In other news today...
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@raceprouk Aww, I suspected someone might have posted it, but I was on my phone and didn't want to spend the 15 minutes it takes to scroll up.
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@dragoon said in In other news today...:
The ignorance of people is truly infinite.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/millennials-unearth-an-amazing-hack-to-get-free-tv-the-antenna-1501686958damn paywalled sites.
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Haven't seen this on here yet, so:
http://mashable.com/2017/06/06/peta-fake-animal-abuse-video/
tl;dr: PETA created a fake but very real-looking video, posted it online in the hopes that people would think it was real, and tried to make it go viral. They then contacted Mashable, proposing that Mashable first write an article about the video as if it was real to try to help it go viral, then later would have the scoop that it was actually fake. Mashable declined, then wrote about the whole sordid affair, with the comment:
we here at Mashable don't take kindly to being approached for partnership on a shady, ethically ass-backwards marketing campaign.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
damn paywalled sites.
Don't worry. cetusnews ripped off WSJ's content, so you can read it on @anonymous234's post.
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@dcon
Yeah, but laziness is to finding a non-paywall link.
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@arantor said in In other news today...:
Paper can puncture skin and eyes. We should ban paper until this is resolved!
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Paper can puncture skin and eyes. We should ban paper until this is resolved!
Tablets for everyone!
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@anotherusername PETA, lying? Why I never!
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
PETA's new formula: deception, manipulation, and fake animal abuse
New?
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@arantor said in In other news today...:
Paper can puncture skin and eyes. We should ban paper until this is resolved!
Hey, I've heard about this stuff called hydroxic acid? Sounds pretty nasty but apparently it's not illegal anywhere! We should do something about it!
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@pleegwat didn't we learn that it was hydroxylic acid that was the problem?
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
PETA's new formula: deception, manipulation, and fake animal abuse
New?
Meet the new PETA, same as the old PETA.
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@arantor That stuff's almost as bad as hydrogen hydroxide.
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@pleegwat said in In other news today...:
Hey, I've heard about this stuff called hydroxic acid? Sounds pretty nasty but apparently it's not illegal anywhere! We should do something about it!
Yes, it causes all kind of trouble in Canada
I support banning this shit !!!
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@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
@arantor said in In other news today...:
And somehow they roped in Patrick Stewart into that piece of .
I think at the stage of career he's in, he's not worried about being taken seriously anymore. Hence he's had a recurring spot on American Dad, was a cat on Family Guy once, narrated Ted, and lent his voice to poop.
At the end of the day, he's still going to be remembered most as Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS starship Enterprise.
I saw on one of the late shows' (Conan I think?) website a video blurb of him talking about getting the role and being super excited about it. I guess his agent was trying to word it as a positive to him and Patrick guessed/hoped he'd get poop.
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@mikehurley said in In other news today...:
@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
@arantor said in In other news today...:
And somehow they roped in Patrick Stewart into that piece of .
I think at the stage of career he's in, he's not worried about being taken seriously anymore. Hence he's had a recurring spot on American Dad, was a cat on Family Guy once, narrated Ted, and lent his voice to poop.
At the end of the day, he's still going to be remembered most as Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS starship Enterprise.
I saw on one of the late shows' (Conan I think?) website a video blurb of him talking about getting the role and being super excited about it. I guess his agent was trying to word it as a positive to him and Patrick guessed/hoped he'd get poop.
It puts me in mind of the situation with Robert Deniro. Time there was when, if he walked into the path of a bus one day, all the obits would mention his role in Taxi Driver and the iconic dialogue "you talkin' to me?"
But as actors do, he went on doing other things, and along came Meet the Parents, so if he meets that bus now, the stories are just as likely to credit him with the line "I have nipples, Greg; could you milk me?"
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@dragoon said in In other news today...:
@dcon
Yeah, but laziness is to finding a non-paywall link.Just drop the WSJ link into archive.is.
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@pleegwat said in In other news today...:
Hey, I've heard about this stuff called hydroxic acid? Sounds pretty nasty but apparently it's not illegal anywhere! We should do something about it!
Also, it could cut your head right off!!! !!!
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
@carrievs said in In other news today...:
@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
"They're saying, 'Who would parent Christopher better, the foster parents or the parents?' is basically what they're going on."
Isn't that the fundamental basis of all these cases?
Is it not supposed to be "would the parents parent $child adequately."
True, but that doesn't change the fundamental question.
The fundamental question is "should we take kids away from their parents just because we think that someone somewhere can take better care of the kids than their parents can".
Ordinarily, there's a pretty high bar to just how bad the home situation must be before we do something so drastic as take kids away from their parents.
There should be a high bar. Kids are ok with poor parents and often worse with stranger parents.
If the standard becomes something more of the line that we do not remove children unless there actual evidence of physical abuse that can lead to major harm, then some kids will fall through the cracks.
This is sad and unfortunate, but the alternative, that the state can decide you are doing the wrong thing while parenting and can take your children away for borderline issues is worse.
Taking kids away from their parents fucks them up. Kids love both their abusive and nonabusive parents. They will often seek the love of the more abusive parent more than the non-abusive parent. Taking them away against their will cause further chaos in their lives.
One of things that I struggled with while being in group homes and foster homes was that I had so little control in my day to day life, in my ability to make plans, and overall my ability to attempt to make normal friendships outside of the group home. Because of the strict rules created by an organization that must protect it's ass from lawsuits. (So I don't blame them.)
Remember, older kids won't go to a foster home initially, they will go to a group home. Group homes are much more structured than foster homes.
There are also horror stories about foster homes. Mine were ok, and only had the general idiosyncrasies that humans do.
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Kind of an unfortunate name...
This is the second serious fire in this tower block in as many years. Fortunately, the building was evacuated with no injuries reported so far, even though the fire was able to spread up the tower.
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@carrievs said in In other news today...:
with no injuries reported so far
There are two probable reasons for this, the second from a friend who's worked over there
- that's no injuries to people of importance
- even if there were injuries/deaths, Dubai would still report it as no injuries
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Oh noes! HUNDREDS of people showed up to apply at their New Jersey warehouse. Cue the handwringing, the Feds must be lying to us about being close to Full Employment!
What's that? Full Employment means 4% of the 65M+ person labor force doesn't have a job? And that would be millions of people nation wide?
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@izzion "Full employment" is an idea, not a number. At "full employment", virtually all of the unemployed should be on short stints between jobs or shopping around to find jobs that they like. If that were the case, I wouldn't expect to see huge crowds of desperate people lining up in hopes of scoring
fairly low-paying, physically demanding jobs in high-pressure warehouses
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@anotherusername
I guess I wouldn't call hundreds of people lining up for 1,500 positions at a warehouse that's connected by bus ride to Trenton, NJ "huge crowds". But I guess there are other sources that pegged the numbers at "thousands" of people rather than "hundreds" --http://www.philly.com/philly/business/retail/thousands-descend-on-robbinsville-n-j-for-50000-amazon-jobs-20170802.htmlStill, starting wage of $13.50-$14.50 and a company that does pay some benefits and stock options seems like a fairly decent low-skilled job from my lofty white collar perch.
Among the job-seekers was Jessica Grater, 34, from Bordentown, who arrived at 8:15.
She said she was seeking warehouse work, with Amazon offering $13.50 to $14.50 an hour.Lindsey said that of the 50,000 jobs, about 40,000 are full time with health care, 401(k) with a 50 percent company match, and paid vacation.
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Ok, 2 years ago, but...
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@pjh Whoa, nature has finally managed to defeat bullets.
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We won’t allow any technology that takes away jobs.
In other news today, India officially bans all technology.
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
@pjh Whoa, nature has finally managed to defeat bullets.
A hippo's skin is so thick, it's impervious to small arms fire.
A .50 cal sniper rifle will still get through it though.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Oh noes! HUNDREDS of people showed up to apply at their New Jersey warehouse. Cue the handwringing, the Feds must be lying to us about being close to Full Employment!
What's that? Full Employment means 4% of the 65M+ person labor force doesn't have a job? And that would be millions of people nation wide?
I've read the article a couple of times. What was the troubling insight?
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
we here at Mashable don't take kindly to being approached for partnership on a shady, ethically ass-backwards marketing campaign.
Gawker would have been all over it.
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Hey, make those canopies with solar panels FTW!
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
In other news today, India officially bans all technology.
"Buggywhip manufacturer posts record profits... "
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@dcon think how much pollution will be reduced when all the motorists die of cancer in a few years from being stuck in those tunnels with all the car exhaust!!
I feel it only fair that electric car drivers can opt out of the pollution tunnels but in exchange they have to spend 5 hours a week in the exhaust stack of a local powerplant.
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Woah...
I flew through there the day before (incident occurred on July 7th).
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
Hey, make those canopies with solar panels FTW!
Ignore the Greenpeace angle; the article I read was in The Times, but £.
https://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2017/08/03/air-pollution-tunnels-worse-for-drivers/
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@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
@pjh Whoa, nature has finally managed to defeat bullets.
A hippo's skin is so thick, it's impervious to small arms fire.
A .50 cal sniper rifle will still get through it though.
Also, stopping rifles.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Woah...
I flew through there the day before (incident occurred on July 7th).
WTF was that guy on an extended shift or something?
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Air pollution tunnels being considered by Highways England could make air more toxic for drivers, say
scientistsanyone with common senseFTFR
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
@pjh Whoa, nature has finally managed to defeat bullets.
A hippo's skin is so thick, it's impervious to small arms fire.
A .50 cal sniper rifle will still get through it though.
Also, stopping rifles.
Next we're going to talk about what it takes to penetrate a hippo...