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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
That very idea that Pravda on the Potomac would sensationalize a story is offensive!
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
You're the absolute worst offender about leakage, you know.
No, that's Lorne.
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@pie_flavor Either way, it sounds like an embarrassing personal problem.
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No amount of appeals brought a better result:
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@hungrier I haven't RTFA, but we (USians) have that now with Prime. Albeit, we only get 1 free book a month...
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
Thanks, GDPR.
Yeah, but in this case, you didn't miss much. Two sentences of text, of which about one and a half are shown in the one-box; add "positive body image and alternatives to fossil fuels." to that. A bunch of pictures, all carefully selected to avoid showing anything naughty, and all with exactly the same caption, over and over and over.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
add "positive body image and alternatives to fossil fuels." to that.
That's really all I wanted, thanks.
Filed under: grammatical blue balls
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Early reviews on the Raspberry Pi model 4. They're good enough that I might be able to replace my general-purpose Linux Mint PC with one of these!
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Real life version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Time_Goes_By_(TV_series)
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This is not satire:
Some background for our non-German speaking folks here: The AfD is a new party which began as a conservative alternative to the CDU (hence the name) but has shifted massively to the extreme right since then, getting rid of moderate forces in the process (e.g. ousting the party's founder). They've also shown themselves to be moderately inept in a variety of ways going above and beyond the usual that is politics (not that this matters to their loyal followers).
So, today all parties in Ludwigshafen were supposed to elect people into a major committee. And the AfD managed to vote themselves out of this committee because, and I can't make this up, they accidentally gave all their votes to the SPD (a moderate-left party).
They then needed to be shown through a video recording that, yes, they did indeed do what they did and, no, everyone only gets one vote.
They're pulling such stunts on a regular basis. But people vote for them regardless and thus you have to take them seriously.
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The "entire idea" of abiding by precedent, she said, is that "judges do not get to reverse a decision just because they never liked it in the first instance." Rather, she said, they need a reason other than that the precedent was wrongly decided.
Really, that seems like a perfect reason to overturn precedence.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
The "entire idea" of abiding by precedent, she said, is that "judges do not get to reverse a decision just because they never liked it in the first instance." Rather, she said, they need a reason other than that the precedent was wrongly decided.
Really, that seems like a perfect reason to overturn precedence.
Wikipedia has an entire page of such cases. So there is plenty of precedence for the Supreme Court overturning precedence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_overruled_United_States_Supreme_Court_decisions
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Talk about having 9 lives...
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
That sounds pretty cool, although I'd like to see what their
selection of popular Kindle books and comics
looks like
I was hoping that they would move the shite from kindle unlimited over. I loved the crap you could pick up there. You could pick up kindle unlimited vouchers for under £60 for a while but once they stopped selling those I refused to pay £90+ for that level of shite.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
getting into character
No, not really. Just meandered around for the most part.
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@heterodox said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
getting into character
No, not really. Just meandered around for the most part.
Totally in-character!
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Go where no man has gone before...
by masturbating
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
No amount of appeals brought a better result:
I honestly never understood the whole "marriage means everything is shared" thing. Then again I barely understand marriage so I guess it could make sense.
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@anonymous234
Yeah, everyone knows it really means “what’s mine is hers, what’s hers is hers”
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
No amount of appeals brought a better result:
I honestly never understood the whole "marriage means everything is shared" thing. Then again I barely understand marriage so I guess it could make sense.
The point is (or was) that you were forming a family. You were all supposed to be in it together. Also, it used to be very common that the woman didn't work, so it was the man's responsibility to provide (usually money) for the family, while the woman gave up those opportunities (such as they were at the time) in order to raise the family. In that context it makes a lot of sense to consider the property of one to be the property of the other.
It still does in a lot of cases, though more women work, fewer couples have kids, and lots of other arrangements that make for spicy exceptions to that basic pattern, but the idea seems like it should be pretty obvious to me.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
GoCome where no man hasgonecome before...
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
GoCome where no man hasgonecome before...You bought new socks?
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@TimeBandit
I'm going to shoot them to the moon with my home made rocket
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@TimeBandit
Could you give me a hand setting it off?
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@Luhmann Sure, this one
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@TimeBandit
Haven't tried that yet ...
But now I know why you ordered that keg of lube from Amazon
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
But now I know why you ordered that keg of lube from Amazon
Don't forget the glove
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
100 tabs at a time
I already have enough tabs, TYVM...
I wonder if I'd notice the difference.
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Fake meat made of vegetables? Nothing new there, but what about fake vegetables made of meat?
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In simulator tests, government pilots discovered that a microprocessor failure could push the nose of the plane toward the ground.
Well, yeah, when everything is computer controlled, a computer hardware failure is going to be a problem. That's why there's (supposed to be) redundancy.
"The safety of our airplanes is Boeing's highest priority," the company said in a statement.
ORLY?
Pilot training also undergoing update
Boeing has proposed computer-based training which could be completed quickly and on an iPad. Pilots unions, as well as "Miracle on the Hudson" hero Chelsey Sullenberger, have said such training cannot be adequately experienced on an iPad.Sounds like another quick, cheap shortcut to me.
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit
I'm going to shoot them to the moon with my home made rocketNot sure what post started this and to go find it, but this is one of those instances where searching the internet for something will return unexpectedly SFW stuff. Crotch rocket really doesn't give what expected when searched.
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Sterilise your kids on the cheap...
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit
I'm going to shoot them to the moon with my home made rocketNot sure what post started this and to go find it, but this is one of those instances where searching the internet for something will return unexpectedly SFW stuff. Crotch rocket really doesn't give what expected when searched.
Crotch rocket is a pretty well known term for motorcycle, so that's what I would expect to find.
What you want is red rocket
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Ah - that bastion of scientific research...
researchers at the University of Bath