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Tethered Bottle Caps
  • Y'know that physics principle called the lever principle, or principle of moment..?

    Thing is, if you grab a bottle by the neck and try to tilt it, you have to deal with the whole momentum / mass of the bottle, which is a significant amount of torque on your wrist, especially if you're awkwardly trying to hold a cap that's clearly not designed to be held this way at the same time.

    If you instead violently rip the cap out in an entirely justified fit of righteous rage and grab the bottle by it's center of mass, as normal people do and have done since bottles have existed (well, except for the cap bit; that shit is rather new), you can effortlessly spin it to whatever angle you want, with perfect control all the way.

    Of course you can always hold it with two hands, which might be what you meant, but that's a rather stupid waste of a free hand when most bottles are designed to be holdable with one single hand.

  • Tethered Bottle Caps
  • Luckily I'm not American, but I've never seen one of these contraptions that didn't spin freely (and most of the ones I've seen spin freely and dangle all over the place, since the cap is tethered to the ring with a flexible strip of plastic).

    It's a weight attached to a ring placed around a cylinder, after all. It's bound to spin freely, it's inherent to the design.

  • Tethered Bottle Caps
  • You can rotate the bottle before taking a sip to position it such that the cap doesn't hit your face.

    And gravity will make the cap spin around, hit your face, get in the way of the liquid, and make it splash everywhere but your mouth.

    You can also pour liquid out of the bottle without having it run into the cap using the same rotation technique before pouring.

    Same issue. As soon as you tip the bottle the cap will spin (apparently whatever genius designed this useless annoyance didn't realise that bottle necks are cylindrical), get in the way of the liquid, and make it spill everywhere but the container you're trying to pour it into.

    They're like a Pythagorean cup without the temperance lesson and well thought out design.

    The only way to use these without wasting 99% of the liquid and making a mess is to either awkwardly try to hold them up as you pour, or to violently rip them out before pouring in an entirely justified fit of righteous rage.

    What an utterly infuriating waste of plastic, time, and money.

  • If Batman was real today, he'd go after the CEOs of companies, not gangsters.
  • Rorschach is Batman but worse in every single way. All the childhood trauma and mental illness without any of the money, good manners, or training, and with several extra doses of far right conspiranoia and misogyny.

    If you read Rorschach as the good guy in Watchmen, you completely misinterpreted what Moore was trying to say. If there's any good guys in Watchmen (or at least not bad guys), and that's a big if, it's the folks around the newsstand, obviously not counting Kovacs.

  • If Batman was real today, he'd go after the CEOs of companies, not gangsters.
  • Batman is a detective, a detective! 99% of what he does has nothing to do with fighting

    Wayne's a deranged lunatic. 99% of what he does has everything to do with failing to cope with childhood trauma (and a bad case of affluenza), and very little to do with any real events happening around him.

  • If Batman was real today, he'd go after the CEOs of companies, not gangsters.
  • Upper middle class. They've got the kind of money Al Capone had, not the kind of money Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos have.

    Batman generally leaves Lex Luthor, who does have that kind of money, alone. (And I don't usually read DC, so I may be wrong, but I don't think he tends to get physical with the court of owls much either...),

  • CD Project devs want to "call out" big problems like homelessness and the wealth gap in Cyberpunk 2077 sequel
  • I dont think it did enough to make me hate corporations

    Counterpoint: Biotechnica. Those bastards are almost as bad as scavs. Some of them are worse.

    Also, maybe it looks normal for Americans, but what Militech are doing in the badlands definitely ain't right. (Phantom Liberty kind of ruins it by treating Militech's puppet president like one of the good guys, though. Night City ain't part of the NUSA, and it doesn't want to be!)

    And, besides all the relic stuff, Saburo was also seriously considering nuking Night City (properly, not like Silverhand's half assed job), so there's that, too.

  • CD Project devs want to "call out" big problems like homelessness and the wealth gap in Cyberpunk 2077 sequel
  • Eh, I see those as cleaning my town.

    If the NCPD wants to pay me for my trouble, fair enough, been paid by far worse, though I'd probably be doing it for free anyway, especially scavs, wraiths, tigers, Biotechnica, and scavs. The rest are mainly just gonks, so I usually just beat 'em up instead of slicing and dicing them.

  • CD Project devs want to "call out" big problems like homelessness and the wealth gap in Cyberpunk 2077 sequel
  • There's also that cop you have to get rid of to help some corrupt cops she's been getting in the way of.

    You can either kill her, helping said corrupt cops, or warn her to leave town, thus helping her (to stay alive, at least, though obviously not to do her job).

    Either way you're helping cops, but the NCPD looks like trash (which can also be said for River's storyline), so there's that, at least.

  • Don't bother promoting IPv6 as "the future". It's never going to be the default.
  • You don't remember a ipv4 either

    172.26.0.37. That's the IP of the frggin' Kyocera printer that takes way too many clicks to configure for every new user. And we get new users... about bi-monthly, which you'd think isn't that bad, but that interface is downright kafkian.

    I don't remember the router's IP. I more often than not don't remember the DNS servers. But that thing... that thing I remember.