Cevilia
@Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
38 she/her Very woke. Trans rights.
- Comment on Does importing goods from abroad alone really void sales tax? 5 days ago:
The only way to do it tax and duty free would be to go to Akihabara yourself, buy the goodies in person (paying sales tax), and get a receipt. Then submit the receipt to the relevant tax authority to get your sales tax reimbursed (there are companies that will help you with this for a fee). Then you take the goodies back with you in checked baggage and hope you’re under the personal limit for importing goods, otherwise they’ll hit you with the import duty anyway.
- Comment on I wonder why we don't have an NPS score for people? 5 days ago:
Net Promoter Score is a garbage metric that exists to deny hard workers bonuses.
You can rank someone 6/10 (above average) and that counts against them?!
- Comment on Is school cafeteria food in America trash? 5 days ago:
This is a false equivalence. The same company providing food for two different markets might be providing two different menus. Like a cake company which makes different cakes, and also some bread products, maybe some biscuits… you wouldn’t open a box of biscuits and find a cake inside. Except maybe Jaffa Cakes. What was I saying again?
Oh yeah, faulty logic, but it wouldn’t surprise me if there were some mix-and-matching going on. Capitalism gotta capitalise.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
This post is like a fart in an elevator.
It’s wrong on many levels.
- Comment on What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff? 1 week ago:
If I was cynical - which I absolutely am - I’d say maybe it’s a total nothingburger that’s being overplayed as a distraction from something else?
- Comment on Million seconds → ~11.6 days, how much is a billion? 1 week ago:
One-dimensional is the easiest way to get a rough idea of the difference between a million and a billion.
Put a stack of a million bank notes on its side, and that’s roughly a walk across a parking lot.
Put a stack of a billion bank notes on its side, and that’s a road trip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YUWDrLazCg
- Comment on In Pokemon Red and Blue, you're storing your pokemon in Bill's PC, not Bill's highly available georedundant cloud. One brown out and all your critters are gone. 1 week ago:
Yes because no cloud service has ever utterly fallen over and taken half the internet with it /s
- Comment on Identical twins cannot undergo age verification 1 week ago:
At least in this country, once they’ve verified your age, they aren’t allowed to keep your information.
I don’t believe for a microsecond that they actually obey that law (which is why I won’t verify my age anywhere) but it’d be an instant admission of guilt if they pulled that.
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 1 week ago:
I said could. We’re comparing Lemmy to Reddit.
- Comment on The Sentinelese are world champions of "The Game." Also, you lost. 1 week ago:
Nah, I won The Game years ago. You can too!
- Comment on How come there's BMW and BMX but no BMY or BMZ? 1 week ago:
Bavarian Motor Yurks Bavarian Motor Zurks
- Comment on Would you ever call your son a disappointment? 1 week ago:
I’d be disappointed to find I had one. I’d be a terrible mother and my wife would be even worse!
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 1 week ago:
You could always switch instance though. That’s a thing you can do in the Fediverse. You can’t do that on Reddit.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 1 week ago:
Tubular is free and available on F-Droid.
- Comment on I don't have money to pay premium to not see ads. What in the world makes you think that I have money to buy what you are advertising me? 2 weeks ago:
Last time I went to cDonald’s it tasted fine and was rather enjoyable. But I felt queasy the following day.
- Comment on [REPOST] Worker Gets Around His Casual Office's 'No Shorts' Dress Code Using Malicious Compliance 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t train drivers do this a few years ago?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Do you want to give up caffeine? If you do, you can do it. I did it. Took me about eight months. I feel better now, no “don’t talk to me before I’ve had my coffee”, no 3pm slump. But that was my choice, and as addictions go, I don’t know if it’s really that bad?
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 3 weeks ago:
Don’t bother arguing with stupid. They’ll drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
- Comment on What's going to happen to gas stations as cars electrify? 3 weeks ago:
They’ll be replaced with rapid charging stations.
This is already happening. Not too far from where I live, right on a main road, a BP station closed down late last year and they’re in the process of replacing it with a 20-bay BP Pulse rapid charging station with an attached store and café.
They’re going to make a fucking killing. And not just because they charge almost £1 per kWh.
- Comment on Pissing in the shower is better in every way than pissing in the toilet. 3 weeks ago:
I prefer not to get piss on my legs, but you do you!
- Comment on Do werewolves shed? Or do they lose their whole coat when transferring back? Do Vampires have little holes in their K9s to suck up the blood after puncturing someone or thing? 3 weeks ago:
At the risk of stating the obvious:
They’re fictional creatures. They do whatever you think they do.
- Comment on Should this be the year we finally try voting for other candidates? 4 weeks ago:
In England we had a three-party system for many a year. Then the third party (Liberal Democrats) showed their true colours. Then we had two. Now a new third party, Reform, is rising up on a platform of racism. They’re splitting the racist vote. That allowed a fourth party, the Greens, a noteworthy victory in a local by-election.
I don’t know how it works over there, but what I take away from this is that it wouldn’t have been possible without people who were willing to vote for not a third party, but a fourth party.
- Comment on I've probably seen more naked ladies than my entire bloodline combined 4 weeks ago:
And then we put kids in dresses! Even the boys! Oh! The vapours! ⋆faints dramatically⋆
- Comment on Opinions are like buttholes. Everybody has one but you don't need to engage when someone shows you theirs 5 weeks ago:
You can’t un-lick someone’s opinion.
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 5 weeks ago:
Do you have a suggestion for one, please? (yes I am fully aware I could google it but that won’t give me the nuanced opinion of someone who probably already owns one)
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 5 weeks ago:
USB-C can only draw 6.5A of current, and even that has its issues if the user suddenly unplugs. It’d be great for a trickle charge, but the pins are just too dinky to carry kilowatt levels of current, physics gets in the way.
- Comment on You board a train, board a bus, and board a ship, but you don't board a car 1 month ago:
You definitely board a taxi though
- Comment on If you have to throw punches, make sure to punch upwards. 1 month ago:
You’re absolutely right, and I agree.
When I started learning the craft of roast comedy, this was drilled into me. You never ever ever punch down. Not under any circumstances. That makes you a bully. But punching up? That makes you a fucking hero. If you’re going to roast someone, first you have to acknowledge that they are better than you in some way, and if you can’t do that, you don’t touch them.
~Of course it’s easy for me, I’m nobody~
- Comment on You can ask any question to the people of year 3000, but can only receive information in the form of a single bit. What's your question? 1 month ago:
I think we already know the answer to that one.
- Comment on Can anyone help me decipher the words in Those Who Ride With Giants' track The Knocking Lord? 1 month ago:
Did you get a reply? :)