In other news today...
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@dragoon said in In other news today...:
This is my shocked face:
On average participants spent 22 per cent more time
Cot dang, and I thought I was bad!
Filed under: I was talking about the 'per cent' part
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@magus said in In other news today...:
changing things up to add more depth and such
IOW, going back to non-flat design.
Progress !!!
You know they've slowly been taking us back to the 3.11 interface, right?
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Well then. They violated the law, and they paid for it.
I wonder how many other times they got away with something like this...
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Irma is now being said to be the most powerful hurricane in the Atlantic in recorded history.
Meanwhile, tropical storm Jose, which is expected to hit some of the same places as Irma in a few days time, will probably be a hurricane by tonight.
You folks who live places where you get hurricanes, is this just getting a lot of publicity this time, or is it unusual to get so many in such close succession?
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@carrievs Hm, I thought Irma was just hitting the news in NL because it's hitting the Dutch territories. Guess I was wrong.
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@pleegwat Well it's expected to hit the British Virgin Islands (Richard Branson owns one of them and is reportedly refusing to leave it), but I don't think that has much effect on our coverage of it - it's barely mentioned and to be honest I'm not sure how many Brits know where the Virgin Islands are.
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@carrievs said in In other news today...:
Irma is now being said to be the most powerful hurricane in the Atlantic in recorded history.
Meanwhile, tropical storm Jose, which is expected to hit some of the same places as Irma in a few days time, will probably be a hurricane by tonight.
You folks who live places where you get hurricanes, is this just getting a lot of publicity this time, or is it unusual to get so many in such close succession?
With hurricanes, it seems to be all or nothing. Either you get none that hit or a bunch hit all at once. Chaotic systems are hard to predict. This is the first hurricane to threaten to hit where I live (in central Florida) in the 10 years I've lived here. There's still a change (a small one) that it will go weird and go hit someone else instead.
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
You know they've slowly been taking us back to the 3.11 interface, right?
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
You know they've slowly been taking us back to the 3.11 interface, right?
Oh cool! I'll feel right at home!
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@carrievs said in In other news today...:
rma is now being said to be the most powerful hurricane in the Atlantic in recorded history.
And FEMA runs out of money just as it hits Florida... Oops.
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@timebandit Wow, I didn't know Linux GUIs had got that advanced recently
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@jaloopa Yes, it's really advanced now, we have graphics
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@timebandit Ooh, your timecat can travel over 3 minutes?
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Headquartered in Switzerland, the Barry Callebaut Group has been listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange since 1998 and resulted from the merger between Belgian chocolate maker Callebaut and French chocolate producer Cacao Barry.
According to the local articles the R&D was done in a hell-hole called Wieze so ... Go !
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@heterodox said in In other news today...:
@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
@dcon First fake news, now fake weather. What's next, fake sports?
Golf's been around for ages; that's not new.
I fail to see the …
Also, I think fantasy sports beat out fake weather.
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@luhmann said in In other news today...:
Headquartered in Switzerland, the Barry Callebaut Group has been listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange since 1998 and resulted from the merger between Belgian chocolate maker Callebaut and French chocolate producer Cacao Barry.
According to the local articles the R&D was done in a hell-hole called Wieze so ... Go !
Those Germans are pretty handy with chocolate.
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@raceprouk Didn't bother to read after "A chocolate firm says they've created a fourth type of chocolate after milk, dark and white" – white chocolate isn't a type of chocolate. So I just assume this is a derivative as well.
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@heterodox said in In other news today...:
So I just assume this is a derivative as well.
Apparently not: it's made using a different type of cocoa bean.
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@dreikin said in In other news today...:
Those Germans
Just because Wieze has 'Oktoberhallen' doesn't make it German.
The crappy local pilsner might.
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@benjamin-hall it's a good example of the Texas Sharpshooter fallacy.
Chaotic systems tend to not produce "nice" randomness -- at least, not at the scale at which we're observing them. They tend to look very unevenly distributed unless you can zoom way out and look at them at a massive sample size.
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@jaloopa Yes, it's really advanced now, we have graphics
It took you three minutes to enter in Ctrl-D???
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@raceprouk :shutupandtakemymoney.xls:
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
It took you three minutes to enter in Ctrl-D???
I was in no rush, since I know for a fact that my machine won't reboot without my consent just to apply some updates
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@heterodox said in In other news today...:
@raceprouk Didn't bother to read after "A chocolate firm says they've created a fourth type of chocolate after milk, dark and white" – white chocolate isn't a type of chocolate. So I just assume this is a derivative as well.
Funny, I was thinking the same, except with "milk chocolate isn't a type of chocolate"... I think there is more difference in process between dark/white than between dark/milk?
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@remi white chocolate doesn't contain any cocoa, so isn't chocolate by that metric. Milk does
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@heterodox said in In other news today...:
white chocolate isn't a type of chocolate. So I just assume this is a derivative as well.
Americans should love it. It will fit in well beside the 'cheese' and 'beer'.
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@jaloopa It contains cocoa butter, which is made out of cocoa beans (I think?). So you could say it's part of the "cocoa-beans derived products".
I'm not sure there is any official definition of what a chocolate is. Actually, I'm pretty sure that there must be one to define which products can call themselves "chocolate" or have to be called "mix of industrial waste with a tiny bit of flavouring". If white chocolate is sold as white chocolate, well then, I guess by that definition it must be.
(by my own personal definition, white chocolate is more chocolate than most shitty milk chocolate found in most candy bars...)
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@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@remi white chocolate doesn't contain any cocoa, so isn't chocolate by that metric. Milk does
I did not know that milk contains cocoa.
(couldn't resist the temptation to )
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@remi I looked this up a while ago when a co worker was insisting that white chocolate wasn't chocolate and I wanted to out him, but it turned out he was right
White chocolate doesn’t qualify as genuine chocolate because it doesn’t contain chocolate solids (a.k.a. cocoa powder).
If we're going by "what I like to eat" then that would disqualify dark chocolate for me. It's just bitter, not tasty
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@remi said in In other news today...:
@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@remi white chocolate doesn't contain any cocoa, so isn't chocolate by that metric. Milk does
I did not know that milk contains cocoa.
(couldn't resist the temptation to )
Yeah, I was expecting that one
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@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
White chocolate doesn’t qualify as genuine chocolate because it doesn’t contain chocolate solids (a.k.a. cocoa powder).
Meh. Who decided that cocoa powder, as opposed to cocoa butter, was the defining factor of chocolate? A food editor on Huffington Post hardly seems like an authoritative source to me.
Wikipedia mentions US (and EU) regulations allowing it to be sold as "chocolate". That seems a better, if as much arbitrary, definition.
If we're going by "what I like to eat" then that would disqualify dark chocolate for me. It's just bitter, not tasty
Well then obviously you are wrong and only deserve to die.
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@remi You're French. What do you know about quality food?
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@jaloopa Oooh! Oh! How dare you! I'll be waiting for you at dawn. As the offended, I'll pick the weapons: a snails eating contest.
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White chocolate doesn’t qualify as genuine chocolate because it doesn’t contain chocolate solids (a.k.a. cocoa powder).
But it does contain cocoa butter, which is made using cocoa beans. Therefore, it's chocolate.
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@remi said in In other news today...:
Actually, I'm pretty sure that there must be one to define which products can call themselves "chocolate" or have to be called "mix of industrial waste with a tiny bit of flavouring".
There is a separate definition for “white chocolate”, “milk chocolate” and “dark chocolate”, each with different requirements for cocoa butter, cocoa solids and milk proteins.
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@remi How did you find out my one weakness? A deathly fear of gastropods!
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The article has some good ideas in it, but misses the best idea of them all:
JUST SAY "NO"
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@raceprouk So you're telling me marketing is about getting people to buy more stuff? WHAT A SHOCKING REVEAL!
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@anonymous234 It's a bit like something I read on Ambush Predator this morning. It was commenting on a story where someone with a gambling addiction (from the sounds of it) wants the government to pass laws forcing bookies and casinos to kick people out who can't stop gambling. It obviously never occurred to him to JUST STOP FUCKING GAMBLING ALREADY.
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@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
JUST SAY "NO"
there's a lot of psychology behind the way they do it that makes it harder than one might think to just say no. If you're aware of what's happening you can guard against it, and it's obviously not impossible to resist, but if your guard is down it's easy to sleepwalk into saying yes.
@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
JUST STOP FUCKING GAMBLING ALREADY.
this one is even harder for people with a genuine addiction. Again, it is possible to resist the urges but there's a lot of psychology in the way places are designed that are meant to snare normal people, let alone ones with a real urge to keep gambling
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@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
Ambush Predator
Ah - another reader.
@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
JUST STOP FUCKING GAMBLING ALREADY.
No, no no. That's not going to work. At least in their mind - what's going on in what's left of it is: "I haven't got the gumption to stop myself, and as a result I don't want everyone else to do it either. I Want A Law."
Same with other 'sins' that people are trying to force governmental intervention into. Because they don't want to do it, they don't want others to be able to do it. The usual suspects are
government funded sockpuppetsfake'charities' that are majority funded with government grants.e.g. the organisations behind the twitter handles: ActionOnSugar, ASH_LDN, FussAboutFat, CashSalt, AlcoholConcern, BalanceNorthEast *
* One of these handles is not like the others,
One of these handles doesn't belong,
Can you tell which handle is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?
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@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
It was commenting on a story where someone with a gambling addiction (from the sounds of it) wants the government to pass laws forcing bookies and casinos to kick people out who can't stop gambling.
I think we have those. People who think they can't beat their addiction can volunteer to be added to a blacklist.
And then go gamble online instead.
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
Ambush Predator
Ah - another reader.
Thanks to @loopback0. She appears to be more right-wing than I'd normally read, but on the other hand, it's good to hear the opinions from both sides. Plus, I end up agreeing with her sentiments about a surprising amount of stuff, like how dog owners should actually be responsible with their dogs, the justice system should get its shit together and actually punish criminals, and the police should get off their lazy arses and actually protect and serve the public the way they're meant to.
@pjh said in In other news today...:
@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
JUST STOP FUCKING GAMBLING ALREADY.
No, no no. That's not going to work. At least in their mind - what's going on in what's left of it is: "I haven't got the gumption to stop myself, and as a result I don't want everyone else to do it either. I Want A Law."
Same with other 'sins' that people are trying to force governmental intervention into. Because they don't want to do it, they don't want others to be able to do it. The usual suspects are
government funded sockpuppetsfake'charities' that are majority funded with government grants.e.g. the organisations behind the twitter handles: ActionOnSugar, ASH_LDN, FussAboutFat, CashSalt, AlcoholConcern, BalanceNorthEast *
Ah yes, the typical "I don't want to be responsible for my own actions, so I'll pretend to be a victim and get others to be responsible for me" argument.
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@remi
That seems like an awfully early time of the morning just to arrive and surrender. Surely it would be better for everyone if you rescheduled for just before siesta time.
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