meco03211

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do gangs "jump in" new recruits? Or is that just for movies and tv shows? If so why do they do that kinda seems anti productive.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You seen Fight Club? Making them stand on the porch while they were hit and berated was part of the initiation. It showed they were committed. Similar thoughts to gangs. Unsure how prevalent it still is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fired Employee Allegedly Hacked Disney World's Menu System to Alter Peanut Allergy Information.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does the government define “hacking”? I’d imagine not that specific word.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Annoyed Redditors tanking Google Search results illustrates perils of AI scrapers | "Spreading misinformation suddenly becomes a noble goal," Redditor says.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you remember Boaty McBoatface?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had jumped back in when tbc classic was released. I wound up on a dead server. It made end game content essentially impossible. I was hoping to move right into wotlk classic at release as that was my jam back in the day. Except they weren’t going to include the dungeon finder or cross realm groups meaning it would still be a dead server with no chance at end game content. I was done with pointlessly dumb leadership. Unsubbed and found a private server that hits all the right buttons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-powered weapons scanners used in NYC subway found zero guns in one month test⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I don’t want it to come before me!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Obligatory “fuck United”.

  They fucked up my vacation a number of years ago and I have since sworn them off. The most generous interpretation of the incident is that I missed an email updating a time change and arrived at the airport after the flight had left. Their next flight wasn’t until the next morning. My wife and I were looking and there was a flight from a different airline that would have cost them $400 each to book for us (they wouldn’t refund us so we could purchase that separately). The first agent at the counter completely understood our request but simply didn’t have the authority to make that decision. So she got a supervisor. The supervisor did that annoying ass thing where they listen to your request and then restate it in objectively different terms to sound unreasonable. In the end they covered a hotel for the night and gave us $550 each in travel vouchers and lost a customer for life. So they ended up paying way more and lost a customer than had they not fucked around from the start. Had they paid the $400 from the beginning, we’d have given them much higher preference on our future flights which have been many.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Few truly shocked that NFL player used illegal stream to watch his own team⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bought Brooklyn 99 on DVD recently since Netflix thought it was great to only put the first 4 seasons up. My biggest regret is that I didn’t look more to find a brick and mortar store to buy from. Best buy doesn’t even carry DVDs anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a planet was completely covered in water, wouldn't it all be freshwater?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah. I see the angle you’re coming from. I had mentioned in another comment somewhere that essentially all salt without an impermeable barrier between it and the water on this planet would be dissolved (provided it doesn’t saturate the water which would be a horrifically enormous amount of salt). Salt is highly soluble in water and on any timescale that could be relevant would fully dissolve and achieve a general equilibrium. If the planet has water, then it has a star able to warm the planet. There’s no realistic scenario that wouldn’t result in the ocean fully mixing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a planet was completely covered in water, wouldn't it all be freshwater?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But that’s not what’s happening. There’s no “mining” of salt. There’s no significant addition or loss of salt to the ocean. Salt just stays in the oceans here. Freshwater will evaporate and return through rivers and rain. On a planet without land, the salt would still remain in the ocean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a planet was completely covered in water, wouldn't it all be freshwater?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Overall composition of a planet is what would matter, not whether there is land. If there is salt on the planet, it would almost assuredly have salty oceans. Salt diffuses in water. If you put salt into a glass of water and leave it sit, eventually the salt would dissolve and mix completely. Salt water has a different density than water. The act of dissolving involves energy changes. These create small eddies and currents that would mix the water until it was in equilibrium. If there is salt in any form on your waterworld, the only way it wouldn’t be salty is if the salt was permanently separated from the water physically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a planet was completely covered in water, wouldn't it all be freshwater?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason water is concentrated in oceans isn’t specifically due to continents existing. Salt doesn’t evaporate so all rain is fresh water. That fresh water falls. When it falls over land it flows to the lowest point it can go. This leads to all flowing water flowing towards oceans and seas. Salt won’t travel upstream. Ergo salt simply stays in oceans and seas.

  Now consider a world with no land. This wouldn’t really differ from a single ocean on earth. Currents and waves will move in all directions at some point which should mix the salt all around. You could get some differences if there were ice caps or icebergs. Those could behave similarly to continents depending on size.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I was selling a bag of flower and sugar to a CI who thought it was meth or coke can I get in trouble? How or why when I am selling a legal substance?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the state. I imagine over the years, enterprising drug dealers have done just that to dupe unsuspecting buyers. It wouldn’t be far fetched that a state would write laws to capture just such an instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare blocks largest recorded DDoS attack peaking at 3.8Tbps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I hadn’t even thought of it that way. Good call.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Arkansas can my brother sue the public defender for pressing him to take a deal and was told don't tell the judge you were pressed into this plea because I will jail you mom?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just trying to answer seriously and not assume too much the answer is a simple yes/no. There is no real barrier to filing a lawsuit. Fill out the paperwork and file it with the court. Boom, you’ve sued someone. The bigger question would be if they have qualified immunity (or whatever lawyer version is similar to that) or if it would actually go anywhere. You’d want to talk to a real lawyer (IANAL). That’s at the very least unethical, possibly criminal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare blocks largest recorded DDoS attack peaking at 3.8Tbps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How many tablespoons of water would it take to kill a small town?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Altech’s sodium chloride solid state battery exceeds expectations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was entirely unaware of this type of vehicle so my initial comment was made without considering them. If there is a market case for such a vehicle, then they would likely fall into that same category.

  They aren’t common in the USA because of they way emissions laws were written which made it uneconomical in many cases for auto makers.

  This has me insanely curious as to where these are common and what are their emissions laws. Time for a trip down a rabbit hole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Altech’s sodium chloride solid state battery exceeds expectations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not so much difficulty but practicality. I would see it being similar to having 2 gas tanks in a car where one is for a high octane fuel and the other for a low performance fuel like ethanol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Altech’s sodium chloride solid state battery exceeds expectations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you meant for a single car, that might be a bit lofty, but for options available it makes sense (ie different trim packages for single model sort of thing).

  I see it breaking down as follows: Grocery-getter for an old couple won’t need much capacity. Just enough to get around town over the course of a day of needed and can plug in and fully charge overnight from a wall outlet. The other would be a battery capable of larger distances but needs a little bigger outlet to charge between stops of a long trip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do animals feel love and emotion?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I’ve ever seen dogs, cats and other domestic animals smile because they’re happy and show love to their owners for treating them right.

  My dog “smarls” (smile+snarl) at me when I come home. We’ve taken a still photo of him while smarling and it looks horrifically vicious. It’s like a stock photo captioned “aggressive dog”. But he’s actually happy. The difference is body movement. An aggressive or dangerous dog will be very still, just showing teeth, usually growling and backs away from a threat or quickly lunge if it gets too close. A smarl is usually accompanied by a wagging tail and body wiggles and slowly approaching to get pet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  if there’s a safety concern that should be handled by regulation

  Regulation won’t detail what a company does to that level. They might say something like “fasteners shouldn’t come loose” but it wouldn’t have a torque spec.

  If whatever it is is that critical to the safe operation it should be publicly documented so that third parties…

  That would run face first into proprietary info and corporate classified info.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paralyzed Jockey Loses Ability to Walk After Manufacturer Refuses to Fix Battery For His $100,000 Exoskeleton⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d temper that by saying a manufacturer would need to provide a reasonable option. Some things could become dangerous or even deadly if repaired incorrectly. Or it could be dangerous or deadly to even attempt to repair it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do social workers get upset when you don't want their help?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If that was anytime in the last decade or so that’s horrifically illegal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Hype gives smaller creators a place to shine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see what they’re doing. You know how in the real world the billionaires make the rules and can flex their power? So can bigger youtube stars. This can lead to youtube losing out a bit in negotiations just like the government will sometimes fuck its people over because some rich twat gets a bug up their ass and tosses some cash around. But what if those bigger youtube stars had less share of the market? Hype likely won’t cost youtube itself viewers, but it could shift viewers around redistributing them to less known channels. Now the bigger stars are a little less big and being a little less to the negotiating table.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do lesbians like boobs as much as straight guys?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are rookie numbers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do lesbians like boobs as much as straight guys?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So their name was successful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What started “weirdo” as a slur just recently?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “What a weird thing to say.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Excretion-related thermodynamics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Additionally if you can collect it and position it next to your skin somehow you can extract some of the heat back to your body. Gotta be careful though, lest you get piss or shit on yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Logitech has ‘no plans’ for a subscription mouse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Release it as an option with the necessary hardware.

  Start with a comically low sub price and seemingly great features.

  Hook the user base.

  Phase out all non-sub options.

  Compete enshittification.

  Jack up price.

  CEO bails under a golden parachute.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My dad fought the Nazi's they lost. The world knows it. What is the deal with their recent resurgence?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like Schroedinger’s Immigrant. At all times he is stealing your job and a lazy, jobless, criminal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many tries do you give a new friend?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve no idea, but I wanted to say kudos to you for trying and looking for help. My socially awkward ass would probably chalk it up to a loss and never initiate with the guy again.

  About the only thing I can offer is I’ve sort of been that guy. Had a friend who would have game nights every so often where he’d invite a bunch of people over. I’d almost never go or respond, but damn if I didn’t appreciate the hell out of always getting the invite.