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- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 5 hours ago:
Yeah, I get that. But there hasn’t been any draft yet, so everyone on that boat has voluntarily joined the military.
- Comment on Gotta catch 'em all... 15 hours ago:
I’m not good with OSM; do you normally add pictures to the POI? Because you can’t have a pokestop without a picture I don’t think?
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 15 hours ago:
Has there been a draft yet, or what do you mean?
- Comment on Oh no 3 days ago:
I love Oxford commas, but I don’t see how that’d help with the students’ first, hand-job experience.
- Comment on Every payment option has a fee 5 days ago:
it’s only legal if you agreed to the fee when you first took out the debt
Which is most likely defined in their terms.
- Comment on Every payment option has a fee 5 days ago:
There must be a way to pay without fee.
According to whom? As far as I’m aware, there’s no such law in the US regarding private companies. So they can be jerks if they want to.
- Comment on I offered to buy the large size, but no....she said she didn't want any 1 week ago:
You’d think so, but then she doesn’t actually want it, and you either need to gorge it down or waste it.
- Comment on The Price of this Candy Bar 1 week ago:
Am I uneducated about how SNAP works, or is this a rare Texas W?
I think it’s outrageous that you can’t even buy hygiene articles or medicines with SNAP, and in that way it’d make sense that something so non-nutritious like candy shouldn’t be allowed? Alcohol isn’t allowed either for example, despite the fact that beer would be (at least marginally) more nutritious than candy.
So other than increasing the stigma already associated with SNAP, is it really problematic to ban candy? Even if it’s not a major cost point, the principle of “poor people are too dumb to budget themselves, so we won’t let them buy necessities like diapers and tampons… but we’ll gladly let them buy candy” just feels wrong to me?
- Comment on Some heroes 1 week ago:
Despite his unhygienic lifestyle, he lived to the age of 94. He died a few months after bathing for the first time in 60 years, having been persuaded by the inhabitants of the village to do so.
Damn, maybe he should have kept following his instinct.
- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 2 weeks ago:
then you’re going to have to do the math re: how much you’re actually going to use
Sure, you’re probably going to spray a couple seconds at the most, which would be like less than 30 kcal. Basically nothing that you’d really count, unless you’re on a super-strict diet.
But the problem is that it’s misleading. Uneducated shoppers might choose that brand specifically because “I’m on a diet”, instead of buying a cheaper non-spray version. And/or proceed to put a ton on their food, without realizing avocado oil is almost 900kcal/100g.
“usually all have the same” isn’t fully true either in my experience. Are you really going to eat just 1/3 of a candy bar? It says 100 calories in big letters, surely it’d be much healthier than the avocado oil bottle that says 120 calories per serving.
“Serving size” numbers are bullshit and should be banned.
- Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take 3 weeks ago:
Only >0,5% ABV is classified as an “alcoholic beverage” federally.
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 3 weeks ago:
I guess there’s also different levels of “skipping”. If I was an American, I’d be skipping it unless I’m deathly suffering, whereas here I’d go if it’s sufficiently debilitating.
- Comment on Going Back ↪️🏨 3 weeks ago:
It’s common for cheaper hotels, at least in the US. They don’t call it a deposit, but an extra hold they place on your card when checking in. Probably to deter people from doing dumb stuff like smoking in a smoke-free room.
- Comment on Don’t you lie to me 4 weeks ago:
Giving an opportunity isn’t entrapment. It would be if someone said “hey dude, that girl there dropped her phone, do you want it?”
But yeah I get what you mean, and that’s what I meant with “there’s probably more impactful stuff they could be doing instead”… Because no one who does finders-keepers on someone else’s personal belongings (when they can easily see the owner) is a good person tbh.
Normal people lose their stuff all the time; it’s a good thing if opportunistic thieves think again before considering hurting an actual person, instead of just being a quota-filler.
- Comment on Don’t you lie to me 4 weeks ago:
New York Personal Property Law § 252; it doesn’t have any name, it’s just an unclassified misdemeanor.
But we actually have a word for this type of offence in Sweden, “fyndförseelse” (discovery misdemeanor? Not very easy to translate). Basically, if you find something, you have to return it immediately (if you’re aware of who the owner is), and if unknown you need to leave it to the police as soon as possible. But the fun part is, if the rightful owner doesn’t make a claim within 3 months, you become the legal owner and can do what you want with it.
My apartment is right by several bars, and my backyard is one of the more secluded places in the area, so I end up finding stuff all the time; clocks, jewelery, etc, from people who think it’s more appropriate to piss on my wall and grass instead of using the bar’s toilet. Most of them claim their stuff, and that makes me happy, and the rest I can choose to sell or donate it to the government.
So if the NYPD isn’t lying in that article, I don’t see any “gotcha” with it… other than there’s probably more impactful stuff they could be doing.
- Comment on The most unrealistic part of Odyssey is the journey taking 20 years 4 weeks ago:
Everyone’s talking about driving… but you actually can take a boat from Troy to Ithaca. Just take the Erie Canal west until you reach Montezuma, at the confluence proceed to the Cayuga-Seneca Canal, and continue south through Cayuga Lake, and at the end you’ll reach Ithaca.
Easy enough and only takes a couple days at the most. I have no idea why they needed to make some movie about this.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
The 2L bottle is for when the stuff on the top doesn’t satisfy anymore.
- Comment on 🎶I keep dancing on my own🎶 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I guess I’m a weirdo if I don’t find the theme “misleading people for my own benefit” to be funny either.
- Comment on Vroooooom! 1 month ago:
It’s because the attention is more important than the oomf for these kinds of people.
If they could easily modify an electric car to make a ton of noise when revving, they’d probably switch.
- Comment on The Head 1 month ago:
If it hits the brachial artery in your arm, you’re not going to have a good time either.
- Comment on Dr. Pepper lover 2 months ago:
Dolly Parton or violet, who knows.
- Comment on in the uk they encourage smokers by printing cigarette packs as collectibles 2 months ago:
It feels like EU Directive 2014/109 chickened out in comparison to those pics. Especially all the warning labels regarding children or fertility… a large portion of the imagery is almost comedic, showing that your balls will explode, and that babies will mooch your cigs.
- Comment on you can do everythjng right and they'll still suck you up 2 months ago:
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
- Comment on How much did drug test cost back in the day? I just took one from an independent drug test guy and he does them at 45 dollars per person and earns about 15k a month. Y wasn't the done sooner? 2 months ago:
I’ll test your drugs for free!
- Comment on Fuck yeah 2 months ago:
Considering that basically all birds (except a few like the red-billed buffalo weaver) only do a cloacal kiss, it shouldn’t be too surprising I guess.
- Comment on Just me and my cement truck 2 months ago:
Don’t you think these weirdos have thought about that and have some crazy CO2-removal system so they’d survive a long time without air intake?
- Comment on Marketing 2 months ago:
Those are usually interest free services.
Until you forget a single payment… then you’ll get retroactive interest (back to the day of your purchase) at a very high percent, as well as other fees.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
He joins them — with his laptop ajar, so that the AI agent can keep running.
Imagine if vibe coders were smart enough to change their settings so everything stays active when the lid is closed. But then they probably wouldn’t be vibe coding from the start.
- Comment on Literally a shitpost. 3 months ago:
Let’s be realistic and say Inaccessible Island instead. Like come on, it’s in the name.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Maybe not, I’ve gotten that message a whole TWO times in 10+ years of giving blood. Got the message once in 2022, and the second time last July. Both of them were sent at exactly 10:00 AM, which is a bit suspicious… but if it’s a lie, I wonder why they don’t send it more often…
