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[01:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Single Malt Scotch Whisky Targeted by United States Tariffs - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:12] <exec> 08└─There's only ONE topic that matters right now. Just. One. Every single article and journal on the front page should address this topic. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) it's Drumpf's 'PEACHMENT (source) [soylentnews.org]
[01:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Single Malt Scotch Whisky Targeted by United States Tariffs - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:14] <exec> 08└─Jack Daniel's. That cow piss from the EU is Meister Brau rejects.
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[01:12:16] <exec> 08└─The editors are adding a new heading choice for submitted stories... "It's Trumps fault" That should cover everything under the sun, and the parts that are 'where the sun don't shine'
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[01:12:18] <exec> 08└─'PEACHMENT
[01:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ultra Fragile Scrolls Buried by Vesuvius to be Virtually Unrolled - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:43] <exec> 08└─I thought all the bawdy comments were graffiti on the bath house walls. The scrolls are going to be the ancient equivalent of Quickbooks files -- Joe bought 3 dozen widgets for 5 talents. Or, maybe we finally get to see the tax returns...
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[01:13:19] <exec> 08└─I looked into that experiment a while back, and found out that the "detector" they used was a pair of polarizers oriented at right angles to each other. That seemed like cheating to me; it's not detecting which slit was used as much as ensuring that the photon only passes through one. Which is basic...
[01:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The End Of Guinea Worm Was Just Around the Corner. Not Anymore - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:36] <exec> 08└─You might have a point for something like the mosquito, which participates in the food chain but this is a parasite which adds nothing to the food chain. Yet a Buddhist, who will kill no living animal, might point out that a parasite is better than a predator which will kill its meal while the paras...
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[02:11:53] <exec> 08└─Isn't "Think of the children!" always the cry of public safety officials when they want to do something that further infringes upon our civil liberties? Well, in this case they are right because the implementation of strong end-to-end encryption in things like Facebook Messenger are going to make it...
[02:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Single Malt Scotch Whisky Targeted by United States Tariffs - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:14] <exec> 08└─Should we start a dead pool? The names will be kind of obscure though. These people aren't the regular red noses that stand in front of the cameras for our entertainment.
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[03:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protein Associated With Many Diseases Fully Visualized For First Time - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:03] <exec> 08└─Nigger sperm is full of P2X7 which is why your vagina swells shut to keep the sperm of other niggers out. Also P2X7 is why you die of colon cancer if a nigger ejaculates up your ass instead.
[03:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Single Malt Scotch Whisky Targeted by United States Tariffs - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:41] <exec> 08└─Anyone who isn't obsessed with the latest meaningless political sideshow is a clowncel. Favorable vs. unfavorable: Darth Pence [realclearpolitics.com] at -6.6 and the Clowncel in Chief [realclearpolitics.com] at -13.3.
[03:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Single Malt Scotch Whisky Targeted by United States Tariffs - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:43] <exec> 08└─That is all.
[03:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Softens Stance On Ransomware: It's (Sort Of) Okay To Pay Off Crims To Get Your Data Back - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:53] <exec> 08└─Sell pot. I mean CBD oil. From all the gatherings. That they're not consuming. Oh, nevermind.
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[04:12:16] <exec> 08└─MySpace? Google Hangouts?
[04:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crypto Wars: US AG William Barr and UK Home Secretary Priti Patel Shake Fists at Facebook - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:17] <exec> 08└─Well, they kind of are.
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[04:12:20] <exec> 08└─Barr and Patel have assholes for bosses;
[04:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly 25 Percent of Your Cable Bill Is Bullshit Fees, Survey Finds - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:41] <exec> 08└─Probably the best reply on that page: 100 miles & running @Qanuck_1975 Replying to @larouchepac For me the best part is the look on AOC’s face, and the TOTAL lack of shock on the faces of the crowd... baaa baa baaa ba baa baaa.
[04:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nearly 25 Percent of Your Cable Bill Is Bullshit Fees, Survey Finds - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:42] <exec> 08└─Ok, so you are trolling. Thanks for the clarification. I'm thinking about using this guy's ideas for my next journal entry, you might want to check it out:
[04:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The End Of Guinea Worm Was Just Around the Corner. Not Anymore - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:13] <exec> 08└─Most of the southern US is *still* infested with parasites, but they also evolved to live in colder places like Detroit and Chicago.
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[05:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Single Malt Scotch Whisky Targeted by United States Tariffs - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:07] <exec> 08└─EU subsidies of EU aviation? That's just so wrong, on so many levels. I mean, it's not like the US subsidizes every damned aviation company in the US, is it? Washington would dream of subsidizing a vast war machine, would they? The amusing part of that whole story? Trump doesn't have stock in the wa...
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[05:13:08] <exec> 08└─Now that Boeing has been grounded (and sent to its room to write an apology) by regulators, Airbus probably doesn't even need subsidies.
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[06:12:03] <exec> 08└─It will kill all the birds and insect that need to fly.
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[07:13:21] <exec> 08└─And here, as I thought Brexit was all doom and gloom, it seems that some good may come of it after all. The scenario after Brexit: no free movement of goods and workers, no free movement means no Airbus production in the UK, no Airbus in the UK means no subsidies, no subsidies means no tariffs, no t...
[07:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pigs Recorded Using Tools for the First Time - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:04] <exec> 08└─How did you get a police officer to be so polite?
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[08:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Strong Eruption at Sheveluch Volcano With Ash Up to 10 Km (34 000 Feet), Pyroclastic Flow Produced, - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:59] <exec> 08└─Runaway is up for a bonus from his Ruskie masters on being right on top of this one!
[08:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Gel Lets Us Spread Flame Retardant Before Wildfires Start - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:11] <exec> 08└─Why do we presume that wildfires are "ever more extreme wildfires"? That phrase, and the article we find it in, is just another example of the climate change scare tactics. ... Obviously, some species are well adapted to regular exposure to fire.
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[09:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stones Gambling Hall Pulls Plug on Livestreamed Poker Games After Cheating Allegations - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:56] <exec> 08└─WCPGW - or, what could possibly go wrong? I have no idea if the guy is cheating. I don't even much care if he's cheating. Maybe he's just having a seemingly impossible run of extremely good luck. But, if the house is supplying the means by which to cheat, who can blame the guy for cheating? Gotta do...
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[10:11:52] <exec> 08└─This should have been easy to test. Simply swap out the cards for regular ones without telling anyone and see what happens. Go through the motions so it looks like a regular game. If his system isn’t working suddenly, I’m sure a change in his behaviour would be easy enough to spot without even w...
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[10:11:54] <exec> 08└─Or even better, change the coding of cards and see him loose.
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[11:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06LAX Bans Uber and Lyft from Picking Up Passengers at the Terminal - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:03] <exec> 08└─Make flying classier and less affordable, instead of turning airplanes into cattle cars every penniless Tom, Dick and Harry can cram themselves into to go on stupid city trips and pointless vacations to tourist traps several times a year. You'll have helped the planet by preventing thousands of need...
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[11:13:33] <exec> 08└─Did I trigger another one? Or is this the same butthurt AC?
[11:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crypto Wars: US AG William Barr and UK Home Secretary Priti Patel Shake Fists at Facebook - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:34] <exec> 08└─We need to eat the babies! - some whack job Trump supporter at an AOC townhall meeting
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[12:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linode to Perform Maintenance; Several SoylentNews Servers Selected for Servicing - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:05] <exec> 08└─Oh, come on. Linode schedules maintenance more often that I do the festive seasons house cleaning.
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[12:12:15] <exec> 08└─A queue for the ride hailers, where one picks the first car there, rather than the specific driver matched by app. So an ordered pickup line, we could even call it a rank. Then rather the nomination of a provider we need a generic name for such services, and a common colour scheme would help the pun...
[12:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strong Eruption at Sheveluch Volcano With Ash Up to 10 Km (34 000 Feet), Pyroclastic Flow Produced, - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:38] <exec> 08└─Citation needed. I hope you have better luck than I searching, I'm coming up empty on searches for the quantity of CO2 and other pollutants from Sheveluch. From the video and photos, I'll guesstimate that it would take a decade or more for the very largest of cities to spew the pollution that is com...
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[12:16:27] <exec> 08└─FWIW I watched the video and Cortez handled it fine. the woman was obviously crazy or a plant so treating her with kid gloves was the right move. it was never the gotcha moment many thought it was. it does make for a funny meme, though.
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[13:12:13] <exec> 08└─If you confine people at home, then there would be no need to fly
[13:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LAX Bans Uber and Lyft from Picking Up Passengers at the Terminal - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:14] <exec> 08└─If you confine people at home, then there would be no need to fly
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[13:12:27] <exec> 08└─This is very interesting. I had no idea this was how they determined the hole cards for players on live events. Begs to be gamed though.
[13:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 062,000 "Schrodinger's Cats" Break Record for Large-scale Quantum Superposition - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:32] <exec> 08└─Planck Mass! Why didn't you (or someone else, like an author of a referenced article) say so sooner? It's very helpful in putting things in perspective, thanks. According to the Nature Journal article, the test molecules have a mass of over 25000 Da which I calculate to be about 4 x 10^-26 g. That's...
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[14:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Calls Off Nuclear Talks with US in Sweden - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:02] <exec> 08└─did not reflect "the content or spirit" of nearly nine hours of talks
[14:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linode to Perform Maintenance; Several SoylentNews Servers Selected for Servicing - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:11] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be better to be on a hosting provider which does not have these down times? Don't they realize how important SN is? There's no excuse. No down time could easily be accomplished by simply never performing any maintenance. Ever. Catastrophe: (noun) Any software upgrade from Microsoft.
[14:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linode to Perform Maintenance; Several SoylentNews Servers Selected for Servicing - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:13] <exec> 08└─Can we please just find some way to all get along and somehow force Windows Updates onto Linux systems?
[14:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linode to Perform Maintenance; Several SoylentNews Servers Selected for Servicing - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's a pain for us admins. No downtime you lot should notice unless you're on our IRC server though.
[14:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Gel Lets Us Spread Flame Retardant Before Wildfires Start - 1057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:17] <exec> 08└─The real story is its kinda a lame paper for a couple reasons: 1) Its really old idea massively commercialized to sell fire retardant gel to residential and commercial property owners in CA to protect their individual infrastructure. So this is kinda the academic equiv of a business methods patent t...
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[14:13:47] <exec> 08└─Isn't "Think of the children!" always the cry of public safety officials when they want to do something that further infringes upon our civil liberties? Well, in this case they are right because the implementation of strong end-to-end encryption in things like Facebook Messenger are going to make it...
[14:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Single Malt Scotch Whisky Targeted by United States Tariffs - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:48] <exec> 08└─And other countries don't behave exactly the same way? Fuck you, your unrepresentative world government, and the horse you both rode in on.
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[15:12:14] <exec> 08└─Linnode takes good care of their hardware, and I like them, because I don't make money from my stupid site.
[15:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linode to Perform Maintenance; Several SoylentNews Servers Selected for Servicing - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:15] <exec> 08└─You should come on staff then. We're saving up for our own caribbean island. A couple dozen more millennia and it should be all ours!
[15:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LAX Bans Uber and Lyft from Picking Up Passengers at the Terminal - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:34] <exec> 08└─It works like this. You park in a "cell phone" lot which is separated from, but not too far from the terminal building. When your party has landed, they turn on their cell phone before the fright crew gives them permission, and they text you that they have landed. They tell you which terminal buildi...
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[15:12:36] <exec> 08└─they have always been an unregulated taxi service. The gps tracking feature is nice, why they could not just have added that to existing taxi services? Oh yeah, disruption and market share i forgot good business practice.
[15:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Gel Lets Us Spread Flame Retardant Before Wildfires Start - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:24] <exec> 08└─It will kill all the birds and insect that need to fly.
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[15:16:07] <exec> 08└─yeah, you gotta find the "right sized" bag of electrons when you want to ionize some atoms at home. beware the doddgy electrons they harvest "overseas" which come from over fertilized and not cared-for atoms; half of 'em don't pack the "UMPHf" required to cascade the electrons of at home so netxt ti...
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[15:17:43] <exec> 08└─And your point is?
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[16:13:45] <exec> 08└─If the fire-retardant gel doesn't kill the wildlife or the vegetation it's being sprayed on, it could be another useful tool in controlling wildfires. A lot of terrain in the mountains is too rugged to clear a traditional fire-break, and the retardant they already dump on fires doesn't stick around...
[16:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Single Malt Scotch Whisky Targeted by United States Tariffs - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:23] <exec> 08└─EU can impose a 25% tariff on American "beer".
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[17:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon Cotton Grew Better than Initially Thought - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:59] <exec> 08└─We won't be naked when we starve to death on the moon.
[17:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stones Gambling Hall Pulls Plug on Livestreamed Poker Games After Cheating Allegations - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:14] <exec> 08└─See him loose a slew of expletives, obviously.
[17:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stones Gambling Hall Pulls Plug on Livestreamed Poker Games After Cheating Allegations - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:16] <exec> 08└─The older method was to use a camera. In some games you'll see a glass pane on the table and players are expected to expose their cards to the camera underneath. Alternatively, some tables have cameras in the rail point horizontally across the table, and a player would peak at the cards in the norma...
[17:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Single Malt Scotch Whisky Targeted by United States Tariffs - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:35] <exec> 08└─Alpha Mike Foxtrot
[17:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Single Malt Scotch Whisky Targeted by United States Tariffs - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:36] <exec> 08└─What would be the point? They don't buy any of it.
[17:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Single Malt Scotch Whisky Targeted by United States Tariffs - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:38] <exec> 08└─That would be fun to watch, if it's not prohibited by treaty already. Good luck untangling the Hollywood accounting to stick it where the studios would actually feel the bite, though. Taxing a shell company that will just go bankrupt with no funds to seize won't be terribly effective.
[17:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Single Malt Scotch Whisky Targeted by United States Tariffs - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:41] <exec> 08└─The President said so, so it must be true. Though I do wonder what I will drink with Boesky [theinfosphere.org], though I can still have cookies with Milken!
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[18:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moon Cotton Grew Better than Initially Thought - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:04] <exec> 08└─As always, it depends. Some plants don't care at all. Some rely on temperature, some rely on day/night, some rely on wavelength, rainfall, etc.
[18:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moon Cotton Grew Better than Initially Thought - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:05] <exec> 08└─The poles are where they have found water on the moon.
[18:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon Cotton Grew Better than Initially Thought - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:08] <exec> 08└─Isn't that what Elon, and others -- I know also wrong planet/moon, want to use their space-serfs/slaves for? Indentured servants growing space-crops after the robots/AI steal all the human jobs on earth ...
[18:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Single Reaction Mixture Can Produce all Four RNA Bases - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:18] <exec> 08└─What this research is doing is lending credibility to the abiogenesis hypothesis (where chemistry makes life just start happening) for the origin of life on Earth rather than the panspermia hypothesis (where life arrives to early Earth via a meteor or comet hit). Or, at the very least, making it abu...
[18:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Single Reaction Mixture Can Produce all Four RNA Bases - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:20] <exec> 08└─Panspermia's biggest problem these days is panspermia's own advocates, who have gone off the deep end, and no longer contribute serious research to the literature, just shit like "octopuses sure are weird, what if they're from space?" That and answering questions like "what are the sources of life i...
[18:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Single Reaction Mixture Can Produce all Four RNA Bases - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:22] <exec> 08└─We are allowed to use it once the patent expires, but 20 billion years seemed like a reasonable parent period.
[18:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Calls Off Nuclear Talks with US in Sweden - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:56] <exec> 08└─Is he legally required to hand them over? (tax returns) Trump Taxes: President Ordered to Turn Over Returns to Manhattan D.A. [nytimes.com]
[18:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Calls Off Nuclear Talks with US in Sweden - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:58] <exec> 08└─IRS Code section 6103(f). Look it up, sunshine.
[18:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crypto Wars: US AG William Barr and UK Home Secretary Priti Patel Shake Fists at Facebook - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:36] <exec> 08└─I don't think YOU understand "end-to-end". You see, our marketers heard this term and decided it was great! We encrypt you end to end to us, and then we encrypt end-to-end to them! Don't worry, you can trust us with your data! We just want to show you ads for stuff you just bought on amazon and plen...
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[19:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Single Reaction Mixture Can Produce all Four RNA Bases - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:35] <exec> 08└─If God wanted us to do Genetic Engineering, Software, or Politics, he would have given our species brains.
[19:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Calls Off Nuclear Talks with US in Sweden - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:18] <exec> 08└─If we still had something they wanted they would not have ended talks. There's a difference between talking and lending legitimacy to an illegitimate government by appearing with them on TV.
[19:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Calls Off Nuclear Talks with US in Sweden - 1234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:19] <exec> 08└─You need to pull your head out of your ass and see the obvious facts sitting in front of your face. Instead you are listening to Fox news and other such notoriously unrtruthful sources blatantly pushing propaganda to US citizens. Their tactics are straight out of fascist strategy books and you're be...
[19:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Calls Off Nuclear Talks with US in Sweden - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:21] <exec> 08└─Ah, we've reached the gaslighting portion of your propaganda. Adorable is nowhere to be seen here, you are an agent of evil whether you know it or not. Shill, bot, idiot, doesn't much matter. You are trying to destroy my country and are a terrible person, but you know that or you wouldn't be pushing...
[19:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Calls Off Nuclear Talks with US in Sweden - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:23] <exec> 08└─Talking does not lend legitimacy. I guess that's the crux of the falsehood here. It's a very dangerous falsehood as well. You can see the results of it on the domestic scene as well. 'De-platforming' and bashing people that don't agree with you - because actually *talking* with them instead would 'l...
[19:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Calls Off Nuclear Talks with US in Sweden - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:25] <exec> 08└─Mueller is a Republican you dunce, at this point I think you're too partisan to comprehend your own blindness. This place has become a joke, a circle jerk to reaffirm your emotional attachment to the propaganda agenda. A good section of the user base does try and uphold reality, but we are overwhelm...
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[20:13:43] <exec> 08└─He was tasked with finding something legally actionable, he spent years investigating every lead he could find, he came up with nothing.
[20:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Calls Off Nuclear Talks with US in Sweden - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:44] <exec> 08└─From the NorK side, there's been no assurance at any point that any of these 'war games' wouldn't turn into a real invasion. So each time, they man their defenses, and the harvest gets neglected.
[20:16:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crypto Wars: US AG William Barr and UK Home Secretary Priti Patel Shake Fists at Facebook - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:24] <exec> 08└─Go for it.
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[21:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Moon Cotton Grew Better than Initially Thought - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:38] <exec> 08└─Why would they try to grow stuff on the dark side of the moon?
[21:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Calls Off Nuclear Talks with US in Sweden - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:47] <exec> 08└─Then your position makes no sense unless you're a shill or an idiot. Do you not believe the President is capable of obstructing justice? Do you really think the Mueller report expnerated Trump? Do you think it is ok to threaten the death penalty for treason to a whistleblower trying to alert THEIR O...
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[22:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PayPal Withdraws Support for Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:05] <exec> 08└─E Coin by Evil Corp
[22:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chernobyl Reactor 4 Control Room Open for Tourists - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:17] <exec> 08└─https://www.businessinsider.com/chernobyl-control-room-tours-radiation-still-high-2019-10 [businessinsider.com]
[22:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chernobyl Reactor 4 Control Room Open for Tourists - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:19] <exec> 08└─HBO sucks, this much shorter contemporary documentary [youtube.com] was much better.
[22:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HIV Researchers: Made Infection Pathway Visible; Saw How AIDS Pathogens Multiplied in the Body - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:27] <exec> 08└─You can also get it from straight Haitians.
[22:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moon Cotton Grew Better than Initially Thought - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:56] <exec> 08└─WTF... is this some sort of food that's meant to trigger millennials? What's the next course, incest soup?
[22:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Single Reaction Mixture Can Produce all Four RNA Bases - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:12] <exec> 08└─It's true. I am hard to please. And old and grumpy. Also, I think the football* team I support might be about to pay too much for a player we don't really need who has a history of bad knee injuries. * "Football" in this case being proper football, the type played in Australia, below t...
[22:13:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06North Korea Calls Off Nuclear Talks with US in Sweden - 713 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:52] <exec> 08└─Actually, I know that Mueller is tapdancing around here, desperately trying to say something that can be used against Trump, without saying something so blatantly and provably false that there could be legal repercussions. No investigation ever exonerates someone fully. He was tasked with finding so...
[22:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Calls Off Nuclear Talks with US in Sweden - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:09] <exec> 08└─in my opinion, it was some comedian pretending to be a trump supporter
[22:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Calls Off Nuclear Talks with US in Sweden - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:10] <exec> 08└─He never solicited and I read the transcripts. Nothing exciting. However someone did solicit for the piss dossier. Would you hold them to the Sam standard? No, because you’re a partisan hack.
[22:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Calls Off Nuclear Talks with US in Sweden - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:12] <exec> 08└─And where were you when there were actual crimes such as fast and furious gun running? The paperwork was falsified when buying from gun stores. Hence, a crime. Oh, right, you care about integrity when it benefits your team.
[22:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LAX Bans Uber and Lyft from Picking Up Passengers at the Terminal - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:49] <exec> 08└─Or the other way we dealt with it in ancient times... 1) Get the terminal and gate information in advance. 2) Go to airport. 3) Park. 4) Walk to the gate (and during the 70s it became 'and pass through security') and wait for the plane. 5) Meet your party at the arrival gate, go pick up luggage, and...
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[23:12:08] <exec> 08└─I'm saying PayPal domination is not. Alipay [wikipedia.org] As of March 31, 2018, the number of Alipay users reached 870 million. It is the world's number one mobile payment service organization and the second largest payment service organization in the world. According to the statistics of the four...
[23:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chernobyl Reactor 4 Control Room Open for Tourists - 1904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:22] <exec> 08└─Think '90/91, took a 3 week trip on a boat from Leningrad (or St Petersburg, don't remember which is the current nomenclature) to Moscow. I loved it. Our riverboat would pull into a noname town and all the locals would come running to us. 3 things I remember: 1) Me and a couple friends went wanderin...
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[23:14:16] <exec> 08└─Found this perfect explanation for the average conservative: "By using religion and patriotism they've successfully avoided requiring any substance or moral character whatsoever."
[23:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Gel Lets Us Spread Flame Retardant Before Wildfires Start - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:57] <exec> 08└─Modded you Touche for the sig
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[23:17:10] <exec> 08└─It's like blanketing the city with cctv cameras. The cop sitting in the station watching the video live is one cop less on the ground able to intervene. Punks know it, which is why they laugh when the officer uses the speaker to tell them they're being watched - they know they have enough time to do...
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