bisby

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨predatory giraffes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My uncle always used to say a silly little poem:

  Birdie, birdie, in the sky

  Laid a white one in my eye

  I don’t laugh, I don’t cry

  I’m just glad that cows don’t fly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨soda⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If this were an actual public service, the solution would be to make sure people’s needs were met so they didn’t feel obligated to take comical amounts of soda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨soda⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Things in favor of Peyton here:

  • Corporations in general
  • There is no rule against it
  • 7-11 has a pretty regular event where “fill a silly cup, feel free to be absurd” is a thing, so there is precedent
  • That amount of soda is still probably profitable for the company, fountain soda is incredibly cheap
  • This isn’t regular consumption and clearly not a regular occurrence, if beverages were regularly freely available, it wouldn’t be exciting to do this and this type of behavior would go away – you have to hoard service when public service is an artificially limited quantity.
  • This didn’t deprive any other customer of soda – the only downside here is a corporation losing a few cents of profit.

  Things against Peyton:

  • Hoarding is a bad mentality to be in (agreed with you here)
  • It will take days to drink that much soda, and it will be flat and nasty

  When poor people get a windfall of money, they tend to spend it all. It’s why lottery winners tend to wind up broke. Because historically, money is a “use it or lose it” for those people. If you’ve been trained your whole life to adapt to things, it can be hard to do the right thing when those things no longer hold true.

  Americans cant have decent public services because they abuse them… results in Americans desperate for public services… which results in Americans taking extra advantage of any public service that is available… which results in a mindset that Americans abuse public services… which results in less funding… Its a vicious cycle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla said it didn’t have key data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, y’know, don’t do illegal things and it doesn’t matter. That’s the point of fines being a deterrent

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't trust cowboys or people doing cowboy voices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You had a stroke because your mom cancelled your WoW sub?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UwU brat mathematician behavior⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. Clearly i is current. What is this i=√-1 nonsense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hideo Kojima proposes a game where the protagonist forgets abilities if players take too long a break⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tarkov is a live service game. Which has its own ups and downs. Tarkov has benefits of having some things progress while you are offline. Things happen at the server level while you’re gone.

  Not every game needs to be a live service game though or try to use live service features in a single player offline game.

  Unless there is a very specific reason in the game mechanics why in game time is 1:1 with real time, it doesn’t make a lot of sense except to be divisive and a discussion point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At least 4,500 Americans per year die from hydroxyl acid exposure⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hydroxyl acid? That sounds even more dangerous than hydrogen hydroxide, which is a notoriously dangerous base!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Similar' is not the same as 'the same', but it is similar⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In theory, “in theory” and “in practice” have the same results, but in practice, they often differ.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What job do you need this hard hat for?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tory Bruno, CEO of ULA wears a cowboy hard hat. Clearly this is how you become rich.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If "more money=more problems," why doesn't "no money=no problems"?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe the number is now closer to $110k and even then you are one major hospital visit from being back on the problems train.

  The trick is to make more money, but don’t live like you do. Just save the money. And then be able to retire young with millions in the bank

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a little guy⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Correct.

  For the hemotoxin, you aren’t going to “just wait for the effects to wear off.” The toxin will kill you.

  For the neurotoxin, you can just wait out the effects by countering the symptoms. Can’t breathe? Respirator can save your life.

  The hemotoxin itself is doing terrible damage, but the neurotoxin itself doesn’t do any “damage” other than disabling systems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a little guy⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Getting bit by a venomous snake in Australia and you’re blood starts to disassemble itself. The only counter is antivenom or die. Your blood breaking down is what kills you. And there is no way to separate the bite from that.

  Being able to counter the venom in such a simple way is what makes it different. You can logically break it down into steps that are separable.