In other news today...
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The picture says it all ....
Drunk Dutch guy steals poles
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This bubble still hasn't burst?
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Prince Phillip (96) announces a reduction his workload by not attending as many public appointments.
Meanwhile, someone at The Daily Telegraph pushes a wrong button....
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Again?
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@zecc wishful thinking I think. Though I find this rather amusing;
This month (note the reporting paper):
Back in May:
Anyway. On a lighter note:
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Seven priests walk inside a bar. The bartender thinks it must be some kind of joke.
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@luhmann The headline is pretty readable as an English-speaker, other than "opgepakt"
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
TransPod
There are two other threads this could have went in. :P
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
opgepakt
caught although 'gepakt' can also have a slang meaning
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Well...this is unfortunate if the headline and couple's accusations are accurate.
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@polygeekery might be that there were complicated and good reasons, but they didn't understand them
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@jaloopa they could have drawn them a picture or something? Perhaps acted it out with puppets?
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Both parents took psychological evaluations, which placed Fabbrini's IQ at 72 and Ziegler at 66. The average IQ is between 90 and 110.
That's low, but not ridiculously so. Besides, IQ isn't exactly a great measure of cognitive ability: its focus is too narrow, and it completely overlooks many more important types of intelligence for social interaction and child-raising.
"They're saying, 'Who would parent Christopher better, the foster parents or the parents?' is basically what they're going on."
Isn't that the fundamental basis of all these cases?
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@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
That's low, but not ridiculously so.
According to the IQ classification wiki, it is. 70-79 is borderline, 69 and below is "extremely low"
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@boner While I know very little about the guy, he is entertainingly happy with any kind of reference to himself ever.
I think he even showed up in the live action version of Detroit Metal City.
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@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
"They're saying, 'Who would parent Christopher better, the foster parents or the parents?' is basically what they're going on."
Isn't that the fundamental basis of all these cases?
Is it not supposed to be "would the parents parent $child adequately."
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@carrievs said in In other news today...:
@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
"They're saying, 'Who would parent Christopher better, the foster parents or the parents?' is basically what they're going on."
Isn't that the fundamental basis of all these cases?
Is it not supposed to be "would the parents parent $child adequately."
True, but that doesn't change the fundamental question.
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@raceprouk I'm not sure what you mean.
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@carrievs said in In other news today...:
@raceprouk I'm not sure what you mean.
TBH, I'm not entirely sure anymore either.
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@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
@carrievs said in In other news today...:
@raceprouk I'm not sure what you mean.
TBH, I'm not entirely sure anymore either.
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@luhmann said in In other news today...:
Drunk Dutch guy steals poles
At least in Dutch you don't have to wonder if they might have reversed subject and object.
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@dse said in In other news today...:
Drive-In Jesus
Somebody should take this into the 21st century with a Sacrament Streaming Service.
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@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
@carrievs said in In other news today...:
@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
"They're saying, 'Who would parent Christopher better, the foster parents or the parents?' is basically what they're going on."
Isn't that the fundamental basis of all these cases?
Is it not supposed to be "would the parents parent $child adequately."
True, but that doesn't change the fundamental question.
The fundamental question is "should we take kids away from their parents just because we think that someone somewhere can take better care of the kids than their parents can".
Ordinarily, there's a pretty high bar to just how bad the home situation must be before we do something so drastic as take kids away from their parents.
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@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
This bubble still hasn't burst?
Nucking futs...
I don't even understand most of these things or why anyone would put money into them.
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@luhmann said in In other news today...:
caught although 'gepakt' can also have a slang meaning
Ai ai, se eu te pego!
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@izzion Yeah, but at least you can still plant a tulip bulb and get a flower, so the bulb has some intrinsic value.
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@laoc said in In other news today...:
@luhmann said in In other news today...:
Drunk Dutch guy steals poles
At least in Dutch you don't have to wonder if they might have reversed subject and object.
Dutch cars can't go backwards????
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@tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Dutch cars can't go backwards????
Forward ever, backward never!!!11
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The ignorance of people is truly infinite.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/millennials-unearth-an-amazing-hack-to-get-free-tv-the-antenna-1501686958
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@dragoon Poe or noe thread is
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
The fundamental question is "should we take kids away from their parents just because we think that someone somewhere can take better care of the kids than their parents can".
Ordinarily, there's a pretty high bar to just how bad the home situation must be before we do something so drastic as take kids away from their parents.
No kidding. There are kids elsewhere who need parents; there's no need to play musical chairs with the ones who already have them.
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Cord-cutters accustomed to watching shows online are often shocked that $20 ‘rabbit ears’ pluck signals from the air. Is this legal?
As a species, we're royally fucked.
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@luhmann What we all want to know... Did he go jousting ???
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@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
This bubble still hasn't burst?
Shhh! Don't say that out loud - you'll stop the hearts of the video card C*Os! (and others!)
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@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
Bitcoin splits as new currency takes off
Now we have two kinds of bitcoin, 0-coin and 1-coin. Together they are known as "binary-coin" or "bincoin".
In other news, Scrooge McDuck has been buying as much bitcoin mining equipment as he can, and is even buying out existing "miners".
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
In other news,
Scrooge McDucka shady Chinese cartel has been buying as much bitcoin mining equipment ashethey can, and is even buying out existing "miners".Old news. That's been going on for years now.
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@djls45 If you send 1-coins to a 0-coin address, will they annihilate each other like matter and anti-matter?
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@hungrier One can hope! :D
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@djls45 said in In other news today...:
Together they are known as "binary-coin" or "bincoin".
Smash the coin binary!
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@heterodox said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
The fundamental question is "should we take kids away from their parents just because we think that someone somewhere can take better care of the kids than their parents can".
Ordinarily, there's a pretty high bar to just how bad the home situation must be before we do something so drastic as take kids away from their parents.
No kidding. There are kids elsewhere who need parents; there's no need to play musical chairs with the ones who already have them.
With some parents, no parents is a better situation than those parents.
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@carrievs said in In other news today...:
@raceprouk said in In other news today...:
"They're saying, 'Who would parent Christopher better, the foster parents or the parents?' is basically what they're going on."
Isn't that the fundamental basis of all these cases?
Is it not supposed to be "would the parents parent $child adequately."
I was in foster care and group homes from 13 on. My observation is that even somewhat poor actual* parents have better outcomes than foster care in the great majority of cases.
I was a little different as I specifically chose not to go back home when I was 15. Also, my parents placed me in care (rather than the state taking me from them).
* actual can refer to biological or adopted
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@rhywden said in In other news today...:
With some parents, no parents is a better situation than those parents.
And sometimes it's only one of the parents. (Source: personal experience.)
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
Meanwhile, someone at The Daily Telegraph pushes a wrong button....
Meanwhile, in today's
The Herald
(Scottish paper. Source.)
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The cases feature liquid and glitter designs that, if they leak, can cause skin irritation, blisters or burns.
I'm no chemical expert, but I think I've heard of liquids and glitter that don't cause chemical burns. Why not use some of those?
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
I'm no chemical expert, but I think I've heard of liquids and glitter that don't cause chemical burns. Why not use some of those?
Made in China ™
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