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[00:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:24] <exec> 08└─It's come full circle in some computer RPGs. Consider Planescape: Torment, where you can not only negotiate your way out of fights, but you can gain new allies as well. Fail to negotiate what SHOULD have been a simple transaction and be forced to slog through a nasty sewer for less reward than you w...
[00:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:26] <exec> 08└─Is that the one where property prices plummet when the defund the police card is played?
[00:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:28] <exec> 08└─Sexy orc and goblin girls are chaotic good.
[00:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:30] <exec> 08└─https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/21105/minneapolis-st-paul-opolygame [boardgamegeek.com]
[00:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:32] <exec> 08└─Call Webster's to have the word changed to "deafricanamericante".
[00:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:34] <exec> 08└─As for drow and orcs: When a society is entirely devoted to warfare and slaughters everyone who dares enter their territory or gets in their way, it seems reasonable to classify that society as "evil."
[00:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 3883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:36] <exec> 08└─This sort of absurdity is what our enemies want us to say, to make us so absurd no one will listen; so these people are either our enemies or their useful idiots. "It is worth noting that this comes on the heels of a Twitter discussion on the racist history of orcs, initially spawned by a screenshot...
[00:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:39] <exec> 08└─#hashtagsmattertoo
[00:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:41] <exec> 08└─And then go out of business, because no one wants to buy this crap.
[00:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:43] <exec> 08└─Don't rationalize it. [psychologytoday.com] In reality they're responding to memes used during the European migrant crisis. [pics.me.me] What they don't understand is (that to the limited extent the memes hold true [jihadwatch.org]) they're validating them. We all know the sane and anti-racist respo...
[00:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Loneliness Alters Your Brain's Social Network - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:31] <exec> 08└─Ari isn't stupid
[00:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineers Develop New Fuel Cells with Twice the Operating Voltage as Hydrogen Fuel Cells - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:05] <exec> 08└─No. Transporting and storing it is as gas is impractical, the fuel isn't [timesofisrael.com]
[00:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York MTA is Battling COVID-19 with UV Lights and Infrared Sensors - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:49] <exec> 08└─Louis Rossmann disagrees [youtube.com]
[00:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York MTA is Battling COVID-19 with UV Lights and Infrared Sensors - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:51] <exec> 08└─Bad drivers are a danger to cyclists. Arrogant cyclists, not uncommon, are a danger to everyone on the road. Try following a cyclist on a 40 mph posted road, going 7 mph for a quarter mile and blocking the cars behind him; he thinks it's O.K. because he's going to turn left some day soon.
[00:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Reasonable are 80-Character Lines in 2020? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:17] <exec> 08└─Just put a blank line in between the groups of related statements and there is no readability problem
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[01:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Despite Clear Skies During the Pandemic, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Still Rising - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:58] <exec> 08└─Indonesia is one of the largest caliphates in the world. While America does its part by reducing CO2 emissions by moving to clean coal, these Muslims are burning peat (really dirty coal) to power the lights in their mosques and jihadi training camps.
[01:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Despite Clear Skies During the Pandemic, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Still Rising - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:59] <exec> 08└─Even the rednecks shake their heads.... Trump, that boy ain't right...
[01:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Despite Clear Skies During the Pandemic, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Still Rising - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:02] <exec> 08└─But let’s not forget the big picture: China and USA together emit almost half the world’s CO2 https://www.ucsusa.org [ucsusa.org]
[01:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Despite Clear Skies During the Pandemic, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Still Rising - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:04] <exec> 08└─And China said "not our problem, america polluted first" when asked about pollution. They don't give a fuck about gassing entire cities.
[01:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:45] <exec> 08└─Oooh, a whiny man child that didn't RTFA and grt a clue. Oh well, the rest if humanity will move on and you'll be arrested in 5-20 years for taking your anger out on others. I doubt the judge will care about your 3.5 rules and how you went into a berserker rage and should be let off with a nerdy ins...
[01:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:47] <exec> 08└─First most everything you wrote was correct... except "Elves had to be twisted into Orcs before they were proper servants for evil" Have you not read the Silmarillion. Tolkien's elves were NOT the innately 'lawful good' entities that made it into D&D. They were frequently selfish, jealous, murderous...
[01:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:49] <exec> 08└─Well... [wikipedia.org]
[01:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:51] <exec> 08└─and Deutsche Banker.
[01:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tedd [1691] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Reasonable are 80-Character Lines in 2020? - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:26] <exec> 08└─+1 for true old Twitter, not 280 new, fake Twitter.
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[02:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Despite Clear Skies During the Pandemic, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Still Rising - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:02] <exec> 08└─What you expect, bubba?! Damn boy is kraut immigrant yankee.
[02:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:47] <exec> 08└─The race mechanic was just a playing shorthand, a convenience. Like Anime character tropes. So you could spend more time playing and less time figuring out who/what you were dealing with... I don't recall ever confusing (or even associating) any of the game races with any real-life human phenotypes...
[02:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 1127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:49] <exec> 08└─"Tolkien's elves were NOT the innately 'lawful good' entities that made it into D&D. They were frequently selfish, jealous, murderous bastards. :)" I wasn't saying they were. "Lawful Good" is a D&Dism, but I wasn't referencing it. Elves are not necessarily always good in the way we would prefer to u...
[02:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:51] <exec> 08└─And how about making Westerns where everyone hates guns and instead settle their differences through group therapy? Look, it's genre role-playing. A genre has assumptions and expectations built in because they let the participant "get into" the game quicker. Frankly, it's also familiar so the audien...
[02:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:53] <exec> 08└─The humans and other races under Sauron /are/ explicitly said to be evil, and there is no characterization that changes that viewpoint at all.
[02:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virus Crisis Gives Throwaway Plastic a New Lease on Life - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:17] <exec> 08└─Martians like to make hang gliders out of single use plastic bags and plastic straws.
[02:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Loneliness Alters Your Brain's Social Network - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:43] <exec> 08└─Lack of loneliness reduces brain-space to process thought/feeling, and deludes you into believing that other people are just like you. Curmudgeons rule! Now get off my lawn.
[02:23:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] 02 - 06More Than 70 Malicious Apps Exposed on Chrome Browser's Web Store - 277 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:58] <exec> 08└─it should be a headline every day on every website in the world that google and facebook and apple and amazon are dangerous bullshit ruining the world. (apologies for the short list, twitter, akamai, goldman sachs, NCR, amdocs...) They are not going to stop until we stop them.
[02:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70 Malicious Apps Exposed on Chrome Browser's Web Store - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:04] <exec> 08└─I see what you did there.
[02:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 70 Malicious Apps Exposed on Chrome Browser's Web Store - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:06] <exec> 08└─Because it is that important for everyone to know about it. ... trundles off to check the many extensions...
[02:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineers Develop New Fuel Cells with Twice the Operating Voltage as Hydrogen Fuel Cells - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:21] <exec> 08└─Scam.
[02:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Reasonable are 80-Character Lines in 2020? - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:35] <exec> 08└─"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." — Brian W. Kernighan
[02:30:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech and Social Media Make Us Feel Lonelier than Ever - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:28] <exec> 08└─Used to be close to 100% labour participation, people started working at perhaps 5 years old and worked till death basically. Now what is the labour participation? Looking it seems to be about 60% after subtracting people in school and retired but it is hard to find honest statistics. There's lots o...
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[03:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:59] <exec> 08└─DUKE NUKEM is going to be replaced with a gay transvestite that identifies as straight, armed with a butterfly net. Monsters will be replaced with Teletubbies.
[03:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:00] <exec> 08└─Why, amidst all the frantic backpedaling and long overdue introspection, now even in the world of nerds (not that we should be exempt), is nobody demanding Lucas’ apology for Jar Jar?
[03:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:02] <exec> 08└─The fundamental mistake we make here is in covering up our caste distinctions with a 'racial' mythology. The world of D&D, before this idiocy took hold, at least, was a wonderful antidote to such nonsense. Having genuine racial differences in the game made it more clear and obvious that there are no...
[03:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:04] <exec> 08└─Fucking omni-insultees are ruining the world.
[03:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kymation [1047] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:07] <exec> 08└─They should probably look up the root of "denigrate" = "to blacken". Isn't that an ethnic slur?
[03:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineers Develop New Fuel Cells with Twice the Operating Voltage as Hydrogen Fuel Cells - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:33] <exec> 08└─It is true that electrical power is equal to amps times volts. BUT electric motors need a lot of amps to generate a magnetic field powerful enough to spin the wheels and move the mass of the car forward. That is where your mind messed up. The motors are the constraint here in the power equation.
[03:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Reasonable are 80-Character Lines in 2020? - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:47] <exec> 08└─A lot of these conventions date back to when people exchanged diffs through mail and centralized systems like CVS. They make the code changes much cleaner while also making it easier to parse in your head. For example: int func( int x, int y, int z ) { ...
[03:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Reasonable are 80-Character Lines in 2020? - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:49] <exec> 08└─Going to 100, or a soft increase on 80, so 80 if possible but up to 100-110 if it would make the code look messy, is fine. However allowing infinite-length lines makes code really difficult to read, I'd rather have an excessively-complex expression on one line broken down into a few logical blocks o...
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[04:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Despite Clear Skies During the Pandemic, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Still Rising - 3339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:12] <exec> 08└─Again, CO2 levels are NOT at 471.1 ppm. They were at 417.1 ppm. I get it, the phys.org article has an error. Perhaps SN would have accurate information if the text of stories weren't merely copied and pasted. Maybe summaries should be shorter and people should be submitted to actually write brief su...
[04:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Despite Clear Skies During the Pandemic, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Still Rising - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:13] <exec> 08└─Nice summary -- here's the official page on CO2 levels, https://research.noaa.gov [noaa.gov]
[04:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Despite Clear Skies During the Pandemic, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Still Rising - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:15] <exec> 08└─I anticipate that the clearer skies this spring due to slightly less pollution will likely add to the increase in average global temperature this year. The difference in CO2 is probably negligible, but I expect the lower levels of particulate matter and general "smog" to have a greater effect.
[04:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 2531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:10] <exec> 08└─"You're missing something I think. D&D used to be played with imagination. It started out with physical dice and not random number generators." You're missing something. D&D is still played the same way. Yes, MMOs exist, but they're not D&D. "The Dungeon Master created the world, and they did it acc...
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[04:23:11] <exec> 08└─Fixed your topic. If you want to know what race stands in for black, brown, indigenous, or whatever other group of humans, it's black, brown, indigenous, or whatever humans. All the great variety of humans are present in the game, plus more besides, if you are creative enough. Orcs aren't humans. Or...
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[04:23:13] <exec> 08└─The puritans who hated that game were never Christians. They were 'karens'. They used Christianity as a device to show outrage. They have taken upon themselves a new cause. The cause of 'justice'. The only problem is their form of justice is one of hatred and dividing people into ever smaller groups...
[04:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:15] <exec> 08└─Mermen that hang out in volcanoes?
[04:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zoom Will Provide End-to-End Encryption to All Users - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:13] <exec> 08└─Zoom should just rename themselves to Chameleon. Their position on encryption has changed literally 4+ times. And reasons seem to always change too. First they had E2EE, then didn't, then some did, then all do, what's next? Meanwhile they acquired that company that does encryption. I don't know how...
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[05:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spacex Wants to Build Floating Spaceports for Daily Starship Launches - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:59] <exec> 08└─The main Mask's motivation is to get rid of the US regulations. He wants to set up suborbital travel anywhere in 30 minutes. Doable in reasonable time, but no way FAA approved anytime soon if ever.
[05:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinnia Zirconium [11163] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Haveibeenpwned and Facebook Attack their Customers - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:06] <exec> 08└─Um, yeah. That's why you write all your SQL in prepared statements. So SQL injection doesn't wipe out your entire database.
[05:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Despite Clear Skies During the Pandemic, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Still Rising - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:22] <exec> 08└─Sounds very falsifiable! Should be interesting to see.
[05:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:20] <exec> 08└─yep, the Divine Justice Warriors. People should wrap their head around the concept of evil having no ideology whatsoever. If praising Jesus advance their agenda, they do it. If it's satan time, they switch. Good people instead see their cherished models of the world destroyed in one second and they...
[05:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:22] <exec> 08└─It's obvious you are not comfortable with Latin, you islamojewnigger troll. De-nigrate is "to remove nigritude". If removing nigritude is semantically bad, it follows that nigritude is semantically GOOD, duh.
[05:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York MTA is Battling COVID-19 with UV Lights and Infrared Sensors - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:36] <exec> 08└─Try following a cyclist on a 40 mph posted road, going 7 mph for a quarter mile and blocking the cars behind him
[05:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Oil Slumps, Norway Explores New Fields in the Arctic - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:05] <exec> 08└─Why are we picking on Norway...everybody does that.
[05:31:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tech and Social Media Make Us Feel Lonelier than Ever - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:02] <exec> 08└─Used to be close to 100% labour participation, people started working at perhaps 5 years old and worked till death basically. Now what is the labour participation?
[05:31:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech and Social Media Make Us Feel Lonelier than Ever - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:03] <exec> 08└─So what, a 110% of the population is involved in jobs that are actually productive? Perhaps only 101%, but I sure know of a lot of people on disability.
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[06:21:59] <exec> 08└─A dozen launches daily! Each containing Elong Musky's superior sperm!
[06:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Despite Clear Skies During the Pandemic, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Still Rising - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:22] <exec> 08└─Increase or decrease in average temperatures would be hard to predict, but I would expect greater daily swings. If you go camping you soon learn that clean clear skies mean cold nights, regardless of how hot the days are.
[06:22:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 3883 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:00] <exec> 08└─This sort of absurdity is what our enemies want us to say, to make us so absurd no one will listen; so these people are either our enemies or their useful idiots. "It is worth noting that this comes on the heels of a Twitter discussion on the racist history of orcs, initially spawned by a screenshot...
[06:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03helel [2949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:23] <exec> 08└─Let's not forget the part where Drow were cursed with black skin to reflect their black hearts. When it comes to real world implications of fantasy races that's not even subtle. Besides, murdering people is, as per the definition in the players handbook, a good deed if your victim is "evil" and as s...
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[06:23:24] <exec> 08└─let's compare that to our world see where it gets us sub-race of the elves that hate all other elves muslims hate each other and everyone else. it's in their book their actions reflect this I, against my brothers. I and my brothers against my cousins. I and my brothers and my cousins against the wor...
[06:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:27] <exec> 08└─When I was a kid, D&D was considered Satanic by the authoritarian assholes of my time. Looks like authoritarian assholery is bipartisan.
[06:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03helel [2949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 1324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:29] <exec> 08└─The artwork in most editions would certainly imply that the good races are all white. If fourth edition the artwork got a little more inclusive and the description of every single player race went out of it's way to say you could have whatever skin/hair/eye color you wanted. As for the alignment sys...
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[07:22:07] <exec> 08└─Now we know where Little Bobby Tables' mom works.
[07:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Despite Clear Skies During the Pandemic, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Still Rising - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:24] <exec> 08└─Blah blah blah ... totally ignore massive yelling (expelling air forcefully from lungs through mouth) protest crowds ... blah blah blah ... "now that Democrat governors are taking the virus quite seriously" (unless it means going to a massive protest in which they won't even contact trace because re...
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[07:22:26] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your post. It's good to see my post has already triggered one right wing snowflake. If the protests were actually responsible for the increase in coronavirus cases, why aren't we seeing them everywhere that such protests occurred? Why aren't cases in New York City and Minneapolis surgi...
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[07:23:18] <exec> 08└─The fundamental mistake we make here is in covering up our caste distinctions with a 'racial' mythology. The world of D&D, before this idiocy took hold, at least, was a wonderful antidote to such nonsense. Having genuine racial differences in the game made it more clear and obvious that there are no...
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[07:23:31] <exec> 08└─No. I hope you're just pretending to be a retard to fit in with the rest of the redhats, but I strongly doubt you are.
[07:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:33] <exec> 08└─I don't recall ever confusing (or even associating) any of the game races with any real-life human phenotypes or hearing it done by others. It was just never a thing.
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[08:22:13] <exec> 08└─was going to post the same thing :) For those who haven't seen it Bobby Tables [xkcd.com]
[08:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:38] <exec> 08└─How to Destroy America [frostywooldridge.com] old article that is still as valid and insightful as it was the day it was written and Lamm's speech given. I always think of what Lamm said when I read about this or that company/group "Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues"
[08:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:39] <exec> 08└─Yep. America got totally invaded by foreign speakers. Its real languages has been mostly lost. This is totally evil. All speakers of English, Spanish, French etc don't belong there. They should return whence they came. And we should stop further immigration. If you want to stay you need to learn Ame...
[08:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Loneliness Alters Your Brain's Social Network - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:30] <exec> 08└─Head-up-the-ass boot-licking scumsucking Florida-man Key Lime lizard. Problem with being stupid, you don't know you are. Ari is just letting a little bit of light into your private world. (In Greek, the term is Etymology The word "idiot" comes from the Greek noun ἰδιώτης idiōtēs 'a private...
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[08:24:32] <exec> 08└─Say that with your real username, you belly-scratching coward! You are more hate than the ancient one! Nobody likes you, and nobody showed up to your Tulsa rally!
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[09:22:27] <exec> 08└─Somehow that's what you are implicitly saying. Me? The others!
[09:23:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03krishnoid [1156] 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 201 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:03] <exec> 08└─As for drow and orcs: When a society is entirely devoted to warfare and slaughters everyone who dares enter their territory or gets in their way, it seems reasonable to classify that society as "evil."
[09:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:35] <exec> 08└─I have bad news for you, Bot: https://www.online-latin-dictionary.com [online-latin-dictionary.com] Denigro 1 to blacken, to make black 2 to colour very black, to blacken utterly 3 to asperse, to defame
[09:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 1648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:37] <exec> 08└─Oh boy if someone is offended at things like the history of non-existent races, they're going to have a fucking aneurysm if they ever come across the rulebook for the worst RPG ever conceived, FATAL [1d4chan.org]. I feel I should start with one of the least awful quotes straight from the manual: "Sh...
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[09:23:39] <exec> 08└─Because entertainment detracts from having every spare waking moment devoted entirely to social justice and the progressive agenda. As this is obviously the one and only thing that is worth spending time on in life, this obviously means that all games must be turned into propaganda, so that it is im...
[09:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York MTA is Battling COVID-19 with UV Lights and Infrared Sensors - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:56] <exec> 08└─https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/coronavirus-social-distancing-walking-running-cyclists-advice-a9457431.html [independent.co.uk] The paper, entitled Social Distancing v2.0: During Walking, Running and Cycling, found walkers should keep at least 4m clear when following oth...
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[10:22:40] <exec> 08└─Again, CO2 levels are NOT at 471.1 ppm. They were at 417.1 ppm.
[10:22:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 191 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:52] <exec> 08└─Well I for one think D&D getting politically correct doesn't come one minute too soon: this game has been turning nerdy teenagers into raging Nazis for 50 years and it's high time it stopped.
[10:22:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 86 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:55] <exec> 08└─You mustn't have entered a teenager's room full of dirty laundry for a long time then.
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[10:23:38] <exec> 08└─The puritans who hated that game were never Christians. They were 'karens'. They used Christianity as a device to show outrage. They have taken upon themselves a new cause. The cause of 'justice'. The only problem is their form of justice is one of hatred and dividing people into ever smaller groups...
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[10:23:53] <exec> 08└─Monopoly has always been a propaganda vehicle. It was originally The Landlord's Game, which had two modes, one in which you cooperated and was intended to demonstrate the benefits of living in a socialist society, the other in which you competed and was intended to demonstrate that a capitalist soci...
[10:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:54] <exec> 08└─This delightful parody video [newgrounds.com] was actually my introduction to D&D all those years ago. Thanks for reminding me it existed.
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[11:22:08] <exec> 08└─It isn't going to be 30mins if you have a significant boat / chopper ride to add on at each end. If it happens, it may end up the way flying has gone post-911, with short flights now better done by car or train due to having to add on 3hrs security / checkin / mandatory shopping time (plus more at d...
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[11:22:10] <exec> 08└─If something goes wrong I think marine life will be in same state as with current arrangements - almost everywhere rockets are launched with water down range, if something goes wrong the whole flaming caboodle ends up on top of marine life anyway, sea or land launch.
[11:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Despite Clear Skies During the Pandemic, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Still Rising - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:40] <exec> 08└─It is the cloud cover that acts as the insulating layer. I don't believe that particulate matter in the air has nearly as significant of an effect on nighttime heat dissipation.
[11:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:54] <exec> 08└─Such games are still extremely rare since just spamming combat for rewards with diminishing returns just to waste people's time is more economically efficient from "business" standpoint. That is it results in more play time in exchange for less developer/writer/voice-actor time. And having inherentl...
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[11:27:44] <exec> 08└─Yeah code that's very heavily broken into small functions and lots of classes may make it easier to quickly get a high level understanding of it, but it can quickly become very irritating once you have to step through it all just to find whereabouts you need to insert a bug fix or add a feature, unl...
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[12:22:01] <exec> 08└─3D toy used to measure ability of younglings to do 3D things. What a time to be alive...
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[12:22:21] <exec> 08└─Floating spaceports would be really cool if they were floating in the sky. Imagine if you could build them at, say 10k metres up, and launch the rockets (and land them again) from there. It would save a fair bit of rocket fuel, and you could have them more or less wherever you liked, and move them i...
[12:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Haveibeenpwned and Facebook Attack their Customers - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:32] <exec> 08└─They're the products. The customers are FB itself, Cambridge Analytica, the FBI...
[12:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:09] <exec> 08└─In truth, I'd be more shaken if my interpretation of denigrate had been accurate.
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[12:24:10] <exec> 08└─OK. What about Europe where the Caucasians are the native race? Do they get to kick out the invading races and should they stop taking them in? It's their continent, right? CRICKETS.
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[13:22:02] <exec> 08└─We had wooden blocks which do not enforce alignment/attachment like Lego, and require careful placement to build towers--or face the reality of gravity. A few years later was Meccano/Erector that taught nuts&bolts (and not swallowing small parts). I'm known for out of the box thinking and tolerance...
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[13:22:20] <exec> 08└─If you have the technology to make a floating spaceport, do you even need a rocket?
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[13:27:56] <exec> 08└─For yade[1,2] development we configured 160 chars in .clang-format profile. In my private ~/.clang-format I use 210 chars. [1] https://yade-dem.org [yade-dem.org] [2] https://gitlab.com [gitlab.com]
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[14:21:55] <exec> 08└─A more useful study would have looked at the link between circadian abnormalities and susceptibility to COVID-19. #CoronavirusesMatter
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[14:21:57] <exec> 08└─College students see improved sleep with COVID-19 pandemic [upi.com]
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[14:22:10] <exec> 08└─>> Where is the study that compares "analog" and "digital" toys during childhood? Yue Wang, Karl Yaffe, Terrence Blackwell, et al. "Association of Digital Toys in Childhood with Later Gender Abnormalities in Young Adults Including an Increased Risk of Transgenderism", JAMA Millennial Studies (DOI: 1...
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[14:22:11] <exec> 08└─>> They turned to LEGO, which was designed with that younger age range in mind and is familiar to many children. Poor children (BIPOC overrepresented) are less likely to have access to overpriced LEGO sets in childhood, so they won't have a chance to practice for these exams. As a result, fewer BIPO...
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[14:22:13] <exec> 08└─BIPOC children get dead rats to play with now? Spoiled rotten... when I was a child, we had to kill our own rats or we went without.
[14:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Wants to Build Floating Spaceports for Daily Starship Launches - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:34] <exec> 08└─Yes, I have a ludicrous idea I might share with you, but it would be better in a journal.
[14:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:23] <exec> 08└─At least one part is still accurate, the game of monopoly still isn't fun. Monopoly-rage is real.
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[14:24:25] <exec> 08└─I remember Planescape: Torment it was sort of a game changer when it came out, so many games before had included text and dialogue but it was quite frankly optional and most people just didn't bother with it since it always more or less ended in the same -- go out and slay something evil and then re...
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[14:25:17] <exec> 08└─Nope, he's an idiot. My god is he stupid. I'm sorry that you're not bright enough to notice his inability to understand even basic English.
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[15:21:50] <exec> 08└─Brilliant research. Who woulda thought a wild animal is upset with a large thumping noise. Must be Canada again.
[15:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whales are Disturbed by Engine Noise from Boats - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:51] <exec> 08└─Fair's fair, I'm disturbed by whales. Whales are not conducive to peace of mind when you're in a fishing boat.
[15:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whales are Disturbed by Engine Noise from Boats - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:54] <exec> 08└─Thanks for sharing that, Captain Ahab.
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[15:21:56] <exec> 08└─Fair's fair, I'm disturbed by whales. Whales are not conducive to peace of mind when you're not in a fishing boat.
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[15:22:05] <exec> 08└─Financial Stress Now The #1 Reason Millennials Lose Sleep [thefinancialbrand.com] Why the Covid-19 economy is particularly devastating to millennials, in 14 charts [vox.com]
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[15:22:17] <exec> 08└─Didn't this use to be, or perhaps still is, a core part of (or subset of) intelligence testing -- visual spatial testing. You get a drawn a picture of a shape and then they tell you to rotate it say X degrees along some axis and then they wonder what it will look like and you are offered a few choic...
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[15:22:19] <exec> 08└─for me "tests for kids" always sounds funny. it kindda implies that if you grow up (not a kid anymore) you will somehow, magically solve the test "in your sleep" just because of virtue of growing up. secondly "tests for kids" gives me a bad feeling because, you know, you're testing people early on s...
[15:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Graphene-Based Textile Cools in the Heat and Warms in the Cold - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:26] <exec> 08└─If you wear one of these jackets inside-out, you would have heat build up until you vanish in a poof of smoke!
[15:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Graphene-Based Textile Cools in the Heat and Warms in the Cold - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:28] <exec> 08└─Sounds like these would sell well to jihadis in Muslim countries.
[15:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Wants to Build Floating Spaceports for Daily Starship Launches - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:41] <exec> 08└─Boeing got into a lot of trouble. The US government owns everything you think you own. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[15:23:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Common Joe [33] 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 356 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:57] <exec> 08└─The race mechanic was just a playing shorthand, a convenience. Like Anime character tropes. So you could spend more time playing and less time figuring out who/what you were dealing with... I don't recall ever confusing (or even associating) any of the game races with any real-life human phenotypes...
[15:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:31] <exec> 08└─Aside from the sarcastic hyperbole, that's mostly correct. They use whisper networks, take control of the HR dept, intimidate or harass anyone who falls out of line, and do whatever they can to get their enemies to grovel, exit, or commit suicide. Basically turning workplaces and whole industries in...
[15:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:32] <exec> 08└─The artwork might have more to do with the setting of the game, it's no big secret that Forgotten Realms / Faerun and World of Greyhawk are more or less norther-european, sort of the classic fantasy world ala Tolkien if you wish -- you can probably even pick out the characters and find the equivalen...
[15:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:34] <exec> 08└─The Left wants you to forever roleplay their fantasy game.
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[16:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whales are Disturbed by Engine Noise from Boats - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:00] <exec> 08└─good lord! and i thought it was the other way around and the reason why nature loving humans where putting all them boats in the ocean ...
[16:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whales are Disturbed by Engine Noise from Boats - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:02] <exec> 08└─Way back when powered ships took over transport duties; many noted that Whales quickly became scarce near shipping routes. If you want to watch whales, I suggest using a sailboat.
[16:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whales are Disturbed by Engine Noise from Boats - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:04] <exec> 08└─Well, apparently my downstairs neighbor doesn't get that - playing loud obnoxious music at all hours shaking the floor also with loud, rowdy, probably drugged up fiends, likely with some fucking going on too. Well, I can shake the building too by jumping my whale ass up and down while screaming 'shu...
[16:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using LEGO to Test Children's Ability to Visualize and Rotate 3D Shapes in Space - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:26] <exec> 08└─Back in the day, LEGO was a box of mostly generic bricks. Main toy was let's say a car with full-fledged walkthrough how to build it. With three more pictures on the other side what could be still built with the set and maybe some pieces would remain unused. Now, I've got two kids now, and I've noti...
[16:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using LEGO to Test Children's Ability to Visualize and Rotate 3D Shapes in Space - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:27] <exec> 08└─Dude, LEGO was always on the more expensive side. That's the price to pay for having the precision and that the thing holds together. (Compare to cheap chinese clones). As a kid, I remember saving money for that one specific set for couple of months and then getting it. The joy was in the chase, in...
[16:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using LEGO to Test Children's Ability to Visualize and Rotate 3D Shapes in Space - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:30] <exec> 08└─You misunderstood the test. The way it works is they show the test subject children the latest Star Wars Mega LEGO set, and see how quickly they can manipulate their parents into buying it for them. It combines Californian's love of consumption with USDC's love of funding from LEGO.
[16:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using LEGO to Test Children's Ability to Visualize and Rotate 3D Shapes in Space - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:32] <exec> 08└─Only a couple of years ago? It's been going on for a decade or two now. Also remember to get the correctly gendered legos. We can't have the little ones getting the idea that gender should not imply segregation, and especially girls might grow up ignorant of the danger of novel, vaccine-resistant bo...
[16:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Graphene-Based Textile Cools in the Heat and Warms in the Cold - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:41] <exec> 08└─could also find its way into advanced displays and even spacesuits.
[16:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Haveibeenpwned and Facebook Attack their Customers - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:05] <exec> 08└─It still shocks me that, to this day, some people submit ess queue ell to the database inline rather than through prepared statements. I can understand how people who submit SEQUEL to an ess queue ell database probably lock the brain capacity to tell the difference, but they should have been fired l...
[16:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Haveibeenpwned and Facebook Attack their Customers - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:06] <exec> 08└─too bad. facebook sayZ everybody needs to go thru approved channels to get to know teenage girls. time to invent the personal time machine and go back to school...
[16:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Haveibeenpwned and Facebook Attack their Customers - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:09] <exec> 08└─Dammit! A perfectly good ribbing ruined by a typo!
[16:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Despite Clear Skies During the Pandemic, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Still Rising - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:31] <exec> 08└─It is the cloud cover that acts as the insulating layer.
[16:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 1656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:53] <exec> 08└─In the midst of their observations of the volcano, the merfolk stumble upon the murky lair of Cerisia, an adolescent red dragon. It is, strangely, a giant pile of ash and charred plant matter, rather than gold and gems, the dragon resides upon. Her red skin has enough soot coverage that she will li...
[16:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:55] <exec> 08└─Somebody thought this was . . . "Interesting"? ? ?
[16:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:57] <exec> 08└─First they have to play musical chairs, every group moving back to where they came from (NO ONE is native to their area in a really true sense). Eventually we'll all be converging to fight it out over Africa.
[16:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:59] <exec> 08└─they probably meant the Jews, but Mohammedanism was just a rip off of Judaism anyways so either one is fine.
[16:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:01] <exec> 08└─if you view the political spectrum as a circle and the top right is libertarianism and anarcho-capitalism and the top left is types of anarchism, then the democrat and republican parties are on the bottom of the circle where all the authoritarianism is.
[16:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:03] <exec> 08└─except all this cultural marxism is actually a tool for white genocide. https://www.bitchute.com [bitchute.com]
[16:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:05] <exec> 08└─In universe of Witcher, there persists a systematic racial prejudice against Elves. Even more deadly than the racial prejudice against Dwarves. https://witcher.fandom.com [fandom.com] Those embedded racist motives are often so important in building up story lines, fates of particular person...
[16:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:08] <exec> 08└─Familiar is quick, and popular with the majority, but the familiar world also promoted racial stereotypes, regardless of whether people were conscious of it or not. Today, it's pretty unanimously agreed upon that JRR Tolkien was vehemently xenophobic, and a racist. He was also one of the most popula...
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[17:22:06] <exec> 08└─Practice clogging and/or bagpipes.
[17:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whales are Disturbed by Engine Noise from Boats - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:07] <exec> 08└─Just be thankful you don't live next door to a single mom that looks like mrs piggy, and your bedroom shares a wall with yours, and you have to listen to her having sex with the plumber. There was a strange squeeking noise I've never heard before while having sex.
[17:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disrupted Circadian Rhythms Linked to Later Parkinson's Diagnoses - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:18] <exec> 08└─Sounds like just another p-hacking "research."
[17:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Wants to Build Floating Spaceports for Daily Starship Launches - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:00] <exec> 08└─just like your kids that you had in a slave warehouse called a hospital. (people, not necessarily "you") that's why they get a SSN. The "product" of government licensed marriages is property of the state and you are only the legally appointed "guardian". People need to stop registering their kids an...
[17:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Despite Clear Skies During the Pandemic, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Still Rising - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:36] <exec> 08└─Anyone can submit a story. If you think you can do better, please contribute.
[17:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:07] <exec> 08└─Why do you think the Mongoloids are more indigenous than Caucasoids? It's not true. Whites were everywhere first. Who in the fuck do you think built the pyramids all over the world? Aliens? The hunter gatherer Mongoloids who hadn't developed anything more than nomadic tribes? Wake the fuck up! The M...
[17:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:08] <exec> 08└─Next episode of Ancient Aliens.
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[18:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Navy Testing Solar Power Beaming Tech in Space - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:58] <exec> 08└─Now they call it power beaming, once completed it will be a death-ray. Remember Alderaan!
[18:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Navy Testing Solar Power Beaming Tech in Space - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:59] <exec> 08└─So, mirrors?
[18:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Navy Testing Solar Power Beaming Tech in Space - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:01] <exec> 08└─Weird Science [youtube.com]!
[18:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Navy Testing Solar Power Beaming Tech in Space - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:04] <exec> 08└─>> "If you put a magnifying glass in front of your WiFI router, it doesn't start melting anything." True... except you don't need to melt something to kill it. Microwaves are the exact wavelength used by 5G, so the plan could be to kill large numbers of people by increasing their susceptibility to C...
[18:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Navy Testing Solar Power Beaming Tech in Space - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:06] <exec> 08└─"If you put a magnifying glass in front of your WiFI router, it doesn't start melting anything." I also don't use router for power transfer.
[18:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Navy Testing Solar Power Beaming Tech in Space - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:08] <exec> 08└─Use a gigantic parabolic dish.
[18:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03oumuamua [8401] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Whales are Disturbed by Engine Noise from Boats - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:24] <exec> 08└─I'm constantly disturbed by engine noise from: *lawn mowers *leaf blowers *weed wackers These could all be electric, how do we still allow gas powered models to be sold??? Especially considering that after the sales are banned the ones already sold will run for years after.
[18:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whales are Disturbed by Engine Noise from Boats - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:25] <exec> 08└─Are you saying you're a whale?
[18:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using LEGO to Test Children's Ability to Visualize and Rotate 3D Shapes in Space - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:54] <exec> 08└─Really, where is the kickback from smart phone sales? Things simply can't be news these days without subsidies from the smart phone industry. Like "Study Shows Rectal Insertion of Smart Phone Decreases Gas Emissions - All Praise Smart Phones! And don't forget to get more alerts with our FREE streami...
[18:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 1239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:27] <exec> 08└─But it was definitely the one that non-nerd society remembers. Wasteland which was a decade earlier had children in-game that you could murder. It was how you drew out the (something) Ranger, who had the Red Ryder BB Gun, which was one of the best and earliest weapons you could get, if you played yo...
[18:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:28] <exec> 08└─I think they were called Chic Flics or something, but they used to run in that Radio Shack magaine and a few other places, giving these little stories of how the satanic and evil dungeon masters corrupted members of their groups, how people were ignored and shunned when their characters died, etc. I...
[18:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:30] <exec> 08└─The trick was, in most situations it was murder in order to save another (or more often, hundreds or thousands) of other lives, which make it go from murder to justified homicide. This of course got glossed over by most people just like the various ways one could shift alignment (ranging from your a...
[18:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:32] <exec> 08└─Better to be honest and accept for what it is. The book and the author are both products of his time. Accept the good with the bad. Don't try so hard to twist things up just so that you can lie to yourself.
[18:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:35] <exec> 08└─I can see Romulans being Drow and Vulcans being other Elves. Klingons, idk, I see them more like Dwarves. They seems to have more dimension to them than just fighting. Clans and honor and whatnot. I see Orcs more like that one Dominion race that was genetically modified to fight and obey the founder...
[18:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York MTA is Battling COVID-19 with UV Lights and Infrared Sensors - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:55] <exec> 08└─North of NYC Is westchester county, which has high property taxes we don't feel like paying. we have never lived anywhere north of NYC. Brooklyn only. are you mentally impaired that you continue to insist I live where I don't live?
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[18:27:56] <exec> 08└─That's not so. I previously lived in kyushu and only got around by bike. there not only was no bike infrastructure, but most times there weren't even shoulders to the roads, and sidewalks were inaccessible because of pedestrian fencing. Yet biking there was fine. I will confess that I prefer dedicat...
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[18:27:58] <exec> 08└─I disagree. you don't need flat places to bike. NYC is hillier than most people realize, and it's not a problem to bike here. also, I biked in japan a lot, and it's quite hilly. now, if you live in a very hilly place like san francisco or pittsburgh, you'd probably have to work up to it, but I'll le...
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[19:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinnia Zirconium [11163] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Navy Testing Solar Power Beaming Tech in Space - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:00] <exec> 08└─Ooooo. Can I use a power beam to charge my phone?
[19:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Navy Testing Solar Power Beaming Tech in Space - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:02] <exec> 08└─agree with frist post: now they call it "powerbeaming". it's like putting a horse into a big hamsterwheel that's mounted on a train and connects to the wheel. that's "beaming" solar power from outerspace to earth ... soon, ofc there will be a small chemical powerplant that converts horse manure and...
[19:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Navy Testing Solar Power Beaming Tech in Space - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:04] <exec> 08└─"and its innards consist of the first hardware ever launched to orbit that converts solar energy into microwaves." I think that would have been the solar powered transmitters for either Vanguard 1 or Explorer 6 in 1959, depending on what you'll accept for "microwaves". (Even if you demand a gigahert...
[19:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03oumuamua [8401] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Whales are Disturbed by Engine Noise from Boats - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:21] <exec> 08└─I'm saying the whales will get nothing but a deaf ear when they complain about noise, because even if the boats could be quieter some marketer will decide that is a bad thing: https://www.washingtonpost.com
[19:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whales are Disturbed by Engine Noise from Boats - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:23] <exec> 08└─It's all fun and games until the space whale ship enters orbit and begins stripping away your atmosphere.
[19:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whales are Disturbed by Engine Noise from Boats - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:25] <exec> 08└─We have done something deeply damaging to men. Masculinity is protective and creative, but it has been warped to be toxic and destructive. Why do American men seek to pollute their environment with noise and worse instead of protecting it for their children?
[19:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whales are Disturbed by Engine Noise from Boats - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:27] <exec> 08└─Where I live, the electric ones are every bit as noisy as the gas powered ones.
[19:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disrupted Circadian Rhythms Linked to Later Parkinson's Diagnoses - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:38] <exec> 08└─Sleep problem might be a sign of parkinsons, so now that you cant sleep you worry about that, which potentially feeds the parkinsons. Theory confirmed.
[19:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using LEGO to Test Children's Ability to Visualize and Rotate 3D Shapes in Space - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:57] <exec> 08└─Poor children (BIPOC overrepresented) are less likely to have access to overpriced LEGO sets in childhood.
[19:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Wants to Build Floating Spaceports for Daily Starship Launches - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:23] <exec> 08└─For a foreseeable future Mask is going to have preapproved very rich clients who can get to the start pad by their own means just fine and don't need government security. They helicopter to Manhattan daily right now. It will add just an hour to commute to Singapore.
[19:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Wants to Build Floating Spaceports for Daily Starship Launches - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:24] <exec> 08└─Now, an ecological footprint of moving a rich ass this way is huge, but I hope nobody here really thinks Musk cares. After all, the sooner we burn this planet, the sooner we will have to move to Mars.
[19:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Haveibeenpwned and Facebook Attack their Customers - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:38] <exec> 08└─That's what a good 90 % of the tutorials that come up in a web search have people do, and that's the code that ends up copy/pasted into production.
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[19:24:03] <exec> 08└─Well, when NYC won't even ask those positive whether they went to a protest, it's quite easy to know the data is crap. You lot spinning science to support ideological agendas is the greatest threat to science. It was easy to dismiss religious nutters but when you let your own brand of religious nutt...
[19:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 1177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:40] <exec> 08└─It's an anime/manga that deals with EXACTLY this moral quandry and shows the full effects. Basically the goblins in the fantasy world (which covers the full range of mythical beasts, although goblins are the primary villains) steal and rape human (and maybe demi-human) women in order to produce more...
[19:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:42] <exec> 08└─Or Admiral Akbar. Or oh so many characters in Indiana Jones. I mean if we start down this rabbithole, we're at the Ministry of Truth rewriting every fact to coincide with the new worldview, and oh which a new change has come in we have to start reediting all our truths once again. There is a reason...
[19:29:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Reasonable are 80-Character Lines in 2020? - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:38] <exec> 08└─I hadn't seen this before. That was hilarious. Thank you for the laugh. I needed that. And thank you for posting a link that illustrated so beautifully what I was trying to say.
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[20:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Is Teleportation Possible? Yes, in the Quantum World - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:58] <exec> 08└─Every time a black person breathes on you, SARS-CoV-2 teleports directly into your body whether you wear a face covering or not.
[20:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is Teleportation Possible? Yes, in the Quantum World - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:59] <exec> 08└─Send the signal 13 billion years out, or even just to the moon and back, and let us know the the ping times.
[20:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Teleportation Possible? Yes, in the Quantum World - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:02] <exec> 08└─Is it possible to entangle electron and positron, such as in, for example, common positronium? Context: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] For dark matter, is there also a dark electricity which does not interact with light electricity? Electron has mass wei...
[20:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Navy Testing Solar Power Beaming Tech in Space - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:17] <exec> 08└─It worked in SimCity 2000.
[20:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whales are Disturbed by Engine Noise from Boats - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:39] <exec> 08└─On the up side, nobody will be able to bitch about there being too much CO2 in it anymore.
[20:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whales are Disturbed by Engine Noise from Boats - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:41] <exec> 08└─I am as well. Mostly because it's usually me operating them out in the hot-ass sun. It's not even sort of a viable idea though. The energy to weight ratio is 100 times higher in gasoline than in lithium ion batteries. Which is to say, your weedeater or leaf blower would too heavy to lift if you want...
[20:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whales are Disturbed by Engine Noise from Boats - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:43] <exec> 08└─Sometimes works too good. We were whale watching in a sailboat off San Diego (grey whales), when a confused / curious baby whale decided to check us out. We were quite a ways away, and just drifting (trying to be respectful), but the baby closed the distance, and rubbed up against the side of our bo...
[20:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whales are Disturbed by Engine Noise from Boats - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:45] <exec> 08└─Outlaw gasoline stabilizer. After re-building the carburetors on these things a couple spring times in a row, most folks will decide it isn't worth it.
[20:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Wants to Build Floating Spaceports for Daily Starship Launches - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:40] <exec> 08└─I've seen a formal proposal for spaceports at 10 km up. The launch platform would be some kind of giant balloon. (Actually, they were considering an inflatable tower, but they were relying on buoyancy for structural support) -- hendrik
[20:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Despite Clear Skies During the Pandemic, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Still Rising - 2855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:21] <exec> 08└─Yet if the protests contributed in any significant way to coronavirus cases, we should see an increase in the number of cases anywhere significant protests occurred. That just hasn't happened. While some states are seeing surges in coronavirus cases, many others where there were large scale protests...
[20:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Despite Clear Skies During the Pandemic, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Still Rising - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:22] <exec> 08└─Burning CH4 to produce CO2 and 2H2O is mich better than allowing the CH4 to be released into the atmosphere, because CH4 is vastly more of a greenhouse gas than CO2.
[20:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Despite Clear Skies During the Pandemic, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Still Rising - 1440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:24] <exec> 08└─Your response is not helpful. The fact that I'm criticizing this story does not imply that I have not contributed to this site. Indeed I have submitted stories. When I do so, I write my own summary instead of copying text directly from articles. I try to write good summaries that require minimal edi...
[20:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 1113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:04] <exec> 08└─I wholeheartedly recommend Undertale to any fan of RPGs. I can't think of any other game where I can't find anything to nitpick about, and believe me, I love to complain even about things I like. Without writing a whole wall of text about what's to love about it, I will say that is true and more. Th...
[20:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:05] <exec> 08└─Didn't Fallout, or was it Fallout 2, also allow it -- killing kids plus you could get a career as a post-apocalyptical-pornstar.
[20:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:07] <exec> 08└─You're thinking of Chick tracts. [wikipedia.org] I wasn't aware he ever covered D&D but it's true and a film [wikipedia.org] was made about it. I'll probably check it out later for shits and giggles.
[20:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Reasonable are 80-Character Lines in 2020? - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:03] <exec> 08└─You're welcome. It was one of the funniest code jokes I'd seen in a long time as well. It was lucky I could remember enough about it to find it in duckduckgo. In the comments someone said it came from reddit.
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[21:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is Teleportation Possible? Yes, in the Quantum World - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:01] <exec> 08└─is it possible to tell the difference when observing both?
[21:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Teleportation Possible? Yes, in the Quantum World - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:02] <exec> 08└─Everyone can observe dark energy. Just close your eyes, take some acid and put on Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here".
[21:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Teleportation Possible? Yes, in the Quantum World - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:04] <exec> 08└─"Dark matter"... you have to stop using this racist language. The preferred term is now BIPOC matter.
[21:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is Teleportation Possible? Yes, in the Quantum World - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:06] <exec> 08└─Ummagumma is much better
[21:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Navy Testing Solar Power Beaming Tech in Space - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:23] <exec> 08└─That's exactly what I was thinking. It's a bad analogy because of the orders of magnitude of energy difference. A wifi signal is only used to convey information over a short distance. Transmitting enough energy from orbit and through the atmosphere to do real useful work on whatever scale is a diffe...
[21:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whales are Disturbed by Engine Noise from Boats - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah - you nailed it. But, you failed to spell out that whales depend on their hearing for communications over miles and miles of ocean. Aside from communications with their own species, they certainly listen for the sounds their prey makes, as well as the sounds that potential predators make. And,...
[21:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Disrupted Circadian Rhythms Linked to Later Parkinson's Diagnoses - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:02] <exec> 08└─This study is 'fun' for someone like me. My circadian rhythm, or lack thereof, is so bad that I only sleep once every 2-3 days. No doctor has been able to explain or diagnose what is wrong with me in 15 years. It most closely resembles a chronic, self-producing version of neuroleptic malignant syndr...
[21:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06SpaceX Wants to Build Floating Spaceports for Daily Starship Launches - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:50] <exec> 08└─Airship to Orbit [jpaerospace.com] wants to build lighter-than-air "Dark-Sky Stations" for basically that purpose, though at 42km rather than 10. You'd take an airship from the ground to the station, and then transfer to the orbital vehicle. Though in their case the orbital vehicle is a rocket prope...
[21:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Despite Clear Skies During the Pandemic, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Still Rising - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:33] <exec> 08└─Yes, as I noted, it's probably the lesser of two evils to burn the CH4 and immediately convert it to CO2. Otherwise, CH4 is far more potent than CO2, but will eventually be converted to CO2 in the atmosphere anyway. The contributions from the Darvaza Gas Crater are almost certainly quite small on a...
[21:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Despite Clear Skies During the Pandemic, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Still Rising - 1435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:35] <exec> 08└─I agree that most of us will see CO2 levels at 500 ppm and many of us will see 600 ppm. I'm alarmed at how efforts to reduce carbon emissions and combat climate change are impeded by bad faith conspiracy theories and attacks on the integrity of scientists. One of the reasons we may not have seen muc...
[21:25:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 166 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:41] <exec> 08└─I don't recall ever confusing (or even associating) any of the game races with any real-life human phenotypes or hearing it done by others. It was just never a thing.
[21:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 5074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:18] <exec> 08└─Firstly I love the talk of the deeper lore and world and a few posts in this thread were pretty fun to read especially when I see people's opinions on Tolkien's inspirations. He strikes me as someone that tried very hard to not model anything overtly on the real world when it made sense, and that's...
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[22:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New System Uses Wind Turbines to Defend the National Grid From Power Cut - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:01] <exec> 08└─Tried to read the paper, but the language is some form of English that I'm not familiar with...that paper needs to be re-written by someone familiar with subject matter and also familiar with English tech writing. It looks like they propose several schemes to enable wind turbines to "support the gri...
[22:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Teleportation Possible? Yes, in the Quantum World - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:16] <exec> 08└─Communication above light speed is still not possible. They should be careful with the word 'information'. You can't send useful information. You can instantly verify that there is a correlation between the two entangled particles (the verification can't happen FTL) but you can't communicate FTL. Ho...
[22:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Teleportation Possible? Yes, in the Quantum World - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:18] <exec> 08└─err ... so you can (at the speed of light) verify that there is an instant correlation ... sorry for mistyping it.
[22:22:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02 - 06Navy Testing Solar Power Beaming Tech in Space - 354 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:33] <exec> 08└─"and its innards consist of the first hardware ever launched to orbit that converts solar energy into microwaves." I think that would have been the solar powered transmitters for either Vanguard 1 or Explorer 6 in 1959, depending on what you'll accept for "microwaves". (Even if you demand a gigahert...
[22:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Navy Testing Solar Power Beaming Tech in Space - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:36] <exec> 08└─No surprise that the company rep talks out both sides of his press orifice. This might be the first thing put in space for the purpose of converting solar energy to microwaves for a power (instead of communication) application, then in the next breath he's saying it's harmless: like a communication...
[22:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whales are Disturbed by Engine Noise from Boats - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:04] <exec> 08└─Because big booms! Arrrrrrh! Manly shit is blowing shit up. Not some pansy crap like making a fruitcake.
[22:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disrupted Circadian Rhythms Linked to Later Parkinson's Diagnoses - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:17] <exec> 08└─It couldn't hurt to check. Is this a life-long thing or a recent development (just curious).
[22:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disrupted Circadian Rhythms Linked to Later Parkinson's Diagnoses - 1033 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:19] <exec> 08└─Serious symptoms started 15 years ago. But, going through my past with my doctor, we found multiple signs of it affecting me since childhood. Adults just dismissed it as 'growing pains.' Doctor confirmed my issues were very abnormal. This has since been confirmed by two more doctors. It has some sim...
[22:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:32] <exec> 08└─"On the origin of the Orcs, from the Silmarillon;"
[22:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineers Develop New Fuel Cells with Twice the Operating Voltage as Hydrogen Fuel Cells - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:06] <exec> 08└─Assume the road load power to maintain a constant 100 kph (62mph) is 10Kw (about 13 horsepower). Battery systen voltage in Teslas is around 350 volts. Assuming the motor is nearly 100% efficient, the current required is ~28 amps. Porsche is now building nominal 800 V battery systems, in that case th...
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[23:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New System Uses Wind Turbines to Defend the National Grid From Power Cut - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:59] <exec> 08└─This paper clearly wasn't peer reviewed. All appliances in UK operate at 50Hz, so unless your grid frequency is 50Hz you'll have to explain to The Queen why her clocks are running slow.
[23:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06New System Uses Wind Turbines to Defend the National Grid From Power Cut - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:01] <exec> 08└─"We don't mind if our clocks are running slow, as long as our corgis are running fast and our gin & Dubonnet tap is running freely." - HRM Elizabeth II
[23:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06New System Uses Wind Turbines to Defend the National Grid From Power Cut - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:03] <exec> 08└─Did you know you can catch SARS-CoV-2 from black ass farts? We gotta make them bruddas and sistas wear ass masks!
[23:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New System Uses Wind Turbines to Defend the National Grid From Power Cut - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:05] <exec> 08└─How do you think they maintain that 50Hz? The answer is simple: By having the suppliers pull a bit ahead or behind if the frequency is of. In the old fashioned way a large supplier would spend part of its generated power in dragging the phase of the whole net to the desired direction. You can do the...
[23:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Teleportation Possible? Yes, in the Quantum World - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:22] <exec> 08└─Of course there is. So what makes this quantum teleportation story different from all the many other quantum teleportation stories before it?
[23:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Teleportation Possible? Yes, in the Quantum World - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:23] <exec> 08└─It's weekend. Fnord is manning the deck. Let it pass.
[23:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whales are Disturbed by Engine Noise from Boats - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:10] <exec> 08└─Electric weed-eaters are nice if your yard isn't huge and you always remember to charge it first. Way better than corded and less fussy than gas. Lawnmowers are a different story due to the much higher energy requirements, and I shudder to think about what the battery would be like for an electric t...
[23:23:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] 02 - 06Disrupted Circadian Rhythms Linked to Later Parkinson's Diagnoses - 544 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:23] <exec> 08└─This study is 'fun' for someone like me. My circadian rhythm, or lack thereof, is so bad that I only sleep once every 2-3 days. No doctor has been able to explain or diagnose what is wrong with me in 15 years. It most closely resembles a chronic, self-producing version of neuroleptic malignant syndr...
[23:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Wants to Build Floating Spaceports for Daily Starship Launches - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:13] <exec> 08└─Sea Launch was shut down when Russia invaded Ukraine, because the factory where the rockets were built was in the war zone. US regulations had nothing to do with it.
[23:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Wants to Build Floating Spaceports for Daily Starship Launches - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:15] <exec> 08└─Yes, for two reasons: A floating spaceport can't go very fast. A floating spaceport can't go much higher than its station-keeping altitude, because they would be stationed at their maximum altitude. If you want to go faster and higher (like into space) you still need a rocket.
[23:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:43] <exec> 08└─This raises a really interesting question for me. A strong case can be made for several countries IRL to be considered "Evil" (e.g. North Korea, Ceaucescu's Romania, Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, the USA as it pertains to their foreign policy in South America, Asia and the Middle East), however wh...
[23:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 1219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:44] <exec> 08└─"Satan of course is some time's considered an angel... and sometimes not... for example." Clearly within the broader category I would say. Just as Melkor does not cease to be a Vala when he rebels, Satan is often referred to as an Angel, albeit one who has "fallen." "the Vorlons vs the Shadows" Ok,...
[23:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wizards of the Coast Addressing Racial & Ethnic Issues in 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:47] <exec> 08└─in D&D terms, if a society is evil, but most of the individuals within that society are not, is it OK to attack them on sight?
[23:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Derf the [4919] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Virus Crisis Gives Throwaway Plastic a New Lease on Life - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:12] <exec> 08└─That is just provocatively inconsistent on so many levels...
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