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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@karla said in In other news today...:
She gets food, clothing, shelter, etc for free.
It's not for free if you make her wash the floor
It's not like she did that for 40 hours a week.
At best it was an hour a week and even at $15/hour that would be $60 per month. That might pay for her food. The rest is still free.
Plus now that she can walk...she's been on strike.
Entitled little shit.
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@karla
A case of the apple not falling far?
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@karla
A case of the apple not falling far?There was no striking when I was kid. Striking would get me thrown in the hole (also known as my bedroom).
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@dreikin said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
http://www.focustimes.org/longview-tx-man-shocked-prostitute-booked-wife/
I'm not convinced that's a real news article. No author attribution
and no date, for one.I couldn't tell. Other parts of the site seemed like non-joke articles and it seemed amusing enough to be posted here either way.
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@karla said in In other news today...:
@izzion said in In other news today...:
@karla
A case of the apple not falling far?There was no striking when I was kid. Striking would get me thrown in the hole (also known as my bedroom).
....your hole is a bedroom????
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@karla said in In other news today...:
@izzion said in In other news today...:
@karla
A case of the apple not falling far?There was no striking when I was kid. Striking would get me thrown in the hole (also known as my bedroom).
....your hole is a bedroom????
In case you are seriously asking:
I was joking that being sent to my room as a kid was like being thrown into solitary confinement.
This was a joke, I am in no way minimizing the negative effect solitary confinement can have on people.
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@karla said in In other news today...:
n case you are seriously asking:
I was jokingYes, I know, and I was trying to make an allusion. ;)
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Washing your hair probably won't be a priority following a nuclear attack - but experts are warning if you do use conditioner it could be LETHAL as it will 'bind radioactive material' to your locks
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@boner said in In other news today...:
First off, this video was not the most useful auto-box content.
Experts say that conditioner can 'bind radioactive material to your hair', making the deadly particles extremely difficult to remove.
What, shaving is difficult?
'Radiation contamination particles can get between those scales', he said.
Conditioner also leaves in specific oily compounds which make it easier for nuclear particles to stick to it. Unlike shampoo, it is meant to stay behind in the hair.
Not only conditioner, but people should also avoid using moisturisers and stick cosmetic products as they too collect radioactive dust, experts warned.
Ok, that makes sense. Let's not use them after a nuclear blast, then.
I still say shaving off the hair would work, though...However, if water is available, survivors should shower with soap and shampoo to wash off radioactive dust.
Now, wait a second! Who conditions their hair without shampooing it first?
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
What, shaving is difficult?
Give it a few days for the radiation sickness to set in, and you won't have to. It's a problem that solves itself!
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According to a Dayton police report, a woman arrived at the viewing claiming to be the current girlfriend of the deceased man, however the wife asked the woman to be removed from the viewing.
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Windows App Store is finally useful
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@timebandit It won't last: the MPAA and the RIAA will descend upon Redmond like vultures, and demand MS remove every single one of those apps lest Satya Nadella be forced to part with his soul.
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@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
lest Satya Nadella be forced to part with his soul
I guess it's too late for that
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Full eclipse of the sun in the US, only a partial one in Canada.
Damned exchange rate
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See if you can spot where it went wrong:
Hint: It is in the first paragraph of the story.
A hitchhiking robot that relied on the kindness of strangers to travel the world has been found with its head and arms ripped off, just two weeks into its first American tour.
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See if you can spot where it went wrong:
From the article:
It had earlier hitched across the entire of Canada for 26 days and completed a hitchhiking adventure through Germany.
Easily spotted it: it crossed the border into USA
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Huh. I remember hitchBOT's first trip in 2014; I didn't realize it was still around. Well, not so much anymore. If you'd told me they were going to try that same experiment in the U.S., I could have told them exactly how that was going to go at much less cost.
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@mzh said in In other news today...:>
I could have sworn I read about an experiment a long time ago where a bacteria's non-coding DNA was replaced with random DNA sequences and there was no apparent change in behavior. I'm probably wrong about this.
My combinatorics professor believed that DNA did not code things directly, but that it was simply a bar code. He claimed that there was not enough information for it to code things directly. http://bookstore.dorrancepublishing.com/on-the-a-barcodea-functionality-of-dna-or-the-phenomenon-of-life-in-the-physical-universe/
I argued against this in my term paper.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@remi said in In other news today...:
Well, and a forth one: now give me back my dog!"
Should've used a language with type checking.
A procedural programming language without type checking
I'm not sure it was an accident. Don't know the relative value of a trained dog and a sheep.
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
@mzh said in In other news today...:>
I could have sworn I read about an experiment a long time ago where a bacteria's non-coding DNA was replaced with random DNA sequences and there was no apparent change in behavior. I'm probably wrong about this.
My combinatorics professor believed that DNA did not code things directly, but that it was simply a bar code. He claimed that there was not enough information for it to code things directly. http://bookstore.dorrancepublishing.com/on-the-a-barcodea-functionality-of-dna-or-the-phenomenon-of-life-in-the-physical-universe/
Simon Y. Berkovich presents what he envisages to be a groundbreaking theory in the scientific community.
Even the blurb sounds doubtful/sarcastic.
With the barcode interpretation of DNA, zillions of biological objects can be seen as a population of users on the Internet of the physical Universe. The author responds to two perplexing questions: How can an organism be built from an information-deficient genome? and Why do more complex organisms have less complex genomes? The striking difference between dead and living matter lies in the intensity of the involvement of the informational infrastructure of the physical world.
Ah yes, that's some weapons grade woo there.
The problem of the organization of Life is treated with the methodology of computer engineering design.
Those claims don't sound correct even under "the methodology of computer engineering design", as far as I can tell.
@chozang said in In other news today...:
I argued against this in my term paper.
How'd that go?
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@dreikin said in In other news today...:
@chozang said in In other news today...:
I argued against this in my term paper.
How'd that go?
I raised an objection to his theory, and that was when he suggested I make it my term paper. I said that I was as concerned as anyone would be arguing against a professor or boss, and he reassured me that I need not fear. It was a small class. During the presentation of my paper, there were only three other students, only one of whom I remember commenting. He was disappointed in the arguments on both sides, from me and Dr. Berkovich.
Dr. Berkovich was true to his word, and did not punish me for disagreeing with him.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
Now, wait a second! Who conditions their hair without shampooing it first?
First, people with bleached and damaged hair might (I think those with very curly might as well).
But the point is if you condition your hair after shampooing your hair will collect and hold more environmental debri.
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US first blind President:
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@zecc said in In other news today...:
@Qarla said in In other news today...:
environmental debris.
FTFY
Fucking spell check failed me.
https://media3.giphy.com/media/cv02H6eD1CbdK/200_s.gif
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@heterodox said in In other news today...:
much less cost.
I say if it cost much more than $50 + shipping they were way overbudget.
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In the letters section..
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
lest Satya Nadella be forced to part with his soul
I guess it's too late for that
Yeah, I think the joke would be on them...
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It's a rhino with a big horn. Yay.
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Close the door, eh?
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@boomzilla He was only supposed to close the bloody door shut!
Yeah, it doesn't quite work, but fuck it.
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When Nintendo warned in early August that preorders for the Super NES Classic Edition would start "later this month," we had no idea that two major retailers would sell out of their allotments in the middle of a random Monday night.
Really, no idea? Even though the exact same thing happened with the last one? And everyone had been saying since the very first announcement that it would happen again with this one?
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ZSNES is better
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Add a Skeleton Driver to MESS
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Farmer Rachel Rivers, responsible for the idea, said "I'm sure vegetarians will hate this."
The militant ones, sure. Normal vegetarians will just shrug and look for cat videos on YouTube.
"We farm and this is what we do. You can't keep them as pets."
Actually, you can, but you need to register as a keeper of pigs, and get a licence to walk them.
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@polygeekery
You've got to get up early to beat the @Boner
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Why?
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@boner From the article
Humood Al Shimmari, an official who conducts marriages, said that there has been a spurt in divorce cases in the last two years.
He said that while there are many reasons including evolving views towards traditions and social norms, modern technology was the key culprit.
Of course it is
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Maybe we can finally break the De Beers monopoly.