Pyr_Pressure

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Pyr_Pressure ,

I think there was a case somewhere that the prisoner was sentenced to death, and was executed ina fashion that didn't quite work.

But technically he did die for a minute or two before his heart restarted, and he sued to be released from prison because he technically served his sentence.

Pyr_Pressure ,

Unfortunately it doesn't look like it. I misremembered a few details, he "died" from natural causes in prison, not execution. The court ruled "Schreiber is either alive, in which case he must remain in prison, or he is dead, in which case this appeal is moot."

His name was Benjamin Schreiber.

Tire toxicity faces fresh scrutiny after salmon die-offs ( phys.org )

"You've got a chemical cocktail in these tires that no one really understands and is kept highly confidential by the tire manufacturers," said Nick Molden, CEO of Emissions Analytics. "We struggle to think of another consumer product that is so prevalent in the world and used by virtually everyone, where there is so little known...

Pyr_Pressure ,

Well, we call the stuff we breath "air" despite it being 80% nitrogen. It would be a bit weird saying we breath nitrogen. "Air" is a general catch-all term for the mixture of things that we breath.

AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing | Ars Technica ( arstechnica.com )

A controversial bill that would require all new cars to be fitted with AM radios looks set to become a law in the near future. Yesterday, Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass) revealed that the "AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act" now has the support of 60 US Senators, as well as 246 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, making its...

Pyr_Pressure ,

Do cars really need to have it though? They seem to be the only thing "targeted" to be forced into include something that can receive emergency broadcasts. Why not force homes to be outfitted with an AM radio? Everyone lives somewhere (mostly, unfortunately) but not everyone owns a car. If they really want people to have access to AM radio emergency broadcasts maybe they should supply people with portable AM radios rather than forcing car companies to include it in their cars and increasing the price of vehicles since they will require larger antennae and more wiring than just FM radio or no radio at all.

Pyr_Pressure ,

Can't remember the movie but it had someone get kidnapped by a group of cannibals or something and they kept them alive while chopping body parts of and cauterizing the wound, eating them slowly over time to keep them fresh. Don't think I was able to finish it.

Pyr_Pressure ,

I much prefer random ads anyways. Targeted ads are 90% something You've already recently bought.

With random ads sometimes you see something interesting that you didn't even know you wanted because you didn't know it even existed.

If I'm looking for a laptop I don't care to see 1000 ads for laptops, I'm not going to just click an ad and buy one I need to research and deep dive into the kind I want.

Pyr_Pressure ,

Yes

Pyr_Pressure ,

Personally I've never had an issue with Asus products but have had numerous quality issues with Acer. Bought a number of small Acer laptops and the hinges kept breaking because they only put one screw in the hold the hinge instead of two in many of them.

Pyr_Pressure ,

I quite liked it, don't usually like musical shows but the tunes are catchy and somewhat funny sometimes

Pyr_Pressure ,

The very rare need for it seems like it would be best to just rent a camera when needed or buy a better specific use one for a toolbox rather than needing to carry a mediocre one around in your pocket 24/7

Is my peach tree dead? ( lemmy.world )

I'm not sure what happened but my peach tree isn't getting leaves. The branches on the end are brittle but I did a little cut on the tree bark on the trunk and it was green under so I don't think she's dead. I'm not sure what may have caused this. I thought at first it was because she didn't get enough chill hours but we got...

Pyr_Pressure ,

My grandpa's peach tree had had leaves and flowers for almost a month now, a few hours north of Seattle. Not sure if there are different early/late varieties or not.

Pyr_Pressure ,

I would rather the audiobook wait to release by a few weeks/months if it means keeping the same actor.

Pyr_Pressure ,

Again the excuse of ‘no politics’

YOU CAN’T AVOID POLITICS

Accepting contracts from Israel is just as political as denying contracts from Israel. You just stated your political stance by accepting. Why do people think it’s a free copout?

Pyr_Pressure ,

A lot of times that’s where people cross the street. Want people to stop before the spot people might step out into.

Pyr_Pressure ,

Freedoms and rights do need to have rules and regulations. Otherwise you would have nonstop hate speech and death threats protected by freedom of speech or protesting at hospitals and blocking ambulances like during COVID.

Pyr_Pressure ,

So would you agree there should be rules about protestors blocking access to planned parenthood? Or is it perfectly fine the way the system is right now, just allowing them to threaten and harass everyone going inside for unhindered rights or assembly?

Pyr_Pressure ,

Literally no one said that. I fully support anyone wishing to protest against Israel’s treatment of Palestine and the hypocritical enabling of the democrats. The issue being discussed is whether or not certain rights and freedoms should have rules attached to it.

Blocking a bridge, people say there should not be rules against it because they need to be a disruption to be heard properly. Some people say certain rules preventing the right of assembly should be allowed in certain cases, like blocking hospital access or creating buffer zones around schools and abortion clinics.

Some people say there shouldn’t be any rules at all preventing any rights from being expressed.

I’m of the opinion that blocking traffic shouldn’t be allowed for protesting peacefully. Line the edges and walkways of the bridge and be as visible as you want with large vibrant signs and megaphones, but don’t stand in the street preventing people from getting to work.

Others disagree and simply say that it’s a right to do it, but then they are fine with attaching certain rules to other rights like preventing hate speech. It’s simply a matter of trying to find where the line should be drawn.

Pyr_Pressure ,

Please try to develop some reading comprehension.

In the context of

So would you agree there should be rules about protestors blocking access to planned parenthood? Or is it perfectly fine the way the system is right now, just allowing them to threaten and harass everyone going inside for unhindered rights or assembly?

It was in direct reply to your comment about planned parenting protestors.

In none of my comments am I bashing the bridge protestors other than saying they should not be allowed to block traffic, and the right of assembly should have rules and regulations to determine “proper” and “improper” forms of protest.

I don’t even know what you are arguing about.

Pyr_Pressure ,

And not just liquid wealth.

Own stocks? Pay a tax on their value at time of purchase, updating every year from that day.

Pyr_Pressure ,

Wouldn’t people still own the same percentage, but the company itself just own less?

I don’t believe they can just create shares out of thin air. The company would typically own a certain amount of shares the entire time and then sell the ones they own.

So if you had 1% before and the company owned 50%, they might decide to sell half of their shares so they now only own 25% but you still own your 1%. You don’t just magically have 0.5% now.

The reason the shares drop in price when this happens is because it’s a sign that the company is either in financial trouble and seeking for a quick influx of cash or it’s a sign that the company doesn’t have much hope for its future success and wants to sell now before the price naturally starts to go down anyways.

Pyr_Pressure ,

The project is estimated to create 17,000 construction jobs (temporary, feels wildly overestimated as well) and 4500 manufacturing jobs.

If you just have that $6.4B to the 4500 who would get a permanent job out of it that would be $1.4million each, probably enough for them to retire.

But no we need workers so give that money to corporations that already have billions of dollars.

Pyr_Pressure ,

Just take the money out of the rent. If the amount owed is $1000 and their rent is $1400, just pay $400 rent and call it square.

The landlord may try to kick up a fuss but at least you can say you “paid” your rent.

Pyr_Pressure ,

Then pay $400 a month for 10 months? Pretty simple math. A lot easier than trying to take them to court and paying a bunch of lawyer fees.

Pyr_Pressure ,

Ya doesn’t make sense to me. Let them have phones.

Unless they try to turn them into shivs I guess that could be bad.

Pyr_Pressure ,

So instead of giving people notice so they can change their information they decide to sit on it until they cover their asses. Typical.

Pyr_Pressure ,

Wait, what if you had OG and never bought RF? Would it not let you play the game you already bought or do you just get RF for free?

Pyr_Pressure ,

Obviously he should just kill his adopted kid

Pyr_Pressure ,

I have a decent pirating software but I also have amazon prime just for the delivery stuff so I will definitely make sure to watched the first few episodes “legally”

If it’s only meh I will start watching it via the seas so amazon can actually see in their statistics that someone’s stated watching it and gave up.

If it’s good I will continue watching it through prime so they have reassurance that they should make a second season.

If the only people who like it watch it by pirating they will never get a second season.

Pyr_Pressure ,

“no expectation of showing private parts” in a common area.

It’s not just about nudity. It’s about privacy. I’m sure those cameras can still pick up audio if they were in their bedrooms. Now they can’t call their doctors without knowing that they can discuss private issues or financial information without someone recording it.

Pyr_Pressure ,

If there was no agreement in the lease about the cameras they could probably also just cover them with bags. Landlord can do shit about telling them they can’t store their items in front of them.

Unfortunately doesn’t do anything in regards to audio.

I would 100% cover the cameras and then quietly do as much damage to the place before leaving.

Pyr_Pressure ,

I imagine a fire hydrant is pretty expensive as well. Can’t imagine covering it in salt resistant paint would be that much of a price increase and even if it is I don’t imagine it would be cost prohibitive if it means a 20 year replacement cycle vs. a 10 year cycle.

If anything this may be protecting them from dog piss.

Pyr_Pressure ,

I was driving down a highway once and noticed that there was a blue reflective marker on top of the concrete barrier every few hundred feet or so.

Took me about an hour or two before I noticed that it aligned with where the drainage basins were, probably for snow removal in the winter.

Pyr_Pressure ,

Well ya, that’s why you put it on when the thing is being installed. Not talking about a Reno/repair.

If they didn’t put salt resistant paint on it when they first installed the thing because it was a few hundred dollars more that would be stupid.

Pyr_Pressure ,

I have three. The third doesn’t really boost my productivity much, I have it vertical just to show my file browser because I open and switch through different files quite a lot. The other two are to show the actual files I’m working in or comparing.

Pyr_Pressure ,

There needs to be legislation to reign in salary type work as well.

It still needs to be based on hours, like an average of 40 hours per week sort of thing.

Yes your pay cheque will be the same every week for simplicity, but you shouldn’t be expected to work 60 hours just because you’re salary. If you work one week 50 hours, you should be able to tell your boss you are only working 30 hours the next week.

Pyr_Pressure ,

The flaw with salary is that there is no defined amount of “work”.

It wont always be because you underestimated the complexity and mismanaged your time. If they asked you to complete a task and the only way to do it was to work 80 hours a week, sure that’s sometimes necessary. But what if they do that every week? Unless you were aware of those requirements during the hiring process and salary negotiation there’s nothing you can do. What if they pile on even more to your 80 hour week and you need to work the occasional 100 hour week?

There’s no way to regulate salary abuse, that’s why the system needs to be based on an average of hours.

Pyr_Pressure ,

At least the housing crisis will be fixed

Pyr_Pressure ,

Testing and stuff probably does by a tiny fraction, because they need to use insane amounts of power to get it started which is probably produced by coal/oil.

But once it’s actually working and producing more power than it consumes it will be the best solution to stopping greenhouse gases for energy production. It would be the end of gas/oil/coal in the energy sector. Probably wouldn’t even need to use solar or wind anymore.

Pyr_Pressure ,

I think a child has a better chance of turning out just fine with loving parents and sharing a room with bunk beds with their sibling than going to a foster family and split from their siblings, but at least they have their own room!

Pyr_Pressure ,

Personally I don’t even subscribe to any. I just browse all and then filter out any community that pops up which I don’t think I’ll ever be interested in.

I started to subscribe to a few but when browsing subscribed only I felt like I was potentially missing so much, because maybe I subscribed to the wrong “aww” instance but I also didn’t want to go through and find the 3-4 different versions to subscribe to.

This way I see everything, except the stuff that I definitely don’t want to see (like most of the porn instances, non-english instances, etc.)

Pyr_Pressure ,

I’m not sure about Louisiana but where I live, you can’t get a mortgage if you can’t get insurance. That means in order to move, you have to find a buyer that will pay cash.

Otherwise you’re screwed.

Pyr_Pressure ,

Not if he does it every night. A few drops after a few weeks is a fair bit and wood soaks up liquid pretty good.

Pyr_Pressure ,

Typically the rules have been that they can use the weapons on occupied Ukrainian lands, but not pre-2014 Russian territory.

They can use the aid to take back what has been stolen but can’t use missiles to bomb Moscow for added pressure to stop the war.

Pyr_Pressure ,

Eh, science is more of a process than a belief system. You can use science to support or deny certain belief systems.

“I believe humans are fundamentally good”

Okay let’s use psychology and philosophy to determine if that’s true.

“I believe the earth is flat”

Okay let’s use geology, astronomy, and physics to determine if that is true.

Also there are plenty of things that are part of reality which we can’t observe with our “five senses”, it’s why we need to measure the effects and see the recordings instead.

Pyr_Pressure ,

There’s a difference between addictive and entertaining.

I wouldn’t call nicotine entertaining.

Opening lootboxes you paid $5 each for is not entertaining.

Pyr_Pressure ,

Most people would take that as a given. He was just pointing out the effect on his own personal life.

It would be pretty annoying if everyone shared their own effect but had to precede it with a standard “I know it’s more awful for those with lives lost, but this affects me because…”

Pyr_Pressure ,

Ticks and mosquitos can go extinct, I wouldn’t care in the slightest.

Pyr_Pressure ,

Even if I made $100,000USD a year I’m not sure I would agree to massacre a hundred people for $200k.

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