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[00:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:48] <exec> 08└─Twitter Twitter Trump. Not interesting. Boring.
[00:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:13] <exec> 08└─> So, "leftist" is just kind of role playing thing then, where people jump back and forth for a fast buck? You are confused, jumping back and forth for a fast buck is a Trump thing. And given the number of bankruptcies, he's not very good at it.
[00:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:15] <exec> 08└─> alternate Gutenberg sites Came here to mention that the Canadian Gutenberg has newer titles than USA, must have shorter life to (C) in Canada. Comes with similar disclaimer about checking (C) in the country where you download to.
[00:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:17] <exec> 08└─And I thought my posts were pessimistic lately! I really hope you're wrong.
[00:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Atlantic’s Third Storm Has Formed in Record Time, and It’s a Threat - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:38] <exec> 08└─Well if they were hitting your area several times a year, yeah. Short of that it's just no big whoop. Coastal states and cities know they're going to get hit and prepare way ahead of time (at least to the degree that they're not complete morons, which isn't quite a given for politicians).
[00:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Atlantic’s Third Storm Has Formed in Record Time, and It’s a Threat - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:40] <exec> 08└─Bad analogy. We're talking about folks saying "we're fucked and there's nothing we can do about it". If they're right, it's party time, because it's too late so why not? If they're wrong, they're making the folks who're saying "we're not fucked yet but that may very well be in our future" look like...
[00:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Synthetic Rebuilt Red Blood Cells - Improving on Nature - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:08] <exec> 08└─Does this create an unlimited number of synthetic cells from a small amount of donor blood? Because if not, there doesn't seem to be a clear benefit until the add-ons are included.
[00:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Accused of Setting Dangerous Precedent - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:40] <exec> 08└─*blinks* Really? You're that out of touch with what's going on that you haven't seen news items of multiple instances yourself?
[00:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Accused of Setting Dangerous Precedent - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:41] <exec> 08└─I'm personally a big fan of Greeks. Olives, buttsex, world conquest... What's not to love?
[00:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Accused of Setting Dangerous Precedent - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:44] <exec> 08└─A) Context. B) You're deliberately misrepresenting (hello, strawman!) both my position then and my position now.
[00:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Accused of Setting Dangerous Precedent - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:46] <exec> 08└─No shit, Sherlock. Why is it some complete moron always says "private entities are not covered by the 1A!!!" whenever someone says they should not be censoring or otherwise trying to control people's speech?
[00:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Accused of Setting Dangerous Precedent - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:48] <exec> 08└─Black leftist like the term separation, as in Malcolm X's black nationalism. Black nationalists define segregation as white oppressive separation of the races, where whites control the white and black areas. While they want black controlled black areas and white controlled white areas.
[00:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Accused of Setting Dangerous Precedent - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:50] <exec> 08└─No response, I'm guessing Fusty is stil a teen. Edge lord to the max, which explains why he never has any answers to his generic "politicians are al corrupt" uhh, ahem, "wisdom." Would also explain how he vaccilates between positions and can't help when his conscience pops its head up. He hasn't had...
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[00:25:52] <exec> 08└─You've reached the end of the line. Welcome to Stupid Town, where I'm rubber and you're glue. "Shooting his mouth off" lol, how about "assaulting US citizens for a photo op"? Does that line up in that soft goop you call a brain? I sure wish we could see an alternate reality where Obama said the same...
[00:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Accused of Setting Dangerous Precedent - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:55] <exec> 08└─Look at Mr. Big Boy putting on his pants all by himself! Sadly you misunderstood as usual. His promotion of violence is what is not protected. Hell, this article is about Facebook NOT doing anything to his post so your point doesn't even follow simple reality. Better luck next time!
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[01:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:49] <exec> 08└─Yeah, post some more interesting stories about that virus that used to keep us inside, before people discovered that anger about social injustice was an effective cure and started gathering in large crowds again.
[01:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:50] <exec> 08└─Shhhhh... you'll tip off the SJWs before they all get infected and die.
[01:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 2, Redundant) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:52] <exec> 08└─538, the company that said, without question, Trump had no path to 270 and literally had a 0% chance of winning the primary he won a week later, wants to tell us all about disinformation.
[01:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 1455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:55] <exec> 08└─When Trump makes posts suggestive of his supporters assaulting political enemies the next week we get a story of just that happening. We are watching the physical violence portion of fascism getting started where extreme violence against peaceful protesters is normalized. Sad thing is so many here o...
[01:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:57] <exec> 08└─Speaking of misinformation https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com [fivethirtyeight.com] 538 predicted Trump would get 44.9% of the popular vote and 235 electoral votes. Their overall prediction of Trump winning was 28.6%. Yup, LiTeRalLy 0% there.
[01:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:59] <exec> 08└─If you're keen on killing Americans, why don't you just take the advice of that Senator who advocated sending in the army to murder New Yorkers? It would be much quicker than waiting for a virus to kill the people who disagree with you.
[01:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:01] <exec> 08└─You're trying to argue facts with a trumptard. You're waisting your time.
[01:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:03] <exec> 08└─This is very simple stuff and it is sad to see so many US citizens supporting it.
[01:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:06] <exec> 08└─CrookedHillary advocated that? I thought she preferred to kill her enemies one by one,.
[01:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:08] <exec> 08└─Sure, the guy in the Whitehouse is simply wrong, but since he is there, what to do is not simple. For example, there's not much simple about the commander in chief forcing a military officer to sacrifice his career to do the right thing when confronted with an order contradictory to the constitution...
[01:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:10] <exec> 08└─Twitter does the minimum necessary to maximize the retention of its merchan... errr, that is... its users. Which makes absolutely perfect business sense from the point of view for a for-profit organization - e.g. fact checking is hurting their bottom line, but currently they need to take it as "cost...
[01:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:12] <exec> 08└─He explicitly cited a primary, you responded with a general election prediction.
[01:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:15] <exec> 08└─If it is, pray tell how you managed to make the tiny bundles of proteins and RNA understand and react to complex social interactions. If it isn't, then aren't those protests guaranteed to kill more than all the police violence in a decade, combined? If they aren't, then isn't the lockdown unnecessar...
[01:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:17] <exec> 08└─Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton (538 on Nov 4, 2016) [fivethirtyeight.com]
[01:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:19] <exec> 08└─When Trump makes posts suggestive of his supporters assaulting political enemies the next week we get a story of just that happening.
[01:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:46] <exec> 08└─Can an Italian human confirm this block?
[01:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Atlantic’s Third Storm Has Formed in Record Time, and It’s a Threat - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:12] <exec> 08└─You're pretty generous with other people's money.
[01:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Accused of Setting Dangerous Precedent - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:21] <exec> 08└─Shut up, Tom Cotton! You ought to resign!
[01:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Accused of Setting Dangerous Precedent - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:23] <exec> 08└─The irony of you calling these people grifters while supporting Trump, unbelievable.
[01:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Accused of Setting Dangerous Precedent - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:25] <exec> 08└─Favorite line, Gordon Lightfoot, "Black Day in July" about earlier unrest south of the Boarder: And then the tanks go rolling in, to patch things up as best they can.
[01:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Accused of Setting Dangerous Precedent - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:27] <exec> 08└─Inellectual honesty isn't your thing, we know.
[01:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Accused of Setting Dangerous Precedent - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:29] <exec> 08└─and spread his message for him.
[01:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Accused of Setting Dangerous Precedent - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:31] <exec> 08└─"Everyone that disagrees with me on anything supports Trump." Really if you can't turn on your brain you should quit wasting your time here. Go watch MSN or Faux.
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[01:27:05] <exec> 08└─With solid state cameras, I wonder if this is this a physics issue or a sensor market issue. In the telescope's sensor, each pixel has a basic sensor noise and a readout noise. Today, the second is high enough so for faint objects a long exposure is needed before readout. In theory, if the sensor we...
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[02:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:04] <exec> 08└─Twitter's "usership" does not pay for the privilege, now does it? They are the product; different entities are the paying customers.
[02:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:06] <exec> 08└─For example, there's not much simple about the commander in chief forcing a military officer to sacrifice his career to do the right thing when confronted with an order contradictory to the constitution he is there to protect.
[02:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:08] <exec> 08└─Have 100,000 Americans died from Covid-19? Could that possibly have been avoided? Do American police murder black people at an alarming rate? Has that same group been asking for the murders to stop? By doing things like kneeling at football games. Have they been listened to? Have they fuck. Do...
[02:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:10] <exec> 08└─Yep, which is why it's disingenuous to do such a thing and then claim you were "just joking". Also why any politician worthy of respect refrains from calls to violence against their political opposition. They know such calls will almost certainly be answered.
[02:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:12] <exec> 08└─Not with "no path to 270".
[02:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:15] <exec> 08└─Have 100,000 Americans died from Covid-19?
[02:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:17] <exec> 08└─That's rich. The "mainstream" media like NBC, CNN, New York Times, Washington Post tell whopper lies all the time. They also don't bother fact checking simple things before running a story. The only criteria seem to be: "Will this hurt Trump?" They just make stuff up or engage in very "selective" re...
[02:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:19] <exec> 08└─Do American police murder black people at an alarming rate?
[02:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:21] <exec> 08└─Possibly because you are a foreigner trying to stoke up the flames in US politics.
[02:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:23] <exec> 08└─were US civilians to slip in a deep fascist mind-set
[02:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:26] <exec> 08└─So how are you going to convince Flat Earthers? When their world view is so wrong how are you going to convince them without challenging their world view? Most are too stupid to realize that full moon patterns being the same at different times and places means their world view is wrong.
[02:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:28] <exec> 08└─True. It seems likely that both are correct, given two different dates.
[02:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:30] <exec> 08└─This also provides lessons to propaganda. For example, a common combination of points 1. and 4. is the instant rebuttal. In the news. study X says something disturbing, but authority Y already said it was wrong, therefore study X is rebutted. You can tell it's working when the person making the abov...
[02:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:32] <exec> 08└─Yes, other news sources that write more for a grown-up audience are necessary to understand just how bad Trump really is. Entertainment and lobby background noise news sources don't offer a very good window into current events.
[02:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:34] <exec> 08└─It's obvious that you're a foreigner - how do you not know the common vernacular English used in America?
[02:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:37] <exec> 08└─Joe Rogans guests, political commentators Krystal and Sagaar (both previously MSNBC and Whitehouse Press Corp insiders) were just recently saying exactly that. They cross the left/right divide too.
[02:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Atlantic’s Third Storm Has Formed in Record Time, and It’s a Threat - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:30] <exec> 08└─And then there's the other problem with your statement: This kind of thing was absolutely predicted. Not specifically this storm, because climate isn't the same as weather, but the increased odds of getting dangerous hurricanes early on in a season. There's a documented increase in global average te...
[02:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Atlantic’s Third Storm Has Formed in Record Time, and It’s a Threat - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:32] <exec> 08└─"I must maintain my position, but I must also sleep at night." I read you, man.
[02:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Accused of Setting Dangerous Precedent - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:46] <exec> 08└─With the unfortunate proviso that he has no message. Trump is an empty politician. He has no policy, on much of anything.
[02:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06How to Make the Food and Water Mars-Bound Astronauts Will Need for Their Mission - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:06] <exec> 08└─Thanks... That too. A newbie. It kinda fit. I'm more a circuit designer, and dabble in most anything, albeit I will chase lots of squirrels up the wrong tree until I get the hang of it. Like you, i find studies of the ancients of this area very fascinating. Especially the Sumerians. I am convinced s...
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[03:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Document the First Use of Maize in Mesoamerica - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:45] <exec> 08└─It's called corn.
[03:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Researchers Document the First Use of Maize in Mesoamerica - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:47] <exec> 08└─The first use of corn may have been for an early form of liquor.
[03:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Document the First Use of Maize in Mesoamerica - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:49] <exec> 08└─That's right: maizehole doesn't have the same, ahem... ring to it.
[03:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Document the First Use of Maize in Mesoamerica - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:51] <exec> 08└─Corn is one of the 'three sisters' of new world agriculture - they are corn, squash, and beans. The corn serves as support for the beans, and the squash discourages both other animals from harvesting the crop and other plants from fighting it for space. Having all three greatly reduces the danger of...
[03:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Researchers Document the First Use of Maize in Mesoamerica - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:53] <exec> 08└─Actually corn just means the most common grain. In the US, it's maize. In England, it's wheat, and in Sweden, it's barley. There's nothing wrong with calling it corn, but if you're writing for an international audience you should make it clear which corn you're talking about.
[03:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Researchers Document the First Use of Maize in Mesoamerica - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:56] <exec> 08└─I always wondered why the English Corn Laws were called that. Now I know.
[03:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Document the First Use of Maize in Mesoamerica - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:58] <exec> 08└─Native Americans were also into the use of various psychedelic substances, but that may have been more about ritual than an after work refreshment.
[03:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Document the First Use of Maize in Mesoamerica - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:00] <exec> 08└─"'three sisters' of new world agriculture" That may be (or not), but it's the potato that made the biggest impact globally. The thing is packed with carbs, and grows just about everywhere, and super quick, too.
[03:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Researchers Document the First Use of Maize in Mesoamerica - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:02] <exec> 08└─Potato is good also, but it's not a native crop in North America. It originated in Peru, and did not spread so widely as the three sisters. The Spanish brought it back from Peru, and it spread widely in Europe, where was greatly valued as an almost drop-in replacement for turnips and rutabagas (stap...
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[03:22:04] <exec> 08└─How did they know to distill liquor? I am talking tequila. Was it after the Spanish conquest?
[03:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Document the First Use of Maize in Mesoamerica - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:07] <exec> 08└─No need to distill beer to get drunk.
[03:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Document the First Use of Maize in Mesoamerica - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:09] <exec> 08└─uhm... how does agave cactus beer taste?
[03:22:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:30] <exec> 08└─Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton (538 on Nov 4, 2016) [fivethirtyeight.com]
[03:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:48] <exec> 08└─I'm sure harassment of the poor has something to do with it, but there are plenty of places in America where driving while black is a crime.
[03:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:50] <exec> 08└─Meh. Disingenuous, deliberately missing the point. Poor effort at trolling.
[03:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:52] <exec> 08└─Just from curiosity, what in the "merchandise" term was so hard to understand?
[03:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:54] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying "calling lies out" is bad, I'm saying "don't expect Twitter to do more than that". In the context of TFA, don't expect Twitter to apply all the measures that make "some methods of fact-checking... more effective than others" if that would increase their costs without increasing the co...
[03:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:56] <exec> 08└─I dunno, if I'm a social media platform, the cheapest way to indemnify myself is just to label every single post/tweet/comment as "This is just an opinion, not verified fact and may likely be factual inaccurate, blah blah blah" until the sheeple gets it. Maybe a big splash page as they login/launch...
[03:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:58] <exec> 08└─You just highlighted one of the core problem. Why does it matter if someone believes the earth is flat or round or believe in a brown dude in the sky or a white dude in the sky or a 4-faced lady in the sky, etc? What matters is do we align on some of the outcome and values? it doesn't have to be com...
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[03:23:00] <exec> 08└─You are totally correct, I skipped right over the primary qualifier. Upon further research it looks like Trump was predicted to to win just about every primary, many in the 90%+ range. The lowest I saw was in Iowa at 46%, but CA, NY, Utah, and a handful of others were all over 90%. A few others betw...
[03:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:03] <exec> 08└─As it stands nit picking particular users to fact check, even known serial offenders like Trump, is leaking some form of preference/prejudice into it making it political platform
[03:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03AHuxley [254] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:05] <exec> 08└─is not misinformation.
[03:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 1025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:07] <exec> 08└─They gave a much higher percentage for Trump winning than NYT and other orgs, and Nate Silver was savaged by his peers for it. https://www.theatlantic.com [theatlantic.com] https://www.huffpost.com
[03:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:09] <exec> 08└─if I'm a social media platform, the cheapest way to indemnify myself
[03:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03AHuxley [254] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:38] <exec> 08└─Its called freedom of speech.
[03:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Accused of Setting Dangerous Precedent - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:22] <exec> 08└─All they're talking about is forcing Trump over to Voat. Maybe they should do it. You folks might grow up and realize there are other communications platforms, even ones that let you operate your own server. If you want to listen to Trump without any pesky facts, go ahead. Live the dream. But the MS...
[03:31:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Could Corporations Control Territory in Space? Under New US Rules, It Might Be Possible - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:15] <exec> 08└─Both wars have all the right attributes - start over silly circumstances and end up a waste of time for both sides. War of the Bucket gets extra points for being rather bloody and pointless, 2000 people died with a complete reset of the political situation inside of a year - though the bucket has ye...
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[04:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Document the First Use of Maize in Mesoamerica - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:56] <exec> 08└─I recommend y'all to read that book by the UCLA anthropologist Jared Diamond. It may convince you of his thesis, it may not, but it will make you think. Unless you are a vogon.
[04:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Document the First Use of Maize in Mesoamerica - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:57] <exec> 08└─That was pretty cutting edge in 1997. Today we're kind of past that. As in, thinking more about just how deep the subsequent criticism really managed to cut into the thesis; and by contrast how much of it manages to still seem reasonable nearly three decades later. It was well-written and in my not...
[04:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Document the First Use of Maize in Mesoamerica - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:59] <exec> 08└─However corn requires treatment before it is fit for human consumption. Nixtamalization is ideal, but the earliest evidence of it so far is only about 4k years old, and clearly corn was cultivated for a long time prior to that. So it makes perfect sense that it was being parched instead. Parched cor...
[04:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Document the First Use of Maize in Mesoamerica - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:01] <exec> 08└─It's not awful. Compares to raw mead, which tends to get flavored with whatever is available anyway.
[04:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Document the First Use of Maize in Mesoamerica - 1297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:03] <exec> 08└─Right, "sweet corn" varieties were bred quite late by colonists. What they found when they got here was 'flint corn' ranging from something resembling a modern ornamental variety to something very close to modern popcorn. It probably /was/ parched in the husk quite often, just because it makes a con...
[04:22:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 373 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:29] <exec> 08└─Have 100,000 Americans died from Covid-19? Could that possibly have been avoided? Do American police murder black people at an alarming rate? Has that same group been asking for the murders to stop? By doing things like kneeling at football games. Have they been listened to? Have they fuck. Do...
[04:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:54] <exec> 08└─The peaceful protestors here are burning buildings to the ground and violently attacking people. It's nice the news talks about peaceful protests but I think that's just a nice slogan.
[04:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:56] <exec> 08└─Why does it matter if someone believes the earth is flat or round or believe in a brown dude in the sky or a white dude in the sky or a 4-faced lady in the sky, etc?
[04:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:58] <exec> 08└─Wait, we're expected to read posts now?
[04:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:00] <exec> 08└─And Obama still refuses his brothers (Malik) offer to be DNA tested to see if they are actually related. When will that be debunked?
[04:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:02] <exec> 08└─Yes, that sounds like a much more likely explanation of their thought process than the other nonsense. But now apply it. Who owns 'Straya mate? You know who. Winnie the poo.
[04:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:04] <exec> 08└─Reputable news sources largely doesn't exist in the USA. Tabloids and comedy shows are the closest they seem to get.
[04:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Accused of Setting Dangerous Precedent - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:15] <exec> 08└─The crazier you folks get the more tempted I am to vote for Biden. The Libertarian Party looks good this year, but I want to see if you'll really get that boogaloo started. Warning: last boogaloo the CSA lost. Get over it.
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[05:21:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 1621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:43] <exec> 08└─Some of us remember Tricky Dick. I don't, actually. I know him only from books and celluloid. The first supreme dickhead I remember, from this life at least, was Tricky Dick's pardoner in chief. Mazda, I think that was his name. No, Ford! Same shit, higher price. Anyhoo. Trump has been torn between...
[05:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:45] <exec> 08└─Trump doesn't care. He can't care. The man is a malignant narcissist; he lacks the cognitive and emotive capability even to engage with the unfolding situations, plural, the country is facing now. These times would try even the best and bravest and smartest and most humane politicians. If you think...
[05:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:47] <exec> 08└─Trump doesn't care. He can't care. The man is a malignant narcissist;
[05:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:49] <exec> 08└─And somehow, they were *still better than Trump.* That is such a low fucking bar it's actually already IN Hell and Trump fails to clear it.
[05:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:51] <exec> 08└─Just jump down a well already.
[05:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:54] <exec> 08└─But Biden? Really? He would drool in his chair while his advisors made the decisions. And his advisors, on average, inspire no more confidence in me than Trump's.
[05:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:56] <exec> 08└─Cascading failure yes. "Malignant narcissist?" Not far off, at least. It's more important than ever to remain calm and rational, insofar as possible. The stakes are insanely high.
[05:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:15] <exec> 08└─A fasces is a bundle of relatively weak sticks tied together. The bundle is much stronger than any individual stick. The original theory of facism was working together to be stronger, a very valid option for a country faced with an external problem or enemy. This then devolved into intolerance of di...
[05:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:17] <exec> 08└─Not yet, no.
[05:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:19] <exec> 08└─and to correctly extrapolate "merchan..." to "merchandise", not to any of; Words nearby merchant: "merchandising, merchandize, merchant, merchant bank, merchant flag, merchant guild, merchant marine, merchant navy"
[05:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:21] <exec> 08└─Because the 'lest they risk "merchandise spoilage".' fell into the TL;DR, in the rush to point the bloody obvious 'users are the product'. I see.
[05:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:23] <exec> 08└─S'ow long you reckon?
[05:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:26] <exec> 08└─You think that Minneapolis Police Department killing an innocent person who called them to report a crime is a race issue? It is not. You think that Minneapolis Police Department killing a suspect in custody is a race issue? It is not. Two incidents, 3 years apart, same fucking police department, no...
[05:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Atlantic’s Third Storm Has Formed in Record Time, and It’s a Threat - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:22] <exec> 08└─If we could mod as deserved, in meatspace? A savage beating with the Clue by Four about the beak until it shattered into a handful of Clue by Three Sixteenths. Buzztard is as much a sociopath as Trump, just without the malignant narcissism or the go-getter attitude. He's even lazier than he is evil,...
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[06:21:53] <exec> 08└─"Personal strategy: given an unavoidable choice between a passive fool and an active fool on "your side", always pick the passive fool." Fair enough, but I'm not convinced. At least the active fool stirs up opposition. I don't want to see corporate America in charge of government America too. That's...
[06:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:54] <exec> 08└─The attack on the church was an assault by the government on private property without even a pretense of cause, and no warning. Thry assaulted peaceful citizens on private property and before curfew. In a non-fascist government everyone involved would be in jail. All the conservatives around here ke...
[06:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:57] <exec> 08└─We've been calm and rational for 3+ years as the country has been gutted and divided by a criminal in the White House. Now is the time for rational anger and action. Not violence, unless Trump gets worse and starts murdering people more directly.
[06:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:59] <exec> 08└─A little unpredictability could hardly hurt then.
[06:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:01] <exec> 08└─3+ years? We've been working on this longer than you've been alive. We've been working on this longer than I have been alive. Don't screw it up now with your myopia and your 3-years-is-a-long-time lack of historical awareness.
[06:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:03] <exec> 08└─Hmm, likely to hurt me, versus certain to hurt me. Yep, that sounds about right.
[06:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:05] <exec> 08└─Interesting response. Nothing of substance while trying to elevate yourself. If you've been fighting so long then why aren't you angry about this acceleration of government abuses?
[06:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:08] <exec> 08└─*sigh* Trump has done little more than rip off the mask
[06:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:10] <exec> 08└─You're preaching to the choir kid.
[06:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Document the First Use of Maize in Mesoamerica - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:34] <exec> 08└─"Mix it thick, spread out the paste on a flat rock, and bake for a bit and you can make a sort of coarse cake out of it. Cook and mash some beans for a topping and it's starting to become appetizing. Just a touch of fresh baked squash to go with it and things are really looking up,..." There were al...
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[06:22:35] <exec> 08└─Maybe true at one time, but I don't think this is correct in modern English...
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[06:23:39] <exec> 08└─Between tomorrow and never, who can say? Corona pandemic showed that globalism is not without risks, I think we'll see a period of a bit of push towards "national capability building" (not only in Australia). Australia doesn't have appeal to Chinese other than iron ore and coking coal (and maybe the...
[06:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:41] <exec> 08└─There are more peaceful protests than riots, and some protesters are actually catching and turning in the rioters. Sorry to piss all over your hate fest, but some people doing illegal stuff is not a valid reason for police to assault innocent people. Or did you not read the 1st amendment?
[06:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:43] <exec> 08└─They're dug in quite deep in your higher education grifts.
[06:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:45] <exec> 08└─So, how much do they pay in the Fake Newz bizm =) I'll take my captival skewered by truth and roasted over a good propane grill thank ya very much.
[06:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:47] <exec> 08└─Such generalities are trumped by actual actions.
[06:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:17] <exec> 08└─what is that?
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[06:24:53] <exec> 08└─DOI Prefix [https:] Not Found
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[06:25:28] <exec> 08└─Nothing is going to convince him until we start losing coastal cities
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[07:22:07] <exec> 08└─Interesting that you use "acceleration". Do you wear Hawaiian Shirts? Do you believe discord is what this country/world needs now? https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com]
[07:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:09] <exec> 08└─Dafuq? Acceleration meaning what Trump is doing to divide and destroy the US.
[07:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:11] <exec> 08└─Doubt it.. They think he's demasking himself, when really he's exposing all of DC
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[07:22:13] <exec> 08└─Maybe, just maybe, vote for a decent candidate. A candidate that you actually like and agree with. Maybe, just maybe, when people determine that their votes aren't "thrown away" by not voting for one of the reality-tv-show candidates, _others_ will vote for decent candidates, _too_. But not at first...
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[07:22:15] <exec> 08└─Do you ever speak directly? Glad you have such a grasp on what theeey are thinking. Seriously, I will eat my own shorts if you're over 20.
[07:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:17] <exec> 08└─We've been calm and rational for 3+ years...
[07:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:19] <exec> 08└─bon appétit!
[07:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 2943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:52] <exec> 08└─What happened with Hillary was much more simple and also the reason 538 was smeared. Obama's unprecedented turnout was in large part driven by very poor folks. Many of these guys have no normal means of contact. I grew up urban poor, and my apartment complex had several (often broken..) phone booths...
[07:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:53] <exec> 08└─Your simple statement is fine, but care to explain what it has to do with the article in question? In case you did not RTFA there is not a single.mention of censorship.
[07:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Find Cosmic Golden Needle Buried for Two Decades - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:59] <exec> 08└─https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ab922c [iop.org] https://doi.org [doi.org]
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[08:21:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 139 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:57] <exec> 08└─And somehow, they were *still better than Trump.* That is such a low fucking bar it's actually already IN Hell and Trump fails to clear it.
[08:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:18] <exec> 08└─And the swamp has been gunning for his advisors with everything they could muster the whole time.
[08:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:19] <exec> 08└─They think he's demasking himself, when really he's exposing all of DC
[08:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:21] <exec> 08└─After the Tea Party nonsense, then the Trump takeover where can the Republicans go?
[08:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:23] <exec> 08└─I'm liberal...
[08:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:59] <exec> 08└─As source of income? Sure. As the major source of research progress or ownership of institutions? I doubt it.
[08:24:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement - 364 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:09] <exec> 08└─I fully expect "the internet" as we knew it to get entirely stomped out and replaced by some corporatenet where there is nothing but shopping, buying moves, and idiots twatting, all DRMed and non-anonymous. Sort of like a modern MSN/AOL/Compuserve service. It's been moving in that direction for a lo...
[08:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:30] <exec> 08└─Emphasis by me: “In this context, the operators identified some web resources registered on foreign servers which make content and magazines available to the public early in the morning, allowing users to view or download digital copies,” the court document reads. (translated from Italian)
[08:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Student Clears Up "Massive" Black Hole Confusion - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:15] <exec> 08└─I might be wrong, but the paper seems to be saying that a surface rotational speed of 200km/s (possibly plus a wobble) was interpreted as an orbital speed of 200km/s. An orbit that fast required a 70 solar mass black hole. https://sci-hub.st [...
[08:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Synthetic Rebuilt Red Blood Cells - Improving on Nature - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:31] <exec> 08└─Do you have any idea how much the dental industry is worth?
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[09:22:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 720 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:01] <exec> 08└─Trump doesn't care. He can't care. The man is a malignant narcissist; he lacks the cognitive and emotive capability even to engage with the unfolding situations, plural, the country is facing now. These times would try even the best and bravest and smartest and most humane politicians. If you think...
[09:22:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 449 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:08] <exec> 08└─The attack on the church was an assault by the government on private property without even a pretense of cause, and no warning. Thry assaulted peaceful citizens on private property and before curfew. In a non-fascist government everyone involved would be in jail. All the conservatives around here ke...
[09:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:27] <exec> 08└─Paraphrasing, I think Eugene Debs: I'd rather vote for what I want and not get it, then vote for what I don't want and get that.
[09:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:29] <exec> 08└─I don't know about the rest, but here's an interesting article [medium.com] on Trump's thinking from someone who has spent much time with him.
[09:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:31] <exec> 08└─If that incident tells you that Trump is fascist, what did the Waco siege tell you?
[09:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:33] <exec> 08└─given an unavoidable choice between a passive fool and an active fool
[09:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:35] <exec> 08└─Calm? Trying to get the cold war rekindled over election sour grapes is calm? It seems there has been such a constant barrage of Trump==Hitler for so long, it's just hard to tell when you guys are serious.
[09:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:38] <exec> 08└─Elections don't matter at all without leadership. One could even assume that if elections changed anything, we wouldn't have nationwide chaos at the moment. Although you could try voting third party this time. You tried voting for the uniparty umpteen times already and what do you have to show for i...
[09:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:40] <exec> 08└─I'm not the AC above, but totally identify with everything he or she said. Liberals have been let down by a DNC that has proven itself since the defeat of GWB (at least, though we really should look more closely at Bill), to be wholly on board with the MIC, the surveillance state, Wall Street looter...
[09:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:42] <exec> 08└─You act like rioting doesn't have consequences. If you don't want to be heartbroken, don't watch: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[09:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:44] <exec> 08└─"Kennedy was a true Narcisist and a crook"
[09:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:46] <exec> 08└─I'm not the AC above, but totally identify with everything he or she said.
[09:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:48] <exec> 08└─Well, they both are Germans. Trump's Mother seemed to have little influence over him, just like Hitler's mother. And they both hung out with hot women, actresses, mostly blonde. And the called for the use of military force, like to break treaties, and were vegetarian. So the comparison of Trump to H...
[09:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:51] <exec> 08└─Don't live in Texas? But then, knew that before Wacko. I think it was the Alamo that tipped me off.
[09:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:53] <exec> 08└─Aside from millions of people being gassed and burned. It's a really disgusting comparison in that context.
[09:23:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Researchers Document the First Use of Maize in Mesoamerica - 276 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:03] <exec> 08└─Actually corn just means the most common grain. In the US, it's maize. In England, it's wheat, and in Sweden, it's barley. There's nothing wrong with calling it corn, but if you're writing for an international audience you should make it clear which corn you're talking about.
[09:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement - 2784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:00] <exec> 08└─Leftists have to put up with hypocrisy because we were flirting with soviets. You cannot be left and support current leftists, you cannot be right and support those who voted for EU and allied with leftists to fight cinquestelle. 1943-1994 lefties abhor the tricolor flag because Fascism!!! then Lega...
[09:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement - 1153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:01] <exec> 08└─> So, "leftist" is just kind of role playing thing then, where people jump back and forth for a fast buck? s/people/politicans/ Politicians care primarily about power, and they will say and do whatever they can to get it. It is not the first time I've heard of a politician, having spent decades on t...
[09:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:03] <exec> 08└─I went to read the Italian doc, they wrote some guys put magazines and newspaper online from the early morning. So it is a daily pirate service, not archival or preservation or no profit. I do not think gutenberg is the main culprit here, just thrown in by people who dunno how notable it is.
[09:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:06] <exec> 08└─Canada is author+50 while most of the world is author+70 for most things. In addition, they had a ton of older works become public domain in 2003 that are still reserved in the US and most of the world.
[09:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surpassing Silicon: Paper-Thin Gallium Oxide Transistor Handles More Than 8,000 Volts - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:32] <exec> 08└─The drive electronics in current BEVs are not that big compared to the rest of the car. I mean, from memory the largest part is the battery, followed by the motors themselves. The Electronics are usually sandwiched in a little area where they can be adequately cooled. So even if this Transistor redu...
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[10:21:46] <exec> 08└─Amazon are shits and scammers - from experience, I don't trust anything from them. Let them into the kernel and I expect that they would in time turn your PC into an Amazon shopping appliance.
[10:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:51] <exec> 08└─I fully expect "the internet" as we knew it to get entirely stomped out and replaced by some corporatenet where there is nothing but shopping, buying moves, and idiots twatting, all DRMed and non-anonymous. Sort of like a modern MSN/AOL/Compuserve service. It's been moving in that direction for a lo...
[10:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:53] <exec> 08└─Mod you up because you jewechoed the term, giving credit to the Saudi bosses are jew conspiracy. Next time use the proper double parentheses instead of the triple ones.
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[10:25:42] <exec> 08└─Oh so they were using an alabama state troopers radar gun?
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[11:21:51] <exec> 08└─- chief - wat - we idone testing, all OK. that thing can instakill two equipped infantry guys with one strike - we cannot advertise that, robocalypse, our plans, remember? - how about smashing through a car engine - no, many car lovers around - smashing down a house - no, people will link that to us...
[11:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waist-Mounted Robotic Arm Can Manipulate Objects, Punch Walls - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:52] <exec> 08└─Working in a wood shop, having a 3rd hand could be a big help. However, when using machinery, having a second person around for safety backup (and to call 911 if needed) is still a good idea--the 3rd arm might lull someone into working solo when there really should be backup.
[11:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waist-Mounted Robotic Arm Can Manipulate Objects, Punch Walls - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:55] <exec> 08└─>leftist hate riches except theirs ofc
[11:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waist-Mounted Robotic Arm Can Manipulate Objects, Punch Walls - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:57] <exec> 08└─Maybe you could benefit from an exosuit that simply does not allow for your fingers to be chopped off. Or the woodworking equivalent of the Da Vinci surgical robot. You manipulate a multi-handed monstrosity remotely.
[11:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Waist-Mounted Robotic Arm Can Manipulate Objects, Punch Walls - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:59] <exec> 08└─Pretty cool. It has been shown that one can control more/new appendices in virtual reality using neural feedback from EEG readings. This seems the logical next step: to become a real cyborg you put on this tinfoil hat and control that arm yourself. Just put it in low gear first (and always remember:...
[11:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:08] <exec> 08└─What's the problem again? People looking for things to get outraged about or something? People still keep using Intel anyway.
[11:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 1145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:10] <exec> 08└─The real solution is 'Fix the CPUs, and where you can't fully isolate the kernel/non-related userspace processes from each other, or isolate userspace applications from performance related information. Both of these techniques limit or eliminate the issues in queston, but cause massive performance r...
[11:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:12] <exec> 08└─Buy AMD, disable SMT, and pray to Linux Torvalds.
[11:22:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 162 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:29] <exec> 08└─But Biden? Really? He would drool in his chair while his advisors made the decisions. And his advisors, on average, inspire no more confidence in me than Trump's.
[11:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:05] <exec> 08└─Alternate strategy: use the primaries to avoid the possibility of having to choose between two fools. If your final choice comes down to two fools, vote blank or invalid. Wasting a vote is better than actively supporting a fool.
[11:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:06] <exec> 08└─Elections don't matter at all without leadership.
[11:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:08] <exec> 08└─"Kennedy was a true Narcisist and a crook"
[11:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VacuumTube [7693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:10] <exec> 08└─Maybe, just maybe, when people determine that their votes aren't "thrown away" by not voting for one of the reality-tv-show candidates, _others_ will vote for decent candidates, _too_. But not at first. Not without a demonstration. Not without an example. And probably not while they're so taught wha...
[11:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 1452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:12] <exec> 08└─We might lose the election voting for a third party candidate, and we might have 4 more years of shit. But if enough of us start voting for third party candidates, then the D's and the R's will see their funding evaporate and the other candidates will have better chances in the next election and the...
[11:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:15] <exec> 08└─You act like rioting doesn't have consequences.
[11:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:17] <exec> 08└─> What do you call people with no expertise or rational thought, who tell you stuff? Rasputin? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Didn't work out too well for the Tsar. I just noticed the name resemblance to Trumps buddy Putin...
[11:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:19] <exec> 08└─> Trump has done little more than rip off the mask What? In that case where are his tax returns?
[11:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:55] <exec> 08└─Hurray for the internet!
[11:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:57] <exec> 08└─Reasonable post. But let me throw this out here: Poll results can take days or weeks to reflect the mood caused by current events. And Hillary was dealing with the Comey investigation just days before Election Day. Comey was the MVP of the Trump campaign. He threw and withdrew an October Surprise, s...
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[11:27:11] <exec> 08└─So the alternative is take a total loss on their existing investment? You are REALLY REALLY generous with other people's money. Kinda like you accuse the left of but turned up to eleven.
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[12:21:53] <exec> 08└─> exosuit ... Then I'd be relying on software to keep me safe. Who wrote that software??? If it was true "aerospace" quality, OK. Otherwise, no thanks. I'll stick to the machine safety strategy I learned from a master craftsman--very simple: When a noisy, vibrating machine is turned on it upsets nor...
[12:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:03] <exec> 08└─Time to break up Amazon. Monopolies are wrong!
[12:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:05] <exec> 08└─Maybe they should look at what IBM does with their POWER architecture. Hell you can reflash some models from big to little endian if you want.
[12:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:06] <exec> 08└─There is a big difference between rioting and peaceful protests. And someone that unleashes tear gas on peaceful protests needs to be locked up. When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down wit...
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[12:23:08] <exec> 08└─Trump is being urged by some advisers to formally address the nation and call for calm, while others have said he should condemn the rioting and looting more forcefully or risk losing middle-of-the-road voters in November, according to several sources familiar with the deliberations.
[12:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:10] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, with a plurality wins all voting system, you *are* throwing away your vote when you vote for a minor candidate. You *are* voicing opposition, but both of the major parties can, and do, ignore that. The system is such that when one of the two major parties disintegrates, the remaining...
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[12:24:48] <exec> 08└─Do American police murder black people at an alarming rate?
[12:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:28] <exec> 08└─You want to know the name of a leftie who made the jump to the other side? Benito Mussolini. Socialists gonna socialist.
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[13:22:17] <exec> 08└─That requires environmental knowledge that is well beyond the state of the art. I'm even dubious about this 3rd arm because of the control problem. How do you keep it from smashing through a wall when you wanted to open the door?
[13:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waist-Mounted Robotic Arm Can Manipulate Objects, Punch Walls - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:18] <exec> 08└─While it may be an interesting idea, having to have a operator control the arm remotely is a No Go in my book. What I observed in the video was a person wearing a device that was constantly shifting her center of balance, and her having to compensate awkwardly. When the person wearing the arm is the...
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[13:22:32] <exec> 08└─Linus' efforts to exclude shits, scammers, and incompetents form kernel contributions is problematic.
[13:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:33] <exec> 08└─then use profiling to replace hot functions where a better codepath is possible
[13:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:35] <exec> 08└─Down with the fascist dictator Torvalds, how dare he criticize a patch of peace from the virtuous Amazon who signaled support for peaceful protests that destroy brick and mortar stores.
[13:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03AlwaysNever [5817] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Proxima Centauri b Confirmed Using VLT's ESPRESSO, Possible Third Exoplanet Found in System - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:43] <exec> 08└─And hif ies, guay?
[13:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proxima Centauri b Confirmed Using VLT's ESPRESSO, Possible Third Exoplanet Found in System - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:46] <exec> 08└─As soon as they perfect those solar sails... and lasers ... and communication systems https://breakthroughinitiatives.org [breakthroughinitiatives.org]
[13:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 1192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:44] <exec> 08└─Both Kennedy and Johnson had their flaws. Both, however, could at least understand that the other person HAD a point of view. Kennedy was not a great president, he took insane risks, but he was popular, and he was leading the country in an optimistic direction. Johnson was a manipulator...though I s...
[13:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 1305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:45] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but while that proved authoritarian, it doesn't prove fascist. Actually it's closer to Nazi (which is not Fascist, Fascist is Mussolini). There are lots of shades of authoritarian, and fascist is only one of them. It's definitely a statement "I've got the power and I'll do what I want and you...
[13:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:48] <exec> 08└─> What do you call people with no expertise or rational thought, who tell you stuff? Boss.
[13:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:50] <exec> 08└─Should have said "Mentally over 20".
[13:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:52] <exec> 08└─or people
[13:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:54] <exec> 08└─Perhaps he's just stupid enough not to notice that his actions are damaging to the nation.
[13:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:56] <exec> 08└─Best case, ham fisted execution made it a conflict, but the voters aren't stupid. His polling said to get elected, he needed to push the buttons for religion and law and order. His brain translated it into the unlawful act of taking down a peaceful protest for a photo op with an upside down bible af...
[13:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:36] <exec> 08└─driving while black is a crime
[13:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HAMR-Jr Is a Speedy Quadrupedal Robot the Size of a US Penny - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:24] <exec> 08└─I was thinking more like inspecting industrial pipes and tubing, like primary coolant loops in nuclear reactors that are otherwise inaccessible.
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[14:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waist-Mounted Robotic Arm Can Manipulate Objects, Punch Walls - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:02] <exec> 08└─Exosuit/exoskeleton doesn't have to be run by software. It could all be mechanical.
[14:22:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:13] <exec> 08└─Buy AMD, disable SMT, and pray to Linux Torvalds.
[14:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:20] <exec> 08└─But unlike the x86, the POWER(8+) architecture's CPI stacks provide more than enough granularity for the kernel's scheduler to compensate for cache flushes: https://openpowerfoundation.org [openpowerfoundation.org]
[14:23:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 97 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:00] <exec> 08└─And the swamp has been gunning for his advisors with everything they could muster the whole time.
[14:23:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VacuumTube [7693] 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 408 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:20] <exec> 08└─Maybe, just maybe, when people determine that their votes aren't "thrown away" by not voting for one of the reality-tv-show candidates, _others_ will vote for decent candidates, _too_. But not at first. Not without a demonstration. Not without an example. And probably not while they're so taught wha...
[14:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:36] <exec> 08└─The gassing and burning happened started in Hitler's second term....
[14:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:37] <exec> 08└─He would drool in his chair while his advisors made the decisions.
[14:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:39] <exec> 08└─These times would try even the best and bravest and smartest and most humane politicians.
[14:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:41] <exec> 08└─To hell, as far as I'm concerned. I'm a former Republican, just so you know.
[14:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:44] <exec> 08└─My knee-jerk reaction is to answer: they can go straight to hell. But the real answer: ditch the lunatic fringe, and get back to sane conservatism. It will take some time to rebuild the Party, but until that happens, I think the GOP will continue it's mad dash over the cliff edge. I used to vote Rep...
[14:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:46] <exec> 08└─That there are some seriously fucked up religious nutters in the US. That's what the Waco siege told me.
[14:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:48] <exec> 08└─Active fools just need to be pointed in the right direction, passive fools mess up when you really don't expect it.
[14:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:50] <exec> 08└─At least the active fool stirs up opposition.
[14:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:52] <exec> 08└─Maybe, just maybe, vote for a decent candidate.
[14:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:55] <exec> 08└─In 2016 Bush had screwed up so badly that we had the opportunity to elect a black president. If Biden is as impressive as T(he)rump, there may be room for a 3rd party/independent insurgence in 2022-4. Hollywood has been pushing the idea (Designated Survivor/Madam Secretary/more I'm sure) of a rise i...
[14:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:57] <exec> 08└─"Fascism is basically the government and the corporations working hand in hand, with the government calling most of the shots". Current day China, ignoring their Maoist beginnings?
[14:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:59] <exec> 08└─Who said rioting has no consequences? No one. There is a HUGE difference between protests(which are a right guaranteed by the Constitution), and rioting(which is NOT a right). The specific event that was being described was a peaceful, law-biding group of protestors(led by the church pastor) were sh...
[14:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:01] <exec> 08└─So are we just supposed to live with it and chose between D and R forever? Frankly, I'm not convinced.
[14:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 1587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:03] <exec> 08└─"I think we've had enough object lesson of "what happens when you put an idiot in charge." Can we please get back to something resembling rational leadership now?" Wow, just how far back do you think you can go? I mean, great idea, if you can pull it off. Write-in campaigns for President really have...
[14:24:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 259 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:55] <exec> 08└─Yep, which is why it's disingenuous to do such a thing and then claim you were "just joking". Also why any politician worthy of respect refrains from calls to violence against their political opposition. They know such calls will almost certainly be answered.
[14:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:44] <exec> 08└─You mean like this [tmz.com], guys? How about an elected member of Congress calling on her supporters [realclearpolitics.com] to harass members of Trump's cabinet?: Waters finished with a call to action: "If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline stat...
[14:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:45] <exec> 08└─Said Nate Silver, 4 days before the election, hedging the disastrous bet he had gone all in on.
[14:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:25] <exec> 08└─>An Italian human? No wai, Italians are all beasts. Ask mom.
[14:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:27] <exec> 08└─There have not ever been any governments that were more left than the current one in Italy. Left plus the grey cinquestelle, which are considered now a submarine leftist party (not even much submarine as their dad Grillo wanted to run with the lefties and was cast out. Plus they are probably paving...
[14:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surpassing Silicon: Paper-Thin Gallium Oxide Transistor Handles More Than 8,000 Volts - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:57] <exec> 08└─It's the same with existing transistors. The power dissipation in saturation is driven by drain current and the drain-source resistance Rds(on). The article doesn't mention the Rds(on) parameter, so we have no way of knowing the amount of power that will be dissipated as heat given a particular Vds...
[14:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Atlantic’s Third Storm Has Formed in Record Time, and It’s a Threat - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:06] <exec> 08└─You'd do yourself a service by learning what "shitposting" means.
[14:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Atlantic’s Third Storm Has Formed in Record Time, and It’s a Threat - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:08] <exec> 08└─S'what I said right from the start, yo. Ain't my fault if you want to interpret shit to suit yourself.
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[15:21:46] <exec> 08└─I hear St Greta was playing it during the lock down.
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[15:21:47] <exec> 08└─Simcopter was cool too. You could fly armed choppers around cities and pick off protesters.
[15:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waist-Mounted Robotic Arm Can Manipulate Objects, Punch Walls - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:10] <exec> 08└─But can it also be kind? Can it pat me on the back when I've done a good job, or caress my hair when I've had a tough day, or hold my hand when I'm lonely?
[15:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:27] <exec> 08└─How did they obtain "essential business" status everywhere they operated? Unlike Walmart, they weren't selling fresh food.
[15:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:29] <exec> 08└─There was a time when we'd periodically get stories that amounted to "WAAAAA! Linus was mean to me!" And the funny thing was that when I looked into the actual discussion in question, every single time Linus was right and the person making the complaint was wrong. I'm sure he has made some mistakes,...
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[15:22:31] <exec> 08└─Interesting ideas, but it looks like even POWER are vulnerable to some of the many attack vectors: https://www.ibm.com [ibm.com] Does anyone know, are RISC CPUs generally less vulnerable to attacks? From only a little bit of research, it looks li...
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[15:23:34] <exec> 08└─There is a big difference between rioting and peaceful protests. And someone that unleashes tear gas on peaceful protests needs to be locked up. When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down wit...
[15:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:58] <exec> 08└─Instant Runoff Voting (or some other proportional/ranked choice voting reform)
[15:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:00] <exec> 08└─Just 'cause he's Tweeting racist garbage and inciting more violence on Twitter does not mean he is being honest or transparent. How many NDAs does he have? Where are those Tax Returns?
[15:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:02] <exec> 08└─Yes. EVERYTHING bad in the last couple of weeks can be directly traced to Trump's completely fucking up the national response to the murder by suffocation of a suspect. EVERYTHING. Just like everything since January in Covid is completely Trump's fault for completely fucking up the national response...
[15:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:04] <exec> 08└─That's true when you are the one leading. It is the opposite when you want to pick a leader. Rookie mistake, tbh.
[15:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:06] <exec> 08└─Trump is a vegetarian?
[15:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:09] <exec> 08└─This is why I became a Democrat. This is why I encouraged others to do it. To avoid that second term. To, hopefully, preserve the Republic.
[15:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:11] <exec> 08└─The fear of the average German to say anything against Hitler or the Nazi party started very soon after he took power. Who is afraid to call Trump Hitler, or any other vile accusation against him, at the cost of their livelihoods, or their lives? No one. Who is afraid to say anything negative about...
[15:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:13] <exec> 08└─Better chance of effecting change is to try to become rich and then buy off one of the major parties.
[15:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Document the First Use of Maize in Mesoamerica - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:39] <exec> 08└─I would add that it does not really need to be edible. Those early maize breeds were probably much smaller, fibrous, and in-general not pleasing to eat. Looking at the genus page on Wikipedia you can see some of maize's closest relatives: https://en.wikipedia.org(plant)#/media/File:Maize-t...
[15:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:57] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, because telling THE PEOPLE CAUSING THE PROBLEM that they're not welcome is just like shooting at peaceful protestors calling for liberty and justice.
[15:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:58] <exec> 08└─As for the over-the top stuff like your link - did anything in my post make you think I was only talking about Trump and his cronies as politicians not worthy of respect? However, the fact that the current situation was a pretty obvious high-probability outcome from before he was elected is the reas...
[15:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:40] <exec> 08└─Talking about ISPs, the actual problem, in a story about ISPs, is "offtopic"? Somebody is just carrying a grudge.
[15:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:42] <exec> 08└─I think your definition of "left" is way off. Looks like you're just using it to refer to Russian commies. What you really describe are various competing crooks/authoritarians in a regular turf war, really just scratching at the facade. Real "lefties" are anarchists.
[15:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HAMR-Jr Is a Speedy Quadrupedal Robot the Size of a US Penny - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:53] <exec> 08└─Depends on which country. In the US we hire immigrants to do jobs that are to dirty or dangerous, jobs that no American would ever do. (that's why all of Trump's wives are immigrants!)
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[15:28:22] <exec> 08└─A consistent pattern I observe is that the right leaning never see even a teeny tiny bit of irony when they do the very things they accuse the left of doing. I've seen it too many times. (and I would be shocked, shocked! I tell you, if that hypocrisy happens on both sides)
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[16:21:52] <exec> 08└─Unmanned Aircraft Systems Operator (15W) Enlisted Officer Active Duty Army Reserve National Guard Entry Level Overview Unmanned Aircraft Systems Operators are remote pilots of unmanned observation aircrafts, aka military drones, or UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) that gathe...
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[16:21:53] <exec> 08└─It was around for a bit, I played a early version of it, but then seemed to just disappear, never heard about it again. Interesting its popped up. We had contacts with lots of people about creating odd-products, one was using swarm simulations to harvest manganese nodules from the ocean floor if I r...
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[16:21:55] <exec> 08└─before the editor wakes up to the fact that someone from the future has "pirated" their content and issues a takedown notice.
[16:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Long-Lost Maxis Game "SimRefinery" Rediscovered, Uploaded to Internet Archive - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:57] <exec> 08└─Were you at Maxis or Chervon? I'm interested in hearing more of these one-offs. I'll admit, I know jack about refinery processes, but I have to admit playing with this does make me want to learn a bit more.
[16:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mothers Ensure Their Offspring's Success Through Epigenetics - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:05] <exec> 08└─Eat, sleep, reproduce.
[16:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mothers Ensure Their Offspring's Success Through Epigenetics - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:07] <exec> 08└─Pass on histones via oocytes.
[16:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:43] <exec> 08└─This is something that a few $contributions won't solve is it?
[16:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:45] <exec> 08└─Because I want my toys! And I want them now! Waaaaaah! And I want them delivered to my doorstep! (sniff!) And now I want food from Amazon. And I want Alexa to tell me what else I want from Amazon. It is essential. How could I live life without it? The sky would fall.
[16:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:47] <exec> 08└─I remember a time once, in a different millennium, when there was an effort to have a reduced simpler set of machine instructions, and do optimizations in compilers? But Intel's monopoly took over the world. And made everything worse. Linux helps by having a huge software base that can (mostly) be r...
[16:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:49] <exec> 08└─If you haven't ordered from amazon in few months, they delayed mailing of non essential items. For me it took a month to get what i ordered even though they were Prime items.
[16:23:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 142 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:34] <exec> 08└─I don't know about the rest, but here's an interesting article [medium.com] on Trump's thinking from someone who has spent much time with him.
[16:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:26] <exec> 08└─And you have joined the democrats? That would explain the direction the party has taken.
[16:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:27] <exec> 08└─"The 12 years of Reagan/Bush Sr. were pretty good/impressive" The opposite of my assessment. I would say evil/impressive.
[16:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:30] <exec> 08└─What would you know, you antipodean sheep shagger?
[16:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:32] <exec> 08└─Oh, now you want dessert?
[16:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:34] <exec> 08└─Didn't you hear? The Senate completely vindicated him.
[16:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:36] <exec> 08└─The Presidential debates are going to be THE WORST in living memory. I'd be surprized if either of them remembers their own name let alone the other guy's.
[16:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:38] <exec> 08└─Roots run deep. DNC absorbed the GOP in the 60s. A merging of two syndicates into one more powerful, no outsiders allowed.
[16:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:40] <exec> 08└─You forgot the mental breakdown mid-way through the first line. There's a famous saying in Texas - fool me once, shame on..... oh man, that acid is kicking in... oh shit, some people are watching me. FUCK! FUCK!! Gonna have to say something... I'm gonna go with.... uh, you?
[16:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:42] <exec> 08└─Nah, those shows are about military worship and saluting the flag bullshit. Americans get such a hard on about uniforms.
[16:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:45] <exec> 08└─Yep -- it's projection.
[16:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:47] <exec> 08└─That permanently cured my affliction. You weren't around for Humphrey/Nixon? It was a much more powerful vaccine. Reelection of the same old shit that brought us to this point is not the solution.
[16:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:49] <exec> 08└─I thought it was: "Fool me once; shame on you. Fool me twice... You ain't gon' fool me twice!"
[16:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:51] <exec> 08└─This is why a second term of Trump is likely to be far more catastrophic than the first.
[16:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:53] <exec> 08└─That was the Bush, not the Dick. The Bush had a different Dick as the VP.
[16:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:56] <exec> 08└─I only wish it were possible for your post to be modded higher.
[16:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:58] <exec> 08└─Okay, imagine, . . . more imagine . . . ah, I imagine Trump would just nuke the world as a solution and as missiles were in flight, tweet . . . So there!
[16:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:00] <exec> 08└─Imagine Trump during the civil rights movement...
[16:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:29] <exec> 08└─Yes, "left" and "right" is just cold war bullshit to fling against the hippies. Well, now it's just marketing... Authority is authority, makes no difference where it comes from. Even The People™ can be an evil dictator. Will you run an engine lathe eight unfucking hours a day because the syndicate...
[16:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:30] <exec> 08└─Yes I know, history is full of examples. The Nazis were socialist (hence the name "National socialist"), and indeed it was due to their socialist policies within Germany that (early on before the war) made them popular both in the country, and the world over. The problem is that (a) they took the "n...
[16:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement - 1292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:33] <exec> 08└─> You are already modded up fully, just want to say I share your opinion. Some call it cynicism, I call it realism. I also agree. except I will say its been the case for years now, and already well on its way to completion. There are local businesses that are now unavailable to me because they only...
[16:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Student Clears Up "Massive" Black Hole Confusion - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:25] <exec> 08└─The system in question, LS V +22 25 or LB-1 in short, was claimed to be a double-star system consisting of an 8 solar mass star and a 70 solar mass black hole that orbit around one another in just 80 days, very much the same way as planets orbit around stars.
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[17:21:59] <exec> 08└─Someone so obsessed and threatened by a sixteen year old autistic girl who's simply trying to make the world a better place (albeit naively) must be very insecure in his own masculinity.
[17:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Long-Lost Maxis Game "SimRefinery" Rediscovered, Uploaded to Internet Archive - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:00] <exec> 08└─Here is the real simulator: https://www.factorio.com [factorio.com] I admit it isn't much fun. But I can spend another 10 minutes optimizing this section of the factory...
[17:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mothers Ensure Their Offspring's Success Through Epigenetics - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:10] <exec> 08└─Sorry, your offspring died because you forgot to add the breathe instruction. :-)
[17:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mothers Ensure Their Offspring's Success Through Epigenetics - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:12] <exec> 08└─They can't explain why the epigenetic communication works for sugar sugar mothers that are so fly [youtube.com].
[17:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waist-Mounted Robotic Arm Can Manipulate Objects, Punch Walls - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:29] <exec> 08└─While it may be an interesting idea, having to have a operator control the arm remotely is a No Go in my book. What I observed in the video was a person wearing a device that was constantly shifting her center of balance, and her having to compensate awkwardly. When the person wearing the arm is the...
[17:22:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 185 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:44] <exec> 08└─Down with the fascist dictator Torvalds, how dare he criticize a patch of peace from the virtuous Amazon who signaled support for peaceful protests that destroy brick and mortar stores.
[17:22:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 288 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:45] <exec> 08└─But unlike the x86, the POWER(8+) architecture's CPI stacks provide more than enough granularity for the kernel's scheduler to compensate for cache flushes: https://openpowerfoundation.org [openpowerfoundation.org]
[17:22:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 610 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:48] <exec> 08└─There was a time when we'd periodically get stories that amounted to "WAAAAA! Linus was mean to me!" And the funny thing was that when I looked into the actual discussion in question, every single time Linus was right and the person making the complaint was wrong. I'm sure he has made some mistakes,...
[17:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:55] <exec> 08└─At least that's my take on his commentary per Phoronix [phoronix.com]. He still really doesn't understand why using intentionally incendiary language is not the smart thing to do.
[17:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:58] <exec> 08└─They do sell fresh food along with other essential items like soap, disinfectant, toiletries, etc etc.
[17:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:00] <exec> 08└─I remember a time once, in a different millennium, when there was an effort to have a reduced simpler set of machine instructions, and do optimizations in compilers?
[17:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:02] <exec> 08└─Amazon is a huge company, and this patch isn't some kind of nefarious action. What it does show is myopia: the patch is something that's good for their very limited use-case with cloud servers, but which would be terrible or dangerous in many other scenarios (like desktop, mobile, etc.). Luckily, th...
[17:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:04] <exec> 08└─Some big $$$ companies that wanted to hijack the Linux kernel development have tried, but thankfully, the community wasn't buying their bullshit.
[17:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:06] <exec> 08└─Except we did end up with RISC processors - with instruction decoders strapped to the front end.
[17:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:09] <exec> 08└─So fitting was nickname that to this day I read the actual name as a reference to the Titanic.
[17:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 1469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:11] <exec> 08└─I remember a time once, in a different millennium, when there was an effort to have a reduced simpler set of machine instructions, and do optimizations in compilers? But Intel's monopoly took over the world. And made everything worse. You have a very distorted view of history. I worked at Intel duri...
[17:24:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 750 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:35] <exec> 08└─Who said rioting has no consequences? No one. There is a HUGE difference between protests(which are a right guaranteed by the Constitution), and rioting(which is NOT a right). The specific event that was being described was a peaceful, law-biding group of protestors(led by the church pastor) were sh...
[17:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:04] <exec> 08└─The way to get credible third-party candidates is to have a preferential ballot with instant run-off. That way no one need be afraid of wasting their vote by voting for their first choice.
[17:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:06] <exec> 08└─(it is well known Trump likes steaks) I don't remember where I read the following: He likes his steaks well done. Very well done. Almost burnt. To the point where the steak has curved, is fairly solid and will rock back and forth on the plate. Then he smothers it with ketchup. Now I can understand h...
[17:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:38] <exec> 08└─Looks like it's time for me to repost my "no, the Nazis weren't Socialists" post again. https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
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[18:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New High Precision Chip-Based Laser Gyroscope Can Measure Earth’s Rotation - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:51] <exec> 08└─Oh, it was Caltech that just discovered that Earth spins. Let Canada know. Flushing the toilet is a good teaching example showing that Earth rotates.
[18:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New High Precision Chip-Based Laser Gyroscope Can Measure Earth’s Rotation - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:53] <exec> 08└─>> Flushing the toilet is a good teaching example showing that Earth rotates. Urban myth. The toilet water rotates because of the orientation of the water jets. Don't believe me? Stick your head in the toilet and flush.
[18:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New High Precision Chip-Based Laser Gyroscope Can Measure Earth’s Rotation - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:55] <exec> 08└─Amateurs. I calculated the Earth's rotation at one revolution per day years ago! Still waiting on that Nobel Prize though.
[18:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New High Precision Chip-Based Laser Gyroscope Can Measure Earth’s Rotation - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:57] <exec> 08└─Nobel Prize? In my town, we give kids a certificate for graduating kindergarten when they figure that out. Need one?
[18:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Long-Lost Maxis Game "SimRefinery" Rediscovered, Uploaded to Internet Archive - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:13] <exec> 08└─I have to wonder if she's being coached by her parents. Does she have a Ph.D. in philosophy?
[18:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Long-Lost Maxis Game "SimRefinery" Rediscovered, Uploaded to Internet Archive - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:15] <exec> 08└─The phrase you're looking for is "sock puppet".
[18:22:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] 02 - 06Waist-Mounted Robotic Arm Can Manipulate Objects, Punch Walls - 564 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:39] <exec> 08└─While it may be an interesting idea, having to have a operator control the arm remotely is a No Go in my book. What I observed in the video was a person wearing a device that was constantly shifting her center of balance, and her having to compensate awkwardly. When the person wearing the arm is the...
[18:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waist-Mounted Robotic Arm Can Manipulate Objects, Punch Walls - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:44] <exec> 08└─You punch through the wall and pretend it was deliberate.
[18:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waist-Mounted Robotic Arm Can Manipulate Objects, Punch Walls - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:46] <exec> 08└─It can do... so much more... hnnngh.
[18:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:18] <exec> 08└─No, Itanium was an IP power grab on Intel's part. The licencing was such that Intel would own the IP of all compilers and their code for Itanium systems. Jumping architectures was a roadblock, but it was really the IP issues that spelled Itanium's doom when AMD offered an alternative with the x86-AM...
[18:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:19] <exec> 08└─working for the bolsheviks, iow
[18:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:21] <exec> 08└─he kept all his inflammatory remarks for the option/effect itself. i don't see the big problem.
[18:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proxima Centauri b Confirmed Using VLT's ESPRESSO, Possible Third Exoplanet Found in System - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:31] <exec> 08└─strap me to a falcon 9 and lets gtfo of here!
[18:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:04] <exec> 08└─How dare he address the FIRST claim made in the argument!
[18:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:05] <exec> 08└─Oh, I know it's so very hard for Republicans to actually keep up with the times but she hasn't been a Senator for over a decade. I appreciate your willingness to accept that women could actually be Senators, though. Must be so hard for you, what with how Nancy Pelosi has had more balls than Trump co...
[18:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:08] <exec> 08└─The peaceful protestors here are burning buildings to the ground and violently attacking people.
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[19:21:56] <exec> 08└─>> Stick your head in the toilet and flush. I tried this once in highschool. A couple players on the football team helped me get a good look inside the toilet. I didn't want to see the inside of a toilet bowl but the football players had a convincing case. Namely strength and numbers.
[19:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New High Precision Chip-Based Laser Gyroscope Can Measure Earth’s Rotation - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:57] <exec> 08└─LOL amateurs. In MY place kindergarten kids don't get any certificate until they manage to counterfeit one convincingly.
[19:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Long-Lost Maxis Game "SimRefinery" Rediscovered, Uploaded to Internet Archive - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:16] <exec> 08└─OP may have just been concerned about her well-being. The autistic can go spastic when they don't get the attention they crave.
[19:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Long-Lost Maxis Game "SimRefinery" Rediscovered, Uploaded to Internet Archive - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:17] <exec> 08└─CIA manganese mining simulator https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[19:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Long-Lost Maxis Game "SimRefinery" Rediscovered, Uploaded to Internet Archive - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:19] <exec> 08└─Another example is clockboy
[19:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mothers Ensure Their Offspring's Success Through Epigenetics - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:29] <exec> 08└─>Human mothers grow babies for nine months, and after giving birth, proceed to spend years raising and nurturing their children, teaching them how to perform both basic and advanced survival tasks Alpha mothers get a surrogate to bring the baby to term. Then hire nannies to raise and nurture their c...
[19:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waist-Mounted Robotic Arm Can Manipulate Objects, Punch Walls - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:50] <exec> 08└─Human arm for punching Nazis in the face, robot arm for punching Nazis in the dick.
[19:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waist-Mounted Robotic Arm Can Manipulate Objects, Punch Walls - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:52] <exec> 08└─The Mote in God's Eye .... best sci fi book ever.
[19:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:27] <exec> 08└─Amazon are shits and scammers - from experience, I don't trust anything from them. [...]
[19:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:29] <exec> 08└─All the cloud folks can go back to using Pentium MMX for their glorious VMs. Single-user machines that run the same code everyday can use the leaky, melty, high-performance CPUs.
[19:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:31] <exec> 08└─legal anime DVDs
[19:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:33] <exec> 08└─I only bought Amazon for friends once or twice, since I boycott them for the retarded one click buy patent. The only time I needed one item I scoured the web for the vendor until it popped out and bought direct. Also price had gone down a euro. You don't need Amazon, don't use it. If they attempt ab...
[19:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:35] <exec> 08└─I bought some legal anime DVDs
[19:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:37] <exec> 08└─-bezos -wat -the patch -yes? -it's myopic -and? -and retarded and source of headache for everybody -did the same shitty trick work for systemd? -uh... I see, I will ship it now -fingers crossed And they didn't live happily ever after because Torvalds
[19:24:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:54] <exec> 08└─He would drool in his chair while his advisors made the decisions.
[19:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:24] <exec> 08└─Right on time and completely predictable, the Bolsheviks' useful idiots are taking over all political posts. We are not unarmed peasants like in Russia and the Ukraine. You will burn in massive bone fires.
[19:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:25] <exec> 08└─You're a disingenuous prick. Clinton left the Senate twelve years ago. Stop living in the past. https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com] Further discussion of Tom "kill Americans with the US military" Cotton: https://www.nytimes.com
[19:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:27] <exec> 08└─Do American police kill more White people than Black people? Yes. Are there more White criminals than Black criminals? Yes. Does playing race game with statistcs help or hurt different demographics? Yes. Are there more Black criminals than White criminals per capita? Oh boy. Must be that waycism aga...
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[20:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:45] <exec> 08└─Boomers work zero hours per week, living well off their defined-benefit pension plans. Time to call a millennial gig worker to deliver my pizza.
[20:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:47] <exec> 08└─But I don't think it'll happen. Not every industry is white collar.
[20:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:49] <exec> 08└─I get my pizza delivered by drones. I call millennials over only to degrade them with sexual abuse.
[20:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:51] <exec> 08└─Your !Kung link shows that hunters and gatherers don't have it so bad compared to us, except for periods of famine, possibly resulting in death. I would say one of the MAIN drivers for adopting agriculture is because it RELIABLY supports a larger population. This means more fighters to kick the ass...
[20:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:53] <exec> 08└─Most of my friends and colleagues (mostly engineers) are more busy than ever. I would be willing to take a pay cut to guarantee working 30 hours a week, but I would expect the typical salaried position mantra of "pay for 40hours/week, expect 60" to still apply.
[20:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06New High Precision Chip-Based Laser Gyroscope Can Measure Earth’s Rotation - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:06] <exec> 08└─I realize these are trying times for us all but have you considered speaking with a mental mechanic? Your sense of humor is clearly out of alignment and overdue for an adjustment.
[20:22:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Long-Lost Maxis Game "SimRefinery" Rediscovered, Uploaded to Internet Archive - 186 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:21] <exec> 08└─Someone so obsessed and threatened by a sixteen year old autistic girl who's simply trying to make the world a better place (albeit naively) must be very insecure in his own masculinity.
[20:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Long-Lost Maxis Game "SimRefinery" Rediscovered, Uploaded to Internet Archive - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:28] <exec> 08└─In case no one has figured it out the most scared males on the planet are white male US citizens. I'm a white male US citizen and as a result I get to see all of the sunshine they blow up each other asses while they discuss 'those' people.
[20:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Long-Lost Maxis Game "SimRefinery" Rediscovered, Uploaded to Internet Archive - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:30] <exec> 08└─>> the most scared males on the planet are white male US citizens Tell that to the black man staring down the policeman's gun barrel, you self-centered idiot.
[20:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Long-Lost Maxis Game "SimRefinery" Rediscovered, Uploaded to Internet Archive - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:33] <exec> 08└─I'll never get the week my life back I spent working towards my first rocket ...
[20:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mothers Ensure Their Offspring's Success Through Epigenetics - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:44] <exec> 08└─Alpha mothers get a surrogate to bring the baby to term.
[20:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waist-Mounted Robotic Arm Can Manipulate Objects, Punch Walls - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:06] <exec> 08└─VR helmet for seeing Nazis everywhere, robot fleshlight for creaming your pants while punching the air.
[20:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:48] <exec> 08└─So, consuming material is a crime while distributing it for profit isn't? Anyway you should have kept the DVD sealed until they were 18 year old, pal.
[20:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:50] <exec> 08└─It wasn't the RISC part of "relying on compiler optimizations" that made the Itanic sink, it was the EPIC part. You know, the part where Intel said "I'll see your reduced instruction set, and I'll raise you a VLIW", thereby turning the what-was-supposed-to-be-reduced-and-simple into a giant hellhole...
[20:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:52] <exec> 08└─Why not? If you've got a problem with someone saying it how it is, perhaps the problem is with you? To be really rude you need to employ the dual daggers of insincere politeness and sophistry neither of which have any place in engineering. And tell us, if being an arrogant ass is a problem why do co...
[20:26:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 1455 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:27] <exec> 08└─When Trump makes posts suggestive of his supporters assaulting political enemies the next week we get a story of just that happening. We are watching the physical violence portion of fascism getting started where extreme violence against peaceful protesters is normalized. Sad thing is so many here o...
[20:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:40] <exec> 08└─The result here indicate that the modeling was simply wrong.
[20:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:42] <exec> 08└─Sure, the guy in the Whitehouse is simply wrong, but since he is there, what to do is not simple.
[20:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:44] <exec> 08└─Howie Hawkins 2020
[20:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:46] <exec> 08└─Whoever.
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[21:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:49] <exec> 08└─We should demand a six hour day. Let them open an extra shift and employ more people.
[21:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:51] <exec> 08└─If office staff and middle management were on a 30 hr week they'd waste less of everyone elses time. More people will be telecommuting post-Corona, that much is certain.
[21:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:53] <exec> 08└─More people will be telecommuting post-Corona, that much is certain.
[21:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:55] <exec> 08└─You don't get to claim that "the day is dawning" when you're still trying to convince people, as a blogger, that it's a good idea. I was hoping to see some evidence that employers were actually considering this. Alas. Next up, 2020 will be the year of the Linux desktop, because I really want it to b...
[21:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 1469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:57] <exec> 08└─Research shows that workers can be just as productive in a 30 hour week as a 40 hour week? It was research of that sort that finally convinced employers to adopt a 40 hour work week standard in the first place, a century ago. Before that, many demanded absolutely insane work weeks of at least 80 hou...
[21:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:59] <exec> 08└─You just outlined perfectly the reason that I went independent contractor years ago and never looked back. Yes, my total income is much lower, especially after taxes, but I don't have a morning commute, spend far less time on it, work when and how I want to most of the time, and am generally treated...
[21:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:02] <exec> 08└─But some employers have convinced people that no work is being accomplished when you're away from your desk
[21:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:04] <exec> 08└─Plus free money from Social Security and free medical care through Medicaid. But yeah, they're super opposed to socialism!
[21:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Long-Lost Maxis Game "SimRefinery" Rediscovered, Uploaded to Internet Archive - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:41] <exec> 08└─150+ hours and I still haven't launched a rocket. I went crazy with logic circuits. I attempted to put all materials on one set of belts, and use an aggressive control scheme to control where materials went. It actually worked, except there is an inherent limit in the game: if a filter inserter has...
[21:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waist-Mounted Robotic Arm Can Manipulate Objects, Punch Walls - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:17] <exec> 08└─Robot knee for police and NFL.
[21:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waist-Mounted Robotic Arm Can Manipulate Objects, Punch Walls - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:18] <exec> 08└─Hopefully embedded Windows won't hang on the "yank" command.
[21:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:03] <exec> 08└─Instead we have the travesty known as systemd, thanks to incompetent buffoons on the Red Hat/IBM payroll. I won't mention any of these motherfucking pieces of shit by name, but one is Lennart Poettering. Yes, I know systemd isn't the kernel for all those pedantic folks. Seriously though, remember th...
[21:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:56] <exec> 08└─>How do you explain such a disparity? Now control for robbery and violent crime. You make logical leap from "whites are 4.5 times the black population" therefore "there should be 4.5 more white deaths to cops". All things being equal maybe that is valid but all things are not equal including rates o...
[21:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:58] <exec> 08└─Now control for robbery and violent crime. You make logical leap from "whites are 4.5 times the black population" therefore "there should be 4.5 more white deaths to cops". All things being equal maybe that is valid but all things are not equal including rates of violent crime, robbery, and resistin...
[21:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:00] <exec> 08└─Is that Trump cock tasty or what, Phoenix? Gobble Gobble!
[21:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:02] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_crime_in_the_United_States#Crime_statistics [wikipedia.org]
[21:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:04] <exec> 08└─There's a world of difference between "You push back on them. Tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere!" and "When the looting starts, the shooting starts." One is encouraging people to exercise their First Amendment rights. The other is encouraging folks to shoot other people. I understand...
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[22:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmby [83] (Score: 1) 02 - 06From Earth to Orbit with Linux and SpaceX - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:56] <exec> 08└─Don't name your subroutine...... Betelgeuse! Betelgeuse! Betelgeuse! https://imgflip.com [imgflip.com] Say it!!!!
[22:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:18] <exec> 08└─It was research of that sort that finally convinced employers to adopt a 40 hour work week standard in the first place, a century ago.
[22:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:19] <exec> 08└─It's far more likely this is the dawning of the age of Aquarius. And Astrology isn't even real!
[22:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:22] <exec> 08└─I've seen plenty of manufacturing jobs offering 4x12, but they don't necessarily pay all that well.
[22:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:24] <exec> 08└─It has been touted by the New Zeland Prime Minister [theguardian.com] and at least one New Zeland firm [theguardian.com] actually implemented it, a year ago! Of course, 4-day work week would be communism in the good ol' US of A, so you'll have to wait more!
[22:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:26] <exec> 08└─I guess that makes sense if you have many clients. But if you just have one employer that wants to put you under a 1099, and not a W2, I find that they treat you much worse. I would much rather be with an employer that puts me under a W2. I guess the fact that the employer wants to put you under a 1...
[22:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Day Is Dawning on a Four-Day Work Week - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:28] <exec> 08└─(sorry, obviously I should have mentioned what I meant is that if you just have one full time employer that wants to work you 40+ hours a week on a regular basis, sometimes 60+ a week, but they put you under a 1099. They tend to be the most demanding and least compromising. They give you all of the...
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[22:22:42] <exec> 08└─A long time ago when I was conscripted into the army, my task was to operate a device [prc68.com], based on a gyroscope, for finding true north. This was before GPS was used for aiming nuclear missiles (called 'Honest John'), at least in Europe. I believe the USA already used more modern missiles an...
[22:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mothers Ensure Their Offspring's Success Through Epigenetics - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:19] <exec> 08└─Thanks Mom.
[22:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:26] <exec> 08└─From the article you linked: While there is a correlation between blacks and Hispanics and crime, the data imply a much stronger tie between poverty and crime than crime and any racial group, when gender is taken into consideration.[84] The direct correlation between crime and class, when factoring...
[22:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:28] <exec> 08└─Did not say crime was caused by race. There is a disparity that is measured differently by race that should be accounted for when trying to understand potentially violent confrontations with the police. There is a disparity in crime rates. Just like there is a disparity with "killed by cops". In the...
[22:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Project Gutenberg Public Domain Library Blocked in Italy for Copyright Infringement - 1448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:15] <exec> 08└─Post it all you want, its still wrong. The Nazis had clearly socialist policies, including a strong social safety net, strong unions, support for workers, state health care, and many state owned/directed industries (e.g. the "Peoples car" in VW). In fact it is those socialist policies that drove the...
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[23:21:52] <exec> 08└─How did they convince anyone to fly in something controlled by Poettering's abomination?
[23:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Earth to Orbit with Linux and SpaceX - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:53] <exec> 08└─So... It knows not to nose dive when the pilot is pulling up?
[23:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06From Earth to Orbit with Linux and SpaceX - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:55] <exec> 08└─If you had told me 20 years ago that there was going to be mission-critical JavaScript, I'd not have believed you; but here we are. OK, so the UI is backed up by physical buttons; but still--a screwed up UI on the screen could definitely be a big distraction to the astronauts, so in my book that's m...
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[23:22:22] <exec> 08└─Next up, 2020 will be the year of the Linux desktop
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[23:22:37] <exec> 08└─Interesting. What about Earth wobble? (30 ft in the point at which the axis intersects the Earth's surface and has a period of 433 days)
[23:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waist-Mounted Robotic Arm Can Manipulate Objects, Punch Walls - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:40] <exec> 08└─Yes! It looks quite useful in dispatching Jehovah Witnesses, Mormons, and other nuisances that magically seem to appear in front of you. Just equip it with cattle prod. I'm gonna duck now and get outta here!
[23:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds Rejects "Beyond Stupid" Intel Security Patch From Amazon Web Services - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:26] <exec> 08└─It didn't help that Intel so over-promised the Itanic, and then did some under the table dealing such that Alpha and HP's 64 bit RISC offerings died in anticipation. Then, of course, when Itanic refused to come even close to it's performance promises (Even Intel couldn't come up with a compiler that...
[23:25:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] 02 - 06When Elections Matter More than Leadership - 1163 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:02] <exec> 08└─Maybe, just maybe, vote for a decent candidate. A candidate that you actually like and agree with. Maybe, just maybe, when people determine that their votes aren't "thrown away" by not voting for one of the reality-tv-show candidates, _others_ will vote for decent candidates, _too_. But not at first...
[23:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Twitter’s Fact Check of Trump Might Not be Enough to Combat Misinformation - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:26] <exec> 08└─The most effective fact check is a crossbow bolt to the face. Seriously though, you do not convince people to change their fundamental philosophies. You wait for them to die "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opp...
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