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[00:26:51] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Texas Energy Company that Charged Huge Electric Bills During Storm Files for Bankruptcy - https://sylnt.us
[00:47:07] <Bytram> FatPhil: Clearcase? I think you're the first person I've met 'IRL' who had heard of it! I consulted at Atria for several months helping them coordinate their testing of their different implementations (IIRC, OS/2 and Windows? Not sure, was so long ago)
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[01:13:09] <AzumaHazuki> those new headphones came. they are huge, holy crap
[01:13:44] <AzumaHazuki> it's technically a gaming headset but it has frequency reproduction to beat the Ath-M50x (aside from being kind of bass-heavy) and better feel so i got them instead. wow.
[01:15:36] <AzumaHazuki> and of course my old moto c decided to start flaking out, sooo...some of that overtime i've been doing has just paid for a pixel 4a
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[02:42:52] <c0lo> https://www.radio.com
[02:42:55] <systemd> ^ 03VIDEO: Elderly Asian woman turns tables, sends assailant to hospital in unprovoked SF attack
[02:56:03] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - AMD Radeon RX 6700 Review: If Another Sold-Out GPU Falls in the Forest… - https://sylnt.us - scalper's-paradise
[03:15:26] <TheMightyBuzzard> c0lo, s'what she gets for being white
[03:25:46] <TheMightyBuzzard> https://tmb.dedyn.io
[03:58:25] <c0lo> Shouldn't that spell lepercons?
[04:01:08] <chromas> Maybe they should stop developing new crappy gpus nobody wants and make more of the good ones nobody can buy
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[05:27:59] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Interstellar Object ʻOumuamua May be a Fragment of Pluto-Like Planet - https://sylnt.us - Imua-ʻOumuamua-Moa
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[08:07:42] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - A Hacker Just Stole $5.7 Million from Social Token Startup Roll - https://sylnt.us - A-fool-and-his-money...
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[09:32:20] <c0lo> =submit https://www.abc.net.au
[09:32:23] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03Sabine Schmitz, 'Queen of the Nürburgring' and Top Gear Presenter, Dies Aged 51 - ABC News" (34p) -> https://soylentnews.org
[09:45:46] <c0lo> Tyrrrraaaannnyy! https://abcnews.go.com
[09:45:46] <systemd> ^ 03Kenyan court refuses to allow female genital mutiliation
[09:54:14] <FatPhil> https://aws1.discourse-cdn.com
[09:59:04] <FatPhil> Kenya's a Christian country, that's not a particularly hard target. Now get a law like that in one of the Muslim ones.
[09:59:12] <c0lo> Let it to FatPhil to post inflamatory educational content involving beer. Additional points for using the beer in the moral of the fable.
[10:00:00] <FatPhil> The best thing about that poster is that it's funny on 2 different levels.
[10:00:52] <FatPhil> Non-beernerds see a beer nerd. True-beernerds see a bullshitter wannabeernerd. Both groups are facepalming.
[10:26:46] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Gig Economy: Europe Tells Companies to Negotiate With Workers or Face New Laws - https://sylnt.us - Having-your-cake-and-eating-it-too
[10:31:52] <Ingar> 29 bottles of beer on the wall
[10:38:24] <c0lo> Facepalming each other would be funnier, FatPhil
[10:38:31] <FatPhil> 29 bottles of beer in the fridge. 29 bottles of our beer next to the fridge. 29 bottles of other people's beer next to our beer. 29 bottles of beer in a box next to the sofa. 29 bottles of beer waiting to be taken over to the office, which is where our beer cellar is. 29 bottles of previously-taken-over beer on the counter top in the office that's waiting to be put in our records. 29 bottles of beer on
[10:38:37] <FatPhil> the kitchen table in the office that's in the files, but not yet in the cellar. ... And ~290 bottles of beer in the actual cellar itself.
[10:38:40] <FatPhil> Am I a hoarder?
[10:39:45] <FatPhil> Which reminds me, I need to do a mail order of some slovakian beauties... (beers, obviously)
[10:46:35] <c0lo> There https://www.smithsonianmag.com
[10:46:37] <systemd> ^ 03How the India Pale Ale Got Its Name
[10:47:16] <c0lo> Some America who doesn't hate the Brits ^
[10:47:29] <c0lo> s/rica/rican/
[10:47:29] <SedBot> <c0lo> Some American who doesn't hate the Brits ^
[10:53:37] <c0lo> Evolution
[10:53:57] <c0lo> 2016 https://www.jpost.com
[10:53:59] <systemd> ^ 03Artist's statue of Netanyahu causes a stir outside Tel Aviv city hall
[10:54:27] <c0lo> 2020 https://www.jpost.com
[10:54:28] <systemd> ^ 03Police remove six-ton statue of protester installed near PM’s residence
[10:54:46] <c0lo> 2021 https://www.jpost.com
[10:54:47] <systemd> ^ 03Statue of Netanyahu relieving himself erected in Tel Aviv
[10:55:44] <c0lo> In spite of satire and protests, the politicians shit on their citizens? Or am I reading too much?
[11:01:03] <FatPhil> netanyahoo has been shitting on his citizens from day 1. The Palestinians in Israel are citizens too, even if there's apartheid there.
[11:06:10] <boru> They can do what they like there so long as the USA and UK are backing them up. Human rights be damned.
[11:06:14] * c0lo never pretended that's something new
[11:08:20] <FatPhil> hahah, "human" rights! for those subhumans?!?!?
[11:16:42] <c0lo> =submit im-not-saying-its-aliens https://www.sciencealert.com
[11:16:45] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03Microbes Unknown to Science Discovered on the International Space Station" (16p) -> https://soylentnews.org
[11:18:18] <c0lo> https://www.france24.com
[11:18:19] <systemd> ^ 03Russia recalls US ambassador after Biden threatens sanctions for election-meddling
[11:22:07] <c0lo> =submit the-danish-solution-is-dilution https://www.dailymail.co.uk
[11:23:25] <c0lo> bots don't like the daily fail?
[11:23:42] <c0lo> =submit https://www.theguardian.com
[11:23:44] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03Denmark Plans to Limit 'Non-western' Residents in Disadvantaged Areas" (15p) -> https://soylentnews.org
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[12:16:04] <FatPhil> jesus christ. will some terrorists please bomb barclays bank hq in london please!?!?
[12:16:29] <AzumaHazuki> what did they do this time?
[12:16:42] <FatPhil> I have just wasted a whole hour of my life literally going round in circles on their shitty webpage attempting to trace some missing payments.
[12:16:56] <FatPhil> the process included having to log in 5 times
[12:17:38] <FatPhil> their wonderfull "app" like interface just did page content loads, so that "back" took you back to the logins.
[12:18:00] <FatPhil> aha - so don't use the "back" button, I hear you say
[12:18:17] <AzumaHazuki> oh, i thought it was the whole "complicit in bankrupting entire nations and supporting extractive, exploitative economic practices" thing
[12:19:07] <FatPhil> when you pull up a statement for a month (that's all you can do, you can't select a date range) - there's no way back to the choice of month, the only way out is to start from the top-level menu again.
[12:19:16] <FatPhil> nah, this is personal.
[12:19:33] <FatPhil> but I'll happily support anyone bombing them for ethical reasons.
[12:20:47] <FatPhil> but best of all, the statements weren't showing *any* receipts at all, so after I'd checked them all and realised "that's impossible", I had to start again and use the "PDF statements" rather than the "view online" statements.
[12:20:58] <FatPhil> it's insane
[12:21:10] <FatPhil> my heart-rate is ~140 at the moment
[12:21:37] <FatPhil> If I didn't own this property and all things within it, I'd be throwing stuff at/out-of the windows.
[12:22:28] <FatPhil> I have a history with barclays. I think they have a note on my account now that says to the call centres "beware, this cunt is shouty".
[12:22:52] <FatPhil> My calls get routed to the hostage/crisis centre first now.
[12:23:50] <FatPhil> starting to calm down now.
[12:24:08] <FatPhil> breath in, 2, 3, 4, 5. breath out, 2, 3, 4, 6.
[12:24:42] <FatPhil> All is good. They've only lost #22000 of my money.
[12:32:04] <AzumaHazuki> what the actual fuck. they better find it quick
[12:34:53] <chromas> It's not lost; it's just social distancing
[12:38:26] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Gig Economy: Europe Tells Companies to Negotiate with Workers or Face New Laws - https://sylnt.us - Having-your-cake-and-eating-it-too
[12:44:39] <Bytram> chromas: s/ s/ anti-s/
[12:46:17] <chromas> Is that when the money goes on a rampage?
[12:47:35] <Bytram> could be... then again, why be gender-specific? What do you call a female ram, anyway?
[12:47:48] <chromas> a ford
[12:48:33] <Bytram> can't aford that!
[12:49:42] <chromas> maybe ewe can't
[12:50:50] <Bytram> s/can't/Kant/
[12:50:50] <SedBot> <Bytram> Kant aford that!
[12:50:57] <Bytram> chromas: s/can't/Kant/
[12:50:57] <SedBot> <Bytram> <chromas> maybe ewe Kant
[13:01:17] <AzumaHazuki> oydh
[13:01:21] <AzumaHazuki> that is awful
[13:05:09] <Bytram> why is "Awe Some" better than "Awe Full"?
[13:05:20] <chromas> one has an e
[13:05:57] <Bytram> which won?
[13:06:05] <chromas> so it's got some "awwwwwe" (cuteness), while the other's full of "aw" (disappointment)
[13:06:30] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Microsoft Fixes Office Issue Causing Memory, Disk Space Errors - https://sylnt.us
[13:06:32] <Bytram> chromas++
[13:06:33] <Bender> karma - chromas: 343
[13:07:07] <Microsoft> Okay, people, nothing to see here.
[13:07:18] <Microsoft> Office is great as always.
[13:18:18] <FatPhil> whaaat!?!?! 343 is a prime power!
[13:19:11] <c0lo> TIL - to talk handsomely != to use sign language
[13:19:12] <FatPhil> your next prime cube will be in 988 more upvotes.
[13:24:13] <c0lo> meh, 512 is still a prime power
[13:24:36] <FatPhil> 625 too
[13:24:50] <FatPhil> 729 also
[13:25:17] <FatPhil> 4th and 6th powers, if you're into such things.
[13:25:21] <FatPhil> pervert
[13:25:57] <c0lo> I like 9
[13:26:44] <FatPhil> you liked cubing so much, you cubed it twice!
[13:28:16] <c0lo> Indeed, twice cubed and cubed again.
[13:29:01] <c0lo> And still closer to 343
[13:30:16] <FatPhil> but not a prime cube.
[13:30:25] <FatPhil> my maths has been wholly facty.
[13:30:47] <FatPhil> https://www.kuvaton.com
[13:41:48] <c0lo> A prime at the power I like. You can't beat that.
[13:44:31] <c0lo> https://www.commondreams.org
[13:44:33] <systemd> ^ 03Sanders Bill Would Hike Taxes on Big Corporations That Pay CEOs Over 50 Times More Than Median Worker
[13:49:33] <c0lo> =submit https://petapixel.com
[13:49:36] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03PetaPixel" (17p) -> https://soylentnews.org
[14:15:36] <FatPhil> Oooh - c0lo - what was the Sabine vid that you pointed me towards a few months back - I've caught up do December now, so it must be getting close!
[14:35:44] <FatPhil> Ah - got it! https://soylentnews.org - yup, finally seen that vid!
[14:35:47] <systemd> ^ 03Warp Drive News. Seriously! - SoylentNews
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[15:38:25] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - NASA’s Massive Artemis Moon Rocket Set for Second Hot Fire Test Today 1500 EDT (1900 UTC) - https://sylnt.us - will-it-go-well-or-will-it-go-BOOM?
[15:54:41] <FatPhil> Anyway, I've just invented photovoltaic wallpaper, where do I collect my prize?
[16:00:30] <chromas> The X Prize?
[16:00:35] <chromas> I think you sign up at x.org
[16:04:02] <FatPhil> EU AZ blood clots press briefing (live): https://www.youtube.com
[16:04:03] <systemd> ^ 03EMA press conference
[16:04:53] <boru> Is this the Norwegian's findings?
[16:05:26] <pinchy> Esk Me Anything
[16:05:44] <FatPhil> I'm hoping they list all the sources they are using to come to their conclusions.
[16:06:39] <boru> Well, if British science is anything like British engineering, they probably won't need to.
[16:07:16] <FatPhil> Seems like Norway's too recent to be included
[16:07:22] <pinchy> conclusion: safe and effective
[16:07:38] <c0lo> boru, hat dya mean by that?
[16:07:48] <c0lo> s/hat/what/
[16:07:49] <SedBot> <c0lo> boru, what dya mean by that?
[16:07:50] <boru> Disastrous.
[16:08:11] <FatPhil> It's not just the Brits that have said "no statistically significant connection".
[16:08:34] <c0lo> ummm... brits used to be great engineers.
[16:08:36] <FatPhil> And this is EMA - UK excluded!
[16:09:05] <c0lo> I mean, steam engines and all that.
[16:09:20] <FatPhil> Isambard Kingdom Brunel - best of the best!
[16:16:00] <chromas> "used to be"
[16:17:09] <FatPhil> We woz kings
[16:17:24] <chromas> ...innit
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[16:20:30] <FatPhil> I did actually work with a fellow who ended at least 80% of his sentences "innit", as if it was punctuation.
[16:22:56] <boru> #submit https://www.theguardian.com
[16:22:56] <MrPlow> Submitting. There is a mandatory delay, please be patient.
[16:23:02] <boru> That's fairly alarming.
[16:23:22] <MrPlow> Submission successful. https://soylentnews.org
[16:26:58] <FatPhil> Aftenposten journo did ask about the Oslo Uni report. They confirmed that it wasn't available as an input to their assessment, but the individual cases that went into the Oslo report were almost certainly available.
[16:29:47] <boru> It's only profits AZ are concerned with, anyway. They've already mandated that they are legally exempt from all liability for any bad effects of their vaccine. If there is an issue, I hope that they'll be made an example of.
[16:30:04] <c0lo> boru, give Julia Roberts a chromium pill and stop panicking.
[16:31:25] <FatPhil> And should chromas give her a boron pill?
[16:32:02] <boru> You probably don't need pills, just drink your tap water.
[16:39:54] <FatPhil> my tapwater's got so many minerals in it, it comes out of the tap in powdered form.
[16:52:14] <FatPhil> It's nice to hear some intelligent questions from journalists. You'd not guess that there were intelligent people working for the media given the sum total of what they churn out. I spotted just one tabloid shit-stirrer who was clearly trying to trick the panel into saying something that could be presented in an inflamatory way.
[18:02:25] <chromas> Just one? I don't believe you
[18:03:21] <boru> On the note of tap water, back home, there was so much lime in the water, it would almost look like milk coming out of the tap.
[18:17:49] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Europol 'Unlocks' Encrypted Sky ECC Chat Service to Make Arrests - https://sylnt.us - not-really
[18:52:09] <FatPhil> boru: were you fluoridated?
[18:55:55] <FatPhil> chromas: yeah, I know, it's surprising. I think it was the Evening Standard (UK tabloid - part owned by Daily Wail, mostly owned by Russian oligarch.)
[18:59:11] * chromas starts a competitor called the Evening Metric
[18:59:25] <FatPhil> OOops, I meant LORD Russian Oligarch: https://en.wikipedia.org
[18:59:27] <systemd> ^ 03Evgeny Lebedev
[19:03:03] <FatPhil> Son of a KGB man: https://en.wikipedia.org
[19:03:04] <systemd> ^ 03Alexander Lebedev
[19:23:20] <boru> FP; I was out of my mind on flouride.
[19:29:48] <chromas> Once you got off it and your mind cleared up, you said "...wait a minute" and that's when you switched over to BSD
[19:30:00] * boru chuckles.
[19:30:54] <chromas> Maybe that's what's wrong with the modern web, systemd, politics and everything else. it's all in the sodium fluoride
[20:07:02] <FatPhil> fluoride made our london water milky
[20:32:22] <FatPhil> Oooh, i didn't know about this until just now: https://en.wikipedia.org
[20:32:23] <systemd> ^ 03'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
[20:37:17] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Lightning Strikes Played Vital Role in Origins of Life on Earth - https://sylnt.us - life-from-above
[22:34:30] <TheMightyBuzzard> https://notthebee.com
[22:34:31] <systemd> ^ 03Kanye is now worth $6.6 BILLION making him the richest black person in U.S. history 💰
[22:35:11] <chromas> yeezy fo' sheezy
[22:37:30] <TheMightyBuzzard> s'why he got cheated in the lection. dems hate uppity black men who won't stay oppressed like they're told they are and trump's jealous that he's better with moneys.
[22:40:03] <Bytram> Hmmm, "in U.S. history". Suggests there is at least one, even-more-wealthy black person in another country?
[22:53:23] <TheMightyBuzzard> hard to say in Africa. spotty history and even worse historical currency exchange rates history.
[23:16:34] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - $5 Billion Class Action Lawsuit Against Google for "Incognito Mode" Tracking Will Move Forward - https://sylnt.us - watching-the-watchers