BigDanishGuy

@BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get stoned.⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Classic DIY landlord story. Had a coworker who bought a derelict house, which he split into “apartments” and did all maintenance himself. For him, tenant turnover was pure profit - he’d grab the cheapest paint from the supermarket, slap it on everything (outlets included), give the floors a quick once-over, and pocket the full security deposit. Three months’ rent for a Saturday’s “work.”

  His favorite scam? Convincing tenants to pay deposits in cash because it would be “easier to return” from his safe. Several times a year he’d pocket thousands in untaxed cash since there was “no paper trail.” Tenant turnover was his real income stream - much better than dealing with those pesky long-term renters always complaining about moldy walls, leaky faucets and unplowed snow.

  Last I heard, he was trying to unload the place on Facebook Marketplace. Don’t know why, maybe the IRS (or tax daddy, as it’s colloquially known in Danish) got wind of his cash flow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨questions about sex toys: would it be a bad idea to fully insert a vibrating egg in my bum?⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  He should have gone to the Anne Frank museum

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some Older PC games I have, just wanted to share.⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, those games came on CD? I thought they came as ISOs with a nocd_patch.exe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨master manipulators⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Marking your territory probably didn’t help you either

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indian start-up Yes Madam fires employees who indicated being stressed in the survey⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lesson I learned the hard way: if any study comes around on your satisfaction, don’t answer it. If management comes asking why you haven’t answered the study, apologize, you’ve been swamped, you’ll get get right on it, and you lie your ass off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨everybody liked that⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No. He was not a “mass shooter”. Mass shooters shoot innocent civilians en masse. This guy was an assassin. One target, one goal.

  While I obviously agree that it can’t be described accurately as a mass shooting, I still wonder:

  Do the victims need to be innocent for it to be a mass shooting?

  From a philosophical POV there’s a issue of defining what an innocent person is (I mean some Christian societies will say that nobody’s innocent). Is innocence to be judged through the eyes of the shooter or society?

  Anyway, that wasn’t the point I set out to make, so let’s set that aside.

  Suppose one was to go to a convention of child molesters, war criminals, and nazi death camp guards, and you start shooting indescribably. I hope we can agree that members of the categories listed should be classified as “not innocents” by any contemporary standard. Even if only people guilty of the previously mentioned things got hit, wouldn’t it still be a mass shooting once a certain number had been shot?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charities of Employees from "non-profit" I was going to donate too⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, if you stab some potatoes, circumcise a cauliflower, and proceed to nunchuck a bag of flour … Then it might just have been a grocery list and now you’re not allowed in the store anymore

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Way to make me feel old, I don’t know any of those games.

  Where’s my late 90s early 2000s gamers at?

  I’m going to nominate:

  • Fallout (1997) for plot twists and introducing (to me at least) open world role playing.
  • Fallout 2 (1998) for further plot twists
  • Max Payne (2001) for stealing bullet time from the matrix and putting it in a game
  • Mafia (2002) for being a kick ass game that would blow your mind, by making 6 hours of your night disappear, and not lifting the lid on that plot twist before you heard the birds start singing, and realize that you should probably hit the shower and get to school.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite "gotta go in blind" games?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if you’re being sarcastic, but your comment is so true it hurts. When you first figure out how minesweeper works, your mind is blown away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meaty lifehack⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you tried sulfuric acid on organic matter? Found some H2SO4 when I was a kid and began pouring it on stuff, plants and chicken shit were really good for an orange cloud… Don’t stand down wind

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meaty lifehack⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t use an acid for mammalian necromass. I hear that NaOH should be a good degreaser…

  That or pigs apparently. If you already have the body in parts, don’t put in the freezer for your mom locate. I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies’ digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don’t want to go sievin’ through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, “as greedy as a pig”.

  Actually, you could let the pigs it all, lock, stock, and barrels, and then use a healthy dose of lye (that’s the NaOH from before) to treat the pigs’ shit for any left over solids. I’m not much of a chemist, but I do reckon that you’re left with any identifiable pieces after that ordeal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  […] the percentage of trans people in the US between 1999 and now would’ve been on an upward trajectory […]

  A larger fraction of the population in most western countries are certainly openly trans now, than were in 1999. But I don’t know about all trans people, I think the fraction has stayed the same, but coming out has become easier (I’m not saying that it’s easy, I’m saying that I believe that it’s easier than in 1999)

  But let’s assume that you’re right, and fewer people used to be trans compared to the population size. That would mean fewer expected school shootings by trans people. Which could explain how the expected interval in my calculations is 2-7 shooters while we’ve only seen one. Once again confirming that trans people are just people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With trans people making up 0.5-1.6% of the US population, wouldn’t it be strange if not a single school shooter was trans?

  That question lead me down a rabbit hole: There have been 417 school shootings since Columbine in 1999 washingtonpost.com/…/school-shootings-database/

  I don’t have statistics on the number of school shootings perpetrated by multiple people. But I suspect that it’s a miniscule number. So I’m going to go with 417 individuals carrying out acts counted as school shootings. And not to try to be John Oliver or something, but what counts as a school shooting may be as little as this numbnuts who shot them self in the leg in a high school parking lot wptv.com/…/lockdown-lifted-at-glades-central-high….

  0.5% of 417 is 2.1 and 1.6% is 6.7.

  Meaning that somewhere between 2 and 7 trans school shooters would indicate that trans people are just as likely as cis people to carry out school shootings. That only a single shooter has been trans, may not be statistically significant, as we’re dealing with integers and it’s pretty darn close.

  So I’m left to conclude that being trans isn’t significant in being a school shooter. Trans people may just be as fucked up as the rest of us.

  What I’m more interested in is how the trans man in Nashville in 2023 would have counted, if this statistic didn’t only cover until 2022 statista.com/…/active-shooters-us-schools-by-gend…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon preps for a hurricane⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And it’s not on me to find the burden of truth for you. That’s a logical fallacy and a bad arguing tactic

  FFS I wasn’t trying to argue with you. Since you quoted some very specific numbers, I thought that you had done some recent research on the matter, and thus had an up to date knowledge of the current studies. In that case copy pasting said references from endnote should have taken 30 seconds and provided the community with a lot of valuable info.

  I wasn’t trying to get you to search for studies that would back up your claims, I thought you had them already.

  Why does asking for citations equal arguing? Where did I even hint that I thought you were wrong? I very much tried to make my intentions clear, yet everyone still think that I’m some smuck smart-ass trying to win an argument … an argument I wasn’t even part of to begin with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon preps for a hurricane⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for clarifying. And if writing concise was an Olympic discipline, you’d be in the elite compared to me :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon preps for a hurricane⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  if you don’t expect yourself to give any sources to your claims […]

  Which claims have I made?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon preps for a hurricane⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I justified asking for studies. At no point did I claim to have spent hours searching pubmed. How hard is that to comprehend?

  Have you ever tried searching pubmed and vetting studies by reading abstracts? It’s not like using google and clicking on the first result.

  First off, searching for studies backing up some claims will always introduce confirmation bias. Secondly finding relevant studies, vetting the search results, by reading the abstracts, validating the scope of the study, deciphering the methods used, etc, will easily take the same number of hours as OP would spend in minutes to copy paste from their bibliography system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon preps for a hurricane⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you talking to me? I mean you replied to my comment, but saying that I’m referencing studies doesn’t make any sense. Well at least not to me, because I don’t believe that I claimed to have any studies for anything.

  If you meant to reply to me, please go read my first paragraph, and the maybe try it a second time. I actively tried to avoid getting labeled as dismissing the claims.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon preps for a hurricane⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OP’s claims of “oh mer gerhd you dead soon” were so broad and so wild that they didn’t seemed rooted in research. Asking for citations would be like asking your antivax aunt for her DIY “research”. But at least the claims should motivate people to seek healthcare, if they get knocked unconscious. Something that will save lives. So I left it at that.

  I asked for citations where I did, because it seemed like that commenter worked in the medical field, and actually could have the studies handy.

  If you read my request as casting doubt, then I invite you to read the first paragraph again. I specifically pointed out I just like scientific research, data, and evidence. I actually tried to avoid being seen as arguing against the claims.

  I can’t help that you (and a lot of other people, apparently) see asking for citations, as casting doubt. Expressing doubt wasn’t my intention, I was genuinely curious about the sources.

  And if being curious about science is wrong, then I’m going crawl up under a warm blanket, with a cup of chai and a nice peer reviewed metastudy, while staying wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon preps for a hurricane⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not saying that you’re wrong. You sound like you might know what you’re talking about. I just like publications and medical evidence. I trust that you won’t take it the wrong way.

  That is… Incorrect, there is about a 30% death rate within one year of brain trauma […]

  Source?

  […] but there is absolutely no data showing that someone is going to die within an hour of being knocked unconscious more often than not, […]

  Do you have a metastudy or something for that?

  especially if they are young

  That last sentence, do you have a source for the difference in outcome depending on the patient’s age?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon preps for a hurricane⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the problem with anecdotal evidence. You can always find that one person who fulfills the criteria but who’s outcome doesn’t match.

  Of course you can be fine afterwards. But there’s a considerable risk that you’re not, and experiencing symptoms of a traumatic head injury does warrant a visit to the hospital.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon preps for a hurricane⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And even if you haven’t killed them outright, they can have permanent disabilities.

  If you, or someone you know, gets knocked out, or experiences other symptoms of a central nervous system trauma after a hit to the head, please seek medical care. It’s not one those “take two aspirin and let’s see how it goes in the morning” kinda things.

  I’m just one person, but during my life I’ve seen this multiple times. I will refrain from boring you, and doxxing myself, by telling my anecdotes. Suffice it to say that I have known people who would have been dead if they hadn’t gone to work with a “bad hangover”, or ended up with narcolepsy or chronic encephalopathy. And that was separate people BTW.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jake Rule vs Mike Ruleson⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right, it should have been pre-election and Trump instead of Paul. Now there’s a fight I’d pay to watch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Git good, son⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Constrictive criticism

  Freudian slip? But hey if that’s what you’re into then good for you 😉

  Otherwise? Yeah, come on, don’t settle for shit sex, if you can teach your partner to be better then why not? Don’t be too afraid to say something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel this way about cinnamon.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First off that’s not really cheese.

  Secondly, FFS, I completely forgot about that. I even interviewed at the plant that makes that once. But to my country men’s credit, I’ve only ever seen it served a handful of times, and it is always left on the table, virtually untouched.

  Thirdly, how the actual fuck did you ever learn about ananas Castello?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel this way about cinnamon.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What kinda bullshit is that? I’ve lived in the country my entire life, and I’ve never heard of that. Are you sure that you’re not thinking about that Norwegian brunost?

  I’ve just googled various kombinations of cheese with added sugar in Danish and I can’t find any references to this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need pics of fat tigers to send to my mom. she hates pics of fat tigers and every few months I send her a bunch.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, best I can do is chubby cougars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Withdrawal is going to make people go mad⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  everything you’re wearing right now

  Much of that is cotton. I believe that in the “good” ol’ days the US grew that themselves. Start that industry up again, and you don’t need mass deportations across the border.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel this way about cinnamon.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Danes will put apple in curry as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel this way about cinnamon.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whatever dude. My chili, my choice.