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  1. WE CAN'T STOP HERE! on Why Bats Crash Into Windows (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    Bats DO NOT crash into windows.
    The bats are a projection from Bruce Wayne's diseased mind.

  2. C- C- CATCH THE WAVE! on Binge Watching TV Makes It Less Enjoyable, Study Says (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Damn blipverts erase your memory of the show when you bingewatch.

  3. SPEND MORE MONEY ON OLD PEOPLE! on How NASA Kept the ISS Flying While Harvey Hit Mission Control (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Those damn government scientists with their gold-plated Corollas.
    They ought to get into climate studies where the real graft is!

  4. when re-flashing a pacemaker, always be sure to mount a scratch monkey

  5. domo arigato ms roboto on Amazon's Alexa and Microsoft's Cortana Are Going To Work Together (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    And that is why plummeting birth rates will lead to Japan to being the first country to grant full rights to AIs in a generation.
    You can bank on that.

  6. Fahrenheit 452 on Publishers Are Making More Video -- Whether You Want It or Not (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually ubiquitous autoplaying video content is just another step in project MKRAGE to turn us all into constantly pissed off raving lunatics intent in nothing more than the destruction of the no-me.
    cf 2016 election onwards

  7. What, Daryl McBride wasn't available? Wait, no, should've pardoned Martin Shkreli and tapped him for the post.

  8. This is like the opening act that sets the scene in a disaster movie.

    Also, NEVER let a Senator drive the submarine!

  9. 3 little pigs laws of robotonomics safe on Bricklaying Robots and Exoskeletons Are the Future of the Construction Industry (vice.com) · · Score: 1
    Kyle Reese:

    Listen, and understand! That Brickernator is out there! It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't take smoke breaks, sick days, or catcall women walking down the street! And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until that house is built!

  10. affordable housing for Millenials (yeah, right) on Bricklaying Robots and Exoskeletons Are the Future of the Construction Industry (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Good. Automation in the home construction business will drive down prices so normal mortals can afford a house, right?

    Who am I kidding, this will just allow speculators to throw up more buildings to be snapped up by Chinese investors and sit empty.

  11. I snort the nose, Lucifer! Banana, banana! on How the Voyager Golden Record Was Made (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    It looks like the diagram on the cover doesn't specify the direction the record should turn.
    I'm more concerned about what happens if the aliens play the record backwards. They might actually think that we're into that kind of stuff when they come to visit.
    Instructions unclear, caused interstellar war.

  12. IHBT, still this CAN NOT stand on How the Voyager Golden Record Was Made (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    wed128 feigns knowledge of the historical documents

    disappointing. This used to be a nerd site.

    Still in keeping with the traditions of our people, " No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame. "

  13. I don't think they understand avertising on Apple Looks For Exceptional Engineer With a Secret Job Posting (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1
    So the ideal candidate would have secretly hacked in and found the "secret" job listing?

    the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost if you KEEP IT A SECRET!

  14. a five year old could do it on Hacker Claims To Have Decrypted Apple's Secure Enclave Processor Firmware (iclarified.com) · · Score: 1

    The way to brute force is simple and widely known.
    1.Simply create a pocket universe where time run many many times faster than ours
    2. drop your computer in there
    3. run the brute force
    5. retrieve the computer with the results from the pocket universe
    6. make sure to safely deallocate the pocket universe when done.

    good grief, do I have to tell you monkeys how to do everything?!!!

  15. of all the tall tales, I think my favorite is on Kit Kat Accused of Copying Atari Game Breakout (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Steve Jobs didn't tell Woz about the bonus for Breakout and kept the money.
    And when Woz found out, he gave Jobs cancer.

    Always brings warm feeling to my heart!

  16. This is how the Dread Pirate Roberts developed an immunity to the deadly poison iocane.

  17. WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE! on Dilution of Whisky -- the Molecular Perspective (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    "guaiacol"?
    GUACAMOLE ALCOHOL?! Maybe science has gone too far...

  18. ask me about "reveal codes" on The Docx Games: Three Days At the Microsoft Office World Championship (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    I was Wordperfect World Champion at the 1987 Rodeo in Orem!

  19. They'll grow back. Right? on Disney Ditching Netflix Keeps Piracy Relevant (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I've got you beat, I gouged out my eyes to avoid ever seeing "Pirates of the Caribbean : Dead Men Tell No Tales" by accident.

  20. is there anything they can't do? on Researchers Build True Random Number Generator From Carbon Nanotubes (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    BAH.

    By definition carbon nanotubes are all inanimate carbon rods.

  21. Brawndo has what plants crave! on North Korea Now Making Missile-Ready Nuclear Weapons, US Analysts Say (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure glad we've got a level-headed leader with years of experience in international diplomacy!

    When the rapture comes, I'm taking your car.

  22. It just seems like it some days. on Is this the End of Typing? The Internet's Next Billion Users Want Video and Voice (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    TIL there currently aren't any programming languages comprised entirely of swearing.

  23. damn right cultural imperialism on Is this the End of Typing? The Internet's Next Billion Users Want Video and Voice (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1
    should also be mandatory in their queues:

    "How to read the fucking manual"
    "How to ask a question"
    and "how to spot bullshit"

  24. We'll make it up on volume!

  25. GRRM is an devious bastard. good work! on Game of Thrones Hackers Demand Ransom (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    "leaked" "scripts"

    greatest fakeout EVAR.