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[00:52:00] <exec> 08└─yusaku wants a woman
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[00:52:12] <exec> 08└─The US military paid for video games with pro US military themes. The US military provides access to their equipment (e.g., ships), in exchange for pro US military messages in movies. When a pro-torture tv show showed up while the US was illegally torturing poor innocent slobs (who were sold to the...
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[00:52:14] <exec> 08└─Hey! SN is looking for fresh editors, right? Vietnam might be a good place to search! #FreeAristarchus!!!
[00:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Christopher Tolkien Dies, Aged 95 - 1041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:30] <exec> 08└─The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings have been criticized as "comfort food". The Silmarillion is definitely not comfort food. Much darker. And actually, I found some of the darkness overdone and illogical. Why couldn't Feanor make more Silmarils? Why did he stop at 3 when he made them? One could suppose...
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[00:52:31] <exec> 08└─Silmarillion is not a polished work. It's the background for Lord of Ring saga. Tolkien wanted to publish that work along with the Lord of the Ring, but the publishers wouldn't have it. It was the background tale constantly revised as he published the Lord of the Ring trilogy. and Christopher gather...
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[00:52:33] <exec> 08└─Seconded that, already posted details a few times but similar down to a T what you described. The forest part in particular dragged on and on to no end. If there's any advice that should be offered to anybody considering getting into J.R.R. Tolkien, it's "Stay the fuck away from The Hobbit."
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[00:52:36] <exec> 08└─Me, apparently. For anyone else who needs a refresher: Ezekiel 23:20 She lusted after her lovers there, whose genitals were like those of donkeys, and whose emission was like that of stallions
[00:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Christopher Tolkien Dies, Aged 95 - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:38] <exec> 08└─Damn. I didn't know parts of the Bible read like a trashy romance novel picked up at the grocery store :)
[00:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Christopher Tolkien Dies, Aged 95 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:40] <exec> 08└─The One Ring is the ultimate in single points of failure.
[00:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Unexpectedly Witness Wolf Puppies Play Fetch - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:55] <exec> 08└─now see here, you bring that invention of yours to the white house cause we need more people like you here
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[00:53:35] <exec> 08└─Invasive species are invasive species, war refugees or not. Ruining other habitats is their nature, and recall the tale of the Scorpion and the Frog. It is in the best interest of other species worldwide to keep invasive species in their own habitat rather than let them spread indiscriminately where...
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[00:54:10] <exec> 08└─The loud tranny is wrong yet again.
[00:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worried About Swearing Too Much? Science Says You Shouldn't Be - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:49] <exec> 08└─Ned Flanders perhaps?
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[00:55:50] <exec> 08└─https://www.space.com/34086-spacex-boeing-test-crew-vehicle-abort-systems.html [space.com] Boeing also plans to do a pad-abort test with its crew vehicle, known as the CST-100 Starliner. The company has already done a water-landing test of the abort system. However, Boeing will not perform a flight-...
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[01:52:03] <exec> 08└─" he bought up six to eight seats on the company's next-generation Starship and told reporters he would be asking six to eight artists to head to lunar orbit with him. "
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[01:52:04] <exec> 08└─"woman"
[01:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Moon Passenger Yusaku Maezawa Has 20,000 Applicants to be Girlfriend He Takes on Journey - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:06] <exec> 08└─I always wondered if someone has had sex in space, you know, in the name of Science. But for sure this guy is planning to do it: before, during and after. Lucky bastard.
[01:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Moon Passenger Yusaku Maezawa Has 20,000 Applicants to be Girlfriend He Takes on Journey - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:08] <exec> 08└─https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/18/17872822/yusaku-maezawa-spacex-dear-moon-artists-roundtable-culture [theverge.com] Body painters, porn groove musicians, porno film directors, fetishistic fashion designers, erotic dancers, nude photographers, trashy romance novelists, silicone sculptors, erect arc...
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[01:52:11] <exec> 08└─I always wondered if someone has had sex in space, you know, in the name of Science.
[01:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Moon Passenger Yusaku Maezawa Has 20,000 Applicants to be Girlfriend He Takes on Journey - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:13] <exec> 08└─in the name of Science.
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[01:52:26] <exec> 08└─"If we want your opinion, we'll tell it to you."
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[01:52:28] <exec> 08└─initially introduced in the guise of Hate Speech
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[01:52:42] <exec> 08└─I've read it, twice at least, maybe 3 times. It's not really a book. It's a collection; and in some respects reads like the bible, in other respects it reads like the Iliad. Or put another way, the language, ever a character in its own right in a Tolkien work is deliberately even more archaic here;...
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[01:52:51] <exec> 08└─6th grade, teacher read to us for a while after recess. He started with The Hobbit. By the time he was halfway through I'd finished not only The Hobbit, but all 3 books of Lord of the Rings. Tried to read the other stuff and just couldn't get into it. This would be '69, when Tolkein was just startin...
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[01:52:53] <exec> 08└─The Message version, which gives 23:18-21: I turned my back on her just as I had on her sister. But that didn’t slow her down. She went at her whoring harder than ever. She remembered when she was young, just starting out as a whore in Egypt. That whetted her appetite for more virile, vulgar, and...
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[01:54:24] <exec> 08└─Your post makes it sound like you are not the target market. "You," in my response with the frequency info was both to the parent, and to folks who are actually considering a purchase of the device. This is marketed by and for folks who want to create a free (as in freedom) device* / software to rep...
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[01:55:04] <exec> 08└─Swearing might escalate someone else's emotions, but for the person exclaiming the phrase in a moment of anger or pain, it reduces the negative emotion/sensation. The positive bonding effects of swearing between people are present when the person swearing is expressing a sentiment they both share ab...
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[02:52:08] <exec> 08└─Does having observers make it "science"? What if they film it? What if a scientist just watches the results, afterwards? Do the scientists have to keep their clothes on while watching? [wikipedia.org]
[02:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Moon Passenger Yusaku Maezawa Has 20,000 Applicants to be Girlfriend He Takes on Journey - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:10] <exec> 08└─what about rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull-dikes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit...
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[02:52:26] <exec> 08└─They've got a whole army of blue check marks. This is the norm everywhere variously backed by law. You can even see it action: https://www.reddit.com [reddit.com]
[02:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Christopher Tolkien Dies, Aged 95 - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:50] <exec> 08└─I've read the Silmarillion several times over the years since I first found a copy. It's not a novel the way The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are: it reads a lot more like Bulfinch's Mythology than a normal novel, and that I think was intentional. It is basically a compendium of the myths and le...
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[02:52:51] <exec> 08└─I first ran across a copy of the Hobbit when I was eight years old, in 1984. My father had 1973 editions of The Hobbit, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King (note the absence of one book), and so it was that The Hobbit was the first novel that I ever read and finished on my own. When I asked h...
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[02:55:02] <exec> 08└─But can you swear in Klingon? Qu'vatlh!
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[03:52:17] <exec> 08└─Vietnam is said to be following China's lead in policing its citizens speech online. Is this going to become the global norm?
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[03:52:28] <exec> 08└─Somehow I don't think I'll lose sleep over hate speech laws. Richard Spencer(?) the KKK asshole is still proselytizing his hatred quite successfully. Wake me up when there is something beyond your paranoia to worry about.
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[03:52:29] <exec> 08└─Discrimination based on political leanings will go to court and get ruled against. But as usual you are just conflsting refusal of service to an individual with political prejudice. Would be interesting to dig back to the bakers who wouldn't make a gay cake, I have the feeling you were defending the...
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[03:52:31] <exec> 08└─The Techno Union army is at your disposal
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[03:52:33] <exec> 08└─We can have red flag laws against racists, black people, drug addicts, conspiracy theorists and other anti-social undesirables, what's your point even?
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[03:52:35] <exec> 08└─And as everyone knows, the solution to communist oppression is right wing fascism. Onward march!
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[03:52:38] <exec> 08└─Any yet those opposed to "political correctness" are the ones who end up putting people in concentration camps.
[03:55:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worried About Swearing Too Much? Science Says You Shouldn't Be - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:15] <exec> 08└─Does that offend you? :) Fainting couch is right over yonder if you're havin' an attack of the vapors, snowflake. Remember: angry doesn't mean wrong!
[03:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worried About Swearing Too Much? Science Says You Shouldn't Be - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the Big Book of Genocide doesn't get to claim the moral high ground here. You *and* your demonic God-figure can go to that Hell y'all've got such a permanent hard-on for (yes, I know you're an Annihilationist).
[03:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax Settles Class-Action Breach Lawsuit for $380.5M - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:33] <exec> 08└─Or more to the point, that $1.4 billion in litigation expenses isn't a fine. It's a tax write-off.
[04:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plane Dumps Fuel Over San Francisco Suburbs, Sprays Children - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:06] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, according to other pilots interviewed, landing heavy was a safe option but would have required extra inspections of the plane after.
[04:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plane Dumps Fuel Over San Francisco Suburbs, Sprays Children - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:07] <exec> 08└─Makes me think of a Southwest flight I took, landed in Houston Hobby and was splashing the tarmac with jet fuel every time the wing flexed, cracks in the leading edge - right above the engine intake. As for the pilot-in-command's calls - I'd go with life-safety first, worry about the rest later. If...
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[04:51:56] <exec> 08└─now they have gone thru the withdrawal process.
[04:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Moon Passenger Yusaku Maezawa Has 20,000 Applicants to be Girlfriend He Takes on Journey - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:13] <exec> 08└─He wants a Space Bukakke.
[04:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sally_G [8170] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Moon Passenger Yusaku Maezawa Has 20,000 Applicants to be Girlfriend He Takes on Journey - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:14] <exec> 08└─Porntube is science, of course. It's where incels learn what they are missing out on.
[04:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06SpaceX Moon Passenger Yusaku Maezawa Has 20,000 Applicants to be Girlfriend He Takes on Journey - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:16] <exec> 08└─A guy doesn't need a reason, just an opportunity. I guess the science bit would help to convince her, though.
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[04:52:18] <exec> 08└─Only single sex couple or grooups have been that far ‘up’ to date. So it will still be a first for this guy.
[04:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Vietnam's Battalions of 'Cyber-Armies' Silencing Online Dissent - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:41] <exec> 08└─For the binary thinkers reading this, no what Vietnam is doing is not OK because the US does the equivalent.
[04:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vietnam's Battalions of 'Cyber-Armies' Silencing Online Dissent - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:43] <exec> 08└─Do you mean re-education camps where inmates earn a living wage? Concentration camp is so politically incorrect.
[04:53:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Christopher Tolkien Dies, Aged 95 - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:11] <exec> 08└─This bash.org quote [bash.org] comes to mind...
[04:53:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Christopher Tolkien Dies, Aged 95 - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:12] <exec> 08└─It's indestructible and the creator/owner is the most powerful being in Middle Earth. Failure is impossible.
[04:53:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Christopher Tolkien Dies, Aged 95 - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:14] <exec> 08└─Thanks to him, the Lord of the Rings is now actually readable. He spent decades fixing the problems that the editors and publishers created in the work and the result is a read that's quite a bit more enjoyable. Years ago, I tried to read one of the editions from before he fixed the most glaring iss...
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[04:53:16] <exec> 08└─Fortunately, nobody will get to the necessary exhaust port...
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[04:53:24] <exec> 08└─The researchers toss the ball. The wolf puppies fetch it. The reseachers get excited and call their colleagues over to see. Then the wolf puppies eat all the researchers. Wolves are pretty smart.
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[04:53:50] <exec> 08└─You could theoretically say that I suppose. But why does the open border between maryland(the richest state in the nation per capita) and west virginia(the poorest) with an income disparity of almost 100% higher incomes, not create that super instability that would socially destroy those states?
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[04:54:51] <exec> 08└─Yep, but someone has to do it. The thing is that it's a hardware platform that already exists now, seems to be at least as open as the original IBM PC had been, and it's cheap ($150 vs. $749 for the Librem Phone, which seems to be just as unpolished), so it might not be such a bad investment.
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[05:00:25] <exec> 08└─Great. You're aware then that the people of California are not your enemy then.
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[05:52:22] <exec> 08└─Hey, it's where I go to find out what I'm missing out on. .. (But really, there are better sites!)
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[05:52:24] <exec> 08└─TFS title shoud be: "SpaceX Moon Passenger Yusaku Maezawa Has 20,000 Applicants to be [LEA decoy posing as] Girlfriend He Takes on Journey"
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[05:52:50] <exec> 08└─Hmmmm.... you say, >After all, what is the point of criticizing the US when someone else does wrong? (particularly a much worse wrong!) How does that help fix the wrongdoing? Are we only supposed to fix the wrongs of the world once the US is perfect? GP you are responding to, said, >>For the binary...
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[06:52:30] <exec> 08└─Hmmm, I think I look good in drag.
[06:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Vietnam's Battalions of 'Cyber-Armies' Silencing Online Dissent - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:56] <exec> 08└─>>For the binary thinkers reading this, no what Vietnam is doing is not OK because the US does the equivalent. Both are shitty, and a sign that the rulers and their policies lack the legitimacy they claim.
[06:52:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Vietnam's Battalions of 'Cyber-Armies' Silencing Online Dissent - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:58] <exec> 08└─Discrimination based on political leanings will go to court and get ruled against.
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[06:55:02] <exec> 08└─If your tranny is making any noise you should take it to a good auto-mechanic. Like many problems in life the sooner you fix it the better.
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[07:52:01] <exec> 08└─It's happening. 24hr surveillance is happening. Doesn't it make you feel... special? Wanted in some way?
[07:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facial Recognition: EU Considers Ban of up to Five Years - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:03] <exec> 08└─Doesn't it make you feel... special? Wanted in some way?
[07:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Nearly Three Years, Wikipedia is Coming Back Online in Turkey - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:12] <exec> 08└─Get an offline copy, put it on a server, rewrite links to local server address. Done. Fork it.
[07:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Moon Passenger Yusaku Maezawa Has 20,000 Applicants to be Girlfriend He Takes on Journey - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:35] <exec> 08└─Can't disagree. "Queer for space" is a thing, right? I doubt I'd look good in drag, but hey, I could try it.
[07:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Moon Passenger Yusaku Maezawa Has 20,000 Applicants to be Girlfriend He Takes on Journey - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:37] <exec> 08└─"Artists," indeed. He doesn't just want a woman up there with him. He wants a Space Bukakke. And he wants to either keep the only video as the achievement of his lifelong dream, or sell the video to perverts worldwide to recoup his losses -- And recoup those losses he will.
[07:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hong Kong Express Airways Sorry for Making Woman Take Pregnancy Test - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:30] <exec> 08└─Always exploring new depths in being an asshole.
[07:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hong Kong Express Airways Sorry for Making Woman Take Pregnancy Test - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:31] <exec> 08└─However, I've *never* heard anyone call for "open" borders between nations.
[07:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hong Kong Express Airways Sorry for Making Woman Take Pregnancy Test - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:33] <exec> 08└─Under globalism, there would be no place to run, no place to hide.
[07:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hong Kong Express Airways Sorry for Making Woman Take Pregnancy Test - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:36] <exec> 08└─I know this isn't an unbiased crowd, but I do think that the jab at Trump as a personal note in the main heading is a bit out of line.
[07:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hong Kong Express Airways Sorry for Making Woman Take Pregnancy Test - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:38] <exec> 08└─See also Schengen agreement. Since 1985. Some say Brexit is caused by its consequences.
[07:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hong Kong Express Airways Sorry for Making Woman Take Pregnancy Test - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:40] <exec> 08└─I must be doing something right - both sides hate me. :)
[07:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hong Kong Express Airways Sorry for Making Woman Take Pregnancy Test - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:42] <exec> 08└─Oh, wait. I did.
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[08:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ls671 [891] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relief as Rain Falls Over Australian Bushfires - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:51:57] <exec> 08└─Aborigines used to control this centuries ago by making regular controlled fires. https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] More than 200 years ago, Captain James Cook called Australia "the continent of smoke" ... The timing of those int...
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[08:52:37] <exec> 08└─(But really, there are better sites!)
[08:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Moon Passenger Yusaku Maezawa Has 20,000 Applicants to be Girlfriend He Takes on Journey - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:39] <exec> 08└─Do they all have badges?
[08:53:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vietnam's Battalions of 'Cyber-Armies' Silencing Online Dissent - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:07] <exec> 08└─Uhhhh, just to be clear, in the United States, so-called "red flag laws" are a form of gun control which is designed to deprive legal gun owners of their right to own weapons. In a messy divorce, this will be a new revenge thing. Tell the cops that you're afraid your ex might shoot you, and they'll...
[08:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Christopher Tolkien Dies, Aged 95 - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:37] <exec> 08└─Do you also find fascination in the movements of the skies?
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[08:55:20] <exec> 08└─If you want to debug it by the end of next decade, I suggest to get rid of systemd.
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[09:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Relief as Rain Falls Over Australian Bushfires - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:51:55] <exec> 08└─that is before you meet the wildlife. Tell me again why half of India wants to move there?
[09:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Relief as Rain Falls Over Australian Bushfires - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:51:56] <exec> 08└─Ironically, Sydney needs huge [smh.com.au] amounts of rain, but now, thanks to the fires, the last place it is needed is in the catchment areas, where a bit of rain could be too [abc.net.au] much [smh.com.au]
[09:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relief as Rain Falls Over Australian Bushfires - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:51:59] <exec> 08└─Maybe 457 [homeaffairs.gov.au] is cheaper and easier than H1B [workpermit.com]
[09:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relief as Rain Falls Over Australian Bushfires - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:01] <exec> 08└─Special edition this year 'Devastating' fish deaths in north NSW [murrayvalleystandard.com.au] Bellbrook resident Arthur Bain said tens of thousands of dead fish lined a 60-kilometre stretch of the river northwest of Kempsey on Saturday. He said heavy rain which fell at the Apsley River near Walcha...
[09:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Relief as Rain Falls Over Australian Bushfires - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:03] <exec> 08└─Tell me again why half of India wants to move there?
[09:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relief as Rain Falls Over Australian Bushfires - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:05] <exec> 08└─Every one of those animals is too stupid to escape from the region that's on fire. Fact. In particular the half-billion which were added to the total in the last couple of days of the fires, they must have been really stupid. Or non-existent. https://www.bbc.co.uk Click like if y...
[09:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Nearly Three Years, Wikipedia is Coming Back Online in Turkey - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:21] <exec> 08└─Why bother? - the restriction is being lifted.
[09:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Moon Passenger Yusaku Maezawa Has 20,000 Applicants to be Girlfriend He Takes on Journey - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:48] <exec> 08└─By the time he has auditioned all 20,000 applicants, he will be dead. But what a way to go...
[09:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vietnam's Battalions of 'Cyber-Armies' Silencing Online Dissent - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:17] <exec> 08└─US kids are made to chant government propaganda every morning at school. Those who refuse are often punished. That is not a "minor thing". In politics, people often care most about what they can change the least. It's reasonable to draw their attention to things they can affect.
[09:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vietnam's Battalions of 'Cyber-Armies' Silencing Online Dissent - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:19] <exec> 08└─That would be Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao, and some lesser socialist big names, along with some great Turkish examples, and let us not forget Hitler, the National Socialist. Yes, we can agree that socialist agendas are to be feared.
[09:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Christopher Tolkien Dies, Aged 95 - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:50] <exec> 08└─Just so you don’t feel like you’re the only one, my experience was much the same as yours. I was a voracious reader and The Silmarilion wasn’t my first Tolkein book. I expected to enjoy it, but page after page whittled down my enthusiasm until I finally had a critical moment of self-awareness...
[09:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax Settles Class-Action Breach Lawsuit for $380.5M - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:56:33] <exec> 08└─I was marveling at the fact that "The $380.5 million for affected consumers is slightly more than the $300 million proposed previously..." means $80.5 million is chump change. Side note: if anyone has a little extra in their pocket and is willing to throw a couple of mill my way, I'd be happy to acc...
[09:57:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 70 People as Non-Search Revenue Fails to Materialize - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:57:12] <exec> 08└─Top comment at mozillla.org: "Why is everyone so butthurt, it's a simple mistake, happens to everybody. All you have to do is go to settings and turn on automatic updates randomness feature and its just fixed, stop whining, it's a free product."
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[10:52:10] <exec> 08└─Give me the phone number of that bartender of yours, I need to have a word of him about how he's taking bad karma when he sets the limit of your tab so high.
[10:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Moon Passenger Yusaku Maezawa Has 20,000 Applicants to be Girlfriend He Takes on Journey - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:56] <exec> 08└─here you go https://www.vice.com [vice.com] mark lee and jan davis were married in secret several months before they flew together on the same mission on the Endeavor shuttle.
[10:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Christopher Tolkien Dies, Aged 95 - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:00] <exec> 08└─It reads as a history book, IMO. Whether that's a good or bad thing… Well, I've more enjoyed reading ‘Black book of Arda’ fan fiction than Silmarillion itself.
[10:56:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worried About Swearing Too Much? Science Says You Shouldn't Be - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:56:27] <exec> 08└─When I was back in high school, a good friend of mine in school never told me to fuck off. Instead, he said, "May you have a thousand children." It was a curse worse than any four letter word we could wield. And we'd always have a good laugh over it.
[10:56:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worried About Swearing Too Much? Science Says You Shouldn't Be - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:56:28] <exec> 08└─You have an interesting comment (because your trait is so unusual), but you never say why you limit yourself. For what purpose do you censor yourself?
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[12:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Learning Enables Real-time Imaging Around Corners - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:59] <exec> 08└─It seems to me that bending light around a corner with what is effectively same as using mirrors. Is still a subset of line of sight.
[12:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Learning Enables Real-time Imaging Around Corners - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:01] <exec> 08└─How does that work, or is the paint coating big enough to read license plates with this method? Sounds pretty bullshit
[12:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Relief as Rain Falls Over Australian Bushfires - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:16] <exec> 08└─Mate, a koala is not built for running.
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[12:55:48] <exec> 08└─The price and idea of it has me THIS close to buying one, but I have way too many toys sitting around, /and/ I already ordered a Pinebook Pro and an Odroid-GO Advance last month. Pine really knows how to make techies want to pull the wallet out.
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[13:51:56] <exec> 08└─The US may have forgotten this, but they knew it in the Declaration of Independence. The reason for security is to protect the inalienable rights. Unfortunately, this tail seems to wag the dog all to often.
[13:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Learning Enables Real-time Imaging Around Corners - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:05] <exec> 08└─I wonder if this would still work if the wall were lumpy, or in a different place from where it was during training, or if the wall were a moving, shape-changing person instead of a stationary wall.
[13:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Facial Recognition: EU Considers Ban of up to Five Years - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:29] <exec> 08└─Just discovered the world's largest loophole.
[13:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Nearly Three Years, Wikipedia is Coming Back Online in Turkey - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:39] <exec> 08└─You won't get an update on the newest Pokemon though.
[13:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Vietnam's Battalions of 'Cyber-Armies' Silencing Online Dissent - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:40] <exec> 08└─US kids are made to chant government propaganda every morning at school. Those who refuse are often punished. That is not a "minor thing".
[13:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vietnam's Battalions of 'Cyber-Armies' Silencing Online Dissent - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:42] <exec> 08└─it's ok when democrats do it, it's all for black people and the poor after all
[13:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Christopher Tolkien Dies, Aged 95 - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:15] <exec> 08└─Name a single female character from the hobbit, it's only good because it marginalizes the majority-minority, pure MRA art, luckily amazon will fix it
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[13:55:20] <exec> 08└─If that breaks down you wind up like Somalia, where every two-bit dictator-wannabe with some followers tries to be king of the trash heap. That never ends well for anyone.
[13:56:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PinePhone Braveheart Linux Smartphone Begins Shipping - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:01] <exec> 08└─Given Purism's propensity to send its software upstream (and maybe Pine does this too) they are likely to be using a lot of the same software. I expect them to have phones that function as phones at approximately the same time.
[13:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PinePhone Braveheart Linux Smartphone Begins Shipping - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:03] <exec> 08└─Many popular programs are Windows only. I imagine those are what he's talking about.
[13:56:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PinePhone Braveheart Linux Smartphone Begins Shipping - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:05] <exec> 08└─I am still waiting for a reviews that saya either Pinephone or Librem 5 actually work as phones. I really want to be able to use a distributed revision management system to coordinate information between my computer and my phone. But I still need to make phone calls. Any ideas, by the way, how to co...
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[14:51:57] <exec> 08└─All it means is euro version of FISA courts, and the sheep will clap
[14:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Learning Enables Real-time Imaging Around Corners - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:07] <exec> 08└─ANYTHING to do with AI is bullshit. Now they are just literally using smoke and mirrors.
[14:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Learning Enables Real-time Imaging Around Corners - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:09] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure they can get a generic view of item existing behind the curve, but the: such as reading a car plate part is pure retarded bullshit
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[14:52:11] <exec> 08└─The basic process works fine with irregular reflectors (and in fact needs some at the fine scale, to not be a NOP - else it'd be a plain mirror without a speckle inversion step). The reflector can't be something quickly moving, like a person, with the setup they demonstrate, which needs a 1/8th seco...
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[14:52:46] <exec> 08└─When you give power to one entity or a few entities that are actually run by the same usual suspects, watch them closely and when they inevitably start harming you, ban them, block them and cut off their oxygen supply. Facebook and google should be banned in most places because they both cause harm....
[14:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Christopher Tolkien Dies, Aged 95 - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:23] <exec> 08└─Yes, but it's been so long ago I forgot what it was even about. Maybe I should read it again?
[14:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Christopher Tolkien Dies, Aged 95 - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:24] <exec> 08└─I was lucky, I'd found The Hobbit book before the movie (I still have the VHS of the movie, bought it for my kids). I'd read LOTR and looked for more Tolkien. I read somewhere that the book The Hobbit was actually intended for children; not sure if that's true, I only read that in a single article.
[14:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Unexpectedly Witness Wolf Puppies Play Fetch - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:42] <exec> 08└─"and returned it to a perfect stranger upon encouragement" Does "encouragement" here mean electric shocks or other forms of torture? Researchers these days are those who could not get regular jobs and are stuck with doing repetitive work with no results in sight, no hope of forward progress in life...
[14:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PinePhone Braveheart Linux Smartphone Begins Shipping - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:15] <exec> 08└─Sailfish on it supposedly can make calls, chill: https://twitter.com [twitter.com]
[14:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PinePhone Braveheart Linux Smartphone Begins Shipping - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:16] <exec> 08└─Everything works on an n900, but the kernel is crap old. We're just getting restarted on that same.path, why are your panties in a twist? SFOS has working phone calls on the pinephone: https://twitter.com [twitter.com]
[14:57:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worried About Swearing Too Much? Science Says You Shouldn't Be - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:03] <exec> 08└─* Fiddle * Foodle * Diddle * Doodle * Piddle * Foo * Sticks
[14:57:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worried About Swearing Too Much? Science Says You Shouldn't Be - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:04] <exec> 08└─With all these regional differences, I think you are telling me that the Tribes of Europe live on, even in these modern and enlightened times.
[14:57:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worried About Swearing Too Much? Science Says You Shouldn't Be - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:06] <exec> 08└─Learn some self-control, people. All cultures aren't as impolite or verbally violent as yours. If "researchers" tell you it is ok to fuck your neighbor's wife when the man is not around because it relieves stress, does it mean you will follow this "advice" ? Remember, medical and behavioral research...
[14:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jman [6085] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 70 People as Non-Search Revenue Fails to Materialize - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:03] <exec> 08└─Wonder how much they'd make and save by selling Thunderbird to LibreOffice?
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[15:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's New Carbon Plan Neutral by 2030 Negative by 2050 - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:00] <exec> 08└─...canceling out its emissions by purchasing renewable energy and carbon offsets.
[15:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's New Carbon Plan Neutral by 2030 Negative by 2050 - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:02] <exec> 08└─Shhh greta, they are just paying hush money so hush, planet earth saved: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[15:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Learning Enables Real-time Imaging Around Corners - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:22] <exec> 08└─Adding a mirror isn't adding line of sight. Line of sight means unimpeded and unreflected. Bouncing off a mirror means there's two lines of sight.
[15:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Learning Enables Real-time Imaging Around Corners - 1993 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:24] <exec> 08└─What is special about being zapped repeatedly with a laser that won't make pedestrians go blind when a reflected laser hits everyone repeatedly all the time in an urban environment? These things rely on using reflections; that means the surfaces being used to provide the reflection will be variably...
[15:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facial Recognition: EU Considers Ban of up to Five Years - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:49] <exec> 08└─ACs are of course russian bots, so not sure what the loophole is
[15:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vietnam's Battalions of 'Cyber-Armies' Silencing Online Dissent - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:03] <exec> 08└─Nah it's more communism, this time it'll work we promise
[15:54:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02 - 06Christopher Tolkien Dies, Aged 95 - 837 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:29] <exec> 08└─I first ran across a copy of the Hobbit when I was eight years old, in 1984. My father had 1973 editions of The Hobbit, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King (note the absence of one book), and so it was that The Hobbit was the first novel that I ever read and finished on my own. When I asked h...
[15:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Christopher Tolkien Dies, Aged 95 - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:40] <exec> 08└─A friend of mine sank into alcohol addiction, losing his driver's license, custody of his son, his job, and ultimately everything but his life. At that point I realized what the One Ring was: addiction. Junkies and alcoholics are Smeagol. Danny finally went to AA and has his life back, including eve...
[15:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tbuskey [6127] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Christopher Tolkien Dies, Aged 95 - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:41] <exec> 08└─It's a tough read I've been told. I've reread the Silmarillion more than I've reread LOTR; it's my favorite. Maybe it's because I was fascinated by Norse Mythology in elementary school.
[15:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Christopher Tolkien Dies, Aged 95 - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:44] <exec> 08└─And, some places still have problems with hanging chad . . . There's nothing new under the sun.
[15:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Unexpectedly Witness Wolf Puppies Play Fetch - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:01] <exec> 08└─Obama praised him, Trump would have had him deported.
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[16:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's New Carbon Plan Neutral by 2030 Negative by 2050 - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:00] <exec> 08└─Microsoft is going out of business! Yaaaaaay! losers. Now can they just undo all the harm they've done?
[16:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relief as Rain Falls Over Australian Bushfires - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:37] <exec> 08└─So, build a better koala, mate!
[16:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Relief as Rain Falls Over Australian Bushfires - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:39] <exec> 08└─Pssst - hey buddy - I think Phil is the bartender.
[16:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facial Recognition: EU Considers Ban of up to Five Years - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:49] <exec> 08└─I'm just an average man with an average life I work from nine to five, hey, hell, I pay the price All I want is to be left alone in my average home But why do I always feel like I'm in the twilight zone I always feel like somebody's watching me And I have no privacy I always feel like somebody's wat...
[16:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vietnam's Battalions of 'Cyber-Armies' Silencing Online Dissent - 1193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:05] <exec> 08└─There's a big nuance in that gay cake case that most don't understand. It had nothing to do with whether or not you can refuse service to gays - you cannot. However, you also cannot be forced to engage in an expression that you disagree with. Imagine political views were a protected class to make th...
[16:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vietnam's Battalions of 'Cyber-Armies' Silencing Online Dissent - 1487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:07] <exec> 08└─Yes folks like Hitler, Mao, and Stalin were all well known for their warm embrace of free expression among their populations... There's a good old USSR joke. Roosevelt says to Stalin, One great thing about America is that we have Freedom of Speech. Anybody could stand right in front of the White Hou...
[16:56:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PinePhone Braveheart Linux Smartphone Begins Shipping - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:38] <exec> 08└─If I had the resources to A) get the peripherals working myself (in other words, about 10x more free time than I currently have), and B) take over production of the open design when the current team gets disillusioned with it (in other words, about 100x more free cash than I currently have, and anot...
[16:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Luca Concept Car Will Be Built Using Plastic Waste - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:35] <exec> 08└─That's a relief. I misread the headline as Lucas.
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[17:51:57] <exec> 08└─MS planted some kind of propagating poison pill intended only for their discontinuation of Windows 7 support after January 14 and it got loose. /s > Beats doing construction work in the rain I suppose. I'll give you that. Now I'm trying to decide which is worse: rain or the equivalent in snow...
[17:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft's New Carbon Plan Neutral by 2030 Negative by 2050 - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:07] <exec> 08└─Windows runs a quad core CPU at 100% for the first 5-10 minutes after booting, during any update which takes 10-45 minutes, during video playback, when playing any game, when opening email, when downloading any file, and when it feels like fucking with you when you're trying to get anything done. Wi...
[17:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's New Carbon Plan Neutral by 2030 Negative by 2050 - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:09] <exec> 08└─If we only knew during the industrial boom that throwing money at this would've negated that whole pollution thing. Also, what the FUCK is going on in LA with all the smog and those rich celebrities? Why aren't they doing their part burning dollar bills to fix that?
[17:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's New Carbon Plan Neutral by 2030 Negative by 2050 - 1988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:11] <exec> 08└─The carbon sinks provided by the footprint of their buildings aren’t much in the math of completely offsetting approximately fifty years of power consumption and manufacturing. Here’s a thought experiment to illustrate the orders-of-magnitude problem involved: Your house (or apartment/rented roo...
[17:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's New Carbon Plan Neutral by 2030 Negative by 2050 - 1082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:14] <exec> 08└─What's your point? Without cutting down trees there would be no development in that region possible. You'd have to build around the trees and moving from point A to point Be would take several times as long as you wouldn't be able to use a truck and would have to divert around every tree and mound o...
[17:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's New Carbon Plan Neutral by 2030 Negative by 2050 - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:16] <exec> 08└─And that's the tip of the iceberg. Microsoft made entire football stadiums of gear obsolete by incompatibilities. Caused zillion hours of lost productivity for his intentional undocumented behavior and attacks on the competition. Promoted closed source, closed hardware. Together with hardware manufa...
[17:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Learning Enables Real-time Imaging Around Corners - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:37] <exec> 08└─with a laser that won't make pedestrians go blind when a reflected laser hits everyone repeatedly all the time
[17:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facial Recognition: EU Considers Ban of up to Five Years - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:06] <exec> 08└─We are heading into a new kind of society. In a world where no one can hide, where the Masters could hide? Maybe... in castles. I welcome this. You will understand me in a couple of years, when facial recognition will be available in your pocket, not just in someone else's cloud. That's what the Com...
[17:58:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Set to Launch Crew Dragon for Crucial Escape Test Saturday 0800 ET / 1300 UTC - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:46] <exec> 08└─Nothing to worry about, CST-100 Starliner has MCAS.
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[18:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 1601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:05] <exec> 08└─Sounds like an excellent idea for a slave colony or rampant death cult living in windowless bunkers planning the end of the solar system. I liked those ad astra sceenes where brad pit is forced to go watch 4 wall TV for a few hours to 'get his sanity' back. Something to look forward to. /s WHY WOULD...
[18:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:06] <exec> 08└─If a Starship ends up costing less than Falcon 9 to make, as has been hinted, that could really help. The number is too ambitious IMO. Living on Mars is a raw deal compared to Earth. Even if you get a Mars One sized group of applicants capable of paying a $1,000,000 ticket and home price, many would...
[18:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:08] <exec> 08└─Sounds like an excellent idea for a slave colony or rampant death cult living in windowless bunkers planning the end of the solar system.
[18:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:10] <exec> 08└─So where are those scientific studies showing that most humans are OK with Mars gravity for long term? Oh yeah we sent this up and did lots of experiments NOT: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] It was cancelled in 2005 alongside the Habitation Module and...
[18:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:20] <exec> 08└─That's just metafuckingtastical I think!
[18:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:22] <exec> 08└─Hmnm, at a glance, not quite sure if I see that issue, but it is very good that folks here are concerned about fixing things like that. Since we are talking about small bugs/issues, one suggestion - the topic search icons at the top of the site would be a tad more useful if they defaulted to showing...
[18:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's New Carbon Plan Neutral by 2030 Negative by 2050 - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:37] <exec> 08└─So it can keep producing tyrannical software without any constraints other than the continued thermal radiation of the nearest star..... Is it terrorism is I wish inside my head for this entire company to spontaneously disappear? thesesystemsarefailing.net but especially microsshaft as i have said b...
[18:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft's New Carbon Plan Neutral by 2030 Negative by 2050 - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:38] <exec> 08└─What makes you think they're not? The reason for the smog is that LA is in a basin and air can get trapped, there's insufficient new air carrying the pollution away, like in many other areas. Any pollution that happens in the valley is going to be a lot more obvious than it would be in Kansas where...
[18:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Euro Court Advised: Citing 'National Security' Doesn't Justify Widespread Surveillance - 3717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:49] <exec> 08└─Jordan Peterson is preaching to choirs all over the united states that you don't get 'rights without responsibilty', indicating he does not, in his million/year wisdom, understand what a right is. Snowden said in clear language, 'europeans get less rights than americans' from the nsa and cia. Arjen...
[18:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Equifax Settles Class-Action Breach Lawsuit for $380.5M - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:23] <exec> 08└─well said.
[18:59:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 70 People as Non-Search Revenue Fails to Materialize - 1202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:05] <exec> 08└─Howto geek is far from canon for me on matters of security. Far. I can understand how 'getting updates' can 'make you more secure' but it also cannot, see microsoft update tuesday fiascos. I think a company that needs automatic updates on is one who does not understand security and is making a produ...
[18:59:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 70 People as Non-Search Revenue Fails to Materialize - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:06] <exec> 08└─Thank you for chiming in, sometimes it feels alone out here, standing up for things I saw with my own eyes in a world where this sort of confidence is being gradually outlawed.
[18:59:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 70 People as Non-Search Revenue Fails to Materialize - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:08] <exec> 08└─modded informative. Perhaps we should have a debate? We might all learn something. d2500 https://archive.is [archive.is]
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[19:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:08] <exec> 08└─In a world where money is the supreme god, any project without foreseeable economic return is unsustainable. I predict Mars colony will be a pure sink for al kind of resources, from food to electronics, humans with best brains included, for at least 100-200 years. Sending just freaks is not an optio...
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[19:52:09] <exec> 08└─I will argue with them not to do it, I would probably not think this issue warrants violence to stop as the violence it imposes and makes inevitable will be so indirect to be covert. Yes, if it is a misuse of resources when there are real crisese which could be averted here. Yes, if it is just goign...
[19:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:12] <exec> 08└─You've posted about this before. There's no reason to believe that living in Mars gravity would be worse than microgravity, where astronauts have stayed for over a year and exercise can mitigate some of the effects. If nobody pays for an artificial gravity experiment in orbit, the first Martians can...
[19:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03oumuamua [8401] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:14] <exec> 08└─On the plus side, it has allowed Musk to pursue a vision, likely impossible to accomplish by any group-think committee. On the minus side, to pursue his goal, he's had to approach it in a round-about manner. Every step of the way must follow capitalism's golden rule: No profit, no go. And if any of...
[19:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:16] <exec> 08└─Well, we're agreed that Mars is not the place for trannies.
[19:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:18] <exec> 08└─No, you have a bad economic measure. You haven't acknowledged fully reusable rockets, and until you do that, your predictions will be flat wrong. And if you want to give me the "it won't work" line, then it doesn't matter because it is a prerequisite for all of Musk's Mars plans. No fully reusable r...
[19:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03seeprime [5580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:21] <exec> 08└─Belters need to be put in place, to really colonize the solar system.
[19:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:23] <exec> 08└─Every step of the way must follow capitalism's golden rule: No profit, no go.
[19:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:25] <exec> 08└─The evidence so far is you can survive 1 year in microgravity BUT lots of stuff still declines significantly. A fair bit of stuff returns to normal AFTER you go back to Earth gravity. Would Mars colonists have the option of returning to Earth gravity? Exercise + vitamin D might help with some of the...
[19:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:27] <exec> 08└─Primary reasons to colonise another continent/planet: - overpopulation at home, check - underemployment at home, check - tradable resources in other place, hmm TBC - competitive interest (see last point), check All other concerns like tech to do it and living arrangements will be importa...
[19:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:38] <exec> 08└─The default sort order for comments also is "by relevance", which never is. Better to just sort newer to older.
[19:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Learning Enables Real-time Imaging Around Corners - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:19] <exec> 08└─we are being spied on more than we can even possibly know and it is just gettting worse.
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[19:53:31] <exec> 08└─Special edition this year 'Devastating' fish deaths in north NSW [murrayvalleystandard.com.au] Bellbrook resident Arthur Bain said tens of thousands of dead fish lined a 60-kilometre stretch of the river northwest of Kempsey on Saturday. He said heavy rain which fell at the Apsley River near Walcha...
[19:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Moon Passenger Yusaku Maezawa Has 20,000 Applicants to be Girlfriend He Takes on Journey - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:31] <exec> 08└─I hate everything about this. One man who thinks he can buy love, 20k women willing to be bought for the chance to be rich the only way they have a chance to, one man with an interesting name whose public stature grant bad or obvious ideas an air of legitimacy... https://archive.is [archive.is...
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[20:52:01] <exec> 08└─I've had enough fucking legolas for 2 lifetimes and the fuckin elves are the only ones who live long enough to be from the second age. Now bullroarer, there's a character I want to actually see some trashy hollywood backstory for.
[20:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:23] <exec> 08└─Try to get a robot to build a basic home on Earth. As close as we've come is a literally on-rails brick-layer that does half ass job. And something like this would be a million times easier on Earth than Mars. I expect very near 100% of the work on Mars will be done by humans. Doesn't hurt that an a...
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[20:52:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I agree that microgravity is awful for health. But 0.38g should at least alleviate known microgravity problems like blood and other fluids being distributed where they shouldn't be. There is an actual significant tendency for things to head "down" on Mars, or the Moon. Smaller satellites and C...
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[20:52:26] <exec> 08└─When wagon trains settled the western US, a family could take a wagon full of stuff and some livestock and have enough to live indefinitely. Perhaps 500 pounds of family and 5000 pounds of support stuff. For a trip to the Earth's South pole, I can't recall anybody trying to get self sufficient. But...
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[20:52:29] <exec> 08└─humans with best brains included
[20:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:31] <exec> 08└─Maybe you don't use robots because it's necessarily easy, but because you want as much work finished as possible prior to the first people arriving. Expect some progress on 3D printing structures in the interim between now and anything of note being done on Mars: https://www.businessinsider.com
[20:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 1264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:33] <exec> 08└─The only alternative is to go full China. There are too many myopic people for a western-style democracy to ever accomplish great projects now a days. Even just getting to the moon we're forced to pander to identity politics rather than the technological/scientific/human merit. You can spend a trill...
[20:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:35] <exec> 08└─Find everyone with a wingsuit [wikipedia.org] and send them.
[20:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 1247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:37] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Mars_transportation_infrastructure#Mars_early_missions [wikipedia.org] As envisioned in 2016, the first crewed Mars missions might be expected to have approximately 12 people, with the primary goal to "build out and troubleshoot the propellant plant and Mars Base...
[20:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:39] <exec> 08└─You offer only two points that are certain. Overpopulation? Rather underpopulation in the first world. Growth does occur in third world, but they aren't likely to fly to Mars. Underemployment? Yes, but it's a socioeconomic issue, and martians will take it with them to Mars. Roughly speaking, ditch...
[20:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:41] <exec> 08└─I cannot acknowledge unproven and nonexistent technology. Just look at the costs of submarines, naval carriers or late combat fighters. Life support and logistics in space is comparable to that in those machines. That's in order of magnitude required for space economy, not just some particular cargo...
[20:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 1460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:44] <exec> 08└─3D printing has potential, though it is likely to have issues with tensile strength, which is a major problem when trying to contain an atmosphere. Also - consider that The Boring Company is a spin-off of SpaceX - and I doubt underground highways are his primary interest. If a single semi-autonomous...
[20:52:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:54] <exec> 08└─Beats doing construction work in the rain I suppose.
[20:55:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Christopher Tolkien Dies, Aged 95 - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:59] <exec> 08└─The publisher certainly considered The Hobbit to be a children's story: he gave it to his ten-year-old son, who liked it enough that he decided to apublish it. The publisher later asked Tolkien for another book about hobbits, and got LOTR!
[20:56:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Unexpectedly Witness Wolf Puppies Play Fetch - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:18] <exec> 08└─Canines are pretty much all related very closely, I don't think there are any other groups that can interbreed between so many species. Dogs are just really inbred wolves selected for temperament, aesthestics, and purpose.
[20:57:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PinePhone Braveheart Linux Smartphone Begins Shipping - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:53] <exec> 08└─There's a bitlbee (use IRC for all kinds of IM protocols) plugin for FB messenger: https://github.com [github.com] Pinephone does work as a phone depending on the OS you use. I think postmarketOS (the default it ships with) is not really up and running yet, but Sailfish work...
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[21:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Lord of the Rings Amazon Prequel Series: Everything You Need to Know - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:59] <exec> 08└─This series has Jar Jar Binks and the "Eye of Bezos".
[21:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lord of the Rings Amazon Prequel Series: Everything You Need to Know - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:01] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the Ents and the wizards. They live a *very* long time.
[21:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lord of the Rings Amazon Prequel Series: Everything You Need to Know - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:03] <exec> 08└─eye of bozo? the clown?
[21:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:35] <exec> 08└─I'd volunteer for Mars, but no way would I pay to go. Risking my life is one thing, but...
[21:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:36] <exec> 08└─https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/29/business/elon-musk-spacex-mars-starship-cost/index.html [cnn.com] He said SpaceX's mission would be to create a vehicle that could bring the price of Mars travel to about $200,000 per person, down from the $10 billion he estimated it would cost using currently availabl...
[21:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:39] <exec> 08└─Your smackdown will come soon, yokai heretic.
[21:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's New Carbon Plan Neutral by 2030 Negative by 2050 - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:07] <exec> 08└─Considering all the methane that Microsoft has released during its existence, this will be quite an accomplishment.
[21:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facial Recognition: EU Considers Ban of up to Five Years - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:01] <exec> 08└─If Mozilla really cared about privacy they would give away these [dhgate.com].
[21:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Moon Passenger Yusaku Maezawa Has 20,000 Applicants to be Girlfriend He Takes on Journey - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:44] <exec> 08└─Yusaku Maezawa, the first coomer in SPAAAAACE. If you want him to lose his wealth, allow him to make it trickle down.
[21:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vietnam's Battalions of 'Cyber-Armies' Silencing Online Dissent - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:20] <exec> 08└─US kids are made to chant government propaganda every morning at school.
[21:57:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hong Kong Express Airways Sorry for Making Woman Take Pregnancy Test - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:07] <exec> 08└─I'm gonna need a source on someone accusing you of being an alt-right supporter. Aristarchus doesn't count.
[21:57:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PinePhone Braveheart Linux Smartphone Begins Shipping - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:55] <exec> 08└─Many popular programs are Windows only. I imagine those are what he's talking about.
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[22:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lord of the Rings Amazon Prequel Series: Everything You Need to Know - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:03] <exec> 08└─With additional election-year cameos by Andrew Yang, [external-preview.redd.it] Debbie Wasserman-Schulz, [pinimg.com] Pete Buttigieg, [nocookie.net] and Bernie Sanders. [pinimg.com]
[22:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lord of the Rings Amazon Prequel Series: Everything You Need to Know - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:04] <exec> 08└─I wonder what the late and recently lamented Christopher Tolkien would say about such a movie project. It doesn't sound particularly appealing to me.
[22:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lord of the Rings Amazon Prequel Series: Everything You Need to Know - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:06] <exec> 08└─This is a TV show, not movies, and it was announced in November 2017.
[22:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lord of the Rings Amazon Prequel Series: Everything You Need to Know - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:09] <exec> 08└─Characters in LOTR/The Hobbit that I can think of who would actually be alive during the second age: Elrond Galadriel Treebeard (and many other ents) Smaug Shelob Sauron Balrog(s) Bombadil It's a short list. Legolas never had an established date of birth, but he would have been well over 3000 at the...
[22:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:44] <exec> 08└─well, adastra was one miserable sci-fi movie in the same miserable league as space odyssee, either number. the only thing going for ad astra was that it was a space sci-fi, at least we got one ... that year. in any case, people not being st0pid mostly, the serious ones will try the least but realist...
[22:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 1400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:46] <exec> 08└─I would be angry if this were serious. What is it with the greedy people who think they can go wherever they like and take whatever they want? Why should Musk get Mars? We the human race need to think hard about what we want to be. Mars is still a relatively pristine natural object. We need to study...
[22:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:48] <exec> 08└─Fuck that. I'm not with leaving humanity stuck on one rock to inevitably die out because some precious space fossils might get damaged. Why is this myopic self-hating shit in style nowadays?
[22:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:59] <exec> 08└─Can you make it sort by political orientation, so anything to liberal goes to the bottom where it belongs.
[22:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft's New Carbon Plan Neutral by 2030 Negative by 2050 - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:18] <exec> 08└─The reason for the smog is that LA is in a basin and air can get trapped, there's insufficient new air carrying the pollution away, like in many other areas. Any pollution that happens in the valley is going to be a lot more obvious than it would be in Kansas where the air is free to move on to the...
[22:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Learning Enables Real-time Imaging Around Corners - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:45] <exec> 08└─The same way pedestrians get zapped by the reflections of the light from the sun without going blind? You do realize that lasers don't have to be "burn a hole through your face" high power right?
[22:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Relief as Rain Falls Over Australian Bushfires - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:03] <exec> 08└─Which one of you fucksticks gave Fatphil Xanax and cocaine?
[22:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relief as Rain Falls Over Australian Bushfires - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:05] <exec> 08└─Nothing wrong with the drugs, the question is: who gave him access to a keyboard?
[22:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Christopher Tolkien Dies, Aged 95 - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:19] <exec> 08└─You know, of the JRR's work, only the Hobbit was genuinely well written work. LotR was good for the epic saga but the writing itself is ... well. In fact, LotR is one of rare cases where the movie was good bit better than the book.
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[23:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Living Carbon Chomping FrankenBricks for the Moon, Mars, and Mainstreet - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:06] <exec> 08└─"taking in carbon dioxide" ... "the bricks could even offer a way to build future structures on the Moon or Mars" Great, so all we need to do is increase our greenhouse gas emissions on the moon for this to work.
[23:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Living Carbon Chomping FrankenBricks for the Moon, Mars, and Mainstreet - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:07] <exec> 08└─These technologies have the potential to reduce our carbon footprint on Earth as well.
[23:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lord of the Rings Amazon Prequel Series: Everything You Need to Know - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:23] <exec> 08└─I wonder what the late and recently lamented Christopher Tolkien would say about such a movie project...
[23:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lord of the Rings Amazon Prequel Series: Everything You Need to Know - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:25] <exec> 08└─My guess is, "This can't possibly be as bad as those movies based on The Hobbit."
[23:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 1059 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:03] <exec> 08└─How about the supply of cutting teeth, replacement curtains, curtain functionality without atmosphere, the soils removal gear, etc... I think it's totally feasible to get hundreds or thousands of people to Mars. But getting the *SUPPLIES* needed to rapidly expand a living space sufficient for them a...
[23:53:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:05] <exec> 08└─Overpopulation? Rather underpopulation in the first world.
[23:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:07] <exec> 08└─Ha, straight out of Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson predicted this response years ago https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[23:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Euro Court Advised: Citing 'National Security' Doesn't Justify Widespread Surveillance - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:46] <exec> 08└─It is meant to protect the wealthy's investment in girls and boys they are using as their playthings, by making it possible for them to rapidly and easily hunt them down before they can get word out about the abuse they suffered. And that is only the ones who have not been gas-lighted or Stockholmed...
[23:53:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Euro Court Advised: Citing 'National Security' Doesn't Justify Widespread Surveillance - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:47] <exec> 08└─"Contribute if I am right and you are not homeless." What do you have against the homeless? Many people in this country are only a paycheck or two away from homelessness. Once there, regaining gainful employment is exceptionally difficult, even with assistance from an underfunded, uncaring 'safety n...
[23:56:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Christopher Tolkien Dies, Aged 95 - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:35] <exec> 08└─In a sense that's true, but a lot of that has to do with the publishers wanting 3 books rather than 6 and insisting upon making various editorial corrections without consulting him as to whether the changes were OK. A great deal of his life after publishing the books was spent fixing the editions an...
[23:57:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Hong Kong Express Airways Sorry for Making Woman Take Pregnancy Test - 650 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:09] <exec> 08└─Things I'm 100% certain of: 1. You've never read a single goddamn immigration law in your life 2. You're very good at making predictions 3. You've never ever ever even once checked if a single prediction you've made turned out to be right. Your fucking policies already created hell. We're living in...
[23:57:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Hong Kong Express Airways Sorry for Making Woman Take Pregnancy Test - 464 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:27] <exec> 08└─It's fairly specific, the laws surrounding excessive and totalitarian policing of people crossing imaginary lines is just as amoral as totalitarian policing within those lines. Now, I may have a bit of a convert's zeal here. I wasn't particular interested, specifically, in open borders, until the co...