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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
And no helmet.
You don't need an helmet when you don't have a head
He had a head, just no brains to go in it.
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@anotherusername How can you be anti-water when you're selling something composed mostly of water
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@timebandit Because water comes from the toilet, and doesn't have the electrolytes that plants crave.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Because water comes from the toilet
TIL: @hungrier get its water from the toilet
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@timebandit Well yeah, best to get it straight from the source
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@anotherusername Shades of Idiocracy.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
Nice clickbait title. In the article, it explains that they essentially got dinged for false advertising, for promoting to kids a game that teaches that drinking water can be harmful, which of course is absolutely nuts.
( note: yes, hyponatremia is a thing. No, you're not going to get it by drinking water when you're thirsty; you have to really go out of your way to screw yourself over in that particular manner.)
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@masonwheeler It seems like a reasonably accurate headline to me.
The game encouraged users to "keep your performance level high and avoid water," with Bolt's fuel level going down after drinking water but up after drinking Gatorade, the complaint alleged.
This is some footage of the actual game (plus voiceover, which isn't really needed):
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Because water comes from the toilet
TIL: @hungrier get its water from the toilet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YZnORoAWkA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBML3VpbuYQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3boy_tLWeqAIB4: You already knew that, didn't you? You just wanted to point and laugh at @hungrier for referencing people saying something stupid in a way that sounds like @hungrier was saying that stupid thing, for no reasons than the lulz, which is, after all, perfectly cromulent behavior by the standards of this forum.
However, there are two points to be added to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmZOZjHjT5E
Filed Under: I am definitely one of the dumb ones.
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@dragoon said in In other news today...:
@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
Now he is suing the guy who beat him up and stopped the robbery.
Unless you have another article, that one just says he is thinking about it. His mom thinks he should as well.
@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
It's possible the courts won't view that kindly.
Even in California it is unlikely to matter. Especially as the proposed suit is for excessive force. After the force was applied the robber still managed to turn the tables on the bystander and stab him back. Pretty hard to argue that it was excessive if he was still able to retaliate.
In most states, even ambulance chasing lawyers will laugh at the guy.
If it were in Arizona, it wouldn't matter how much force were involved, thanks to a law that the voters passed here a few years back. Now, if you commit a crime in Arizona, you cannot file suit for anything relating to that crime, and your friends and family cannot sue on your behalf. That second part is important because (prior to the law being implemented) there were a few lawsuits where people were killed in attempted burglaries or assaults, and their families sued the intended victim.
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@abarker It's kind of sad that a law like that was even needed...
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@masonwheeler There was a case here a few years ago that matches almost exactly the hypothetical scenario that @Polygeekery brought up: a jeweller got robbed, and while the robber was driving away (on a bike), he got out of his shop and shot him in the back. The shopkeeper was subsequently sued.
I don't remember more about this (e.g. what the state of the thief was, and how the investigation/trial of the shopkeeper ended), but I find it normal that there was at least an investigation, there is a difference between shooting to defend yourself and shooting to harm someone after the fact. Not that the thief didn't deserve it, but still.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
the state switched off the internet. In the week that followed, people talked more, worked harder and had less sex
If you need Internet access to have sex, you're doing it wrong™
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@timebandit If you RTFA, it's kind of funny:
One friend said the internet shutdown had moved the dating market upscale. With WhatsApp, penniless guys would send women virtual flowers and rings. Now, they had to find money to buy real ones. Men who previously sought to impress ladies by copying and pasting cute quotes and images on social media now had to go out, bring friends together in a bar, pay the bill and prove their real verbal and intellectual skills.
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If there weren't actually two icebergs, I suppose it will have melted by the time I'm reading this.
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@pjh It might even be that the outrageous things the first guy (the cleric) said finally created more bad publicity than the second guy (the king) could shrug off, so he eventually decided to push the issue in a saner direction. Shows bad publicity can occasionally make things move.
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@bulb It could also be that the fatwa guy got wind of what the King was about to do and released his statement to try to stop it.
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
@bulb said in In other news today...:
Amazing the difference 5 days can make...
No... I'm sure that guy is still vocally opposed to the idea. He's some random cleric, though. Not someone with very much political influence.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
Not someone with very much political influence
Not any more, anyway.
Saudi cleric who said women should not drive because their brains shrink to a quarter the size of a man’s when they go shopping has been banned from preaching, state television said.
Saad al-Hijri was suspended from all religious activity after [being a bell-end in general]
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The plot thickens...
http://www.krdo.com/news/colorado-springs/mad-pooper-spokesman-explains/626058098
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He said she has a traumatic brain injury and after gender reassignment surgery, can no longer control herself.
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@boner she's going to have a traumatic brain injury, if she keeps on pooping on people's yards.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
The plot thickens...
As more soil is deposited on it, I'm sure it is.
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Windows Phone is totally dead
http://mashable.com/2017/09/26/bill-gates-uses-android/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link#SgbUH8BsRiqH
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People in Alaska are threatened with an upgrade
TIL: Nobody going bankrupt because he/she got sick is called "failure"
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
TIL: Nobody going bankrupt because he/she got sick is called "failure"
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@boomzilla I get why you are rolling your eyes, but I recommend that you consider the source of the statement and whether Pence is really on the same side you are - and frankly, Dump needs to do the same. I have been saying for 25 years that Theocratic Christians and Prosperity Christians have a stronger philosophical and ideological conflict with Free Enterprise fiscal conservatives than even Communists do. Pence and his alt-right buddies are a knife aimed at the back of capitalism.
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@timebandit It was the best mobile platform for developers and users, destroyed by the network effect.
It's honestly really sad when doing something incredibly well just loses you money.
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@magus Maybe. But they came way too late to the party, and forgot to bring the beer
Remember their original reaction to the first iPhone ?
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
they came way too late to the party
They were in the party, stayed in the party, and only left the party when everyone stopped buying their product.
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@timebandit I was thinking Mobile, which, while bad, was still there. So then they did 7, and that wasn't interesting, because it was its own weird modified Silverlight thing. Interesting concept, but understandable that it died.
WP8 was when it got interesting, because the API steadily got closer to the desktop API, until by the current Win10 versions, it's pretty much the same, with the only differences being purposeful. They essentially offer something no one else can, along with really good support for making your apps supported on all platforms.
People complained they didn't have apps over a year after they had just about all the major apps people cared about, and would have had more if people had wanted them. But people just didn't buy them.
People built the stupidest catch22 of our modern age, despite a clearly superior platform.
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@magus said in In other news today...:
People built the stupidest catch22 of our modern age, despite a clearly superior platform.
Well, after so many duds over so many years why would anyone expect people to jump on their successor with any enthusiasm? Yeah, network effect...after years of failure had given an insurmountable lead to their competitors.
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@boomzilla They were doing badly, but not too badly through WP8, and were growing. Around the launch of W10M, Verizon stopped selling all Windows-based phones, apart from ones multiple years old.
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@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
I have been saying for 25 years that Theocratic Christians and Prosperity Christians have a stronger philosophical and ideological conflict with Free Enterprise fiscal conservatives than even Communists do. Pence and his alt-right buddies are a knife aimed at the back of capitalism.
Wait a sec, what does Christianity have to do with the alt-right?
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
I have been saying for 25 years that Theocratic Christians and Prosperity Christians have a stronger philosophical and ideological conflict with Free Enterprise fiscal conservatives than even Communists do. Pence and his alt-right buddies are a knife aimed at the back of capitalism.
Wait a sec, what does Christianity have to do with the alt-right?
Inherently? Not much, really, and in many ways they are distinctly counter what many Christians believe in.
However, a large number of alt-right figures (allegedly) root their positions in doctrines held by some (but not all) Christian or Christian-derived denominations.
More importantly, the backers of several alt-right groups are also backers of some of evangelical groups, in particular groups which adhere to the premise of "Prosperity Christianity", which asserts that the poor are poor because they are Bad People, while the rich are rich because they have favor in the eyes of God. It is a rather crass outgrowth of the older Calvinist concept of Predestination, but it goes a lot further in equating wealth with divine blessing.
This is not a position held by all or even most Christian denominations, but it is held by many of the more rapidly growing sects - sects which, on the whole, preach to the poor, with the argument that if they convert they will get rich (no, seriously), while being propped up by their wealthy members who think its just grand that everyone else in their church see them as divinely protected.
I may be wrong here, but my understanding is the Pence is in this camp. He's also allegedly connected to some alt-right groups, though not as directly as some in the Trump administration (also, most of those who were strongly alt-right got the long knife as soon as they had served their electoral purpose).
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@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
More importantly, the backers of several alt-right groups are also backers of some of evangelical groups, in particular groups which adhere to the premise of "Prosperity Christianity", which asserts that the poor are poor because they are Bad People, while the rich are rich because they have favor in the eyes of God. It is a rather crass outgrowth of the older Calvinist concept of Predestination, but it goes a lot further in equating wealth with divine blessing.
This is not a position held by all or even most Christian denominations, but it is held by many of the more rapidly growing sects - sects which, on the whole, preach to the poor, with the argument that if they convert they will get rich (no, seriously), while being propped up by their wealthy members who think its just grand that everyone else in their church see them as divinely protected.Wow, that's kind of repulsive, when I was raised on stuff like the following passage from the Book of Mormon:
16 And also, ye yourselves will succor those that stand in need of your succor; ye will administer of your substance unto him that standeth in need; and ye will not suffer that the beggar putteth up his petition to you in vain, and turn him out to perish.
17 Perhaps thou shalt say: The man has brought upon himself his misery; therefore I will stay my hand, and will not give unto him of my food, nor impart unto him of my substance that he may not suffer, for his punishments are just—
18 But I say unto you, O man, whosoever doeth this the same hath great cause to repent; and except he repenteth of that which he hath done he perisheth forever, and hath no interest in the kingdom of God.
19 For behold, are we not all beggars? Do we not all depend upon the same Being, even God, for all the substance which we have, for both food and raiment, and for gold, and for silver, and for all the riches which we have of every kind?
20 And behold, even at this time, ye have been calling on his name, and begging for a remission of your sins. And has he suffered that ye have begged in vain? Nay; he has poured out his Spirit upon you, and has caused that your hearts should be filled with joy, and has caused that your mouths should be stopped that ye could not find utterance, so exceedingly great was your joy.
21 And now, if God, who has created you, on whom you are dependent for your lives and for all that ye have and are, doth grant unto you whatsoever ye ask that is right, in faith, believing that ye shall receive, O then, how ye ought to impart of the substance that ye have one to another.
22 And if ye judge the man who putteth up his petition to you for your substance that he perish not, and condemn him, how much more just will be your condemnation for withholding your substance, which doth not belong to you but to God, to whom also your life belongeth; and yet ye put up no petition, nor repent of the thing which thou hast done.
(from Mosiah chapter 4)
Where do ideas like that come from? :o
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@boner said in In other news today...:
Is it really that difficult to tell if a dogs' testicals are removed? Why is that a thing?
Unless they're doing the tattoo to both sexes as a sign of fair uniformity or something like that? :/
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
TIL: Nobody going bankrupt because he/she got sick is called "failure"
Longer life expectancy? Less bureaucratic overhead? Cooommmiiiiiess!
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
Where do ideas like that come from? :o
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Police are seeking a Mr R Runner in relation to the incident.