[–] 8 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

In Denmark possession of CSAM was made illegal and it lead to police being forced to prosecute people who accidentally uncovered CSAM and wanted to report it. I haven’t heard of specific cases, but if you want to report existence of CSAM on a CD that is in your hands which you found in the attic of a home you just moved into the police will tell you to destroy it immediately and forget about it because the law can’t distinguish between the owner of the CSAM and the current temporary person that possesses it and reports it.

The fuuuuuck? Even in america, the stars would have to align for that to happen. The cop would have to dislike you, the prosecutor would have to dislike you (or be gunning for a higher political position and you're an easy mark for being tough on child criminals), the jury would have to hate you (or be really dumb and not believe you took the material to the cops in the first place), AND you would have to be dumb enough to not realize how hated you are in your local area and still give them the rope to hang you with.

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  • [–] 1 point 16 hours ago

    Pretty sure it is the same. I just went and tested. What makes it seem otherwise is how concentrated it is. You're only getting a teenie weenie portion of it into your nose, it's diluted in any recipe (and the alcohol [like 95% by volume in the container] burns off while cooking), but if you taste it you're getting it super duper heavy on your tongue, alcohol and vanilla.

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  • [–] 2 points 16 hours ago

    I think every service in the eastern half of my state uses the one I listed, and it's probably about a 90/10 split on plain english / 10 codes. Most of the 10 code usage is in the extremely rural areas. And god, don't get me started on 10 codes not being standardized. At least most of the major things seemed to be close. I haven't traveled to the western side for work, so can't speak to there. It is definitely interesting how things shake out in regards to agencies following recommendations.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (2 children)

    Coffee I'll give you, though that one is definitely weird to me. It DOES taste and smell the same, but at the same time I love the smell and hate the taste.

    Soap, cheese, vanilla, cocoa powder, hibiscus are nearly 1-to-1 matches for me, smell/taste wise. Cinnamon is exactly the same.

    Dragonfruit... I can't recall it very well. I've had it once since I turned 18, and can only remember that it's like eating a kiwi with no taste. Not a thing in memory about the smell. Same thing for chestnuts.

    Coconut is another weird one for me. It does smell/taste the same, but the texture is so important that it overrides any concerns of the smell/taste.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago

    It's purposeful (which I'm sure you already know). There's a fella whose name I can't recall right now that is responsible for an incredibly large amount of these ballot measures (I want to say in the realm of 700-900? Or maybe ~150-200, not sure, but still a lot of them) and has a success rate of something like 95% with them. My state's bullshit was so contorted that I made sure to read the positions of several advocacy groups to figure out which ones I was going to vote yes/no on.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    "Have to be" is a pretty strong verbiage... but like the others have said, it's about both parties already knowing the alphanumeric replacement of choice. That's why any military boy will roll their eyes and probably have some silly comment if you start using random words like apple, boy, or dennis.

    Civilian side radio users, like fire, ems, or police, have a different one

    spoilerAdam, Boy, Charles, David, Edward, Frank, George, Henry, Ida, John, King, LIncoln, Mary, Nora, Ocean, Paul, Queen, Robert, Sam, Tom, Union, Victor, William, X-ray, Young, Zebra; if you were curious
    that they use, and you'll always hear someone firing back on the radio about not calling in an airstrike when a former military member slips up and uses the military version.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (8 children)

    Get a veterinarian friend in your life, they have great stories.

    In this story time, it's about pet food companies and veterinarian students. See, if a veterinarian recommends a certain food, is any reasonable owner taking their pet to said veterinarian going to not at least try that food? So pet food companies will give enormous discounts to veterinarian students. They want to hook them on it. They'll bring in cartloads of their brand and nearly give it away to the students. My friend had a small side hustle reselling the stuff. His girlfriend was feeding her cat something like $300 worth of the super premium food a month... for the low price of $30. His mother was getting 80lbs of some premium brand dog food every month. It was nuts.

    They also, in these little giveaways and 'seminars' put on, answer all the questions the vets might ever be asked by clients later on... which is why this is relevant to this post. See, they'll freely admit that every food is more or less taste-tested by humans first. So when they say 'bacon' or 'pumpkin spice' or such, it's really because the human that tasted it said so (and also because they already knew what it was going to taste like, the folks making the product aren't exactly stupid in the first place).

    Also also... how does anyone not know what things taste like before putting them in your mouth? I can think of nearly nothing that doesn't smell so close to how it tastes that it makes no difference. So just go sniff the treat and you can tell.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago

    If we considered '24 as a single point, then regression to the mean (thinking, as is pretty accurate across most states, that the split between d/r is often a few points off of 50/50) would suggest a large swing back towards 'neutral' from a +14 point advantage.

    So, even discounting the idiocy that is the current american administration and its effects on voters, yes, I would expect most places to vote more democrat.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 days ago

    Bodies cool fast enough that unless you died in a public place, you'll probably be room temperature. As the meme reply suggests, your body is close to the slow cooker, almost assuredly on the counter of your home/apartment.

    So... a tepid, stinky, far-too-chewy bag of rotting fat, or some delicious potatoes (pronounced like so)? POtatOES!

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