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  1. Often tungsten these days, usage of lead is banned in all US national parks for fishing, in fact probably almost all fishing areas, but they're still "floating" around and people still use them to a limited extent, especially if they've got old fishing equipment.

  2. a set of female and male skeletons, or a pizza because everyone who isn't a fucking weirdo or contrarian douche likes pizza.

  3. I'm not the one trying to pretend that blacks can't be racists.

    And I'm not either, only a fucking idiot would say that they can't be. I just pointed out that in that instance it was instigated by actions of the Belgians, it doesn't mean it's not racist but the point of me starting it with "not to inadvertently help SJWs" was to point out it's something they can easily shut down. You can find plenty of other examples though of just straight up ethnic cleansing or crimes against humanity during war for ethnic reasons especially in Uganda, Congo (even outside Rwanda), Ituri, Liberia, and so-called "effacer le tableau" of Pygmies where there's yet more racist targeting, executions, and even cannibalism.

  4. Re:Other things that produce free radicals are... on YouTube, the Great Radicalizer (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    So I can just eat some açaí berries or whatever and watch as much Youtube as I want?

  5. Re: Two Times on Are The Alternatives Even Worse Than Daylight Saving Time? (chron.com) · · Score: 1

    I like your sentence fragment and lack of punctuation.

  6. Re:Daylight Saving Time is a good thing on Are The Alternatives Even Worse Than Daylight Saving Time? (chron.com) · · Score: 1

    Utterly retarded because:
    1) In the western world, especially the US, CA, UK, etc most people don't work outside so daylight isn't necessary
    2) Why in the mickey-mouse fuck does this dude think that anyone wakes up with the sunrise over the last 80+ years and use it to base his arguments on?

    If you wrote this, please stop writing.

  7. Re:Swatch Internet Time!! on Are The Alternatives Even Worse Than Daylight Saving Time? (chron.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought Swatch Internet Time was kind of neat when it first came out, until I realised (I guess I wasn't paying attention before) that it wasn't based on UTC, but instead was one hour ahead based on CET (Central European Time). What a load of shit, that ended the fun.

  8. Re:Here we go again on Are The Alternatives Even Worse Than Daylight Saving Time? (chron.com) · · Score: 1

    We'll no longer have to change our clocks twice a year, and schools/businesses/farmers/street pharmacists will just adjust their own hours to suit the available daylight.

    I've never heard of anyone doing this ever. When Russia abandoned the transition (and then transitioned back one hour due to daylight issues but stopped there) people complained but there wasn't anyone arbitrarily changing their clocks, that's just asinine, because then you're offset from everyone else. Great, now you've set it to what you think it should be, but guess what, TV, neighbours, the city, businesses, etc didn't, you're just a weirdo. Especially because a lot of people use their phones to check the time, and most people don't override what the tower says the time is.

    I've also known people from Arizona and parts of Indiana, I've never heard of such moronic behaviour in either place.

  9. ... American nonprofit must obey German copyright law...

    lol nein

  10. Civil liberties and all, but... on Chinese Police Begin Tracking Citizens With Face-Recognizing Smart Glasses (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    How are they pulling this off technically? I can't imagine what sort of queries you'd need to do for facial recognition, and how many per second in a sea of people? Are they getting good results or is it just timing out on most people or what?

  11. Yeah, but because of the system of social hierarchy setup by the Belgians that said one was superior to the other, just as I said. So what are you trying to have it both ways, because your first reply to me was basically that causing others to be racist is still racist, now suddenly "well it was long afterwards" just so you can be right and I can be wrong, get your story straight. I can't believe someone is modding that bullshit up.

  12. I didn't say that, in fact I was pointing out how Rwanda specifically does involve white racism and can't be used as an example to sort of debunk all racism comes from white people.

  13. I was worried, because I have Alexa in my bathroom and everytime I unzipped... well nevermind.

  14. Re:It's just vandalism on Self-Driving Cars Are Being Attacked By Angry Californians (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyone who is paying attention can see the gene pool of the human race needs a good cleaning, and that those who should not be breeding are breeding like rabbits while those who should be breeding are choosing not to have families.

    Is it true? Pretty much, but isn't it also true that the people who say this kind of shit also tend to be equally retarded? It's like those people who say "everyone should take an IQ test before having children", childfree hardcore lunatics, even if a good idea, they don't tend to consider that they themselves would also be disqualified.

    In other words it's not the geniuses in our culture whining about breeding and children, it's the trash who think they're geniuses.

  15. Where's Arthur C Clarke's ghost going to post his sexy scuba selfies now?!

  16. Re: VERY Remote work. on Remote Work is Going To Keep Increasing, Study Says (upwork.com) · · Score: 1

    That's about what I make (around $66/hr if I take my salary and break it down). I'm in the debt collections software industry, and it's very niche and difficult to find good engineers or even good software for the industry. I used to work at a national ISP and made about half that, and when my job was literally sent to India I am glad I found this niche, though it sucks community-wise rarely anyone to speak to about it, largely because the industry itself is run by just total scumbags.

  17. Re: Dergulation? on Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disruption We Were Promised (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's unfortunate this is modded down, because despite the nonsensical last sentence it's true. Tax payers have gone out of their way to back up the airline industry (among others, of course). Certainly terrorism is one of the causes for issues with airlines and at the airports, but even in more terrorism prone places like Israel, the airlines aren't nearly as fucking dog shit as ones in the US.

  18. Re: Too bad slashdot used to cause these on GitHub Survived the Biggest DDoS Attack Ever Recorded (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Because some OS X users are insisting that sending a "smart quotes" apostrophe in unicode is the "real apostrophe", yet sending ASCII character 0x39 or whatever is not the "real" one, it's everyone else who is wrong. I'm not sure why you are modded 0, you're fucking right, it's horse shit.

  19. Even with names alone you can often tell who at least is likely to be white, hispanic, asian, or black. This used to be less true with white/black, but now it's exceptionally true with black people due to attempts to be unique often nonsensical names are used and claimed to be Swahili or whatever. Though if you jump back a bit they were more likely to have Arabic first names and typical Anglo-Saxon/British or French last names.

  20. Not to inadvertently help SJWs, but the issue in Rwanda happened because the Belgians arbitrarily decided one ethnic group was more important than another and created intolerance and domination between two groups where there was none before.

  21. Re:Make 2.0 on Slashdot Outage Update · · Score: 1

    Why more than once at all? I wasn't sure if some of my posts went through either, but I waited a second and looked at my user page and they showed up. I didn't post them repeatedly on multiple articles.

  22. Re:Make 2.0 on Slashdot Outage Update · · Score: 0

    I'm honestly surprised you didn't put your copy/paste comment you put on, seemingly, all other front page posts prior to this one.

  23. Did the upper management still get their bonuses though, I mean gotta keep that talent? I'm sure knowing that their bonuses will be taken away despite the company doing better will cause excellent engineers to just knock their door down.

  24. It's easy on Twitter Asks For Help Fixing Its Toxicity Problem (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Just ban System of a Down from Twitter, all your Toxicity posts will go away!

    ... my hayday was the 90s, I'm lost on this shit.

  25. Re:This will do nicely... on Facebook Rolls Out Job Posts To Become the Blue-Collar LinkedIn (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the rule states they also need to do email for that to be the case.

    So... I guess that was years ago.