[-] despoticruin@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

And for sure don't lob the bottle in an arc to your side instead of over your head so you don't shower yourself in burning liquid. Or score the bottle along the base with a glass cutter/concrete if you are unsure whether the impact will shatter or not.

[-] despoticruin@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

The cloth won't fully seal the bottle, so liquid can fly out and splash from the cloth. If you don't throw it properly or if you "fling" the rag you are going to set yourself or something nearby on fire and lob a non-flaming bottle. Storm matches burn for awhile, and you just need it to ignite when the bottle breaks, so you want to use a liquid with a low flash point and seal the bottle before chucking it.

[-] despoticruin@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

Everyone except management.

It's beyond fucked.

[-] despoticruin@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 weeks ago

I can speak firsthand that this is the case for Kroger in Illinois. Their unions fight to cap wages below living wage levels, pick some of the most expensive insurance on the market, and work with Kroger corporate to eat away your hourly rate with sliding payscales based on incredibly arbitrary criteria (overnight premium, but it only counts for 4 hours of a graveyard shift as an example that happened to me).

They are actually worse than not having a union, because then they could make more than $23 an hour in Chicago.

Oh, did I mention the union contract specifically prohibits strikes and any form of worker retaliation?

Awful company.

[-] despoticruin@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

I like ending my sentences with and.

[-] despoticruin@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 weeks ago

The burden of proof that the sensors cannot provide false positives falls on the hotel chain, not the person getting charged. There is also the question of whether the sensors can be triggered by someone else, or an adjacent room.

You fight them by filing a lawsuit for fraudulently charging you.

[-] despoticruin@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

12 is how you slice through a major tendon in the palm and permanently impair the use of your fingers. Nana needs to be shown how to use a knife.

[-] despoticruin@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

Corn sugar is made up of a pretty large amount of glucose, so eating corn is like eating one of the shock tabs. Which is also a good way to confirm that it's glucose; rice, beans, and chocolate cake all contain pretty small amounts of just glucose, the other sugars need time to break down.

[-] despoticruin@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Vapor deposited metal film. Expensive, but I wouldn't be surprised if they already use exactly that to handle interference from the sun. Even non-coherent light can wash the sensors out if you have enough of it.

[-] despoticruin@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I mean, the best understanding is still probably going to come from some Russian guy. Also, he isn't random, he is literally the guy responsible for general awareness of the fundamental workings of economics.

I want you to go read Value, Price, and Profit. It's short, like 50 pages long, and written for the masses. This book explains what money is better than any singular resource out there.

Socialism is when the profits go to the people, communism is when profits go to the government, and capitalism is when the profit goes to an individual.

Anarchy means society dictates its rules as an autonomous collective more than anything. It's doesn't mean "no rules" it means "no rulers". Nobody really explains what that means because no society really does it in the modern day. It's all theoretical what it would look like.

Economic policy and social policy aren't necessarily related in that they don't depend on each other. You can be a capitalist anarchist or a socialist Republic or a communist monarchy or whatever, one is money the other is people.

[-] despoticruin@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

You are going to be looking at some variant of oculink, you can get riser cards that convert a PCI-e or M.2 socket into an oculink port if you don't have one available stock. Still though, if you are building it yourself why even bother? You are going to add a significant cost to the build for marginal or no benefit over buying a mini PC with an oculink port and a known compatible dock. EGPU options are not plug and play, they rarely just work and need significant tinkering and workarounds and will come with noticeable drawbacks in the best case scenario.

[-] despoticruin@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

There is overhead but Vulkan allows you to batch draw calls in a far more efficient manner. It can also generally use multi threading to feed a GPU even if the game isn't coded with that in mind. Basically Vulkan offers so many improvements to efficiency and parallelization that the overhead is a drop in the bucket compared to the overall speedup in draw call optimization alone.

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