Rivalarrival
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- Comment on If a mysterious force secretly changed EVERY clock worldwide one minute forward, how long would it take until people notice, and how would people/governments react? 7 hours ago:
The GPS almanac is a table of the exact orbital information of every satellite. Every receiver needs a copy of the almanac to understand where the satellites are supposed to be, so that it can determine where it is in relation to those satellites.
When their clocks all shift one minute simultaneously, the almanac isn’t updated. Every satellite is 60 seconds away from where the almanac says it should be.
If the satellites were geostationary, receivers would still work, they’d just be off by 0.25 degrees of longitude as the entire constellation would be shifted the same amount. But the GPS constellation consists of satellites in a variety of inclined orbits. Nothing is where the almanac thinks it is, and nothing is where it is supposed to be in relation to anything else.
Parent comment is correct: GPS will immediately fail, and remain down until an updated almanac is published and distributed.
- Comment on Layoffs every 2 years 1 day ago:
I left a trade job after we got a new division manager with a background in sales. Despite the entire staff being on 20hr/week mandatory overtime, dipshit was holding 3x daily 30 minute shift meetings, and monthly 90-minute all-hands meetings to complain about productivity.
Two months after I left, corporate shitcanned the asshole.
- Comment on Jon Stewart says the media cried wolf with its 'fascist' attacks on Trump 1 day ago:
I don’t think you agree with Jon Stewart.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
If the US reestablishes the 91% top-tier tax bracket we had for most of the 20th century, the rest of the world will quickly follow.
Nobody will be in that bracket; they will take great efforts raise their tax deductible “expenses” (or reduce their revenue) in order to avoid it.
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 3 days ago:
Insanity is expecting the system to work in a way other than the way it actually works.
By the way, I did discover that EU labeling does include a “% RI” for sugar, which is functionality identical to the “recommendation” you were complaining about as being illegal.
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 3 days ago:
It is mandatory for the manufacturer to make an affirmative claim as to the cholesterol and trans fat content of every food product sold in the US, along with several other items. The manufacturer is only liable for what they actually claim; this labeling standard forces them to make certain claims.
With the labeling you describe of the EU, I could look at every item in my pantry and refrigerator, and not realize that my diet is entirely missing any source of vitamin D, for example. If nothing in any of my labels even mentions vitamin D, I might not even realize it is something I should be looking for in my diet.
When every single item in my diet affirmatively claims “Not a significant source of vitamin D”, it’s a big clue that I’m not eating right.
There is a distinct difference in liability between “accidentally” forgetting to include the sodium (“salt”) content of a product, and affirmatively claiming it has no significant amount of sodium.
When I’m on a low sodium diet and a soy sauce manufacturer fails to list its sodium content on the label, I bear a large part of the responsibility. It is common knowledge that soy sauce is usually extremely high in salt, so I can’t reasonably claim their mislabeling was the cause of any harm I experience. But, if they were to affirmatively claim “not a significant source of sodium”, I’ll own their asses.
Mandating claims of these specific, important nutrients certainly does add meaningful information.
- Comment on Apparently Bluesky lets you require a sign in to view a post 4 days ago:
Anything that’s marked NSFW requires a login on Reddit.
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 4 days ago:
The listed items are all mandatory parts of all labels. You’ll note that “good” content (dietary fiber, vitamin d, calcium, iron, and potassium) are also listed, even though this product does not contain them.
Because all of these items are mandated to be present inside this box on all products, there is no implication that another product may or may not contain these items.
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 4 days ago:
and then BOTH trucks would drop off in the same pile, in the same landfill with zero recycling done.
That’s not true, especially for cans. It’s more effective to sort trash at a central location than to have consumers do it beforehand. Aluminum recycling alone turns a significant profit. Glass is also profitable by itself.
Waste management companies should be paying you for your cans; if they are charging you for recycling, you should consider taking your cans to a scrap yard rather than leaving them in your trash.
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 4 days ago:
The labeling of what’s NOT in the drink is also under similar regulation,
For consistency, the regulations on labeling requires listing quantities of all of those specific nutrients, whether they are present or not.
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 4 days ago:
You would have a point if the recommendation was a minimum daily intake. It’s not. It is a maximum. A recommended limit that you should not exceed.
The USDA recommendation is that sugar should make up no more than 10% of total caloric intake. The percentages you see are based on a 2000 (kilo)calorie daily diet.
That recommendation is perfectly consistent with your assertion that “we can do perfectly well with zero grams of sugar every single day”.
- Comment on A daunting realization 5 days ago:
Corn is the vegetation equivalent of a cubicle dweller.
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 6 days ago:
Police Procedural shows.
Law and Order, Criminal Minds, NCIS, CSI, Lie to Me, Dexter…
Basically, anything that makes people think that police are more effective at solving crime than they actually are.
- Comment on Who here does NOT have intrusive thoughts? 1 week ago:
The people who say they don’t experience intrusive thoughts are liars. They are too anxious about how the world would react if they told anyone they sometimes think about jumping off a roof, or driving into oncoming traffic.
The people who don’t actually have intrusive thoughts are psychopaths. Lacking empathy, they don’t even consider how such actions would affect anyone around them. They do, or do not, as they choose.
The healthiest are the people who recognize in themselves behaviors they don’t observe in their peers, and they are concerned enough for everyone’s safety to risk being seen as abnormal.
There is a difference between “intrusive thought” and “suicidal/homicidal ideation”. Experiencing these ideas as irresistible urges to partake in the behaviors might warrant a trip to a pshrink.
Experiencing them as vivid scenes of violence and destruction, without a compulsion to actually act on them, is not unusual or concerning. They’re your own private action movies; Enjoy them.
- Comment on What is acceptable amount of microplastics you would allow into your brain? 1 week ago:
And yet, we’re both wearing plastic bags…
My point is that synthetic fiber is the area we have to focus on to address your primary concern.
- Comment on What is acceptable amount of microplastics you would allow into your brain? 1 week ago:
Tires are, indeed, a major source of microplastics, but tires are used outdoors, and you probably spend most of your time indoors.
Check your lint trap: those are the kind of microplastics you have in your brain.
- Comment on What is acceptable amount of microplastics you would allow into your brain? 1 week ago:
Please post a picture of the tag on the shirt you are wearing right now.
The overwhelming majority of microplastics in your body are polyester fibers, and most of those originally came from textiles.
- Comment on If scientists could make you immortal but could only do it by transferring your consciousness into a single video game for ever, which game would you choose? 1 week ago:
Pong.
- Comment on It is mildly infuriating that this community is STILL being used for actually infuriatingcontent 1 week ago:
Keymastering.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 1 week ago:
Your driver would have been paid a total of $6.50 on that order.
Thank you for canceling.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Emails are permanent records. Your focus seems to be on how they sound to the initial recipient.
My concern is how they sound to the person reading them six months or two years later. What I have found is that the longer the delay between having written the email and it being read, the more pissed off the reader is when they are reading it. If the problem is big enough that they need to come back to me two years later, the reader is probably not going to appreciate the lighthearted jests I originally included.
My work emails with colleagues are brusque and formulaic. I don’t include enough content to even begin to guess at mood or emotional state.
I’m not saying you should use email this way. I’m saying that I have little use for adjectives, articles, and my recipients rarely have need for a scroll wheel. I can’t imagine ever using either an emoticon or an emoji in a work email.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Ok.
I’m going to be hiking through the jungle. The lions have been counseled on my rights as a person; they know they aren’t supposed to eat me. They know that if they are caught eating me, they are going to spend 3 to 5 years in lion-jail.
Before I walk through the jungle, I’m deciding on what to wear. The choices presented to me are:
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pants, long sleeve shirt, sturdy boots, wide brimmed hat, and a small backpack with water, first aid kit, radio, and extra batteries
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23 pounds of thinly-sliced beef steaks, sewn into a knee-length sundress, and a pair of stiletto-heeled thigh-high boots.
The argument here isn’t which wardrobe option I choose. The argument here is whether you should say anything to me when I come out of my room in my meat-dress.
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You cannot positively control the actions of others, and others cannot positively control your actions. You can influence the actions of others, but you can only control your own.
We can influence members of society to “stop taking advantage of people” all day long. But if you want to control whether people are taken advantage of, you have to address the victims rather than the perpetrators.
Society can try to placate perpetrators. There’s little sense stealing something that everyone already has. We can appeal to the perpetrator’s empathy, but that assumes they have some. We can threaten repercussions and hope that has a deterrent effect. But, the final decision as to whether to perpetrate is always in the head of the perpetrator, and outside the reach of anyone else.
If you want greater control over that decision, the only option you have is to take your own action.
- Comment on Anon questions the KKK 2 weeks ago:
So, gray hoodies and green fiddler hats?
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 3 weeks ago:
Reddit ended like two years ago.
- Comment on Forgive them, for they know not what they do 3 weeks ago:
Korea has an interesting system. You pay a single (very large) deposit when you move in, and you get the entire deposit back when you move out. The landlord keeps only the interest on the deposit.
- Comment on Forgive them, for they know not what they do 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Anon watches The Terminator 3 weeks ago:
All you need to do to stop that is make it possible for private individuals to conduct or verify a background check without involving an FFL dealer.
Sellers have a responsibility to sell only to non-prohibited people. Without a public background check option, that means you can’t sell if you have reason to believe they are prohibited.
As soon as you provide the option, your refusal to conduct a check stops being exculpatory evidence and starts demonstrating malfeasance.
- Comment on Why we need term and age limits 3 weeks ago:
If you want to participate in directing the future of the country, you have to actually have a future.
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 3 weeks ago:
I invite you to imagine a JAG lawyer briefing the superior that such an order will allow a state or local prosecutor to indict them on criminal charges.