ReluctantMuskrat
@ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world
- Comment on Forget Netflix, Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription 18 hours ago:
Yeah but VW needs it’s share too. Stop being so greedy!
- Comment on HBO Max’s Password-Sharing Crackdown Will Start in Earnest in September 5 days ago:
Interesting… thanks for the reply!
- Comment on HBO Max’s Password-Sharing Crackdown Will Start in Earnest in September 5 days ago:
So did you just cancel the HBO max subscription in YouTubeTV, or did you cancel YouTubeTV altogether?
- Comment on This boomer couple would be hit with $700,000 tax bill if they sold their mansion 1 week ago:
Agreed… this couple isn’t hurting either way.
However as they said the limit hasn’t changed in almost 20 years. For most older people in America their home is the single most valuable possession and what many have to sell when they are unable to care for themselves and have to go into some kind of care facility. For people living in a HCOL area, their home can easily be many times more valuable than their savings and their primary or only asset of significant value, and a $1M house is a starter home.
It make sense for the limits to be increased, but the couple that’s the subject of this article doesn’t deserve anyone getting teary-eyed.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 1 week ago:
Your explanation doesn’t seem to match Wikipedia or what Google’s AI summary says on how Scoville’s are calculated. It’s essentially a parts per million capsaicin x a scale.
In any event I can say the 2022 One Chip challenge and eating a dried Carolina Reaper seems about the same to me. Only did the chip once but I’ve done reapers a couple times and they’re certainly hot, but I’ve never struggled with anything hot. Doesn’t bother me in the restroom either like so many others… not sure why. The one time I did the gummy… way hotter than a pepper or the One Chip. Not even close. Wouldn’t recommend to anyone that found the chip or a straight pepper an issue. And the gum? Like I said it’s devious in how much capsaicin you’re forced to swallow while trying to get to the place to blow a bubble. About 5 minutes after completing the challenge my stomach started to feel like there was a balloon inside it. Told my wife I’m either gonna have a monster burp or I’m gonna puke and then the evacuation started. I’d do it again probably if I had someone doing it with me just to be entertained by their reaction, and to see if my stomach would respond the same way again. Wouldn’t recommend to anyone that hasnt challenged themselves at extreme levels already though. The one I ate was no joke.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 1 week ago:
I’m not sure how the Scoville system measures it exactly since of course no pepper or anything else is going to be pure capsaicin. Is it based on the number of milligrams of capsaicin within a serving or what? Certainly a tiny sliver of Carolina Reaper is different than eating the whole thing but it’s considered a 2.2M pepper regardless.
In any event I’ve eaten straight reapers and done the 2022 One Chip challenge - the blue tongue one - without issue. The Lil Nitro gummy is way, way hotter than a reaper or the One Chip challenge, and the Trouble Bubble seemed about the same as the Lil Nitro gummy and its the only thing I’ve ever eaten that got a reaction out of me so I wouldn’t call it BS. Can your taste buds really distinguish between an unnatural 9M or 16M scoville anyway? The gum is devious in that you have to chew it a long time to get the sugar out of it and make it pliable enough to blow a bubble. You make and swallow a lot of saliva filled with lava during that time. I’m sure that’s what made me puke. Whatever it’s rating should be - if the 16M is inaccurate - there’s nothing mild about it. I can guarantee you eat it and you won’t call it BS. 😄
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 1 week ago:
There are worse experiences.
One Chip challenge was no big deal to me. 9M Scoville Lil Nitro Gummy was much hotter but I did it without regret. 16M Scoville CaJohns Trouble Bubble bubble gum felt like it was roughly the same heat as the gummy. I completed the challenge blowing a bubble, but soon after started puking lava. There was regret. 😄
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 3 weeks ago:
Having the evidence needed to convict is different than evidence to no longer trust and shun.
With 20+ woman making accusations, being friends with a known pedophile and literally having recordings of him bragging about sexually assaulting women and bragging about going backstage with undressed teen girls the world shouldn’t need any more evidence. The honest and rational world doesn’t in fact.
- Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users 1 month ago:
In theory the unique id produced by the scan could be salted by you, uniquely for each website or application, and then provided to the site. This would keep aggregators from being able to track all your activity, or at least it would if they didn’t already have fingerprinting techniques that do it without the need of another unique identifier.
- Comment on The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation. 2 months ago:
Your link also includes the full video of the Australian getting shot too. You should point that out as I’m sure others would like to see it.
- Comment on Why do they call it a corn maze and not a maize maze? 2 months ago:
I mean it wasn’t random. They came here, no one was present and they claimed it. And many were ok with sharing a bit when Europeans first arrived. The Europeans were the ones consistently ignoring their right of ownership and their right to exist.
- Comment on xkcd #3087: Pascal's Law 3 months ago:
The dude is clearly underestimating my farts.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 4 months ago:
I knew there was a reason I love 'em so much!
- Comment on Skill issue 4 months ago:
That summary may also explain why some men are so insecure about women earning more money than them too.
- Comment on Your voice assistant is profiling you, just not in the way you expect, new research finds. 4 months ago:
To heat you say “Hey Google” it has to listen to everything you say, all the time. While they pinky-promise they aren’t doing anything with all the voice data they’re getting while listening, dobyou trust them?
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 5 months ago:
And the bigger the chunk, the more they owe.
- Comment on FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’ (read: multi billion contract with Musk) 5 months ago:
Thank you. I couldn’t remember the names and was rushing my comment before a meeting. I knew someone wouldn’t let that go without a correction.
- Comment on FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’ (read: multi billion contract with Musk) 5 months ago:
Calling GPS part of imperialism is a stretch. It was put in the air at no cost to another country and can be used without cost by anybody, but nobody has to use it. Other countries can launch their own satellites if they want, but they don’t because that’s expensive and GPS is free. The US isn’t making money off of it or exploiting another country with it.
Yes, the US can jam it regionally when in conflict but of course why wouldn’t we? No reason to help the enemy.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
The boosting of propaganda and the identification, tracking and exploitation of government targets.
People in key government positions are still people like us and they love social media too. Having an app on their phone doing data mining can identify people of interest and then collect data, target and compromise them. Even without the app on a government issued phone they can identify key people using their personal phones and then target them for more sophisticated surveillance.
- Comment on Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces 9 months ago:
That brought a legit chuckle!