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[00:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Pinpoints Brain Cells that Trigger Sugar Cravings and Consumption - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:25] <exec> 08└─Is that some sort of 12-stepper bullshit? Oh, you're not to blame, you're powerless, you have to cling to some higher power (god, government, all is good) to fix it for you... Fuck it, take over responsibility for your life!
[00:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Pinpoints Brain Cells that Trigger Sugar Cravings and Consumption - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:27] <exec> 08└─"Fuck it, take over responsibility for your life!" That's exactly what I am saying. Sue the bastards.
[00:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Study Pinpoints Brain Cells that Trigger Sugar Cravings and Consumption - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:29] <exec> 08└─Culture of victimhood... get used to it, it's the New American Way, inculcated by SJW schoolteachers.
[00:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Pinpoints Brain Cells that Trigger Sugar Cravings and Consumption - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:31] <exec> 08└─Cause sure as shit there aren't any fat white folks in the US. Jesus fuck, this doesn't even rise to the level of troll.
[00:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Pinpoints Brain Cells that Trigger Sugar Cravings and Consumption - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:33] <exec> 08└─Probably Mexicans, too, because they originally brought corn into America.
[00:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Pinpoints Brain Cells that Trigger Sugar Cravings and Consumption - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:36] <exec> 08└─HA! It was good enough to fish you in!
[00:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube is Finally Letting Creators Know Exactly How They’re Making Money on YouTube - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:50] <exec> 08└─The hosing down started in 2014. They are strangling the goose who laid the golden egg. Just search for 'demonetized' or 'demonetized again'. Just look at the suggestion page and you can see who is pushing for top billing and what youtube wants.
[00:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube is Finally Letting Creators Know Exactly How They’re Making Money on YouTube - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:52] <exec> 08└─RPM is garbage. Compared to apt? RPM is sewer scum.
[00:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube is Finally Letting Creators Know Exactly How They’re Making Money on YouTube - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:54] <exec> 08└─The problem with that is that you can't exactly bury an idea, and it's not a social media platform, it doesn't only work if everyone and their dog is using it. You buy up and bury Patreon, people will move on to GoFundMe. And by the time you bought and buried that, PatreonReloaded will be launched.
[00:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube is Finally Letting Creators Know Exactly How They’re Making Money on YouTube - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:56] <exec> 08└─Face it - RPM is superior to all of Windows package managers. I mean, it does kinda manage packages, right?
[00:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube is Finally Letting Creators Know Exactly How They’re Making Money on YouTube - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:58] <exec> 08└─BTW, when does Arkansaw duck season begin?
[00:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06French Parliament Passes Porn Age-Verification Legislation - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:36] <exec> 08└─Yes, we're well aware that the promise of 72 virgins when they get to heaven is what motivates most Muslims to get up in the morning and strap on their suicide vest. Amusingly, these jihadis don't realize that women with some experience are often more satisfying than virgins.
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[00:25:01] <exec> 08└─"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words"
[00:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hasbro, North American Scrabble Players Association Bans Racial, Ethnic Slurs from Word Lists - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:01] <exec> 08└─Irrelevant. If one meaning is offensive to anyone, in any context, then the word must be banned entirely.
[00:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hasbro, North American Scrabble Players Association Bans Racial, Ethnic Slurs from Word Lists - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:03] <exec> 08└─It hurts you to think. Keep trying, you might wise up one day.
[00:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hasbro, North American Scrabble Players Association Bans Racial, Ethnic Slurs from Word Lists - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:05] <exec> 08└─So you follow up stupidity with ad-homs? You must be a Trumper. What do you make of Trump finally wearing a mask? Is COVID a hoax, are masks for cowards? Do you even understand why people are wearing masks that can't even prevent them from catching COVID? Rhetorical questions all, no need to respond...
[00:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cops Seize Server that Hosted BlueLeaks, DDoSecrets Says - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:05] <exec> 08└─Also Wikileaks at least, supposedly, screened their leaks before releasing.
[00:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cops Seize Server that Hosted BlueLeaks, DDoSecrets Says - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:07] <exec> 08└─The larger issue is how long it takes dopes to actually understand an issue rather than ignore the details and jump to the conclusion you've already decided.
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[01:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Years Gone - Dog Years are More Complex - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:15] <exec> 08└─Map the first 12-14 years for the humans to reach reproductive age to: - Dogs: 1-2 year - depending on the breed. - Cats: 1 year After that, a good approximation is a proportional relation for the duration of the mature life. The plot will show the same allure as their shifted ln function - quick in...
[01:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Study Pinpoints Brain Cells that Trigger Sugar Cravings and Consumption - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:34] <exec> 08└─"Fibroblast growth factor" does *not* sound like something you want to take a whole bunch of exogenously. This stuff messes with your mitochondrial energy output; it doesn't uncouple oxidative phosphorylation, it just seems to speed up the metabolism directly, but I still think back to the abuse of...
[01:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Pinpoints Brain Cells that Trigger Sugar Cravings and Consumption - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:36] <exec> 08└─》 Brought? The mind boggles. OK, smuggled. I stand corrected.
[01:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Study Pinpoints Brain Cells that Trigger Sugar Cravings and Consumption - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:38] <exec> 08└─tl;dr Try to use short words next time.
[01:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube is Finally Letting Creators Know Exactly How They’re Making Money on YouTube - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:57] <exec> 08└─The problem with that is that you can't exactly bury an idea
[01:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube is Finally Letting Creators Know Exactly How They’re Making Money on YouTube - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:59] <exec> 08└─I prefer .exe's .reg's and especially love.cab
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[01:23:01] <exec> 08└─Nov 21st.
[01:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Parliament Passes Porn Age-Verification Legislation - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:40] <exec> 08└─They aren't really trying to protect children. They're really trying to protect parents from the thought that their precious child could be wanking in their bedroom right now. They also seem to think that if kids can't get access to porn, they won't be trying to get off somehow. And if it's not by w...
[01:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Parliament Passes Porn Age-Verification Legislation - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:41] <exec> 08└─Why should they watch someone else? Get the neighbors daughter and have at it! Tbis starts up and I guarantee you they will happily bring back the dry lab and try to get the kids back on it. Especially the neighbors daughters dads!
[01:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Warns Customers Not to Close its Laptops with a Camera Cover Attached - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:31] <exec> 08└─No. There is a separate ambient light sensor located near the camera. When focusing on covering the camera, it is easy to cover the whole area including the ambient light sensor and not even notice.
[01:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Hasbro, North American Scrabble Players Association Bans Racial, Ethnic Slurs from Word Lists - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:11] <exec> 08└─It ends when the United States is turned into a "socialist" state which is really Marxist with a more marketable name, and people who displease the elite by saying or thinking the wrong things can be imprisoned, tortured, and possibly executed for WrongThink. Plus, with fMRI technology they might ev...
[01:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hasbro, North American Scrabble Players Association Bans Racial, Ethnic Slurs from Word Lists - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:12] <exec> 08└─it isn't Mattel [soylentnews.org], it is Hasbro, and NASPA [scrabbleplayers.org]
[01:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Four Odd Radio Objects Detected - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:43] <exec> 08└─Unpossible. They found four of them!
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[02:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ze [8197] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Years Gone - Dog Years are More Complex - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:21] <exec> 08└─This makes more sense to me. I mean, come on, someone still in, or just getting through, puberty is in their 30s? That scale sounds wack.
[02:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Seven Years Gone - Dog Years are More Complex - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:22] <exec> 08└─May be a "gene-expression peak quality reproductive age" based on their findings (instead of the "onset of puberty").
[02:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Years Gone - Dog Years are More Complex - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:25] <exec> 08└─"a 1-year-old dog is like a 31-year-old human;" And 31-year-old human is like what? Jesus? Buddha? Trump? I want to know who funded this "research." No wonder trump lives in the white house today.
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[02:22:27] <exec> 08└─#okboomer
[02:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Years Gone - Dog Years are More Complex - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:29] <exec> 08└─(I realize that's a troll post, but lemme have a bit of fun on the account of stupid trolls) Hate Millenials"
[02:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Years Gone - Dog Years are More Complex - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:31] <exec> 08└─#okmillennial
[02:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Warns Customers Not to Close its Laptops with a Camera Cover Attached - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:45] <exec> 08└─Also that phrase was never actually used
[02:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hasbro, North American Scrabble Players Association Bans Racial, Ethnic Slurs from Word Lists - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:28] <exec> 08└─I wondered about that one, even did a search, but nothing obvious jumped out at me. The best I can guess is that it is somehow wrong to call old men greybeards. But I don't find "biddy" in the list, so they've sort of had a big intersectional fail if ageism was their goal.
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[03:22:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Seven Years Gone - Dog Years are More Complex - 515 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:22] <exec> 08└─Map the first 12-14 years for the humans to reach reproductive age to: - Dogs: 1-2 year - depending on the breed. - Cats: 1 year After that, a good approximation is a proportional relation for the duration of the mature life. The plot will show the same allure as their shifted ln function - quick in...
[03:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Years Gone - Dog Years are More Complex - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:29] <exec> 08└─(You don't have to explain yourself - we're not really interested in what's going on in your head)
[03:22:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Study Pinpoints Brain Cells that Trigger Sugar Cravings and Consumption - 746 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:48] <exec> 08└─"Fibroblast growth factor" does *not* sound like something you want to take a whole bunch of exogenously. This stuff messes with your mitochondrial energy output; it doesn't uncouple oxidative phosphorylation, it just seems to speed up the metabolism directly, but I still think back to the abuse of...
[03:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Pinpoints Brain Cells that Trigger Sugar Cravings and Consumption - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:51] <exec> 08└─but I still think back to the abuse of dinitrophenol whenever something like this comes up and shudder a bit.
[03:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Warns Customers Not to Close its Laptops with a Camera Cover Attached - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:47] <exec> 08└─Yep. Combine that with a number of other brands of phones having that same issue and boom: sensationalized story followed by years of idiots embarrasingly parroting the fictional version of it. There have been so many examples of Apple arrogance over the years (i.e. easy-to-trip moisture sensors tha...
[03:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Warns Customers Not to Close its Laptops with a Camera Cover Attached - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:48] <exec> 08└─i say all kinds of shit.
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[03:26:31] <exec> 08└─You have been trolled. The “abeillrs” unscrambles to “ballsier,” which is actually the intended word that’s banned (along with similar words). “Liberals” isn’t on the list.
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[04:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Has Built its Own Mac Graphics Processors - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:23] <exec> 08└─If they just want to replace the integrated graphics in Intel laptops, then Apple A14 and later chips will probably do just fine. But what will they use to replace the discrete AMD GPUs in higher-end products (e.g. a Mac Pro with up to 28-core Intel Xeon and AMD Radeon Pro)? They could keep using di...
[04:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Seven Years Gone - Dog Years are More Complex - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:38] <exec> 08└─Aging is ruff
[04:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Parliament Passes Porn Age-Verification Legislation - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:05] <exec> 08└─Why not require that porn-sites be properly meta-marked as porn? Then parents can set a lock on their children's devices. Yes, some vendors will lie and cheat, but that will happen under the current law also.
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[04:24:07] <exec> 08└─Sure they do. They just don't want to pay. It is far easier to douse an 11 year old in petrol and threaten to harm her family unless she complies with their demands to provide sexual services.
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[04:24:09] <exec> 08└─Anal Cunt [jango-index.ml]
[04:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Parliament Passes Porn Age-Verification Legislation - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:11] <exec> 08└─Muslims already moved into France. They have the local neighbourhood girls all tied up. Nothing left for the local lads until they get too old or worn out. There are always more coming but waiting until they turn eight can be lonesome. Happily there are many boys running around French streets lookin...
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[04:24:13] <exec> 08└─https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploitation_scandal [wikipedia.org] already done in england also in many other places
[04:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Parliament Passes Porn Age-Verification Legislation - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:15] <exec> 08└─http://jango-index.ml/?song=Chain+Hang+Low [jango-index.ml]
[04:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Parliament Passes Porn Age-Verification Legislation - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:18] <exec> 08└─We know what happens in countries that suppress sexual relief venues [nytimes.com]
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[04:26:55] <exec> 08└─It’s not. The banned word is “ballsier” (letters scrambled from “liberals”) — GP is just a troll (or got the llist from someone who is a troll).
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[05:22:38] <exec> 08└─(neither you need to, yet it doesn't stop you)
[05:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Years Gone - Dog Years are More Complex - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:39] <exec> 08└─(stop taking to myself on S/N! use a mirror if I can't abstain)
[05:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Pinpoints Brain Cells that Trigger Sugar Cravings and Consumption - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:02] <exec> 08└─This is why evolution does not make sense. If evolution made sense, then the best-tasting stuff would be the healthiest.
[05:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Warns Customers Not to Close its Laptops with a Camera Cover Attached - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:05] <exec> 08└─"It blows my mind a bit that nobody thought this would be abused." Unless they thought they would be the only ones "smart enough" to abuse them.
[05:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Warns Customers Not to Close its Laptops with a Camera Cover Attached - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:06] <exec> 08└─Yeah but not being Microsoft or systemd is a plus!
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[05:26:51] <exec> 08└─I find your lack of self awareness disturbing.
[05:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dexamethasone: Cheap Anti-Inflamatory Corticosteroid Lowers Mortality Up To 1/3 for COVID ICU Cases - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:23] <exec> 08└─Yes. At 70%+ BAC(or ABC if you wish), the coronavirus has not got a chance. There is a slight risk for some patients though, but at least they are already embalmed. ;-)
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[06:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Pinpoints Brain Cells that Trigger Sugar Cravings and Consumption - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:52] <exec> 08└─...unsure if serious... Sugar and fat would be very desirable for any biped chasing down antelopes across the savannah. Energy has got to come from somewhere. Anyone who got too much and got fat wasn't going to be catching dinner, so it's a self correcting problem. There was no reason to evolve an o...
[06:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube is Finally Letting Creators Know Exactly How They’re Making Money on YouTube - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:16] <exec> 08└─Expecting everyone to be security experts to earn a few bucks, eh?
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[06:23:17] <exec> 08└─titty streamers on the Twich streaming service
[06:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Parliament Passes Porn Age-Verification Legislation - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:06] <exec> 08└─So is it only Muslims who deal in porn in your skewed world?
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[06:24:45] <exec> 08└─The other issue is that the lid should provide the structural rigidity, not the display. Displays are not structural elements. Closing the lid such that a camera cover on the bezel becomes the contact point with the lower half of the device should place a bit more stress on the lid itself, and the h...
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[06:26:49] <exec> 08└─+1 Informative. It would be nice if Hasbro just published the damn list.
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[07:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Has Built its Own Mac Graphics Processors - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:25] <exec> 08└─Apple is heading to technological solipsism completely. That's how far. And I say that as an owner of 8 working Apple devices in total (MacBook Pro model 2015, IPhone6s, two iPads, Watch, Pencil, Magic Keyboard, AirPort router, a complete ecosystem good enough for platform software development). Any...
[07:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Has Built its Own Mac Graphics Processors - 992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:26] <exec> 08└─Er... what? TBDR? Welcome to the Sega Dreamcast era. "Early in the development of desktop GPUs, several companies developed tiled architectures. Over time, these were largely supplanted by immediate-mode GPUs with fast custom external memory systems." "Immediate Mode" - that's terminology so old tha...
[07:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Has Built its Own Mac Graphics Processors - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:29] <exec> 08└─But what will they use to replace the discrete AMD GPUs in higher-end products
[07:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Warns Customers Not to Close its Laptops with a Camera Cover Attached - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:17] <exec> 08└─"Just avoid holding it in that way" == "you're holding it wrong" I feel that trying to claim that either statement as being more accurate than the other is completely missing the point. People have to hold their phones. Manufacturers should make equipment that works under normal circumstances. If th...
[07:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Warns Customers Not to Close its Laptops with a Camera Cover Attached - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:19] <exec> 08└─Dobby has clothes....
[07:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Warns Customers Not to Close its Laptops with a Camera Cover Attached - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:21] <exec> 08└─Sorry for the brevity, time's short. If those two different sentences mean the same thing then there is no justification for using the made-up one. I supported your 'they needed to improve it' point in my last post. The problem affected a small number of users. Yes, I'm an Apple user, specifically h...
[07:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hasbro, North American Scrabble Players Association Bans Racial, Ethnic Slurs from Word Lists - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:08] <exec> 08└─not really a loss to the English language
[07:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dexamethasone: Cheap Anti-Inflamatory Corticosteroid Lowers Mortality Up To 1/3 for COVID ICU Cases - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:42] <exec> 08└─30% ABC more precisely.
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[08:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Has Built its Own Mac Graphics Processors - 1011 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:32] <exec> 08└─As far as the CPU is concerned, Apple has everything it needs in order to completely leave Intel in the dust. Or to be more specific, they can leave these Intel Xeon W CPUs [wikipedia.org] found in the 2019 Mac Pro models in the dust, ignoring anything Intel or AMD puts out over the next few years....
[08:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Has Built its Own Mac Graphics Processors - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:34] <exec> 08└─Looks like they filled out the article with some random stuff given that there is not much new information here.
[08:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Has Built its Own Mac Graphics Processors - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:36] <exec> 08└─They can't truly experience the world of ultra-high-end luxury technology until they pull the Mask of Jobs [soylentnews.org] over their eyes.
[08:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Has Built its Own Mac Graphics Processors - 1380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:38] <exec> 08└─GPUs are hard, a lot harder than CPUs. 3dFX invented modern GPUs, and nVidia bought them. ATI was the largest maker of 2D and OEM graphics before inventing the Radeon and later being bought by AMD, and has spent 25 years trying to barely keep up with nVidia. Lots of other companies have tried to mak...
[08:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Years Gone - Dog Years are More Complex - 1446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:56] <exec> 08└─31 years old might seem a bit extreme, but I don't see why there needs to be a direct relationship between biological age and ability to reproduce (or other physical traits such as mental development, the ability to fend for oneself, and so on, for that matter). Clearly not all species develop physi...
[08:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Years Gone - Dog Years are More Complex - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:57] <exec> 08└─A 1-year-old dog is equivalent to a teenage human. Sexually mature, but definitely still adolescent, still learning about the world, and with more energy than sense. A 3-to-5 year old dog is equivalent to a human in their 20s or early 30s, in the prime of life. A 7-8 year old dog is equivalent to a...
[08:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Parliament Passes Porn Age-Verification Legislation - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:34] <exec> 08└─I see things somewhat more maliciously here. This has nothing to do with kids. This is about power and surveillance. It will now give the French government substantial power to 'investigate' potentially offending companies as well as large amounts of potentially embarrassing information on their pop...
[08:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Parliament Passes Porn Age-Verification Legislation - 1061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:36] <exec> 08└─It has to be "bad". That's how the game is played. That's why a few pages of adult content on the jr. high black market cost as much as the whole magazine when I was that age. The book store had all that stuff in a hard to reach place, with a picture of the Emperor from Star Wars with the lightning...
[08:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hasbro, North American Scrabble Players Association Bans Racial, Ethnic Slurs from Word Lists - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:22] <exec> 08└─Liberal arts school grad denigrates more conservative people for their spelling abilities. News at 11:00 . . .
[08:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hasbro, North American Scrabble Players Association Bans Racial, Ethnic Slurs from Word Lists - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:24] <exec> 08└─That could be shortened quite a lot. The progressive/liberal agenda is to keep Darkie on the plantation. Or, paraphrased, the only good darkie is the darkie that I'm profiting off of.
[08:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digicert Will Shovel Some 50,000 EV HTTPS Certificates Into the Furnace Today - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:24] <exec> 08└─It's broken by design. The decision "do I trust you?" has been commuted into a string of "do I trust the entity that claims to trust you?", where the claim of trust is nothing more than "is prepared to take money from you?". How anyone ever imagined that was scalable I simply cannot fathom. When bro...
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[09:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Has Built its Own Mac Graphics Processors - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:32] <exec> 08└─Eschewing traditional GPUs should have been evident when they stopped licensing Imagination's PowerVR for their iPhones. Expect iOS/macos only software titles that rely on Metal/TBDR instead of OpenGL/Vulkan/DirectX/OpenCL/CUDA.
[09:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Has Built its Own Mac Graphics Processors - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:33] <exec> 08└─Maybe in a few years they're planning to come out with a dock where you plug in your iPhone and that's your Mac. Maybe Apple is counting on their strong position in smartphones to let them replace the PC with a phone entirely.
[09:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Has Built its Own Mac Graphics Processors - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:35] <exec> 08└─Most probably, no. I consider Apple betrayal of their user-centric ideals untolerable. I hold and use some other dev ecosystems as well. For a VR paradigm, Sony's PS4 Pro itself is unimpressive as a HW platform (it's bad technical engineering all over the box inside), but its PSVR, while clumsy, is...
[09:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Years Gone - Dog Years are More Complex - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:55] <exec> 08└─Have you met people lately? It seems to me that more and more people act like teenagers that are well into their 30s.
[09:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube is Finally Letting Creators Know Exactly How They’re Making Money on YouTube - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:44] <exec> 08└─I see, you prefer Advanced Persistent Threats. Well, you get that on YouTube, too, in the form of demonetization and copyright claims.
[09:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hasbro, North American Scrabble Players Association Bans Racial, Ethnic Slurs from Word Lists - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:24] <exec> 08└─Chess will be next. Black vs white and white moves first? Yeah. I expect all chess boards to be yellow and red, same with the pieces. Black and white will be banned.
[09:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hasbro, North American Scrabble Players Association Bans Racial, Ethnic Slurs from Word Lists - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:25] <exec> 08└─There are many times when I need to express my contempt for some individual's mental competency.
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[10:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:15] <exec> 08└─I feel like Chrysler/Dodge should be higher. Fiat has ruined those brands and they're the junkiest vehicles on the road right now. They should at least be above Pontiac and Mercury. Jeep should definitely be higher too, since they're being ruined by the same people. Not long ago I worked on a Jeep W...
[10:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:17] <exec> 08└─I find it somewhat comforting (with respect to my prejudices) that japanese-made cars are towards the bottom. Prejudices seem to correlate well with facts.
[10:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimbrooking [3465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:19] <exec> 08└─Maintenance Costs: $0.00.
[10:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:21] <exec> 08└─Don't seem Peugeot in that list. Isn't it sold in the US? I wonder how that list is comparable/different to, for example, Europe. Another question is about parts being imported (BMW/Mercedes-Benz?), import taxes, etc. vs. local brands? How much does the import process make up the costs?
[10:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Loon Is Now Beaming WiFi Down to Earth From Giant Balloons - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:29] <exec> 08└─Apparently they're prepared to spend huge amounts of money in their efforts to control all of the world's internet traffic.
[10:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Loon Is Now Beaming WiFi Down to Earth From Giant Balloons - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:31] <exec> 08└─If they really want to spend huge amounts of money to control all of the world's internet traffic, they could start by expanding Google Fiber nationwide. Should cost $100 billion or more.
[10:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Has Built its Own Mac Graphics Processors - 1659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:55] <exec> 08└─Intel never stopped making integrated graphics, and now they are poised to beat AMD's iGPUs temporarily with Tiger Lake, make a return to discrete gaming GPUs, and more importantly, sell big discrete GPUs for AI and supercomputers [anandtech.com]. Apple can probably scale up its current mobile iGPUs...
[10:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Has Built its Own Mac Graphics Processors - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:56] <exec> 08└─Get yourself a MateStation [wccftech.com]. One detail I missed from the article: The company has also committed to introducing new Intel-based Macs that do support these external systems for some time during the current transition.
[10:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Has Built its Own Mac Graphics Processors - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:58] <exec> 08└─https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/vulkan-is-coming-to-macos-ios-but-no-thanks-to-apple/ [arstechnica.com] https://www.phoronix.com [phoronix.com] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Is it still a problem?
[10:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hasbro, North American Scrabble Players Association Bans Racial, Ethnic Slurs from Word Lists - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:50] <exec> 08└─Didn't I meet you once? You were sweeping the floor in a factory, in some podunk town in New Jersey. Your name was spelled wrong on your shirt, and your shoes didn't match.
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[11:22:15] <exec> 08└─>> Interesting that Jaguar is missing from the list, The reason is that the list is based on completed repairs, and they're still waiting for parts for the Jaguar.
[11:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:16] <exec> 08└─So you haven't crashed into a police car yet... nice.
[11:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 1396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:18] <exec> 08└─The age of the car is also typically going to be a key factor, e.g. how those costs are distributed across the quoted 10-years (which TFA states is from new). If you are buying new, or nearly new, and regularly upgrade then a lot of maintenance is going to covered under warranties or the expected li...
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[11:22:20] <exec> 08└─That's nice. Please report back in another 8 years, and make sure you include ALL costs associated with maintaining it. If you upgraded your status symbol before then, you lose! ROI is only better if you keep it a very long time, which most people simply can't do. You also didn't indicate whether yo...
[11:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:23] <exec> 08└─About a decade ago I read Roundel magazine and kept seeing letters from people who were puzzled by BMW's decision to remove the oil dipstick and require special tools to replace the friggin battery. Or they were lamenting the lack of spare tire or another expensive fuel pump failure. I think it was...
[11:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:25] <exec> 08└─The newer the car, the more money squandered. The repair itself is not a problem. You spend x on the engine head but you have a new one. Whereas, money spent on electronics is wasted. The average age of my 2 vehicles is 37 years, no turbos in either, no A/C, no stuff that isn't involved with actuall...
[11:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:27] <exec> 08└─Good brand to launch conspiracy theories too: Mystery surrounds car with 'COVID 19' number plate parked at Adelaide Airport for months [abc.net.au].
[11:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:29] <exec> 08└─I came here to say this. Jag's cost would've blown the top off the list!
[11:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Years Gone - Dog Years are More Complex - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:22] <exec> 08└─>> I want to know who funded this "research." The authors' parents. This is typical sort of publishing you see from universities that want that juicy international student revenue (look at author list). They'll accept any bonehead into their program, and then let the students explore any useless top...
[11:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Years Gone - Dog Years are More Complex - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:23] <exec> 08└─This research is not useless, it has practical application in Chinese restaurants. Now they can advertise "accurately aged dog soup".
[11:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Pinpoints Brain Cells that Trigger Sugar Cravings and Consumption - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:48] <exec> 08└─>> Sugar and fat would be very desirable for any biped chasing down antelopes across the savannah. Moron. The term is BIPOC and it's all caps.
[11:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hasbro, North American Scrabble Players Association Bans Racial, Ethnic Slurs from Word Lists - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:55] <exec> 08└─Well, obviously you are a prime candidate, since your comment is so full of wrong thinking and right wing paranoia. Relax! We are your fellow Americans! We are just here to help! We are not going to tell you what to think, we are just going to show you how! (Socialist=marketable Marxism? Hey! Boomer...
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[11:27:57] <exec> 08└─Violation of Scrabble rules! to keep Darkie on the plantation. Or, paraphrased, the only good darkie is the darkie that I'm profiting off of.
[11:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hasbro, North American Scrabble Players Association Bans Racial, Ethnic Slurs from Word Lists - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:59] <exec> 08└─Couldn't think of any words, Runaway? And, you forgot to login.
[11:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hasbro, North American Scrabble Players Association Bans Racial, Ethnic Slurs from Word Lists - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:01] <exec> 08└─> So by your logic I should be allowed to ... ... invoke a straw man fallacy. Indeed, you should; but you'll look the fool for so doing.
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[12:22:13] <exec> 08└─regardless of the outcome.
[12:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:14] <exec> 08└─Webster observes usage patterns. Irregardless of the idiocy of covfete, if enough people use it with a commonly understood meaning - it, too will become a word.
[12:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmby [83] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:34] <exec> 08└─Ahh... You're just a Bot. You don't need things like AC, radio and seats!
[12:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:36] <exec> 08└─Question was maintenance, not fuel. Solar panels matter as much as gas impacts an ICE maintenance budget.
[12:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:38] <exec> 08└─The average age of my 2 vehicles is
[12:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:40] <exec> 08└─Speaking of French cars, I remember reading decades ago (in the 70's or something) about the CEO of Renault giving an interview about a new model, and boasting that it may as well have the hood welded shut, as the engine wouldn't require maintenance within the lifetime of the car - to which a smart-...
[12:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:42] <exec> 08└─The newer the car, the more money squandered.
[12:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03noneof_theabove [6189] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:44] <exec> 08└─purchased a Mazda 3 Hatchback [touring model] on 11 Dec 2012 Change oil with Full Synthetic what ever the manual said 0-30W or 5-30W EVERY 10,000 miles [includes new filter] running on 2nd set of tires, original made 60K Brakes still perfect, I don't fly up to stop lights/signs and cram on breaks al...
[12:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:46] <exec> 08└─The newer the car, the more money squandered.
[12:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Loon Is Now Beaming WiFi Down to Earth From Giant Balloons - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:56] <exec> 08└─It just averages about 14400000ms ping time.
[12:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Loon Is Now Beaming WiFi Down to Earth From Giant Balloons - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:58] <exec> 08└─Nitpicking, but that's only for one nation, not worldwide. Unless you mean that all of the world's traffic already ends up on American servers somewhere somehow.
[12:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Loon Is Now Beaming WiFi Down to Earth From Giant Balloons - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:00] <exec> 08└─I calculate 16200000 ms myself. Methinks you're exaggerating the latency of the service!
[12:24:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Opportunist [5545] 02 - 06YouTube is Finally Letting Creators Know Exactly How They’re Making Money on YouTube - 334 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:23] <exec> 08└─Youtube creators have turned to Patreon, merch selling and making their own ads. Mostly because they learned you can't trust YouTube with your income. Sorry, YouTube. Too little, too late. Nobody gives a shit about your ad revenue anymore, mostly because you alter the deal more often and more unfavo...
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[12:26:28] <exec> 08└─ja just cover it with something flat. i do that in addition to disabling it in the bios guaranteed 100% if there were some doodad i had to remove before closing my computer i would forget and damage the device and if i didn't do that i would forget to reattach it
[12:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Warns Customers Not to Close its Laptops with a Camera Cover Attached - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:30] <exec> 08└─Camera is moot, they can see us using wi-fi https://www.businessinsider.com [businessinsider.com]
[12:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA is Updating its Guidelines on How to Prevent Contamination of the Solar System - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:54] <exec> 08└─"... we didn't put it there on accident." NY/NJ maybe?
[12:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hasbro, North American Scrabble Players Association Bans Racial, Ethnic Slurs from Word Lists - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:29] <exec> 08└─> "obscure" net. Latin obscurus "dark, dusky, shady," Nope, banned, racist.
[12:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hasbro, North American Scrabble Players Association Bans Racial, Ethnic Slurs from Word Lists - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:31] <exec> 08└─You forgot 'cretin' - that's a twofer!
[12:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hasbro, North American Scrabble Players Association Bans Racial, Ethnic Slurs from Word Lists - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:33] <exec> 08└─Nope, chess was previous - in fact just last week: https://www.thesun.co.uk
[12:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hasbro, North American Scrabble Players Association Bans Racial, Ethnic Slurs from Word Lists - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:35] <exec> 08└─Wh**sh!
[12:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03dak664 [2433] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hasbro, North American Scrabble Players Association Bans Racial, Ethnic Slurs from Word Lists - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:37] <exec> 08└─That conflict is easy to resolve! Just make one set black on the right and white on the left, and the other set white on the right and black on the left!
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[13:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:06] <exec> 08└─Merriam-Webster
[13:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:08] <exec> 08└─Regardless of its utility, I won't use it, because there's always that one guy who will point out that I used it, and that annoys me.
[13:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:10] <exec> 08└─We simply need more words because of all the ones recently dropped from the language
[13:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:12] <exec> 08└─Betteridge's law applies here.
[13:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:14] <exec> 08└─Irregardless of the prefix, both mean the same thing. We park in driveways, and drive on parkways. It's an idiosyncracy of the English language. And it's always changing where the same word will have meanings as a function of where, when, who spoke it, how they spoke it, and to whom they spoke it. S...
[13:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:16] <exec> 08└─Godwin's applies. Of course it's a fucking word! Or it was until bored dictionary-Nazis with nothing better to do during COVID came along. These are the same morons that ban the passive voice and split infinitives on the basis of some abitrary rule their teachers made up for 3rd grade English. Or de...
[13:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 1015 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:18] <exec> 08└─That depends, is "irregardless" considered offensive to anyone? :P Yet this question is asked in the same breath as the word "tweet". Putting aside that this was already a word with a different meaning (in the context of birds), there are issues with the usage of this word. The way people use this w...
[13:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:20] <exec> 08└─The logically correct word should be "disirregardless" or "unirregradless" - use a triple negation to bring the intended meaning in sync with the word. (no, I'm not grinning)
[13:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:22] <exec> 08└─Indeed. If there's one thing that history has demonstrated again and again, it's that lazyness and ignorance always triumph in the end.
[13:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:25] <exec> 08└─What does SCOTUS^W the OED say?
[13:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:27] <exec> 08└─here's hoping... Betteridge's law applies here.
[13:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:29] <exec> 08└─We park in driveways, and drive on parkways.
[13:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:31] <exec> 08└─No, cargo goes by car, shipments ment by ship.
[13:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:58] <exec> 08└─Some of this is stealership greed. I had a Saturn back in the day and they all had two problems: 1) The Brakes were designed for a car weighing like 1000 pounds less, like a golf cart, so they wore rather fast. If they just put Camero brakes on Saturns, the brakes would last the life of the car, but...
[13:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:59] <exec> 08└─"survivor bias" Wow, aren't you the super clever genius. Bias? Makes no sense (as usual). It's an anecdote. How is bias involved in relating experience? Oh, I get it, Bot has many brand new cars, but is biased in telling only about the older ones.
[13:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:01] <exec> 08└─How many miles on the battery? Its kinda like saying I haven't spent a penny on my Yaris commuter car. Naw actually I've put near 50K miles on the engine, figure for a Toyota thats finally "broken in" maybe 1/4 used up?
[13:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:04] <exec> 08└─Did they factor in labor prices for the German cars? I've own a few Mercedes (used) and parts aren't that expensive. I'd never take a used BMW or Audi though.
[13:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:06] <exec> 08└─Not that much actually https://www.tesloop.com [tesloop.com]
[13:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:08] <exec> 08└─Oh boy throttle body injection and smog pumps. You must only go out to buy a Sunday paper every week with those vehicles.
[13:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:10] <exec> 08└─The S430s are usually more expensive than their larger displacement brothers. I don't know why. You can buy an S550 cheaper and have way more fun.
[13:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:12] <exec> 08└─Wonder why they left Porsche off the list? They have gotten pretty good reliability scores lately. I'd definitely take a Cayenne for a daily driver.
[13:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:15] <exec> 08└─I inherited an old Saturn. It drove decent and got great mileage but started burning a quart of oil per week! Eventually one cylinder started to misfire and the compression was low so off to the scrap heap it went.
[13:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:17] <exec> 08└─They're not made anymore. The only expensive Pontiac I know of is the GTO. Rest were cheap rust bucket commuter cars people drove until it stopped moving then it went to the junkyard. You could, and can buy one used for $500 or less. Is it so high up from people restoring the classic ones?
[13:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:19] <exec> 08└─In my experience the list is reasonably accurate. I've owned at least one Honda, Citroën, Toyota, Ford (European), Opel (European GM), Cadillac STS, BMW, Mercedes, Audi and I probably forgot a few. In my most expensive list, Cadillac is on top, Ford second. My Mercedes AMG was the best car I ever o...
[13:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Pinpoints Brain Cells that Trigger Sugar Cravings and Consumption - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:45] <exec> 08└─No, you're thinking of trinitrophenol.
[13:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Pinpoints Brain Cells that Trigger Sugar Cravings and Consumption - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:47] <exec> 08└─That's the exact opposite of it, that's blaming someone else for you having no control over your own life and having the audacity to pretend it's someone else's fault.
[13:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Parliament Passes Porn Age-Verification Legislation - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:04] <exec> 08└─Teen on reddit means "not saggy" not teensy as in petite, interesting linguistic drift. Speaking of Reddit this shows their strategy. Its 95% pr0n site and 5% hateful violent SJW haven which means its immune to these type of regulations. I wonder how much a UPI news feed costs to pornhub into a "leg...
[13:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Parliament Passes Porn Age-Verification Legislation - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:06] <exec> 08└─Doesn't France have beaches with boobs? I mean, the legacy population is being rapidly and intentionally replaced with burka wearers so maybe not anymore, but used to be able to see boobs in France?
[13:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hasbro, North American Scrabble Players Association Bans Racial, Ethnic Slurs from Word Lists - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:10] <exec> 08└─Alex Trebek: I'd like to ask our contestants once again, please refrain from using ethnic slurs. That said, let's take a look at the scores. Sean Connery has set a new Jeopardy record with -$230,000. Sean Connery: You think you're pretty smart, don't you Trebek. What, with your dago mustache and you...
[13:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hasbro, North American Scrabble Players Association Bans Racial, Ethnic Slurs from Word Lists - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:11] <exec> 08└─Fuck me, I was joking. Wow.
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[14:22:26] <exec> 08└─Dead end technology: Western Digital's 16TB and 18TB Gold Drives: EAMR HDDs Enter the Retail Channel [anandtech.com] WD indicated in yesterday's announcement that qualification shipments of their 20TB Ultrastar DC host-managed SMR drive are in progress.
[14:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:49] <exec> 08└─If the argument is irreverent, it might be relevant
[14:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:50] <exec> 08└─From the OED: Irregardless (informal) Irregardless means the same as regardless, but the negative prefix ir- merely duplicates the suffix -less, and is unnecessary. The word dates back to the 19th century, but is regarded as incorrect in standard English. Origin: Mid 19th century: probably a blend...
[14:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03PaperNoodle [10908] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:52] <exec> 08└─Dang youngster hooligans bastardizing the pure essence of language with short hand hodgepodge gobbledygook! What will the youth corrupt next? Kpop? Twerking? Fortnite? Memes!?!?! The future is bleak.
[14:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:55] <exec> 08└─Kory Stamper has talked about this, she's pro-irregardless. See her short video (with transcription) [businessinsider.com] and this episode [poorstuart.com] of the Penn's Sunday School podcast, in which Stamper is a guest, where they discuss irregardless (skip to 8:45).
[14:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:57] <exec> 08└─Is it a word? Well, can it be used in a sentence? Can the meaning be reasonably understood by a English speaker? If so, then yes, it's a word. It might not be considered a "proper" part of the English language, but that doesn't make it a non-word. Unlike some other languages, English doesn't have a...
[14:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:59] <exec> 08└─Your ear is without regard. It is irregardless.
[14:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:01] <exec> 08└─regardless of the outcome.
[14:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:03] <exec> 08└─This "confirmation" is a reaction to the public using the word as if it is real, thus making it real.
[14:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:06] <exec> 08└─the negative prefix ir- merely duplicates the suffix -less
[14:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:08] <exec> 08└─What if English could move to a more RISC style set of words. With orthogonal parameters and modifiers of the word. And simpler pronunciation of the letters of the alphabet. The letter C would never make the sound of the letter S or the letter K, and thus be unused. The letter G would make the soft...
[14:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:10] <exec> 08└─Disregard that one guy!
[14:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:12] <exec> 08└─How about this non-word that has always droven me (more) insane: Orientated How about Oriented instead?
[14:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:14] <exec> 08└─If it's a word, then what does it mean? The opposite of what it actually says? A pretty poor word.
[14:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:17] <exec> 08└─I believe british english is defined as the english spoken by the queen (or king). Obviously this is meaningless for the US, but it seems relevant.
[14:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:19] <exec> 08└─Sometimes regardless alone doesn't quite regardless enough and you might need a little more.
[14:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:21] <exec> 08└─did you just key "orientated" into the typing plate of your computator? some of us are subject to pervertated brains that will illaboriously constructate wordings that you now have to contemplizate.
[14:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:23] <exec> 08└─Sounds perfectly cromulent to me.
[14:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:01] <exec> 08└─A friend sold Ford/Chevrolet/Chrysler parts at a dealership for 10 years and he had all sorts of stories about getting OEM parts for the Big 3 brands when the auto is more than 3 model years old. The Big 3 wanted you to lease and do not care about the long tail. This was not just for cars too - they...
[14:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:02] <exec> 08└─Whoosh.
[14:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Pinpoints Brain Cells that Trigger Sugar Cravings and Consumption - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:32] <exec> 08└─No, the picric acid didn't cross my mind (or brain). dinitrophenol [wikipedia.org] DNP's explosive strength is 81% that of TNT, based on the Trauzl lead block test. DNP was the cause of the 1916 Rainham Chemical Factory explosion which left 7 dead and 69 injured. DNP is listed on the Homeland Securi...
[14:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Parliament Passes Porn Age-Verification Legislation - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:53] <exec> 08└─Should Priests be included? Just asking for a friend.
[14:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Parliament Passes Porn Age-Verification Legislation - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:54] <exec> 08└─You seem to be unaware, or want to ignore that one of the major goals of Western society is to protect children from ever finding out about sex. About how their bodies work. About where children come from. (The stork brings them.) About how pregnancy happens. Especially during adolescence, this is i...
[14:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Parliament Passes Porn Age-Verification Legislation - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:56] <exec> 08└─Have we forgotten this important bit in TCP/IP? Why not also designate a pr0n bit for packets?
[14:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Warns Customers Not to Close its Laptops with a Camera Cover Attached - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:58] <exec> 08└─Please be sure to turn off engine before attempting to change fan belt. Don't be one of us who learned this the hard way.
[14:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA is Updating its Guidelines on How to Prevent Contamination of the Solar System - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:23] <exec> 08└─What if a sterile spacecraft were the contamination? What if an RTG or nuclear power supply were the contamination? What if a certain lubricant in a bearing were the contamination?
[14:30:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hasbro, North American Scrabble Players Association Bans Racial, Ethnic Slurs from Word Lists - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:06] <exec> 08└─I should be allowed to walk into churches and start cussing everyone out while exercising my free speech to promote the church of the flying spaghetti monster?
[14:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hasbro, North American Scrabble Players Association Bans Racial, Ethnic Slurs from Word Lists - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:08] <exec> 08└─oh wait, can we still say darknet? Let's call it the "obscure" net.
[14:30:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hasbro, North American Scrabble Players Association Bans Racial, Ethnic Slurs from Word Lists - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:10] <exec> 08└─Dungeonet
[14:30:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hasbro, North American Scrabble Players Association Bans Racial, Ethnic Slurs from Word Lists - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:12] <exec> 08└─Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
[14:31:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Code Change Caused Outage for Spotify, Pinterest and Waze Apps on iOS - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:17] <exec> 08└─I think you will find the dicks are getting screwed by the pussies.
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[15:22:19] <exec> 08└─By comparison, consider that the current world population is about 7.8 billion people.
[15:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At 100TB, the World's Biggest SSD Gets an (Eye-Watering) Price Tag - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:20] <exec> 08└─Not sure if an ssd costing at least $1000 can really be considered "mainstream"
[15:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:02] <exec> 08└─extend Unicode to have enough Emoji and modifiers for humans to communicate only happy thoughts.
[15:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:04] <exec> 08└─Congratulations, you now have a tiny pop-gun of a weapon to use against him to wind him up. To what he does in response to that wind-up, pay no regard.
[15:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:06] <exec> 08└─Is noose a word? How about Black? African? If you're offended by words then you are the racist... not the person speaking proper English. Help prevent cruelty to humans, Make sure to spay or neuter your SJW's.
[15:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:08] <exec> 08└─English is a living language for better or worse. On the whole, I hope new rules and relaxing of grammar rules lets the language become more accessible. Alternatively, we could have a council of old folks dressed up in fancy uniforms to formally decide how the language is to be defined. Kinda sounds...
[15:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:10] <exec> 08└─Can the meaning be reasonably understood by a English speaker?
[15:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:13] <exec> 08└─Since it is a double negative and universally not used that way, the definition should be obvious. irregardless: adj. Self description of the person using the word, meaning: "I'm a fucking idiot".
[15:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:15] <exec> 08└─The new word "masturbed" would be a cross between "masturbating" and "disturbed".
[15:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:17] <exec> 08└─Are you honestly telling me before today you did not know "irregardless" is a informal synonym of "regardless"? If the answer is no, then my statement stands.
[15:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:19] <exec> 08└─If you've ever heard someone say Orientated, it's truly worse than typing it on the keyboard.
[15:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:21] <exec> 08└─Would this be the same group that invented the term Vernacular?
[15:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:24] <exec> 08└─Certainly not, but again there no "to masturb". On the other side, the more common form is "to orient" even if "to orientate" is accepted.
[15:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:26] <exec> 08└─For those sporting a kink, I think that works actually. Or maybe if somebody knocks on the door during?
[15:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:28] <exec> 08└─I reckon that people who desperately want to have a flammable word with a prefix should use *en*flammable. It's etymologically the same prefix as the one they use, what's called in some languages the transformative case - putting something into a new state - with plenty of cognate usage, but doesn't...
[15:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:30] <exec> 08└─Noose is indeed a word. A word applicable when referencing SJW's. Black is a word. It is also a shade of gray, just at one endpoint of the gradient. Or #000000. African is a word. Someone who lives in Africa, which is a place and a word. The word could also refer to ancestry. Make sure to spay or ne...
[15:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:32] <exec> 08└─There's already a short way of saying "wrote a tweet on tweetdupe", and that's "wrote on tweetdupe", we don't need the neologised noun and verb at all, we already have a sufficiently rich set of terms.
[15:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:34] <exec> 08└─I'm glad to know that. In the future, I will say: Not Irregardless . . . so that people will know I am not an idiot.
[15:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:36] <exec> 08└─That's because duplication is quite distinct from cancellation, you silly silly person.
[15:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:39] <exec> 08└─The opposite of what it actually says? A pretty poor word.
[15:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:41] <exec> 08└─Typical grammar nazi -- you spelled covfefe wrong.
[15:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:43] <exec> 08└─I think all uses of Orientated should be Oriented. I've heard the "word" used like: * just let me get orientated . . . * . . . once I get orientated . . . I can't be sure, but it might be an Australian thing. I had heard the word earlier in life only in the US. But in the last year or so I seem to r...
[15:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:23] <exec> 08└─I've heard modern versions of that joke -- together with all kinds of car horror porn -- about my own car, an Alfa Romeo 156. It has 320,000+ kilometers.
[15:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:24] <exec> 08└─May be anecdotal... I have a Saturn SC1 from 2000 manual gear At 170K miles now and still running ...change oil 2 times a year... no electrical windows erc...i.e why no much maintainance in all of this. In 20 years replaced an engine support and a broken gear cable.
[15:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:27] <exec> 08└─Pretty much exactly that over my lifetime. Except I've yet to spend that much on a Toyota. Ever. And I tend to drive them to at least a quarter million miles.
[15:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:29] <exec> 08└─My strategy is to buy a used Mercedes for 20% of its original price and do most of the maintenance myself. That way I reap the benefit of the poor resale value, and know that it is maintained properly. Parts are cheap online. For the occasional work that is outwith my capabilities, I have a reliable...
[15:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:31] <exec> 08└─Certainly matches my experience! BMW: piece of shit moneypit. Toyota: reliable and cheaper to repair. It also matches my experience that Honda costs a good bit more than Toyota to keep running. Parts cost more and things break more often (transmission!). Honda used to build good cars in the 20th cen...
[15:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:33] <exec> 08└─They're all getting really rare - and cheap when they do come up, none of the 2001-2004 era S will fetch over $10K anymore, regardless of miles or condition. Like I said, we put 60K miles on our 430 in the last 4 years, not really looking for worse fuel economy - sure a 600 would be more fun, but al...
[15:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:35] <exec> 08└─"Whoosh" - the sound of arrogant but moronic talking out your ass.
[15:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:38] <exec> 08└─Renault Espace 2.2 Quadra 2004 ~400000km (estimated, the counter was manipulated before me), only insignificant rust under the driver's feet. Renault Twingo 1.2 2003, ~230000km, no rust either. Regularily driven pre-covid and parked on the street. Sofia, Bulgaria, wet snow in winters and fscking sal...
[15:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:40] <exec> 08└─Do you know what BMW oil stick is for? You dip it in the snow cover. If the snow is above "max", BMW stays in the garage.
[15:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Has Built its Own Mac Graphics Processors - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:18] <exec> 08└─This was a concern for me too when I first heard of Apple migrating to their own chips. I think they will probably continue with AMD GPUs for a few years, but they will move towards an in-house GPU solution in the future. This is speculation on my part, but my supporting evidence: 1. Even Intel is s...
[15:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seven Years Gone - Dog Years are More Complex - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:41] <exec> 08└─I guess it depends on what you measure, but really, this doesn't pass the sniff test for any dog owner. A one-year old dog may be sexually mature, but is not mentally mature - behaviorally equivalent to mid- or late-teens. Full maturity doesn't come until about 2 years of age - which I would put as...
[15:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Pinpoints Brain Cells that Trigger Sugar Cravings and Consumption - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:11] <exec> 08└─Crikey dingo! Next they'll be telling us to use nitroglycerin medicinally!
[15:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Parliament Passes Porn Age-Verification Legislation - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:34] <exec> 08└─It's yet another tedious law designed to make criminals of as many people as possible so the state always has something to arrest them for, should they feel the need.
[15:27:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03r1348 [5988] 02 - 06Apple Warns Customers Not to Close its Laptops with a Camera Cover Attached - 52 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:47] <exec> 08└─Come with a physical cover pre-mounted. And it's HP.
[15:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Warns Customers Not to Close its Laptops with a Camera Cover Attached - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:36] <exec> 08└─Cut out the 'u must be fan' bullshit. I didn't defend Apple I promoted accuracy of information.
[15:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hasbro, North American Scrabble Players Association Bans Racial, Ethnic Slurs from Word Lists - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:49] <exec> 08└─What if all trademarked words were banned? And brand names? What is Scrabble had its own invented list of non-words which were the only words allowed in the game?
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[16:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At 100TB, the World's Biggest SSD Gets an (Eye-Watering) Price Tag - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:33] <exec> 08└─What is that in LoCs?
[16:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At 100TB, the World's Biggest SSD Gets an (Eye-Watering) Price Tag - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:35] <exec> 08└─Commented or not commented? [wikipedia.org] (grin)
[16:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06At 100TB, the World's Biggest SSD Gets an (Eye-Watering) Price Tag - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:37] <exec> 08└─For what you get (enterprise solution, fully supported hardware with validated and supported configs on a variety of server platforms) it's not a horrible price. If you need that much SSD in a compact size, you probably already have a compelling business reason for it. $40K a pop is eye-watering for...
[16:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:40] <exec> 08└─Cancel and Counsel might be interchangeable. Some people would say not so. They would insist there is difference between Marriage Counselor and Marriage Canceller.
[16:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:41] <exec> 08└─Are you honestly telling me before today you did not know "irregardless" is a informal synonym of "regardless"?
[16:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:43] <exec> 08└─What's your noun of action for the verb "orient"?
[16:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:45] <exec> 08└─There should be no emojis for that. Oh nooooes! My code that fixes all "irregardless" to be "regardless" also fixes all "irrigation" to be "rigation".
[16:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:48] <exec> 08└─Irregardless becoming a word is gay... Take that for (ab)usage.
[16:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 1053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:50] <exec> 08└─Spoken languages are evolved, not engineered. Which is to say they favor deception and strategy over utility. Language is the expression of biological entropy at the user level. For example Chinese has way more entropy than English, which should make it MORE concise. But typically it isn't. Which is...
[16:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:52] <exec> 08└─Oriented?
[16:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:54] <exec> 08└─I can't be sure, but it might be an Australian thing.
[16:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:56] <exec> 08└─Sorry, Orienting?
[16:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:58] <exec> 08└─How would you know that if you never heard of the word before?
[16:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:00] <exec> 08└─You seem unwelcoming of the transition of Irregardless into a word.
[16:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:03] <exec> 08└─I, literally, just gave you the definition. So no, it does not mean regard.
[16:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:05] <exec> 08└─Language is defined by advertising. Not the other way around.
[16:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:07] <exec> 08└─I can still RTFA and research around; is not a crime, is it?
[16:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:09] <exec> 08└─Are you attributing the "proper" spelling to a senile old man's fumble-finger tweet? I hope it takes more than that to coin a new word.
[16:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:11] <exec> 08└─I xeroxed my kleenex.
[16:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:14] <exec> 08└─I may have seen the word before, but it just sounds wrong to me. I'm not an American, nor am I a native speaker of any other version of English. But I do speak several other languages and I recognize the 'ir' prefix as a negation. Which makes 'irregardless' a tripping word for me, just like "its vs...
[16:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:16] <exec> 08└─Just seems odd you managed to come to a research and come to a solid conclusion about the usage patterns of a word you literally only found out existed in the past 4 hours. In other words: I feel like you are lying to me here.
[16:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:18] <exec> 08└─He identifies as Irregardless.
[16:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:20] <exec> 08└─But that begs the question whether they are right or not. (Aha! Did I use that correctly here or not? Mwuaa-haa-haa-ha!)
[16:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:22] <exec> 08└─I feel like you are lying to me here.
[16:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:25] <exec> 08└─I'd rather say "orientation", as in "to provide an orientation", but ... (after all, 't's your native language, do what you want with it - grin)
[16:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03taylormc [5751] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:27] <exec> 08└─Sarcasm is always irreverent, irrespective of how effective it is.
[16:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:29] <exec> 08└─language. French is an example of a prescriptive language, they have a Commission for the Enrichment of the French Language that dictates standards like "information fallacieuse" instead of "fake news" and "chemise le plouc" for T-shirt. English dictionaries only document current usage, they do not...
[16:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03taylormc [5751] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:31] <exec> 08└─See title
[16:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:33] <exec> 08└─Thanks god there's no marriage chancellor, otherwise some Americans would spell it "chanceller" and use it to denote "someone who takes a chance in marriage" (grin)
[16:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:36] <exec> 08└─Well, it should sound wrong, but contextually it should still be possible to discern the meaning when seeing it used. Plus being a non-native speaker I'm sure you have run across many situations where even proper English doesn't always strictly play by its own rules.
[16:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:38] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the master bedroom has a mastur-bed?
[16:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:40] <exec> 08└─That's what confuses me. If the infinitive is "to orient", shouldn't that then be "oriention" (which is quite hard to say)?
[16:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:42] <exec> 08└─Disturbation?
[16:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:32] <exec> 08└─My strategy is to buy a used Mercedes for 20% of its original price and do most of the maintenance myself.
[16:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 1575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:33] <exec> 08└─1986 Vanagon - Grandpa bought this new, in 34 years and 800k miles it has gone through three sets of tires, one engines, one transmission, and odd repairs here and there (fuel line likes to rot out). Since it was passed down to me in '09 I have put 4k into it to keep it running, but is currently dea...
[16:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:35] <exec> 08└─One of my friends owns a Model X. He's happy with it because he loves to find bugs (he's less happy with Tesla's response to them being reported). Never asked him how much he's payed in maintenance. One of my former managers bought a Model S. Amusingly, he was driving a different Model S for the fir...
[16:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:37] <exec> 08└─80s beemers were built like tanks. Modern beemers are built like iphone - give it a look from a "wrong" angle, and the wheels start to fall off.
[16:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:39] <exec> 08└─What does a bot need a car for? Put the damn wheels on yoself, fool.
[16:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:42] <exec> 08└─What a co-incidence! Just as you are posting this your Tesla has come up to needing a 2-yearly maintenence : https://www.tesla.com [tesla.com]
[16:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 2730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:44] <exec> 08└─I agree that Chrysler quality has long been mediocre. Around 2000, the Dodge Neon won the Motor Trend car of the year award, and scarcely 2 years later, Neons were piling up in junkyards because the head gaskets were giving out. That can quickly ruin an engine. A bad head gasket can leak antifreeze...
[16:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:46] <exec> 08└─Funny, my washing machine has the same maintenance costs. And pretty much the same appeal.
[16:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:48] <exec> 08└─Is a harem.
[16:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cause of Oversized Placentas in Cloning Found after Two Decades - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:07] <exec> 08└─What's the price (in CAD)?
[16:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Has Built its Own Mac Graphics Processors - 2165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:29] <exec> 08└─Gaming on iPad is as painful as is possible. Consider this: iOS has no method of terminating an app by user. I don't understand why if not for the pure purpose of stalking. Instead, the system kills the badly behaving app or when running out of resources. I'll address this situation later. In iOS fa...
[16:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Pinpoints Brain Cells that Trigger Sugar Cravings and Consumption - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:23] <exec> 08└─Next they'll be telling us to use nitroglycerin medicinally!
[16:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Pinpoints Brain Cells that Trigger Sugar Cravings and Consumption - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:24] <exec> 08└─Tadalifil. Hmm. I'd never heard of it before. (trundles off to search...) "Tadalafil is used to treat male sexual function problems (impotence or erectile dysfunction-ED)." I forget, how do you just randomly happen to know about Tadalifil? (big grin!) Jabs aside, you sure know chemistry as well as o...
[16:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Pinpoints Brain Cells that Trigger Sugar Cravings and Consumption - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:27] <exec> 08└─What do you do for a living?
[16:29:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Warns Customers Not to Close its Laptops with a Camera Cover Attached - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:51] <exec> 08└─Yep, you're right, I had a reading comprehension fail there. I apologize for misinterpreting what you said, especially for doing so in the worst possible way.
[16:32:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hasbro, North American Scrabble Players Association Bans Racial, Ethnic Slurs from Word Lists - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:03] <exec> 08└─They care about reducing black on black violence, poverty reduction initiatives, better education (not racial discrimination to get unqualified blacks into the highest ranked colleges, but funding local school districts better).
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[17:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:21] <exec> 08└─Unsure, TBH. There are a few things I like about it, there are more things I don't like. Electoral voters can be pretty much compared to the DNC's superdelegates - they do whatever the hell they want to do. And, that is what the SC doesn't like. The only defense that I have ever made of the electora...
[17:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:22] <exec> 08└─CPG gray had an episode about this https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Basic conclusion is that the supreme court didn't really change anything, they just upheld the status quo.
[17:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:25] <exec> 08└─Now it's up to us. If you live in a state that hasn't joined the interstate compact, you can urge your state legislators and your governor to sign on. And no matter where you're from, you can dispel the myths about the Electoral College and who it really helps, myths that still lead some people to s...
[17:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:27] <exec> 08└─err ... it's CGP Grey
[17:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 1434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:29] <exec> 08└─>states have the right to "bind" their electors States have control over their elections. Not really shocking or unexpected from this decision. > the Electoral College is a terrible idea >serves no useful purpose, other than to intermittently and randomly override the people's will >reassert the peo...
[17:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:31] <exec> 08└─Wasn't the original purpose, essentially, because rich people were afraid of how poor people would vote?
[17:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:33] <exec> 08└─The purpose of faithless electors, I was taught, is related to communication delay. Say a candidate commits murder the day before the election and is arrested. In the early 1800s it was impossible for the average voter to find out in time to change their vote. The electors were more informed and cou...
[17:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:35] <exec> 08└─But I'm still grateful that the electoral College kept Clinton out Mixed bag, but what the hell, it's up to us to nominate better people in the first place.
[17:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:37] <exec> 08└─Honestly, if the EC was to be eliminated states should be given the opportunity to peacefully secede. Eliminating the EC is akin to a labor contract where you agree to X for $Y/hr. Eliminating the EC would be like discovering halfway through your contract, you are going to be paid $0.00/hr AND you h...
[17:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:40] <exec> 08└─It would be useful to describe how the interests of small population states differ so radically from the popular vote of the country. I understand that different states may have different groups of people that they hate. Maybe this can be reconciled so that we all hate the same people?
[17:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:42] <exec> 08└─No. It was a rightful fear against a tyranny of the majority bullying small population states. The fact is, without the EC, there would be no United States because only a moron would bequeath all power to remote entities which often become deaf to the needs of those remote areas. The colonies had ju...
[17:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:44] <exec> 08└─Why is it the democrats only want to get rid of the electoral college when a republican wins? I didn't see any of these statements or problems during the Clinton or Obama presidencies.
[17:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:46] <exec> 08└─You don't think on person's vote counting more than another person's vote is a good criticism?
[17:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:48] <exec> 08└─Rephrased: I'm grateful the pendulum swung so absurdly far in my direction. (Pendulums swing both ways.)
[17:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:51] <exec> 08└─Probably because Clinton and Obama won by getting more votes. The only people that win by getting fewer votes are Republicans.
[17:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 1875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:53] <exec> 08└─Does not matter who anyone votes for if no citizens have privacy or right to assemble. As of now any individual can be targeted and harassed without any due process, any organization can be infiltrated and taken over by the FBI. This is late stage empire, the patrician class moves swarms of plebians...
[17:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:55] <exec> 08└─Because, Hillary actually won the "popular vote" by the slimmest of margins. The Dems don't think they should ever lose, and especially not when they control all of those inner city population clusters.
[17:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:57] <exec> 08└─WTF did you just say about my mother, bitch?
[17:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:59] <exec> 08└─It's not when a republican wins. It's when someone wins by the electoral college, but not the popular vote. Clinton and Obama both won by both popular and electoral college votes. If a republican won the popular vote and lost the electoral college vote, I can't even imagine how much whining we would...
[17:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:01] <exec> 08└─Anything that reroutes the peoples vote is only a tool for the richest bidder.
[17:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:04] <exec> 08└─Missing the point. We are not supposed to be "One Nation", under God or otherwise. In pretty much every governmental context except regarding US territories, "state" means sovereign nation. We were supposed to be something much more akin to NATO or what the EU was originally billed as (not what it's...
[17:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dale [539] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:06] <exec> 08└─Obama won the popular vote and the electoral college. You wouldn't complain about EC vs popular vote in cases when both give the same result. The only reason/time to complain is when they give differing results (like Bush/Gore & Trump/Gore).
[17:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:08] <exec> 08└─Every election cycle, we get whatever the mob wants.
[17:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:10] <exec> 08└─I like how you put it that Democrats "control" inner city population clusters. Maybe if the Republican party represented the interests of more people, they might "control" those dense population clusters?
[17:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:12] <exec> 08└─Clinton gave Trump the POTUS by buying the DNC which blocked out Bernie who would have won. Blame Clinton for my vote for Trump.
[17:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:15] <exec> 08└─No, it's not. A person's vote does not count on a federal level at all. It never has and was very explicitly never supposed to. Hell, originally the senate was appointed by the state officials rather than elected.
[17:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:17] <exec> 08└─So if I was a voter in a big state, it's right for your vote to count more than mine? Why? Forget Donald Trump. Imagine any scenario in which some candidate wins the electoral college but loses the popular vote. How is that fair to the voters?
[17:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:19] <exec> 08└─The real point of the Electoral College was an attempt to avoid making the President a popularity contest. It was somewhat the same idea for the Senate, which was also originally not directly elected. Direct democracy works here in Switzerland, but it works because we are small, and at 8 million the...
[17:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:21] <exec> 08└─They effectively do. They've had to put a hell of a lot of money and effort into brainwashing with class/race/sex/etc... divisiveness, but it's paid off pretty well if your only goal is power.
[17:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:23] <exec> 08└─No. I don't. Just like I don't think the Senate is fundamentally flawed because every state, regardless of size, has 2 votes via 2 Senators. More to the point. The votes are equal. 1 vote in CA is the same as 1 vote in WY in that it can affect their respective elections. They are participating in di...
[17:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:25] <exec> 08└─About the same amount. Morons gonna moron.
[17:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:28] <exec> 08└─But as a Kenyan he wasn't eligible to be on the ballot.
[17:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:30] <exec> 08└─No, EC was a compromise to get small states to ratify the Constitution. It wasn't any more a brilliant piece of political foresight than the Three Fifths Compromise. It was just brilliant as a negotiating tool. The end result of the Electoral College is that you have people win the electoral colleg...
[17:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:32] <exec> 08└─I think the right to assemble is as important as the right to repair. The former should be done once the number of sick people decline, due to getting the spread of a disease under control. The latter can be done in small groups or even alone.
[17:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:34] <exec> 08└─Because, Hillary actually won the "popular vote" by the slimmest of margins. The Dems don't think they should ever lose, and especially not when they control all of those inner city population clusters.
[17:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:36] <exec> 08└─Yes. Yes I would. It is a relic from the times when information traveled as fast as a horse could carry its rider and it was a full time job to actually know who you'd want to vote for and what that person stands for.
[17:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:39] <exec> 08└─Well stated. Also, cheers for taking an academic and informative tone rather than trying to tell another nation how stupid they are for not doing things the way you think they should.
[17:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:41] <exec> 08└─Electoral college or not, house, senate, president, none of this matters much when 60% of voters don't even bother to get off their lazy asses and vote. Fix that problem first. Then you can worry about technicalities like the electoral college.
[17:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:43] <exec> 08└─Counter question: How is it fair that your vote has more weight than the one from someone in a bigger state? How about creating a counter weight system where there is one house where every state has the same amount of say, independent of size, while we also have a second house where the seats are di...
[17:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At 100TB, the World's Biggest SSD Gets an (Eye-Watering) Price Tag - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:56] <exec> 08└─Which you can turn around and think that on average only around 500 billion sub-atomic particles participate in the storage of a single bit. Not even as many particles as the number of bits that the entire apparatus itself stores.
[17:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At 100TB, the World's Biggest SSD Gets an (Eye-Watering) Price Tag - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:58] <exec> 08└─on average only around 500 billion sub-atomic particles participate in the storage of a single bit
[17:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At 100TB, the World's Biggest SSD Gets an (Eye-Watering) Price Tag - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:00] <exec> 08└─Price isn't official but it was said to be $900 [theverge.com]. $/TB for new models is usually higher but it settles down, so it will end up at $700 or something before long. $100 for 2 TB would be a no-brainer.
[17:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At 100TB, the World's Biggest SSD Gets an (Eye-Watering) Price Tag - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:02] <exec> 08└─I remember when a 40 MB (not GB but Megabyte) drive was $35,000, and the disk pack for it was $1,500. (But the "cake tray" disk pack was removable.) I remember when a 48 K byte 8-bit computer cost a huge bundle of money. Now a Raspberry PI is cheap and vastly outclasses that ancient hardware. The pr...
[17:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:34] <exec> 08└─shouldn't that then be "oriention"?
[17:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:36] <exec> 08└─Irregardless of what you say, I have to agree with c0lo that the word is not used here in Oz.
[17:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:38] <exec> 08└─Someone should investigate that covfefe again. Was it a precursor to covid19? What did the president know, and when did he know it?
[17:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:40] <exec> 08└─Oz?
[17:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:42] <exec> 08└─They already had to change the definition of the word literally because nobody could use it correctly.
[17:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03justin [4224] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:44] <exec> 08└─"Irregardless" is a shibboleth dumb people use to identify each other.
[17:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:46] <exec> 08└─With irregardless being a word...
[17:25:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 163 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:57] <exec> 08└─>> Interesting that Jaguar is missing from the list, The reason is that the list is based on completed repairs, and they're still waiting for parts for the Jaguar.
[17:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:45] <exec> 08└─Back in the days you used to be able to repair washing machines and dryers. Now a days they just want you to junk it and get a new one. Bad for the environment but great for the profit margins of the manufacturers.
[17:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:46] <exec> 08└─I always see articles here about how expensive it is to own and maintain a Mercedes or a BMW. Every little thing that goes wrong costs a fortune. They eventually want to charge you a monthly fee to heat the seat along with every little additional 'feature'. Forget the fact that part of the point of...
[17:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cause of Oversized Placentas in Cloning Found after Two Decades - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:05] <exec> 08└─While gestating, mother and embryo are in genetic conflict; embryo's genes' chances increase by more resources directed to that embryo, siblings' and mother's health notwithstanding, while mother's genes' chances increase by her producing more living offspring in total, i.e. larger litters and more...
[17:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cause of Oversized Placentas in Cloning Found after Two Decades - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:07] <exec> 08└─That will be fixed in version 3.0.
[17:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Has Built its Own Mac Graphics Processors - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:31] <exec> 08└─That's the Afterburner card, right? What I remember is that it can handle 16K video. Graphics difficulty is exaggerated. They already make their own integrated graphics hardware. To some extent, they can just throw more GPU cores at the problem. Apple A12X/A12Z has 7-8 GPU "cores" vs. 4 for A12, A13...
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[18:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:13] <exec> 08└─How does the electoral college address that? Larger states have more delegates than smaller ones.
[18:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:14] <exec> 08└─Well, that way would be effective but it'd be quicker to just line any office holder with a major party affiliation up and shoot them. Guess it depends on what your criteria for "best" are.
[18:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:16] <exec> 08└─The purpose of the Electoral College is so that Big states don't have the only say in an election. Otherwise, it's conceivable that a president elect, could 100% ignore 1/2 the country or more and only focus on what the large majority of the major cities want. Everyone else can go suck on an egg. Th...
[18:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:18] <exec> 08└─To fix that problem, you first have to address the problem that for most voters, their vote doesn't even matter. If you live in a country that is deeply entrenched on either side, why bother going to the election at all?
[18:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:21] <exec> 08└─It's not the interests of small population states that differ so radically from the popular vote of the country. It's the interests of a handful of large population states (one in particular) that differ so radically from the interests from the rest of the country.
[18:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:23] <exec> 08└─Not proportionately more though. It was a compromise between one state, one vote and one person, one vote. Even back then the states with the largest populations wanted to be able to force their way of doing things on others or it would have been one state, one vote right from the start.
[18:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 1497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:25] <exec> 08└─"Equitable to a minority"? I'm all for "majority rule with minority rights", but the EC makes it "minority rule". The way the Constitution sets up the Senate, the minority doesn't make policy but if enough of them ally they can block policy. That makes sense, that's brilliant - the minority doesn't...
[18:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:27] <exec> 08└─Ever seen city districting? Gerrymandering on steroids.
[18:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:29] <exec> 08└─It's no good taking that tack. He only likes minorities when they do as they're told.
[18:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:31] <exec> 08└─that hasn't been true since 1861.
[18:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:34] <exec> 08└─It's still a popularity contest, it's just that the votes from the people in less populous states are given more weight. No other difference.
[18:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:36] <exec> 08└─Broken beyond repair. The people who can fix US Education are the very ones who benefit from it being broken. Keep the reality TV shows flowing. The people who can fix Campaign Finance are the very ones who benefit from it being broken. The people who can fix Corruption are the very ones who benefit...
[18:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:38] <exec> 08└─The Republicans already control the deplorables. Therefore it follows, that if Republicans manage to reduce more citizens to third-world status, they get more votes. That appears to have been their strategy for decades.
[18:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:40] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure if it was my vote counting more than yours you'd have a different opinion on the matter...
[18:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:42] <exec> 08└─That's wrong, and everyone crowing about the value of the Electoral College today would be screaming if the exact same system had let someone they didn't support beat out their candidate that won the popular vote.
[18:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:44] <exec> 08└─They don't give a shit about fair... As soon as winning by getting fewer votes benefits Democrats they'll try to disband the EC. And I'll help them.
[18:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:47] <exec> 08└─No, I wouldn't. As far as I'm concerned, the less federalization of our government we have, the better. The EC at least makes a nod to us being a union of sovereign nations rather than a single homogeneous shit pile.
[18:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:49] <exec> 08└─TPTB now have the power to make it so the number of sick never decline so they have absolute power, and apparently, your absolute trust. you thought you were getting free tv shows but you paid for them with your mind.
[18:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:51] <exec> 08└─Your point? I was giving that as historical background to support the point I was making.
[18:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:53] <exec> 08└─my vote as a resident of a large state should not count for less
[18:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:55] <exec> 08└─One of the things I have learned here on SN that I did not know before is that it is the Democrats are the ones responsible for: * Trump running for president * Republican party allowing him to run * Republican party letting him survive the weeding out process * Republican party nominating him * Rep...
[18:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 2788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:58] <exec> 08└─We see the authoritarian nature of the regressive left in regards to speech it finds repugnant -- for example, a minority worker when he attempts to appease a leftist road rager: https://www.theatlantic.com [theatlantic.com] We see the authoritarian...
[18:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:00] <exec> 08└─You're reading shit into what I said that I did not say and thinking I'm a conservative when I'm not. I did not vote for Trump and I explicitly said that the EC was a compromise further down the page. So, no, none of that supports your position that the EC is bad with me.
[18:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:02] <exec> 08└─>the EC makes it "minority rule" 5 times in the entirety of 232 years of US history. 5 out of 56 elections since 1788. "minority rule" is a stretch. More often than not, popular vote can predict the election. But. there are times when the minority gets an equitable outcome. Like Affirmative action....
[18:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:04] <exec> 08└─You're not winning any points in this argument. Every single election cycle in my lifetime, has been decided by a minority. Don't believe me? Look at the history - rarely does more than 25, maybe 30% of the eligible voting body even bother to GET OUT AND VOTE!! Like any other poorly designed, faulty...
[18:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:06] <exec> 08└─Can (relatively) easily be fixed - make voting mandatory. Aussie turnout >90%. No, not 100%, but there will always be some awkward sods (even in Aus) and protesters, but they usually only get a small fine. With turnout >90% there is much less potential for argument that the nation didn't get what it...
[18:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:08] <exec> 08└─Just move to a small state and then you too can be completely ignored in the popular vote.
[18:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:11] <exec> 08└─you have less population, you DESERVE less influence! well, duh. why should you have as much as large states? the system is broken. your concerns have been noted. and rejected. have a nice day.
[18:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:13] <exec> 08└─total noob here. but methinks your commander in chief, boss of army, is here to protect your borders. as far a i can tell you have one passport for the whole country and "one" army to protect your country. so if y'all vote for a "army boss" each and every vote of each 'murikan must count the same. i...
[18:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:15] <exec> 08└─>It's all the Democrat's fault! Looking at the burning cities that have been brutalizing people with their police that have been in the hands of democrats for decades. Their fault sounds about right. :)
[18:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:17] <exec> 08└─Remember, a true democracy is represented by two or more wolves and a sheep, voting on "What's for dinner?"
[18:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:19] <exec> 08└─The EC was a compromise, meaning there was bargaining and an exchange to get to agreement. It is the height of self-entitlement however, to expect small states to give up what they bargained for and won, for nothing. What makes you so special that by the mere ability to procreate more -- to be a fuc...
[18:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:21] <exec> 08└─The constitution is silent on whether members of the electoral college have free choice on whom to vote for, but clear that it is the states that choose how the president gets elected. If the states can bind electors to vote according to the popular vote, then why appoint electors at all? Let the st...
[18:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:23] <exec> 08└─You are your own worst enemy. Want to know why I don't vote democrat? Those that survive institutionalized murder by planned parenthood (and if you don't think so, try undergoing an abortion on yourself and then let me know what your opinion on it is), are then called "deplorables" by democrats. Wan...
[18:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:25] <exec> 08└─Without the EC, there would be no US. You are jumping into this thing in the middle. Go to the beginning -- you would have ZERO say over what happens in Montana without the EC because Montana would not be part of the US at all. And you bitch about having a substantial but not 100% power over Montana...
[18:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:28] <exec> 08└─I didn't see any of these statements or problems during the Clinton or Obama presidencies.
[18:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:30] <exec> 08└─A) https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] B) The president is elected by the States, not the US population. If you want to be a colonizing treaty breaker, change the system by force.
[18:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:32] <exec> 08└─It only seems like a bad idea to urbanites who have no idea where their food, water and energy come from. The Electoral College assures that people who do not live in highly populated areas, have some say in how their government is run. Without the electoral college, the presidential election would...
[18:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:34] <exec> 08└─If you think sectionalism is bad now, just wait until LA, New York, Chicago and perhaps a few other big cities are the only places that really decide who the president is. The EC isn't like it is because of some antiquated thing about electors riding to DC in wagons. It's there to prevent sectionali...
[18:26:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 131 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:26] <exec> 08└─Someone should investigate that covfefe again. Was it a precursor to covid19? What did the president know, and when did he know it?
[18:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:32] <exec> 08└─Things I've learned from authoritative grammar books: (1) English texts tend to be more lively with active instead of passive voice. That does not mean we need to ban the passive voice. (2) Sometimes splitting an infinitive is the best way to make your meaning clear. (3) There's nothing wrong with h...
[18:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:34] <exec> 08└─It is a word. But It is a bad word. says the OED. -- hendrik
[18:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:36] <exec> 08└─"To orient towards Orient" makes for a confuzzy sense.
[18:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:38] <exec> 08└─It's like use versus utilize.
[18:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:40] <exec> 08└─and having an accident in the Occident!
[18:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:42] <exec> 08└─What is it like? To masturbate?
[18:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:45] <exec> 08└─"Irregardless" is a double negative. Since educated Englishmen learned Latin and Greek grammar and logic and imposed it on their understanding of English, the taught rule became that double negatives are positives. It wasn't always so. Older English conventions used doubling of a negation to mean a...
[18:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:47] <exec> 08└─The verb is 'inflame'. In this case "flammable" is awry. But because of words like impotent and inept, confusion reigned.
[18:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:49] <exec> 08└─i think one is used when countering with a logical background whilst the other is exclaimed by someone with emotional bias -aka- st0pid but rich?
[18:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:50] <exec> 08└─so is porsche. and ferrari. it's like unaffordable, crap cars are only for the 1%.
[18:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:51] <exec> 08└─I might agree with you on purely technical perspective, but from a marketing POV we have cars using electronics for programmed obsolescence and increasing repair costs. All in the name of safety and emissions. Personally the safer car is the one that makes me quite aware of the fact that I am speedi...
[18:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Loon Is Now Beaming WiFi Down to Earth From Giant Balloons - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:03] <exec> 08└─buy more foil for headgear.
[18:32:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Warns Customers Not to Close its Laptops with a Camera Cover Attached - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:00] <exec> 08└─You trust them to wire in the switch right? How do you know its not just "advisory" or only disables the LED? Since you'll need to open the thing to verify, just wire in your own while you're in there.
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[19:22:26] <exec> 08└─That's because the government prioritizes contacting rich white people. Excitable Indian web developers seeking publicity are pretty far down on the list.
[19:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Virus Tracking App Doesn’t (Always) Work - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:27] <exec> 08└─We work in a tech space so we trust the technology will work
[19:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Virus Tracking App Doesn’t (Always) Work - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:30] <exec> 08└─Tech is a pretty meaningless term nowadays. The guy who uses soap and water to clean our molds is a "mold tech". For the word to mean anything at all, it needs some descriptive terms attached. Managment titles are following the same route, in some places. There is a Mickey D's near here. The - uhhh...
[19:22:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 359 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:56] <exec> 08└─It's not when a republican wins. It's when someone wins by the electoral college, but not the popular vote. Clinton and Obama both won by both popular and electoral college votes. If a republican won the popular vote and lost the electoral college vote, I can't even imagine how much whining we would...
[19:23:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 567 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:20] <exec> 08└─The purpose of the Electoral College is so that Big states don't have the only say in an election. Otherwise, it's conceivable that a president elect, could 100% ignore 1/2 the country or more and only focus on what the large majority of the major cities want. Everyone else can go suck on an egg. Th...
[19:23:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 574 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:38] <exec> 08└─One of the things I have learned here on SN that I did not know before is that it is the Democrats are the ones responsible for: * Trump running for president * Republican party allowing him to run * Republican party letting him survive the weeding out process * Republican party nominating him * Rep...
[19:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:57] <exec> 08└─Everything that the states could realistically handle without screwing each other or themselves was supposed to be handled by the states. In that context, the EC makes complete sense.
[19:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:59] <exec> 08└─Why should your vote in a big state mean more than my vote in Wyoming? A big state already has more economic clout, more voting clout, more revenue from income taxes, more revenue from tourism, more businesses and infrastructure to attract even more businesses, and not to mention more name recogniti...
[19:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:01] <exec> 08└─It is amusing that Democrats are who want more police accountability and Republicans, starting with Trump, who oppose that because they "support" the police.
[19:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:03] <exec> 08└─The original purpose of EC because rich people were afraid that stupid, uneducated, and illiterate people would vote.
[19:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:05] <exec> 08└─None of the above definitely should be an option and if it wins, all the candidates on the list should be prohibited from participating in the next few cycles. This would bring most of the folks to vote. Without, our democracy is a farce not worse participating in.
[19:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:08] <exec> 08└─The purpose of faithless electors, I was taught, is related to communication delay.
[19:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:10] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't call 2.87 million votes (out of ~129 million) the slimmest of margins. What I call the slimmest of margins is the number of votes that won 3 states for Trump (WI, MI, and PA); a grand total of 78,000 (23K, 11K, & 44k respectively). I do see why we need something like the EC. We could poss...
[19:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:12] <exec> 08└─Democrats just can't admit they are the reason they lost. Last I heard Hillary was blaming everyone else except herself for losing. Is she still doing that? Poor Bill.
[19:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:14] <exec> 08└─Without the Electoral College, Presidential candidates would only need to sway and campaign in a few, highly populated areas and states. The Electoral College ensures that a prospective Presidential Candidate has to make broad appeals to a wide range of the populace. I think that's a very valuable t...
[19:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:16] <exec> 08└─The purpose of the Electoral College is so that Big counties don't have the only say in an election.
[19:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 1054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:19] <exec> 08└─i never said, or even hinted at forcing anyone to vote. Funny you chose to interpret my post this way. But when a free, democratic (republic) nation has more than half its population not even bother to vote, there's definately something wrong. Maybe 60% of the population is illegal aliens, but more...
[19:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:21] <exec> 08└─Because, Hillary actually won the "popular vote" by the slimmest of margins.
[19:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:23] <exec> 08└─If I live in a small population state, why would I want to sign on the the compact? It just reduces my influence.
[19:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:25] <exec> 08└─It is amusing that Democrats straw-man Republicans as not wanting police accountability because Republicans don't follow ACAB (All Cops Are Bastards) and 'defund police' mantra. Yet, at the same time not address the core point that the problem of police accountability, brutality, and inner city viol...
[19:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:27] <exec> 08└─Obama didn't win the popular vote. There is no popular vote to be won. It's like you claiming you won the foot race because you went around the track the fastest, but you ran through all the hurdles instead of jumping over them. You're trying to apply a set of rules to a contest that has a completel...
[19:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:30] <exec> 08└─AC beat me it; but the vid is a followup to this one: " rel="url2html-14813">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUX-frlNBJY But this decision upholds what has always been true; that is the only way the SC vote will ever unanimous ... if it really doesn't mean anything.
[19:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:32] <exec> 08└─Having grown up in the then-most-populous state of New York, and living most of my life in the most densely populated state of New Jersey, I have always been cheated. Many millions of people are similarly cheated. The vote of a person in Wyoming has almost FOUR TIMES the power of a the vote of a per...
[19:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:34] <exec> 08└─With no offense whatsoever intended, it's kind of scary you have to ask this question - but I suspect *many* might wonder the exact same thing. It's scary because the reason is what should be the absolute cornerstone of every political decision. Big states want everything to be decided by population...
[19:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Loon Is Now Beaming WiFi Down to Earth From Giant Balloons - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:52] <exec> 08└─So that's their evil plan! Design wifi-mesh balloons to enable Internet access over areas without deploying fixed infrastructure Deploy balloons over distressed and poor areas Provide information access and stuff In the meantime, collect statistics on what people in the middle of nowhere can't buy w...
[19:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Has Built its Own Mac Graphics Processors - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:25] <exec> 08└─The propaganda has only just begun: Windows PCs Will Have to Switch Over to ARM CPUs Eventually to Match Apple’s Future Offerings, Says Former Mac Chief [wccftech.com] “Specifically, what are Dell, HP, Asus, and others going to do if Apple offers materially better laptops and desktops and Micros...
[19:29:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Pinpoints Brain Cells that Trigger Sugar Cravings and Consumption - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:21] <exec> 08└─A sweet tooth has you avoiding hunting in favor of foraging. So, it's a question of what would kill a wild hair-less bipedal ape faster: Obesity or predators. I wager on the latter.
[19:30:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Parliament Passes Porn Age-Verification Legislation - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:45] <exec> 08└─There is one historic figure from France who was infamous for his sick sexual life: the Marquis de Sade. You've made it big when languages get a new word based on your name, with the definition of course based on the most notorious thing for which you were known.
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[20:23:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 466 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:00] <exec> 08└─Honestly, if the EC was to be eliminated states should be given the opportunity to peacefully secede. Eliminating the EC is akin to a labor contract where you agree to X for $Y/hr. Eliminating the EC would be like discovering halfway through your contract, you are going to be paid $0.00/hr AND you h...
[20:23:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 514 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:12] <exec> 08└─Missing the point. We are not supposed to be "One Nation", under God or otherwise. In pretty much every governmental context except regarding US territories, "state" means sovereign nation. We were supposed to be something much more akin to NATO or what the EU was originally billed as (not what it's...
[20:23:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 829 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:19] <exec> 08└─The real point of the Electoral College was an attempt to avoid making the President a popularity contest. It was somewhat the same idea for the Senate, which was also originally not directly elected. Direct democracy works here in Switzerland, but it works because we are small, and at 8 million the...
[20:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:30] <exec> 08└─Every single election cycle in my lifetime, has been decided by a minority. Don't believe me? Look at the history - rarely does more than 25, maybe 30% of the eligible voting body even bother to GET OUT AND VOTE!!
[20:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:31] <exec> 08└─Another way of looking at things is that she won California by a wider *margin* than she won the popular vote. If California split on a normal margin, she'd have lost the popular vote and electoral vote alongside. The idea of a electoral college is to avoid having state radicalism play a major role....
[20:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:33] <exec> 08└─Looking at it as a non-american with a STEM background, the Electoral College is not absurd. What is absurd is the strong double rounding that is involved: You round a first time at state level (winner gets all EC votes for that state) and then again at a federation level (winner of the EC vote is p...
[20:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 2190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:42] <exec> 08└─My '01 Mercedes SLK (had it from '04-'17 when I was rear ended) had an electric seat switch that stuck out too far. A shop broke it (and didn't own up to it). All that was broken was the plastic, removable post. Benz would not sell that part, or even the switch. Unavailable. You had to buy the lower...
[20:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:43] <exec> 08└─Well, when you need to service the engine seals/accessories... Why don't you open the hood? Oh... I wonder what that does to labor costs? If you need a lift and or engine out for servicing, you're dependent on dealers. Maint paid by someone else though? Yeah, those are nice sporty mid range high lin...
[20:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:45] <exec> 08└─My center of gravity is too high for wheels.
[20:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ncc74656 [4917] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:47] <exec> 08└─Don't seem Peugeot in that list. Isn't it sold in the US?
[20:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03ncc74656 [4917] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:50] <exec> 08└─A friend sold Ford/Chevrolet/Chrysler parts at a dealership for 10 years and he had all sorts of stories about getting OEM parts for the Big 3 brands when the auto is more than 3 model years old. The Big 3 wanted you to lease and do not care about the long tail.
[20:30:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Parliament Passes Porn Age-Verification Legislation - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:00] <exec> 08└─The Jews own most of the porn sites. That's why you have so much anti-white propaganda on porn sites, and sites dedicated to the cause; like the Jew owned Blacked.com.
[20:31:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Parliament Passes Porn Age-Verification Legislation - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:01] <exec> 08└─they're scared that if french youth watch modern porn all the french adults will have to take a dog trimmer to their waving pussy and dick manes!
[20:32:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Warns Customers Not to Close its Laptops with a Camera Cover Attached - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:07] <exec> 08└─Until my new laptap came with one of these slide covers integrated into the camera, I used a post-it. It worked great, you could see it was in place (yellow on black is pretty easy to see), and if your camera was on, all they could see is that you did indeed use a yellow post-it.
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[21:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: Don't Hide Rust in Linux Kernel; Death to AVX-512 - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:26] <exec> 08└─"The discussion arose as a result of recent news that Intel's upcoming Alder Lake processors reportedly lack support for AVX-512." I don't get it. Intel is dropping AVX-512 in their upcoming processor and everyone is complaining that AVX-512 shouldn't be included and it's a waste of space. If that w...
[21:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: Don't Hide Rust in Linux Kernel; Death to AVX-512 - 1945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:28] <exec> 08└─I hope AVX512 dies a painful death, and that Intel starts fixing real problems instead of trying to create magic instructions to then create benchmarks that they can look good on. I hope Intel gets back to basics: gets their process working again, and concentrate more on regular code that isn't HPC...
[21:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: Don't Hide Rust in Linux Kernel; Death to AVX-512 - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:30] <exec> 08└─Those in the know, chime in with your pro-con of these two language, aiming to replace C/C++. From the little I read, I am leaning towards Go - seems cleaner and "less-is-more" kinda language - it's THE lesson C++ taught us. Rust seems a more "managed' language, to save the programmers from themselv...
[21:22:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 1434 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:51] <exec> 08└─>states have the right to "bind" their electors States have control over their elections. Not really shocking or unexpected from this decision. > the Electoral College is a terrible idea >serves no useful purpose, other than to intermittently and randomly override the people's will >reassert the peo...
[21:24:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 83 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:11] <exec> 08└─The purpose of faithless electors, I was taught, is related to communication delay.
[21:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06At 100TB, the World's Biggest SSD Gets an (Eye-Watering) Price Tag - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:44] <exec> 08└─USB port [imdb.com] access, maybe? I bet he eventually had to standardize on Micro-USB if he wanted to work in the EU.
[21:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:40] <exec> 08└─Of the cars who did not survive: fiat 124 sport 1969 (coupe, I wouldn't have gotten rid of the spider),bought used after much downtime, stranded once oil decided to leave the gearbox, no trouble afterwards. fiat 127 1980ish, 500 1971, and lancia Y 1998, no troubles fiesta 2007 and fiat punto 1994 re...
[21:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:41] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't care much if they smoked as it seems silly to mind cars when container ships pollute like entire cities and nobody bats an eye. But among the cars I drove the worst was the 2001 audi and the 2007 ford both TD and cat, the others simply don't.
[21:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:43] <exec> 08└─I trust you on this, you're the eunuch right?
[21:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:46] <exec> 08└─Are oil changes that cheap on a Toyota ? I ask because the manual of my Mazda prescribe 1 change every 6 month or 8000km whichever come first and they require synthetic 0w30, it ain't exactly cheap even at an independent mechanic.
[21:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:48] <exec> 08└─I've been driving Toyotas for 10 years now. I've been leasing RAV4's (I'm on my 4th one) and they have been extremely reliable. The only one that has needed work was the 2016 one that was in an accident (some damn fool turned left in front of me). I would have bought that one off lease had it not be...
[21:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:50] <exec> 08└─My RAV4 gets synthetic, but it only gets changed every 10K miles. Costs more per change, but done less often.
[21:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:52] <exec> 08└─Forgot to add: before the Toyotas I drove a 2000 Dodge Dakota quad cab pickup for 8 years. Very reliable, only big issues were that the electronic door lock actuators tended to fail, and the headlight relay crapped out so the low beams quit working.
[21:31:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Parliament Passes Porn Age-Verification Legislation - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:01] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure when you were last in France, but I can assure that is far from the case. Parts of Paris might have a large Muslim community, but that is quite a long way from any beaches. And yes, boobs are often on display in many parts of Europe.
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[22:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: Don't Hide Rust in Linux Kernel; Death to AVX-512 - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:28] <exec> 08└─Your wrong on the managed aspect of Rust, it dosen't use a GC, doesn't possess runtime reflection and like C++ it has a zero-cost abstraction model; zero cost if you exclude the geological compilations times and the cognitive load of having a complex evolving language. Go, like JVM and CLR languages...
[22:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: Don't Hide Rust in Linux Kernel; Death to AVX-512 - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:29] <exec> 08└─I'm leaning towards D because it's much cleaner than either and designed by a guy (Walter Bright) with years of experience writing C and C++ compilers. When Go came out, I was underwhelmed by it. Rust seems to be designed by people who haven't heard of Test Driven Development and it suffers from som...
[22:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: Don't Hide Rust in Linux Kernel; Death to AVX-512 - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:31] <exec> 08└─It's crap because it's an instruction set for only some intel processors, which even intel is not including in all their processors, which only makes it even useless than it already is. So a waste of resources for pretty much every which way.
[22:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: Don't Hide Rust in Linux Kernel; Death to AVX-512 - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:34] <exec> 08└─I prefer Rust, because as a Mozilla project it is more likely to hold to the highest social justice standards. I don't like to be browsing through code and come across things that might trigger me, like the > operator which implies arbitrary ordinality (when you say 4 > 3, you might as well say you...
[22:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: Don't Hide Rust in Linux Kernel; Death to AVX-512 - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:36] <exec> 08└─Why is there a fashion for compilers (and languages) to become ever more complex
[22:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: Don't Hide Rust in Linux Kernel; Death to AVX-512 - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:38] <exec> 08└─I did a search for "rust". I started scrolling - and scrolling - and scrolling - It took about half a day to scroll all the way through the various librust* libraries. Alright, maybe I exaggerate - it was less than six hours. Anyway, I'm reminded that most open source vulnerabilities are introduced...
[22:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: Don't Hide Rust in Linux Kernel; Death to AVX-512 - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:40] <exec> 08└─Listen, linus, what linux needs is not rust, hell, no. Did you hear about Scala? It's, like, the next-level shit, forget rust, c++ can't polish scala's shoes!! Get woke. All the cool kids (from, like, couple decades ago) are WITH IT. Get it on, man. Linux, together with Scala, the Two Towers will .....
[22:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: Don't Hide Rust in Linux Kernel; Death to AVX-512 - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:42] <exec> 08└─You had me until BIPOC. What is a BIPOC? In any case, I sure hope your post was supposed to be satire.
[22:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Virus Tracking App Doesn’t (Always) Work - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:53] <exec> 08└─Prison tech?
[22:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Virus Tracking App Doesn’t (Always) Work - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:55] <exec> 08└─TFA said they are web app developers. It must be the didjeridu protocol not communicating with the coconut shell halves.
[22:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Virus Tracking App Doesn’t (Always) Work - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:58] <exec> 08└─Tech prison. That's where the gubbermint confiscates all of your stuff they don't like, and lock down you remaining devices so the NSA can read them more easily.
[22:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Virus Tracking App Doesn’t (Always) Work - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:00] <exec> 08└─Nah, more like anti-venom.
[22:23:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:13] <exec> 08└─Wasn't the original purpose, essentially, because rich people were afraid of how poor people would vote?
[22:24:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 193 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:15] <exec> 08└─you have less population, you DESERVE less influence! well, duh. why should you have as much as large states? the system is broken. your concerns have been noted. and rejected. have a nice day.
[22:24:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:18] <exec> 08└─Remember, a true democracy is represented by two or more wolves and a sheep, voting on "What's for dinner?"
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[22:25:07] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure why this is marked funny, I guess I don't get the humour. I agree it isn't terrible. Consumer SSD prices are around $100/TB currently. The drives advertised are $250/TB and $400/TB. So there is a premium for the storage density, but in the right application that can be justified.
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[22:25:17] <exec> 08└─Webster observes usage patterns. Irregardless of the idiocy of covfete, if enough people use it with a commonly understood meaning - it, too will become a word.
[22:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:11] <exec> 08└─In the USA they recommend one change a year, I don't know why Mazda is so afraid of the Canadian cold...
[22:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:12] <exec> 08└─Thanks - and thanks for being calm and realistic about mortality.
[22:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Has Built its Own Mac Graphics Processors - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:00] <exec> 08└─Now that it is out of patent protection and they think whatever other techniques they are using can be kept from Nvidia/AMD/Etc discovering in time to sue them over it. Or that they have more money than god and can simply buy the company or patent warchest needed if push comes to shove. That said, a...
[22:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Has Built its Own Mac Graphics Processors - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:02] <exec> 08└─I'm a bit curious about some of these moves because Apple simply doesn't have the marketshare to get developers to develop software that needs to go through an entire porting process to run on their hardware. Once they swapped Intel processors for anything else, swapping out the GPU chips for someth...
[22:30:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube is Finally Letting Creators Know Exactly How They’re Making Money on YouTube - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:25] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=38210&page=1&cid=1013541#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
[22:31:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Parliament Passes Porn Age-Verification Legislation - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:28] <exec> 08└─This is the internet, a not-pr0n bit would make much more sense.
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[23:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Months after Infection, COVID-19 Symptoms Persist... How are Soylentils Holding Up? - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:14] <exec> 08└─A) video games B) Reading C) Sitting on my ass doing nothing D) Watching TV/movies Pick any 1. I am sick and tired of all 4.
[23:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Months after Infection, COVID-19 Symptoms Persist... How are Soylentils Holding Up? - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:16] <exec> 08└─Very good chance Trump will be re-elected. You see, the people who vote him don't necessarily like him, might even despise him, but they despise the "establishment" even more. They vote for him out of spite. How is this related to covid-19? You decide.
[23:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Months after Infection, COVID-19 Symptoms Persist... How are Soylentils Holding Up? - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:18] <exec> 08└─I lost my high school buddy (age 60) to covid 2 months ago, another friend just left the hospital after spending 4 weeks on an ventilator. I've been coughing up all kinds of yukky tasting snot from deep down in my lungs for 4 weeks and my vocal cords now sound like Peter Steele... but I don't qualif...
[23:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Months after Infection, COVID-19 Symptoms Persist... How are Soylentils Holding Up? - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:20] <exec> 08└─Hiel Hillary!
[23:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: Don't Hide Rust in Linux Kernel; Death to AVX-512 - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:38] <exec> 08└─Is bipok better than a kapok life preserver? How many bipoks does a 180 pound man need to stay afloat for a month?
[23:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: Don't Hide Rust in Linux Kernel; Death to AVX-512 - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:40] <exec> 08└─Them losers Keep coming up with shits like "bipoc" whatever the fuck it means.
[23:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: Don't Hide Rust in Linux Kernel; Death to AVX-512 - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:42] <exec> 08└─https://bipocinfiber.com/ [bipocinfiber.com] Some rich white woman put the site up to help her get richer.
[23:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: Don't Hide Rust in Linux Kernel; Death to AVX-512 - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:44] <exec> 08└─... zero cost if you exclude the geological compilations times and the cognitive load of having a complex evolving language.
[23:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: Don't Hide Rust in Linux Kernel; Death to AVX-512 - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:46] <exec> 08└─Compilers and languages have gotten more complex for the last sixty years. For that reason. To make humans more productive.
[23:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: Don't Hide Rust in Linux Kernel; Death to AVX-512 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:48] <exec> 08└─Scala? Nah, cut out all that unnecessary syntax and go straight to LISP.
[23:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: Don't Hide Rust in Linux Kernel; Death to AVX-512 - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:51] <exec> 08└─Once (about 1997?) some people took it upon themselves to rewrite the Linux kernel the "proper way" : in C++.
[23:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: Don't Hide Rust in Linux Kernel; Death to AVX-512 - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:53] <exec> 08└─...running the tests every time I change a line of code.
[23:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: Don't Hide Rust in Linux Kernel; Death to AVX-512 - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:55] <exec> 08└─The language's designer is ... well, he's the one that cooked up the brilliant invention called "Java generics." I mean, syntactic gymnastics to make it "look like" DSM? The guy actually saw Rube Goldberg as his role model.
[23:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: Don't Hide Rust in Linux Kernel; Death to AVX-512 - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:57] <exec> 08└─Base security of native Rust libraries is quite high compared to C/C++ but many of the libraries are not native Rust libraries; they're wrappers around shared libs installed on the system. Also, they're constantly in flux and the maintainers love nothing better than to introduce breaking changes bec...
[23:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linus Torvalds: Don't Hide Rust in Linux Kernel; Death to AVX-512 - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:59] <exec> 08└─I'd you never make mistakes then you either don't know you've made any because you don'tknow where to look or you are regurgitating a boiler-plate solution from memory (in which case you should be reusing not reinventing). If it's the former, you are passing on debugging to your users and technical...
[23:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Virus Tracking App Doesn’t (Always) Work - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:13] <exec> 08└─The one that gave us WIFI ! https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com]
[23:24:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06The Supreme Court Just Pointed Out the Absurdity of the Electoral College - 596 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:12] <exec> 08└─Broken beyond repair. The people who can fix US Education are the very ones who benefit from it being broken. Keep the reality TV shows flowing. The people who can fix Campaign Finance are the very ones who benefit from it being broken. The people who can fix Corruption are the very ones who benefit...
[23:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06At 100TB, the World's Biggest SSD Gets an (Eye-Watering) Price Tag - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:21] <exec> 08└─Compared to the amazing SCSI Dart [google.com] by Newer Technologies. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Up to 128MB of non volatile random access SIMM storage (fully populated) with sub .5ms access and seek times, and barely cost more than the GDP of a moderately sized country.
[23:26:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06The Debate over "Irregardless" -- is it a Word? - 50 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:22] <exec> 08└─Typical grammar nazi -- you spelled covfefe wrong.
[23:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Most and Least Expensive Cars to Maintain - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:26] <exec> 08└─80s mercedes were built like tanks, too. You will see MB 300D, turbo diesels. These mother fuckers simply refuse to die.
[23:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Has Built its Own Mac Graphics Processors - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:16] <exec> 08└─There's already a lot of software that targets Windows x86 but not Mac x86. At least this move towards ARM will unify iPhone, iPad, Mac, etc. It also seems like emulation can happen one way or another. Windows 10 on ARM will probably end up booting on ARM Macs at some point, and it will be able to e...
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