maniajack

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Last-minute Xmas Gift Ideas for me (very poor) to get my aunt+family (very well off) who have been helping me out during a very rough time? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] maniajack@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

"Fancy" spices if any of them is into cooking (penzeys is an example shop). Or a nice cookbook.

Tea or coffee if they're into it

Gift subscription to like an online publication they're interested in

Embroidery kit

Hot sauce

Flashlight/headlamp, first aid kit, weather radio

Ken M. weighs in on an article about Katee Sackhoff in c/humor@lemmy.world
[–] maniajack@lemmy.world 96 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I miss the days when trolls were fairly harmless.

7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] maniajack@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

He's still a billionaire tho 🤮

Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates in c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world
[–] maniajack@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

Dude just try to be a little open minded to a potentially good thing.

The entire process releases zero greenhouse gases, uses no farmland to feed cows, and despite its industrial appearance, has a significantly smaller footprint.

Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water! in c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
[–] maniajack@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh, I took your original question more generically. You can use last.fm to provide you with recommendations in general according to what you listen to (after scrobbling your library for a while), but acquiring the recommendations (and/or integrating into your active playlist) is a whole other thing. I'm sure it's possible but I don't know of out of the box way. Might be a plugin or something out there for it somewhere. That's why the convenience of streaming can be pretty nice.

YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
[–] maniajack@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Last.fm, but pay the artists somehow, concerts, merch or imo one of the streaming platforms.

Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games” in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] maniajack@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I dunno I like elden ring and rdr2. Some are still good, just not most, anymore

Under a toot announcing that firefox now supports CHIPS (Cookies Having Independent Partitioned State) in c/firefox@lemmy.ml
[–] maniajack@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lemmy sure loves a circlejerk about shitting on Firefox.

Removal of piracy communities in c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
[–] maniajack@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You aren't on the lemmy.world server so why does it matter to you?

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TIL In the Hot Coffee lawsuit against McDonalds,punitive damages were given due to McDonalds intentionally overheating coffee to save money on refills (www.poolelg.com)
 

During the trial it was revealed that McDonald’s knew that heating their coffee to this temperature would be dangerous, but they did it anyways because it would save them money. When you serve coffee that is too hot to drink, it will take much longer for a person to drink their coffee, which means that McDonald’s will not have to give out as many free refills of coffee. This policy by the fast food chain is the reason the jury awarded $2.7 million dollars in punitive damages in the McDonald's hot coffee case. Punitive damages are meant to punish the defendant for their inappropriate business practice.

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I think this is a "drum trap", is that right? I'm smelling sewer gas, should I replace it? (lemmy.world)
 

Since we moved in we've noticed a sewer smell from time to time. I had a plumber come and identify this laundry discharge pipe not having a trap as the culprit. He ended up ghosting me so I cut more into the wall and found this black thing I couldn't identify until now (I think). I guess it's a drum trap after doing some more googling. If it's working as designed I guess it's supposed to hold water in and not let sewer gas through? but we definitely have a problem with the smell coming from this laundry room. Is this maybe not to culprit and I could leave it alone? I'm considering cutting it out and just connecting PVC the whole way through. Any recommendations or thoughts would be much appreciated.

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TIL The Katy Freeway in Houston, TX was expanded in 2008 to 26 lanes (one of the widest in the world) and 5 years later had longer peak travel times than before the expansion (www.nytimes.com)
 

For critics of widening projects, the prime example of induced demand is the Katy Freeway in Houston, one of the widest highways in the world with 26 lanes.

Immediately after Katy’s last expansion, in 2008, the project was hailed as a success. But within five years, peak hour travel times on the freeway were longer than before the expansion.

Matt Turner, an economics professor at Brown University and co-author of the 2009 study on congestion, said adding lanes is a fine solution if the goal is to get more cars on the road. But most highway expansion projects, including those in progress in Texas, cite reducing traffic as a primary goal.

“If you keep adding lanes because you want to reduce traffic congestion, you have to be really determined not to learn from history,” Dr. Turner said.