#comments | Logs for 2020-05-05

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[00:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recent Salt Vulnerabilities Exploited to Hack LineageOS, Ghost, DigiCert Servers - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:27] <exec> 08└─Might be our age and it could be worse. I worked with a guy who kept using the word nonce [merriam-webster.com] to refer to a password salt. Some puzzled looks one 00s morning when he was waxing lyrical about how "a nonce would secure communication" to a British colleague [collinsdictionary.com] (se...
[00:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gamma-Ray and Radio-Frequency Radiation from Thunderstorms - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:49] <exec> 08└─Is it as bad as 5G?
[00:22:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 062020-05-03 Roundup of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV2, Coronavirus) Stories - 529 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:07] <exec> 08└─The censored doctors [washingtontimes.com] did a straight numerical comparison of the totals for flu and covid-19 without adjusting for the timeline. Covid-19 deaths for a month already equal seasonal flu deaths for a year, at the very least it's 12x more deadly. To avoid non covid-19 deaths we need...
[00:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 062020-05-03 Roundup of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV2, Coronavirus) Stories - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:36] <exec> 08└─You're right. NYC should have been right out there from the start with all those testing kits from the CDC. I heard there were millions of them and that anyone who wanted one could get one.
[00:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 062020-05-03 Roundup of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV2, Coronavirus) Stories - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:38] <exec> 08└─No, they are typically talking about the number today compared to the number yesterday when they say the numbers are going up. Same when they are talking about the numbers leveling off or going down.
[00:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 062020-05-03 Roundup of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV2, Coronavirus) Stories - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:40] <exec> 08└─...a switch from FPTP to Mixed-Member Proportional apparently happened in New Zealand.
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[01:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat To The 2020 Us Election Isn't What You'd Think - 2407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:02] <exec> 08└─Voting never made a difference anyways. Only thing that will make a difference is killing every Republican Senator with hanging by the neck, which is entirely legally appropriate for those guilty of treason against the former United States Of America. Country already died when they refused to even c...
[01:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat To The 2020 Us Election Isn't What You'd Think - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:03] <exec> 08└─Just be sure to get your news only from authoritative sources like SoylentNews and you have nothing to worry about.
[01:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Astrobiologists Put Mars Rover Life-Detecting Equipment to the Test - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:11] <exec> 08└─》 look for evidence of the earliest forms of life on Earth at a location in South Australia. If you're looking for abos, try the pavement in front of the bottle shop.
[01:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astrobiologists Put Mars Rover Life-Detecting Equipment to the Test - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:13] <exec> 08└─More like ass-troll-logists. More honest ones will call themsevelves ass-troll-chemists, at best.
[01:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recent Salt Vulnerabilities Exploited to Hack LineageOS, Ghost, DigiCert Servers - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:25] <exec> 08└─You use these insecure tools that no one has ever heard of and then you act surprised when you find out they're peppered with NSA vulnerabilities. If you were smarter you would write your own srate-reporting tools using bash. Now get off my lawn.
[01:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Preserving Optionality: Preparing for the Unknown - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:29] <exec> 08└─a few decades ago nobody respectable smoked dope
[01:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06SeaMonkey 2.53.2 Released for Linux, macOS, and Windows - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:05] <exec> 08└─Yes, that one does work. My Seamonkey now has ublock origin - thank you.
[01:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SeaMonkey 2.53.2 Released for Linux, macOS, and Windows - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:06] <exec> 08└─Part of my thought processes: Do Waterfox and Palemoon and Seamonkey keep up with the security fixes good enough? Or do they let them slip by? Can't say I'm a Brave fan since it's not open source. I guess that shows my feelings for Chrome. Not that I'm happy with what Firefox has done over the years...
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[02:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat To The 2020 Us Election Isn't What You'd Think - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:55] <exec> 08└─This. But with Democrats.
[02:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat To The 2020 Us Election Isn't What You'd Think - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:56] <exec> 08└─...of the population that voted for them. With the newfound space and freedom the rest of us can get busy repopulating the country, or giving it back to its indigenous peoples with a better grasp of how to keep it out of foreign hands in the future :)
[02:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat To The 2020 Us Election Isn't What You'd Think - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:58] <exec> 08└─Yes, indeed. Like the News that the Democrats would have mopped the fucking floor with Trump running Bernie in 2016 and Tulsi in 2020. But they don't want to win. They are desperate to bury their complicity in the destruction of flight 752 and the Goldman Sachs-owned coke freighter and other horrors...
[02:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat To The 2020 Us Election Isn't What You'd Think - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:00] <exec> 08└─Imagine a fake that triggers an attack like the one on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012,
[02:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat To The 2020 Us Election Isn't What You'd Think - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:03] <exec> 08└─But they don't want to win. No, they are winning. DNC/GOP™ is in full control
[02:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat To The 2020 Us Election Isn't What You'd Think - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:05] <exec> 08└─You're the reason they invented fragging.
[02:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat To The 2020 Us Election Isn't What You'd Think - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:07] <exec> 08└─Are you claiming the Democrats run the Iranian Revolutionary Guards now? Because that's who shot that plane down. If you're upset about drug smuggling, just wait until you hear about time your president Reagan sold arms to Iran to fund his murder squads in Nicaragua, then had the CIA send literal p...
[02:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat To The 2020 Us Election Isn't What You'd Think - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:09] <exec> 08└─That is correct. Your system is working as designed.
[02:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recent Salt Vulnerabilities Exploited to Hack LineageOS, Ghost, DigiCert Servers - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:31] <exec> 08└─Dems gotta get something useful outta those dimwit MAGAs. Even the GOP sabotaged impeachment had a yield worth about 250 mil.
[02:22:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 062020-05-03 Roundup of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV2, Coronavirus) Stories - 240 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:40] <exec> 08└─It's the "rip the bandage off all at once" approach to pandemics... I prefer the South Korea results (which we managed to do for the world with SARS in 2003), but, hey, elect a Cheeto, get orange sticky on your fingers, what did you expect?
[02:30:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Chesterton’s Fence: a Lesson in Second Order Thinking - 144 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:25] <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.
[02:32:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academy Awards to Discontinue Use of "DVD Screeners" - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:15] <exec> 08└─That's true, and I'd rather spend 2 hours watching random stuff on Youtube than try to watch what passes for most Hollywood movies nowadays. However, as far as the Academy is concerned, none of that stuff counts and they've been fighting any attempts that might get it included. Of course, that reall...
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[03:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:54] <exec> 08└─It does not matter what today is, it's already tomorrow in Australia and New Zealand.
[03:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:55] <exec> 08└─I've been through massive bouts of multi-day benders on and off for many years, but it finally happened to me for the first time a few weeks ago: I moused over the clock and expecting it to say Thursday, it said Friday. That was midday so the day-night rollover was no excuse. That's when I knew it w...
[03:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat To The 2020 Us Election Isn't What You'd Think - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah, do you remember who was governor of Arkansas when all that coke was passing through? A little bit of blackmail, and suddenly he's president for eight years! Pretty cool, huh?
[03:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat To The 2020 Us Election Isn't What You'd Think - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:15] <exec> 08└─Just the way we like it!
[03:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat To The 2020 Us Election Isn't What You'd Think - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:17] <exec> 08└─Of course! He was selling it out of the basement of that pizza joint.
[03:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat To The 2020 Us Election Isn't What You'd Think - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:19] <exec> 08└─Bonus points for using the drugs to destroy minority populations.
[03:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat To The 2020 Us Election Isn't What You'd Think - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:21] <exec> 08└─I have absolute trust in your verifiable identity and trustworthy statements in this matter. Plus, I just have a good feeling that I can believe you, Mr. ... Ms... spore-reproducing fungal organism ... ?
[03:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat To The 2020 Us Election Isn't What You'd Think - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:23] <exec> 08└─This. But with bourgeoisie.
[03:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Broadcasts Oral Arguments for the First Time Ever - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:55] <exec> 08└─I think the only oral scene I'd like to see in the Supreme Court would be the big black man pounding out Brett Kavanagh's throat all the way down to his stomach then at the end pulling out and unleashing a torrent of acidic masculine essence that melts Bretts's scrunched up baby face and leaves a ra...
[03:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Broadcasts Oral Arguments for the First Time Ever - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:56] <exec> 08└─The name of that black man is Barack Hussein Obama, and he's busy with Uncle Joe right now.
[03:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gamma-Ray and Radio-Frequency Radiation from Thunderstorms - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:10] <exec> 08└─It's worse, but fortunately the lightning sets fire to the 5G towers.
[03:25:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Preserving Optionality: Preparing for the Unknown - 984 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:19] <exec> 08└─Take a young man who doesn't really know what he wants to do. He works construction, then joins the military, then drives truck, then returns to construction, then runs his own business for awhile, and ultimately ends up in maintenance in the manufacturing sector. When management looks at such a per...
[03:26:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] 02 - 06SeaMonkey 2.53.2 Released for Linux, macOS, and Windows - 548 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:09] <exec> 08└─I don't know what that first post is talking about regarding the article being from 2010. Probably a troll. The link in the summary goes to the main Seamonky site with the links to the various versions of Seamokey including the 2.53.2 release the article is about. Seamonkey is a great project that h...
[03:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SeaMonkey 2.53.2 Released for Linux, macOS, and Windows - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:30] <exec> 08└─Same here. I want proper menus and status bars, proper control over its behavior on my screen, and no BS. I want the nearest to Netscape 3's interface, including the mail client, as can be had in a tolerably-modern browser. So I use SeaMonkey, warts and all. Palemoon, NewMoon, or Borealis as a secon...
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[04:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:12] <exec> 08└─Yes may the 5th here. But also, fuck star wars.
[04:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:13] <exec> 08└─I have a thing called a calendar. It is a tool that allows me to reckon time based on the Earth's rotation. It's pretty high-tech stuff.
[04:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:15] <exec> 08└─Your optimism is boundless. It's more likely that Californian outflow turns Texas into a Democratic state while California remains unchanged until the end of the United States. Even legalized HIV/AIDS can't stop it. Trump will be successfully blamed for the virus and Democrats will elect a cisgender...
[04:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:17] <exec> 08└─Happy Cinco de Mayo :-) If a fight between the Mexicans and the French, who do you pick?
[04:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:20] <exec> 08└─I'll see your calendar (I use one too) and raise you a morning newspaper. Every morning there is the day/date staring at me from the top of every page.
[04:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:22] <exec> 08└─The problem is that people are adjusting to their indefinite weekend.
[04:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:24] <exec> 08└─The first step, is to realize you are Ethanol_fueled.
[04:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:26] <exec> 08└─No wonder that Boston Dynamics and Skynet let the poor Ethanol go, seeing how calendars were beyound his technological grasp.
[04:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:28] <exec> 08└─Mexicans are already retreating, but a few bad apples who benefit from the cheap labor choose to harbor those who should not be here. Those will be dealt with nonviolently but appropriately as enablers of human trafficking. Those who have built reputations as upstanding citizens while using undocume...
[04:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:31] <exec> 08└─Well played. Your recent non-troll posts suckered me into reading into the second paragraph.
[04:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:33] <exec> 08└─If a fight between the Mexicans and the French, who do you pick?
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[04:21:55] <exec> 08└─I knew about Iran-Contra back when I was a kid watching the news about it on TV, and have hated every one of those motherfuckers to this day. I was particularly disgusted when Fox News later brought on Ollie North as a commentator. And I made a mistake about Flight 752, I was actually accusing the D...
[04:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat To The 2020 Us Election Isn't What You'd Think - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:57] <exec> 08└─MH17 was shot down by the Russian army during its invasion of Ukraine. I don't think the Russian Army are Democrats.
[04:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat To The 2020 Us Election Isn't What You'd Think - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:59] <exec> 08└─Just the way we like it!
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[05:21:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:11] <exec> 08└─Well played. Your recent non-troll posts suckered me into reading into the second paragraph.
[05:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:14] <exec> 08└─Newspaper? How 1900s. As my country starts to journey back to 'normal' it is nice to rediscover the days of the week and the regularity of events like trash day. They indeed were blending a bit back there. Overwork can do this to you too. Years ago I was in a high pressure job and headed home a bit...
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[05:21:16] <exec> 08└─The poor bastards. They've temporarily forgotten how painful life is meant to be in the non-commissioned ranks.
[05:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:18] <exec> 08└─but.,, who knows who touched it or coughed on it before [theguardian.com] you picked it up!
[05:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:20] <exec> 08└─but if you're not sure if it is you, the room, or the earth, that is spinning, and everything isn't necessarily spinning in the same direction, things get tricky...
[05:21:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat To The 2020 Us Election Isn't What You'd Think - 2407 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:28] <exec> 08└─Voting never made a difference anyways. Only thing that will make a difference is killing every Republican Senator with hanging by the neck, which is entirely legally appropriate for those guilty of treason against the former United States Of America. Country already died when they refused to even c...
[05:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat To The 2020 Us Election Isn't What You'd Think - 1853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:46] <exec> 08└─Wrong. America is declining because we chose to give rights to darkies. It's a proven fact that darkies want to destroy America. Fools like you are letting them win. I hate niggers, kikes, wetbacks, towelheads, chinks, injuns, dune coons, curry munchers, japs, gooks, pakis, and all other darkies. I...
[05:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat To The 2020 Us Election Isn't What You'd Think - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:48] <exec> 08└─Why are you even engaging the troll? Just mod troll and move on.
[05:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat To The 2020 Us Election Isn't What You'd Think - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:50] <exec> 08└─I don't think your Democrats are really democrats either...
[05:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat To The 2020 Us Election Isn't What You'd Think - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:52] <exec> 08└─Why Not Both?
[05:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat To The 2020 Us Election Isn't What You'd Think - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:54] <exec> 08└─Maybe he meant TWA 800 ?
[05:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Astrobiologists Put Mars Rover Life-Detecting Equipment to the Test - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:04] <exec> 08└─How does this affect anyone at all? Why is taxpayer money spent to fund this useless crap? Don't we have better things to do, like finding a cure for the coronavirus, than searching for single celled crap in the Martian soil? How will anyone at all be affected by this research? My comment will undou...
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[05:27:02] <exec> 08└─I thought that being chromium derived makes it open source by necessity, and there is the building instructions, but ofc it doesn't ensure it's free software with all the tricks with licensing and shit, do you have more info about brave not being free software? what are the naughty bits? https://git...
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[06:20:53] <exec> 08└─The real credit for this work goes to the United States military. Without our brave men and women serving our great country and putting their lives on the line to fight terror overseas, we wouldn't be free to do research like this here at home. I'm very disappointed with the acknowledgments for this...
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[06:20:54] <exec> 08└─To whom it may concern: Credit for this post goes to whoever made the keyboard it was typed on, their supervisors, managers, corporate directors, their CEO, the shipping company that brought it to my country, the captain that sailed the ship, the dock workers that unloaded the freight, the truck dri...
[06:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Possible New Method for Nuclear Power Waste to be Made Safer - 1271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:56] <exec> 08└─While we're at it, why not credit also the producer of their computers, their internet provider, and the people who produced the food they were eating, and without which they would not have been able to do the research because they would be starved? And of course thank the fire department that made...
[06:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:20] <exec> 08└─I see your newspaper and raise you a watch with date display. No need to go to another room, it's already on my wrist, no matter where I am. As a bonus, I also get the current time.
[06:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emojis Can Help Convey Indirect Meaning - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:38] <exec> 08└─you ignorant clod.
[06:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emojis Can Help Convey Indirect Meaning - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:39] <exec> 08└─the ubiquitous emoji that we all know and love.
[06:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Emojis Can Help Convey Indirect Meaning - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:42] <exec> 08└─https://ftp.gnome.org/mirror/archive/ftp.sunet.se/pub/usenet/ftp.uu.net/comp.sources.misc/volume23/smiley/ [gnome.org] The program doesn't work correctly on Linux, but you can extract the list.
[06:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catalyst Opens Door To More Efficient, Environmentally Friendly Ethylene Production - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:30] <exec> 08└─Maybe we should recycle the water bottles, food containers, blister packs, and grocery bags that we throw in the ocean first before making even more plastics.
[06:30:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tracking the ‘Murder Hornet’: a Deadly Pest Has Reached North America - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:23] <exec> 08└─My numb areas don't usually expand more than about 2cm
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[07:20:55] <exec> 08└─If only we could stuff the nuclear waste up Runaway's ass, where it would stay sequestored for, oh. a half an hour! But it would have the benefit of irreparably irradiating said Runaway, making him finally clear of corona viruses, and Fox News propaganda. And even then, radioactive waste in the outh...
[07:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:20] <exec> 08└─How do you know it is still set to the right time/date ?
[07:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:22] <exec> 08└─>I have a thing called a calendar. It is a tool that allows me to reckon time based on the Earth's rotation. It's pretty high-tech stuff. I can't read a calendar but I can fuck your bitch. Home truths for nerds - the news that matters right? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[07:21:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat To The 2020 Us Election Isn't What You'd Think - 452 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:38] <exec> 08└─Are you claiming the Democrats run the Iranian Revolutionary Guards now? Because that's who shot that plane down. If you're upset about drug smuggling, just wait until you hear about time your president Reagan sold arms to Iran to fund his murder squads in Nicaragua, then had the CIA send literal p...
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[08:20:51] <exec> 08└─You could drill to the center of the Earth and find the creature that makes all the oil and bring it to the surface and milk its titties dry and you'd still have negative costs sooner or later because people are dumbasses forever and will price in the total cost of consumption of your product.
[08:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:28] <exec> 08└─I frequently mix up the calendar with the colander. I'm always wondering if this was really the right day for spaghetti.
[08:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:30] <exec> 08└─No, it's today here. It's yesterday where you are.
[08:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:32] <exec> 08└─Because it is radio controlled.
[08:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:34] <exec> 08└─That's ok, when Jeeves irons it to dry the ink, it will kill the virus anyway.
[08:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:36] <exec> 08└─any device that can be used to search 'what day is it' will also provide the information. i'm having difficulty believing this is a real thing. both my phone and PC tell me what day it is before I've even unlocked the screen
[08:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat To The 2020 Us Election Isn't What You'd Think - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:07] <exec> 08└─Right on! Round here we vote as we're told.
[08:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat To The 2020 Us Election Isn't What You'd Think - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:09] <exec> 08└─That reminds me of the quote, maybe by a drunken Marlon Brando: "Imagine the mind of man, who watches pro-wrestling"
[08:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Broadcasts Oral Arguments for the First Time Ever - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:43] <exec> 08└─Justice "Oral" Thomas was particularly vocal in this session, asking, "Is that a can of Coke in your hand, or pubic hair collector?" "No further questions, your Horror. "
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[09:20:51] <exec> 08└─Live and die by your choices. If you want "The price is whatever the customer is willing to pay", don't come crying when there's not enough demand for your product to cover your running costs.
[09:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat To The 2020 Us Election Isn't What You'd Think - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:06] <exec> 08└─Nah. Fuck it. America had its time, and now is the inevitability of the decline into lawlessness, poverty, and general third world shit-hole methods of operation.
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[10:21:02] <exec> 08└─subsidized [theguardian.com] capitalism is still capitalism, right?
[10:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Possible New Method for Nuclear Power Waste to be Made Safer - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:13] <exec> 08└─you forgot toilet paper manufacturers and the trees it came from
[10:24:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 062020-05-03 Roundup of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV2, Coronavirus) Stories - 1524 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:41] <exec> 08└─That's just incredibly fucking stupid. "methinks" huh? Well methinks, you're a dumbass. How can everybody be so fucking oblivious to the fact that if we didn't have the lockdowns, that it would be well over 2 million dead? It's very fucking simple. Before we implemented the lockdowns and flattened t...
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[11:21:42] <exec> 08└─Do not worry. The old man from Samos will know what to do.
[11:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:43] <exec> 08└─It is because "I've Got You Babe" keeps playing on the radio at the same time every morning.
[11:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat To The 2020 Us Election Isn't What You'd Think - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:19] <exec> 08└─The rest of the world knows this too. Which is why we are now a laughing stock of a Banana Republic with a demented childish dictator leading a political party that couldn't deal with reality and facts if their lives depended on it. They're literally immune to facts.
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[11:22:20] <exec> 08└─Deep fakes underscore the importance of critical thinking. It's not just a good idea, but a survival skill. And while I'm on the subject--critical thinking also comprises pattern analysis and a grasp of statistics. If an actor (person, state, organization, etc) lies about little things and cheats pe...
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[11:22:22] <exec> 08└─The trust, it just grows on you.
[11:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Occam_s_blade_runner [9252] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gut Microbes Influence How Rat Brains React to Opioids - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:18] <exec> 08└─> We want more women in STEM but you've basically labelled her research as junk science. Don't you worry, all the blame goes to the principal investigator and none at all to her. If all principal investigators were female, science and humanity would benefit immensely.
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[12:21:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, it does sounds too good to be true. almost 95% of the starting material of the fuel is left unused (...) used fuel rods contain fission products, leftover uranium and small quantities of plutonium, neptunium and americium. Currently, these items are collectively considered nuclear waste (...) T...
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[12:27:05] <exec> 08└─I guess everybody is happy to discover new methods, as they can be patented. Once you control them, you decide what course of action brings more money/control.
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[13:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Billy Mitchell Takes his Donkey Kong High-Score Cheating Case to Court - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:43] <exec> 08└─So who would have the burden of proof in a case like this? Twin showing he is a cheater or Mitchell showing that he isn't one? Twins have rules about how these scores should be documented and witnessed so isn't in really on him to show that it was all above board? Perhaps they will have to start wit...
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[13:20:45] <exec> 08└─I hope the judge finds him in contempt for wasting the court's time on trivial bullshit.
[13:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Billy Mitchell Takes his Donkey Kong High-Score Cheating Case to Court - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:47] <exec> 08└─In the happy fantasy land where the "truth" matters, the evidence of cheating [donkeykongforum.com] seems pretty solid. They didn't remove his scores just because he couldn't prove they were legit, but after they actually spend a great deal of effort investigating and came to the conclusion it was i...
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[13:21:50] <exec> 08└─I usually remember what day it is, I just don't always remember the date. That said neither of them are all that interesting unless I have to do specific things on said day or date in which case I do tend to remember them. But if it doesn't matter then it just doesn't matter and I don't really care...
[13:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DaTrueDave [3144] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:51] <exec> 08└─Same here. I don't know if it's good or bad, but I suspect that retirement (just a few years off for me) will make this much more evident to me. I like to think that retirement will be so laid back that I'll just roll with it. What day is it? Don't know, don't care.
[13:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:53] <exec> 08└─Why would you want to f--- his dog? You might get bit! Try a chicken or a sheep first; then you can move up to a bitch. Oh and keep posting dumb shit so we can keep laughing at you.
[13:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:31] <exec> 08└─Another thing here is that everything is being funneled through the lens of government. Government will fail you if you try to use it to fix everything. Here, the complaint is so skewed by that lens it doesn't even make sense. Why should we expect Republican senators to continue with a sham trial th...
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[13:22:32] <exec> 08└─It is very clear to me, that "noise", deepfakes, whatever bullshit from whichever leader only matters to their detractors. No one really cares whether Trump (or whoever) hints that (s)he might be rascist, or sexist. What matters is policy, and for Trump those have been consistent vote-winners, much...
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[13:22:34] <exec> 08└─Why work? Why pay taxes? Why play the Man's games at all?
[13:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:36] <exec> 08└─Too bad it's immoral, illegal and fattening
[13:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:39] <exec> 08└─What you're basically claiming is that people are stupid, and in order to win, politicians must cather to stupid people. Tell me again why democracy is Good Thing (tm) ?
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[13:24:44] <exec> 08└─The number of people who die because of the recession from the lockdown plus the number of people who die from the virus during the lockdown is almost certainly less than the number of people who would have died without the lockdown. So your math is still incorrect. But even if it was right, US net...
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[13:25:15] <exec> 08└─...a switch from FPTP to Mixed-Member Proportional apparently happened in New Zealand.
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[13:25:32] <exec> 08└─I thought the play on words was quite quite lame but I posted it anyway for total lack of inspiration. Great, I won a troll award. This was just food for thought people. There might be a glimpse of a hint of truth in I what I wrote but now based on the comments I generated I no longer even care. Pow...
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[14:20:56] <exec> 08└─>It also would not kill the mosquitoes, so would not have an impact on ecosystems that are dependent on them as food. This is part of other strategies like a killer fungus that can almost completely collapse mosquito populations in weeks. The species of mosquitoes that feed on humans are an invasive...
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[14:21:07] <exec> 08└─So who would have the burden of proof in a case like this?
[14:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Billy Mitchell Takes his Donkey Kong High-Score Cheating Case to Court - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:09] <exec> 08└─contempt for wasting the court's time on trivial bullshit.
[14:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Billy Mitchell Takes his Donkey Kong High-Score Cheating Case to Court - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:11] <exec> 08└─Courts are the only place "burdens of proof" actually matter. This is a defamation lawsuit. So, he needs to prove that not only did he not cheat but they knew he didn't cheat and lied about it. Long story short: he ain't got shit.
[14:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fish Use Sharp Barbs and Spines to Fight Off Hungry Seals - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:19] <exec> 08└─"How could a seal make such a loud clap underwater with no air to compress between its flippers?"
[14:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oil Wells Done Rube-Goldberg Style: Flatrods and Jerk Lines - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:29] <exec> 08└─If you want "The price is whatever the customer is willing to pay"
[14:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oil Wells Done Rube-Goldberg Style: Flatrods and Jerk Lines - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:30] <exec> 08└─I'm all for removing subsidies from all energy production. Somehow it only matters when it comes to oil.
[14:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:23] <exec> 08└─To be fair, Cameron wasn't exactly a French battle. It was a French Foreign Legion battle. The scurvy leavings of half the nations in the world, if you want to be honest. Most of them only became Frenchmen after their enlistments were finished. The Legion serves France, but the Legion isn't exactly...
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[14:23:07] <exec> 08└─Russian army didn't invade. They were defending Ukraine against a U.S. instigated (under Obama, remember him?) coup.
[14:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:09] <exec> 08└─Hold on, you've got to keep the story strait. It was a friend's pizza shop and he and Hillary would come to visit the children. The really story is how Bill & Hill's friends and former colleagues love them so much that they either drop dead, find a murderer, or kill themselves.
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[15:21:06] <exec> 08└─No, the real risk is that malaria is eradicated and human population growth increases at an even more unsustainable rate. Humans are an invasive species almost everywhere they exist, so I don't see the problem in wiping them out.
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[15:21:07] <exec> 08└─You must be a fascist, a racist, and a Nazi to even mention such an obvious fact. And, you probably have body odor and bad breath. I'll just let you reap the rewards of offending a few million snowflakes, LOL.
[15:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03calmond [1826] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:10] <exec> 08└─I remember when I learned that not all mosquitoes bite humans. It came as quite a surprise, and it definitely opens up some possibilities for selective eradication. I wouldn't want to eliminate an entire species for our convenience, but a small sub population is a different matter.
[15:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:12] <exec> 08└─I remember the driver's ed instructor. "You've got to be COMPLETELY STOPPED before you can go! No California stops!" I just rolled my eyes, and refrained from giving her a coronary.
[15:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:14] <exec> 08└─Just use resource wars to wipe humans out.
[15:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:16] <exec> 08└─Well you know what they say: Charity starts at home!
[15:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:18] <exec> 08└─How about "Los Angeles stops"? They don't even courtesy brake, just straight on through with the middle finger up.
[15:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:21] <exec> 08└─Humans are an invasive species almost everywhere they exist, so I don't see the problem in wiping them out.
[15:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:23] <exec> 08└─I don't know why she swallowed the fly. Perhaps she'll die.
[15:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:25] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't want to eliminate an entire species for our convenience, but a small sub population is a different matter.
[15:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:27] <exec> 08└─No, the real risk is that malaria is eradicated and human population growth increases at an even more unsustainable rate.
[15:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:29] <exec> 08└─Here's how you find vaccines: inject bleach it does quite a number on the lungs in only one minute. It's the new Rik Roll'd!
[15:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:31] <exec> 08└─Efficient.
[15:21:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rigrig [5129] 02 - 06Billy Mitchell Takes his Donkey Kong High-Score Cheating Case to Court - 582 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:42] <exec> 08└─In the happy fantasy land where the "truth" matters, the evidence of cheating [donkeykongforum.com] seems pretty solid. They didn't remove his scores just because he couldn't prove they were legit, but after they actually spend a great deal of effort investigating and came to the conclusion it was i...
[15:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Billy Mitchell Takes his Donkey Kong High-Score Cheating Case to Court - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:47] <exec> 08└─Dude, if you're fast enough to molest a squirrel, you're pretty damned fast. If you're fast enough to molest a chipmunk, you must be a holdover from Mt. Olympus or something. Ain't NOBODY HUMAN that fast!!
[15:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Billy Mitchell Takes his Donkey Kong High-Score Cheating Case to Court - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:49] <exec> 08└─That proves it was Usain Bolt! Case closed, take the black man away.
[15:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Billy Mitchell Takes his Donkey Kong High-Score Cheating Case to Court - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:51] <exec> 08└─Not to mention that in the US truth is an absolute defense against defamation. If they were so conservative as to wait until they were able to eliminate all other possibilities, then the likelihood of them winning is extremely high. I haven't been following this closely enough to know all the detail...
[15:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Billy Mitchell Takes his Donkey Kong High-Score Cheating Case to Court - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:54] <exec> 08└─You shouldn't, often times cases require the discovery process and subpoenas to establish whether or not the lawsuit should be taken to trial. Judges have the ability to issue a summary judgment if there's anything so serious as to make the case unwinnable. This is for things like lack of standing o...
[15:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fish Use Sharp Barbs and Spines to Fight Off Hungry Seals - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:03] <exec> 08└─Modern medical scanning reveals the steep price some marine mammals are willing to pay for food . . .
[15:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fish Use Sharp Barbs and Spines to Fight Off Hungry Seals - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:05] <exec> 08└─It proves their no so smart after all. Grow some fuching hands if your so advanced, idiot! Way over-rated, dolphins.
[15:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oil Wells Done Rube-Goldberg Style: Flatrods and Jerk Lines - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:17] <exec> 08└─Nope. But we haven't had capitalism for rich people for a long time...
[15:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oil Wells Done Rube-Goldberg Style: Flatrods and Jerk Lines - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:18] <exec> 08└─I wonder if that has something to do with the fact that oils gets the vast majority of them?
[15:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oil Wells Done Rube-Goldberg Style: Flatrods and Jerk Lines - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:20] <exec> 08└─Well, looking at this study [eia.gov] of the US energy market, it appears (from table 3 on page 9) that there was $15 billion in federal (not counting state or local level subsidies) "energy-specific subsidies and support" of which ~$500 million was fossil fuel oriented. I doubt the study counts ext...
[15:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Possible New Method for Nuclear Power Waste to be Made Safer - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:33] <exec> 08└─But then.... where would all his words come from?
[15:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Possible New Method for Nuclear Power Waste to be Made Safer - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:35] <exec> 08└─We wish to avoid a runaway nookular meltdown.
[15:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Possible New Method for Nuclear Power Waste to be Made Safer - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:37] <exec> 08└─What if we were to store all the long-decay nuclear waste on the far side of the moon? Not in anyone's back yard.
[15:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Possible New Method for Nuclear Power Waste to be Made Safer - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:39] <exec> 08└─How would you get it there? The catastrophic failure mode of a rocket has minimal impact on the environment. The catastrophic failure mode of a rocket filled with nuclear waste, would be much worse for the environment. I wouldn't vote for it.
[15:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:19] <exec> 08└─You mean how 1700s of you? Newspapers are super old technology for delivering news. It's not terribly surprising that they're going out of business left and right. Adapting to new technology can be pretty difficult.
[15:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:21] <exec> 08└─For giggles, I went to Google. Typed in the search box, "what day is it". It gives me the date, on one line, and right below it, I read "Date in Outback, Nowhere". So, uhhh, allowing for the international date line and time zones, how many dates are there? If I were in Milwaukee, would it be a diffe...
[15:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:23] <exec> 08└─The vast majority of users have no idea their computer / device has a built-in function that's very useful for that. Either that or a whole boat load more people use the google speak thing that I figured. Then again, why can't it be both?
[15:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:25] <exec> 08└─Instead of asking Google Assistant "what day is it?", I more commonly ask "what time is it?" I just got a Wear OS watch. (yes really, because, bored) I can leave the watch face dark instead of always showing a sad face. Press a button, say "what time is it?" and get the answer spoken by the watch. (...
[15:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:27] <exec> 08└─Perhaps there would be a market for real news? As opposed to moral outrage fests against political opponents.
[15:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:29] <exec> 08└─That's the thing, knowing the specific date is of relatively little importance if you're not coordinating things with other people. Laundry just needs to be done sometime before you run out of clothes, similarly with grocery shopping, you just need to do that before you run out of food. You might co...
[15:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:14] <exec> 08└─Biden will pass whatever the Democrats put on his desk. The focus on the President when it comes to passing good laws is such a perfect example of American ignorance about our own system. If you want good laws to pass you want a good Congress. Since I presume you're a Bernie supporter: guess where h...
[15:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:16] <exec> 08└─That is rust you malfunctioning droid.
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[16:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:11] <exec> 08└─She swallowed the spider to catch the fly. The fly was attracted by the small of her vagina but went to the wrong hole - happens.
[16:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:13] <exec> 08└─How about Tennessee stops? They just drive right through because they didn't notice the stop sign, because they were busy fucking their sister or their six-year-old daughter while driving. And at the same time, screaming "Why are the lib'ruls such perverts? Trump 2020!" at the top of their lungs.
[16:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:15] <exec> 08└─Well to be fair, ain't nobody gonna tell them what to do. Stop! Yeah suck my dick, I see through ur big government hoax.
[16:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:17] <exec> 08└─Not to worry too much. Once we are detected, galactic pest control facility will show up.
[16:21:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Aegis [6714] 02 - 06Billy Mitchell Takes his Donkey Kong High-Score Cheating Case to Court - 230 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:28] <exec> 08└─Courts are the only place "burdens of proof" actually matter. This is a defamation lawsuit. So, he needs to prove that not only did he not cheat but they knew he didn't cheat and lied about it. Long story short: he ain't got shit.
[16:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Billy Mitchell Takes his Donkey Kong High-Score Cheating Case to Court - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:34] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, the normal "punishment" for time wasting pointless lawsuits is just having your case thrown out, and given that there is a disagreement about the material facts of the case a judge would be hard pressed to find cause for such a summary ruling. To get a contempt of court charge, you ha...
[16:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Billy Mitchell Takes his Donkey Kong High-Score Cheating Case to Court - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:36] <exec> 08└─I vacillate back and forth on the question of whether it'd be right for there to be a "that's fucking stupid" short circuit in the legal system. There's so much bullshit is fucking stupid, but the amount of abuse a corrupt or incompetent judge could leverage that for is scary.
[16:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Billy Mitchell Takes his Donkey Kong High-Score Cheating Case to Court - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:38] <exec> 08└─That's why we make it so expensive - to keep justice free of poor people stuff and concentrate on things that matter.
[16:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Billy Mitchell Takes his Donkey Kong High-Score Cheating Case to Court - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:40] <exec> 08└─Martin Shkreli must be big pals with Bob Murray [youtube.com].
[16:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Billy Mitchell Takes his Donkey Kong High-Score Cheating Case to Court - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:42] <exec> 08└─Billy should go back to singing songs and doing what he's good at. Why would he want to become famous as the gaming rebel who took on big industry and get all this free publicity?
[16:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Billy Mitchell Takes his Donkey Kong High-Score Cheating Case to Court - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:45] <exec> 08└─It is also possible in some cases for the plaintiffs to end up on the hook for the defendant's legal fees.
[16:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Billy Mitchell Takes his Donkey Kong High-Score Cheating Case to Court - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:47] <exec> 08└─That's what summary judgments are for. They deal with situations where the evidence can't support a ruling for the plaintiff, the plaintiff can't prove that they were harmed or it's flat out not a violation of the law or contract even if all the evidence is assumed to be true and complete. Throwing...
[16:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Billy Mitchell Takes his Donkey Kong High-Score Cheating Case to Court - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:49] <exec> 08└─There is an easy fix for all of this. Break out a decently restored machine. Stand him in front of it. Go for the high score. Done. That this has not happened does not look good on him. He is one of the top players of this game in the world. There is little doubt about that. The way he did it though...
[16:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Billy Mitchell Takes his Donkey Kong High-Score Cheating Case to Court - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:51] <exec> 08└─We make it expensive, because it is expensive to have the related officers of the court and attorneys investigating what happened in an effort to get a result that approximates a just outcome. Any system is going to have mistakes made and miscarriages of justice, but minimizing that requires resourc...
[16:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fish Use Sharp Barbs and Spines to Fight Off Hungry Seals - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:02] <exec> 08└─You're jealous because you can't hold your breath for half an hour while going down.
[16:22:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Oil Wells Done Rube-Goldberg Style: Flatrods and Jerk Lines - 67 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:12] <exec> 08└─subsidized [theguardian.com] capitalism is still capitalism, right?
[16:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Oil Wells Done Rube-Goldberg Style: Flatrods and Jerk Lines - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:19] <exec> 08└─Does the study count US military expenditures in the middle east? If not, it's almost irrelevant.
[16:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oil Wells Done Rube-Goldberg Style: Flatrods and Jerk Lines - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:21] <exec> 08└─Does the study count US military expenditures in the middle east?
[16:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Possible New Method for Nuclear Power Waste to be Made Safer - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:38] <exec> 08└─OK then, well what if we put it in a big pile in the desert and nuke it? Like with hurricanes [theguardian.com]. Surely bleach would dissolve it? I've got all day what else do you need - hey can I get a loan?
[16:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Possible New Method for Nuclear Power Waste to be Made Safer - 1424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:40] <exec> 08└─well i guess "something" needs to be done. the nuclear waste problem stems 95% (?) from electricity generation. the fact that power plants using nuclear fission are technically electricity "base load" generators this kindda implies that pretty much a constant and steady stream of "waste" is generate...
[16:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:28] <exec> 08└─I'll put the onus on you to remember better next time.
[16:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:29] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately it gets replaced with an obsession about the weather. Basically you can't win.
[16:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:17] <exec> 08└─Because democracies require more consent from people to go to war. Democracies rarely war on other democracies, and war is bad. https://www.vox.com [vox.com]
[16:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Broadcasts Oral Arguments for the First Time Ever - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:52] <exec> 08└─That wouldn't work well with this administration....... ..... As he likes to spread his thoughts over many tweeets.... .... to hide the fact that little to no thought went into any of them.
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[17:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hertz Seeking to Avoid Bankruptcy After Missing Lease Payment, Report Says - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:57] <exec> 08└─When you file for bankrupty, don't forget to trigger the $14.95/day charge for toll road transponder immediately by surrounding the office with toll roads. 100 booths but none that take cash or credit. Bye!
[17:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Hertz Seeking to Avoid Bankruptcy After Missing Lease Payment, Report Says - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:59] <exec> 08└─I doubt the frequency of bankruptcies [abi.org] will rise to more than one Hertz [duckduckgo.com].
[17:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hertz Seeking to Avoid Bankruptcy After Missing Lease Payment, Report Says - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:01] <exec> 08└─Only payroll and pensions should be paid out right now. That's the demand we should make on the damn fed! Instead we give it to the bosses. That's fucked up
[17:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:26] <exec> 08└─Quick! Write a Google Docs paper on how this has been 100% effective against COVID-19. Did anybody die from it during this research? No? There you go! Claim some affiliations with big time medical schools and thank some of those "Noble Prize" scientists who have never heard of you. That always adds...
[17:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:27] <exec> 08└─Jared is that you? I didn't know you could write so well. It'd be great to hear your voice. I'm so lonely in lockdown. PS. Why did you people kill Jesus?
[17:21:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Billy Mitchell Takes his Donkey Kong High-Score Cheating Case to Court - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:38] <exec> 08└─So who would have the burden of proof in a case like this?
[17:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Billy Mitchell Takes his Donkey Kong High-Score Cheating Case to Court - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:54] <exec> 08└─That doesn't quite address it, all that would do is establish him as one of the top players, not necessary the top player. Often times those crazy high scores are the result of not just practice and study, but also having a good day. To make matters worse, that score was recorded years ago and it's...
[17:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oil Wells Done Rube-Goldberg Style: Flatrods and Jerk Lines - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:22] <exec> 08└─Somehow it only matters when it comes to oil.
[17:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Possible New Method for Nuclear Power Waste to be Made Safer - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:42] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you should say what's on your mind? No one has measured any variation in gravitational fields from nuclear reactions. Normally, this is not an issue since it is much weaker than other forces and most of the range of such variation would be extremely hard to observe and outside the sensitivit...
[17:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:32] <exec> 08└─It's no pants Tuesday, who can't keep track of that???
[17:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:21] <exec> 08└─Tell me again why democracy is Good Thing (tm) ?
[17:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:23] <exec> 08└─Republicrats! Get him! He's clearly a Demolican!
[17:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:25] <exec> 08└─at least vote in the general election where you can choose between "status quo" or "fucking psycho"?
[17:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jurov [6250] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Recent Salt Vulnerabilities Exploited to Hack LineageOS, Ghost, DigiCert Servers - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:49] <exec> 08└─Anything is insecure without further lines of defense such as firewall or VPN. I supposed that is what every admin does first when setting up a new service and was baffled when there was no prominent mention in the saltstack docs. Nor did ansible and tjeir ilk. Just open the port to the world and al...
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[18:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hertz Seeking to Avoid Bankruptcy After Missing Lease Payment, Report Says - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:54] <exec> 08└─Hertz could reorganize under bankruptcy protection and re-emerge debt free with a shiny new name: Wavelength.
[18:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hertz Seeking to Avoid Bankruptcy After Missing Lease Payment, Report Says - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:56] <exec> 08└─Everything is on hold Except interest payments that is sacrosanct can’t mess with that, belongs to the 1%
[18:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:24] <exec> 08└─The 100% cure involves plasma with antibodies of covid survivors. I know it is effective because they sent the anti sophistication police immediately to one of the hospital who employs the therapy. They never send the NAS when the vaccine contains shit or is ineffective, so it's an inverse correlati...
[18:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:25] <exec> 08└─At least they signal.
[18:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:27] <exec> 08└─If the eyes are rolling it's not considered a full stop, BTW.
[18:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:30] <exec> 08└─The mosquito anti-vaxxer population will never allow mass scale immunizations. They will be joined by the alt-mosquito-right groups protesting that they have the freedom to fly wherever they want to without needing a mask on their proboscises.
[18:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:32] <exec> 08└─Forget trying to cure humans, cure the mosquito and you still solve the problem
[18:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:34] <exec> 08└─malaria eradication has already been accompanied by strong reductions in population growth rate. Regular stability and abundance does that, if Japan is any example.
[18:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Billy Mitchell Takes his Donkey Kong High-Score Cheating Case to Court - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:01] <exec> 08└─When reached for comment, Mr. Kong said, "nnnnnnaarggk! nnnnnnaarggk! nnnnnnaarggk!" Bum-di-bum-be-dum-de-dum doodley-doodley-doodley-dooo!
[18:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fish Use Sharp Barbs and Spines to Fight Off Hungry Seals - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:12] <exec> 08└─This has been known for... Well, as long as people have been catching fish. How is this news to a marine biologist? Did he think the spines were for decoration?
[18:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:41] <exec> 08└─The Vietnamese, the Algerians and the Germans.
[18:24:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 117 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:06] <exec> 08└─MH17 was shot down by the Russian army during its invasion of Ukraine. I don't think the Russian Army are Democrats.
[18:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:32] <exec> 08└─I work [...] to have purpose
[18:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:34] <exec> 08└─Critical Thinking? Puuuuulease. Not in the USA. We're in a post-thinking world.
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[19:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Frontier, Amid Bankruptcy, is Suspected of Lying About Broadband Expansion - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:54] <exec> 08└─And I suspect the sun will rise in the east tomorrow.
[19:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Frontier, Amid Bankruptcy, is Suspected of Lying About Broadband Expansion - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:55] <exec> 08└─I think that sums up the entirety of the US Telecom experience.
[19:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Frontier, Amid Bankruptcy, is Suspected of Lying About Broadband Expansion - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:57] <exec> 08└─So, you're saying water is wet? On the other hand, I switched to Frontier ADSL from Comcast cablemodem several months back. The improvement in service and pricing was large. I'm not sure how much this is due to Frontier doing a good job, but I am convinced a lot of it was Comcast doing a poor one.
[19:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Frontier, Amid Bankruptcy, is Suspected of Lying About Broadband Expansion - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:00] <exec> 08└─Will there be any consequences for Frontier lying and committing what appears to be outright fraud? Somehow I doubt it.
[19:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Frontier, Amid Bankruptcy, is Suspected of Lying About Broadband Expansion - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:02] <exec> 08└─> Liars, Amid Bankruptcy, Suspected of Broadband Expansion
[19:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Frontier, Amid Bankruptcy, is Suspected of Lying About Broadband Expansion - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:04] <exec> 08└─Real news would be "After intense investigation $isp has been found to NOT be lying about rural broadband deployment."
[19:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hertz Seeking to Avoid Bankruptcy After Missing Lease Payment, Report Says - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:15] <exec> 08└─From the bip bip beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep dept.
[19:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hertz Seeking to Avoid Bankruptcy After Missing Lease Payment, Report Says - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:17] <exec> 08└─Unless there is interference.
[19:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hertz Seeking to Avoid Bankruptcy After Missing Lease Payment, Report Says - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:19] <exec> 08└─This is the WHOLE POINT. Banks are not after money, THEY PRINT IT. The drill is, require people to borrow (simply drugging the market by the very existence of credit), borrowing is first an advantage then a need, feed on the inevitable bankrupcy. Wealth -> power -> control.
[19:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hertz Seeking to Avoid Bankruptcy After Missing Lease Payment, Report Says - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:21] <exec> 08└─wavelength-1, you mean?
[19:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hertz Seeking to Avoid Bankruptcy After Missing Lease Payment, Report Says - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:23] <exec> 08└─Hey asshole quit trying to put one over.
[19:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hertz Seeking to Avoid Bankruptcy After Missing Lease Payment, Report Says - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:25] <exec> 08└─No you see, we need to give it to the investors so it will trickle down to the people losing their homes. It's the only way - think of the children! The poor, poor children :o
[19:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:59] <exec> 08└─Make it so it gives us superpowers [youtu.be]
[19:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:00] <exec> 08└─Now why does anyone want to eradicate Melania? Her husband, sure, but leave her out of it
[19:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:03] <exec> 08└─He must have invaded from the green site.
[19:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:05] <exec> 08└─Well, if the mosquitos can qualify as a protected species with just Cobra Bubbles advocating for them, maybe we can start a direct mail campaign to save the humans.
[19:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Billy Mitchell Takes his Donkey Kong High-Score Cheating Case to Court - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:33] <exec> 08└─Summary judgements are when both sides agree on enough relevant facts for there to be no need of finding of fact. I.e. the judge can fairly make a decision based on the summaries of the case provided by both sides.
[19:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fish Use Sharp Barbs and Spines to Fight Off Hungry Seals - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:45] <exec> 08└─Nah is simply the evolution of academia. Publish poor, pre perishable persuasions, profit perchance.
[19:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Possible New Method for Nuclear Power Waste to be Made Safer - 1248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:23] <exec> 08└─something to keep in mind about this new process is in a single step is separates all the usable fuel from the waste, which is something that usually requires a far more steps. Once the real waste has been separated out the resulting crystals will be much easier to handle and store than the original...
[19:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Possible New Method for Nuclear Power Waste to be Made Safer - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:25] <exec> 08└─Scientists have had some success with separating uranium, plutonium and neptunium. However, these methods have been very complex and have had limited success at separating americium. Furthermore, Burns said that the United States Department of Energy requires the recycling strategy to be proliferati...
[19:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:17] <exec> 08└─Well, find a real news source and put your money where your mouth is. For starters there is WSWS [wsws.org] and Consortium News [consortiumnews.com]. What else do we have?
[19:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 1023 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:11] <exec> 08└─You are not smart enough, you should post anonymously to avoid outing yourself. Not that this will change your mind since you are likely so confident you can't see it. Biden had nothing to do with the crime Trump was 100% guilty of. The excuse was not at all relevant. Trump had zero right to withhol...
[19:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:12] <exec> 08└─You're wrong on this one. This particular situation showed that the entire system of checks and balances fail. Trump is 100% guilty just based on his own statements, and you can't seriously be saying that you can have a real trial with no witnesses. That was THE abject failure of the whole system, a...
[19:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:14] <exec> 08└─Tell me again why democracy is Good Thing (tm) ?
[19:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:17] <exec> 08└─that's correct. there's about 2% that are Real Americans. The rest are useful idiots and active subversives (cops, lawyers, legislators, etc).
[19:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:19] <exec> 08└─"I pay taxes because well, they occasional pay for stuff that matters to me, like civilization." only cowards, sell outs and idiots pay the income tax.
[19:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:21] <exec> 08└─read "Bush, Clinton and the CIA", you dumb fuck.
[19:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:23] <exec> 08└─this sounds like someone is worried a tape of Ol' Creepy Joe Biden sniffing and grabbing kids is going to be shown on prime time TV for all the old TV Watchers to see for themselves.
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[20:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hertz Seeking to Avoid Bankruptcy After Missing Lease Payment, Report Says - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:25] <exec> 08└─Not even that. Freeze all debt and all credit and all markets, have the army distribute food, have essential services manned by volunteers (paid in future tax breaks). There leaves the prob of getting raw materials, if the neighbours don't help you send them the starving infected, or nuke, depending...
[20:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hertz Seeking to Avoid Bankruptcy After Missing Lease Payment, Report Says - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:27] <exec> 08└─I know you like it when you talk dirty.
[20:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:05] <exec> 08└─Same as any other species..... It is just that humans have figured out workarounds for the normal over population corrective measures. Thankfully in metro areas the population growth flattens out when the population density gets high enough.
[20:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:07] <exec> 08└─Regular stability and abundance does that
[20:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:09] <exec> 08└─Goes with the territory.
[20:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:11] <exec> 08└─We need masks^Wventilators^WTESTING! We need to turn our entire health care system to Covid-19 only. Locking dentists in their homes, denying long-term cancer patients their treatment, abandoning nursing homes to the dogs are what we need to do to beat the PANDEMIC!!1!
[20:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:14] <exec> 08└─Local laws prohibit baiting when hunting EF.
[20:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:16] <exec> 08└─Whiny incel has been triggered again. "But muh free-dumbs! *sob*"
[20:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Billy Mitchell Takes his Donkey Kong High-Score Cheating Case to Court - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:45] <exec> 08└─In some places, chipmunks will walk right up and eat out of your hand. They have no fear of humans. I've seen it personally, and of course they tell everybody not to feed them and nobody listens. It varies from place to place. I've never seen it with squirrels, but I've heard that it happens with th...
[20:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:30] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I don't buy that. I notice that there's a lot of people talking in this thread about the "crime", but they can't even say what it is. It's some vague, alleged violation of the executive version of the emoluments clause. The problem here is that Hunter Biden's possible shenanigans (and more i...
[20:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:31] <exec> 08└─Russian army didn't invade.
[20:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:33] <exec> 08└─only cowards, sell outs and idiots pay the income tax.
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[21:21:14] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that many major telecoms in the US have gotten government grants to expand broadband access to the same areas for something like 20 years running. And of course they never do, because it's cheaper not to and they own the regulators who could call them on it (e.g. FCC Chair Ajit P...
[21:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Possible New Method for Nuclear Power Waste to be Made Safer - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:39] <exec> 08└─Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
[21:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Possible New Method for Nuclear Power Waste to be Made Safer - 1457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:41] <exec> 08└─A better alternative to finding ways to recycle/safely store all those byproducts is to use a different nuclear plant style and fuel that doesn't produce them in the first place. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Thorium reactors are expected to produce multip...
[21:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why are We All Forgetting What Day It Is? - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:33] <exec> 08└─My local newspaper does a good job, so I subscribe. It's not cheap, but someone has to pay the reporters. All the "new" media around here just quote things from the newspaper--TV & radio don't seem to have anyone that could qualify as a reporter and I haven't found anything online other than badly w...
[21:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:37] <exec> 08└─I notice that there's a lot of people talking in this thread about the "crime", but they can't even say what it is.
[21:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:39] <exec> 08└─Trump had zero right to withhold evidence
[21:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:41] <exec> 08└─Ok. What Trump did wrong was the Quid Pro Quo. Instead of handing it to the appropriate bodies in Congress to investigate, he decided to be a mafia don and hold back financial aid till he got what he wanted. There is more than enough evidence for this, but all the witnesses and evidence was suppress...
[21:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:43] <exec> 08└─you can still find all the purpose you need in something you undertake because you enjoy it.
[21:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:45] <exec> 08└─But does the State of California know that?
[21:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:47] <exec> 08└─I'll have you know that I'm delinquent on more tax debt than you are! NB: different AC here
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[22:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Who Sold Access to Pirated Books on Dropbox Handed Suspended Sentence - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:55] <exec> 08└─Goes to show how screwed up our copyright system is when something like this comes up. Suspended sentence of 20 days in prison and confiscation of ill-gotten gains. Whereas in the USA, they'd be trying you for stupid amounts of money and you'd be lucky, if it wasn't decades in prison.
[22:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Woman Who Sold Access to Pirated Books on Dropbox Handed Suspended Sentence - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:57] <exec> 08└─It's a function of what Sweden's copyright material is worth compared to America's: nolla.
[22:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Woman Who Sold Access to Pirated Books on Dropbox Handed Suspended Sentence - 1270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:59] <exec> 08└─It's one thing to share information for the benefit of the masses. To me, charging for it is wrong. Just flat wrong. Charging implies account credentials. Revealing account credentials is risky on the web, when so many internet businesses require agreement to pages of onerous "terms and conditions"...
[22:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Woman Who Sold Access to Pirated Books on Dropbox Handed Suspended Sentence - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:01] <exec> 08└─So your objection is not that she was taking other people's copyright material and selling it for her own profit (and I thought here you were going to make a statement about how you'd be ok with her giving it away because "information wants to be free" and all of that), but your only issue with it i...
[22:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:16] <exec> 08└─Careful with that green comment -- I'm using VT100 mode here.
[22:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:17] <exec> 08└─See that little spot? Yup, you have cancer.
[22:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fish Use Sharp Barbs and Spines to Fight Off Hungry Seals - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:02] <exec> 08└─Strangely enough, they had this to say in their abstract: Nevertheless, the number and severity of the facial stab wounds, some of which led to local necrosis, likely affected the animal’s ability to feed, and may account for its death. Despite their detrimental effects, fish spine-related injurie...
[22:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oil Wells Done Rube-Goldberg Style: Flatrods and Jerk Lines - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:21] <exec> 08└─Are you sure you learned anything?
[22:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oil Wells Done Rube-Goldberg Style: Flatrods and Jerk Lines - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:22] <exec> 08└─over $14 billion in subsidies which are specifically not for fossil fuel. That rules out "vast majority"
[22:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:48] <exec> 08└─Naughty!
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[23:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virgin Galactic's Spaceship Flies from its New Home Base for the First Time - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:58] <exec> 08└─I will believe it when I see it. Founded in 2004 Branson still hasn't managed to get anything into orbit, despite promising a maiden flight for 2009, 11 years ago now. Sub-orbital flights seem like a pretty unambitious goal considering they've been at it for 16 years. Anyway, Branson has run out...
[23:21:10] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Woman Who Sold Access to Pirated Books on Dropbox Handed Suspended Sentence - 258 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:10] <exec> 08└─The thing I hate the most about U.S. "justice" is that everybody gets away with everything, until they don't, and then when you manage to end up on the wrong side the fines are excessive, the jail sentences are inhumane, and the court costs are astronomical.
[23:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Woman Who Sold Access to Pirated Books on Dropbox Handed Suspended Sentence - 1175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:11] <exec> 08└─The real crime is the mulcting of students with the typical educational textbook racket. Whenever I could, I always bought my textbooks used. This case is another one of those in which the little person gets punished, while the big and powerful are not only allowed to run rackets with impunity, but...
[23:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Woman Who Sold Access to Pirated Books on Dropbox Handed Suspended Sentence - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:13] <exec> 08└─Yeh..the fact of requiring payment at all. I abhor the "ownership" of knowledge. To me, it's a public good. If you want to have a trade secret, fine, don't display it in public and expect everyone else not to look. This is why we have underwear. We all have trade secrets. Don't display in public and...
[23:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Who Sold Access to Pirated Books on Dropbox Handed Suspended Sentence - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:16] <exec> 08└─It's been a while since Denmark was part of Sweden.
[23:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Woman Who Sold Access to Pirated Books on Dropbox Handed Suspended Sentence - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:18] <exec> 08└─The thing that gets me (apart from your points) is that I have never heard any good argument for why copyright infringement is a criminal offense at all. It ought to be a civil matter surely.
[23:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Woman Who Sold Access to Pirated Books on Dropbox Handed Suspended Sentence - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:20] <exec> 08└─"Information wants to be free" is the wrong, and pejorative, phrase for what's really going on. A better phrase is "copying belongs to the masses now". Copyright is dead, and what we have now is zombie copyright, still shambling confusedly along. Publishers must come to accept that that business mod...
[23:21:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Frontier, Amid Bankruptcy, is Suspected of Lying About Broadband Expansion - 53 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:28] <exec> 08└─And I suspect the sun will rise in the east tomorrow.
[23:21:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Frontier, Amid Bankruptcy, is Suspected of Lying About Broadband Expansion - 119 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:32] <exec> 08└─Will there be any consequences for Frontier lying and committing what appears to be outright fraud? Somehow I doubt it.
[23:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hertz Seeking to Avoid Bankruptcy After Missing Lease Payment, Report Says - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:56] <exec> 08└─I was thinking, hopefully they sell off the name after this. Then some philanthropist with more money than I can buy it and start an EV car company to compete with Tesla. "They have the power but we have the frequency." Or something.
[23:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:43] <exec> 08└─The species of mosquitoes that feed on humans are an invasive species almost everywhere they exist, so I don't see the problem in wiping them out.
[23:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but I'd feel much better with radio silence strategy.
[23:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oil Wells Done Rube-Goldberg Style: Flatrods and Jerk Lines - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:50] <exec> 08└─A definite point. And the use of petrochemicals is a lot larger than just producing energy for home and industrial purposes. Electricity is much less so. But you still need to count all the subsidies if you're going to make a valid comparison rather than just a political statement.
[23:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:18] <exec> 08└─I would have thought Soylent News was too small for Russian trolls to bother with but who knows? Unless that's our resident flat earth, anti-vaxx conspiracy theory A/C. He believes some pretty far-out stuff.
[23:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:20] <exec> 08└─You really should do your research on the Biden family and the corruption in Ukraine during the Obama years. Just who installed the "US friendly" politicians in Ukraine? "Biden had nothing to do ..." are you serious? It should be pretty apparent that both Democrooks and Republocrooks are just as bad...
[23:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:22] <exec> 08└─Why? There are plenty of more interesting, and funnier conspiracy theories that that one.
[23:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:24] <exec> 08└─What is sad is that a person of Biden's apparent lack of intellect (same for Republicans) can even get a mention in the media, much less become the candidate for a major political party -- and then have those that tried to run against him to start supporting him.
[23:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deepfakes' Biggest Threat to the 2020 US Election Isn't What You'd Think - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:26] <exec> 08└─Actually, yes, that is one of his many jobs. You can always amend the Constitution to reduce the latitude given to the President concerning such negotiations or reduce his power to investigate wrongdoing in Congress, but I would oppose both of those. Sorry, even existence of quid pro quo arrangement...
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