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[00:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 30-Series "Ampere" GPUs - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:51] <exec> 08└─I won't even consider buying from you if you don't give a damn about the quality of your drivers for Linux. I don't mind to get a little behind in performance, I still prefer to run something with good open source drivers.
[00:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 30-Series "Ampere" GPUs - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:53] <exec> 08└─Huge, expensive, high performance, doubles as a space heater. Looks like they're worried about AMD again. Like the above poster, I won't consider nVidia as long as there are no decent free drivers.
[00:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 30-Series "Ampere" GPUs - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:55] <exec> 08└─https://www.pcworld.com/article/3573248/nvidia-rtx-retrospective-what-two-years-of-ray-tracing-and-dlss-got-us.html [pcworld.com]
[00:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 30-Series "Ampere" GPUs - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:57] <exec> 08└─AMD will at least release something that can compete with the RTX 3080. They will start leaking things this month, make an announcement by October, and launch by November.
[00:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 30-Series "Ampere" GPUs - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:59] <exec> 08└─Turing/RTX 1st-gen was an expensive ray-tracing beta test that used marketing to mask a meager performance uplift and obvious price uplift. Ampere will actually be good, for people who are willing to buy Nvidia (they are disproportionately hated here). It will also make ray-tracing more viable. AMD...
[00:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:06] <exec> 08└─It's part of the Democrat platform.
[00:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:07] <exec> 08└─The problem is not people starving, the problem is the world can’t support everyone eating meat, especially considering global warming. Are you willing to eat meat once or twice a week? https://www.zmescience.com [zmescience.com]
[00:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:09] <exec> 08└─The prospect is more palatable than the democrat platform.
[00:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:11] <exec> 08└─https://www.israellycool.com/2020/09/01/terror-preacher-abu-hamza-whines-about-having-to-eat-kosher-prison-food/ [israellycool.com]
[00:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:13] <exec> 08└─Also resiliency to food shortages that could appear as climate change changes some areas.
[00:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CenturyLink Outage Led to a 3.5% Drop in Global Web Traffic - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:32] <exec> 08└─Offtopic(spurt) Now he probably wants a cigarette...
[00:24:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Estrogen May Lessen Severity of COVID-19 Symptoms in Women, Study Finds - 740 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:51] <exec> 08└─Have you noticed it's not the rich or even comfortably well-off men getting left behind, but normal and poor men? Here's a clue: it's the rich who are fucking you over. You have more in common with even a poor black Jewish paraplegic lesbian in a wheelchair than you do with a fellow white male who m...
[00:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Estrogen May Lessen Severity of COVID-19 Symptoms in Women, Study Finds - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:09] <exec> 08└─You have more in common with even a poor black Jewish paraplegic lesbian in a wheelchair than you do with a fellow white male
[00:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Estrogen May Lessen Severity of COVID-19 Symptoms in Women, Study Finds - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:10] <exec> 08└─Can you imagine what would happen if you actually had to take Testosterone? You might actually stop asking other men to fuck your wife! It would be a miracle! P.S. I don't want my leader to thinka bout the poor Chinks he is about to nuke, when we have ICBMs heading at us. A leader like that is dange...
[00:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another COVID-19 Reinfection: This Time Second Infection Was More Severe - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:30] <exec> 08└─Another scenario that nobody seems to consider: What if it wasn't reinfection, but the virus went into remission and under the levels used for detection? HPV is like that.
[00:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unredacted Suit Shows Google’s Own Engineers Confused by Privacy Settings - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:55] <exec> 08└─This is sheer stupidity, including most of the quoted Google employees. Yes, Google occasionally hires stupid people, especially the non-engineers. The entire confusion here is that some people don't understand that turning off a setting in one app doesn't affect other apps. Specifically, they thoug...
[00:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Official: Africa Declared Free of Wild Poliovirus - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:30] <exec> 08└─Because Africans gotta get infected with something.
[00:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Working on Floating Spaceport - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:08] <exec> 08└─An optical interferometer is good to have, and adaptive optics can narrow the gap between ground and space telescopes. But the virtual diameter does not increase the light collecting area/capability that you would get from having larger mirrors. Perhaps you can even start using a modular space teles...
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[01:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This "Gamer Grandma" Has More Than 900,000 "Grandkids" - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:44] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLxnUfHAdrQ [youtube.com]
[01:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 30-Series "Ampere" GPUs - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:56] <exec> 08└─You're not the target market. The majority of these are sold for HCI farms, used for things like VDI. Some are put in for server farms hooked up to a SAN, used for financial analysis in addition to VDI. They don't know or care that your Linux box exists. And they run on Linux just fine. Just not for...
[01:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing and NASA Target December for Second Try at Uncrewed Orbital Demonstration Flight - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:11] <exec> 08└─While you make a good point, you're assuming it is Boeing's job to make stuff. It may have been at one point, but now Boeing's job is to turn your money into shareholder's money. They're good at it too.
[01:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing and NASA Target December for Second Try at Uncrewed Orbital Demonstration Flight - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:12] <exec> 08└─How about you fix your fucking airplane and get it flying around the world again.
[01:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:12] <exec> 08└─Warm climates are also suitable for some plants. Which is entirely the point. If the planet gets warmer, some places are going to become uninhabitable, and the people who currently live there are going to want to move somewhere else, which will be... difficult. "Warmer climate means more food" is...
[01:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:13] <exec> 08└─If the planet gets warmer, some places are going to become uninhabitable
[01:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:15] <exec> 08└─Portland, Seattle, Chicago, New York, Kenosha...
[01:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:17] <exec> 08└─Like Bangladesh (for example). India is not going to react well when 190 million people need a new place to live, because their old one is under water. The people who live in Louisiana (another example) will probably have fewer problems, but it still won't be fun for them.
[01:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:19] <exec> 08└─Every developing country absolutely cannot do this http://www.earth-policy.org [earth-policy.org]
[01:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:21] <exec> 08└─I'm in Louisiana and it will be fine. The Mississippi already rose 6 meters in the last 100 years as population and economic growth soared the most in recorded history. Other places can do the same.
[01:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:24] <exec> 08└─Climate scientists think you're wrong.
[01:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Estrogen May Lessen Severity of COVID-19 Symptoms in Women, Study Finds - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:22] <exec> 08└─Oh hai tweedle dee! Nice to see you survived your internal bleaching.
[01:25:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Aegis [6714] 02 - 06Another COVID-19 Reinfection: This Time Second Infection Was More Severe - 71 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:49] <exec> 08└─Hey genius, the first six items in your list are caused by coronavirus.
[01:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another COVID-19 Reinfection: This Time Second Infection Was More Severe - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:43] <exec> 08└─Yes, that seems to be the message from certain ...people. "Some of you are going to die, but that's a price I'm prepared to pay".
[01:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another COVID-19 Reinfection: This Time Second Infection Was More Severe - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:44] <exec> 08└─There are confirmed cases (HK, US & 2 in Europe) of reinfection with different virus isolates.
[01:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another COVID-19 Reinfection: This Time Second Infection Was More Severe - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:46] <exec> 08└─The CDC and AZDHS both list confirmed and probable cases for Arizona. I was only considering the confirmed cases, which requires a positive test per the CDCs guidelines. Also, there are only a small number of probable cases listed anyway (~1%). So no, I'm not just misinterpreting the numbers.
[01:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Single-Use N95 Respirators Can be Decontaminated and Used Again, Study Finds - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:29] <exec> 08└─So you make hair dryers? That's a "machine" that will charge the fabric. I usually leave the mask sitting there and just reuse it, since the virus dies on its own. If I need to reuse it in less than 3 days, I spray it with isopropanol, and blow my wife's hair dryer on it (without turning on the stat...
[01:29:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Warns of an Increase in Online Romance Scams - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:41] <exec> 08└─I of the 5.5 million women's profiles on Ashley Madison, about 99.8% were found to be fake. So millions of men paid to message fake women (women had free accounts) https://gizmodo.com [gizmodo.com]
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[02:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This "Gamer Grandma" Has More Than 900,000 "Grandkids" - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:53] <exec> 08└─Happy that the covid economy is working out for her.
[02:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 30-Series "Ampere" GPUs - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:07] <exec> 08└─Because that is what you will be feeding them.
[02:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 30-Series "Ampere" GPUs - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:08] <exec> 08└─Note that custom and highly overclocked versions of the RTX 3090 could use more like 400 Watts.
[02:23:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Boeing and NASA Target December for Second Try at Uncrewed Orbital Demonstration Flight - 319 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:19] <exec> 08└─How about you fix your fucking airplane and get it flying around the world again. Then maybe I can start to trust you, you bunch of McDonnell Douglass MBAs who don't have a clue about airplanes, drove your own company into the ground, bought Boeing with Boeing's own money, and can't look past the ne...
[02:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03optotronic [4285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:29] <exec> 08└─I have wondered about this aspect of eating organisms whole. Do we (in the west) already eat any organisms whole? I suspect that if eating insects were commonplace we would cook them first to kill off any microorganisms.
[02:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:30] <exec> 08└─Mealworms, baked, taste just like popcorn. Unbaked, yeah... could use salt: they are chewy and chewy and chewy....
[02:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:32] <exec> 08└─They are scared of 1 meter of sea level rise per century when we already deal with 6 without much issue, who cares?
[02:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, smelts, little fish.
[02:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:37] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah, scientists? What do they know?
[02:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:39] <exec> 08└─A gentle reminder you can get with the program, eat the bugs, and live in a nice pod, or you can resist until we throw you in a concentration camp and you eat the bugs anyway. Subtle, I like it. Now fuck off.
[02:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 1019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:41] <exec> 08└─There's an easy solution if you don't want to eat bugs: more plants. Every successful culture on Earth has figured out that the combination of a grain and a legume or pulse provides a complete protein, with all the essential amino acids. One of the absolute most mind-blowing tricks my new Instant Po...
[02:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CenturyLink Outage Led to a 3.5% Drop in Global Web Traffic - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:00] <exec> 08└─Some big, fat, hairy tech bumped a patch cable that wasn't plugged in all the way.
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[03:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:34] <exec> 08└─All of this fails to address the real problem of climate change. Yes, the Earth has been hotter (and colder) in the past. Yes, life continued and will definitely continue post-climate change. What is different is that we have never had billions of people living on coastlines that will soon be underw...
[03:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:35] <exec> 08└─Based on their track record, not much.
[03:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:37] <exec> 08└─Yes, off course, there is no problem at all to produce more food of pretty much any kind as long as there is energy available. If humans on this planet are to stand packed as in Mecca during Ramadan, the space above them is enough to produce food to feed them; again, giving enough energy is availabl...
[03:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:39] <exec> 08└─No, I understand. Those people who study this sort of stuff are wrong, but that guy on Fox News (who totally has your best interests at heart) knows what's really going on.
[03:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:42] <exec> 08└─I don't watch fox snooze. But you can look around you and see how much the scientists are helping you.
[03:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Estrogen May Lessen Severity of COVID-19 Symptoms in Women, Study Finds - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:42] <exec> 08└─COVID is a blessing in disguise. Men are programmed to turn the wealth of society towards death and destruction every time they are the majority of the population, killing each other until they're a minority again. We will only be safe when men are made a minority permanently.
[03:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Official: Africa Declared Free of Wild Poliovirus - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:06] <exec> 08└─GRIDS is still a thing.
[03:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Adds Licensing Information to Image Search - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:06] <exec> 08└─They make no comment on what the change was designed for. The statement made is true. It adds the ability to purchase an image you're looking at, and it adds ability to only see free ones. I'm sure they get kicked back some cash from you buying the image, from the rights owner. That has nothing to d...
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[04:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook/Google Undersea Cable Rerouted from Hong Kong Due to National Security Objections - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:55] <exec> 08└─I already moved my own site's hosting from Hong Kong when the shit went down. I briefly considered re-basing in the US, but decided that the US is just as bad when it comes to violating citizens' data. I moved to my provider's European data center instead.
[04:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Facebook/Google Undersea Cable Rerouted from Hong Kong Due to National Security Objections - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:56] <exec> 08└─lefties spinning the story in 3..2..1..
[04:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook/Google Undersea Cable Rerouted from Hong Kong Due to National Security Objections - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:58] <exec> 08└─Well one would keep the HK server and fill it up with fake logs n' shieet, just to give the AI algos some garbage to sift through. The risk OTOH is to have some archibald buttle executed for this.
[04:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This "Gamer Grandma" Has More Than 900,000 "Grandkids" - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:09] <exec> 08└─> "I get my coffee, I sit down at my computer, turn both my screens on... that's exactly how I imagined a granny would speak in 2020.
[04:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:57] <exec> 08└─I second that motion... On a trip into Mexico in my college days, I got the chance to try roasted scorpions. Pluck the stingers off, toss onto the coals of a fire until they sizzle and pop, then enjoy! Tastes like dry-roasted cashews...seriously. :-)
[04:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:59] <exec> 08└─There were, indeed, places where plants were abundant. But the deserts were HUGE!! Still, the time of the dinosaurs wouldn't be a good example, even if it backed you up. (It doesn't.) The distribution of land masses was very different, and also, partially because of that, the ocean currents. There's...
[04:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:01] <exec> 08└─Let's not forget that nearly half of what we produce is thrown away, and that all shortages are due to corruption in the supply chain. There is no technical reason for anybody to ever go hungry. It's all politics.
[04:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unredacted Suit Shows Google’s Own Engineers Confused by Privacy Settings - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and Android has plenty of dark patterns. One of the worst is the option to restrict background transfers. I like that option. Shuts down a whole lot of spying. But Google has set it up so that the option is way too easy to accidentally deactivate, blast them. Just touch the message that Androi...
[04:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Official: Africa Declared Free of Wild Poliovirus - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:29] <exec> 08└─Not "technically". He was actually drinking most of a pitcher, and he was not large, maybe 140 pounds. He drank pretty fast so he could get home before the drunkenness kicked in, and I assume also to get back to his apartment bathroom in time! After the leg stretching operation mostly healed up, he...
[04:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Re-Engineered Enzyme Could Help Reverse Damage from Spinal Cord Injury and Stroke - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:43] <exec> 08└─> Since I am a theist ... This will be much more fun than nitpicking about engineered vs. re-engineered. Since I am post-theological ... While I've always felt this way (didn't attend any church/temple/mosque/etc as a kid), I never had a term for it until an elderly relative sent us a copy of this a...
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[04:29:00] <exec> 08└─Actually, there are physics-based limits to the size of ground (optical) telescopes. They will probably never exceed 100 meters on the ground due to weight, wind, and cost, but in microgravity, kilometer-sized or larger apertures will be possible. At 39.3 meters, ESA's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT...
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[05:22:56] <exec> 08└─Isn't it nice to see Facebook taking the initiative to build out infrastructure in a world where absolutely everyone professes undying hatred of their manifold alleged monopoly ISPs. Here's your real monopoly: a world where the one and only Facebook literally built your internet.
[05:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook/Google Undersea Cable Rerouted from Hong Kong Due to National Security Objections - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:58] <exec> 08└─You are safe now. See? No sea cable over there...
[05:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This "Gamer Grandma" Has More Than 900,000 "Grandkids" - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:08] <exec> 08└─Why not three monitors? [dilbert.com] [2010-11-04] Granny is so out of touch, she hasn't even caught up to 2010 yet.
[05:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:00] <exec> 08└─What is different is that we have never had billions of people living on coastlines that will soon be underwater if we continue along our current path.
[05:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:01] <exec> 08└─Look up the standards for allowable insect parts in chocolate.
[05:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:03] <exec> 08└─It will allow both. Good enough robots will allow mixed plantings, where the plants complement each other, and the robots go through and selectively harvest whatever is ready without damaging the rest. Agriculture should transition to a process of continual harvest rather than grow a vast field of m...
[05:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:05] <exec> 08└─MOD PARENT OPTIMAL BEEP BOOP 🤖
[05:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:08] <exec> 08└─Except for locusts. The exact *type* of locust is beyond my knowledge and probably takes you down some kind of rabbinical rabbit-hole, but it's definitely in there. Hence John the Baptist eating "locusts and wild honey". He and Jesus would have been what we would call "orthodox" in that regard, so t...
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[05:25:10] <exec> 08└─...is that this is some kind of Jewish conspiracy. I didn't pick up on that tone until after I hit send. The "eat bugs" meme is more of an elitist (anti-populist) thing. I'm sure some of the elites are Jewish, but by no means all of them, so please let's not go there.
[05:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Official: Africa Declared Free of Wild Poliovirus - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:37] <exec> 08└─A whole continent where the gods must be gay.
[05:29:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Working on Floating Spaceport - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:15] <exec> 08└─But the virtual diameter does not increase the light collecting area/capability that you would get from having larger mirrors.
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[06:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:47] <exec> 08└─"Assholes need nothing more to succeed, than for nice people to watch them and do nothing." Another way I've heard a similar sentiment is "Learn how to complain without suffering." Actually, that was the *first* way I heard that phrase.
[06:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:48] <exec> 08└─Maybe they're just not measuring the metrics that actually allow you to get ahead. Further, maybe they need to find some metrics with which to measure the companies in which the assholes get ahead, and those in which nicer people get ahead. Not all work environments are equal, after all. A scumbag c...
[06:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:50] <exec> 08└─So how do the researchers know the personality surveys are filled accurately? I mean, deceitful people are more likely to deceit, right? And they certainly would want to look better than they are on the survey.
[06:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:52] <exec> 08└─Being aggressive usually is what gets you ahead. That is correlated with being an asshole. Not ALL people aggressive (assertive, climbers) in their jobs are assholes, but most seem to be.
[06:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:09] <exec> 08└─Heh, so many people playing peekaboo with disaster. Where did it go? THERE IT ISSSS! ooga booga widdle wumpty Seriously, the problems get more dire every year yet people such as yourself just say "I don't see any problems, everything seems fine to meeeee." It is the sucky part of humans, we're so te...
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[06:25:10] <exec> 08└─Easy there frightened child, no one wants to throw you in a camp or force you to eat bugs.
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[07:22:49] <exec> 08└─Yes let's not mention any names UCLA.
[07:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:50] <exec> 08└─if you produce enough value for them.
[07:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:52] <exec> 08└─I see a lot of guys who just fuking talk to fill empty space for 30 minutes until the meeting is over. That's a waste of everyone's time. That somehow gets equated with leadership and suddenly you have the loudest voice saying "Wash Your Hands, Everyone Needs To Wash Their Hands, Wear Gloves, Don't...
[07:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:54] <exec> 08└─I think you have that the wrong way around. Labor will put up with any conditions if you make the alternative worse. See history, for example.
[07:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:56] <exec> 08└─the light version of the proverbial https://it.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] socialists, no need to translate, talks about your default strategy.
[07:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:59] <exec> 08└─> Maybe they're just not measuring the metrics that actually allow you to get ahead... like being able to pass for a non-sociopath in a statisticians' interview. We all know who are the top fellows in the top corporations. Look at their eyes.
[07:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:01] <exec> 08└─redundant, see #1045271
[07:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 30-Series "Ampere" GPUs - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:36] <exec> 08└─>Nvidia (they are disproportionately hated here) yep I concur we should hate 'em more.
[07:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:21] <exec> 08└─This is why we cook our food.
[07:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:23] <exec> 08└─I'll offer a vote for eating farro, otherwise known as the grain emmer. All my otherwise junk food loving kids love this healthy grain. If you like brown rice, give this a try instead. Cooks just like brown rice.
[07:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another COVID-19 Reinfection: This Time Second Infection Was More Severe - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:45] <exec> 08└─It's a trap. & lt (&lt if you take the space out) shows up fine in preview, but SN changes it in the input text field to the actual character when it displays the preview. This turns it into opening a tag. The way to get around it is to copy the entirety of what you typed in the text box, then do pr...
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[08:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Confusing but Cute 3 Wheel Solo EV is Finally in Production - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:50] <exec> 08└─1: extremely charming or appealing 2 : worthy of adoration or veneration Merriam-Webster [merriam-webster.com] It is a car, and it is not adorable [thetruthaboutcars.com]
[08:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Confusing but Cute 3 Wheel Solo EV is Finally in Production - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:52] <exec> 08└─I'll wait for the women to determine whether the thing is "adorable". To me, it falls just a little short of "butt ugly". But, I'm obviously not the target audience. We could probably make a long list of ugly little horrors, that women claim to be "adorable". Just do a search for things like "world'...
[08:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:10] <exec> 08└─Seems apropos He who hates vices hates mankind.
[08:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:11] <exec> 08└─socialists, no need to translate, talks about your default strategy.
[08:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:14] <exec> 08└─Being aggressive usually is what gets you ahead.
[08:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook/Google Undersea Cable Rerouted from Hong Kong Due to National Security Objections - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:25] <exec> 08└─Quick! Nationalize Facebook before it can do any good! For The People!
[08:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook/Google Undersea Cable Rerouted from Hong Kong Due to National Security Objections - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:26] <exec> 08└─it can do any good! For The People!
[08:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This "Gamer Grandma" Has More Than 900,000 "Grandkids" - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:38] <exec> 08└─Maybe Granny can't reach all three power buttons while seated? Personally, I find two monitors and some virtual desktops to suffice for all of my needs. Maybe if I tried a third monitor, I wouldn't want to go back to two, but two suffice.
[08:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Estrogen May Lessen Severity of COVID-19 Symptoms in Women, Study Finds - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:38] <exec> 08└─Marx and Lenin would have put the gays and transgenders, although maybe not the feminists in the gulag, or maybe put to death. So know, us Marxist/Socialist lefties wouldn't actually do that. What' you're looking for is the capitalist victim culture lefties, who prefer to make everything about them,...
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[09:22:43] <exec> 08└─> I'll wait for the women to determine whether the thing is "adorable". To me, it falls just a little short of "butt ugly". But, I'm obviously not the target audience. Seconded on "Butt Ugly" there. I had a look (not on TFA though, which won't even load an image unless you enable all kinds of third...
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[09:22:45] <exec> 08└─For the same price you could get a Mazda 2 / Toyota Yaris (same thing) which is a real car that holds four people and is plenty compact enough for the city. Not electric, but not made in China either. Even the "Smart car" is more practical than this, and it was still too small. This reminds me of th...
[09:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 30-Series "Ampere" GPUs - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:45] <exec> 08└─At 3.3V, 350W means about 110 of them Amperes. At 12V, only 30. As a heuristic, a MIG welder needs about 1A for each 0.025mm metal thickness.
[09:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing and NASA Target December for Second Try at Uncrewed Orbital Demonstration Flight - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:01] <exec> 08└─I honestly read that as "unscrewed" the first time around. It seemed somehow appropriate.
[09:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another COVID-19 Reinfection: This Time Second Infection Was More Severe - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:58] <exec> 08└─Everybody will die eventually, but for some reason we still try to avoid it and we still throw people in prison if they speed the process up for someone else. Sounds like you're the kind of generous person that will cheerfully give yourself the shirt right off of someone else's back.
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[10:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Will Cash in on Surging Stock Price With $5 Billion Stock Sale - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:50] <exec> 08└─When the stock is overvalued like that, this is a common-sense thing that they can do. They need cash and what is cheaper than free money? Like literally, it's people throwing money at TSLA. Tesla will likely be able to raise $5 billion while giving up a smaller share of the company to new sharehold...
[10:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Confusing but Cute 3 Wheel Solo EV is Finally in Production - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:01] <exec> 08└─I had a Smart, It was not too small, other than that I was pushed of the road by some construction workers in a Nissan Navarra. Small cars are not a new idea in Europe. My parents had a Heinkel 125 (which is not a WW2 fighter jet), and our neigbours had an Isetta (car, not scooter). A schoolmate had...
[10:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Confusing but Cute 3 Wheel Solo EV is Finally in Production - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:03] <exec> 08└─My late 1st gen Smart car is approaching an age for replacement, and I'm in the market for a car with pretty much the performance envelope of that in TFA. However, this one is a fail. Not so much because of the design, which must be the worst front/rear imbalance since the Nelson-class battleships,...
[10:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:25] <exec> 08└─Being aggressive usually is what gets you ahead. That is correlated with being an asshole.
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[10:23:39] <exec> 08└─So just route around America. Build cable to Vancouver instead.
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[10:24:24] <exec> 08└─Even then they are still cheaper.
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[11:22:40] <exec> 08└─the stock has surged even higher and is now worth $480—$2,400 in pre-split terms.
[11:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Will Cash in on Surging Stock Price With $5 Billion Stock Sale - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:42] <exec> 08└─In keeping with a recent theme, may I suggest, https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Covered wonderfully by Little Feat, for example, https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[11:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Confusing but Cute 3 Wheel Solo EV is Finally in Production - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:55] <exec> 08└─2nd gen VW eUP - 360cm, 200+km range
[11:23:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 210 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:04] <exec> 08└─So how do the researchers know the personality surveys are filled accurately? I mean, deceitful people are more likely to deceit, right? And they certainly would want to look better than they are on the survey.
[11:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:17] <exec> 08└─Many years ago, I noticed something: If you behave honestly at all times, good things come back to you. It may takes years, or even decades, but people you interact with remember you, and you get rewarded in small and not-so-small ways eventually. The reverse is true too: if you're rotten, it comes...
[11:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:19] <exec> 08└─Enlightened self-interest is the *only* type of altriusm that exists. At rock bottom, all moral decisions come to "satisfaction/least dissatisfaction of the moral agent." Given that morality is older than humans, as any primatologist can tell you, this should not be surprising. More germane to the a...
[11:23:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06Facebook/Google Undersea Cable Rerouted from Hong Kong Due to National Security Objections - 256 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:26] <exec> 08└─I already moved my own site's hosting from Hong Kong when the shit went down. I briefly considered re-basing in the US, but decided that the US is just as bad when it comes to violating citizens' data. I moved to my provider's European data center instead.
[11:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CenturyLink Outage Led to a 3.5% Drop in Global Web Traffic - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:09] <exec> 08└─If someone can cause this much chaos accidentally, how much damage could someone deliberately cause?
[11:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Estrogen May Lessen Severity of COVID-19 Symptoms in Women, Study Finds - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:51] <exec> 08└─advanced male pattern baldness. They even mentioned it on a tv documentary. Too much testosterone.
[11:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Estrogen May Lessen Severity of COVID-19 Symptoms in Women, Study Finds - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:52] <exec> 08└─Trump has been taking the same testosterone blocker ....
[11:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Single-Use N95 Respirators Can be Decontaminated and Used Again, Study Finds - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:29:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah, down here in Southern Australia the bureau of meteorology is already recommending Sun protection and it's only the first week of spring. If it's dangerous for your skin then those little microbes can't be doing too well. I've thought this for ages, the cold virus (and covid) doesn't last more...
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[12:22:58] <exec> 08└─Wooohooo!
[12:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Confusing but Cute 3 Wheel Solo EV is Finally in Production - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:21] <exec> 08└─Here's another take on the small three-wheeler, by a good friend in CA (he passed about 5 years ago). He initially planned on making the Sylph electric but it was too early (design first developed c.1980) for good batteries/controllers/motors, so his prototype has a Honda Goldwing powerplant. Along...
[12:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Confusing but Cute 3 Wheel Solo EV is Finally in Production - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:23] <exec> 08└─"Tiny, ugly and quirky" was what how someone (I think on SN) said wa axiomatic for EVs during their early days, but here we go again. Someone mentioned the Reliant Robin but backwards, In fact earlier 3-wheelers (1920-30) had the two wheels at the front, much more sensible. Brake and swerve in a Rob...
[12:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:47] <exec> 08└─Very well put.. An easy way to visualize it, for me, is to look at the history of kings. Royalty was always completely fucked up. They would kill their own family members to get ahead, and the people usually, always suffered when the most merciless of these types came to power. Only every 10 generat...
[12:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook/Google Undersea Cable Rerouted from Hong Kong Due to National Security Objections - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:02] <exec> 08└─Who the hell own all the undersea cables and where can I look it up? I naively believed it was some sort of government level international joint affair.
[12:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This "Gamer Grandma" Has More Than 900,000 "Grandkids" - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:15] <exec> 08└─It's probably like all things tech, when you get used to more you can't ever go back. Nobody wants a computer that is slower then the one they had previously. Nobody has, probably, ever said the words that this computer is to fast for me, have to much memory or is displaying way to good graphics. Sa...
[12:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:20] <exec> 08└─Humans are highly adaptible, highly mobile, and highly interconnected. Do you starve if there's a local drought? No, you probably don't even notice, because the supermarket sources the food from Chile or Canada or some other place. If climate change means the container ships start moving less in thi...
[12:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:21] <exec> 08└─Years ago, the government did something similar with redefining where the flood planes were. But, that was something that happened during the Obama administration, so immediately all the racists that inhabit the Republican party objected. Technicually people could still build in the flood plain, it'...
[12:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 1121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:23] <exec> 08└─That's a rather dangerous attitude to have here. We may figure out how to deal with it or we may not. You're assuming that we will get it figured out quickly enough, but the reality is that at some point we may cause a problem that is so significant and/or fast that we can't solve it in time. And ev...
[12:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:25] <exec> 08└─Why not? There's nothing wrong with eating bugs as long as they're free of diseases, that's more or less just like anything else we eat.
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[13:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Parents More Likely than Non-Parents to Turn to Alcohol During Pandemic, Survey Finds - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:52] <exec> 08└─First, they are defuelling EF. Second, even the POTUS knows that drinking bleach is the best way to deal with Covid.
[13:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents More Likely than Non-Parents to Turn to Alcohol During Pandemic, Survey Finds - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:53] <exec> 08└─DERP.
[13:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents More Likely than Non-Parents to Turn to Alcohol During Pandemic, Survey Finds - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:55] <exec> 08└─"I'm the Reason Mommy Drinks" shirts for kids have been around for years. Adding Covid19 to the mix just makes it even more likely.
[13:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents More Likely than Non-Parents to Turn to Alcohol During Pandemic, Survey Finds - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:57] <exec> 08└─That is hardly a surprise. If you have to be stuck at home with the kids all day you need something to take the edge away. So you drink. Which might have this tendency to be the basis of how even more kids are created.
[13:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Will Cash in on Surging Stock Price With $5 Billion Stock Sale - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:07] <exec> 08└─Honestly, they deserve it. I'm not sure why anybody would invest in that particular company. It's a miracle that they haven't already gone out of business due to their cars murdering people and the incompetence with which they've gone about building their factory.
[13:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Will Cash in on Surging Stock Price With $5 Billion Stock Sale - 1487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:09] <exec> 08└─...will soon be parted? I don't see Elon doing anything particularly amazing with his money and direction. What is, 'interesting,' is that nobody else seems to be doing what he's doing; when, clearly, if they had their wits about them, they would be. Everyone's had their eyes glued, and their hands...
[13:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:50] <exec> 08└─Hmm, at night women generally prefer nice guys who finish last.
[13:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:51] <exec> 08└─>Enlightened self-interest is the *only* type of altriusm that exists A philosopher should know assertions like these can be countered by just one counter example. I have been meeting several people whose behavior is dictated by "whatever is fair" criteria who don't give a flying fuck about the cons...
[13:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:53] <exec> 08└─SIC PHOENIX SEX SEX SEX LOCVTVS EST NOMEN OMEN
[13:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:56] <exec> 08└─Nobody will bat an eye if you call Berlusconi a socialist. In fact he has quite a pedigree in the PSI Straight from the wikipravda mouth: "Also frequently cited by opponents are events dating to the 1980s, including supposed "exchanges of favours" between Berlusconi and Bettino Craxi, the former Soc...
[13:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:58] <exec> 08└─Back in the draft, all designed corporals (the ones nominated after three months) were of the asshole/dismissive kind. I understood why after being made corporal myself later, it saves a lot of time and drama with the assholes you gotta order around, because they fear you. With a non asshole strict...
[13:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:00] <exec> 08└─Go ahead, tell us more about that whinging fucker.
[13:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:02] <exec> 08└─Not to mention you have to remember the media's tendency to take a single outlying study, and proclaim it invalidates multiple other ones that say differently.
[13:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This "Gamer Grandma" Has More Than 900,000 "Grandkids" - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:30] <exec> 08└─If you came for the links.. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.twitch.tv [twitch.tv] https://twitter.com [twitter.com]
[13:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:41] <exec> 08└─It's probably one of those U shaped curves where it goes way down as you approach middle class and then goes up again as these things become optional delicacies. It's funny how "delicacy" effectively means "nasty stuff that you wouldn't normally want to eat, but you're eating it now because you have...
[13:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 1250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:42] <exec> 08└─Right now there's no reason for anybody to go hungry other than politics. That's not necessarily the case. It's going to depend on things like how quickly the world population stops growing. It's also going to depend on how the weather changes, if the areas that are easiest to irrigate no longer get...
[13:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:45] <exec> 08└─No, I understand.
[13:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:47] <exec> 08└─Missing the link [soylentnews.org] above.
[13:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Another COVID-19 Reinfection: This Time Second Infection Was More Severe - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:16] <exec> 08└─which requires a positive test per the CDCs guidelines
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[14:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:08] <exec> 08└─> Can the moon be a person? what a silly question. If meatbags can be considered "persons", hell, if lefties can be considered persons, then the moon can, too.
[14:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:09] <exec> 08└─Does the moon have a personality? No. Do my dogs have personalities? Yes. So my dogs are far more qualified to be considered "persons", though not humans, than the moon. I wouldn't give my dogs the right to vote. And I won't go along with the idiots wanting to consider the moon as a person. They ne...
[14:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:11] <exec> 08└─You can do whatever you want. There is no resources on the moon that would be profitable enough to warrant a return to earth. There is nothing you can do to the moon to "kill" it. You could fire off all the nukes in existence inside of it, and the only thing that might happen is you make it 1/1000 o...
[14:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Parents More Likely than Non-Parents to Turn to Alcohol During Pandemic, Survey Finds - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:23] <exec> 08└─Indeed, how long has it been that wine mommies have been a stereotype? I'm pretty sure that's why Costco occasionally has those wine glasses that can hold a literal 10 gallons in them. Somehow, it's not real alcoholism if you're drinking rose rather than Jack Daniel's.
[14:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Parents More Likely than Non-Parents to Turn to Alcohol During Pandemic, Survey Finds - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:25] <exec> 08└─surveyed Canadians early on in the pandemic and found that the use of alcohol as a coping strategy was highest among parents with young children
[14:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents More Likely than Non-Parents to Turn to Alcohol During Pandemic, Survey Finds - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:27] <exec> 08└─Increased use of alcohol still emits combustion gasses. The future is electric vehicles. If you don't have kids, you have less need for a large vehicle, and tend to drive less.
[14:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents More Likely than Non-Parents to Turn to Alcohol During Pandemic, Survey Finds - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:29] <exec> 08└─Don't forget to keep a cup-o-mealworms in your EV for your bug snack. It's what Gaia wants.
[14:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents More Likely than Non-Parents to Turn to Alcohol During Pandemic, Survey Finds - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:31] <exec> 08└─I think it more likey that people who habitually get drunk are more likely to be parents. :p
[14:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Will Cash in on Surging Stock Price With $5 Billion Stock Sale - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:43] <exec> 08└─a miracle that they haven't already gone out of business due to their cars murdering people and the incompetence with which they've gone about building their factory.
[14:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Will Cash in on Surging Stock Price With $5 Billion Stock Sale - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:45] <exec> 08└─Yes, I would say under St. Ronnie. He didn't have to deal with state governors throwing the economies of their states into ruin to boost Mondale's chances.
[14:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Confusing but Cute 3 Wheel Solo EV is Finally in Production - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:01] <exec> 08└─Seems to me adorable is a particular subset of "ugly little horror". I mean, think babies - practically the definition of adorable. But look at them objectively and they're bald, wrinkly, self-absorbed little monsters.
[14:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Confusing but Cute 3 Wheel Solo EV is Finally in Production - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:02] <exec> 08└─Around here buying a Toyota ought to be grounds for losing your driver's license. In fact, just the intention ought to be enough. Toyota drivers are horrible horrible drivers. If we're serious about getting to zero traffic fatalities, part of the solution needs to be taking Toyotas, or worse Lexus,...
[14:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Confusing but Cute 3 Wheel Solo EV is Finally in Production - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:04] <exec> 08└─I seem to recall that sideways parking is illegal for cars in many cities, no matter how well they fit. Though I suppose as a three-wheeler this might be legally classified as a motorcycle and fall under more permissive regulations.
[14:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Confusing but Cute 3 Wheel Solo EV is Finally in Production - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:07] <exec> 08└─You should drive it before saying that. Putting the single wheel in the back is a much better idea than putting it in the front for stability reasons. I'd be curious to hear from people that actually drive them once they're actually being delivered for reviews, but I've got a trike license and that...
[14:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:39] <exec> 08└─NNNNNNooooooooo, the media? Those angels of society? Those who mean only the best and so very carefully consider what they libel I mean report? They would NEVER do ANYTHING like that. That would be fundamentally destructive to society! They could and should even be held accountable for 'inciting a r...
[14:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:41] <exec> 08└─Seems to me that the key word is *always*. Just like poor people don't *always* stay poor - that's just the way to bet since the game is stacked against them.
[14:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:43] <exec> 08└─This is an intriguing result. By tracking everyone from an early point in time, these researchers have (hopefully) removed the effect that Survivorship Bias has on the observations (i.e. concentrating only on successful people, rather than everyone). I wonder if the prior chance of success for anyon...
[14:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:45] <exec> 08└─The real title should be "Those who always pretend to be nice do not have an advantage over those who do not bother when it matters not".
[14:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:47] <exec> 08└─You observed that? Are you a voyeur? :-)
[14:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook/Google Undersea Cable Rerouted from Hong Kong Due to National Security Objections - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:04] <exec> 08└─And you think they won't require a license?
[14:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook/Google Undersea Cable Rerouted from Hong Kong Due to National Security Objections - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:05] <exec> 08└─Lefties are opposed to putting Muslims in Concentration Camps. What is your position on that issue?
[14:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:31] <exec> 08└─Eat your bugs, goy!
[14:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:32] <exec> 08└─It's going to depend on things like how quickly the world population stops growing.
[14:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:35] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah, scientists? What do they know?
[14:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:37] <exec> 08└─The whole aversion to eating insects is cultural.
[14:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:39] <exec> 08└─The people who live in Louisiana (another example) will probably have fewer problems, but it still won't be fun for them.
[14:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CenturyLink Outage Led to a 3.5% Drop in Global Web Traffic - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:01] <exec> 08└─The giant pileups are not caused by intention but by the weather instead.
[14:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Estrogen May Lessen Severity of COVID-19 Symptoms in Women, Study Finds - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:46] <exec> 08└─And the hair.
[14:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Estrogen May Lessen Severity of COVID-19 Symptoms in Women, Study Finds - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:47] <exec> 08└─Dr Oz is a quack. He was called to testify as to why he pushes medical claims he knows aren't true. His response was that it's opinion. You know it's bs when he uses freedom of speech to defend knowingly lying. The alumni at his former university wanted them to pull his degree, he's so disgraceful...
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[15:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:49] <exec> 08└─Legal personhood is already extended to many non-human entities: certain rivers, deities in some parts of India, and corporations worldwide. Environmental features can't speak for themselves, so trustees are appointed to act on their behalf
[15:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:51] <exec> 08└─Can the moon be a person?
[15:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:53] <exec> 08└─Helium-3 We're not ready for it yet, but once we master fusion that will be a valuable fuel that's been collecting on the moon's surface for billions of years. But really, the value of the moon is not in returning stuff to Earth, but not having to bring it from Earth as we begin to expand into space...
[15:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:55] <exec> 08└─It is part of the werewolf industrial complex, killing hundreds every year, And the tides! What a pain in the ass to have my beach flooded every 12 hours! Who's gonna pay for the damage? Do the mining on the back side where nobody will see it
[15:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:57] <exec> 08└─Exactly what I was thinking. Grant it personhood, and whoever speaks for the moon, owns the moon.
[15:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:59] <exec> 08└─But should we treat this celestial object, which has been part of the culture of every hominin for millions of years, as just another resource?
[15:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:01] <exec> 08└─which has been part of the culture of every hominin for millions of years
[15:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:03] <exec> 08└─In my Universe of Nature paradigm, an entity is a person if it exhibits consciousness and will. Your Universe of Legal paradigm is badly broken. Can you ask the Moon what's her opinion on this issue?
[15:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:06] <exec> 08└─cheese is not a person. tasty? hells yes! but not a person.
[15:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents More Likely than Non-Parents to Turn to Alcohol During Pandemic, Survey Finds - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:23] <exec> 08└─If you have kids in your EV, then you might not need a cop-o-mealworms.
[15:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents More Likely than Non-Parents to Turn to Alcohol During Pandemic, Survey Finds - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:24] <exec> 08└─I don't know of any children, but that doesn't mean I don't have any! And I have definitely been drinking more this year. Will some kid who looks like me show up on my doorstep one day saying "you knew my mother"? If I sober up now, will that fix this? And what if I switch to weed?
[15:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Confusing but Cute 3 Wheel Solo EV is Finally in Production - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:57] <exec> 08└─Emphasis added, It has 100 miles (161 km) of range and a top speed of 80 mph (129 km/h), which is more than you'll ever need
[15:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Confusing but Cute 3 Wheel Solo EV is Finally in Production - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:59] <exec> 08└─It's cute, but I have difficulty seeing how it will be competitive in today's electric car market. Back when the only production electric cars were golf carts then it would have had a shot, but they are a decade too late for that.
[15:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Confusing but Cute 3 Wheel Solo EV is Finally in Production - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:01] <exec> 08└─Reminded me of the Reliant Robin https://youtu.be [youtu.be]
[15:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PhilSalkie [3571] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Confusing but Cute 3 Wheel Solo EV is Finally in Production - 1944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:03] <exec> 08└─Pre-ordered a Corbin Sparrow [wikipedia.org] in 1998, received the 38th unit made (Lime Green, "Jellybean" style) in March of 2000. At that time, it was about the same price as a really nice Harley (around $13K US), for a hand-built three-wheeler which qualified as a motorcycle, but in most states d...
[15:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Confusing but Cute 3 Wheel Solo EV is Finally in Production - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:05] <exec> 08└─On "BMW 3 wheel scooter with roof" did you mean the BMW C1? It's only got two wheels, but it's the closest I can think of without going all the way back to the Isetta. If they did do a 3 wheel covered scooter, though, I'd be interested in a reference. I always thought I'd love to get a C1 if they ev...
[15:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:43] <exec> 08└─No, they don't. The finishing last part, yes, but a large percentage of women apparently have to make a special effort to not actively seek out assholes by preference.
[15:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:44] <exec> 08└─Most folks, apparently including the paper's authors, fundamentally do not get that success in management has nothing to do with the degree of "niceness" or "anti-niceness" a person possesses. The traits they're looking for are the ability to see and the willingness to make the best decision for the...
[15:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:31] <exec> 08└─https://www.ehn.org/carbon-dioxide-makes-food-less-healthy-2598739140.html [ehn.org] It is already leading to food being less healthy. tldr: More CO2 means more sugar production, more energy, yay. However, the same amount of nutrients are diluted in more carbs, boo. So while global warming isn't mak...
[15:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:32] <exec> 08└─No. The water raised 6 meters and guess what was done? The problem was fixed by engineering not whining and years of propaganda campaigns. Just like covid, the problem should already be fixed. The covid patients basically have scurvy and oxygen deficiency. So correct it with vitamin c and hbot. THE...
[15:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:34] <exec> 08└─Maybe you should look up the history of the levees. It is a great example of how to deal with rising water levels.
[15:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:36] <exec> 08└─no one wants to throw you in a camp or force you to eat bugs.
[15:30:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another COVID-19 Reinfection: This Time Second Infection Was More Severe - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:10] <exec> 08└─Do you know what happens to a pandemic that 99.9+% of people survive when you let everyone get it and become immune long enough to not catch the same strain again? That strain goes the fuck away permanently and the death toll for the first year is the entire death toll for all time. When you drag it...
[15:30:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another COVID-19 Reinfection: This Time Second Infection Was More Severe - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:11] <exec> 08└─No. You do not get to say dying 20 years later is on coronaids. Humanity sure as fuck isn't going to give you twenty years to find out if it does or not either.
[15:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another COVID-19 Reinfection: This Time Second Infection Was More Severe - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:14] <exec> 08└─No shit, Sherlock. That's why it's called a contributing condition.
[15:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another COVID-19 Reinfection: This Time Second Infection Was More Severe - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:16] <exec> 08└─See above, bro. Science requires proof and what they have are suspicions. They don't get to blame coronaids unless they can prove it was coronaids. They currently can not. It is a guess. It may be a correct, incorrect, well-founded, or wild-assed guess but it is undeniably a guess. And, yes, I know...
[15:30:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another COVID-19 Reinfection: This Time Second Infection Was More Severe - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:18] <exec> 08└─Insufficient for science. Well, maybe not climate science.
[15:30:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another COVID-19 Reinfection: This Time Second Infection Was More Severe - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:20] <exec> 08└─Nah, riots stopped being fun back before I had nearly this many birthdays. On the extremely remote chance they happen here, I'll shoot anyone who steps foot on my property what looks like they have an intent to do harm stone dead without losing a minute of sleep. Or let folks who look to be minding...
[15:30:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another COVID-19 Reinfection: This Time Second Infection Was More Severe - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:22] <exec> 08└─No. The reaction to it has been moronic in the extreme and I think I chose a very fitting moniker for it.
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[16:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03nostyle [11497] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:13] <exec> 08└─Who will husband the moon?
[16:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:15] <exec> 08└─"Do the mining on the back side where nobody will see it." Comedy gold! While we're at it, lets build there a bunch of affordable housing there for all those complaining San Franciscans and Seattleites.
[16:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents More Likely than Non-Parents to Turn to Alcohol During Pandemic, Survey Finds - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:35] <exec> 08└─nuff said
[16:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Parents More Likely than Non-Parents to Turn to Alcohol During Pandemic, Survey Finds - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:36] <exec> 08└─Really, it's Canada... What do they have to get all "stressed" about? A warm winter? Some people drink because they like to. The sign said, "Drink Canada Dry!" So I did...
[16:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents More Likely than Non-Parents to Turn to Alcohol During Pandemic, Survey Finds - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:38] <exec> 08└─So those people that are anchored in place by children all day turn to alcohol as it is one of the few "escapes" that they can find in their own homes? Shocking, really. Spoken as a parent that only drinks very occasionally.
[16:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Confusing but Cute 3 Wheel Solo EV is Finally in Production - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:18] <exec> 08└─TBH, that looks amazing. Now, if you could remove the wind shield on nice days, it would probably sell a ton to motorcyclists that are losing their ability to balance.
[16:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Confusing but Cute 3 Wheel Solo EV is Finally in Production - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:19] <exec> 08└─I seem to recall that sideways parking is illegal for cars in many cities, no matter how well they fit.
[16:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook/Google Undersea Cable Rerouted from Hong Kong Due to National Security Objections - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:17] <exec> 08└─That is probably my favorite movie of all time.
[16:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This "Gamer Grandma" Has More Than 900,000 "Grandkids" - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:31] <exec> 08└─I thought society had determined to everyone's satisfaction that the term "gamer" only applied to hateful white males who doxx and send death threats /s
[16:25:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 30-Series "Ampere" GPUs - 637 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:42] <exec> 08└─Turing/RTX 1st-gen was an expensive ray-tracing beta test that used marketing to mask a meager performance uplift and obvious price uplift. Ampere will actually be good, for people who are willing to buy Nvidia (they are disproportionately hated here). It will also make ray-tracing more viable. AMD...
[16:26:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 111 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:21] <exec> 08└─Rightwing nutjobs make everything political then turn around and tell everyone to stop making things political.
[16:27:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Study Finds Insect Shows Promise as a Good, Sustainable Food Source - 172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:22] <exec> 08└─No, I understand. Those people who study this sort of stuff are wrong, but that guy on Fox News (who totally has your best interests at heart) knows what's really going on.
[16:30:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another COVID-19 Reinfection: This Time Second Infection Was More Severe - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:34] <exec> 08└─See, that's exactly what I'm talking about. Go back to doing personalities. You're way better at that than at trolling.
[16:30:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another COVID-19 Reinfection: This Time Second Infection Was More Severe - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:36] <exec> 08└─And? Do you see it actually happening?
[16:30:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another COVID-19 Reinfection: This Time Second Infection Was More Severe - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:38] <exec> 08└─Use < and > and it should work fine. That's done intentionally to keep arbitrary tags from being a thing and to keep the balanceTags sub viable.
[16:30:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another COVID-19 Reinfection: This Time Second Infection Was More Severe - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:40] <exec> 08└─Their numbers are the same. There's a small delay, so they don't match exactly at all times, but it's within a few thousand cases and same percentage of confirmed vs. probable. Go check out the data dashboard at azdhs.gov. Test counts and % positive are there and just hover your mouse over the case...
[16:30:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another COVID-19 Reinfection: This Time Second Infection Was More Severe - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:42] <exec> 08└─'kay. We'll discuss this further in 2040.
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[17:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Post Says Dog Attacks on Mail Carriers Increased During Pandemic - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:01] <exec> 08└─should muzzle all dogs.
[17:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Canada Post Says Dog Attacks on Mail Carriers Increased During Pandemic - 1027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:03] <exec> 08└─Dogs are a plague. They're unpredictable, dangerous. They cause numerous injuries to children each year. Their incessant barking pisses off everyone (except their owners, for some reason) and wakes up entire neighborhoods at night. They jump on skunks, porcupines, repeatedly. They jump in front of c...
[17:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Post Says Dog Attacks on Mail Carriers Increased During Pandemic - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:05] <exec> 08└─WHO let the dogz out!
[17:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Post Says Dog Attacks on Mail Carriers Increased During Pandemic - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:07] <exec> 08└─Tell us how you really feel.
[17:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Canada Post Says Dog Attacks on Mail Carriers Increased During Pandemic - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:09] <exec> 08└─They are 30% less intelligent than their wolf ancestors,
[17:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Post Says Dog Attacks on Mail Carriers Increased During Pandemic - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:11] <exec> 08└─dogs serve many useful purposes. bad/dumb people are always the problem. if they are 30% dumber than wolves it's probably a good thing as they don't get the freedom they would need to be happy normally.
[17:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Post Says Dog Attacks on Mail Carriers Increased During Pandemic - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:13] <exec> 08└─What is is about mailmen that sets dogs off? Can't be the uniform - my dogs have never reacted badly to other uniforms. Sex? Maybe - my dogs have never reacted badly to mailwomen. Or maybe dogs pick up on the fear of postmen of dogs and react to it. One guy used to slip a doggie treat through the m...
[17:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Post Says Dog Attacks on Mail Carriers Increased During Pandemic - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:15] <exec> 08└─most discusting people on this Earth
[17:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Post Says Dog Attacks on Mail Carriers Increased During Pandemic - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:18] <exec> 08└─Simple solution: get a dog door. Preferably an IoT cloud connected dog door to improve the security of your home.
[17:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:39] <exec> 08└─Her opinion waxes and wanes, depending on the day of her cycle.
[17:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:41] <exec> 08└─> Comedy gold! Exactly - there's an almost inexhaustible supply on the Moon. All we have to do is dream.
[17:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:43] <exec> 08└─Well, we certainly know who will fuck it.
[17:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:45] <exec> 08└─I'm calling it, Bot is just one of EF's many sock puppets. Can we spare a minute to contemplate the depths of sadness that make someone go multiple personality disorder on a small tech forum?
[17:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:47] <exec> 08└─> Helium-3 > We're not ready for it yet, but once we master fusion that will be a valuable fuel that's been collecting on the moon's surface for billions of years. Oh you're right on the borderline, but I'm going to go with +1 Funny.
[17:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03oumuamua [8401] (Score: 1) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:49] <exec> 08└─'First to stake a claim' is not such a bad thing and is what is going to happen anyway. This will start up a space race and truth be told, America needs something like this. Without Sputnik there would have been no Moon push in the first place.
[17:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03crm114 [8238] (Score: 1) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:51] <exec> 08└─I guess I'm taking the simplistic NIMBY view... but... IMHO, the danger is not the mining... As a kid I looked up at the moon and saw this big white ball in the sky... we had a telescope and could see craters and stuff - my dad taught me about the geography of the moon. It was a thing you could use...
[17:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:54] <exec> 08└─First they laugh. Then they lol. Then they rofl.
[17:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:56] <exec> 08└─In other words, just another employment scam for lawyers, the same groups who lobbied against no-fault divorce because it exposed that there are way more lawyers than we really need. The same group that lobbied against increased dollar amounts for small claims courts, cutting them out of more civil...
[17:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:58] <exec> 08└─Maybe it already is for all the Moon worshipers rubbing in our face every damn night. Nuke that shit.
[17:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:00] <exec> 08└─This is a tech forum? Seems to mostly be people who dislike tech and absolutely hate science.
[17:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:02] <exec> 08└─In somebody's dreams, maybe. We can't even get there with just people at the moment. We're *at least* 40-50 years away from any commercially significant presence on the moon. I suppose it's not a bad idea to consider the eventuality of mining/commercialization of the moon and its resources, but call...
[17:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:04] <exec> 08└─Can you ask the Moon what's her opinion on this issue?
[17:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:07] <exec> 08└─My grand kids will look up, and see a big sign that says "Coca-Cola"; in a few months, they will see twinkly lights as another corporate entity nukes ('cause its too expensive to remove the reflective mylar) the entire sign. Then they will look up and see "Pepsi"; followed in a few months of twinkly...
[17:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents More Likely than Non-Parents to Turn to Alcohol During Pandemic, Survey Finds - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:28] <exec> 08└─But at least with COVID you get to stay home. Trying calling out sick with a hangover...
[17:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents More Likely than Non-Parents to Turn to Alcohol During Pandemic, Survey Finds - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:30] <exec> 08└─> Spoken as a parent that only drinks very occasionally in the morning FTFY
[17:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents More Likely than Non-Parents to Turn to Alcohol During Pandemic, Survey Finds - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:32] <exec> 08└─I'm a parent with both my teenage son and adult daughter staying with me through the pandemic and I find I drink way less. I have drank less than a case of Guinness since February. I would have said beer but I wanted to be a snob about it.
[17:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents More Likely than Non-Parents to Turn to Alcohol During Pandemic, Survey Finds - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:34] <exec> 08└─Hardly “kids” then.
[17:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents More Likely than Non-Parents to Turn to Alcohol During Pandemic, Survey Finds - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:36] <exec> 08└─Dowse the snotslingers in alcohol & set 'em on fire.
[17:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Will Cash in on Surging Stock Price With $5 Billion Stock Sale - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:50] <exec> 08└─Don't let simple math stand in the way of your Tesla hate! If there are 100 shares and I own 1 of them I own 1% of Tesla. If you split each share into 5 shares there are now 500 shares and I own 5. That is still 1% of Tesla.
[17:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Confusing but Cute 3 Wheel Solo EV is Finally in Production - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:19] <exec> 08└─The guy was on Dragons Den a few years ago, couldn't get an investor when he was based in BC. Moving to the US hasn't changed the problems with the design. It still looks like a kit trike that someone built in their garage. Price wise it's absolutely not competitive. Spend a few grand more and get...
[17:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:00] <exec> 08└─Awww bigoted moron fascist sympathizer having a hard time debating runaway? You two deserve each other.
[17:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:02] <exec> 08└─Shut up dumdum.
[17:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:04] <exec> 08└─So why aren't you rolling in pussy? Keep getting mugged by an old Chinese lady with an ugly bat?
[17:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:06] <exec> 08└─This is why no one should listen to bird brains. This self-employed spineless twerp is always whinging about MBAs and management stupidity, but suddenly he has an attack of the capitalists and NEEEEDS to prop up his reality whefe management is actually competent which is why everyone should be happy...
[17:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:08] <exec> 08└─Sorry Buzz. Too many counterexamples of assholes who served for many years and became very wealthy despite wrecking the company. All you have to do is make everything look good, cash out when the stock is high, and then who cares about the company whose longterm future you destroyed. Example: Prime...
[17:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:10] <exec> 08└─More of a voyageur, but I have done some livin'...
[17:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook/Google Undersea Cable Rerouted from Hong Kong Due to National Security Objections - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:29] <exec> 08└─that answers the question of whether the US gov would stand by the people of hong kong. guess you're on your own, peeps!
[17:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook/Google Undersea Cable Rerouted from Hong Kong Due to National Security Objections - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:31] <exec> 08└─[citation needed]
[17:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook/Google Undersea Cable Rerouted from Hong Kong Due to National Security Objections - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:33] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Hong Kong is screwed. The best they can hope for is that China will slowly change for the better.
[17:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 30-Series "Ampere" GPUs - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:04] <exec> 08└─Yes, we know. Disgusting fucking whores use Nvidia.
[17:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 30-Series "Ampere" GPUs - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:06] <exec> 08└─Eventually Linux will take over those markets, and we will all remember who Nvidia really is.
[17:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing and NASA Target December for Second Try at Uncrewed Orbital Demonstration Flight - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:25] <exec> 08└─Yes, but monopolies just lead to higher prices. As the monopoly can set their own prices after snuffing out all the competition.
[17:30:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Estrogen May Lessen Severity of COVID-19 Symptoms in Women, Study Finds - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:21] <exec> 08└─Lowering overall testosterone levels lowers the level of DHT.
[17:32:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another COVID-19 Reinfection: This Time Second Infection Was More Severe - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:02] <exec> 08└─Nah. It's perfectly scientific to say that a greater percentage of the current world population will eventually have died from COVID-19 than have already died. It's practically a certainty that there will be further deaths and those that have already died cannot (realistically) be resurrected. It ju...
[17:32:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another COVID-19 Reinfection: This Time Second Infection Was More Severe - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:03] <exec> 08└─shut the fuck up, you stupid bitch.
[17:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's Official: Africa Declared Free of Wild Poliovirus - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:11] <exec> 08└─I'm going to enjoy putting you medical tyrants up against the wall. Bootlicking cowards.
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[18:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Post Says Dog Attacks on Mail Carriers Increased During Pandemic - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:17] <exec> 08└─Pandemic has people cooped up inside. People become more tense. Thus dogs become more tense and defensive of territory. People don't take dogs on long walks anymore. Thus dogs are bored and looking let out their pent up energy. People don't walk dogs because it is difficult to get dog to wear the re...
[18:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Post Says Dog Attacks on Mail Carriers Increased During Pandemic - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:19] <exec> 08└─I think you may be confusing dogs with children.
[18:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Post Says Dog Attacks on Mail Carriers Increased During Pandemic - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:21] <exec> 08└─Says the mailman. You should've not kicked the dog on your first day nutjob.
[18:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Post Says Dog Attacks on Mail Carriers Increased During Pandemic - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:23] <exec> 08└─Humans, I would say.
[18:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:58] <exec> 08└─Did you just assume Luna's gender? What are Luna's preferred pronouns?
[18:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:59] <exec> 08└─I haven't seen much evidence that our precursors gave cultural significance to the moon,
[18:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:01] <exec> 08└─So sue the moon... Makes me wonder, can a river be found liable for damages? Can we collect judgements in fish?
[18:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:04] <exec> 08└─It's not at all about staking a claim, it's about defending that claim. If the Apollo 11 landing site turns out to be located on a large shallow deposit of unobtainum, you can bet it will be disrespected by whatever business interest is operating in the region at the time (including NASA.) Maybe the...
[18:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:06] <exec> 08└─Hundreds of thousands of years covers Sapiens. The issues is precursors going back millions of years. Please understand the post fully and then restrain yourself from making a crass ad hominem attack.
[18:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:08] <exec> 08└─Can we collect judgements in fish?
[18:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents More Likely than Non-Parents to Turn to Alcohol During Pandemic, Survey Finds - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:35] <exec> 08└─Only because the schools have turned kids into narcs. Otherwise, it would probably be other things.
[18:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents More Likely than Non-Parents to Turn to Alcohol During Pandemic, Survey Finds - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:36] <exec> 08└─The humans need to get the cost of bugs down to the level you'd see on a lizard person city-ship before they have any chance of catching on here. Now those locusts you find on this planet, those have a chance of resembling a good lizard person snack, with the right BBQ sauce. The humans just need to...
[18:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents More Likely than Non-Parents to Turn to Alcohol During Pandemic, Survey Finds - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:38] <exec> 08└─Question: how can a post be Redundant when it is the first post?
[18:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents More Likely than Non-Parents to Turn to Alcohol During Pandemic, Survey Finds - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:40] <exec> 08└─Wine mommies who wear wine glasses will be glad to know that WINE runs on WSL on Windows.
[18:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents More Likely than Non-Parents to Turn to Alcohol During Pandemic, Survey Finds - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:43] <exec> 08└─For some peace and quiet, try KidStoned Chewable Valium [youtube.com]
[18:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Will Cash in on Surging Stock Price With $5 Billion Stock Sale - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:57] <exec> 08└─That's a split, like happened in February. This is sale of NEW stock, so you go from 1 of 100 to 1 of 200, or from 1% to 0.5%.
[18:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Confusing but Cute 3 Wheel Solo EV is Finally in Production - 945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:29] <exec> 08└─Honestly I thought I saw a three wheel version of the C1 once, but I may have confused it with this Peugeot: https://image.xedoisong.vn [xedoisong.vn] although that seems to be a concept that was not put into production: https://newatlas.com
[18:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Confusing but Cute 3 Wheel Solo EV is Finally in Production - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:31] <exec> 08└─There was another company trying to make an affordable 3-wheel commuter/fleet car that seats 2 in tandem, Elio Motors. The idea is great, take a normal ICE coupe, cut the car in half long ways to reduce drag, minimize cost and still have a usable amount of passenger space for two. At $7500 and ~60mp...
[18:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:17] <exec> 08└─Six months. If you don't leave the project in time: any helpful comments you made from the goodness of your heart to assist your less experienced/knowledgeable/competent successor to maintain your code down the line -- will come back to encourage and lead you when you have to extend it past what it...
[18:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 1017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:18] <exec> 08└─I think hierarchically-minded institutions also don't tend to consider the network effects of those sorts of soft skills. If you encourage loyalty (i.e., from the upper ranks) as a perspective/behavior, your employees may sub/consciously experience that the environment encourages them to at least mi...
[18:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Single-Use N95 Respirators Can be Decontaminated and Used Again, Study Finds - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:55] <exec> 08└─How it's exactly done is the result of much hard work, and considered proprietary information, but I can tell you we use over 4kW @ 30,000 to 60,000 volts to create multiple corona discharges and pass the material through these coronas to trap the charge in the fabric. It's a fun thing to watch, but...
[18:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Single-Use N95 Respirators Can be Decontaminated and Used Again, Study Finds - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:56] <exec> 08└─There's no proprietary information needed on making static electricity. Any air filter with an ionizer does it, and your hair dryer does it. You can run a mask for 5 min with a hair dryer or air filter pointed at it to charge the fabric. Yours is an industrial-size machine that does it fast and at s...
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[19:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart+ Takes Aim at Amazon Prime, Launches September 15 - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:49] <exec> 08└─Fandango is Buying Vudu's Video Service from Walmart [soylentnews.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] I guess the Vudu catalog was worthless? Where is the content coming from? Walmart is a late entrant to the Streaming Wars [wikipedia.org].
[19:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Canada Post Says Dog Attacks on Mail Carriers Increased During Pandemic - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:12] <exec> 08└─It is no coincidence that more alcohol is the solution [soylentnews.org]. And in Canada, well, say no more, say no more...
[19:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Post Says Dog Attacks on Mail Carriers Increased During Pandemic - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:14] <exec> 08└─According to Canada Post, around 41 per cent of households in Canada have dogs.
[19:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Post Says Dog Attacks on Mail Carriers Increased During Pandemic - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:16] <exec> 08└─I want to see their data on that one...
[19:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:00] <exec> 08└─Republicans: "It's funny cause we hate those people." I recently saw some old people running a "recall Newsom" table, maybe you're talking about those idiots?
[19:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:01] <exec> 08└─I was quoting TFA which says: culture of every hominin for millions of years
[19:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:03] <exec> 08└─First they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then they ignore you. Then you lose. (or more popularly: "loose")
[19:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:05] <exec> 08└─he issues is precursors going back millions of years. Please understand the post fully
[19:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:07] <exec> 08└─Then you lose. (or more illiterately: "loose")
[19:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:09] <exec> 08└─Hasn't anyone heard of the man in the moon? Sheesh.
[19:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:12] <exec> 08└─I heard they already relocated them, to a warehouse south of the van helen expressway.
[19:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents More Likely than Non-Parents to Turn to Alcohol During Pandemic, Survey Finds - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:43] <exec> 08└─Shut up and eat yer feckin' bug ration! The rest of us are trying to eat. Pass the Sriracha.
[19:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Confusing but Cute 3 Wheel Solo EV is Finally in Production - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:32] <exec> 08└─Clarifying point: I still think there is room for a dumpy dorky EV if it's cheap enough. As an example, the Elio got a bunch of buzz and was a (ICE) car I wanted to buy at 7k. If they wanted to charge $20k for it then no way.
[19:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Confusing but Cute 3 Wheel Solo EV is Finally in Production - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:33] <exec> 08└─I saw the orange Elio demo car and I wanted one. The prototypes were really nice. I feel like they might have oversold the production-readiness of these vehicles though; IIRC the demo I saw was powered by the engine out of a Geo metro.
[19:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook/Google Undersea Cable Rerouted from Hong Kong Due to National Security Objections - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:43] <exec> 08└─He'd be ok putting them in the cages to babysit the brown children.
[19:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook/Google Undersea Cable Rerouted from Hong Kong Due to National Security Objections - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:44] <exec> 08└─Why do you think they're moving on HK so quickly? Just like everyone else, right now the good bet is on a Biden win and they need to get away with as much as they can under the current administration. If Trump wins, it doesn't matter either way.
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[20:23:20] <exec> 08└─But the US was a late entrant to ww2...
[20:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart+ Takes Aim at Amazon Prime, Launches September 15 - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:22] <exec> 08└─It was also the last war the US won.
[20:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 1608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:40] <exec> 08└─Yes, yes, viable fusion power is only about 30 years away, and has been since approximately 1945. It's funny: My experience is that people in the prediction business are happiest making predictions far enough in the future that nobody is likely to check whether they were actually right. I mean, it's...
[20:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:42] <exec> 08└─You can lash it, I heard.
[20:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:44] <exec> 08└─Nanna, please. You lost that fight quite a while ago.
[20:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:46] <exec> 08└─As much fun as it is to hate lawyers: Lawyers who get caught lying to the court risk losing their law license and depending on how seriously they screw up can also be jailed for contempt of court. Good lawyers don't lie, they highlight the portion of the truth good for their client, and make legal a...
[20:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:48] <exec> 08└─Do the mining on the back side where nobody will see it
[20:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:51] <exec> 08└─It depends on culture: The ancient Greeks considered the moon female, the Vikings considered the moon male, most modern Americans consider the moon non-binary, and there are lots of other variations.
[20:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:03] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, we should model society after the military! /s A terrible idea, and the reason why military hierarchy exists is because they have to prepare for when the orders are literally life and death situations. Makes sense why a fascist like yourself would fetishize that social structure.
[20:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another COVID-19 Reinfection: This Time Second Infection Was More Severe - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:59] <exec> 08└─No. Your ideas about this pandemic are what's extreme. Your opinion has been noted. Giving a pandemic disease a stupid nickname doesn't help your cause. 187000+ dead and counting.
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[20:33:49] <exec> 08└─What makes it work is applying different charges to each layer of material. How do you do that with a hairdryer? Different nasties are attracted to different charge polarities, and some of them are neutral and have to pick up a charge by passing through one layer, and sticking to the next layer, or...
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[21:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China is Working to Double Nuclear Warheads in the Next Decade - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:51] <exec> 08└─More important to me sounds the capability to sink air craft carriers. Nuclear weapons are just a deterrent. You also only need one or two to be effective at that. Sinking air craft carriers is something they could actually do in a hot war. For that nuclear weapons are probably overkill and harmful...
[21:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China is Working to Double Nuclear Warheads in the Next Decade - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:53] <exec> 08└─Is it really a race if you're standing on the finish line already?
[21:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China is Working to Double Nuclear Warheads in the Next Decade - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:55] <exec> 08└─My understanding is it's a bitch to sink a carrier. I seem to recall the Navy tried to sink one of their own a few years back and had a hell of a time. So a small nuke at the tip of a sea skimming missile would be ideal. Vaporize half the ship, the other half sinks, and Hey! Bet there's some collate...
[21:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China is Working to Double Nuclear Warheads in the Next Decade - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:57] <exec> 08└─China: taking the "M" out of MAD [wikipedia.org]
[21:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China is Working to Double Nuclear Warheads in the Next Decade - 1178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah but what would a land empire on the other side of the planet care about a naval trade empire on the other side of the planet. Like invade Venezuela for oil, I can see that. Invade Canada for strategic maple syrup reserves and hot breedable women, sure I can see that. The idea of getting into a...
[21:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China is Working to Double Nuclear Warheads in the Next Decade - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:01] <exec> 08└─I think the idea is to have nukes to ensure that the US military doesn't do a massive (nuclear) attack or indeed a blockade of their naval trade routes (to Africa, and other places), also not when the US military does block their naval trade routes and they decide to militarily retaliate and, indeed...
[21:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Working to Double Nuclear Warheads in the Next Decade - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:04] <exec> 08└─midway [wikipedia.org] didn't happen?
[21:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China is Working to Double Nuclear Warheads in the Next Decade - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:06] <exec> 08└─They won't dare confront the totally of present day American Leadership!
[21:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China is Working to Double Nuclear Warheads in the Next Decade - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:08] <exec> 08└─Neither side would win anything.
[21:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart+ Takes Aim at Amazon Prime, Launches September 15 - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:19] <exec> 08└─Walmart can also offer some products that Amazon generally can't—you'll be able to shop online for local, fresh groceries with Walmart+
[21:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart+ Takes Aim at Amazon Prime, Launches September 15 - 1283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:21] <exec> 08└─With Amazon I can order a $1.50 mask and get it shipped for free. With Walmart I need a $35 minimum order. With Amazon I can watch original movies and TV shows. With Walmart I can order $35 worth of DVDs. With Amazon I can get music. With Walmart I can order $35 worth of CDs. With Walmart I can orde...
[21:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart+ Takes Aim at Amazon Prime, Launches September 15 - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:24] <exec> 08└─With Walmart I need a $35 minimum order.
[21:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart+ Takes Aim at Amazon Prime, Launches September 15 - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:26] <exec> 08└─Most places don't have amazon fresh. Nearest place is 90 minutes from where I live.
[21:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Post Says Dog Attacks on Mail Carriers Increased During Pandemic - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:52] <exec> 08└─The old chestnut is: Two men see a dog licking its own privates. One man says, "I wish I could do that!" The other replies, "I don't think the dog would let you."
[21:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Post Says Dog Attacks on Mail Carriers Increased During Pandemic - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:53] <exec> 08└─a few years ago it was 32% [petbacker.com], but growing. Here is the 41% [cahi-icsa.ca], from research done by the Canadian Animal Health Institute [cahi-icsa.ca]
[21:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Canada Post Says Dog Attacks on Mail Carriers Increased During Pandemic - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:56] <exec> 08└─Teh Almighty Cats are the superior species.
[21:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canada Post Says Dog Attacks on Mail Carriers Increased During Pandemic - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:58] <exec> 08└─And pick up after them, GODDAM IGNORANT PEOPLE!
[21:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:55] <exec> 08└─You can be religious, worshipping either God or the Devil (among others). Likewise, You can be tech either loving or hating science.
[21:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:56] <exec> 08└─Ok?
[21:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:58] <exec> 08└─...or back off on the self-medication.
[21:25:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06Parents More Likely than Non-Parents to Turn to Alcohol During Pandemic, Survey Finds - 218 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:09] <exec> 08└─That is hardly a surprise. If you have to be stuck at home with the kids all day you need something to take the edge away. So you drink. Which might have this tendency to be the basis of how even more kids are created.
[21:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Confusing but Cute 3 Wheel Solo EV is Finally in Production - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:21] <exec> 08└─I was in California near Hollister when the Sparrow was being produced, and I stopped in to give it a test drive. Their plant was located on the end of a circle. Their driveway opened on the circle at nearly a tangent, so the gutter was at an angle. I had visions of one front wheel being propelled u...
[21:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:10] <exec> 08└─That's no rationalization. At base, somewhere, even if they can't find the words, that *is* "satisfaction of the moral agent." I challenge you to find me one example of something that isn't. And note, it can satisfy a moral agent to follow the light, as it does for me. You have no such light however...
[21:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:11] <exec> 08└─That's one of the incel-iest things I've heard out of you yet, and you say a lot of incel-sounding shit. Weren't you just going on in the IRC chat room the other day about having a bunch of one-night stands or something? Something doesn't add up here :)
[21:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:13] <exec> 08└─Jesus said to help the poor, turn the other cheek, forgiveness for those who have done wrong. Basically the complete opposite of Republican ideology.
[21:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:16] <exec> 08└─You just gave him the perfect segway to say he admits he is an asshole that's why he keeps getting laid, QED. Which will make himself and the other teenybopper edge lords feel all manly and self righteous.
[21:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Empirical Evidence that Nice People Don’t Always Finish Last - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:18] <exec> 08└─I think Steven Elop turned every project/company he touched to shit, and got golden handshaked all the way up to one of the biggest companies (at least as measured by brand awareness at their peak) in the world. Which he literally killed.
[21:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook/Google Undersea Cable Rerouted from Hong Kong Due to National Security Objections - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:41] <exec> 08└─WW2. You fascists need a reminder?
[21:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This "Gamer Grandma" Has More Than 900,000 "Grandkids" - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:56] <exec> 08└─You mean a small group of click-bait journalists? Thankfully gaming has become popular enough that such nonsense is as valid as saying movie fans are all Nazis. Sadly gaming is one of the primary "social" outlets for the alt-right shit heads. Yes I saw your /s just adding my 2 cents.
[21:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces RTX 30-Series "Ampere" GPUs - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:16] <exec> 08└─At 3.5mV, that means 100,000 Amperes. That's gonna need one thick trickle dick of a wire!
[21:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another COVID-19 Reinfection: This Time Second Infection Was More Severe - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:13] <exec> 08└─Hell yes I see it happening, if this fat orange sack of Oompa Loompa turds gets "elected" "again."
[21:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another COVID-19 Reinfection: This Time Second Infection Was More Severe - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah, they work fine but preview changes them in the input box. You click preview, it looks fine, click submit, it's messed up unless you edited all the converted &lt and &gt back to the & codes.
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[22:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China is Working to Double Nuclear Warheads in the Next Decade - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:07] <exec> 08└─No, but carrier design has changed quite a bit since 1942.
[22:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China is Working to Double Nuclear Warheads in the Next Decade - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:09] <exec> 08└─I think it's more like "ensure" the M of "MAD". Right now, there are 2 nations with the nukes sufficient to kill everybody several times over: The USA, and the Russians. If the Chinese get it, then they're basically secure from direct attack, just like the USA and Russians are. And, like the USA and...
[22:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China is Working to Double Nuclear Warheads in the Next Decade - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:11] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RUR-5_ASROC [wikipedia.org] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] I don't know about "overkill". We carried two of those bad boys, along with a couple dozen conventional high explosive warheads. IMO, the conventional warheads weren't going to do much...
[22:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China is Working to Double Nuclear Warheads in the Next Decade - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:13] <exec> 08└─Sounds like it's time to blow the dust off of We'll All Go Together When We Go by Tom Lehrer, and give it another play. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[22:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart+ Takes Aim at Amazon Prime, Launches September 15 - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:27] <exec> 08└─I don't know. To be honest, a habit I learned in the early 90s (before Amazon was a thing) was to group orders until they hit the minimum limit for free shipping. Think CDs, and Noteworthy music. I would often get 4-6 CDs from bands I'd never listened to (but got great reviews on various whatevers),...
[22:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:58] <exec> 08└─If it means I get to watch nuclear fireworks displays monthly, I'll gladly accept the ads.
[22:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:00] <exec> 08└─Soylent News seems like a weird place for a flat-earther to spend time, but here we are.
[22:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents More Likely than Non-Parents to Turn to Alcohol During Pandemic, Survey Finds - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:33] <exec> 08└─That's because your kids have either outgrown the shrieking-and-running-around stage, or were disciplined enough to keep it under control when they were little. (I am definitely looking forward to the neighbor's younger grandkids and my nieces moving out of that stage...the shrieking, screaming, whi...
[22:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents More Likely than Non-Parents to Turn to Alcohol During Pandemic, Survey Finds - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:35] <exec> 08└─New poll idea: Favorite / most effective alcohols to escape this sucky reality.
[22:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Will Cash in on Surging Stock Price With $5 Billion Stock Sale - 2659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:51] <exec> 08└─What's futuristic about a car that uses 18650 lithium cells with an electric motor? Electric cars have been around since the 1960's. Sure, they have come on, and the batteries are now far better than the old UK milk float / forklift lead acid packs. But they still have the same problems, and there's...
[22:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another COVID-19 Reinfection: This Time Second Infection Was More Severe - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I knew I had to use the entities and thought I had, and checked it in preview... I have played around a bit and figured out what I did: - if you forget the semicolon (so use "&lt &gt") - and then use preview, it shows up "correct" (as expected if you had remembered the ; i.e. "< >" ) in the _p...
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[23:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China is Working to Double Nuclear Warheads in the Next Decade - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:10] <exec> 08└─Fock! That was supposed to be totality! I must be having a mini stroke
[23:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Working to Double Nuclear Warheads in the Next Decade - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:11] <exec> 08└─What? Wait, hot breedable women? I've lived here all my life. Where are these women of which you speak?
[23:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Working to Double Nuclear Warheads in the Next Decade - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:13] <exec> 08└─Maybe they simply need a few extra they can sell to Iran. (That would be an AD campaign.)
[23:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Working to Double Nuclear Warheads in the Next Decade - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:16] <exec> 08└─Or a series of full strokes
[23:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China is Working to Double Nuclear Warheads in the Next Decade - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:18] <exec> 08└─Prince Edward Island
[23:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Working to Double Nuclear Warheads in the Next Decade - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:20] <exec> 08└─Relax The original is good ;)
[23:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart+ Takes Aim at Amazon Prime, Launches September 15 - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:34] <exec> 08└─The US won the Gulf War decisively.
[23:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Canada Post Says Dog Attacks on Mail Carriers Increased During Pandemic - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:05] <exec> 08└─The figures are bogus. The survey was only a few thousand homes with pets. So, 41 % of pet owning homes having a dog is NOT the same as 41 % of all homes having a dog. Totally bullshit numbers.
[23:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Post Says Dog Attacks on Mail Carriers Increased During Pandemic - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:06] <exec> 08└─the chances of them coming face-to-face with a dog
[23:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Post Says Dog Attacks on Mail Carriers Increased During Pandemic - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:08] <exec> 08└─I think you mean disgusting. Like Wallmart people.
[23:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 2149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:10] <exec> 08└─>I'm naturally extremely skeptical of anyone claiming to project further out That's reasonable, and the timeline will be extremely hard to predict - but Starship is really promising to completely change the economic landscape of the space industry, and while the details may be hard to predict, the v...
[23:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:11] <exec> 08└─Oh, and as for fusion - it's always worth mentioning that progress on fusion has actually exceeded initial estimates, _provided_ you're measuring progress-per-dollar rather than progress-per-year. Funny how steadily gutting the funding for something perpetually pushes its completion date into the fu...
[23:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 1003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:13] <exec> 08└─Lawyers in criminal trials can lie all they want. Their defence is that they are obligated to provide the bes defence possible. As a juror in a murder trial, I'm not allowed to say what went on in deliberations, but open court is another matter. The defence lied their ass off with theatrics so amat...
[23:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:15] <exec> 08└─Hey Sherlock, EF studying Italian culture and Latin just to set up an italo sockpuppet is a bit of a stretch don't you think? and pay the SN subscription too LOL
[23:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:18] <exec> 08└─And the article sucked in terms of reality, same as the article that claimed 41% of Canadian households own a dog when the survey says 41% of households that own a pet own a dog. No wonder everything seems to be fake news. People are willing to twist the truth when it's not necessary to make their c...
[23:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Lunar Mining Looms, a Change of Perspective Could Protect Earth's Ancient Companion - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:20] <exec> 08└─Fuck off. "Thousands of years" is not "millions of years."
[23:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Parents More Likely than Non-Parents to Turn to Alcohol During Pandemic, Survey Finds - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:54] <exec> 08└─What doth this portend? IRC is infested? Or the eds and the bots have started drinking?
[23:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parents More Likely than Non-Parents to Turn to Alcohol During Pandemic, Survey Finds - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:56] <exec> 08└─I consider 25 year olds kids.
[23:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parents More Likely than Non-Parents to Turn to Alcohol During Pandemic, Survey Finds - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:58] <exec> 08└─That's because your kids have either outgrown the shrieking-and-running-around stage
[23:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Will Cash in on Surging Stock Price With $5 Billion Stock Sale - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:15] <exec> 08└─The first sign that the big automotive companies are serious about competing with Tesla will be regulations that mandate any charging station must be capable of charging any electric vehicle and vehicles must be chargeable at any station. The laws will be written generically but will be designed to...
[23:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Will Cash in on Surging Stock Price With $5 Billion Stock Sale - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:17] <exec> 08└─I agree. And with the way that Tesla stock is trading it reminds me of two words from the past that I am sure are appropriate now... Irrational exuberance [wikipedia.org]
[23:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unredacted Suit Shows Google’s Own Engineers Confused by Privacy Settings - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:10] <exec> 08└─If a thief is determined to break into your home for some reason, a dog isn't really going to deter them. But if they are just breaking into random homes to steal whatever they can easily get their hands on, they are more than likely just going to skip a house with a dog when there's plenty of house...
[23:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unredacted Suit Shows Google’s Own Engineers Confused by Privacy Settings - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:11] <exec> 08└─Android (and mobile in general) is just full of dark patterns like this. Maybe you see through them, or more likely you think you see through them, but they are designed intentionally and deliberately to make you think that you're doing something when in actuality they don't do that or do something...
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