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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@mikehurley
Common thing in people from central Africa, like Congolese, where the village acts as a family. You are either a stranger or family.My anthropology professor told us about this tribe where the women would sleep with a visiting man so as to make him like one of the family. Otherwise, the other men would have killed him as a stranger.
Talk about feast or famine.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@mikehurley
Common thing in people from central Africa, like Congolese, where the village acts as a family. You are either a stranger or family.My anthropology professor told us about this tribe where the women would sleep with a visiting man so as to make him like one of the family. Otherwise, the other men would have killed him as a stranger.
Talk about feast or famine.
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@M_Adams why did that upload twice
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@M_Adams
Did you press backspace once?
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@M_Adams
Did you press backspace once?I’m on mobile so That’s Different™︎...
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Second hand Tesla sold for $16k. Might need some TLC:
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@JBert Polygeekery must have bought it just to practice on
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@M_Adams said in In other news today...:
@M_Adams why did that upload twice
Check raw. It uploaded once and got linked once.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-accounts-stolen-in-ongoing-phishing-attacks/ said:The phishing landing page will also exfiltrate the victims' 2FA codes in real-time if they're using a time-based one-time password (TOTP) mobile app, making it possible for the attackers behind this campaign "to break into accounts protected by TOTP-based two-factor authentication."
Now this part would really deserve clarification. Though I suppose they simply act as a man-in-the-middle so they get logged in in your stead and then simply get the appropriate tokens to stay logged in—so they don't even actually use the password. It does say they just register a connection to avoid needing the password.
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Ah, the ever amorphous "national security"
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Holy fuck...
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@brie Have people just stopped buying the stuff entirely? Are everyone's stockpiles just full?
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@dkf Basically... yes. The demand is so low that there's a risk of running out of places to put it.
West Texas Intermediate, the US marker, lost 99 per cent on Monday, with the price of oil for delivery next month sinking to record lows on warnings that traders were struggling to access storage capacity at the refinery hub of Cushing, Oklahoma, which is expected to be full within weeks.
CME Group, the operator of the exchange where WTI trades, took the extraordinary measure of saying prices could even turn negative for the current contract, which expires tomorrow. That means producers would be paying buyers to take their oil in order to delay the shutdown of their fields.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@brie Have people just stopped buying the stuff entirely? Are everyone's stockpiles just full?
I thought that was common knowledge? Demand reduced due to covid-19 (less home-work travel, more offices unlit and unheated, certain factories shut down, etc). That dropped the price. OPEC wanted to reduce production but russia didn't play ball so they increased production instead. Just about everyone's oil storage is full now as they stocked up while it was cheap, so demand dropped even further.
Trump threatened to put tariffs on it at some point to protect domestic scale oil production but I don't recall whether he followed through.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@brie Have people just stopped buying the stuff entirely? Are everyone's stockpiles just full?
I thought that was common knowledge? Demand reduced due to covid-19 (less home-work travel, more offices unlit and unheated, certain factories shut down, etc). That dropped the price. OPEC wanted to reduce production but russia didn't play ball so they increased production instead. Just about everyone's oil storage is full now as they stocked up while it was cheap, so demand dropped even further.
Trump threatened to put tariffs on it at some point to protect domestic scale oil production but I don't recall whether he followed through.
looks again wait wat it's NEGATIVE?
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@brie said in In other news today...:
@dkf Basically... yes. The demand is so low that there's a risk of running out of places to put it.
All of which points to it going even lower, because everyone who wants it probably has a much as they can hold.
Curiously, the other oil indices that I quickly checked aren't cratering quite so much. WTI seems to be having special problems. OTOH, I'm no expert on commodities.
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Gas prices are in free-fall. Diesel fuel is still $2.50/gallon, though. But I guess that's okay because I'm not driving anywhere.
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
Gas prices are in free-fall. Diesel fuel is still $2.50/gallon, though. But I guess that's okay because I'm not driving anywhere.
That's because diesel still gets used for trucks & ships, and they're the only things moving in large numbers these days.
But even those will have issues--diesel comes from cracking crude in pretty fixed ratios, and if the refineries shut down because 80% (WAG) of their output is unsellable...
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@PleegWat 0.00 was the lowest reported price in today's range. And now it looks like maybe they've stopped the trading at 0.01; the page stopped updating...
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@brie said in In other news today...:
@dkf Basically... yes. The demand is so low that there's a risk of running out of places to put it.
All of which points to it going even lower, because everyone who wants it probably has a much as they can hold.
Curiously, the other oil indices that I quickly checked aren't cratering quite so much. WTI seems to be having special problems. OTOH, I'm no expert on commodities.
I'm no expert either but apparently there's a contract coming due today which means they need a place to put the stuff tomorrow, hence the rush to sell the futures.
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
But I guess that's okay because I'm not driving anywhere.
That, writ large, is the problem. People are using so much less that there's just no demand…
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@brie said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat 0.00 was the lowest reported price in today's range. And now it looks like maybe they've stopped the trading at 0.01; the page stopped updating...
Local news reports -$1.43. I think we can excuse the site developer for not anticipating the price would ever be negative.
@brie said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@brie said in In other news today...:
@dkf Basically... yes. The demand is so low that there's a risk of running out of places to put it.
All of which points to it going even lower, because everyone who wants it probably has a much as they can hold.
Curiously, the other oil indices that I quickly checked aren't cratering quite so much. WTI seems to be having special problems. OTOH, I'm no expert on commodities.
I'm no expert either but apparently there's a contract coming due today which means they need a place to put the stuff tomorrow, hence the rush to sell the futures.
That's what local news says; the price reported now is futures deliverable in May. Some recovery is expected once the advertised price is the one for June futures, next week.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Local news reports -$1.43. I think we can excuse the site developer for not anticipating the price would ever be negative.
It does seem to support negative prices, though.
edit: I'm confused as to what the difference is between USOIL, which I can't even find on MarketWatch, and CL1! which MarketWatch calls CL.1...
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@brie said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat 0.00 was the lowest reported price in today's range. And now it looks like maybe they've stopped the trading at 0.01; the page stopped updating...
Local news reports -$1.43. I think we can excuse the site developer for not anticipating the price would ever be negative.
It has happened before so a competent site developer ... yeah. My bad.
(not for oil - but for energy. And there were also several articles last month about a possible negative oil price)
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I'm mostly surprised they didn't have to plaster the beach with warnings like "these waves contain a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, or other reproductive harm"...
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Not sure if this is a prize or cruel and unusual punishment:
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Not sure if this a prize or cruel and unusual punishment:
How does that break down by the hour? I'd calculate myself but in determining total runtime.
Do have to watch trailers? What about credits? These things matter.
OTOH, at least one my kids would be willing.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
How does that break down by the hour? I'd calculate myself but in determining total runtime.
It's in the article.
25 hours, 6 minutes.
~40USD an hour.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
25 hours, 6 minutes. [of Harry Potter]
I would cut my wrists.
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
25 hours, 6 minutes. [of Harry Potter]
I would cut my wrists.
I'd do it for free.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
25 hours, 6 minutes. [of Harry Potter]
I would cut my wrists.
I'd do it for free.
Bit harsh.
I'd watch Harry Potter for free though.
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@loopback0 he gets what he asked for.
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
25 hours, 6 minutes. [of Harry Potter]
I would cut my wrists.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
How does that break down by the hour? I'd calculate myself but in determining total runtime.
It's in the article.
25 hours, 6 minutes.
~40USD an hour.
RTFA is
Nah, not worth it.
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Seeing as the Nvidia/RTX topic got Levicki'd...
Nvidia have a new background noise removal tool. Works pretty well.
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@loopback0 It does sound pretty good...
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Oh, boy...
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Oh, boy...
Oh yeah, it's lots of fun! zzzzZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZzzzzzzz!!!!!!!
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@Tsaukpaetra I remember being out of the country during the heaviest period last time around. The cicada apocalypse on fences and trees and etc was impressive.
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Somebody wanted to keep some social distance inside a random restaurant:
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@Gąska said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla Do the challenges include deciding what to do when there's one or five people tied up on the track?
Ooh, that would be another excellent use for bodies that have been donated to scientific research!
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
When are people going to learn that if you put your stuff on someone else's lawn you don't get to complain when their cat pisses all over it. I like how incompetent facebook's support looks in this article and how they lend credence to what we all suspect. Facebook doesn't delete anything. They switch the visibility flag to false.
The creepiest part of this headline is the implication that your life didn't really exist if it wasn't plastered all over Facebook.
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@brie said in In other news today...:
your life didn't really exist if it wasn't plastered all over Facebook
And your sports activity isn't real if it's not on Strava.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
Seeing as the Nvidia/RTX topic got Levicki'd...
Nvidia have a new background noise removal tool. Works pretty well.
Wait, so their software engineers come up with some awesome audio software, but then someone realizes that doesn't sell hardware so they slap a completely made-up "RTX" label and restriction on it? Classic.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Oh, boy...