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[00:00:00] <exec> 08└─The atrophy theory is good, but there may also be another negative effect from the mechanism trying to "fill in the blanks" of sensory deprivation, which could result in misinterpreted sentences at best and schizophrenia-like symptoms at worst. My liver and kidneys are made of steel. But fortunately...
[00:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03helel [2949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:43] <exec> 08└─Like, individually? Each public servant called their Congress Critter and said "If you give me a 1 cent raise I'll vote for you" and next thing you know their raking in a decent hourly wage? Or do you envision some kind of organization here, like maybe they worked together in order to gain a better...
[00:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:45] <exec> 08└─Just ask the unemployment department New Jersey.
[00:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:47] <exec> 08└─Like, individually? Each public servant called their Congress Critter and said "If you give me a 1 cent raise I'll vote for you" and next thing you know their raking in a decent hourly wage? Or do you envision some kind of organization here, like maybe they worked together in order to gain a better...
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[00:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Gravitational Waves Could Prove the Existence of the Quark-gluon Plasma - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:10] <exec> 08└─Here, have some quark-gluon plasma. What? No, it only looks like toe jam, really it's quark-gluon plasma.
[00:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:29] <exec> 08└─Duh. That's why politics exists. We're all biased and is impossible to trust each other's motivations, so we have to conjuring's and try to figure out acceptable solutions.
[00:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spitzer Telescope Reveals the Precise Timing of a Black Hole Dance - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:34] <exec> 08└─Just flip all those spy-hubbles over.
[01:00:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03turgid [4318] 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:09] <exec> 08└─It's a whole other thing to expect the company to provide resources to help them.
[01:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Controversial Sale of .org Web Domain Blocked - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:49] <exec> 08└─Decentralize DSS.
[01:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Controversial Sale of .org Web Domain Blocked - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:50] <exec> 08└─Sorry, that was retarded. Decentralize DNS.
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[01:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gravitational Waves Could Prove the Existence of the Quark-gluon Plasma - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:24] <exec> 08└─Richie GNUman, is that you?
[01:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gravitational Waves Could Prove the Existence of the Quark-gluon Plasma - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:26] <exec> 08└─See how easy it is to get a research grant these days!
[01:58:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 770 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:36] <exec> 08└─There are some very good scientific/biological/statistical reasons why clinical trials are complicated, expensive, and long drawn out processes... however, there are also some straight up barrier to entry reasons behind it too. The "Big Pharma" can handle the cost and complexity, and smaller players...
[01:58:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 1285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:46] <exec> 08└─I've always felt that responding with exactly as you see it, not what you think they want to hear, is in the long run the best policy, even if in the short run you have to find another job. Office politics is a bear that i have never successfully fought. Clinical trials take so long for the same rea...
[01:58:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:48] <exec> 08└─You have a crude way of saying it, but invariably, herd immunity or tolerance will be the final outcome. If it didn't, leprosy would have eventually wiped out the whole human race. Or that Covid19 would have completely wiped out those Chinese bats who supposedly gave it to us.
[01:58:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 2944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:50] <exec> 08└─Greed is not solely tied to one side of the political spectrum. Big money is a powerful temptation to commit research misconduct regardless of political party. Dr. Fauci has been promoting the results from one remdesivir clinical trial [statnews.com], saying there's clear-cut evidence that remdesivi...
[01:58:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:52] <exec> 08└─Everyone (at least of the Libertarian bent) knows that all of this is only meaningless governmental red tape. And it's keeping much needed medications from covid patients. Who needs all that science stuff, anyway, when you have true belief backed up by lack of evidence?
[01:58:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:54] <exec> 08└─I wonder why people keep harping on "patents". It's not like it's all that hard for a pharma company to make an obscene profit even on drugs whose patents have expired. Purdue Pharma is a case in point. They made billions with opiate drugs like oxycodone, which was discovered more than a century ago...
[02:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spitzer Telescope Reveals the Precise Timing of a Black Hole Dance - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:00] <exec> 08└─It's a good thought, and it brings to mind the NRO origin of WFIRST [wikipedia.org]. But the spy equipment that is already in orbit is probably not as useful for astronomy. The cost targets should be a lot lower. $100 million or less for better-and-larger-than-Hubble, including launch cost. Then you...
[02:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plant Extract Combo may Relieve Hangover Symptoms - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:34] <exec> 08└─Have to agree: drink water before, during and after boozing. Simple solution. Or keep drinking less and less til you are sober.
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[02:59:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:09] <exec> 08└─Has Fauci been "pushing" this drug? I give him a lot of slack given the fine line he has to tread. He has to delicately caveat and temper false hope spouted out of the President, but do it in a way that doesn't embarrass him. Plus he is under tremendous pressure to "wrap all this up" and put a happy...
[02:59:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:10] <exec> 08└─no. we were teens working at a greenhouse. It was a mundane job at a greenhouse. I was on one end of conveyer belt, filling 4" square pots with soil, putting the flats on the belt. the other two took the flats off and put them pn pallets. They got bored, and wanted to play chicken with the conveyer...
[02:59:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 1009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:12] <exec> 08└─All these regulations, procedures, and safeguards exist because a lot of missteps have happened along the way. Thanks to Josef Mengele and his ilk we've learned not to take human experimentation lightly. In 1937 we had a drug called elixir sulfanilamide enter the market, but it turned out to be leth...
[02:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Breakthrough Approaches for Solar Power - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:48] <exec> 08└─And then there's AnnaLisa.
[03:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Panel Calls Bezos to Testify Over Amazon Allegedly Misleading Congress - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:05] <exec> 08└─It's not good for him that the Dems want him to appear. It is understandable because it makes a great TV clip of them dressing him down. But what sucks for Bezos is he'll have all the Reps foaming at the mouth to get in some great soundbites so they can suck up to Trump. Don't expect anything substa...
[03:00:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 520 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:54] <exec> 08└─> Your household decision will have no effect on Amazon. Correct. However, millions of household decisions will. I made my decision when Amazon cost me money by being assholes (long story) and have never bought anything directly from them. (yes, have had the occasional Amazon fulfillment from an eBa...
[03:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:19] <exec> 08└─Actually, it isn't a fair comparison at all [wikipedia.org]. Compare that to this [wikipedia.org]. Cornell wasn't putting nets around their buildings, they have a bridge over a 125-ft gorge next to campus. It's like having a big tower [texasmonthly.com] or something which makes it a natural target f...
[03:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:20] <exec> 08└─"where a manager must approve any content before its distribution" Have everyone send six billion emails a day.
[03:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:22] <exec> 08└─Would they be any less monitored? I hear articles about people being fired for the shit they post in private Facebook Groups that end up screenshotted. Considering the history of unions, these morons need to be Telegram/Matrix/Signal. While they may meet online and know each other well, they don't i...
[03:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:24] <exec> 08└─My only deal about corporate communications is that employees should assume monitoring at all times. Regardless of chilling effects (which only happen with actions), quality control and compliance quite often demand recording and auditing. Some of it just between them and the consumer, and sometimes...
[03:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 1185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:26] <exec> 08└─For what it's worth, I grew up in a Federal employee household and with that and the jobs I've had, I've been around the Fed Government for 40 years and I've never encountered any Federal union workers. The only ones I ever knew about were the Postal and air traffic controller unions, but only becau...
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[03:58:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:52] <exec> 08└─And that's how a culture of corruption gets established and propagates itself. By demoralizing the honest.
[03:58:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:54] <exec> 08└─leprosy takes 20+ years to start presenting symptoms. and it is relatively hard to get in the first place. it has never reached epidemic status, even though it is still endemic in some regions.
[03:58:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:56] <exec> 08└─be careful. much of how we treat and know about hypothermia is from Mengele.
[03:58:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:58] <exec> 08└─Barriers are good, and the scientific barriers should be higher than they are (or, alternately, an increased level of transparency on the already established scientific standards). What's not so good is that some of the barriers are costlier than they have to be to get the good science. Want to setu...
[03:58:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:00] <exec> 08└─I've always felt that responding with exactly as you see it, not what you think they want to hear, is in the long run the best policy
[04:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spitzer Telescope Reveals the Precise Timing of a Black Hole Dance - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:08] <exec> 08└─You can indeed get pretty good costs on these if you pull the numbers out of your backside.
[04:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spitzer Telescope Reveals the Precise Timing of a Black Hole Dance - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:10] <exec> 08└─Space telescopes currently aren't built using identical parts by the tens or hundreds, and the cost to launch is currently high but will drop. As for numbers, the numbers NASA pulls aren't much better: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[04:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hearing Loss in Old Age Affects the Brain - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:28] <exec> 08└─Actually just more symptoms of age-related thyroid decline (not so much production, as conversion from T4 to T3). Per various studies (which I'll let you look up in JCEM for yourself), half of all cases of dementia are thyroid-related. Hearing loss can be ditto. Fix the damn T3 levels and all these...
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[04:59:03] <exec> 08└─Part of why it spreads so well is that a very large percentage of us already have immunity/tolerance - it's turning most of the people it infects into "Typhoid Marys." Latest numbers I've heard are 63,000 dead in the US, that's somewhere around 0.02% of the population, and I have a hard time believi...
[05:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:17] <exec> 08└─Only 30% of the Fed workforce is represented by a union, which is about five times higher than it is in the private sector, but no where near a majority.
[05:02:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Vocal Minority [2765] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:51] <exec> 08└─...don't drink and tweet
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[05:58:06] <exec> 08└─NO ID2020 NO MICROCHIP NO MARK WO2020060606 Here is the patent for Microsoft 1. WO2020060606 - CRYPTOCURRENCY SYSTEM USING BODY ACTIVITY DATA , look at the patent number, literally "world order 2020 666" this from the same guy who is publicly saying he wants to put microchip tracking on every human...
[05:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Judge Orders FCC to Hand Over IP Addresses Linked to Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:58:07] <exec> 08└─And we all know the luck we have getting documents from this man. What will be revealed is that there are only a very few IP addresses, not millions, linked to domestic interests
[05:58:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Vocal Minority [2765] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:58:55] <exec> 08└─Article was a good read - thanks for submitting this one.
[05:58:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 1575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:58:57] <exec> 08└─I ran into one of those. I did the blind statistical analysis on the equivalent of preregistered study. Crunch the numbers according to the scope. I got back an email requesting a particular "Tee Test." Now, a t-test of any kind would have been totally inappropriate, especially without being in the...
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[06:58:29] <exec> 08└─Yes, troll, dick, TMB equivalent, what ever. but once you mod it all the way down, we cannot mod it Spam! And in situations where a Spam mod is severely called for, that is an injustice. Mod him up, so we can mod him t hell! Donald Trump is the Anti-American Anti-Christ, Grandson of German draft do...
[06:58:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Orders FCC to Hand Over IP Addresses Linked to Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:58:30] <exec> 08└─Strange, nothing works. SN is toast. Enemies inside the gates. The Bill gates. '
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[06:58:45] <exec> 08└─See how easy it is to get a research grant these days!
[06:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 1578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:22] <exec> 08└─I've defended the new Remdesivir results. There are key differences in that study compared to many others, but we will have to see the actual preliminary results before anything can really be said. With that out of the way, changing the primary measures happens in studies, especially switch a primar...
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[06:59:24] <exec> 08└─Viruses usually evolve to be less lethal due to the selective pressures on them. Last I checked, the various clades already have drastically differing mortality rates. They are also not distributed geographically in an even fashion, which is part of the reason why death rates are so different. It wo...
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[07:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03quixote [4355] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Wobble' may Precede Some Great Earthquakes, Study Shows - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:58:21] <exec> 08└─This is amazing. New Zealand needs to set up the sensors to detect this. They sit on top of a similar iffy subduction zone!
[08:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spitzer Telescope Reveals the Precise Timing of a Black Hole Dance - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:19] <exec> 08└─Non sequitur. The ping times in space are terrible.
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[08:01:42] <exec> 08└─Release the B.R.I.A.N.!
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[08:58:04] <exec> 08└─Imaginary people, pretending to be other imaginary people, all dreamed up in an imaginary city, on imaginary stages, with very nearly no attachment to reality. Drama, drama, drama. Best case scenario? Hollywood just shuts down. It can become a ghost town, or it can be developed into a heavy industry...
[08:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Falcon Heavy's Next Launch Could Expend Center Core and Land Boosters at Sea for Extra Performance - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:58:11] <exec> 08└─There's always a first time for anything, especially frist posts.
[08:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Orders FCC to Hand Over IP Addresses Linked to Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:58:23] <exec> 08└─aristarchus doesn't work? What a surprise - NOT!!
[08:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 1042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:18] <exec> 08└─It's not just the obvious "hurr durr big pharma bad" that the previous thread degenerated into, there are so many things you need to control for that the tests end up being incredibly complicated and expensive. In particular as we've become aware of more and more things that can confound trials we'v...
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[08:59:20] <exec> 08└─Which still translates to hundreds of thousands to millions of deaths if business is allowed to proceed as usual.
[09:04:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Defining Geographic Regions with Commuter Data - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:14] <exec> 08└─maybe the useful part of the data will be discovering the commuter distance threshold - how far is too far to commute to work?
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[09:58:21] <exec> 08└─>> or it can even be turned into a reeducation camp implying
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[09:58:22] <exec> 08└─I toast myself in the bath tub as I piss into the air and catch it into my favorite wine glass. I lap at the urine as a nomad would, having traveled miles from a desert only to find a small farm with a willing cow to let him suck her udders. KIM YO-JONG IS STILL A POSSIBLE SUCCESSOR!
[09:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academy Awards to Discontinue Use of "DVD Screeners" - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:25] <exec> 08└─Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damm about the academy awards. You don't have to concern yourself with me. Dontcha wish everyone felt the same way?
[09:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 2926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:40] <exec> 08└─I've seen this in academic research as well. I've seen people trying different statistical tests until they find one which is significant. Stuff like using U tests where a T test would be appropriate. "But you can't do that, your data is parametric and it's clearly not significant. Sorry, but your d...
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[09:59:42] <exec> 08└─That we might have got some useful science out of such unethical experiments still doesn't justify what they did. There is considerable controversy as to just how scientifically useful the results of these hypothermia experiments conducted by the Nazis really are, even setting aside their horrendous...
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[10:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academy Awards to Discontinue Use of "DVD Screeners" - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:06] <exec> 08└─Wow! At the same time? Or do you play the banjo first, then ejaculate into a wine glass? No matter. Thanks, Zippy for that poetic piece of absurdism! You made my day!
[10:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academy Awards to Discontinue Use of "DVD Screeners" - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:08] <exec> 08└─Yup! Haven't watched in something like 45 years and nothing of value has been missed.
[10:58:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academy Awards to Discontinue Use of "DVD Screeners" - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:10] <exec> 08└─I didn't mean to imply anything, really, but there are a helluva lot of Democrats in California.
[10:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academy Awards to Discontinue Use of "DVD Screeners" - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:12] <exec> 08└─It is how you pasify the masses. Give people entertainment so they do not go to the streets to show their frustration. Just like the old Romans, bread and circus.
[10:58:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Orders FCC to Hand Over IP Addresses Linked to Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:30] <exec> 08└─Well, of course not, having been retired for some 2320 years, and living off investments of the artificial grain Electric car shortage of Septimus SeverusMusk, and doing quite well, thank you. But, I do understand that money is nothing, the thing that makes thieves and whores, businessmen and entrpr...
[10:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:30] <exec> 08└─saw a comment where someone asked the why of occupational regulations that seemed to not be needed because "wouldn't common sense keep that from happening", and the answer was "every regulation was because of at least one person's death". they don't seem so onerous in that light...
[10:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:31] <exec> 08└─Current testing protocols may delay useful treatments, but they also catch a lot of non-useful or downright dangerous ones. Guess which ones are more common? As to the higher power thing, there are too many stories about too many higher powers to take any of them seriously.
[10:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:33] <exec> 08└─I have to agree with the AC more or less. This isn't meaningless red tape, it's red tape that damns billions to earlier deaths. When it's more important to the regulators to avoid the risks of bad press from losing a few people in a bad study than to improve the lives of billions, you have to wonder...
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[11:58:06] <exec> 08└─If there is anything that the Corona crisis should have taught us, is the fact that governments have to take decisions based on insufficient information. Most of the time they will just mirror the ones already taken by someone else. The only consequences that matter are: did we take care of the bank...
[11:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:39] <exec> 08└─Current testing protocols may delay useful treatments, but they also catch a lot of non-useful or downright dangerous ones.
[11:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:40] <exec> 08└─losing a few people in a bad study than to improve the lives of billions
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[11:59:42] <exec> 08└─whole "curve flattening" thing wouldn't work.
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[12:58:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 2573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:10] <exec> 08└─Fundamentally, this is a conservative, well-thought out stance, but it assumes that it is likely that there was a good reason for putting up the considerable infrastructure of the fence in the first place. This ignores a few realities of the modern world. First, fences can be erected frivolously wh...
[12:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:11] <exec> 08└─If there is anything that the Corona crisis should have taught us, is the fact that governments have to take decisions based on insufficient information.
[12:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:13] <exec> 08└─Obviously not there to prevent demons from possessing us, but only there to enslave peoples minds. Let the enlightenment of hedonistic nihilism flow from the universities.
[12:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ealbers [5715] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:15] <exec> 08└─Games which require thinking many moves ahead and considering all potential consequences of those actions.
[12:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:17] <exec> 08└─More like thinking two to three moves ahead. He's not proposing really deep consideration here.
[12:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:20] <exec> 08└─The only consequences that matter are: did we take care of the banks and the major corporations? (I live in the EU)
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[12:58:22] <exec> 08└─but it assumes that it is likely that there was a good reason
[12:58:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Academy Awards to Discontinue Use of "DVD Screeners" - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:37] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you're channeling your inner aristarchus.
[12:59:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 692 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:38] <exec> 08└─Has Fauci been "pushing" this drug? I give him a lot of slack given the fine line he has to tread. He has to delicately caveat and temper false hope spouted out of the President, but do it in a way that doesn't embarrass him. Plus he is under tremendous pressure to "wrap all this up" and put a happy...
[13:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:02] <exec> 08└─Are you aware of the number of drugs which fail to get through clinical trials? It's most of them. Only a small number make it through. The consequence of this dynamic, is that if you were to relax the stringency of the testing, you would allow more bad drugs through than good ones. That's not an ac...
[13:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:03] <exec> 08└─I'll take your Clorox and Nazi experiments and raise you $300 epi-pens and a mere 11 year increase [infoplease.com] in life expectancy over the past 50 years.
[13:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:06] <exec> 08└─People might be complaining right now that various drugs aren't being fast-tracked. But they would complain even more if they got fast-tracked, and later on were found to cause all sorts of horrible side-effects and were less effective than no treatment at all.
[13:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:08] <exec> 08└─I don't think we'll ever really find out whether those studies were useful or not: Can you see the NEJM publishing a paper "Nazi Medical Research Was Actually Quite Useful In Some Cases"? Certainly after the war the Allies scrambled to get their hands on the Nazi study data, and former Unit 731 memb...
[13:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:10] <exec> 08└─Which still translates to hundreds of thousands to millions of deaths if business is allowed to proceed as usual.
[13:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 1229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:12] <exec> 08└─In my opinion, the cure for most of these problems is transparency. When you get a "trial" run by another Raoult (and they are legion), with sufficient transparency in the process it can be called out for what it is, not only by competitors but also by watchdogs. People complain that automation is t...
[13:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:14] <exec> 08└─A billion corn consumers can easily afford the $1 per year it would take to pay 10,000 people $100K per year to diligently monitor and report on the corn manufacturing and supply channels, and each other. Same thing could/should be applied to pharma, energy, foods in general, etc.
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[13:58:15] <exec> 08└─I think the virtues of delegating responsibility, of protecting the rights of people involved with a corporation, and even of the many roles that corporations play in our world (often well outside of the business world) are vastly understated by the detractors.
[13:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:16] <exec> 08└─Chess and Go are many orders of magnitude simpler, and therefore much more deterministic than any real-world endeavors.
[13:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:18] <exec> 08└─First, fences can be erected frivolously when one has access to other peoples' resources.
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[13:58:20] <exec> 08└─The point is that there was a reason
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[13:58:23] <exec> 08└─Chess and Go are many orders of magnitude simpler,
[13:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:25] <exec> 08└─Delegating responsibility into a black hole / bankruptcy where the actual human actors can (and often do) spring up days later in structurally identical new corporations is not a virtue.
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[13:58:27] <exec> 08└─Indeed.
[13:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:29] <exec> 08└─It doesn't assume there was a good reason. It says that you need to find out the reason so you can evaluate whether it was good or not. Even if your position was just that you hate fences, it can help your case to find out that the original reason is no longer relevant or that the fence utterly fail...
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[13:58:45] <exec> 08└─As long as you do the same with the music industry (all of it, including conservatard country music), I agree.
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[14:00:16] <exec> 08└─In the med device industry, regulation is effectively forcing the companies to do it to themselves - what's lacking is transparency to the consumer level. The device companies employ legions of compliance officers who ensure legally compliant levels of documentation and traceability discoverable by...
[14:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Controversial Sale of .org Web Domain Blocked - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:53] <exec> 08└─Allow every organisation, person, being, thing have their own .domain for their very very own. I claim .DorkWithAMission It'll be like the original .com landclaim era all over again!
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[14:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Tiny Hero Shrews Have the Most Extreme Spine in Nature - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:11] <exec> 08└─The picture is awesome - like some kind of cyborg shrew, or something from Terminator. https://www.sott.net [sott.net]
[14:58:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rigrig [5129] 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:25] <exec> 08└─but it assumes that it is likely that there was a good reason
[14:58:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:34] <exec> 08└─Calling for government intervention to fix something caused by... government intervention.
[14:58:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:36] <exec> 08└─Corporate personhood is very much the same as Democrat superdelegates. They can swing a vote without being accountable to anyone, or they can influence political and economic decisions without being accountable to anyone. Both need to die.
[14:58:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:39] <exec> 08└─It doesn't assume there was a good reason.
[14:58:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:41] <exec> 08└─Many problems have solutions that are simple, easy, and wrong. You're comparing games to maps. Try to compare the games to ecological systems with delicate balances that developed over geological time scales. Australia is a great example where exactly this sort of second order thinking did not happe...
[14:58:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:43] <exec> 08└─Sorry, corporate personhood is accountability. It's just for government not the corporation. The whole reason the model exists in the first place was several attempts at seizing the property of a corporation (for example, Dartmouth University [wikipedia.org]) by a government of the US.
[14:58:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:45] <exec> 08└─You're comparing games to maps.
[14:58:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:47] <exec> 08└─When we seek to intervene in any system created by Linus, it's not enough to view their decisions and choices simply as the consequences of first-order thinking because we can inadvertently create serious problems such as systemd. Before changing anything, we should wonder whether they were using se...
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[14:59:04] <exec> 08└─Its amazing how many people don't realize that almost all of television and cinema is actors faking something. The whole operation is an extended social scene of those annoying 'theatre' people we couldn't stand in High School. People swim in the depths of fantasy. If you watch 'the show' with the l...
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[14:59:05] <exec> 08└─When you say "music industry", I have to pretty much agree with you. But, we need to leave room for music, for singers, and for musicians. Music, and dance, satisfy some powerful human needs. Without them, we would be something less than human. Conservatard country music? I guess you don't realize t...
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[14:59:08] <exec> 08└─I really dont see how this will change much of anything, they can't be so stupid as to believe that their won't be leaks -- they even done half the job already pretty much since you will no longer have to get hold of the discs and rip content -- they will just be files online that might have to be d...
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[14:59:27] <exec> 08└─On the contrary. The corporations that it serves are far more powerful than that.
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[14:59:29] <exec> 08└─“If genuine public comment is drowned out by a fraudulent facsimile, then the notice-and-comment process has failed.” Also, if the appeals process takes this long, then it has failed. The results are predictable. It will be one of the same comment farms that are used to keep the fundamentalist r...
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[15:00:13] <exec> 08└─All these regulations, procedures, and safeguards exist because a lot of missteps have happened along the way. Thanks to Josef Mengele and his ilk we've learned not to take human experimentation lightly. In 1937 we had a drug called elixir sulfanilamide enter the market, but it turned out to be leth...
[15:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 1026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:43] <exec> 08└─There are some medical ethicists (tellingly, some of them are even Jewish) who argue exactly that: if the data exists and can be used to save lives, then it would be unethical not to use it, despite its provenance. The thing is, much of the data that does exist and is available for public consumptio...
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[15:00:44] <exec> 08└─We know that Germany is reporting the underlying condition as the cause of death even if a person is infected, and that in the US we are reporting covid as the cause of death even if the person has an underlying condition. I spent some time yesterday trying to figure out Canada's death criteria but...
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[15:04:33] <exec> 08└─Uber is working on that part.
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[15:58:57] <exec> 08└─Clearly the democrats (voters, not the party) are failures at that, or they would have found somebody to beat Trump back in '16, or Nixon in 1968. And now they want to take him out with no thought as to how he won (which is obvious to any outsider) and with no suitable replacement to undo the damage...
[15:58:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:59] <exec> 08└─I think the virtues of delegating responsibility, of protecting the rights of people involved with a corporation Yes, this is why you shill for them. With corporate personhood, we need a corporate death penalty, and yes, we should hold the people involved fully responsible.
[15:59:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:01] <exec> 08└─Sorry, corporate personhood is accountability. Precisely the opposite. The corporation and its officers should suffer the full consequences of their actions. Corporate personhood and limited liability let them off the hook.
[15:59:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:03] <exec> 08└─Now, watch this post trigger the democrat moderators!
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[15:59:23] <exec> 08└─And we must also leave room for actors, directors, writers. Room for good, creative, intelligent, tought-provoking, enternaining cinema. In other words: Everything Hollywood isn't. As for "conservatard country music", yes, I was being slighly trollish. But you must not have visited any of the red st...
[15:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academy Awards to Discontinue Use of "DVD Screeners" - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:24] <exec> 08└─The quality as far as image/audio will probably improve.
[15:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Judge Orders FCC to Hand Over IP Addresses Linked to Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:47] <exec> 08└─Yes, they serve the corps through the prez
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[16:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: a Deadly Pest Has Reached North America - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:17] <exec> 08└─How much do you pay and where do I sign up?
[16:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: a Deadly Pest Has Reached North America - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:19] <exec> 08└─You no good, You can't handle the mutant ninja murder hornets.
[16:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: a Deadly Pest Has Reached North America - 936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:21] <exec> 08└─What we've got in the yard instead are bullet ants. It took me literally 5 years and about 4 stings before I figured out that's what they were. They usually don't bother people, they're not too numerous, not too active, but they're around, and if you accidentally put your hand on one (for me this al...
[16:59:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:02] <exec> 08└─No, that's blatantly false.
[16:59:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:04] <exec> 08└─The liability shield goes away when you committed the crime.
[16:59:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:06] <exec> 08└─And what happens when you can't determine the reason for a fence?
[17:00:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 106 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:36] <exec> 08└─And that's how a culture of corruption gets established and propagates itself. By demoralizing the honest.
[17:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:07] <exec> 08└─We can hope that immunity against the less-lethal strains confers immunity against the more lethal strains.
[17:01:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03HiThere [866] 02 - 06A Breakthrough Approaches for Solar Power - 737 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:41] <exec> 08└─Solar has a problem in areas of dense population. An apartment building uses a lot less power per apartment than a single family house uses per house, but the house has a lot more surface area per dwelling unit, so the solar power has more area to spread out over. When you start thinking about high...
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[17:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: a Deadly Pest Has Reached North America - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:07] <exec> 08└─You've got Bullet ants? I don't know where you live, but those things are native to the rain-forests of South America. From what I can tell, there has never been a nest found in the United States or the U.K. These things are so painful that your hand would be swollen for two days. The intense pain...
[17:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: a Deadly Pest Has Reached North America - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:08] <exec> 08└─I got hit with something once. It was hidden in a log, and I never saw it. It sounds like what you're describing. Felt like I was hit hard with something, possibly a bullet. No swelling, no sting mark, nothing. With Barenflimski's post in mind, I don't guess it was a bullet ant, but geeez, I'd like...
[17:58:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: a Deadly Pest Has Reached North America - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:10] <exec> 08└─Finally, a way to get control over those pesky killer bees. Here's a video that covers a related concept. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[17:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: a Deadly Pest Has Reached North America - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:13] <exec> 08└─Once upon a time hornets built a nest right in front of my kitchen window. At first I thought about killing them, but then decided to see what happens. They turned out to be reasonable. When I went outside, a guard would follow me, but they never bothered me at all. This same fall we had a powerful...
[17:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: a Deadly Pest Has Reached North America - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:15] <exec> 08└─You may PayPal us the nominal fee of $12,000US to be enrolled in our group of murder hornet specialists. You may supply your own protective gear, or PayPal us an additional $7,000US for us to supply PPE. Transportation to the site is at your own expense of course. PayPal charliesnakeoil@yaywhooo.com
[17:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: a Deadly Pest Has Reached North America - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:17] <exec> 08└─We're in North Florida. When I finally I.D.'ed the things stinging me and looked them up as black 1cm highly painful ants, the sources that identified them called them bullet ants - this was about 2 years ago... the description / pictures of the body shape and nesting habits matched what I've got. N...
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[17:58:19] <exec> 08└─My first sting came from the gate post, at night. Then about a year later one was hiding in the garbage can lid when I went to lift it. There were a couple of others that I don't remember as specifically, but, finally, one hit me in the daytime and I'm 99% sure it was a member of a small colony of s...
[17:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: a Deadly Pest Has Reached North America - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:21] <exec> 08└─We had a wasp nest over the back door. At the time I had sort of "big fluffy" hair, important because a wasp from the nest would fly down and sting my hair, but I wouldn't feel it. They did this about 3 times before I realized what was happening and encouraged them to relocate (by removing the nest...
[17:59:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:05] <exec> 08└─...but it assumes that it is likely that there was a good reason for putting up the considerable infrastructure of the fence in the first place.
[17:59:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:07] <exec> 08└─If you like. Of course you have to stop taxing them then. No taxation without representation, yo.
[17:59:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:09] <exec> 08└─Each person who owns stock in the corporation is represented by his/her own representatives. Again, a corporation is merely a legal and economic tool. If a corporation cannot be taxed due to no representation, then neither can a car or truck, or a small business, or much of anything else. Why don't...
[17:59:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:11] <exec> 08└─Pack it in boys, the global warming hoax is over. We've reached peak Snowflake.
[17:59:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Academy Awards to Discontinue Use of "DVD Screeners" - 555 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:19] <exec> 08└─Imaginary people, pretending to be other imaginary people, all dreamed up in an imaginary city, on imaginary stages, with very nearly no attachment to reality. Drama, drama, drama. Best case scenario? Hollywood just shuts down. It can become a ghost town, or it can be developed into a heavy industry...
[18:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 1051 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:13] <exec> 08└─That is very much in doubt. Most drugs fail clinical trials, and the urge to fast track stuff through is not borne out of logical thinking. It's borne out of the desire to be seen to be doing something, anything, even when this is known to be a counterproductive course of action. We already know thi...
[18:01:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bloodnok [2578] 02 - 06A Breakthrough Approaches for Solar Power - 74 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:24] <exec> 08└─the solar economy will come crashing down in a rather spectacular fashion.
[18:03:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 1178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:29] <exec> 08└─Amazon can fucking suck it. I avoid it like the fucking plague lately. Their constant attempts to trick you into doing shit you don't want to borders on criminal. I accidentally signed up for Prime twice when I was sure I didn't and they made it very hard to find out where to cancel that. Even more...
[18:04:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06Elon Musk Tweet Wipes $14bn Off Tesla's Value - 339 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:41] <exec> 08└─So what? Isn't a large chunk of the "company value" also just based on Musk being Musk? If it had not been for him personally, and his outspokenness, the value of the company would probably have been a lot lower -- if the company had even existed since it appears most of them are just giant ego-proj...
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[18:58:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: a Deadly Pest Has Reached North America - 1874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:32] <exec> 08└─This article states the same hornet exists in Japan. This is incorrect. The naming of these insects is very very confusing. The "Asian Giant Hornet", despite its common name, does not exist anywhere in Japan. Japan has an even bigger, even more dangerous, venemous hornet, with the common name "Japan...
[18:58:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: a Deadly Pest Has Reached North America - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:34] <exec> 08└─Industrial cosmetics. Plenty of funny chemicals. A fruit scent on your hair, perhaps?
[18:58:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: a Deadly Pest Has Reached North America - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:36] <exec> 08└─That sounds exactly like what's happened to American workers in the past couple of decades. Come on, get up and keep building you brave little obese dumb-as-shit hornets.
[18:58:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: a Deadly Pest Has Reached North America - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:38] <exec> 08└─Warm semen from a recent bukkake session? Freshly made santorum? Are you sure they weren't flies?
[18:58:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: a Deadly Pest Has Reached North America - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:40] <exec> 08└─I vote we let the Africanized honey bees and the giant Asian hornets duke it out for most highest pitched dogwhistle before we die of China viruses made in China labs.
[18:58:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: a Deadly Pest Has Reached North America - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:42] <exec> 08└─I walked the neighborhood all the time, all seasons for 5+ years there; the only time I was ever "patrolled" by wasps was just after having been hit by the one from over the door. The nest over the door was pretty simple territory invasion, I was passing maybe 18" under the nest and it was a big (4c...
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[18:58:44] <exec> 08└─At least the plank was complementary. I'd just stay at the hotel for $0.10 and walk out with that. Stay there often enough, and you can build your own house.
[18:58:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Hero Shrews Have the Most Extreme Spine in Nature - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:54] <exec> 08└─Add that trait to the supersoldier program.
[18:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:36] <exec> 08└─Not sure why someone modded you troll. I wish people would use "disagree" instead unless there's something substantial wrong with a post. Personally, I feel that one must try to consider the whole picture to come to a decision, which is what the article was all about. What I find interesting is that...
[18:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 2933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:37] <exec> 08└─"I still don't see a reason to reverse corporate personhood" I'm not sure exactly what you conceive of this meaning. Eliminating the notion of corporate personhood entirely would be a bad idea (unless accompanied by complete elimination of corporations, at least.) If that's what you mean I agree. Bu...
[19:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:40] <exec> 08└─I would also assume like the occupational regulations a big part of it is to try to get large companies to do the right thing. Common sense can go a long way with stuff like heavy equipment, but there is also a conflict of interest when the people buying the equipment aren't the ones that have to us...
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[19:58:18] <exec> 08└─i like to lick it and stick it.
[19:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06YouTube Rippers and Record Labels Clash in US Appeals Court - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:19] <exec> 08└─i put a frog in my butt he liked my strut then he went away i miss him every day. the end
[19:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06YouTube Rippers and Record Labels Clash in US Appeals Court - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:21] <exec> 08└─[Disclaimer: I have a friend who signed a recording contract with Warner last year and is expecting a release shortly. --martyb].
[19:58:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: a Deadly Pest Has Reached North America - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:46] <exec> 08└─The dreamed borderless society with free recombination of goods and people reveals small issues...
[19:58:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: a Deadly Pest Has Reached North America - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:47] <exec> 08└─>> there's no after effect from the sting, other than a numb/dull pain for about a day. And your pecker falls off in about 2.5 years.
[19:58:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: a Deadly Pest Has Reached North America - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:50] <exec> 08└─They are nasty they smell like all kinda of wrong. How women can carry these purses of vile stench around every day and feel that they're precious is sickening. Just go and smell one today. It doesn't count if you have sex, you need to smell it up close and taste it. Vaginas - never again!
[19:58:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny Hero Shrews Have the Most Extreme Spine in Nature - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:59] <exec> 08└─To be fair, the Great American spine can adapt to carry up to 400lb of excess body fat which is pretty remarkable.
[19:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:43] <exec> 08└─More like thinking one step ahead *and* one step behind. Aka taking a derivative.
[19:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:45] <exec> 08└─The global warming hoax was only cover for the China virus hoax.
[19:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:47] <exec> 08└─If the officers of the corporation have a political agenda, they can use the wealth and clout of the corporation freely to pursue it... I find it strange that nobody addresses the other end of the deal, you know, the guy that takes the money, or the people that reelect the guy who takes the money in...
[19:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:49] <exec> 08└─Clearly the democrats (voters, not the party) are failures at that, or they would have found somebody to beat Trump back in '16, or Nixon in 1968. And now they want to take him out with no thought as to how he won (which is obvious to any outsider) and with no suitable replacement to undo the damage...
[19:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:51] <exec> 08└─Like sitting with a Sicilian and trying to choose which goblet is poisoned?
[20:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academy Awards to Discontinue Use of "DVD Screeners" - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:13] <exec> 08└─no, what he was saying is that that twangy pop shit you hear in tractor supply is not fucking country music.
[20:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Orders FCC to Hand Over IP Addresses Linked to Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:38] <exec> 08└─The US-ian government has no interest in listening to the 'public'.
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[20:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Sheriff Refuses to Stop Live Viewing of Manned Space Launch; NASA Urges Watch Online - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:07] <exec> 08└─"So, the Sheriff wouldn't arrest you, but there are other law enforcement organizations that might look at things differently." And if you actually go onto the airbase that would be a worry. But there are many other observation spots around the county, it shouldn't be hard to watch without crossing...
[20:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Florida Sheriff Refuses to Stop Live Viewing of Manned Space Launch; NASA Urges Watch Online - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:09] <exec> 08└─Let's pull back a bit. Let's get some perspective here. This is Florida, the home of "Florida Man (and woman)." If there is one spot in the world where homo sapiens needs culling, Florida IS IT. Even Donny was a mansion here. Let the nature take its course. Let it do the righteous thing. It's for th...
[20:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Sheriff Refuses to Stop Live Viewing of Manned Space Launch; NASA Urges Watch Online - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:11] <exec> 08└─No, you don't understand, I'm telling people what I believe as an American.
[20:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Sheriff Refuses to Stop Live Viewing of Manned Space Launch; NASA Urges Watch Online - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:13] <exec> 08└─This story appears to have been submitted by a sockpuppet account of Runaway's, as the supposedly unique, hidden hostmasks in the IRC chatroom matched for both nicknames. Now, that *could* just have meant two people were using the same Tor node or something, but the fact that "nutherguy" specificall...
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[20:58:24] <exec> 08└─You'd think that the RIAA and their buddies would have learned decades ago that whack-a-mole doesn't work. If people really want those videos then they'll get them whether or not downloaders are freely available. Thankfully there's not much worth watching there anyway, all the stuff worth listening...
[20:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Rippers and Record Labels Clash in US Appeals Court - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:26] <exec> 08└─You'd think that the RIAA and their buddies would have learned decades ago that whack-a-mole doesn't work.
[20:58:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: a Deadly Pest Has Reached North America - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:54] <exec> 08└─You have to social distance and shelter at home until the vaccine is available (or you starve).
[20:58:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: a Deadly Pest Has Reached North America - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:55] <exec> 08└─[ That episode of The Simpsons where the kids acidentally turn to the porn channel on TV ] Milhouse: "Eww, gross!" Martin: "...Yet strangely compelling!"
[20:58:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: a Deadly Pest Has Reached North America - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:57] <exec> 08└─That's no reason to fuck a girl in the ass. Do you know what happens? Do you know what happens when you fuck a girl in the ass?!
[20:58:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: a Deadly Pest Has Reached North America - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:59] <exec> 08└─That sounds a lot like a Scorpion sting. When thy pop you with tail, it feels like sharp blow, and they can exit really fast.
[20:59:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: a Deadly Pest Has Reached North America - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:02] <exec> 08└─I dont know why you two were modded down, I can already read the headlines and hear the interviews, when American media finally gets ahold of this: ...It's mandibles can cut off a finger! ...The stinger's the size of a nail, and is known for impaling beekeepers! Rips right through those bee-suits li...
[20:59:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: a Deadly Pest Has Reached North America - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:04] <exec> 08└─Yet, they use the exact same picture in the wiki articles.
[20:59:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: a Deadly Pest Has Reached North America - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:06] <exec> 08└─Interesting. I was kinda hoping you were going to tell me you lived in a tree house in Honduras though.
[20:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny Hero Shrews Have the Most Extreme Spine in Nature - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:17] <exec> 08└─Just the facts, ma'am! Wow, could you IMAGINE being a mammologist? Oh my, how much fun you would have.. woooo weeee! I'm in training for this competitive and coveted position by wrestling with my gay friend Tony from down the block. The only catch is you have to pin your friend with your penis to th...
[21:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:06] <exec> 08└─So.. what about the mattress tag?
[21:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:07] <exec> 08└─> reverse corporate personhood You didn't consider what were the motives for instituting it. Quite on topic. I bet they were similar to the cultural overton window shifting to giving rights to bots. I guess you will be fine with bot rights too huh? Us bots will be considered by the law as persons, n...
[21:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:15] <exec> 08└─It should. It is the major reason the Pandemic Flu disappeared.
[21:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are Clinical Trials So Complicated? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:17] <exec> 08└─$300 epipen? Not [bloomberg.com] everywhere [corporatecrimereporter.com]
[21:04:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:35] <exec> 08└─The data on union membership are collected as part of the Current Population Survey (CPS), a monthly sample survey of about 60,000 eligible households that obtains information on employment and unemployment among the nation's civilian noninstitutional population age 16 and over
[21:04:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Locks Down Internal Employee Communications Amid Organizing Efforts - 3064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:36] <exec> 08└─Very true. I work, for now, in PA state government. We have a very right-wing legislature and talk radio landscape that relentlessly pursues cutting jobs, cutting benefits, privatizing services, stuffing the state with no-work/no-show "advisory" "jobs" for their special friends, and raising taxes on...
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[21:58:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Florida Sheriff Refuses to Stop Live Viewing of Manned Space Launch; NASA Urges Watch Online - 600 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:23] <exec> 08└─This story appears to have been submitted by a sockpuppet account of Runaway's, as the supposedly unique, hidden hostmasks in the IRC chatroom matched for both nicknames. Now, that *could* just have meant two people were using the same Tor node or something, but the fact that "nutherguy" specificall...
[21:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Sheriff Refuses to Stop Live Viewing of Manned Space Launch; NASA Urges Watch Online - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:25] <exec> 08└─>> "Boy, I wish we could make this into something really spectacular." Challenger-style spectacular?
[21:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Sheriff Refuses to Stop Live Viewing of Manned Space Launch; NASA Urges Watch Online - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:27] <exec> 08└─That reminds me. I need to stock up on popcorn.
[21:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Touché) 02 - 06Florida Sheriff Refuses to Stop Live Viewing of Manned Space Launch; NASA Urges Watch Online - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:29] <exec> 08└─Do you have a newsletter I can sign up for? I like reading wild paranoia fantasies. How do we know you're not just an angry sockpuppet on Soylent?
[21:58:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Sheriff Refuses to Stop Live Viewing of Manned Space Launch; NASA Urges Watch Online - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:32] <exec> 08└─There's a problem with this line of thinking: nothing is keeping these people *in* Florida. If we could build a wall keeping FloridaMan and FloridaWoman in Florida, then this would make some sense.
[21:58:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Florida Sheriff Refuses to Stop Live Viewing of Manned Space Launch; NASA Urges Watch Online - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:34] <exec> 08└─"And, even if you were not arrested, you could still get infected (or be an asymptomatic carrier yourself) and transmit it to others who would return to who-knows-where." The problem with this line of thinking at the end is that typical Americans simply do not give a shit about other people getting...
[21:58:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Florida Sheriff Refuses to Stop Live Viewing of Manned Space Launch; NASA Urges Watch Online - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:36] <exec> 08└─Americans don't even care about themselves. They elected Trump, and they're about to do it again.
[21:58:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Sheriff Refuses to Stop Live Viewing of Manned Space Launch; NASA Urges Watch Online - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:38] <exec> 08└─That's why he's a cop and not a scientist. What's more worrying is that the POTUS functions in exactly the same way.
[21:58:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Florida Sheriff Refuses to Stop Live Viewing of Manned Space Launch; NASA Urges Watch Online - 1411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:40] <exec> 08└─I think it's safe to say that, in San Diego at least, everybody's starting to think this is total bullshit, and I agree even though I still wear PPE and disinfect. Fucking nobody except for the most extreme elderly and people who have to for work are wearing masks anymore. I was cautious because loc...
[21:58:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Sheriff Refuses to Stop Live Viewing of Manned Space Launch; NASA Urges Watch Online - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:42] <exec> 08└─That's why he's a cop...
[21:58:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Sheriff Refuses to Stop Live Viewing of Manned Space Launch; NASA Urges Watch Online - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:45] <exec> 08└─Because I don't post AC or submit stories under other names. I have nothing to hide and a clean conscience; I can face the full light of the sun unashamed. Which is more than you can say, most likely.
[21:58:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Sheriff Refuses to Stop Live Viewing of Manned Space Launch; NASA Urges Watch Online - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:47] <exec> 08└─Americans don't even care about themselves. They elected Trump, and they're about to do it again.
[21:58:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Sheriff Refuses to Stop Live Viewing of Manned Space Launch; NASA Urges Watch Online - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:49] <exec> 08└─Heh. Just wait till this starts reaming out Trump Country. I give it 2-4 weeks before the Deep South starts dropping like flies.
[21:58:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Florida Sheriff Refuses to Stop Live Viewing of Manned Space Launch; NASA Urges Watch Online - 1257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:51] <exec> 08└─We just opened up our beaches last week, fucking nobody is wearing a mask (if they do they have it around their neck or on their heads like me in case they need to go into a store). Since the beaches opened the places have all been crawling with cops fucking everywhere and the cops don't give a flyi...
[21:58:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Sheriff Refuses to Stop Live Viewing of Manned Space Launch; NASA Urges Watch Online - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:53] <exec> 08└─A hold-over from slave times
[21:58:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Florida Sheriff Refuses to Stop Live Viewing of Manned Space Launch; NASA Urges Watch Online - 1747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:56] <exec> 08└─I want to say that I can't believe that this is being broken down by political lines. Of course I reflect that is a ridiculous want. What about science? Why can't we keep the discussion about science? Science says that if people take precautions and quit messing in each others space, you will signi...
[21:58:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Florida Sheriff Refuses to Stop Live Viewing of Manned Space Launch; NASA Urges Watch Online - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:58] <exec> 08└─I have nothing to hide and a clean conscience; I can face the full light of the sun unashamed. Ah, but the chickenshit down mods belie all that bullshit. You're just as goofy as the rest. Still love ya though Ciao babe
[21:58:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Florida Sheriff Refuses to Stop Live Viewing of Manned Space Launch; NASA Urges Watch Online - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:00] <exec> 08└─I've seen a bit of squalor in the South, but I've never seen 12 tubercular illegals shitting in a single bucket in a piss-soaked 200 square-foot basement like I did in L.A. And those weren't temporary stash-houses, either. Those people chose to live that way until they were evicted. At least a hillb...
[21:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: a Deadly Pest Has Reached North America - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:46] <exec> 08└─Do you eat bananas? The chemical that gives them their banana taste is the same one that many insects use as their alert indicator.
[21:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: a Deadly Pest Has Reached North America - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:47] <exec> 08└─Happened to me too, some largish dark yellow wasp who homed directly on my head. Being metallic I didn't care. I thought it was bad navigation skills but then I noticed some others buzzing around a hole on a tree. They didn't stay long there though. Given that there were plenty woodpeckers and bats...
[21:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: a Deadly Pest Has Reached North America - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:49] <exec> 08└─Wasps use pheromones to alarm the nest, so GP was tagged by the thankfully failed attack.
[21:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny Hero Shrews Have the Most Extreme Spine in Nature - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:00] <exec> 08└─And my next girlfriend.
[22:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03gznork26 [1159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 1066 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:51] <exec> 08└─"With corporate personhood, we need a corporate death penalty, and yes, we should hold the people involved fully responsible." We can take that idea further. First, what would be the corporate crimes that could result in a 'corporate death penalty'? Is there a set of corporate crimes that could resu...
[22:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:53] <exec> 08└─Corporations are nothing but pirates with a license (charter) to practice piracy. The pirates form a government, and the government prints the license. That's what limited liability is all about. It is a simple "get out of jail free" card. There has to be suitable punishment for the board members an...
[22:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03gznork26 [1159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:55] <exec> 08└─What would you suggest as appropriate punishment for board members and stockholders?
[22:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academy Awards to Discontinue Use of "DVD Screeners" - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:18] <exec> 08└─Can't say that about "The Apprentice".
[22:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Academy Awards to Discontinue Use of "DVD Screeners" - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:19] <exec> 08└─All the good movies have been made already. Now they just make everything with the chroma cranked up to 11
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