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[00:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Distance Measurements Bolster Challenge to Basic Model of Universe - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:59] <exec> 08└─Just a month or two ago I was reading there might be more than 1 way for a type 1a Supernova to happen. If true, the 1a can no longer be considered a standard candle and as such, stuff like the universe is expanding is no longer valid.
[00:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Record-Crushing Battery Lasts 1.2 Million Miles in Electric Cars - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:32] <exec> 08└─By the time the industry decides on a charging standard and gets usable range for most customers, the hydrogen infrastructure for FCEVs will probably be in place.
[00:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Record-Crushing Battery Lasts 1.2 Million Miles in Electric Cars - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:34] <exec> 08└─We're not at war with China yet
[00:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Record-Crushing Battery Lasts 1.2 Million Miles in Electric Cars - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:36] <exec> 08└─Unless they created this "new battery technology" back in 2004 or prior, they can't possibly say for certain it will last "16 years."
[00:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Face Masks Don’t Even Have to Work Especially Well to be Effective - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:08] <exec> 08└─Poor democrats!
[00:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Deletes Over 170,000 Accounts Tied to Chinese Propaganda Efforts - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:41] <exec> 08└─You just need to learn Chinese
[00:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenZFS Removes "Slave" Terminology from Codebase - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:56] <exec> 08└─Only some levels of bigotry would bother defending Floyd's murderer or the systems that led to such nazi fucks being allowed to pretend they are law enforcement.
[00:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenZFS Removes "Slave" Terminology from Codebase - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:57] <exec> 08└─That is a horrible essay. He uses bad logic to make shitty and extraneous arguments. All you need to refute the "documentary" are the countless testimonies of the people that lived through it. Germany and WWII are very significant in recent history, and there are mountains of credible evidence.
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[01:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Distance Measurements Bolster Challenge to Basic Model of Universe - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:01] <exec> 08└─These sorts of things make me wish that I were born further in the future (assuming humans are still around and thriving, anyway). For all its fault, contemporary education teaches a lot of overly simplified knowledge which is insanely valuable, the product of generations of work, which past societi...
[01:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Distance Measurements Bolster Challenge to Basic Model of Universe - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:02] <exec> 08└─While there are three proposed ways for a type 1a supernova to happen, they all have the same brightness. So they are still good as "standard candles". https://www.sciencemag.org [sciencemag.org]
[01:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03oumuamua [8401] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elite Gamers Share Mental Toughness with Top Athletes, Study Finds - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:13] <exec> 08└─Just in time to provide work to those automated out of jobs. However I suspect, just like regular sports, only the professional players can make a living off of it. Still, gives kids a retort when their parents complain "stop wasting time on those video games'
[01:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Elite Gamers Share Mental Toughness with Top Athletes, Study Finds - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:14] <exec> 08└─Most people assume exercising physical muscles is tougher than exercising mental muscles. I really doubt that's true. There's a reason people doing physical labor can put in eight hour workdays and knowledge workers can only meaningfully work 3-4 hours, with the rest wasted on coffee breaks and faff...
[01:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elite Gamers Share Mental Toughness with Top Athletes, Study Finds - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:16] <exec> 08└─Supposedly, fit gamers do better than fat ones. And studies would seem to support that: Leg Exercise is Critical to Brain and Nervous System Health [soylentnews.org]
[01:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Record-Crushing Battery Lasts 1.2 Million Miles in Electric Cars - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:42] <exec> 08└─This should be a major market disruptor.
[01:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Record-Crushing Battery Lasts 1.2 Million Miles in Electric Cars - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:44] <exec> 08└─Where do I sign up?
[01:22:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Face Masks Don’t Even Have to Work Especially Well to be Effective - 334 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:52] <exec> 08└─Masks, even bandanas, helps prevent stuff from the mouth spreading out. It probably provides a level of protection for the wearer, but it's more effective in protecting others from you. So, wear a mask, at least when in indoors with other people around. You may be an asymptomatic carrier. It's a com...
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[01:23:19] <exec> 08└─They have yet to account for their previous load of bullshit. Now doubling down and excreting another?
[01:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Archive Ends “Emergency Library” Early to Appease Publishers - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:34] <exec> 08└─The lawsuit could reveal the numbers of books "loaned" out, also revealing that people don't want to read books.
[01:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BAM15 Mitochondrial Uncoupler Could Treat Obesity, Diabetes, and Fatty Liver Disease - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:34] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. One of my kids wants to be a gym teacher, and I keep telling him: a gym teacher isn't there for the youth athletes. The youth athletes don't need a gym teacher. The gym teacher is there for everyone else, to help them develop an enjoyment of exercise that they will carry with them throug...
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[01:27:11] <exec> 08└─The law that gives cops guns and license to kill. Sorry- the law says "discretion", my bad.
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[01:27:13] <exec> 08└─Can I keep my Visa?
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[01:27:15] <exec> 08└─> Nobody else commenting bothered to read TFS? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! That's hilarious! Do you know where you are, or did you lose your way and stumble in here? RTFA!! So funny! Maybe 1/10 read TFS on a good day.
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[02:22:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03darkfeline [1030] 02 - 06Elite Gamers Share Mental Toughness with Top Athletes, Study Finds - 670 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:17] <exec> 08└─Most people assume exercising physical muscles is tougher than exercising mental muscles. I really doubt that's true. There's a reason people doing physical labor can put in eight hour workdays and knowledge workers can only meaningfully work 3-4 hours, with the rest wasted on coffee breaks and faff...
[02:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elite Gamers Share Mental Toughness with Top Athletes, Study Finds - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:19] <exec> 08└─We don't even know if there are "mental muscles" and whether "flexing" them does any good. Research into those mental exercising games has only shown that the only thing it improves is the ability to play mental exercising games.
[02:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elite Gamers Share Mental Toughness with Top Athletes, Study Finds - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:21] <exec> 08└─Is that a scientific measurable thing, or is this article filled with things like "giving 110%"?
[02:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Face Masks Don’t Even Have to Work Especially Well to be Effective - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:24] <exec> 08└─Masks can both be effective, and also not enough to stop the pandemic. Slowing the spread was seen as a worthy goal by many, remember "flatten the curve"?
[02:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Face Masks Don’t Even Have to Work Especially Well to be Effective - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:25] <exec> 08└─From the summary, to really control the pandemic, they will have to be combined with a lockdown if we want to see the total infected population shrink.
[02:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Face Masks Don’t Even Have to Work Especially Well to be Effective - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:27] <exec> 08└─Also it might be easier to tell if others have cleaned their shield or not.
[02:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Archive Ends “Emergency Library” Early to Appease Publishers - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:42] <exec> 08└─A huge library of out-of-copyright books and films, accessible to everyone, makes rewriting the history that much more complicated. Closing the project down for some contrived reason, could make people suspect something. A self-destruction by judge, however, may be sold to the masses as "unintended...
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[02:25:16] <exec> 08└─He's just a fan of space junk and orbital debris in general.
[02:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenZFS Removes "Slave" Terminology from Codebase - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:20] <exec> 08└─Should we change it to "boss" and "grunt"? :) (I'm only half kidding...)
[02:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Haiku R1/beta2 Released - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:07] <exec> 08└─Skimming the Wiki page on it, it bends over backwards to be compatible with an OS that is 20 years past its end of life. What is the main purpose here, nostalgia? Do it because it can be done kind of hobby? Or does it have a forward looking roadmap of where it wants to go and what it wants to be?
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[03:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pandemic's Silver Lining: Hot Car Deaths Plunge in USA - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:02] <exec> 08└─Don't worry. We're reopening everything tomorrow. Back to normal. MAGA - again! Seriously, how many deaths from COVID-19 alone? With cancelled physicals and such, how many delayed diagnosis of various cancers? Heart disease? Dementia? How do these stack up to what - a few dozen deaths a year in hot...
[03:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pandemic's Silver Lining: Hot Car Deaths Plunge in USA - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:03] <exec> 08└─+No school shooting. -More domestic violence/abuse. -Boost in xenophobia and racial abuse against Asians. +Cleaner air. - No sports. +No sports. Add on what you got.
[03:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pandemic's Silver Lining: Hot Car Deaths Plunge in USA - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:06] <exec> 08└─- civil unrest due to people not having jobs for 4 months
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[03:22:08] <exec> 08└─+ civil unrest
[03:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elite Gamers Share Mental Toughness with Top Athletes, Study Finds - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:32] <exec> 08└─that was a list, with each comma representing an "or", not an "and"
[03:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Face Masks Don’t Even Have to Work Especially Well to be Effective - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:38] <exec> 08└─Yes. A paper on the subject: https://www.nature.com [nature.com] and condensed for the layman, with a Handy Chart: https://www.wormsandgermsblog.com [wormsandgermsblog.com]
[03:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Face Masks Don’t Even Have to Work Especially Well to be Effective - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:40] <exec> 08└─The problem with face shields is being basically open on three sides. So you still have a lot of potential for exchanging spew, both incoming and outgoing.
[03:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenZFS Removes "Slave" Terminology from Codebase - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:34] <exec> 08└─What about Black the color itself?
[03:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenZFS Removes "Slave" Terminology from Codebase - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:36] <exec> 08└─I see you've installed Server 2019.
[03:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Haiku R1/beta2 Released - 1494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:21] <exec> 08└─It was originally designed to outright clone BeOS. At this point, real BeOS compatibility is far less of a concern, especially moving forward since they want to port it to not-x86 (and it helps that very little BeOS software exists). 64-bit builds make zero concessions towards compatibility, and thi...
[03:30:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CallStranger Vulnerability Lets Attacks Bypass Security Systems and Scan LANs - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:58] <exec> 08└─I lave a Linux box (debian/devuan) from which I removed minidlna some time ago -- uninstaled teh packages. But there are still packages around with upnp and dlna around. Removing them causes pacakes like gstreamer to get removed too, which is I gather is something various desktop applications use. I...
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[04:22:03] <exec> 08└─What about Runaway? They been leaving him in the plant for dozens of hours, and he is overheating 'cause they are making him wear a mask! And he already was mordantly obese.
[04:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pandemic's Silver Lining: Hot Car Deaths Plunge in USA - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:04] <exec> 08└─When I hear, "hot car death", I think of driving a Shelby Cobra off of Hwy 101 and crashing in a fireball. I've been drinking since 6pm and don't care to read TFA, so I'm going to just assume that's what this is about.
[04:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pandemic's Silver Lining: Hot Car Deaths Plunge in USA - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:06] <exec> 08└─Live-axlel is a dinosaur-age garbage. It puts you in a ditch upside down. Even the august Ford Motor Corporation got "woke" on this.
[04:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pandemic's Silver Lining: Hot Car Deaths Plunge in USA - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:09] <exec> 08└─Sounds plausible.
[04:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pandemic's Silver Lining: Hot Car Deaths Plunge in USA - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:11] <exec> 08└─He ded. Coronavirus, probably. That's how it goes in the ozarks. Hee-haw. Even the degenerate Californificationers rag on them.
[04:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Record-Crushing Battery Lasts 1.2 Million Miles in Electric Cars - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:04] <exec> 08└─Damn the bad luck. I'll just have to deal with the inconvenience I guess.
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[05:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:06] <exec> 08└─... is anyone surprised by this? I mean, it's Fox News after all, and they're reporting on a bunch of hippies holding a mostly peaceful be-in. What do you expect them to do, run neutral, unbiased, or even sympathetic coverage of it?
[05:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:07] <exec> 08└─I just went on CNN.com (first time) and all their images are edited by photoshop v21. So photoshopping isn't just a FOX thing. It would be nice if all edited images on "news" sites said what and why it was edited. It they could do it for stories as well, be even better. So many times MSM silent edit...
[05:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:10] <exec> 08└─You need more experience. Take it from me. I've seen quite a few shops in my day. Check the pixels next time.
[05:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:12] <exec> 08└─I can spot a collage, but cropped photos, or color changed photos. Like that one cropped photo of that proud boy standing next to black wife and mixed children. Or covington catholic one. Those are hard to see.
[05:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:14] <exec> 08└─Wait until Pravda^W Fox has deepfakes.
[05:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:16] <exec> 08└─Water is wet, the sky is blue, and old Satan Claws is out there, Jimmy, and he's only getting stronger. Seriously, is anyone remotely surprised at all? There's not a single TV news organization in the US that I would believe if they said gravity would still be working tomorrow. They all lie their as...
[05:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pandemic's Silver Lining: Hot Car Deaths Plunge in USA - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:31] <exec> 08└─It is trivial to construct a temperature sensor and movement detection sensor linked to an alarm with just decades old technology. All those death casualties were completely unnecessary, unless they were actually sacrifices.
[05:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Distance Measurements Bolster Challenge to Basic Model of Universe - 2583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:42] <exec> 08└─One interesting possibility as anasiotropy. There's an increasing amount of evidence mounting that the universe is not isotropic - not physically uniform. If that's the case there will never be a class on the geometry and physics of space as it may in an irregular way from point to point. And frankl...
[05:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Record-Crushing Battery Lasts 1.2 Million Miles in Electric Cars - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:27] <exec> 08└─Most current car batteries can supply way more power than is actually needed*. The real question is whether the larger crystals reduce the energy supply. *If you really need to go zero to sixty in 1.7 seconds, you could add a supercapacitor.
[05:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BAM15 Mitochondrial Uncoupler Could Treat Obesity, Diabetes, and Fatty Liver Disease - 1091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:22] <exec> 08└─Ancient Fatties most certainly did exist. Fat was a sign of wealth. If you were fat, you were signalling to the people around you that you could afford extra food and relaxation. I believe from reading history, that merchants would often fatten up to prepare for a long journey too. That, and the anc...
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[05:25:23] <exec> 08└─The hunger is a good reason to start off any diet change with a 1-2 day fast to "reset". Just reducing the amount of food without a fast will drain your willpower much more, as your body is expecting what it normally gets.
[05:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Magnetically Powered Brain Implant Doesn't Require a Battery or Wired Power Supply - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:41] <exec> 08└─From Wikipedia: In its most general form, the magnetoelectric effect (ME) denotes any coupling between the magnetic and the electric properties of a material.[1][2] The first example of such an effect was described by Wilhelm Röntgen in 1888, who found that a dielectric material moving through an e...
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[06:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:08] <exec> 08└─"...like lobbyists or used car salesmen..." or you know, like real estate salesman. But that's why they're called Faux News.
[06:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:09] <exec> 08└─of course buzzard is trying to act as if fox news is no worse than anybody else
[06:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:12] <exec> 08└─They weren't even putting effort into it. It's the same person slapped on top of a few different photos. They didn't even bother getting a second photo in a different pose. The sad part is that people ARE taking these photos to be genuine because it's easy to only read a single article. You won't no...
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[06:22:14] <exec> 08└─They aren't any worse. They only differ in style. Same goes for the prez.
[06:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pandemic's Silver Lining: Hot Car Deaths Plunge in USA - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:31] <exec> 08└─it should be even easier not to leave your children locked in a car.
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[06:24:22] <exec> 08└─True as always
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[07:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:15] <exec> 08└─The mainstream media lies? Stop the presses😁
[07:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:16] <exec> 08└─I mean, it's Fox Faux News after all
[07:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:18] <exec> 08└─I just went on CNN.com (first time) and all their images are edited by photoshop v21.
[07:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:21] <exec> 08└─whoosh [knowyourmeme.com]
[07:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:23] <exec> 08└─Easy: Whether or not you already agree with the news source in question.
[07:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pandemic's Silver Lining: Hot Car Deaths Plunge in USA - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:41] <exec> 08└─It should be easy not to drive fast, but there is a reason why cars have bumpers and seat belts...
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[08:22:24] <exec> 08└─But also pretty pointless. There are plenty of non-doctored, genuine videos showing armed guards at the entrances, some with pistols, some with assault rifles. It's unethical, but understandable, to produce a fake photo to spread a lie, but incredibly unhelpful to produce one to tell the truth. Ever...
[08:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:25] <exec> 08└─True but irrelevant
[08:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elite Gamers Share Mental Toughness with Top Athletes, Study Finds - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:10] <exec> 08└─Nice troll. 10/10
[08:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elite Gamers Share Mental Toughness with Top Athletes, Study Finds - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:11] <exec> 08└─However I suspect, just like regular sports, only the professional players can make a living off of it.
[08:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elite Gamers Share Mental Toughness with Top Athletes, Study Finds - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:14] <exec> 08└─Mental toughness - the ability of the mind to absorb energy and plastically deform without fracturing. Requires a balance of strength and ductility [wikipedia.org]
[08:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Face Masks Don’t Even Have to Work Especially Well to be Effective - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:24] <exec> 08└─Let's not make masks a permanent thing.
[08:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Deletes Over 170,000 Accounts Tied to Chinese Propaganda Efforts - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:01] <exec> 08└─An alternate way to fix this problem for yourself is to open your "hosts" file and add the line: 127.0.0.1 twitter.com
[08:31:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CallStranger Vulnerability Lets Attacks Bypass Security Systems and Scan LANs - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:31:53] <exec> 08└─This is a two part vulnerability. If UPnP isn't enabled on your WAN, you should be fine for the first part. As to the second part, you should check your dependency tree in order to know for sure that nothing uses them. If you are worried but don't want to parse the trees, just firewall the ports. If...
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[09:22:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 232 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:06] <exec> 08└─... is anyone surprised by this? I mean, it's Fox News after all, and they're reporting on a bunch of hippies holding a mostly peaceful be-in. What do you expect them to do, run neutral, unbiased, or even sympathetic coverage of it?
[09:22:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 85 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:18] <exec> 08└─I just went on CNN.com (first time) and all their images are edited by photoshop v21.
[09:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:24] <exec> 08└─Examples: https://i.imgur.com [imgur.com] https://i.imgur.com [imgur.com] https://i.imgur.com [imgur.com]
[09:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 4322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:26] <exec> 08└─These photos are being circulated by the right for the purpose of fear mongering. This won't stop the spread of misinformation and the hypocrisy about the CHAZ by the right. When there's a photo of right wing citizens with long guns protesting on the steps of the Michigan capitol, they're patriots e...
[09:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 3094 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:28] <exec> 08└─I just checked some images on cnn.com and found several different software packages were used for different photgraphs, and several without any data showing what they were processed with. You should realise there is no such thing as an unprocessed photograph. Every photograph is cropped in the sense...
[09:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:30] <exec> 08└─The sad part is that if any of them, and I mean any of them, suddenly made such a claim about gravity still working tomorrow, my tinfoil hat would go on. I'd instantly wonder if gravity is going to stop or something else fishy is going on. They are motivated to tell us by something, and it definitel...
[09:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Distance Measurements Bolster Challenge to Basic Model of Universe - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:59] <exec> 08└─One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered community of believers in the standard model when the maser method confirmed that CMB has yet again proved to not match theories, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of any model. Coming on the heels of a recent survey which plainly...
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[09:24:29] <exec> 08└─Now doubling down and excreting another?
[09:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plastic Rain - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:00] <exec> 08└─Those are two separate things.
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[09:30:07] <exec> 08└─Cop brutality doesn't disciminate [sic] by skin color. Sometimes, maybe, but generally no.
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[10:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FunkyLich [4689] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Horizons Conducts the First Interstellar Parallax Experiment - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:00] <exec> 08└─I will actually try this in Celestia. Finding out some details where New Horizons is, 'traveling' there and then traveling back to Earth, should show that 'floating in space' effect.
[10:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Horizons Conducts the First Interstellar Parallax Experiment - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:02] <exec> 08└─Anyone see anything in the images? I downloaded them, and they seemed to be nothing but black squares? Might be my software not coping well with 16-bit PNGs, or something.
[10:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Horizons Conducts the First Interstellar Parallax Experiment - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:04] <exec> 08└─It's nice to see that this spacecraft is continuing to do work. Maybe it can be aimed at another object after the current download is done in September 2020. Follow-ups to New Horizons should use laser communication. The data storage and radio bandwidth are limiting factors. If it could transmit at...
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[10:22:32] <exec> 08└─"photojournalism experts called a clear violation of ethical standards for news organizations." I think my brain just had a race condition.
[10:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Record-Crushing Battery Lasts 1.2 Million Miles in Electric Cars - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:50] <exec> 08└─Well that is a shot at it, but does not prove it.
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[10:23:51] <exec> 08└─I will be interested in an EV when re-charging is on a battery changing basis. Range won't be such an issue then.
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[11:22:09] <exec> 08└─The FITS ones? I looked on Firefox on my mobile, it didn't even recognise it as an image.
[11:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:38] <exec> 08└─My bad. Correction: All the others are just fine if you're a moron who likes telling the same lies they do.
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[11:23:57] <exec> 08└─There were positive ground electrical systems on some of the early cars. No big deal except for an upside down scope pattern when you're looking at the ignition system on an Oscope. And a huge problem with corrosion due to electrolytic action.
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[12:21:57] <exec> 08└─Millennials are small, usually furry mammals, who live in safe spaces. After reading the above, which of these statements are true. [ ] A. Rats have fur. [ ] B. Mammals are usually small. [ ] C. Millennials are easily triggered and will squeal and then down-vote this submission because it disagrees...
[12:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's Market Cap Exceeded 1.5 Trillion Dollars - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:04] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of Cotton's parrot: "Squawk, any port in a storm, squawk." (Pirates of the Caribbean) When "the market" is panicky, they've got lots of cash they don't know what to do with - from 2001-2008 they put it in Real Estate. I used to work for a publicly traded penny stock company, our stock wou...
[12:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:45] <exec> 08└─Well, my first reaction is "FOX News" is anything but a news outlet. Calling FOX's political cheerleading "News" is something like the Soviet State newspaper being called "Truth." a clear violation of ethical standards for news organizations
[12:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:47] <exec> 08└─>> mixed with other dangerous messages like anti-vaxxer falsehoods. Remember that the Church accused Galileo of dangerous messages until he was proven true. Just because the anti-vax findings aren't yet generally accepted doesn't make them false. A more honest statement for you to have made would ha...
[12:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:49] <exec> 08└─I totally understand using photoshop to tweak an image for "production readiness." On the other hand, the original - as captured by the image sensor - image should be contained in the meta-data, and if there was editing done for privacy type concerns the only editing done on the metadata image shou...
[12:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:51] <exec> 08└─It's not just TV news - Miami Herald vs the Florida-Times Union (Jacksonville based) will give you complete opposite impressions of an event. Recent case in point: the COVID data scientist who got canned for insubordination... to read the Times Union story she was a hero wrongly terminated by a Stat...
[12:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:53] <exec> 08└─the "end times" are happening right now.
[12:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pandemic's Silver Lining: Hot Car Deaths Plunge in USA - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:12] <exec> 08└─Right. So the temperature sensor and movement detection sensor add $5 to bill of materials, but are jacked up to $500 by the time you buy the vehicle. Then the sensors start throwing off error codes after two years, so that your car won't start until you replace $500 sensor module. You idiotic Democ...
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[13:21:55] <exec> 08└─A recently completed study indicates that the human brain avoids taking unnecessary effort.
[13:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06The Brain Uses Minimum Effort to Look for Key Information in Text - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:56] <exec> 08└─Yet another good reason to stop using the over-hyped term "AI" and go back to more descriptive terms like "pattern matching"...until there has been a lot more progress in understanding human brains.
[13:22:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 79 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:27] <exec> 08└─of course buzzard is trying to act as if fox news is no worse than anybody else
[13:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:49] <exec> 08└─... that I'm not at all surprised as FOX News is the propaganda channel of the "Republican" Trump Party that panders to its bigoted racist followers.
[13:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:50] <exec> 08└─Oh cut the gaslighting bullshit. There are no anti-vax "findings", there's only deliberate misinformation and lies, there's only a movement based on a single, fake, and since retracted "study" of a crook and criminal who had a financial interest in destroying a pharmaceulical that was producing a va...
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[13:22:52] <exec> 08└─so, bsab? invalid argument. go stand in the dunce corner for an hour and think about what you did and how wrong it was.
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[13:23:12] <exec> 08└─Mod -1, completely stupid. You're comparing safety features with leaving a living being in a closed vehicle under hot conditions by choice. I'll try to make it easy for you: the reason cars have bumpers, seatbelts (and airbags) is because there are external forces on the road outside of one's contro...
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[13:23:14] <exec> 08└─You had me up to "$500 sensor module." But you blew it. You had to go full-tilt batshit "my team is better than your team nyah nyah nyah." Too bad. Not only does Mojibake Tengu contribute to the noise level here but he also inspires dissenting psychos to do the same! Impressive!
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[14:22:10] <exec> 08└─[x]. D. Pending further study.
[14:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple's Market Cap Exceeded 1.5 Trillion Dollars - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:18] <exec> 08└─Quite insightful, Joe. Incidentally, this is a great example of why money hoarding isn't a thing. Even while most investments are getting hit by bad news and the few that aren't are overpriced, investors will still put the money anywhere they can rather than keep it as cash. So the next time someo...
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[14:22:20] <exec> 08└─Thanks, I prefer to remember the Panama papers, and the fact that Panama is far from the only tax haven that plays that game.
[14:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Horizons Conducts the First Interstellar Parallax Experiment - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:31] <exec> 08└─To get meaningful distance denominations in the solar system, the measurement unit of choice is the astronomical unit. So how many astronomical units are 4 billion miles?
[14:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Horizons Conducts the First Interstellar Parallax Experiment - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:32] <exec> 08└─4 billion miles = ~43.03 AU It seems to be close to the edge of the Kuiper belt [wikipedia.org] already, unless there are more objects out there than is apparent.
[14:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:10] <exec> 08└─Which images? Please provide links to *manipulated *photos that show people in places they were not, with reporting^W lies claiming that they were, as was done in the photos referenced by TFA. Have the photos you mention been *manipulated* to show folks in places and at times they were not, or do th...
[14:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:12] <exec> 08└─More bullshit false equivalences, eh Fusty? How unsurprising coming from you.
[14:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pandemic's Silver Lining: Hot Car Deaths Plunge in USA - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:34] <exec> 08└─This is what my city does with police cars for canine units. There's a temperature sensor, and when it exceeds the threshold, it automatically pages the officer and either turns on the air conditioning or rolls down the windows. Maybe turns the lights and siren on too, if memory serves. So not only...
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[14:24:05] <exec> 08└─Yes, and physical exercise is the way. Exercise requires mental toughness. In both one rep max and endurance work, people quit for mental reasons when their body could have done more. Measuring that gap tells you how mentally tough they are.
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[15:22:07] <exec> 08└─They probably also will need to move their navy into the region to help, and perhaps construct some artificial islands as "cleaning stations" while they are at it starting within 12 miles of their coast and working their way outwards.
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[15:22:08] <exec> 08└─There is no spill. Children were swimming at the site of the "spill" just yesterday (see photos on Fox News [foxnews.com] for the truth!). This is just a plot by George Soros, Killary, Paul Reubens, Jeff Bezos, Sinead O'Connor and Betty White to smear the greatest, most peaceful, kind, wonderful lea...
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[15:22:10] <exec> 08└─Nadezhda Tolokonnikova [wikipedia.org] from Pussy Riot [wikipedia.org] is from Norilsk. She did an interview [youtube.com] (38 minutes in) with Rolling Stone's "Useful Idiots" political commentary program, part of which goes into how much of a poluted crappy place Norilsk is when things are "normal"...
[15:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Brain Uses Minimum Effort to Look for Key Information in Text - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:21] <exec> 08└─something about reading quicker or whatever
[15:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Brain Uses Minimum Effort to Look for Key Information in Text - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:22] <exec> 08└─For example, my brain recognizes the benefit in ignoring any paragraph that starts "[...]". Based on just that alone, I was able to read the important bits of the summary in about 3.5 seconds! My brain is also trained to recognize a paragraph as having 3-5 sentences. So, these listicles with one sen...
[15:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Brain Uses Minimum Effort to Look for Key Information in Text - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:24] <exec> 08└─We need a faster, fatter (bandwidth), more reliable input node.
[15:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Apple's Market Cap Exceeded 1.5 Trillion Dollars - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:36] <exec> 08└─So cutting taxes on the rich really does pay off! They don't hoard the money, they buy stocks that pay out to other rich people that are holding them, especially the CEO and board, since nobody really pays out dividends anyway. So, yes, they aren't hoarding CASH, but they are hoarding the money, at...
[15:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple's Market Cap Exceeded 1.5 Trillion Dollars - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:38] <exec> 08└─Just remember that the Panama papers describe the flowing of money, not the hoarding of money. The money that moves into such tax havens then moves out into investments. Apple probably is seeing a bit of that.
[15:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's Market Cap Exceeded 1.5 Trillion Dollars - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:40] <exec> 08└─What will the collapse of the US ponzi scheme look like? I'll put this down as an additional point in the hyperinflation column.
[15:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Market Cap Exceeded 1.5 Trillion Dollars - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:42] <exec> 08└─Not at all. Protests in the streets, riots damaging some local economies, unemployment higher than its been in decades, extreme economic and political uncertainty, and the deadliest plague in 100 years is still raging stronger than ever. And the stock market's getting fatter than ever - let alone a...
[15:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple's Market Cap Exceeded 1.5 Trillion Dollars - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:44] <exec> 08└─but they are hoarding the money, at least in the sense that it doesn't benefit anyone on the other end of the income bracket.
[15:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Horizons Conducts the First Interstellar Parallax Experiment - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:57] <exec> 08└─Try opening the .fit files in GIMP. It will open several windows at once. I'm not sure yet how to interpret the images.
[15:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Horizons Conducts the First Interstellar Parallax Experiment - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:58] <exec> 08└─Do a back of the envelope calculation on the link budget for laser communications that far out and you'll see it is not feasible. Take a NIF-like laser in terms of power, pick a length of time your 1 bit is broadcast, assume ~3 mrad divergence going out, and see how many photons intercepts something...
[15:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Horizons Conducts the First Interstellar Parallax Experiment - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:00] <exec> 08└─Holy cow, that's 3.78E12 smoots!
[15:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Horizons Conducts the First Interstellar Parallax Experiment - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:02] <exec> 08└─That is pretty funny. Let's take our closest star system, Alpha Centauri which is 4.3 light years away, or 271937 AU. Then, as our friend takyon pointed out [soylentnews.org], this spacecraft is 43 AU from us. So, the parallax is 43/271937 = 0.15 mrad! That star moved less than 0.009 degrees (or 30...
[15:23:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 645 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:38] <exec> 08└─Oh cut the gaslighting bullshit. There are no anti-vax "findings", there's only deliberate misinformation and lies, there's only a movement based on a single, fake, and since retracted "study" of a crook and criminal who had a financial interest in destroying a pharmaceulical that was producing a va...
[15:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:42] <exec> 08└─n/t
[15:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:44] <exec> 08└─"They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." -- Carl Sagan When you leave, don't forget to pick up your critical thinking that you checked at the door.
[15:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:47] <exec> 08└─I never really figured you for one of those "there is no truth" moral relativists.
[15:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:49] <exec> 08└─Fox news caught lying to their viewers. This is exactly the same as what CNN does, except with CNN it would have been a photo-shopped photo of Trump altered to continue their anti-trump agenda. The 24hour news channels are no longer news channels. They are 24 hour entertainment channels. Fox publ...
[15:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:51] <exec> 08└─The drip drip drip over a period of time has normalized a whole bunch of nonsense in this country. Remember this time. When you look back you'll be astounded and ashamed how your high and mighty principles melted away so fast.
[15:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:53] <exec> 08└─It has been obvious for about 3 years they have been turning up the 'orange' levels in pictures with the president. Sometimes they forget and suddenly he is white again. Selective editing is a news thing. Can't have the 'fine people' narrative without it.
[15:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:55] <exec> 08└─Is this the same news organization that said Birmingham (UK) was a no-go zone under Sharia law? The only way the viewers will care about being told lies is if it hurts them financially. They are obviously the suckers in the game, but how to exploit them?
[15:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:57] <exec> 08└─I saw this weird photoshop of Trump standing in front of group of soldiers in DC holding aloft a Bible. Does it signify endtimes?
[15:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:00] <exec> 08└─You must be kidding. I'm not really sure when journalists used to have ethics, but that time is long past. Liberal media, conservative media... All absolute trash. There are very few sites(or politicians) that actually say anything useful rather than just spread the division message mandated by thei...
[15:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:02] <exec> 08└─He's the worst kind. There is no truth, unless I say there is and by God you better believe it.
[15:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:04] <exec> 08└─What FOX did was insert a guy with a gun that wasn't there. That doesn't emphasize or hide anyting about the situation as it was, it adds something that simply wasn't there and that's highly relevant to how it is perceived. That's a blatant lie.
[15:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:06] <exec> 08└─"This is exactly the same as what CNN does, except with CNN it would have been a photo-shopped photo of Trump altered to continue their anti-trump agenda." It would have been? Your thesis would have been much more credible if you provided an example of such manipulation. "Fox publishes entertainment...
[15:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:08] <exec> 08└─*citation needed
[15:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:10] <exec> 08└─Fine people on both sides.
[15:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elite Gamers Share Mental Toughness with Top Athletes, Study Finds - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:03] <exec> 08└─Says the jock, presumably. All the smart ppl are real athletic right? Now shut up and bag my groceries.
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[16:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Says 'Years' Needed to Clean Up Arctic Spill - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:01] <exec> 08└─In Soviet Russia... oil spills you.
[16:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Brain Uses Minimum Effort to Look for Key Information in Text - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:15] <exec> 08└─And what are you going to do with all that information when it hits your brain? Wet your pants and drool?
[16:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Brain Uses Minimum Effort to Look for Key Information in Text - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:17] <exec> 08└─And what are you going to do with all that information when it hits your brain? Wet your pants and drool?
[16:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Market Cap Exceeded 1.5 Trillion Dollars - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:33] <exec> 08└─i guess there's room to grow ... 'cause i don't even own one apple product.
[16:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Market Cap Exceeded 1.5 Trillion Dollars - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:35] <exec> 08└─I see only one possible way for Apple to grow at this point beyond its ridiculous present valuation: phase out another port technology across the board and introduce another dongle. USB3 is obsolete!
[16:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Horizons Conducts the First Interstellar Parallax Experiment - 1403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:52] <exec> 08└─hey-yeyh-yey... shouldn't that read "new horizon IS the first stellar parallax experiment"? i mean my htc vive headset is doing this everytime i put it on. just imagine a ginormous htc vive headset, with the left monitor showing view from earth and the other, right one showing view from where "new h...
[16:23:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 241 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:24] <exec> 08└─Well, my first reaction is "FOX News" is anything but a news outlet. Calling FOX's political cheerleading "News" is something like the Soviet State newspaper being called "Truth." a clear violation of ethical standards for news organizations
[16:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 1655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:48] <exec> 08└─To add to that Fox news around 9/11 went to that crazy format. Before that they were well dull and boring. They changed it up to that format to pull in viewers. It worked. Around 2009 CNN did the same move but more along the lines of 'hold my beer fox' kind of way. CNN wants to pretend they are not...
[16:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:50] <exec> 08└─The only thing the far-right has for motivating their base is fear and hate. Nearly everything Fox "reports" is designed to maximize fear and hate.
[16:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:52] <exec> 08└─"There's not a single TV news organization in the US that I would believe if they said gravity would still be working tomorrow." Really? So, just out of curiosity, where do you get your news from? I'm genuinely intrigued.
[16:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 1238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:54] <exec> 08└─fine people hoax. They dragged that one on for so long. ALL you have to do is watch the next 30 seconds of that speech and know what he said. Out of context is easy. "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." - Cardina...
[16:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03zion-fueled [8646] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:56] <exec> 08└─Fox is pasting a fake armed rioter in the photos while the other channels say everything is fine n peaceful with buildings burning in the background. Turn off the TV.
[16:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 1071 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:58] <exec> 08└─Lets pick a couple of 'liberal ones at random and I will do the same you just did for fox https://www.huffpost.com [huffpost.com] Right now "HEALTH EXPERTS SOUND ALARM ON ‘DANGEROUS’ TRUMP RALLY" cut and pasted headline. Yell and shout about Trumps rallies. Last week how brave the 'protests' ar...
[16:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:01] <exec> 08└─George Floyd had one of those. Should get that looked at.
[16:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:03] <exec> 08└─On top of that. It sure as hell is not any of the 'right wingers' I know talking about anti-vax. It is the liberal crunchy ones who want to talk about 'toxins' and their latest aroma therapies. It is usually fairly easy to show them how none of it works. But yelling about it on the internet just pis...
[16:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:05] <exec> 08└─You know that is a good question where the hell are they? She still needs to be held accountable for that.
[16:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:07] <exec> 08└─Was that before or after he held the gun to a pregnant woman? Do not hold that man up as a saint. He was a thug who got ended by another thug.
[16:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:09] <exec> 08└─It signifies you want to fight with random strangers on the internet with snark. I am sure you are 'fine people'.
[16:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 1391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:12] <exec> 08└─The most racist people I know are not republicans. They are Democrats. You have to look no further than how the DNC treats candice owens. Shamefully is how they treat her. Oh don't think so? Notice how Republicans talk about Americans. What do the Democrats talk about? They talk about the color of y...
[16:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pandemic's Silver Lining: Hot Car Deaths Plunge in USA - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:35] <exec> 08└─Apparently researchers don't know what work is. A fucking moron in 4th grade knows about causality.
[16:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pandemic's Silver Lining: Hot Car Deaths Plunge in USA - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:36] <exec> 08└─I'd love to see a study that looks at total expected deaths for the year and compares that to this year's actual count. Extra cancer deaths as people fear going to doctor offices for treatment (there was a study that showed this). Lower number of deaths from small children being locked in hot cars....
[16:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elite Gamers Share Mental Toughness with Top Athletes, Study Finds - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:09] <exec> 08└─Right. And if your "mental exercising game" is doing theoretical physics, or programming software, or playing Starcraft, then you will improve your ability to do that. Just like playing lots of football, or digging holes, or chopping wood will improve your ability to do those. And it's pretty clear...
[16:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Record-Crushing Battery Lasts 1.2 Million Miles in Electric Cars - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:43] <exec> 08└─You think Musk would be betting the success of his Chinese factory on propaganda?
[16:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Record-Crushing Battery Lasts 1.2 Million Miles in Electric Cars - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:44] <exec> 08└─here we go again: trying to patent math and logic and stuff ...
[16:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Record-Crushing Battery Lasts 1.2 Million Miles in Electric Cars - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:46] <exec> 08└─if they figure out a way to make hydrogen without natgas and/or nukes we won't need go-juice stations 'cause we'll all be making hydrogen at home ... with solar ... and probably the car won't have a port 'cause the exhaust (water) will go into a tank in the car itself from which hydrogen will be lib...
[16:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Record-Crushing Battery Lasts 1.2 Million Miles in Electric Cars - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:49] <exec> 08└─It's generally a pretty good estimate though. And it's really the only way to get a realistic number. Do you think ANY modern batteries claiming "X year lifespan" have been around in their current form for X years? Of course not, you sell the cutting edge technology you have. By the time you're able...
[16:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Face Masks Don’t Even Have to Work Especially Well to be Effective - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:31] <exec> 08└─Smallish semi-rural California town. Most people are taking it seriously or at least being considerste to those who are, but there are still some trying to behaveike nornal. They usually lighten up when I point out the mask does little to protect me and more to protect others. They can't really argu...
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[17:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After a Century of Searching, Scientists find New Liquid Phase - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:57] <exec> 08└─The discovery "opens a door to a new universe of materials,"
[17:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Says 'Years' Needed to Clean Up Arctic Spill - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:08] <exec> 08└─i don't know if this is a unpredictable accident or the company was just failing to do their basic due diligence to save money, but the top brass of the company should be glad i'm not in charge. Depending on the circumstances, and the level of sea life loss, company execs would be sentenced to much...
[17:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Brain Uses Minimum Effort to Look for Key Information in Text - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:24] <exec> 08└─No we don't, faster input does little good if we don't have the ability to store and process the information. Even at a relatively modest 500wpm of reading speed, you're reading fast enough that you'd need to deliberately slow down to increase retention and draw more connections. In short, reading s...
[17:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:04] <exec> 08└─I woke up this morning and got myself a beer I woke up this morning and got myself a beer The future's uncertain and the end is always near.
[17:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:06] <exec> 08└─MNBS and CNN are anything but News outlets either.
[17:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 1886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:08] <exec> 08└─I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written. In the past people deliberately...
[17:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:10] <exec> 08└─Whereas I'd been screaming at the top of my forum lungs from the first encounter I'd had with this guy that he was, but noooooo, no one listens to Marissa^W Cassandra. Glad people are finally starting to figure him out after, what, half a damn decade? He's a sociopath. The entire world consists of o...
[17:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pandemic's Silver Lining: Hot Car Deaths Plunge in USA - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:34] <exec> 08└─There's no reason to install it in most cars, because leaving your children in the hot car is illegal.
[17:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elite Gamers Share Mental Toughness with Top Athletes, Study Finds - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:08] <exec> 08└─Actually some of the smartest people I know are *very* athletic. They reason they should take care of their bodies too. They need them. One guy I used to know who went on to be a brain surgeon (tough field to get into) also was the top athlete in our school. He was bummed out because in 3rd grade he...
[17:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Record-Crushing Battery Lasts 1.2 Million Miles in Electric Cars - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:45] <exec> 08└─If you need the range, certainly. Though there are other options. Personally I like the idea of enough battery to handle an average "busy day" or two of driving, overnight charging, and a compact, efficient on-board generator that can power road trips and remove range anxiety. Fast battery charging/...
[17:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Face Masks Don’t Even Have to Work Especially Well to be Effective - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:29] <exec> 08└─i am "wasting" my precious N95 when i have to shovel 5 months worth of chicken shit out of the chicken coup. and even when downing that mask i smell the stink for 3 days even after a swim plus shower and bath. the stink just "hides" somewhere *shrug*.
[17:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BAM15 Mitochondrial Uncoupler Could Treat Obesity, Diabetes, and Fatty Liver Disease - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:51] <exec> 08└─>There's got to be more to it than just modern people eating like pigs. There definitely is - we see the same fattening trend in lab animals with well-documented diets and lifestyles. Animals with the same diets, under the same conditions, are now getting fatter than in the past. Environmental satur...
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[17:27:52] <exec> 08└─I remember reading articles on it myself. In my case it was comparing lab animals with well-documented diets and "lifestyles", ruling out most other potential confounding factors. I'm not spending a bunch of time trying to dig up documentation to appease an AC's skepticism, but there have definitely...
[17:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BAM15 Mitochondrial Uncoupler Could Treat Obesity, Diabetes, and Fatty Liver Disease - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:54] <exec> 08└─yeah and if people would have to wash them dishes after a "meal" they would think twice about stuffing themselfs with one-way plastic wrapped "food". as in: i am hungry but have to cook so i'll just be lazy and hungry ... tada bmi under 20.
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[18:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After a Century of Searching, Scientists find New Liquid Phase - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:00] <exec> 08└─The warm liquid goo phase?
[18:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After a Century of Searching, Scientists find New Liquid Phase - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:02] <exec> 08└─No, it was Phase 3: Profit! They didn't discover it until now because it requires that you buy the absolute latest smart phone first.
[18:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After a Century of Searching, Scientists find New Liquid Phase - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:04] <exec> 08└─When it's cold: https://phys.org [phys.org] "The new remarkable property is that we find that water can exist as two different liquids at low temperatures where ice crystallization is slow",
[18:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Says 'Years' Needed to Clean Up Arctic Spill - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:15] <exec> 08└─i'd like to riot in her pussy. just sayin'
[18:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Market Cap Exceeded 1.5 Trillion Dollars - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:50] <exec> 08└─nothing wrong with tax havens. what's wrong is that they are necessary in the first place. these governments deserve to go fucking broke.
[18:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's Market Cap Exceeded 1.5 Trillion Dollars - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:52] <exec> 08└─Broke government = no paychecks for the military or police, no maintenance for the roads, no more free schools. Grow up and pay your taxes, or go live on a desert island and fight the pirates off with your bare hands - if you can even afford a desert island.
[18:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Market Cap Exceeded 1.5 Trillion Dollars - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:54] <exec> 08└─"The market is falling, quick, sell and put the proceeds in penny stock!" Huh?
[18:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Horizons Conducts the First Interstellar Parallax Experiment - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:12] <exec> 08└─I don't have anything that handles FIT either. I was able to open the PNGs. They looked black at first too, but when I used a gamma slider I could see stars.
[18:23:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 40 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:46] <exec> 08└─the "end times" are happening right now.
[18:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:22] <exec> 08└─I don't know, I've watched Tucker's CHAZ coverage and it's satirical. So the idea that images being modified is inappropriate if it's consistently being "reported" as a tongue in cheek running gag would itself be fake news. When the left and it's media have gone completely insane, what remains? [you...
[18:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:24] <exec> 08└─OK Karen
[18:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:26] <exec> 08└─Endtimes for him at least.
[18:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:28] <exec> 08└─There are just as many, if not more, anti-vaxxers in right wing circles. They just couch their rhetoric in terms of "health freedom", "parental rights", and such rather than the simple chemphobia and toxins the way left-wing anti-vaxxers tend to do. The effect is the same regardless of the reasoning...
[18:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Face Masks Don’t Even Have to Work Especially Well to be Effective - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:48] <exec> 08└─Pretty similar experience in Michigan - the majority of people are wearing masks and distancing when indoors, but outside all bets are off. Personally, I like the masks and distancing, because they keep chatty people quiet.
[18:31:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Plastic Rain - 188 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:13] <exec> 08└─We've been coated in rubber dust, and metal dust (all those brake pads wearing down, you see), and glass dust, and wood dust, and every other human material dust for a long, long time now.
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[19:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Induce Hibernation-Like State in Non-Hibernating Rodents - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:59] <exec> 08└─Just in time to put me in suspended animation for the rest of 2020.
[19:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Induce Hibernation-Like State in Non-Hibernating Rodents - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:01] <exec> 08└─They're pining for the fjords... Norwegian Blue Mice are known for this behavior. (Reference: Palin, M., et al., Identifying States of Immobility in the Norwegian Blue.)
[19:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Says 'Years' Needed to Clean Up Arctic Spill - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:23] <exec> 08└─Before leaping to conclusions about who's to blame, we should find out what sort of explosives the jihadi terrorists used to blow up the fuel reservoir, and then test whether these explosives could have resulted in the muskrat and duck deaths.
[19:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03hubie [1068] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Horizons Conducts the First Interstellar Parallax Experiment - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:18] <exec> 08└─You should download Fiji [fiji.sc], which is an ImageJ [imagej.net] distribution (Fiji == Fiji Is Just ImageJ). It is written in Java and it runs everywhere. I run it often on Windows, Mac, and Linux. ImageJ [nih.gov] is software out of the National Institutes of Health that was written to open and...
[19:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03hubie [1068] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Horizons Conducts the First Interstellar Parallax Experiment - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:19] <exec> 08└─Another option that I should have mentioned, but I don't have first-hand experience in using it, is the Astropy [astropy.org] package for Python. It would certainly have the tools needed to handle these files, and make use of the FITS metadata (assuming it is included in the file). My tool of choice...
[19:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:35] <exec> 08└─The sock-puppets are really busy at S/N tonight.
[19:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pandemic's Silver Lining: Hot Car Deaths Plunge in USA - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:01] <exec> 08└─Seriously, how many deaths from COVID-19 alone?
[19:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Distance Measurements Bolster Challenge to Basic Model of Universe - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:14] <exec> 08└─> the universe is expanding is no longer valid. That's a big statement. More plausible would be the measured rate of universal expansion has a larger-than-expected systematic uncertainty (or even correction) i..e. the universe is expanding, but maybe at a different speed.
[19:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Distance Measurements Bolster Challenge to Basic Model of Universe - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:16] <exec> 08└─One of the interesting things about home schooling is seeing just how far one can push the science syllabus. My kids (poor things) have been taking on sciences 5+ grades above their nominal level and suck it up quite happily. I can't push much maths on them yet - and here I think learning algebra re...
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[20:22:04] <exec> 08└─found that democrats suffer from a hyperhypometabolic state.
[20:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Induce Hibernation-Like State in Non-Hibernating Rodents - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:05] <exec> 08└─Somehow I get the feeling that the scientists actually measured a drop in temperature from "about 36°C" to "22°C", and the conversion to Freedom Units was done by some journalist...
[20:23:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 4322 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:50] <exec> 08└─These photos are being circulated by the right for the purpose of fear mongering. This won't stop the spread of misinformation and the hypocrisy about the CHAZ by the right. When there's a photo of right wing citizens with long guns protesting on the steps of the Michigan capitol, they're patriots e...
[20:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:41] <exec> 08└─In case you've been living under a rock, everyone and their dog is developing a "covid-19 vaccine" right now. At full speed. With relaxed restrictions. When some outfit comes up with a candidate, if the state "strongly recommends" you take it, will you? Would you be concerned about its safety? If yo...
[20:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:42] <exec> 08└─Check to see if someone removed the images of four Norsemen with paperclips.
[20:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:44] <exec> 08└─Fox is definitely not "mainstream" from a Trumpist standpoint. It's the only one our cheeto in chief watches.
[20:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:47] <exec> 08└─And that would be a true statement.
[20:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:49] <exec> 08└─CNN used to be decent. MSNBC was never great, but at least you could see the spin pretty easily. A while back I went to CNN's website and what a shocker. It looked like Buzzfeed took a shit on half the page. It was unbelievably disgusting. It's only gotten worse since then. Now they mix the hype and...
[20:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:51] <exec> 08└─Local news is still keeping the clickbait and real news separate, but who knows how long that will last...
[20:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Record-Crushing Battery Lasts 1.2 Million Miles in Electric Cars - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:31] <exec> 08└─There is nothing to prevent battery-swapping EVs having the facility to charge from a charging point as well. Best of both worlds.
[20:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Record-Crushing Battery Lasts 1.2 Million Miles in Electric Cars - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:32] <exec> 08└─Positive ground on cars was still a standard in the UK into the 1960's. My father's car had it around that time. I understand that positive ground was preferred because the electrolytic corrosion in connections to the chassis (generally copper to steel) was less with positive earth, but then someone...
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[21:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Eggs Seem to Exhibit Preferences for Particular People's Sperm, Study Shows - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:51] <exec> 08└─Even if you get lucky, their eggs will reject you.
[21:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Eggs Seem to Exhibit Preferences for Particular People's Sperm, Study Shows - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:53] <exec> 08└─What the fuck does that mean?
[21:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Induce Hibernation-Like State in Non-Hibernating Rodents - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:04] <exec> 08└─Nailed it.
[21:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Says 'Years' Needed to Clean Up Arctic Spill - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:29] <exec> 08└─With fuckups on this scale, it's always both. The gross negligence is failing to ensure adequate safeguards and containment for when (not if) accidents do happen. Or are you suggesting that maybe there was no accident at all, and the spill was a deliberate act?
[21:22:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Apple's Market Cap Exceeded 1.5 Trillion Dollars - 125 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:54] <exec> 08└─Thanks, I prefer to remember the Panama papers, and the fact that Panama is far from the only tax haven that plays that game.
[21:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Market Cap Exceeded 1.5 Trillion Dollars - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:06] <exec> 08└─no paychecks for the military or police
[21:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's Market Cap Exceeded 1.5 Trillion Dollars - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:07] <exec> 08└─Apple has a high profit margin. It will continue to fatten as long as people keep buying Apple products.
[21:24:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 245 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:18] <exec> 08└─What FOX did was insert a guy with a gun that wasn't there. That doesn't emphasize or hide anyting about the situation as it was, it adds something that simply wasn't there and that's highly relevant to how it is perceived. That's a blatant lie.
[21:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:49] <exec> 08└─You won't notice the photo manipulation unless you're reading more than one where the copy/paste job shows up.
[21:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:51] <exec> 08└─So your lies match up with Fox out of some amazing coincidence? Hmm, maybe stupid is a transmittable condition. Oops sorry, didn't mean to associste you with a trans word, many apologies.
[21:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:53] <exec> 08└─Note the lack of replies defending against your attack. Sure liberal tilted media can do the same thing, but as usual you would rather attack someone else than pay attention, fix, or self-analyze your own problems. Conservative hypocrisy and stupidity at it again!! Try again when you're able to say...
[21:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:55] <exec> 08└─Not when one side is a literal neo-nazi march. No fine people are neo-nazis, by definition.
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[22:22:02] <exec> 08└─Yes means no.
[22:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06Human Eggs Seem to Exhibit Preferences for Particular People's Sperm, Study Shows - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:03] <exec> 08└─It means you should have paid attention in school.
[22:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Eggs Seem to Exhibit Preferences for Particular People's Sperm, Study Shows - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:06] <exec> 08└─Morse code? dash dot dot dot dash? Could be... LOL?
[22:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Eggs Seem to Exhibit Preferences for Particular People's Sperm, Study Shows - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:08] <exec> 08└─No mention at all of the same with parents of twins being a better match? Shit research.
[22:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Induce Hibernation-Like State in Non-Hibernating Rodents - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:20] <exec> 08└─Isn't this what would make the prison-industrial-complex salivate. They could just stack them like cattle (ok in some cases that might not be all to different from today), no need to feed them anything but some kind of water-saline-suger solutions and you can really cut down on the amount of guards...
[22:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Russia Says 'Years' Needed to Clean Up Arctic Spill - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:45] <exec> 08└─Wiki reports that she's pansexual - so good luck with stopping your head asploding from heterosexual white male outrage before you unbunch your tighty whities.
[22:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Market Cap Exceeded 1.5 Trillion Dollars - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:25] <exec> 08└─It's not about greed. People are getting more and more desperate - scraping by is the best the bottom 50‰ can hope for. It seems to me that Marx's theories about succession of economic systems are being validated in the US, where socialist institutions are sprouting on the corpse of capitalism and...
[22:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:12] <exec> 08└─To be fair, he's camouflaged by a rotating circle-jerk of about a dozen nutjobs just like him on this site. Or possibly they're all him?
[22:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:14] <exec> 08└─And that is how our justice system should work?
[22:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:16] <exec> 08└─lol satire just like trickle down tax cuts
[22:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:18] <exec> 08└─For the non natives, who is Q? Thanks. I remember a Q in Star Trek, but that would be trully weird.
[22:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fox News Runs Digitally Altered Images in Coverage of Seattle's Protests - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:20] <exec> 08└─Really? All I know is Alex Becker was boring me so much, I followed a link on his You Tube rants to John Oliver and got a near instant dopamine hit. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[22:25:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Pandemic's Silver Lining: Hot Car Deaths Plunge in USA - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:37] <exec> 08└─it should be even easier not to leave your children locked in a car.
[22:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Record-Crushing Battery Lasts 1.2 Million Miles in Electric Cars - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:02] <exec> 08└─Looks like some have modded this Off topic, but it's very important. Cobalt is certainly tied with modern slavery. Most mainstream battery manufacturers are avoiding using this element in their battery research. I've spoken to a few, and at work we're avoiding anything with Cobalt in it in our hybri...
[22:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Face Masks Don’t Even Have to Work Especially Well to be Effective - 1382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:48] <exec> 08└─Mike Osterholm from the CIDRAP - Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, Podcast: (Critical of cloth masks, but very supportive of mass-deployed special N95 masks) https://www.cidrap.umn.edu
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[22:29:13] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that, but again - I've done it many times before. The hunger adjusts downward the third or fourth day into calorie restriction, and everything is fine for a few months. The pounds melt off, it's not even that hard. Then somewhere in the 20-25 pound loss mark, the hunger starts creeping ba...
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[22:29:14] <exec> 08└─It's a social problem, but not necessarily the way you describe. When I was a kid I didn't have access to safe places for outdoor play and my parents were working too hard at their jobs to take us anywhere. So I spent a lot of time indoors, and my siblings and I were all fat. My career was good eno...
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[23:22:05] <exec> 08└─From the tfa : Further down the line, once we know that an egg and sperm are not happy with each other, there might be a way to convince them our choice of partner is the right one after all.
[23:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Eggs Seem to Exhibit Preferences for Particular People's Sperm, Study Shows - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:07] <exec> 08└─I feel so much better now.
[23:25:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03darkfeline [1030] 02 - 06New Distance Measurements Bolster Challenge to Basic Model of Universe - 759 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:47] <exec> 08└─These sorts of things make me wish that I were born further in the future (assuming humans are still around and thriving, anyway). For all its fault, contemporary education teaches a lot of overly simplified knowledge which is insanely valuable, the product of generations of work, which past societi...
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