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[00:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Neutrogena to 3D Print Customized Face Masks - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:54] <exec> 08└─Oh... never mind, just plain old data collection...
[00:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neutrogena to 3D Print Customized Face Masks - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:56] <exec> 08└─But does it work for people with darker skin?
[00:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neutrogena to 3D Print Customized Face Masks - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:58] <exec> 08└─Yes, except for niggers.
[00:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neutrogena to 3D Print Customized Face Masks - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:00] <exec> 08└─Yes, they get added to the database too...
[00:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Chairman Pai Celebrates Congress Failing to Bring Back Net Neutrality - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:11] <exec> 08└─Just following orders. You are yelling at the cashier in the supermarket.
[00:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Chairman Pai Celebrates Congress Failing to Bring Back Net Neutrality - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:13] <exec> 08└─If you mean that he lies like the present incumbent, then yes.
[00:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Pharma Ushers in New Year With Price Hikes on Hundreds of Drugs - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:46] <exec> 08└─a Canadian speaking, our system is both great and terrible. it is great when you have urgent (think car accidents, or appendectomy ) or major ( organ transplant, cancer) it terrible for minor ailment and it suck to wait a few weeks for initial imaging to get into the system for a problem. but I thin...
[00:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Pharma Ushers in New Year With Price Hikes on Hundreds of Drugs - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:47] <exec> 08└─I wonder why they used ox specifically - I wouldn't think the pancreas would be substantially different than an bull castrated at some other time, or a cow for that matter.
[00:37:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06The Year the Alt-Right Went Underground - 27 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:03] <exec> 08└─Only one kind of good nazi.
[00:37:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Year the Alt-Right Went Underground - 118 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:13] <exec> 08└─The antifascists’ one reprisal was setting off a homemade smoke bomb, which promptly blew back into their own faces,
[00:37:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06The Year the Alt-Right Went Underground - 262 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:54] <exec> 08└─Oh no. Republicans are being screwed by corporations that have grown too big to be accountable. If only there were some bigger source of power we could use to put them back in their place. Let me get out the world's smallest violin and play them a sad, sad song.
[00:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Year the Alt-Right Went Underground - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:40] <exec> 08└─Always one murder away from Utopia, eh?
[00:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Year the Alt-Right Went Underground - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:41] <exec> 08└─> Amazon's robots were there? No, just Amazon's NPC's this time. https://www.rt.com [rt.com]
[00:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Year the Alt-Right Went Underground - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:43] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but that is a dangerously coddled view of the world. Things are pretty damn awesome in the USA right now, compared to the rest of the world. We are no where near the tail end of a civilization.
[00:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Year the Alt-Right Went Underground - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:46] <exec> 08└─Very true. A nice illustration in here of how effectively we have been pitted against each other though.
[00:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:39] <exec> 08└─You know that User Agent HTTP header? It identifies the piece of software acting on behalf of the user, the agent of the user. First, the way "fake" is used in the headline is clearly clickbait. It doesn't mean anything. All the article says is that more HTTP requests are made by bots. But wait, all...
[00:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Netflix Pulls Episode of Show After Saudi Arabia Offended - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:14] <exec> 08└─His ability to "woosh" was probably excised at birth.
[00:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Netflix Pulls Episode of Show After Saudi Arabia Offended - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:15] <exec> 08└─eliminating scarcity
[00:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Netflix Pulls Episode of Show After Saudi Arabia Offended - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:17] <exec> 08└─money is an imaginary construct of homo sapiens and its only effect in the entire universe is modification of homo sapiens' behavior.
[00:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitch's Top Video Game Streamer "Ninja" Made $10 Million in 2018 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:41] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the compliment, takyon! I knew you had it in you!
[00:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Oral History of the Hampsterdance: The Twisted True Story of One of the World's First Memes - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:54] <exec> 08└─Most of that sort of thing is slapped together by contractors who really just do not GAF. It works and they move onto the next company to work for. Anyone who comes after is afraid to touch it fundamentally and just add more.
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[01:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Chairman Pai Celebrates Congress Failing to Bring Back Net Neutrality - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:08] <exec> 08└─Not considered a defence (even for cashiers).
[01:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Chairman Pai Celebrates Congress Failing to Bring Back Net Neutrality - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:10] <exec> 08└─Didn't say it was. Just saying people need to be aware of what they vote for. Pai is doing what his elected boss is telling him to do. What do you expect from him?
[01:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Chairman Pai Celebrates Congress Failing to Bring Back Net Neutrality - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:12] <exec> 08└─Pai is doing what his elected boss is telling him to do.
[01:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Chairman Pai Celebrates Congress Failing to Bring Back Net Neutrality - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:15] <exec> 08└─And the boss accepts that. And so do over 130 million people. If they didn't, things would be different. If nobody speaks up where it counts, then... what? What do you want, and how do you expect to get it?
[01:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Pharma Ushers in New Year With Price Hikes on Hundreds of Drugs - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:50] <exec> 08└─My antipathy for voting money from someone else's pocket to your own is going nowhere any time soon, sorry.
[01:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Pharma Ushers in New Year With Price Hikes on Hundreds of Drugs - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:51] <exec> 08└─And I respect you folks' right to choose that. I don't want it here though.
[01:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Big Pharma Ushers in New Year With Price Hikes on Hundreds of Drugs - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:53] <exec> 08└─You just don't understand the circular nature of things. You see only linear.
[01:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:41] <exec> 08└─Ever since they've been a thing I've been detected as a bot by the PoS' (independent of IP address) simply because I'm very fast about what I do. The inversion likely has already happened, a long time ago presumably.
[01:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Cyberbullying" Criminalized in Michigan - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:05] <exec> 08└─Fair nuff. Bad reporting rather than legislation then.
[01:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeVilla [5354] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Oral History of the Hampsterdance: The Twisted True Story of One of the World's First Memes - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:10] <exec> 08└─This make me sad. I miss one of the old flat earth society pages. (From the era of the "Springfield Effect".) There was a site that had a great picture of the astronaut on the moon standing next to the US flag. It was the real photo, but photo-shopped to look like it was on a small stage on a wooden...
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[02:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VR Usage Approximately Doubled in 2018 - 1247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:47] <exec> 08└─Back in 2002 I talked to my friends about these Muvo(?) glasses that would let you watch a movie. In glasses. I thought the 320x240 resolution would be plenty sufficient, that close to your eyes. Get two pairs, cut them in half, and in a gave like Quake 3 you could do _software_ rendering at 320x240...
[02:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Chairman Pai Celebrates Congress Failing to Bring Back Net Neutrality - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:17] <exec> 08└─Well, I commented directly to the FCC regarding net neutrality. Pai's corrupt system disregarded my, and million's of other people's voices. So - it seems the next step is some kind of a revolt. We should all cancel our subscriptions to the telecoms. Just cancel all of them, and don't get new subscr...
[02:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Pharma Ushers in New Year With Price Hikes on Hundreds of Drugs - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:00] <exec> 08└─What do you propose as an alternative way to bring costs down with less side effects, since single-payer is apparently out? I can think of a few alternatives, but none of them seem to quite work: - Curtail patent protection for pharmaceuticals so market competition drives prices down? That's a prett...
[02:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Big Pharma Ushers in New Year With Price Hikes on Hundreds of Drugs - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:02] <exec> 08└─The problem with a universal health care is, the pharmas will still be overcharging for all their products. The only real difference is, you, the individual end user, won't have to cough up all the money for your pharmaceuticals. The cost will be spread out among the many. And, that is precisely wha...
[02:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimbrooking [3465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Pharma Ushers in New Year With Price Hikes on Hundreds of Drugs - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:04] <exec> 08└─I can't help comparing the pharma conglomerates with the Latin American drug cartels. They make products that (they convince you that, or else) you can't live without, then jack up the prices to the "whatever the market will bear" level. How, exactly, does big pharma differ from sinaloa? I think we...
[02:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Pharma Ushers in New Year With Price Hikes on Hundreds of Drugs - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:06] <exec> 08└─Thank the patron saint of the Repugnicans, Ronald Raygun Many health care systems before him were non-profit.
[02:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Pharma Ushers in New Year With Price Hikes on Hundreds of Drugs - 2123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:09] <exec> 08└─Here's the part you seem to be missing: It's not that money is coming from someone else's pocket into your own, it's money that was going to someone else's pocket from your pocket is now not going there. Right now, you either are going uninsured, or have some kind of private health insurance, or you...
[02:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Pharma Ushers in New Year With Price Hikes on Hundreds of Drugs - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:11] <exec> 08└─Yup: between my son being born 2.5 months early and my wife's 3 cancer scares (hysterectomy, breast biopsy we're still awaiting results for, and her blood being wonky, possibly leukemia??) my family would probably be bankrupt if we weren't Canadian. Dog bless Canada.
[02:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Pharma Ushers in New Year With Price Hikes on Hundreds of Drugs - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:13] <exec> 08└─Well put.
[02:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Absurd Energy Consumption by 99 Percent - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:22] <exec> 08└─Why again do we want to "smooth" these crises? The disease is the cure.
[02:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Netflix Pulls Episode of Show After Saudi Arabia Offended - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:59] <exec> 08└─If you think of a Lamborghini as $250,000 that's pretty abstract... if you think of it as 50 months of skilled Italian labor plus an equivalent amount of raw materials, it puts what's going on in better perspective.
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[03:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Economic Theory Could Make Research Funding More Efficient - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:11] <exec> 08└─But partial lotteries aren't the only viable solution, they say. Funding agencies could also award grants based on merit, such as a professor's past record of excellence in research.
[03:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Economic Theory Could Make Research Funding More Efficient - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:12] <exec> 08└─Stop forcing people to pay for crappy research? Basically let people decide they do not want to give money to anyone who publushes NHST, you will see this problem solve itself and a new golden age of science.
[03:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VR Usage Approximately Doubled in 2018 - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:24] <exec> 08└─they've put these 8k displays into VR headsets.
[03:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neutrogena to 3D Print Customized Face Masks - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:38] <exec> 08└─Stupid, but this will probably make oodles of money. So I guess not so stupid.
[03:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Pharma Ushers in New Year With Price Hikes on Hundreds of Drugs - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:45] <exec> 08└─Amidst all the arguing discussion about how things should be, I've noticed something that I'd actually like to know a bit more about. Hundreds of drugs are going up in price? Which ones? I'm old and take drugs. Is this going to cost me more? Is there a list anywhere (I haven't found one) of which dr...
[03:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Chang'e 4 Spacecraft Lands on the Far Side of the Moon - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:01] <exec> 08└─How is this a Sputnik moment?
[03:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Chang'e 4 Spacecraft Lands on the Far Side of the Moon - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:03] <exec> 08└─Any link to their research?
[03:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IonQ Announces 79-Qubit Quantum Computer - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:02] <exec> 08└─That 72 qubit Google processor does not exist at that fidelity. There was never a paper. The high IonQ fidelity happens when you load only two ions (two qubits) into the machine. With 79 qubits, they can only perform single qubit gates which is useless. It is truly an 11 qubit processor with modest...
[03:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pulls Episode of Show After Saudi Arabia Offended - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:29] <exec> 08└─money works for what it does?
[03:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pulls Episode of Show After Saudi Arabia Offended - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:30] <exec> 08└─Always interesting knowing more about the few friends America still has.
[03:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pulls Episode of Show After Saudi Arabia Offended - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:32] <exec> 08└─a form that we can grasp near instantly.
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[04:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06How Economic Theory Could Make Research Funding More Efficient - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:58] <exec> 08└─When we could have a quality Aristachu post instead.
[04:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Economic Theory Could Make Research Funding More Efficient - 959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:59] <exec> 08└─The need to reform the grant proposal system doesn't seem particularly urgent compared to other problems in science. Worse problems are the whole "publish or perish" pressure, private publishers being allowed to lock away and charge for access to research that the public funded, the patent system, a...
[04:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Economic Theory Could Make Research Funding More Efficient - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:01] <exec> 08└─The problem with science is its overrun by neonazis, not creationists or people who believe in a stable climate.
[04:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VR Usage Approximately Doubled in 2018 - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:14] <exec> 08└─"But headset owners are still less than one percent of platform's user base"
[04:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VR Usage Approximately Doubled in 2018 - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:16] <exec> 08└─https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/cpus/ [steampowered.com] I wonder what 6/8/12 and 16 CPUs (cores) are going to look like by the end of 2019.
[04:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Chairman Pai Celebrates Congress Failing to Bring Back Net Neutrality - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:49] <exec> 08└─Of course, nothing is going to happen. The sheep will continue to take whatever the telecoms and Ajit Pai tell them to take. Well fuck... I didn't know it was that hopeless. Last one out turn off the lights then...
[04:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Pharma Ushers in New Year With Price Hikes on Hundreds of Drugs - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:38] <exec> 08└─Government overhead or insurance company overhead, either way there's overhead. At least the government overhead doesn't include trying to make a profit.
[04:38:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06The Year the Alt-Right Went Underground - 149 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:24] <exec> 08└─I didn't realize that being kicked off Twitter by the invisible hand of the Free Market was the exact same thing as being worked to death in a Gulag.
[04:38:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06The Year the Alt-Right Went Underground - 121 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:30] <exec> 08└─There haven't been too many black folks shooting up white churches, lately. I say we focus on the violent assholes first.
[04:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pulls Episode of Show After Saudi Arabia Offended - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:21] <exec> 08└─My grandfather did concrete work in Iraq after WWII during the ousting of King Faisal - bunch of spineless kiss-asses living there then, and not much has changed since. If you're not a spineless kiss-ass, you're killed by the royals, so... pucker up, or get out, or die. As for the royals, the fact t...
[04:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USB Type-C Authentication Program: Protection or DRM? - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:23] <exec> 08└─Of which this 'cable crypto' does nothing. I can still cannibalise a charger with a valid chip, and add some extra overvoltage zapping circuitry to it, so your device authenticates successfully, then boom! Or it authenticates successfully, and if it for some reason is allowing general access to peri...
[04:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06USB Type-C Authentication Program: Protection or DRM? - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:24] <exec> 08└─For anyone that actually cares about security, the TLAs will then find a big blob of random data on the drive, of which they might try rubber hose cryptanalysis to get the duress password that will decrypt the drive to a few innocuous freely innocuous files like some boring landscape jpegs and maybe...
[04:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06USB Type-C Authentication Program: Protection or DRM? - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:26] <exec> 08└─Looks to be pretty simple. There's 3 surface mount resistors on it. My guess they are there to fool certain devices into charging as some devices look for a resistance across the data pins to know whether they are plugged into a dumb charger. I made one a while ago by basically slicing open an exten...
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[05:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:48] <exec> 08└─When we could have a fresh aristachu post instead
[05:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:49] <exec> 08└─... should be the very first to be shoveled onto the compost pile. - Fucking liberals. At some point they are going to have to be exterminated, and by any means necessary.
[05:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:51] <exec> 08└─This is a great way to spread prion diseases. I don't think 55C will be hot enough. I suggest we stick with cremation. (burial at least has the advantage that the remains are usually sealed up in a box).
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[05:35:54] <exec> 08└─that thing in the brown bin is not my mother!
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[05:35:56] <exec> 08└─The article does not explain what happens to the bones. As everyone knows, they are not biodegradable, being inorganic. But there is organic matter inside the bones. They also will be "removing" (???) artificial hips and, presumably, dental implants, pumps, pacemakers, shunts, screws, plates - whate...
[05:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Pharma Ushers in New Year With Price Hikes on Hundreds of Drugs - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:42] <exec> 08└─No, you can pay a lot less for a good system if you eliminate the rent-seeking profiteers, The money that goes into the pockets of those who run insurance companies does nothing for your health, it is simply an extra cost you pay on top. You are blinded by the self-fulfilling ideology that governmen...
[05:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Absurd Energy Consumption by 99 Percent - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:49] <exec> 08└─What is more interesting, is the question of just how a proof-of-stake currency would start.
[05:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06USB Type-C Authentication Program: Protection or DRM? - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:36] <exec> 08└─Do you trust it though? Does the phone actually deny access to the computer, or does it just tell the computer not to peek? Kind of write the write-protect tabs on floppy disks. The stupid plastic tab you flip doesn't protect a damn thing. It's up to the drive to read the position of the tab and hon...
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[06:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:10] <exec> 08└─Don't be foolish and hurt yourself. Post an aristachu sub instead.
[06:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:22] <exec> 08└─Between this and donating all my organs which can theoretically save about a dozen lives, at this point in my life I feel like a bit of a greedy asshole for hanging around.
[06:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:24] <exec> 08└─Comfortable?!?!? Who are you, Satan?
[06:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:26] <exec> 08└─Allah, the Great Deceiver
[06:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:28] <exec> 08└─Comfortable not to the deceased, but to their relatives.
[06:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:30] <exec> 08└─Why do you value your own life less than you value others' lives? (excluding family and friends, of course)
[06:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:32] <exec> 08└─It's news.... IT'S NEWWWWS!
[06:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:35] <exec> 08└─I'll keep my body around for resurrection, thank you
[06:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:37] <exec> 08└─http://judgedredd.wikia.com/wiki/Resyk [wikia.com] Just sayin!
[06:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:39] <exec> 08└─This is a great way to spread prion diseases.
[06:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Economic Theory Could Make Research Funding More Efficient - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:51] <exec> 08└─Real solution? Thunderdome. Two professors enter, one professor leaves. movie poster tagline: "Will you defend your thesis.... with your life???"
[06:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VR Usage Approximately Doubled in 2018 - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, and all of us have the new virtual hot grits on naked petrified... Oh wait. Sorry, wrong site. Beg pardon.
[06:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:16] <exec> 08└─A can of Redbull in Oz is about $3. There is an off-brand drink, that looks the same, has the same flavor, and comes in the same size can. It costs $1 and sells reasonably well, but nowhere near as much as Redbull. I used to work where the generic was sold, and it occasionally turned up in Redbull...
[06:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:17] <exec> 08└─Change your useragent to Googlebot and you will see some weird shit on the web.
[06:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Skulls of Ancient Pearl Divers Come With Abnormal Ear Canal Bone Growths - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:27] <exec> 08└─3.3% * X = 1 12.2% * Y = 7 Find X and Y: Allowing for some rounding errors, X = 30 Y = 57 So they examined 87 skulls, and found 7 out of 57 skulls who identified as male had it, and 1 out of 30 skulls who identified as female had it.
[06:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Absurd Energy Consumption by 99 Percent - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:29] <exec> 08└─it is even less clear that "injecting money into the economy" is actually a good thing to do
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[06:44:18] <exec> 08└─What’s a floppy disk?
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[07:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:58] <exec> 08└─I for one hope that people continue doing this. After all, why try to save the idiots destined to become future Darwin Award [wikipedia.org] recipients. A good cleansing of these idiots may prevent people like Ninja [youtube.com] from becoming millionaires [soylentnews.org]. (credit to takyon's comm...
[07:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:00] <exec> 08└─Despite that I only rarely use my flashlight when camping and feel completely comfortable walking around with my eyes shut or in pitch darkness. How could I possibly do this? It's because I can feel the pressure of very low frequency harmonics near the walls they reflect off of. It gives me a sense...
[07:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:22] <exec> 08└─As everyone knows, they are not biodegradable, being inorganic.
[07:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:23] <exec> 08└─As my Grandpa put it when my Catholic family freaked out about his decision to be cremated, "If God can figure out how to put your mother's cancer ridden body back together, not to mention bring our decomposed bodies back to life in the first place, I don't think a cremation will be much of an obsta...
[07:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VR Usage Approximately Doubled in 2018 - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:53] <exec> 08└─And Why? PR0N
[07:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neutrogena to 3D Print Customized Face Masks - 1988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:09] <exec> 08└─All night long doing all the sorts of skin care most knockouts would do in forty-five minutes. But there is a simple yet quite difficult way to get the vibrant healthy skin she so-desperately seeks: "Everyone who gets off Heroin has their complexion clear right up." She wants children, and she's twe...
[07:39:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06The Year the Alt-Right Went Underground - 4696 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:20] <exec> 08└─First off, you like a lot of people are mixing up your terminology. A quick primer on a bunch of related but different concepts: - Racism is the idea that says that we can divide the population up based on skin color and hair type and eye shape and sometimes language dialects and from nothing more t...
[07:39:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Year the Alt-Right Went Underground - 716 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:36] <exec> 08└─Their little billionaires club is no better than the republicans, an fact they are the very same people. No, they're not. The Murdochs, DeVosses, the Kochs, the Wynnes, and the rest of the current scum who have taken over our executive branch, and for whom Trump is currently playing bitch, are quit...
[07:39:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06The Year the Alt-Right Went Underground - 53 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:43] <exec> 08└─Is alt-right more violent? Or are the antifa members?
[07:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Pulls Episode of Show After Saudi Arabia Offended - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:00] <exec> 08└─If you are not selling the company, why would you give a shit about its 'valuation'. You care about the dividends. Anyway, driving down the share price would even allow you to buy more shares with the extra profits you get by driving up oil prices. If you do need to sell, you announce the 'corrected...
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[08:36:42] <exec> 08└─Can we come test this empirically?
[08:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:44] <exec> 08└─Level crossing, experimental self-driving car, no street lights, no head lights. Repeat multiple times to confirm replicability.
[08:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:09] <exec> 08└─https://www.quora.com/Which-part-of-the-human-body-remains-un-burned-after-cremation [quora.com] Bones are not burned. They remain, so..... They also will be "removing" (???) artificial hips and, presumably, dental implants, pumps, pacemakers, shunts, screws, plates - whatever does not decay.
[08:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:10] <exec> 08└─The Nazis certainly thought so. Suprising the amount of gold that can be extracted from teeth for example.
[08:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Chairman Pai Celebrates Congress Failing to Bring Back Net Neutrality - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:16] <exec> 08└─...Pai-hole will be strung up on a noose made of Cat 5 (because we sure as shit aren't going to waste Cat 6 or even Cat 5e on him...) and papercut to death with monthly cable bills. And then when he gets to Hell he'll be stuck on a 1984 Apple Lisa with a 3000-baud modem. Which he'll have to share wi...
[08:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Pharma Ushers in New Year With Price Hikes on Hundreds of Drugs - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:07] <exec> 08└─this needs a couple hundred of millions of backing at least
[08:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Pharma Ushers in New Year With Price Hikes on Hundreds of Drugs - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:09] <exec> 08└─Greed. This is not difficult: when a good or service has extremely inelastic demand, the suppliers can charge basically whatever the fuck they want, because it is literally "your money or your life."
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[09:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:21] <exec> 08└─why try to save the idiots destined to become future Darwin Award [wikipedia.org] recipients.
[09:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:23] <exec> 08└─I agree, and I'd like to see some more movies that create memes: The running downhill with steak knives challenge for climate change deniers. The chlorox-drinking challenge for white supremacists. The nosedive-into-concrete challenge for Goldman Sachs bankers. The ...
[09:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VR Usage Approximately Doubled in 2018 - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:19] <exec> 08└─naked, petrified. What scares me is the vision of the long past goatse came to mind. (and after that thought, I am sure moderators are looking for the "-1, Too Much Information" in the dropdown.)
[09:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Pharma Ushers in New Year With Price Hikes on Hundreds of Drugs - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:45] <exec> 08└─No, but I have an easy-to-grow plant that's a great remedy for pain, PTSD, and a pile of other things. Can be smoked, baked into cookies, cakes, vaped, applied as an oil, ...
[09:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Pharma Ushers in New Year With Price Hikes on Hundreds of Drugs - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:47] <exec> 08└─Do what our government does, a modified reverse auction where the government tells the drug cartels what they're allowed to sell their stuff for for a range of widely-used meds. That's what government is for, to step in where required to ensure the population has a chance against predatory corporati...
[09:39:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Year the Alt-Right Went Underground - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:03] <exec> 08└─going underground is a return to the status quo for American white supremacy.
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[10:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:18] <exec> 08└─PLEASE DO NOT HURT YOURSELVES WITH THIS BIRD BOX CHALLENGE.
[10:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:19] <exec> 08└─What's the difference between: > ...released a horror concept movie and a horror movie? [sans "concept"]
[10:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:22] <exec> 08└─Thinning the herd!
[10:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IonQ Announces 79-Qubit Quantum Computer - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:14] <exec> 08└─For a 10-bit oracle (a number between 0 and 1,023) a conventional computer succeeds 0.2 percent of the time. However, the IonQ quantum computer achieved a success rate of 73 percent.
[10:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pulls Episode of Show After Saudi Arabia Offended - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:43] <exec> 08└─Does anyone have a link to the video in question? Just to make sure I don't accidentally watch it and offend our good allies and dear friends, the Saudis.
[10:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pulls Episode of Show After Saudi Arabia Offended - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:45] <exec> 08└─My grandfather did concrete work in Iraq after WWII
[10:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pulls Episode of Show After Saudi Arabia Offended - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:47] <exec> 08└─Replying to my own question, this is the Youtube video you should avoid watching [youtube.com]. Just don't watch that Hasan Minhaj video if you want to remember Saudi Arabia as the freedom-loving democracy it currently is.
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[11:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VR Usage Approximately Doubled in 2018 - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:00] <exec> 08└─No, they said doubled, not tripled.
[11:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VR Usage Approximately Doubled in 2018 - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:02] <exec> 08└─VR adoption is on a par with Linux (on Steam)
[11:45:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06USB Type-C Authentication Program: Protection or DRM? - 21 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:22] <exec> 08└─Universally terrible?
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[12:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unmuting Large Silent Genes Lets Bacteria Produce New Molecules, Potential Drug Candidates - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:07] <exec> 08└─What could possibly go wrong?
[12:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unmuting Large Silent Genes Lets Bacteria Produce New Molecules, Potential Drug Candidates - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:08] <exec> 08└─We get a new antibiotic drug that stops working after a year.
[12:36:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 372 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:17] <exec> 08└─I for one hope that people continue doing this. After all, why try to save the idiots destined to become future Darwin Award [wikipedia.org] recipients. A good cleansing of these idiots may prevent people like Ninja [youtube.com] from becoming millionaires [soylentnews.org]. (credit to takyon's comm...
[12:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:27] <exec> 08└─A horror movie is a movie fitting a specific genre, a concept horror movie is a millenial badly copying the horror genre while patting themselves on the back for their genius.
[12:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:29] <exec> 08└─Idiotic? Definitely. But is it still extraordinary when all idiots on the internet are doing it?
[12:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:32] <exec> 08└─Crooked Susan Rice on Netflix Board of Directors. At what point is it appropriate to challenge their License? Bad for Country! twitter.com/TomFitton/status/1001781768293421056 [twitter.com]
[12:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Pharma Ushers in New Year With Price Hikes on Hundreds of Drugs - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:55] <exec> 08└─Plenty of ideas worth discussing there, yes. Some that need dealt with regardless of public or private.
[12:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Pharma Ushers in New Year With Price Hikes on Hundreds of Drugs - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:56] <exec> 08└─Interesting argument but I'm getting ready for a ten hour drive a day before I was scheduled to. Drop me a bump reply to leave me a reminder message and I'll get back to you tomorrow.
[12:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Pharma Ushers in New Year With Price Hikes on Hundreds of Drugs - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:58] <exec> 08└─Well, drug companies themselves could benefit from these machines. While it's not clear that a chemputer would be more cost-efficient than more streamlined processes for specific high-volume drugs, it could help for turning out specialty orders or for testing purposes. Another obvious application wo...
[12:39:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Year the Alt-Right Went Underground - 1070 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:35] <exec> 08└─Antifa is just as unacceptable as the violent alt-right. We should reject both. Antifa, as portrayed by the right wingnuts of America, should be rejected along with fascism. Antifa, as they actually exist, aren't nearly as bad as they are portrayed. Yes, there are a few bad actors (like there are in...
[12:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03cosurgi [272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Absurd Energy Consumption by 99 Percent - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:10] <exec> 08└─This is false: "for doing nothing" is false because they have to keep running a full node to validate transactions and make sure that their node stays almost always online. "people who have money" is false, because that is not enough. They must have not just "money", but they must have ETH, and they...
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[13:36:11] <exec> 08└─You could waste $187 dollars.
[13:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:32] <exec> 08└─Apparently rooting for people just trying to have some fun to be hurt/killed is acceptable to this community? I get a "dnc" vibe from the comments too, so this is really about some political purge?
[13:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:34] <exec> 08└─Which do you prefer, Ocean Mist or Spring Meadow flavor? [tide.com]
[13:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:36] <exec> 08└─Just like tide had a average product.
[13:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:02] <exec> 08└─Prions are much tougher than either bacteria or viruses. If anthrax can survive composting, it would be a doddle for a prion. It is strongly suspected that prions can remain infectious after standard hospital autoclaving.
[13:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:04] <exec> 08└─bones are not bio degradable? tell me not. i have a funny video i cannot upload to youtube that is about my dog eating a bone and watching it turn him into a triangular shape until he poops it back out. the pooping the non bio degradable bone is the most funny part. dont ask me why he doesnt just ea...
[13:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:06] <exec> 08└─I read it, like, 30 or more years ago, but all I remember about composting in that story is that the reporter was killed and mixed into the compost pile, but the composting was only in that one scene, and the pile had nothing to do with human remains, and took up a couple pages out of 300 or so.
[13:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Economic Theory Could Make Research Funding More Efficient - 1249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:21] <exec> 08└─The problem is that climate alarmists see everything in black and white. They conflate several different questions, and attack as evil anyone who questions any of it. Are humans currently increasing the amount of CO2 in the air? - Undeniably. Is the climate changing? - Almost certainly, it always ha...
[13:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Economic Theory Could Make Research Funding More Efficient - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:23] <exec> 08└─The need to reform the grant proposal system doesn't seem particularly urgent compared to other problems in science.
[13:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VR Usage Approximately Doubled in 2018 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:44] <exec> 08└─Don't you have a heroin-addled babe to focus on?
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[14:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:14] <exec> 08└─The nutritional profile looks nothing like meat, eg it has carbs but no cholesterol: https://www.myfitnesspal.com [myfitnesspal.com] https://www.myfitnesspal.com [myfitnesspal.com]
[14:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:15] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't say "nothing" like meat. It has about the same amount of fat and protein, and the amount of carbs is modest (a lot less than what is added by a bun). I notice that the 4 oz. beyond burger has 30% DV of iron, vs. about 10-11% DV for 4 oz. of 70/30 or 95% lean ground beef (according to Goog...
[14:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:18] <exec> 08└─The U.S. meat industry is gigantic, with roughly $200 billion a year in sales,
[14:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:20] <exec> 08└─Served with a delicious Brawndo beverage. It has electrolytes!
[14:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:00] <exec> 08└─You have blind earthbender powers? Nice. You should have gotten the JREF's million dollar challenge when it was still running.
[14:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:01] <exec> 08└─Comrade, this is possibly the dumbest attempt to shoehorn in a political agenda to a topic where there is none.
[14:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:03] <exec> 08└─Many are not trying to have fun but to "go viral" by any means possible. Someone should do a study of people who did go viral to see if it had any lasting impact, either positive or negative.
[14:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Economic Theory Could Make Research Funding More Efficient - 979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:52] <exec> 08└─Early survey results: "It's a welcome change and less painful overall" "The 85-year-old department head has been talking about retiring for the past 15 years. Now, he's finally found the motivation to do so." "At least I don't feel like I'm selling my soul anymore" "50%! That's five to ten times the...
[14:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Economic Theory Could Make Research Funding More Efficient - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:54] <exec> 08└─The way I've heard it before is: your grant has to pass a merit threshold first, then the final funding slots are randomized. If there is no meaningful difference in the scientific merit among the top third of scores, then there isn't much of a point in trying to differentiate them based on writing...
[14:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neutrogena to 3D Print Customized Face Masks - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:29] <exec> 08└─Forget it, I'd rather have my butt scanned by Ikea [soylentnews.org].
[14:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Chairman Pai Celebrates Congress Failing to Bring Back Net Neutrality - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:50] <exec> 08└─Well fuck... I didn't know it was that hopeless. Last one out turn off the lights then... It's not quite that hopeless yet, but we're getting close. If the democrats can't mount a decent check and balance on these rightwing thugs, it will soon be that hopeless. But don't worry about the lights. They...
[14:41:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03exaeta [6957] 02 - 06The Year the Alt-Right Went Underground - 1593 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:26] <exec> 08└─You're actually completely incorrect about the meaning of racism and several related terms. Racism is support of racial discrimination. This support can take the form of social or verbal discrimination (usually legal) or employment discrimination (usually illegal). Thus, a racist person supports ra...
[14:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Netflix Pulls Episode of Show After Saudi Arabia Offended - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:54] <exec> 08└─Depends on your definition of "works" but, yes, money has very real and powerful effects on human behavior.
[14:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Netflix Pulls Episode of Show After Saudi Arabia Offended - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:55] <exec> 08└─a form that we can grasp near instantly.
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[15:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:59] <exec> 08└─I used to enjoy Subway's meatless patty, which I always thought was very good and reminded me of a fast food chicken fried steak. This was as far back as 1998. Unfortunately the availability got worse and worse until most individual Subway franchises had never even heard of it.
[15:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:00] <exec> 08└─I long for the days when we only had simple words for people like this; "twat" for example.
[15:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:02] <exec> 08└─"Marketers".
[15:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:05] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell, flexitarian just means does not adhere to fads.
[15:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:07] <exec> 08└─Carl's bought Hardees (from someone else that didn't really know what to do with them) and when it was announced it made perfect sense. Hardees covered areas Carl's didn't, and had a similar, but better, menu. They were going to merge the menus and cover the country. And they did, sort of. But the g...
[15:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unmuting Large Silent Genes Lets Bacteria Produce New Molecules, Potential Drug Candidates - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:18] <exec> 08└─It's safe as play russian roulette.
[15:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:48] <exec> 08└─And this is a chance for anti-vaxers to "go viral".
[15:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:49] <exec> 08└─Out of all of the teens and wrinkled children who did the Tide Pod challenge, how many died? If it was only one or two, they can hold the Darwin Award to represent the group. Same deal for the Bird Box Bollocks.
[15:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:51] <exec> 08└─Anti-vaxers harm people who can't or have not yet gotten vaccines.
[15:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:54] <exec> 08└─However, Tide Pod Connoisseurs and Bird Boxers have IQs several standard deviations above average.
[15:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:56] <exec> 08└─Sour Apple [theonion.com]
[15:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:58] <exec> 08└─You almost had a point, but you ruined it. Now back to rooting for a safe and fun Darwin Award competition.
[15:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:00] <exec> 08└─Actually, MDC is a billionaire and Batman.
[15:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:02] <exec> 08└─Well, colour me surprised. Stupid people watching stupid xmas movies over a stupid streaming service and then doing stupid things. The only way this could be funnier is if it were part of a religion. "Gerd says you have to wear a blindfold because teh world is full of ebil and seeing facts will dest...
[15:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:05] <exec> 08└─I'm Batman!
[15:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:07] <exec> 08└─If done in a more controlled way, this might give more people more appreciation for the lives of blind people. I'd actually like to see time spent in schools with children learning to navigate blindfolded, and some of the associated skills such as reading braille, and with children learning to handl...
[15:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:09] <exec> 08└─Ummmm...just having fun? I'm wishing the movie had shown people climbing mountains blind-folded: maybe more stupid sheeple would die. Actually, I REALLY wish the original concept of Mr Robot had taken off better and many huge corporations had been taken down and executives had gone to jail. Instead,...
[15:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:11] <exec> 08└─Aristarchu, or Picachu?
[15:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Economic Theory Could Make Research Funding More Efficient - 2356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:57] <exec> 08└─> plunge a considerable portion of humanity into counterproductive poverty That is not true. It's the opposite. Doing all kinds of good things that will help with Global Warming should that be a real problem, and will be good to do anyway if Global Warming is not real or not a bad problem, is a lot...
[15:41:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Year the Alt-Right Went Underground - 130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:17] <exec> 08└─That's not the definition of racism, it's a left wing definition of racism that is used to justify their blatant racism. [npr.org]
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[16:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where Ordering Cannabis is as Easy as Booking a Taxi (Los Angeles) - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:24] <exec> 08└─Here in Ontario, legal weed is generally 8-12/g, with black market stuff probably half that. Even excluding delivery and tax, these are pretty high prices.
[16:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:42] <exec> 08└─Carl's was founded in California and has a lot of restaurants there. Beyond Meat was also founded in California.
[16:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:44] <exec> 08└─It's called Beyond meat too. Maybe from the same producer? I've heard from a couple people that have tried them. They all say they are really good. Still kinda freaks me out though.
[16:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:46] <exec> 08└─Oops, I mixed up Beyond Meat [wikipedia.org] with Impossible Foods [wikipedia.org]. No heme in the former AFAIK.
[16:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:48] <exec> 08└─Yes, Carl's was founded in Cali and grew out from there, while Hardees comes from North Carolina and grew (further) from there. Carl's still covers a lot of western area where steak biscuits would sell very well, if they offered them.
[16:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:50] <exec> 08└─What's going to freak you out more, a hyperrealistic plant-based burger (and Impossible Foods is probably closer to that than Beyond Meat) or cultured meat made from animal cell lines? Both have their place (and there are good plant-based burgers/patties that don't attempt to mimic meat closely), bu...
[16:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:52] <exec> 08└─So, for those of us who remain true to our evolutionary roots and east as omnivores, do vegetarians count as prey animals like cattle? And if so, would eating them be cannibalism, or just distasteful? /ducks
[16:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:55] <exec> 08└─For those who prefer real meat I would point out that Soylent Green is made from all natural ingredients!
[16:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:57] <exec> 08└─Soylent Green is made from all natural ingredients.
[16:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:59] <exec> 08└─There should be no carbs in meat, its like the whole point of eating it.
[16:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:01] <exec> 08└─It should never replace real meat because they arent going to be able to help themselves and try to "improve it" by eg removing the cholesterol.
[16:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:04] <exec> 08└─So, for those of us who remain true to our evolutionary roots and east as omnivores
[16:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:06] <exec> 08└─like "cis", now we have a word for "normal person"
[16:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:08] <exec> 08└─Carl's Jr: Fuck You, I'm Eating
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[16:37:34] <exec> 08└─I agree, and I'd like to see some more movies that create memes: The running downhill with steak knives challenge for climate change deniers. The chlorox-drinking challenge for white supremacists. The nosedive-into-concrete challenge for Goldman Sachs bankers. The ...
[16:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:59] <exec> 08└─climbing mountains blind-folded
[16:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:01] <exec> 08└─OH!! WAIT!!! Did it another time too, how could I forget? Was elected (or drafted) to the Order of the Arrow. We arrived after dark, at the foot of the mountain. Blindfolds, tethers, maintain silence, stay in line, we're going to the top of the mountain. And, I knew NO ONE!! The only reason I had to...
[16:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:03] <exec> 08└─Actually, I REALLY wish the original concept of Mr Robot had taken off better and many huge corporations had been taken down and executives had gone to jail. Instead, we have idiots taking tide pod challenges and hurting themselves being sheeple doing what EVERYONE else in the herd is doing.
[16:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:05] <exec> 08└─Do you also happen to wear a red suit and be good at martial arts?
[16:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:08] <exec> 08└─In Bird Box, Bullock and her children, Boy and Girl, are forced to
[16:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:10] <exec> 08└─No, they dont. Infants dont get vaccinated because they are already protected by maternal antibodies, so the vaccine doesnt take. The people putting these babies in danger are those spreading false rumors about the danger of vaccines to infants. When the mother is vaccinated (rather than have the fu...
[16:38:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03snufu [5855] 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 27 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:28] <exec> 08└─It's news.... IT'S NEWWWWS!
[16:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:40] <exec> 08└─The needs of the many ... :) It's mostly a joke, but unless I accomplish something extraordinary, it's probably the best help I can give. I think I'll wait until I'm finished using the organs, but I ride a motorcycle, so there's still hope. It's certainly a good argument for donating organs. I actua...
[16:40:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Chairman Pai Celebrates Congress Failing to Bring Back Net Neutrality - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:01] <exec> 08└─Missed this https://www.bostonglobe.com [bostonglobe.com] ? loser
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[17:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:01] <exec> 08└─Given what I see in Florida, the answer is "yes", I would love to have something detect the idiots who don't have their full attention on the road. If the consequences were only to those drivers I would be less concerned, but they are aiming at me. But perhaps the answer will lie in Self Driving car...
[17:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:02] <exec> 08└─but, seriously, is a camera system dedicated to detecting mobile use really needed?
[17:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:05] <exec> 08└─Nany State? Really? People (even those on the right who are still living in the early part of the last century) actually still believe that nonsense?
[17:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:07] <exec> 08└─And it happens because you were paying attention to your phone, I will cut off both your hands. - And then you will truly NEED a hands free phone, like you should have been using in the first place. There's NO EXCUSE for putting other peoples' lives at risk. NO EXCUSE. Sit and think about how your l...
[17:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:09] <exec> 08└─Nice bias in the summary title. Its the standard libertarian cognitive dissidence. "How dare people use their phones while driving, but how dare anyone stop them from doing it!"
[17:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:11] <exec> 08└─That assumes you make it away from the accident alive, Mr. tough guy. Hope it's worth your prison sentence.
[17:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:14] <exec> 08└─"We here at the Ministry of Silly Walks would like to remind people that walking and talking are normal things. Using a cell phone while goose-stepping into telephone poles is recommended for a nice Sunday stroll, while walk-leaping with a half-term is good for dropping your phone in...TO the sewer...
[17:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where Ordering Cannabis is as Easy as Booking a Taxi (Los Angeles) - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:24] <exec> 08└─Yea, the gov't weed is expensive and it's SUPER dry. It crumbles in your hand. I also have a feeling that they weigh it when it's not fully dry, then dry the shit out of it. For how dry it is, I feel like I should be getting more. I don't have an accurate enough scale though, so I could be wrong...
[17:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where Ordering Cannabis is as Easy as Booking a Taxi (Los Angeles) - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:27] <exec> 08└─Back in the early 1980s, one could make a phone call (777-CASH, IIRC) and have cannabis delivered. That was generally more expensive than actually going to to a cannabis retailer, but quite convenient. And there are even more folks providing such services today. Oh, and cannabis is still illegal whe...
[17:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where Ordering Cannabis is as Easy as Booking a Taxi (Los Angeles) - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:29] <exec> 08└─but are then hit with an additional 20% to 40% tax rate, depending on jurisdiction.
[17:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:03] <exec> 08└─It's in all animal cells, and cultured meat is animal cells. Good luck to them. If there is no monopoly, you should be able to buy almost any kind of cultured meat that you want.
[17:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:05] <exec> 08└─Then don't buy it. But 5g/4oz is not a lot of carbs and unless you are choosing not to eat the bun the burger comes on, it does not make a big difference.
[17:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:07] <exec> 08└─Fads? I've already moved on to Beyond Tide Pods! Moist AND filling!
[17:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:09] <exec> 08└─How are we gonna Make Room for all these soy and lentil steaks?
[17:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:12] <exec> 08└─I looove A&W and went to try the beyond meat, but they ran out quickly. Will have to try again. I love A&W because when I order a teen burger without a bun, they wrap it in lettuce (my burger becomes almost a salad!) and put it on a real plate with metal utensils and the fries go in a metal basket a...
[17:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:14] <exec> 08└─Whereas SoylentNews is people! Mmmmmmm......
[17:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, it is wise to skip the bun.
[17:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:18] <exec> 08└─Here it is, they claim the cultured meat is healthier because it is low in cholesterol: http://www.innocent-meat.com [innocent-meat.com]
[17:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:20] <exec> 08└─They are asking for cash for their startup, and don't provide any details about their process. For all we know, they could just be using a type of animal that is naturally low in cholesterol. Or they could not be including fat cells (a known problem for the very first cultured meat), or very few of...
[17:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:23] <exec> 08└─For those who prefer real meat I would point out that Soylent Green is made from all natural ingredients!
[17:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unmuting Large Silent Genes Lets Bacteria Produce New Molecules, Potential Drug Candidates - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:34] <exec> 08└─Or reactivating these gene clusters in a virus can result in viral infections that we are not prepared for.
[17:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:22] <exec> 08└─The problem is that they can also kill future genius too, when they run over someone or divert a emergency vehicle to their accident instead going to another one that end up dying
[17:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 1342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:53] <exec> 08└─The problem is twofold. First, prions generally aren't destroyed by cooking at 55C, and may or may not be destroyed by microbial processes. Because of the nature of prions, they wont be destroyed at 55C no matter how long you cook them. Putting infectious prions in soil is probably a bad idea. They...
[17:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VR Usage Approximately Doubled in 2018 - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:31] <exec> 08└─I was able to part together a new computer when the Ryzen 1700 first came out. I've had it since then and am quite pleased with it. I needed to update the Motherboard BIOS a couple of times, but after that it's been quite stable. I won't count the issues caused directly by the Windows 10 updates. Ry...
[17:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neutrogena to 3D Print Customized Face Masks - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:49] <exec> 08└─Quit hanging out with literal crack whores.
[17:40:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06FCC Chairman Pai Celebrates Congress Failing to Bring Back Net Neutrality - 709 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:08] <exec> 08└─Well, I commented directly to the FCC regarding net neutrality. Pai's corrupt system disregarded my, and million's of other people's voices. So - it seems the next step is some kind of a revolt. We should all cancel our subscriptions to the telecoms. Just cancel all of them, and don't get new subscr...
[17:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Chairman Pai Celebrates Congress Failing to Bring Back Net Neutrality - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:13] <exec> 08└─I don't care, if cable companies retain their monopoly status or not. The writing is on the wall for their package deal, take it or leave it TV style. The telephone companies, especially AT&T, need to be regulated as Utility companies. It's way past time to treat them like the spoiled children they...
[17:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pulls Episode of Show After Saudi Arabia Offended - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:15] <exec> 08└─people who do care are profoundly ignorant about the whole thing.
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[18:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:36] <exec> 08└─And, if it goes to court, I'll swear that Crocodile Dundee was with me at a Bar-B-Que down at the Trinity River when it happened!
[18:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:37] <exec> 08└─Though I am going to assume in this case the title was meant as sarcasm.
[18:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:40] <exec> 08└─Poor Gaaark. He should have known that double-decker busses don't exactly pummel. He assumed that he would have time to dodge because he though they pummeled. Double-decker busses actually do a lot of lurching, jouncing, and bouncing, but no pummeling.
[18:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:42] <exec> 08└─WTF?
[18:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:44] <exec> 08└─Having had a rather intense personal disagreements with one of these beasts myself, I must agree. There was nothing so kind and gentle as a pummeling on offer. Just a lurch and a crash and it lurched right on down the road like it had never noticed me, laying bleeding behind it.
[18:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:46] <exec> 08└─The driver was carrying a banana...A BANANA! I was SOOOO scared!
[18:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:48] <exec> 08└─It still amazes me after all this time people are still addicted to their damn cell phones. It must be that hypnotic scrolling keeping them addicted. Heck, the other day I was waiting in a lobby with a number of other people and I was the only one that wasn't fiddling with a damn "phone". Around her...
[18:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:51] <exec> 08└─No cell phones? Muh, you want to take away my GOD given right to be a niggah! Sheez next you'll be takin away m right to use exxxtra bright headlights! [You can not read the rest of this comment because headlights are shining in your face]
[18:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:53] <exec> 08└─Either way it prejudices the comments. I really dislike editorial summaries. Personally, I think summaries should remain neutral with possibly a little submitter's quip at the end (but even those I don't really like).
[18:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where Ordering Cannabis is as Easy as Booking a Taxi (Los Angeles) - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:07] <exec> 08└─Amazing new delivery technology! I must admit, I use my own personal method (patent pending) of walking to the store.
[18:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where Ordering Cannabis is as Easy as Booking a Taxi (Los Angeles) - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:08] <exec> 08└─To Americans confused by cultural differences: 8-12 canadian dollars is 646-969 yen. A "g" or "graham" is the weight of a grammy award, which all canadians, including the ridiculously untalented Justin Bieber, receive at puberty.
[18:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:54] <exec> 08└─This is stupid, for 2 reasons: 1. It still won't get me into a Carl's Jr voluntarily. I have standards when it comes to food. 2. If they want to offer a veggie burger, there are lots of tastier (and cheaper-to-make) options that aren't trying to pretend to be meat. As in, I'd much rather have a blac...
[18:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:55] <exec> 08└─Love them!
[18:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:57] <exec> 08└─Are you saying you're Daredevil? 'cause that's what that sounds like.
[18:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:58] <exec> 08└─But is it still extraordinary when all idiots on the internet are doing it?
[18:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:01] <exec> 08└─In Bird Box, Bullock and her children, Boy and Girl, are forced to
[18:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:31] <exec> 08└─There is always a relevant xkcd [xkcd.com].
[18:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:32] <exec> 08└─It sounds as if the entire human population should have been destroyed by these indestructible prions a long time ago. Remember Cruetzfeld-Jacob rampaging through the UK? Supposed to happen by now. Anyone still alive over there?
[18:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:35] <exec> 08└─It is strongly suspected that prions can remain infectious after standard hospital autoclaving.
[18:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VR Usage Approximately Doubled in 2018 - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:12] <exec> 08└─The RAM is slowly declining in price and should decline further this year [soylentnews.org]. But you got very lucky to avoid the doubling/tripling of prices and 32 GB should last you a long time. Ryzen 1700 was $329 at release and got you 8 cores. According to the rumor mill [wccftech.com], Ryzen 7...
[18:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Chairman Pai Celebrates Congress Failing to Bring Back Net Neutrality - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:50] <exec> 08└─If you're depending on the democrats, then it is indeed hopeless. To make even the smallest dent, the GOP/DNC has to be voted out completely.
[18:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Chang'e 4 Spacecraft Lands on the Far Side of the Moon - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:06] <exec> 08└─Do you know of any examples from the current zeitgeist of fear and apprehension that we're losing the space race because of this? Is this really a single simplifying event that is captured in all the news "above the fold" that is shocking the world? Can you provide ANY evidence that anyone in the ge...
[18:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitch's Top Video Game Streamer "Ninja" Made $10 Million in 2018 - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:15] <exec> 08└─No thanks, I'd rather PLAY a game.
[18:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitch's Top Video Game Streamer "Ninja" Made $10 Million in 2018 - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:17] <exec> 08└─It's also not going to go down well when it's raining and everyone's packed together like sardines.
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[19:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:20] <exec> 08└─There is a government taking action on behalf of the people.
[19:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:22] <exec> 08└─I've avoided the weather channel app like the plague. Which is likely what it transmits to it's users along with the weather report.
[19:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:24] <exec> 08└─nuff said.
[19:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:26] <exec> 08└─Yet the company, which is owned by IBM,
[19:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:28] <exec> 08└─How shocking! What next? Facebook losing their spotless reputation for transparency and respect of personal privacy? What is the world coming to I tell ya...
[19:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway - 1722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:55] <exec> 08└─Biased much? I'd gladly have a million cameras on the road if they caught: - People who drink / drug and drive. - People who text and drive. - People who drive unsafe and unmaintained vehicles (I once tried to flag down a woman in an SUV doing 90mph+ with a completely flat tyre... I literally couldn...
[19:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:56] <exec> 08└─My primary goal is not to die. Morons on phones (or drunk, or applying make-up, or berating their spouse/children, etc.) while driving negatively impacts the probability of achieving my primary goal. What's that? You think that reaching my destination should be the primary goal? Not so much. If I di...
[19:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:59] <exec> 08└─If you can have an AI backed camera system to watch for people using hands free cell phones . . . How about re-purpose that system to look for drunk or impaired vehicle behavior on the road. This would ALSO catch people distracted by their phones who are a danger, but would also catch: * drivers who...
[19:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:01] <exec> 08└─I guess Australia really is a high-wage country right now. $1200 fine plus driving ban for speeding 133 in a 90 zone. $700+ for supposedly not properly fixing a motorcycle helmet strap. It would bankrupt people in this country, quite possibly impact the local economy, which is probably the reason au...
[19:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:59] <exec> 08└─The movie version of soylent green's ingredients is much more likely, IMO, to become reality. Disclaimer: saw movie several times, have not read the book. Simple economics. It creates a market demand for the, er . . . um . . . "harvesting" of the poor in order to feed the rich who can pay. If you th...
[19:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:04] <exec> 08└─Are you saying you're Daredevil? 'cause that's what that sounds like.
[19:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:05] <exec> 08└─Apparently rooting for people just trying to have some fun to be hurt/killed is acceptable to this community? I get a "dnc" vibe from the comments too, so this is really about some political purge?
[19:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:08] <exec> 08└─To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to enjoy Tide Pods.
[19:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:10] <exec> 08└─So, the magic words for convincing idiots to do things are # and Challenge.
[19:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:47] <exec> 08└─Joke's on you, the dragon killed the cleric first.
[19:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:48] <exec> 08└─You can also recover it after burning. It's common to melt metals down as part of the process of separating gold from the other mineral content of ore. Gold will tend towards the bottom with the lighter and more common elements floating to the surface.
[19:40:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06How Economic Theory Could Make Research Funding More Efficient - 959 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:02] <exec> 08└─The need to reform the grant proposal system doesn't seem particularly urgent compared to other problems in science. Worse problems are the whole "publish or perish" pressure, private publishers being allowed to lock away and charge for access to research that the public funded, the patent system, a...
[19:40:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VR Usage Approximately Doubled in 2018 - 959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:34] <exec> 08└─I likely won't be making an incremental upgrade to my processor. Usually, I hold on to my rig for a while, without much in the way of upgrades. Sometimes I hold onto it long enough to make a GPU upgrade worthwhile. I went from dual-core, to quad-core, to hexa-core, and now Octa-core. The only really...
[19:41:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] 02 - 06FCC Chairman Pai Celebrates Congress Failing to Bring Back Net Neutrality - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:04] <exec> 08└─If you mean that he lies like the present incumbent, then yes.
[19:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Chairman Pai Celebrates Congress Failing to Bring Back Net Neutrality - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:17] <exec> 08└─Pai's corrupt system disregarded my, and million's of other people's voices. So - it seems the next step is some kind of a revolt. Maybe you should try voting for people who support Net Neutrality first before resorting to insurgence?
[19:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Chairman Pai Celebrates Congress Failing to Bring Back Net Neutrality - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:18] <exec> 08└─If you're depending on the democrats, then it is indeed hopeless. More false equivalence bullshit. Democrats ALREADY implemented Net Neutrality in 2016. It was repealed by Republicans.
[19:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Chairman Pai Celebrates Congress Failing to Bring Back Net Neutrality - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:21] <exec> 08└─I'm sure that single issue voters voted for someone who stood for net neutralit . . . except . . . who was that?
[19:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Chairman Pai Celebrates Congress Failing to Bring Back Net Neutrality - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:23] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. They didn't legislate it. It was an executive order made with the full knowledge the next guy would nullify it. Man, you are really hooked. You refuse to acknowledge the teamwork these people engage in. You all need to make up your own MAGA hat, you act identically in every way. You know,...
[19:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Chairman Pai Celebrates Congress Failing to Bring Back Net Neutrality - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:25] <exec> 08└─Exactly! Everybody feeds from the same trough. Nobody is seeking out people to replace them. It's just too inconvenient.
[19:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Chairman Pai Celebrates Congress Failing to Bring Back Net Neutrality - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:27] <exec> 08└─Obama. Y'know, the guy who implemented the Net Neutrality rules the Republicans just repealed.
[19:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Chairman Pai Celebrates Congress Failing to Bring Back Net Neutrality - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:29] <exec> 08└─We need a radical solution to end cable monopolies. Yeah! Like voting out the GOP/DNC! No, wait, that would be too radical. Better to reelect the crooks and burn tires in the streets.
[19:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Chairman Pai Celebrates Congress Failing to Bring Back Net Neutrality - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:32] <exec> 08└─Well, he did it wrong. Congress makes the regs, not the prez. It was a scam anyway, he knew it would be repealed as fast he signed it himself. It's professional wresting. - R.I.P. Mean Gene Okerlund!
[19:41:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Big Pharma Ushers in New Year With Price Hikes on Hundreds of Drugs - 359 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:51] <exec> 08└─But it's specifically a way of doing that. Monopoly power on supply side for necessary-to-live drugs with a near-infinitely flat demand curve can be answered with a monopoly on the purchasing side. It's not a perfect solution to that problem, given the dysfunction of our proposed collective negotiat...
[19:42:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Big Pharma Ushers in New Year With Price Hikes on Hundreds of Drugs - 2123 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:19] <exec> 08└─Here's the part you seem to be missing: It's not that money is coming from someone else's pocket into your own, it's money that was going to someone else's pocket from your pocket is now not going there. Right now, you either are going uninsured, or have some kind of private health insurance, or you...
[19:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually - 1612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that guy claiming that because we block analytics we have no reason to gripe at their accuracy must work for some sort of metric related company. We're not the ones contributing fake metrics. In fact, our lack of participation is helping the industry figure out who is really fake -- not that t...
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[20:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Encryption? This Time it'll be Usable, Thunderbird Promises - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:53] <exec> 08└─I use Thunderbird myself. It's a damn good email client, and one of the only good ones left alive. Claws Mail won't render HTML, Eudora is ancient dog shit that only runs on Windows and old Macs, and Seamonkey's alright I guess, but it's not my cup of tea. Long live Thunderbird.
[20:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:05] <exec> 08└─If you must use it, visit their website. Noscript, cookies autodelete, Ghostery, uBlock Origin and clearing your cache upon exit will do a reasonable job of limiting the amount of data you leak out to them (I say reasonable, because these addons probably collect data on you too...)
[20:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03zoward [4734] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:07] <exec> 08└─I don't get why people don't use the National Weather Service's site - www.weather.gov. It's where the Weather Channel is getting their data from in the first place, and is paid for with tax dollars. No ads, no tracking
[20:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:09] <exec> 08└─Well, yeah, it is absolutely shocking that nobody has read the T&Cs, where you were informed about this in lawyer-clear and opaquely-absolute terms. However, nobody cared to read it and just clicked OK. And /now/ you are complaining?
[20:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:11] <exec> 08└─NOAA's radar site is plenty fine for me.
[20:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:13] <exec> 08└─Wow, only in america. In australia, the bom.gov.au site carries advertising - sigh!
[20:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:15] <exec> 08└─App were built for one thing, stealing. The walled gardens are jails Period For all the thief in these places phones should be free. Are you getting it you are paying to be still from!?!
[20:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:18] <exec> 08└─Sigh. It seems like everyone wants you to download some "free" new/weather app crap these days. All of the network TV news programs take every chance they get to tell you how now is the perfect time to download their free crapp to your toy cell phone. I always joke how these are "free news/weather/m...
[20:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:47] <exec> 08└─That is not a good test. Your test would require someone to consentrate on 2 voices at the same time. That's not what traffic is.
[20:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:48] <exec> 08└─Cause you are so perfect at driving, right?
[20:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:50] <exec> 08└─I agree car drivers shouldn't drive distracted. I also think you shirked some of your responsibility for your own safety by choosing to ride a vehicle where there is nothing between you and a world of hard, immovable surfaces you breeze past at 75 mph. The greatest threat to your safety is you. That...
[20:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:52] <exec> 08└─From what I gather in the news, Australia is almost entirely a bunch of urbanites and suburbanites who are soft and afraid of everything. They need govt protection from all the boogeymen. Steve Irwin, Crocodile Dundee, and those types are as much a novelty to most Aussies as they are to us Americans...
[20:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:55] <exec> 08└─Just like being drunk.. https://www.livescience.com [livescience.com]
[20:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:55] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure that Arby's cracked the whole "meatless" thing many many years ago...
[20:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:57] <exec> 08└─* human organ transplants and the temptation to prioritize the wealthy
[20:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Chairman Pai Celebrates Congress Failing to Bring Back Net Neutrality - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:14] <exec> 08└─Pai-hole will be strung up on a noose made of Cat 5 What, you're not gonna string up the people that voted for the guy that hired him? Oh well, hope you like more Pai...
[20:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Big Pharma Ushers in New Year With Price Hikes on Hundreds of Drugs - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:12] <exec> 08└─You know, in the end it all boils down to who gets stuck with the paperwork. I pay taxes for the government to do it (here's lookin' at you, IRS!). That is kind of its purpose, along with the common defense and all that. Why don't we have universal health care? It is pure antipathy, all the false pr...
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[21:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Encryption? This Time it'll be Usable, Thunderbird Promises - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:07] <exec> 08└─Why don't you use all that coin you're raking in to figure out why an email client consumes 3gb of memory with no windows open.
[21:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Encryption? This Time it'll be Usable, Thunderbird Promises - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:09] <exec> 08└─Until the recipient gives up the goods [nytimes.com]
[21:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Encryption? This Time it'll be Usable, Thunderbird Promises - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:11] <exec> 08└─Same here. Thunderbird is not perfect, but I have yet to find an email client that I find intuitive. Even considering commercial clients, there is very little happening in the email client space, excluding web apps. I'm still waiting on Vivaldi to include a client and see how they fare, but I doubt...
[21:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Encryption? This Time it'll be Usable, Thunderbird Promises - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:13] <exec> 08└─It's not a perfect security measure for those with good reasons to be paranoid, that's for sure. But some agencies would hate to see millions of people start using "easy" end-to-end encryption.
[21:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Encryption? This Time it'll be Usable, Thunderbird Promises - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:16] <exec> 08└─Jesus Christ, I'd have drop kicked Thunderbird if it did that to me. Thankfully it uses only a little over 200MB for me.
[21:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:38] <exec> 08└─Agreed, the NWS is the better option. That's mainly what I use (although I do have a fancy radar app). My guess is that it's because there is no "app". People can't do much more these days than type "weather" into whatever app store they have and poke the one with the highest download count. Even th...
[21:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data - 1504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:39] <exec> 08└─I'm not willing to waste time reading 20 plus pages of fine print that I know is almost entirely boilerplate bull, not for something trivial like a weather report. Some choice bull: 1. "You agree not to use our app to break the law." Gosh, if that term wasn't in there, I wouldn't be obliged to obey...
[21:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:41] <exec> 08└─Download? Only weather app I have came with the phone, and the user isn't allowed to uninstall it! Otherwise, I'd rip it out in a heartbeat. But jailbreaking a phone is a total pain in the rear. Using a handy jailbreak app often feels like you're only breaking out of one jail to enter a different ja...
[21:36:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway - 83 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:52] <exec> 08└─but, seriously, is a camera system dedicated to detecting mobile use really needed?
[21:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:16] <exec> 08└─The anonymous coward who submitted this article is a reactionary fool. We need less of that, not more.
[21:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:18] <exec> 08└─What we need less is extremist, ban-trigger-happy, omniphobics, like many here commented have pointed themselves as being.
[21:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheCastro [4449] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Where Ordering Cannabis is as Easy as Booking a Taxi (Los Angeles) - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:33] <exec> 08└─They can deduct a lot of things though.
[21:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:12] <exec> 08└─So use human-compost to plant trees or non-edible plants, just like with most other waste products that can carry infectious material...
[21:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:13] <exec> 08└─Burnt bones make good soil-additions though, similar to charcoal. The high porosity and low rate of decomposition makes them useful for improving bacterial populations in the soil.
[21:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Chairman Pai Celebrates Congress Failing to Bring Back Net Neutrality - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:47] <exec> 08└─I'd be up for an internet desubscribe protest. My email is username at protonmail.com if you want to let me know details about this protest.
[21:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:47] <exec> 08└─What about Wankel engines?
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[22:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Encryption? This Time it'll be Usable, Thunderbird Promises - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:33] <exec> 08└─why would you be waiting on enslaveware from vivaldi? give me a break.
[22:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Encryption? This Time it'll be Usable, Thunderbird Promises - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:34] <exec> 08└─a proper native gtk3 theme would be nice. modernizing the ui would be nice. right now it's too much config over convention for my tastes. making it leaner, faster and more secure. and yes, make everything, including security easier to use. also, what is tbird's problem with a changing internet conne...
[22:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Encryption? This Time it'll be Usable, Thunderbird Promises - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:36] <exec> 08└─Or at least those who use Thunderbird is a great idea. As a user of Thunderbird for nearly 15 years, I find it one of the best email clients out there. However, Enigmail [enigmail.net] integrates nicely with Thunderbird already. Presumably, PGP support is what Thunderbird will bake in. Which is fine...
[22:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03nwf [1469] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:59] <exec> 08└─The Weather Channel, Accuweather and the like get information from NWS, but they add in other stuff. If you compare their forecasts, they are all somewhat different. If you want actual conditions, these services update much more frequently. WC is particularly good with that, but that's about it. NWS...
[22:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:01] <exec> 08└─ghostery? found the windows user... closed source "ad blocker" written by the ad companies. wow.
[22:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data - 1031 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:03] <exec> 08└─You are not willing to read that crap, I fully understand. But if you use the software, then you agree to the terms and are bound by the terms. At least, all those terms that are enforceable. The "boilerplate", as you call it, is what defines the rules. Yes, it is pedantic, crap to read and hard to...
[22:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:05] <exec> 08└─As Linus Torvalds would say: "No! No siree Bob! Nope!"...while nodding (pummeling?)vigorously. My new word of 2019: pummeling. ;)
[22:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:07] <exec> 08└─I might be wrong, but I believe the NWS only uses the US weather model whereas Accuweather and the Weather Channel also use the European weather model (and perhaps others) and base their forecasts on combining model outputs.
[22:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:45] <exec> 08└─The real Crocodile Dundee got fucked by the government and tried to live off the edge of the nanny state, but in the end he went out GTA style [wikipedia.org].
[22:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where Ordering Cannabis is as Easy as Booking a Taxi (Los Angeles) - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:00] <exec> 08└─I thought that was how you booked some "ride hailing service" which are legally distinct from "taxis" and to get a taxi you either call some number have one dispatched to you or stick you hand in the air as one drives by, neither of which matches the description in the summary. /pedantry
[22:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:46] <exec> 08└─Capitalism will catch up. It always does. The problem is with humans, not the economic organization. Oh, didn't you read about 2/3 of the way through your mobile phone contract on page 229 it says that AT&T or its authorized agents can sneak in the middle of the night and harvest your and your famil...
[22:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:48] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of a bumper sticker I saw recently: "Save an animal, eat a vegetarian."
[22:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:50] <exec> 08└─If the khazar jews were left to it they would rename everything the opposite of what it really is. Left is right, up is down, less is more, war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength. Thankfully it is not up to them and will never be. They will be the burger patty long before that happe...
[22:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meatless "Beyond Burgers" Come to Fast Food Restaurants - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:52] <exec> 08└─A&W started carrying them. I tried one out of curiosity. You can definitely tell it's not real meat, but it's pretty close and actually tastes good.
[22:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:06] <exec> 08└─they don't harm anybody, you stupid authoritarian bitch. the illness does.
[22:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:07] <exec> 08└─netflix can't make anything without adding anti-white/pro white genocide propaganda. white supremacists: instead of killing innocent blacks in church or kids in cars as part of some fed orchestrated psyop, why don't you kill the propagandist pieces of shit at netflix? Also, Sandra Bullock must be so...
[22:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:50] <exec> 08└─It sounds as if the entire human population should have been destroyed by these indestructible prions a long time ago [if this is true].
[22:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:52] <exec> 08└─Prions don't evolve, actually, which is their main saving grace and why they haven't wiped out humanity.
[22:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 1092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:54] <exec> 08└─To clarify. Prions don't contain DNA or other form of genetic code, therefore cannot mutate, and cannot evolve. A prion is basically an enzyme that converts a useful protein in the body into... itself. It's actually sort of a genetic defect of the host genome that allows a misfolded protein that can...
[22:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VR Usage Approximately Doubled in 2018 - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:38] <exec> 08└─The Ryzen 9 3800X could have as much as 2.5x the performance of a Ryzen 7 1800X (my guess, and an ideal scenario with all 16 cores fully utilized), so it's a bit more than an incremental upgrade. But I understand that not everyone can use that many cores effectively, and those who can know who they...
[22:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VR Usage Approximately Doubled in 2018 - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:40] <exec> 08└─Virtual rickroll, virtual 2G1C, etc.
[22:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VR Usage Approximately Doubled in 2018 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:42] <exec> 08└─The lenses should correct any warping/distortion
[22:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VR Usage Approximately Doubled in 2018 - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:44] <exec> 08└─Not sure if I'm supposed to be impressed with or depressed by the VR graphics in "House Party" on steam. Not that realistic, yet the game is mildly amusing. I would say its good for a solid two hours of amusement depending on if you get sick of the Infocom style ridiculous puzzles or not.
[22:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Chairman Pai Celebrates Congress Failing to Bring Back Net Neutrality - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:36] <exec> 08└─I don't think we have enough yellow hose for that.
[22:44:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Year the Alt-Right Went Underground - 282 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:22] <exec> 08└─You're right. Everything we hear must be filtered. Why do people give the Chinese govt such a hard time? They are just trying to prevent disorder in their society. Common people need someone better than them to tell them what to think. Free speech is a menace to harmonious society.
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[23:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should the US Hand Over Minnesota's Northwest Angle to Canada? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:59] <exec> 08└─Build the Walleye! Build the Walleye!
[23:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should the US Hand Over Minnesota's Northwest Angle to Canada? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:00] <exec> 08└─I bet Aristachu can tell if it leans to the right or the left angle, alto or soprano.
[23:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should the US Hand Over Minnesota's Northwest Angle to Canada? - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:02] <exec> 08└─Angleites themselves have been asking for it for decades. I remember seeing something about it on tv almost 30 years ago. They'd gladly become canadian citizens if it meant no longer having to go through customs twice just to go grocery shopping, or when the kids go to school.
[23:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should the US Hand Over Minnesota's Northwest Angle to Canada? - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:04] <exec> 08└─everyone thinking their opinion should matter when it seems the business of the residents of the "angle" who apparently want to remain with the US. Also, winter means it is an island only half the year.
[23:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Encryption? This Time it'll be Usable, Thunderbird Promises - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:31] <exec> 08└─The best things to do here are to not require passwords on keys and to silently default to full trust on them. Sure, this makes the security people howl, but if you want people to use encryption, it needs to not require any additional steps. Then, automatically send out the user's public key with ev...
[23:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Encryption? This Time it'll be Usable, Thunderbird Promises - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:32] <exec> 08└─But some agencies would hate to see millions of people start using "easy" end-to-end encryption.
[23:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Encryption? This Time it'll be Usable, Thunderbird Promises - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:35] <exec> 08└─Claws Mail won't render HTML
[23:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Encryption? This Time it'll be Usable, Thunderbird Promises - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:37] <exec> 08└─I am guessing you mean they will be putting in GPG (Gnu Privacy Guard) rather than PGP (Pretty Good Privacy).
[23:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Veyrdite [6386] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Encryption? This Time it'll be Usable, Thunderbird Promises - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:39] <exec> 08└─When moving from Seamonkey to Thunderbird I had a look at several alternatives, including Claws and Trojita: https://halestrom.net [halestrom.net] Opinion: Claws would be an amazing option if it had even a little bit of HTML's features. Full HTML is wild...
[23:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Encryption? This Time it'll be Usable, Thunderbird Promises - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:41] <exec> 08└─I am guessing you mean they will be putting in GPG (Gnu Privacy Guard) rather than PGP (Pretty Good Privacy).
[23:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:14] <exec> 08└─At least, all those terms that are enforceable.
[23:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:15] <exec> 08└─You're still far better off visiting your local news station's site and getting their weather reports rather than a national site like TWC or Accuweather. Even better if you look at the radar which most have on their website, it doesn't take much effort to learn enough to make an accurate forecast o...
[23:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Los Angeles Accuses Weather Channel App of Covertly Mining User Data - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:17] <exec> 08└─https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lexa.fakegps [google.com]
[23:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Nanny State Tightens with Mobile Phone Detectors on Freeway - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:56] <exec> 08└─And what about those of us who use our phone as a music source, or those that use GPS..
[23:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where Ordering Cannabis is as Easy as Booking a Taxi (Los Angeles) - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:14] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses [wikipedia.org]
[23:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:20] <exec> 08└─santa claus?
[23:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:22] <exec> 08└─"qwerty" could work
[23:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:25] <exec> 08└─Please continue. Let Darwin do his work, before these morons grow up and get into positions of authority, or simple drains on society.
[23:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Pleads with People to Stop Doing the "Bird Box" Challenge - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:27] <exec> 08└─Well, if a well-above average intelligence realizes the idiocity around them, they might come to the conclusion that the only winning move is not to play. That was a very frequent meme that ran in me when the aerospace company I used to work for became overrun with management types.
[23:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington Could Become the First State to Compost the Dead - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:15] <exec> 08└─They love their grubby paws on nothing else like sticky sex and dead people.
[23:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Economic Theory Could Make Research Funding More Efficient - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:38] <exec> 08└─Consensus is not science. Suppressing inconvenient data is not science, Silently adjusting historical data to fit your model is not science. Deleting the original data after you have adjusted it is not science. Organizing suppression of scientists who disagree with you is not science. Political advo...
[23:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Economic Theory Could Make Research Funding More Efficient - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:40] <exec> 08└─That is not true. It's the opposite. Doing all kinds of good things that will help with Global Warming should that be a real problem, and will be good to do anyway if Global Warming is not real or not a bad problem, is a lot of work. That's a lot of jobs. That's the Green New Deal. In contrast, maki...
[23:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VR Usage Approximately Doubled in 2018 - 1603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:10] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=27400&page=1&cid=730212 [soylentnews.org] https://www.theverge.com [theverge.com] I don't think the lenses are such a huge problem but they can benefit from further improvement...
[23:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:06] <exec> 08└─If I run my botnet to scam somebody, is that fake?
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