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dual_sport_dork, 1 day ago

America.

Retailers are allowed to disclaim the merchantability and fitness for any particular purpose of the items they sell and most do. The customer is free to refuse, of course, via the simple expedient of going away and buying it somewhere else.

This is partially a blame-shifting exercise to reduce costs, yes, but it’s also a shield against the ceaseless horde of dipshits we have in this country who will willfully misuse a product and then immediately try to sue the retailer they bought it from when it doesn’t work or they hurt themselves with it via their own stupidity. It is much easier from a legal perspective to make a blanket “we don’t imply this product is applicable for any purpose” statement vs. having to explicitly predict whatever cockamamie thing someone might try it on and have to say “no, moron, that chainsaw is not suitable for cutting bricks,” etc.

Read all that fine print on the back of your receipt some day. You will be enlightened and, most likely, also infuriated.

dual_sport_dork, 1 day ago

The nomenclature I always hear is, “Experiencing a higher than expected call volume,” and since no one can prove how low their expectations actually are there is no crack in which to insert the prybar of legal complaint.

dual_sport_dork, 2 days ago

For the classic 1950’s atomic war scenario, probably more for flying glass and so forth.

Obviously it’s not going to save you from a direct hit. You need to get in a fridge to be protected from that sort of thing…

dual_sport_dork, 2 days ago

I can’t imagine.

dual_sport_dork, 2 days ago

I have nothing of value to add other than I used to have those exact same plates. I bought them at K-Mart.

dual_sport_dork, 3 days ago

It’s not the recycling icon. It is a “resin identifier code,” and the symbol is meant to resemble the recycling icon in a deliberately deceptive manner while remaining technically different.

dual_sport_dork, 10 days ago

Important note: This is not Photoshopped.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SRLBQ8trhk

It is an actual thing that was built.

dual_sport_dork, 15 days ago

That’s probably because the current Abrahamic incarnation of god and his attributes are carefully designed to be a non-falsifiable claim.

So the point is actually rendered moot. God is according to the True Believer invisible, intangible, only works in “mysterious ways,” and cannot be observed to have any influence on the universe, nor leaves any evidence of his existence except “faith.” By those metrics, it’s irrelevant whether he exists or not. A hypothetical force that exists but doesn’t affect anything is interchangeable from a functional standpoint from something that doesn’t exist.

See also: Russel’s Teapot.

dual_sport_dork, 15 days ago

I got my FZ6R that way. I bought it for $3000 with 299 miles on it. Not a typo. Two-nine-nine. Homeboy told me he rode it once. His dad put the remaining miles on it, but apparently much preferred his Harley.

Whatever. Mine now.

dual_sport_dork, 17 days ago

What happens is, the alcohol component would get cooked out of it near instantly. Same as with cooking with wine.

dual_sport_dork, 17 days ago

The only bees with stingers are the female ones, though.

dual_sport_dork, 21 days ago

This guy… he’s un-fuckin-believable.

dual_sport_dork, 21 days ago

Starring Will Smith, in theaters this Summer.

dual_sport_dork, 23 days ago

You should read up on the Amico and in particular watch Pat The NES Punk’s various videos on it. The entire debacle is hilarious.

The Amico is/was basically an investor scam. Yes, it did eventually turn into an actual product (which is crap) but it was never intended to be a serious contender to anything. The intent was for Tommy Tallarico to get his face published everywhere and pocket/embezzle a significant amount of investor and Indiegogo money.

The system itself is basically an out-of-date smartphone chipset running a cut down version of Android. Most of its games, as you would expect, are basically mobile trash. Other than emulated Intellivision titles, anyway. And mobile trash you have to pay up front for a console with bullshit controls to even play it on.

dual_sport_dork, 23 days ago

I agree on the N64, and the problem with it is that everyone is nostalgic for “the system,” but in reality they’re only nostalgic for Mario 64, Goldeneye, Conker, Mario Kart, Ocarina of Time, Banjo-Kazooie, Smash Bros., and Perfect Dark. It’s not that the N64 has a top ten, it’s that it basically only had ten good games total. And bangers though they may have been, everything else on it was crap.

I’m sure two or three people will pop out of the woodwork now to argue with me and insist that no, back in the day they really did love WCW Mayhem or 1080 Snowboarding or the butchered piece of shit version of THPS or Chef’s Luv Shack or whatever the fuck, but that’s the thing: It’s always back in the day, when you were a kid and only owned four cartridges, and you didn’t know any better because that’s all you had. Nobody goes back to play any of the remaining 378 games now.

dual_sport_dork, 24 days ago

You already can:

www.amazon.com/…/B09X61NG5S

dual_sport_dork, 1 month ago

Sorry, best we can do is pearl-clutching ourselves into banning everything.

dual_sport_dork, 1 month ago

Or Geoff.

dual_sport_dork, 1 month ago

Sure, if we were still in 1862.

But then, the current GOP really wishes it were still 1862, don’t they?

dual_sport_dork, 1 month ago

Even at the time I found the contortions they put themselves into to avoid your protagonist from either speaking or having a name to be equal parts sad and hilarious.

dual_sport_dork, 1 month ago

Penguin difficulty? Just git gud, scrub.

dual_sport_dork, 1 month ago

Nothing, other than that there’s no possible way that’d actually be cheaper than just including it in the godawful-complicated touch screen entertainment center that will pathologically already exist in every new car.

dual_sport_dork, 1 month ago

It’s Dickbutt, isn’t it?

dual_sport_dork, 1 month ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/22a07bfd-206d-4b6a-ab10-be925ac1ea47.png

dual_sport_dork, 1 month ago

It’s worked in the past. Force is the only language that bullies and thugs understand. “Moral high ground” isn’t going to do it when the state can just shoot you and get away with it.

dual_sport_dork, 1 month ago

This cat has a link to the Creative Commons license at the bottom of all of his comments.

dual_sport_dork, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Uh. Just render it however it is rendered on the movie poster, or if push comes to shove its trademark filing. Then go do something with the rest of your life.

It is astounding that Wikipedia editors somehow don’t know that Star Trek fans are The original nerds bickering on the internet. Don’t kick the beehive. Kirk vs. Picard, Enterprise vs. Star Destroyer, Death Star vs. Borg, every single continuity gaffe, every letter of technobabble, every single page in Mike Okuda’s manual on the NCC-1701D. Trek nerds have been arguing about this and even more minutiae for far longer, and they’re better at it than anyone else.

dual_sport_dork, 1 month ago

Maybe this is intentional.

No, hear me out. You know how sovereign citizen types get all worked up about how their LEGAL NAME (all caps, as typed on the birth certificate or whatever) and their Real Name (first letters capitalized only) refer to different entities? Maybe this dipstick thinks he is employing similar logic here.

“No, see, it wasn’t actually me because it’s spelled…”

Note that I’m not saying it actually makes sense or will work. But perhaps that is the minimal amount of thought process there?

dual_sport_dork, 1 month ago

A believe a trident is the traditionally accepted weapon for this quarry, and possibly slightly more effective.

dual_sport_dork, 2 months ago

You totally can. Mine is a penguin.

Lemmy being what it is, visibility probably depends on a thousand tweaky little factors like which instance you’re on, which instance you’re looking at, and what client you’re using.

dual_sport_dork, 2 months ago

They have been for decades at this point. Remember the iPod commercials, the ones with the dancing silhouettes of people with the white headphone wires highlighted? In the early 2000’s, those white headphones were a status symbol. A literal fashion accessory, jewelry.

This progressed to the iPhone and then aluminum chassis Macbooks. The majority of people who buy a Macbook Air or Pro aren’t doing it for productivity or any particular workflow reason. They’re doing it so they will be seen at Starbucks or around their quad with a Macbook.

Apple is a marketing company. A hugely successful one, yes, but their main product is not technology. It’s image.

dual_sport_dork, 2 months ago

Having met and supported hardware for many Mac users in my day? Yes. If this doesn’t describe you: Congratulations. You’re in the minority.

dual_sport_dork, 2 months ago

Me either, but living in a college town at that time I observed that people were definitely going around wearing their white earbuds (sometimes even fake ones!) without listening to anything just to be seen wearing the things. It was really rather silly, looking back on it now.

dual_sport_dork, 2 months ago

Let me air out two unrelated but similar things that annoyed the shit out of me back in the day.

Your parents then: “That floor mat thingy (referring to the Power Pad) doesn’t count as exercise because it’s still Nintendo. You need to go outside!!!”

Adults now: Middle school phys-ed classes consisting of playing Dance Dance Revolution apparently somehow now “counts” as real exercise.

And,

Your parents then: “The problem with you kids is you spend all day in front of that tube, watching those stupid movies and playing video games all day instead of reading books. It’s stunting your ability to differentiate fantasy from reality!!!”

Your parents now: Instantly believe every damn fool thing they see on Facebook, even and especially when it is clearly horseshit.

So yeah. I can totally believe that some moron would unironically believe that staring at a screen containing an office application is somehow automatically more “wholesome” than staring at a screen displaying any other content for the same amount of time.

dual_sport_dork, 2 months ago

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold…

dual_sport_dork, 2 months ago

That guy’s reply was 20 words fewer than your original post blithering about coconut oil.

dual_sport_dork, 2 months ago

I love Ikaruga from an aesthetic, mechanical, and presentation perspective.

But it’s been 23 years and damned if I still don’t suck at that game. This coming from someone who can fairly reliably at least see the final boss of Progear on one credit.

dual_sport_dork, 2 months ago

That happen at regular intervals, fixed entirely by the orbital motions of the Earth and moon, utterly regardless of what humans are doing on the planet. And have been going on since the moon existed, which is well before the development of humanity.

The lord really does work in stupidly mysterious ways, doesn’t he?

dual_sport_dork, 2 months ago

The most lawyer friendly answer is probably C.

I am not a doctor, but I do know how to handle firearms, so I would also unload and ensure that the gun is not in a condition to fire. This would probably dock me points for diluting potential evidence or some such horseshit, but it’d still be the right thing to do. Provided you knew what you were doing.

dual_sport_dork, 2 months ago

If you are at a hospital in the hood they probably have armed security. The ones in the city nearest me certainly do. One would hope they know how to safely handle a firearm as well as have some manner of secure storage someplace, so that’d probably be their department. At least until the cops inevitably get involved.

dual_sport_dork, 2 months ago

…And get it pointed at something that can catch a pistol round.

dual_sport_dork, 2 months ago

“The entrenchment of a person’s belief is directly proportional to how wrong it is.”

– Me

dual_sport_dork, 2 months ago

I believe we have a second one, also.

dual_sport_dork, 2 months ago

We should try nuking them.

dual_sport_dork, 2 months ago

As your attorney I advise you to buy a bus pass.

dual_sport_dork, 2 months ago

Ancient ninja secret of give-no-fucks.

People have become so jaded by driving that they’ve lost the perspective on how much it beats the hell out of walking. Even if you consider being in 25 MPH highway traffic to be “slow,” you’re still covering more distance in an hour than most people would be able to cover on foot in an entire day.

dual_sport_dork, 2 months ago

Or the background check.