “outlandish” when the jury is retching over the crime scene photos while the prosecutor is saying you are to blame.
I’d suggest a bench trial.
- Comment on If I am speaking aloud and say I wish someone would kill so and so. And another person does it. Am I on the hook for murder? How would I defend myself in court? 14 hours ago:
She should be fed feet-first through a wood chipper”, you would probably not be successfully prosecuted for incitement.
This is true, up until the point where she is actually fed feet-first through a wood chipper. That she was actually fed feet-first through a wood chipper is prima facie evidence that your rhetoric inspired the lawless action of which you spoke.
- Comment on Yeah, the Harvard Bellevue cemetery 2 days ago:
Thats a transfer switch, and that’s exactly what you want here. You want only a few essential loads on the generator, not your entire home. The furnace should be on it, modem and networking equipment, a few outlets for charging phones, refrigerator and deep freeze. Sump pumps.
The electric hot water tank doesn’t need to be on the generator. The welder in the garage. Electric range. Dishwasher, Christmas lights, EV charger, pool heater, spa, or other big appliances that can be done without in an emergency.
- Comment on Yeah, the Harvard Bellevue cemetery 2 days ago:
You have two bus bars in your breaker panel. It is designed to be fed from one main breaker. But, electricity can flow backwards through a circuit.
An interlock kit is a simple device that allows either your main breaker to be turned on, or a different breaker to be turned on. Not both at the same time. With such an interlock in place, you wire the auxiliary breaker to a generator inlet box, so you can plug your house into your generator.
A non-contact voltage detector is the rest of your answer. The detector is locked on, and placed where it can pick up voltage on the main feed into your house: tape it to the main feed into the breaker panel. When power is restored, it starts beeping, and you know you can transfer back.
Do it the right way, because you aren’t the only person who might be doing it, and the people who learn from you might not fully grasp the concepts involved. They might get lazy, skip steps, and set their home and/or generator on fire.
- Comment on A street merchant in Little Bulgaria just sold me something unusual 3 days ago:
Thanks, I hate it.
- Comment on Yeah, the Harvard Bellevue cemetery 3 days ago:
There is a kind of person who knows how to do that safely, but that kind of person has already installed an actual load transfer switch to do it the right way.
- Comment on 😭😭😭 6 days ago:
no u
- Comment on Do all popes have to use name's from past popes or saints? Or could I be Pope badassmotherfucker? Or just my regular name? 1 week ago:
Sorry, Pope “Badassmotherfucker” is reserved should Samuel L. Jackson ever run for the papacy.
- Comment on Do millennials keep looking significantly more youthful than previous generations? 2 weeks ago:
Elder millennials are the last to remember what smoking actually was. We remember restaurants with smoking and non-smoking sections. We remember a time before the “smoke break”, when you didn’t leave your desk to smoke, you just lit up and continued to work.
Millennials smoke in designated outdoor smoking areas. Boomers smoked in grocery stores.
- Comment on Sean Connery in 1964 (on the set of Goldfinger) and Thomas Brodie-Sangster in 2024. Both age 34 in their respective photos. 2 weeks ago:
65 and 12.
- Comment on Let's set the record straight 2 weeks ago:
Well, you can suck a fuck!
- Comment on What is the difference between a Server Farm and a Data Center? And how or why do data center's produce so much waste>? 2 weeks ago:
A server farm might serve hundreds or thousands of web applications from a few dozen physical machines.
A data center uses hundreds or thousands of physical machines to provide highly intensive compute services to a few dozen applications.
The wasteful part (in my opinion) is that these few dozen applications are producing content that is not tied to reality in any meaningful way.
- Comment on Load bearing number 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Boy Dinner 3 weeks ago:
Where’s the bread crumbs?
- Comment on Boy Dinner 3 weeks ago:
Coca cola is still flavored with (decocainized) coca leaves.
- Comment on why do pendulums and space shuttles feel the effects of earth rotation but airplanes do not? 3 weeks ago:
They do, actually. The direct effects of the earths rotation on an aircraft are much smaller than the effects of localized aerodynamic forces: winds, updrafts, etc.
However, indirectly, “Coriolis effects” on air masses moving toward or away from the poles influence weather patterns at all scales, which has massive influence on air travel.
- Comment on first state btw 3 weeks ago:
Missouri is on there like 15 times.
- Comment on first state btw 3 weeks ago:
It’s what happens when you copy all the pointless states, over and over.
- Comment on Tax billionaires, insure millions: The CA wealth tradeoff 4 weeks ago:
That shit is going to backfire on them, spectacularly.
- Comment on Fr*nce 4 weeks ago:
Which is to say - the harm to falsely accused men and the harm to legitimately raped or harassed women are on totally different scales.
I’m not comparing the two. I’m addressing only the point that I quoted above:
A male victim and a female victim have equal rights to justice but a woman and a man do not have equal chances of experiencing sexual assault.
Your link says 1 in 5 women (20%) experience rape, and 24.8% of men experience “sexual violence”. That seems to indicate that men and women experience SA at about the same rate. This is consistent with my understanding.
Your “2:1” claim seems to arise from “Nationwide, 81% of women and 43% of men reported experiencing some form of sexual harassment and/or assault in their lifetime.”
I will focus on the word “reported”: It is my understanding that male victims of SA report their assault at much lower rates than female victims.
I would note that your overall thesis does not seem to rely on this particular point. You can abandon this point without detracting from your main argument.
- Comment on Lawful evil 4 weeks ago:
They are getting screwed over pretty hard, yeah. It’s really only lucrative if you’re using a cheap EV, but there are no cheap EVs.
- Comment on Lawful evil 4 weeks ago:
Thank you.
- Comment on Fr*nce 4 weeks ago:
but a woman and a man do not have equal chances of experiencing sexual assault.
On what evidence do you base this claim? I was under the impression that the actual rates are similar, but male-victims very rarely report SA.
- Comment on Fr*nce 4 weeks ago:
I’m seeing a 14-year gap between the time they initially met and the time they married. The first three of those years would have been criminal, but I haven’t actually seen anything saying the relationship commenced within that time period.
- Comment on Lawful evil 4 weeks ago:
This is untrue. Margins for restaurants
We aren’t talking about restaurants. We are talking about delivery services.
- Comment on Lawful evil 4 weeks ago:
I did. I’m a blacksmith. I found a niche where customers are appreciative of labor, and I fill that niche. The two seasons I relied on DD for flexible income are well in the past.
- Comment on Lawful evil 4 weeks ago:
You don’t have to convince me. I agree with you. These services are profoundly scummy and exploitative. They are almost as greedy as employers have become with your time.
- Comment on Lawful evil 4 weeks ago:
They make money… When a customer tips. The tip is, effectively, the only money they actually make. It’s not how it should be, but it is how it actually is.
When every customer tips well, and nobody introduces delays to slow your hustle, it’s a fairly lucrative job. When customers think tips are “optional” and stores don’t actually start working on an order until you arrive, it’s a shit job.
It’s pretty much the same for our employed waitstaff. Your tips are paid out to you on the day you earn them. Your base wages are paid out weekly or biweekly. You keep 100% of your tips, but your employer is required to withhold income taxes from your base pay. If you make enough in tips, withholding is all of your base pay. You receive a pay stub where nearly 100% of your pay has been withheld and sent to the IRS for income taxes. Tips are, effectively, the only money you actually take home.
- Comment on Lawful evil 4 weeks ago:
A client is the person a contractor works for. The only client involved is the service itself, as the driver is a contractor.
The person making the purchase is a customer, not a client.
Ideally, you would be right. The customer should not be involved in the business relationship between the driver and the service. However, this is quite obviously not an ideal situation.
With employed waitstaff, tips are, technically, a bonus. A waitress who does not receive enough tips to put herself over minimum wage is entitled to extra pay to reach that point. Legally, this waitress is “adequately” compensated for her time, regardless of tips.
Unlike employed waitstaff, there is no provision to ensure this driver is compensated for their labor. There is no provision to ensure they are reimbursed for their actual expenses. The driver is often asked to subsidize certain customers, by accepting compensation that is less than minimum wage, and even at less than actual cost. They are often asked to pay to work.
The services have found a legal loophole to evade minimum wage protections, and they are using it to exploit drivers.
The customer benefits from this arrangement. The customer is thus complicit in the exploitation. Ignorance does not negate their complicity.
You should also know that if you do tip well, the services reduce their base pay further, effectively capturing part of your tip to the driver. They are exploiting you, too.
Again, nobody should be using these services. They are bad for everyone. The only ethical way to use them is to tip sufficiently to ensure the driver’s pay exceeds minimum wage.