chiliedogg
@chiliedogg@lemmy.world
- Comment on What a great idea 3 days ago:
Lots of the time it is a fire hazard, but unless the Fire Marshall knows about it nothing gets done.
Fire code is usually checked when the building is built or if there’s a remodel, but otherwise most places can go a long, long time without a fire inspection unless there’s a specific complaint.
Reporting suspected safety issues to the Fire Marshall or Building Official is okay. You’re not being a Karen. Building and Fire codes are written in response to avoidable tragedies and should be followed.
- Comment on "The trolley made me fear for my life" 1 week ago:
Matthew 25:31-46 ("Judgement of the Nations) is when Jesus lays out the standards by which people will be judged. I don’t think MAGA would rate highly by Jesus’s standards, since it’s based entirely on the treatment of the poor, the sick, foreigners, and the imprisoned.
‘When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and he will put the sheep at his right hand and the goats at the left. Then the king will say to those at his right hand, “Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.” Then the righteous will answer him, “Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink? And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you, or naked and gave you clothing? And when was it that we saw you sick or in prison and visited you?” And the king will answer them, “Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.” Then he will say to those at his left hand, “You that are accursed, depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not give me clothing, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.” Then they also will answer, “Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not take care of you?” Then he will answer them, “Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.” And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.’
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 1 week ago:
Deus Ex Human Revolution’s initial release was the worst about this. A bunch of people who took the skills and inventory for non-lethal/stralth/hacking gameplay found themselves at boss fights that were straight-up gunfights. If you were kitted out and skilled properly to face-tank while using explosives and big guns, you were just screwed and couldn’t progress.
In subsequent releases, they added additional options in the arenas that allowed you to kill them using stealth and hacking skills.
- Comment on What is the champagne of champagne? 1 week ago:
I prefer beer that’s beer.
- Comment on the year of the linux desktop 1 week ago:
Lots of jurisdictions are blocking the site now, necessitating VPNs to access the site.
There’s probably a higher percentage of Linux adoption among VPN users.
- Comment on Is this even a question? 1 week ago:
I don’t know if it’s still tru, but they used to be the number one steak restaurant in the country because their streaks were so cheap.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 1 week ago:
When the butchers at a single Walmart successfully formed a tiny union, Walmart responded by firing every butcher in every store in the company and switching to pre-packaged meats only.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 week ago:
Pleb - only poor people get the S. Real office drones need the Series X One S Slim X AI X
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 week ago:
Unfortunately, it’s not really an option for most professionals. They don’t get to choose what software their organizations use, and are stuck with Microsoft products.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 1 week ago:
So my personal solution is what? Can I un-invent firearms? Can I ensure not only that they’re outlawed, but that hundreds of millions of them are magically rounded up? Should I trust US law enforcement to protect me and respect my rights?
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 1 week ago:
In my particular case I didn’t actually have to shoot him because he feared the gun, and I doubt a spray can would have had the same effect.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 1 week ago:
Maybe so, but we live in a world where guns exist. Choosing to disarm oneself doesn’t change that, and certain things can change the math.
There was a violent incident at a nearby house, and it took police 40 minutes to arrive because I live in the middle of nowhere, so right off the “call the police” option essentially doesn’t exist for me. I also have no kids in the house. If children come over, the gun that isn’t in the safe goes to the safe and the ammunition goes to the car. I am not suicidal. For me, gun ownership makes sense where it doesn’t for others.
If I lived in a country where guns didn’t outnumber people it may not make sense. Though with the current government I also wouldn’t give mine up if they were outlawed.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 1 week ago:
Guns have caused a lot of harm. They seem evil until you need one. I was hiking solo in the wilderness once and was carrying one for wildlife and was attacked by a homeless guy. I shoved him away and pulled it out and he ran off.
- Comment on Nvidia insists it isn’t Enron, but its AI deals are testing investor faith 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. Enron’s scheme was trading money back and forth with itself to inflate its value until it all came crashing down, tanking Enron.
Nvidia is at the center of a scheme involving the entire economy trading money back and forth between a few companies to inflate value, so when the scheme tanks it’ll crush everybody.
- Comment on Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America. 2 weeks ago:
I use Rankine to confuse everyone.
- Comment on Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America. 2 weeks ago:
72
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 2 weeks ago:
The one good use of Monster cables I saw was a buddy who played guitar and was pretty energetic in his sets and not disciplined enough to take proper care of his cables.
Monster cables really were pretty tough compared to the cheap stuff, but the bigger deal was the lifetime free replacements. He bought 2 Monster cables for 1/4 cable to his amp, and when one broke he’d swap to the backup while waiting on the replacement in the mail.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 2 weeks ago:
That’s another reason the manufacturers are increasingly locking vehicle features behind the touchscreen. If you buy a 3rd party replacement, you can’t control the AC.
- Comment on YSK: if you dont have Kagi, the next best thing is to search DDG with date range set before 2012 (ish) 3 weeks ago:
It’s really frustrating that everyone is shitty.
- Comment on Is there an endgame to Trump he is trying to obtain? Or is he making it up along the way at the cost of Americans? 3 weeks ago:
I want that too, but I’ll gladly accept a toilet aneurysm today.
- Comment on Is there an endgame to Trump he is trying to obtain? Or is he making it up along the way at the cost of Americans? 3 weeks ago:
I might be very okay with that last part, conditional on timing.
- Comment on Trumpers are *still* scheming to overturn the 2020 election 3 weeks ago:
I’m all for it. Trump won in 2020 and was POTUS the whole time.
Which mean he wasn’t eligible to run in 2024, meaning the eligible ticket with the most votes win, and Kamala Harris is now President.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 3 weeks ago:
I brought God into an argument. Your rational questions have no power here!
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 3 weeks ago:
42 years old, and I still thank onions should be left in the dirt. God buried them for a reason.
- Comment on Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud 3 weeks ago:
I stopped ordering tech on Amazon when I got a fraud twice in a month on back-to-back orders a few years back.
First was a laptop that wouldn’t start. I looked at the bottom and the scewes were mostly stripped, and once I got them out most of the components had been removed from the boards.
Second was a Spyder color calibrator. What I got instead was a iPhone 4 screen protector with a sticker slapped on with the UPC for what I’d ordered. When I tried returning it, they gave me flack for slap-tagging a return, but I was able to escalate in that case.
- Comment on Someone has a LOT of dusty computers 3 weeks ago:
I am indeed a very boring person.
- Comment on Someone has a LOT of dusty computers 3 weeks ago:
There’s also electric air blowers now that are prett6 great. My wolfbox blower is shockingly powerful.
- Comment on Word. 4 weeks ago:
The way it should be handled is to just let me rotate a single fucking page. It’s 2025 and there is zero excuse for that bullshit.
- Comment on Word. 4 weeks ago:
Want to edit the header just on page 6? Or feel like being sexy and having a single page in landscape or a different size?
Easy! Just make a bunch of separate documents, export them as PDFs, and merge them in Adobe Acrobat.
- Comment on Construction magic 4 weeks ago:
You could definitely kill others.