#soylent | Logs for 2020-05-29

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[00:23:25] <FatPhil> I thought solyndra just fizzled
[00:24:35] <FatPhil> ooops, out of cash from loans/grants, and no revenue stream, ooopsie dooopsie saisy
[00:24:36] <chromas> Maybe it was a different one. I remember one destroyed all its glass
[00:25:08] <FatPhil> i might be misremembering too
[00:26:17] <FatPhil> i don't remember any that did what you say, so clearly I don't have the full story.
[00:26:30] <FatPhil> I just remember the price tag.
[00:27:04] <FatPhil> (and, yes, I have seen the Austin Powers Bovie)
[00:28:02] <FatPhil> someone should have interjected "Thanks, Obama!" at some point.
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[00:45:29] <Bytram> =g medusa
[00:45:30] <systemd> https://en.wikipedia.org - Medusa - Wikipedia
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[01:18:08] <chromas> I made a ddg module for the bot but I get weird results. First result for "cows" is https://WooordHunt.ru
[01:18:23] <chromas> Perhaps I am a Russian bot and ddg knows about it.
[01:19:27] <Bytram> ~corsay we need a new poll
[01:19:32] <Bytram> ~cowsay we need a new poll
[01:19:33] <exec> ____________________
[01:19:33] <exec> < we need a new poll >
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[01:19:34] <exec> \ ^__^
[01:19:34] <exec> \ (oo)\_______
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[01:22:04] <chromas> With query "horses" I get a Wikipedia snippet as well as the no-results div :\
[01:26:09] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Cmd.Exe is Dead, Long Live PowerShell: Aged Command-Line Interpreter Moved to 'Maintenance Mode' - https://sylnt.us - PS>
[01:26:40] <AzumaHazuki> MS ought to just release a spot-on Win10 theme for a major DE and switch to Linux
[01:30:34] <chromas> Windows is better than Linux in some ways though. Why would they want to give that up?
[01:37:34] * chromas gets FRIST POST
[01:38:49] <chromas> Anyone here an expert on open source licenses? If I import a module of Boost-licensed code, can I still put my code that calls it under WTFPL or does Boost or whatever infect it?
[01:58:00] <Bytram> chromas: I am not a lawyer, and unless you are speaking to a lawyer... yanno? That said, why not ask Boost?
[02:00:02] <Bytram> OTOH, mixing nerds with money makes them act funny. Be very careful and CYA!
[02:00:37] <chromas> Eh, I'll just use wtfp until someone complains about it
[02:00:46] <chromas> unlikely they'll see muh codez anyhow
[02:03:32] <Bytram> do what you'd like, but be aware that you're setting something in place that you may have second thoughts -- and no ability to change -- later on. Also, if you think lawyers are expensive, now, they get even more so when you're going up against a DA with effectively unlimited funds,
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[02:06:27] <chromas> =ddg soylentnews
[02:06:38] <chromas> fpos
[02:07:12] <chromas> =help ddg
[02:07:12] <systemd> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[02:07:36] <Bytram> nice!
[02:07:46] <Bytram> =yt help me do
[02:07:47] <systemd> https://youtube.com - Ellie Goulding - Love Me Like You Do (Lyrics) (04:13)
[02:07:56] <Bytram> =yt help me do beatles
[02:07:57] <systemd> https://youtube.com - The Beatles - Love Me Do Subtitulada en español (02:23)
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[02:10:01] <chromas> =help ddg
[02:10:01] <systemd> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[02:10:11] <chromas> So it somehow doesn't have the code I added
[02:11:01] <Bytram> or.. maybe, you added not quite where you thought you did? 0xDEADC0DE
[02:11:55] <chromas> hm
[02:11:57] <chromas> =ddg
[02:12:03] <chromas> =ddg teste
[02:12:28] <Bytram> much... different
[02:13:00] <chromas> =g
[02:13:00] <systemd> Search Google
[02:13:05] <chromas> That part updated
[02:13:24] <Bytram> =G
[02:13:24] <systemd> Search Google
[02:13:29] <Bytram> =)
[02:13:34] <Bytram> =DDG
[02:13:41] <Bytram> =DG
[02:13:46] <Bytram> =DDDG
[02:14:06] <Bytram> =list
[02:14:11] <Bytram> =help
[02:14:12] <systemd> acontribute, asub, asubmit, cite, contribute, doi, rehashctl, sedctl, sub, submit
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[02:14:34] <chromas> Hm, well it was in the Google scope but it should've still worked
[02:14:42] <chromas> =ddg
[02:14:59] <chromas> =blame tmb
[02:14:59] * systemd points at chromas
[02:15:07] <Bytram> LOL!
[02:15:45] <Bytram> break time; dishes... biab
[02:15:52] <Bytram> good luck!
[02:16:23] <chromas> ah, lower case
[02:16:25] <Bytram> chromas: are you familiar with DDG's bang commands?
[02:16:45] <chromas> I know they're a thing but I'ven't'ver used 'em
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[02:17:01] <chromas> =ddg
[02:17:01] <systemd> Search DuckDuckGo
[02:17:05] <chromas> =ddg yo mama
[02:17:06] <systemd> https://www.youtube.com Yo Mama so Hawt! Cookies - YouTube
[02:17:25] <Bytram> good eough; I've not really used them, either. But wanted to know if you knew about 'em
[02:17:37] <chromas> =ddg soylentnews
[02:17:39] <systemd> https://soylentnews.org SoylentNews: SoylentNews is people
[02:17:49] <chromas> =ddg cows
[02:17:51] <systemd> https://WooordHunt.ru Cows: перевод, произношение, транскрипция, примеры...
[02:17:55] <chromas> =ddg horses
[02:17:55] <systemd> [No results]
[02:19:46] <chromas> Probably should strip the html from the title
[02:21:13] <chromas> Maybe I should just steal Subentient's ddg code :)
[02:36:55] <guy_> =submit https://www.whitehouse.gov
[02:36:55] <systemd> Submitting "Access Denied"...
[02:37:13] <chromas> Wow
[02:37:17] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03Access Denied" (1 paragraphs) -> https://soylentnews.org
[02:37:23] <chromas> I can't beliebe Trump banned bots!
[02:37:44] <guy_> Trump is unpredictable like that
[02:38:33] <chromas> Maybe I should try whitehouse.com
[02:38:49] <guy_> Would that work?
[02:39:05] <chromas> no
[02:39:11] <chromas> Used to be a porn site
[02:39:43] <guy_> Were all the porn stars white?
[02:40:26] <guy_> I go to work, come home, get some sleep, it's time to work again . . .
[02:40:36] <guy_> supposed to be like that for the next 5 weeks
[02:40:51] <guy_> haven't read much here, or anywhere else today
[02:53:13] <Bytram> sun rises earlier now and there's construction work nearby where they're on the job at 0700 :(
[02:54:06] <Bytram> chromas: thanks a bunch for the stories you pushed out today! Good luck w/ ddg!
[02:54:23] <Bytram> have a great night everybody!
[03:03:59] <AzumaHazuki> o/
[03:33:22] <Fnord666> =ddg WTFPL
[03:33:24] <systemd> https://twitter.com WTFPL (@wtfpl2) | Твиттер
[03:36:17] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - US Cable Subscribers are Still Being 'Ripped Off' by Creeping Price Increases - https://sylnt.us - customer-disservice
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[05:47:58] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Media Corruption? Car Safety Recalls Reported Less Often When Manufacturers Advertise More - https://sylnt.us - the-one-who-pays-the-piper-calls-the-tunes
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[07:56:27] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Half the Matter in the Universe was Missing—We Found it Hiding in the Cosmos - https://sylnt.us - so-THERE-you-are!
[08:10:10] <FatPhil> have the cunts at https://www.worldometers.info changed the page for anyone else apart from me? I don't get any table of data at all now (even with JS turned on for about 15 different sites)
[08:10:13] <systemd> ^ 03Coronavirus Update (Live): 5,920,225 Cases and 362,365 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Pandemic - Worldometer
[08:17:23] <FatPhil> this useless, and butt-ugly, site is showing Dawn of the Dead - negative death counts for much of south america: https://www.corona.help
[08:17:25] <systemd> ^ 03Coronavirus statistics and information
[08:18:08] <FatPhil> and also doesn't let me look at yesterday's stats, which is an essential feature (as it's a different time of day in different places of the world - earth's not flat, shock horror!)
[08:37:19] <chromas> Loads for me
[08:53:16] <FatPhil> which one?
[09:00:45] <FatPhil> all I'm getting is spinning loading dots where the table used to be
[09:00:49] <FatPhil> because progress
[09:21:46] <FatPhil> what do timestamps like 1590743111254 mean?
[09:22:37] <FatPhil> seen them on a number of websites, they seem to be some kind of standard now.
[09:23:07] <FatPhil> e.g. local estonian news site has (if you don't have JS) Updated: {{1590732240000 | amCalendar}}
[09:55:55] <inz> looks like milliseconds since 1st Jan 1970
[10:03:56] <inz> just divide by 1000 and pass on to localtime :)
[10:05:16] <FatPhil> yup, herp derp, good catch
[10:06:15] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - New Zealand Sits on Top of the Remains of a Giant Ancient Volcanic Plume - https://sylnt.us - ancient-plumage
[10:19:18] <TheMightyBuzzard> coffee++
[10:19:18] <Bender> karma - coffee: 5239
[10:19:32] <FatPhil> ~gday TheMightyBuzzard
[10:19:34] * exec unwillingly fires a chariot of bluehost at TheMightyBuzzard
[10:28:13] <TheMightyBuzzard> ~gday FatPhil
[10:28:15] * exec jovially terrorizes a floccinaucinihilipilificator of German potato salad with FatPhil
[10:28:38] <FatPhil> I'll take that!
[10:55:47] <TheMightyBuzzard> hey, FatPhil, you know there's an english word that becomes shorter if you add to letters to it?
[10:55:59] <FatPhil> short?
[10:56:44] <TheMightyBuzzard> indeed.
[10:56:56] <FatPhil> but can you give me a word that changes pronunciation if you capitalise it?
[10:56:58] * TheMightyBuzzard can't spell two today though
[10:57:36] <TheMightyBuzzard> IT?
[10:57:42] <FatPhil> polish
[10:57:53] <TheMightyBuzzard> also, yep
[10:58:20] * TheMightyBuzzard lurves the dad jokes
[11:00:10] <TheMightyBuzzard> you know why you should never fight a dinosaur?
[11:00:24] <TheMightyBuzzard> you get jurasskicked
[11:00:40] <inz> You can't polish a turd, but Polished turd is balas.
[11:01:38] <inz> (ed. note according to a random online dictionary)
[11:27:02] <FatPhil> inz: english language estonian news is a little bit ambiguous - is .fi<->.ee travel now a free-for-all again?
[11:29:13] <FatPhil> I did notice that some SOPPs are running later in summer, but not others.
[11:32:10] <inz> FatPhil, (EU, Shengen) => .ee is FFA on monday
[11:32:37] <FatPhil> excellent
[11:32:42] <inz> FatPhil, but => .fi there needs to be a $reason
[11:32:47] <FatPhil> bollocks
[11:33:11] <inz> (return to/via .fi, work, other)
[11:33:25] <FatPhil> actually, not excellent. I don't want those fucking italians coughing all over my beautiful country!
[11:34:20] <FatPhil> (or smelly french, dirty spaniards, or inbred brits!)
[11:35:00] <inz> You don't mind the badly behaving inebriated finns?
[11:35:08] <FatPhil> love'em!
[11:36:13] <TheMightyBuzzard> man, my new gaming rig's too quiet. i keep thinking it turned off if i'm not looking at it.
[11:36:39] <FatPhil> fold more foldings!
[11:40:06] <inz> Yeah, fold away the sars-cov-2
[11:41:52] <inz> (which reminds me to apt-get remove fahclient)
[11:43:00] <inz> Laptops and f@h don't really mix
[11:44:29] <TheMightyBuzzard> screw that. they want my cycles, they can chip in on the hardware and electric bills.
[11:50:23] <TheMightyBuzzard> till then ima use my cycles for playin vidya and transcoding shit so my xbox can play it well across the network
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[12:17:54] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Raspberry Pi 4 Gets 8 GB RAM Model, Also 64-bit OS and USB Boot (Both in Beta) - https://sylnt.us - more-is-better
[13:05:59] <FatPhil> oooh - can someone turn the net logging on in your browser, and deduce the URL for what fills the now-missing table on worldofmeters?
[13:09:39] <inz> For me the table is in the html
[13:09:42] <inz> So no separate url
[13:10:33] <inz> But the bloody page has gone from pretty decent to ad-riddled
[13:16:13] <FatPhil> ah, style sheets off, and both tables appear
[13:18:04] <FatPhil> display:none in several places
[13:21:39] <FatPhil> oooh, I notice it's now got a '2 days ago' too - that's new.
[13:21:50] <FatPhil> so, we have proof they changed something
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[13:36:30] <Bytram> FatPhil: I dunno... I have a script that uses wget to grab the HTML from https://www.worldometers.info then extracts the various totals/data and displays it as plain text. Last updated 2020-04-26. I *just* ran it and all seemed to work fine as before.
[13:36:32] <systemd> ^ 03Coronavirus Update (Live): 5,940,465 Cases and 362,827 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Pandemic - Worldometer
[13:37:12] <Bytram> coffee++
[13:37:12] <Bender> karma - coffee: 5240
[13:39:35] <FatPhil> Bytram: have you seen https://corona-stats.online , which seems to do the same
[13:39:37] <systemd> ^ 03Coronavirus Tracker
[13:40:23] <FatPhil> the changes were cosmetic, they just hid all the tables from sight, and then broke the JS which makes them visible by the looks of it.
[13:41:46] <Bytram> nod nod
[13:43:00] <Bytram> FatPhil: btw, any luck with youtube-dl? Did you try the broken link I gave you (it used to work and the video was deleted) to see if you got the same results as with your troublesome link?
[13:43:08] <Bytram> coffee++
[13:43:08] <Bender> karma - coffee: 5241
[13:43:40] <FatPhil> Bytram: I just waited a bit, and the video eventually became available
[13:43:52] <Bytram> yay!
[13:44:15] <FatPhil> historically, youtube would tell you when to expect it, but apparently google's broken that.
[13:44:20] <FatPhil> yay - progress!
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[14:25:33] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Leaked Draft Details Trump’s Likely Attack on Technology Giants - https://sylnt.us - two-minutes-hate
[14:25:41] <FatPhil> check it out now, it's fucked code brother, check it in now...
[14:26:07] <FatPhil> Fat Phil Slim is debugging in heaven
[14:28:45] <Bytram> FatPhil: I *just* tried it and still worked like a charm.
[14:29:02] <FatPhil> what works like a charm?
[14:30:30] <Bytram> using wget to scrape data off of: https://www.worldometers.info
[14:30:32] <systemd> ^ 03Coronavirus Update (Live): 5,945,209 Cases and 362,920 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Pandemic - Worldometer
[14:31:09] <FatPhil> yeah, we've ascertained the data's thre - more than ever before - it's the CSS and JS that are fucking things up.
[14:35:18] <Bytram> I want just the facts, man! None of that fancy-schmancy presentation stuff. =)
[14:36:01] <FatPhil> yeah, that's kinda why I liked https://corona-stats.online , but they've broken that with wrongheadedness in the last few weeks too.
[14:36:02] <systemd> ^ 03Coronavirus Tracker
[14:36:29] <FatPhil> Absolutely full of anti-patterns now.
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[15:11:11] <SoyCow2048> =asub https://arstechnica.com
[15:11:13] <systemd> Submitting "Cisco security breach hits corporate servers that ran unpatched software"...
[15:11:25] <SoyCow2048> =asub https://arstechnica.com
[15:11:26] <systemd> Submitting "US court grants permission to recover Marconi telegraph from Titanic wreckage"...
[15:11:34] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03Cisco Security Breach Hits Corporate Servers That Ran Unpatched Software" (8 paragraphs) -> https://soylentnews.org
[15:11:48] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03US Court Grants Permission to Recover Marconi Telegraph From Titanic Wreckage" (18 paragraphs) -> https://soylentnews.org
[15:11:54] <SoyCow2048> =asub https://arstechnica.com PT Barnum was right
[15:11:56] <systemd> Submitting "A $350 “anti-5G” device is just a 128MB USB stick, teardown finds"...
[15:12:06] <SoyCow2048> =asub https://arstechnica.com
[15:12:08] <systemd> Submitting "Dangerous SHA-1 crypto function will die in SSH linking millions of computers"...
[15:12:18] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03a $350 “anti-5G” Device is Just a 128MB USB Stick, Teardown Finds" (29 paragraphs) -> https://soylentnews.org
[15:12:30] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03Dangerous SHA-1 Crypto Function Will Die in SSH Linking Millions of Computers" (16 paragraphs) -> https://soylentnews.org
[15:19:33] <inz> from the it's-immoral-to-let-a-sucker-keep-his-money dept
[15:25:45] <SoyCow2048> absolutely
[16:27:30] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Astronomers See 'Cosmic Ring Of Fire,' 11 Billion Years Ago - https://sylnt.us - joke-about-Uranus
[16:32:28] <AndyTheAbsurd> #weather uranus
[16:32:28] <MrPlow> 98.6F and windy.
[16:32:34] <AndyTheAbsurd> #weather Philadelphia
[16:32:36] <MrPlow> Philadelphia City Hall, 1 South Penn Sq, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA - Today: "Possible light rain overnight." 83/70F, Humidity: 77%, Precip: 59%, Wind ~9mph. Sat: "Clear throughout the day." 80/56F, Humidity: 56%, Precip: 51%, Wind ~8mph. Sun: "Clear throughout the day." 71/52F, Humidity: 42%, Precip: 1%, Wind ~10mph.
[16:32:38] <Ingar> that damn wind
[16:32:40] <chromas> Should've made the anti-5G stick an hid, then randomly inject keypresses and say it's the 5Gs fighting back
[16:32:43] <Ingar> I had it with that damn wind
[16:33:05] <AndyTheAbsurd> #weather Horicon
[16:33:06] <MrPlow> 288 South Elm St, Horicon, WI 53032, USA - Today: "Clear throughout the day." 64/47F, Humidity: 73%, Precip: 21%, Wind ~9mph. Sat: "Clear throughout the day." 65/41F, Humidity: 67%, Precip: 2%, Wind ~8mph. Sun: "Clear throughout the day." 68/45F, Humidity: 59%, Precip: 1%, Wind ~5mph.
[16:33:17] <Ingar> #weather Brussels
[16:33:18] <MrPlow> R20, 1000 Ville de Bruxelles - Stad Brussel, Belgium - Today: "Clear throughout the day." 74/51F, Humidity: 45%, Precip: 2%, Wind ~8mph. Sat: "Clear throughout the day." 74/53F, Humidity: 42%, Precip: 1%, Wind ~9mph. Sun: "Clear throughout the day." 73/53F, Humidity: 42%, Precip: 1%, Wind ~10mph.
[16:33:20] <AndyTheAbsurd> Wrong whore-icon
[16:33:24] <AndyTheAbsurd> #weather Horicon, NY
[16:33:25] <MrPlow> Counter Point Lane, Brant Lake, NY 12815, USA - Today: "Heavy rain starting in the afternoon." 80/58F, Humidity: 85%, Precip: 77%, Wind ~8mph. Sat: "Partly cloudy throughout the day." 73/44F, Humidity: 65%, Precip: 55%, Wind ~8mph. Sun: "Clear throughout the day." 61/41F, Humidity: 51%, Precip: 6%, Wind ~7mph.
[16:33:43] <AndyTheAbsurd> #weather St Petersburg, FL
[16:33:45] <MrPlow> 2677 1st Ave South, Saint Petersburg, FL 33712, USA - Today: "Humid and partly cloudy throughout the day." 88/76F, Humidity: 74%, Precip: 28%, Wind ~5mph. Sat: "Partly cloudy throughout the day." 86/76F, Humidity: 66%, Precip: 25%, Wind ~6mph. Sun: "Partly cloudy throughout the day." 86/76F, Humidity: 65%, Precip: 13%, Wind ~7mph.
[16:34:08] <Ingar> the weather has been damn weird the past months
[16:34:19] <Ingar> and dry as the sahara (which is going to be an issu SOON (TM))
[18:45:52] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Data Breach at Bank of America - https://sylnt.us - keep-a-close-eye-on-all-your-finances
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[19:31:10] <Bytram> !uid
[19:31:10] <Bender> The current maximum UID is 10909, owned by Immoke
[19:53:39] <chromas> Ask Soylent: What happened in the early 2000s that allowed VGA cables to get so much thinner? Were they just extra cautious before or did signal processing get better?
[20:32:38] <Deucalion> Neither. Copper got expensive. Cable manufacturers realised they didn't need such heavy cores for the typical 1m - 2m VGA cable between a PC and screen. Full fat VGA cables will carry a non-degraded signal 100m without a repeater. ref - that ancient projector on the ceiling in the large auditorium. I am still supporting a certain customer that uses full fat VGA cables to run monitors at that kind of distance in electrically noisy environments.
[20:32:38] <Deucalion> Newer installs (last 8yrs or so) tend to use VGA to CAT5/6 conversion though. VGA to a lil black box TX unit within a couple metres of the origin, magic happens, signal is sent to distant RX lil black box over CAT5/6 which outputs VGA to the screen within 1m - 2m of the RX. The TXRX units are commodity, CAT5/6 structured cable installation is commodity at premises refurb time and can be re-pulled by any network cable jockey. Full fat VGA
[20:32:39] <Deucalion> cables of that length... very much to order and a PITA to pull through in an existing installation.
[20:35:54] <Deucalion> Full fat VGA cables of any kind of significant length are eye-wateringly expensive compared to some commodity twisted pair cat5/6 you can pick up at the trade counter.
[20:37:05] <chromas> They should switch back to aluminum wiring :D
[20:37:52] <Deucalion> It still exists... CCA CAT5/6... it's evil
[20:38:30] <Deucalion> CCA anything is also a complete bitch to solder
[20:39:22] <chromas> Bring back leaded solder
[20:41:26] <Deucalion> Customer... "Oh, just want a 9pin D female soldered on the end of this structured run, the old one fell off" /Me... *notes solder just drips off* Me.... "You'll be needing crimp and seal"
[20:44:03] <Deucalion> I use leaded solder on outdoor gear if the customer does not specify. Silver indoors as a token gesture. The flux core is probably more worrying fume wise.
[20:45:18] <Deucalion> But wait... it was the lead plumbing that did for the roman empire wasn't it?
[20:45:27] <Deucalion> Anyone up for burning a 5G mast?
[20:47:02] <chromas> Burn a 4G mast and say it was 5G
[20:47:39] * chromas closes the spider drawer
[20:53:40] <carny> chromas: all the 5g panic is created by the cell phone companies who don't want to pay to upgrade their gear
[20:54:11] <Deucalion> We have a plague of "5G" mast burners in Liverpool UK... it is a sad reflection on education standards and certain regions being deprived of the support they need.
[20:54:16] <carny> so they insured everything to the max and are getting the public to destroy the old gear so they can cash in and replace it for free
[20:54:51] <carny> i just made that up but screencap it anyway ;]
[20:56:06] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - UK Coastguard Plans to Add Drones to Air Fleet - https://sylnt.us - eye-in-the-sky
[20:58:38] <chromas> I dunno. I've never seen a phone company need an excuse to not upgrade their stuff
[20:59:12] <chromas> Then again, they do love the dole
[21:00:21] <Deucalion> I wouldn't be surprised if a revelation like that came to reality. Corp exec brown envelopes some cash to otherwise deprived types, cashes in corp insurance, bonuses all round. The poor arsonist gets nicked fleeing the scene and banged up for 10yrs hard time, has nothing to tie anything on the brown envelope provider as it was all verbal, and what court would believe a clearly skint pikey bastard over a barrister representing the corp? Welcome
[21:00:21] <Deucalion> to the UK, we have justice you know, just not that justice you were familiar with, the one with the scales and blindfold.
[21:01:17] <chromas> Deucalion: s/c//3
[21:02:26] <Deucalion> chromas, are you speaking machine again?
[21:02:42] <Deucalion> r2d2 is over there >>>>
[21:02:44] <chromas> sales and blindfold ;)
[21:02:58] * chromas sad beep
[21:05:11] * Deucalion plugs chromas into the millennium falcon's plasma generator..... up for an exhaust vent run now? Ya know you want to... Cheer up, it might look like a suicide mission, but we're all dead anyway if we don't succeed so... death or glory??? Waddya say?
[21:07:13] <chromas> Good idea. Let's start 30 miles away from the port so we have to travel perfectly straight in a slot on the side of the large ball.
[21:08:12] <Deucalion> Wait... someone is going to kill me.... "actually the millennium falcon doesn't do the exhaust vent run"... well that someone can piss off... I was just recharging r2d2 there before transferring to which ever ship we do it in..... this is not the continuity error you were looking for /me waves hand
[21:08:58] <chromas> You're giving George re-re-re-editing ideas
[21:10:18] <Deucalion> Many years ago I did like the sit down arcade game version of that scene..... vector graphics FTW... 10p a play :D
[21:11:22] <AndyTheAbsurd> if we're going to be pedantic about it, I believe that R2D2 was in Luke's X-Wing during both of the Death Star attacks, so couldn't have been on Millenium Falcon at the time (unless some time travel shit gets involved).
[21:12:22] <Deucalion> AndyTheAbsurd, like I said I was recharging R2D2 before the attacks. Sorry you didn't get to see that in your edited highlights film.
[21:13:05] <AndyTheAbsurd> And as I said "if we're being pedantic about it" - I don't really give a shit, I was just being an obnoxious shit about details.
[21:16:19] <Deucalion> Sheesh.... I've seen.. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.... yada yada..
[21:16:26] <chromas> Next special edition: CG Jabba is also there, chasing after Han in the falcon to get his money back.
[21:16:39] <Deucalion> Me neither, I was just deflecting before there was anything to deflect :D
[21:18:08] <chromas> "No need to deflect that to him until we have something to deflect"
[21:18:40] <Deucalion> Defense is the best Offense
[21:19:21] * Deucalion goes full tank
[21:20:09] <Deucalion> Walk through the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune unscathed...
[21:20:29] <Deucalion> How many misquotes can we rack up :D :D :D
[21:20:57] <Deucalion> Wait... was C3PO in Hamlet? I forget....
[21:21:02] <chromas> A bird in hand is worth 50% off
[21:21:09] <Deucalion> Maybe Merchant of Venice
[21:21:21] * Deucalion jiggles
[21:22:33] <Deucalion> A bird in the bush outside my bedroom window cawing its head off all night because some twat put in bright LED street lighting is worth burning the bush.
[21:22:53] <Deucalion> And that folks is where the tablets with the 10 commandments came from
[21:23:24] <Deucalion> See... we insult every sensitivity equally here :D
[21:24:01] <Deucalion> It's on the internet now thanks to Loggie... so de facto this is now truth.
[21:24:08] <Deucalion> :D
[21:26:36] * Deucalion mulls... I may have over caffeinated today... Starbucks and Costa drive thrus re-opened and I did a lot driving.... I may have over indulged. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
[21:27:10] <Deucalion> squirrel
[21:28:16] <AndyTheAbsurd> Squirrel?!
[21:28:21] * AndyTheAbsurd looks around wildly
[21:45:50] * Deucalion cast a selection of mixed nuts into the crowd
[21:52:58] * Deucalion looks around.... does not understand why everyone is backing away slowly.... it's the world that is mad not me... I'm just saying what you all think... aaargh lots of spiders on the ceiling... it'll be fine... why is everyone in public wearing masks on their chin and throat rather than their mouth and nose... like it's some kind of fashion scarf accoutrement... virtue signalling? Oh my is this how lunacy begins?
[21:53:47] <chromas> Yes.
[21:53:57] <Deucalion> mmhmm, thought so
[21:54:49] <Deucalion> But AHAAAA.... I was lunatic years ago, so this is cannot be the start... perhaps I was just latent lunatic or closet lunatic for a while..
[21:55:41] <Deucalion> That does not parse
[22:03:16] * Deucalion puts logs on the fire in preparation for winter. Cleans all the glasses behind the bar. Empties the place and calls in the contracted steam deep cleaners. Cleans the glasses again. Rearranges the logs. Drinks some bleach. Puts more logs on the fire.
[22:04:32] <Deucalion> OK, a couple beers does not defeat coffee overload. /me gyrates naked into the distance playing a lute.
[22:06:09] <chromas> You're supposed to be looting, not luting
[22:07:47] <Deucalion> I left, then this automagically on my playlist at ludicrous volume https://www.youtube.com
[22:07:49] <systemd> ^ 03The Frayed Ends Of Sanity
[22:08:55] <Deucalion> There is nothing in stores I would want to loot.
[22:12:08] * Deucalion dances into the distance playing a cello with one toe. The cello is made of refined rhino horns. The toe is upside down in the desert under the scorching sun.... how does this make you feel? And why do you not help the toe?
[22:12:47] * Deucalion misquotes a harpsichord into twee irrelevance
[22:41:00] <chromas> I called the toe truck but it wouldn't tow the line
[22:57:45] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Technology Uses Plant Biomass Waste for Self-Powered Biomedical Devices - https://sylnt.us - waste-knot-want-knot
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