There exist an archaic law like that, but it doesn’t include all booties, only ‘Royal Fish’, and imho it would be a stretch to consider bananas as whales or sturgeons.
This case would be under maritime law. Iirc the cargo still belongs to the shipping company if it fell, but would be a ‘finders keepers’ if they threw it overboard. But I’m not a lawyer (sea lawyer?), I think this is for recoveries at sea, when it’s already on shore local laws might apply instead, idk…
Consolidating resources to be used for mutual benefit is what government is for
Is it? Since when?
I would rephrase it as ‘consolidating resources, taken from the poor people’s labor, to be used for the benefit of the state and the powerful is what government is for’.
I don’t know what’s up with my fellow millennials in the comments. I do order food once or twice a week.
About the fees, there’s none if you order directly from the restaurant, and the apps/services that apply them (usually just one) take it out above a certain threshold, or looking into your email spam for of their ‘discount offers’, but the prices of the food are higher anyway (which I find more dishonest than simply charging a delivery fee).
Also, I only tip if it’s rainy or super-hot (the weather, not the food or the delivery person), because Europe.
That iPhone 8 (plus) was like 750. So like a hundred a year. I literally am the person than spends less on phones out of my entire social circle.
Edit: also I’ve had three android (not so) cheap phones—one handed down to me, previous to the iPhone 4, that I had for a few months. And my current and former work phones, provided by my company—and hated (still hating the current one) the hell out of them, utter trash full of ads and uninstallable spyware.
I ain’t no apple fan, but my old iPhone 8—which is now my sister’s work phone since one year ago—just received a security patch a couple months ago, eight years after it was bought. And yes I went with an iPhone 16, because only two phones in 14-15 years (iPhone 4, 8, and now 16) is something no other brand can currently compete with. Unpopular here, I know, but I don’t care about a jack port (my android work phone has one and its only function is to build up pocket dust), or sideloading (I don’t even ‘sideload’ much in my laptops, almost everything comes from the official repositories).
I really hope the phone landscape changes and, in six years or so, I can buy a proper FOSS phone, but I’m not holding my breath.
We probably kill insects just by walking, but it’s not reasonable to never move again to avoid that.
There’s this Hindu sect whose adherents wear veils, sweep the floor before them, and/or tread very slowly and carefully to avoid injuring, killing or eating any small insects. As you said, it’s about doing as much as you can, but if it were a competition they’d win for sure.
First, I cannot grow trees in my small rented flat. And felling trees and turning them into paper is quite a hard work, it’s only cheap at an industrial scale and it kinda fucks up the environment a bit. Paper used to be an expensive commodity (people would wrote letters like this).
The properties that make gold expensive are its limited supply, as you pointed, and the fact that it doesn’t degrades with time, which make it a great material to use to ‘store value’. It has some other interesting physical properties that make it useful, but those aren’t the main reasons of its price.
Paper has many uses as well.
People here saying single handle faucets must have much better ones than what we’ve got where I’m from, no fucking chance of getting the same temperature again after shutting it. And the middle of it is extremely sensitive, it goes from 10% to 90% in like the middle two millimeters, and I think the pressure of the hot water overcomes the cold’s so you have to turn a bit left and then right again to stabilize the temp.
For my shower, which is the one that matters most for me, I got a thermostatic one—you set the temperature on the right handle and the flow on the left one, and that’s it, perfect temperature forever. Even if someone flushes, which only happens when my sister is visiting because she doesn’t understand boundaries, it doesn’t change one whole degree for more than a second, only the flow is be affected.
As a side note my grandma’s bath tube some 30+ years ago (it had probably another 30 or more) had two handles for hot-cold, left and right, and then another two for the shower-faucet flow, up and down. It wasn’t as fine tuned as my modern one, but worked quite well. You would only open or shut without touching the proportion of hot/cold.
Japanese gooners instantly aroused.
Yeah, those old delta, golf, 205… looked quite pretty. But it’s not the same, these new cars are unnecessary pointy and sharp everywhere, like that edge they put in the middle of the back of every other model.
Yes, yes you do mon ami(e) lmao.
That’s more like it! Look how happy it looks! But even that one is bigger than the old twingos, have you seen the new r5? It’s a suv! Yes, compact suv, or urban suv or whatever, still huge for an r5.
I have a 2001 206, the 208 would be the current version of the model and it’s a foot longer, and looks super aggressive, specially compared with the absolute beauty that is the 206.
Edit: French people laugh more like ‘hon hon hon’ (the n is not actually pronounced, but turns the o into a nasal vowel)
Great! At last a small and (kind of) affordable electric car! Tired of those massive SUVs. Maybe in, like, ten years 🤞🏻…
Bit of a tangent but, why all new cars are so ugly? Subjective, I know, but they all look so angry and aggressive, full of ridges and crests… where are the cute, happy cars?
No secret at all that the rich are selling Europe piece by piece to the best bidder, with the blessing of our rulers.
The only think I’m taking away from all this shit is that we need more trans roommates with the conservative kids.
Not just politicians and definitely not only Americans. No one spouting the ‘violence is not acceptable’ actually means it. They don’t mean to abolish the police, military, prisons, taxes, mandatory school…
It’s just doublespeak, the violence I like is not violence so if someone responds to it with more violence I can condemn them, they are the violent ones not me.
Nta, and not shaming you at all op—I was twenty once too—this go for everyone that needs to read it: when someone tells you they’re ‘toxic’, believe it (and fucking run).
Yup, that’s what I meant. Thanks!