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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@acrow A Jewish trucker wouldn't be working on the Sabbath. Unless you mean that he's delivering a truckload of Ozzy Osborne CDs. And he's thirsty or something? I guess I just don't understand your simile at all.
Some of the less scrupulous jews are masters at circumventing the prohibitions of the Law of Moses. Enough so that there's jokes on the extent to which they go. That water bottle thing is something I heard from a teacher back in high-school. The twisted logic goes that while driving a truck is indeed forbidden on sabbath, walking on water is not, so driving with a bottle of water under your seat is kosher even on sabbath. It's probably a made-up thing, meant to be hyperbole.
But, least you think that the joke's a bit far-fetched, don't forget that there are such things as sabbath lamps and sabbath keyboards. All so that you don't make a fire on sabbath.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@acrow A Jewish trucker wouldn't be working on the Sabbath. Unless you mean that he's delivering a truckload of Ozzy Osborne CDs. And he's thirsty or something? I guess I just don't understand your simile at all.
Some of the less scrupulous jews are masters at circumventing the prohibitions of the Law of Moses. Enough so that there's jokes on the extent to which they go. That water bottle thing is something I heard from a teacher back in high-school. The twisted logic goes that while driving a truck is indeed forbidden on sabbath, walking on water is not, so driving with a bottle of water under your seat is kosher even on sabbath. It's probably a made-up thing, meant to be hyperbole.
But, least you think that the joke's a bit far-fetched, don't forget that there are such things as sabbath lamps and sabbath keyboards. All so that you don't make a fire on sabbath.
Those are rather modern though.
My favorite bit of rule-lawyering which goes back for centuries is the eruv:
You can't take anything outside your house on sabbath? "Easy," declare the entire neighbourhood as your private domain by putting up wires and fences to delineate the area.
In fact, B*****m has one where it encircles most of the city of Antwerp:
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@JBert
For the unitiated ... they decleared the entire city center between the river Schelde on the west, the harbor on the north and the highways to east and south.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
don't forget that there are such things as...
.. this
Unavailable for purchase during Shabbat and Jewish public holidays.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
How Does It Work?
TE;DR: switch is plastic slider. Occasionally shine a light to determine its position; microcontroller does forbidden heretical work instead. Microcontrollers don't go to hell so it's fine.
Realising that these circumventions are the ultimate expression of …
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
jews are masters at circumventing...
Circumventing, circumference, circumstances... ... oh right
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<checks date> Looks legit...
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
Why maleswith beards and long hair have the smallest testicles
Well... fuck
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Please tell me those prices are per year. ( to check)
Get your heart medicine ready
Well, that’s cheap. I pay (not quite) 10€ for only 1.5GB (and free calls/texts), so I’d have to pay 560€ for those 84GB, compared to only 415 C$.
Except I’m not a retard who calculates prices like that. Who the fuck needs that kind of mobile data?
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
<checks date> Looks legit...
Animals can either invest energy attracting females with impressive manes and beards or spend their energy growing larger gonads.
This means hairy human men with a bushy beard and long hair are likely to have smaller testes than their follicly challenged brethren.
No it doesn't you dumb fucks @DailyMail. That a species of apes have spent more evolution points in fancy looks rather than large genitals has fuck all to do with what the individuals of a separate specie does with plumage. Evolution points do not nearly come into play on individual level of gameplay. The stack of evolution points for humies are already pretty fucking fixed, and at most you get to spec a point or two into genetics for having bushy beards or heavy penile appendages, but the bushy beard genetics do not necessitate the absence of the heavy penile appendage genetics.
/rant over
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Well, that’s cheap. I pay (not quite) 10€ for only 1.5GB (and free calls/texts), so I’d have to pay 560€ for those 84GB, compared to only 415 C$.
Sounds expensive. When I visited Germany a few years ago I had 3 GB for 10 € (plus 10 € for the sim card), and that was just buying the thing from the first random store I came across as a tourist.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Except I’m not a retard who calculates prices like that. Who the fuck needs that kind of mobile data?
Some people do a lot of mobile streaming. Especially some parents, keeping the kids occupied while they're out.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
jews are masters at circumventing...
Circumventing, circumference, circumstances... ... oh right
circumcision...
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Who the fuck needs that kind of mobile data?
Maybe that's their internet connection? Afterall, Windows Update is going to suck down a lot of bytes!
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It just work
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@TimeBandit But does the spacebar heating work?
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@mott555 said in In other news today...:
@hungrier A cell phone plan should not cost as much as a house payment...
Not any houses I know.
It's Canada. The land is as big as entire USA, but they have less people than Poland.
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
they have less people than Poland
But way more Polar bear.
And houses are not cheap, they need to be built strong
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
And houses are not cheap, they need to be built strong
You have building material literally falling from the sky. How is it expensive!?
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
You have building material literally falling from the sky. How is it expensive!?
It's the summer house that is expensive
The other one (used 11.5 months/year) we just rebuild it every Fall
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
<checks date> Looks legit...
It's not the size of the testicles that matter.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Except I’m not a retard who calculates prices like that. Who the fuck needs that kind of mobile data?
Some people do a lot of mobile streaming. Especially some parents, keeping the kids occupied while they're out.
I use a lot of data playing Pokemon (I often use my phone as a hotpot for multiple other phones in order to help my kids and husband).
I usually get a warning that I hit 75% of 24GB a few days before the end of the billing period.
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
In fact, B*****m has [an eruv] where it encircles most of the city of Antwerp:For the unitiated ... they decleared the entire city center between the river Schelde on the west, the harbor on the north and the highways to east and south.
So I quickly punched it into an online tool and it arrives at an area of 14.156 km2 (or 3498.08 acres in freedom units, or even 5.466 miles2 if you want).
Ain't that quite lofty for a "private" space!
One thing needs to be said though: for an eruv to work you need to be sure that all the "fencing" is still in place before each Sabbath. The tool says it is a perimeter of 19.256 km (or 11.965 miles in non-SocialIst units) so I can only hope they divide the work...
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
The town of Ridgefield said 24 gallons of gasoline were poured on the field at Governor Park in an attempt to "dry the field quicker."
But who said that?
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@TimeBandit Needs a chair lift.
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Nope thread is
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
@mott555 said in In other news today...:
@hungrier A cell phone plan should not cost as much as a house payment...
Not any houses I know.
It's Canada. The land is as big as entire USA, but they have less people than Poland.
But house prices are still pretty high, at least in cities. That cell phone plan costs about as much as my car payment, way less than my mortgage
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Did you hire @Polygeekery to protect your lawn?
I am not for hire. For me it is more of a avocation than a vocation.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
<checks date> Looks legit...
It's not the size of the testicles that matter.
It's cutting off that man-bun that matters.
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Nifty. Google has made something else that no one will ever give a shit about.
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Planet of the apes was a prophecy
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@coderpatsy "Here it is: the first image of a black hole." turn on lights, no one gets a clear vision of the picture
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
It's Canada. The land is as big as entire USA, but they have less people than Poland.
You know what country is also approximately the same size and even less population, while being much more isolated from the rest of the world? Australia. And our mobile prices are much better. I am on a $59/month plan with the "best" network which includes unlimited call/SMS and 20GB data, and includes repayments for my Google Pixel 2XL. (So going by the RRP at the time my monthly plan cost is under $1 over two years).
Of course my plan was wildly good value, (without the deal I got it should have been around $100/month) even if it the highest monthly fee I've ever paid to a telco. More common plans are around $40 without a handset and better inclusions.
For ~$10/month there's heaps of options with unlimited calls/SMS and ~1GB data. There's also prepaid PAYG plans (minimum cost about $10/year) where it's a few cents per minute/SMS/megabyte. Incoming calls and SMS are always free.
The most expensive plan I know of is $199/month and that includes truly-unlimited data (reports of people using terabytes) and the high-end phone of your choice, as well as international calls and roaming inclusions.
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@Zemm I don't know what the spread's like in Canada, but it probably helps that almost everyone lives near the coast here with very few far inland.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Proper reviewers do not let it be known that they are reviewers
According to some restaurateurs I know, reviewers are pretty obvious if you know what to look for. (Who else takes notes while eating dinner?)
I have done note-taking while eating dinner at restaurants occasionally. With an actual paper notebook and pencil. Although not about the food, just random ideas I was noting down. Maybe should start doing it more, may increase the service and quality of food I get!
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Proper reviewers do not let it be known that they are reviewers
According to some restaurateurs I know, reviewers are pretty obvious if you know what to look for. (Who else takes notes while eating dinner?)
If the sign is they take notes while already eating the dinner, it comes too late to tell you you should pay special attention when you made that dinner. To meet the goal of reviewing your usual meal it is enough if they can remain incoscipious until they have ordered.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Nope thread is
So I can either allow all the tracking or pay for no ads. So I can't even choose ads with no tracking. Well, fuck you AccuWeather!
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@Atazhaia It's a rather crappy service anyway that many people just use because the preinstalled widget on their phone uses it and replacing it with a better one.
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@Zemm said in In other news today...:
More common plans are around $40 without a handset and better inclusions.
I just got a new prepaid card after I moved: €10/mon for 20 GB data plus 20 GB between midnight an d 9AM :)
Shitholes.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
The RSPCA said animal collection officer Michael Harrington responded Saturday night to Northview Drive in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, on a report of a tarantula loose in the street.
"The call came in at 11:30 p.m. and I made it to the scene just after midnight,"
There are better ways to spend a night...
... but not many.
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
@Zemm I don't know what the spread's like in Canada, but it probably helps that almost everyone lives near the coast here with very few far inland.
AFAIK, it's pretty similar. Almost everyone lives along the southern border, with a bias towards the east and west sides and away from the middle.
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Assange was finally arrested
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/crime/julian-assange-arrested-at-ecuadorian-embassy
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
Assange was finally arrested
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/crime/julian-assange-arrested-at-ecuadorian-embassy
Now in a thread near you: https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/26439/assange-arrested/30
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"We asked them to try the broom test -- to ensure the fox was still alive -- and were told that it didn't move but tracked them with its eyes and seemed to be breathing well," she said.
"As soon as I arrived I realized that this wasn't a live fox -- but a dead fox who'd been stuffed by a taxidermist," she said. "He'd clearly been placed under a bush outside of the houses as a prank. After speaking to some of the neighbors, I soon discovered that someone had been moving it around the neighborhood."