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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
Bierhumpen
The Nope, NSFW, and Necro threads are
/bad-literal-translations
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Who the hell is shagging all these monkeys?
I’m so tired of this shit.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
Who needs bottles? Just get the keg.
In fact forget the bottles or the keg. Just get Kellnerinnen mit Bierhumpen.
Filed under: Ein Liter!
Status: Boy, it’s been awhile. Cheers!
(Yes, that’s live)
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Keith eh...eggs are bought by the dozen. And that's what was on the receipt. What? Did you expect me to do math?
You could have said 0.625 gross.
I don't see anything gross about it.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
that’s live
its' hours later already ... Cant' be the same beer
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
that’s live
its' hours later already ... Cant' be the same beer
Did you check the EXIF or are you just trolling? But yes, I’m indeed having another Maß (that’s Bavarian, we call it a Stein (stone) here) in the meantime, so you’re right.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla what time-frame do you eat 90 eggs in?
Like, two weeks, personally, if I'm not paying attention...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla what time-frame do you eat 90 eggs in?
Like, two weeks, personally, if I'm not paying attention...
That doesn’t sound healthy, but what else is new.
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Could be worse, you could be Gaston who eats 5 dozen eggs every day and is now the size of a barge.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
Could be worse, you could be Gaston who eats 5 dozen eggs every day and is now the size of a barge.
I’d be the size of a barge if it would make all the ladies swoon over me
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@izzion but Gaston's an insufferable tool with it.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
Could be worse, you could be Gaston who eats 5 dozen eggs every day and is now the size of a barge.
Upvoted for getting the French to stop using the Metric system.
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In case embed fails, video title:
FCC Suspects Robocalls Come From OverseasVideo description:
In perhaps the least surprising announcement of all time.
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@Boner said in In other news today...:
Ok, it wasn't an explosion (i.e. supersonic flame propagation didn't seem to be involved—it's , but I skimmed the article), but still, something that a plain vax (with whatever scent; scents are trace amounts only) candle shouldn't be capable of doing. So I'm wondering what the problem was.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
a plain vax
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
Nope you boot it thread is
I would be happy to fuck with random computers donated to me.
Also, apparently Google thinks fuck is not a word anymore...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Also, apparently Google thinks fuck is not a word anymore...
Autocucumber is generally wired to not correct things to profanity, which made it doubly funny when I got my iPad to autocorrect to 'fuckery'.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Also, apparently Google thinks fuck is not a word anymore...
Autocucumber is generally wired to not correct things to profanity, which made it doubly funny when I got my iPad to autocorrect to 'fuckery'.
Yes, and it’s annoying as . I’m not eight years old, I’m going to type whatever I want.
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Relevant part:
The family says an Amber Alert, which notifies users about missing and abducted children, abruptly produced an "ear shattering" sound level that ruptured B.G.'s eardrum and damaged his inner ear. As a result, B.G. has permanent hearing loss and tinnitus, suffers from dizziness and needs to wear a hearing aid, according to the lawsuit.
Not limiting the volume of the earbuds at all is a bit of a move. You'd think limiting to 130dB or something would be common sense.
I actually tried to look if some law prevents the phone manufacturers from just respecting the sound settings of the phone with AMBER alerts. Couldn't find any on a brief search. But lots of instructions on how to turn off the alerts. In fact, it seems to be easier to turn AMBER alerts off entirely than to make them respect the general sound settings.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
Germans? Running out of beer (bottles)? What's this world coming to!
I'm seeing a discrepancy here.
Not really. The glass might be recycled, but that does not mean that the result is a beer bottle again. Or a correct type of beer bottle.
Of course, beer bottles can be returned via the deposit system just like PET bottles or cans, but the deposit is just 8 cents (!!), so not everyone bothers (especially considering that hauling around glass bottles is actually much harder than plastic ones).
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
Germans? Running out of beer (bottles)? What's this world coming to!
I'm seeing a discrepancy here.
Not really. The glass might be recycled, but that does not mean that the result is a beer bottle again. Or a correct type of beer bottle.
Or even glass fit for a bottle. The problem with recycling glass this way is that you get a mixture that may or may not be suitable for anything but the brownest of bottles, if it's not too brittle for even that. The same problem, in other words, as with any crush-and-mix recycling.
A long time ago, bottles were recycled by washing and refilling. Beer bottle in, beer bottle out. So the recycling output exactly matched the general consumption. But that required manual sorting, and labor costs soared due to other societal developments, so we got the current method of crushing all the bottles and hoping someone needs variably-brown glass.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
A long time ago, bottles were recycled by washing and refilling. Beer bottle in, beer bottle out. So the recycling output exactly matched the general consumption. But that required manual sorting, and labor costs soared due to other societal developments, so we got the current method of crushing all the bottles and hoping someone needs variably-brown glass.
That's still done like that. But you can't reuse bottles forever. At some point they go to recycling. And of course there's also breakage every now and then, so there's fewer bottles coming back in than go out.
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We just need to do away with beer bottles and have a beer pipeline like Bruges except to every house.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
a beer pipeline like Bruges
funny in context because it runs between the brewery in the city center and the bottler plant in an industrial zone
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@loopback0 That's a bit wasteful. How about carting it to local distribution centers by the keg instead? And then people could get theirs from a tap in the distribution center. With whatever bottles they happen to have.
Oh! We could keep some glasses there, so people could just buy a glass of beer, drink, and be on their way. Very handy. And imagine the potential for local socializing!
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Not really today, but I still thought it would be a good fit for here (I'll let you guess the reason, there are many).
Because the article is long as fuck (and nobody's going to read it anyway), the money shot:
During our pilot study, we found out how quickly magpies team up to solve a group problem. Within 10 minutes of fitting the final tracker, we witnessed an adult female without a tracker working with her bill to try and remove the harness off of a younger bird.
Within hours, most of the other trackers had been removed. By day three, even the dominant male of the group had its tracker successfully dismantled.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
TLDR: SanDisk uses a custom encryption algorithm that claims 1024-bit but is really only 128-bit because of dumb design decisions and encryption is hard.
Funny part in the article:
It looks randomly generated but it is definitively not unique
Reminds me of xkcd:
public int getRandomNumber() { return 4; // determined by fair dice rolling }
So a question remains: did xkcd copy from ENCSecure, or the other way round? Or do they both have a common source?
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
7 years in prison for logging into corporate systems and deleting the company's data
Doing things wrong. He should have written some bug which some when after he left the company destryed all the data by some accident...
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
A long time ago, bottles were recycled by washing and refilling. Beer bottle in, beer bottle out. So the recycling output exactly matched the general consumption. But that required manual sorting, and labor costs soared due to other societal developments, so we got the current method of crushing all the bottles and hoping someone needs variably-brown glass.
That is still done and I have explicitly mentioned it: the bottles can be returned at any shop that sells them. They are definitely sorted by their type and AFAIK later washed and reused.
It's just that hauling glass (ie heavy) glasses around when shopping is quite a hassle for meagre 8c deposit (especially when PET bottles and aluminum cans have 25c deposit and weight pretty much nothing), so it's much easier to dump them to nearest bottle container (which are usually not only closer, but one can also park the car directly beside them).
Unless it's a whole Kiste, of course. People return that.
Btw, how should I call it in English? Beer box? Beer crate? 20-pack / 24-pack?
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
A long time ago, bottles were recycled by washing and refilling. Beer bottle in, beer bottle out. So the recycling output exactly matched the general consumption.
That's done with the bottles returned rather than thrown into the glass bin. But that's where the
@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
deposit is just 8 cents (!!), so not everyone bothers
comes in (hm, pretty sure it was 50 cents for plastic ones)
But that required manual sorting, and labor costs soared due to other societal developments, so we got the current method of crushing all the bottles and hoping someone needs variably-brown glass.
All the stores have had sorting machines for around 20 years now.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
Unless it's a whole Kiste, of course. People return that.
Btw, how should I call it in English? Beer box? Beer crate? 20-pack / 24-pack?
Case.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
Btw, how should I call it in English? Beer box? Beer crate? 20-pack / 24-pack?
Case.
Crate also works just fine.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
Btw, how should I call it in English? Beer box? Beer crate? 20-pack / 24-pack?
Case.
Crate also works just fine.
Never heard that here in the US. A 20+ package of cans is often called a suitcase here, due to the shape. Less than 20 packages are usually called $n-packs (6-pack, 12-pack being the most common).
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
Btw, how should I call it in English? Beer box? Beer crate? 20-pack / 24-pack?
Case.
Crate also works just fine.
Never heard that here in the US. A 20+ package of cans is often called a suitcase here, due to the shape. Less than 20 packages are usually called $n-packs (6-pack, 12-pack being the most common).
In Upstate New York, there's also a "thirty rack" which has 30 bottles. (I don't think you use "rack" for cans.)
Five hours south of where I went to college, the same thing is called a "thirty pack."
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@GuyWhoKilledBear savages.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in In other news today...:
Btw, how should I call it in English? Beer box? Beer crate? 20-pack / 24-pack?
Probably depends on packaging too. Here in NL, the common name is 'krat', though 'kist' is used as well, but exclusively for plastic cases where you pay a deposit on the case in addition to the bottles inside.
6-packs/20-pack/24-pack make me think of a cardboard box or a set of cans tied together with plastic rings.
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@acrow The relevant regulations say that a specific notification sound and/or vibration cadence must be used, but nothing about required volume. It also says that the user must be allowed to (ahead of time) mute it if they're on a call, and may be allowed to mute it if they're not on a call. As well as turn off all but
PresidentialNational alerts.
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@TwelveBaud said in In other news today...:
@acrow The relevant regulations say that a specific notification sound and/or vibration cadence must be used, but nothing about required volume. It also says that the user must be allowed to (ahead of time) mute it if they're on a call, and may be allowed to mute it if they're not on a call. As well as turn off all but
PresidentialNational alerts.All of this sounds like the first thing to do is turn all this shit off.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@TwelveBaud said in In other news today...:
@acrow The relevant regulations say that a specific notification sound and/or vibration cadence must be used, but nothing about required volume. It also says that the user must be allowed to (ahead of time) mute it if they're on a call, and may be allowed to mute it if they're not on a call. As well as turn off all but
PresidentialNational alerts.All of this sounds like the first thing to do is turn all this shit off.
Was it @Polygeekery who recommended "everything but the imminent tornado/flood alarm"?
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@acrow I don't remember who recommended that, but I discovered I needed to enable those, because I wasn't getting them.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@TwelveBaud said in In other news today...:
@acrow The relevant regulations say that a specific notification sound and/or vibration cadence must be used, but nothing about required volume. It also says that the user must be allowed to (ahead of time) mute it if they're on a call, and may be allowed to mute it if they're not on a call. As well as turn off all but
PresidentialNational alerts.All of this sounds like the first thing to do is turn all this shit off.
Was it @Polygeekery who recommended "everything but the imminent tornado/flood alarm"?
I wouldn't even recommend that. I turned everything off. All of it. Even the thunderstorm and tornado warnings are too many false positives to ever be useful. Hell, I once slept through a tornado that passed very close to where I was sleeping so I doubt their efficacy, at least in my case.
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@HardwareGeek he's lucky they arrested him. When it comes to cattle thieves they usually don't bother.