BlitzoTheOisSilent @ BlitzoTheOisSilent @lemmy.world

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Well that's cause you've gotta warm it up and sprinkle it on the top of your oatmeal.

Move it on Over - George Thorogood and the Destroyers

Grew up on his music because my dad controlled the car radio, as a little 4-5 year old I even had a whole dance to it not knowing what the song was actually about, hahaha

Wasn't a serial killer with the arguably largest kill-count a doctor from the UK? I can't remember his name, but it's not just an American thing.

There was also that dude in Argentina (?) who had hundreds of kills attributed to him, mostly children? There's the Chess Board Killer as well, he was Russian and was trying to kill a person for every square on a chess board. (I believe he was a few short before he was finally caught).

Reminds me of that story Michael Caine tells in The Prestige.

" Remember that sailor I told you about who got tangled up in the sails and drowned?"

"Yeah, he said it was like going home."

"I lied... He said it was agony.

My boss was kinda giving me and another guy some shit for having Android phones (he has an iPhone). Not in a mean way, just kind of razzing us about it.

Other dude looked at him and goes, "Sorry for being poor, I guess," and then started laughing, haha. But yeah, I've had several people over the years be perplexed by anything that wasn't an iPhone.

Yep, I/my car was involved in 3 accidents over the course of 2 years almost a decade ago. First I was rear-ended, second someone turned into me cause they were in the wrong lane, and the final one I wasn't even in the car, it was parked in the city I lived in and was one of 7 cars that were hit during a police pursuit.

That last accident, I had the same insurance company as the guy who was evading police. When I called to file a claim, the woman told me, "Well... We're not sure we'll be able to offer compensation, as your vehicle is one of seven involved, and the driver's insurance only covers XYZ amount, so we may need to put it under your policy." I told them absolutely not, it was not my problem that they willfully insured a criminal, and that I had been a customer for 5+ years, never missed a payment, and did absolutely nothing wrong in this situation. She still pushed, and I told her if that was the route they wanted to go, she could cancel my policy that minute, and suddenly it turned into "Well, let's see what we can do."

Fuck insurance companies, all of them, literally all of them. They also initially refused to give me my check for that last accident, as the guy at the counter told me, "Well, you have a lien on the vehicle, so we should really be sending this to your bank so they can tell you when/where they want the repairs made." I responded, "Well, that sounds like a conversation I need to have with my bank, and since the loan is between myself and them, I don't really understand what business it is of yours, now I'll take my check please."

They recently upped my rates because I moved 1.7 miles away from my old address, which was in a different zip code, and just thinking about all this makes me want to look into leaving them for another company.

God I hate insurance companies.

Could be, but personally, I wouldn't recommend it. While there are citizen's arrest laws and I'm sure they've been used, I can't think of any examples off the top of my head, and it appears each state has different standards that need to be met to constitute a "citizen's arrest," with some states not allowing/defining it.

Personally, my concern with attempting a citizen's arrest would be doing so without meeting my state's/country's standard to do so. My state's statute explicitly states it is a crime to illegally restrain someone against their will, and even states that doing so is skirting the line of kidnapping.

Having a kidnapping charge thrown at me doesn't seem worth it for a jackass who doesn't want to leave my property but isn't doing anything else (like attempting to harm me or damage my property). I'd play it safe and just let the police handle it, their qualified immunity will let them do whatever they want and face no consequences anyway.

But again, IANAL, and YMMV, so do with all this as you will.

IANAL, but I don't believe so. Most/all states have laws that allow people to access your property to come to your front door/porch, I forget the exact name, unless your property is fenced with clearly visible "private property/no trespassing" type signs.

However, once you've asked them to leave, they have to leave or they can be arrested/escorted away for trespassing should they refuse to and police become involved. In your example, if they were to come back after being asked to leave, I believe yes, but you couldn't arrest them, the police would have to.

My current job does this: I work 7-430 M-Th, and then 7-12 on Friday. It's pretty cool, and the extra hour those 4 days feels negligible, with an early start to the weekend. Unlike Fisher-Price, though, mine is year round.

However, I've worked jobs that advertise as "full-time, 32-35 hrs/week," and as the system is currently set up, it's sucks big time. Like, I worked as a chef 32-hours a week and (shockingly) got benefits like health insurance and stuff. But when I went to buy a house, the mortgage company told me I either needed another 8 hours per week from my current job, or to find another that would give me at least 40 hours/wk. While the company considered me full-time, the mortgage company did not.

Worked another job for a school cafeteria as a cook, same thing, 30-35 hours per week, but the only benefits they offered were health insurance (which was expensive), and the ability to follow the school calendar. So, we'd get all the half-days and vacation days like the kids did, which was cool, but we didn't get paid for it. So if 2 days per week were an early dismissal, I'd lose about 5+ hours of pay. Any break that was 3-days or more, we had to file for unemployment, which is an absolute joke and headache in my state. The only time I tried before I quit that job, the forms required me to give:

• My entire employment history for the last 5 years, including exact start and end dates,
• The hours I worked per week at each job,
• Direct supervisor's name and contact information, and
• Reason for leaving each and every job, plus several other things I was literally flipping through my phone trying to find email/photos/etc of,
• Random questions like why was I seeking unemployment, why was I filling out the form, why why why

Took me over 3 hours to put it all in, just for the system to acknowledge my bank existed, and then refuse to accept the routing number, trying to force me to get one of those temp debit cards mailed to me (that I think they charge fees on). I was so frustrated towards the end of it all I started putting "Why do I FUCKING need to tell you about a job from 6 years ago when I'm requesting unemployment for THIS FUCKING MONTH" in the comment sections.

Basically, until the laws/regulations regarding worker's rights are standardized and written in a way where workers can actually benefit from shorter work weeks, or actually enjoy the incentives that shorter days and such provide, then these corporations will continue to find these loopholes to fuck us over. It's why I'm trying to go into business for myself in the next few years: set my hours, choose my workload, and not deal with this corporate bullshit anymore.

Sorry, that turned into a rant, and I do want shorter work weeks, but unless the law is written extremely well, companies will just continue these bullshit antics.

Is that a garden hoe? Looks like an adze to me, which, if that's what the kid was wielding... I could see an argument for use of force. An adze is basically a curved hoe with a bevel that can be as sharp as an axe's, just perpendicular to the handle.

A garden hoe, which is what it looked like in the video, is a flat piece of metal on the end of a handle that would definitely hurt, but not like an adze, and likely wouldn't be sharpened.

They used to call them shin splitters or something because carpenters back in the day would stand on top of logs and swing the adze down towards their feet to mill that face of the log flat. If you missed, well... Yeah, goodbye toes/shin/etc.

Not the person you responded to, but they may be talking about the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which I believe the FAA grounded (I could be misremembering the John Oliver points about it) after several incidents within the first few months of release.

I'm not sure about soft close toilet hinges, but, most soft close cabinet hinges have small adjusters that allow to you basically set the speed of the close.

Might be something to look into.

I do this with my dog, haha. Anytime I come home with anything (groceries, tools, etc) I have to take each item out and at least show it to my dog (usually let him sniff it if it's not food).

Like, "Oooooh, look, mom got a hammer! OOOOOH, a hammer!" and she's just sniffing and wagging away, hahaha

Not always an option for folks for a myriad of reasons, the U.S. doesn't have the infrastructure for it like Europe.

Wouldn't be out of character for them.

See: The USS Liberty Incident

When I was in, I had a shipmate who said there were basically three types of people who stayed in the military.

Group 1: Small percentage, but they literally loved it, loved what they did, just felt right in uniform.

Group 2: Those who wanted/needed the insurance, education benefits, etc for themselves or their loved ones/families.

Group 3: Those who had no other options, and were juuuuuuust competent enough to not be kicked out every enlistment.