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  1. Re:Food ultimately comes from plants on Judge Rules Big Oil Can't Be Sued For Climate Change Costs (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Fossil fuels... what were fossils again?

  2. Re:I want my "disable Javascript" checkbox back on NYT: 'Firefox Is Back. It's Time to Give It a Try.' (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Some 'javascript only' pages are hilariously unbroken (but ugly) by turning off style sheets.
    Their 'this site doesn't work' page is just an overlay blocking the page's content.

  3. Re:If you actually RTFA, you'd know on Was the Stanford Prison Experiment a Sham? (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    In other words: some people will commit atrocities in the name of some nebulous 'Greater Good'

  4. Agreed, and I'd like to remind you, Anon, that you're scheduled for Carrousel this Saturday.

  5. Re:Four different times? on Woman Looking At Apple Watch Found Guilty of Distracted Driving (nationalpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends..if I'm waiting a minute at a light, i probably would be checking my watch "is this light broken, or does it only FEEL like forever". Would also have raised the watch to see both it and the light at the same time. Doesn't sound like this case though.

    As for dashboard clocks, some get replaced by spitting out what radio station is on, or the current track playing on the cd/mp3 player. Actually have to reach over and press a button to get it back to the time..for a split second, then it's back to by

  6. Re:Let it go. There is no Loch Ness monster. on Legend of Loch Ness Monster Will Be Tested With DNA Samples (apnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Ah, but what if they were capable of parthenogenesis, but only one of their clutch survives siblicide (low resources driving it) to reach adulthood, which is assured as their natural predators died out millions of years ago. Then one day the young supplants the old and the cycle continues - Nessie is dead, Long Live Nessie....

    The original Loch Ness Monster has been expired 15 megannum, and is rotting like a corpse in Patagonia~

  7. Re:California itself should come with a warning la on California Bypasses Science To Label Coffee a Carcinogen (undark.org) · · Score: 1

    *awaits the dramatic twist: Labels in California Cause Cancer. Class-action suit launched against Everyone.

  8. Or maybe they were home and in control of the television during the day while the Father was at work in the factory? Even the advertising during them reflected this (hence the name SOAPS)
    To answer you, I knew plenty of women who watched soaps, I'd easily put the number in hundreds. Caveat: this was in the 70s and early 80s. That said, in south america and korea, 'soaps' seem to still be popular, and some 'soaps' (Dynasty/Dallas etc) did break into Prime Time.

  9. Re:why do we have comment subjects on German Supreme Court Rules Ad Blockers Legal (faz.net) · · Score: 4, Funny

    This just in: East Texas Court rules blinking to be theft. Mandates lid speculum integration while using a browser.

  10. Re:I don't know any SJW types on New Child Protection Nonprofit Strikes Back At Sex-Negative Approach of FOSTA-SESTA (youcaring.com) · · Score: 1

    Women going to women are exploiting each other, it's an internalisation singularity. Except when it's empowering. /s

  11. Re:Questioning users desire for privacy? I'm shock on Steam Spy Announces It's Shutting Down, Blames Valve's New Privacy Settings · · Score: 1

    But how will i live not knowing that a friend has added "A magical highschool girl" on his wishlist

    Honestly I get what Steam is going for: i've looked up plenty of games' page, curious what was that game that is sucking up a friend's time. On the other hand, sometimes you just want to quietly have some solo time in a MMO...and not have the twenty people on your contacts login to 'party up'. It's cowardly in a way, to avoid simply saying 'no'...but at the same time, the issue need not arise in the first place. Here's to hoping you can have steam hide 'now playing' as well, without having one have to 'mask' the game with another game (clickers are good for this).

  12. Re:And people would buy them? on Stan Lee's Stolen Blood Was Used To Sign Marvel Comic Books (tmz.com) · · Score: 2

    I counter with Charles 'paid by the word' Dickens and a page describing a lawyer's door. =P

  13. Re:Non-ionizing radiation can be harmful on Two Studies Find 'Clear Evidence' That Cellphone Radiation Causes Cancer In Rats (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Wasn't there a 'study' a while ago linking hot drinks to cancer? So if you swallow the water, a hot tub 'may cause cancer'... doubly so if you fill it with coffee...

  14. Re:Pretty sure this was a mythbusters episode. on Britain's Plan To Build a 2,000 Foot Aircraft Carrier Almost Entirely From Ice (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Context guess: Pretty Damn/Darn Quick, and No F'n/Freaken Way

  15. I hate that you're right.

  16. Re: Spez shouldn't have did that but... on Reddit and the Struggle To Detoxify the Internet (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure he can. Internal consistency so far hasn't been a strength of his, why would honesty?

  17. Re:It's a circle-jerk echo chamber on Reddit and the Struggle To Detoxify the Internet (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    4chan isn't nearly as censor/echoy-free as you think. There is a reason for the 'he does it for free' meme.

  18. Re:ludicrously and patently unconstitutional on Rhode Island Bill Would Impose Fee For Accessing Online Porn (providencejournal.com) · · Score: 1

    With hashtags!
    #nobully #IStandWithTankMan

  19. So basically leave the mirror maze as is, and eventually the phone-addicts will learn to look where they walk?
    At least we're agreed that 'disbelief in the existence of a wall until you face it at speed' is rather child-like.

  20. I think the problem is the more exposed to the perfume, the more desensitized they become, and so they add more. Add in large surface area to apply it to...

    Less 'this spray makes me sexy' and more 'I don't realise I'm wilting flowers and small puppies'

  21. Re:Same as it ever was on YouTube TV Is Adding More Channels, But It's Also Getting More Expensive (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Not all netflix offerings are equal. The 'region locking' is a bitch

  22. Re:Poor Employees on Valve Bans Developer After Employees Leave Fake User Reviews (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So you leave a review, and a disclaimer. No different than a reviewer of a game from a magazine should reveal he's wined and dined before writing a review, or if they own stock, etc. Reveal your bias and give your review - let the reader adjust accordingly. Expecting honest and unbiased reviews from other purchasers means jack all - I known people to savage reviews on games they had enjoyed, simply because of a new dlc, another game by the same company, or a company's president's tweeted opinion.

  23. Re:Bias on Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You're a White Guy (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Horseshoe-theory

  24. If only google/youtube had some sort of system/metrics where they could amass data, and then sculpt what the user sees by their personal history and such... extending that to matching advertisers with their content... it'd be some blessed dream of marketers everywhere!

    But no no, let's just alienate entire demographics because they aren't 'correct' for us.

  25. Personally misread it as LSC and wondered if they were trying for Musashi.