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  1. Re:Incorrect description NDE on The Psychedelic Drug DMT Can Simulate a Near-Death Experience, Study Suggests (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    Whether NDEs are cross-cultural or not, one disprovable thing remains. Either:
    * You are really dead, in which case your brain can't record new memories
    * You aren't really dead and your brain is just reacting to trauma in a predictable way. The light is surgeon's headlamp, etc...

    Long story short, NDErs are full of shit, anyone with a brain knows it, many are just fame + glory hounds, including my former prof, Dr Ken Ring (psychology depts make bullshitters of us all).

  2. Re:Hearts and brains. on Fewer Than Half of Young Americans Are Positive About Capitalism (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God."

    The only group Jesus singles out as not getting into heaven? Rich people.

  3. Re:So equality no longer desired? on California May Become First State To Require Companies To Have Women On Their Boards (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I imagine the thinking is that having a woman on the board will make corporations less likely to do evil shit like dumping poison in a lake.

    That seems reasonable to me, and since I enjoy poison-free lakes, I guess I'm all for it.

    I'm not going to cry over the male board member who didn't get his seat, because remember? He wanted to dump poison in lakes.

  4. And just so as we're perfectly clear, the fact that no legislator, even in the deep south, is keen to implement a "more guns in schools" policy, means that they know deep down that it would only end in tragedy.

    You pay lip service to your "guns don't kill people" BS, but you have no actual faith in it. I dare you to prove me wrong.

  5. Then put good guys with guns inside the school before the bad guys with guns get there

    I'm all for this... In Texas. Get more guns into your schools and let's see what happens, it might just be crazy enough to work.

    But you red states need to put your children's lives where your mouths are and I don't think you will.

  6. Vermont also has very lax gun laws, but yet 1/4 the murder rate of Missouri.

    Maybe having to walk 40 miles in the snow just to murder someone is a disincentive?

  7. I'm waiting to see Colorado's reaction... on Colorado Candidate For Governor Wants To Put His State On the Blockchain (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When they tally the votes and realize their new governor will be Pepe the frog.

  8. Re:Goodbye Arstechnica on US Invaded By Savage Tick That Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I live in Australia. We have cane toads, rabbits etc which cause huge amounts of damage

    Australians were originally a small prison colony (invasive species). Now their population is out of control and not at all in balance with indigenous species..Just saying...

  9. Re:Goodbye Arstechnica on US Invaded By Savage Tick That Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Actually, for a textbook case of invasive species, take a look at H. Sapiens - No balance forthcoming and mass extinction projected at 98%+.

  10. Re:run for the border on The Internal Report Proving the FCC Made Up a Cyberattack (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3

    No the signature move is calling it fake news. This is a refreshing change of pace.

  11. Re:How does it debunk it? It's worse on FCC Admits It Was Never Actually Hacked (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    My point is that calling it a hack is merely stretching the truth, and with all the blatant lies coming out of DC lately it's curious that this is what gets apologized for.

  12. Re:How does it debunk it? It's worse on FCC Admits It Was Never Actually Hacked (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    Technically, what happened actually does fit the definition of a DDoS attack. Oliver found a deep link that wasn't supposed to get much traffic, exposed it and encouraged people to send lots of traffic there.

    If they wanted to they could keep saying it was a hack which makes me wonder why they don't.

  13. Re:The problem is the content authors. on Front-End Developer Decries 'Garbage' Design Choices on 'The Bullshit Web' (pxlnv.com) · · Score: 1

    people should worry far less about visual appearance and far more about functionality

    In other words, find an ugly girl who can cook.

  14. Re:NoScript and Ghostery on Front-End Developer Decries 'Garbage' Design Choices on 'The Bullshit Web' (pxlnv.com) · · Score: 1

    He's actually right and you're wrong. He's extracting the redirect from the link, not parsing HTML.

  15. You think developers are making those decisions? on Front-End Developer Decries 'Garbage' Design Choices on 'The Bullshit Web' (pxlnv.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The clients are. They want more and more stuff. If they see a feature another site has, then they bring it up in a meeting and decide they need that too. And then when it gets too slow they want to know why it's so slow.

  16. Re:That sounds like a bad buisness plan. on New Starbucks Partnership With Microsoft Allows Customers To Pay For Frappuccinos With Bitcoin (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the problem is having to wait 20 minutes for the transaction to verify. My Frappuccino is cold now! Wait, maybe it's supposed to be cold. In which case it's warm now.

  17. Re:You can't recycle everything on US Recycling Companies Face Upheaval From China Scrap Ban (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    It's more about consumerism than the quality of the products - nobody keeps a phone for generations no matter how good the quality is. Ads convince us that we need the newest thing and when a holiday comes around we're forced to buy it for ourselves or others.

    What we really need is a war on Christmas. Also Amazon.

  18. Re:California on US Recycling Companies Face Upheaval From China Scrap Ban (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe not for long though. Because of this.

  19. Re: "I have friends who own coal mines..." on White House Proposal Rolls Back Fuel Economy Standards, No Exception For California (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    It's even worse than that. Many of his supporters are end-of-times-hopeful evangelicals who actively pursue an apocalyptic endgame.

  20. Re:Had something similar happen on As Google Maps Renames Neighborhoods, Residents Fume (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    All street signage in the US (at least in the midwest) is in English

    Huh? It's Spanish all over the southwest, and French in Louisiana. Next thing you'll tell me the US has an official language.

  21. Unless fines for doing that are less than revenue. on Top Genetic Testing Firms Promise Not To Share Data Without Consent (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    In which case, yes our shareholders will certainly make us fucking do that.

  22. Re:Half of the story is missing on Amazon Plans To Move Completely Off Oracle Software By Early 2020 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    S3 and Dynamo are just KV storage. This is certainly not what they intend to replace Oracle with you big dummy.

  23. Re: bittorrent on Judge Blocks Release of Blueprints For 3D-Printed Guns (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 0

    I'm looking forward to the school shooting fails though. Could be some real comedy gold there.

  24. Re:Meanwhile, America met CO2 goals. on 118 All-Time Heat Records Set Around the Globe (miamiherald.com) · · Score: 1

    ... Because America doesn't have any CO2 reduction goals? There, that was easy!

  25. Re:needs frontend/ui on What OpenStreetMap Can Be (systemed.net) · · Score: 1

    I'm a freelancer. Many of my clients use(d) Google Maps. I've been busier than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest since the price change.