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@scholrlea The verification program made sense for clear celebrities, its point was to be able to know whether a "Bill Gates" was THE Bill Gates.
Then they apparently lowered the bar to "person who goes by their real name".
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@lolwhat said in In other news today...:
@dragoon Thank you!
Wait, you're thanking him for a study which essentially says: "Fasten your furniture to the wall!" when you just said: "Hey, we never fastened our furniture to the wall and it wasn't a problem!"
The cognitive dissonance is astounding. I'm seriously not getting you: You're trying to ridicule me for advising to fasten furniture to the wall because it wasn't a problem for you, then tell me that it's a scourge and THEN even thank someone for telling you that your anecdotes are false in the face of statistics?
Seriously?
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Did you miss this part ?
@lolwhat said in In other news today...:
I'm also having trouble finding sources lamenting the scourge of dresser tipover deaths and injuries prior to this latest issue with Ikea's...
He's thanking him for the info
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@timebandit So? That doesn't make his statements any better. It makes them worse.
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@rhywden So, he shouldn't have thanked him for the info ?
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@lolwhat lightweight paper-mache furniture is more prone to tipping over than the heavy, solid stuff that your grandparents cut out of solid oak with their bare hands (or was it a beaver chainsaw?).
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@anotherusername No, no, a chainsaw bayonet.
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@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
@boner said in In other news today...:
Isn't the point that she's supposed to be good? The customer has expectations about the quality of service received, not the, um, vendor.
Maybe he had no money and she offered to let him work off the debt.
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
@scholrlea The verification program made sense for clear celebrities, its point was to be able to know whether a "Bill Gates" was THE Bill Gates.
Then they apparently lowered the bar to "person who goes by their real name".Even before they opened up verification to anyone except Julian Assange and Lowtax, they still had some questionable ones. Like there's some "cup of coffee" account that IIRC doesn't even pretend to be any real person, but it's been verified forever.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Like there's some "cup of coffee" account that IIRC doesn't even pretend to be any real person, but it's been verified forever.
They called Tim Horton and confirmed it existed
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Like there's some "cup of coffee" account that IIRC doesn't even pretend to be any real person, but it's been verified forever.
That sounds a lot like it's one of their "wacky" in-jokes.
lol coffee amirite?
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@rhywden said in In other news today...:
The cognitive dissonance is astounding.
Sorry, my sources aren't on the Internet.
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@lolwhat said in In other news today...:
@rhywden said in In other news today...:
The cognitive dissonance is astounding.
Sorry, my sources aren't on the Internet.
You know what: Fuck you.
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
@rhywden So, he shouldn't have thanked him for the info ?
He should have said: "Well, I was wrong about that. Maybe I shouldn't make my personal anecdotes into advice."
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@rhywden said in In other news today...:
@lolwhat said in In other news today...:
@rhywden said in In other news today...:
The cognitive dissonance is astounding.
Sorry, my sources aren't on the Internet.
You know what: Fuck you.
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
Then they apparently lowered the bar to "person who goes by their real name".
That's me stuffed then. Unless I change my name by deed poll to
xas7wcrg9e
of course...
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@r10pez10
who wears flip-flops when retrieving cash with a stole card
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@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
Well, it looks like my dream of getting Terry Davis, Geri, Gavino, and @SpectateSwamp in a single thread at the same time and seeing what happens is going to have to wait a while longer.
Well, at least they haven't... oh, wait, no, they did catch him. Sad!</trump>
Filed Under: Anyone surprised by this? Me, neither.
Who?
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
with chocolate sprinkles?
or as they are know locally: mouse shit
I think I've mentioned this before, but, there are some areas where ice cream sprinkles are called 'jimmies'. The looks one gets for asking for jimmies on their ice cream in places where it means something rather different can be priceless.
Can confirm.
Source: Grew up in upstate NY. Also, pop and hoagie.
You Southerners talk about pop and hoagies. The correct terms are tonic and grinder.
Grindr is an entirely different category of thing. And probably not something you want to get a glimpse of your pop (and probably his hoagie) on, or you might need a really strong tonic.
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@dreikin said in In other news today...:
Who?
The TempleOS guy. I've been hoping for an entertaining flamewar to erupt between him and Swampy.
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@boner said in In other news today...:
The victim was found in his home three days later with dried blood on his head. He was awake, but unresponsive.
He was taken to hospital and two bullets were found in his head.
That's rather impressive. Terrible, but impressive.
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@boner said in In other news today...:
Trigger warning: Autoplaying video.
Nescafe has created an artificially intelligent email bot called Re:scam, which is designed to waste scammers' time with a never-ending series of questions and anecdotes.
FTFHow I originally read that.
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@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
Actually, I lied, I will make this comment: anyone surprised to hear that ordinary Twitter users don't understand the risks of indexing on implicit foreign-key relations, raise your hands.
Thank you. You can put your hand down now, Mr. Dorsey.
What's the connection?
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@lolwhat lightweight paper-mache furniture is more prone to tipping over than the heavy, solid stuff that your grandparents cut out of solid oak with their bare hands (or was it a beaver chainsaw?).
Ugh, old furniture tends to stand on little, fragile legs with a short base for its height. I'd much rather have the modern stuff.
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@dreikin said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@lolwhat lightweight paper-mache furniture is more prone to tipping over than the heavy, solid stuff that your grandparents cut out of solid oak with their bare hands (or was it a beaver chainsaw?).
Ugh, old furniture tends to stand on little, fragile legs with a short base for its height. I'd much rather have the modern stuff.
Fragile? A dresser from solid wood weighing over 100 kg can't have fragile legs. And I am not sure what āshort baseā means, but normally the legs are just continuation of the corner beams, so the base is as wide as the piece, which is as good as it ever gets.
I've seen a lot of fragile legs on the '60s and '70s stuff, but that is already chipboard and much lighter, not what @anotherusername was talking about.
Another observation is that it is much easier to tip furniture standing on carpet than one standing on wooden floor, because soft carpet still provides a bit of support for the higher legs in the first degree or two of banking.
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@bulb said in In other news today...:
I've seen a lot of fragile legs on the '60s and '70s stuff, but that is already chipboard and much lighter, not what @anotherusername was talking about.
How many homes with toddler-aged children do you know where there is solid wood furniture? That stuff is expensive.
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@rhywden New is sure expensive. But the talk was about old one and past time. And someone still gets to inherit the stuff.
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@bulb said in In other news today...:
@rhywden New is sure expensive. But the talk was about old one and past time. And someone still gets to inherit the stuff.
Yeah. And how many homes with toddler-aged children do you know with such inherited furniture? And exclusive inherited furniture to boot?
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@boner WAT
Best part is that Boaty McBoatface actually won but they discarded that win because it might cause confusion with the other vessel already bearing that name.
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No idea how reputable this news source is, but here is the story:
That I found from a tweet by the AP with no link after searching for the story:
Col. Aziz Rashed, a spokesman for rebel-allied forces, said Sunday that the missile intercepted by the Saudis near the capital Riyadh on Nov. 4 was āYemeni-produced.ā The U.S. contends that the ballistic missile was Iranian-made and remnants of it bore āIranian markings.ā
This will make things very interesting in the Middle East if the Iranians are arming militants against the Saudis and we have proof.
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@polygeekery For a very messy definition of "interesting."
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@benjamin-hall If only the mess could be confined to the specific countries involved, . Unfortunately, if it does get messy, a lot of other people are going to get dragged into the mess.
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@hardwaregeek said in In other news today...:
@benjamin-hall If only the mess could be confined to the specific countries involved, . Unfortunately, if it does get messy, a lot of other people are going to get dragged into the mess.
Yup. Hence the "messy" part. I'll suppress the black humor I was going to say here. Because I'm not a very nice person at heart but this isn't the garage.
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@boner said in In other news today...:
sydney ferry will actually be called ferry mcferryface
It is an epidemic ?
Trainy McTrainface: Swedish railway keeps Boaty's legacy alive
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@pjh said in In other news today...:
@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
Then they apparently lowered the bar to "person who goes by their real name".
That's me stuffed then. Unless I change my name by deed poll to
xas7wcrg9e
of course...It would sure show that xkcd guy how it's done.
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EDIT: Nice onebox date.
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@antiquarian said in In other news today...:
@boner What happened to "The customer is always right"?
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
released under Open Request, the US equivalent of a UK Freedom of Information request
Did they get that backwards? These requests are normally called FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) in the US, and as far as I know, most if not all states and municipalities generally use similar terminology.
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@luhmann said in In other news today...:
@r10pez10
who wears flip-flops when retrieving cash with a stole cardObviously, they need the cash to buy some shoes.
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No word on whether or not he had any significant gambling debts.
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@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
No word on whether or not he had any significant gambling debts.
Or whether he had information that would lead to Hillary Clinton's arrest.
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@polygeekery Also no word on whether one of the other two men were holding his beer.
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Time to fire the
management that thought this upsocial media intern in 3, 2, 1...
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@boner not using a bidet is