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@Dreikin said in In other news today...:
@lucas1 said in In other news today...:
This was the onion article that fooled me:
I used to live with an Arab that believed the Earth was 6000 years old and at the time, there was intelligent design. My mate sent me this and I thought it was real.
So about 2009, I got some screenshots of a somewhat amusing comment thread (alas, no text copy). Here's a bit of the article, for context:
Here's the very special first comment:
And here's the author's even specialer reply:
And as a bonus, the first commenter replied once more:
Alas, my screenshots do not record any further continuations of this thread, and the post appears to have disappeared down the memory hole.
I have found the URL for that blog post, but it's since been removed, and the Wayback Machine didn't archive it. If anyone knows of any other archive sites to check, here it is: http://open.salon.com/content.php?cid=94071
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@Fox OMG weirdness happening!
First-chance image recognition is tagging your profile pic to be @blakeyrat's! :(
Argh I'm broken....
Filed under: Linked post not relevant
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@Tsaukpaetra fear not, it's just a placeholder until i get around to cropping my druid fox commission down to avatar size
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@Fox AUGH THAT'S WHAT'S BEEN BEEPING ON MY PHONE WITH THE VOLUME TURNED ALL THE WAY DOWN, WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK DARK MAGIC IS THIS @ben_lubar notifications play a sound
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@Fox said in In other news today...:
@Fox AUGH THAT'S WHAT'S BEEN BEEPING ON MY PHONE WITH THE VOLUME TURNED ALL THE WAY DOWN, WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK DARK MAGIC IS THIS @ben_lubar notifications play a sound
Yep. By default if you haven't saved your profile settings since the update there will be a lovely doink noise for everything.
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@Tsaukpaetra even when my phone is locked and firefox is minimized so i have no fucking idea why my muted phone is doinking at me in the middle of an Overwatch match while I have sounds muted.
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@Fox said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra even when my phone is locked and firefox is minimized so i have no fucking idea why my muted phone is doinking at me in the middle of an Overwatch match while I have sounds muted.
It wouldn't be a great notification if it... um... obeyed notification settings?
Since it's a webpage "playing audio" it thinks it's something like music or whatever, so that's probably why despite your phone being "muted" (aka no notifications) it still plays the sound because That's Different™
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
because That's Different™
Hasn't mobile been different for the past couple of years? Paging @end. Oh… wait, he's banned..
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We really need a thread just for Linus.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
We really need a thread just for Linus.
So, wait, he cussed someone out for not including everything a driver needed to run in the commit? Sounds cromulent, if a bit spastic.
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@dcon The evil ideas thread is
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And yes, in the UK, Extreme Pornography is both a legal term and an offence.
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@PJH I wonder if that involved a codpiece…
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
I wonder
Careful with that. There is a tiny subset of questions that are better left unanswered. This might be one of those.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@Boner said in In other news today...:
The judge's verdict should be house arrest.
Aren't cruel and unusual punishments specifically unconstitutional?
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@masonwheeler Plus what about his wife's due process protections?
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
And yes, in the UK, Extreme Pornography is both a legal term and an offence.
We saw the so-called "chicken sandwich" video. Boring. I wonder if this is the "extreme" level we're talking about here?
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Keeping it with the animals:
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@PJH Looks like another terrible sequel to Every Which Way But Loose.
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allows Americans to sue countries for funding terrorism on U.S. soil and to seek monetary damages from individuals accused of bankrolling terrorists
It has passed unanimously in both the House and the Senate. Obama will probably veto it.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
allows Americans to sue countries for funding terrorism on U.S. soil and to seek monetary damages from individuals accused of bankrolling terrorists
It has passed unanimously in both the House and the Senate. Obama will probably veto it.
Saudi Arabia != Al Qaeda. A+ for symbolic gestures, F for going after the wrong fucking target?
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@ScholRLEA said in In other news today...:
Saudi Arabia != Al Qaeda. A+ for symbolic gestures, F for going after the wrong fucking target?
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@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
British people get drunk and rowdy.
In other late-breaking news, circles found to be "somewhat round", and ocean "may contain moisture".
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-black-body-count-rises-as-chicago-police-step-back-1473631079
“There is no way out of this shooting spree,” [president of the Chicago police union] Mr. Angelo said. ... Chicago officers have cut back drastically on proactive policing under the onslaught of criticism from the Black Lives Matter movement and its political and media enablers. ... Criminals are back in control and black lives are being lost at a rate not seen for two decades.
Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson blames lenient prison sentences for releasing Chicago’s gun criminals onto the streets too soon ... Black Caucus, however, blocks any effort to mandate stricter sentences for gun-toting felons—in a sub rosa acknowledgment that the vast majority (80%) of Chicago’s gun criminals are black.
“We’re in an unknown environment. We don’t know at what point in time the people in this city and the city council will stand up and say: ‘Enough is enough,’ so that cops feel that they have the support to be the police again.”
Congrats, BLM. You win.
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@anotherusername OK, color me ignorant. I missed that story entirely.
Obama will still veto it, though, to prevent relations with the Saudis from getting any worse. Will he be right to do so? Fucked if I know. One the one hand, they are the closest thing to an ally the US has in the region other than Israel. OTOH, they are rather diffident allies, especially since they want Israel gone as much as their neighbors do, and their government is harsh to the point of tyrannical - they only seem acceptable by comparison to the other governments in the region, and even then are barely palatable, even given that the chances are any government would replace them would be much worse.
On the gripping hand, it was the 'friendship' between the US and the Saudis, and specifically the posting of US troops in that country during the First US-Iraq War and their continued presence during the following interdiction operations (and specifically the fears that the US would occupy Mecca, try to impose Western liberalism on them, seize control of the oil fields, and similar things), that spurred the creation of Al Qaeda and remained a rallying cry for the following generations of Muslim extremists.
The whole Middle East is fucking nightmare that the US should have washed its hands of long since, oil or no oil - though I would argue that lingering guilt over not doing more to stop the Holocaust sooner plays almost as big a role in keeping us there as oil does, as 'abandoning' Israel seems like handing the Israelis a collective death sentence.
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@ScholRLEA said in In other news today...:
OTOH, they are rather diffident allies, especially since they want Israel gone as much as their neighbors do, and their government is harsh to the point of tyrannical - they only seem acceptable by comparison to the other governments in the region, and even then are barely palatable, even given that the chances are any government would replace them would be much worse.
If the intel is accurate, they're only palatable because they're better at keeping outwardly quiet and working behind the scenes.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
If the intel is accurate, they're only palatable because they're better at keeping outwardly quiet and working behind the scenes.
My understanding is that they're not really palatable at all, but they are stable enough and could fuck up sufficiently the world economy if they really wanted to (i.e. if some extremist madman took control) that it's better to suffer them...
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http://sportsmockery.com/2016/09/savage-sex-turtle-saves-entire-species/
This turtle would of made a fine catholic!
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
BritishScottish people get drunk and rowdy.
In other late-breaking news, circles found to be "somewhat round", and ocean "may contain moisture".More specific, less surprising
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It always amazes me how these people go to the newspapers and seriously expect the paper to portray them in a flattering light ("Now she wants her money back – and an apology from the company for implying she broke the settee because she’s a fatty.") and garner sympathy from the readers (commenters below the fold suggest she lose weight)...
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Never, EVER post cat pictures on the internet.
Otherwise shit like this happens...
Basically, they called and asked if I wanted to be on the list [of backup representatives]. I said yeah, thinking I would be like 18th on the list and I wouldn't really have to do anything.
My campaign was a picture of me holding my cat saying, 'please don't vote for me.' But people just went nuts. After the election, the boss called me and told me I was a representative.
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@PJH To be fair, she has a point complaining. She weights 17 stone which is 108 kg. While that's undeniably fat, I'd expect sofas to be able handle a lot more than that.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/science/oldest-fossils-on-earth.html
The find, if confirmed, would make these fossils the oldest on Earth and may change scientific understanding of the origins of life ... If biological, the great age of the fossils complicates the task of reconstructing the evolution of life from the chemicals naturally present on the early Earth. It leaves comparatively little time for evolution to have occurred and puts the process close to a time when Earth was being bombarded by destructive asteroids.
the structures do resemble modern stromatolites but their origin “will be hotly debated,” ... if indeed stromatolites, [they] would represent fairly evolved organisms.
If life on Earth did not begin until after the Late Heavy Bombardment, then it had a mere 100 million years in which to evolve to the quite advanced stage seen in the new fossils.
If so, Dr. Allwood wrote, then “life is not a fussy, reluctant and unlikely thing.” It will emerge whenever there’s an opportunity.
But the argument that life seems to have evolved very early and quickly, so therefore is inherently likely, can be turned around, Dr. Joyce said. “You could ask why, if life were such a probable event, we don’t have evidence of multiple origins,” he said.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
It has passed unanimously in both the House and the Senate. Obama will probably veto it.
If it passed unanimously, a veto override should be easy, unless they are going into this just for show.
Yeah, they're probably doing it just for show.
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@abarker there's been talk of overriding the veto.
Anyway, it hasn't been vetoed, yet, and may not be...
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/2040
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OK... does anyone know where I can go to resign my membership in H. sap? I don't want to be associated with this species any more.
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@ScholRLEA The related stories at the bottom of that page don't improve much.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/science/oldest-fossils-on-earth.html
The find, if confirmed, would make these fossils the oldest on Earth and may change scientific understanding of the origins of life ... If biological, the great age of the fossils complicates the task of reconstructing the evolution of life from the chemicals naturally present on the early Earth. It leaves comparatively little time for evolution to have occurred and puts the process close to a time when Earth was being bombarded by destructive asteroids.
the structures do resemble modern stromatolites but their origin “will be hotly debated,” ... if indeed stromatolites, [they] would represent fairly evolved organisms.
If life on Earth did not begin until after the Late Heavy Bombardment, then it had a mere 100 million years in which to evolve to the quite advanced stage seen in the new fossils.
If so, Dr. Allwood wrote, then “life is not a fussy, reluctant and unlikely thing.” It will emerge whenever there’s an opportunity.
But the argument that life seems to have evolved very early and quickly, so therefore is inherently likely, can be turned around, Dr. Joyce said. “You could ask why, if life were such a probable event, we don’t have evidence of multiple origins,” he said.
They're playing up the significance a bit. We already have good bacterial fossils from not long after that:
And the time difference is longer than ants are known to have been around for:
Dinosaurs and mammals only appeared about 225 million years ago:
Detectable evolution can also happen really fast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plVk4NVIUh8
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