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@pjh said in In other news today...:
"Pop" go the neutron stars...
I think you mean "Bling"
Dr. Metzger estimated that an amount of gold equal to 40 to 100 times the mass of the Earth could have been produced over a few days and blown into space. In the coming eons, it could be incorporated into new stars and planets and in some far, far day become the material for an alien generation’s jewels.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/16/science/ligo-neutron-stars-collision.html?_r=0
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
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@dragoon said in In other news today...:
@benjamin-hall said in In other news today...:
It's not my favorite either. I'd rather have a default sunset provision--all laws need to be revisited every X years and automatically go away if not repassed.
Yeah, I can't think of any problems with that. Nope, none at all.
There would have to be some changes, to be sure. It would also help to have fewer laws in total. Keep the legislature busy re-evaluating and re-passing laws
And then you get a deadlock over some isse, the timeout passes by and murderers walk free.
If we bus the murderers over to the legislature on release, they can express their opinions in person.
We already did that. It's called holding an election.
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@pjh So is North Yorkshire the Florida of the UK or something?
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@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
@pjh So is North Yorkshire the Florida of the UK or something?
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EDIT: Just noticed this was from 2014. My mom mentioned it a few minutes ago so I looked it up.
Still, WTF?
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But he said had decided to publicly renounce the far-right movement, which he claimed to have joined because he "didn’t have many friends at school" and "wanted to be a member of a group of people that had an aim".
Join the chess club ffs.
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@brisingraerowing said in In other news today...:
EDIT: Just noticed this was from 2014. My mom mentioned it a few minutes ago so I looked it up.
Still, WTF?Not a WTF. It's probably not how I'd choose to spend a limited income, but if you're financially supporting vulnerable people with handouts then surely they should be allowed the dignity to spend the money how they choose?
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@japonicus said in In other news today...:
but if you're financially supporting vulnerable people with handouts then surely they should be allowed the dignity to spend the money how they choose?
That's the whole point of the scheme - you get to dictate what they can spend the money on.
Otherwise, you could skirt around the whole issue and illicit dealings that happen because of them by simply giving them money to begin with.
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Seriously?
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Seriously?
FTFA:
it’s likely there are some people out there who believe cutting the wire between ear buds will make the headphones completely wireless.
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@boner said in In other news today...:
But he said had decided to publicly renounce the far-right movement, which he claimed to have joined because he "didn’t have many friends at school" and "wanted to be a member of a group of people that had an aim".
Join the chess club ffs.
Huh. Join the club they said...
But he said had decided to publicly renounce the far-right movement, which he claimed to have joined because he "didn’t have many friends at school" and "wanted to be a member of a group of people that had an aim".
"It’s a terribly selfish thing to say but it’s true, I saw people being abused, shouted at, spat at in the street – it’s not until it’s directed at you that you suddenly realise that what you’re doing is wrong,"
So it's all fun and games until they aim at you.
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@japonicus said in In other news today...:
if you're financially supporting vulnerable people with handouts then surely they should be allowed the dignity to spend the money how they choose?
They usually didn't get to where they are (financially) by being good at choosing how to spend their money.
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@brisingraerowing In EBT, there are actually two different accounts, one for food and one for cash. Most people only get SNAP, meaning they only receive an allotment on the food account (which is still widely called 'food stamps' even though it's been over fifteen years since they actually used coupons or stamps). While any cash allotments are meant to go to non-food necessities such as rent, clothing, or housecleaning goods, there's no actual restriction on how you use it, only on which stores can accept it.
Technically, lingerie is clothing, which is probably the loophole the store used to get the EBT support. So if it's anyone's fault, its the clerk who processed their application to access the EBT system, but honestly, it is probably the case that the law wouldn't give them a reason to deny the application no matter how absurd it is. They sell clothes, so they have to be eligible, otherwise the process lacks impartiality and the store owners could sue. Go figure.
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@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
Technically, lingerie is clothing, which is probably the loophole the store used to get the EBT support. So if it's anyone's fault, its the clerk who processed their application to access the EBT system, but honestly, it is probably the case that the law wouldn't give them a reason to deny the application no matter how absurd it is.
Also, it's likely that the lingerie store does not sell only the fancy-lacy-expensive kind, but also basic lingerie, which is something that is needed and reasonable to subsidise (as much as other basic items). So unless the EBT scheme can differentiate between items sold by the same shop, that makes one less reason why they could be denied it.
(similarly, even your basic food shop will sell some fancy groceries or expensive foods, so people will always be able to buy those with food stamps... if you want to avoid that entirely, you have to directly give out food, not money)
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@remi said in In other news today...:
(similarly, even your basic food shop will sell some fancy groceries or expensive foods, so people will always be able to buy those with food stamps... if you want to avoid that entirely, you have to directly give out food, not money)
Ah yes, the justification for "surplus federal cheese" (which I once decided would be a great name for a rock band).
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@da-doctah What's that? I've never heard of it.
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@remi said in In other news today...:
@da-doctah What's that [surplus federal cheese]? I've never heard of it.
A kind of space-age polymer, m'lud.
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@remi said in In other news today...:
@da-doctah What's that? I've never heard of it.
Government cheese is processed cheese that was provided to welfare beneficiaries, Food Stamp recipients and the elderly receiving Social Security in the United States, and is still provided to food charities. The processed cheese was used in military kitchens since World War II and in schools since as early as the 1960s.
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@pjh Eww...
I was more thinking of food banks and the like. But they usually target an even poorer slice of the population (at least around here) and have a whole lot of other problems (the most obvious one, compared to food stamps, being the logistical aspects of physically storing and distributing stuff!).
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
@remi said in In other news today...:
@da-doctah What's that? I've never heard of it.
Government cheese is processed cheese that was provided to welfare beneficiaries, Food Stamp recipients and the elderly receiving Social Security in the United States, and is still provided to food charities. The processed cheese was used in military kitchens since World War II and in schools since as early as the 1960s.
Probably almost exactly the same stuff as Velveeta.
My grandmother was a government food recipient, and despite the fact that she couldn't actually use that much food, she was a hoarder, so of course she got her quota and she never threw any of it out. She would occasionally give some of it to us, though, so I am quite familiar with 5 lb. cans of government peanut butter.
You never knew quite what you were going to get when you opened it, either... they got peanut butter from a variety of suppliers. (Well, you could tell something of what you'd get by the date on it, but I mean you couldn't tell if what you were opening was going to turn out to be more like Jiff or more like Smuckers.)
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
The company is starting with facial
Isn't that usually an ending?
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/16/science/depressed-fish.html?_r=0
Warning: potential paywall if you're a pleb like me.
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Explain yourselves, @sockdevs
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@jaloopa name appropriation sucks.
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@julianlam said in In other news today...:
Warning: potential paywall if you're a pleb like me.
LEECHTIP: Open the link in incognito /private mode and they won't realize if you've hit your free article limit for the month.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
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@boomzilla
TRWTF is the jihadist pointing out to the intelligence agent that he dun fukt up. If you know they're watching you, but they don't know you know, you can feed them all kinds of bad data
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Why on Earth is that a valid reason to deny a transplant?!?
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@brisingraerowing At face value, I'd say no, it doesn't sound like a valid reason. There's undoubtedly a lot that they simply can't tell us, though, because it'd be illegal for them to disclose medical details about patients.
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@anotherusername It is the NHS, their valid reason is because they can and they are cunts.
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@anotherusername Sorry, wrong government overreach, Obamacare because they can and they are cunts.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
The Iowa State Patrol says a man pulled over in Des Moines after a car pursuit told state troopers that he wanted to be chased because it was on his bucket list.
The bad ideas thread is .
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
How harsh a ruling is that for the UK? It seems a bit excessive...
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
They were waiting for their stuffed crust pizza
It's not only the crust that was stuffed
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@brisingraerowing said in In other news today...:
Really! When I was elementary school age, we had to settle for masking tape.
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@jbert said in In other news today...:
@pjh said in In other news today...:
How harsh a ruling is that for the UK? It seems a bit excessive...
On the face of it, very.
But then again, they are not unknown to the court system...
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@dragoon how is that down to Obamacare, exactly? What about the Affordable Care Act?
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@arantor said in In other news today...:
@dragoon how is that down to Obamacare, exactly? What about the Affordable Care Act?
Obamacare === Affordable Care Act
You're on the other side of the pond, so you may not understand how our laws are named. Every bill has a full name: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. If the full name is long, they may also have an official short title in the bill; I'm not sure, and CBA to look, if the shortened form "Affordable Care Act" is actually given in the bill, or it's just a nickname. Laws that are sufficiently well know may also acquire nicknames such as "ACA" or "Obamacare."
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@hardwaregeek :thatsthejoke.mng:
I don't see a causal link between the issue in question and ObamaCare, and I was curious to see if it wasn't an issue under the ACA on the premise that a fair number of people that rage against ObamaCare don't have any problems with the ACA (and may be benefitting from it)
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@arantor said in In other news today...:
:thatsthejoke.mng:
@arantor said in In other news today...:
I don't see a causal link
Snark, not causality.