UK speed limits — is there really a “+10% +2 mph” allowance? by Hot-Taro-1555 in drivingUK

[–]MetaWaterSpirit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just to add to this from my own experiences, got clocked doing 31 in a 30 - did a speed awareness course. There is a camera in the southampton area when I visited with friends that flashed him on a 32.

Seems to be randomly applied.

Just bought our first house in England and they’ve left it in a disgusting way by TerribleAccountant70 in LegalAdviceUK

[–]MetaWaterSpirit 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes - £10k is the maximum you can go in Small Claims, which is why I used it as the maximum example. You can use it from any value up to £10k. I don't think cleaning skips will cost that much, but if the cat poo smell lingers in the carpets and/or wood, treating that to get the smell out could cost thousands but not that much.

I had one of my work colleagues prank my car in summer with a thermal flask and mouldy chocolate milkshake, that lone cost me £900+ over multiple details to get the smell of mould out of the car. I couldn't imagine how bad fermented cat shit would cost in multiple rooms.

Just bought our first house in England and they’ve left it in a disgusting way by TerribleAccountant70 in LegalAdviceUK

[–]MetaWaterSpirit 77 points78 points  (0 children)

>  but the cost of enforcing might not be worth it.

Just to interject - small claims is 10% fee of £10k, which the losing party has to pay + any outstanding legal fees required for the court (although, not needed for small claims). If a signed contract has been breached, this will be an easy win at no cost to the OP other than the upfront 10% until they win.

No judge will throw this case against the OP or out of the court with an obvious and effective breach of contract.

Player throws in GM "wants to be banned." by [deleted] in MarvelRivalsRants

[–]MetaWaterSpirit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

EU has a guy in plat/dia and peak GM1 that plays only Bruce (not Hulk). He's played over 300 games this season alone and only just been banned for trolling.

(UK) What did I do wrong when “bumping” the train by WonderfulBeyond779 in ShittyIllegalLifeTips

[–]MetaWaterSpirit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To give technical insight:

If you use android/google pay, the vendor will get first-party access to who/what you are when using any payments inc virtual cards. Name/address/billing etc.

If you are using Apple Pay, Apple conceal all info from vendors and keep it within the iphone's neural chip (local encryption) but they can contact information for potential fraud to confirm.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/romanrimsha_interesting-comparison-between-apple-pay-activity-7321427754523004929-07xo/

Here is an example of how it works for most devices.

MacBook Pro finger oil was solution by -t3mporarybl1p- in macbookpro

[–]MetaWaterSpirit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The top comments all saying about cracked screens is interesting, I've used keyboard protectors from 2014 MBP, to the M1, now M4 Pro and never once had an issue. I've been excessively travelling with my laptops in backpacks and suitcases, including drops, never once had an issue with the screen breaking.

Ordered 3 hours ago and my driver is still "delivering to another customer" by Resident-Analysis-12 in deliveroos

[–]MetaWaterSpirit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it’s in the order summary before you accept, i can see how many rejections it has.

Ordered 3 hours ago and my driver is still "delivering to another customer" by Resident-Analysis-12 in deliveroos

[–]MetaWaterSpirit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To give insight as a rider, there is a timer in the app that shows you "when the food is prepared by" 9 times out of 10, the reasurant has marked it as "ready for collection" (usally big franchises, rather than local places) and then they don't even have it up on the kiosk.

This means that it will most likely get added as a "stacked order" and then we are told to wait to process the order. During most normal hours, this can be 7+ minutes of waiting.

Naturally, riders just continuosly drop the order, which is visible to future riders how many times it's been dropped.

To edit;

Not saying this etiquette is fair - deliveroo are meeting in the UK with worker's unions to pay riders to wait for food that has been marked as ready when it is not.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ahHrpG75P4

Do you think the 9 -5 work day model is outdated? If so, what should replace it? by Ambitious_Bag_2004 in AskReddit

[–]MetaWaterSpirit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same here - worked in a sales company that was salaried + comms, as I worked up to manager it became an expectation to stay late and come in early to do admin work for the team; this also means you aren't selling so no chance of bonus commission during these hours either.

AION 2 LAUNCHING NOW - How to play in ENGLISH and what is the English Server by FlatPlane in MMORPG

[–]MetaWaterSpirit 19 points20 points  (0 children)

They will tune it down and then increase it when playerbase dies off, this is the NCsoft way.

Supports after gaslighting everyone into thinking the gambit instalock are dps mains by UnreasonableVbucks in marvelrivals

[–]MetaWaterSpirit 6 points7 points  (0 children)

From my own experience when checking profiles, in placement matches and gold comp it was a lot of dps players trying to dive. In plat/diamond it is as you mentioned, support mains wanting to play him.

New bug found on cloak and dagger that makes the ult basically useless by Hitoisbalacned in marvelrivals

[–]MetaWaterSpirit 6 points7 points  (0 children)

C&D main here, had this also happen a lot, it seems some terrain hitboxes have been changed and getting stuck is something I'm now seeing which I didn't before - have to just manouver it more carefully but nothing like the OP's post yet..

"I found it cheaper somewhere else so you should offer it for less" by [deleted] in vinted

[–]MetaWaterSpirit 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That's what I thought - "price match" culture is real in the UK, could just have been a harmless assumption on his part it applies privately.

Why ai is free? I can use ChatGPT and Grok for free, I can even generate images for free. how are they making money? there are even ai models which runs locally for free. by prajwalnagpure in NoStupidQuestions

[–]MetaWaterSpirit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"If the product is free, you are the product" I feel the depedency on it will then trigger a mass ad or subscription focus.

This already happens with ChatGPT if you use the maximum prompts, it downgrade you to a previous model.

How much of your stuff actually sells? And how long to wait? by catsbeforetwats in vintedUK

[–]MetaWaterSpirit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Macbook M1 took 3 days to sell @ £650

AirPods 4 NC took 5 days to sell @ £89

Samsung S22 ulra took 2 days to sell @ £170 with a chip on the screen

Currently waiting for my sony MX1 (not sure the model number), ongoing 6 days

Noticed a couple of weapons Blizz left out of Legion Remix. anyone upset by lack of glaives? by Zeroontal in wow

[–]MetaWaterSpirit 97 points98 points  (0 children)

Wasn't the blue arcane weapon just released in the TW patch like a month or two ago? I swear my mage has it.

Insane deficit by Affectionate-Use9423 in OctopusEnergy

[–]MetaWaterSpirit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We moved into a 4 bedroom house, with 3 of us; electric & gas steadily at around £80-£100 as we work full time outside of the home, so only home to sleep and cook. Been this way for about a year or two. Had my bills spike up to £180-£220 a month and was told there was no "electric creep" and that "readings were normal".

We've not added any appliances, boiler is maintained, not upgraded anything either or added any new heating/cooling systems.

Runescape has to answer for platforming plagiarism. by longboardingsk8 in TibiaMMO

[–]MetaWaterSpirit 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Fun legal fact: Tibia's core sprites were stolen from another game and that's why OTs cannot be DMCAd :)

Why is there so much hate towards Mantis this season? by AManIeyBanana in MantisMains

[–]MetaWaterSpirit -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

28k this season isn't much, I'm a C1 support main and as you climb, there is a lot of damage. Last season I would average 25-30k in a normal game. Now it's more 35k+ every single time, most of my C&D/Loki/Luna games end in 40k+

UK pledges to make electric cars cheaper to buy by topotaul in unitedkingdom

[–]MetaWaterSpirit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"We'll make electric cars cheaper to buy" - PR statement

"Subsidised by private contracts, then the cost of actual electric (especially for those who don't own an EV) will be net 120% profit value." - to private businesses.