RunawayFixer @ RunawayFixer @lemmy.world

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I wonder how much of that libertarian bullshit is organic and how much part of a hidden media campaign. This entire case is giving me the same vibes as that Macdonald's hot coffee case, where they successfully villified the victim.

But fortunately this is in the USA, there must be tens of thousands of lawyers salivating over this case.

They are selling a drink where one serving contains 97.5% of the recommended maximum daily dosage of a stimulating substance. We (me at least) now know that that maximum daily dosage is 400mg, but I only know that now because people died and it was prominently feaurered on social media.

A borderline drink like this, should be locked away in a liquor cabinet or only be dispensed by a licensed bartender. When selling the drink, the cashier/bartender should then also warn customers of the danger of the contents and that they should not drink it if they have already consumed caffeine that day, nor should they consume any other caffeine during the rest of the day. Clearly they aren't doing any of that, it's just a container in the general food area, with some nutritional information that most people not fully comprehend.

We all constantly buy and consume stuff without fully understanding what's in it. When buying stuff in the store, I only check the sugar contents in the detailed ingredient list. When buying stuff in a takeaway, I check nothing. I'm certainly not going to sleuth on the internet to find the max dosages of each ingredient. If a drink is put out in the open like this, then I assume that it's safe.

Tbh, I'm absolutely disgusted by the victim blaming in this case. It's not that man's fault that he was not smart and him not being smart, definitely does not make this death acceptable.

Because the drink was not clearly marked as being dangerous, a good article on this: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/panera-adds-warning-caffeinated-lemonade-stores-lawsuit-customers-deat-rcna122628

If you want the tldr: the "lemonade" was located next to regular drinks and "Photos ... show it was advertised as “plant-based and clean,” containing as much caffeine as the restaurant’s dark roast coffee.".

Apparently Panera's defence is that each customer should look up and read the detailed ingredient list and have enough specialized nutritional knowledge to know which dosages constitute a danger to their life.

Until you really really need to go hard, then it's clothes off again.

A few years back I had something clogging up my intestines (no clue what) on the night that I was going to take a 3 hour flight to a wedding, so no lying down and way too much sitting in a cramped position for a too long time. I never felt more constipated as after I arrived and could finally stretch again.

So about 2 hours later when I could feel that it was nearly time, I evacuated to the furthest possible bathroom (I didn't want to be a party pooper), lost all clothing except my socks and spend 30 minutes in agony, explosively shitting away, while covered in sweat and bracing myself against the walls.

All of which to say, is that you might think that you have left your shirtless days behind, but when shit really hits the fan, then you won't be able to stop yourself from going back to your old habits.

From what I remember (it's been over a decade since I read it), the southern hemisphere has much more water than the north.

Water is a great heat battery, especially deep oceans. And there's a gigantic mass of water in the south. So in the summer it stays cooler because that mass of water can store a lot of energy, and in the winter it stays much warmer because the oceans slowly releases the heat that they have stored.

All that water mass is essentially "dampening" the climate extremes. And since ocean water also slushes around + evaporates in much greater mass than the little water on land, heat also gets redistributed better than on land.

So in short: more water = cooler in the summer + warmer in the winter.

Skype had become a really horrible program under Microsoft. Aweful buggy app, bad video quality, ... Here's someone else's testimony, which matches my own experience: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/forum/all/skype-is-horrible/83ceff2b-3217-4ddd-bfa5-fcec0b390997

Microsoft Teams for business is pretty good as long as the call stays within the company. Go outside of that and you run into loads of problems thanks to Microsoft's hubris. The problem really is Microsoft.

Zoom and Google meet just work in my experience.

It wasn't really immediately, it was only under Pooh Bear that mainland China abandoned all pretenses and went full authoritarian in Hong Kong. China seems to be doing another great leap forward, again lead by a paranoid authoritarian leader who happens to be superb at politicking, but bad at governing. It's as if history is doomed to repeat itself.

Edit: I somehow misspelled Hong Kong.

I had never heard of Renault Duster before (nor seen one), so I looked it up. The Renault Duster is apparently a Dacia Duster with mostly cosmetic changes, for sale outside the eu, typically released later than the Dacia Duster is released in the eu. So it's the same car, but different brand badges + cosmetics depending on the country were it's sold. They are so similar, that I'd just call it the same car, not a copy.

Broken link or is my app (sync) broken?

Dacia sales keep increasing every year. This does show there is an increasing demand for simple cars.

I'm just guessing, but maybe it was selfie/portrait accidents in the past, where people came to close to the exhibits, toppling them over.

After taking a better look: everything seems firmly secured here. I still think preventing portraits is a possible explanation: No accidental touching of the objects when people hold their face too close, or grabbing of objects when they stumble during posing.

It's not because Trump claims to believe that the election was fraudulent, that he actually believes it was fraudulent. He's a serial lier and grifter, he does not actually believe all the lies and false accusations that he spouts.

I still use Foxit 9.72 on my pc (which I don't have open ATM, so I can't check to be certain I gave the right version). I have tried newer versions, but there always was some kind of enshittyfication change that annoyed me and I always reverted back to that last good version.

Basically this, it was after all exactly as described.

There's really no need for that much effort to make a confusing perspective photo. Just take the photo from a lower point than usual (it makes things seem larger), with the light out of the right direction so that the shadows don't spoil the illusion, with the long legs pointing towards the camera in saturated light so that the depth is not clear. Kinda exactly like was done here.

I remembered reading many years ago about large solar plants in SA and I wondered what happened to that. Apparently Zuma happened: From a world leader in renewables, to years behind, thanks to Zuma and his cronies.

https://martinplaut.com/2022/07/14/how-zuma-and-his-cronies-destroyed-plans-for-south-africas-renewable-energy-revolution/

Definitely a perspective trick. The legs are that long to be able to say that the bear is 6.5 feet long. Buyers want to buy a giant teddy bear and instead they get a smaller bear than expected, but with super long legs. The manufacturer and seller knew what they were doing: purposefully misleading buyers.

The Party of Laws For Thee, But Not For Me?

And what we've seen so far is only the start, my heart does indeed ache when I think about what is to come.

One bright spot is that the climate change tragedy inspired this simply amazing onion news piece: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DyjfrJzdx7DA&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjJicrxl8iCAxWcxgIHHV3WDVAQtwJ6BAgKEAE&usg=AOvVaw2qSrV1Lq5NP6h5MJHedODg

Climate was already known to become the future's biggest problems for a long time back then. I read once that Al Gore campaigned in the 1980s with climate change as one of the action points. So no, it's not a new problem.