RegalPotoo

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[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

My 2 year old daughter just learnt the phrase "cat, no! You are lactose intolerant!"

[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Fun fact, "pineapple" was a nickname for a grenade, so presumably you'd want to insert it in such a way as to leave the pin accessible

[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Recorders are pretty light and hard to damage by mishandling them.

No, I didn't read past the title - why do you ask?

[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 142 points 3 months ago (15 children)

Financial networks either need "network neutrality" rules or maybe that monopoly needs to get broken up

[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Penn and Teller do a bit with a nail gun where Penn does a monologue about how they are magicians so there is obviously a trick, and that's the point - they want the audience to come along and enjoy the show and watch them do things that seem dangerous, while knowing that even if something goes wrong they aren't going to be complicit in someone getting hurt or killed by encouraging them to take those risks.

Idk, not really relevant to what you said, but I think about that a lot

[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure the CEO got a call from the Whitehouse and had a brief, rambly word salad vomited at them over the phone, and replied diplomatically along the lines of "we will absolutely investigate that as a possibility" in much the same way you placate someone elses precocious child

[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wish her the best of luck and sincerely hope I am wrong, but I would be completely unsurprised if there was a Tragic Accident in the next 18 months

[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago
  • Stands on scale
  • Presses tare button
  • Immediately evaporates
[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Maybe? It depends on how the laws get written?

[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This pleases me

[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Mayor of New York isn't the end goal

[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 39 points 4 months ago (6 children)

No.

But...

The adage that "the dose makes the poison" is working in your favor here. A large city supply delivers millions of liters of water per day; by the time you dilute your poison into millions of liters of water you'll either be adding absurd amounts of poison (someone is going to notice massive line of tanker trucks queued up outside the treatment plant), or you are dealing with large - but not unweildly - volumes of something so horrendously toxic that it's still deadly when diluted that much. There are very few substances that toxic, and someone is going to notice if you start procuring hundreds of liters of botulism toxin or Vx because at that point you are dealing with outlawed chemical warfare agents

 

"The apple doesn't fall far from the tree", but most apple seeds don't grow where they are dropped - they are carried away by birds or rodents and seed elsewhere. Also, most apples aren't true to seed anyway - plants grown from seed don't bear the same fruit

 

Saw a truck around town today with a ridiculous lift kit and chunky off-road tires that were clearly much larger than factory standard, and it got me thinking; if you install this kind of modification in a car, do you need to adjust the speedometer to compensate? What about the odometer?

My logic is the only absolute measurement the car has is how fast the wheels and drive shaft are turning, so presumably there is some sort of multiplier - 1 revolution = X meters - that is then used to show speed and track distance travelled, but that factor would need to change if the circumference of the tires did

 

The KDE 6 announcement says that

On prior versions you chose between either password or fingerprint authentication for the lockscreen. In Plasma 6, both are supported at the same time.

I've updated my Neon install, what do I need to do to enable this? I've set up a fingerprint through the user settings, but when the screen is locked I still have to use my password to unlock - there isn't a prompt, and touching the reader doesn't seem to do anything

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