Rivalarrival
@Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
- Comment on Believe It Or Not, Black Licorice 2 days ago:
They work well with herbal flavors like spearmint, wintergreen, clove, ginger, allspice.
But I’m weird. I actually like spiced gum drops and Necco wafers.
- Comment on Maybe creating an ocean of AI disinformation so large it dilutes all verifiable truth is the key to getting people to unplugged. 2 days ago:
If you couldn’t trust anything, that would work.
But you’ll still trust whatever truth you discover on your own. And when a source repeats something you know to be true, you’ll believe them when they say something else that you can’t verify. So long as that source is internally consistent, they are going to become the verification of what is “true” for you.
For your system to work, the individual must not be able to trust their own truths.
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 4 days ago:
Womp womp.
- Comment on This is real 4 days ago:
The president cannot pardon a state crime. Kidnapping is both a state and a federal crime. If convicted in state court, the president is powerless to pardon.
- Comment on This is real 4 days ago:
- Comment on This is real 4 days ago:
I’m remembering his full-page ads calling for the death penalty for the Central Park 5.
Garcia and his family have slam-dunk civil cases against Trump in both his personal and professional capacities.
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 1 week ago:
100UL (Unleaded avgas) has finally been approved for spark-ignition aviation engines just in the past couple years.
Manufacturers have finally gotten approval to build/retrofit popular small aircraft with compression-ignition engines. These can burn Jet-A in a diesel cycle instead of 100LL. Jet-A is more energy dense than 100LL, and it is cheaper.
We’re finally in a regulatory position where the GA fleet can actually transition to unleaded fuels.
- Comment on My imaginary children aren’t using your streaming service – Terence Eden’s Blog 1 week ago:
"Won’t someone think of the children?"
NO.
- Comment on What are the odds of a person getting poisoned by food delivery driver? How would the odds change if the person is a public figure (such as Twitch Streamers)? 1 week ago:
I don’t know, but keep asking this question. These businesses are a scourge.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Most countries inside the US don’t use irons.
- Comment on The photo I upload is grey no matter what size or format 1 week ago:
I have the “Dark Reader” extension in my browser, that converts web pages from their usual dark-on-light into light-on-dark. Occasionally, it also flips colors in certain images, and even streaming videos.
Do you have any browser extensions installed that might affect color? A blue-blocker, for instance?
- Comment on As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now? 1 week ago:
immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts,
I’m guessing they intended to send this notice to one of this lawyer’s clients, rather than the lawyer themself?
- Comment on Dont worry about your retirement plan... 1 week ago:
Vance doesn’t have the support of the personality cult. He can’t hold MAGA together. The whole thing will splinter.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 1 week ago:
In 1912, “Servia” was the accepted English spelling. British journalists started using “Serbia” around 1914.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 2 weeks ago:
IMO, email isn’t for answering questions. Email is for documenting that the conversation occurred.
If they won’t answer the questions in email, ask them in a phone call, then send a “Per our conversation” email summarizing the answers they provided. Until they send a rebuttal, I am free to act as though my email was their answer.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 2 weeks ago:
Take your upvote and choke on it, prick.
/s
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 weeks ago:
Irrelevant to the issue at hand: Even private sales are prohibited between residents of different states unless the sale is conducted through an FFL dealer in the buyer’s/recipient’s state.
But to answer your question: Very few states restrict private sales beyond federal requirements.
The only viable means of being able to reliably prosecute private sales to prohibited persons is to make NICS checks available, freely and anonymously, to the general public. With such checks readily and freely available, sellers cannot reasonably argue that they “didn’t know” someone was a prohibited buyer. With those checks available, “I didn’t know” is no longer exculpatory evidence. With those checks available, you can reasonably know their status; you should know their status; your failure to check is evidence of criminal negligence.
But every time “Public Access to NICS” has been proposed in the past 20+ years, Democratic leadership stops it, because it conflicts with their “no guns for anyone” ideology.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 weeks ago:
FFL dealers can only sell to residents of states in which they are licensed to operate. It is unlawful for a resident of one state to sell to a resident of another state, without involving an FFL dealer licensed in the receiver’s state.
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 2 weeks ago:
Nah, I’ll just use my “Tariff Dividend” check when Trump writes it. China will pay for it.
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 2 weeks ago:
That would be the first iPhone I’d actually buy.
- Comment on am i stupid or are solar panel's efficiency independent on latitude 2 weeks ago:
I totally the words
The whole thing!
- Comment on am i stupid or are solar panel's efficiency independent on latitude 2 weeks ago:
Others have mentioned the varying thickness of the atmosphere that the sunlight has to pass through, but cloud cover is the more important factor. The map you are looking at seems to include cloud cover in its calculations.
- Comment on Does a tiny motion tracking mouse thing exist at all? 2 weeks ago:
Rubbing alcohol is about the only solvent I know of that is unlikely to fog the sensor. Might take a little while swabbing it with a q-tip.
- Comment on Billionaires Poised to Lose Near Half-Trillion Dollars in 2 Days 🎉 2 weeks ago:
No they aren’t.
They are poised to watch an imaginary line go down for awhile. They’ll pour real money into the line while it’s down, and let more pour out after the line goes up.
- Comment on Why dont more people live in smaller communities , appart from economic opportunity (WFH is making it possible if not prefferable too) 2 weeks ago:
The more wealth inequality grows the less important 99% of the population is as consumers and the more important the 1% becomes.
Not as consumers, no. The 1% doesn’t consume more than the 90th percentile. They just park a higher percentage of their wealth in wealth-generating financial assets, which leech wealth from the rest of society.
We need a tax on all registered securities, (with exemption for the first $10 million owned by a natural person.) That tax should be paid not in cash, but in shares of the security: the IRS should slowly liquidate those shares over time, such that IRS sales never constitute more than 1% of total traded volume.
We further need the punitively-high top-tier tax rate we had for most of the 20th century. That tax rate pushed businesses to spend their excess income, turning it into other people’s paychecks. It discouraged the kind of wealth-hoarding investment that is stunting consumer spending.
- Comment on We are so cooked 3 weeks ago:
Everybody says this. Nobody posts recipes.
- Comment on James Bond is responsible for many wasted vodka martinis 3 weeks ago:
Bang bang, shoot shoot.
- Comment on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis 3 weeks ago:
Because the only thing worse than self driving is human driving.
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 3 weeks ago:
This transfers money from the advertiser to the advertising agency, without creating a sale for the advertiser. This devalues the services of the agency.
- Comment on Despite constitutional limit, Trump says he's seeking a way to serve 3rd presidential term 3 weeks ago:
I said the same thing, but it turns out there is a weasely way around it. The 22nd amendment doesn’t actually say you can only be president for two terms. The text actually says:
No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice,