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  • Interesting that there weren’t multiple charges of rape he was found guilty for, like would happen in the states. Each rape occurrence would have been a separate charge, and each one would have carried a 20 year maximum, so he’d be serving hundreds of years easy.

    This is generally to ensure that even if he gets some of his years commuted for good behavior while inside prison, he’s still got hundreds of years left to go. Making it a death sentence.

    With that said, the US prison system is archaic and punitive, so I might need to re-evaluate my views.










  • What you’re describing is called a resource leak. Something, an extension, a background process, etc., is holding onto resources for too long without cleaning itself up automatically.

    This is pretty common in writing code, and extremely difficult to prevent except in closed and well understood systems. A browser is anything but that, due to the nature of needing to work on any website doing whatever they want.




  • I’ve repeated this before, but here’s the truth:

    They did not vote for him for the “economy”. Or for “America First”. Or for “Farmers”, “unions”, etc.

    They voted for him for racism and bigotry against the LGBTQ+ community. That’s the only campaign promise they’re 100% sure he’s going to follow through on. Attacking immigrants and making their life a living hell.

    Any other reason they gave is a dog whistle for their support of his absolutely transparent bigotry on display every moment his mouth is open.

    We need to stop assuming his voters actually care about the same things we do, or even the things they publicly say. They care about him upholding their racist and bigoted views.

    That’s it.



  • Tyfud@lemmy.worldtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldA real landlord special.
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    11 days ago

    I know exactly what happened here having just done a renovation on a basement with a completely fucked up bathroom.

    They re-used the existing piping and lines when replacing the tub and shower surrounds.

    They wanted to save a few hundred dollars and/or effort of moving the pipes to center up with the prefab tub/surround, and just figured they could drill the hole into the surround for the shower attachments wherever.

    They’re correct, but that doesn’t make them right.





  • To clarify, we likely wouldn’t end as a species.

    Dinosaurs were ended with a roughly 10-15km meteroirite hitting earth, and causing months of distortions and damage to the ecosystem that disrupted their way of life enough that they starved or died of other causes.

    They were not nearly as adaptable as we are in modern times.

    To be sure, a lot of progress would die, and life would be greatly disrupted, but we, as a species, would almost certainly survive a similar event.