kungen

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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…⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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🎶⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dolly Parton or violet, who knows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨in the uk they encourage smokers by printing cigarette packs as collectibles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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:

  You betcha.

  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 ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s be realistic and say Inaccessible Island instead. Like come on, it’s in the name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boomer comics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Please add -std=c90 gcc flag to build() to make it compile

  I personally prefer my sex without STD flags.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please the overlords⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They most likely track your IMEI and other such fun stuff, just so you’re aware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yup⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t smoke only eat it.

  Why would that make a difference? CHS is caused by cannabis use, not specifically cannabis smoking, no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If refusing to see your dying parent "wrong"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What is this situation?

  If your reasoning is that you “want to remember them in their healthy days”, you will regret not seeing them. Spend as much time with the people you love, as that time won’t come back.

  But if your reasoning is that you simply don’t care about them, whatever… but it’s pretty cold, as I assume they’d get happiness from you visiting?

  And they’re apparently non-abusive, and yet you want to celebrate their death? I personally want my funeral to be like those African parties instead of depressing shit, but I assume this isn’t what you mean…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honestly impressive how pharmacies are able to find a new type of problem every time I go to pick up my meds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine if America switched to using safer prescription methods… like having everything in blister boxes, just like you see with lots of OTC medicine. Just grab the box, print out the prescription sticker, and you’re done. No mistakes, reduced overdose risks, much more traceability, easier stock methods…

  Though I can see the appeal in scrambling around, putting loose pills into those funky orange bottles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Servers go Brrrrrr⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they forgot to mention the huge tomato farm they have in their basement. Tons of lights and special ventilation setup. Tastes much better than what you can get at the grocery store of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon teaches you about their culture⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be drinking Advocaat all the time if it wasn’t so expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it's a matter of motivation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t it just a small stipend? Nothing you could live on, even if houses were burning down 40 hours a week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if you remove those places from the “Express List”? But yeah, that sounds typical, they like getting the transaction fees and such. And should you get them to do a chargeback, they take the money back from the merchant as well. It’s a win-win to screw you over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's how the world works.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. The Swedish government or something did some study recently to determine if we’d be able to be self-sufficient under a longer time if we needed to be, as we currently have a lot of food imports. The conclusion was “yes, but there won’t be as much food diversity”.

  However, they completely ignored the fact that we only have a ~90 days strategic reserve of oil, and that basically all the machining used for farming runs on diesel. And there’s currently no goals to change that.

  If we can’t import or refine diesel anymore, we will starve.