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  1. Re:Number 7 will shock you! on Reimagining of Schrodinger's Cat Breaks Quantum Mechanics -- and Stumps Physicists (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    Just as long as it does not blow your mind! .

  2. Re:Cannot Comprehend 'Superfandom' on Fans Are Spoofing Spotify With 'Fake Plays', And That's A Problem For Music Charts (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 1

    They do think that they make the world of sports or music a better one. And I'd guess that's important to them, just as "your country" (funny notion, "your" country when you actually own, at best, a tiny portion of it) is to you.

  3. Re:So are all other animals on Humans Simply 'Hardwired' For Laziness, Study Says (studyfinds.org) · · Score: 1

    Squirrels, the inventors of ADHS.

  4. Re: What a surprise! on Humans Simply 'Hardwired' For Laziness, Study Says (studyfinds.org) · · Score: 1

    Swimming pools? Because your fat ass feels like it weighs less when you're in water. Dancing? Because it's a socially accepted way of touching the other sex inappropriately without getting slapped.

    Aside of that, beats me.

  5. Re:Correction on Humans Simply 'Hardwired' For Laziness, Study Says (studyfinds.org) · · Score: 2

    "The youth" has been worthless for at the very least 3000 years now.

    They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.
    (Aristotle)

  6. Re:Bullshit on Humans Simply 'Hardwired' For Laziness, Study Says (studyfinds.org) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nah, we'll send people like you to die for us. Like we always do.

  7. Re:Hence the push for UBI on Humans Simply 'Hardwired' For Laziness, Study Says (studyfinds.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes, I'm work shy. Work adverse, to be accurate. And anyone who isn't is an idiot. Nobody in their right mind would willingly do something they don't want to do for no good reason whatsoever.

  8. Re: Clothes and computers make things easier on Humans Simply 'Hardwired' For Laziness, Study Says (studyfinds.org) · · Score: 1

    Technology gets developed because people want to earn money so they can spend it to be lazy rather than having to raise cattle and hunt for food.

  9. Soy? Is that the politically correct and gender indifferent version of "to be" now?

  10. Re:That leaves just Google scaring users on Microsoft Windows U-turn Removes Warning About Installing Chrome, Firefox (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    You shouldn't have to. But if something bothered me that much, I'd start getting active instead of hoping that someone might one day do it for me.

  11. Re:That leaves just Google scaring users on Microsoft Windows U-turn Removes Warning About Installing Chrome, Firefox (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    There's gotta be a plugin to remove that... If not, writing one should be easy, just change the browser tag to whatever Chrome uses when visiting a page belonging to google.

  12. Installing those browsers could endanger the feelings of Edge. Why doesn't anyone love our little Edge? You Racists!

    That should at least get the left back into the boat.

  13. Did your mom finally make you clean up your room and it was under your bed? It usually was where my stuff went.

  14. Re:Just count one play per week on Fans Are Spoofing Spotify With 'Fake Plays', And That's A Problem For Music Charts (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 1

    With VPN this is one count from this IP, one count from that IP, one count from ...

    I think I just accidentally found a new income source for ISPs, too.

  15. Re:Cannot Comprehend 'Superfandom' on Fans Are Spoofing Spotify With 'Fake Plays', And That's A Problem For Music Charts (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 1

    Honest question: You understand volunteering for political parties?

  16. Back in the early days of radio, radio stations asked their listeners to send in post cards with their favorite song so they'd play it. Which quickly prompted wannabe stars to send in hundreds of post cards to promote their own crooning.

    It didn't take long for studios to butt in and in the end, the only one really benefiting from the whole shit was the postal service that saw a spike in postcard and stamp sales. Our radio stations quickly ended it, allegedly when they received nearly a million postcards (out of a population of about 5 million with roughly 500,000 radio sets back then) within a week.

    Any system that can be gamed for profit will be gamed.

  17. Re:Wow, no one has posted this yet? Okay then... on To Fight Climate Change, California Says 'We're Launching Our Own Damn Satellite' (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm as shocked as you are. Damn Millennials, forgetting the classics so quickly.

  18. Re: Considering we still do slavery on Python Joins Movement To Dump 'Offensive' Master, Slave Terms (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Wow, I didn't know I think that! Glad you told me.

  19. Re: Considering we still do slavery on Python Joins Movement To Dump 'Offensive' Master, Slave Terms (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You are aware that the only one talking about skin color is you, yes?

  20. Re: Considering we still do slavery on Python Joins Movement To Dump 'Offensive' Master, Slave Terms (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You have to be found guilty of an actual crime.

    Unfortunately that's not even true. What's required is you being accused of a crime and having a lazy court mandated lawyer who doesn't give a shit how the case ends and whose only motivation is to get out of it as fast as he possibly can, telling you straight up that you'll accept a crappy "deal" you're offered or he'll do his best that you regret it if you actually dare to go to court and waste his time.

    You are, by the way, a minimum wage worker with zero money and no legal training. Good luck.

  21. Well, technically it is a genetic noah's arc. It has about as many animals as that ship in the old story could hold, it has one male and one female on board without any reasonable explanation how this could possibly not mean death by genetic defect within a handful of generations and it is about as useful for us out here in the real world.

    I think the naming is pretty apt.

  22. Re:Maybe they should scan more than 1 of each sex on Plan To Build a Genetic Noah's Ark Includes a Staggering 66,000 Species (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey, if it was good enough for an ancient story...

  23. This is by some margin the grossest poem ever written.

  24. Re:This is embarrassing. on FBI Mysteriously Closes New Mexico Observatory (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 0

    You SAY that's what you torrent, but what's really behind it? We want the truth!

  25. Re: Correction: Nothing cool about this on Tesla Issues Software Update To Extend Some Cars' Batteries Due To Hurricane Florence (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    I think we stay at very different hotels. I prefer those that don't treat the guest like dirt.