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Cake day: July 23rd, 2023

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  • That’s just because where you live it’s the wild west but in other parts of the world removing an airbag or changing an exhaust without certification is a periodic inspection failure and you can’t drive that vehicle on public roads until you fix it.

    Not that I’m personally a fan of the more invasive requirements, but there are things that affect others and if someone doesn’t have the respect or brain cells to avoid bothering others then a common ground needs to be set for everyone’s safety and comfort. That includes the noise you make going down the residential street.





  • I wouldn’t imagine that OP meant the question as Snowden being permanently labeled a hero for all of his life actions, nor should anyone ever be labeled as such. We are judging a specific action he took many years ago and also in a context of people generally labeling his action as good or bad since then. We are also not talking about comic book characters that are consistently one way or another through all of their actions. We can agree that a convicted felon can be heroic and a puppy loving doctor can do villainous shit as well depending on circumstance, opportunity and personal moral beliefs.

    But for this specific action of exposing a terrible truth and essentially losing his way of life and being forced to live as a refugee, I don’t think we should get into the pendatry of what a hero in theory is or if his action led to any actual change. Being suppressed by forces with way more weight than you doesn’t eliminate whatever label your actions deserve.



  • I have seen only one implementation of this that I like so far, in Decathlon. You dump your shopping basket in the machine’s basket, you don’t even have to know what is in there and the machine automatically picks everything up by their nfc tags. It has never failed for me and you don’t need to search for any tags or barcodes. You pay, you can pick up all yours stuff and dump it in your bag and you are ready to go.

    The polar opposite experience is the one you describe and for those shops I avoid the machines if I can.