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  1. Re:Vague accusations from one of Trump's people on Intelligence Chairman Accuses Obama Aids of Hundreds of Unmasking Requests (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    The mental hoops you're leaping through to not admit "your" team fucked up is amazing. You've got to the point in your tortuous argument where you are arguing that the intelligence services are "predominantly liberal". This is tragically hilarious. They're anything but that.

  2. Re:By the year 2100? on Heavier Rainfall Will Increase Water Pollution In the Future (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    The corn belt is moving north. When it runs so far north it's no longer near any farmers or arable land or infrastructure, it ceases to exist. It also doesn't understand national borders, and will gracefully move past them like they don't exist.

    Sea levels rising aren't scary because things will be gradually submerged, they're scary because they multiply storm surges, which can swamp even the most intense flood protection systems.

    It's fine you don't want to pay attention to the science - just don't pretend you have and you've found nothing to be concerned about. Your description of these issues shows you really aren't that well versed in this, which is a bit surprising given your strong opinion on the matter. It's almost as if your motivation for disagreeing with the science doesn't come from the science itself... Weird...

  3. Re:Why wouldn't more water dilute it more? on Heavier Rainfall Will Increase Water Pollution In the Future (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 0

    No, this is the problem of lazy people trying to be spoon-fed their science instead of reading papers. You are confusing the science with the reporting of it. Don't.

  4. Re:Baltic sea has this problem on Heavier Rainfall Will Increase Water Pollution In the Future (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 1

    You're not representing the science accurately at all. Yes, droughts will be a problem, but they will be local. As we have seen.

  5. Re:Virtue signaling douche bags on Tech Leaders Speak Out Against Trump Ban on Transgender Troops (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    You're virtue signalling by posting that you don't like people virtue signalling about things you don't like (transgender people, it seems).

  6. So much freedom! It'd be hilarious if not so tragic.

  7. Adherents of a religion can be deemed a "race" of people, as they share a common heritage or tradition. Don't be so upset that the word "race" has lots of definitions. You might want to hold off on calling people idiots..

  8. Re:EU Privacy? on Norway, the Country Where No Salaries Are Secret (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If Norway was in the EU you'd have a point.

  9. Re:Only works if they stay a "high trust society" on Norway, the Country Where No Salaries Are Secret (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I like how you made a massive inaccurate generalisation of desperate people in order to excuse bad behaviour towards them. That was a lovely touch.

  10. You only paid a part of the price of the console. Sony expects to make up the rest through purchases of software for the console.

  11. Re: No it won't on Facial Recognition Could Be Coming To Police Body Cameras (defenseone.com) · · Score: 1

    Aaah the excuse which guarantees nothing in the US will improve - "we're too large and 'diverse' to improve".

  12. Re:B.S. on US Increases Number of H-2B Visas By 15,000 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not what they were claiming, and I think you know that.

  13. This is the correct answer.

  14. Re:Better Idea on Ask Slashdot: Is Password Masking On Its Way Out? · · Score: 1

    Enable this option: chrome://flags/#enable-password-generation and you have your wish.

  15. Re: what else do you think it does? on Ask Slashdot: Is Password Masking On Its Way Out? · · Score: 1

    You can also run the following snippet:

    javascript:document.querySelectorAll('input[type="password"]').forEach(el => el.type = 'text')

    which will convert all password inputs to text inputs.

  16. Re:Double Checking on Here's Elon Musk's Plan To Power the US on Solar Energy (inverse.com) · · Score: 1

    The birds strike because they think it's water and attempt to land on them, scraping across panels and making all sorts of mess.

  17. Re:Jodie Whittaker on Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord Announced: Actress Jodie Whittaker (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You've just rephrased your opinion as fact and used that as an argument. You'll need to come up with something else. May I suggest "Doctor Who, the alien, has been portrayed only by men up until this point."? It's accurate. The only problem is it shows just how baseless the argument is, so I'd expect you'd not like to use it.

  18. Re:Jodie Whittaker on Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord Announced: Actress Jodie Whittaker (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You'd have a point if populations were evenly distributed across the islands.

  19. Re:Jodie Whittaker on Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord Announced: Actress Jodie Whittaker (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You do realise you are virtue-signalling with your commend and your sig, right?

  20. Re: European cars...... on The Audi A8: First Production Car To Achieve Level 3 Autonomy (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Don't confuse the American-made cars with their European-made counterparts, even if they share the same badge.

  21. This measure would obviously reduce the amount of electronic waste. No need to get all paranoid.

  22. Re:Damming the flood/whack a mole on EU Prepares 'Right To Repair' Legislation To Fight Short Product Lifespans (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    How can it be the Muslim population? They're at about 4%. What is it with racists and making up facts?

  23. Re:ride-sharing? on Slashdot Asks: Your Favorite Ride-Sharing App? · · Score: 1

    So it is a taxi app and not a ride-sharing app. Thanks!

  24. If the nation's defence against another Nazi party is them being spotted on Facebook, the country is in great danger. Luckily the Germans don't share your approach to security, hence this move to try to curtail the fountain of hate and dangerous bullshit people use to excuse their physical attacks on people.

    I'm all for it - Germany is doing very well, and it's lovely to live here.

  25. And software with Y2K bugs still exists, and is just as capable of problems today as on 01/01/2000.