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[00:02:14] <exec> 08└─These are some headlines from the NYTimes: - White People Are Noticing Something New: Their Own Whiteness - That White People Smell - Should I Give Up on White People? - Can My Children Be Friends With White People? - Why I Refuse to Avoid White People - Dear White America - Th...
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[00:54:56] <exec> 08└─If you bake them, they taste like popcorn! If you eat them raw? Not so good. And chewwwwwy.
[00:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mealworms Safely Consume Toxic Additive-Containing Plastic - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:57] <exec> 08└─Some good fucking food. Plastics make it possible.
[00:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Strange Black Hole is Shooting Out Wobbly Jets Because It's Dragging Spacetime - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:34] <exec> 08└─Of course, i'll get roundly whopped by mentioning 'dark matter'. Dark matter has so little 'real science' behind it...
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[00:55:35] <exec> 08└─It loses angular momentum in the process, and starts spinning more slowly. Don't worry, it has enough to spare.
[00:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06A Strange Black Hole is Shooting Out Wobbly Jets Because It's Dragging Spacetime - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:37] <exec> 08└─They don't. The frame-dragging effect causes the black hole's rotation to slow down obviously, and if that's the only thing at play, it will eventually cause the black hole to stop rotating. But that's not all there is in a system like this. There's lots of energy being produced as matter is compres...
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[00:55:39] <exec> 08└─The truth is whatever you can't escape.
[00:56:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 394 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:23] <exec> 08└─They're in the middle of the worst most prolonged drought in history . Rivers and wells drying up, towns having to truck water in, the wells that still work becoming more saline because rain hasn't come to refresh the underground water table. And the stupid asshole in charge saying "it's okay, we've...
[00:56:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 495 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:35] <exec> 08└─I like the spin that some docu-dramas are putting on it: the energy industry (and many others) started advertising campaigns back in the 1970s to shift responsibility from centralized industry to individual choice. 50 years of brainwashing the Buzzards of the world into thinking that big organizatio...
[00:56:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EventH0rizon [936] 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 265 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:00] <exec> 08└─"The consequence is that people are politically forbidden to manage the fuel by burning it before it becomes a threat to houses" This is simply not true. We live in Gippsland. The fires are nearby. There has been extensive back burning here over the last few years.
[00:57:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:20] <exec> 08└─I'm working on my reading skills. A few years ago I couldn't read thanks to retinal disease. I still have the diseased peeps, along with macular edema and holes in both retinas, and cataracts. But after lots of practice recognizing shapes using aisleriot on a large screen, I was able to read the car...
[00:57:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:21] <exec> 08└─Barbara may code in transc where all operators are reversed. printf("%s/n", (1-2!=3)? 'TRANSFALSE': 'TRANSTRUE');
[00:57:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:24] <exec> 08└─That said, I suspect that the US will be far more likely to be willing to take in refugees from Australia than they are from Guatamala, Haiti, Syria, or anywhere in Africa.
[00:57:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 3365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:26] <exec> 08└─Here's the primary issues I have with climate alarmists: The first is that they deny that the earths climate shifts naturally over time, they disregard any data involving ice ages that predate man which clearly show that the earths temperature is subject to wild swings all by itself without our help...
[00:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:21] <exec> 08└─Copyright and patent laws need to be re-evaluated. It's hard to rev a free Enterprise economic engine if we have way too much force on the brakes. We have the means to drop prices, same means used to drop labor price. Competition. No Congressman is going to pass law saying only one business in town...
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[01:55:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mealworms Safely Consume Toxic Additive-Containing Plastic - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:06] <exec> 08└─Will mealworms dispose of unwanted bodies? I may want to hire some.
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[01:55:08] <exec> 08└─St Greta the Grumpy says they give her the energy to sit and glare for hours on end.
[01:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mealworms Safely Consume Toxic Additive-Containing Plastic - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:10] <exec> 08└─Plastic bodies? Are these your REALDOLLS? :)
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[01:55:20] <exec> 08└─I'm skeptical, the same way that I'm skeptical of the potential of pumping water at 4 degrees C out of the ocean and using it to drive thermal engines. Sure, there's a potential gradient there, and sure it could potentially be exploited. And exploiting it doesn't create the kinds of emissions other...
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[01:55:53] <exec> 08└─All science begins with a "guess." Something unexplained is observed, a guess (theory) is postulated. It is then either falsified or not. Sometimes quickly, most times not. Dark matter/energy is just a placeholder, not a finalized idea. It temporarily fills in the unbalanced equations while the reas...
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[01:55:54] <exec> 08└─Dark matter can actually be compared to the old Ptolemaic system of epicycles. You know, ancient astronomers didn't come up with the system of epicycles out of nothing: it actually did agree with the crude astronomical observations possible with naked eye astronomy, which is why it persisted as the...
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[01:55:56] <exec> 08└─(grin)
[01:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Strange Black Hole is Shooting Out Wobbly Jets Because It's Dragging Spacetime - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:58] <exec> 08└─One of the coolest stories of the year and so few comments.
[01:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Strange Black Hole is Shooting Out Wobbly Jets Because It's Dragging Spacetime - 1826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:01] <exec> 08└─except they don't DEPEND on dark matter for an explanation: 1. QI also explains it: https://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com [blogspot.com] 2. https://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com [blogspot.com] 3. https://physicsfromtheedge.blogs...
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[01:56:03] <exec> 08└─How much "real science" do you need?
[01:56:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Strange Black Hole is Shooting Out Wobbly Jets Because It's Dragging Spacetime - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:05] <exec> 08└─Yes, DM is VERY epicyclic: one day we'll look back and have a good laugh. "But until then, dark matter is the best explanation we have for much of what we can see." But it also fails in so many areas, such as wide binaries, the existence of which NULLIFIES dark matter! "A galaxy with no dark matter...
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[01:56:07] <exec> 08└─DARPA is funding him and he has researchers working with him. Hoping for more results.
[01:57:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:50] <exec> 08└─Just pray real hard for rain to the sky fairy of your choice. It's supposed to fix all problems.
[01:57:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:51] <exec> 08└─I like how everyone flips out whenever the climate changes. Like we some how used to live in a static bubble. The climate has been changing before humans existed. Brushfires have been going on before humans were even in AU. The problem is people built flammable houses next to flammable flora in an a...
[01:58:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:49] <exec> 08└─Everybody has to eat, but the market does a fine job supplying food to everyone, and at reasonable prices. Just because you have to have something doesn't mean that the market doesn't work.
[01:58:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:50] <exec> 08└─We could start by banning all antidepressants. They don't work any better than a placebo
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[02:55:26] <exec> 08└─You're going to eat delicious bugmeat whether you like it or not. This is your future.
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[02:55:37] <exec> 08└─Oh I am skeptical as well, just pointing out that if they can do it, there are places to apply it. As for altering ecosystems, the only way to stop humans doing that is to kill off the entire species. For as long as we live, our existence will alter the world and the systems within it, it is unavoid...
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[02:56:21] <exec> 08└─They don't. The frame-dragging effect causes the black hole's rotation to slow down obviously, and if that's the only thing at play, it will eventually cause the black hole to stop rotating. But that's not all there is in a system like this. There's lots of energy being produced as matter is compres...
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[02:56:32] <exec> 08└─"A galaxy with no dark matter can actually be proof that dark matter is real" My house doesn't have a unicorn in it: EVIDENCE UNICORNS ARE REAL!
[02:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Strange Black Hole is Shooting Out Wobbly Jets Because It's Dragging Spacetime - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:34] <exec> 08└─Breathing the fumes? I know someone who failed a breathalyser test because of them, even though they wre stone sober. Well, as sober as you can be while breathing shellac.
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[02:56:37] <exec> 08└─But to me, after, what, 40 years and millions of dollars and research hours, we have nothing more than unicorns: we have no formula, no way of non-arbitrarily knowing how much DM goes into each different galaxy, no predictive qualities. It is all "Dark matter as we know it cannot solve this, so we w...
[02:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:33] <exec> 08└─> What you miss, is that placebo is a valid medical effect. And we've found the the guy that believes in homeopathy. The null effect and placebo response are two ways of saying the same thing. A drug is NOT effective if it is no more effective than a placebo. Only pseudo-scientific magical water pro...
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[02:59:36] <exec> 08└─> Why aren't governments doing bulk deals for entire states? > Why can't state governments? Because a bunch of bought and payed for congress critters (in this instance, a little over half of them) and president Baby Bush passed a law that outlawed the government being able to negotiate drug prices,...
[03:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cameras to Replace Mirrors on Cars and Trucks - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:53] <exec> 08└─> You're an idiot. Aaah, the "ad-hominem" attack. The last refuge of the weak minded, who, when they realise they lost an argument and cannot accept it, will resort to personal insults in lieu of intellectual discourse. Alas, I don't waste my time with such people, and as such I did not read your me...
[03:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tedd [1691] (Score: 1) 02 - 06January 1, 2020 is Public Domain Day: Works From 1924 Are Open to All! - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:59] <exec> 08└─How do you know Disney is *not* already working on this?
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[03:56:05] <exec> 08└─Science proved: No civilization on Mars No free energy No cold fusion No faster than light travel No anti-gravity No cure for cancer Etc Basically all science ever proved is no fun is allowed by the universe. Trump, on the other hand, promises us lots of excitement and fun.
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[03:56:21] <exec> 08└─It took a while for stuff to evolve to digest lignin, so no surprise organisms have taken and will take a while to evolve to digest plastic. It's more of whether enough turtles, whales and other stuff will also evolve/learn to not get killed by plastic bags...
[03:56:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mealworms Safely Consume Toxic Additive-Containing Plastic - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:22] <exec> 08└─Reminder that you're getting asspained from an autistic teenage girl, and you can't refute her arguments, so you fall back on the tired old misogyny ("Women should smile more!" "Women shouldn't be disagreeable!"). What is it like to be that weak?
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[03:56:24] <exec> 08└─Quote summary: "This is a wake-up call," said Brandon. "It reminds us that we need to think about what we're adding to our plastics and how we deal with it."
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[03:57:22] <exec> 08└─Breathing the fumes?
[03:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:18] <exec> 08└─Apparently the new measure of busfire size is Belgium (30,500km2).
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[04:00:23] <exec> 08└─I agree with most of what you said except for PTSD. The term was invented in the 80s because it was realized that the same problems that people with shell shock were experiencing was also being experienced by civilians, including children. Anything that generates feelings of intense fear and horror,...
[04:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:24] <exec> 08└─Those drugs truly helps some peoples, nobody really understand why¹. I suffer from crippling unmanageable anxiety without underlying cause, 10mg of escitalopram² is the difference between me not leaving my house unless forced by my hunger and me having a great job where I am productive to society...
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[04:01:34] <exec> 08└─Unless some, as yet unrevealed, advance in camera sensor tech. has occurred without anyone noticing, the dynamic range of cameras is still several orders of magnitude less than the eye's dynamic range. So at night, be prepared for no image to the rear from the camera setup when, with a mirror, you'd...
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[04:02:46] <exec> 08└─I saw a couple of kids, about 6 or 7 years old? playing with this and though I would watch out of interest.. I let their parents know they should perhaps remove it after reading 'you shove your cock in to the princesses mouth....' (it sent on, but I wont bother) as a response to their much more inno...
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[04:55:55] <exec> 08└─Science hasn't really proved any of these except No free energy. Fuck thermodynamics, try stealing from your utility company for the "science".
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[04:57:33] <exec> 08└─Sure, but again you could also show this visually with far more detail in a comparable amount of time. Another thing not mentioned here is that you can also derive far more information than the human ear, even a trained one, is capable of discerning by doing things like applying a fourier transform...
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[04:57:34] <exec> 08└─I'd tend to agree with this. There may be some form of representation in which an audio format is more robust, though I certainly cannot think of any. Her deciding to immediately jump to social politics instead of focusing on and describing such a method makes me think she also probably cannot think...
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[04:57:36] <exec> 08└─In fact, sight can encode so much information that our brains are incapable of handling it all. The processing throughput of the conscious human mind has been estimated around 50 bits per second. You don't actually "see" most of the information entering your eyes; your visual centers preprocess it d...
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[04:59:11] <exec> 08└─Hey, dipshit, *who the fuck is writing the rules for the game if not the players?*
[04:59:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:13] <exec> 08└─That girl is ten thousand times the Christian you ever have been or ever will be.
[04:59:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:15] <exec> 08└─You don't understand Australian bushfires.
[04:59:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:19] <exec> 08└─Wow. They're gonna have to build a new wing of Hell specifically for people like you who say shit like this.
[04:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:19] <exec> 08└─Hey, dipshit, *who the fuck is writing the rules for the game if not the players?*
[04:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03EventH0rizon [936] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:21] <exec> 08└─You're correct, but I mean both. The Swifts Creek fire (as an example) has been active for months. Some of the terrain in the this years fire was burnt out last summer. DEWLP and CFA personnel (local firefighting authorities) use fuel reduction burns, bulldozer clearing and back burning. Our farm is...
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[04:59:24] <exec> 08└─The fact that you have had hazard reduction burning in the past doesn't change the fact that your houses are in natural bushfire zones. There are two answers to the problem of bushfires 1) reduce the bush fire fuel loads even more 2) migrate to other land.
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[04:59:26] <exec> 08└─Victorian rainforests are exceptions to the rest of the Australian ecosystem that are filled with fire loving eucalyptus forests. They are a relic of an older time when seas covered the continent of Australia. The Australian inland seas have drained which means the conditions that established the ra...
[04:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:28] <exec> 08└─So what you're saying is that "the greenies" have had zero effect on reducing bushfire hazards in the recent times? It's great that your area has had these measures take place, but not all Australians are allowed to take the necessary measures.
[04:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:30] <exec> 08└─If the problem was only limited to whining, then I would have no problem. The problem is the unaccountable taxes and draconian controls that affect our way of life. I support the encouragement of new technologies that supplant coal and gas plant. What I don't support is the political push to replace...
[04:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03EventH0rizon [936] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:32] <exec> 08└─So in answer to my question then, (which by the way is agnostic on the topic of climate change): "What sort of disaster would constitute a new event for you? What is the scale of such a disaster? Or is it the case that any disaster, no matter how intense or unusual has to be described as 'natural' a...
[04:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:35] <exec> 08└─You do realise that thousands of years is still a small time in the time scale of how Australia works. The fact of the matter is that Australia is naturally a bushfire zone. The fact that some areas haven't seen an active volcano eruption in thousands of years doesn't change the fact that the area i...
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[04:59:37] <exec> 08└─Cool story bro. No citations and all hearsay, just the way I like my fairy tales.
[05:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:44] <exec> 08└─Hallow is the kind of dumb fuck who equates regulatory capture, i.e., the secular-blasphemous, zombifying, cynical parodoxical overturning of regulatory apparatus to make it do exactly what it was created to prevent, to "regulation bad rarrr." I've pointed this out to him several times and he just s...
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[05:00:46] <exec> 08└─Sounds about right.
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[05:59:01] <exec> 08└─This. You're not going to stop bushfires in a bushfire zone.
[05:59:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:02] <exec> 08└─Victorian rainforests are exceptions to the rest of the Australian ecosystem that are filled with fire loving eucalyptus forests
[05:59:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:04] <exec> 08└─I work with people who have done PhDs and post doctoral research on the rainforests and other rare flora, fungi etc. They think that, while *something* will grow back, it will not be the same ecosystem, and some rainforest species will not recover. We won't know what does an doesn't recover, in some...
[06:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:14] <exec> 08└─Yes and no for the market working. Grocery stores exist in a competitive market, resulting in competition and low profit margins. Farmers are heavily subsidized by the government, which results in the grocery stores being able to purchase cheap food to sell you.
[06:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Accused Of Crackdown On Jailbreaking - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:01] <exec> 08└─Why are you jailbreaking it if you want a device that work as advertised? Why are you complaining it might break if you do something unsupported to it? Why even jump through all the loops to jailbreak it if you don't want the risk?
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[06:55:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Explore This 3D World Rendered In ASCII Art - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:00] <exec> 08└─This webpage uses not just proprietary javascript, but proprietary binary code in a format called WebAssembly [wikipedia.org]. So basically, now they want you to download and run proprietary binary software on your computer, just to view a web page. The browser is expected to run this software autom...
[06:55:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Scientists Warn the EPA Against Proposed Regulation Rollbacks - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:15] <exec> 08└─What about no time travel? Trump offers us time travel. https://knowyourmeme.com [knowyourmeme.com]
[06:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mealworms Safely Consume Toxic Additive-Containing Plastic - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:32] <exec> 08└─Reminder that you're defending an autistic teenager that has zero training in climate science and is only being used by cynics that thought 'hey, no one will dare attack an autistic kid, lets use her as our ambassador'. Meanwhile, a crew had to be flown in to take her boat home negating any green be...
[06:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mealworms Safely Consume Toxic Additive-Containing Plastic - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:33] <exec> 08└─What is it like to be that weak?
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[06:55:35] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, a crew had to be flown in to take her boat home negating any green benefits of her voyage. If you want to rage at someone rage at her parents and or handlers that would dare abuse a child in this manor.
[06:56:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Strange Black Hole is Shooting Out Wobbly Jets Because It's Dragging Spacetime - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:56:31] <exec> 08└─But you're not seeing the light that left the person, you're seeing light generated by the TV.
[06:56:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Strange Black Hole is Shooting Out Wobbly Jets Because It's Dragging Spacetime - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:56:32] <exec> 08└─Ah, thank you. I didn't have time to do more than scan the basics of what he was researching, so if it was in the original link, I missed it. Always good to see original research funded, even if it doesn't lead to where the researcher hopes, it always expands knowledge and frequently opens up new do...
[06:58:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 133 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:58:07] <exec> 08└─According to the Bureau of Meteorology (@BOM_au), 2019 was both the hottest and driest year ever measured in Australia. [twitter.com]
[06:58:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 184 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:58:09] <exec> 08└─Er, no. some parts that are burning haven't burnt in thousands of years. And the hazard reduction activities don't prevent fires, and aren't being stopped by politics [theguardian.com]
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[07:55:03] <exec> 08└─Can you cite that study please?
[07:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Explore This 3D World Rendered In ASCII Art - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:55:05] <exec> 08└─I believe it's the one cited on the provided wikipedia link.
[07:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Tell If a Brain is Awake: EEG May Not Always be a Reliable Reflection of Consciousness - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:55:13] <exec> 08└─How did they determine that the rats are really awake, and not doing the rat equivalent of sleepwalking?
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[08:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Reveals Higher Microplastics In London Air Compared To Other Cities - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:56] <exec> 08└─I mean, look, the Londoners like the smell of microplastics in the morning (and all the day long) and other (brown) people are so keen about it they kill themselves to get to breathing it. Only days now and we give the fling to those blood-sucking European parasites and their environment regulations...
[08:54:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Study Reveals Higher Microplastics In London Air Compared To Other Cities - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:58] <exec> 08└─We do not call common mineral dust "microstones" and plant pollen "micromelons", do we?
[08:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Reveals Higher Microplastics In London Air Compared To Other Cities - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:00] <exec> 08└─On the other side, we still call humongous GPU units as microchips. In no relation with fish-and-chips, go figure the delights of the English language. (grin)
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[08:55:11] <exec> 08└─I see nothing wrong with this at all.
[08:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Tell If a Brain is Awake: EEG May Not Always be a Reliable Reflection of Consciousness - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:20] <exec> 08└─How did they determine that the rats are really awake, and not doing the rat equivalent of sleepwalking?
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[08:55:31] <exec> 08└─The EPA gets to regulate federal waterways. A waterway is a linear body of water upon which goods may be transported by boat. Without bothering to have congress pass a law, Obama extended this to cover every little seasonal dribble of water. This includes stuff normally considered to be dry land. It...
[08:56:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fragholio [6822] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Strange Black Hole is Shooting Out Wobbly Jets Because It's Dragging Spacetime - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:56:47] <exec> 08└─How would I get there? My best guess is that I'd have to set a course just east of Lyra, northwest of the constellation Pegasus. I'd have to fly into the light of Deneb, all the way across the Milky Way. That'll probably get me there, right?
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[09:55:04] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/11/06/1218257 [soylentnews.org]
[09:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Reveals Higher Microplastics In London Air Compared To Other Cities - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:55:06] <exec> 08└─I blame London Fashion Week. Have you the things they wear on the catwalk?
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[09:58:57] <exec> 08└─...where all operators are reversed.
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[10:55:10] <exec> 08└─I have not the things they wear on the catwalk.
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[10:55:11] <exec> 08└─> I mean, look, the Londoners like the smell of microplastics in the morning... Considering how many Londoners smoke, I doubt they can smell much at all anymore, which explains why they can live there. In seriousness, I lived in London my entire life, and I never noticed how much the place stank, un...
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[10:55:22] <exec> 08└─There's 70 citations there. Five (!) of them point to the study that https://www.infoq.com [infoq.com] summarizes, which seems to be the one GP related.
[10:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Explore This 3D World Rendered In ASCII Art - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:24] <exec> 08└─The top priority needs to be implementing "Help"!
[10:55:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Explore This 3D World Rendered In ASCII Art - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:26] <exec> 08└─Is it really multiplayer? There's definitely not a single globally shared instance. I launched two instances of the x13 and I do not see my avatars/toons.
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[11:55:48] <exec> 08└─If what you do on your land stops at the property line I might agree with you. But the science says that what you want to do affects your neighbor and your neighbor's neighbor. Wrapping yourself in the constitution doesn't cut it this time.
[11:59:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:13] <exec> 08└─A "new" event would by definition be one that has never happened before. Something unprecedented. Not trying to be pithy, but if something happens that is a "once in a hundred years (or more)" it is not new, only rare. In my humble opinion, increasingly devastating disasters have more to do with po...
[11:59:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bushfires are Raging Outside Every Major City in Australia -- They're Only Going to Get Worse - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:14] <exec> 08└─Naah, there's no climate change, that's just just fake trees.
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[11:59:17] <exec> 08└─The smoke from the fires has now reached New Zealand, which has the entire Tasman Ocean between it and Australia. That's a sign that it's really, really bad, nothing like that has ever happened before.
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[12:55:08] <exec> 08└─Sometimes science reality comes before the fiction is finished. I'm working on a story right now called Red Barchetta, and one of the elements of that story is all the cars are electric, fossil fuels are illegal, and any burning needs an expensive government permit. It's about someone whose uncle gi...
[12:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Combustion-Powered Cars Could be Banned in Ireland by 2030 - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:09] <exec> 08└─And in totally unrelated news, Ireland's government will be receiving huge fucking kickbacks from electric car manufacturers. Then in 2050 everyone will be up to their neck in dead batteries that no one can seem to get rid of, if for no other reason than it now takes hours to fully re-charge their t...
[12:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Reveals Higher Microplastics In London Air Compared To Other Cities - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:24] <exec> 08└─We also inhale micro-rubber from the wear on everyone's shoes and tires. There's micro-steel from brake pads wearing down. There's micro-pigeon crap from dried pigeon crap. There's micro-salt if you live next to the ocean. There's micro-dust, if you live in a place with dirt. If you eat food you did...
[13:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:31] <exec> 08└─I'm glad that works for you, but you two are talking about orthogonal issues. Lets say we all agree that vitamin C cures scurvy. Given that scurvy seems to be the disease of not having enough vit C that seems pretty likely. Now we can argue all day about how vit C is a scam because it doesn't cure b...
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[13:00:32] <exec> 08└─Considering the total failure of the market
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[13:00:34] <exec> 08└─1) Only a small fraction of americans, certainly not the majority, pay for health care. Fully socialized for poor, elderly, etc. Most of the rest are on some W-2 employee's family plan. Only a tiny fraction of the population still pays, capitalist style, for health insurance. Naturally, "we can bill...
[13:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:36] <exec> 08└─And we've found the the guy that believes in homeopathy.
[13:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 1356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:39] <exec> 08└─We segregate by age in the USA. So the average age of nightly news viewers is retirement age, statistically nobody under 50 watches legacy propaganda anymore. And those people get pelted with endless commercials back to back for weird pills they can get for free from socialized medicare which they'r...
[13:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Drugmakers Hike U.S. Prices as New Year Begins - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:41] <exec> 08└─Interesting fact - when people living in countries with half-decent old age pensions retire, depression often clears up on its own.
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[13:03:24] <exec> 08└─Your phone is a non-destructive book scanner good enough for an OCR to convert it to text. The Vatican is scanning thousand year old documents.
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[13:55:20] <exec> 08└─Uh huh. The same way that the US is currently up to their neck in dead cell-phone batteries, I presume? Or perhaps, the Irish may get rid of their car batteries the same way the US can get rid of their cell-phone batteries?
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[13:55:21] <exec> 08└─So, are trains getting a pass because they're mostly diesel/electric hybrids already? I don't believe that there are viable hybrid solutions yet for heavy trucks, let alone all-electric. There were a few press announcements regarding concept vehicles [duckduckgo.com] a couple of years back, but not...
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[13:55:36] <exec> 08└─One of the interesting things about the studies of nuclear winter scenarios was that the vast amounts of synthetic carpeting in cities would burn when nuked, creating tox clouds that would kill more people than the blast. You've got to figure that between the wear and tear of people walking on carpe...
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[13:56:09] <exec> 08└─I agree. If science could disprove Trump too, the world would be a much better place.
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