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[00:17:15] <exec> 08└─I totally banged Jessica Alba and Natalie Portman ! Jealous people are always trying to find ways to dismiss my evidence.
[00:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03buswolley [848] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:17] <exec> 08└─They're not hard to detect, although some are more convincing than others. Check the Leia remake from the Force Awakens. It competes with the special effects crew's attempt pretty well. However, in the future, this is going to be a big problem. Video evidence is now weak, if there is ever a hint of...
[00:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:19] <exec> 08└─I've always thought it would be cool to write a javascript in which the shadow of Oswald's nose rotates clockwise in the manner of a Sun Dial.
[00:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:21] <exec> 08└─Shortly after Blu-ray's introduction to the market, someone in the Blu-ray business met with a bunch of pr0n industry technical people to explain how Blu-ray should be used by them I Am Absolutely Serious.
[00:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:23] <exec> 08└─... The Hot Grits You Poured Down Your Pants.
[00:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:26] <exec> 08└─I swear I'm not making this up: I don't remember much about the episode but the 5-0 people had a photo whose authenticity was called into question. They consulted an image processing expert who advised them to enlarge the photo enough that the pixels could be seen clearly. If the photo were shopped...
[00:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 1625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:28] <exec> 08└─GPU hardware is improving quite well, custom machine learning hardware such as TPUs could improve on that further, and there's talk of quantum machine learning or neuromorphic computing. 6-8 GB of VRAM is not uncommon, and memory bandwidth could increase a lot with GDDR6 and HBM. The quantity of RAM...
[00:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:30] <exec> 08└─Y u no haz account assteller
[00:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:32] <exec> 08└─You just opened me up to a whole new world of conspiracy theory that I had not imagined
[00:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:34] <exec> 08└─Makes sense -- seems like they tapped on the wisdom of the Beta/VHS parable.
[00:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:37] <exec> 08└─But I expect
[00:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:39] <exec> 08└─Entirely CGI UFO sighting video. [wired.com] Yesterday it took effort. Tomorrow it will take a script.
[00:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:41] <exec> 08└─Shortly after Blu-ray's introduction to the market, someone in the Blu-ray business met with a bunch of pr0n industry technical people to explain how Blu-ray should be used by them I Am Absolutely Serious.
[00:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart and Kobo Team Up to Take on Amazon Kindle - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:04] <exec> 08└─I figured he was just pointing out that physical stores are more vulnerable to crowdfaults. It's my understanding Walmarts tend to be placed mostly in lower-income neighborhoods, where looting is more likely to happen. The Walmarts where I've lived have been pretty good though; nothing like People o...
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[00:18:05] <exec> 08└─Working for Boston Dynamics, we investigated E-ink as kind of a side venture to make extra income after the buyout. We too came to the same conclusion, it's expensive for what it is and to goddamn slow to portray any kind of reasonable motion or animation. It's best suited to static displays, which...
[00:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Walmart and Kobo Team Up to Take on Amazon Kindle - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:07] <exec> 08└─Also, in large parts America, bus stops are frequented by crackheads and other angry minorities who like to break shit. When Jamal gets kicked out of his White girlfriend's (who was dating a refugee because its' the "progressive" thing to do) house for beating her for the fifth time, he will have to...
[00:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Walmart and Kobo Team Up to Take on Amazon Kindle - 1038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:10] <exec> 08└─Amazon Kindle has a near total dominance in the eBook and eReader market in the United States, so any competition is good. The main problem though is that because of Amazon Kindle's near total dominance of the eBook market in the U.S., most publishers and authors simply don't bother with the other e...
[00:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Acquires Biometric ID Startup - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:29] <exec> 08└─Vito will be by in the morning to rearrange your face. Capisce?
[00:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Disputes Reports That Claim Xiaomi is India's Top-Selling Smartphone Company - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:43] <exec> 08└─And why should I care which corporation sells more phones?
[00:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 062 Minutes to Midnight - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:45] <exec> 08└─Actually, I think China would be true to their word. China would make a lot of political and economic capital out of it, after the fact, but they probably wouldn't interfere with the rain of fire. They WOULD be ready with a counterstrike, if they happened to be hit, of course. That is, they wouldn't...
[00:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 062 Minutes to Midnight - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:46] <exec> 08└─-e. I read some guy's blog about his purchase, which he was quite pleased with. But he noted a small complication: One must pay in Ukrainian Rubles.
[00:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GitHub Rejects Drone-Maker DJI's DMCA Takedown After Encryption Keys Get Forked - 1633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:10] <exec> 08└─This is an interesting situation. It's not clear to me how it will turn out. Github's TOS appear to say that uploading for public viewing made the fork ok. So the fork may likely stay around, but it's not clear what folks are permitted to do with it. The TOS appears to provide a way to limit the use...
[00:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Please, Keep your Blog Light - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:01] <exec> 08└─Looking at the man page quickly, it seems like exactly what I want, thanks!
[00:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Please, Keep your Blog Light - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:03] <exec> 08└─Tapping the Cancel button twice has become muscle memory for me. I filed a bug with the title that "App Store Doesn't Believe 'No' Means No" but so far I've gotten no response from Apple.
[00:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Please, Keep your Blog Light - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:05] <exec> 08└─hey - who's that there. He's got a gun! O for the love of God don't take the life of my mama's little boy! BANG!
[00:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Please, Keep your Blog Light - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:07] <exec> 08└─Among the reasons that I don't submit many stories is that I just don't have the headspace to write up a proper post rather than jacking a few paragraphs from the original article.
[00:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Please, Keep your Blog Light - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:09] <exec> 08└─It was at one time quiet a prosperous Multimedia CD shop. Most of our clients were big companies such as Northern Telecom who hired us to put all their sales lit on a single CD with an attractive UI. We had an application framework of sorts: Start with all the source code from the previous Multimedi...
[00:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Please, Keep your Blog Light - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:11] <exec> 08└─The reason caches don't work anymore is because web analytics. Suppose your page has a legitimate use for jQuery. That's a heavyweight resource but it only has to download once. Think Again: Safari used to have this really useful Activity window that listed the URLs of all the resources that go into...
[00:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Please, Keep your Blog Light - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:14] <exec> 08└─There are very few images on my site. IIRC there is just one Javascript that has the same URL from all the pages that use it. My very largest document is 50 pages in hardcopy form. Let's see how big it is: $ du -s /var/warplife/www/mdc/books/schizoaffective-disorder/ 392 /var/warplife/www/mdc/books...
[00:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Please, Keep your Blog Light - 1163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:16] <exec> 08└─Scoop.kuro5hin.org got owned by a lot of link spammers. Just out of curiosity I clicked one link. To my great surprise it was a professional-looking site that sold Wordpress themes. And not just any themes: Whoever drew those images quite clearly studied at a top art school. They were so beautiful....
[00:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Please, Keep your Blog Light - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:18] <exec> 08└─-g: http://seeingtheforest.com [seeingtheforest.com] "Former Presidents read my blog!" I knew it just had to be Jimmy Carter - and it was.
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[01:17:31] <exec> 08└─Jack Ruby must have had quite a serious reason to motivate him to kill Oswald. Did he have any kids? Perhaps there was a threat on their lives.
[01:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:32] <exec> 08└─So can anyone find some pictures of a younger Jabba the Hutt, so we can re-do the added scene in the "updated" A New Hope? :P Seriously, my TI-99/4a could draw a more realistic looking Jabba.
[01:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:34] <exec> 08└─DIY_Celeb_Porn: Like we really needed another reason for people to snatch GPUs and make prices insane...
[01:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:37] <exec> 08└─Original 1977 Star Wars 35mm Print Restored and Released Online [soylentnews.org] Original Star Wars Trilogy Theatrical Cuts To Be Released On Blu-Ray [soylentnews.org] There's the fix.
[01:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:39] <exec> 08└─If there's an algorithm/method to detect a fake, there's input to a training algorithm to ensure it doesn't trigger that algorithm.
[01:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart and Kobo Team Up to Take on Amazon Kindle - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:06] <exec> 08└─I read hundreds of pages of docs and articles every month. Tech stuff, no animations nor colors required (okay, occasionally colors do help) My eyes would really love a paper-like 20+ inch display (dual-page view really helps). My wallet doesn't agree with the 900 bucks per 13 inches.
[01:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart and Kobo Team Up to Take on Amazon Kindle - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:07] <exec> 08└─Walmart is effectively the welfare EBT service center for the US government. I'm not making a joke. Walmart is where your tax money ends up after it passes through the government ration cards and government-issued child support "credit cards" (male reproduction privilege tax cards). I guess it's goo...
[01:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Acquires Biometric ID Startup - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:29] <exec> 08└─bullying people into using real names for their online accounts wasn't enough Requiring and verifying phone numbers associated with your account wasn't enough No, we want to associate your every online action with you actual eyeball. or fingerprint. or voice print. preferably all of the above. This...
[01:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062 Minutes to Midnight - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:47] <exec> 08└─Was just about to post the same thing. Up the Irons!!
[01:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satellite Broadcaster Sky to Ditch Satellite Dishes - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:29] <exec> 08└─> Since you will need an internet connection for your SkyBox ... Narp, what are you gibbering on about? What the fuck is a "skybox", and what the fuck makes you think I have one?
[01:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satellite Broadcaster Sky to Ditch Satellite Dishes - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:31] <exec> 08└─I never was familiar with the original channel, but am aware of the latter naming, which seemed utterly trashy. But if punters pay for it, it's good business.
[01:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump's Alleged Hatred of Sharks is a Boon for Shark Conservation Charities - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:07] <exec> 08└─As a Trump supporter, this is still funny to me.
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[02:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's GOLD Makes It Into Orbit After Fears It Was Lost - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:04] <exec> 08└─Ars mentioned that the Sats were at 20 degrees instead of about 3. So not "lower" but requiring adjustment. > Both SES and Yahsat say they will figure out a way for the satellites to course-correct in order to get to their originally planned orbits and do their jobs. The SES post linked in TFS says...
[02:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that video probably required at least a dozen geforce 1080s!
[02:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:37] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the confirmation bias that will occur when "they" say it is fake which will only make people think it is a cover up.
[02:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:40] <exec> 08└─When Han steps up onto Jabba's tail, the jump is so bad,it was almost as though the CGI team were apologizing for the revision, by making it a bit worse than it had to be. At least, I want to think that, rather than just be appalled at the bad retcon. YMMV
[02:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Walmart and Kobo Team Up to Take on Amazon Kindle - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:08] <exec> 08└─Your wallet doesn't mean shit if it's you who aren't paying for the R&D.
[02:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 062 Minutes to Midnight - 1401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:49] <exec> 08└─Then Lil' Kim will just send a nuke to Beijing first of all, and then to as many other places as he can. It's only 809 km from Pyongyang to Beijing, pretty much in range of most of their missiles. I'm pretty sure that Xi Jinping knows this, that if Kim Jong-un and the DPRK leadership decide they hav...
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[03:17:09] <exec> 08└─This is what happens when you use inferior European equipment. They are a primitive feudal society. The smart ones escaped to North America a long time ago. If you want quality, you buy American. Just another simple fact of life.
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[03:17:44] <exec> 08└─Huma Mahmood Abedin with Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton William Jefferson Clinton with Monica Samille Lewinsky Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin with his horse Kim Jong-un with a chicken
[03:19:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06California: Recruiters Must Share Pay Range Info Upon Request - 309 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:29] <exec> 08└─The government does not have the authority to force one private individual to divulge information to another private individual. Yes, because when advertisers say "symptoms include anal leakage" it's because they're really proud of that leakage! It's not because they're compelled to divulge that inf...
[03:19:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06California: Recruiters Must Share Pay Range Info Upon Request - 288 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:50] <exec> 08└─Tell me good sir, what is the current state of US debt? I mean the US is the bastion of unfettered capitalism so we MUST be awash in cash right? Is your only defense that these functional pseudo-socialist countries are smaller? Less diverse? In that case your bigotry seems to be showing.
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[03:20:16] <exec> 08└─Nobody knows what something should cost today until a deal is struck (in fact, until many deals are struck). That is the whole point of the market: To find these values—this is called the Price Mechanism.
[03:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062 Minutes to Midnight - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:55] <exec> 08└─True, but that artillery is defeated within an hour or two at most.
[03:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062 Minutes to Midnight - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:56] <exec> 08└─Decades ago, back when Mao was running things and the Chinese were starving, a buffer was really useful. It kept Chinese people from leaving. Remember that back then, normal Chinese people were not permitted to leave the country. These days, China is busy trading with South Korea. Rail links would b...
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[03:21:58] <exec> 08└─Launch preparations take days. Launch sites are known and can be bombed. The aiming sucks. Both the rockets and the nukes tend to fail, and they have never been tested together. Kim isn't crazy or dumb. He's trapped, possibly enjoying life although under stress, and unable to find a reasonable way o...
[03:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Theresa May Attacks Encrypted Messaging, Seeks Safe and Ethical AI - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:55] <exec> 08└─therefore the rational thing for the AI is to get as much control as possible.
[03:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Theresa May Attacks Encrypted Messaging, Seeks Safe and Ethical AI - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:57] <exec> 08└─Now that the humans dominate, had the ameoba die as species? I assert it costs much less an AI to defend against anything humans can throw at it than it costs the AI to eliminate all humans. Rationale: there are places on this Earth the humans didn't reach or, if reaching, they are in no position to...
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[03:23:59] <exec> 08└─Nah, he just knows what a slut Riker is.
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[04:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:07] <exec> 08└─At a short first, they might be happier. Then "Scarce, sir... mighty scarce." I reckon Heimbach is gonna learn this lesson pretty soon.
[04:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 2196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:08] <exec> 08└─Three men dressed in black walked into a hospital and headed towards the front desk. Even a cursory glance would tell one that these men were dangerous. One of the men pulls a large amount of money out of his pocket and hands it to the nurse at the front desk. The man holding the money says, while w...
[04:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 1091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:10] <exec> 08└─Why did this story get approved? It's essentially a straw man. Oh no, there is a Nazi behind every corner! All sorts of unrelated political views get lumped together and slapped with the "Nazi" label to make sure nobody dares to consider any of the many different political views. Meanwhile, what is...
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[04:17:12] <exec> 08└─Stop right there, I'll give your rancid hole some cockpoles! What! What is this! Impossible! Improbable! It can't be! My diseased cockpoles and your parasite-ridden feces are mixing together and becoming an elixir heard about only in legends! Such a fuckin' thing! Get pregnant, you sow!
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[04:17:15] <exec> 08└─Go post about My Borders My Choice on /pol/ right now, the will tell you to go back to reddit, XD. It is being archived (or I suppose "organized" ) on voat. Not everything is coordinated Russian Hacking™, sometimes people just think snowflakes overreacting is hiliarious. We used to call them troll...
[04:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:17] <exec> 08└─Where are you picking this filthy shit up at? It belongs on these forums about as much as bubble gum belongs on theater seats. Just because you can do it only demonstrates you can make a mess. Anyone can do that here. Not much sport in that.
[04:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:19] <exec> 08└─Trolls from 4chan, an imageboard website that is popular with the alt-right, are planning to post signs at women's studies departments on college campuses Sunday with the hashtag #mybordermychoice, a deliberate perversion of the abortion-rights slogan "my body my choice," according to a series of po...
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[04:17:21] <exec> 08└─Peak America shitposting time. Well, we don't hate our women, but those pink pussy hats are pure Jew subversion. Good thing they so readily identify themselves as another gang of Soros' useful idiots. Prius drivers, all. The United States of America will never fall. We were born from trolling [wikip...
[04:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:24] <exec> 08└─You missed that black unemployment is the lowest it's been since they first started measuring it.
[04:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:26] <exec> 08└─100% agree... No women -> no children. No children -> no more people! I guess my main concern is like that of a farmer... we want to breed in desirable traits, and breed out undesirable traits... which we have not been having much success at... we seem to be doing the exact opposite! We seem determi...
[04:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's GOLD Makes It Into Orbit After Fears It Was Lost - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:35] <exec> 08└─The smart ones escaped to North America a long time ago.
[04:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's GOLD Makes It Into Orbit After Fears It Was Lost - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:38] <exec> 08└─Watch it, see that the so-called shadow of Earth goes from black to red/orange/brown, all at once over the entire 'shadowed' area. Realize the Earth is Flat. No joke, Soylent Tards. Watch it! What have you to lose, except your entire everything?
[04:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's GOLD Makes It Into Orbit After Fears It Was Lost - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:40] <exec> 08└─End? Long after we're all gone I'm sure.
[04:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's GOLD Makes It Into Orbit After Fears It Was Lost - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:42] <exec> 08└─Wait a sec. Which country has the rich but fucking stupid leader? And what can be said about a population which would put such a leader in place? It ain't "smartest colony we ever spawned", I can assure you. Remind me, what percentage of your population believes in the existence of angels? I'm not d...
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[04:18:17] <exec> 08└─RMS with a gnu.
[04:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 1424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:18] <exec> 08└─What's so funny is that his theory has worked from the beginning. Back in the 80's they have the same stuff, except it was like, far more hilarious. Like maybe an order of magnitude better than pasting a magazine cutout on the monitor, but not much better. Then the lines started being blurred on the...
[04:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 062 Minutes to Midnight - 1089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:30] <exec> 08└─The Cuban Missile Crisis is an instructive parallel. If Kennedy had invaded Cuba as he was being pressured to do by the Joint Chiefs, they would have been in for a nasty surprise, as subsequent information [armscontrol.org] that came to light after the collapse of the Soviet Union showed. The nukes...
[04:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Prime Minister Theresa May Attacks Encrypted Messaging, Seeks Safe and Ethical AI - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:31] <exec> 08└─UK gets a new tank for the army. Just in case they are captured by the enemy, UK demanded they come with a secret weak point, so they can disable them easily. Problem is everyone can get such tanks even before the war, copy them over and over, and test and disassemble them until they figure where th...
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[05:17:18] <exec> 08└─Jealousy. I see only jealousy in their eyes. Such an ugly emotion. Such ugly creatures. I found this. It's mine. Get away. I found this hunk of feces. More people continue to surround me as I rape the hunk of feces I found on the sidewalk. They wish they had found this exquisite specimen themselves,...
[05:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:19] <exec> 08└─I speak only The Truth. The Truth of the past. The Truth of the present. The Truth of the future. You, however, worship falsehoods. Vanish, I say! The Truth will prevail over the falsehoods you so desperately believe in!
[05:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:21] <exec> 08└─..is this tech-related because it mentions 4chan or what?
[05:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:24] <exec> 08└─Women in Iran are protesting against head coverings
[05:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:26] <exec> 08└─Ya gotta hand it to those Jews. Man, if I could afford one again, I'd be filthy rich from lawsuits. Especially when it is found that Eric Schmidt was a Jewish plant. Here's how we operated. I had accidentally knocked up a Gook in Los Angeles and was forced to swear a blood-oath to her family. My fri...
[05:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:28] <exec> 08└─I think the usage of the politics nexus was appropriate.
[05:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:30] <exec> 08└─Anyone get the feeling there's a reason to use the water cannons against these idiots? Let's face it, all of you people are a bad reflection of the concept of majority rule. You sure have soured me on the idea. You're as tyrannical as anything. Worse, because you're a fucking mob. So, now our next e...
[05:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:33] <exec> 08└─"Quarter earning optimization" will do that - damn'd with long term, we need results now... if no longer possible, well, I have my golden parachute, "enterprises raise and fall" is as valid a truth as "all software have bugs" (we managed to trick taxes, can't use that comparison any more).
[05:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:35] <exec> 08└─I'd agree with you except for the current state of the R team. The D team also seems to be doing some fantastic work to help them out. Those two are quite the tag team when it comes to getting reactionary policies enacted. I also like how the liberal press is doing a bang-up job moving the Overton w...
[05:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:37] <exec> 08└─They're showing you a simulation of reality. They control the popular communication channels and news outlets: Facebook, Twitter, Google News, MSN, etc. You look like you need to unplug, man. When the simulation has run its course, we'll happily embrace the benevolent rule of a philosopher-king. We'...
[05:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:39] <exec> 08└─I guess this just goes to show that at least here, on these forums, anyone is free to speak his mind and air his thoughts in public. You, sir, may run your flag up, but I respectfully withhold the action of saluting it.
[05:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's GOLD Makes It Into Orbit After Fears It Was Lost - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:52] <exec> 08└─Evolutionarily speaking, the whole world, America included, has been on greased skids to stupidity for 60+ years now.
[05:18:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 12 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:15] <exec> 08└─But I expect
[05:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:30] <exec> 08└─But lookalike porn has existed for ages. This is no different. The only thing this tells me is *stop trustin video evidence from untrusted sources*. But try telling that to a population that believed Saddam had access to weapons od mass destruction.
[05:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:31] <exec> 08└─s/from untrusted sources//
[05:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062 Minutes to Midnight - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:46] <exec> 08└─And that couldn't happen here? How about the US (and possibly Europe) taking on the role of the Ottoman and Astro-Hungarian empires. China and India taking up roles as the up and comers. I think you see where I'm going with this. It's not particular unstable right now, but right now isn't going to c...
[05:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062 Minutes to Midnight - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:47] <exec> 08└─Something to bear in mind is the law is not a math proof and is closer to a religious document such that if your religious founding document clearly states "no gays" there will none the less be people who want gay marriage who will stand on their head and cross their eyes and read it backward if nec...
[05:25:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pTamok [3042] 02 - 06Please, Keep your Blog Light - 276 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:35] <exec> 08└─Even soylentnews takes about 130kB (80KB plus some images). So 20 to 30 SN loads/pages and that's more than 25MB. In my Universe, 130kB x 30 = 3900 kB = 3.9 MB, and 3.9 25. Using your numbers, 25 MB would give 192 page loads, or an average of a little over 6 page loads a day.
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[06:17:06] <exec> 08└─are not English terms. And all the hip kids know, Spanish is square, man!
[06:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spanish Use is Steady Or Dropping in U.S. Despite High Latino Immigration - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:07] <exec> 08└─¿Por qué?
[06:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spanish Use is Steady Or Dropping in U.S. Despite High Latino Immigration - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:09] <exec> 08└─...vas a tener un tiempo mal. I use it daily at my second job, as some of our best customers are a bunch of mostly Spanish-speaking construction workers. They are very surprised when la gringa busts out the Spanish, but appreciative.
[06:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:40] <exec> 08└─From what I am seeing, they're just like hippies protesting those dour no-fun-allowed policing moralists.
[06:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:41] <exec> 08└─Have the Iranian protests really not been reported in the US? They have been pretty constant for the past two months. Certain, the European media has covered them. Wikipedia keeps something of a list. [wikipedia.org] The protests are not about women and head-scarves, or not only. They are really abo...
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[06:17:44] <exec> 08└─Resembles an insane asylum, in that regard.
[06:19:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Facebook Acquires Biometric ID Startup - 134 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:17] <exec> 08└─says that its software allows for proof of identity for online transactions, allowing users to detect potentially fraudulent activity.
[06:21:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 062 Minutes to Midnight - 141 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:55] <exec> 08└─Provided that I take all the necessary radiological health precautions, the 2nd Amendment guarantees me the right to possess nuclear weapons.
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[07:17:09] <exec> 08└─Had the right idea. In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or b...
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[07:17:11] <exec> 08└─English was violently imposed on America, by invaders like the Roosevelts! Forcible imposition, I tell you! Imperialism! Racism! English out, now!
[07:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spanish Use is Steady Or Dropping in U.S. Despite High Latino Immigration - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:13] <exec> 08└─However she is quite a fluent English speaker. I was quite surprised when she told me she learned Spanish first because her English sounds as american as mine. She's married to a Latino who I expect also speaks spanish. They have three sons. None of them know spanish. All they speak is English. "Ple...
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[07:17:15] <exec> 08└─-ved after what at the time was the Mexican northwest was taken by force without the slightest pretense of a provocation, to become the American southwest. All the spanish land grants were taken from them with the aid of corrupt judges who tried their cases in English without providing translators t...
[07:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spanish Use is Steady Or Dropping in U.S. Despite High Latino Immigration - 999 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:17] <exec> 08└─but sometimes they only know enough English to take your order in a restaurant. Many Mexicans also do not have olive skin. The Spanish originally looked just like other Europeans. At a really high-end Mexican restaurant a young woman who I was convinced was born and raised in These United States sai...
[07:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:51] <exec> 08└─What I find really interesting is that aristarchus, absolutely a troll himself, can't tell the difference between a nazi and someone who likes winding up feminists. I mean I would have thought organizing on 4chan would be a dead giveaway.
[07:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:52] <exec> 08└─When I showed my wife the 'my borders my choice' images she thought they were funny as hell. A woman has a border to keep out unwanted men and some men decide to cross it anyways, we call this rape. A country has a border to keep out unwanted men and we call this "looking for a better life". My wife...
[07:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:55] <exec> 08└─You look like you need to unplug, man.
[07:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:57] <exec> 08└─Once upon a time, TMB, you said the best argument for freedom of speech is that you know the opinion and you can refute it to kingdom come and beyond [soylentnews.org] In your words In an ideal world it would always go like this: Give me your best argument that I may kick the everlovin shit out of i...
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[07:17:59] <exec> 08└─From a Social Darwinian point of view we've managed to prevent those undesirables from murdering you and your family for food. So I think we can call it a wash...
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[08:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brains Became More Rounded over 200,000+ Years - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:03] <exec> 08└─Except for those in management. They are pointy, not round.
[08:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spanish Use is Steady Or Dropping in U.S. Despite High Latino Immigration - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:18] <exec> 08└─The Mexican immigrants show a genuine willingness to integrate. This somehow create astonishment in the "Hollywood" American who knows for sure the only guaranteed-to-work way is volume translation [tvtropes.org] - after all, everybody speaks English sooner or later [tvtropes.org] (grin)
[08:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spanish Use is Steady Or Dropping in U.S. Despite High Latino Immigration - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:19] <exec> 08└─... comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us Exactly! Freedom of religion, speech, assembly, all the very first amendment! That's what makes America great! It's wonderful how the government doesn't make them give up their religion, culture and opinions, isn't it?
[08:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spanish Use is Steady Or Dropping in U.S. Despite High Latino Immigration - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:22] <exec> 08└─They need to practice English. Poor ability cuts them off from society. They need to reach a level of fluency that lets them feel comfortable starting conversations. Poor skills will make them shy or worse. They need to learn proper grammar, proper pronunciation, a large vocabulary, and all sorts of...
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[08:17:56] <exec> 08└─What I find really interesting is that aristarchus, absolutely a troll himself, can't tell the difference between a nazi and someone who likes winding up feminists. I mean I would have thought organizing on 4chan would be a dead giveaway.
[08:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:01] <exec> 08└─It's essentially a straw man. Oh no, there is a Nazi behind every corner!
[08:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:03] <exec> 08└─None of it even makes sense! Who the fuck is Heimbach?! Just for the record, this liberal supports their effort to maybe post some posters somewhere...
[08:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:05] <exec> 08└─I can't find the "-99 depressing" mod. "With a just over a thousand men in Charlottesville, we changed the world. We made such a huge impact on American culture because our mobilization of men was backed by an ideology that cannot be defeated." Changed the world? Riots? vehicular homicide? Yep.
[08:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 1004 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:08] <exec> 08└─Back in my hometown, in New York City, there were two horrible terrorist attacks. The attack with the truck and the attack with the pipe bomb. Both done by LEGAL immigrants. By RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISTS. These attacks underscore the dangers we face from around the globe. We're bringing in the worst...
[08:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:10] <exec> 08└─Who the fuck is Heimbach?!
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[08:19:03] <exec> 08└─Now you don't even need to have nude images of your former partner in order to do revenge porn. Just put his/her face on another nude image. Another possible use is to provide fake evidence. Take a CCTV recording, replace the face of some random person appearing on it with the suspect's face, and yo...
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[08:23:19] <exec> 08└─It is important to note that it was not the usa to win the wwii but the soviet union. The usa went in hastily to get a piece of the cake and mainly to prevent the red army from liberating all of europe. The usa in the meantime dropped two atom bombs on civilians in japan while the country was basica...
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[08:23:44] <exec> 08└─Your idea that "I am right and they are wrong. Therefore my actions cannot be wrong, even if they hurt them" is exactly what I am talking about. So let me get personal for the first time: With this basic idea, you are putting yourself in the footsteps of the likes of Mao, Stalin, McCarthy, the "only...
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[09:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brains Became More Rounded over 200,000+ Years - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:05] <exec> 08└─I'm not quite sure what the paper is about really, from their data it seems that the skull shaped changed allowing for more brain space so the brain slowly changed shape to since it was no longer confined in the same smaller cavity. It doesn't appear that the brain grew and reshaped our skulls.
[09:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brains Became More Rounded over 200,000+ Years - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:07] <exec> 08└─They are pointy, not round.
[09:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brains Became More Rounded over 200,000+ Years - 1050 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:09] <exec> 08└─Some many not be aware that there were some interesting parties in the long history of England, or the United Kingdom, as the German usurpers call it. The Roundheads [wikipedia.org] were supporters of the Parliament during the English Civil War, back, you know, a long time ago. They opposed the Cava...
[09:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spanish Use is Steady Or Dropping in U.S. Despite High Latino Immigration - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:26] <exec> 08└─They're tired, aching, and hungry. They just wanna fuckin' eat, not get an English quiz, okay? I'm not being paid to teach English, and besides which they'll be more likely to want to assimilate if they're treated well here.
[09:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:11] <exec> 08└─I can't find the "-99 depressing" mod.
[09:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:12] <exec> 08└─The modern interpretation of the word "Nazi" is "anyone who doesn't embrace the progressive narrative word for word." As such it's screamed at so many people so often that it's well on its way to losing its status as an insult. Oddly enough, it seems like the attempt to retain its shock value consis...
[09:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:15] <exec> 08└─Because it seems that this site got astroturfed over the last several months. It's rather unfortunate, really.
[09:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:17] <exec> 08└─As per usual with an aristarchus submission, it behooves all and sundry to check out the Original submission [soylentnews.org], before the eds cut the heart out of it for fear of getting sued by nazis.
[09:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:19] <exec> 08└─Australia will be that salvation of the world.
[09:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:11] <exec> 08└─Does it somehow become better when you spank it to fake celeb pictures then to "normal" porn stars? Don't think I really got the celeb-fetish. I assume famous people fuck to, the enormous amount of "accidental nude selfies and videos" that get leaked seems to indicate that, but I just don't see them...
[09:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 062 Minutes to Midnight - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:29] <exec> 08└─Of course "died because of" != "can be directly attributed to". For example, if someone got cancer because of the radiation. Good luck finding out the cause of that specific case of cancer.
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[10:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spanish Use is Steady Or Dropping in U.S. Despite High Latino Immigration - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:27] <exec> 08└─I picture you as looking more like la chupacabra, actually.
[10:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:17] <exec> 08└─Thematically appropriate links; one punk, one drunk. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.ratebeer.com [ratebeer.com]
[10:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:19] <exec> 08└─Chanting "Death to America" is bad now? Leftists and their Naked Emperor Obama didn't seem to mind when they were sending planes filled with unmarked cash directly to Iran, despite the President's own State Department declaring them the world's #1 financier of terrorism.
[10:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:21] <exec> 08└─Holey Fuck! That sounds just like TMB, in his more rational moments! Based on emotion? Check his most recent journal!
[10:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:23] <exec> 08└─You stopped beating your wife yet?
[10:18:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 1625 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:55] <exec> 08└─GPU hardware is improving quite well, custom machine learning hardware such as TPUs could improve on that further, and there's talk of quantum machine learning or neuromorphic computing. 6-8 GB of VRAM is not uncommon, and memory bandwidth could increase a lot with GDDR6 and HBM. The quantity of RAM...
[10:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:17] <exec> 08└─Some faces just look better than others. There may be a humiliation/revenge aspect too, such as getting back at actresses and actors who have opinions you don't like. Others may not care about the celebs much but want to elicit any kind of reaction from them. Now that this has hit a few news sites,...
[10:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062 Minutes to Midnight - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:36] <exec> 08└─As someone who lived through the (plausible) false alarm in Hawaii, fuck you most sincerely, The Mighty (coward) Buzzard!
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[11:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Ordered Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:05] <exec> 08└─Its within his rights to fire his people.
[11:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Ordered Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:06] <exec> 08└─unless the target audience is a school of goldfish
[11:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brains Became More Rounded over 200,000+ Years - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:17] <exec> 08└─Bow big were the rounding errors?
[11:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Human Brains Became More Rounded over 200,000+ Years - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:19] <exec> 08└─How do you explain your own square head? Is that from trying to stick it our between prison bars?
[11:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spanish Use is Steady Or Dropping in U.S. Despite High Latino Immigration - 1139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:39] <exec> 08└─In my own family, the old country language was gone with the third generation. I'm fourth gen, on my father's side, and English is the only language I can speak fluently. I've noted this at work. First gen Mexicans are sometimes belligerent about learning and using English - some will tell you that...
[11:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spanish Use is Steady Or Dropping in U.S. Despite High Latino Immigration - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:40] <exec> 08└─The provocation was, the Mexicans were hiding gold in those hills!!
[11:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spanish Use is Steady Or Dropping in U.S. Despite High Latino Immigration - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:42] <exec> 08└─"When I want your opinion, Boot, I'll GIVE IT TO YOU!"
[11:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:35] <exec> 08└─Chanting "Death to America" is bad now?
[11:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:37] <exec> 08└─so, c0lo...You stopped beating your wife yet?
[11:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:39] <exec> 08└─Heimbach replied to that notion by saying legal abortion and illegal immigration were victimizing the unborn and women, and that "women have had their femininity put under attack by a culture that treats them as either sex objects
[11:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:41] <exec> 08└─This question is best addressed to TMB, but I understand he has no wife, only a roomie, and a boat, by which I think he means just a skiff. Which one are you accusing him of beating?
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[12:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Ordered Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:06] <exec> 08└─Just looking at the two other comments so far, and it seems lots of apologists for Trump and his obstruction of justice. It's rather clear now that American "democracy" is down the shitter.
[12:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06President Trump Ordered Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:08] <exec> 08└─Well, it's not exactly coming from a reliable source. There was a time when the name New York Times meant something other than "we will print absolutely anything it takes to see Democrats in office" but that time has long passed.
[12:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Ordered Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:10] <exec> 08└─No matter how many reporters CNN fire for reporting lies about Trump, they'll never stop publishing unverified stories by anonymous sources.
[12:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06President Trump Ordered Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:12] <exec> 08└─I'd take that over the Fox News of "We'll print anything to help the GOP look awesome." Of course Fox News never really had a time when it actually meant something. :p
[12:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06President Trump Ordered Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:15] <exec> 08└─The fool became a household name with stupid shit like this - https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] If that wasn't enough retardation, try this - https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] FFS, for this man to say "you're fired" means absolutely NOTHING - he's an i...
[12:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spanish Use is Steady Or Dropping in U.S. Despite High Latino Immigration - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:49] <exec> 08└─That was part of a conversation with the number two engineer, on a fifteen million dollar construction job.
[12:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spanish Use is Steady Or Dropping in U.S. Despite High Latino Immigration - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:50] <exec> 08└─You are the complete dumbass. The POINT WAS, Tony is a Texan first, an American second, and his heritage happens to be Mexican. And, he will tell you real quick how he views things. Snowflakes who are searching for prejudice will find it wherever they go, but they never realize that the prejudice is...
[12:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spanish Use is Steady Or Dropping in U.S. Despite High Latino Immigration - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:53] <exec> 08└─Frankly, Michael, I think you should have apologized only slightly (not "heartfelt"), if at all, and just got up and left. If all you really said was exactly as you quoted, the server needs to grow up. No one in their right mind would be offended by your comment, especially not in that context. She...
[12:18:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 350 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:30] <exec> 08└─Once upon a time, TMB, you said the best argument for freedom of speech is that you know the opinion and you can refute it to kingdom come and beyond [soylentnews.org] In your words In an ideal world it would always go like this: Give me your best argument that I may kick the everlovin shit out of i...
[12:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 1650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:50] <exec> 08└─Oh, magister... anyway, in the words of a great actor and director... we're going to have -- we're going to have to have a little chat about that. I mean...look.. I though - yeah I though... when are you going to learn that the reality goes well beyond The Truth... your truth to be more precise... ?...
[12:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:52] <exec> 08└─Oh, wow. Thanks mate, really appreciated.
[12:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:54] <exec> 08└─Entertaining, ain't it?
[12:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:56] <exec> 08└─Back to paying them protection money, eh?
[12:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:58] <exec> 08└─And now you're doing it as well? Group A are self-proclaimed Nazis and are planning to annoy group B! Group C also want to annoy group B, so they must be Nazis!
[12:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:01] <exec> 08└─Group A are self-proclaimed Nazis and are planning to "annoy" group B using pitchforks. Fullstop.
[12:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:03] <exec> 08└─Why did this story get approved?
[12:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:58] <exec> 08└─Another thing: while this could be used for revenge porn and humiliation against individuals who aren't famous, it is easier to use celebrities, politicians, etc. because they have put themselves out there in the public sphere so much, generating plenty of high-quality images and videos to be used f...
[12:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:59] <exec> 08└─The only thing this tells me is *stop trustin video evidence from untrusted sources*
[12:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 062 Minutes to Midnight - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:19] <exec> 08└─Was that supposed to rile me up? You need to troll better. Calling a vet a coward is like calling the guy who nailed your mom last night gay. You just get looked at like you're an idiot.
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[13:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:06] <exec> 08└─Globalization is all about redistributing wealth to the poorest people in the world! I read it in a newspaper, as well as the intartubes, it's gotta be true! It isn't possible that it's all a conspiracy to make us all poor! Conspiracy theories are funny, in that no one ever seems to prove anything w...
[13:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:08] <exec> 08└─Give us thy wisdom upon how Capitalism is evil and Communism shall save humanity! Never mind that the exact opposite has been shown to be the case every single time throughout history! Preach unto us how we deserve the fruits of someone else's labor that we may beat and kick them righteously before...
[13:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06President Trump Ordered Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:22] <exec> 08└─Just looking at the two other comments so far
[13:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Ordered Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:24] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't. Partisan lies from one party are no better than partisan lies from the other. And whataboutism towards FNC isn't ever going to mean much to a libertarian.
[13:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brains Became More Rounded over 200,000+ Years - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:37] <exec> 08└─Bow hig were the rounding errors?
[13:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Brains Became More Rounded over 200,000+ Years - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:38] <exec> 08└─All kidding aside, I met an older woman who told me that she carefully shaped the skulls of her two children. It seems that shortly after birth, the bony parts of the skull aren't fully knit together and she carefully pressed on their heads so that her kids would have "attractive heads". Given recen...
[13:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brains Became More Rounded over 200,000+ Years - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:41] <exec> 08└─Given how much Cromwell's ideology is around even nowadays, I sometimes feel that's a pity Charles 1 didn't last one more term. It was like Hillary won that time, and so today we still have the righteous killjoy pricks bringing their decrepit religion into society's fabric.
[13:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brains Became More Rounded over 200,000+ Years - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:43] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's from listening to Ian Dury and the Blockheads.
[13:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Human Brains Became More Rounded over 200,000+ Years - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:45] <exec> 08└─Given recent experiments where learned traits are found to be inherit-able
[13:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spanish Use is Steady Or Dropping in U.S. Despite High Latino Immigration - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:11] <exec> 08└─All languages add words from immigrants and neighbors. But adding words from a language doesn't mean it is spoken by more or less population.
[13:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spanish Use is Steady Or Dropping in U.S. Despite High Latino Immigration - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:12] <exec> 08└─>Links twice to TV Tropes >grins You bastard!
[13:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spanish Use is Steady Or Dropping in U.S. Despite High Latino Immigration - 1009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:14] <exec> 08└─It doesn't change the fact that unless they learn to speak English as a native, they will keep tired, aching, and hungry. They want to eat, not to get an English quiz, but doing so, they are going to eat today and guarantee that tomorrow they will be tired, aching, and hungry struggling for a simple...
[13:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:19] <exec> 08└─Those particular type of wannabe Nazis debunk themselves better than I could every time they open their mouths. They don't need my help. I'll stick to debunking the wannabe Nazis that're actually dangerous. You know, the higher education system, the mainstream media, the entertainment industry, and...
[13:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:20] <exec> 08└─that Heimbach [Leader of the Traditionalist Workers' Party]
[13:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:23] <exec> 08└─Trust me, I am an editor and nobody hates the Political nexus more than I do. I think it has dumbed down the site significantly, contributes nothing to its output, and has created very little in intelligent discussion. However, the community wanted it and I have to respect their wishes and process s...
[13:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:25] <exec> 08└─before the eds cut the heart out of it for fear of getting sued by nazis.
[13:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:27] <exec> 08└─I was wondering myself but from a newsworthiness to us standpoint. We normally wouldn't cover a women's march and we normally wouldn't cover a few wannabe Nazis douching it up. What makes the combination newsworthy? Not giving you shit here, just genuinely confused.
[13:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:29] <exec> 08└─Irrelevant. Doesn't matter if group A are using mean words or double-barrel chainsaws. Does nothing to refute that group C != group A.
[13:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:31] <exec> 08└─Naw, man, the Politics nexus was never there to say "we want lots more politics". It's there for the opposite reason, so people can filter it if they don't. You shouldn't remotely feel pressured to post political stories that you wouldn't have before its existence.
[13:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:34] <exec> 08└─More likely its doom. Everything there is poisonous, trying to kill you, or both.
[13:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:36] <exec> 08└─Fortunately the incremental logical from violations of interpersonal space through private property rights to protection of civic borders is irrefutable. Unfortunately, logic is not a component of leftist* thought. Nonetheless, a handy video explainer. [youtube.com] * The dogmatic cult mentality of...
[13:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 2097 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:38] <exec> 08└─Firstly, I think that there is very little in the political submissions that would have been covered by the 'interesting to us' umbrella. But since before the US elections many of the submissions were not 'of interest to us' but it was felt that they still should have place where they could be discu...
[13:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:35] <exec> 08└─Also works other way around. Plausible deniability. "No the man on the video fucking the camel certainly isn't Prime Minister!!"
[13:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:36] <exec> 08└─And BOOM orange clown is the president of the United States. Putin will be laughing all the way to the bank.
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[14:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:11] <exec> 08└─Oxfam says the trend shows that the global economy is skewed in favor of the rich, rewarding wealth instead of work.
[14:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:13] <exec> 08└─It's good to troll on your own web site, much more unlikely you'll get banned. :) Show me a country that is communist. Perhaps the Scandinavian countries get closest today. The 1% does no labor so it's kinda hard to take the fruits of their labor. Why do you think capitalism is called capitalism and...
[14:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:15] <exec> 08└─Show me a country that is communist.
[14:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:17] <exec> 08└─Crony Capitalism. Monopolies. Regulatory capture. Propaganda. No honest referees, no fair enforcement, and even no constancy in the rules, so that the strong can steal from the weak and get away with it, is the wrong kind of "free" for a market. Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Chase, and Citi should a...
[14:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:20] <exec> 08└─You left out the fact that governments are busy building up military arsenal and building border walls. There is no time and funding for distributing wealth from the 1% with personal jet planes to the desperate 50% with no food on their tables. Comies are on the loose and it is time to defend those...
[14:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:22] <exec> 08└─More than $8 of every $10 of wealth created last year went to the richest 1%.
[14:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:24] <exec> 08└─It's the job of national governments to prevent these bubbles
[14:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Ordered Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:39] <exec> 08└─2 comments on soylentnews, where I wouldn't expect them to affect voting preferences that much. yes, that is a big deal. (although it's very likely these two comments were not paid for, since there are plenty of idiots willing to write something like this for various reasons).
[14:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Ordered Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:41] <exec> 08└─2 comments on soylentnews, where I wouldn't expect them to affect voting preferences that much. yes, that is a big deal.
[14:18:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Apparition [6835] 02 - 06Spanish Use is Steady Or Dropping in U.S. Despite High Latino Immigration - 781 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:07] <exec> 08└─Had the right idea. In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or b...
[14:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spanish Use is Steady Or Dropping in U.S. Despite High Latino Immigration - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:27] <exec> 08└─"not politically correct" to speak your mother tongue? Never be ashamed of who you are. I've been trying to learn Spanish recently after I got bored of trying to learn French. It's pretty cool.
[14:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 2102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:42] <exec> 08└─The community submit stories that they feel worthy of discussion. If we only want to accept a small subset of political stories then the Board will have to specify its requirements more precisely, and we must be very careful that we do not fall foul of unintended censorship by simply refusing to ack...
[14:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:44] <exec> 08└─Group C is irrelevant to the problem. Group C equality to group A even more so.
[14:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:46] <exec> 08└─1,2) Fair nuff. 3) Not actually true. He just also condemned some violent leftists in the same breath. This cheesed a lot of people off but one doesn't negate the other. 4) Absolutely. I don't have a beef with covering anything that makes it over the high relevance/import bar we like to set for poli...
[14:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:48] <exec> 08└─Yes, so why are they explicitly mentioned and lumped in with group A?
[14:20:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03buswolley [848] 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 412 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:15] <exec> 08└─They're not hard to detect, although some are more convincing than others. Check the Leia remake from the Force Awakens. It competes with the special effects crew's attempt pretty well. However, in the future, this is going to be a big problem. Video evidence is now weak, if there is ever a hint of...
[14:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 062 Minutes to Midnight - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:07] <exec> 08└─One nuclear reactor goes bad (Chernobyl) and its effects were felt throughout Europe, affecting livestock, crops and milk production, polluting water supplies etc. 2000 warheads would probably affect the entire planet, although the worst affected areas would be those that had been targeted. Not the...
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[15:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fiat Chrysler Exec Pays off Union top Brass - 1474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:14] <exec> 08└─http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2018/01/26/uaw-president-defends-negotiations/109849904/ [detroitnews.com] The president of the United Auto Workers is defending the sanctity of the union’s bargaining process four days after former Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV labor negotiator Alpho...
[15:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fiat Chrysler Exec Pays off Union top Brass - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:16] <exec> 08└─Just like the Peaky Blinders.
[15:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 1533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:32] <exec> 08└─i grew up in a "communist" country. here's what happened in practice: salaries were reasonably close to each other for most people. however, if you worked in the clothes factory, it was understood that you could steal clothes. similarly car parts for car factory, chairs for furniture factory, etc. a...
[15:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:34] <exec> 08└─Show me a country that is communist.
[15:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:36] <exec> 08└─those governments are a big source of such bubbles. I guess the dotcom and real estate bubbles of the past two decades are a bit ancient for you to remember.
[15:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:38] <exec> 08└─By that reasoning (which is to say none at all), so is China.
[15:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:41] <exec> 08└─Give us thy wisdom upon how Capitalism is evil and Communism shall save humanity! Never mind that the exact opposite has been shown to be the case every single time throughout history!
[15:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:43] <exec> 08└─The 1% does no labor so it's kinda hard to take the fruits of their labor.
[15:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:45] <exec> 08└─Crony Capitalism. Monopolies. Regulatory capture. Propaganda. No honest referees, no fair enforcement, and even no constancy in the rules, so that the strong can steal from the weak and get away with it, is the wrong kind of "free" for a market.
[15:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:47] <exec> 08└─You still have just as much trouble feeding yourself, if they're worth a few zeros less.
[15:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:49] <exec> 08└─I have no problem with capitalism in itself: my problem is with the wealthy buying laws for the sole purpose of making them wealthy at the expense of those who cannot afford to buy those laws. Just like religion and state should be separate, just like civilian police should be separate from military...
[15:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:52] <exec> 08└─Finally, once again, what exactly is wrong with the current level of wealth inequality? It's not even remotely relevant how many zeros someone has in their wealth when it doesn't affect you.
[15:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:54] <exec> 08└─however, in reasonable societies taxes should be relatively bigger for bigger incomes.
[15:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:56] <exec> 08└─there's little evidence that paying a CEO 200 times the average worker rather than 100 times the average worker salary is actually making companies better
[15:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:58] <exec> 08└─Sure takes of lot of effort to inherit wealth and then accrue interest.
[15:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:01] <exec> 08└─I agree, right up until here: Big money should be kept out of politics...
[15:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:03] <exec> 08└─Taxes put a much greater financial burden on those that make little money. Paying 40 percent of your income is much more difficult than paying 4 percent. Government has a role, despite what some people claim. I don't want corporations making decisions on what defines clean air/food/water when it imp...
[15:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:05] <exec> 08└─You think there's a lot of that going around, do you? Inherited money almost never lasts more than a few generations. It takes someone who's really on the ball to get any other outcome.
[15:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:07] <exec> 08└─See above re: Because They Can Afford It. This is not a valid reason.
[15:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:09] <exec> 08└─> It takes someone who's really on the ball to get any other outcome. It takes someone who's really good at exploiting people to get any other outcome. ftfy
[15:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:11] <exec> 08└─What then?
[15:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:14] <exec> 08└─I'll give it a try to answer that one. Since it is easier to sell that than the actual "the poor will get the tax breaks" - which is the intent. The reasoning basically is that the poor needs more support to even the playfield to make everything less stratified - but actually pointing out to the poo...
[15:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06President Trump Backed Off from Ordering Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:31] <exec> 08└─Its within his rights to fire his people.
[15:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06President Trump Backed Off from Ordering Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:33] <exec> 08└─An employee investigating their boss is a bad idea too.
[15:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Brains Became More Rounded over 200,000+ Years - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:51] <exec> 08└─That kind of thing happens in plants and animals all the time, it's called an epigenetic adaptation. If yuppie busy has to activate a piece of DNA to better survive, it will definitely try to activate it in children too.
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[15:19:22] <exec> 08└─One side is native ("Mexican" but really we're tejanos), the other side immigrants (Finns). I can't speak either language, I only know pronunciation and a handful of words, mostly food related as far as Finnish goes, although I can usually get the gist of written Spanish (from attempting to learn La...
[15:19:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 593 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:39] <exec> 08└─100% agree... No women -> no children. No children -> no more people! I guess my main concern is like that of a farmer... we want to breed in desirable traits, and breed out undesirable traits... which we have not been having much success at... we seem to be doing the exact opposite! We seem determi...
[15:19:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 105 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:54] <exec> 08└─From what I am seeing, they're just like hippies protesting those dour no-fun-allowed policing moralists.
[15:20:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 295 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:05] <exec> 08└─I can't find the "-99 depressing" mod. "With a just over a thousand men in Charlottesville, we changed the world. We made such a huge impact on American culture because our mobilization of men was backed by an ideology that cannot be defeated." Changed the world? Riots? vehicular homicide? Yep.
[15:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:42] <exec> 08└─I see where you're coming from. Where I'm coming from is now that we're not being affected by Election Mania, let's go back to only covering political stories that are of particular relevance to our community or of serious import. Keeping in mind that one submitter filling the queue with one-sided p...
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[16:17:17] <exec> 08└─Googled further, the World Socialists chime into the debate, https://www.wsws.org [wsws.org] And claim that they led the fight against the last big round of UAW negotiations. Now of course they are saying, "I told you so" about the corruption settlement, and are...
[16:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fiat Chrysler Exec Pays off Union top Brass - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:18] <exec> 08└─I guess the invisible hand of capitalism has indeed given the finger to the working class yet again.
[16:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fiat Chrysler Exec Pays off Union top Brass - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:20] <exec> 08└─I sort of commend the company for taking advantage of the fact that union management doesn't actually give a damn about anything other than lining their own pockets. The union is a monopoly. Monopolies are harmful. The proper solution is to break them up, in this case to a size of 1. That is, just w...
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[16:17:33] <exec> 08└─Crony Capitalism. Monopolies. Regulatory capture. Propaganda. No honest referees, no fair enforcement, and even no constancy in the rules, so that the strong can steal from the weak and get away with it, is the wrong kind of "free" for a market. Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Chase, and Citi should a...
[16:17:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 184 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:41] <exec> 08└─Give us thy wisdom upon how Capitalism is evil and Communism shall save humanity! Never mind that the exact opposite has been shown to be the case every single time throughout history!
[16:17:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 190 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:47] <exec> 08└─Finally, once again, what exactly is wrong with the current level of wealth inequality? It's not even remotely relevant how many zeros someone has in their wealth when it doesn't affect you.
[16:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:57] <exec> 08└─The rich don't get rich by themselves -- they depend on the rest of society to finance them.
[16:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tangaroa [682] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:59] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind that I will not accept "because they can afford it" as a valid reason.
[16:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:01] <exec> 08└─You call it exploiting because you don't have the vision to do it yourself and are filled with envy. All it actually is is making good use of your available resources. Usually to everyone involved's benefit. Creating thirty fair-paying jobs because you alone cannot do the work of the thirty men nece...
[16:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:03] <exec> 08└─How about just attempting to get back on the path? It's got one hell of a proven track record as opposed to anything else.
[16:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:05] <exec> 08└─The reasoning basically is that the poor needs more support to even the playfield to make everything less stratified...
[16:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 1266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:08] <exec> 08└─The system will crash under its own weight because these big fish will always reach for something just a bit too far out of their grasp. That is not the worst of it though, like previous instances in history, the excesses of the tsars for example. will help breed totalitarianism like the leninist in...
[16:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:10] <exec> 08└─Rewording an invalid reason is also not a valid reason. Neither is assuming a level of spending must be met; especially spending that is nothing but wealth redistribution to begin with.
[16:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:12] <exec> 08└─Because those people benefit disproportionally from government spending. And, yes, "because they can afford it" is a valid reason.
[16:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:14] <exec> 08└─Outstanding first paragraph. The second one is hard to read though.
[16:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:17] <exec> 08└─OK, so if someone points out that the communist countries didn't implement pure communism, then it's a "no true Scotsman" argument, while if someone points out that the capitalist countries didn't implement pure capitalism, that's merely "we strayed from the way."
[16:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:19] <exec> 08└─Because people who already have more wealth have an unfair advantage when it comes to acquiring wealth. The higher taxes compensate for that unfair advantage.
[16:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:21] <exec> 08└─There is evidence that better paid CEOs actually perform worse.
[16:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03iru [6596] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:23] <exec> 08└─> Perhaps the Scandinavian countries get closest today You mean the same countries that got filthy rich with laissez-faire capitalism?
[16:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 3603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:26] <exec> 08└─It's because the cost of living is not zero, therefore the tax function cannot be tax(income) = factor * income + 0. The most basic form is a cutoff: if (income <= liveable income) { tax(income) = 0 } else { tax(income) = factor * (income - liveable income) } But most civilized countries have a prog...
[16:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:28] <exec> 08└─Oh wow. Your powers of reasoning leave us all shocked and awed.
[16:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:30] <exec> 08└─Capitalism is a collective, just like communism. And like in communism, the individual has no voice. Collectives must be formed to make a product worth producing. Other collectives must be formed to ensure they are safe. Big pharma won't produce vital drugs without a sufficient profit margin. Sorry...
[16:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:32] <exec> 08└─Because those people benefit disproportionally from government spending.
[16:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:35] <exec> 08└─Check the percentage of poor people that actually attempt to make the world a better place for anyone but themselves and their family, even if only within their available means. I guarantee it's not going to be as high as those of greater means.
[16:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:37] <exec> 08└─Unfair how? Someone earned that wealth and is free to use the fruits of their labor however they choose. If you don't enjoy having less, earn more.
[16:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:39] <exec> 08└─Can you give us a time when we were "on path"? And it might not hurt if you defined "path".
[16:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:41] <exec> 08└─Suppose that outsourcing and migration cuts American wages from $200/day to $100/day while increasing 3rd-world wages from $2/day to $5/day. Wealthy investors get lots of cheap labor, so they each go from having $1 billion to having $100 billion. The global poor win by a factor of 2.5, the rich win...
[16:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:44] <exec> 08└─OK, so if someone points out that the communist countries didn't implement pure communism, then it's a "no true Scotsman" argument, while if someone points out that the capitalist countries didn't implement pure capitalism, that's merely "we strayed from the way."
[16:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:46] <exec> 08└─here's one reason why: if they don't accept this, society will become unbalanced (such as it is right now). whenever this happened, throughout history, there has been a bloody revolt in the end, and some percentage of the ultra-rich were executed by mobs of poor people (although in the long term not...
[16:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Backed Off from Ordering Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:06] <exec> 08└─Yellow "Journalism" is alive and well. Pulitzer, Murdoch, and Hearst! Oh my!
[16:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Backed Off from Ordering Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:07] <exec> 08└─The fool became a household name... he's an idiot! Yes, and?... That seems to be entirely relative in this business. Besides, he is an actor. My personal little conspiracy theory is that he's a double agent for the democrats and is there to scare people back into their corral instead looking for a b...
[16:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Backed Off from Ordering Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 1968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:09] <exec> 08└─Recall why he was hired: http://thefederalist.com [thefederalist.com] To recap, roughly in the order we discovered this and opposite to the order of events: There was a Russia-related investigation into the campaign. It turns out that this invol...
[16:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spanish Use is Steady Or Dropping in U.S. Despite High Latino Immigration - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:58] <exec> 08└─Cuts them off from what society? Many of them probably speak better English than he does Spanish, doesn't mean they don't appreciate the respect.
[16:20:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 290 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:26] <exec> 08└─"Quarter earning optimization" will do that - damn'd with long term, we need results now... if no longer possible, well, I have my golden parachute, "enterprises raise and fall" is as valid a truth as "all software have bugs" (we managed to trick taxes, can't use that comparison any more).
[16:20:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 26 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:43] <exec> 08└─Who the fuck is Heimbach?!
[16:20:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03turgid [4318] 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 230 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:54] <exec> 08└─Heimbach replied to that notion by saying legal abortion and illegal immigration were victimizing the unborn and women, and that "women have had their femininity put under attack by a culture that treats them as either sex objects
[16:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:19] <exec> 08└─Firstly, I think that there is very little in the political submissions that would have been covered by the 'interesting to us' umbrella.
[16:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:18] <exec> 08└─or get them licensed....
[16:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:20] <exec> 08└─Cpt. Obvious strikes again. Obviously.
[16:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Acquires Biometric ID Startup - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:12] <exec> 08└─yes so why do so many people HERE keep using it? fear of their mom crying they won't pick up the phone to call her? people all over need to grow up and at least say hello rather than let some giant system send the reminder automatically, be it email, fb, or pretending that you cared. i like connecti...
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[17:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fiat Chrysler Exec Pays off Union top Brass - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:18] <exec> 08└─That's a bit extreme. I have no problems with workers negotiating with management, with leaders chosen from those working in the company. Corruption like this is far less likely when you're rubbing shoulders on the assembly line with the union head.
[17:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fiat Chrysler Exec Pays off Union top Brass - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:19] <exec> 08└─If you think your union represents you, you're sadly mistaken. They're nothing but mobsters shaking down workers for false protection that wouldn't be needed if they disappeared... like Hoffa.
[17:17:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Tangaroa [682] 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 83 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:58] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind that I will not accept "because they can afford it" as a valid reason.
[17:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:21] <exec> 08└─He's saying blood money should be more evenly distributed throughout the system to avoid gangrene. The analogy works.
[17:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:22] <exec> 08└─That's at least a rational argument. An easily dismissed one because "paying protection money to the mob" is never going to be on sound ethical ground, but it is rational which is more than can be said for every other argument so far. ...fighting against an unbalanced society is the decent thing to...
[17:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:25] <exec> 08└─Your utter lack of a rebuttal speaks volumes.
[17:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:27] <exec> 08└─My magic eight-ball and $19.95 respectively.
[17:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03therainingmonkey [6839] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:29] <exec> 08└─We'd all like this to be true, but it really isn't. The richest families in the UK 800 years ago are still the elite today[1]. The richest families in Florence 600 years ago are still the elite today[2]. The world's youngest billionaire inherited his wealth (and avoided paying tax on it), which orig...
[17:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:31] <exec> 08└─So then why would someone need 3 houses and 4 cars? Because they can aford it? Disclaimer: I am an engineer and I completely agree to pay 5 times more taxes than someone who earns 4 times less then me. This to simplify the progressive tax concept which you seem so passionately against.
[17:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:33] <exec> 08└─Sorry, you're entirely wrong. Capitalism is based on the individual. There need be only two participants for it to exist and they are almost never going to be working towards the same goal, so they are not a collective except in the sense that they're two human beings in general proximity to each ot...
[17:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:36] <exec> 08└─Up until the advent of the Internet, speech was not remotely free-as-in-beer if you wanted anyone outside shouting distance to hear it. Thus the absolute necessity to involve money in the process.
[17:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:38] <exec> 08└─Well, the system did work better before Reagan shifted the tax burden from capital to labor. How common is the single income family now?
[17:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:40] <exec> 08└─Usually to everyone involved's benefit.
[17:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:42] <exec> 08└─Worldwide Top 1% Income = $32,400 Worldwide Top 1% Wealth = $770,000 Most people don't have a lot of money. Obviously the top 1% wealth is skewed upwards dramatically by the billionaires.
[17:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:45] <exec> 08└─Unfair how?
[17:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:47] <exec> 08└─> makes forcing one man to work for another's benefit okay? No one is forced. The rich person could take all of their money out of investment and stop working.
[17:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03therainingmonkey [6839] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:49] <exec> 08└─> Check the percentage of poor people that actually attempt to make the world a better place for anyone but themselves and their family, even if only within their available means. I guarantee it's not going to be as high as those of greater means. We'd all like this to be true, but it isn't. As a pr...
[17:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:51] <exec> 08└─A valiant attempt. Those rich people are indeed still rich. That in no way implies that all or even most rich families remain rich beyond two or three generations. That they are at the top of the list only proves that they are extremely good at making money. I'd try to pass that ability down to my c...
[17:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:53] <exec> 08└─The same could be used to justify legalizing first party robbery of them
[17:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:56] <exec> 08└─I remember time when people would say, *America, love it or leave it.* Like it or not, the majority decides the form of "slavery" (chattel, wage, etc) you will live under. And people will tell me, *don't let the door hit ya on the ass.* I wouldn't say that, because I believe all the fences must be t...
[17:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:58] <exec> 08└─PATH="lacking the things I agreed put us off of the path" We've never been perfectly on-path. No nation ever will. We've been a whole hell of a lot closer than we currently are though. Perfection is not the goal; improvement is.
[17:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:00] <exec> 08└─dude you are blind if you can't see governments are in place so they can bail out the mega banks and corporations that very few of that 1% own
[17:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:02] <exec> 08└─Quite witty. Cheers.
[17:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:05] <exec> 08└─Whether a billion dollars of political speech comes from one person or a hundred million is irrelevant. Every citizen should be free to speak as widely and often as their means allow them to. I'm peachy keen with not allowing corporate coffers to be used in politics though. Corporations are not huma...
[17:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:07] <exec> 08└─Nope. I don't ask for perfection, only its earnest pursuit.
[17:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 1104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:09] <exec> 08└─Because I like living in a civilized country and so prefer to keep paying to maintain civilization even when the poor can't afford to. I'm perfectly fine with my taxes going to defend the poor from starvation, shelter and educate them. What I object to is my taxes going to "defence" where defence me...
[17:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:11] <exec> 08└─So then why would someone need 3 houses and 4 cars? Because they can aford it?
[17:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:14] <exec> 08└─On average, the stock market (for the last century) doubles your investments every 6 years. So if you want to quadruple that $1Billion dollars, just put it in an S&P index fund for 12 years. Doesn't take much effort.
[17:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:16] <exec> 08└─The reason there are so few single income families now is because women decided to essentially double the available workforce over the past four or five decades. Double supply means half demand and pay scales to account for that.
[17:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:18] <exec> 08└─I have no problem with you redistributing a portion of your wealth if you so choose. I do to some degree myself. What I have a problem with is you demanding others do the same under threat of imprisonment or death.
[17:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 2106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:20] <exec> 08└─The obvious rebuttal to that is when has a bubble turned out different? There are things like superexponential growth, risk insensitivity, etc that are classic signs of a bubble and the bubble need not be in a material good. Notice the peculiar claim that supposedly makes Tulipmania not a bubble:...
[17:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:22] <exec> 08└─Not buying it. This is only acceptable to you at the moment because most prefer not to. The minute that changed you'd be demanding taxes on cash holdings.
[17:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:25] <exec> 08└─(which is to say none at all)
[17:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 1149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:27] <exec> 08└─Capitalism is based on the individual. There need be only two participants... Yes, that's the way it works when you're living in the sticks exchanging chickens for some firewood. It doesn't work that way when you buy a can of beans, or need a special drug to stay alive. The collective determines wha...
[17:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 1309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:29] <exec> 08└─I am, by most scales, well to do, if not considered rich. I have a high-six-figure salary in the health care field, with respect from my colleagues who acknowledge behind my back that I'm a hard worker and good at what I do. I have $2.5 million in liquid assets, have a million dollar house (custom b...
[17:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Backed Off from Ordering Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:52] <exec> 08└─He's working on his insanity defense.
[17:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Backed Off from Ordering Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:54] <exec> 08└─You've been reading Tea-Party leaves again haven't you or are you just smoking them?
[17:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Backed Off from Ordering Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:56] <exec> 08└─i didn't vote for trump, but they all need rounded up for sedition, including all the lying propagandists.
[17:20:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 1091 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:56] <exec> 08└─Why did this story get approved? It's essentially a straw man. Oh no, there is a Nazi behind every corner! All sorts of unrelated political views get lumped together and slapped with the "Nazi" label to make sure nobody dares to consider any of the many different political views. Meanwhile, what is...
[17:21:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 238 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:05] <exec> 08└─What I find really interesting is that aristarchus, absolutely a troll himself, can't tell the difference between a nazi and someone who likes winding up feminists. I mean I would have thought organizing on 4chan would be a dead giveaway.
[17:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:07] <exec> 08└─Charlottesville is misunderstood. A few hateful idiots might want to claim credit for murder, and leftist media might be eager to spread that idea, but that doesn't make it true. What happened: An idiot, not part of either side of the conflict, decided to drive through the conflict area. Antifa chas...
[17:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:09] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the soap to go with the water cannons.
[17:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:11] <exec> 08└─you are confusing Saudi Aramco and Iran. Iran (shias) is against ISIS (sunnites), unlike the Arabs. remember that the 911 hijacker were from Saudi Arabia...
[17:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:13] <exec> 08└─congrats. you just regurgitated a bunch of BS propaganda.
[17:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:15] <exec> 08└─Good guy janrinok. Hates the political nexus but does his job anyhow. Besides, with as much trolling and countertrolling in the comments, this article has been proven popular.
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[18:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Interesting) 02 - 06As National Football League Ratings Fall, Could the "XFL" Make a Return? - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:15] <exec> 08└─Look, sports are one of the key reasons for a reduction in war. They are an outlet for mankind's tribalist bloodthirst, including man's lust for nubile, fit ladies. None of that is acceptable in the gynocentrism that is rapidly creeping towards matriarchy (just look at the childless women who sit in...
[18:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As National Football League Ratings Fall, Could the "XFL" Make a Return? - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:16] <exec> 08└─This line is especially evil IMO. Assuming they weren't especially violent offenses, people who've paid their debts to society shouldn't be treated this way.
[18:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As National Football League Ratings Fall, Could the "XFL" Make a Return? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:18] <exec> 08└─As a woman, I also like to see young things showing off their youth. I guess humans just like sex.
[18:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As National Football League Ratings Fall, Could the "XFL" Make a Return? - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:21] <exec> 08└─Going to prison is being removed from society, so that the rest of us don't have to deal with your bullshit. It's like putting a child in "timeout". The adults want the child in a controlled environment where nobody has to think about him, and where he might do a little introspection about his behav...
[18:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06As National Football League Ratings Fall, Could the "XFL" Make a Return? - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:23] <exec> 08└─It's probably just another jab at the nfl and other sports leagues, because the big leagues still keep thugs like Michael "Ron Mexico" Vick and all of the other purple drank-drinking girlfriend-beating hoodlums.
[18:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fiat Chrysler Exec Pays off Union top Brass - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:37] <exec> 08└─Ah, yes, the golden times before the unions, when worker rights were so much better than today! When our benevolent Companies were working hard to increase workplace safety and worker's quality of life! Oh, won't those days of capitalist paradise ever return! You are an idiot.
[18:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fiat Chrysler Exec Pays off Union top Brass - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:39] <exec> 08└─Those who argure against unions are about as well informed as flat earthers. I've worked union. I've worked non-union. Union is better. The economy works better for everyone when workers have representation.
[18:17:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 773 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:51] <exec> 08└─It's good to troll on your own web site, much more unlikely you'll get banned. :) Show me a country that is communist. Perhaps the Scandinavian countries get closest today. The 1% does no labor so it's kinda hard to take the fruits of their labor. Why do you think capitalism is called capitalism and...
[18:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:15] <exec> 08└─PATH="lacking the things I agreed put us off of the path" :-) Cool We've been a whole hell of a lot closer than we currently are though. Ok. Give me a time. please... The suspense is killing me
[18:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:16] <exec> 08└─Status quo is working out pretty well, for example. Deal with the growing corruption and reduce tax loopholes so that tax code is progressive would check off the boxes that people are actually complaining about.
[18:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:19] <exec> 08└─Like it or not, the majority decides the form of "slavery" (chattel, wage, etc) you will live under.
[18:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:21] <exec> 08└─I agree. The world has a long history of the rich adeptly dodging such tax hikes and then the usual whiners whining that the rich aren't paying their fair share. This whole discussion is just one iteration of that.
[18:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:23] <exec> 08└─Yes, glad to see we agree. The poor are receiving far greater benefit from society than the rich.
[18:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:25] <exec> 08└─As I wrote in the next paragraph - if it is a good thing or not depends on your beliefs. But sure - let's run with your ad absurdum, this would mean you also are against any and all taxes and conscription-style military service. And how did you get to "/forcing/ one man to work" (and driving that to...
[18:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:28] <exec> 08└─I was wonderng about this as well, at 350 million the US is about 5% of the worlds population? US average income in 2015 was 67.5k, so more than double the average of the worlds top 1%. So looks like almost all the wealth growth in the past year was American.
[18:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:30] <exec> 08└─Buzzy 2020! #MAGA
[18:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:32] <exec> 08└─All it actually is is making good use of your available resources.
[18:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:34] <exec> 08└─And I applaud you for all that. I would however call you a self-made man. You owe your parents nothing financially or morally for your raising. The choice to bring you into this world was theirs thus so was the responsibility to raise you. There are usually going to be plenty of mutual debts of love...
[18:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:36] <exec> 08└─Sarbanes-Oxley allowing criminal prosecution of CEOs would have driven CEO wages up as they want additional pay to make up for the liability. I am not saying SA is bad, but now you are paying for a fall guy instead of an actual leader.
[18:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:39] <exec> 08└─Wow.. are you really saying, that it is immoral, to be forced to do work for another man's benefit? That's quite a radical viewpoint. It must be difficult for you to live in a society with other people, some of them putting unreasonable demands on you (or trying). However, I respect that you'd never...
[18:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:41] <exec> 08└─It doesn't work that way when you buy a can of beans
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[18:19:52] <exec> 08└─I'd take that over the Fox News of "We'll print anything to help the GOP look awesome." Of course Fox News never really had a time when it actually meant something. :p
[18:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Backed Off from Ordering Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:07] <exec> 08└─Instead of misdirection and/or ad hominem attacks, AC, would you perhaps care to refute any of the above? I've been following this, and as far as I can tell the OP has a concise and accurate summary of these events. Which are deeply disturbing and a string of serious felonies going right to the top...
[18:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Backed Off from Ordering Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:08] <exec> 08└─Yes, but who is Mueller's boss? And the answer is supposed to be: We The People. He's supposed to be a public servant. Which means the entire organization is supposed to be answerable to the citizens and the law, not to whichever individual sits in the Oval Office.
[18:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spanish Use is Steady Or Dropping in U.S. Despite High Latino Immigration - 1822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:59] <exec> 08└─Congratulations, you're part of the problem. I used to live in China. When I moved there, I could barely speak a word and couldn't read at all. That didn't stop me from being able to order off a menu within a week and within a month or two, I knew enough of the language that I could conduct at least...
[18:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spanish Use is Steady Or Dropping in U.S. Despite High Latino Immigration - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:01] <exec> 08└─It's not respect, it's patronizing. Speakers of other languages don't get treated like that. Look around at all the bilingual signs in the US, the vast majority of them are English and Spanish, even in places like the northwest where we've got other major groups of immigrants like the Africans that...
[18:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:28] <exec> 08└─the police should hand out ak47's and ammo for rally participants. do us all a fucking favor and kill each other.
[18:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 1019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:29] <exec> 08└─I am a pot smokin, canadian french leftist (classical liberalist, not to be confused with neoliberalism or political correctness) , working in higher education and I endorse this message. The only difference in french Canada is that the endoctrinement is coming from the students instead of coming fr...
[18:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:31] <exec> 08└─Check the Leia remake from the Force Awakens. It competes with the special effects crew's attempt pretty well.
[18:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:33] <exec> 08└─One user also "outperformed" the Princess Leia scene at the end of Disney's Rogue One
[18:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:35] <exec> 08└─The second one didn't happen, though.
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[19:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As National Football League Ratings Fall, Could the "XFL" Make a Return? - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:14] <exec> 08└─NFL (and college football) ratings drop matches general overall TV ratings drop attributed to "cord cutting". Nothing to see here. Plus, XFL won't be going head-to-head (yet) with the NFL. McMahon is putting up only $100M into it. good luck with that, Jim.
[19:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As National Football League Ratings Fall, Could the "XFL" Make a Return? - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:16] <exec> 08└─Give me a break. Besides the fact that NFL games are also broadcast OTA, people bought cable packages specifically to watch sports; indeed, sports channels have always been the big selling point. Thus, if people are cutting cords, it must be that sports aren't all that interesting anymore. Why could...
[19:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As National Football League Ratings Fall, Could the "XFL" Make a Return? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:18] <exec> 08└─This is just pandering to the fakriots that pretend to be pure and christian but hate it when people bring a light to issues that they would rather ignore.
[19:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06As National Football League Ratings Fall, Could the "XFL" Make a Return? - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:20] <exec> 08└─No, it's keeping the political bullshit the fuck out of football. People don't want to see serious political bullshit, and especially not from Blacks protesting within an organization that is the epitome of the American dream and has created more Black millionaires than any other organization. Now,...
[19:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fiat Chrysler Exec Pays off Union top Brass - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:37] <exec> 08└─I've worked union. I've worked non-union. Non-union is better. The economy works better for everyone when workers get to keep all their earnings instead of paying money to union slush-funds. Unions are like dinosaurs; they had their time, but that time is over. People know that. The only way unions...
[19:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Backed Off from Ordering Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:53] <exec> 08└─Ummmmm... The only reason we got a second term of Baby Bush was the NYT not reporting on the illegal wire tapping, until after the election "so as not to affect the election results." NYT has never been great, but it isn't for the reasons you claim. NYT is pro establishment, not partisan.
[19:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Backed Off from Ordering Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:55] <exec> 08└─Wow. Just wow. No wonder our country is going down the shitter with subversive shits like you licking the CEOs butthole clean.
[19:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Backed Off from Ordering Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:57] <exec> 08└─Eat crow [businessinsider.com]
[19:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Backed Off from Ordering Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:59] <exec> 08└─Hmm, how about facts? You care about those? I know you don't, but other people might find it interesting Trump is exactly the piece of crap everyone thinks he is [businessinsider.com]
[19:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Human Brains Became More Rounded over 200,000+ Years - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:18] <exec> 08└─That kind of thing happens in plants and animals all the time, it's called an epigenetic adaptation.
[19:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:20] <exec> 08└─"Fields [the driver] was pictured at the protest alongside members of a white nationalist group." http://www.newsweek.com [newsweek.com] Killed 1, wounded 19.
[19:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Acquires Biometric ID Startup - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:16] <exec> 08└─I was interpreting the acquisition as a way of more effectively identify people in content. For example in the pictures and video clips so that those bastards that don't already have accounts will be forced to in order to remove the tagging information from those videos. The log in biometrics is lik...
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[20:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:14] <exec> 08└─California everybody!
[20:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:16] <exec> 08└─Talk about playing "mommy", even a fine is too much. But jail time? Seriously? On the good side, this means that they have already solved all of California's other problems.
[20:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:18] <exec> 08└─What is a single-use plastic straw? What sets it apart from a dual-use one, or even from multiple-use one? What punishment is specified for a customer who received a multiple-use straw from the server and, after the meal, neglected to properly wash the straw that was issued to him, and instead just...
[20:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Offtopic) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:20] <exec> 08└─Can North Korea please fucking nuke L.A. and San Francisco already? This is almost as bad as legalizing knowingly infecting somebody with HIV and not disclosing your status. Take heed, other states of the Union: California is what happens when the Jews run your state. Boy, if only all those idiots w...
[20:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:22] <exec> 08└─Talk about pissing off your base voters... I think I have met 1 RNC voter out of all the servers I have met.
[20:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:25] <exec> 08└─California has only two problems, Los Angeles and San Francisco. The cure: nuclear strike or weaponized Anthrax. Or Ebola or Hantivirus, because I don't just want them dead...I want them to be shitting out their intestines and bleeding through their eyes while they die.
[20:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:27] <exec> 08└─tell us how you really feel.
[20:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:29] <exec> 08└─Looks like another case of ignorant hatred everybody! Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, establishes uniform health and sanitation standards for, and provides for regulation by the State Department of Public Health of, retail food facilities, as defined, and requires local health agencie...
[20:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06As National Football League Ratings Fall, Could the "XFL" Make a Return? - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:45] <exec> 08└─Look, sports are one of the keys to a reduction in war. They are an outlet for mankind's tribalist bloodthirst, including man's lust for nubile, fit ladies. None of that is acceptable in the gynocentrism that is rapidly creeping towards matriarchy (just look at the childless women who sit in so many...
[20:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As National Football League Ratings Fall, Could the "XFL" Make a Return? - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:46] <exec> 08└─You are confusing sports with the NFL. Most sports, including baseball, soccer, track, and golf have little violence. It's about athleticism, skill, and performance under pressure.
[20:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As National Football League Ratings Fall, Could the "XFL" Make a Return? - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:48] <exec> 08└─'nuff said.
[20:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06As National Football League Ratings Fall, Could the "XFL" Make a Return? - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:50] <exec> 08└─Sure, but at some point the child is supposed to get out of "timeout", and be treated like a normal child again.
[20:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As National Football League Ratings Fall, Could the "XFL" Make a Return? - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:53] <exec> 08└─The NFL is an act, just like wrestling, and the local theater. If the actors grandstand on a political issue, it would be mildly enjoyable if I happened to agree, but I don't go to the theater to hear some actor make a slur about Trump. The owners have their own money riding, and can't afford the ac...
[20:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As National Football League Ratings Fall, Could the "XFL" Make a Return? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:55] <exec> 08└─I think the no felony rule helps bring the violence of the nfl players to light.
[20:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As National Football League Ratings Fall, Could the "XFL" Make a Return? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:57] <exec> 08└─Show me on the Tim Tebow doll where the mean scary lady touched you, snowflake.
[20:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As National Football League Ratings Fall, Could the "XFL" Make a Return? - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:00] <exec> 08└─And in your case, Mr. So-Triggered-I-Posted-5-Times-About-Muh-Sportz-In-One-Thread, it's entirely vicarious. You know how pathetic you are, and your only outlet is seeing these roided-out freaks in tight pants jumping and rolling and grabbing all over one another (...) so you can get a third-hand co...
[20:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As National Football League Ratings Fall, Could the "XFL" Make a Return? - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:02] <exec> 08└─He's right.
[20:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fiat Chrysler Exec Pays off Union top Brass - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:19] <exec> 08└─I warned you [soylentnews.org]...
[20:20:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03martyb [76] 02 - 06President Trump Backed Off from Ordering Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 41 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:25] <exec> 08└─Its within his rights to fire his people.
[20:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Backed Off from Ordering Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:39] <exec> 08└─Trump is going to curbstomp those sniveling crooked pukes. Voters will be voting Republican for decades to come! What I would do if I were Trump would be to gut the H1-B program. Perfect revenge against organizations like Jewgle and Amazon who colluded to try to get Hillary elected and are still med...
[20:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Backed Off from Ordering Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:41] <exec> 08└─I look forward the results of his investigation of Trump selling uranium to Russia.
[20:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Backed Off from Ordering Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:43] <exec> 08└─What I would do if I were Trump would be to gut the H1-B program
[20:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Backed Off from Ordering Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:45] <exec> 08└─Erm... I don't care about Trump either. He can get impeached, tied to a rocket, and shot into the sun for all I care. So long as there's beyond a reasonable doubt proof that he's guilty. I'd miss his masterful trolling but no moreso than I'd miss a TV show I watched a few times a year, when I happen...
[20:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Spanish Use is Steady Or Dropping in U.S. Despite High Latino Immigration - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:38] <exec> 08└─Decency doesn't need to be tossed out just because the other person is the less reasonable party. When you upset someone with no intention of doing so an apology will smooth things over and hopefully help the other person see that their reaction was not warranted. Dropping the mic and walking out ma...
[20:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spanish Use is Steady Or Dropping in U.S. Despite High Latino Immigration - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:39] <exec> 08└─Él tiene un punto allí! Má tam bod! 他有一個點!
[20:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Spanish Use is Steady Or Dropping in U.S. Despite High Latino Immigration - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:41] <exec> 08└─Definitely reading too much into it. People like Runaway invest a lot of importance in things like jobs and money, so this is just his way of saying "this story comes from a successful hard working smart guy." It imbues his story with more meaning and value. Well, to himself anyway :D "This wasn't j...
[20:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:10] <exec> 08└─No it isn't. Not surprised you think it is though.
[20:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:12] <exec> 08└─Here we see the birth of censorship. From a feeling of "ownership" such people then feel it is OK to "only covering political stories that are of particular relevance to our community or of serious import." Trust the benevolent dictator, they claim to not censor anyone right? Just shaping the narrat...
[20:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:14] <exec> 08└─He's a fantastic guy. Done a bang-up job of holding the editorial reins despite life interfering for him far more than it has for most of us here. Plus he's fun to argue with.
[20:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:16] <exec> 08└─Hey now, don't mess with an agent from the Ministry of Truth. They'll put tiki torches on your lawn, but it won't have anything to do with a fun party.
[20:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:18] <exec> 08└─If you're wanting to change our mandate from science/tech news and non-trivial world events to anything goes, a discussion needs to be had by the entire community. Either way, examples of the submitter being a snarky asshat all over the summary or poor journalism aren't going to see the front page.
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[21:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:26] <exec> 08└─Only Two? What about the Always Feculent San Diego, the People's Republic of Santa Monica, and Detroit of the west, Oakland?
[21:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:27] <exec> 08└─So, would you say this article is a... Straw Man attack?
[21:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:29] <exec> 08└─It's just another case where the default settings can have a huge impact even if you still offer all the same choices. Most people just go with whatever is first presented to them, so that default behavior might as well align with our other values like reducing pollution. There are still straws if y...
[21:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:32] <exec> 08└─A single use straw is in contrast to the thicker plastic straws which can stand up to repeated washings in a dishwasher or sink without cracking or splitting. My water bottle has one and it's lasted for years. The plastic is thick, it doesn't bend easily. I doubt any restaurant will switch to those...
[21:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:34] <exec> 08└─Oakland and San Francisco are basically the same problem, due to similarity and proximity. Nuke Gay Bay, and both Oakland and San Fran are solved.
[21:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:36] <exec> 08└─What if someone uses an "unsolicited plastic straw" to blow an infection [nbcnews.com] up someone elses ass? Would that be a total of 12 months in prison? What if the perpetrator was to apologise for the straw but not for deliberately transmitting a life threatening infection to someone? Just 6 mont...
[21:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:38] <exec> 08└─> imprisonment NOT EXCEEDING 6 months while the clickbait summary stated "up to 6 months" which is the same. So what is your point?
[21:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As National Football League Ratings Fall, Could the "XFL" Make a Return? - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:03] <exec> 08└─The LINGERIE FOOTBALL LEAGUE was invented for you TOO. https://www.maxim.com [maxim.com] I'm told they are trying to distance themselves from that name and go withThe Legends Football League, https://lflus.com [lflus.com]
[21:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06As National Football League Ratings Fall, Could the "XFL" Make a Return? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:05] <exec> 08└─Ho ho ho Ha Ha ha, golf a "sport." That's rich. Some people think video gaming is a sport too.
[21:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As National Football League Ratings Fall, Could the "XFL" Make a Return? - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:07] <exec> 08└─NFL (and college football) ratings drop matches general overall TV ratings drop attributed to "cord cutting". Nothing to see here.
[21:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As National Football League Ratings Fall, Could the "XFL" Make a Return? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:09] <exec> 08└─Getting out of "timeout" is not making amends.
[21:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As National Football League Ratings Fall, Could the "XFL" Make a Return? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:11] <exec> 08└─Sounds like Mad Max's world is your utopia.
[21:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fiat Chrysler Exec Pays off Union top Brass - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:30] <exec> 08└─Seems to me that finger is being hoisted by the Union Bosses towards their own membership. Union Bosses stuffing dollar bills in their garters like they were strippers in seedy club.
[21:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fiat Chrysler Exec Pays off Union top Brass - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:31] <exec> 08└─Union bosses never touch anything from the assembly line. Strictly suits. Shop stewards are there to keep the workers in line - make sure they never turn out one unit over their "standard", and report those who do. Workers themselves haven't negotiated as union representatives in decades.
[21:18:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Only 1% of World's Population Grabbed 82% of all 2017 Wealth - 334 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:46] <exec> 08└─You left out the fact that governments are busy building up military arsenal and building border walls. There is no time and funding for distributing wealth from the 1% with personal jet planes to the desperate 50% with no food on their tables. Comies are on the loose and it is time to defend those...
[21:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Backed Off from Ordering Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:56] <exec> 08└─This one is real you troll. Try verifying authenticity before spouting off like a fool.
[21:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:26] <exec> 08└─Targeting women will work just fine. Look at the contorted faces of women raging hate during the Civil Rights Movement.
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[22:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:29] <exec> 08└─Totally different problems, but yes, one nuke solves both problems.
[22:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:31] <exec> 08└─Paper straws are still permitted. The problem is that a plastic straw is more likely to be recycled (and made out of recycled materials) than is a paper one.
[22:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:33] <exec> 08└─But, you didn't ask if I was HIV positive, and I didn't want to run afoul of the law by volunteering unsolicited information.
[22:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:35] <exec> 08└─I'm almost 100% sure that Marty posted this story just so he could post the department. It's kinda like how the people who formulated RED HORSE [wikipedia.org] really, really wanted it to be called "RED HORSE."
[22:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:38] <exec> 08└─Those who are should view a film and we'll see if they don't come away with broken hearts and changed attitudes. The War on Plastic [counterpunch.org] Few documentaries have had quite this impact [...] Tears were recorded; anxiety levels were propelled as Sir David Attenborough tore and tugged at he...
[22:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:40] <exec> 08└─I doubt that personal contacts are subject to HIPAA regulations.
[22:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:42] <exec> 08└─Who cares? This doesn't justify jail time or insane fines for handing someone a straw.
[22:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:44] <exec> 08└─No, this is the textbook definition of nanny statism (and pointing to the UK as an example doesn't help your case). You apparently just don't understand that not every feel-good idea should be enforced by fines, jail time, and men with guns.
[22:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:47] <exec> 08└─So giving someone AIDS isn't a crime, but giving them a plastic straw is? It's sad that at times(gas cans) people use California as an example to emulate, rathern than an example of what to do the opposite of.
[22:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:49] <exec> 08└─The point is that it's not "a" straw, it's millions of straws.
[22:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:51] <exec> 08└─Actually, spreading HIV intentionally was lowered to a misdemeanor, so including a straw in their happy meal would be the same as that.
[22:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:53] <exec> 08└─Paper straws? Don't think I have ever seen those. Don't they kind of have to be waxed or something to hold liquid or they'll be like one-suck-items. Don't think I have seen to many re-usable straws either, I seem to recall some made out of harder slightly thicker plastic but that was a long time ago...
[22:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As National Football League Ratings Fall, Could the "XFL" Make a Return? - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:23] <exec> 08└─It may be explained by a tribal mentality as a (vicarious)victory over their foes? And/or some guys just get off on seeing other guys fuck their wives/girlfriends? I don't really get it myself, even though I'm a guy. :-)
[22:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As National Football League Ratings Fall, Could the "XFL" Make a Return? - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:25] <exec> 08└─I never understood mens' need for this, and I especially never understood how it could be satisfied by this kind of voyeuristic spectating.
[22:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As National Football League Ratings Fall, Could the "XFL" Make a Return? - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:27] <exec> 08└─Disappear, filthy normie. Sports are not for nerds, but for simpletons who like seeing balls thrown/hit around. The most disgusting part about it all is that many of the stadiums are funded by taxpayer dollars and that people can get more lenient treatment from schools (supposed to be educational, b...
[22:18:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] 02 - 06Fiat Chrysler Exec Pays off Union top Brass - 249 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:38] <exec> 08└─That's a bit extreme. I have no problems with workers negotiating with management, with leaders chosen from those working in the company. Corruption like this is far less likely when you're rubbing shoulders on the assembly line with the union head.
[22:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fiat Chrysler Exec Pays off Union top Brass - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:48] <exec> 08└─No, the opposite is true. Because I say so. Argument over, I win.
[22:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Backed Off from Ordering Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:13] <exec> 08└─Partisan Dipshit to English translation : "I have absolutely nothing so I'm just going to call you names! Take that!"
[22:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Backed Off from Ordering Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:14] <exec> 08└─If Trump is not guilty of anything, why doesn't he want to get exonerated? Why is he so afraid of Mueller? Why are *you* so afraid of Mueller and his investigation?
[22:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Backed Off from Ordering Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:17] <exec> 08└─"Lastly, if he had done nothing wrong, why would he care if there were an investigation?" Let's say I stood up at the dinner table at thanksgiving and said, "Look martyb, I know you cheated on your wife and your daughter told me that she was raped by you when you were drunk last week. I've called th...
[22:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Brains Became More Rounded over 200,000+ Years - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:37] <exec> 08└─Epigenetic changes have been observed to be hereditary in many plants. The sex of many animals can be predicted based off environmental factors. There is a lot of solid evidence pointing towards intentional adaptation towards fitness based off environmental factors, and no reason to believe it would...
[22:22:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 370 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:28] <exec> 08└─Peak America shitposting time. Well, we don't hate our women, but those pink pussy hats are pure Jew subversion. Good thing they so readily identify themselves as another gang of Soros' useful idiots. Prius drivers, all. The United States of America will never fall. We were born from trolling [wikip...
[22:23:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:15] <exec> 08└─And now you're doing it as well? Group A are self-proclaimed Nazis and are planning to annoy group B! Group C also want to annoy group B, so they must be Nazis!
[22:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:49] <exec> 08└─No it's Aristarchus. FTFY
[22:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:50] <exec> 08└─We had a spate of police shooting African-Americans each of which was covered by one or more stories here. What made those stories reportable under the old yardstick? None of them were related to STEM even remotely. Story selection is not black and white. We have to judge what the community wants
[22:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Alt-Right Neo-Nazis Are Targeting the Women's March - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:52] <exec> 08└─so why are they explicitly mentioned
[22:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's GOLD Makes It Into Orbit After Fears It Was Lost - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:06] <exec> 08└─Evolutionarily speaking, the whole world, America included, has been on greased skids to stupidity for 60+ years now.
[22:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Fake Celebrity Porn Craze "Blowing Up" on Reddit - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:58] <exec> 08└─The video/GIF resolution has nothing to do with it. As for your opinion, it can either be treated as expert testimony or tossed out since you have admitted to being a hardcore Star Wars fan editor.
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[23:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Immigration Agency Granted Access to a Nationwide License Plate Recognition Database - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:07] <exec> 08└─Suddenly, when it's being deployed against their favored group, the USA left realizes that these data collection tools might just be excessive. Is this what irony is?
[23:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Immigration Agency Granted Access to a Nationwide License Plate Recognition Database - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:08] <exec> 08└─"Are we as a society, out of our desire to find those people, willing to let our government create an infrastructure that will track all of us?"
[23:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:43] <exec> 08└─Nanny state or not, if this means the server will stop giving me a new straw for every single refill after seeing me take each one out of the glass, I might have to move back to California.
[23:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:44] <exec> 08└─They could have just levied the plastic straws to a point where they're no longer economical. Around here, paper straws are increasingly common. The paper ones are just fine for most people as they're thrown out as soon as the beverage is finished. And then just left the criminal charges for people...
[23:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:46] <exec> 08└─They have paper straws here, they are waxed as far as I can tell, but only minimally so. You don't generally see reusable straws at restaurants because then they'd have to be cleaned and sanitized, which is much more challenging than on other utensils due to the interior being closed off and rather...
[23:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:48] <exec> 08└─In 1965, the California Penal Code had about 234,000 words. I actually got some people to count them. Today that number has grown to 1.2 million. By comparison, the Ten Commandments run just under 300 words -- and the Ten Commandments, there are still ten.
[23:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:51] <exec> 08└─Sure not everything should be, but this is a decent one. Of course it is nanny state, that is every single law ever so whatever.
[23:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:53] <exec> 08└─It's just another left coast loser defending another Governor Moonbeam loser law. He's probably such a tree hugging fruitcake that he gets a raging hardon every time he smells sawdust.
[23:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:55] <exec> 08└─At home, I've got a reusable glass straw which is rather nice
[23:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:57] <exec> 08└─Jerry Brown is not a stoner, but a Jesuit. And, as Tom Clancy told us all, there is no such thing as a "stupid Jesuit." Which leads into this: Catholics, reign in your Globalist Soroist Pope and restore your church into a respectable organization which espouses beliefs congruent towards the Vatican...
[23:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As National Football League Ratings Fall, Could the "XFL" Make a Return? - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:30] <exec> 08└─The NFL receives a bunch of tax money to bring us a more modern version of the gladiator games. That's a complete waste of public money that brings no benefits to the public [stanford.edu]. Similarly, cable packages are set up so effectively everything that isn't sports is subsidizing the sports. If...
[23:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As National Football League Ratings Fall, Could the "XFL" Make a Return? - 1866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:32] <exec> 08└─The current style of NFL football played is the most boring, risk free style of football ever. Roll back the rule changes that have, since the 1970's, continually put defense at a disadvantage. Sports in general have become unwatchable. The various powers that be, in order to attract more non-fans t...
[23:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fiat Chrysler Exec Pays off Union top Brass - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:54] <exec> 08└─So you are a wop bot, Bot?
[23:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fiat Chrysler Exec Pays off Union top Brass - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:56] <exec> 08└─I've worked union. I've worked non-union. Non-union is better. The economy works better for everyone when workers get to keep all their earnings instead of paying money to union slush-funds.
[23:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Backed Off from Ordering Special Counsel Mueller Fired - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:24] <exec> 08└─we have sources tonight just confirming Of really?! And they are... who? Will they testify under oath? Sorry, you still have nothing... Keep trying
[23:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's GOLD Makes It Into Orbit After Fears It Was Lost - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:13] <exec> 08└─It takes less and less intelligence to breed as time goes on, the article referenced above noted how fecundity was correlated with intelligence as recently as the 1800s. Since WWII that correlation has swung around to the negative.
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