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  1. are those Imperial holes or metric holes?

  2. Thus delaying the answer to longstanding question on Moon Landing By Israel's Beresheet Spacecraft Appears To End In Crash (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    does a Beresheet on the moon?

  3. Re:Sweet spot? on YouTube TV Costs $50 Per Month After Another Price Hike (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    "the channel wouldn't exist if it didn't have a powerful parent channel to force it onto the cable system"

    Money-drain YouTube wouldn't exist if it didn't have powerful parent Goophabet supporting it.

  4. e-mail receipts, now with AMP "flexibility"? on California Law Banning Paper Receipts Clears First Hurdle In State Legislature (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I do want my receipts to have dynamic content.

    https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

  5. The thinnest and lightest credit card in history. on Apple Debuts Apple Card To Transform the Credit Card Experience (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now with rounded corners, and no headphone jack! Works almost anywhere Mastercard is accepted. As long as you're not holding it wrong.

  6. Re:This article doesn't feel quite right on First-of-Its-Kind US Nuclear Waste Dump Marks 20 Years (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    "literally unchanged for 100s of millions of years"

    Gondwana and Pangaea would probably quibble over your time scale.

    Besides, if that's in your back yard, the Yellowstone super-hyper-megavolcano will probably kill you long before it hurls much of this petty nuclear waste into the atmosphere.

  7. Re:Cells have been reactivated inside of "mouse eg on Scientists Reawaken Cells From a 28,000-Year-Old Mammoth (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "A mammoth-sized mouse"

    The rodents of unusual size? I don't believe they exist.

  8. Re:Single Stream is at fault on Encouragement Without Education Backfires On Recycling Efforts (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    My recycling place doesn't take pizza boxes as either cardboard or mixed paper. It's garbage here.

  9. "my wife purchased her pain ticket with my Visa"

    Kinky.

  10. Re:No, it needs to be SAFE to change their minds on Pinterest Cracks Down on Anti-Vaxxers, Pressuring Facebook To Follow (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Reason with them until they fall asleep, then vaccinate them.

  11. What does the 2nd Ave line have to do with a theoretical Amazon entity in Long Island City? Is that to help the maybe one or two people who might commute from the lower East side to LIC for work?

  12. Bad translation. Bought a hammer, but really wanted a porker. Fetishists can be hard to please.

  13. Re: Yes, sometimes you get this form Amazon on The Painful, Costly Journey of Returned Goods -- and How You End Up Purchasing Some of Them Again (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They're not losing sales. They're just pining for the fjords.

  14. Re:gratuitous insult on Bill Nye: We Are Not Going To Live on Mars, Let Alone Turn It Into Earth (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Do eyebrows count (even though they're technically fur)?

  15. Re:Not a X festival on Warner Bros Is Cracking Down On Harry Potter Festivals (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    "peaceably assembled fans of X"

    We used to call those "raves" back in the day...

  16. Project Natick? on Microsoft Sinks Data Centre Off Orkney To Test Energy Efficiency (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    That's no data center - it's a Twinkie factory!

  17. Re:The curious robots didn't know how to handle... on Humans Are Still Crucial To Amazon's Fulfillment Process (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 2

    Not rubbernecking. Butterwheeling. You should see what happens when they get to the banana peel aisle.

  18. Clever marketing on 'Yanny vs. Laurel' Reveals Flaws In How We Listen To Audio (theproaudiofiles.com) · · Score: 2

    For Yanni's new album, "Laurel."

  19. Sorry. Sniffing is whole different fetish. Pervert!

  20. Something's not quite right about that. For the year 2018, at least.

  21. Re:Two person "phone booth" on Dial P for Privacy: The Phone Booth Is Back (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    It's actually necessary for the planned Superman reboot in which the title character will be a 600 pound green-haired Puerto Rican quadriplegic trans-woman with celiac disease.

  22. "a critic of quackery", eh? on Matching DNA To a Diet Doesn't Work (statnews.com) · · Score: 1

    In the spirit of fairness, I believe we ought to also hear from at least one advocate for quackery. Gilbert Gottfried?

  23. Re:Proofreading doesn't work either on Apple Seems To Have Forgotten About the Whole 'It Just Works' Thing (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    To be fair it was a pretty bad year for Tom Petty.

  24. Just build a posh working resort somewhere nice. on Microsoft: We're Razing Our Redmond Campus To Build a Mini City (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Let your rank and file telecommute 80-90% and house them (and maybe even their families) at the resort the other 10-20% for a "working vacation" when face-to-face needs arise.

    Why would anyone want to work at a "close-to-home campus" set up like the damn Ritz and then commute an hour or two daily back to a 3-bed box in the burbs?

  25. Obviously 'R' is for 'Racist' on Coders In Wealthy and Developing Countries Lean on Different Programming Languages (vice.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Damn that whitey and his cis-science privilege!