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  1. Safer than pot on Tobacco Use is Soaring Among US Kids, Driven By E-cigarettes (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    E-cigs are not totally safe, but they're way safer than smoking marijuana. If you need your THC, get it some other way than inhaling the smoke from burning pot.

    As for nicotine, I get mine from using Swedish snus. Far safer than smoking or using American snuff or dip.

  2. I just tried that and I see that I can apply a style to one sentence, one word, or even one letter within a paragraph without LO applying it to the whole paragraph. I wonder why yours is different.

  3. Re:1TB wow, I missed out! on Flickr Starts Culling Users' Photos (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I've used SmugMug for several years now and wouldn't think of switching to a lesser service. I pay $47.88/year.

    Check out their features and compare their plans to yours: https://www.smugmug.com/features

    The main reason I like SmugMug is that they don't fuck with my photos or videos, or do crazy things like claim copyright over them. You really do get what you pay for and free services just can't be trusted.

  4. Re: Well? on Well Water Likely Available Across Mars (behindtheblack.com) · · Score: 1

    For such a shallow mind.

  5. Re:Perfection is the enemy of the good on E-Cigarettes Are Effective At Helping Smokers Quit, a Study Says (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Or just switch to Swedish snus. Get your nicotine and nobody will ever know you're using it. Better than the patch and extremely low-risk for cancer.

  6. Re: Storage capacity is not the problem on Samsung Develops the First 1TB Storage Chips For Phones (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    BS. Not even in the near future. Do you think that networks are going to be using phone cameras to broadcast live sports in 4K? Now that's just crazy talk!

  7. Re:Hmm...I just can't think of an example... on Record Number of Americans See Climate Change As a Current Threat (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    We simply can't afford Medicare for all, and if you knew anything about Medicare, you wouldn't wish it upon your worst enemy.

    Probably none of you are on Medicare, but I am. I've been on it for a year now. It's NOT good healthcare insurance. It's nowhere near as good as the great Blue Cross/Blue Shield policy I had for decades. Oh, and you pay for Medicare, just not much. It costs me $135 per month, and nearly all Medicare recipients have to have a supplemental policy through a private insurance company to cover the many, many things that Medicare doesn't cover. My supplemental policy is through BC/BS.

    In short, if you do go for "Medicare for all" thinking you'll eliminate private insurance companies, think again. Medicare is close to worthless without a supplemental plan. Or make Medicare a REAL healthcare insurance policy. That would really make it impossible for the taxpayers to afford!

  8. Re:conspiracy to defraud? on YouTube Strikes Now Being Used As Scammers' Extortion Tool (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Bingo! YouTube may not be actively assisting the criminals, but their inaction is surely aiding the criminals. A local DA or state DA should start an investigation. Maybe Congress should hold hearings.

    Some companies (and some people) come to their senses only when they get hit in their pocketbook.

  9. Could've been worse. Could've been spreadsheet templates!

  10. Re: What nuclear needs from congress on Bill Gates Promises Congress $1 Billion To Build Nuclear Reactors For Fighting Climate Change (sfgate.com) · · Score: 2

    Three branches of Congress?!? Did you pay attention in school? This is one of the major problems in our country today. Public education has failed to accomplish its mission. We now have several generations that are totally ignorant of how the federal government is organized and how it works. What's really scary is that those people VOTE!!

    A very short primer:
    There are THREE branches of our federal government - Executive (the President), Legislative (Congress), and Judicial (the Supreme Court). Congress has TWO houses or chambers, the Senate and the House of Representatives.

  11. Re:Depends on sidewalk infrastructure on Amazon Begins Using 'Sidewalk Robots' In Seattle Delivery Tests (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Neighborhoods without sidewalks are actually the norm. In my line of work I've worked in a few hundred cities and towns, and worked in thousands of neighborhoods and subdivisions. Sidewalks are few and far between. Even when there are sidewalks, they're commonly so rough and out of shape that kids on tricycles and roller skates have a hard time using them.

    I have no sidewalks in my neighborhood, or my previous neighborhood, or the one before that, or the one before that. We had one when I was a kid, but there was a high curb at each intersection. Not exactly wheel-friendly.

    Sometimes I think people look out of their window and they imagine the whole world looks just like their little part of it.

  12. Re:"Russia Supplied Wikileaks" Assertion is Unprov on 'This Time It's Russia's Emails Getting Leaked' (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 0

    I don't know who did the "hacking", if there even was a hack from outside. Let's ask Seth Rich and see what he says about it. Well, it's too late now, isn't it? Something about file timestamps, if I remember correctly.

  13. Thanks, but no thanks on Microsoft Fights Fake News With NewsGuard Integration in Its Mobile Edge Browser (pcworld.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm a grownup human being. I don't need a company (that has its own bias and agenda) telling me which news sources to trust and which to distrust.

    I knew right away Microsoft's opinion was worthless when I followed the link in the summary and saw Breitbart flagged. Yes, Breitbart has a right-leaning bias, but it's like an antidote to the main stream media's false and biased reporting.

    You all probably don't see it because of your hatred for everything Trump, but in my nearly 66 years I've never seen so much hatred for a president from the press, a press that's SUPPOSED to be unbiased.

    Just a few years ago Trump was getting awards from the NAACP, but now he's racist? Don't be so stupid to believe shit like that. Show some independence and intelligence, for Pete's sake. I see you and I see sheep.

  14. Re:Can we petition to end facebook on Facebook Launches a Petition Feature (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I would settle for Zuck being strung up by the balls, if he still has his. Some cucks don't.

  15. My Lenovo tablet will be three years old in March. It still has the same version of Android that it came with. I've never done any serious transactions on it because I use it simply for media consumption.

    I wonder if Amazon updates their version of Android on their tablets.

  16. Can you say scapegoat? on Is California's PG&E The First Climate Change Bankruptcy? (marketscreener.com) · · Score: 0

    PG&E is the scapegoat for California's insane utility regulations and forest mismanagement.

    Do you honestly think it's going to get better now?

  17. Re: Adult section? on Happy 18th Birthday, Wikipedia (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You're the only guy on the planet who can finish 1st and 3rd in a circle jerk!

  18. Your comment just went over the heads of 95+ percent of slashdotters. They aren't old enough to remember the original Avengers.

    And I'm still in love (lust) with Emma!

  19. Re:Declination is not news on Earth's Magnetic Field Is Acting Up and Geologists Don't Know Why (nature.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Really serious navigators know how to use every system of navigation. If your GPS receiver quits, you're the one who is lost. Don't rely solely on technology. You can find yourself in trouble pretty damned fast.

  20. My brain is so big now . . . on Old People Can Produce As Many New Brain Cells As Teenagers (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It won't even fit inside my skull! I call the external part of my brain "the internet". Seriously, we all use the internet as an extension of our brains. There's no need memorizing so much stuff when you have nearly the whole knowledge and wisdom of the world at your fingertips.

    I prefer to use my "internal storage" for personal memories. That's nearly 66 years of friends, family, parties, relationships, neighbors, holidays, and the like. I still do math problems in my head just to keep the CPU in shape. Emotionally I'm about the same as I was long ago; just a little bit slower to anger, but that's all.

  21. Re:Changing times on People Older Than 65 Share the Most Fake News, Study Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    There never has been a gatekeeper. Do your own vetting of any news you hear, see, or read. Use as many other sources as you can find. The internet makes that easier now.

    Oh, and I'll be 66 in about a month. Maybe the article was about much older people, in their 80s and 90s. My generation isn't as easily fooled as you all may think.

  22. Re:Cheesus Christ that's a lot of cheese! on American Cheese Surplus Reaches Record High · · Score: 2

    That's nearly enough cheese to make another Moon!

  23. Re: Don't sugarcoat the turd on Samsung Phone Users Perturbed To Find They Can't Delete Facebook (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    No, normal.

  24. Thanks, but no thanks.

  25. Speaking of politics, could somebody locate Ruth Bader Ginsburg's phone and see if it's at home, in the hospital, or already in the morgue. Inquiring minds would like to know.