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  1. What do you call a tennis score of 40-40?

  2. It must be Bash Amazon Day

  3. What is Prime Day? on Amazon Admits Prime Day Deals Not Necessarily the Cheapest (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    What is "prime" about today?

    Its the 16th of July

    Nothing prime about 16

    Sure 7 is prime, , but that would make for a month long sale.

  4. I gave up buying Apple stuff in 1988

  5. types of football on Has Video Refereeing Ruined The World Cup? (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Other countries besides the US fefer to the game (where you kick the round ball) as soccer, to distinguish it from sports where you run with an oval ball.

    For example in Australia they play 3 different types of football, not including soccer
    Rugby Union, Rugby League, and Aussie Rules

    In fact I was going to complain about the headline:

    World Cup of what?

    Since there are many sports that have a World Cup

  6. Re:warcrime to use against humans on Chinese Scientists Have Developed the World's First Destructive Laser Rifle (popsci.com) · · Score: 1

    Modern wars are not fought between nation-state that have agreed to follow the "Rules of War" and Geneva conventions. Or or more of the participants are terrorists, freedom fighters, Religious Martyrs, warlor5ds, protesters etc
    If one side dowan't abide by the rules then the other side will eventually stop obeying them as well.

  7. Every home on UK Wants An Electric-Vehicle Charger In Every New Home (thedrive.com) · · Score: 0

    Will they also require every new home to come with a garage in which ro park the EV ?

  8. End DST Didn't they already do that? on EU Polls The Public About Abandoning Daylight Savings Time (europa.eu) · · Score: 1

    Didn't they already do that?

    Or is it just the FIA

    I have noticed that all of the European Formula 1 races this season start at 8am Central Daylight Time or later, previously they started at 7am CDT

    which is goof for me since I work every other weekend until 7am

  9. Re:Closed ecosystem on Amazon's Alexa is Getting Clobbered (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    "Why do all home assistant names end with a vowel?"

    I think it indicates a female, at least in European languages.

  10. Re:What about the Fire HD 7 tablets? on Amazon Wants You To Turn Your Fire Tablet Into a Portable Echo (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a Fire HD7

    It fits in my pocket

    the bigger ones do not

    and I wish people would stop calling it a "Fire Tablet"
    It doesn't even come with that Holy Text.

  11. Re:Dative, and no there is no ambiguity on Words with Multiple Meanings Pose a Special Challenge To Algorithms (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

      "supporting roll.'

    lol

  12. So are they working on on Russia's Proton Rocket, Which Predates Apollo, Will Finally Stop Flying (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    an Anti-Proton rocket ?

    That would really powerful

  13. I don't buy Apps from Google Play, I buy them from Amazon.

  14. Income tax is much fairer - the rich pay a higher rate.

    The only sales that should be taxed are tobacco and other smokes, and motor fuels (to pay for roads and bridges etc)

  15. Because of this decision I will be spending less online than I would of done.
    I won't be spending any mire locally than I would of done.

    Previously about 90% of my online purchases were through Amazon, so I would have paid state sales tax anyway.

    And since I am not spending so much, I don't need to earn so much, so I am less likely to pick up hours - So I will be paying less (state and federal) income tax.

    Sounds like a good way to put the country back into recession.

  16. Re:Weird numbers on Why Antarctica Is Getting Taller (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    Centimeters may be metric, but it is not an SI unit.

    SI units come in 10^3 s

  17. Re: Sick that this is posted as a story here on GitHub, Medium Remove Public ICE Employee Data Repository (obsceneworks.com) · · Score: 1

    What is Public ICE ?

    is it some part of a skating rink?

    ICE also stands for Internal Combustion Engine
    which would be OK if it was running on Hydrogen

    and theres a new flavour of Mt Dew but I prefer Throwback

  18. I never acrually had A 500 on New Commercial Amiga 500 Game Released · · Score: 2

    But I did have a 1000, then a 2000 and a 1200

    But that was many years ago, I didn't bring the Amigas with me when I migrated (legally) to America 16 years ago.

  19. That's a bit rough on Turkey Bans Periscope (stockholmcf.org) · · Score: 4, Funny

    for submarines wanting to transit between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean

  20. If a dog chews up your SD card, the cops won't get much information off it

  21. Telsa? on Tesla Short-Sellers Lose $1 Billion (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    great headline guys..

  22. Its spent 6 months in hibernation, and is woken up now to prepare for the fly past that is still more than 6 months away?

    I would have told mission control to FO and wake me when we are a couple of weeks out..

  23. Since when were PC games on ROM ?

    Of course its probably am error in translation

  24. Re:electric cars don't really matter ... on Number of Electric Vehicles on Roads Reaches Three Million: IEA (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    EV's are a ideal place to store energy generated by wind and solar when its not peak demand.

  25. publishing conglomerate Springer Nature on Why Thousands of AI Researchers Are Boycotting the New Nature Journal (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    is that something to do with Jerry Springer ?