SkaveRat
@SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on On fire 7 hours ago:
Technically, jellyfish are using stingers
- Comment on Hot Ones trying to sneak in the package protection 16 hours ago:
I mean, if it works out for you, it’s totally fine to give the option. For a lot of shops it’s just not worth the hassle. Really depends a lot on where you ship from and where to
- Comment on Hot Ones trying to sneak in the package protection 16 hours ago:
You’re lucky in that case
Having shipped packages commercially myself and managing online shops at work, there’s a significant amount of lost and damaged packages here. Especially when uninsured packages are used
And I’ve experienced it multiple times that people get angry when you basically tell them to pound sand, because they didn’t want to pay a little extra
Now you have the option to make a loss and ship it out again or have an angry/sad customer. As well as a significant amount of support ticket work
Or you can just not do that, the shipping is a little more expensive, and everyone is happier in the end
- Comment on Hot Ones trying to sneak in the package protection 17 hours ago:
where I’m from, basically all sellers only offer insured shipping.
just the fact alone that you don’t have to tell angry customers that they are out of luck, because they didn’t feel like paying for the insurance is worth the slightly fewer sales
- Comment on 18 hours ago:
JD was around
- Comment on Tim Curry Is Escaping to the One Place That Hasn't Been Corrupted by Capitalism 5 days ago:
Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
- Comment on This camouflaged speed bump 5 days ago:
Depending on the party, there will also be speed bumps involved
- Comment on Tim Curry Is Escaping to the One Place That Hasn't Been Corrupted by Capitalism 5 days ago:
My favorite tim curry clip. The way he almost breaks.
RIP legend
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 6 days ago:
Only if I can get a cup of warm milk and a story as well
- Comment on Boycott Starbucks 6 days ago:
It’s often the only available coffee if you want it on the go
- Comment on Would SpaceX continue to be immoral without Musk? 1 week ago:
The short answer: no
The slightly longer answer: also no. Because orbits don’t work that way and space is really really big
There are companies who have plans for cleaning up space debris by grabbing it in various ways, but it’s not really feasible for more than super specific targets in very narrow edge cases
For most of the stuff currently in orbit, there’s not much danger regarding Kessler syndrome, as their orbits decay in a couple years to maybe decades in extreme cases
The bigger problem with current satellite constellations is the big amount of metal spreading into the upper atmosphere when they burn up (not a problem when a couple satellites do it, but problematic when hundreds do), as well as disturbing ground based telescopes
- Comment on anon discovers the magic of pizza (and yaoi) 1 week ago:
Sausage
- Comment on anon discovers the magic of pizza (and yaoi) 1 week ago:
Yeah. They probably enjoyed having hot gooey stuff on their mouth way too much
- Comment on Anon likes cooking 1 week ago:
Real and heterosexual
- Comment on Anon gets called to the blackboard 1 week ago:
Now I image one of the super thick fluffy carpets. And how it would look after the first hour of classes
- Comment on Anon gets called to the blackboard 1 week ago:
… even again
- Comment on Curl up 1 week ago:
awww!
- Comment on Anon gets called to the blackboard 1 week ago:
depends on how gay it is
- Comment on Anon can't sleep 1 week ago:
And they say romance is dead
- Comment on Anon makes conversation 1 week ago:
“I’m sorry, I can’t eat horse meat. It reminds me of the video of a guy enjoying horse meat”
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Olympic swimmer training is getting out of hand
- Comment on 1 week ago:
- Comment on A fossil-fuel plant seeing nuclear coming... 2 weeks ago:
And the current extreme drought in Europe is hopefully a rare occurrence
aaahahahhahahahahahahahaahahahha
I do love your optimism, tho
- Comment on Flock said they were only using the cameras for license plates. Cat is out of the bag now. 2 weeks ago:
I their system can’t even catch this, it seems a bit useless.
As the city, I’d claim a refund
- Comment on I need an adult 2 weeks ago:
The traffic light thing is actually quite interesting
- Comment on Stupid evolution 2 weeks ago:
When my gall bladder was removed, I got to keep my stones as a souvenir
One of the nurses suggested making a necklace out of them
- Comment on Anon institutes the draft 4 weeks ago:
Rats are great kid pets. But as any pet should be primarily be taken care off by adults, not the kids themselves
- Comment on Anon institutes the draft 4 weeks ago:
Hamsters will die from looking at them wrong. I also know three childhood friends who had hamsters that died from it just walking off the bed
They are very fragile
- Comment on Hey jackass, this is why trucks with large tires are supposed to have mud flaps. 4 weeks ago:
If you mow down enough pedestrians and cyclists, there will be fewer of them, thus reducing the death statistics. It’s a problem that solves itself
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
The dangers of optimizing for the wrong numbers
Some marketer: “the click rate on this design is so much better than before, we will keep it!” And then not questioning or following up why
Seen it happening myself multiple times already
