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Baguette 11 points 3 hours ago

Working over ten days, they hired an excavator costing roughly £1,000 and cleared a heavily polluted 250 metre stretch of Alders Brook, a tributary of the River Roding in Barking, East London.

https://www.indiatimes.com/...

The main issue is that he used heavy machinery for cleanup. If it was by hand it probably wouldn't have resulted in any legal matter

Is 2 years ridiculous? Probably. But using an excavator for cleaning is definitely not a smart move for someone who's a lawyer

For reference an excavator is one of the construction machine with the hydraulic hand that is used to dig or grab stuff

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Baguette 8 points 3 hours ago

If the fly is small enough (like gnat size) the venus fly trap might not even recognize it. That's usually when sticky traps are better (like sundew)

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Baguette 115 points 9 months ago

I hope google fails as a whole in the near future and gets dissolved once and for all. Sick and tired of tech companies trying to be sources of authority, working with authoritarian governments, and dictating what you can and can't do.

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Baguette 71 points a year ago

Did no one else read the story? I read it and it sounds moreso the clinic's fault

The necklace he was wearing was a steel weighted exercise band, not a normal necklace. He's not flexing his wealth or anything

His wife told News 12 Long Island in a recorded interview that she was undergoing an MRI on her knee when she asked the technician to get her husband to help her get off the table. She said she called out to him.

Seems like the technician was told by the wife to bring her husband in to help her up. The technician/clinic made a mistake by letting in the husband, who didn't seem properly warned about MRIs no metal policy. The technician also somehow didn't catch the giant "necklace" he'd be wearing.

The "he wasn't supposed to be there" seems like a coverup for their mistake, since how else would he have known to go in? Someone must've told him to walk into the room, it's not like he could hear through the door.

Edit: 100% the technicians fault, the technician saw it. It even had a metal padlock.

They’d even discussed his training and the hard-to-miss chain with the MRI technician during their previous appointments, Jones-McAllister said.
“That was not the first time that guy has seen that chain” on her husband, she said. “They had a conversation about it before.”

https://www.msn.com/...

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Baguette 65 points 3 months ago

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Baguette 50 points 9 months ago

Move closer to work -> rent goes up by hundreds of dollars bc closer to city

Find work closer to current place -> pay goes down like 30% or your job field doesn't even have openings there

Tbh there's not much winning right now

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Baguette 49 points a year ago

Oh hey I used to live near Sawtelle. Honestly the city department there is fucking terrible.

I parked there once using street parking when I was first looking for apartments and I got ticketed for being in a no parking zone when there wasn't a sign or a red line saying no parking.

Went to the city's office and despite photo evidence we still got denied an appeal.

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Baguette 49 points 10 months ago

Stop right there, you need to verify your age to look at this tree!

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Baguette 48 points 3 months ago

Ever see something so cringe it wraps around to being funny again?

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Baguette 47 points 6 months ago

Like always, how far your money goes depends on multiple factors. 140k in the Midwest alone means you're living comfortably. Like all bills paid off, a lot of extra money for leisure, etc.

If you have a family and live in the bay area, then it's not that much. I personally wouldn't put it at poverty, but it'd be somewhat close to being paycheck to paycheck (assuming you still need to pay mortgage and whatnot)

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Baguette 40 points 8 months ago

It says 50 days in soil, I'm guessing it's more stable than that when kept as regular packaging. It probably relies on microorganisms and/or other creatures that can break down cellulose to be present, which in a warehouse shouldn't be present

Even 50 days is relatively fine if it's cheap enough to replace saran wrap for food products. Most perishables don't last that long anyways

Of course every new invention is probably overreporting its successes for funding, but these kinds of innovation is always one step towards a better future.

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Baguette 35 points a year ago

Airlines and enshittification, what's new.

Happening right now with Southwest as well. In their infinite knowledge sw decided to remove what defined them: two free checked bags and cheap flights

Now there's a worse option called basic which has a shittier cancellation policy, no checked bags, and is more expensive than the previous budget tier

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Baguette 31 points a year ago

Oh hey I ran into that issue, fixed it by blocking the element on ublock and spoofing my user agent

Edit: I put more details under nameisnotimportant's comment, I was about to head to bed so I didn't really provide details LOL

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Baguette 30 points a month ago

Tcp and udp are to sum it up, internet messaging protocols. UDP specifically is when you send a message over without guaranteeing your message was received. TCP on the otherhand is more like a handshake where you send a message and expect a response back.

The joke is basically UDP=I dont know if you would get it

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Baguette 29 points 9 months ago

That's a pretty based reason and way better than being a lord

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Baguette 29 points 3 months ago

Another view of it

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Baguette 28 points a year ago

Presenting male but identifying (mostly just not publicly out) as another gender

Usually a thing trans ppl do to avoid situations with family or because they live in a red state

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Baguette 28 points 10 months ago

I looked at the wiki page someone linked and it took until 1980s for a scientist to link the mushroom to a specific antigen it had, and was only labeled as poisonous in most cookbooks by the 90s.

So the story could be believable

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Baguette 27 points 5 months ago

HAHAH you mean the same investors who decided to ruin the internet for shareholder value? Yea let me just place the same source of evil and maybe this time it'll work

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Baguette 26 points 7 months ago

New zealand is extremely prone because its home to flightless birds and other similar species that never grew up against land predators of this nature. That's why cats and even rats are especially dangerous. These flightless birds have no real way of protecting their young and even themselves.

It's sad for cats because we see them as companions and pets, but new zealand holds a lot of critically endangered species that simply cannot exist anywhere else

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