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Cake day: December 6th, 2023

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  • But you have to agree that a pizza shouldn’t be sitting out for 50 minutes before it leaves the store.

    In an ideal world sure, but we live in the real world with real world limitations…

    I too, would love to live in an ideal world where ideals override simple facts.

    But that isn’t the real world, and frankly, will likely never be true.

    So get over yourself and get used to existence, you abominable dirt-head.


  • No, they don’t. It was done away with for many important reasons, including but not limited to:

    -people intentionally giving the wrong address so that it takes over 30min, costing everyone from the driver to management both time and money

    -drivers speeding to meet their time quota, and causing wrecks at increased rates

    -driver shortages, amplifying the last point

    I worked for dominos as recently as last year. The number of people that still try to scam you over the 30min/free rule is asinine, and at least twice a week I had to explain to would-be customers that 30min/free hasn’t existed in at least 30yr for a lot of really good reasons. I’ve even had customers ask if they could tip “extra” to get it sooner. Unless you’re tipping enough that everyone involved (cook, dispatch, driver) gets as much as the order’s base cost (multiplying order price by 4 at minimum), we’re never going to do that.


  • Crowfiend@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldUnderstandable, carry on.
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    I’d have thought that too, before meeting him. Even his own family only loves him begrudgingly (though they keep a much more polite face than I could) and conspiracies aside, he’s a waste of society’s time and resources.

    Hate me if you think I’m wrong, but if you’ve never met those kinds of people, you have no room to talk. They’re infinitely worse than the internet can make them seem.


  • Crowfiend@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldUnderstandable, carry on.
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    I had a coworker before that was a flat-earther (lizardmen believer and all that shit), and one day he came into work saying “y’all ever wonder if the moon makes its own light??” during a dinner rush and the only thing that kept me from punching his lights out was the fact that it was dinner rush, or I would have pulled him by the collar of his shirt and beat him to near death.

    I didn’t think people like that really existed until him, and even then I didn’t want to accept it.

    https://images.app.goo.gl/rFka6zC1ejeSU2xB9


  • or a state school like me, you’re taking pot shots at my degree. And so while I agree with the sentiment,

    Lol imagine thinking this is a slight against you.

    Anyway comparing your intellectual degree, to your sports scholarship, is stupid. You’re there for your muscles, not your brains, and even your school ride proves that. Get saltier.





  • Man, I decided to do just that, and it was almost exactly what I thought (minus the technical words): if a velociraptor can do a metric fuckle of damage with their two hook-toes, a T-Rex with 2 of those on each hand can fuck something up, presuming it’s close enough (which, as the T-Rex head/bite-force, and distance from the jaw suggests), would have been pretty frequently.

    Even if each claw only did a little damage, that’s still a lot of blood loss throughout the conflict, and the T-Rex would be more likely to win.


  • Even if it’s not an MMO, player count can be a very strong indicator of enjoyment/income at a given time. Even if it’s a single player game, player count can show how popular a game is on whole. If a 5yo game still has engagement numbers above newly released games, it’s strongly correlated with studio income/gamer trends.

    They can base future decisions on what they did correctly/incorrectly, and develop their next game/dlc/etc with those lessons learned.

    Release a game that has nobody playing after a month? Crapbasket. Release a game that has well into a million players despite the age? Fucking masterpiece.



  • That’s pretty much how it is. In ancient times, planets would have been objects that were distinguishable from stars in ways they had the ability to differentiate from. For example, with a telescope, any object that doesn’t shine like a star, that moves across the sky at a different rate than the stars, or maybe has visible rings.

    Then once science found things that past science couldn’t account for, they redefined what a planet was, according to its size/gravitational pull or other factors, and which Pluto didn’t fit. Apparently due to Pluto’s small size, it’s not even a dwarf-planet, and by that measure is basically just a really big asteroid (we even know of asteroids that are bigger than Pluto).


  • Yeah this is the correct take. Either Pluto (and by extension, any object of similar size) is a planet, which would mean there’s thousands of Pluto-sized planets in the solar system; or pluto is ‘too small’ to be a planet. Which is the answer they (Sci community) settled on, because if every comet/asteroid is within the threshold definition of ‘planet’ then there would be no point in distinguishing planets at all.

    Kinda like how we have dwarf-stars and supermassive stars 1000x bigger than our sun. If they were all the same size there would be no point defining them beyond ‘star’.