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[00:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fallout76 Adds Repair Kits to Game Store - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:02] <exec> 08└─By all accounts the game is not that great anyway. The grind fest that everybody with any experience or sense with this sort of game expected it to be. But it is a dick move. They provide a way to remove the artificially introduced grind for cash. Wow. Talk about creating the disease and then sellin...
[00:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fallout76 Adds Repair Kits to Game Store - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:04] <exec> 08└─Wow, political much? Regardless, I'll take the bait. Your analogy has some value, but it is imperfect in that, "if Bethesda is making a boring game, it's easy for people to just not play it." This option doesn't really exist for those addicted to pain medications. Moreover, I'm sure several time-ric...
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[00:06:06] <exec> 08└─Money Talks, Bullshit Walks
[00:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Falcon Heavy Block 5 Launch - Postponed: 6:35pm EDT Thursday (2019-04-12 22:35 UTC) [UPDATE2] - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:25] <exec> 08└─It's not reliable, but it's good.
[00:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06SpaceX Falcon Heavy Block 5 Launch - Postponed: 6:35pm EDT Thursday (2019-04-12 22:35 UTC) [UPDATE2] - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:26] <exec> 08└─You can read a manga chapter in 4 minutes, homie.
[00:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Falcon Heavy Block 5 Launch - Postponed: 6:35pm EDT Thursday (2019-04-12 22:35 UTC) [UPDATE2] - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:28] <exec> 08└─That's some BS. We already covered it in the previous story.
[00:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Falcon Heavy Block 5 Launch - Postponed: 6:35pm EDT Thursday (2019-04-12 22:35 UTC) [UPDATE2] - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:30] <exec> 08└─They just announced a delay to tomorrow, so it's a moot point anyway.
[00:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Falcon Heavy Block 5 Launch - Postponed: 6:35pm EDT Thursday (2019-04-12 22:35 UTC) [UPDATE2] - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:33] <exec> 08└─Still crashed. I really only get 10 seconds before a crash so it can't be the experience everyone is having. Usually youtube works fine although I have had similar problems with livestreams in the past, just not this severe. Firefox for linux 65.01
[00:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Falcon Heavy Block 5 Launch - Postponed: 6:35pm EDT Thursday (2019-04-12 22:35 UTC) [UPDATE2] - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:35] <exec> 08└─Wierd. Once i hid that chat mine was fine. Doesn't matter now anyway, rescheduled :-\
[00:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Falcon Heavy Block 5 Launch - Postponed: 6:35pm EDT Thursday (2019-04-12 22:35 UTC) [UPDATE2] - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:37] <exec> 08└─'Arpeggio of Blue Steel' for me. It gets delayed so much it's nearly a red letter day when they release a new one.
[00:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 1091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:06] <exec> 08└─No, we haven't always known that Black Holes exist. We've *suspected* that they exist since Laplace (though that naturally wasn't an Einsteinian black hole, but merely a star that was heavy enough to pull light into orbit around it). Even now there could be arguments. This is consistent with a Black...
[00:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:07] <exec> 08└─Clearly photoshoped. I mean, look, the shadows are out of whack. Is there any reason we are presented with a doughnut section in a black hole? Like, were we so luck that all the heat was generated on a plane that happens to be orthogonal with the observation direction? Little or no heat at all gener...
[00:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:09] <exec> 08└─All we know is that the "donut" is much brighter than what is in the middle, not that the center is actually black. Same as sunspots: If you were to put a sunspot in the night sky, it would glow brighter than the Full Moon with a crimson-orange color!
[00:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perfectly Preserved Dinosaur Skin Found in Korea - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:45] <exec> 08└─Are there even any birds with feathers on their feet?
[00:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alphabet Launches Drone Delivery Service Near Canberra, Australia - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:02] <exec> 08└─Maybe this time they will cancel people
[00:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The ISS is Full of Disgusting Bacteria - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:43] <exec> 08└─https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/11/13/how-much-radiation-are-iss-astronauts-exposed-to/ [forbes.com] https://www.cdc.gov [cdc.gov] It is about 1-2 orders of magnitude more than you would experience from air travel, and they are up there constantly. Maybe not a...
[00:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The ISS is Full of Disgusting Bacteria - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:44] <exec> 08└─"People are walking germ factories. vs. Breading grounds for germs?" Semantics.
[00:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The ISS is Full of Disgusting Bacteria - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:46] <exec> 08└─Semantics (from Ancient Greek: σημαντικός sēmantikós, "significant") deals with meaning [wikipedia.org], discard meaning at your peril.
[00:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Bank App Security Holes: You Might Want to Go Back to That Money Under the Mattress Tactic - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:23] <exec> 08└─Kissy Kissy, baby! And by the way, you really need to work on your "mockery." You're really not very good at it. Is that a genetic thing or were you repeatedly dropped on your head as a child, or both? Toodles!
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[01:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:00] <exec> 08└─I just think of these people as "meddlers" who cause one problem and then need to meddle more to solve the problem they just caused, etc. Want to stop widespread waste? Stop with the inflationary currencies that force everyone into constant "growth". That is all it takes.
[01:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:01] <exec> 08└─There simply is no way to get on top of our plastic problem without creating less of it in the first place. EVERYTHING is now made of non-biodegradable plastic -AND- more disposable plastic packaging and trinkets are being created! I have seen in my lifetime how nothing is made of paper, cellophane,...
[01:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fallout76 Adds Repair Kits to Game Store - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:12] <exec> 08└─It is still a dick move. Pay to win is anything that gives a gameplay advantage in exchange for money. News skins/content do not affext current gameplay so they are fine. Everything else is pay to win. I can forgive such behavior from free to play games, but a paid game? That is crossing the line, a...
[01:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Falcon Heavy Block 5 Launch - Postponed: 6:35pm EDT Thursday (2019-04-12 22:35 UTC) [UPDATE2] - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:38] <exec> 08└─That was the most interesting countdown I've seen in a long time. Gripping.... and the conclusion was unexpected. Who would have thought that Ole Muskie wouldn't deliver something on time?
[01:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:10] <exec> 08└─Look at ~6:50 here: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] They generated a crapload of images from their noisy data and filtered out all the ones that didn't look like what they expected.
[01:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:12] <exec> 08└─They apparently chopped up pictures of people from facebook and plugged it in to their algorithm to get this picture of a black hole. See here starting at ~6:50: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[01:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:14] <exec> 08└─Alas, they've already said "make it look like our mathematical models". There's therefor no way the processed image supports those models. The raw data doesn't contradict those models, so that's nice, but this isn't a Higgs-like level of discovery.
[01:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:16] <exec> 08└─All we know is that the "donut" is much brighter than what is in the middle
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[02:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:03] <exec> 08└─I had one of these meddlers knock on my door this week. Many morons in my state is trying to ban single use plastics through legislation, because they believe that is how you solve problems. I should ask them how did the compulsory recycling work, wasn't that supposed to have fixed the problem decad...
[02:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:05] <exec> 08└─USA fuck yeah and fuck the rest of the world. It'a Trump compensating for his mushroom.
[02:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:07] <exec> 08└─We should landfill it all, I got an incling we will run out of petrol to make the plastic before we run out of landfill space. Once that happens people will dig up the plastic dumps to turn the old plastic back into petrol.
[02:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:09] <exec> 08└─Honestly, after generations of a hugely successful IQ reduction program I don't think there's anything this nation would do that would surprise me. Nothing to do now but ride the tiger into World War 3 and/or the Second Civil War.
[02:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:12] <exec> 08└─Fully agree. There has to be a party that is throwing the trash overboard. That's the problem. Once trash is no more adding to the water, we can discuss how dirty dishes can be safely and beneficially processed. If there is no way, the goods have to have a proper incineration charge built into the p...
[02:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:14] <exec> 08└─Why should the US take part in people creating busywork for themselves? Shut down the ponzi scheme and back the dollar with gold/silver/bitcoin or whatever cannot be generated without limit by politicians. You will see all these environmental problems far reduced as people are rewarded for saving fo...
[02:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:16] <exec> 08└─Plastic in the ocean is generally not trash from USA, EU, Australia, Japan, or any similar place. Those of us living in these areas might gripe about imperfect rivers and imperfect beaches, but really we have it good. People mostly behave. It's a whole different situation in India, China, and Africa...
[02:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:19] <exec> 08└─"Many morons in my state is trying to ban single use plastics through legislation" Watch out now, your house is made of glass. The problem was that recycling legislation did not plan for off-shoring the process. I guess we shouldn't have left a big loophole that would allow waste handlers to skirt a...
[02:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:21] <exec> 08└─The solution is even simpler: Stop electing people from law professions into leading positions.
[02:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:23] <exec> 08└─That is not interesting, that is massively dystopian!!! No one would convert plastics to fuel, the future is electric. Plastics would be converted to other plastics or their byproducts, y'know the actually useful molecules without great replacements? The only reason electric motors haven't replaced...
[02:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:25] <exec> 08└─Actually, the garbage patch started well before that offshoring nonsense. We live in an environment, in which water is all the time rinsing the land clean. 24/7/365, water falls out of the sky, runs across the land, carrying bits of this and that, into the rivers, and then into the oceans. Water eva...
[02:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:27] <exec> 08└─I thought it was known to be the Chinese.
[02:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fallout76 Adds Repair Kits to Game Store - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:38] <exec> 08└─But the bullshit is generating the money so by the transitive butthole property Bethesda is shitting on their players.
[02:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:41] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Their results may be entertaining, but they are not scientifically valuable.
[02:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:42] <exec> 08└─They generated a crapload of images from their noisy data and filtered out all the ones that didn't look like what they expected.
[02:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:44] <exec> 08└─They may be valuable, but only by shear luck.
[02:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:47] <exec> 08└─Interesting points. You should ask on stack exchange or somewhere and see what response you get.
[02:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrkaos [997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:49] <exec> 08└─Now we know what it looks like.
[02:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:51] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf_YWiqqv34 [youtube.com]
[02:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Transcranial Brain Stimulation Could Improve Working Memory - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:12] <exec> 08└─YOU wa SHOCK! ai de sora ga ochite kuru! YOU wa SHOCK! ore no mune ni ochite kuru!
[02:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Robocall Crisis Will Never Totally be Fixed - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:13] <exec> 08└─Both the scammers and telcos own more politicians than the tiny slice of one your vote represents. How about 150 million of our votes? I mean, you know, if people were interested in, like, doing something? The non-voters alone are a big enough block to completely clean out the House. *sigh* If they...
[02:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 The US Says Chinese Spies Are Targeting Boston for Its Tech Secrets - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:22] <exec> 08└─because we've passed a technological tipping point, or are close to doing so, that will make that disruption basically impossible
[02:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Massive Bank App Security Holes: You Might Want to Go Back to That Money Under the Mattress Tactic - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:13] <exec> 08└─OY! Thank god! now we don't have to hear all that redneck shit! "Eewww! He's a felon!" - such a pathetic moron!
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[03:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellowstone Scientists Find New Thermal Area; No, It Doesn't Mean a Volcano Eruption is Coming - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:12] <exec> 08└─The odds of Yellowstone never erupting again are strongly approaching zero. The odds of Yellowstone's next eruption occurring before society melts down for other reasons are supposed to be pretty low. Still, NASA (or, some politically motivated study wearing the NASA letterhead) recently came out wi...
[03:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellowstone Scientists Find New Thermal Area; No, It Doesn't Mean a Volcano Eruption is Coming - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:13] <exec> 08└─We can probably see a civilization-killing asteroid many decades in advance and take steps to stop it. We can't clearly pinpoint Yellowstone's eruption in advance.
[03:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellowstone Scientists Find New Thermal Area; No, It Doesn't Mean a Volcano Eruption is Coming - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:15] <exec> 08└─There is also the possibility of Yellowstone becoming less active over time. A super-volcano eruption will happen somewhere, and Yellowstone is a pretty good candidate, but it is entirely possible that Yellowstone could get cooler and less active. (Obviously over a long time, not next Tuesday).
[03:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yellowstone Scientists Find New Thermal Area; No, It Doesn't Mean a Volcano Eruption is Coming - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:18] <exec> 08└─The only question is which comes first, the crustal slip or the solar outburst. The pyramids prove we can survive either so not all is lost.
[03:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:39] <exec> 08└─Plastic in the ocean is generally not trash from USA, EU, Australia, Japan, or any similar place.
[03:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:40] <exec> 08└─1. It's still the fault of places like Africa, China, India, or wherever the trash goes. Once they buy it, it is theirs. They are dumping their trash. 2. Banning those shipments is an easier solution. It still improperly casts blame on the better countries, but oh well. An upside is that we get chea...
[03:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:43] <exec> 08└─Nothing to do now but ride the tiger into World War 3 and/or the Second Civil War.
[03:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:45] <exec> 08└─So much of it has to do with the economic motivation/will to keep things clean. I visited Freeport, Bahamas in 1986 and back then there were parts of town that were literally paved with garbage, over a foot deep alongside the roads. Then, there were other parts of town that more clearly understood h...
[03:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:47] <exec> 08└─People mostly behave.
[03:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fallout76 Adds Repair Kits to Game Store - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:59] <exec> 08└─Cause last I heard, it was a bug infested train-wreck...
[03:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Falcon Heavy Block 5 Launch - Postponed: 6:35pm EDT Thursday (2019-04-12 22:35 UTC) [UPDATE2] - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:27] <exec> 08└─That's par for the course when rocket launches are as rare as they are. There is no pressure to launch 10 rockets every single day, so if weather conditions are bad, you'll get a delay instead of possibly losing the rocket. Even commercial airliners get delayed by weather and we have many flights ev...
[03:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the math is more complicated than my 8th grade education, so it's obviously fake.
[03:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Robocall Crisis Will Never Totally be Fixed - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:33] <exec> 08└─A more effective approach I've found is to explain to them how much negative Karma they're racking up from all the people they're pissing off. Think about it man, all that karma. You're coming back as a cockroach, if that. Maybe you can erase some of the bad by doing some good. Shut down that place,...
[03:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Robocall Crisis Will Never Totally be Fixed - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:35] <exec> 08└─Shill for the phone companies much? You know that won't work because most people won't bother filling out a form claiming a call is spam in order to get a few cents off their bill. Under any system that bills recipients of calls, the phone companies have an incentive to allow spam. Filling out that...
[03:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 The US Says Chinese Spies Are Targeting Boston for Its Tech Secrets - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:46] <exec> 08└─The Great Firewall is an instrument of internal control, not a turning away from the rest of the world.
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[04:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Yellowstone Scientists Find New Thermal Area; No, It Doesn't Mean a Volcano Eruption is Coming - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:12] <exec> 08└─The odds of Yellowstone never erupting again are strongly approaching zero.
[04:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellowstone Scientists Find New Thermal Area; No, It Doesn't Mean a Volcano Eruption is Coming - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:14] <exec> 08└─...the crustal slip or the solar outburst. The pyramids prove we can survive either so not all is lost.
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[04:06:16] <exec> 08└─Start here: https://www.cia.gov [cia.gov]
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[04:06:18] <exec> 08└─Also this: Apollo 11 Observations of a Remarkable Glazing Phenomenon on the Lunar Surface. T. Gold. Science. New Series, Vol. 165, No. 3900 (Sep. 26, 1969), pp. 1345-1349. 10.1126/science.165.3900.1345 http://science.sciencemag.org [sciencemag.org] [sciencemag.org] Melted glass...
[04:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yellowstone Scientists Find New Thermal Area; No, It Doesn't Mean a Volcano Eruption is Coming - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:20] <exec> 08└─If you prefer videos (I do not): https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[04:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yellowstone Scientists Find New Thermal Area; No, It Doesn't Mean a Volcano Eruption is Coming - 1450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:23] <exec> 08└─Also, this: "There have been, and will be again, many destructions of mankind arising out of many causes; the greatest have been brought about by the agencies of fire and water, and other lesser ones by innumerable other causes. There is a story, which even you have preserved, that once upon a time...
[04:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:49] <exec> 08└─Economically speaking, those plastics have some pretty big negative externalities, affecting future generations. I say slap a tax on manufactured products that accounts for their chance of becoming litter, and the cost of removal.
[04:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:51] <exec> 08└─Raising taxes is not enough. We should also track the producers and users of plastic.
[04:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:53] <exec> 08└─Capitalism itself seems force us into unending growth and imperialism [marxists.org]. When the growth starts to end, then we tend to get fascism until enough wealth is blown to kingdom come so that the "unending" growth can start again. Doesn't necessarily need inflationary currency, factional reser...
[04:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Steam Battles Off-Topic Reviews — Flaming Old Games Because of Borderlands 3 Exclusive Deal - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:15] <exec> 08└─Here's the indie/non-AAA games I've enjoyed in the relatively-recent past: Pumped BMX+ (try to perform bike tricks or find new ways to "kill" the kid) Fez (puzzle adventure where a seemingly 2-d world can be rotated like a cube to reach ladders etc.) Journey (interesting artistic adventure, for lack...
[04:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perfectly Preserved Dinosaur Skin Found in Korea - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:55] <exec> 08└─"asteroid"
[04:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Robocall Crisis Will Never Totally be Fixed - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:42] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the biggest exemption of them all: political calls. Political calls are exempt from almost all rules dealing with robocalls and robotexts. Worse, with the political season coming nigh, expect them to increase once again.
[04:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 The US Says Chinese Spies Are Targeting Boston for Its Tech Secrets - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:55] <exec> 08└─Just stating a fact. Trump got 6 % of the vote in Cambridge, MA. Probably less among academics.
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[05:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:04] <exec> 08└─I knew it! That's why I drink heavily.
[05:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:05] <exec> 08└─So they use a cohort with a predispostion to negative effects from alcohol to suggest that alcohol has negative effects. I've got a cart, and I've got a horse, I forget which one goes first.
[05:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:52] <exec> 08└─No, it is very clear and understood by anyone who bothers to look. If you create money by giving out loans that need to be repaid with interest you need ever more money to be created to pay that interest. It is just a massive ponzi scheme.
[05:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:54] <exec> 08└─We should also track the ... users of plastic.
[05:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:17] <exec> 08└─fake = "made up by math"
[05:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 The US Says Chinese Spies Are Targeting Boston for Its Tech Secrets - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:57] <exec> 08└─The Great Firewall is an instrument of internal control, not a turning away from the rest of the world.
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[06:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:17] <exec> 08└─Ban all public sale and consumption of alcohol, and place it under FDA controlled substance. What reason do you need access to alcohol, citizen?
[06:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:18] <exec> 08└─So they use a cohort with a predispostion to negative effects from alcohol to suggest that alcohol has negative effects.
[06:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:21] <exec> 08└─Sometimes, you just gotta break on through to the other side. Chinese subjects? Were the intentionally avoiding Germans?
[06:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:23] <exec> 08└─Why do you ask about citizenship? Only Nazis care about citizenship, comrade. It is the camps for you.
[06:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:25] <exec> 08└─Silly NazBol, you are already citizen of the world.
[06:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheSage [133] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:27] <exec> 08└─Of course the summary leaves out the very next paragraph where a researcher is quoted as: “The key message here is that, at least for stroke, there is no protective effect of moderate drinking,”
[06:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:30] <exec> 08└─The deleterious effects of alcohol (and tobacco, and various drugs) are well-known. I have made a lifestyle choice to abstain from these substances. If I have one vice it's caffeine, but that one's at least socially acceptable.
[06:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yellowstone Scientists Find New Thermal Area; No, It Doesn't Mean a Volcano Eruption is Coming - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:46] <exec> 08└─But even if we see an asteroid coming, we wouldn't finish all the paperwork in time to do anything about it. At least with a volcano, "run away" hasn't been completely federally regulated yet.
[06:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:18] <exec> 08└─Improved technology may well make reclaiming the stuff to make construction material. At least, in a landfill, the stuff will be concentrated in a small place and make mining it back easier. Thinking of plastic lumber for outdoor usage. Now, if we could standardize on a specific plastic designed for...
[06:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Steam Battles Off-Topic Reviews — Flaming Old Games Because of Borderlands 3 Exclusive Deal - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:43] <exec> 08└─Free as in? (beer vs liberty)
[06:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Steam Battles Off-Topic Reviews — Flaming Old Games Because of Borderlands 3 Exclusive Deal - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:44] <exec> 08└─They don't want you to know how bad the game actually is. They only want your money.
[06:11:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06The Robocall Crisis Will Never Totally be Fixed - 664 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:35] <exec> 08└─It's not loopholes in the law, it's that, like the GFC, not only does no-one involved in the process have any motivation to "fix" it, they have strong financial motivations to perpetuate it for as long as possible. For example the terminating network makes money from terminating incoming calls, so t...
[06:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 The US Says Chinese Spies Are Targeting Boston for Its Tech Secrets - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:23] <exec> 08└─I don't think freedom is as important for conquest as you do, honestly. It may make it harder to hold the empire together in the long run, but that's about it. And the western world is very quickly devolving into a cluster of authoritarian hellholes, so our "core strength" is being sapped at an alar...
[06:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 The US Says Chinese Spies Are Targeting Boston for Its Tech Secrets - 1254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:25] <exec> 08└─Know what I'd do? Cut off as much in the way of trade with China as possible, no matter how much it hurts, and oh *gods* is it gonna hurt. The US is like a junkie, hooked on cheap manufacturing overseas in China, and like any junkie, there's gonna be hellish withdrawal symptoms. And like a junkie, i...
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[07:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:04] <exec> 08└─Dog forbid anyone should think that the "flushables" are okay for those of us who have septic systems! Figured that out (before) attempting to use them at home...
[07:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:06] <exec> 08└─Ryerson's Flushability Lab
[07:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:08] <exec> 08└─Just raise the stupid sewer fee if it's a problem. Somebody needs to get a Masters Degree in STFU.
[07:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:10] <exec> 08└─Khallow-busters Backhoe Excellent Service! No matter how much khallow you got backed up in your comment system, the Patented "Khallow Blaster 2.0" will handle it! Call now to have your information skimmed, and delivered to the Facebook and Darknet, and for a special one time deal offered for only th...
[07:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:26] <exec> 08└─Uppers are for scumbags. I would much prefer someone who desires downers.
[07:07:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 739 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:02] <exec> 08└─Actually, the garbage patch started well before that offshoring nonsense. We live in an environment, in which water is all the time rinsing the land clean. 24/7/365, water falls out of the sky, runs across the land, carrying bits of this and that, into the rivers, and then into the oceans. Water eva...
[07:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:17] <exec> 08└─Not plastics... those are burned. Only locally produced chemical toxins are placed in their waterways.
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[08:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unknown Species of Tiny Ancient Human Discovered in Philippine Cave - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:16] <exec> 08└─50,000 years hasn't changed much. There is still a group of dark-skinned very short people living there today. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[08:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:27] <exec> 08└─due to the flushing of wipes and other non-flushable materials
[08:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:29] <exec> 08└─It says "flushable", not "biodegradeable". You're the one that wants to alter language.
[08:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:31] <exec> 08└─Have they ever encountered an unflushable [youtube.com]?
[08:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:33] <exec> 08└─Or we could help keep the bills low and reduce repairs simply by letting people know these aren't flushable. Radical idea, I know. People seem content with lies, such as wipes are flushable, holistic medicines actually do something, or that there is an imaginary sky fairy watching them.
[08:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:35] <exec> 08└─Why do you need to flush them if you have a septic tank? Why not store them directly there?
[08:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:37] <exec> 08└─It says "flushable", not "biodegradeable".
[08:06:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03https [5248] 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 190 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:46] <exec> 08└─So they use a cohort with a predispostion to negative effects from alcohol to suggest that alcohol has negative effects. I've got a cart, and I've got a horse, I forget which one goes first.
[08:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:56] <exec> 08└─The deleterious effects of alcohol (and tobacco, and various drugs) are well-known. I have made a lifestyle choice to abstain from these substances
[08:07:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 676 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:30] <exec> 08└─"Many morons in my state is trying to ban single use plastics through legislation" Watch out now, your house is made of glass. The problem was that recycling legislation did not plan for off-shoring the process. I guess we shouldn't have left a big loophole that would allow waste handlers to skirt a...
[08:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:12] <exec> 08└─They are more than that, they absolutely support the model. Not only did they ask "if this thing is a Kerr black hole, what does it look like?", getting the answer "Kinda donut shaped, like a Kerr black hole", they also asked "if this thing is a binary pair, what does it look like?", getting the ans...
[08:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:13] <exec> 08└─AC has miscategorised the processing that they did. They *tested* their data against a crapload of images, and threw away the ones it wasn't a good match for. Different teams applied different preprocessing regimes to the raw data, and independently of each other they all concluded roughly the same...
[08:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Build a Machine to Generate Quantum Superposition of Possible Futures - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:33] <exec> 08└─And what is this talk of measuring “bias”?
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[09:06:07] <exec> 08└─Was there a fraud, in recent memory, where scientists were convinced by a bunch of Philipinos that they were pre-contact stone age people? [news.com.au] And then there is that whole thing where Duterte is not a drug kingpin. Shit, president of the Philippines, and you think he is not raking in the p...
[09:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:25] <exec> 08└─Goldfish are flushable. Small cats can be. Flushable wipes, similar. Just beause you can doesn't mean you should. Anyone for a fatberg [wikipedia.org]
[09:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:27] <exec> 08└─Gotta 6-khallow ideologue blockage here! Request backup, backhoe backup! All the free market contractors (mercs) we contacted buggered out. Now people's lives are in danger! Is there nothing we can do? Can we not appeal to humanity, patriotism, and simple decency to put aside the price-gouging extor...
[09:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:29] <exec> 08└─I've seen a few mini documentaries about shitter research labs, and it actually looks like it's quite fun. In particular how they make fake turds. They have a soft clay that they can mix with different ratios of expanded polystyrene balls to everything from floaters to sinkers. Water is an incredibl...
[09:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:31] <exec> 08└─Again, I miss frojack! He would have tacked one of these "flushable" wipes to the side of his shed, and probably would have sprayed it with a hose for months, just to give us some empirical data. Such a man of science was frojack. Climate-change denier shill as well, but no one if purfucted.
[09:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:33] <exec> 08└─That's crazy talk!?!? Of course we should let selfish and stupid individuals ruin things, and burden everyone to pay for fixing the problems thus caused. Narp, I don't see the word "stewardship" in my (presumably urban) dictionary, so the concept doesn't exist.
[09:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:36] <exec> 08└─khallow sucks, and by doing that clears any blockage. My experience.
[09:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ayn Anonymous [5012] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:38] <exec> 08└─61 of 101 products from the U.S. Land of the stupid. The solution is so obvious, you have to have an I.Q. just over room temperature not to get it. Washable diapers with inlays. You get a complete set for under $65 on ebay. Minimal compost-able inlay. I know what I'm talking. I had used them for yea...
[09:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellowstone Scientists Find New Thermal Area; No, It Doesn't Mean a Volcano Eruption is Coming - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:12] <exec> 08└─dafuq have I just (skim-)read?
[09:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fallout76 Adds Repair Kits to Game Store - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:00] <exec> 08└─Any game where spending gives you an advantage is a rigged game, why do you bother. There are still games where the only problem is cheating and when you get gud you can spot it too. Or do like me and don't give a flying fuck about cheaters griefers and trolls.
[09:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Falcon Heavy Block 5 Launch - Postponed: 6:35pm EDT Thursday (2019-04-12 22:35 UTC) [UPDATE2] - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:29] <exec> 08└─Or you could have a big rocket for cute anime gals...
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[09:10:19] <exec> 08└─Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead. Free game, ascii/tileset, survive the zombie apocalypse. Great fun, brutally difficult to get started.
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[10:06:18] <exec> 08└─I think body size is something that is very hard to fake. Especially after your death.
[10:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:43] <exec> 08└─Clearly they are flushable. Have you ever tried?
[10:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ayn Anonymous [5012] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:02] <exec> 08└─A glass of red wine has soooooo many Ingredients: - Water - Alcohols (ethanol, methanol) - Sugars (Fructose, Glucose, Sucrose, Sugar-Alcohols) - Yeasts - Anthocyanins - Enzymes - Flavonoids - Tannins - Antioxidants - Vitamins - Minerals One narrow-minded scientist to the other narrow-minded scientis...
[10:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:03] <exec> 08└─I suppose whoever modded it funny didn't stay away from some euphorics.
[10:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:05] <exec> 08└─Next: We give peanuts to people with peanut allergy to prove that peanuts are bad for you.
[10:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellowstone Scientists Find New Thermal Area; No, It Doesn't Mean a Volcano Eruption is Coming - 1098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:24] <exec> 08└─Wow, that's reallyentertaining. If you read the Time article "Adam and Eve" from that link* and believe the hypothesis, you should be doing all you can to melt the icecaps. It claims that the buildup of ice at the poles, possibly combined with a magnetic/electric field collapse, triggers the entire...
[10:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:59] <exec> 08└─Seems the only way to stop the spread of idiocy and ignorance across the land. No one who doesn't know shit of how nature WORKS, should be allowed to pretend to "care" about it. Those who care, WANT to learn. Economically speaking, those plastics have some pretty big negative externalities, affectin...
[10:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:28] <exec> 08└─The black hole distorts the spacetime around it (well, in some sense the black hole is the distortion), therefore what you see is not quite what you would expect from Euclidean geometry.
[10:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:30] <exec> 08└─No matter how the spacetime is distorted near the blackhole, I find it hard to believe the circular hole in the centre. Unless you can explain how there's little to no emission from the whole side of the event horizon facing us and intense emission on the entire circumference, your statement may hol...
[10:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:32] <exec> 08└─The difference between a "roadsign peppered with holes" and "the photo of the event horizon of a blackhole" is that: - for the first you have plenty of direct observations and can organize experiments to validate your model; *while* - for the second you don't have any other observations, not even a...
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[11:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unknown Species of Tiny Ancient Human Discovered in Philippine Cave - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:22] <exec> 08└─I see we have a member of the all too numerous species Homo dickheadis here. You could tell from the fragments of bone and teeth that weren't pictured in TFA what the melanin content of the skin of this newly discovered species was? Asshole.
[11:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:48] <exec> 08└─I've produced turds that were a lot harder to flush than these wipes.
[11:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:49] <exec> 08└─Everything is flushable. Once.
[11:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:52] <exec> 08└─I went to the article, which pointed to the study, and read the appendix of the study where they list what they tested. Only toilet paper passed their "flushable" test. Baby wipes didn't pass. That makes sense. Supposedly flushable wipes didn't pass - none of them. Interesting. Facial tissue -- Klee...
[11:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:12] <exec> 08└─Of course the study only suggests that for people who lack the genes for alcohol tolerance. After all, what protects you from stroke could be a product of the process the body uses to deal with alcohol. Since the test persons lacked that process, they wouldn't exhibit that effect.
[11:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:14] <exec> 08└─I imagine that is the exact same thought process of every man-made-climate-change scientist today. "1000 variables affect climate but we're going to ignore 999 of them and concentrate on CO2. Heck, if the weather today is hotter, colder, dryer, wetter,or windier than the same day last year let's say...
[11:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yellowstone Scientists Find New Thermal Area; No, It Doesn't Mean a Volcano Eruption is Coming - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:35] <exec> 08└─Of course with a supervolcano such as Yellowstone, merely running is by far not fast enough. And all methods fast enough to escape are highly regulated.
[11:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:39] <exec> 08└─watch the youtube vid, it's all explained there.
[11:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:41] <exec> 08└─It's spinning.
[11:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:43] <exec> 08└─"E pur si muove" and "πάντα ῥεῖ" And it just happens to spin around an axis that's oriented straight to the Solar system, for the benefit of human astronomers. The same astronomers which observed a polar relativistic jet going on an angle and a distribution of star orbit velocities in whic...
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[12:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 99-Year-Old Woman Lived and Died Not Knowing Her Organs Were in Wrong Places - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:02] <exec> 08└─Biology is messy. Of course, only Yahweh-worshipers like feminists, Christians, etc seem to struggle with the idea that people aren't manufactured in a factory somewhere in a 6 σ process.
[12:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 99-Year-Old Woman Lived and Died Not Knowing Her Organs Were in Wrong Places - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:04] <exec> 08└─yes. and whenever we find a snail that's curly the wrong way, we should just ignore it, because biology is messy. and when we get cancer we should just ignore it, because biology is messy.
[12:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:47] <exec> 08└─Or we could insist on progress, and ignore people who say "new thing X" is not allowed.
[12:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:10] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure you'd be quoting an actual scientist there. Sounds more like a SoMe campaign person. If a scientist is going to focus on humans and our contribution to climate change, it makes sense to focus on that area instead of solar winds. Doesn't mean you shouldn't take them into account when you...
[12:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:11] <exec> 08└─- Patient: Doctor, I want to live as long as possible please give me some advice. - Doctor: Do you smoke? - Patient: No. - Doctor: Do you drink? - Patient: No. - Doctor: Do you have a lot of sexual partners? - Patient: No. - Doctor: Why do you want a long life?
[12:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:14] <exec> 08└─+1 Ain't it the truth!
[12:07:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 97 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:54] <exec> 08└─Plastic in the ocean is generally not trash from USA, EU, Australia, Japan, or any similar place.
[12:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:08] <exec> 08└─ban single-use plastic ware is applaudable indeed. however for some countries the missing warez might lead to increased ... tummy ache and diaherrea? anyways, i hope it will not be "the wood(tm)" that has to pick up the slack. if however we get to produce our ownz electricity and feed the hungry (re...
[12:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:10] <exec> 08└─There you have it [google.com] for your enlightenment. It happens now at a scale big enough to affect future generations. A pity those bacteria are so fussy they can't survive in most of the environments we throws our plastic in.
[12:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:44] <exec> 08└─The Goatse guy is probably one of the most *recognizable* Internet celebrities. I wonder why he's not posting on Instagram and playing at being an "influencer," like most Internet shills^W celebs? Perhaps he's really shy?
[12:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 1005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:46] <exec> 08└─And did you understand it? Enough to explain it in your own words? --- 'cause I'm hearing (09:50) "If all the image types produce a very similar looking image, we become more confident that the images we are using are not biasing the picture" - and the screen shows that all 3 types of images (includ...
[12:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:48] <exec> 08└─what would be really cool is if no matter (no pun intended) from where or which angle you observe and take a picture of a blackhole it ALWAYS looks like a ring O_o
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[13:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:13] <exec> 08└─Flee these liberal hell holes. The only problem is the people who vote for this crap eventually flee the consequences of their own actions too.
[13:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Informative) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:15] <exec> 08└─I mean really, government mandated medical procedures. We all know where this is headed, straight back to the 1920/30s with forced sterilization, etc. Here is a movie about it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[13:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:17] <exec> 08└─<sarcasm>you can get autism from those injections you know</sarcasm>
[13:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:19] <exec> 08└─Autism hasn't been linked to vaccines in a scientifically accepted study, yet. Neither has it been adequately explained in a manner that makes it preventable, curable, or even reliably predictable. Freedom to choose, has been an on again, off again, foundation of U.S. society. Call it religion, call...
[13:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:21] <exec> 08└─You're free to walk around without being vaccinated. You're free to have sex. You aren't free to do these things in public.
[13:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:24] <exec> 08└─You say like that's a bad thing! Seriously, unless it is a really strong form of autism (which doesn't come in a siringe), people shouldn't see it as a disease, but more as a character trait. I know a a fair share of people who have a mild form of autism and are perfectly fine to work with.
[13:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:26] <exec> 08└─I think there's a solution that would keep both sides happy, all those who choose to remain unvaccinated can live together somewhere, lets call it Petridishville, and those who get vaccinated can live somewhere other than Petridishville. Then after a couple of years they disinfect the remains of the...
[13:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:28] <exec> 08└─Call it religion, call it control over one's own body - this will continue to be an issue.
[13:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:31] <exec> 08└─You've got it opposite, who got wiped out by disease when Native Americans met Europeans? Populations relying on vaccination will be screwed if anything ever interrupts the supply, it is basically heroin addiction of an entire country. The original plan to eradicate measles made sense, not this.
[13:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:33] <exec> 08└─Mortality rates for measles and mmr are about the same in societies with decent sanitationsystems.. Really the rates of pretty much all complications are about the same. In both cases there is very little risk.
[13:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:35] <exec> 08└─Oh FFS. Talk about hyperbole. What's next, when they quarantine a bunch of infected, highly contagious you're going to start calling it concentration camps?
[13:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 99-Year-Old Woman Lived and Died Not Knowing Her Organs Were in Wrong Places - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:44] <exec> 08└─A rare health condition isn't national news.
[13:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:28] <exec> 08└─Just because it cleared the p-trap doesn't mean it's flushable. It can still clog plumbing, both in your home and in the sewer system. Do not flush them.
[13:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:29] <exec> 08└─Even a hard turd will eventually absorb water, soften and fall apart. A synthetic fiber wipe will not. Just because something clears the p-trap doesn't mean you should flush it. If it's not human waste or real toilet paper don't flush it.
[13:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jjr [6969] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:31] <exec> 08└─Probably kleenex have the cellulose fibers more tightly packed and this causes not to "self-destroy" while in water. You can tear easily toilet paper with your fingers, without much effort, while a facial tissue nap, even all unfolded, takes a bit more of strength. Still curiously that they get that...
[13:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:34] <exec> 08└─Toilet paper is designed to very quickly fall apart when wet. Other tissues and paper will not. Yes, eventually it will but if it doesn't do it quickly it has potential to create a clog. Flushable wipes are not flushable. If it's not human waste or actual toilet paper do not flush it. Also, try to t...
[13:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:36] <exec> 08└─I think even parts of the US, at certain times in the year, have issued "if it's brown flush it down; if it's yellow, let it mellow"-themed advisories, so not even the supposedly advanced world can be too complacent about resource usage.
[13:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:38] <exec> 08└─To be classed as toilet paper, it had to dissolve a certain way, in a certain amount of time, in a certain amount of water. That the tissues you blow you nose on are not only different, but not advertised as toilet paper, tells you that they are not toilet paper. https://www.water.org.uk
[13:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheSage [133] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:04] <exec> 08└─The deleterious effects of alcohol [...] are well-known.
[13:08:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellowstone Scientists Find New Thermal Area; No, It Doesn't Mean a Volcano Eruption is Coming - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:25] <exec> 08└─the possibility of Yellowstone becoming less active over time.
[13:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellowstone Scientists Find New Thermal Area; No, It Doesn't Mean a Volcano Eruption is Coming - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:27] <exec> 08└─Perhaps zero is a strong statement... still: the mantle is ~1800 miles thick, while average continental crust thickness is ~25 miles. +1 or 2, occasionally 3 miles in the Rockies doesn't seem significant enough to completely quash a hot spot.
[13:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellowstone Scientists Find New Thermal Area; No, It Doesn't Mean a Volcano Eruption is Coming - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:29] <exec> 08└─We can probably see a civilization-killing asteroid many decades in advance
[13:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Yellowstone Scientists Find New Thermal Area; No, It Doesn't Mean a Volcano Eruption is Coming - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:31] <exec> 08└─but if you attach a couple of weights to the poles of an otherwise uniform spinning sphere it will make it unstable
[13:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:08] <exec> 08└─The problem was that recycling legislation did not plan for off-shoring the process.
[13:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fallout76 Adds Repair Kits to Game Store - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:22] <exec> 08└─It's the better Fallout/Wasteland clone at this point anyway, and it doesn't USUALLY spawn enemies inside your base if you properly constructed and owned the tiles yourself. Plus it is moddable, open source, and the people who are developing it do it for the love of the game, not for their next payc...
[13:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:47] <exec> 08└─If you ever look down that relativistic polar jet close enough, try to use a single eye. That way, you may keep the other eye to look later into a laser
[13:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:48] <exec> 08└─"known" was in quotes for a reason. Pretty much, I believe the entire depiction of the black hole confirms exactly with the Schwarzchild parameters we would expect. There's a video on Youtube pre- the revelation which shows what they'd expect and the radii involved. The press are excited because it'...
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[14:06:17] <exec> 08└─Julian Assange Charged by U.S. With Conspiracy to Hack a Government Computer [nytimes.com] The United States has charged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with one count of conspiracy to hack a computer related to his role in the 2010 release of reams of secret American documents, according to a crim...
[14:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:18] <exec> 08└─They bent over backwards to make the best of this situation.
[14:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:20] <exec> 08└─Assange is an egotist. He has grown a strange beard. But he's been one of the last still doing what journalists used to do, which is to investigate and expose the high and mighty. If any person ever deserved the protection of the world's most powerful democracy, he is it. Trump must pardon him (and...
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[14:06:23] <exec> 08└─So much for that.
[14:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:25] <exec> 08└─"I love wikileaks"- Candidate Trump https://m.youtube.com [youtube.com] Interesting to see how this plays out, Trump has shown no shame in reversing his position on the " big fat ugly bubble"... https://m.youtube.com [youtube.com] Then again, perhaps it is a s...
[14:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:27] <exec> 08└─He was leaving dirty dishes laying around, never took out the trash and, the last straw, eating other people’s food in the refrigerator!
[14:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:29] <exec> 08└─Assange is an egotist. He has grown a strange beard.
[14:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:31] <exec> 08└─I hope his cat gets adopted. The reports of Assange not cleaning up after his cat are worrying because often the pet pays the price for the irresponsible owner's actions (or lack thereof).
[14:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:34] <exec> 08└─But will Trump go against the military on this one? He claims to "looooove" the military, so this will test his ... um ... fuck, it's a coin flip.
[14:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:36] <exec> 08└─If you want to know what it's like to see people beneath you that you want to govern, head over to Reddit where people are complaining about his 'colluded with Russia to defeat Hillary', 'purposefully disclosed the names of spies to harm the USA' and 'looks like a bum'. Looking like a bum may be the...
[14:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 921 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:38] <exec> 08└─I don't comment on the green site often, but I commented on this, and collected troll mods. I wonder what Soylentils think. Assange did good work with Wikileaks, years ago. Then he grew an inflated ego, and (um, literally) screwed around. Rather than face any charges (which, iirc, were never formall...
[14:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:40] <exec> 08└─The cat was adopted some time ago, google it. But thanks for showing how much you actually care about animals and how much you care about passing snide remarks to the person who made your favorite person look bad.
[14:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:43] <exec> 08└─I can only hope Assange ends up at a black site for renditioning and what America doesn't consider "torture" anymore. Alas, Assange will turn like the rat that he is and he will start singing like a canary. He'll still do time, but he'll trade his cooperation for safe confinement from the internatio...
[14:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:45] <exec> 08└─You didn't even read the summary? USA has already filed an extradition request. What kind of mental gymnastics is required to think that the USA wouldn't have extradited him from Sweden? The whole fake rape case **filed** to get him extradited!
[14:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:47] <exec> 08└─Not that my opinion will garner much support, but I agree with you. Assange ended up being his own worst enemy. His ego and his dick got him into trouble, and now neither are of much help to him.
[14:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:49] <exec> 08└─Try reddit on your third attempt, you might find your people there.
[14:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:52] <exec> 08└─"British government had confirmed in writing that Mr Assange "would not be extradited to a country where he could face torture or the death penalty"." So not the US, then. Clearly to another country which hasn't made such a promise, and then they can send him to the country which tortures and kills.
[14:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:54] <exec> 08└─It's true I am an animal lover and was worried about his cat. Not my favorite person - I didn't vote for her (ever). Assange acting like an attention whore painted himself unworthy of my concerns long before the 2016 US election.
[14:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:56] <exec> 08└─I think we're more likely to see the "Assange is a Russian agent!" narrative spin back up so that it's too inconvenient to pardon the guy. But it will be interesting to see what he does, anyway.
[14:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:58] <exec> 08└─A Trump decision is not a coin flip. It is a Schrodinger's Kittens superposition of states. Each kitten has a Cheshire cat like state connected to the other kittens with non locality distance less than the planck length.
[14:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:01] <exec> 08└─The Swedish case didn't end as far as I know, it's more like they paused it due to not being able to investigate further in a manner of their choosing -- they couldn't interrogate/question him in a manner/place they wanted to and they assumed he was staying at the embassy indefinitely so he was out...
[14:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:03] <exec> 08└─It means he is qualified to be employed working on Unix.
[14:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:20] <exec> 08└─Populations relying on vaccination will be screwed if anything ever interrupts the supply, it is basically heroin addiction of an entire country.
[14:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:22] <exec> 08└─Good luck collecting anything.
[14:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:24] <exec> 08└─Have you examined the rates of vaccine injuries to compare?
[14:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:26] <exec> 08└─Except those other things have great value, measles vaccinations not so much. "If you're gonna get sick, can't beat the tamales" -brady bunch
[14:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:28] <exec> 08└─Yea, if they start quarantining people with minor colds or the flu I will be scared. Quarantine is fine to enter a place, like making a ship sit in port for a week. But going to people's homes and locking them up, no.
[14:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:31] <exec> 08└─Isn't this like anti-semitic, or something Hitler would have done? The mayor can forget about his chances for reelection.
[14:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:33] <exec> 08└─It looks like natural selection is on its way for the hipsters and/or Hasidim who populate Williamsburg. It must be the hipsters who are responsible for anti-vax sentiment in that neighborhood, though, because nobody is screaming that the city's decision is anti-Semitic, which they would instantly d...
[14:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:35] <exec> 08└─The crazy thing about anti-vaxx is that the guy who started it all in 1998, Andrew Wakefield, is a total sociopath who did it because he wanted to get rich. He was paid nearly £400,000 by a law firm that was trying to sue a vaccine manufacturer [briandeer.com] and he was trying to patent his own al...
[14:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:37] <exec> 08└─Rates of complications: Ear Infections Measles_1963 = 0.025 MMR_2018 = 0.015 Respiratory tract afflictions Measles_1963 = 0.038 MMR_2018 = 0.1 Encephalitis Measles_1963 = 0.001 MMR_2018 < 0.0007? (febrile convulsions = .002) Mortality Measles_1963 = 0.0002 MMR_2018 < 0.0007 Fever Measles_1963 ~ 1.0...
[14:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:40] <exec> 08└─Tamales is autocorrect for measles.
[14:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:42] <exec> 08└─I've never met anyone "anti-vaxx" who gave a shit about Andrew Wakefield. Sounds like a strawman.
[14:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:44] <exec> 08└─I didn't know Native Americans died because they were vaccinated. I thought they died because they were NOT vaccinated, because vaccination is basically exposing yourself to germs in a safe way.
[14:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 99-Year-Old Woman Lived and Died Not Knowing Her Organs Were in Wrong Places - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:55] <exec> 08└─Did she have children?
[14:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 99-Year-Old Woman Lived and Died Not Knowing Her Organs Were in Wrong Places - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:58] <exec> 08└─My father told me that his aunt had an upside down stomach--esophagus connected to the bottom of the stomach, small intestine at the top. She lived to 96, on baby/pureed food for her whole life. Several kids, all fairly normal. No autopsy to confirm if this was really true or not...
[14:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 99-Year-Old Woman Lived and Died Not Knowing Her Organs Were in Wrong Places - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:00] <exec> 08└─If 1 in 1000 snails are wound the wrong way, and there are no health consequences, it isn't worth a marketing blitz in the media.
[14:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pixelbook Tablets and Laptops: Not Dead - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:07] <exec> 08└─even old 8 bit computers had more local user functionality a kid could learn to program on old kit. a kid cant on google's stuff without voiding the warranty.
[14:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:52] <exec> 08└─Truth in labeling. If something is labeled "flushable", the average reader assumes this means "*safe* to flush", not just "possible to flush", because at the simplest level ANYTHING THAT FITS in the pipe is "flushable" from rocks to stuffed animals. Ask the average toddler.
[14:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:54] <exec> 08└─Depends where you are, water is a very localized resource. In really arid regions with limited water supplies there's often not a whole lot of farming or water-hungry industry going on, because there's just not enough water available during the best of times. It doesn't matter to me how much water i...
[14:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:56] <exec> 08└─There are alternatives to toilet paper and wipes. The French use bidets. They're weird to use at first, but they are effective. In college when our apartment ran out and couldn't manage to steal rolls from campus bathrooms our filipino roommate used a big gulp cup full of water and his hand. When we...
[14:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 1146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:58] <exec> 08└─> Why do you need to flush them if you have a septic tank? Why not store them directly there? ?? Is this an attempt at humor? Bought my house 11 years ago, it came with a septic system, the septic tank is basically a settling tank for solids. We open it twice a year to clean off the screen on the ta...
[14:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellowstone Scientists Find New Thermal Area; No, It Doesn't Mean a Volcano Eruption is Coming - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:49] <exec> 08└─It would be funny if the Chinese mission to the dark side of the Moon discovers a message left by the previous advanced human civilization before the melting polar ice caps wiped them out.
[14:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:28] <exec> 08└─Capitalism itself seems force us into unending growth and imperialism.
[14:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:30] <exec> 08└─That is not interesting, that is massively dystopian!!!
[14:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:11] <exec> 08└─From my understanding from one of the many articles related to these observations, with a black hole you expect to see the accretion disc "head on" no matter what direction you look at it from, due to the intense gravitational lensing it causes. We are talking about an area of space so intensely war...
[14:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Steam Battles Off-Topic Reviews — Flaming Old Games Because of Borderlands 3 Exclusive Deal - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:19] <exec> 08└─Both, I think. A group called Mektek was patching it for a while.
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[15:06:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 418 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:05] <exec> 08└─Assange is an egotist. He has grown a strange beard. But he's been one of the last still doing what journalists used to do, which is to investigate and expose the high and mighty. If any person ever deserved the protection of the world's most powerful democracy, he is it. Trump must pardon him (and...
[15:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 1306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:25] <exec> 08└─It is difficult to say who benefits from this more. The left MM has claimed this guy is responsible for everything but little green men. Maybe they've convinced themselves that their propaganda has turned him into a wedge issue they can win with. On the other hand, it is a huge 1st amendment case, a...
[15:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:27] <exec> 08└─Ecuador has finally had enough, and tells him to leave.
[15:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:29] <exec> 08└─Oh but they won't torture or use the death penalty on him, so that's all right then. Proof? How many British extraditions occurred last year, despite Britain being fully aware that the U.S. has persons tortured or facing the death penalty? One answer from the horse's mouth. [usembassy.gov]
[15:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:31] <exec> 08└─Or they extradite him on non death penalty charges, and they get added once he is in the US.
[15:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:34] <exec> 08└─There's no legal issue with extraditing someone to a country with the death penalty *provided* that they will not be sentenced to death, which could potentially mean a commitment to commute a death sentence to life in prison if the extradition request were to be made in connection where such a penal...
[15:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:36] <exec> 08└─He has grown a strange beard.
[15:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:38] <exec> 08└─Ultimately, he imprisoned himself for 8 long years.
[15:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah, for computer offences, with a maximum sentence of five years in prison. Which, let's be honest... I could probably stand up in any court in the world and get him prosecuted for... because he's definitely and knowingly released private information gained by *someone* intruding into computers th...
[15:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 1478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:43] <exec> 08└─"When was the appropriate time for Assange to stride out?" At latest, he still could have done this when they came to get him. Did you not see the video? They literally had to carry him out of the embassy, him thrashing and fussing the whole way. Seriously, have some dignity, man. As for the extradi...
[15:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 1383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:45] <exec> 08└─Ecuador made a deal with the UK On learning that the UK were arresting him for a DEFINITE UK crime committed on UK soil against UK courts, the UK then received a legal request from the US that the US said ages ago they would be filing. He now goes to court to argue why they shouldn't comply with tha...
[15:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah, sure. This is the last thing the U.S. will charge him with. They threw the book at him, but could only find 1 "computer crime" charge. Hopefully he or Wikileaks will continue to raise some hell. If you want silence, wear some earplugs.
[15:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:49] <exec> 08└─Where have we heard that, and similar, phrases before?
[15:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 3106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:51] <exec> 08└─What really ticked me off was the "Collateral Murder" video he released. There were two versions, the short popular one with his narrative and the full uncut original. The short version claimed to show American military recklessly and gleefully slaughtering children and a news reporter, seemingly fo...
[15:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:54] <exec> 08└─So wait. Are you telling me Trump is a quantum computer? My God!
[15:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:56] <exec> 08└─And now this. Ecuador has finally had enough...
[15:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:58] <exec> 08└─That actually sounds pretty silly. Assange "turned on everyone" years, and years ago. He exposed stuff in the UK, in Russia, in the US, he pissed off many smaller countries with his exposes. Somehow, he missed Ecuador, so they granted asylum. Then, revoked it when he pissed them off. Tell us, who do...
[15:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 1120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:00] <exec> 08└─Doesn't hide in an embassy of a country, shortly after being questioned about such things, yelling about all kinds of collusion and extradition after having deliberately gone to a country highly allied to both Sweden and the US, with extradition agreements with both upon request. They also don't pis...
[15:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well, he sat on his ass far too long. I'd have gone for that switcheroo long ago. It would have been best to act while the Ecuadoreans were still friendly toward him. At that point in time, they probably wouldn't have helped any, but they wouldn't have raced each other to the phone, to notify...
[15:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdccdevel [1329] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 1199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:05] <exec> 08└─Despite what some people say, I think this is a good thing for Assange. The man has been in a prison of his own making since 2012. He's been confined the same area as a small apartment. Sure, it's not solitary confinement, but it was still a jail of sorts. The situation he placed himself in was comp...
[15:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:07] <exec> 08└─The US extradition request ONLY mention computer charges. Sure, they could add more in theory later. But by definition the very FIRST thing they have to charge him with are the computer crime charges. Because without that, the extradition request doesn't even get activated.
[15:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:09] <exec> 08└─Update (9:35 am ET): With Assange in custody, Sweden appears to be reviving its prosecution of Assange on rape charges (stemming from him allegedly having unprotected sex against his consenting partners' wishes). Elisabeth Massi Fritz, a lawyer who represents one of Assange’s accusers in Sweden, h...
[15:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:12] <exec> 08└─All true. Yet, Assange only moderately angered me with that narrative thing on the video. Yeah, he was wrong, and he dumped on a lot of good men and women. That was dirty. But - freedom of the press. He doesn't HAVE to print stuff that you and I agree with, to enjoy "freedom" of the press. We have h...
[15:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:14] <exec> 08└─Comparing Trump to a Shroedinger's Cat doesn't work though, because that implies that after being observed he settles on one opinion and sticks with it.
[15:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:16] <exec> 08└─I wonder if this is somehow linked to the collapse of Russiagate, and Trump going after the deep state leadership (for better or worse). Perhaps this is a "hail mary" to keep Russiagate alive (despite Mueller looking like it's collapsing) by encouraging people to remember Assange supposedly caused H...
[15:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:19] <exec> 08└─They're going to try him secretly, claiming state's secrets, in order to deny him a platform to upbraid the power-elites. It would be wonderful, though, if he were given a public trial and his every word was published for months. It would be his double gift to transparency and democracy. You know, w...
[15:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:48] <exec> 08└─The Jews aren't the only ones being forced to vaccinate. Everyone is, with no exceptions unless there is a true medical contraindication that a doctor verifies. It's just that the Jews there were the ones who were largely not vaccinated, so it affects them more.
[15:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:50] <exec> 08└─Isn't this like anti-semitic, or something Hitler would have done? The mayor can forget about his chances for reelection.
[15:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:52] <exec> 08└─I see your Brady Bunch and raise you subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a devastating complication of measles that will eventually kill up to one in 609 who get the disease. https://respectfulinsolence.com
[15:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:54] <exec> 08└─1 in 609 is total bullshit. How many people were diagnosed with that back when everyone got measles? We're talking millions of people every year getting measles so there must have been tens of thousands getting SSPE. Just think about how idiotic that claim is. I see they arrived at that number from...
[15:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:56] <exec> 08└─I've never met anyone "anti-vaxx" who gave a shit about Andrew Wakefield.
[15:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:58] <exec> 08└─How about discussing actual numbers instead of strawmen: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[15:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:01] <exec> 08└─Ah, so DeBlasio doesn't have to care now if he pisses off the Jews. Unless he would entertain running for higher office.
[15:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 99-Year-Old Woman Lived and Died Not Knowing Her Organs Were in Wrong Places - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:13] <exec> 08└─Well, it makes you immune to Hokuto Shinken [youtube.com].
[15:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 99-Year-Old Woman Lived and Died Not Knowing Her Organs Were in Wrong Places - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:14] <exec> 08└─I'm a "Yahweh-worshipper" and I have NO problem with also believing in evolution, natural selection, gene mutation, ignorance, and massive stupidity.
[15:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 99-Year-Old Woman Lived and Died Not Knowing Her Organs Were in Wrong Places - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, and they all had dyslexia.
[15:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pixelbook Tablets and Laptops: Not Dead - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:25] <exec> 08└─You can easily put Linux on Google's ChromeOS products, which use coreboot. Not as easy with UEFI Windows boxes, IIRC. So you're wrong.
[15:08:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Pixelbook Tablets and Laptops: Not Dead - 964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:27] <exec> 08└─I got a Pixelbook almost exactly a year ago. The first thing I did is put it into developer mode. Install Crouton. Then several crouton containers with different flavors of Linux. These are cheap even with a decent amount of software -- about 5 GB each. In the Chrome OS Downloads folder, I create a...
[15:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:16] <exec> 08└─NO we should let corporations lie about their products and their safety and get away with it--the stupid people will just do what they are told. telling them not to do something will cause them to burst because they won't have conveniences denied, so they will go out of their way to be willfully ign...
[15:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 1111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:17] <exec> 08└─Are you serious? Tissues never have been flushable, never. If they were, they'd tear apart on your bristly face. They're like softer paper towels, which also are not flushable. The closest might be generic cheapo stuff parents buy for the kids to bring to school (if it's not a contest to show off in...
[15:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:19] <exec> 08└─Just pondering and musing . . . if someone had such things they needed to hide, then why don't they have the sense to invest in some hidden compartments within their house. Make those virtually impossible to detect. Then keep all of your non-Microsoft approved software there in the event of a no-kno...
[15:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:21] <exec> 08└─Toilet paper is designed to very quickly fall apart when wet.
[15:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:24] <exec> 08└─It is also trivially easy, and relatively inexpensive to put a hand held shower massage into a shower. The most minimalist of these have two settings. A regular shower head type spray, and then a tight narrow higher pressure spray which is, um, like a water pic for everything below the waist.
[15:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:26] <exec> 08└─What state were you in? In my upstate NY schools the tp was "normal", same as we bought at home except very thin and cheap. This was '60s and early '70s. Now, in England, I've seen waxed tp, very slippery. The type I saw was on an oval roll and was perforated/partially split into sheets after the ro...
[15:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:53] <exec> 08└─I do not drink. Yet I believe that trying Prohibition again would be a bad thing. The decline in funny YouTube videos would be a national emergency.
[15:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yellowstone Scientists Find New Thermal Area; No, It Doesn't Mean a Volcano Eruption is Coming - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:19] <exec> 08└─Not just China. Everyone is taking a look these days: https://www.techtimes.com [techtimes.com] I wouldn't expect evidence of a civilization though, just evidence that the surface was melted in the last ~3...
[15:10:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 21 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:46] <exec> 08└─People mostly behave.
[15:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:01] <exec> 08└─to affect future generations ... those bacteria are so fussy...
[15:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:02] <exec> 08└─Tyranny is not a contract that was entered into willingly. The debt is a lie.
[15:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:04] <exec> 08└─Is it "the US" that is opposed to single use plastics? Or is it Trump that is opposed? I doubt a single use condom exists that would properly fit on the misshapen tiny mushroom.
[15:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Falcon Heavy Block 5 Launch - Postponed: 6:35pm EDT Thursday (2019-04-12 22:35 UTC) [UPDATE2] - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:48] <exec> 08└─Can open source be reliable if anyone can edit it? And OMG -- the green site allows just any slob to create their own comments! Making it completely unreliable. I hope other sites don't fall into that trap.
[15:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Falcon Heavy Block 5 Launch - Postponed: 6:35pm EDT Thursday (2019-04-12 22:35 UTC) [UPDATE2] - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:50] <exec> 08└─Should we blame Musk for not coming up with a way to control the weather?
[15:12:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 958 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:03] <exec> 08└─Nobody's ever *directly* observed a black hole. We've indirectly inferred their existence. This is like spotting the first strand of DNA, the first atom, or the first quark.... just at the other end of the scale. We've always "known" black holes exist, and we've always thought we'd be able to see so...
[15:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 1057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:50] <exec> 08└─It's not a case of "2 years later [what they showed] resembles the picture reconstructed from the collected data". There was no "picture reconstructed from the collected data" until the images in the papers just published. Your assertion of there being a "coincidence" is you simply seeing or hearing...
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[16:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:03] <exec> 08└─MRSA and superfungi are being bred in the hospitals, not college campuses. Stray away from the hospital and you'll be fine.
[16:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:05] <exec> 08└─Yeah! The colleges are only breeding super-gonorrhea and super-chlamydia.
[16:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:07] <exec> 08└─Yes, why would deadly hard-to-treat diseases end up in a hospital? There must be a reason. It's not like people from all over would just... bring it there with them. That'd be crazy. Gotta be the employees.
[16:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:09] <exec> 08└─How long until some people claim that washing your hands causes autism or similar?
[16:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:11] <exec> 08└─After dinner at a restaurant with my uncle (20 years ago), I grabbed a mint from a bowl on the way out. Before I could start sucking on it, my uncle reported a university study, looking at what was on the surface of mints in a similar situation. Turns out there were more than just trace amounts of u...
[16:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:14] <exec> 08└─Yes, why would deadly hard-to-treat diseases end up in a hospital?
[16:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:16] <exec> 08└─To date, studies have shown that there is no added health benefit for consumers (this does not include professionals in the healthcare setting) using soaps containing antibacterial ingredients compared with using plain soap. CDC looks forward to any future data about the safety and effectiveness of...
[16:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:18] <exec> 08└─The first guy to suggest doctors should wash their hands was ridiculed by them and thrown in an insane asylum where he was beaten to death: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Do not fuck with doctors, they can be quite evil little beings.
[16:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Type44Q [4347] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:20] <exec> 08└─As my junk tends to be a lot cleaner than a public restroom, I wash my hands before I touch myself. ;)
[16:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:23] <exec> 08└─I can't remember seeing mints in a restaurant that were not individual wrapped. Now there are pretzles / peanuts in a bar -- but I don't go to bars.
[16:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:25] <exec> 08└─I'm a nail-biter. I touch door handles, counters, and other common areas, then stick my fingers in my mouth and gnaw on my nails. All that stuff that was on the handle/counter/etc is now in my mouth. ...and then I dig around for the mints... with my slobbery hands. I always go for the ones at the bo...
[16:06:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 1140 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:34] <exec> 08└─Julian Assange Charged by U.S. With Conspiracy to Hack a Government Computer [nytimes.com] The United States has charged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with one count of conspiracy to hack a computer related to his role in the 2010 release of reams of secret American documents, according to a crim...
[16:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:20] <exec> 08└─He is a great man, having done, having seen and having the balls to stand for his beliefs. He was brought down by the corrupts. You kept quite because it was through a woman - or in this case three women - because that is who you are. Of course, he has made a mistake. It is to try to hold your super...
[16:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:22] <exec> 08└─But he DOES stick with it. BREAKING NEWS - - - BREAKING NEWS - - - BREAKING NEWS - - - BREAKING NEWS FoxNews Alert: We have always been at war with Europe!
[16:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:24] <exec> 08└─It is to try to hold your superiors accountable. I don't. You don't.
[16:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:26] <exec> 08└─But he's been one of the last still doing what journalists used to do, which is to investigate and expose the high and mighty. If any person ever deserved the protection of the world's most powerful democracy, he is it.
[16:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:28] <exec> 08└─I suppose it's also possible the Trump administration could be looking to make hay from this situation also.
[16:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:31] <exec> 08└─He was holed up in a room with almost daily harassment from the embassy officials. His only companion a cat was forced up for adoption. He kept his sanity under such pressure a lot of people commit suicide. A lot. And he undertook a task that had the fucking biggest big brother wanting to unperson h...
[16:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:33] <exec> 08└─Well, that explains his hair color.
[16:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:35] <exec> 08└─What the US wants, the US gets eventually. Your laws be damned, remember the Austro-Bolivian affair. The only countries with a hope of frustrating the US are China and Russia.
[16:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 1598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:37] <exec> 08└─Its not complicated - trump says and does whatever he thinks is best for him in the moment. Its been well established the guy has narcissistic personality disorder. What's interesting is the origins of the disorder in childhood. One leading theory is that genetic tendencies are exacerbated by an env...
[16:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:40] <exec> 08└─No, it's a coin flip. He just calls heads AND tails.
[16:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:42] <exec> 08└─Those poor hazmat teams who have to clean his room, though. I hope they make it out alive.
[16:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:44] <exec> 08└─I just read, he's being extradited to face charges for "conspiracy to access a classified US Government Computer" in the USA. The same article indicates the charges come with a maximum penalty of 5 years in prison. So, 5 years from now, he's almost certainly going to be a free man.
[16:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:46] <exec> 08└─Why do you think the high and mighty of the world's most powerful "democracy" have been doing everything in their power to get rid of him for approximately 20 years?
[16:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:48] <exec> 08└─I love how you can blame the action of Trump's DOJ on the left. When the left was in charge of the DOJ it DID NOT PROSECUTE due to the very free speech issue you seem so concerned about.
[16:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:51] <exec> 08└─... because he's definitely and knowingly released private information gained by *someone* intruding into computers that don't belong to them - and knew that.
[16:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:53] <exec> 08└─What's "MM"?
[16:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:55] <exec> 08└─Nah, he isn't delusional. That is just his attitude towards life: Mr. Trump: You never know, you know again, the word—– I don’t know what the word permanent means, OK? I never know what the word permanent means.
[16:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:57] <exec> 08└─I like how this logic works - the high and mighty are unstoppable forces of evil and yet with all of their nefarious power they couldn't take out one guy.
[16:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:00] <exec> 08└─What kind of mental gymnastics is required to think that the USA wouldn't have extradited him from Sweden?
[16:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:02] <exec> 08└─Yes, the Seth Rich angle is the most interesting: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[16:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:04] <exec> 08└─"would not be extradited to a country where he could face torture or the death penalty"
[16:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:06] <exec> 08└─That actually sounds pretty silly. Assange "turned on everyone" years, and years ago. He exposed stuff in the UK, in Russia...
[16:08:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isostatic [365] 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 123 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:18] <exec> 08└─You're free to walk around without being vaccinated. You're free to have sex. You aren't free to do these things in public.
[16:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Informative) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:44] <exec> 08└─Oh look! Decontextualized numbers with only half-assed sourcing. The stock in trade of conspiracy theorist. GTFOH you mental defective.
[16:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:46] <exec> 08└─Of course the resident christian supremacist would also be an insane anti-vaxling. Take off the foxgoggles you stupid old fart.
[16:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:48] <exec> 08└─So import one Andrew Wakefield to the neighborhood, and the forced vaccination of the Jews is no longer an anti-Semitic act?
[16:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:50] <exec> 08└─strawmen.
[16:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:52] <exec> 08└─Half assed sourcing? The links to the studies describing where the numbers came from are right there. What more help do you need? It isn't like these are book length sources, they are a couple pages long. But we really know that you really just want an excuse to ignore evidence you don't like, so yo...
[16:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:55] <exec> 08└─Dunno about "Christian". The attitude expressed above is more in line with libertarianism. Gubbermint shouldn't be a nanny state, and they have to real authority to dictate any medical procedures. Gubbermint has the right to impose a quarantine, and there, their medical authority ends.
[16:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:57] <exec> 08└─advertised to detect if someone's autism was 'caused' by the MMR vaccine.
[16:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:59] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles [wikipedia.org]: Measles affects about 20 million people a year, primarily in the developing areas of Africa and Asia. While often regarded as a childhood illness, it can affect people of any age. It is one of the leading vaccine-preventable disease causes of de...
[16:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:01] <exec> 08└─Why would it be anti-Semitic when the vaccine will help them live longer?
[16:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:03] <exec> 08└─Apparently I'm a survivor. Grandpa had WWII, I survived MEASLES, there were no vaccinations, and a really lower death rate than what is apparently reported today. State of emergency, OMG. Why not declare one for car accidents, or the bee colonies collapse? those are an order of magnitude worse, at l...
[16:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:06] <exec> 08└─You can't compare measles complications in developing countries to the US. Instead look at the US/UK in the 1960s. Rate of complications had already dropped at least two orders of magnitude in those countries by then.
[16:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:08] <exec> 08└─And also, doesn't anyone find it strange that the cdc doesn't have a table like this on their web site? Quite odd that I should be forced to cobble one together.
[16:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:10] <exec> 08└─The first source was dated July 11, 1964 or over 54 years ago. The second source was much more recent (August 29, 2018). It advocates FOR high vaccination rates (emphasis added): The introduction of vaccines against measles, mumps, and rubella in childhood immunization programs has led to considerab...
[16:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:12] <exec> 08└─They could cut their welfare payments. Hit them where it hurts.
[16:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:15] <exec> 08└─Exactly. That was his plan - anyone can use his kit for "free" but he gets a cut of any settlements/awards due to litigation because he provides and 'certifies' the results.
[16:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:17] <exec> 08└─You can't compare measles complications in developing countries to the US. Instead look at the US/UK in the 1960s. Rate of complications had already dropped at least two orders of magnitude in those countries by then.
[16:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:19] <exec> 08└─Half assed sourcing? The links to the studies describing where the numbers came from are right there.
[16:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:21] <exec> 08└─If G*d wanted people to be vaccinated, he would have given everyone a cow.
[16:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 99-Year-Old Woman Lived and Died Not Knowing Her Organs Were in Wrong Places - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:37] <exec> 08└─Alright - note the sarcasm tag. But, that whole thing about turning three times widdershins? Yeah. WITCHCRAFT!!! Now you know what it does to them.
[16:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 99-Year-Old Woman Lived and Died Not Knowing Her Organs Were in Wrong Places - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:38] <exec> 08└─No, it's definitely worth the marketing blitz. Those snails could be sold to discerning palates the world over for a 1000% markup.
[16:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pixelbook Tablets and Laptops: Not Dead - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:48] <exec> 08└─A chromebook is perfect if you are sending your tot off to college to prepare for a spectacular career as a social media influencer. A chromebook can access both Facebook on one hand, and Twitter on the other hand, and YouTube on the other hand !!!
[16:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pixelbook Tablets and Laptops: Not Dead - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:50] <exec> 08└─If not, I'd be afraid of services being cancelled while my hardware is still in working condition.
[16:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:46] <exec> 08└─At the time, it was in the North Western part of KS.
[16:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:47] <exec> 08└─we should let selfish and stupid individuals ruin things, and burden everyone to pay for fixing the problems thus caused.
[16:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:49] <exec> 08└─Own up - you're one of those who believe that any taxation is "Heavy handed", aren't you? You're giving off all those tell-tale signs.
[16:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:52] <exec> 08└─It all depends on where you are. That's precisely why I said "parts of".
[16:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:54] <exec> 08└─You are talking to Snow, not The Mighty Buzzard!
[16:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:21] <exec> 08└─While, I don't advocate for the use of Alcohol in anything except medicine. I think we've been too ban happy with regards to things that people want to consume. Instead of learning our lesson from Prohibition, we've placed lots of "recreational" drugs on the list of prohibited things. I would sugges...
[16:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:23] <exec> 08└─Azuma Hazuki . . . socially acceptable. There's a joke hidden in there somewhere.
[16:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:25] <exec> 08└─Considering the patient in that joke didn't do those 3 things, he was already ahead of the curve. The "party lifestyle" isn't all it's cracked up to be. Just ask all the strung out celebrities. They have fame, wealth, and party like it's 1699. Yet, for all their wealth and "living it up", they're st...
[16:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:27] <exec> 08└─What people call depression is a perfectly rational (and unavoidable) response to the reality around them. I tend to keep it under control by not allowing myself to get too tired, underfed, overfed, or anxious; large doses of magnesium and aminoethanesulfonic acid (taurine) as well as coenzyme forms...
[16:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:39] <exec> 08└─Thank you. I really needed that image rolling around in my head first thing in the morning. :P
[16:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:41] <exec> 08└─Shut up russia: From wikipedia; Marxist economics was assessed as lacking relevance in 1988 by Robert M. Solow, who criticized the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics for over-sampling articles on Marxist themes, giving a "false impression of the state of play" in the economics profession. Solow st...
[16:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fallout76 Adds Repair Kits to Game Store - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:56] <exec> 08└─While, I have enjoyed quite a few text based games and even coded one myself, they have their limitations. Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics, Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, Fallout 4, and Fallout 4 VR are all really good games in their own right. Fallout76 and Fallout Shelter are in the same vein i...
[16:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Falcon Heavy Block 5 Launch - Postponed: 6:35pm EDT Thursday (2019-04-12 22:35 UTC) [UPDATE2] - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:29] <exec> 08└─Wait...i thought that ended ages ago. Am i missing a season or something?!?
[16:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 2413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:29] <exec> 08└─> And it just happens to spin around an axis that's oriented straight to the Solar system, for the benefit of human astronomers. Nope, not at all. Firstly, where did you get that "fact" from? Noone's stated it, or anything like it, so I can only imagine it's come out of some other dark hole. One poi...
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[17:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:36] <exec> 08└─Kindergarten teacher was big on asking us kids to wash hands after using the toilet. One day I told her proudly that I would wash before and after, to keep my "pee-pee" clean too. She gave me a very odd look...so I didn't talk about that subject again! Funny the things we remember from childhood...
[17:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:37] <exec> 08└─There are well-known solutions to this: copper/brass touch surfaces, air-filtering UVC fixtures (shielded of course!), good ol' bleach, and the list goes on. But infection prevention doesn't make people gobs and gobs of money like boner pills or statins or anything else they can force people onto fo...
[17:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:39] <exec> 08└─Yes, when using some restrooms1 to pee, I have sometimes wondered if my junk is cleaner than the facilities and consider whether or not washing is the best idea. But that has been very rare. On vacations I have hand sanitizers and disinfecting wipes available. Usually these are used to wipe hands be...
[17:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:42] <exec> 08└─industrial sources dominate origin of antibacterial resistant strains in natural environments [sciencedirect.com] Of course hospitals have them, and of course some strains originate in hospitals, but overwhelmingly the implication has been that antibiotic abuse, not antibiotic use, has been the prim...
[17:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:44] <exec> 08└─> ...peanuts in a bar -- but I don't go to bars. Local brew pub has good food (and I might have a beer with dinner). They have free peanuts, roasted in the shell so you have to pop them open yourself. Seems fairly sanitary? Shells go on the floor. I love to take parents with kids there, the kids lov...
[17:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:46] <exec> 08└─Yes, why would deadly hard-to-treat diseases end up in a hospital?
[17:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:48] <exec> 08└─On the subject of boner pills . . . I am not aware of anyone being forced to take boner pills for half a lifetime. Whether or not you need them, they are great. Don't knock them until you try them. Such a horrible drug to have to take in order to do extra . . . nevermind. Especially if your Dr. will...
[17:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:51] <exec> 08└─I have enjoyed eating at a local brewery occasionally. As for peanuts in the shells . . . Five Guys burgers.
[17:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:53] <exec> 08└─> If you think about hygiene too much you'll go crazy. Cause and effect reversed they can be.
[17:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:55] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure a boner pill would do me no good at all due to anatomical concerns...
[17:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:57] <exec> 08└─Further, they are frequently not covered by insurance so you often have to pay fully out of pocket. Remember the outcry about birth control being covered by insurance? Where is the equality?
[17:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:00] <exec> 08└─I don't have a vagina, but benefit from birth control...
[17:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:02] <exec> 08└─I had considered that even as I wrote it. Your sig gives it away. Years ago, I heard that if a female takes them it similarly affects the structure (clitoris) which would develop into a penis during gestation. Whether or not that effect would be desirable I cannot know. But asking your doctor probab...
[17:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 1055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:04] <exec> 08└─Right, because microbes don't spread. The doctors, nurses, orderlies, patients, etc. who are daily exposed to various "supergerms" bred by grossly irresponsible cleanliness and medical practices all spend the rest of their lives within the hospital, and never carry any supergerms out into the rest o...
[17:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:06] <exec> 08└─It is probably a choice made by my employer. But I can assure that boner pills are in fact mostly paid for by insurance. The out of pocket cost is somewhat higher than other drugs, but not terrible. (Ironically, narcotic pain killers $5 / 30. Something seems wrong here?) I had heard about an outcry...
[17:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:09] <exec> 08└─I don't wash my hands after peeing since "I" can get in and out without having to grab any part of my body. Hmm.. maybe all the other guys are a lot bigger than I am. Now I have hand-washing envy :( . Oh, and I also learned at an early age not to pee all over my hands and fingers.
[17:07:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 244 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:30] <exec> 08└─You didn't even read the summary? USA has already filed an extradition request. What kind of mental gymnastics is required to think that the USA wouldn't have extradited him from Sweden? The whole fake rape case **filed** to get him extradited!
[17:07:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheFool [7105] 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 194 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:35] <exec> 08└─I think we're more likely to see the "Assange is a Russian agent!" narrative spin back up so that it's too inconvenient to pardon the guy. But it will be interesting to see what he does, anyway.
[17:07:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 55 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:41] <exec> 08└─Ecuador has finally had enough, and tells him to leave.
[17:07:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 502 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:54] <exec> 08└─That actually sounds pretty silly. Assange "turned on everyone" years, and years ago. He exposed stuff in the UK, in Russia, in the US, he pissed off many smaller countries with his exposes. Somehow, he missed Ecuador, so they granted asylum. Then, revoked it when he pissed them off. Tell us, who do...
[17:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:27] <exec> 08└─Also the charge is pretty weak. They say he conspired with Manning to crack a SIPRnet password (SIPRnet is like a DoD classified internet but classification is just SECRET level). He failed to crack the password so the conspiracy didnt even yield results. Even a failed conspiracy is a crime (just l...
[17:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:28] <exec> 08└─In this context I would assume "MM" is "Mainstream Media".
[17:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:30] <exec> 08└─MODDED UP! And this is a fair description of a few people on this site I can name too...
[17:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:33] <exec> 08└─At latest, he still could have done this when they came to get him. Did you not see the video? They literally had to carry him out of the embassy, him thrashing and fussing the whole way. Seriously, have some dignity, man.
[17:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:35] <exec> 08└─testify that Seth Rich was indeed the DNC leaker.
[17:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:37] <exec> 08└─Then what do you call Trump's Press Briefings?
[17:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:39] <exec> 08└─Seth Rich as leaker is a lie. And the people who lied to you about it admitted it privately. [thedailybeast.com]
[17:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:41] <exec> 08└─What kind of mental gymnastics is required to think that the USA wouldn't have extradited him from Sweden? He was in the UK, for a couple of years. He claimed he didn't want to get extradited to Sweden because the U.S. would extradite him from there. Why wouldn't the U.S. simply extradite him from t...
[17:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:44] <exec> 08└─I call them fake news.
[17:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:46] <exec> 08└─Claims to have all the answers now but really not enough current knowledge to solve things a pocket calculator can? A really popular and over-hyped subject that real people shouldn't care about in the slightest but are fascinated with? Something which promises to revolutionize everything yet nothing...
[17:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:48] <exec> 08└─Maybe Ted Cruz is his hero.
[17:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:51] <exec> 08└─The two are not incongruent with each other.
[17:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:53] <exec> 08└─If a woman didn't get him Polonium-210 would. Guys like this have to be thinking YOLO all the time. So if I were in his line of work I'd take all the pussy they threw at me, because tomorrow I may glow.
[17:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:55] <exec> 08└─You need to read what Manning has testified he told her to do. It's a conspiracy charge, so he only has to have encouraged it, known about it and not reported it, and yet he went much further than even that - encouraging her to continue to do it more, knowing exactly that what they were doing is ill...
[17:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:57] <exec> 08└─Someone wants to try feeding some psychoanalytic AI all of Azuma's kind outbursts of compassion towards other SN users, so that she can finally be certified with Mother Theresa levels of sanity?
[17:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:59] <exec> 08└─On or about August 2, 2016, CORSI responded to Person 1 by email. CORSI wrote that he was currently in Europe and planned to return in mid-August. CORSI stated: “Word is friend in embassy plans 2 more dumps. One shortly after I’m back. 2nd in Oct. Impact planned to be very damaging.... Time to l...
[17:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:02] <exec> 08└─Well, the fact that this stuff is all new.
[17:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:04] <exec> 08└─I thought the last straw was drinking the last cup of coffee and not making a new pot?
[17:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:06] <exec> 08└─Yep, agreed, that would count as "participation" in my book. Mostly just pointing out that all the arguments claiming it's a clear free speech issue are missing the point.
[17:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:09] <exec> 08└─And we have our answer: President Trump told reporters in the White House press pool that "I know nothing about Wikileaks. It's not my thing."
[17:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:03] <exec> 08└─You've got it opposite, who got wiped out by disease when Native Americans met Europeans?
[17:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:05] <exec> 08└─Why can't they be compared? It is because of vaccinations in those countries that the number of deaths was dramatically reduced.
[17:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 1444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:07] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I do not get the purpose of your post. The relevant part of those sources is the data on complication rates. I think I got all of it in these quotes: The incidence of fever reported as solicited general symptom during the 43-day post-vaccination period was also similar between groups, with...
[17:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:09] <exec> 08└─You provided no sources
[17:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 99-Year-Old Woman Lived and Died Not Knowing Her Organs Were in Wrong Places - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:27] <exec> 08└─Wait, for all this time I was told we feminists are *anti*-Christ. I've been constantly picking out Yahweh's flaws by name. Where the hell are you getting this?
[17:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:40] <exec> 08└─>Microsoft software If that ain't good to flush, nothing is... JK nothing except systemd.
[17:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:41] <exec> 08└─Whatever. Eventually can easily exceed a day, and then you're stuck using an auger or calling someone. But no, instead of improving plumbing standards, the industry whines about wipes.
[17:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:14] <exec> 08└─What people call depression is a perfectly rational (and unavoidable) response to the reality around them.
[17:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:16] <exec> 08└─I imagine that is the exact same thought process of every man-made-climate-change scientist today.
[17:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:18] <exec> 08└─Was that supposed to hurt? Here's a clue: being well-adjusted to a sick society is not wellness; it is merely conformity. Have you looked around and seen what "normal" people act like? I may not be "normal" but in a hell of a lot of ways my abnormalities are better than the norm.
[17:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellowstone Scientists Find New Thermal Area; No, It Doesn't Mean a Volcano Eruption is Coming - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:45] <exec> 08└─Did you read the article? The claim is that only the crust slips, so the top few dozen kilometres. Given how much ice stacks up on the poles during an ice age, a few orders of magnitude yes, if many means more than five or six then no. I don't really think it is likely, the masses involved are much...
[17:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yellowstone Scientists Find New Thermal Area; No, It Doesn't Mean a Volcano Eruption is Coming - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:47] <exec> 08└─"surface was melted" is too strong a statement. "Residue from thin crust of melt was found over about half the surface" seems much more likely. IF there was a large flare sufficient to cause melting, only the side facing the sun would be affected, and there doesn't seem any evidence that more than a...
[17:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:33] <exec> 08└─Wrong. Don't ban single use plastics, require that they be biodegradable. This can be tricky for some applications, e.g. the liners of metal cans of food that isn't dry, so it may require some development, but certainly for plastics that don't need to handle extended submersion you can replace them...
[17:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:34] <exec> 08└─When the only way to buy your meat [citymarket.coop] and veggies [abc.net.au] is wrapped in plastic, what chance do you, as an involuntary user, have to avoid the use of plastic?
[17:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 1678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:36] <exec> 08└─There do exist plastic eating bacteria, but they are **SLOW**, and quite particular about just which plastics they will eat. The reason for this is part of the use-case of plastic: plastics aren't soluble in water. So bacteria can only get at a very small fraction of the matter. Also they are report...
[17:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Falcon Heavy Block 5 Launch - Postponed: 6:35pm EDT Thursday (2019-04-12 22:35 UTC) [UPDATE2] - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:24] <exec> 08└─This is the manga, not the anime. It's still ongoing, and has gone some quite different directions from the anime.
[17:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:25] <exec> 08└─Yes. It certainly narrows the plausible alternatives. And it (so far) matches expected predictions. But there's a whole lot of assumptions involved in interpreting the data, and the resolution isn't that good. (Well, it would have been foolish to expect better, but still, ...) So, AFAIKT, it's consi...
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[18:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:45] <exec> 08└─But how come I've never went to college and still got both of those diseases? You telling me there's a secret college near my home?!
[18:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:46] <exec> 08└─The concern is poo, yes? OK, so you shouldn't get that on your hands anyway (toilet paper is provided) but how is that not going to contaminate the handles? If you don't wash: your hands have poo from exactly 1 person, harmless to you If you do wash: your hands contain poo from everybody who ever us...
[18:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:48] <exec> 08└─I can only speak about Cialis (generic: tadalafil). The physical response must already be working. It can only improve things. From what I am told (but do not have first hand knowledge) viagra kind of forces the issue, and only for four hours. Cialis works for almost 36 hours. So you can take it Fri...
[18:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:51] <exec> 08└─The door handle. If it must be pulled, I tend to use the last two fingers (pinky-ring) of left hand to pull the handle open. At Disney most outdoor restrooms don't have any doors. Just a large U shaped entry way. Similarly at some airports no doors.
[18:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:53] <exec> 08└─don't forget the house keeping & janitorial staff, too.
[18:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:55] <exec> 08└─> I'm a nail-biter. I was until about age 30. (long ago) Now I'm just sayin' . . . it is my personal experience, I don't know why these two things are strongly connected in my mind. I switched to a Southern Baptist church, played piano in early service. After a while I noticed I had stopped biting....
[18:07:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 290 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:28] <exec> 08└─Oh but they won't torture or use the death penalty on him, so that's all right then. Proof? How many British extraditions occurred last year, despite Britain being fully aware that the U.S. has persons tortured or facing the death penalty? One answer from the horse's mouth. [usembassy.gov]
[18:07:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 274 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:45] <exec> 08└─The US extradition request ONLY mention computer charges. Sure, they could add more in theory later. But by definition the very FIRST thing they have to charge him with are the computer crime charges. Because without that, the extradition request doesn't even get activated.
[18:07:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 219 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:54] <exec> 08└─But he's been one of the last still doing what journalists used to do, which is to investigate and expose the high and mighty. If any person ever deserved the protection of the world's most powerful democracy, he is it.
[18:07:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 1598 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:00] <exec> 08└─Its not complicated - trump says and does whatever he thinks is best for him in the moment. Its been well established the guy has narcissistic personality disorder. What's interesting is the origins of the disorder in childhood. One leading theory is that genetic tendencies are exacerbated by an env...
[18:08:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 282 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:04] <exec> 08└─I just read, he's being extradited to face charges for "conspiracy to access a classified US Government Computer" in the USA. The same article indicates the charges come with a maximum penalty of 5 years in prison. So, 5 years from now, he's almost certainly going to be a free man.
[18:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:34] <exec> 08└─More like an evil Beowulf cluster of quantum magic 8-balls.
[18:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:36] <exec> 08└─Not to mention that all the far-leftie sources have been defending Assange. Right-wingers consistently amaze me.
[18:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:38] <exec> 08└─I'd take all the pussy they threw at me
[18:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:40] <exec> 08└─are you referring to the "trump doj" that has been trying to get him arrested or impeached since he got in office? fucking authoritarian state socialist piece of shit.
[18:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:42] <exec> 08└─She lost. Get over it. She is an evil witch and if she runs again she'll lose, again, and Trump will win, again.
[18:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:45] <exec> 08└─They wouldn't know one way or the other. Assange is one of very few people who would know. Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi are allowed to change their mind, switching from "hackers" to "Seth Rich". At this point the circumstantial evidence is very strong, and we're just waiting for Assange to confirm i...
[18:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdccdevel [1329] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 1421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:47] <exec> 08└─You do remember that Chelsea Manning was charged, convicted, and already released for her part in this so-called conspiracy? (Yes, She's in jail again, but that's for a different set of charges.) Considering that she's the one who actually gave WikiLeaks the documents, I'd say the chances of him get...
[18:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:49] <exec> 08└─conspiracy theorist? what a stupid bitch.
[18:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 2596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:51] <exec> 08└─Except that when you strip away all your characterizations what you get is: A group of people were walking down a street the way anybody would in a combat zone (don't clump up). We now know at least two of them had things slung which were not weapons. Could others have had weapons? At 3:01, right be...
[18:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:53] <exec> 08└─Well, since you were clearly wrong the other day when you thought that the Wikileaks' announcement that he was about to be given up was just more grandstanding by him... No, I'll just assume you're wrong this time too.
[18:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:56] <exec> 08└─I'll raise it and offer you some beautiful oceanfront property in Kansas, too. And no, there is no way they will let him die from Bubba. They need him to be degraded first so he won't be a martyr.
[18:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:55] <exec> 08└─LOL, good one.
[18:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:57] <exec> 08└─someone needs to get off their ass and shoot bill deblasio in the fucking face.
[18:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bryan [29] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pixelbook Tablets and Laptops: Not Dead - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:28] <exec> 08└─Ever try it? When you bootup the device, you get a fullscreen (bios/uefi/coreboot?) warning that says "OS verification is off, press SPACE to re-enable". If you accidentally follow the directions and hit the space key, then *poof*, the device helpfully wipes itself along with all of your files and p...
[18:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:06] <exec> 08└─I'm sure the climate scientists are concerned about methane as well.
[18:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:08] <exec> 08└─OTOH, I do think that banning commercial advertisements by anyone except the actual vendor to anyone except reasonably potential customers should be illegal, and subject to a moderate per instance of violation fine. $500 sounds about right, with percentage decreases for "I had reasonable grounds to...
[18:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 1327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:10] <exec> 08└─OK. But being depressed isn't a helpful reaction. Denying reality isn't good, but if you're depressed you're less inclined to do what you can to improve things (personally, socially, or both). That said, I wouldn't recommend drugs as the best approach unless there's a medical problem. Mindfullness c...
[18:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yellowstone Scientists Find New Thermal Area; No, It Doesn't Mean a Volcano Eruption is Coming - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:39] <exec> 08└─IF there was a large flare sufficient to cause melting, only the side facing the sun would be affected
[18:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yellowstone Scientists Find New Thermal Area; No, It Doesn't Mean a Volcano Eruption is Coming - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:41] <exec> 08└─The other point I find interesting is that if the continents are floating on magma, they should be migrating towards the equator.
[18:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:30] <exec> 08└─storage...or production. if the car could create fuel from the air or increase solar efficiency then you wouldn't need to store any or much.
[18:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03CandaceRicci [7645] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Falcon Heavy Block 5 Launch - Postponed: 6:35pm EDT Thursday (2019-04-12 22:35 UTC) [UPDATE2] - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:20] <exec> 08└─After reading i cannot understand a single thing what is about
[18:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rocket Lab Will Build Satellites for Launch Customers - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:29] <exec> 08└─How much per oz/kilo to send something into low-earth orbit? Are we talking entry-level prices? $500 USD? Or is this the "Tesla" of space? - We'll send it up and bring it down for $30,000 USD per oz
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[19:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Brain Genes Given to Monkeys - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:02] <exec> 08└─The fools! Don't they know this is how Lancelot Link [youtube.com] came about?
[19:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Genes Given to Monkeys - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:04] <exec> 08└─Wasn't there a movie about somebody doing this awhile back? Didn't end well for Humans as I recall. On a serious note: What will they do if they suddenly end up with a chimp that can beat you at chess? While I find this kind of research interesting it also frightens me when I think about the "what...
[19:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Human Brain Genes Given to Monkeys - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:06] <exec> 08└─deathmonkey
[19:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Human Brain Genes Given to Monkeys - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:08] <exec> 08└─Those scenarios are amusing and funny . . . unless one were to turn out to become reality. Then it is frightening. Animals generally have superior claws, teeth, muscles, strength, speed, agility compared to puny humans. Although humans have larger penises for body size compared to all other primates...
[19:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Human Brain Genes Given to Monkeys - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:10] <exec> 08└─We do have pretty good endurance.
[19:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Wants to Ban (or Control?) Bitcoin Mining - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:18] <exec> 08└─This is the most harmless, least worthy of concern, and rates even lower than banning the Christopher Robin movie because some dissents refer to Chairman Xi as "Winnie the Pooh"
[19:06:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 554 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:38] <exec> 08└─industrial sources dominate origin of antibacterial resistant strains in natural environments [sciencedirect.com] Of course hospitals have them, and of course some strains originate in hospitals, but overwhelmingly the implication has been that antibiotic abuse, not antibiotic use, has been the prim...
[19:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:59] <exec> 08└─Almost a quarter of people washed their hands without soap
[19:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:00] <exec> 08└─Indeed, I've heard good things about "weekenders". But throw in some attractive students or cheerleaders putting themselves on display, and you have to admit the potential for discomfort is at least enhanced. My main point though is that sexual disfunction in women is sadly a far less easily tractab...
[19:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:02] <exec> 08└─Yes. And sadly it is not the only thing where women are at an unfortunate and unfair disadvantage. There are maybe some advantages, like not having a biological urge that powerfully invades your conscious thoughts in a driving way.
[19:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:05] <exec> 08└─I have never seen a bar of soap. It is always a gel-soap type dispenser. Push on the handle and a small handful of gel soap is dispensed into your hand. Another type, but almost gone from existence is leaf soap. Push a button and a tiny paper like sheet of soap is dispensed into your hand.
[19:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:54] <exec> 08└─Actually, this is a very old system of social control, dating back to at least Ancient Egypt. Provinces not supportive of the current pharaoh were subject to being denied water. In China they were more direct, and in times of famine the army came into rebellious provinces, took their food, and distr...
[19:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:56] <exec> 08└─Actually, they died because their ancestors hadn't grown up exposed to the disease. Vaccination is sort of a work around, but it does allow those with weaker immunity to a disease to propagate. So shouldn't we reintroduce smallpox? OTOH, if technical civilization survives, immunity will be improved...
[19:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:58] <exec> 08└─Only those who have forgotten medical history would be wiped out. Most vaccines can be cultured using 19th century technology or even less. For measles, we could resort to either arm to arm innoculation (far from ideal, but a lower mortality than just letting nature take it's course), or cowpox inno...
[19:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 99-Year-Old Woman Lived and Died Not Knowing Her Organs Were in Wrong Places - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:17] <exec> 08└─Neither is Soylent News. It is at least mildly interesting to people with an interest in medicine or biology. Soylent's readership will have a higher concentration of such people than the CBS Nightly News.
[19:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unknown Species of Tiny Ancient Human Discovered in Philippine Cave - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:40] <exec> 08└─Hobbits, dwarves, just need to discover elves and orcs
[19:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:10] <exec> 08└─Won't someone PLEEEASSE think of the Florida Man!?!?!
[19:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:31] <exec> 08└─The US already does a reasonably good job of keeping plastics out of the ocean. Nearly all municipalities (and all industry) are required to have stormwater controls that remove that stuff before it gets into the rivers and stream. The problem the well-informed are trying to address with e.g. plasti...
[19:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fallout76 Adds Repair Kits to Game Store - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:47] <exec> 08└─I am the original poster. I have a degree in psychology. I understand variable reinforcement schedules. You should too...
[19:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:23] <exec> 08└─I never would have pegged c0lo as a black-hole denier. Some times one must just defer to the expertise of those who are better at confirmation bias and making stuff up than one is oneself.
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[20:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private Spacecraft Failed Moon Landing Today [UPDATED] - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:02] <exec> 08└─I was not able to watch. Kept cutting out -- which is unusual for YouTube. My friend who was able to watch IMed me and said it wasn't in English. While I have learned the Hebrew alphabet, and can sound out written words like a first grader learning to read -- I don't know what most of those words me...
[20:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Private Spacecraft Failed Moon Landing Today [UPDATED] - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:03] <exec> 08└─It was unsuccessful :-( Sorry guys.
[20:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Private Spacecraft Failed Moon Landing Today [UPDATED] - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:05] <exec> 08└─Main engine failed at low(-ish) altitude. Last telemetry said 134m/s descent rate.
[20:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Private Spacecraft Failed Moon Landing Today [UPDATED] - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:07] <exec> 08└─Maybe some of the knick knacks they sent will survive on the surface.
[20:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Private Spacecraft Failed Moon Landing Today [UPDATED] - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:10] <exec> 08└─They seem to be unsure whether they are a private company or not. Public: they were only the 7th country to successfully orbit the moon.
[20:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Private Spacecraft Failed Moon Landing Today [UPDATED] - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:12] <exec> 08└─The failure is private, the success belongs to the country.
[20:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Human Brain Genes Given to Monkeys - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:26] <exec> 08└─I am also tremendously concerned, I believe it was an experiment like this in the 50's that created middle management.
[20:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Genes Given to Monkeys - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:27] <exec> 08└─Because we can sweat with our whole body for cooling whereas our prey animals can only pant with their tongue. They may outrun us, but we catch up to them, they must run some more. Repeat. Before long, they can no longer run. At least that is how I remember it from a cable tv documentary back when t...
[20:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Brain Genes Given to Monkeys - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:29] <exec> 08└─Fortunately the Chinese have a long way to go before they can build monkeys that can match human intelligence.
[20:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Genes Given to Monkeys - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:32] <exec> 08└─I tend to agree. But other scenarios seemed highly overblown. Pollution would never cause a problem. We don't really need unleaded gasoline do we? Large scale nuclear ("nook-u-lar") war would never happen. Or if it did, it wouldn't be a big deal. Global warming . . . the president says not to worry...
[20:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Human Brain Genes Given to Monkeys - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:34] <exec> 08└─Not for all values of $HUMAN, my friend.
[20:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken [5985] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Human Brain Genes Given to Monkeys - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:36] <exec> 08└─"Ah, damn you..."
[20:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Genes Given to Monkeys - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:38] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, perhaps we can follow a more optimistic path like that described in Startide Rising. If we're going to figure out how to solve the common challenge of climate change perhaps it would be advantageous to uplift monkeys, dolphins, whales, and other high-intelligence species. Maybe to...
[20:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Human Brain Genes Given to Monkeys - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:41] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting [wikipedia.org]
[20:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Human Brain Genes Given to Monkeys - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:43] <exec> 08└─They removed genes in that one. Very different I think.
[20:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:26] <exec> 08└─State of emergency, OMG. Why not declare one for car accidents, or the bee colonies collapse? those are an order of magnitude worse, at least. Likely, declaring emergency is wrong when the other party does it.
[20:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:28] <exec> 08└─Their freedom to walk around infectious ends at dead babies.
[20:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:30] <exec> 08└─Yes, half-assed. You're comparing a vaccine that confers immunity to THREE diseases to the effects of getting just ONE of those diseases. You're also tipping the scale by equating mild to moderate congestion to life threatening pulmonary failure. Consider, if the vaccinated person gets a fever of 37...
[20:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:32] <exec> 08└─Ah, so DeBlasio doesn't have to care now if he pisses off the Jews. Unless he would entertain running for higher office.
[20:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:34] <exec> 08└─someone needs to get off their ass and shoot bill deblasio in the fucking face.
[20:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pixelbook Tablets and Laptops: Not Dead - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:06] <exec> 08└─No love lost for the Chromebook from me, but I will say the principle is solid. If you rate your ability to learn to program as the computer's utility, then you can easily program in a web based environment. Beyond that you can buy a VPS for further development. Last year I bought a cheap Win10 lapt...
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[21:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Cloud Introduces New Long-Term/Cold Storage Tier - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:04] <exec> 08└─Oh hey, google adspam. Nice. Should we change the color of the site to green? -- If I could have saved all the money I've spent on pizza, I'd spend it on pizza.
[21:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Cloud Introduces New Long-Term/Cold Storage Tier - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:05] <exec> 08└─...I guess they had to figure out what to do with all that ex-Google+ storage anyway. -- Diapers and Politicians should be changed often. Both for the same reason.
[21:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Cloud Introduces New Long-Term/Cold Storage Tier - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:08] <exec> 08└─And, how long before Google shuts this service down ??
[21:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Private Spacecraft Failed Moon Landing Today [UPDATED] - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:20] <exec> 08└─300 mph
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[21:06:22] <exec> 08└─In the US it is the opposite. Profits are private, Costs belong to the country. Success is private, Failure belongs to the country.
[21:06:23] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Private Spacecraft Failed Moon Landing Today [UPDATED] - 98 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:24] <exec> 08└─crash at 1:04. The handling problems are apparent. -> https://youtu.be [youtu.be]
[21:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Private Spacecraft Failed Moon Landing Today [UPDATED] - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:26] <exec> 08└─> While I have learned the Hebrew alphabet, and can sound out written words like a first grader learning to read -- I don't know what most of those words mean. Very easy. For example, during rocket landings: Oy vey = oh shit.
[21:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private Spacecraft Failed Moon Landing Today [UPDATED] - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:29] <exec> 08└─I think it's actually a lot simpler, and a lot more universal: Material profits are private, symbolic successes and failures are shared, along with the material costs.
[21:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Genes Given to Monkeys - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:52] <exec> 08└─An observation: Persistence Hunting would seem to keep prey exhausted and in fear for its life for the longest possible time until it makes a decision to give up, or futility to continue running.
[21:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Genes Given to Monkeys - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:53] <exec> 08└─Middle management needs to keep the jeans on please.
[21:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Genes Given to Monkeys - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:55] <exec> 08└─It's more than just psychological - chase them long enough an they'll actually die from exhaustion, or more likely you'll catch them when they're just to physically exhausted to run any more. It's not that surprising - tales abound of people riding horses to death, and those horses aren't even in fe...
[21:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:48] <exec> 08└─How did people enjoy getting older in times past.
[21:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:49] <exec> 08└─Yeah, hand wash is no substitute for real soap. (Maybe it is good enough in the context of this article.) Use it several times in one day and it leaves some sort of residue on your hands, no matter how much you try to rinse it off. I can't wait to get home and use real soap when that happens.
[21:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:51] <exec> 08└─And the bastards "washed their hands" of the outcome, didn't they!?
[21:09:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 368 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:50] <exec> 08└─Autism hasn't been linked to vaccines in a scientifically accepted study, yet. Neither has it been adequately explained in a manner that makes it preventable, curable, or even reliably predictable. Freedom to choose, has been an on again, off again, foundation of U.S. society. Call it religion, call...
[21:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:49] <exec> 08└─The studies themselves are fine, but they were not designed to be directly comparable.
[21:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:50] <exec> 08└─If that's the best you can find, your correct report is "I've got nothing". If I want to compare the apple harvest this year to the past 5, there is no point in even bothering to report if all I can find is figures for oranges in 1953. Actually, even trying to draw a conclusion from those two sets o...
[21:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:53] <exec> 08└─New York is a wonderful place where a woman can abort a third trimester baby yet pay a fine for not getting a vaccination. Her body her choice!
[21:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:55] <exec> 08└─Not that I agree, but... are you capable of continuing along your line of thought to the logical conclusion? That there is somehow no good data available regarding whether measles vaccines are a good idea or not? Because that is what you are saying.
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[22:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create Cleaner Rocket Fuel Using Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:08] <exec> 08└─I'd say that's the wrong adjective.
[22:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create Cleaner Rocket Fuel Using Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:09] <exec> 08└─Scientists Create Cleaner Rocket Fuel Using Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks.
[22:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Cloud Introduces New Long-Term/Cold Storage Tier - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:20] <exec> 08└─Everybody's on the same page there. I was about to mock the headline for including Google and "long term" in the same sentence. Long term is Heinz Ketchup and *Body by Fisher [wikimedia.org]*
[22:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Google Cloud Introduces New Long-Term/Cold Storage Tier - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:21] <exec> 08└─I was gonna make that joke too ... Then I remembered that Google shuts down projects and features, but can definitely be trusted never to lose your personal data.
[22:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Google Cloud Introduces New Long-Term/Cold Storage Tier - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:24] <exec> 08└─So $0.0012 is significantly cheaper than $0.002, but competitive with $0.004... did you link in a comparison library written by a millennial using Ruby on Rails?
[22:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Cloud Introduces New Long-Term/Cold Storage Tier - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:26] <exec> 08└─"Cold Storage" "Cloud" I don't understand. Is this part of the double think programming?
[22:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private Spacecraft Failed Moon Landing Today [UPDATED] - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:44] <exec> 08└─That's how fast it was going down It was also going horizontally at 1km/s (Mach 3 around here). A video of the crash and tumbling in the low gravity would be quite impressive. Bibi (was in the room) can't win every day.
[22:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Private Spacecraft Failed Moon Landing Today [UPDATED] - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:45] <exec> 08└─The parachute failed and the lander turned into gefilte fish.
[22:06:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Human Brain Genes Given to Monkeys - 594 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:56] <exec> 08└─Those scenarios are amusing and funny . . . unless one were to turn out to become reality. Then it is frightening. Animals generally have superior claws, teeth, muscles, strength, speed, agility compared to puny humans. Although humans have larger penises for body size compared to all other primates...
[22:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Genes Given to Monkeys - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:12] <exec> 08└─I have kids at home.
[22:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Wants to Ban (or Control?) Bitcoin Mining - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:20] <exec> 08└─This is the Achilles' heel, one party (no pun intended) controlling it all by owning more than 50% of the raw computing power. And then there is the astronomical electricity usage...
[22:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:09] <exec> 08└─Or use a dry part of the paper towel, after drying your hands.
[22:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:11] <exec> 08└─Cuba: no "antibiotic abuse" to speak of, yet resistant microbes are there. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov]
[22:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:13] <exec> 08└─Any carbon atom and ATP molecule that goes into producing resistance factors, is taken from the ultimate goal: replication. Spend resources on unnecessary defence, get outcompeted by every other cell around you. On top of it, bacterial genes mutate. A lot. Without selective pressure to cull out all...
[22:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:15] <exec> 08└─Use the last paper towel you dried your hands with to open the door, block it open with your foot while throwing the wadded towel for 2 points.
[22:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In a World of MRSA and Superfungi, You Need to Start Washing Your Hands Correctly - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:17] <exec> 08└─If only the liquid soap-like substance didn't smell slightly worse than the result of slapping a skunk's ass...
[22:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 2254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:19] <exec> 08└─Okay, maybe I am misunderstanding what you are advocating. Are you suggesting that, because of complications, people should not be vaccinated? Or that we should go all out and vaccinate everyone we can until we can eradicate the disease? I sensed you were advocating for no vaccination. If you were a...
[22:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:21] <exec> 08└─No, what I'm saying is that your data and research were not adequate to the task. The data likely IS out there but it's on a high shelf and so cannot be reached without getting up from the armchair. Since the data you are looking for is decades pre-internet, you will likely need to spend some time i...
[22:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:23] <exec> 08└─First, there isn't a single reference on that page so I have no idea where those numbers are coming from. There isn't even an author to hold responsible, so I don't consider it a reliable source. goal of eradicating this disease.
[22:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:25] <exec> 08└─The data likely IS out there but it's on a high shelf and so cannot be reached without getting up from the armchair.
[22:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:28] <exec> 08└─Prove me wrong. Find reference to a single paper about a double blind RCT of a measles vaccine so we can do a direct comparison of complications. I would love to see it.
[22:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:30] <exec> 08└─And yet you seem to be unaware of how common febrile seizures are in infants or that they are generally uncomplicated.
[22:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:06] <exec> 08└─Story: "Professional scientists, who study the Y-ing of Xs, say Xs don't Y" AC: "Clearly Xs do Y" Remind me why we should give any weight to your input? Are you one of the many overweight fatbergs in the sewer system that has mystically become sentient, and is demanding more material from which to g...
[22:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Study Debunks Myth that Moderate Drinking can be Healthy - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:47] <exec> 08└─Well, I know the joke a bit different: A reporter interviews a hundred-year old: "How did you manage to get to such a great age?" "I don't drink, I don't smoke, and I don't change sexual partners." Suddenly there's a noise from the next room. Startled, the reporter asks: "What was that?" "Oh, that's...
[22:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:07] <exec> 08└─... and she's seen 'em all.
[22:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:01] <exec> 08└─Nope, not at all. Firstly, where did you get that "fact" from?
[22:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:03] <exec> 08└─There was no "picture reconstructed from the collected data" until the images in the papers just published.
[22:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rocket Lab Will Build Satellites for Launch Customers - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:13] <exec> 08└─Smallsat launchers have a lower price per launch but a high price per kg launched. https://en.wikipedia.org(rocket) [wikipedia.org] The price for delivering up to 150 kg to a 500 km Sun-synchronous orbit is about $6 million per launch, which offers the only dedicated service at this p...
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[23:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Launch Rescheduled for Tonight (6:35pm EDT; 22:35 UTC) - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:19] <exec> 08└─I hear that stuff is the best!
[23:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Launch Rescheduled for Tonight (6:35pm EDT; 22:35 UTC) - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:21] <exec> 08└─Of course the kinetic energy in the pucks far exceeds that of the rocket, but at least Elon is trying.
[23:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Launch Rescheduled for Tonight (6:35pm EDT; 22:35 UTC) - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:23] <exec> 08└─Our prayers go out to the brave astronauts who were lost in the explosion. Their families will each receive a Tesla.
[23:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Launch Rescheduled for Tonight (6:35pm EDT; 22:35 UTC) - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:25] <exec> 08└─2 side boosters landed just fine. Center core still out there.
[23:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Launch Rescheduled for Tonight (6:35pm EDT; 22:35 UTC) - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:28] <exec> 08└─Um...I just watched the launch and it looked like it went off without a hitch. Granted I'm south of Cape Canaveral by a hundred milesish.
[23:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Launch Rescheduled for Tonight (6:35pm EDT; 22:35 UTC) - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:30] <exec> 08└─Center core landed safely.
[23:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy Launch Rescheduled for Tonight (6:35pm EDT; 22:35 UTC) - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:32] <exec> 08└─Checking Boeing stock ...
[23:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private Spacecraft Failed Moon Landing Today [UPDATED] - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:11] <exec> 08└─Isn't "Crash landing" a form of landing? Just not your preferred method of landing. Not sure if I remember this correct but sending a signal to the moon takes a few seconds, so lets say double that to get confirmation back. If you are in rapid decent you have probably traveled a kilometer or two du...
[23:07:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Human Brain Genes Given to Monkeys - 40 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:30] <exec> 08└─Not for all values of $HUMAN, my friend.
[23:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Genes Given to Monkeys - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:39] <exec> 08└─Which ape do you want to fight using equal weapons ? The Chimp who learnt to use an AR-15, or the Gorilla who single-handedly wields a two-handed sword ? We're good against most animals until they learn to use our centuries-of-optimization weapons. Once they master Twitter, we're all fucked.
[23:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Genes Given to Monkeys - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:42] <exec> 08└─Ewww, human DNA? How dare you impugn my brain in such a manner!
[23:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Brain Genes Given to Monkeys - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:44] <exec> 08└─Once they master Twitter, we're all fucked.
[23:09:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 1306 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:14] <exec> 08└─It is difficult to say who benefits from this more. The left MM has claimed this guy is responsible for everything but little green men. Maybe they've convinced themselves that their propaganda has turned him into a wedge issue they can win with. On the other hand, it is a huge 1st amendment case, a...
[23:09:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Wikileaks Co-Founder Julian Assange Arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London - 186 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:52] <exec> 08└─I love how you can blame the action of Trump's DOJ on the left. When the left was in charge of the DOJ it DID NOT PROSECUTE due to the very free speech issue you seem so concerned about.
[23:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:54] <exec> 08└─The fact that you used it as a throw-in in your table.
[23:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:56] <exec> 08└─Excuse me as I have no time to delve deep into these but a cursory glance talks about REPORTED stuff. A better stats is done by observing X guys, seeing how many get measles, and see how many end up with complications. Because the rate I see in the '63 study is harsh compared to my 1970s experience...
[23:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:58] <exec> 08└─Nobody is forcing the Amish to stay in their towns....
[23:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:00] <exec> 08└─So, are we going to lock up all the Amish, too? And they aren't the only ones - plenty of "religions" out there with some crazier taboos than injecting their developing infants with vaccines.
[23:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:02] <exec> 08└─subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a devastating complication of measles that will eventually kill up to one in 609 who get the disease
[23:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:04] <exec> 08└─It was reported by the people who ran the vaccine trial, is there some reason I should not have included it?
[23:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:07] <exec> 08└─Anyway, whatever... now you're just doing weird nitpicking so you have some reason to ignore the facts. It is clear you don't have any useful input here. Please find this non-existent clean data you think is required, or admit that there is no way to make a direct comparison between measles and vacc...
[23:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York City Orders Williamsburg Residents to Get Vaccinated for Measles or Face $1,000 Fine - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:09] <exec> 08└─Excuse me as I have no time to delve deep into these but a cursory glance talks about REPORTED stuff. A better stats is done by observing X guys, seeing how many get measles, and see how many end up with complications. Because the rate I see in the '63 study is harsh compared to my 1970s experience...
[23:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 99-Year-Old Woman Lived and Died Not Knowing Her Organs Were in Wrong Places - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:29] <exec> 08└─only around 5 to 13 percent of people born with this condition live past the age of five, according to the limited research available. (...) only able to find two other cases of similar people living into their 70s in the medical literature, so Bentley’s survival was particularly extraordinary.
[23:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:48] <exec> 08└─London calling, 70s and 80s - roger waxing. 8-o
[23:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:50] <exec> 08└─There's plenty of bio-energy based on bacteria eating the shit that the customers come up with in water processing facilities in the UK at least. Huge "fermentation" tanks, with bulbous plastic roofs, and literally millions of gallons of methane. Not sure if it's better than other green energy sourc...
[23:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flushable Wipes, Aren't - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:52] <exec> 08└─due to the flushing of wipes and other non-flushable materials
[23:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Yellowstone Scientists Find New Thermal Area; No, It Doesn't Mean a Volcano Eruption is Coming - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:03] <exec> 08└─if many means more than five or six then no.
[23:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:56] <exec> 08└─Don't know why you'd expect anything else to.
[23:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:57] <exec> 08└─PLA biodegrades in seawater in about 6 months It is manufactured from fermenting sugar, typically from corn, because of cost and availability. Corn industry is huge consumer of fertilizer, herbicide, and insecticide. Ignoring the run-off and such, these are not green to manufacture either. Then ther...
[23:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Opposes Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:59] <exec> 08└─Except, of course, when that isn't true.
[23:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:54] <exec> 08└─due to the intense gravitational lensing it causes.
[23:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:55] <exec> 08└─I presume the edge-on case would be more prominantly the accretion disk in front of the horizon blocking the view of the mess in the middle, but still, above and below that, I would expect a black near-semicircle (depending on spin) surrounded by a hot halo consisting of the firewall part of the acc...
[23:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:58] <exec> 08└─The description of the techniques to be used on real data, and how they worked on simulated data, were indeed in the Ted talk in 2016. Beleive it or not, they indeed did know what processing they would do with the data before capturing petabytes of it on thousands of hard disks. It's almost as if th...
[23:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:00] <exec> 08└─And if the accretion disk(/rotation axis) is at an angle with the observation direction, wouldn't there be some of the accretion disks visible above the "mess in the middle"?
[23:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Event Horizon Telescope Team Releases First Image of a Black Hole - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:02] <exec> 08└─Ok, will leave it here, then.
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