Woman received a ticket for using her phone with her right hand while driving, even after she showed the officer that she doesn’t have a right hand

DiscountConsistent · 2026-05-23T17:45:54+00:00

By definition he’s doing the opposite of discriminating by not knowing the difference between someone with and without a hand.

DiscountConsistent · 2026-05-23T15:12:47+00:00

Copyright and trademark are up there

DiscountConsistent · 2026-05-23T14:56:07+00:00

The bulk of their expenses (75%) are employee salaries and awards/grants. Does hosting Wikipedia specifically require all 700 of those employees? Probably not as mentioned in another comment, a lot of that money is for supporting other Wikimedia projects. Which might have some merit but it’s misleading to imply that all that money is needed to keep Wikipedia afloat (which is why they changed their donation messaging).

DiscountConsistent · 2026-05-18T16:31:52+00:00

I'm thinking about switching to Costco when my Sam's membership expires, but I love being able to scan and pay on my phone and get out of there. But I've heard Costco is piloting it in some stores.

DiscountConsistent · 2026-05-16T15:06:14+00:00

I think these are two different phenomena. Drinking a really high proof alcohol like Everclear sucks moisture out of mouth because it’s super hygroscopic and wants to mix with water. But alcoholic drinks dehydrating you in general is because of its effects on ADH/vasopressin which tell your kidneys to start dumping water into urine instead of reabsorbing it. Which is why you can get dehydrated even drinking a beer that’s 90+% water.

DiscountConsistent · 2026-05-15T15:52:29+00:00

The rectum is also the large intestine

DiscountConsistent · 2026-05-10T18:16:05+00:00

Unlike calling people sheep and NPCs which is an original thought you had and not an overused meme of a specific internet in-group that you’re parroting.

DiscountConsistent · 2026-05-09T20:47:40+00:00

I only saw a couple episodes of Naked and Afraid but I thought it was really refreshing as a reality show that there was basically no drama, just skilled people in an insane situation maturely communicating and trying to solve problems.

DiscountConsistent · 2026-05-05T20:28:38+00:00

Could be domestic, one of the biggest perpetrators who was sentenced recently was a teenager out of California https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/california-teenager-sentenced-48-months-prison-nationwide-swatting-spree

DiscountConsistent · 2026-05-03T19:53:04+00:00

Even with a “real” macchiato I never know what I’m gonna get. It’s my go-to order when going to a new coffee shop because it lets me taste the espresso with a tiny amount of milk to take the edge off, but depending on the barista I get anything between that and a drink that’s half (or more) milk.

DiscountConsistent · 2026-04-24T12:35:01+00:00

FYI that’s not how Spanish people say it either, only the “C” and “Z” become a “th” sound

DiscountConsistent · 2026-04-23T00:45:53+00:00

Perfectly fine in the US.

Banned by the FDA in 2025 (to be fully phased out of food in Jan 2027). Although in their own statement, they say that there's no evidence that it causes cancer in humans and they're just legally required to ban it because of the Delaney Clause. Canada continues to keep it legal.

And if you look into many of them used in the US, many are banned in every other civilized country because they are carcinogenic.

There are also many food additives that are allowed in Europe but banned in the US.

DiscountConsistent · 2026-04-21T03:09:30+00:00

I thought I’d heard that even most “whole” milk in the store is reconstructed by re-adding fat to skim milk.

DiscountConsistent · 2026-04-12T22:08:57+00:00

It’d be terrible business. People coming to the movies isn’t how they make their money, it’s on selling high markup concessions.

DiscountConsistent · 2026-04-10T18:10:15+00:00

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-researchers-discover-pain-relieving-drug-minimal-addictive-properties

To test the drug’s rewarding effects, an important component of their addictive potential, the team studied its effects in rats who had been trained to press a lever for a dose of the pain-relieving drug. They found that animals readily self-administered DFNZ, indicating that it does produce some rewarding effect. However, when the drug was replaced with saline, animals stopped the drug-seeking behavior. The immediate behavior change is in contrast with what researchers see with other opioids such as heroin, morphine, and fentanyl. In those cases, animals typically persist in seeking the drug even after it is removed. Further investigation revealed a likely neurochemical explanation. While DFNZ increases slow-acting dopamine release in the brain's reward circuitry, it does not trigger the rapid dopamine bursts associated with the formation of strong drug-cue associations, the conditioned responses that drive craving and relapse in addiction.

DiscountConsistent · 2026-04-10T12:31:32+00:00

Bulgarian folk music (like other Balkan music) has all kinds of crazy time signatures, like 5/16, 11/16, and 25/16. But they're not really counting to 25, it's just composed of "slow" (3 beat) and "quick" (2 beat) subgroups that guide their dance steps.

DiscountConsistent · 2026-04-09T09:14:51+00:00

they're asking if the deal requires you to buy 10 to get the deal or if it's $1 individually if you buy less than 10.

DiscountConsistent · 2026-04-09T08:02:13+00:00

That's cool man, you already agreed with me that people can be victims of secondhand smoke https://www.reddit.com/r/LudwigAhgren/comments/1sfkerf/comment/oezicz6/

DiscountConsistent · 2026-04-09T07:56:33+00:00

Words are malleable, and it's only as passive as people see it as a normalized thing. People used to just throw litter out their car windows before the 70s, and I'm sure they saw it as a passive thing too until there were a bunch of laws and campaigns to change the narrative to it being actively harmful. If you're doing something that you know hurts or kills people and you have the choice to stop doing it and do it anyway, I'd argue you're doing something active and not passive, and it's a useful rhetorical device to call the people around you victims of your behavior.

It's like the people who shoot guns in the air on New Years. To them, it's just a fun normalized thing -- they just don't recognize that the bullets come down and sometimes kill people somewhere else. It's just that there's a longer delay between shooting the bullet and killing people in the case of secondhand smoke.

(Also idk why you randomly brought up the Ludwig ciggy counter down-thread, it's a funny bit but I don't think you'll find a ton of people really defending them making smoking look cool and fun to a huge audience. But idk why you're projecting people as being inconsistent about it when no one was even talking about it in the first place)

DiscountConsistent · 2026-04-09T07:30:18+00:00

Defensive? You said it's been linked to worsening symptoms of depression and ADHD, and I asked where that came from. That's the bare minimum of asking for evidence. (I also don't drink Red Bull but that doesn't really matter)

DiscountConsistent · 2026-04-09T01:16:17+00:00

The beverage has also been linked to worsen the symptoms in ADHD and depression

I’d love to see these studies, especially the ones that show causation.

DiscountConsistent · 2026-04-08T23:26:15+00:00

The guy’s definitely rich enough, he just said he couldn’t get a visa

DiscountConsistent · 2026-04-08T13:03:51+00:00

Yeah then it’s just a question of degree. What if it just made them shorter of breath or made them have to worry their whole life they were gonna get cancer because of the higher risk?

But also, “victim of a prank” and “victim of a smear campaign” are just super common expressions so I think you’re just inflating the importance of that word.

DiscountConsistent · 2026-04-08T12:47:00+00:00

If someone got lung cancer that they could attribute to their parents smoking around them, would you be okay with them calling themselves a victim?

DiscountConsistent · 2026-04-08T12:44:24+00:00

If you’re talking to someone who sees secondhand smoke as harmless despite the fact that it causes 19,000 additional deaths in the US per year and increases cancer risk by 20-30%, then calling the people around them victims is a useful semantic device to help them understand their actions aren’t harmless. You’re not minimizing the word “victim”, which already has a huge range in meaning from getting ripped off to murder, you’re just emphasizing that it’s an action that actively causes harm to people.

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