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- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 3 weeks ago:
Strong entry for an Ig Nobel Prize if nothing else.
- Comment on My little buddy (pack of 12) 3 weeks ago:
Friend-ulums.
- Comment on Can’t forget terrormisu 🤌🏼 3 weeks ago:
Could also serve casu martzu. No name change needed, it’s scary enough as-is.
- Comment on Fired Employee Allegedly Hacked Disney World's Menu System to Alter Peanut Allergy Information. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on You have a bad friend if he isn't willing to help you bury a dead body or if he is willing to help you. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, this shower thought is awfully judgy coming from a (presumably hypothetical) killer.
- Comment on xkcd #3004: Wells 3 weeks ago:
Well done.
- Comment on xkcd #3004: Wells 3 weeks ago:
What did the farmer say when he found three deep holes in his field?
Well, well, well, look what we have here.
- Comment on What does this emoji mean? Is this a British thumbs up? 4 weeks ago:
I’m surprised they made an emoji for something as obscene as this but you know that “two in the pink, one in the stink” thing for the shocker? This is along the same lines: One in the pink, one giving your lady a thumbs up to tell her you’re a chill dude and having a good time.
Doesn’t work as well on guys unless he’s flexible or has a bunch of strategically-placed mirrors.
- Comment on Exposed United Nations Database Left Sensitive Information Accessible Online 4 weeks ago:
Turns out this was all due to a clerical error in the contract back when the system was built: instead of UN Secure Information Access, they got Unsecure Information Access.
- Comment on DING DONG 4 weeks ago:
On a related note, youtube.com/watch?v=Gg5KfL-4asE
- Comment on US FTC probing Deere over customers' 'right to repair' equipment 4 weeks ago:
But if I probe a deer, they say I’m a deviant and put me on a list. Bullshit double standard.
- Comment on Why do residential skyscrapers always seem to include balconies that never get used? 4 weeks ago:
Just put walls on there, problem solved.
- Comment on Lousy Smarch weather... 1 month ago:
Somebody misread “ſeptember” and just went with it.
- Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US 1 month ago:
The name fits, it’s just that the only people in the world who give a shit about baseball are from the USA.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
If you want to see someone who really deserves that title, check out Brendan O’Connor’s talk about the CreepyDOL project at DEFCON 21. Nice reminder of how much information most of us are leaking in the RF spectrum for anybody interested in listening and piecing things together.
- Comment on How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality. 1 month ago:
… Asked the brain about itself. Typical narcissistic brain behavior, don’t see the other organs doing it.
- Comment on Cat 1 month ago:
In his house at R’lyeh dead Cat-thulhu waits dreaming.
- Comment on Facial Recognition 2 months ago:
That’s not her, it’s an im-pasta!
- Comment on Words truly matter 2 months ago:
I want to believe that the kids mentioned in posts like this are playing along with their parents’ delusions so they don’t have to sit through another lecture about how the Federal Reserve is a Ponzi scheme and they’re chemtrailing us with fluoride.
- Comment on Evan Prodromou, co-author of ActivityPub (the protocol of the fediverse) was hospitalized 4 weeks ago after getting hit by a truck and is slowly recovering 3 months ago:
And the side project authored by Chuck Tingle:
- Pounded in the Ass by a Truck into an Alternate Dimension
- Comment on Wearables linked to ‘pathologic’ heart disease symptom monitoring 3 months ago:
Sort of like how after you walk off a cliff, you don’t start falling until you look down.
- Comment on Kids and their computers these days. 3 months ago:
Can’t get those from yourself.
- Comment on Kids and their computers these days. 3 months ago:
Someplace that’s cold and far above sea level (for now).
- Comment on What do to if I survive a nuclear blast in my city? 4 months ago:
That Kentucky Jelly tastes like shit and goes straight through you though. 6/10 at best.
- Comment on What do to if I survive a nuclear blast in my city? 4 months ago:
No time like the present to get involved with something like a Community Emergency Response Team or its local equivalent. FEMA has manuals and other training materials available online which address the matter of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive (CBRNE; sometimes just CBRN or NBC depending on agency or publication date) incidents. Won’t make you an expert on yield estimation or fallout mapping but there is information which may be useful for improving individual and community resilience.
Personally, I think the likelihood of getting nuked is low and it’s much more likely that a CERT volunteer will be called upon to assist in natural disasters or major accidents to relieve the burden on professional crews. Where I live, teams have been employed to assist in redirecting traffic around areas with downed power lines or, in one case somewhat recently, a significant natural gas leak. Firefighters and other specialists establish a safe perimeter before handing off the site to volunteers so they can respond to other incidents throughout the city while repair crews work down their list of priorities.
Long comment short: building useful skills and relationships before shit meets fan means less scrambling to figure it out on that day and there are real, practical applications for that knowledge beyond LARPing with Jim-Bob’s moron militia.
- Comment on What do to if I survive a nuclear blast in my city? 4 months ago:
“Kiss your ass goodbye” for those who left their Ovaltine decoder ring at home.
- Comment on Heathens! 4 months ago:
To infinite-Heath and beyond!
- Comment on Which one? 6 months ago:
They don’t need it but they’re worth it.
- Comment on Which one? 6 months ago:
Stick so I can share it with a dog. In a pinch, the stick can be broken and become more sticks. This is especially useful in a multi-dog scenario.
- Comment on Ever notice mammals never seem to come in green? 6 months ago:
It’s an avocato.