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  1. Re:And we all wonder how Trump got elected. on When Did TV Watching Peak? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    What makes you think the HDMI port from my cable box is connected to my TV? It is, but there's no reason it has to be.

  2. Re:And we all wonder how Trump got elected. on When Did TV Watching Peak? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    And if I watch 20 minutes and then turn off the TV but not the cable box, how many hours is that? Comcast doesn't know I turned off my TV.

  3. Re: Uh, that's a hooker on People Are Using Venmo To Spy On Cheating Spouses (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Point is you're still shelling out, regardless which part of the hipster "experience" you value.

    Damn. I'm shelling out for my kids too and I don't even have sex with them. My dog's never paid a dime in rent. Am I ever a sucker... Shelling out for all these worthless relationships...

  4. Re:I still prefer cash. on People Are Using Venmo To Spy On Cheating Spouses (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Cash acquired by requesting cash back from other purchases. That way the Man doesn't know how much cash you're going through based on bank statements. Can't be too careful.

  5. Re: Uh, that's a hooker on People Are Using Venmo To Spy On Cheating Spouses (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If the most valuable thing about your SO is the sex, it might be time to reevaluate your relationship.

    If your SO considers sex a chore, you might want to reevaluate a couple of things.

  6. Re:In real dollars? on Star Citizen Video Game Launches $27,000 Players' Pack (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    It buys you WIN

    If "winning" costs $27k, I'm OK with "not losing" for free.

  7. e.g. people dressed as Romans around the Colluseum in Rome

    Of course the people who live in Rome dress like Romans. Pretty much by definition. People in Albuquerque dress like Albuquerquians.

  8. Re:Where is old Guinea? on Papua New Guinea Bans Facebook For a Month To Root Out 'Fake Users' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably in between Old York and Old Jersey.

    Even Old New York was once New Amsterdam. Why they changed it, I can't say. People just liked it better that way.

  9. Re: US is at fault on Valve Slammed Over 'Horrendous' Steam School-Shooting Game (eurogamer.net) · · Score: 1

    Every adult male was part of the militia.

    That would be an un regulated militia.

  10. Re:Cockroach Milk on Is Cockroach Milk the Ultimate Superfood? (globalnews.ca) · · Score: 1

    I imagine it's very hard to find their nipples.

    If you can find the nipples on an almond, I guess you can find them on roaches too.

    100g of milk from 1k roaches. If my math's right, that's somewhere around 100mg/roach. 100mg is in the ballpark of 100ml. That seems like a lot. Is this one milking session? Do the roaches survive this milking? TFA might tell me, but how could I ever know?

  11. I've never touched heroine, but I've gone through aggressive alcohol withdrawals twice. I don't know what to compare them too. They're just fucking terrible. Caffeine withdrawals will give you headaches; nicotine withdrawals will make you nervous and irritable; alcohol withdrawals will make you fucking dead. I should have been under care. The second time I had one seizure that I'm aware of and medication might have been gentler than curling up in the tub for 3 days. When somebody tells me that they're withdrawing from pot, I judge them.

  12. Re: healthcare is not a deciding factor on Money's Better Than E-Cigs Or Nicotine Gum At Helping Smokers Quit, Says Study (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless it's the Donald Duck strategy where they catch you with smokes and make you puff down a whole pack while they watch, I'm confident that I could get enough nicotine in my system to fail a blood or urine screen. Have you ever tried getting THC out of your system? Now that's a bitch. I hadn't smoked weed in >2 months and still failed my pre-employment screen. That's when I made the miraculous discovery that I'd encountered an employer that didn't care if I had a cannabis card and my life changed forever.

  13. Talked to a friend the other day about Moviepass & how they hope to leverage their users habits and GPS data to make money... got a "so what?

    They claim that's a potential future development, not something they do. I got a 1-yr subscription as a Christmas gift and don't sweat using it. I wouldn't trade my entire location history, but I'm fine telling them that I'm in the parking lot or letting them pull up listings for the closest theater.

  14. Re:Finally on Pornhub Launches VPNhub, Its Own Virtual Private Network App (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just because you can get behind it doesn't mean you can use the back door.

  15. Re: News for nerds on Trump Cancels Singapore Summit With North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    All he has to do is look at Libya and Iraq to conclude he'd have to be suicidal to trust the US.

    We've already demonstrated that our country won't honor our President's promises longer than his term. With DJT, promises don't seem to last that long. I hear we'll see his taxes if he gets the nomination.

  16. Re: News for nerds on Trump Cancels Singapore Summit With North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The comments were pretty harsh.

    Compared to the US saying that we were going to use "the Libya model"?

  17. Re:swat = licence to kill on Gamers Involved In Fatal Wichita 'Swatting' Indicted On Federal Charges (kansas.com) · · Score: 2

    If simply yelling "FIRE" is enough to cause a panic like described...

    "Yelling fire in a crowded theater" is a standard way of saying "inciting a panic." Maybe lighting off a couple of firecrackers and yelling "gun" would be more modern.

  18. Re: healthcare is not a deciding factor on Money's Better Than E-Cigs Or Nicotine Gum At Helping Smokers Quit, Says Study (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    It isn't possible to pretend to smoke. They test for nicotine in your system.

    If you think you can't intentionally fail a drug test, you're not thinking hard enough.

  19. I know withdrawal is painful, but seeing that $100 makes them want to go through with it

    In my experience (everyone's different), the smoking habit is at least as much mental as physical. I went from a pack+/day to zero overnight and the biggest challenge for me was not "smoking" pen caps absentmindedly. I was off smokes for 15 years. Going from a fifth+ of whiskey/day to zero overnight... That's fucking withdrawals.

  20. Re: Brain's reward system on Money's Better Than E-Cigs Or Nicotine Gum At Helping Smokers Quit, Says Study (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Smokers live shorter, but happier lives since smoking brings pleasure (we're not supposed to consider that, though).

    When I was down to 3-4 cigs/week, I was really happy with my habit. On evenings around 6:00, I may or may not sit on the patio and enjoy a cigarette. I was happy; Camel was happy; everyone was happy. Then my apartment complex banned smoking. I don't like admitting I'm desperate enough for a smoke to do it in the parking lot, so I started smoking in my car. I'm up to 3-4 cigs/day and I don't enjoy it at all. The nicotine rush is nice, but I don't enjoy the act of smoking while I'm driving. I tell myself that it's part of being a responsible driver since it gets the pot off my breath, but I have one whether I'm been smoking weed or not. I think I just dislike being pressured into quitting.

  21. Absolutely not. Shadow profiles are shady. When I excluded them, I was emphasizing that there were hundreds of millions of accounts belonging to people who requested them, i.e. people who want FB in the EU. That doesn't excuse FB's shadow profile behavior anywhere. FB's hardly the only one collecting data on prospective customers, but it's shady.

  22. we do not need and do not want FB in the EU!

    Maybe you don't want FB in the EU. A quick search tells me that there are hundreds of millions of EU citizens that would disagree. Shadow profiles aside, Facebook isn't forcing people to create accounts. They're volunteering to be tracked in exchange for communication options. Lots of people want Facebook. Lots of people hate Facebook. Some people fall in both camps.

  23. Re:robots.txt on The Wayback Machine is Deleting Evidence of Malware Sold To Stalkers (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The thing about preserving data is that you need to do it before the court order to be of any use.

  24. Possibly lowered the threat from NK and increase stability in the region.

    He rolled the dice with nuclear war on the line and (maybe) got lucky. He played chicken with a madman and isn't smart enough to flinch. This does not make him Nobel material.

  25. Re:"DARK SIDE OF THE MOON" on China Launches Satellite To Explore Dark Side of Moon (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    A fantastic track from one of the few albums in Rock & Roll history better than Dark Side of the Moon.

    On a related note, I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like.

    On topic, various definitions of 'dark' allow for 'hidden' or 'mysterious,' which would apply here.