RegalPotoo

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[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago
  • Stands on scale
  • Presses tare button
  • Immediately evaporates
[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Maybe? It depends on how the laws get written?

[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This pleases me

[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Mayor of New York isn't the end goal

[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks 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

[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Initially I thought "burner kids" ment actual children who were failing school and OP was a teacher

[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You can't use logic to talk someone out of a position they didn't use logic to get into in the first place

[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by the internet being held together by chewing gum, string, and an informal agreement that the few thousand people who keep the whole mess running won't all go to the pub at the same time

[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

This only works with rational actors

[–] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Maybe don't engage in a war of escalation with unstable people

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

Your presence on an illegal, sedicious, and - worst of all - unsanctioned messaging server has been noted, citizen; have a treason star. In addition, it has been noted that you failed to file form TA-616/17B (Official Notice of Intent to Engage in Sedicious Activity) with your local IntSec office before engaging in the aforementioned activity - you are fined 50 XP Points.

 

"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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