[-] yabai@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Is Yelp really so dead that you'd use whatever that app is instead of it?

[-] yabai@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I was definitely in grade school in the '00s, but this is all foreign to me. For me I'd say it was Axe body spray (or the many knockoffs), Uggs, Heelys, TVs in the back of their parent's car's front headrests, having their own TiVo, and LaCroix.

[-] yabai@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

The Wallstreet Journal did a really good podcast interviewing Kenyans who worked for Sama on this particular engagement. Most of them said it affected their lives deeply, one said his wife almost left him as he just "wasn't the person she'd married". I think she ended up coming back after he quit at least, but yeesh. Another said he pulled away from his young daughter after reading prompts about child sexual abuse. Can you imagine that level of mental health hit?

[-] yabai@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Boy, religious indoctrination sure is scary. Wide-scale brainwashing leading to death and destruction for 20+ years in this case.

[-] yabai@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I think this is usually specifically for diesel fuel. Certain places have diesel fuel with red dye in it that is tax exempt. Any fuel you buy from a standard gas station has a good amount of tax baked into the price and it's earmarked to go towards road and infrastructure repair. The thought process is, if you're not using said vehicle on the road, you shouldn't have to pay this tax.

So, they dye it red, sell it only at special places, and you get fined pretty heavily if you're found using it in street vehicles. Typically it's truckers that do it because most American cars (including cop cars) are not diesel. And I've never heard of this setup for regular gas.

[-] yabai@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago

I mean, if any of those 80,000 plants pack as much protein as any of the dead animals I'm all ears

[-] yabai@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Early seasons are great... But it just gets so sappy

[-] yabai@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe you farted in your sleep

[-] yabai@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Training was the way for me! I was a pilot beforehand, but it's such a unique and rather awkward movement that I probably would have really struggled without training.

[-] yabai@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I fly paramotors. Imagine a fan you strap on your back, a paraglider that goes overhead, and you run run run until you're airborne! Never fails to put a smile on my face when times are tough. And maintaining the engine and planning that next flight keeps me occupied when the weather doesn't cooperate.

[-] yabai@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I'll never forget the conviction with which my wife once woke me up proclaiming a woman needed help. Waited a minute for another howl and taught her something new that night!

[-] yabai@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Very cool! How long was the exposure? Did you camp out?

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