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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
She was helping her grandfather take his medication, got traces of it on her fingers, and then ingested it when she ate her own food?
We literally got all the sugar substitutes using this method, except instead of helping people take medication, these guys were working in the lab and didn't wash their hands before eating.
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
@acrow said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
@dangeRuss said in In other news today...:
@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@Gąska
You're running late ...
TAS decided that yes she can compete, as there is some appeal kind of stuff going on and that forbidding her to compete would be possible a more harmful interference if she will be found not guilty.
However ... give the chance that she is just as guilty as the next Russian athlete the IOC already decided that if she ends up in the top 3 there would be ceremony. In reality thus postponing the actual medal handover.Saw some article recently where she says that the banned substance is in her grandfather's medication, which somehow ended up inside her.
I guess we're supposed to just imagine how that happened.
The medication is viagra, isn't it?
You mean Rohypnol?
I wanted to mention some ointment applied directly to penis, but I don't know any.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
I do prefer dark chocolate. Reason taste, snobbishness (I tend to eat high-end, premium dark chocolate. Milk chocolate tends (with numerous exceptions) to be made from the lowest-quality cacao.)
Huh, sounds like you should hand over your US passport to me.
I couldn't care less about the high-end premium cacao and like the high-sugar crap. White chocolate too.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
like the high-sugar crap. White chocolate too.
Me, too. I said I prefer high-quality dark chocolate. I didn't say that's all I eat.
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
Oh, ew! You guys have filthy minds, you know that?
Not really. There have been a lot of sexual abuse scandals in girls' sports. Usually the coach. But the U.S. gymnastics team was raped by their doctor, IIRC.
And that study I linked above was inspired by some athletes blaming their positive doping tests on their partner using a cream before sex. ...That was the same year Johaug blamed hers on lip balm ...which had a big warning label about the banned substance, so she didn't really help her case.
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Nick Clegg somehow failed upwards again?
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
Mark Zuckerberg to reduce his own role in policy decisions
"See??? It's not my fault anymore!"
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
Nick Clegg somehow failed upwards again?
He's likely paid well, but on the other hand, he's also a "metamate" now, so ... probably not worth it.
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@cvi better than whatever "Call me Dave" might have called him...
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@djls45 If you think about it, sports like figure skating are very prone to abuse. There's people in gatekeeper positions, able to stop the girls' sports career dead, at will. Managers, doctors, coaches. Any one of then can kill a career. And there are always more candidates for any team than there are places, so stonewalling somebody won't be obvious to outside observers.
And to get to that level in the first place takes a lot of investment. Work, time and money. Both the girl's and, usually, her parents'. Maybe she's even carrying her parents' hopes and dreams. Team pressure. Hometown celebrity pressure.
And then, when some girls eventually go to the police, they're ignored. Swept under the rug. Because national image is more important than a few girls' lives.
The U.S. scandal was mentioned, but other countries probably have as much or more of a problem. It'd take a lot of dedicated investment to make sure there wasn't any. And few countries are willing to put that effort in, since there is no return for the investment.
Back to the case at hand.
Claiming to have helped a grandparent apply medication on the eve of a major sports competition is rather suspect, since the athletes are kept in bubble wrap in preparation of their turn. And the big countries know what substances are tested for, so the team doctor makes sure the athletes don't get those even by accident. That leaves contamination by someone working with the athlete...
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Facebook acknowledged a security issue
Funny way of referring to their business model.
*edit from the comment section
I find myself struggling to imagine what they might be for Facebook as a whole. I suppose it keeps Nick Clegg out of government but it would be difficult to justify on that basis alone
If they buried him in a dark hole never to be seen again I would be okay with Facebook existing.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Facebook is one Chrome extension away from a privacy scandal
I thought Facebook itself is a privacy scandal?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Facebook is one Chrome extension away from a privacy scandal
I thought Facebook itself is a privacy scandal?
No. The users are dumb enough to be there and volunteer that information.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Facebook is one Chrome extension away from a privacy scandal
I thought Facebook itself is a privacy scandal?
No. The users are dumb enough to be there and volunteer that information.
The logged in users on facebook. (And even then they probably cannot understand the details of the privacy conditions they agree to, which are a bunch of lies anyway.)
But they track you wherever you go off facebook too (with their embeddings everywhere), and whether or not you're actually a facebook user or not.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
volunteer that information.
: Look!
shiny
A poll!I remember the days when only 1/4096 polls were shiny.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Facebook is one Chrome extension away from a privacy scandal
I thought Facebook itself is a privacy scandal?
No. The users are dumb enough to be there and volunteer that information.
And the shadow profiles they have collected on everyone that has friends or relatives on farceberk.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Facebook is one Chrome extension away from a privacy scandal
I thought Facebook itself is a privacy scandal?
Ironically, AIUI, Facebook won the popularity war with myspace because it had much better privacy than myspace — at least until they realized how much money they could make by taking away the privacy.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
volunteer that information.
: Look!
shiny
A poll!I remember the days when only 1/4096 polls were shiny.
But how many Poles are shiny?
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@izzion said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
volunteer that information.
: Look!
shiny
A poll!I remember the days when only 1/4096 polls were shiny.
But how many Poles are shiny?
This can only be determined within some finite Polish reference frame.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
I remember the days when only 1/4096 polls were shiny.
:even-older-man: and I remember when shiny odds were 1/8192, and there were only 150 pokemans!
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@HannibalRex said in In other news today...:
@izzion said in In other news today...:
I remember the days when only 1/4096 polls were shiny.
:even-older-man: and I remember when shiny odds were 1/8192, and there were only 150 pokemans!
:old_at_heart: I have no idea what you’re talking about.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@HannibalRex said in In other news today...:
@izzion said in In other news today...:
I remember the days when only 1/4096 polls were shiny.
:even-older-man: and I remember when shiny odds were 1/8192, and there were only 150 pokemans!
:old_at_heart: I have no idea what you’re talking about.
inb4 "I wasn't asking for your help!"
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No.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Germany has a law for part-time work since many years. Anyone can ask for a part-time job. If the boss does not react within 6 months, it is deemed accepted.
If the boss is against it, it is his job to prove that your part-time job would cause to big problems for the company.
Four-day week? Pft. Choose which ever model you prefer!
- same colors as , but correctly ordered.But do you keep the salary?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
It's time for coffee break. So, here comes an important article:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ada0910
"whereas taste plays some role in coffee-drinking behavior, caffeine perception was a larger determinant in the preference for black coffee, black tea, and dark chocolate."Interesting. I'm an addict for sugar/sweets/chocolate, but I hate both coffee and dark chocolate.
I love coffee and tea (no sugar) but I hate dark chocolate.
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@dangeRuss said in In other news today...:
which somehow ended up inside her.
vomit
really ... that would have been the only transfer method imaginable ... she digested old man vomit ...
Two girls one cup is not an instruction manual!
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
I do prefer dark chocolate. Reason taste, snobbishness (I tend to eat high-end, premium dark chocolate. Milk chocolate tends (with numerous exceptions) to be made from the lowest-quality cacao.)
And is less likely to taste like vomit as an aside!
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
*reads other replies* Oh, ew! You guys have filthy minds, you know that?
Hey now, I resemble that remark!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Two girls one cup is not an instruction manual!
Reading that from you...
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Two girls one cup is not an instruction manual!
Reading that from you...
You've read my f-list, haven't you?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
f-list
I don't even know what that is.
It's pretty useful!
Edit: in case the onebox wasn't warning enough, it's textual question ability for work purposes.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
It's pretty useful!
Granted, a lot of stuff on those lists is technically physically impossible, but I feel it gives insight nonetheless.
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That many people use Ubuntu?
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@Tsaukpaetra they mean users in the system. "Each service runs under its own user" has been a trend for a while.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
I feel it gives insight nonetheless.
Have you considered profiling for law-enforcement? You seem to have what is called talent in that area. The Reptiloid Bureau of Investigations, if we existed, would always be an option for you.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
No.
As such, it's also a wedge to sell Google Workspace, as you need Google IDs to sign in to Chrome OS.
Aw hell no. I'll just grab a standard Linux distro instead.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
That's one of a hack of an article completely devoid of information. Not only it does not say what the exploit is, it does not even say whether it is a local root or remote root or application publisher root (the goal of snap being to allow not completely trusted apps, so that's relevant) or what.
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Be careful when walking and at the same time using your smartphone...
This guy was lucky enough to land on something, but it wouldn't have been that pretty had he dropped the full distance...
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@homoBalkanus car go ship. Ship burn car.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Be careful when walking and at the same time using your smartphone...
This guy was lucky enough to land on something, but it wouldn't have been that pretty had he dropped the full distance...
A century before smart phones, there was the figure of
Hans guck in die Luft
(John looks into the air
).
Modern times need modern solutions, but the issue of attention failure did not change.
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From reddit, but actually
funnyterrifying.