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macrocephalic ,

I mean, it’s not out of character historically.

macrocephalic ,

I think it’s time we start publicly shaming Israelis and Jews who don’t make strong statements condemning the murder of civilians and protesting the reckless-at-best and seemingly genocidal actions of their government.

Are you deliberately trying to use the same language as was used against Muslims 20 years ago?

UK Trial: Pornhub's Chatbot Halts Millions from Accessing Child Abuse Content (www.wired.com)

A trial program conducted by Pornhub in collaboration with UK-based child protection organizations aimed to deter users from searching for child abuse material (CSAM) on its website. Whenever CSAM-related terms were searched, a warning message and a chatbot appeared, directing users to support services. The trial reported a...

macrocephalic ,

That explains why it’s all commercial stuff now… So I heard.

Online vape seller has ‘no intention of stopping’ shipments to Australia, despite nationwide ban — ‘We have no intention of stopping just because of one twat in Canberra.’ (www.vice.com)

Online vape seller has ‘no intention of stopping’ shipments to Australia, despite nationwide ban — ‘We have no intention of stopping just because of one twat in Canberra.’::The New Zealand-based seller issued a notice to its Australian customers that shipments will continue regardless of the government’s vape reform.

macrocephalic ,

Also cigarettes in Australia. They’re not banned, obviously, they’re just taxed so high that hardly anyone smokes them anymore. I’m probably a bit sheltered, but I’m genuinely surprised when I see someone smoking an actual cigarette now.

macrocephalic ,

If you try to buy alcohol in Dan Murphys with kids then you’ll get the third degree. If they’re teenage kids then they won’t sell to you. Meanwhile if I order online it gets delivered to my door and my postie just leaves it there.

macrocephalic ,

In a true dichotomy they are the far better option. Unfortunately they were/are attracting new smokers. The rate of teenage smoking had been plummeting for decades and was only at a couple of percent - until vapes became popular and reversed about two decades of progress.

Reddit Is Letting Power Users In on Its IPO. Not Everyone’s Buying (www.wired.com)

Reddit Is Letting Power Users In on Its IPO. Not Everyone’s Buying::Reddit says it wants to reward users by letting them buy into the company’s public listing. Some say it’s too risky—others say they won’t pay a company they’ve already given hours of free labor to.

macrocephalic ,

Exactly. It might be that the content they own (that we have them) is worth enough for them to be profitable, but I’m not going to put money down now based on something that might happen later. They’re not a startup, they’ve been operating nearly 20 years!

macrocephalic ,

I have over 100k comment karma (and much less post) and got an invite. It’s meaningless anyway as I am not a US citizen.

macrocephalic ,

I’m a bit younger than you but I remember measles was something recent when I was a kid, but it also wasn’t something that any of my contemporaries caught. This is what happens when you spend 40 years telling everyone that their opinion matters; your opinion doesn’t mean shit when it goes against verifiable scientific research.

macrocephalic ,

The only positive aspect of climate change is that it will largely take care of Florida.

macrocephalic ,

Unfortunately this is affecting kids. The ignorant adults can Darwin themselves however they want.

macrocephalic ,

Because I have multiple doors in my house which lead outside. I normally take my shoes off when I come inside, but sometimes I come in one door and then want to leave via a different door only to realise my shoes are at the other end of the house.

macrocephalic ,

Isn’t this just the road trying to solve the problem for us? I say we should have more ditches and guardrail barriers!

macrocephalic , (edited )

I swear Domino’s pizza is the best calorie to dollar ratio here. You can get a pizza that’s probably more than your daily calorie requirement for under $5 if you buy something like a Hawaiian at lunch time.

Just checked and a deep pan pepperoni is over 1200kcal and is AUD7 (USD4.60).

macrocephalic ,

I’m for no one having a private jet.

Where are the good political songs? (piped.video)

I feel like there are lots of parallels between the eighties and now (recession/inflation, yuppies/inequality, skin-heads/fascists, hot-cold wars etc.) but there used to be protest music! Where is that stuff now? Music that’s intelligent and outraged - like we should be!...

macrocephalic ,

You know that RATMs big albums were over 25 years ago, right?

macrocephalic ,

You won’t know until it’s long passed. Time is the best curator.

macrocephalic ,

I don’t know if I’d call his new stuff “bangers”.

macrocephalic ,

Only a twat would do that.

macrocephalic ,

The commandment is actually “you shall not murder”. There’s a distinct difference between killing and murdering; murder can be categorised as only a small subset of killing. I could be misled but I’m under the impression that to old testament era Jews killing a non-jew was never murder.

macrocephalic ,

Lots of the world does. It’s ok as long as we all put the correct number of digits after the period or comma.

23andMe admits hackers stole raw genotype data - and that cyberattack went undetected for months | Firm says it didn't realize customers were being hacked (www.techradar.com)

23andMe admits hackers stole raw genotype data - and that cyberattack went undetected for months | Firm says it didn’t realize customers were being hacked::Firm says it didn’t realize customers were being hacked

macrocephalic ,

Not having brute force mitigation is a pretty big miss.

Russia fires a top geneticist who claimed people could live to 900 before sins caused Biblical flood (apnews.com)

Russia’s science and higher education ministry has dismissed the head of a prestigious genetics institute who sparked controversy by contending that humans once lived for centuries and that the shorter lives of modern humans are due to their ancestors’ sins, state news agency RIA-Novosti said Thursday....

macrocephalic ,

I’m guessing you’re not from America.

macrocephalic ,

Where do you think his seed money came from?

macrocephalic ,

I bet they’re taking pre-orders with a deposit though

macrocephalic ,

USD25K would buy you a sports spec Hyundai hatch, or a low spec 2wd SUV in Australia.

macrocephalic ,

Yeah I’ve been keeping an eye on old beaters just to drop my kids to school and a 20yo Volvo SUV is as cheap as a 20yo Mazda.

macrocephalic ,

One is just harder to spell.

macrocephalic ,

Well it is a Japanese car, and they drive on the left side in Japan

macrocephalic ,

I also live in Australia and I think you’re forgetting what 99% of vehicles are used for. I can’t even remember the last time I was more than 50km from a fuel station.

macrocephalic ,

Should we start calling AAA batteries that now?

macrocephalic ,

Banning it would annoy them, but if they all just went missing without any fanfare then they wouldn’t notice; very few of them read it.

macrocephalic ,

I actually think I’d notice quite quickly as all horizontal and vertical lines would be slightly jagged.

macrocephalic ,

When you put it that way, we should be applauding how much they’re helping the immigrants get out of Texas.

macrocephalic ,

Those illegals are going to come here and take all the jobs we didn’t want to do!

macrocephalic ,

I don’t see any sarcasm is irony in there. It’s an attempt at an analogy but the mistake is so big as to only confuse the matter further.

macrocephalic ,

Want it said that if the UK rejoined then they’d have to go on the Euro?

macrocephalic ,

Which is funny because they have a much smaller GDP then Germany, and only slightly bigger than France.

Twitter violated contract by failing to pay millions in bonuses, US judge rules (www.nbcnews.com)

Twitter violated contract by failing to pay millions in bonuses, US judge rules::WASHINGTON — Twitter violated contracts by failing to pay millions of dollars in bonuses that the social media company, now called X Corp, had promised its employees, a federal judge ruled on Friday.

macrocephalic ,

Did they honestly try to argue that oral contracts are not binding? I mean it’s easy to pretend they didn’t happen, but if you admit you said it then it’s a contract.

macrocephalic ,

It’s not even like trains are his white whale, he’s just trying to break any alternative to cars before they can catch on

macrocephalic ,

Fortunately we already have a fusion reactor available to us, we just have to get better at harnessing the energy it produces.

Trump claims he’s never read Mein Kampf as he repeats anti-immigrant rhetoric (www.independent.co.uk)

Donald Trump has now denied ever having read Adolf Hitler’s 1925 memoir-manifesto Mein Kampf as he faces a firestorm over his recent run of anti-immigrant comments, which have been likened to the Nazi leader’s infamous “blood and soil” rhetoric....

macrocephalic ,

It’s easy to believe he’s never read Mein Kampf. It’s easy to believe he’s never read a book at all. He might have read his own book, maybe.

macrocephalic ,

It’s generally not hard to figure out someone’s age if their work and education history is listed

macrocephalic ,

People probably don’t care where you went to high school, but they probably care if you have a degree and when you got it. Most people go to university within a few years of finishing high school.

macrocephalic ,

Most people who have a higher education degree. I thought that was implied as you even mentioned it in your comment “ages in which students traditionally enroll in college”.

Award ceremony suspended after writer compares Gaza to Nazi-era Jewish ghettos (www.theguardian.com)

A German foundation has said it will no longer be awarding a prize for political thinking to a leading Russian-American journalist after criticizing as “unacceptable” a recent essay by the writer in which they made a comparison between Gaza and a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe.

macrocephalic ,

Also, that award for political thinking? We’re taking that away because we don’t like the thoughts you’re having.

macrocephalic ,

If everyone existed in a bubble then that would be true. Unfortunately your smoking affects others. If you only ever do it outside away from others then it’s probably only causing health problems for you, but that’s still putting load on the health system. However I’m overweight so it would be hypocritical of me to admonish you too much on that front. If you smoke indoors and near other people then you are making everyone smoke for your own satisfaction.

macrocephalic ,

They’re still healthier than cigarettes (just because you’re not breathing combusted organic matter) so if every smoker switched to vapes then we’d be in a better place. The only issue I have is the huge uptake of vaping among young people who wouldn’t otherwise have smoked.

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