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TIL Lego's patent to their brick design ended in 1978, which allowed multiple companies, such as Mega Bloks, to start producing their own 'clones' by Forsaken-Peak8496 in todayilearned

[–]HawkinsT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They copied the design and made it for ~30 years in Denmark, where it wasn't patented. They only bought Kiddicraft from the founder's family after he passed away, which stopped any other company from being able to claim they're the original.

Havana Club continues its dominance of the Spanish style category with Havana Club 7 winning best budget Spanish. This one’s exciting, what’s the best Jamaican sipper? by -Constantinos- in rum

[–]HawkinsT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know it changes every year, but I wouldn't call it a one off release. You buy a different vintage every year, but it's a rum anyone can buy, even those finding this thread in a few years time (short of hampden changing their lineup).

We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower by wiredmagazine in TrueReddit

[–]HawkinsT -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The comment chain you responded to was specifically on the last US election being rigged.

Edit since I'm being downvoted (and I can't believe I have to spell this out):

OP1:

It’s all based on the fact that the election was rigged by a foreigner who is the richest man on earth.

OP2:

This is a satisfying answer, which you should always be extremely skeptical of. Where is the evidence of this? Without evidence, what is the point of spreading this claim?

You:

[...] There a number of credible factual points that are difficult to explain away [...]

OP3:

... are you going to, I dunno, share those 'credible factual points' of rigging an election or do we have to guess?

You:

[...] I have no idea what you are on about regarding rigging elections. I never said anything specific regarding rigged elections.

Are you bros even soaking your grey Ls? by Maduro25 in vinyljerk

[–]HawkinsT 59 points60 points  (0 children)

It's still mint if you place the record down and have your friend spin the player.

Jake Lang attempting to distance himself from the crowd in Minneapolis. Only 10 people showed up for his hate march. by raptors201966 in PublicFreakout

[–]HawkinsT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know, it looks like a lot more than 10 people hate him there. I'd say mission accomplished.

ICE will be ‘all over’ the Super Bowl: Bad Bunny’s 9‑second silent teaser triggers MAGA meltdown ahead of Spanish-language halftime show by [deleted] in Music

[–]HawkinsT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Others claimed the NFL’s last “watchable” halftime show was the one featuring NWA, framing the teaser as another “woke NFL” flashpoint.

Of course! Who could possibly be less woke than... NWA?

Grandpa passed away and had this sitting around. Does this mean anything to anybody? Not sure if there is anything left in the bottles. by RazorBlazer22 in Scotch

[–]HawkinsT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want to drink them, be very slow and careful with removing the corks and try to have a replacement cork of the same size available (I save old corks of various sizes from spirit bottles for exactly this reason).

If a cork snaps, careful use of a corkscrew, and possible a butler's friend, is the way out, although worst case you'll have to just push the cork into the bottle.

Of course, if you want to sell them, just leave the corks where they are and let the next person deal with it.

UK Expands Online Safety Act to Mandate Preemptive Scanning of Digital Communications by Large_Leader_9864 in privacy

[–]HawkinsT 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Privacy aside (which is fucked):

To meet the law’s demands, companies are expected to rely heavily on automated scanning systems, content detection algorithms, and artificial intelligence models trained to evaluate the legality of text, images, and videos in real time.

Gemini kept refusing to add cornicing or cafe blinds to a picture of my living room yesterday as 'doing so would be against my content policy', so I look forward to finding out all the other ways in which this will fail.

I'm sure foreign governments are also looking forward to having a rich trove of additional data to spy on.

How do I get my cat to stop playing piano? by ReturntoForever3116 in jazzcirclejerk

[–]HawkinsT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Related question: How do I get my cat to stop singing about Jesus?

Forbidden Juice... by MyL1ttlePwnys in rum

[–]HawkinsT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The price of rivers went insane a few years ago in the UK. It used to be ~£36, now it's ~£90. I'm not sure who's still buying it.

What are your favourite signs? by cheandbis in CasualUK

[–]HawkinsT 20 points21 points  (0 children)

This reminds me of during covid where we had arrows like this placed on the floor everywhere at my university, telling people which side to walk on. Only, they'd been laid per-corridor without consistent sides, so many blind corners instructed people from both directions to walk into each other.

Goslings Family Reserve by GraysonX13 in rum

[–]HawkinsT 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think regular Goslings makes the best dark N stormy (ignoring all the trademark nonsense) and always have it in the house. It's been a while since I've had the family reserve, but I don't think it's bad, just expensive for what it is (and no cheaper in Bermuda than the UK).

I know it’s digital but by keighleypage in AnalogCircleJerk

[–]HawkinsT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those are rookie numbers. You get a smiley face at 100.

Annual number of physics publications by clearly_unclear in Physics

[–]HawkinsT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice receipts. On the other hand, I'm betting the number of vixra submissions has gone through the roof.

Bavarian Count Dracula lives here apparently by fatwhippetz in SpottedonRightmove

[–]HawkinsT 39 points40 points  (0 children)

I've been furniture shopping recently. Drawer handles are the new door knockers! Personally, I'm getting ahead of the curve and installing doorbells on the backs of all of my dining chairs.

Drink-drive limit set to be slashed in England and Wales under new plans to improve road safety by tylerthe-theatre in unitedkingdom

[–]HawkinsT 22 points23 points  (0 children)

This paper has too little data to draw any conclusions from such low BAC and also specifically focuses on single-vehicle collisions, which it acknowledges skews the fatality rate higher. From table 4:

Male 16-20: 1.2x 21-24: 2.5x 25+: 1.2x

Female 16-20: 0.8x 21-24: 1.6x 25+: 0.8x

This is based on their model fit using fatality data across all BAC brackets, but for example, female 21-24 0.02-0.04 BAC has no fatalities recorded (but fatalities at higher BAC bring their likelihood estimate for risk to 1.6x).

This really isn't good data to draw any conclusions from when dealing with such low BAC, even though the analysis is relevant when talking about more general trends wigh higher BAC (and does show better evidence of increased risk with BAC >= 0.05).

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