[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks 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...

[-] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago

Important note: This is not Photoshopped.

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

It is an actual thing that was built.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks 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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month 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.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

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

[-] [email protected] 118 points 1 month ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Penguin difficulty? Just git gud, scrub.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It's Dickbutt, isn't it?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

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

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