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@Tsaukpaetra and I said I wasn't sure how the emoji applied.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra and I said I wasn't sure how the emoji applied.
Easy: He put it there. Not much more to it, really.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
I'm missing the
When's the last time you've seen anyone smoking marijuana that's inclined to do more exercise than they otherwise would do?
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@PJH Depends; indica or sativa?
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@PJH Depends; indica or sativa?
Empirical observational evidence of consumption of less-than-licit supplies would suggest they are mainly indica.
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@PJH Then there's your problem.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@PJH Then there's your problem.
I'll suggest they have a strong word with their dealers then.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
What do they mean, impossible? There's a sensor, there's a pump.
Impossible out of the box. The medical industry is rather rigid and huge companies like Medtronic even more so. It takes ages to get an obvious feature like this implemented and tested (which involves everything from bench-testing the software to animal and then clinical study) and approved by FDA. A bunch of hackers does not do any of that, so they can have much shorter time to market.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
When's the last time you've seen anyone smoking marijuana that's inclined to do more exercise than they otherwise would do?
Right before the cops showed up?
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@Bulb
Big Med are testing my leniency increasingly. I bet they'll screw up the device security, among things, anyway, but ok, I suppose it's better that the operation of devices themselves is tested in environments where monitoring relies on actual data. People telling they're feeling okay is probably the leading cause of problems.
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It's nearly free advertising of course, but the idea is brillant:
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
The only thing I get when I open the link is a pure text page with nothing but "Forbidden" on it, in plain text.
But, naked at a strip mall? Sounds perfectly normal.
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@boomzilla Gives a new meaning to "strip" mall.
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@boomzilla @Carnage @HardwareGeek 'd by a comment in the article
Maybe she didn't understand the concept of a Strip Mall.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla @Carnage @HardwareGeek 'd by a comment in the article
I'll take your word for that. I didn't read TFA until after I posted, and didn't read the comments at all.
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@HardwareGeek Fair enough. I updogged the post before reading the article.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla @Carnage @HardwareGeek 'd by a comment in the article
Maybe she didn't understand the concept of a Strip Mall.
Can't read it, so ninja denied! :samurai:
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@Carnage By the nature of ninjas, not seeing them doesn't deny them
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
I updogged the post
What's updog?
The opposite of downboating.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
UK - yes, they don't have burning cars. They have other issues.
Cutlery.
And (cartoon) Strawberries and Cream on an advert for trains.
Advertisements that anywhere contain products that are high in fat, salt, or sugar are banned from public transportation advertisement boards? Because it's the advertisements' fault that children are obese? Parental responsibility and portion control have nothing to do with that? Why not just go directly for those consumables and ban or ration the foods themselves that are high in fat, salt, or sugar? Why not just go full communism?
I am almost incredulous.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
Advertisements that anywhere contain products that are high in fat, salt, or sugar are banned from public transportation advertisement boards?
One transport organisation banned them from its own transport.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@kazitor said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
I updogged the post
What's updog?
The opposite of downboating.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
Advertisements that anywhere contain products that are high in fat, salt, or sugar are banned from public transportation advertisement boards?
Self-imposed, at the moment, but yes.
Because it's the advertisements' fault that children are obese?
Absolutely!
Parental responsibility and portion control have nothing to do with that?
You forgot agency.
But nope, not any more. The government and her minions are to mandate how your children should be advertised to.
Responsibility for how kids should be raised was ceded to the government ages ago.
Why not just go directly for those consumables and ban or ration the foods themselves that are high in fat, salt, or sugar?
Because, then, these people wouldn't get to continue to exercise control over others - at that point it would become a solved problem, and they'd have nothing left to do. This way they get to continue their bullying behaviour.
Why not just go full communism?
See above.
I am almost incredulous.
Almost?
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
Blazor Graduates from Experiment to Preview
Aaaand one step closer to the death of JavaScript.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
Parental responsibility and portion control have nothing to do with that?
You forgot agency.
You mean that ancient, obsolete concept of "free will"?
But nope, not any more. The government and her minions are to mandate how your children should be advertised to.
Because parents no longer have the capability to choose healthful foods for their families' diets?
Responsibility for how kids should be raised was ceded to the government ages ago.
Do you think it started with public education and especially the expansion of extra-curricular school-sponsored activities?
I am almost incredulous.
Almost?
Unfortunately, my worldview predicts a low default state of human behavior and motivations.
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@hungrier
Wait, so ninjas are EULAs now?
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@pie_flavor The worst thing would be if they "fix" it from being super trainwrecky by making it average and bland.
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@djls45 We’ve now stepped into “public education is bad” territory?? 😳
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Eh, the bike parking thing is clever, assuming you have enough fools around who ride their bikes to work. The thing pictured in the onebox is pure stupid though.
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TodayYesterday in tech news:Apple AirPods are shitty
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/us/brazoria-county-bee-killer.html
Dammit, @Polygeekery, burning bee homes is a bridge too far!!
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Dammit, @Polygeekery, burning bee homes is a bridge too far!!
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/us/brazoria-county-bee-killer.html
Dammit, @Polygeekery, burning bee homes is a bridge too far!!
That's what they get for fucking with me.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
Advertisements that anywhere contain products that are high in fat, salt, or sugar are banned from public transportation advertisement boards?
One transport organisation banned them from its own transport.
But is it funded by private investors and its own sales, or does the government provide a significant portion of its revenues?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@djls45 We’ve now stepped into “public education is bad” territory?? 😳
If it's funded and controlled by the government, yes. In my opinion, the only things government should be required to do is public protection – police for internal violence and military for foreign aggressors.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/us/brazoria-county-bee-killer.html
Dammit, @Polygeekery, burning bee homes is a bridge too far!!
Maybe someone felt like a Jesse Greenwood copycat?
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@djls45 said in In other news today...:
Advertisements that anywhere contain products that are high in fat, salt, or sugar are banned from public transportation advertisement boards?
One transport organisation banned them from its own transport.
But is it funded by private investors and its own sales, or does the government provide a significant portion of its revenues?
About a quarter is government funded, a lot is its own fares and some other sources.
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@djls45 Sounds half-assed. You should go with private police, too.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
In my opinion, the only things government should be required to do is public protection – police for internal violence and military for foreign aggressors.
That's backwards: whoever is doing policing and military is the government pretty much by definition, as they have the power to enforce their rules if they choose to exercise it. In a dictatorship, that's how it works pretty much directly. More advanced government types use other approaches (especially a system of defined laws and courts) as well, but the power to coerce remains key.
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First World Problems - Housing Crisis edition.
No - not this:
This:
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and where property prices average more than £1.5 million.
Man, that could buy a half-decent apartment around here.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
Man, that could buy a half-decent apartment around here.
If you can buy it, it's a condo, not an apartment.