In other news today...
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@JBert FORTY kilos?! What were they planning on doing, creating their own beach?!
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
It seems this dog has a similar contraption:
Also, the title is deceiving:
She will run one mile a day for 26 days to help raise funds
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Apparently they don't pay this football player enough to live with 21 °C :
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Apparently they don't pay this football player enough to live with 21 °C :
That's summer weather
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But it didn’t take long to determine that this particular supernova was weird.
And then they found it was really weird.
blasting out more than ten billion times the Sun’s energy for days at a time. Holy yikes.
I like his style...
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
It seems this dog has a similar contraption:
Those are pretty common things. A friend had one for her corgi when the corgi's legs gave out (old age).
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"Only a fraction of the tourists visiting Sardinia spend their time digging up to 40kg of sand each. But if you multiply half that amount times 5% of the one million tourists per year, in a few years that would contribute significantly to the reduction of beaches - the main reason why tourists are attracted by the island of Sardinia."
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
But it didn’t take long to determine that this particular supernova was weird.
And then they found it was really weird.
blasting out more than ten billion times the Sun’s energy for days at a time. Holy yikes.
I like his style...
I thought the opposite, it was annoying to read with all those interjections
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
Apparently they don't pay this football player enough to live with 21 °C :
That's summer weather
Indeed it is.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
Apparently they don't pay this football player enough to live with 21 °C :
That's summer weather
Indeed it is.
When I lived in Latvia, I knew 3 of the few black guys in the country. Two were from Nigeria, one from somewhere in the US. There to play basketball. They walked around with hoodies and jackets during the summer, because the 85F was too cool for them (the ones from Nigeria anyway).
No, they didn't stand out at all, being 6'6" (~200 cm) at the shortest and having very dark skin in a very white area...not at all.
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Always keep your electronics up-to-date so you're secure
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“I hope people are aware that with a public jailbreak being available for the latest iOS 12.4 people must be very careful what Apps they download from the Apple AppStore,” Stefan Esser, a well-known researcher who teaches iOS hacking, wrote on Twitter. “Any such app could have a copy of the jailbreak in it.”
What a bunch of idiots, don't they know the danger of having a completely open app store where anyone can just publish apps with no review or curation whatsoever?
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First public jailbreak in years.
Years. That’s the timespan that’s 12 times as long as you get support for Android.
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@topspin There is no support for jailbreak on Android
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@JBert
The important question isn't answered: what does a kg of Sardinian sand shovels? It needs to be more then €20 to make up for the excess baggage surcharge
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@loopback0
Little Sardinia ... They previously smuggled an old Fiat panda to park in the middle of the road
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
They should have picked a better souvenir:
While there are cases where crimes at tourist attractions make me go ' $attraction' in this case, like usually, it makes me go tourists.
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
It needs to be more then €20 to make up for the excess baggage surcharge
They were about to board a ferry in Porto Torres heading to Toulon, France, reports say.
Still wonder what you'd get for 40 kg of sardinian sand, though.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
Still wonder what you'd get for 40 kg of sardinian sand, though.
Up to six years.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
Apparently they don't pay this football player enough to live with 21 °C :
That's summer weather
Indeed it is.
When I lived in Latvia, I knew 3 of the few black guys in the country. Two were from Nigeria, one from somewhere in the US. There to play basketball. They walked around with hoodies and jackets during the summer, because the 85F was too cool for them (the ones from Nigeria anyway).
No, they didn't stand out at all, being 6'6" (~200 cm) at the shortest and having very dark skin in a very white area...not at all.
In Sweden, I've worked with indian contractors that came here in summer, that complained about the cold weather when it was 18C (Which is pretty decent weather). And then fall rolls in, with rain, wind and anywhere between 5-15C and they go out of their minds. And then winter smashes them in the face like a mallet.
Quite amusing when someone feels the bite of a -30C head wind for the first time in their lives.
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
We have some public bathrooms with motion sensors by the door that turns the light on when you enter. Problem is the lights shut off automatically after about 45 seconds, and the motion sensors can't see inside the toilet stalls, so if you're the only one inside, taking a dump that requires more than 45 seconds, it turns the lights out and leaves you in the dark.
Maybe quarter of toilets I've been to had that issue. Also even if it does “see” you, it is a motion sensor and I don't know about others, but I usually don't move there.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
It needs to be more then €20 to make up for the excess baggage surcharge
They were about to board a ferry in Porto Torres heading to Toulon, France, reports say.
Still wonder what you'd get for 40 kg of sardinian sand, though.
€262, plus shipping (€54.29 to Finland)
https://www.etsy.com/listing/624232374/decorative-sand-5-lb?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=zen+garden+sand&ref=sc_gallery-1-2&plkey=35e3aeb1b35f1807a12c80dabfce35061d4c3564%3A624232374
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@acrow
It isn't Sardinian ....
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
It isn't Sardinian ....
But it's like free-range and organic and stuff. Handmade even.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Pure Organic Ingredients Natural Decorative Sand
Organic sand?
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@Luhmann Well, yes, but Sardinian sand obviously isn't on the open market, and I can't exactly install Onion Routing on a company laptop, now, can I?
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Organic sand?
I had a similar reaction, but turns out the seller's company name is "Pure Organic Ingredients".
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Organic sand?
I had a similar reaction, but turns out the seller's company name is "Pure Organic Ingredients".
They should start selling premium sand, harvested only from the genitalia of fine hominid female specimens. They could charge silly amounts of monies for that sand!
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@Carnage Could they still slap a " Handmade" label on that, though?
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@Carnage Could they still slap a " Handmade" label on that, though?
That would depend on the method of collection, wouldn't it?
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@Carnage Could they still slap a " Handmade" label on that, though?
"Artisanal" is always an option, especially if you don't hire the people full-time but pay by the pound (or ounce).
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"The switch spontaneously generated four malformed network management packets" seems like a strange way to say "I dun fukt up the SDN configuration"
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@Carnage
As opposed to the chemical kind
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https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6454/eaax1030
Still no word on touching feelings, however.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Quite amusing when someone feels the bite of a -30C head wind for the first time in their lives.
It's not that bad if you are dressed for it.
We have a lot of international students in Montreal, and a lot of them have no clue how to dress for cold weather. That's why McGill university has a course called "Winter 101"https://www.mcgill.ca/internationalstudents/resources/winter-montreal/winter-101
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@TimeBandit
Course syllabus:- Don't be a dumbass
- Don't lick that pole
- See 1.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Don't lick that pole
But it is a lot of fun to trick your friends into doing it.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit
Course syllabus:- Don't be a dumbass
- Don't lick that pole
- See 1.
In Sweden, there is this stupid thing youngsters of the male persuasion do; rub the glans of the penis against pretty much whatever. The act is called "olla" from "ollon" being the name of the glans. There have been teenagers getting their dick stuck on lamp posts in winter doing this...
Considering most kids are taught not to lick frigid steel because of stickyness in countries where there is actual winter, it's pretty amusing that this happens. It's pretty rare as far as I understand.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Considering most kids are taught not to lick frigid steel because of stickyness in countries where there is actual winter, it's pretty amusing that this happens.
Having grown up in places with actual winter... no, we were never actually taught this. We never needed to be. Outside of the famous scene in A Christmas Story, which is a work of fiction, and other works of fiction referencing it, I don't believe I've ever heard of this happening.
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It is real, my father and his brother have stuck their tongues to a metal grain silo in winter.
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@Dragoon Wow, really?
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Yeah, my father says it was not one of his brighter moves.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Considering most kids are taught not to lick frigid steel because of stickyness in countries where there is actual winter, it's pretty amusing that this happens.
Having grown up in places with actual winter... no, we were never actually taught this. We never needed to be. Outside of the famous scene in A Christmas Story, which is a work of fiction, and other works of fiction referencing it, I don't believe I've ever heard of this happening.
I know of several kids who managed to get stuck licking metal in winter. Though most of them got stuck to door handles...
Some kids just like the taste of metal.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Some kids just like the taste of metal.
I can totally understand that. As a young kid I occasionally enjoyed licking coins. (A penny, in particular, has a distinctive coppery taste.) But large metal fixtures? I never even thought of that. I don't think I know anyone who did.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
It's not that bad if you are dressed for it.
It's still pretty bad
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@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
Some kids just like the taste of metal.
I can totally understand that. As a young kid I occasionally enjoyed licking coins. (A penny, in particular, has a distinctive coppery taste.) But large metal fixtures? I never even thought of that. I don't think I know anyone who did.
I work with kids. Kids are stupid. In unpredictable ways about unpredictable things. Basically, many of them have time horizons measured in seconds, minutes at most. And don't think about the consequences of their actions at all.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
I don't know about others, but I usually don't move there.
More prunes required.