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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

I'm sure that was fun to watch for Seahawks fans, but it was not a good game. Halftime show was good, though.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

Collinsworth throwing shit at the only guy having a great game.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe you're right, but I'd be more concerned with being hit by a car. The fact that it is "illegal" at a minimum means that cars won't expect pedestrians, and I'm less concerned about having the right of way than I am about discovering the coefficient of friction for asphalt first-hand.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Seems like we are at war.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Isn't the point of joining the military is to surrender free will? That's one of the many reasons I didn't want to.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I drove in Austria and Germany for work a few times. After a day or two, you pick up enough words on signs to understand "Entrance" and "Exit" and "One way", but between the symbols and the English on everything, it is probably much easier for us to drive there than for a non-English speaker to drive here. I bet most immigrants learn "No turn on red" faster than "No Parking Enforced on Alternating Wednesdays and Saturdays except on Holidays from 6:00 PM to 12:45 AM".

In any case, speaking English is not required of citizens. Tests were offered in Spanish because of a need for it. It's not that they cannot learn to read a few signs, it's that the written portion of the test needs to be clearly communicated. The ADA requires that illiterate adults be provided with an audio test or interpreter, because it's more important for people to understand the test than it is for the government to bully immigrants to score political points with bigots.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It could be made safe, but it isn't currently safe (especially considering the shoulders are probably still snowbanks). More importantly, it is illegal because it isn't safe and scraping up pedestrian smears off the highway is traumatic for the people thay have to do it. It was made illegal instead of being made safe.

I'll also point out that this circuitous route is estimated to take an hour while in a car it takes 3 minutes. If they put in a sidewalk, a traffic light, and a crosswalk, you could walk from that hotel to the stadium and beat anyone driving because they still have to park. But that's just that one hotel. I would bet money that if you made the area walkable, you would see more hotels and parking lots pop up.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

They built the stadium surrounded by highways and off ramps without any sidewalks and hardly any traffic signals. It is encapsulated by unwalkable roads.

Here is what Google Maps suggests for walking.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Only reason I could see bringing Toby back would be to kill him off and introduce live-action Miles. And then Surprise! It's actually a secret crossover event for the Spiderverse, Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman, Venom, and any other loose ends they want to tie into a bow.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I finally got around to watching season 1, and now I'm feeling fairly hopeless about our political situation.

 

I have received these two loaves of delicious whole grain bread. Problem is, I doubt we will eat it all before it goes stale. I could do croutons, bread crumbs, or even a breakfast casserole, but I was thinking about bread pudding.

Has anyone done this? Do I need to tweak the recipe, like add more milk or some other flavor to balance the nutty seed and grain flavor? Maybe add some apples for textural balance?

I don't want to waste them, so if this is a fools errand, I can do bread bowl dips or something for the playoff games tomorrow. But I am committed to not letting this bounty go to waste.

 

There's a post I saw on reddit that points to the dimple on the side of a milk jug, and makes fun of all the people who don't know what that's for. In the comments are thousands of people giving dozens of different explanations, and all of them are wrong.

It is not there to indicate that the milk has spoiled by popping out due to gasses produced by spoiled milk. If there was enough gas to pop out the dimple, the whole jug would look like a balloon.

It is not there to provide structural integrity, like lateral support to prevent the bottles from crushing. The contents are under pressure, so if there was enough force on the jug from any direction, then the cap would pop off regardless of the shape in the sidewall.

The actual answer is that the dimple is added to ensure that all of the jugs contain the same volume of milk. Plastic jugs are blown into molds, and minor manufacturing variations over time would create jugs that hold different amounts of milk. Larger jugs would hold more than a gallon. They could just fill by volume, but consumers are wary of purchasing a bottle if it appears to be less full than the others. So they add the dimple to make it so that the level of milk is all the way at the top with minimal air between the milk and the cap.

You can verify this yourself by finding different jugs from the same supplier with dimples of different depths, or even no dimple at all. None of those other explanations would explain dimples of different sizes or jugs without dimples.

TLDR everybody is wrong. The milk jug dimples are added to ensure the jug contains the correct volume of milk.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by themeatbridge@lemmy.world to c/rant
 

If you have a video that autoplays at the top of your article, and I have to scroll past it to read the article, I don't want it to pop out and scroll down along with me. It blocks the top third of the screen. Who even thinks of that? Why would a person in charge of making decisions say "Oh, yeah, neat. I like the way that works, let's not change anything." I don't want any videos to autoplay at all ever for any reason. If I scroll past it, it should autostop.

Fucking web developers.

Edit: Yes, you're right, it's not the fault of web developers. At least, it's mostly not their fault. They still came up with this shit, but it's executives and middle managers who demand it.

 
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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by themeatbridge@lemmy.world to c/rant
 

I know everybody is probably sick of hearing that the lotto is a tax on people who are bad at math, but it's far more deceptive than just a complicated expected value equation. Powerball and Mega Millions advertising the sum total of a thirty year annuity as the value of the jackpot is simply a lie. It is false. No, the Powerball is not $248 million dollars. That's literally not what the value of the jackpot is worth.

Advertisements are prohibited from being deceptive because people are gullible. If you were selling jars of tomato sauce, and when people opened them up, they find a bunch of tomato seeds, that would be less of a lie than the current promotion for lotto tickets. You wouldn't be able to say "well, everyone knows that the jars don't have the sauce yet. Eventually, the tomatoes will grow and you can make sauce with them, or we can plant them for you and send you a few tablespoons of sauce every year." You'd be laughed out of court and right into jail, because that's fraud.

You could still have the lotto without the fraud. It would still be a tax on people bad at math. $70 million dollars is functionally equivalent to $248 million, in that it's enough money to change your life forever. People could still purchase the dream of a better life for $2 each, and most of the same people still would because gambling is an addiction. You could be completely honest about how unfair the game is, and people would still happily play.

And that's what bugs me about it. It's so unnecessary. No other casino or gambling establishment could get away with something so transparently dishonest, and they don't have to while still making money hand over fist.

 

Haven't seen any posts all year.

 

“Tonight, Missouri lynched another innocent Black man,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a statement.

 

Look, we're obviously not the best team. We have significant flaws, and Embiid cannot carry this team by himself.

But how can you not be hyped after watching Batum raining threes and Tobias on the bench? Embiid took his time getting it together, but he got it done when it mattered.

We can beat the Knicks. We can beat anybody if we play our best.

Maybe we don't. Maybe we lose again and everybody starts thinking about next year.

But we are still in this. The Philadelphia 76ers still have a chance to show the world what they can do as a team. So let's get hyped and enjoy the ride!

 

I heard someone say this in a video recipe, followed by way more cheese than you should eat at once. It occurred to me that the phrase means ample, not nutritious.

 

Basically title. I'm curious how others are watch the game. I cut cable a long time ago, and have Hulu live for this season, but it's just awful. Their app sucks, the unskippable ads are all over the place, and tonight it started recording at 4:30.

So what is everyone else using?

 

Has this ever happened to you? There's a fly in the house, buzzing around you, so you go to the cabinet to get the swatter. But as soon as you start wielding it, the little bastard disappears. You set it down, and now he's back, taunting you.

Ok so obviously flies don't taunt, but do they have the capacity to recognize, even instinctually, that I'm holding a deadly weapon?

 

Anybody else want to see all five on the court together and just have them make a giant wall around the paint? No? Alright, me neither then.

So what the fuck is Morey doing?

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