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[00:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:18] <exec> 08└─Tobacco is filled with poisons, not just the nicotine. It's easy to imagine that one or more of the poisons in tobacco might prevent some kind of infection. Possibly, covid is intolerant of nicotine. But, I'm not seeing it, and I'm not putting any faith in it. But, politics. We are seeing all kinds...
[00:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:19] <exec> 08└─Lower hospitalization rates but higher rates of contracting it is what I see them saying. Apples to oranges, yo. Makes perfect sense on the latter since we're always touching our mouths.
[00:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:21] <exec> 08└─This is big tobacco doing what it's been doing for decades - buying lies. The latest research indicates that women have more active immune systems in part due to estrogen. Eat your hearts out all you trans-haters.
[00:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:23] <exec> 08└─Erm... I can't think of any really big Trump fans here off hand, even among the conservative types. Ripping on someone for losing their mind at least three times a day over Trump is not even sort of the same as supporting him and it damned sure ain't the same as voting for him.
[00:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:25] <exec> 08└─Looks like you and marty b the blowhound who blew his brain apart with that dope are trying to bury your mistakes against apk barbara hudson https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] but there is no hiding it.
[00:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:28] <exec> 08└─You have lost all credibility on any account barbara hudson https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] not that a fool like you has any and if you are a tranny? You have doubly crapped yourself after your errors on all levels shown in tha...
[00:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:30] <exec> 08└─Our entire civilization has fallen flat on its wide open mouth, with only the feckless clucking of useless media pundits to mark time while bankers and politicans screw up literally astronomical fallouts. ... If this isn't a civilisation ending event, it deserves to be. This simply isn't true. "Civi...
[00:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:32] <exec> 08└─As for lower hospitalization, I've got a guess. Smokers don't want to go into a place where they aren't allowed to smoke, so they stay home until they either die or recover.
[00:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:34] <exec> 08└─You never supported him outright, but you are one of the worst users around for downplaying his corrupt and incompetent behavior. Interesting because you're sure quick to point out the failings of non-conservatives and reluctant to admit when you make mistakes. As usual you hide behind "TDS" as if p...
[00:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:36] <exec> 08└─Why is that modded offtopic? This coming from one of Runaway's biggest critics.
[00:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:39] <exec> 08└─The smoke of barbara hudson burning https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] yes that disgusting tranny flesh stinks as martyb tries to downmod hide it.
[00:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:41] <exec> 08└─Yep, I would laugh if it weren't for all the geezers croaking.
[00:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 1172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:43] <exec> 08└─The parent is a mental midget and has nothing useful to say, so I'll instead discuss the issue of coronavirus virus and smoking. Per this story, smokers are 14 times more likely to contract coronavirus [aljazeera.com] than non-smokers. It's possible these numbers are skewed because people who develo...
[00:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:45] <exec> 08└─Dammit... now you tell me! :)
[00:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:47] <exec> 08└─barbara hudson you're a mental midget against apk https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] you ugly tranny. The only thing you're relevant for it taking mockery by the point and you brought it on yourself after that link
[00:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:49] <exec> 08└─OTOH, reversing the point of view, we can deduce _passive_ smokers are more likely infected. So, those smokers who facilitate the spread of the virus should be hunted down :D feathers and tar and burning torches, the hunt begins, let's see how well they smokes *evilgrin* :D CYA
[00:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:52] <exec> 08└─The smoke of barbara hudson burning https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] yes that disgusting tranny flesh stinks as martyb tries to downmod hide it.
[00:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satellite Galaxies of the Milky Way Help Test Dark Matter Theory - 1871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:02] <exec> 08└─That's nonsense. As someone who performs sophisticated simulations of processes in the Earth's atmosphere, I am familiar with their value in science. For a complex system like the atmosphere or the cosmos, there are a large number of variables that are difficult. perhaps impossible to control for in...
[00:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Wolfram: The Universe Runs on Automata Theory - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:53] <exec> 08└─-Yeah, tough to model things that change according to outside input. Your kind are a lot simpler: imagine a plague, but window-licking retarded.
[00:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Wolfram: The Universe Runs on Automata Theory - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:54] <exec> 08└─This politely scathing review might be of interest to anyone thinking of becoming a Wolfram groupie? http://bactra.org [bactra.org] Covers previous book, "A New Kind of Science", points out many problems -- attribution, prior art, etc with Wolframs work. I've heard similar fro...
[00:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Wolfram: The Universe Runs on Automata Theory - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:56] <exec> 08└─I don't think you can approach God in a positive way, only a negative ("apophatic" is the fancy seminary term) way. Basically, start with what any putative God is *not* and work back from there. This handily rules out Yahweh, Allah, Brahma, and in fact any ideas of a personal creator.
[00:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A More Plant-Based Diet Without Stomach Troubles: Getting Rid of FODMAPs With Enzymes - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:06] <exec> 08└─Because you don't need animals to obtain cheese**, right? I wonder what's the efficiency of plant to cheese via cows nowadays? ** NB: I mean cheese, not soy curd.
[00:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A More Plant-Based Diet Without Stomach Troubles: Getting Rid of FODMAPs With Enzymes - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:08] <exec> 08└─People can eat healthily with far less meat than you think they can.
[00:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A More Plant-Based Diet Without Stomach Troubles: Getting Rid of FODMAPs With Enzymes - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:10] <exec> 08└─Eh, your introduction needs work and the middle wandered quite a bit, but that is one strong conclusion.
[00:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Orders Auto Insurers to Refund Premiums Due to Coronavirus - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:45] <exec> 08└─Contractors routinely charge travel costs.
[00:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Orders Auto Insurers to Refund Premiums Due to Coronavirus - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:46] <exec> 08└─As any red-blooded American libertarian knows, anything those pinko Limeys do must be wrong and bad. The same goes for the Socialists in California.
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[01:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:30] <exec> 08└─I just heard the best description for trolls like you. You're one of the more reclusive types, with the kindest descriptor being "pale dewy faced salamander person".
[01:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:32] <exec> 08└─The latest research indicates that women have more active immune systems in part due to estrogen. Yeah, but real women don't have to buy theirs at the drug store
[01:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:34] <exec> 08└─On the contrary. You who suffer from the TDS have the attitude, "If you're not with us, you're against us." Same kinda crap that Bush Junior tried to pass off as patriotism, or some such. We, who merely dislike and distrust Trump appear to be Trump supporters to people like you. At the last election...
[01:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:36] <exec> 08└─I want to see stats out of Sweden. Some 12% of the population of Sweden uses SNUS - from the wiki: moist powder smokeless tobacco product originating from a variant of dry snuff in early 18th-century Sweden. It is placed in upper lip for extended periods. Snus is not fermented. Although used similar...
[01:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:38] <exec> 08└─SARS is intolerant of heat above 105 American, maybe you just gotta burn the gunk out?
[01:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 1343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:41] <exec> 08└─Smoking also helps with high altitude sickness (mountain climbers have even smoked instead of using oxygen), while ER and critical care doctors have said the symptoms look just like high altitude sickness. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Cigarettes as an aid to climbing R...
[01:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 1470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:43] <exec> 08└─I was in Berlin when the lockdown went down; the MSM had been covering the pandemic for a while, but nobody seemed to give a shit. People were travelling, visiting places and shopping. Then there was the battle of talking heads, decision makers operating as normal were publicly second guessed by sel...
[01:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:45] <exec> 08└─"So what now? Sweden is at ~400 new cases, ~30 fatalities per day. " Sweden's latetest figures are 600+ new cases and 130+ death per day. Compare that to Norway's 100 new cases and 2 death per day.
[01:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:47] <exec> 08└─Nope, I'm definitely a real, natural, biological, XX-chromosome-carrying woman, and I've had to take hormone pills ever since my ovaries self-destructed when I was 13 years old. A lot of older women also take it to avoid the damaging effects of menopause.
[01:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Wolfram: The Universe Runs on Automata Theory - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:51] <exec> 08└─> Yeah, tough to model things that change according to outside input... ...called opportunity
[01:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03EventH0rizon [936] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Wolfram: The Universe Runs on Automata Theory - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:53] <exec> 08└─Really enjoyed that review, thanks for linking to it. I read the first few pages of a New Kind of Science in a bookshop while trying to decide whether or not to buy it and was blown away by the hubris.
[01:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Wolfram: The Universe Runs on Automata Theory - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:55] <exec> 08└─>Much of which is spent on that God destroying things he didn't like LOL, your quantitative analysis is a pearl of atheist-style thought. The best part is that you probably believe it. Let's see... "for He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good"... That's quite an energy intensive action...
[01:42:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Cosmic Debris [2086] 02 - 06IBM Age Discrimination Lawsuit Suddenly Ends, Suggests Big Blue Willing to Pay to Avoid Discovery - 1729 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:58] <exec> 08└─Nope. That's not quite how it worked. Former IBMer here (31 years and change before "retiring"). Inside IBM you have access to a huge trove of new technologies. You can study to your heart's content. It's a great place to build knowledge for your resume. However it's what you're measured on and what...
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[02:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Secret Behind “Unkillable” Android Backdoor Called xHelper Has Been Revealed - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:07] <exec> 08└─It doesn't say why the backdoor survived the reset. It says that it installs a backdoor, but no useful insight provided.
[02:38:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 278 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:31] <exec> 08└─Erm... I can't think of any really big Trump fans here off hand, even among the conservative types. Ripping on someone for losing their mind at least three times a day over Trump is not even sort of the same as supporting him and it damned sure ain't the same as voting for him.
[02:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:56] <exec> 08└─So men don't by viagra, cialis, anabolic steroids, etc?
[02:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:57] <exec> 08└─Your cite? Here's mine: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[02:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:59] <exec> 08└─A correction, there were at least 5 choices on most ballots -- Green, Libertarian, and write-in in addition to the usual scum. But I do agree that the relentless drumbeat against Trump is self-defeating in that it makes it less likely for those who call him out on bad shit to be taken seriously and...
[02:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:01] <exec> 08└─https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ [worldometers.info]
[02:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:04] <exec> 08└─I'm too lazy to track down the details, however I once read a study which asserted that nicotine interacts with an area of the brain which controls one's perception of danger and threats to well-being, giving a smoker a feeling that, whatever his predicament, everything will be okay. The problem ari...
[02:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:06] <exec> 08└─"At the last election, it came down to one of two choices at the polls. That's the way it usually goes. The alternative to Trump was much worse than Trump." Was she? Really? I am pretty sure we wouldn't have nearly as much raging incompetence if Hillary were in charge right now. Don't get me wrong:...
[02:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satellite Galaxies of the Milky Way Help Test Dark Matter Theory - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:18] <exec> 08└─Dark matter gets a new incarnation in order to make it work, to perhaps fit EVERY instance 'they' need it to fit in order to make it REAL. And if the results turn up negative, can we THIS time say "Fine. We call it quits. Dark matter does not exist, we've been chasing unicorns. Let's move on to real...
[02:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Wolfram: The Universe Runs on Automata Theory - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:15] <exec> 08└─The theory is that the automata model is truer than the functional model, but that is a mere continuation of the fallacy of calling the universe infrastructure the real reality or the truer truth, while the real reality is this abstraction I am experiencing and the truth is possibly in its meaning....
[02:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A More Plant-Based Diet Without Stomach Troubles: Getting Rid of FODMAPs With Enzymes - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:28] <exec> 08└─Here you go! https://i.pinimg.com [pinimg.com] Early Vegetarians returning from the Hunt.
[02:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A More Plant-Based Diet Without Stomach Troubles: Getting Rid of FODMAPs With Enzymes - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:29] <exec> 08└─So, you're saying you plan to start eating grass? Cuz that's the majority of a cow's diet... and mainly from land that won't support agriculture.
[02:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A More Plant-Based Diet Without Stomach Troubles: Getting Rid of FODMAPs With Enzymes - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:31] <exec> 08└─And that's a load of shit. Crop ag is so much more profitable than animal ag, that everywhere that CAN be cropped IS cropped. Animal ag is mainly relegated to land that fails for crops due to poor soil, bad terrain, or inadequate water.
[02:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A More Plant-Based Diet Without Stomach Troubles: Getting Rid of FODMAPs With Enzymes - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:34] <exec> 08└─Corn is used for finishing. It's not used for growing 'em, which is the majority of the cattle's lives; that's mostly done on pasture, which is to say, grass. Also, one bison equals two cows, and the peak estimates I've seen were in the 120M range.
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[03:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:56] <exec> 08└─I had hepatitis B shots 5 years ago. It takes 3 shots over 6 months. Last fall my doctor who actually administered the shots himself run the antibody test and found none. He repeated the test at different lab - still none. We decided to do it again. I had two shots, but, given the environment, unlik...
[03:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:57] <exec> 08└─This strikes me as over-protective parenting. Never allow a kid to do _anything_ risky at all and they'll never be able to properly assess risk. I notice this all the time, especially in the newest generation. It manifests in other ways -- teens not going out to a social event because they're mortal...
[03:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:00] <exec> 08└─If everyone else is vaccinated, they figure they don't have to and thereny avoid any possible side effects. Because they are special. They are selfish parasites.
[03:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:02] <exec> 08└─Aren't they afraid of their child catching the illness and experiencing its horrible consequences [youtube.com]? And when they ask "How can you counteract these processes?" ... can't you encode the scary stories of what happens when you get the disease?
[03:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:04] <exec> 08└─"Lets come up with a new treatment that is specific for every possible virus that could cause disease" is not a workable solution. Instead come up with one or a few strategies by actually understanding how a virus causes illness.
[03:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Secret Behind "Unkillable" Android Backdoor Called xHelper has been Revealed - 1303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:13] <exec> 08└─Mysterious origins While the exact origins of xHelper is being actively investigated, Symantec suspects two different possibilities: a rogue app laced with the malware is possibly being downloaded by users from unknown sources, or a malicious system app that’s persistently downloading the malware...
[03:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Secret Behind "Unkillable" Android Backdoor Called xHelper has been Revealed - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:15] <exec> 08└─Open your file manager and search for "mufc", ( without the quotes). The above is in the linked article...my post is just a TLDR.
[03:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Secret Behind "Unkillable" Android Backdoor Called xHelper has been Revealed - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:17] <exec> 08└─Some more... "Hidden inside a directory named com.mufc.umbtts was an Android application package, or APK, that dropped an xHelper variant. The variant, in turn, dropped more malware within seconds." Apparently, she was able to rid herself of this nuisance by deleting the folders... I guess it goes w...
[03:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:10] <exec> 08└─I'll smoke to that. Gunna head out now and enjoy a delicious cigarette..
[03:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:11] <exec> 08└─Anyone else notice the trending "I was never a Trump supporter"
[03:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 1042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:14] <exec> 08└─Thanks for illustrating my point so clearly. You're just one of the idiots who tries and deflect from the conservative screwup that is Trump, who is desperate to feel validation for that screwup instead of admitting that as is so commonly true, liberals were right again. If screaming TDS is what you...
[03:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:16] <exec> 08└─You think I should get all worked up every time he says something bloody stupid then? Why? There are two other branches of government with the power to shut him down, one split between two parties that both dislike him, so I'm just not terribly concerned that he's going to be able to make good on ev...
[03:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:18] <exec> 08└─She was the most corrupt politician to ever run for the office, so, yes, she was worse.
[03:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:20] <exec> 08└─Nobody's screaming TDS. Mocking you when you call him Literally Hitler and racist for eating chocolate ice cream for desert (or vanilla, you're not picky what you scream about)? Yeah, we're doing that.
[03:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:22] <exec> 08└─Does China even bar smoking in hospitals? Me, I'm thinking smoking may actually chemically inhibit the virus. There are very strong indications it's interfering with our homogoblins (Yes, I know it's hemoglobin. It's more fun to say though.) and so do many things in a cigarette; them getting in each...
[03:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:24] <exec> 08└─The data on Wikipedia are sourced from the Swedish Ministry of Health. And the data on your "worldometers.info"?
[03:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:27] <exec> 08└─How "hot" are 105 Americans? Is like those "People of Walmart" photoes?
[03:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:29] <exec> 08└─It may very well not be the nicotine. It's just as likely that the CO or some other chemical we take in with every puff is inhibiting the virus's ability to sabotage the homogoblins in our red blood cells.
[03:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:31] <exec> 08└─At least it is still something we are permitted to do. Besides drinking.
[03:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Wolfram: The Universe Runs on Automata Theory - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:41] <exec> 08└─If you dare to add a comment on the Wolfram page which disagrees with the conjectures then it instantly gets removed. Why I wonder? It is very easy to create complexity, and fractals are not really the answer to everything.
[03:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Wolfram: The Universe Runs on Automata Theory - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:42] <exec> 08└─More of 「Yahweh」's arrogance, claiming to the humans he created the universe or even Sol. And here is a human gullible enough to believe it.
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[04:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:15] <exec> 08└─Vaccination has been a a workable solution for more than two hundred years now.
[04:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:17] <exec> 08└─Take a look around you to see the great success of the vaccination strategy.
[04:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:19] <exec> 08└─They’ve been indoctrinated, often self-indoctrinated, as easily as watching YouTube . You watched a slightly skeptical video about vaccines... and what does YouTube suggest for you... a lot of similar stuff and down the rabbit whole they go. A full half are afraid of thimerosal. remove that and th...
[04:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:21] <exec> 08└─Rabbit hole entrance here: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[04:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:23] <exec> 08└─You mean almost every child surviving to adulthood? It used to be that losing a child to some terrible illness was pretty common.
[04:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:39] <exec> 08└─Scroll down the page for the sources. Or go to Sweden's public health agency's website. BTW, you are not a swede or live in Sweden, do you?
[04:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:40] <exec> 08└─This smells like lying with statistics. After the introduction of seat belts, the rate of injury from vehicle collisions skyrocketed. People who would have been killed previously instead received non-fatal injuries.
[04:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:42] <exec> 08└─They should make a neapolitan type icecream with 5.4% banana, 12.4% chocolate, 17% coffee, 2% strawberry, 63% vanilla. That way Trump could eat icecream without being racist.
[04:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:44] <exec> 08└─The people in control at the DNC are quite happy with Trump. He is sending plenty of money their way, both directly to their businesses and by inciting their supporters to more fervent support. He is doing such a good job - from their point of view - that they have decided to give him a second term...
[04:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:47] <exec> 08└─I did go to the public health agency. Stats in the excel file at https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se [folkhalsomyndigheten.se] show a most recent 3 day average of full day data for total case count: 475 and fatalities:...
[04:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:49] <exec> 08└─Are you sure you're not going senile? Sounds like you're confusing Obama with Trump.
[04:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:51] <exec> 08└─Don't you mean the most investigated politician in history? All I remember is investigation after investigation by people who were highly motivated to find dirt and guilt . Perhaps it's the old thing, if someone gets arrested, tried, and found not guilty, people think they're guilty. From the outsid...
[04:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:53] <exec> 08└─That sort of fits with the ventilators-are-useless-its-destroying-hemoglobin hypothesis. Smokers usually have a significant (but not incapacitating) percentage of carbon monoxide in their blood. It might bind to hemoglobin strongly enough to exclude the virus. As that CO is slowly removed from patie...
[04:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:55] <exec> 08└─Yours is a medical necessity. Barb does it by choice.
[04:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:58] <exec> 08└─No, I really, really don't. She's walked away from things that would have landed any other politician in prison without so much as a slap on the wrist and the overwhelming majority of the very serious things she gets accused of that there is either compelling evidence or outright proof of never get...
[04:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:00] <exec> 08└─Oh they both have their anti-fans. The TDS folks are about 35% more deranged though.
[04:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Wolfram: The Universe Runs on Automata Theory - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:12] <exec> 08└─I don't think you really read what I posted. Maybe my use of "God word" threw you off. I think too many people, though brilliant, make assumptions based religious traditions. Perhaps you jumped to the confusion that because I threw in the loaded "God" word that I was espousing a religious theme to t...
[04:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Wolfram: The Universe Runs on Automata Theory - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:13] <exec> 08└─Please see my reply to Bot above. Wolfram seems to be seeking a fundamental rule to physical science. As in "funda"...which in India means basic*. And "mental"...pertaining to the mind. *https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/funda To me it seems that seeking to explain the universe as a mechanism implies a...
[04:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Wolfram: The Universe Runs on Automata Theory - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:15] <exec> 08└─I usually don't reply to AC's, but: "It's an effort to understanding the programming that governs the universe..." That statement implies that there is a "source code" and therefor an author of such. There again, good luck with that idea.
[04:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A More Plant-Based Diet Without Stomach Troubles: Getting Rid of FODMAPs With Enzymes - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:32] <exec> 08└─And you failed to understand the premise of TFS, which was how to reduce flatulence from eating vegetables. Ergo, vegans produce more harmful greenhouse gases (methane) than meat eaters do. Millennials never can do their homework, can they?
[04:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A More Plant-Based Diet Without Stomach Troubles: Getting Rid of FODMAPs With Enzymes - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:34] <exec> 08└─That would be all fine and dandy if farmers weren't growing said grass on prime agricultural land, instead of scrubland where not much edible by people grows.
[04:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Behold Dune: A Look at Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Oscar Isaac, and More - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:16] <exec> 08└─Isn't that what legalization is for?
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[05:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Takes Another Crack at Intel's Server Stronghold with More Epyc Silicon - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:39] <exec> 08└─The 7F52's huge L3 cache didn't seem to help it that much in anandtech's benchmarks. Where is the L3 limited scenario?
[05:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:58] <exec> 08└─You got a better idea? Let's see a proof-of-concept demonstration then.
[05:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:59] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. What we're seeing in the world today is the direct effect of lacking a vaccine for a singal illness.
[05:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:01] <exec> 08└─Doing nothing is (to their deluded thinking) not an action taken - so there's no way for their brain to encode an association of action and risk. That's my first guess as to why they're not afraid. Who knows. I don't understand it, and I sometimes fear that if I did I would be joining their ranks.
[05:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:04] <exec> 08└─When did "thinks differently" become newspeak for "fucking idiots"? Anti-vaxxeers, nazis, Trump supporters? They don't "think differently"! They just don't think! Because they are stupid.
[05:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:06] <exec> 08└─Anti-vaccers could be a symptom of falling trust in our leaders and institutions. It could also be influenced by our low-trust society. Diversity is necessarily our strength.
[05:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:33] <exec> 08└─Every time? No, you'd be angry all day every day. But maybe more than none? At least some of the ones like getting the DOD to cover for his crimes? Something more recent? His disbanding of the IG that would oversee the bailout money, or his fuckup of the pandemic response? Two totally easy instances...
[05:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:34] <exec> 08└─I guess the Republicans love her.
[05:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:36] <exec> 08└─My favorite part? "When world-famous artist David Hockney wrote a letter to the Daily Mail saying he believes smoking could protect people against the coronavirus many scoffed." You're hinging your commentary on medical advice put forth by a world famous artist? Does he do underwater basket weaving?...
[05:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:39] <exec> 08└─So strange, as people get older they get more wrinkly and more wrinkles on the brain is supposed to be smarted. What happened with you? Too much moisturizer?
[05:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:41] <exec> 08└─I think you uncovered a new syndrome, HDS. You'd think after she lost they'd be done giving her a hard time, but sadly she is the only cover for their TDS they keep trying to hide.
[05:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:43] <exec> 08└─Speaking of Sweden, I heard they did not shut down their economy and instead opted to go for herd immunity. The total hospitalizations and deaths don't seem that bad there yet considering the total population.
[05:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:45] <exec> 08└─Yea, it amazes the hate that Hillary gets. Yes, she is unlikable but seems like your average corrupt American politician, doesn't even hide her taxes like some do, hasn't had her charity or university closed for illegal actions like some do.
[05:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Wolfram: The Universe Runs on Automata Theory - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:01] <exec> 08└─You can deflect an asteroid with white paint, or a small projectile.
[05:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Wolfram: The Universe Runs on Automata Theory - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:02] <exec> 08└─This is his baby. You can only praise it, never critique.
[05:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A More Plant-Based Diet Without Stomach Troubles: Getting Rid of FODMAPs With Enzymes - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:24] <exec> 08└─Please don't be ignorant. Cows eat grass until they get to the feedlot where they are fattened up for a few months before being shipped off to the slaughterhouse. Per Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]: In the United States, most cattle raised for beef production are (mostly) grass-fed.
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[05:43:25] <exec> 08└─Trevor Philips: "Older women should be appreciated, like a fine cheese. Sometimes the rind is the best bit."
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[06:38:19] <exec> 08└─The only cure is another dose of snake oil. I only hope there are insurance salesmen licking their lips at this news.
[06:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:54] <exec> 08└─"Why would I be a Swede or live in Sweden?" If you live there, or have a family there, maybe you would give a damn.
[06:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 1043 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:55] <exec> 08└─Incorrect. You get shit because every time someone brings up Trump's corruption and criminality you reply with TDS. Please explain why you would do such thing in the face of blatant corruption and fascist behavior. Oh right, you can't, cause all you can do is deflect with TDS as if your EMAILS and B...
[06:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:57] <exec> 08└─They seemed fine until a few days ago https://www.worldometers.info [worldometers.info] Right now they are sitting at a 10.6% death rate. This could be due to lack of testing or other factors. They have one of the fewest number of icu beds per 100k people in Europe, prett...
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[06:40:28] <exec> 08└─I was wondering who uses hard drive under water and expects adequate performance. If you are illiterate, why advertise it here ?
[06:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stephen Wolfram: The Universe Runs on Automata Theory - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:15] <exec> 08└─I found it an interesting read. Whether it's in fact a unifying framework for physics and our understanding of the universe I'll leave to people with better understanding of the field. One thing I will say is that fact seems to follow fiction - hard sci-fi author Greg Egan used a similar construct i...
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[06:42:37] <exec> 08└─but we do need to do something about CO2 levels in the atmosphere
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[07:38:09] <exec> 08└─We need a breakthrough in space tech. Sadly any real breakthrough will be easily coopted into a weapons system. Until humanity gets over the base tribalism and rolls the doomsday clock back to 1AM any scientist worth their muster will burn their research before letting any group get their hands on r...
[07:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:39] <exec> 08└─"Here we saw an overestimation of rare events for things that don't have anything to do with vaccination. ..."
[07:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:40] <exec> 08└─My recollection is that "Think Different" always was pc 'new speak' for mentally retarded.
[07:39:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 208 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:01] <exec> 08└─China has the highest rates of smoking among men and the lowest among women. Chinese men are 70% of all deaths. The same holds true in Italy and Greece. Get over it - tobacco company trolls are hard at work.
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[07:39:05] <exec> 08└─We are living through a fake news, fake science, fake statistics pandemic. No-one has a damn clue what this virus is, how it transmits, how long it incubates, or what is the infection/fatality rate. No-one. Does smoking make it worse or better. Christ! Is this where we are at now? People fucking nav...
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[07:40:18] <exec> 08└─This makes it sound like cigarettes increased their oxygen uptake, but bear in mind they were *camped*, and thus they were resting. Nicotine constricts blood vessels and raises blood pressure. It's possible that their natural mechanisms to compensate for the altitude didn't work well in this situati...
[07:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:19] <exec> 08└─This smells like lying with statistics
[07:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:21] <exec> 08└─Never in my life have I seen such a total, farcial collapse of responsibility, leadership, and effectiveness as I have seen across nearly the entire gamut of professions since the start of this crisis. Our entire civilization has fallen flat on its wide open mouth, with only the feckless clucking of...
[07:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Wolfram: The Universe Runs on Automata Theory - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:41] <exec> 08└─Don't worry he'll be back as soon as "his guy" isn't the one doing the "violence".
[07:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Wolfram: The Universe Runs on Automata Theory - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:42] <exec> 08└─While it seems very smart to deny that you can understand the stuff which you are made out of, there is no actual rule saying you can't. So why don't you stuff your metaphysics in your metaphorical.
[07:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Wolfram: The Universe Runs on Automata Theory - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:44] <exec> 08└─Yes but if you can hack it, you'll get all the women and be an alfafa-Male. Ding ding ding! Hello Jackpot!
[07:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Wolfram: The Universe Runs on Automata Theory - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:46] <exec> 08└─Something tells me it wouldn't work in COBOL.
[07:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Wolfram: The Universe Runs on Automata Theory - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:48] <exec> 08└─OK what's the reality, dipshit? 1) You are a sentient being in a Universe perceiving itself 2) Your landlord wants his damn money, dipshit 3) Wolfram automata blah blah blah, fucking rent dipshit
[07:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Wolfram: The Universe Runs on Automata Theory - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:51] <exec> 08└─Athiests kill babies, you know that right? Why wouldn't they kill Wolram's baby too - amirite? Let's start a revolution to only buy Wolfram product.
[07:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Wolfram: The Universe Runs on Automata Theory - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:53] <exec> 08└─> I found it an interesting read. Really? I found it one giant advertisement interspersed with giant floating turds of self-praise. When you're a kid, adults are so fake. You can't believe it. Most people "grow up", i.e. they take on a fake voice and call it real.
[07:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A More Plant-Based Diet Without Stomach Troubles: Getting Rid of FODMAPs With Enzymes - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:15] <exec> 08└─Effete conceit, and of course crates.
[07:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Behold Dune: A Look at Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Oscar Isaac, and More - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:57] <exec> 08└─Yay, someone discovered one of the classics. Sure, Dune (especially the first book, certainly not the follow-ups co-authered by Herbert's son) is good. Philip K Dick is good. But, as for making into movies or TV series, I'd wish for someone to pick up something else than these oldies - we're talking...
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[08:37:52] <exec> 08└─<sarcasm>Everyone else uses Chrome. Why do people persist in using Firefox?</sarcasm>
[08:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Selects Early-Stage Technology Concepts for New, Continued Study - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:00] <exec> 08└─What kind of new weapons system even matters? Mutually assured destruction is still on the table. Hypersonic missiles will extend that. It's the defense systems that you have to worry about.
[08:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 2222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:32] <exec> 08└─I'm very supportive for vaccines that are effective for many years or even decades. Vaccines like Hep B, measles, etc. But I'm skeptical about stuff like flu vaccines that are expensive and only effective for some strains and only for a year or even a few months ( https://www.consumerreports.org
[08:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:34] <exec> 08└─Lack of trust in your "leaders" and institutions is fine but the real problem is they seem to trust even worse groups instead. Just look at those Flat Earthers... Same for the 9/11 bunch, there are lots of stuff that's suspicious about the official version and explanation of the events, but some can...
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[08:38:36] <exec> 08└─"It's a bird! It's a plane! It's ZINC man! He's everywhere, he's everywhere!!!!"
[08:40:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:14] <exec> 08└─The (our?) system is the problem. As are the "popular" attitudes of many of our citizens. We've abdicated our humanity, our neighborliness, our individualism, our responsibilities, our power as individuals and a society, to the almighty fucking dollar. It's now a "FUCK you, I got Mine" and / or "Fuc...
[08:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:15] <exec> 08└─In my opinion, the entities in the linked articles are not reliable or credible. Just sayin'.
[08:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:18] <exec> 08└─Why do we get crap like this, which is wrong and might hurt people, when we could have more articles on homeopathy? Seems like there is a clear bias in the selection of medical related stories here at SoylentNews. Ever since they knocked of frojack, and drove away Anthanius Kircher, . . .
[08:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Little Scientists: Children Prefer Storybooks That Explain Why and How Things Happen - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:07] <exec> 08└─I would but private school taught me not to - help!?!
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[08:43:08] <exec> 08└─The author contends that more than half of societal work is pointless, both large parts of some jobs and, as he describes, five types of entirely pointless jobs: 1) flunkies, who serve to make their superiors feel important, e.g., receptionists, administrative assistants, door attendants ...
[08:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Behold Dune: A Look at Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Oscar Isaac, and More - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:51] <exec> 08└─As a counterbalance to that, he would have blown through any budget of any size, no matter how high, and had to finish it on borrowed time and money. He's a talented guy, but not someone you can rely on to get things done in a fixed schedule/budget/anything.
[08:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Moru [1248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Any free programs where we can test A.I.? - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:55] <exec> 08└─Creatures can be bought on GOG still and is working. But the online part of Creatures 3 has been shut down since a while but it's not needed for the learning part.
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[09:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Borked When Users Enable Firefox Anti-Fingerprinting - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:53] <exec> 08└─Just wait for embedded Chrome. Google is working on an eye implant for your convenience. It will have blink- and eyeroll-based navigation and retinal scan for authentication. It is, miraculously, called EyePhone. Rumors tell us that is also comes with a set of diagnostic tools connected to your clou...
[09:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Borked When Users Enable Firefox Anti-Fingerprinting - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:54] <exec> 08└─Brave generally does a better job of anti-tracking and has no problem rendering videos. I do not have a positive opinion of Mozilla. They claim to be privacy and user oriented yet set the default engine to Google (which, by the way, they get paid a massive amount by Google to do)? And they claim to...
[09:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Borked When Users Enable Firefox Anti-Fingerprinting - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:57] <exec> 08└─Been shit ever since they made the change to that Polymer UI thing. I do wonder how long they'll allow the users to tweak it and disable that, the old version (or one without the polymer) is just way snappier.
[09:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Selects Early-Stage Technology Concepts for New, Continued Study - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:06] <exec> 08└─Sadly any real breakthrough will be easily coopted into a weapons system.
[09:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 1674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:40] <exec> 08└─We love everyone, unless they disagree with us!! Want a crazy alternative view? The world we live in is a germ warfare combat zone. Mankind has learned to manipulate a lot of things to tip the war in his favor. Today, mankind's population is at the highest level ever. Hmmm - what happens to any crea...
[09:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:41] <exec> 08└─OK, I look around. I don't see a single case of Polio, thanks to Polio vaccination. I don't see a single case of smallpox, thanks to smallpox vaccination. I see many cases of Covid-19, due to lack ofCovid-19 vaccination. Seems that vaccination is a pretty good strategy, after all.
[09:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:43] <exec> 08└─Since the term “sceptics” is increasingly used for people who are not at all sceptic, but outright reject the scientific consensus (which is the polar opposite of being sceptic), and there's no sign that this usage can be successfully fought, we need to find a new term for true sceptics, so that...
[09:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:25] <exec> 08└─You get TDS comments not because people like Trump, but because your diatribes are so hysterically rabid. If you could sanely and calmly point out where he is doing all this evil, people might listen. But when you jump up and down screaming "literally Hitler" and accuse anyone who is not screaming o...
[09:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:26] <exec> 08└─But maybe more than none? At least some of the ones like getting the DOD to cover for his crimes?
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[09:40:28] <exec> 08└─The breathing reflex is triggered by CO2 buildup, not by oxygen deprivation. It is quite likely that at low pressures the CO2 reflex is inhibited enough that they have to consciously breathe. Burning cigarettes give off significant amounts of CO2, which might be high enough to push the CO2 reflex in...
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[10:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Didn't the Universe Annihilate Itself? Neutrinos May Hold the Answer - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:50] <exec> 08└─How do we know other galaxies are all matter? Is an antiphoton distinguishable from our photons?
[10:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Borked When Users Enable Firefox Anti-Fingerprinting - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:00] <exec> 08└─Too many sites already give me fits. So far, Amazon, eBay, Rock Auto, and AliExpress still work fine. But I also realize there are also businesses that don't care about customers using older stuff. They want the new stuff. So what if I can't use their site? They aren't in business to be like Amazon....
[10:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:33] <exec> 08└─Never in my life have I seen such a total, farcial collapse of responsibility, leadership, and effectiveness as I have seen across nearly the entire gamut of professions since the start of this crisis.
[10:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:34] <exec> 08└─You never supported him outright, but you are one of the worst users around for downplaying his corrupt and incompetent behavior.
[10:40:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:36] <exec> 08└─This. They're phoning it in. It'll be easier to motivate the base in 2024 and easier to win with no sitting president. I still don't buy that Biden will lose. It's not over till the votes are counted.
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[11:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Borked When Users Enable Firefox Anti-Fingerprinting - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:03] <exec> 08└─They claim to be privacy and user oriented yet set the default engine to Google (which, by the way, they get paid a massive amount by Google to do)?
[11:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:50] <exec> 08└─>>When did "thinks differently" become newspeak for "fucking idiots"? Shortly after Apple adopted it as their catchphrase?
[11:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:51] <exec> 08└─Fitness, in the evolution sense, isn't just a fitness, in the athlete sense, problem. New tools that help the species could be developed by quadriplegics, see Hawking as an example. Humanity outcompeted so well because we have distributed knowledge and problem solving. Every human we keep alive and...
[11:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:53] <exec> 08└─Stupidity has its own context. It's not random.
[11:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:55] <exec> 08└─While you're at it find a new term for "conspiracy theory".
[11:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stephen Wolfram: The Universe Runs on Automata Theory - 2677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:08] <exec> 08└─It still doesn't look usable. But the presence of emergent geometry is very interesting. In the section "Recognizable geometry", a single generation rule on an appropriate starting graph results in the construction of larger graphs with a two-dimensional grid embedded. Another rule results in a cone...
[11:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stephen Wolfram: The Universe Runs on Automata Theory - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:10] <exec> 08└─I forgot conservation laws and CPT-invariance. Probably a lot more important things missing where that came from.
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[12:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Didn't the Universe Annihilate Itself? Neutrinos May Hold the Answer - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:01] <exec> 08└─> How do we know other galaxies are all matter? There is no evidence of annihilation at the matter:antimatter boundary. Nb: Just as a side note, no one knows if gravity attracts or repels antimatter. > Is an antiphoton distinguishable from our photons? A photon is the same as an antiphoton .
[12:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Borked When Users Enable Firefox Anti-Fingerprinting - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:15] <exec> 08└─It amazes me how many people say that with a straight face and fail to see the parallel with IE6 20 years ago
[12:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Borked When Users Enable Firefox Anti-Fingerprinting - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:16] <exec> 08└─Hence why I took ultra extra caution to include the relevant tags
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[12:38:18] <exec> 08└─Polymer is an open-source JavaScript library for building web applications using Web Components. The library is being developed by Google developers and contributors on GitHub. Modern design principles are implemented as a separate project using Google's Material Design design principles.
[12:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:09] <exec> 08└─It could end up being a way of reaching curing this diverse group.
[12:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:10] <exec> 08└─Not as selfish as passenger transport companies and open-borders activists. Why is anybody entering a country where Measles and TB are eliminated without being tested and/or quarantined? A ricin attack would kill less people than a serious outbreak caused by communal spread of pathogens like Measles...
[12:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:59] <exec> 08└─The people in control at the DNC are quite happy with Trump.
[12:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:01] <exec> 08└─You said: insanely stupid stuff like smoking will help prevent COVID problems.
[12:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Caught Using SMR in Barracuda Compute and Desktop Drives - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:33] <exec> 08└─It's been around since "The Parent Trap" movie [imdb.com] released in 1961. I remember the line: "We submarined her!" [scripts.com] - link is to the script for your persual.
[12:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Little Scientists: Children Prefer Storybooks That Explain Why and How Things Happen - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah Hank Greene is great.
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[13:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Being Right-Brained or Left-Brained Comes Down to Molecular Switches - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:54] <exec> 08└─The content is just fine, but "right brained" is a meaningless myth. Why the right brain has a marginally different structure from the left? That's what this answers.
[13:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Didn't the Universe Annihilate Itself? Neutrinos May Hold the Answer - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:04] <exec> 08└─There are days when I ask myself the same question. Ah, no...sorry. My question is "Why Doesn't the Universe Go Annihilate Itself?"
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[13:38:56] <exec> 08└─Anti-vaccers could be a symptom of falling trust in our leaders and institutions. It could also be influenced by our low-trust society. Diversity is necessarily our strength.
[13:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:12] <exec> 08└─Absolutely: if you thought your doctor was incompetent and uncaring and only got his job through giving his boss lots of money, would you want him to operate on you? Or diagnose your illness? Or prescribe for you? And can this 'expert' guarantee you won't die or become disabled by the vaccine? Dogs....
[13:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:14] <exec> 08└─Most of our modern vaccines were introduced in the 1960's, which is after all of the diseases they were created to treat had already faded to modern levels. Vaccines rode the wave of better nutrition and sanitation, then claimed responsibility for the results.
[13:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:05] <exec> 08└─I still don't buy that Biden will lose.
[13:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:06] <exec> 08└─Nah. There's a huge difference between following someone's every word and completely losing my shit about everything they say or do and recognizing that someone sucks ass at being a human being. I don't even know what the wicked witch of the west wing is doing these days, much less cyberstalk her lo...
[13:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:08] <exec> 08└─She hides the money from the government so it isn't taxed rather than hiding her taxes. Money is the absolute least of what makes her a contemptible person though.
[13:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:10] <exec> 08└─That's rough. Sorry to hear that. My wife is entering that now and it's not a fun ride.
[13:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:13] <exec> 08└─That is an inspired rant. I'm sure we wouldn't have to look very hard before finding the studies breathlessly announcing that meat consumption or car-driving or climate change are HUGE multipliers for coronavirus risk, either. On the bright side, events like these have the potential to shake out the...
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[13:41:45] <exec> 08└─I love how the headline is all, "Seagate does bad thing!" Then the summary is like, oh, yeah, WD and Toshiba do it do...
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[13:44:07] <exec> 08└─Zip it, deimtee. (sotto voce) You're getting in the way of my scheme to mine carbon from the atmosphere!
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[14:37:56] <exec> 08└─They'll replace the fired workers with Mexican illegals and fundamentalist Muslims, run up a rainbow flag, and the unions will love them and squelch any attempt to criticize Amazon.
[14:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Didn't the Universe Annihilate Itself? Neutrinos May Hold the Answer - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:13] <exec> 08└─It had so much to live for?
[14:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Selects Early-Stage Technology Concepts for New, Continued Study - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:38] <exec> 08└─Grammatical question: there is zero or one distinct entities or there is zero or one distinct entity or there are zero or one distinct entities or there are zero or one distinct entity I really don't know. -- hendrik
[14:39:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:02] <exec> 08└─You mean almost every child surviving to adulthood? It used to be that losing a child to some terrible illness was pretty common.
[14:39:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 187 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:06] <exec> 08└─When did "thinks differently" become newspeak for "fucking idiots"? Anti-vaxxeers, nazis, Trump supporters? They don't "think differently"! They just don't think! Because they are stupid.
[14:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 1213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:25] <exec> 08└─Again with this ultimately dangerous line of thinking? It's just getting sooooooooooooooo stale. tl;dr version: You first, my dear Runaway. gtomorrow's usual verbose version: Where do you draw that line, my friend? Who gets to draw that line? Especially in a unprecedented case such as in these stran...
[14:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 1502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:27] <exec> 08└─The "think different" guys are those who acritically accept this kind of articles without raising the BS meter to the max. "Vaccine skeptics" -> frames the dissenters in one broad category that does not represent them at all. Personally, I don't object to VACCINATION, I may object to THIS vaccine ad...
[14:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:29] <exec> 08└─The real problem appears to be that nothing in the food chain selectively eats stupid people.
[14:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:31] <exec> 08└─COVID is trying...
[14:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:33] <exec> 08└─The Density is high in this one.
[14:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:35] <exec> 08└─You mean the world where people see these diseases as such a small threat that they don't want to risk giving their kid a shot? I think I heard it put best, "Vaccines are a victim of their own success."
[14:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 1077 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:38] <exec> 08└─>I half-way think Covid is Mother Nature's "Fuck you humans" moment. Nah, at worse it's a gentle reminder of reality. If it swept through the population like wildfire, infecting everyone, and killing maybe 10% or so (since hospitals would be severely overloaded)... it would only undo a few years of...
[14:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:40] <exec> 08└─People here have not mentioned the cause of the NY measles outbreak. It was completely due to a sect that considers itself apart from the country it lives in: Orthodox Jews. They are truly bizarre.
[14:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:42] <exec> 08└─>When vaccination will return to be a basic form of emergency service like firefighting and police in proper republics, then we can discuss it without bias. How is that supposed to work? By the time you're sick, vaccines don't do much if any good. >"y'all need to get vaxxed else deadly mutations" Ah...
[14:40:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 905 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:33] <exec> 08└─On the contrary. You who suffer from the TDS have the attitude, "If you're not with us, you're against us." Same kinda crap that Bush Junior tried to pass off as patriotism, or some such. We, who merely dislike and distrust Trump appear to be Trump supporters to people like you. At the last election...
[14:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:38] <exec> 08└─I voted for Trump, and I am glad I did. He killed the Trans-Pacific Partnership as his first act in office, and that is still worth the price of entry. The TPP would have completely killed off American manufacturing. Can you imagine our country being 100% at the mercy of China in the middle of the c...
[14:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:40] <exec> 08└─What do you have against better life through pharmaceuticals?
[14:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:42] <exec> 08└─Why don't you move your family to Germany then if you want to live in prison?
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[15:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Fires Three Workers Who Criticized Warehouse Conditions - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:59] <exec> 08└─ICFI/Socialist Equality Party USA (Kishore/Santa Cruz 2020): Amazon cracks down on rebellious workers as first COVID-19 fatality is reported [wsws.org] Outrage grows as Amazon workers die for Bezos’ profits [wsws.org] Union seeks to block strike as Polish Amazon workers contract COVID-19 [wsws.org...
[15:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Didn't the Universe Annihilate Itself? Neutrinos May Hold the Answer - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:16] <exec> 08└─There is no evidence of annihilation at the matter:antimatter boundary.
[15:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Borked When Users Enable Firefox Anti-Fingerprinting - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:32] <exec> 08└─Brave just sounds sketchy in every possible way.
[15:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Borked When Users Enable Firefox Anti-Fingerprinting - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:33] <exec> 08└─Perhaps some of them fail to see the parallel between Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 6 for a couple reasons: - Chromium (Chrome without the audiovisual DRM components) is free software and IE 6 isn't. - Chromium never had a half-decade of web standards support stagnation like the IE 6 era.
[15:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Borked When Users Enable Firefox Anti-Fingerprinting - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:35] <exec> 08└─YouTube is so popular you need access to receive information. I use it, I even log in with a Google Account, but it occurs in a separate web browser compared to my normal web life.
[15:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Borked When Users Enable Firefox Anti-Fingerprinting - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:37] <exec> 08└─if you can get by without being able to see the ads and comments...
[15:39:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 163 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:03] <exec> 08└─If everyone else is vaccinated, they figure they don't have to and thereny avoid any possible side effects. Because they are special. They are selfish parasites.
[15:39:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 361 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:24] <exec> 08└─Since the term “sceptics” is increasingly used for people who are not at all sceptic, but outright reject the scientific consensus (which is the polar opposite of being sceptic), and there's no sign that this usage can be successfully fought, we need to find a new term for true sceptics, so that...
[15:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:43] <exec> 08└─If there was the human race would be gone. Some people may be more stupid than others, but we are all stupid in our own way.
[15:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:44] <exec> 08└─Ahhhhh, I'm not God, so I don't get to pick and choose. Not even among my own family do I get to pick and choose. These kids didn't get to choose, either - https://www.dailymail.co.uk [daily...
[15:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:46] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see some science, as opposed to anecdote, about this. Because it sounds like the exact same criticism leveled at every younger generation in the history of humanity.
[15:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:49] <exec> 08└─We love everyone, unless their ignorant actions cause others harm!!
[15:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:51] <exec> 08└─Right, because those people that refuse vaccines pose no danger to others. Unless you count those that cannot be vaccinated because they are too young, or they are immunocompromised, or they are allergic the those vaccines... We tend to frown on the person waving a machete around in the public squar...
[15:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:53] <exec> 08└─When the Coronavirus first hit the UK, the geniuses there said "herd immunity" which isn't wrong only in a mental-exercise theoretical sense. Purely mathematically-speaking the logic speaks for itself. But we're not talking about numbers or vague concepts here. We're talking your parents, your famil...
[15:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vaccine Skeptics Actually Think Differently than Other People - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:55] <exec> 08└─It was completely due to a sect that considers itself apart from the country it lives in
[15:40:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] 02 - 06Contradictory Messages on Smoking and COVID-19 - 255 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:52] <exec> 08└─Nope, I'm definitely a real, natural, biological, XX-chromosome-carrying woman, and I've had to take hormone pills ever since my ovaries self-destructed when I was 13 years old. A lot of older women also take it to avoid the damaging effects of menopause.
[15:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stephen Wolfram: The Universe Runs on Automata Theory - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:24] <exec> 08└─i wonder if the 400+ page book with the right world formula will burn any better then a empty 400 page book...
[15:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Behold Dune: A Look at Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Oscar Isaac, and More - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:36] <exec> 08└─Ugh
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